Liu Biao finally died. Seeing his father die in his arms, Liu Qi cried for a while and quickly calmed down. He immediately came to the front lieutenant Wang Wei, who was responsible for the safety of the Jingzhou Mufu, and Liu Biao had already been

The news of death was secretly informed to the loyal minister Wang Wei. Wang Wei was shocked when he heard the bad news. He hugged Liu Biao's body and cried loudly. However, Liu Qi grabbed Wang Wei and shouted majestically: "General Wang, you are not crying now."

At that time, there is something bigger that is imminent! Stop crying, it’s important to do big things first!”

"No, my son forgive me, oh no, it should be the lord who forgive me, I will lose my composure." Wang Wei spent a lot of effort to come back to his senses, wiped away his tears and apologized to Liu Qi, and then choked up and said, "Please don't worry, lord,

Let’s arrange people to hang banners and hang filial piety, arrange mourning halls, and prepare for funerals for the old lord.”

After saying that, Wang Wei was so stupid that he wiped his tears and turned around and left. Liu Qi quickly grabbed him and shouted in a low voice: "I'm confused! Who told you to hang your banner and hang your filial piety and announce the news of your father's death? Block it for me immediately

There are two internal and external doors of Mu Shou Mansion, everyone is allowed to enter and not leave. Without my order, no one is allowed to leave the mansion! Besides, prepare a hundred knives and axes for me immediately, I will use it!"

"Knife and Axeman? What do you want to do, lord?" Wang Wei was shocked.

"Don't ask, you will know in the future." Liu Qi refused to answer and said, "As soon as possible, remember not to let the outside world know the news of his father's death. After the matter is completed, I will not treat you badly."

Wang Wei was speechless, but Liu Qi ignored him anymore. He just turned to Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue who were wiping tears beside him, and said quickly: "Brother-in-law, please arrange for the envoy to leave the city immediately and summon Cai Mao, Cai Yun and Cai Zhong's three brothers back with their father's reputation.

Meet in the city. Uncle, you have always had friendship with Huang Zu. You go to the Ximen Military Camp in person. With his father's reputation, Grandpa Huang and his son will come to see each other. Remember, you must come to see Huang Zu and Huang She at the same time!"

Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue's faces changed together. After hesitating for a while, Kuai Liang asked, "Son-in-law, how do you plan to deal with them?"

"Huang Zu can stay. As long as he swears to be loyal to me and keeps Huang She by my side, I can continue to reuse him." Liu Qi said calmly: "As for the Cai brothers, no one can be kept! I won it

They will let the veteran General Wang Wei take over the navy!"

The Kuai Liang brothers were silent again. Wang Wei, who was about to be promoted to the Navy's governor, also turned pale. After a moment of calculation, it was not until Liu Qi urged him to act immediately. Kuai Liangcai asked calmly: "Master, you have to consider it carefully.

Before your death, the lord just told you to treat the Cai family well and let them use it for you. You are doing this now. Not only will you violate the old lord's orders, but you are also taking risks. Once you fail, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable!"

"Don't worry. It's been a day or two for me to plan this plan!" Liu Qi said gritting his teeth: "When my father died, he told me to treat the Cai family well, but you also know the relationship between the Cai Mao brothers and me. It's already long gone, either I die or they are either I die or they are.

At the same time, they did not dare to do anything randomly when my father was alive. Now that my father is no longer there, there are Tao Ying traitors' soldiers outside. If I don't take action first, once they backfire, our consequences will be even more unimaginable!

”

"But lord, you can be kind to them." Kuai Liang said: "Now the old lord is gone, you will succeed to the throne of Jingzhou and take charge of the rewards and punishments of life and death in Jingzhou. You will continue to give high officials and generous salaries to the Cai Mao family, so that they can

If family members become officials, they may not be able to use it for you. Why can’t you try to appease them?”

"This..." Liu Qi hesitated for a moment, then said hatefully: "Well, let's trick the Cai brothers first. If they are really willing to use it for me, I can also give them high-ranking officials and generous salaries! But if they dare to play tricks, they can also give them high-ranking officials and generous salaries!

, or refuse to leave hostages, I will not show mercy to them!"

Seeing that Liu Qi had made up his mind, the Kuai brothers who had been tied with Liu Qi no longer spoke. They immediately clasped their fists and sang promises, and then hurried out to assign tasks. Although Wang Wei wanted to persuade him, Liu Qi forced him to

Wang Wei vowed allegiance to him in front of Liu Biao's body, and then forced Wang Wei to act according to the order as a new lord. Wang Wei had no choice but to take his son Wang Zhong to immediately block the inside and outside gates of the Jingzhou Mu Mansion and arrange a knife and axe hand.

The Hou Ming behind Liu Biao's bedroom. At the same time, Liu Qi immediately dispatched the maids in the mansion she controlled, asking them to secretly keep an eye on Cai and Liu Cong. Cai and Liu Cong were not on the scene when Liu Biao died, so they still didn't know about Liu Biao.

He has passed away, so he naturally cannot quickly inform him.

Liu Qi did seize the initiative and also made a comprehensive plan to make a quick decision. Unfortunately, Liu Qi underestimated his two opponents Huang Zu and Cai Mao too much, so...

Let’s look at Huang Zu’s side. Kuai Yue, who has a good relationship with Huang Zu, personally came to the garrison in the west gate of Xiangyang and summoned Huang Zu to the Jingzhou Muslim Mansion with Liu Biao’s reputation. At the beginning, Huang Zu did not feel suspicious.

Except for some concern that Liu Biao was responsible for his consecutive defeats, everything else was normal, and he quickly changed into a formal official uniform to see Liu Biao. However, when Kuai Yue asked Huang Zu to bring his only son Huang She to see Liu Biao,

Huang Zu immediately smelled something wrong and asked Kuai Yue strangely: "Yi Du, what did the lord summon my dog ​​to do? My dog ​​is just a small school inspector. What did the lord do when he sees him?

”

"I don't know." Kuai Yue answered quite vaguely, saying, "Maybe the lord wants to meet the general and son before his death, and entrust the funeral to the general and son. Last time, the lord summoned all civil and military officials to officially appoint the eldest son as his heir.

Old General, you and the Major General, are not in Xiangyang City and have not been able to listen to your lord’s teachings in person. This time, the lord should have wanted to make up for it."

Kuai Yue's excuse is reasonable, but Kuai Yue's hesitant tone made Huang Zu suspicious. In suspicion, Huang Zu simply asked directly: "Yi Du, what happened? My friendship with you is

More than ten or twenty years, I don’t know who you are? When you arrived at the Jiangxia thief’s nest to surrender Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu, you were still calm and composed in the enemy camp and chatted and laughed. Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu later admired you

How come I was dying, why did I speak stammeringly today? What happened?"

"If I don't hesitate on purpose, I'm afraid you will be fooled."

Kuai Yue muttered in his heart, but he refused to say anything. He even lowered his head, revealing a guilty expression. When Huang Zu saw Kuai Yue's expression, he suddenly felt something was wrong. After careful calculation, Huang Zu woke up and was busy

He lowered his voice and said, "Yi Du, tell the truth, is your lord already...? You came here to summon me to see your lord, it was not the lord's order, it was Liu Qi's intention?"

Kuai Yue refused to answer, but twisted his head away and suddenly asked, "Zhonglu's defender. Did you take the time on purpose?"

"What?" Huang Zu was stunned, then immediately understood, pointed Kuai Yue with his fingers, and said with a smile: "Okay, Kuai Yidu, you deliberately exposed the flaws just now and let me see through it, right? Otherwise,

Your abilities and friendship with me, I really want to lie to Liu Qi and Sheer to die for me. Isn’t it easy to do it?!”

Kuai Yue smiled bitterly, but he still refused to speak. Huang Zu laughed loudly, slapped Kuai Yue on the shoulder, and laughed unscrupulously: "Yi Du. If you saved my life and Sheer, I will naturally

I will repay you, don’t go back, just stay here. I will take you to ask for me. Don’t worry, your relatives in Zhonglu will not be in danger.”

"What should I do with my family in Xiangyang City?" Kuai Yue asked back. Kuai Yue was smart. He knew that the Xuzhou army immediately divided his troops to attack the irrelevant Zhonglu City on the same day. The goal was definitely not to kill all his clans.

Zai Jue, so Kuai Yue didn't have to worry about the relatives of the clan.

"I'll send someone to protect you immediately. I'll guarantee that they won't have any problems." Huang Zu answered without thinking.

Kuai Yue nodded and sighed, "Old Huang, I've been tricked by you. If you don't deliberately present Zhonglu to Taiwei Tao, why would I do it before the old lord's body was cold.

What's like this?"

"But I also saved your glory, wealth, official position, and your wealth and wealth in Jingzhou, right?" Huang Zu laughed unrestrainedly, then patted Kuai Yue on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't you?"

I was stunned. Brother, I have harmed you once today. This time I will apologize to you. Write a letter. You can share the opportunity to send a letter and ask for merit. It is enough for you to atone for merit and get promoted."

…………

On Cai Mao's side, although Liu Qi asked Kuai Liang to send envoys out of the city and contacted the Cai Mao brothers at the navy camp, and deceived the Cai family brothers back to the city to die, Kuai Liang felt that only the envoys were sent to contact Cai Mao brothers, and the Cai Mao brothers might not be allowed.

I believe that Liu Biao would recall the three brothers to the city at the same time, so Kuai Liang simply went out of the east gate of Xiangyang and rushed to the navy camp to meet Cai Mao's brothers. Cai Mao and Kuai Liang married his daughter to Liu Qi.

Liang had already turned against each other and heard that Kuai Liang came from the military camp at night. In amazement, Cai Mao did not dare to neglect it. He quickly led Cai Yun and Cai Zhong to meet Kuai Liang immediately. Both sides were in Cai Mao's central army tent.

Meet in the middle.

After meeting, Kuai Liang asked Cai Mao, Cai Yun and Cai Zhong to go straight to the point in the name of Liu Biao's oral orders to meet Liu Biao, and said that the matter was urgent and asked Cai Mao brothers to set off immediately. Unfortunately, Cai Mao brothers were not fools, so they listened to Kuai.

After the order conveyed by Liang, Cai Mao immediately became suspicious and asked Kuai Liang: "Mr. Zirou, is this wrong? Zhang Yun and Cai He took half of the navy to Xiakou, and the remaining Xiangyang navy

The three brothers are in charge, and the three brothers return to the city together. The navy has no leader. If the enemy suddenly attacks, how can we resist? The lord is also a person who is proficient in military affairs. How can he give such an order?"

"Sure enough, if you deceive the three brothers back to the city at the same time, Cai Mao will inevitably be suspicious. It is useless to cheat one or two of them back. As long as one of the Cai brothers cannot be taken down, there will be endless troubles immediately." Kuai Liang sighed quietly in his heart.

, and then tried his best to say, "General Degui made sense. When the lord summoned the three generals back to the city at the same time, it was indeed extremely difficult. However, the matter was urgent, and the lord had to do it. Please ask the three generals to temporarily take the water.

The division is handed over to the trusted person to take charge, and I will quickly return to the city. Please rest assured, the three generals, it will definitely not be too long."

The more Kuai Liang said this, the less the Cai brothers dared to take it lightly. Cai Mao asked again: "What big thing happened? Mr. Zirou please tell me clearly, otherwise, we would not dare to take this risk.

Leave the post.”

"This..." Kuai Liang hesitated for a moment and simply said, "I'm not hiding General Cai, the lord is almost out of the way. He summoned three generals back to the city just to confess the will and entrust the funeral."

"My sister's condition has reached this point?" Cai Yin and Cai Zhong were both startled, but a hint of joy flashed in Cai Mao's eyes. After careful consideration, Cai Mao said: "Since my sister's condition is so serious, then we have to

Go back and see immediately, second and third brothers. You will go back to the city with Mr. Zirou, and I will stay and lead the army to guard the water camp."

"General Cai, you must go." Kuai Liang quickly said, "You are an important minister in Jingzhou. When your lord is dead, how can you not listen to the will?"

"It is precisely because I am an important official in Jingzhou that I cannot leave the water camp at this time." Cai Mao raised his voice, "The enemy is in front of him. Once the lord suddenly dies, the enemy will attack immediately after receiving the news. If I don't stay in the water camp, I will not be able to stay in the water camp.

How can I reach the attack of the bandit army in Xuzhou?”

Kuai Liang was speechless, and after a moment of calculation, he could only settle for the second best, and said, "General Degui's words make sense, so let's do it. General Degui, you go back to the city to see your lord, the second and third generals stay in the city.

The foreign in charge of military affairs, the governor, you are an important official in Jingzhou and you must meet your lord for the last time."

Cai Mao was a little hesitant, for nothing else, for fear that Liu Biao would suddenly die of illness after entering the city, and Liu Qi took the opportunity to take him down in one fell swoop. At that time, even if Cai Yun and Cai Zhong do a big deal for him, their old life would have to be explained.

Xiangyang City - Cai Mao would not feel so distressed when he explained his second and third brother's life.

"Report—!" While hesitating, a messenger suddenly rushed into the outside of the tent and reported to Cai Mao: "Report to the Grand Governor. General Huang, the old general, sent his confidant to pay his respects, saying that there was something urgent to do.

Report to the Governor, please be sure to receive him immediately.”

"Second brother, third brother. You can accompany me for a while, Mr. Zirou, I'll go." Cai Mao gave Cai Yun and Cai Zhong a wink. Then he hurried out of the tent, and Kuai Liang secretly saw what Cai Mao used.

Looking at her, she knew that Cai Mao was malicious, but she was not nervous or worried. On the contrary, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief, as if she was relieved, and seemed to have been waiting for this moment...

After a while, Cai Mao hurried back to the account with excitement and excitement. The first thing he did after entering the account was to point at Kuai Liang and shout: "Come on, take down Kuai Liang for me!"

"No!" Cai Mao's confidant guard agreed neatly, and immediately stepped forward to hold the unarmed Kuai Liang. Kuai Liang asked in surprise: "What crime am I committing? Why do you take me?"

"Why do you take it?" Cai Mao smiled grimly and shouted: "You Kuai Zirou, you concealed the news that your lord had passed away. You deserve to die! You dare to trick Liu Qi into seducing the three brothers of this general for Liu Qi.

Enter the city and let Liu Qi catch us all in one place! Tell yourself, should I take you down?!"

"What? My sister has passed away?" Cai Yin and Cai Zhong both jumped up and screamed. Kuai Liang was even more shocked and blurted out: "How did you know?"

"How did I know that it has nothing to do with you!" Cai Mao waved his hand decisively, and then asked with a grin: "Mr. Zirou, what else can you say now?"

Kuai Liang was silent for a moment, and then replied, "Since you have seen through the mechanism, then take action. I know that it will take a long time for you to kill me. I just hope that you will give me some pleasure for your colleagues."

"Kill you?" Cai Mao smiled even happier and said, "Don't worry, I won't kill you, I will only treat you as a gift and give you to Taiwei Tao as a gift for a meeting - someone to come, drums and gather generals, I have

Major events must be announced to the generals!”
To be continued...