Scenes like Cai’s happened in every corner of Jingzhou. Those aristocratic families and celebrities received invitations sent by Chen Shen’s subordinates. Some people sometimes frowned and wondered if it was Kuai Liang’s handwriting. Liang, an old bachelor from Jingzhou, is very famous in Jingzhou. He wants to marry a concubine
There are also people who are full of smiles, and there are two types of smiles. The first one is ridicule, yes, it is the kind of ridicule. They get the invitation and go there happily, because they want to see this Kuai family fool The other one is that it is really a blessing. This Kuai fool finally figured it out, and he also asked the servants to prepare the gift. After all, where is Kuai Liang's status? Naturally, the gift should not be shabby.
"Zi Rou is going to marry a concubine?!" Kuai Yue also received this invitation in the Kuai Mansion in the inner city. His first thought when he got the invitation was that he didn't believe it, because Kuai Liang was his only younger brother. His understanding of his second brother is even deeper than his own, and Kuai Yue can think of what his younger brother can think of.
Kuai Yue wants to be a good elder brother, but he has a family and can only be a good patriarch. It is precisely because Kuai Yue thinks of the family first, so Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang have deep conflicts, Kuai Liang wants to help Liu Biao went to conquer the world, so that their lord Liu Biao could truly become the overlord of the world. But Kuai Yue doesn't think so, Conglong is certainly good, just like Zhang Liang and Xiao He have left an eternal masterpiece in the history books, but you have to know that Conglong is a minority after all, most of the last ones are nothing A good ending, for example, Fan Zeng, Zhong Limei, and Ying Bu who are beside the Overlord of Chu will have a good ending. If Liu Biao is a person with great ambitions, it’s fine, then he might as well fight hard. But Liu Biao is an indecisive person.
Not only that, how did their lord win Jingzhou? Kuai Yue naturally knew that Liu Biao entered Jingzhou alone. The reason why Jingzhou was able to win so quickly was because Liu Biao knew how to divide the gentry. He entered Jingzhou and recruited a group of gentry, like their Kuai family and Cai family, who were among them. He also suppressed a group of gentry, such as the Deng family and Wang family. Liu Biao is using the gentry to deal with the gentry. This is of course good and can be done soon. The only thing to do is to calm down Jingzhou, so that the background of Jingzhou remains unchanged, but this is also a very big disadvantage, that is, there are still so many nobles. It's just that some noble families have become aristocratic families, and some aristocratic families have been downgraded and become noble families.
The biggest shortcoming of the gentry is that they are all centered on their own family, and everything is based on their own interests. In order to obtain the limited resource market in Jingzhou, they will naturally fight against each other. The Kuai family and the Cai family are a combination, and the Huang family also It is another faction, and there is also the neutral Pang family of Lumen Academy, etc. Jingzhou is Liu Biao’s Jingzhou in name, but in fact it is Jingzhou of aristocratic families. Liu Biao’s Liu family can occupy at most one-third of Jingzhou. The status is not bad, how can such a Jingzhou go to conquer the world? Haven't seen Yuan Shao's ending yet? Jingzhou is just a smaller version of Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's fourth generation and third prince owned the land of four states, but he still lost. You can see the end of Jingzhou's struggle for hegemony. And among the few families that can win the world now, such as Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Sun Ce, which one of these people is not a promise in their respective territories. The Dong family is in the hands of the gentry, but it is in the hands of Cao Cao's generals, and Sun Ce. It was Jiangdong that was forcibly conquered by three thousand soldiers, so the people of Jiangdong also recognized the little bully. Sun Ce also supported his relatives, such as the Wu family, the Sun family and the Zhou family, as the bearers of Jiangdong's power, and Lu Bu had no scruples. Because Lu Bu currently has two territories under his command, one is Lujiang, and the gentry in Lujiang have been completely killed by Lu Bu's good son-in-law Liu Wei, the king of Shu. It's just a rebuilt person, and naturally there will be no gentry.
When a dynasty will be destroyed, that is when the power of the gentry is greater than the imperial power, that is the end of a dynasty.
Once the war starts, it’s okay if you win. Once you lose and are liquidated, then the Kuai family will bear the brunt of it, because after all, it was you, Kuai Liang, who proposed to fight, and the loser will not be a Kuai Liang, but a loser. The entire Kuai family is gone, so Kuai Yue can't afford to gamble, so he won't gamble!
This is the biggest reason for the estrangement between the two brothers. One advocates the war faction, the other advocates peace, and even the Kuai family and the Cai family have begun to contact the next lord, so naturally they have nothing to say. Kuai Liang moved out of Kuai's mansion and lived in the outer city.
And shortly after Kuai Liang left, Kuai Liang's wife passed away. Kuai Liang, an old bachelor at the fifth rank of diamond king in Jingzhou, naturally many noble families were thinking about it.
Although Kuai Liang is old, there are still many aristocratic families who want to marry their daughters or younger sisters to Kuai Liang, so that they can get on the boat of the Kuai family. If this is a chain of interests, you can see In Jingzhou, Liu Biao married Cai Mao's younger sister. The difference between the two was almost thirty years old, and Mrs. Cai was about the same age as Liu Qi.
And the other Liu Bei was even more shameless, and directly married someone who was equivalent to his niece. Liu Bei was a bit older than Sun Jian, but in the end he took Sun Jian's youngest daughter. These marriages were all for The interests of the gentry.
But so many aristocratic families are disappointed, Kuai Liang doesn't want anyone, he just wants to spend the rest of his life alone, Kuai Yue is not easy to persuade, after all, there is a gap between the two.
But now it seems that my younger brother has become enlightened and is going to marry a concubine. I just don’t know that this is a girl from the He family, and there is no writing on the invitation. It is only the Kuai family who married a concubine. The trouble is the address and location.
"Have you ever found out which family is the lady?" Kuai Yue asked his housekeeper.
"Patriarch! No! The man who sent the letter is just this ranger, he doesn't know what to ask!" The housekeeper replied.
"Yeah!" Kuai Yue frowned. If he knew which family she was from, Kuai Yue could change some tactics. Which gentry clans could be brushed, and he could also say hello to each other on the elder brother's side. support.
But now I don’t know which lady is a bit difficult to deal with. "Forget it!" The invitation sent by Kuai Liang is too perfunctory, and the matter is more urgent. Which one of the ordinary people is not the matchmaker's words? , let's just watch it first, don't you know when it's night time! Kuai Liang's ability to marry a concubine is also the luck of his Kuai family, after all, the Kuai family is not prosperous. It would be great if we could add one and a half people.
"Where's the young master!" Kuai Yue was going to attend his younger brother's wedding in the evening, so he naturally wanted to bring his only baby son with him to the wedding, after all, he was a family. Why not go to his uncle's wedding? Moreover, Kuai Ran was brought up by Kuai Liang when he was a child, and the relationship is still good. Now the bridge connecting Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang in the Kuai family is Kuai Ran.
"The eldest young master went to visit friends. He hasn't come back yet!" The butler replied to his patriarch. Why didn't the butler know that Kuai Ran was going to the music hall, but the butler was covering for Kuai Ran. It would be a disaster if Kuai Yue found out that his son had gone to brothels and Kuai Ran came back.
"Haven't come back yet?!" Kuai Yue frowned immediately, with an urge to get angry, even though Kuai Yue is a good old man in the officialdom, no one can offend him, but he is really very fond of his son. Strict, because there is only one such heir, and the Kuai family will belong to Kuai Ran in the future. Kuai Yue is naturally very strict. If he is not able to forge ahead, at least he must ensure that the Kuai family does not decline.
"Hurry up and send someone to call him back! Let him attend his uncle's wedding banquet with me at night!" Kuai Yue waved his hand and said to the butler.
"Yes, yes!" Don't say Kuai Yue, the steward has already sent someone to the music hall to find Kuai Ran, but this person has never been found, and the steward even found Liu Guanshi from the music hall. I left early last night with Mr. Wang Shu from Lumen Academy, and there were six girls when I left! If he just left, the housekeeper wouldn't be worried. But these six girls! He was really afraid that his eldest young master would play some group activities, and he would get dizzy in the end, but he was usually fine. But not today.
When the butler was about to leave, Kuai Yue suddenly called to his butler, "What's the matter with the King of Shu!" Kuai Yue didn't know why, looking at the familiar handwriting and the invitation card in his hand, he suddenly thought of a people.
"Shu King?!" The butler was stunned for a moment, and then realized that as soon as the son-in-law of the Shu King Liu Mang and Lu Bu arrived in Jingzhou, the Patriarch asked him to send someone to monitor every move of the Shu King. It's just that the Shu Palace has been too quiet for the past two days, so the housekeeper didn't report immediately.
"The mansion of the King of Shu is still the same as the previous few days. Eating, practicing swords, fishing and enjoying the flowers!" The housekeeper explained the affairs of the mansion of the King of Shu to Kuai Yue in detail.
"So calm?!" Kuai Yue couldn't believe it, because the lord Liu Biao could hear what Pang Tong said. Not only did he not sell grain and grass to Liu Bei, but he also did not sell it to Liu Mang. Take all the food and grass back into the treasury. At this time, Liu Mang should be running around in a hurry looking for someone to trust, instead of being so calm now. Kuai Yue has already planned that if Liu Mang sends someone to find his mansion He used some excuses to excuse him, but now these excuses seem to be in vain.
"Yes!" The butler nodded. Kuai Yue explained that the butler would not be sloppy. The butler sent nearly twenty people outside the mansion of the King of Shu. It can be said that the entire mansion of the King of Shu has been monitored.
"Does the second younger brother marry a concubine have anything to do with this King of Shu?!" Kuai Yue thought of an answer that was closest to the answer, but was rejected by Kuai Yue himself. There are only two guards and one Jia Xu, they are all men, and there is no woman, so Kuai Liang must marry a woman from Jingzhou, as long as she is a woman from Jingzhou, she has nothing to do with this Yangzhou. "Do you want to strike later? Or is it something else?!" Kuai Yue couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it. This matter in Yangzhou has nothing to do with his Kuai family. The enmity of Lu Bu in Lujiang has nothing to do with his Kuai family. It doesn't take long.
"The king of Shu continues to monitor. When that rebellious son comes back, tell him to take a bath and change clothes immediately and prepare to go with me in the evening!" Kuai Yue was a little tired, he was going to rest for a while, and he had to participate in the banquet at night, and the banquet was natural I'm going to drink, how can I go to drink if I don't have the energy.
"Yes!" The housekeeper nodded and retreated.
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"Kuai Liang's wedding banquet?!" Pang Tong naturally also received this invitation. This invitation was specially asked by Liu Mang to be written by Kuai Liang to this Pang Tong. Bind Kuai's family to Liu Mang's Yangzhou warship.
Seeing the word Kuai Liang, Pang Tong felt very uncomfortable, because this person is from a faction that is pro-Yangzhou. Before Liu Mang came to Jingzhou, this Kuai Liang gave him a lot of embarrassment. Even after he killed Liu Mang's envoy, he even said that Liu Biao killed himself and used his body to go to Yangzhou to get forgiveness from Liu Mang's army. Kuai Liang can be regarded as half of Liu Bei's enemy.
"Aren't we going, military commander!?" A subordinate next to him asked cautiously, going to the enemy's wedding banquet would only be making fun of himself.
"Go! Why don't you go~" Pang Tong's dark face was very flat, and he didn't know what he was thinking. "Since they invited us, we naturally have to respond!" Naturally, the invitation has already been sent. If Pang Tong didn't go, he obviously didn't understand etiquette, and he could still talk to some people if he went to Kuai's mansion.
"By the way. Has there been any movement in the mansion of the false king Liu Mang recently?!" Pang Tong asked his subordinates. If it is said that Kuai Yue monitored Liu Mang just for the sake of maintaining neutrality, then Pang Tong paid attention to Liu Mang. Reckless just wanted to know himself and the enemy so that he would be invincible in a hundred battles.
"The mansion of the false king Liu Mang has been very quiet these past few days, and the mansion of the false king Liu Mang is eating, drinking and having fun as usual!" replied the person in charge of monitoring Liu Mang's mansion.
"It's very quiet?!" Pang Tong was stunned for a moment, but he risked his life to persuade Liu Biao, so that Liu Biao didn't want to help, his lord Liu Bei couldn't get food, and he couldn't get Yangzhou either. At this time, Liu Mang should be an ant on a hot pot, he was so anxious, how could he be so indifferent. If things are abnormal, there must be demons.
"Kuai Liang marrying a concubine?!" Pang Tong turned his attention to the invitation card in his hand again, and the mansion of the false king Liu Mang was quiet. These two things must be related! "So that's it!" Pang Tong seemed to have thought of something, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Military division?!" The subordinates at the side looked at Pang Tong's expression suspiciously and seemed to want Pang Tong to explain.
"I understand, this false king Liu Mang is thinking!" Pang Tong said with a sneer, "He has not moved in the past few days, he is not in a hurry, but he is waiting for an opportunity, and today is one of these opportunities!" Kuai Liang , Pang Tong is not without investigation. This person is very stubborn, known as Kuai Lengzi, but he has been widowed for a long time and has never taken a concubine. But today he suddenly married a concubine and sent invitations widely.
There must be something wrong with this, before Pang Tong couldn't figure it out, now he figured it out, this Kuai Liang didn't marry a concubine sooner or later, he insisted on these few days, he was creating an opportunity for this false king Liu Mang.
Liu Biao stopped selling grain and grass to Yangzhou, Liu Mang would definitely find someone through his connections, and went to Liu Biao to explain in detail that if Liu Mang went to find them one by one, he would find the year of the monkey. And it's the same thing whether people see him or not.
But it would be different if Kuai Liang married a concubine, who is Kuai Liang! He is Kuai Yue's younger brother. It is also a high-ranking official in Jingzhou, Kuai Liang will definitely send out invitations when he marries a concubine. Those aristocratic families will definitely be there to save face for the Kuai family. Liu Mang only needs to attend this banquet to get in touch with those people once and for all, and he needs to visit them one by one by himself!
This Kuai Liang is really well-intentioned. At such an age, I have to go to help Liu Mang at the end of the day.
"Then the military adviser will do this now!" Hearing what Pang Tong said, Liu Bei's subordinates around him became anxious. They monitored Liu Reck to prevent Liu Reck from seeking someone through his relationship, but now Liu Reck can see him once and for all. With so many people, isn't this surveillance in vain
"Hehe, Liu Mang wants to see him, but I just want him to not see him!" Pang Tong squinted his eyes and smiled coldly. If this Kuai Liang didn't give him Pang Tong's invitation, he might still be invited by Liu Mang. I am confused, but now that I have given this invitation, then Liu Mang will not be able to succeed.
"What does the military division mean?!"
"Kuai Liang is holding a banquet in the evening, and the location of this banquet is in the outer city of Xiangyang!" Pang Tong picked up the invitation card in his hand and showed it to his subordinates. Good banquet!"
"Does the military master want us to attack and kill the false king Liu Mang?" Several of Pang Tong's subordinates wondered, "Since the military master killed Liu Mang's envoy last time, the whole Jingzhou has been paying attention to us! Swords are difficult to use in the city." Pang Tongxue Banchao killed Liu Mang's envoy and wanted to force Liu Biao to submit and let Liu Biao and Liu Mang go to war, but he miscalculated Liu Biao's courage, and also miscalculated this capable person in Jingzhou. Liu Biao knew that After Pang Tong made troubles, he would not kill Pang Tong, but he became wary of Pang Tong. It is okay to use weapons outside the city, in this city of Xiangyang. Once the sword is used, let alone the false king Liu Mang, this Jingzhou Liu Biao will not be able to spare Pang Tong. At that time, it will definitely affect and stop Liu Mang. Not to mention that Liu Biao could still sell Yangzhou military rations in a fit of anger, which would be self-defeating.
"Idiot! Do you have to use weapons in this city to stop them!" Pang Tong said bluntly. It was a reprimand to his subordinates.
Liu Mang lived in the inner city, and Pang Tong and the others could not use weapons. Similarly, Liu Mang and the others could not use weapons in public. Both sides were bare-handed, but Pang Tong had the upper hand, because Liu Mang was an outsider after all, and his subordinates How many people can there be in total, and Pang Tong, he has lived in this Jingzhou since he was a child. It can be said that they are the local snakes in Jingzhou. Their Pang family is even more huge in Jingzhou. It is very simple to find hundreds of people. At that time, they only need to block Liu Mang and others in the inner city so that he cannot get out. Naturally, Liu Mang's calculations would be ineffective if he couldn't fall above Kuai Liang's mansion. In the end, Kuai Liang was not guaranteed at the end of the festival, and Liu Mang also couldn't get Jingzhou's food and grass, killing two birds with one stone.
"Great military adviser. Talented!" All of Pang Tong's men's eyes lit up, yes, in the inner city of Jingzhou. They can't use swords and soldiers, and neither can the false king Liu Mang. It only needs to find hundreds of people to block the road.
"Go! I'm going to take a bath and change clothes too!" Pang Tong said with a smile and waved his hands. He has to prepare well. This Liu Mang and Kuai Liang have worked so hard to calculate, and they want to let the patriarchs of the noble families get together once and for all. The purpose of gathering at Kuai's house is to have a chance to discuss! Similarly, Pang Tong went, and this was also an opportunity for Pang Tong.
For example, don't drive Kuai Yue from Jingzhou. This person is a neutral faction, with no words on the wall. Pang Tong went to visit Kuai Yue several times, all with the excuse of not being there, or simply because he didn't have time perfunctorily. Besides the frontline Jiangxia, what else can this Jingzhou do
The front line used to be a lot of things, but now replacing Jingzhou in Jiangxia is his best friend and lifelong enemy Zhuge Liang. Can Pang Tong not know Zhuge Kongming's ability! Even if Jiangdong cannot be pacified, at least Jiangxia, the barrier of Jingzhou, will not be lost. With Zhuge Kongming here, Jingzhou can be safe for thirty years.
Kuai Yue's excuse can be summed up in one sentence, that is, he doesn't want to see Pang Tong, but today, this Kuai Yue has to see himself, on top of the banquet, can Kuai Yue still have an excuse not to go! Although Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue had conflicts, they were brothers after all, and Pang Tong believed that Kuai Yue would not stop participating.
In addition to Kuai Yue, there must be other noble families at this banquet, and this is a good opportunity to make friends.
"Help me prepare a big gift!" Pang Tong went to Kuai Liang's wedding banquet, and naturally he would not leave empty-handed. He wanted to give a big red envelope, which should at least move Kuai's family. At that time, Kuai Yue would be too embarrassed to reject himself.
"Great gift?!" Pang Tong's subordinates didn't understand. If it was just a gift, they had prepared a lot on the mansion, and it was all prepared by Pang Tong for visiting some gentry. But what is a heavy gift? What does it look like to be called heavy
"Yes!" Pang Tong nodded.
"Military teacher, do you think this is okay?!" Pang Tong's men brought two orbs, which can be regarded as worth a hundred gold, not only because they are beautiful, but also because they are from Luoyang, the former capital of the East. It revealed that when Dong Zhuo ordered people to destroy Luoyang and move westward, Zhang Xiu and his uncle participated in the feast of robbery. Luoyang was destroyed, and the gold, silver and jewels inside were naturally robbed. The two Dongzhu in front of him fell into Zhang Ji's hands.
When Zhang Ji died, it belonged to Zhang Xiu, and when Zhang Xiu died, naturally it belonged to his lord Liu Bei.
"Not enough, not enough!" Pang Tong shook his head. Although there are a lot of hundred gold, it is not worth mentioning in front of the behemoth of the Kuai family.
"Then what about Yu Ruyi!"...
"Still not!" This pair of Yu Ruyi is not as good as those two East Pearls.
"This is an isolated copy of the Analects of Confucius?!" Another subordinate took out a yellowed book, don't underestimate him, but it is an ancient book with the words of sages on it.
"No!" The only copy of the Analects of Confucius is also very precious. I am afraid that there will be no second copy of the same in the whole world, but this kind of ancient book is for those old masters and famous Confucian scholars, not the Kuai family.
"What do you mean, military advisor?!" These subordinates could no longer think of any important gifts.
"By the way, didn't the lord send a horse of gold and silver!" One of the subordinates suddenly thought of something and said.
"That can't be moved, the lord asked me to come to Jingzhou to buy grain and grass!" Another subordinate hurriedly stopped, these money is the money that Liu Bei got from Zhang Xiu, and the rest is the Yuzhou that Liu Bei emptied of. There are five thousand pieces of gold, and the money is used to buy food and grass.
"No! Just use that batch of gold and silver!" Pang Tong was also reminded. It's not that he didn't have a heavy gift, but that he had it but didn't find it.
"But with that batch of gold and silver, what should we do with the food!" Someone questioned.
"Even if we have this batch of gold and silver, we can't buy food and grass!" Pang Tong has already blocked his own way, which makes Liu Biao not sell food and grass to Yangzhou. , or shipped back.
Moreover, Pang Tong has mobilized the forces of the Pang family to help with the food and grass. He was consuming the Pang family's heritage.
But now, taking out this batch of gold and silver can make friends with the Kuai family and those gentry, so why not do it, this Jingzhou is not so much the Jingzhou of Liu Biao as it is the Jingzhou of the gentry.
"That's it! Come and load the gold and silver for me! Leave a thousand gold, and load everything else!" Pang Tong gritted his teeth. If the money can make friends with the Kuai family, it will definitely be worth it. Pang Tong will leave a thousand gold It is for brushing other small gentry!