Chapter 10 Five, the aggrieved Cai Mao

These few days, Cai Hao was quite restless. Originally, he and Kuai Yue persuaded Liu Cong to surrender the whole Jing Province to Cao Cao, thinking that he should get rich rewards from Cao Cao for this achievement.However, the series of events that followed surprised him again and again. First of all, the veteran officials such as Xun You and Mao Jie in Cao Cao's shogunate have always despised Kuai Yue and Cai Mao's status as "surrendered ministers", and they secretly suppressed them. It was also put on hold, and it is still locked in the desk drawer of Mao Jie's Xicao Office, becoming a piece of waste paper.That's all for nothing - who made them the prime minister's favorites with real power!

Secondly, after Cai Mao and Kuai Yue instigated Han Xuan, the prefect of Changsha County, to turn against him, assassinate Liu Pan, and surrender the city, instead of bringing much improvement to their current situation, they pushed them into a bigger situation. in embarrassment.Kuai Yue was summoned to Xudu out of thin air by the imperial court with a promotion order of "Marquis of Bailiting", which made Cai Mao feel like a loser and a think tank; then, his nephew and former master Liu Cong was suddenly transferred by Cao Cao. Shepherd for Qingzhou.At this point, no matter how stupid Cai Hao is, he can see that Cao Cao is completely "shuffling" the personnel structure in Jingzhou.Moreover, the local aristocratic forces in Jingzhou represented by himself and Kuai Yue have obviously been severely suppressed.

As for the fact that Cao Cao still seems to be so polite to him on the surface, it is only because he is the commander of the Jingzhou Navy who has been familiar with water warfare for many years, and Cao Cao was unable to find a suitable candidate from the old Central Plains under his command. to replace myself.After all, he still needs himself, the commander of the Jingzhou navy, to command the 40,000 navy to deal with Sun Quan and Zhou Yu in Jiangdong!As for what will happen after helping Cao Cao level Jiangdong in the future, Cai Mao simply doesn't want to think about it.Will I repeat Kuai Yue's old path, and be transferred to Xudu by Cao Cao with a fluffy "edict" to be a "nominal" senior idler?

However, the complaints in his heart belonged to complaints, but Cai Mao did not dare to show it in the slightest.This Cao Cao is not as easy to serve as the generous Liu Biao and the inexperienced Liu Cong!His upright determination, Ming Su, and many ways to control people, I don't know how many times stronger than Liu Biao and Liu Cong!How dare I play any "wrist" under his hands!Only by working hard and making some achievements can we please Cao Cao and keep our current status and real power from being diminished.In other words, I played the "Jingzhou Navy" card for Cao Cao in front of Jiangdong Sun's. Maybe Cao Cao can use merit as the basis, rewards and punishments are clearly defined, and give himself a well-deserved honor?Now, as the saying goes: "A man under the roof has to bow his head." He could only think so.

However, all this is not the biggest headache for Cai Mao right now.It is impossible for him to have the most headaches from these depressed emotions, but the most realistic problems.As soon as the 40,000 Cao Jun sailors passed Yunmengze and Dongting Lake, many of them began to get sick for no reason.At first it was the usual sneezing, coughing, runny nose.Because of the pressing schedule, the army did not dare to delay, and everyone bravely endured the pain and drove forward.As a result, the more they went forward, the more something went wrong. The number of sick soldiers increased day by day, and the symptoms became more serious day by day—diarrhea, vomiting, convulsions, weakness, etc. followed one after another!Cai Mao was puzzled by this.But after all, he has led the navy in the Jingxiang area for so many years, and he still has a basic common sense. The peak period of this kind of "schistosomiasis" epidemic is usually between March and August when the temperature is relatively high. How can I hear it? After the cold winter in October, this kind of disease still occurs?Moreover, these sailors of mine are all natives of Jingzhou, and they have long been accustomed to the water, soil and climate here, so how could they suffer from this disease out of thin air?

There is no way, in order to control the spread of the epidemic, Cai Mao had no choice but to use past experience and lessons, and strictly ordered all the ships and sailors under his command to boil the river water before drinking it, always keeping in mind the warning of "disease enters the mouth" Irreversible.At the same time, he also sent a warning notice to Cao Jun's 90,000-step cavalry marching simultaneously on the river bank, reminding them to pay attention to epidemic prevention and treatment, and also asked Cao Cao to quickly dispatch the "army physician team" for medical treatment.

In such stumbling, at the end of the morning on October 21st, under the shroud of misty white mist, Cao Jun's 40,000 navy with a total of 4,200 warships finally arrived at the westernmost point of Jiangxia County. At the ferry crossing in Qi County.Driving four or five hundred miles further along the waterway is Xiakou City.However, Cai Mao and the others may not have expected that just near the Puqi Ferry, which appears to be calm on the surface, there has long been a net of heaven and earth already densely covered with dark cloth, and it is opening its "bloody mouth", waiting for them to die in a daze. Get into the net!