Cai Mao believed that no matter how he controlled Guan Ping, he would not leave.

The tens of thousands of people under his command are very important to Liu Bei, who is still weak. If the handling is not done well, Yunshan's identity that has been operating for a long time will be exposed, which will be a devastating blow to Liu Bei's army.

He asked the servants to arrange Guan Ping's daily life a little, then read and write by himself, and then took a nap freely.

After hearing the servant's return, Guan Ping was already a little anxious now, and Cai Mao was very happy.

Let's waste, let's waste.

Young people should polish their minds a little. If they don’t have this little patience, how can they achieve great things in the future?

However, Cai Mao was awakened by the butler just after he fell asleep. The butler told Cai Mao in a panic that Guan Ping was waiting for Cai Mao to come. He was very annoyed and actually shook his sleeves and took his subordinates away directly. Now he has set off on the boat.

Cai Mao was shocked:

"Are you sure? He really got on the boat."

"Yes, yes, I saw him leave on the boat."

"Why didn't you call me earlier!"

Cai Mao quickly put on his shoes and hurried to the riverside. When he rushed to the riverside, he had long been unable to see Guan Ping.

He said angrily:

"Where are people! Where are people! There are so many of you, why don't you stop this person!"

Everyone looked at each other, thinking to himself that the general of Cao's army, the prefect of Jiangxia Yunshan. Without Cai Mao's orders, who dared to be rude to him?

"I'm still standing still, hurry up and chase me."

Cai Mao quickly ordered the big ship and chased towards Xiangyang, but he circled around but couldn't find Guan Ping's trace, and he couldn't help but feel panic.

Guan Ping is a child after all. If he turned against him in anger, wouldn’t Cai Mao have lost the opportunity to make conditions? Liu Bei’s conditions are still fine, but if Guan Ping showed off the banner of Liu Bei’s army to attack him in anger, Cao Cao would definitely know that the relationship between Cai Mao and Liu Bei was irreversible, and Cai Mao’s means of negotiating conditions with Cao Cao would be greatly reduced.

For Cai Mao, the most beneficial thing is that both sides are competing to please him. If they turn against each other, it will be a huge disaster.

Cai Mao's many big ships chased Xiangyang all the way, but there was no Guan Ping's figure in this water area, and there was no Guan Ping's ship on the shore. This made Cai Mao even more frightened. He hurried down the river and went to Jiangxia to find Guan Ping's whereabouts.

Yunshan is now the prefect of Jiangxia. He either reports his duties in the Xiangyang waters or stays back to Shiyang. There are only these two roads.

But Cai Mao sent his men to chase him and found the Xiakou waters, but he still couldn't find Guan Ping's figure - even if he couldn't see anyone, he could always see his boat. But Guan Ping seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no whereabouts everywhere. Seeing Cai Mao wandering around the river, Xu Huang and Le Jin both sent people to inquire.

When they heard that Yunshan disappeared, the two Cao army generals from Jiangnan and Jiangbei were furious at the same time.

OK OK OK.

General Yunshan had nothing to do before he went to Caizhou, so why did he go up and there were no people and boats?

Cai Mao, you still said that it wasn’t you who did it?

Le Jin was furious and jumped on the shore to scold Cai Mao. Although he couldn't hear what he had cursed, Cai Mao's face was still blue and purple, and his heart couldn't help but fall.

"What, what's going on?" He grabbed the housekeeper and shouted, "Where is the man? Where is Guan Pingren? Didn't you send him onto the boat in person?"

The housekeeper was speechless, quickly looked back and pretended to be stupid and said:

"The master calms down, the master calms down. Why did you ask Guan Ping so well?"

Cai Mao then reacted and spat:

"Okay, OK, where did Yunshan go? Caizhou is only so close to Xiangyang. Even if others don't see each other, they will have to see the boat, right? You can't be invited away by the Jiang Shen!

Find me, you must see people alive and die with corpses!"

In the next two days, Cai Mao ran out his naval army like crazy and searched for Guan Ping's whereabouts along the waterway from Xiangyang to Xiakou.

Le Jin was so angry that he screamed. He almost wanted to order the troops to fight Cai Mao several times. Unfortunately, he only had those ships under his command, and almost all of them were in the hands of Yunshan and Cao Zhi. Now he could only jump and curse, strongly condemning Cai Mao's behavior, saying that if there is any mistake, all the consequences will be borne by Cai Mao.

Cai Mao was scolded and was covered in a mess. Now even if he told Le Jin that Yunshan was actually Guan Ping, Le Jin would never believe it.

Three days later, Yu Jin, who was temporarily stationed in Wancheng, also sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that if Cai Mao could not hand over Yunshan quickly, they would jointly ask Prime Minister Cao to send troops, and would rather Jingzhou than kill Cai Mao.

Cai Mao is really crying now.

He deeply hated himself for why he had to take control of Guan Ping at that time. It was obvious that he asked Huo Jun to invite Guan Ping to come and talk about the conditions carefully.

Now that it is like this, Cao Cao believes that Yunshan is Guan Ping or not, he has to find a reason to beat Cai Mao.

Liu Bei was assassinated by Cai Mao before. If he hadn't run fast, he would have disappeared. Seeing Guan Ping disappearing now, he would have thought Cai Mao would have used his old tricks again. With Liu Bei's violent temper, Jiang Ling had to come and calculate the new and old hatreds with Cai Mao.

If he lost such an important person, even if Huang Zhong and Huo Jun have a good relationship with Cai Mao, he will definitely not be able to speak for him.

"Is it possible that General Yunshan was actually raided by Guan Ping and buried in the river?" The old housekeeper asked hesitantly. Looking at Cai Mao's murderous gaze, he quickly lowered his head and pretended not to say anything.

Worried that Le Jin and Xu Huang sent a letter to Cao Cao to reveal the matter, Cai Mao quickly asked someone to bring a lot of gifts to Xiangyang, and Fancheng visited Le Jin and Xu Huang.

Le Jin and Xu Huang really asked for some money, and told Cai Mao seriously that the news had reached Nanyang now. It was hard to say where it was spread. Cai Mao must find someone quickly or make some great achievements for the Prime Minister, otherwise he would not be able to hide it for long.

Cai Mao thanked him so much that he simply threw out everyone in his family in the next five days and sent someone to Guan Yu to investigate, hoping that Guan Ping would hide here.

In this way, Cai Mao spent half a month in a nervous mood.

During the past half month, Cai Mao obviously got older. He was anxious and became angry. His previous celebrity style disappeared at all. Every night, he dreamed almost all of his dreams, including Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and the murder of him.

Just when he was almost collapsed, his subordinates finally reported good news-

"Master, Guan Ping has found it! Guan Ping is back!"

"Ah?" Cai Mao's red eyes first became bright, then became bloodshot, and tears couldn't help but fall in his eyes.

"Where are you? Hurry, take me to see him!"

Guan Ping's ship was as usual, with dozens of warships of all sizes and sizes arranged neatly without any signs of fighting. When he drove into the waters of Caizhou, Guan Ping seemed to have been reduced a little bit than before, but his energy seemed to be better than before.

He got off the boat and bowed to Cai Mao from afar.

Cai Mao ran over quickly and quickly stretched out his hands to help Guan Ping up, even his voice became hoarse:

"You, you... nephew, where have you been?"

Guan Ping smiled and said, "I heard that my uncle was in bad health before, so I found a place to pray for my uncle. It seems that the ancestors of the Han Dynasty are blessed with blessings. My uncle is in a good health and can actually walk to the riverside."

The smile on Cai Mao's face froze on the spot, and it took him a long time to laugh:

"It's not bad, my nephew said it well. I wonder where my nephew went?"

Guan Ping smiled and said:

"I heard from Ji Chang that the alchemist Ma Mingsheng lived in Wudang and cultivated the great way. There are many gods here to protect them and can protect peace for generations.

I went to Wudang specifically. Judging from my uncle's appearance, I should have the help of the gods. I did not go there in vain this trip.”

Cai Mao:...

To go to Wudang Mountain, you must first park the boat in the Shangyong waters in the middle and upper reaches of the Han River. This is the junction between Jingzhou and Yizhou. No wonder Cai Mao could not find him in the middle and lower reaches of Xiangyang.

I just let you stay for half a day, but you actually asked me to find you for half a month...

Cai Mao's eyes were full of fierceness. Seeing that his servants were around him, and his own naval troops were also on the river, he couldn't help but slowly put his hand on the hilt of the knife.

"uncle?"

"Hahaha, I said the gods gave me a dream. It turned out that you were praying for me. I have been in great health these days, and I can dance even with swords. This is all the credit of my nephew. Come on, come on, come on, come on, take a break for a while."

Guan Ping is really resting in the past half month.

He asked his subordinates' boat to hide from Shangyong, and he hid back to Xiangyang under the protection of Le Jin. Most of the Jingzhou clans did not know about Guan Ping's movements, so they naturally had no way to report to Cai Mao.

Under Xiang Lang's account, Guan Ping had a little more experience in dealing with the largest family in Jingzhou. Although Cai Mao was powerful, he was absolutely indefinitely unscrupulous. At that time, Liu Biao asked him to be the prefect of Jiangxia and the prefect of Nanjun, but he was always busy making money and accumulating reputation during his tenure. He was reluctant to work for Liu Biao. Liu Biao had no choice but to arrange him to the prefect of Zhangling, which had no geographical conflicts.

Xiang Lang is a loyal fan of Liu Bei like Ma Liang. Ma Liang did not reveal Yunshan's identity to him, but he probably guessed that the so-called Yunshan was an important figure in Liu Bei's army, so he tirelessly explained the local customs of Jingzhou to Guan Ping, and also had a lot of understanding of the human relationship between Cai Mao himself and the Xianshan area.

There are a lot of wastelands in the Xianshan area, but because Jingzhou is scarce, so much land cannot be developed, so it has to be abandoned. The Cao army soldiers who were brought there by Guan Ping have now hid in the mountains and started spring plowing. Of course, this place is definitely not as good as the land in the Central Plains before, but...

The land in the Central Plains is not owned by these people.

The Cao army opened up a large amount of wasteland in the Central Plains and raised a lot of people, but this only kept them struggling on the line of life and death, and farming was paid for most of the harvest as taxes. Being a soldier was counted as corvee, and everyone was suffering. Although the land in Jingzhou was barren, Guanping collected very little taxes and did not have to serve additional mail-offs. This made the surrendered Cao soldiers very happy, looking forward to this year's harvest, and they had a great sense of belonging to this land.

Seeing Guan Ping coming, those who had never been in Liu Bei's army all smiled and gave Guan Ping the bitter wild fruits and clear sweet springs in the mountains with gratitude, giving them all their best output.

Although Xiang Lang believed that he should not take too much care of these people, after seeing the joyful expressions on their faces when they were farming, Guan Ping suddenly had a more different understanding of the base area.

If you continue to do it, start with Jingzhou.

When these fields are covered with Jingzhou, Cai Mao will be without any threat.

If it covers the world...
Chapter completed!