The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 461 Strong
"Do you really think that just because your family is related to Kong Ming, he will ignore the chaos you have caused?" Pang Tong sneered, "You should know one thing. Some of us have already defined your family's actions in this military base as a military coup."

Pang Tong looked at Cai Mao, who was pale, and said, "But we did not approve the proposal for a military coup. After all, you are just trying to gain a position in the new navy, which is not up to the level of a military coup."

Cai Mao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Pang Tong say that the Cai family's actions had not been defined as a military coup for the time being. If their actions were defined as a military coup, then it would be hard to say how many people in the entire Cai family would survive.

However, Cai Mao only breathed a sigh of relief and was not put at ease. Just because it was not defined as a military coup does not mean it could not be defined as something else.

Cai Mao knew one thing very well. Even though he controlled the Jingzhou navy, this elite force of the Jingzhou army had no way of resisting the reorganization order issued by Yang Ji.

Zhuge Liang relied on the entire Liu Bei force. These little Karamis could only rely on the little wealth in their hands, which was obtained by constantly eroding the state-owned assets of the Han Dynasty through the power of the aristocratic families.

In this case, facing the reorganization order from Yang Ji, what could Cai Mao and his men do? Of course, they had to play their cards while they could still negotiate conditions, in exchange for the right to speak in the new system.

What? You said that the Jingzhou navy is the asset of the Han Dynasty, and without an authorization order from the central Han Dynasty, Yang Ji has no right to reorganize and rebuild the Jingzhou navy?

Brother, you'd better look clearly at what force is behind the reorganization order before you say such things. The hundreds of thousands of elite troops assembled in Yuzhou are staring at these disloyal people with a covetous look.

As long as they dared to disobey the order from Fenggao, Yang Ji's army would definitely leave Yuzhou, slap the order in their faces and make them read it, and then deprive them of the power to execute the order.

Seeing Cai Mao's relieved look, Pang Tong said in a cold voice: "Don't be too happy if you are not defined as a military coup. The order from the Grand Commander has come down. If you want to continue to make trouble and don't cooperate with the naval officers from the Qingzhou Fleet to conduct the investigation, assessment and review before the reorganization, you will help the Lu family of Donglai Shipyard in the future."

Although it was Zhuge Liang who said to let the Cai family help the Lu family, Pang Tong still changed it into an order from Yang Ji. After all, Zhuge Liang did not have the qualifications and power to say such things. It would be much more reasonable if it was said by a big shot like Yang Ji.

Moreover, Pang Tong did not have to worry about being accused of falsely conveying orders. After all, Yang Ji's orders were for them to hurry up and complete the reorganization of the Jingzhou navy, and then complete the relocation of the naval training base.

Under such tight time constraints and heavy workload, Yang Ji would certainly not restrict the methods used by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, including using his name to threaten or intimidate certain people, just like Pang Tong is now using Yang Ji's name to intimidate Cai Mao.

"Your Cai family is also a shipbuilding family. You should understand what the future will be like if you work for the Lu family?" Pang Tong stared at Cai Mao. Both the Cai family and the Lu family are shipbuilding families. It would be strange to say that there is no competition between the two families.

In the past few years, the Cai family had dominated the Lu family. After all, the Cai family controlled the Jingzhou navy. How could the Lu family, without military orders, be a match for the Cai family?

However, if they are taken to Donglai Shipyard by Yang Ji because of their idiotic behavior and become subordinates of the Lu family, will the Lu family continue to act in front of the Cai family?

In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that the Lu family will definitely jump around in front of the Cai family. The only difference is that on the surface, all the actions of the Lu family are normal, but from the perspective of the Cai family, the Lu family's actions are just embarrassing.

Sure enough, when it came to helping the Lu family, veins popped out on Cai Mao's forehead, and he was even more excited than when Pang Tong mentioned the military coup. The aristocratic family was indeed a disaster.

"You also know what the consequences will be if the Cai family falls into the hands of the Lu family, so don't let the Cai family make trouble anymore, otherwise you know the consequences very well." Pang Tong said softly. He had already said both good and bad things. If the Cai family continued to make trouble, they would not be able to just help the Lu family.

"Okay, Master Cai, just think about how to invite back the captain of the Qingzhou fleet. I'll go back first. There are still many things to deal with at the government office." Pang Tong stood up and patted his sleeves. After reminding Cai Mao that the captain sent by Gan Ning was not easy to deal with, he planned to leave.

Cai Mao was worthy of being the patriarch chosen by the Cai family of Jingzhou. When he heard what Pang Tong said, he knew that the captain who came from the Qingzhou fleet for evaluation and review was not an easy guy to deal with.

"Shiyuan, don't leave in a hurry." Cai Mao grabbed Pang Tong's arm and said, "Please introduce me to the captain's life, personality and hobbies." It was obvious that Cai Mao was going to make use of his family's social skills.

In response to Cai Mao's question, Pang Tong paused for a moment, then said, "This captain's name is Xu Sheng, courtesy name Wenxiang, and he is from Langya. He served as a military marquis in Xuzhou before joining the Qingzhou fleet."

"As for Xu Wenxiang's personality and preferences, I haven't had much contact with officers in the Navy, so I won't say much." Pang Tong mentioned Xu Sheng's name, hometown, and resume. The rest was up to Cai Mao to investigate on his own.

"Uh..." Cai Mao looked at Pang Tong speechlessly. Apart from his past resume, they also knew Xu Sheng's name and hometown. After all, before offending a powerful captain, they had to find out if there was any big boss behind him, otherwise it would be bad if a flood washed away the Dragon King Temple.

"Okay, if the Cai family wants to know more, you should go ask someone yourself. I really don't have any more information." Pang Tong shook his head and refused Cai Mao's continued questioning. Even if the Pang and Cai families were related, they couldn't be exploited like this.

After hearing Pang Tong's words, Cai Mao opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he did not say it. He just let go of Pang Tong's arm and let Pang Tong leave the Jingzhou naval base.

"Brother, do we really have to obey that shitty reorganization order?" Cai He said angrily. You know, the Cai family, which controls the Jingzhou navy, is the largest family in Jingzhou. Without the support of the Jingzhou navy, the other families in Jingzhou are not afraid of the Cai family at all.

"Now I am at the mercy of others. What else can I do? Of course I will obey the orders of the one with the bigger fist." Cai Mao said with a smile. What else can I do? Life still has to go on.

"Our Cai family had a copy of the letter requesting assistance. Why should our interests be cut?" Cai He said unwillingly. The reason why they agreed to let Kuai Liang welcome Zhuge Liang into Changsha County was to allow the Cai family to continue to control the navy of Jingzhou.

But now Zhuge Liang wanted to get rid of him. Zhuge Liang was the nephew-in-law of the Cai family. Why didn't he help the Cai family? "Because our Cai family really controls the navy of Jingzhou." Cai Mao saw clearly that the reorganization order issued by Yang Ji, in addition to planning to establish the East China Sea Fleet, also meant to reduce the Cai family's voice in the new navy.

If Yang Ji's intention before was just to reduce the Cai family's voice, then after the Jingzhou naval officers' opposition to the reorganization, which was almost like a military coup, the Cai family's voice in the newly built navy really had to be rebuilt from scratch.

The ones who caused this bitter consequence were the elders of the Cai family who instigated the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou navy to oppose the reorganization, as well as Cai Mao himself who did not explicitly oppose it and even wanted to use it to test Yang Ji's attitude.

The three young men, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Pang Tong, were just pawns in the hands of Yang Ji in Yuzhou. Their real role was to implement his plans in Jingzhou.

Therefore, when faced with Zhuge Liang's behavior of hiding from the Cai family, Cai Mao did not show any special emotions, nor did he feel that Zhuge Liang did not help them. Being able to prevent the military coup from being blamed on them was already a favor Zhuge Liang did for Huang Yueying's sake.

If another person who had nothing to do with the Cai family was in that position, he would definitely take this opportunity to directly dismantle the Cai family's power network in the Jingzhou navy and forcibly push forward the reorganization plan of the Jingzhou navy.

After all, Cai He was a man who had received education from an aristocratic family, so of course he could understand what Cai Mao was saying. However, understanding and thinking through are not the same thing.

Facing Cai He's resentment, Cai Mao sighed. That was why the Cai family elders organized the Cai family's people in the Jingzhou navy to oppose the reorganization order.

"Okay, stop gritting your teeth. You just need to know that what our Cai family is experiencing now is all caused by ourselves." Cai Mao calmed Cai He's emotions and explained to him why Pang Tong came to warn him and the consequences of the things that the Cai family had done.

"After this, I don't know if I can keep my position as commander of a fleet." Cai Mao sighed as he took Cai He to Cai's house. He needed to go back and control the next actions of the Cai family elders. If he irritated Zhuge Liang and others again, the army would probably march into Cai's house.

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"Have you made it clear to Cai Degui the seriousness of the matter?" Zhuge Liang asked casually after seeing Pang Tong coming back, without showing any special emotion.

"I've already explained it clearly to him. I believe with Cai Degui's ability, he should know what to do next." Pang Tong nodded and returned to his seat.

"Tsk." Pang Tong, sitting in his seat, looked at the documents on the table and couldn't help but curl his lips. He had just left for less than an hour, but there were so many documents on the desk. It was really enough.

Pang Tong glanced at the desks of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi. The number of documents on Zhuge Liang's desk was normal. After all, Zhuge Liang had been working here.

The number of official documents on Sima Yi's desk was no less than that of Pang Tong's. In fact, it seemed that there were even more than that of Pang Tong. Now Pang Tong felt relieved, as they all had a bright future.

"That's the best. General Xu just came to me again and suggested that if the Jingzhou navy continues to refuse to cooperate with the reorganization, I should allow him to lead his troops into the Jingzhou navy base and arrest those middle and senior officers who are causing trouble and opposing the reorganization." Zhuge Liang said calmly, not looking like he had just prevented a military conflict.

"Hiss!" Pang Tong took a breath of cold air, "He is really worthy of being a soldier under Gan Xingba. His style is almost the same as his." Pang Tong commented on this matter.

"General Gan would never come up with such a direct plan." Zhuge Liang added. After all, in his impression, although Gan Ning seemed to rely purely on intuition to do things, he actually had a sharp mind and knew what to do and what not to do at the right time.

"That's right." Pang Tong nodded and agreed with Zhuge Liang's opinion. After all, as a member of a noble family, how could Pang Tong not know Gan Ning's identity?

After a while, Sima Yi, who went to inform Kuai Yue, also came back. No one knew what Sima Yi talked about with Kuai Yue. It was obviously just a matter of reporting the news. But he came back even slower than Pang Tong. You know, Kuai Yue was also working in the government office.

However, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong did not ask. They could guess without thinking what Kuai Yue asked Sima Yi. It was simply about whether Zhang Zhongjing could rescue Liu Biao.

"Kong Ming, where is Doctor Zhang now? Kuai Yidu said he would go to meet Doctor Hua in person," Sima Yi asked Zhuge Liang as soon as he entered the room, without even having time to drink a sip of water.

"Ah?" Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong raised their heads and looked at Sima Yi in confusion. Kuai Yue was going to meet Zhang Zhongjing. What was going on? Could it be that Sima Yi had said something to Kuai Yue?

"Don't look at me like that. I don't know why the other party wanted to ask me to learn about Doctor Hua and Doctor Zhang's medical skills." Sima Yi said with a wry smile. If he knew what Kuai Yue was planning at that time, he would definitely not stay with Kuai Yue any longer.

"This is not important. Have you told him that Liu Jingzhou may not be able to be saved? If Doctor Zhang knew that you made judgments for him casually, you would not be treated well in the medical school in the future." Pang Tong said gloatingly.

Thinking that he might be treated as a volunteer by Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo in the future, Sima Yi looked like he wanted to die. He didn't mind being treated differently by the two great doctors, but he didn't want to become a guinea pig for Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo without knowing it.

"So, have you been fooled by Kuai Yidu?" Zhuge Liang asked calmly. If Sima Yi was really fooled by Kuai Yue into making a promise, Yang Ji would not be able to save him even if he came.

(End of this chapter)