Chapter 693

Liu Biao is suffering miserably. More and more troops are attracted to Xiangyang. The eyes of Jingzhou are also attracted to Xiangyang, and Liu Biao has no intention to deal with other things.

Taking advantage of this time, Cai Mao did a lot of work.

Although many actions, but did not cause too much attention of others.

Nowadays, everyone's eyes are attracted by Zhang Yu. In the past, few people will see Cai Mao's small moves.

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

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

First of all, he has been in frequent contact with his family recently.

Liu Biao knows all these little moves because he is very afraid that Cai Mao and Zhang Yu will unite to overthrow him.

So Liu Biao has been paying attention to his movements.

However, Liu Biao suddenly keeps close contact with these aristocratic families, and he doesn't care too much. However, he is afraid that these aristocratic families will revolt with him, and he also pays attention to these aristocratic families.

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

In this way, Liu Biao did not interfere. After all, it was not the right choice to force Cai Mao.

Cai Mao also made another move, that is, he quietly removed and replaced many low-level officials in each county, the highest of which was at the county magistrate level, and only changed two.

It's just two county magistrates. It's really not worth mentioning to hundreds of counties in Jingzhou.

Others are lower ranking officials.

Liu Biao didn't pay attention to these reports at all, because they couldn't reach him at all.

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

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

In particular, some prefects were transferred to Xiangyang by Liu Biao.

There are three Taishou with tens of thousands of soldiers to Xiangyang to help boxing, because Liu Biao does not trust Cai Mao, and there are many Cai Mao's confidants and soldiers in Xiangyang.

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

Cai Mao 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In Jiangxia County, all the officials from the prefect to the bottom have been replaced by Cai Mao, and all of them have been assigned to him.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 tactics provided by Zhang Yu to nibble away the grass-roots organizations and gradually control the whole Jingzhou from the bottom up.

Imagine that after all the counties were controlled by Cai Mao, do you have to be afraid of Taishou?

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

Obviously, at that time, the power of the whole Jingzhou was totally elevated by Cai Mao.

Liu Biao doesn't care about CAI Mao's small moves, because Zhang Yu attracts his attention.

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

"Xincheng County is very important. If we win Xincheng County, Xiangyang will be in the middle, Xincheng in the West and Jiangxia in the East."

Jiangxia County, Taishou mansion and Cai Mao have held meetings here for several days in a row to meet various people.

At this time, he was arranging the new town county.

When Cai Mao finished, Huang Zu said, "general, the governor of Xincheng County has a close eye. He also knows that Xincheng County is very important, so only one third of the county magistrates here are our people."

"The prefects of Xincheng County are not our people. It's not convenient for us to do things, but it doesn't matter. One third of the county magistrates are our people. These counties have been controlled. The rest of them use our plan to take all the county magistrates to me, and then find an opportunity to replace the Prefects." Cai Mao said.

After the arrangement of Xincheng County, Cai Mao said, "how many people are available now?"

A staff member in charge of the matter came out and said: "we have recruited thousands of talents in recent days, and now all of them have been allocated. We just don't investigate their identities very carefully."

Cai Mao shook his head and said: "we can't care so much now. Anyway, they are all low-level officials. It's better to have some than none. As for the identity problem, we should immediately start a special investigation one by one. We don't lack time. It doesn't matter if we investigate for a few months."

Low level officials, even those with ulterior motives will not have a great influence if they are arranged. Therefore, this matter is not very important, even if it is checked for a year, it doesn't matter.

However, Cai Mao was more cautious. Although time was not required, the investigation must be careful.

Cai Mao rubbed his brows wearily and said: "recently, we are absolutely not allowed to arrange people from the army to go in. Otherwise, it is easy to arouse Liu Biao's vigilance and find out our actions in advance, and there will be trouble at that time."

"However, we can't help but pay attention to military affairs. We should start with the officials in charge of logistics. If we can win over, we should win over, and if we can't, we should replace them. For some particularly critical positions, we will do whatever we can

There are many ways for Cai Mao. One is to smear or investigate their black history and force them to leave their present positions.

The second is to use all kinds of pressure to exert all kinds of pressure on their family or themselves, so that they can take the initiative to leave.

If these two moves don't work, we need to use the third move, that is to directly attack him, and it is necessary to assassinate him.

In this way, many officials in Jingzhou are not high, but the important ones are quietly replaced by Cai Mao.

Because of the low level, few people will pay attention.

Even if we pay attention, we only pay attention to a few. No one will connect all the events.

Of course, Cai Mao didn't do it all by himself. Many of them were doing it secretly. He replaced these positions through other people and other families.

So, who knows.

In addition, many of Liu Biao's confidants, Cai Mao, didn't move much, and would give them good treatment, but many of them left their original positions.

He was transferred from his long-standing position and did not understand the following situation, which made it convenient for Cai Mao to take action.

Many normal transfers hide abnormal motives.

"Master, you haven't had a good rest for several days. Why don't you go back and have a rest first." When the steward saw Cai Mao's tired face, he reminded him.

Cai Mao waved his hand and said, "go and make me some tea. Bring me a basin of hot water and let me wash."

Cai Mao knew that it was a crucial time to compete with Liu Biao for time.

When Zhang Yu's tossing is over, Liu Biao will suddenly find that his control over the whole Jingzhou has dropped a lot. At that time, even if he wants to change it, it's too late to stop it.