Liu Bei is famous for his benevolence and righteousness, but Meng Da's operation of killing those who surrendered was simply a discredit to Liu Bei!

Kill everyone who surrenders?

After word spreads, who will surrender to Liu Bei in the future?

Surrendering would mean death anyway, so it was better to resist desperately, maybe there would still be a chance of survival.

Furthermore, Kuai Qi is an ordinary person?

Excluding the identity of Zhuge Liang's brother-in-law, Kuai Qi was born in one of the four major families in Jingzhou, and his family has a strong influence in Jingzhou.

Liu Bei still had territory in Jingzhou. Meng Da killed Kuai Qi, which undoubtedly offended the Kuai family to death, and could even be said to push the Kuai family towards Cao Cao.

Although after Liu Cong led Jingzhou to surrender, the Cai family and the Kuai family all submitted to Cao Cao.

But with Zhuge Liang's relationship, it is not impossible for these Jingzhou aristocratic families to win over them.

Kuai Qi's surrender this time is undoubtedly a very good entry point to win the Kuai family from Cao Cao's side to Liu Bei's side.

No matter how bad it is, it is better to let the Kuai family bet on both sides than to bet on Cao Cao.

But now, with Meng Da killing Kuai Qi, everything is ruined.

The reason why Meng Da made such a"mysterious operation" was actually because Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was intended for Pei Gong.

The knife struck Kuai Qi, but the purpose was to target Zhuge Liang, or the"Jingzhou faction" headed by Zhuge Liang.

Wherever there are people, there will be fights, and Liu Bei's internal affairs are no exception.

When Liu Bei took control of Yizhou, Fazheng, Meng Da, and Li Yan all made great efforts, and later became the core of power of Liu Bei Group due to their merit.

Inevitably, the"Dongzhou Faction" composed of these people and the"Jingzhou Faction" led by Zhuge Liang are somewhat similar to each other.

Political struggles are inevitable.

Even Liu Bei cannot prevent his subordinates from doing this. This is due to human nature.

Meng Da took the opportunity to kill Kuai Qi, just to target Zhuge Liang and prevent the"Jingzhou faction" from continuing to grow in power.

But then again, political struggle is still a political struggle. In the final analysis, it is a struggle for power and profit among insiders, so there should be a certain bottom line. After all, the world is not unified yet, and the main premise is to be consistent with the outside world.

Therefore, it is obviously undesirable to use physical destruction as a means of ending political struggles.

In short, what Meng Da did this time went too far and exceeded the bottom line of political struggle.

Not only that, Meng Da's killing also ruined Liu Bei's reputation.

Publicly and privately, this was an extremely fucked-up thing, but it happened like this.

The originally cheerful atmosphere of the banquet was completely wiped out by this incident, and now it became completely silent.

It was obviously a good news, but it gave everyone a terrible feeling.

In the end, all the officials in the palace looked at Liu Bei, waiting for Liu Bei to make the final decision.

"King! Mengda killed the surrendered officials without authorization, which was detrimental to your name of benevolence and justice. He must be severely punished to uphold military law!"Ma Di suddenly stood up and spoke.

Liu Bei looked over after hearing the words, and glanced at Zhuge Liang inadvertently, wanting to see Zhuge Liang's attitude.

He was silent. Zhuge Liang did not use this to attack, and there was no joy or sadness on his face.

"No! Someone immediately stood up and retorted,"General Meng Da captured Fangling and served the country well. How can he be punished for a trivial matter? Isn't he afraid that the meritorious officials will be disappointed?""

The person who spoke was Li Yan, the mainstay of the Dongzhou faction. There was Ma Su and Li Yan.

The former fought for Kuai Qi's death, while the latter covered up Meng Da's sins.

The two most powerful factions under Liu Bei seemed to have no regard for this. There's going to be a fight

"quiet!"Liu Bei scolded in a deep voice.

The situation cannot continue to escalate and must be interrupted as soon as possible, otherwise Liu Bei will also have a huge headache.

Cut the mess quickly.

Liu Bei knew in his heart that this matter must be resolved as soon as possible and cannot be delayed.

"Mengda had meritorious service in defeating the enemy and should be rewarded. Liu Bei said with a serious face:"I will be proclaimed General Jianwu today.""

As soon as he said this, Zhuge Liang remained expressionless, but many officials from the Jingzhou faction all changed their expressions, thinking that Liu Bei was trying to favor Meng Da and the Dongzhou faction.

But Liu Bei then said:"Although Fangling was won, there are still The two counties of Shangyong and Xicheng failed, and Mengda was afraid that he would not be able to catch him."

"Feng'er listened to the order and ordered you to be the deputy general and go to Dongsan County to lead the army. Meng Da will assist you as the deputy general."

"The sons and ministers took the order."The adopted son Liu Feng clasped his fists and accepted the order. He glanced at Liu Chan seemingly casually with a proud look on his face.

It seemed as if he was saying: How? In the end, my father still needs to rely on me, not you, the heir apparent who has no hair at all.

Liu Chan pretended not to see it, but understood Liu Bei's intention in his heart.

He was promoted openly and secretly demoted.

It seemed that he was promoting Meng Da, but in fact he was seizing military power.

He beheaded Kuai Qi, who had surrendered. This incident obviously made Liu Bei angry.

But Meng Da had just For his meritorious service, Liu Bei obviously had no way to punish him and needed to worry about the Dongzhou faction.

Therefore, he directly sent his adopted son Liu Feng to the front line to take away Meng Da's military power.

This was regarded as a punishment for Meng Da and a warning to the Dongzhou faction. This was an explanation to Zhuge Liang and the Jingzhou faction.

After hearing this, the anger on the faces of the Jingzhou faction finally eased a little.

Everyone in the Dongzhou faction hesitated to speak, but in the end they did not refuse.

In the end, Liu Bei not only did not punish Meng Da, instead gave Meng Da a promotion.

Although they knew it was an overt promotion and a covert demotion, but who made Meng Da do stupid things, the Dongzhou faction felt wrong and could only hold their noses and admit it.

"It's getting late, I'm a little tired, so you can take care of yourself."

After that, Liu Bei put his hands behind his back and left. The ministers quickly got up to see him off.

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