Eight hundred and five Jingzhou coup (Part 2)
Sun Hao and Sun Fu died tragically in the chaos, and compared with them, Yi Ji was more lucky.
Yiji was not dead, but was captured by Gan Ning, thrown into prison and taken care of, and lost his administrative power.
So Liu Biao's series of operations to protect Liu Qi were easily subverted by Kuai Yue and others.
Then, Cai Mao and Kuai Yue invited Liu Cong to handle the funeral for Liu Biao who had passed away, and set up a mourning hall. He also supported Liu Cong to inherit the positions of King Chu and the Governor of Jingzhou before Liu Biao's spiritual throne.
Liu Cong accepted this position with great enthusiasm, and felt sincerely grateful for his past experience.
The ministers and generals were also very glad that the coup was easy and successful, and there was no big chaos, which allowed Jingzhou's power to transition smoothly.
Soon, Kuai Yue advised Liu Cong that Liu Zhang's army was on the way to Jiangling. Once Liu Zhang's army entered Jiangling, something big would be wrong. So he suggested that Liu Cong immediately send a cadre to Yiling to resist Liu Zhang's army and they rushed back.
Liu Cong was a little confused about this.
"Liu Jiyu's army was invited by his father. In order to help us resist the Wei army in the north, Guo Peng usurped the Han Dynasty and was in the Jingzhou crisis. Only our Han clan members in the world still have the ability to resist. Why not join forces with Liu Jiyu to resist the Guo thief?"
Liu Cong had some idea of resisting, which was not in line with the ideas of Kuai Yue, Cai Mao and others.
So Kuai Yue began to fool him.
"It's not a matter of one or two days that Liu Jiyu is dissatisfied with Jingzhou. Earlier, the previous king had a marriage with Liu Jiyu and had a bad relationship. This time, the former king had to make such a bad decision in a hurry. We don't agree. If you invite Liu Zhang, no one knows whether they are here to resist Guo Peng or to seek Jingzhou."
When Liu Cong thought, he was the same.
Liu Biao had no good relationship with Liu Yan and Liu Zhang at the beginning. He had criticized Liu Yan and repeatedly reported to Dong Zhuo that Liu Yan's plan was indiscriminate, which indirectly led to the tragic death of Liu Yan's two sons who remained in the Chang'an court.
Later, Liu Biao also plotted against Liu Zhang when Yizhou was unstable after Liu Yan died, but unfortunately he failed in the end, and Gan Ning was the product of the failure at that time.
At this time, Liu Zhang sent troops here. Who knows whether to help with the war or to lead the wolf into the house?
Liu Cong had no scheming. After thinking about it, he felt that what Kuai Yue said was not at the moment of the Wei army's invasion. In this way, Liu Zhang, who was so close to him, was a little more dangerous.
So Liu Cong thought that Kuai Yue’s suggestion was OK, so he asked Kuai Yue for the right candidate.
"Mr. Kuai thinks, who can resist Liu Zhang's army?"
Kuai Yue immediately recommended Gan Ning.
"Linjiang Gan Xingba is a Shu native, and is well versed in the tactics and weaknesses of the Shu army. He can be a general and guard Yiling. He will do his best to drive away Liu Zhang's troops and ensure the safety of Jingzhou."
At that time, everyone's eyes were on Gan Ning, with some disdain, some strangeness, and some envy.
Gan Ning silently endured all the strange realizations, accepted the new position of General of the Central Army in the West, and then ordered ten thousand troops to go to Yiling.
Not long after Gan Ning left, Liu Biao's funeral officially began.
Liu Qi finally woke up. His personal safety had been monitored for a long time and could not escape. In his sleep, his future had long been confirmed.
So Liu Qi is confused now.
He saw his father's officials appear one by one, but when he wanted to see no one, he was confused.
When he saw the seal of King Chu and the seal of the King of Chu beside Liu Cong, he was even more confused.
"Brother Cong...this...this is..."
"Brother, my father's death is something that neither you nor my brother want to see. Now that my father has chosen me to be the King of Chu, brother should not say anything. Let's send my father a last journey together. What do you think?"
Liu Qi's mouth opened slightly and could not speak.
It was Liu Biao who wanted to pass the position of King Chu to him, why did everything change when he woke up?
Where is Gan Ning? Where is Sun Hao? Where is Sun Fu? Where is Yiji?
Where is the person?
Liu Qi stood there blankly, standing there like a piece of wood, no one cared about it or paid attention to it.
Since this day, Liu Qi has not appeared in the public eye, but it doesn’t matter. No one cares about how Liu Qi is doing and what will happen in the future.
What they care about is their own interests.
After all, Liu Cong became the governor of Jingzhou and King Chu, inherited Liu Biao's career, and continued to be a representative without much power. Although he himself did not have this understanding, he was still happily giving various orders to do something while serving as King Chu.
Of course, the first problem he faced after taking office was not the overwhelming force of the Wei army, but the Wu Ban was stopped by Gan Ning when he was about to enter Jingzhou. The two sides had disagreements and fought one after another, and they became a group of people near Yiling.
Le Jin and Guo Jia originally thought of giving more time to the logistics industry and preparing enough logistics to push Jingzhou to the fullest.
But unexpectedly, Guo Peng sent someone to send news in time, saying that a war broke out within the Iron and Steel Alliance in Jingzhou and Yizhou. The unbreakable alliance exploded instantly, so they slowed down and waited for the two dogs to bite the dog and then entered the field to harvest.
Guo Peng didn't expect Liu Biao to die so early.
In his calculations, Liu Biao still had a good life, but unexpectedly, a spy from Linzi Camp reported that Liu Biao had brought him a dog in advance.
He was surprised, so he instructed Yan Rou to dig deep into this matter through his own channels. He always felt that Liu Biao died a bit deliberate.
Regardless of this, before Liu Biao died, Cai Mao joined forces with Zhang Yun and Kuai Yue to block the news of the Wei army's invasion against the senior officials of Jingzhou. After Liu Biao died, Liu Qi was dealt with in minutes, and Liu Cong ascended the throne and became the new King of Chu and the governor of Jingzhou.
This was not beyond Guo Peng's expectations.
Although Guo Peng saw some of Liu Biao's previous operations, in his opinion, Liu Biao was terminally ill and confused.
In the face of the great enemy, if you don’t win over the local war factions in Jingzhou, you will actually exclude all the people in Jingzhou?
Using the three stray dogs of Sun Hao, Sun Fu and Gan Ning as generals, and using the isolated Yiji as the magistrate of Nanjun County, he rejected the meritorious generals of Zhang Xian in the Southern Expedition, Huang Zhong and Wen Pin, which was no less than Zhao Gou's thirteen gold medals to recall Yue Fei.
He had no foundation in Jingzhou, no conditions for Guo, no scapegoats such as the Yellow Turban Army, Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, etc., and Liu Biao's foundation in Jingzhou was very shallow, which made the Jingzhou people who held real power even more heartbroken.
In fact, there are not only surrender factions like Kuai Yue and Cai Mao in Jingzhou.
Chapter completed!