After arriving outside the main hall, Zhou Youcai said to Li Jue and others who followed them: "You must remember clearly the generals and the ministers who just objected. I am afraid that in their eyes, not only these generals, but also myself

The governor of Jingzhou is also a traitor and traitor!"

"With them here, I'm afraid it will be difficult for this court to live in peace in the future. Since several generals came to kill the traitor, if this traitor is not killed, you will not be able to feel at ease in the future, right?" Zhou You continued.

Seeing their expressions change slightly after hearing this, and looking at each other again, Zhou You smiled lightly and continued: "Look back, when you have killed all these traitors in the city, I will ask your Majesty to take credit for you. When the time comes, you will be awarded titles and official titles."

It doesn't matter. Whether the generals want to stay in Guanzhong, go to Jingxiang with me and Your Majesty, or be transferred to Guandong to serve, it doesn't matter."

"Look, we just came out and they couldn't bear it any longer," he said, motioning to the main hall which was getting a little noisy, and Zhou You left with Guo Jia, Lu Bu, Chen Gong and others.

After Zhou You left, he heard the faint sounds of fierce arguments and discussions coming from the hall. Li Jue and others, who looked at each other and discussed with each other with unsightly faces, could not help but look decisive and ruthless.

In this regard, Jia Xu, who was standing aside and listening silently without expressing any opinion, turned his head and looked at Zhou You's leaving figure, but his eyes flickered.

After leaving the palace, Zhou Youcai smiled at Lu Bu and said, "General Lu, oh no, Marquis Wen, if it's convenient, how about I stay at your house tonight?"

"It is an honor for the general to have the governor willing to stay in my house for a while!" Lu Bu was a little surprised when he heard this, and then he quickly raised his hands and said with a smile as Chen Gong nodded.

Zhou You nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Guo Jia who was following him: "Feng Xiao, please invite Li Jue and others to a banquet at Marquis Wen's Mansion tonight. In addition, you can draft a memorial to reward Li Jue and others and send it to His Majesty as soon as possible.

go."

"Yes, my lord!" Guo Jia responded with a faint smile, and then the group went straight to Lu Bu's Wenhou Mansion. Naturally, some of the people under his command were accompanying them and were on duty inside and outside Wenhou Mansion.

In the evening, in the study room specially reserved for Zhou You by Lu Bu, after reading the memorial written by Guo Jia, Zhou You nodded and smiled: "Yes, that's it. Let's send someone directly to the palace."

After a while, Guo Jia had someone send the memorial to the palace. When he came back, he couldn't help but said to Zhou You who was standing by the window with his hands behind his hands: "My lord, if you instruct Li Jue and the others to attack the important ministers of the court, will it...?

Is there something wrong? After all, there are many knowledgeable people in the world who miss the Han Dynasty."

"So what? I didn't kill the person, so what does it have to do with me? Are you keeping them now to cause trouble in the future?" Zhou You said casually, then looked at Guo Jia and asked: "Fengxiao, you are

Do you want to assist the future lord of the world, or do you only want to assist one of the princes?"

Hearing this, Guo Jiacai was silent for a moment and bowed before saluting, and said: "My lord, I understand what I mean! Since my lord has the ambition to help the world, I will try my best to assist you and live up to my lord's appreciation and trust!"

"If you live up to your filial piety, I will definitely live up to your filial piety!" Zhou You smiled with satisfaction when he saw this. As soon as these words came out, Guo Jia was moved and speechless again.

In the evening, Lu Bu's Wenhou Mansion was very lively. Li Jue and other major generals of the Xiliang Army arrived almost at the same time.

Of course, they could not come alone, they all brought a small number of personal followers. However, Zhou You asked his followers to guard the outside, but instead allowed them to bring their followers into the mansion, which immediately made the Xiliang generals feel relieved.

So the atmosphere of this dinner was pretty good. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Zhou You went straight to the topic and asked about the future plans of Li Jue and others. Zhou You had given them three choices before, including Lu Bu

Among them, the only ones who finally chose to go to Jingxiang with Zhou Yu were Lu Bu, Zhang Ji, and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew.

Generals such as Li Jue, Guo Si and Fan Chou almost all chose to stay in Guanzhong. After all, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and they still had military power in their hands, so they felt much more comfortable.

Zhou You immediately expressed that he would leave Li Jue to sit in Chang'an and command the three auxiliary areas, with Guo Si as the governor of Hedong, Fan Chou as the governor of Hongnong, Zhang Ji as the governor of Nanyang, and Lu Bu as the governor of Runan. These appointments can be said to be true.

It gave them great power.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou You announced that Zhou Yafu would lead 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry to guard Chang'an. They were nominally to assist Li Jue, but they were clearly on the defensive.

But Li Jue couldn't object to this. After all, they also understood that since Zhou You entered Guanzhong and wanted to control the land, it was naturally impossible to completely hand over Guanzhong to them. It was normal to send generals to lead the troops.

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Later, Zhou You proposed to streamline the troops, remove some old and weak soldiers from the Xiliang Army, and assign them to serve in various counties and counties. This was nominally to ensure local stability and reduce food and grass consumption. Although it also meant to weaken their military strength.

, but those who stayed were elites, and Li Jue and others did not raise any objections.

Other officials in each county were appointed and adjusted by the imperial court, to put it bluntly, by Zhou You. Naturally, Li Jue and others had nothing to say about this.

On the surface, it seemed that they still held military power, but once local officials recognized that the entire Guanzhong was traveling around, then Li Jue and others could be said to be just generals holding military power.

Especially when some of the old and weak remnants of the Xiliang Army arrived in the local area, veteran Youzi with bad military habits would inevitably harm the local area, and even conflict with aristocratic families, which would eventually cause them to lose the support of the common people and nobles. And Zhou You

Controlling their lifeblood, money and food, in the end they could only obediently work for Zhou You.

In the future, as long as Zhou You's territory becomes larger and larger and his strength becomes stronger, even his enemies may bow their heads and surrender, let alone Li Jue and others. They will only slowly become more loyal and follow Zhou You wholeheartedly.

Even if there are those who are restless, disloyal, and dare to rebel, no one will be able to say anything if they send troops to exterminate them. Zhou You seems to have made a lot of concessions, but in fact he won Guanzhong without any bloodshed and tried his best to avoid war and bloodshed in Guanzhong.

, to preserve Guanzhong's vitality as much as possible, so that it would not become a burden to him.

On the second day, before the entire court set off south, the rewards for Li Jue and others were also issued. The four main generals, Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou and Zhang Ji, were all granted the title of marquis, and they were also granted the title of post-general.

A similar military attache position.

But in fact, to put it bluntly, in Zhou You's view, these are just false names with no real benefits. However, Li Jue and others, who were previously just captains under Niu Fu, felt like they had reached the sky in one step. Under surprise one by one,

I also agree more with traveling around.

When they followed Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo was not so generous. Just like this, it was just a few rewards, but it was more satisfying to them than a powerful official position like a prefect, and they even felt like a scholar would die for his confidant.

Zhou Yafu was left to lead an army of 40,000 to sit in Chang'an and preside over the disarmament tour of Xiliang. He then led the troops to escort Liu Xie and the ministers of the DPRK and China south to Xiangyang. If you like movies and TV shows, please save them: (https://www.bajiewx.com
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