Compared with the "cowards" such as Yuan Shu and Zhang Wen, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are now full of energy and progress.

In order to win the support and trust of Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song, the three pillars in the army, Liu Bei and Cao Cao secretly did a lot of work and made many promises, which won the understanding and trust of the three.

In order to dispel Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song's doubts, Liu Bei and Cao Cao just played the trick of joining Zong and Lian Heng outside Sili, but they gave the entire Sili area to three big bosses.

In order to win over and appease the Huangfu family, the new general Cao Cao first responded to the emperor as soon as he took office, and directly assigned three wealthy and fertile places, Zuo Fengyi, You Fufeng and Jingzhao, to the west of Tongguan, to the Huangfu family.

The three titles of General of Cavalry, General of Cavalry and General of Guard are also called "San Gong General", which means that Huangfu Song's current military position is comparable to the positions of the Three Gongs in the court, only under the general and behind General of Cavalry.

Since Cao Liu gave Huangfu Song's family such high "treatment" and honor, he naturally would not have left behind the two big bosses Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun.

Lu Zhi's political treatment had exceeded the three dukes, and he was the tutor of the emperor of the dynasty, so he naturally could not be granted any more. However, his direct deputy general was appointed as the general of the guard by the court, and was granted the title of Marquis of Guannei, and his son Lu Yu was appointed as the Yin of Henan. He not only continued to control the Northern Army, but also included Hedong County, Hongnong County and Yin of Henan into Lu Zhi's sphere of influence.

Zhu Jun was granted the title of General of Cavalry by the court, second only to the General of the General, and became the Marquis of Shanyang, and continued to command the Southern Army. His son Zhu Jun was appointed as the prefect of Wei County and appointed as the third-rank General Anbei. At the same time, the court also assigned all the Hedong County, Jizhou Wei County, Qinghe State, Zhao State and Julu County in the Sili area to Zhu Jun for jurisdiction.

The reason why Cao Cao and Liu Bei were so generous was that they threw so many big hats to Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, not only to go out to win over and appease, but also because they wanted these three big bosses to continue to stand on the front line of fighting against Zhao Xing and work hard for them.

The cunning and cunning Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who is good at dancing, knew very well that even if they nominally assigned the entire Sili area and southern Jizhou to these three bigwigs, they would never have the idea of ​​having a self-respecting force and separating the other side, and would not have the will to turn to Zhao Xing.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei could see clearly that Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were actually all of the same kind of people in their bones, the kind of "old stubborn donkey" who was loyal to the Han royal family for their reputation. Even if Zhao Xing promised them great benefits to tempt them, or threatened by digging their ancestral graves, it would not change the determination of these three people to maintain their loyal ministers' reputation.

It would be the best to have three old guys like this on the front line of the anti-Zhao.

Now King of Pingxi Zhao Guochang wants troops, people, power, power, power, and power. It is just because he has not found a high-sounding reason to launch the Central Plains War, so he gives Cao Cao, Liu Bei and others space and time to move. As long as Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun defend the territory with peace of mind and not give Zhao Xing any reason, even if Zhao Xing hoards more troops in the north, he can only stare at him, unless Zhao Xing doesn't care about the discussions of the people in the world and brazenly launches a war to subvert the Han Dynasty.

After gaining the support of the three big bosses in the court, Cao Cao and Liu Bei made drastic moves and a series of personnel changes and power integration to consolidate the rich rewards they received in this political alliance.

In the court, although the new Taiwei He Jin, who was undermined, dared not speak out. Anyway, when he was a general, he had only a false reputation. Now that he has become the leader of the Three Dukes, although he still has no military force to call, he doesn't have to be driven out of Luoyang like Zhang Wen. If He Jin didn't know the truth, Cao Cao, the general who held heavy troops, might have dozens of ways to kill the He clan from Luoyang City.

Another new Duke Liu Yan was not much better than He Jin, but he was very content and happily brought his son Liu Zhang and his family back to Luoyang, and generously received the position of Sikong.

Liu Yan has been in charge of Yuzhou for nearly ten years, and he has gained enough benefits and has also been involved in the matters that should be mixed. Since the Qiufeng who sent troops to Xuzhou to fight Tao Qian was not successful and was gained by Zhang Liao's army in Xuzhou, he has completely seen a fact that such awesome thing as fighting for dominance in the world is not something that Liu Yan and his family can afford. Instead of staying in Yuzhou and being eroded and embezzled, it is better to hide back to Luoyang and be a noble Sikong. No matter how the emperor and the prime minister cannot make things too difficult for the descendants of the Liu family, right?

The new Sikong Liu Yan, who was able to take it down, left Yuzhou with only a family private army of hundreds of people, as well as family general Pang Xi and famous scholar Zang Hong. In order to obtain the future care of Liu Bei in the court, Liu Yan recommended all his powerful generals Pan Feng, Chen Dao, Wu Zhi and scholar Chen Jiao to Liu Bei. At the same time, he divided the 60,000 troops preserved in Yuzhou into two, 30,000 people gave Cao Cao for free, and 30,000 people left to Liu Bei.

Liu Yan's gift-giving was very good, and he won the praise of Prime Minister Liu Bei and General Cao Cao at that time. Therefore, after returning to Luoyang, he still gave a bowl of power broth in the court, which was very happy.

Yuan Shu returned to Nanyang and Liu Yan returned to Luoyang, and immediately gave up the two adjacent central plains hinterlands, Yuzhou and Yangzhou. Liu Bei and Cao Cao naturally would not be polite and immediately sent their subordinates to receive the fruits of victory.

Cao Cao sent his general Xiahou Yuan and his adviser Cheng Yu and Xi Zhicai to Yuzhou, and bluntly accepted Chen, Liang, Pei, Lu and other places, and pushed the actual controlled territory southward for 800 miles.

Although Liu Bei had reached the peak of power, he did not have a territory of his own. This time, he didn't know how to convince Cao Cao, so he actually asked Cao Heizi to agree to his idea of ​​fighting alone in Yangzhou and sharing Yuzhou. Zhang Fei, who was originally the deputy commander under Zhu Yan, finally withdrew from the north to the battlefield and went to Yuzhou to receive the 30,000 troops under Liu Yan and Chen Dao, Pan Feng, Wu Zhi and others; veteran Han Rong took Gao Lan, Han Meng, Fu Zu, Zhu Ling and other generals to Yangzhou to fully accept Yuan Shu's territory.

What really surprised Zhao Xing was that this time Liu Bei was willing to send Zhuge Liang, Chen Qun, Chen Zhen and others to Yangzhou with Han Rong, and seemed very confident to clean up the mess left by Yuan Shu.

Although the situation has already developed to this point, Zhao Xing was very surprised and surprised, but this is far from achieving the goal set by Liu Bei and Cao Cao. The vast territory, abundant food, and densely populated Jingzhou is the ultimate goal of Cao Cao and Liu Bei. As long as Jingzhou is taken down, the Cao-Liu alliance can connect with the Sima family to the west, and to the east, it can erode the territory of Sun Jian of Wuzhou, and deal with Zhao Xing with the natural danger of the Yangtze River and millions of soldiers.
Chapter completed!