Chapter 697: Cai Mao's Actions

Liu Biao was tormented miserably, and he woke up early the next morning with a poor spirit.

Liu Biao didn't have much energy, didn't sleep well all night, and was nervous all day yesterday.

His staff were similar, only slightly better.

Now Liu Biao is upset.

It is not without purpose that Zhang Yu is so tossing, and their purpose is already in progress.

More and more troops were attracted to Xiangyang, and the eyes of the whole Jingzhou were also attracted to Xiangyang, and Liu Biao was not interested in dealing with other things.

Taking advantage of this time, Cai Mao made a move, and made a lot of moves.

Although there are many actions, it does not attract too much attention from others.

Nowadays, everyone's eyes are attracted by Zhang Yu, and few people will see Cai Mao's little tricks.

Even if you see them, you won't care too much.

And Cai Mao's small movements are very many, or very frequent.

First of all, he has been in frequent contact with the aristocratic family he has made friends with recently.

Many aristocratic families had frequent contacts with him suddenly, and Liu Biao knew about these little tricks, because Liu Biao was very afraid that Cai Mao and Zhang Yu would unite to overthrow him.

So Liu Biao has been paying attention to his movements.

However, Liu Biao suddenly had close contacts with these aristocratic families, and he didn't care too much, but he was afraid that these aristocratic families would rebel with him, so he just paid attention to these aristocratic families.

For a few days, nothing happened, and they didn't do anything.

In this way, Liu Biao did not interfere. After all, it was obviously not the right choice to push Cai Mao into a hurry at this time.

Cai Mao also made another move, that is, he quietly replaced many low-level officials in various counties, the highest being the county magistrate level, and only two were replaced.

There are only two county magistrates, which are really not worth mentioning to the hundreds of counties in Jingzhou.

The others are more junior officials.

These Liu Biao did not pay attention at all,

Because these reports can't reach him at all.

Liu Biao paid a little attention to the officials at the county magistrate level, and did not take any other actions.

Liu Biao didn't know, but Cai Mao was doing it wantonly.

Especially the prefects of some counties were transferred to Xiangyang by Liu Biao.

Three prefects brought tens of thousands of soldiers to Xiangyang to help, because Liu Biao did not trust Cai Mao, and there were many Cai Mao's cronies and soldiers in Xiangyang.

When these prefects left, they gave Cai Mao a chance.

Cai Mao united with his good family and used their influence to replace a large number of low-level officials.

In Jiangxia County, all the officials from the prefect to the bottom have been replaced by Cai Mao, and all of them have been assigned to him.

Cai Mao used the strategy provided by Zhang Yu to eat away at the grassroots organizations and slowly control the entire Jingzhou from the bottom up.

Just imagine, in the future all the counties will be controlled by Cai Mao, so do you still have to be afraid of the prefect?

When the prefects below can no longer control the counties, can Liu Biao still control the counties?

Obviously, at that time, all the power in Jingzhou was emptied by Cai Mao.

Liu Biao didn't care about Cai Mao's little actions, because Zhang Yu had attracted his attention.

Cai Mao is also busy recently, much busier than Liu Biao and Zhang Yu. He has to worry about the whole Jingzhou.

"Xincheng County is very important. If Xincheng County is won, then Xiangyang will be in the middle of us. Xincheng is in the west and Jiangxia is in the east."

In Jiangxia County, the prefect's mansion, Cai Mao has held meetings and interviewed various people here for several days in a row.

At this time, he was arranging the affairs of Xincheng County.

After Cai Mao finished speaking, Huang Zu said, "General, the governor of Xincheng County is more concerned. He also knows that Xincheng County is very important, so only one-third of the county magistrates here are our people."

"The prefect of Xincheng County is not ours. It is inconvenient for us to do things, but it doesn't matter. One-third of the county magistrates are ours. These counties have been controlled. The rest will use our plan and give me all the county magistrates. Make it empty, and then look for an opportunity to replace the prefect." Cai Mao said.

After arranging the affairs of Xincheng County, Cai Mao said: "How many people are available in our hands now?"

An aide in charge of this matter came out and said: "We have recruited thousands of talents in the past few days, and now they have all been assigned. It's just that we haven't investigated their identities very carefully."

Cai Hao shook his head and said: "I can't care about so much now, since they are all low-level officials anyway, it's better to have something than nothing, as for identity issues, we'll start a dedicated investigation one by one right away, we don't lack time, it doesn't matter if we investigate for a few months .”

For low-level officials, even if it is arranged by people with ulterior motives, the influence will not be great, so this matter is not very important, even if it is only a year of investigation.

But Cai Mao is more cautious. Although time is not required, the investigation must be careful.

Cai Mao rubbed his brows wearily and said, "Recently, we absolutely don't allow people from the army to enter, otherwise Liu Biao's vigilance will be easily aroused, and if we discover our actions in advance, there will inevitably be trouble."

"However, we have to pay attention to the affairs of the army. When we attack the officials in charge of logistics, we will recruit those who can be recruited, and replace those who cannot be recruited. For some particularly critical positions, we will not hesitate to use means."

Cai Mao has many methods. One is to discredit or investigate their black history and force them to leave their current positions.

The second is to use various pressures to exert various pressures on their families or themselves to make him leave voluntarily.

If these two tricks still don't work, the third trick is needed, which is to attack him directly, and assassinate him if necessary.

In this way, in the entire Jingzhou, many officials with low positions but important positions were quietly replaced by Cai Mao.

Due to the low level, few people will pay attention.

Even if you pay attention, you only pay attention to a few, and no one will connect all the events.

Of course, Cai Mao would not do all of them himself, many of them were done secretly. He replaced these official positions through other people and other aristocratic families.

So, who knows.

In addition, many of Liu Biao's cronies, Cai Mao, did not move anything, and would give them good treatment, but many of them left their original positions.

I was transferred from the seat I had been in for a long time, and I didn't know the situation below, which made it easier for Cai Mao and the others to act.

Many normal transfers hide abnormal motives.

"Patriarch, you haven't had a good rest for several days, why don't you go back and have a rest first." Seeing Cai Mao's tired face, the manager reminded.

Cai Hao waved his hand and refused, and then said: "Go and make me some tea, bring a pot of hot water here, let me wash."

Cai Mao knew that now was a very critical time, a time to compete with Liu Biao for time.

When Zhang Yu finished tormenting, Liu Biao would suddenly find that his control over the entire Jingzhou had dropped a lot, and even if he wanted to change it, it would be too late to stop him. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms