In a residence in Yicheng.

Huang Xu was watching over Li Zheng, his long sword kept touching Li Zheng's throat in the distance, and he did not dare to relax for a moment.

This person is the county magistrate of Yicheng. Controlling him is equivalent to controlling the official offices of Yicheng.

Li Zheng squatted on the spot, trembling all over, looking at Huang Xu with a horrified expression.

Not far away from the two of them, there were the corpses of several attendants brought by Li Zheng, lying on the ground in a mess, with blood flowing all over the ground, making no sound.

Perhaps at the last moment of their lives, they did not understand why they died under the sword of this young man.

"How dare you to rebel?" Li Zheng said tremblingly.

Huang Xu snorted coldly: "The rebels are the Nanjun clan traitors."

At this moment, the door was gently pushed open, and Kuai Yue walked in with a tired look on his face.

Huang Xu turned to look at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Kuai Yue smiled weakly: "Don't worry, Kuai will tell you personally. The Yixian County government has decided and we will not dare to act rashly."

Li Zheng's eyes widened in surprise, and he said in disbelief: "Mr. Alien...?"

Kuai Yue nodded and said, "Mr. Li County, it's been a long time."

"Sir... why did you follow that Liu family... and betray you all?"

Kuai Yue walked up to him and said patiently: "It's not us who rebelled, but the Su, Zhang and other clans who went against the trend, disrespected the imperial edict, and intended to harm the supervisors of the seven counties. They did not abide by the orders of the king of heaven and earth, and their death is inevitable. Li

County Lord, you are not from Jingzhou, why bother to die for them?"

Li Zheng was speechless and didn't know how to answer.

Kuai Yue said patiently: "Mr. Li County, it's better to wake up as soon as possible. The world in Jingzhou is about to change."

…

Inside the inn.

Huang Zhong captured and tied Zhang Fang, the last sect leader, and threw him in front of Liu Qi.

Zhang Fang was kneeling on the ground, covered in blood, his body was shaking, and his eyes were filled with fear.

When he raised his head, he was faced with Liu Qi's gentle face.

"ah--!"

Zhang Fang howled and quickly hid behind him, but what he bumped into was Huang Zhong's solid bones.

He couldn't avoid it.

But Liu Qi did not kill him. Zhang Fang was still useful to him.

Those clan leaders who had not been targeted saw this great change with their own eyes and stood up to salute Liu Qi one after another, swearing tremblingly that they would be loyal to Liu Biao.

All of these people were frightened, and some of them had some moisture in their underpants without even realizing it.

Liu Qi had a pleasant face and supported him with both hands, implying that no one needed to be polite.

"Everyone, why is this happening? I am just a small official, and I cannot afford to be like this. Qi is not a person who kills indiscriminately... It's just that Bei Yu, Su Dai and others have committed heinous crimes and harmed one party. It is not enough not to kill them."

public outrage,"

"As an assistant governor, Liu Qi naturally wants to eradicate evil and eliminate harm for the people. Now that the great evil has been eliminated, the banquet continues and all the gentlemen are invited to the table."

Those clan leaders, you look at me, I look at you, and their eyes swept towards the banquet at the same time.

The long desk, the lacquer plate, Fang Zun, and the wine prince were all splattered with blood. The corpses of clan thieves were lying on the ground, with some human heads mixed in among them.

Seated?

Who can tolerate this scene?

Kuai Liang came over quickly and said to Liu Qi: "Yu Shi can let you go to the back house of the post house to rest for a while. Lianghui will send someone from the clan to take care of it. After the matter is settled, Yu Shi will personally comfort you."

Liu Qi had never met Kuai Liang before.

Before today's banquet, they only greeted each other politely to avoid suspicion, and now it was their first serious conversation.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Zirou and Mr. Degui, for helping me stabilize the situation. Without you two, Qi would not be able to accomplish the big things today."

Liu Qi’s gratitude comes from the bottom of his heart.

Getting rid of the clan thieves, mainly Zhang, Bei, and Su, has eliminated the major obstacle to entering Nanjun. Without the help of the Cai family and the Kuai family, this matter would indeed be difficult to achieve.

Of course, not being able to establish a foothold in Nanjun on his own was a small regret in Liu Qi's heart.

While Liu Qi ordered Huang Zhong to take custody of the remaining clan leaders to rest in the back house, he invited Cai Mao and Kuai Liang to the side and said: "Although the clan leader in the post is dead, the situation is still serious. If you want to achieve something big,

, we must resort to thunderous means.”

Cai Mao and Kuai Liang exchanged meaningful glances with each other.

Cai Mao cupped his hands and said: "What you said, we have considered it beforehand. According to Cai's wishes, when the leaders of the sect's thieves are about to be executed, we will quickly send people to gather the private armies of each family and destroy them."

Private soldiers are stationed throughout Nanjun to ensure that all counties in Nanjun are safe and sound."

Kuai Liang added on the side: "When it becomes the climate to gather the private soldiers of the Nanjun clan, and then win over or coerce the Jiangxia, Lingling, and Guiyang tribes, all parties will be afraid and will inevitably surrender, then Jingchu can be settled."

Liu Qi knew in his heart that this was a premeditated plan by Cai and Kuai to pick the fruit.

To annex the private armies and properties of Su, Bei and other clan thieves is as good a job as raiding a house. They must be happier doing it than killing people!

But judging from the current situation, we really can only rely on them now.

But as the saying goes, the benefits should be shared equally. You can’t all take advantage of it. If you want to develop, the Liu family in Shanyang will also develop here.

Liu Qi smiled at the two of them and said: "There are fifty-five members of the clan who were killed. If these fifty-five clans only rely on two people, I am afraid that it will be difficult to completely gather them together for a while. Otherwise, the important matter will be missed. You may as well work separately. I will let you

Huang Zhonghui and Liu Pan led Liu's soldiers to collect the property of the privateers headed by the Su family. Duke Degui led the generals of the Cai family to collect the private property headed by the Zhang family. Duke Zirou could arrange for the clan members to collect the property.

What do you two think of the private persons headed by Mr. Bei?"

Cai Hao frowned when he heard this.

According to his original calculation, he and Kuai Liang would share the wealth collected by private members of the clan equally, excluding Liu Qi.

After all, Liu Biao was just a temporary supervisory governor from another state in compliance with the "Three Mutual Laws". Logically speaking, non-local nobles had no need to occupy Jingzhou's land and property.

"Supervisors are replaced every two years." In order to prevent the 600-stone governor who was responsible for supervision from colluding with the 2000-stone governor who held the real power in the local area, the thirteen governors of the Han Dynasty had to rotate when they reached their term of office. How could they stay in Jingzhou for a long time?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Unless Liu Biao sees something in Luoyang and finds a reason why he can continue to serve in Jingzhou.

But this is completely impossible in Cai Mao's opinion.

"Sir, this matter is dangerous, so we should be solely responsible for it. My subordinates should stay in Yicheng just in case something unexpected happens."

Liu Qi secretly laughed in his heart: Oh, you exposed your tail so quickly?

I prefer not to.

"It's because of the danger of the matter that I don't trust and only let you two handle it. If something goes wrong, Qi won't be able to explain it to Mr. Yan... Just follow what I just said."

The last sentence Liu Qi said was categorical and unquestionable.

Kuai Liang took a deep look at Liu Qi, remained silent for a long time, and said, "I'll just wait for Yi Shi."

Cai Mao originally wanted to fight again, but Kuai Liang relented. He couldn't say anything more and could only acquiesce in dividing the profits among the three families.

After roughly discussing the details, Cai Mao went to Liu Pan first to help him deal with the more than a thousand followers who came with the clan leaders.

But Kuai Liang was not in a hurry to leave. He looked at Zhang Fang who had been tied up in the middle of the courtyard and asked: "Historical Master, all fifty-five clan thieves have been eliminated, why don't you kill this person alone?"

Liu Qi explained: "His brother Zhang Xian is currently serving as the county guard in Guiyang. If I kill him, won't it cause trouble? It would be good to keep him to restrain Zhang Xian as a later plan."

Kuai Liang was quite surprised in his heart: "Yu Shi is so far-sighted in his weak years. No wonder the governor dared to let Yu Shi come to Jingzhou alone, but he knows people with his sharp eyes!"

Liu Qi shook his head modestly and said: "I dare not accept Duke Kuai's praise. The days are long and I will ask Duke Kuai to help with planning for the next thing."

The two people looked at each other and smiled meaningfully.

What Liu Qi was thinking was that this was an old fox.

Kuai sighed in his heart, "This boy is as cunning as a fox when he is young. How should we, the old ones, behave in the future?"

…

On the eighth day of the fifth month of the first year of Chuping, Liu Qi joined forces with the Cai and Kuai clans to kill fifty-five clan thief leaders at the Yicheng Post House. Only Zhang Fang was captured alive. Huang Xu and Kuai Yue captured Yicheng County Magistrate Li alive.

Zheng and Kuai Yue persuaded the Yicheng county captain, county magistrate and others to submit;

Liu Pan, together with Cai Zhong and Cai He, led 300 Liu soldiers to control more than a thousand clan thieves and their followers. Later, Cai Mao arrived and appeased them.

On the evening of the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, except for the killed leader of the clan robbers, the rest of the Xiangyang clans, under Kuai Liang's persuasion, all wrote in handwriting that they were willing to return to Liu Biao.

On the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, Huang Zhong and Liu Pan took the heads of the two brothers Su Dai and Su Huan and attacked the Su family's private army barracks outside Xiangyang City at night. They beheaded seventy-three people and surrendered.

Hundreds of private soldiers were recruited.

At the same time, Cai Mao and his family generals broke into Zhang's private army camp, and Kuai Yue outwitted Huarong Chang Beiyu's soldiers and horses to camp, dividing the two private armies.

From the 9th to the 14th of May, Huang Zhong, Liu Pan, and Cai Kuai acted separately to capture the clan's military buildings and Cang Ao around Nanjun, and then recruited them to maximize their power.

On May 15th, seventeen clan clansmen took the initiative to send people to Yicheng, requesting to give up their clan property, land, farmers, and private people, and move their families north. Liu Qi agreed to his request with Kuai Liang's plea.

After gathering the private soldiers, grain, grass, and ordnance of each family, Liu Qi sent Liu Pan to conduct an inventory, and the result surprised him.

Just the confiscated materials from the three major families included nine thousand hectares of farmland, four hundred and seventy-seven million in money, one thousand ring-shou swords, five hundred pieces of armor, forty collars of armor, three hundred horns and bows, and feathers.

Fifteen thousand arrows, fifty thousand shi of millet, wheat, and wild rice, and 80,000 shi of bran.

The most terrifying thing among them is that they actually have a total of 300,000 shi of salt!

So much salt was stored, enough to feed the people of Quannan County for a year. Why? The reason was to see the right moment, drive up the price of salt, and sweep the salt industry in Jingzhou.

This is a big deal that can bring down the entire Jingzhou.

But Liu Qi knew that the business of official salt had always been handled jointly by the Cai family and the original official office. How could the Su, Zhang, and Bei families be able to hoard such a huge amount?

But when the matter reached this point, Liu Qi naturally could no longer conduct an in-depth investigation. If Cai Mao was really angered, it would not look good on everyone.

After confiscating the assets of the Jingzhou clan thieves, the next step is to settle in Xiangyang and officially take over Jingzhou.
Chapter completed!