Chapter 473: Cai Mao's death
The price of tea is already extremely high in the four counties of Jiangdong, and is a luxury product.
Now that the commercial routes of the four counties in Jiangdong and Jingzhou have been closed, Jingzhou is not without any tea.
But the price is more than four times higher than that of the four counties in Jiangdong!
Now let alone others, even Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, felt distressed if he wanted to drink tea.
Liu Biao only has a few taels of tea at home, but Cai Mao actually has a total of five kilograms of tea in his hand!
Where did he get so much money and where did he buy so much tea?
And not only tea, but also glass products have several sets.
Glass products are still sky-high luxury goods, and Liu Biao has several sets of them at home.
But he is the dignified governor of Jingzhou. You are just a navy general in Cai Mao. How can you buy these luxury goods so much money?
The most direct evidence is the few letters searched from Cai Mao’s home.
These letters were basically written by Jia Xu to Cai Mao.
There was actually a letter written by Lu Bu to Cai Mao.
The princes couldn't help but pick up a few letters with dark faces and began to look through them carefully.
Before reading these letters, Liu Biao was still half-doubted about Cai Mao's rebellion, or even how he believed it.
However, after reading these letters, Liu Biao's mentality also changed.
It turns out that a person will become.
It turns out that the so-called loyalty is just because there are not enough bargaining chips for betrayal!
From the few letters Jia Xu wrote to Cai Mao, it can be vaguely inferred that Cai Mao has great ambitions.
However, Jingzhou cannot provide him with a platform to display.
Therefore, Cai Mao complained a lot about Jingzhou and Liu Biao.
Then Jia Xu promised that if Cai Mao should cooperate with others and help Lu Bu take Jingzhou, Lu Bu would hand over the entire Jingzhou to Cai Mao for management and reward half of the land on the north bank of Jingzhou to Cai Mao.
In order to dispel Cai Mao's concerns, Lu Bu did not hesitate to write a letter and admitted the matter in person.
With this handwritten letter from Lu Bu, this matter is simply a foregone conclusion!
After reading the letter, Liu Biao almost vomited blood.
Liu Biao had a gloomy face and called his confidants, took out the token, and asked them to hand it over to Cai Mao, and asked Cai Mao to come to the governor's mansion immediately, with emergency military information.
The reason why he did not send his personal soldiers to arrest Cai Mao directly was because Liu Biao was afraid of forcing Cai Mao to become anxious, and Cai Mao would lead his troops to rebel directly.
Now Liu Biao doesn't know how many soldiers Cai Mao has instigated against him, so he dare not take this risk.
Two hours later, Cai Mao led a hundred personal guards into Jingzhou City.
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"Lord, my subordinates are busy training the navy. I wonder what instructions do you have to call my subordinates?"
Cai Mao was really confused. He was busy training the navy, but he was summoned by Liu Biao in a daze, saying that there was an emergency military situation.
Could it be that Jiangdong took the initiative to attack and was going to fight with Jiangdong?
However, there are not many naval troops in Jiangdong. If they take the initiative to attack, they will inevitably suffer heavy injuries. How could Jiangdong do this?
Besides, if Jiangdong really attacked, I wouldn’t have no idea!
I really don’t know what happened to my lord calling me to come.
Looking at Cai Mao under the tent, Liu Biao suddenly felt angry.
Liu Biao shouted sternly: "Come here, take this food that is ripped off for me!"
With Liu Biao's order, several personal soldiers under the tent quickly stepped forward and took Cai Mao down.
After being arrested, Cai Mao couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and couldn't help asking: "Lord, I wonder what mistake my subordinates have made? Why did the lord arrest his subordinates?"
Cai Mao snorted coldly: "What mistake did you make? Don't you know? If this governor doesn't take you down now, I'm afraid that in a few days, you will be caught by you, a trash, and you will be dedicated to Lu Bu?"
Hearing Liu Biao's words, Cai Mao couldn't help but say in shock: "What are the lords saying? I don't understand at all, so please make it clear!"
Before Cai Mao could speak, suddenly Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu walked out from behind the tent.
Yuan Shao threw a stack of letters to Cai Mao's feet and said sternly: "There are several dogs who are scattered inside and outside, and they won't cry until they see the coffin, right? Open your dog's eyes and take a look. The good things done have been revealed!"
What letters?
What evidence?
What happened?
Cai Mao broke free from his personal guards with a slight desire to break free, bent down and picked up the letters under his feet, and read them in secret.
After reading it all, Cai Mao's eyes widened, his bearded and his hair stood up, and he shouted loudly: "Lord, lord, this is the enemy who deliberately framed me! I am innocent!"
"Lord, this is the enemy's counter-espionage plan! Please be clear, please be clear!"
When Liu Biao heard Cai Mao’s begging for mercy, he remained silent.
Cao Cao said angrily: "This kind of repeated villain who contains evil intentions must be spared, so he won't be able to pull him down and chop him down!"
Hearing Cao Cao's orders, several personal soldiers couldn't help but hold Cai Mao up and drag him down.
Cai Mao was shocked and shouted loudly: "Brother-in-law saved me, I was wronged. Brother-in-law saved me, brother-in-law saved me!"
Cai Mao's third sister is Liu Biao's concubine and is very favored by Liu Biao.
Moreover, the Cai family is also one of the aristocratic families in Jingzhou, and Liu Biao really doesn't want to kill Cai Mao.
Hearing Cai Mao’s begging for mercy, Liu Biao couldn’t help but say, “Why do you want Cai Mao to be imprisoned first and make a decision after fighting with Jiangdong!”
Cao Cao said angrily: "What should I keep such a traitor? Kill it with one sword, just be quick and easy!"
At that moment, Cao Cao pulled out his sword without saying a word, walked quickly to Cai Mao, and stabbed Cai Mao with a sword, making him feel cold. He seemed to be unable to survive.
Seeing this scene, Liu Biao couldn't help but sigh.
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After Cai Mao's death, the naval training of the coalition forces of the princes fell into a pause for a while.
Among Liu Biao's naval commanders, the two highest ones were Cai Mao and Zhang Yun.
Then Zhang Yun was assassinated and Cai Mao was killed for rebellion.
The remaining naval commanders are either too poor in their level.
Or because Cai Mao and Zhang Yun were killed, the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and there was no intention to train the navy with all his strength.
Therefore, the progress in naval army training was very slow.
Faced with this situation, Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, Cao Cao couldn't help but frown.
However, Yuan Shu did not have much opinion on this.
Yuan Shu now owns four counties, especially Xinde Lujiang County and Jiujiang County, which have been very busy recently.
Because Lujiang County and Jiujiang County have no people, they need a large number of manpower.
Recently, Yuan Shu has been busy mobilizing a large number of people from the Yuan family to the two counties.
The Yuan family has always focused on supporting Yuan Shao, but now that Yuan Shu's power is gradually growing, he has gradually shifted its focus to Yuan Shu.
How can this not make Yuan Shu feel excited?
Therefore, recently, Yuan Shu's focus has been on the development of Lujiang County and Jiujiang County.
Yuan Shu didn't have much to do with the progress of the alliance of princes.
In fact, in Yuan Shu's opinion, even if he can't defeat the four counties of Jiangdong, it doesn't matter much.
Chapter completed!