If we look at the territory, Liu Biao did not lose this "business" because he took back half of Nanyang. But if we look at the safety, Liu Biao lost again because he had to face the pressure that Lao Cao brought to him from now on.

Before, when Zhang Xiu was in Nanyang, he could help him cushion. If Lao Cao wanted to go south, he would definitely not be able to spare Zhang Xiu's level.

Therefore, in the final analysis, Liu Biao felt more hatred than happy. What he hated even more was naturally Liu Xie. If Liu Xie hadn't kidnapped Zhang Xiu away, Zhang Xiu would have cooperated well with him, how could he suddenly let him go? It would be really hateful! If I had known that...

But whether Liu Biao likes it or not, this has become a foregone conclusion. Zhang Xiu took a group of new and old brothers to Luoyang to "open up the land", and Lao Cao's army also drove into Nanyang. Of course, Lao Cao and Liu Biao did not continue to be tense, but instead sent envoys to repair it, so as not to get angry. When he started a war with Lao Yuan, he did not forget Liu Xie in Chang'an when he repaired it with Liu Biao.

Lao Yuan thought of having to repair his skills with Liu Xie, or even cooperate with Liu Xie to do his job. Didn’t Lao Cao think about it? It was obviously impossible.

Look, when Brother Zhu returned from Xuchang, Lao Cao's envoy followed him.

Lao Cao's envoy was Sima Lang, who was Sima Yi's eldest brother. Sima Lang was not very old, at the age of 25 or 26, and now he is a Sikong official, just to work for Lao Cao. Today, Lao Cao has much less talent than Lao Cao in history.

Because of Liu Xie's "escape", Lao Cao could not be "righteous". Nowadays, many great scholars are on Liu Xie's side, and even their disciples have followed him to Liu Xie's side. Although many people hide their ears for their own interests, they do not recognize Liu Xie's orthodox.

But most people still believe in Liu Xie as the orthodox. In addition, the grand occasion in Yizhou is now, these people are increasingly convinced of their choice.

...

When Zhuge and his friends returned, Liu Xie met Ma Teng's envoy Ma Dai in Chang'an Palace and accepted Ma Teng's surrender.

On this day, Liu Xie recruited several armies and generals to hold a meeting in Deyang Hall to announce the next journey. Among them, Duan Wei, the general guarding Huayin, and Zhang Xiu, who had just surrendered, were also among them. These two had just arrived in Chang'an, but Duan Wei was faster than Zhang Xiu.

After all, Huayin is not far from Chang'an, Duan Wei did not disappoint Liu Xie. Guo Jia asked him to cooperate with Chen Dao, Zhang Ren and others to attack Li and Guo. He did not refuse. He even joined forces with several other generals in Guanzhong. However, those generals were just waiting and watching at the time.

But now those generals have come here and stand in the hall. Those generals, who are the eight generals of Ma Teng in history, have now become third-rate generals under Liu Xie. There is no way out. They are willing to surrender, so Liu Xie will naturally not stop him, so they will not continue to fight.

The only requirement is to hand over military power. Each person only lets them keep a single guard, that is, two hundred people. If two hundred people are all elite like the Red Dragon Guard, they can do something, but the possibility is not high. Even the guards of Taishici and others are not so fierce.

In fact, many generals do not have so many personal guards, basically only one team, only about fifty people.

And this person surrendered, and did not directly make them generals. They were basically at the same level as the lieutenant. Of course, the lieutenant was also quite large, but at the level, they could only lead the only one battalion. If you want to climb up, then show your real skills.

They did not dare to be dissatisfied with the treatment given by Liu Xie, because at this time, they did not have the qualifications to be dissatisfied. If Liu Xie did not agree to their surrender, they would have enough strength to crush them all. As for the conditions that Liu Xie had promised them, it was already the past. Who told them not to surrender before the two thieves of Li and Guo died? Of course, there would not be so many benefits.

At the beginning of the meeting, Liu Xie first asked Guo Jia to summarize the achievements made by everyone in the previous stage, and then according to military merits, several generals were raised to a small level, such as Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Xu Chu, Huang Zhong, and Chen Dao, who were originally lieutenants or Sima levels, mentioned generals or lieutenants.

If military merits are not transformed into official titles, I guess everyone will not be motivated.

Then we will form a Western Army. What is the Western Army? Naturally, it will attack the Western Regions and restore the Western Regions Protectorate.

The generals were a little surprised. At this time, His Majesty did not attack other places and actually attacked the Western Regions first. What was this? But they were confused and Liu Xie did not have the idea to explain it to them. Anyway, they just wanted to let them execute it.

But soon, a few warlike guys stood up and began to compete for the quota for the expedition.

Looking at these fierce generals who were either warlike or proud, Liu Xie thought that there were too many generals and too fierce, which was actually quite a headache.

No, like Zhang Fei, Xu Chu, Guan Yu, these are all fierce people. Lao Cao was so happy to get Dian Wei, but he got a large number of them. How could he be unhappy!

"Okay, let's be quiet!" Liu Xie reached out and patted the table, and smiled and said, "It seems that the morale of all the beloved ministers is very strong, which is very good, but everyone should never underestimate the enemy. Remember one sentence: pride makes people fall behind, and humility makes people progress!"

After pausing, Liu Xie said with a look of a face: "Although our target is the aliens outside the village, don't forget that the aliens also have their advantages. Otherwise, why can't the senior sages control them? We are all very strong, but we cannot underestimate our opponents just because we are strong!"

After seeing all the generals bow their heads in shame, Liu Xie continued: "This Western Expedition, I mean to set up a command center, with the command head general Xu Huang, the military advisors were Guo Jia and Jia Xu, Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong, Guan Yu as deputy generals, and Lu Bu as vanguards..."

"Your Majesty, I, Old Zhang, want to go out to war too!" Zhang Heizi started cheating again.

Liu Xie glared at him and said, "Zhang Fei and Xu Chuke followed the army to fight. How to appoint them is unified by the command center."

Although Liu Xie was warned by glaring at him, Zhang Fei, who got the "benefits", scratched his head and smiled. The other people who were familiar with him couldn't help but rolled their eyes at him. Although he felt that His Majesty was a little nice to Zhang Fei, he didn't dare to act rashly like Zhang Fei.

For such a dangerous thing, only a naughty girl like Zhang Sanhei can do it!

After the expedition to the Western Army, Liu Xie mentioned the matter in Guanzhong again: "Lu Su and Chen Dao took charge of Chang'an for me, Lu Su built Luoyang for me, Chen Dao Yu Chang'an recruited and trained new recruits for me, Zhang Ren led his army to take charge of Luoyang, and Duan Wei assisted Zhang Ren..." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!