Liu Zheng and Gongsun Zhan's meeting is not the first time.

As early as when the Tiger Prison was passed, Liu Zheng had already seen Gongsun Zhan, but Liu Zheng didn't care too much about the white horse general at that time.

Now negotiating with Gongsun Zhan, I took a closer look at this Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Zhan's own life is relatively majestic, and the northerners have a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a tall body, and a lofty spirit. Dressed in white, he is really heroic.

"Liu Zheng, since you want to negotiate peace, let's talk less nonsense and directly talk about how to implement it."

The two sides have reached a consensus, but what is lacking now is a series of things, such as the implementation of the plan for peace talks and how to discuss the specific details.

Since Gongsun Chan and Liu Zheng have nothing to talk about, then Liu Zheng doesn't want to waste any time on Gongsun Zhan, and he has already discussed the specific details of the peace talks with his advisers before, and it is enough to let Zhang Zhao and Gongsun Zhan's men and horses directly hand over at this time.

Both sides did not waste much time here. After the negotiation was completed, Liu Zheng's side reacted first, leading the besieging soldiers and horses to retreat five miles back, giving way to a wide enough road for Liu Bei's soldiers and horses in the city to withdraw from the city.

After Liu Bei's men and horses retreated from Linzi City, he sent someone over to inform Liu Zheng to take over Linzi City.

In this way, the two sides can be regarded as having reached a preliminary peace talks.

And it was agreed that Linzi City would be the boundary, and the two sides would not raise troops to fight for a short time.

After such a result is achieved. The 50,000-strong army of Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei gradually withdrew from outside Linzi City, leaving only more than 1,000 men and horses to garrison a defensive line to guard against Liu Zheng's army in Linzi City at any time.

The peace talks between the two sides officially ended, and a major battle in Qingzhou came to an end at the end of May.

Of course, many of Liu Zheng's generals don't understand why Liu Zheng obviously has an advantage, but he chooses peace talks at this time.

The person who can't understand Liu Zheng's behavior the most is naturally Lu Bu.

Lu Bu cooperated with Zang Ba to attack Liu Bei's men on the periphery of Linzi City for more than half a month. In the past half a month, he has been eager to try and want to fight another big battle with Liu Bei's three brothers.

Defeat Liu Bei completely, so that he can have more opportunities to perform in front of Liu Zheng.

But Liu Zheng not only didn't let him show anything, but directly sent people to the peace talks, so that the war ended like this, like a basin of cold water poured on the head of Lu Bu, who was eager to try.

"My lord, why did we suddenly give up most of Qingzhou in peace talks, this makes me wonder why we obviously have an advantage!"

Lu Bu couldn't figure out why Liu Zheng wanted to give up half of Qingzhou to negotiate peace with the other party, so he couldn't help but ask Liu Zheng, his question was also a doubt in the hearts of many other people, such as Zang Ba and even many people in the Yellow Turban Army were a little confused, but others didn't have the courage to ask, but Lu Bu had the courage to ask.

Liu Zheng knew that Lu Bu was just a dumbfounder, specializing in doing such annoying things, with his character, he was very unlikable to the superiors.

However, due to Lu Bu's strength, Liu Zheng, who knew that he still had some role, would not blame him, on the contrary, Liu Zheng also knew that other people also had this kind of confusion, so he opened his mouth to explain to these people.

"General Fengxian, if Liu Bei has no reinforcements, only 20,000 soldiers and horses in this Linzi City, I will naturally not choose peace talks, but will attack after besieging him for a period of time, and defeat him in one fell swoop when they run out of food and water, but unfortunately at the critical moment they have Gongsun Zhan's 30,000 troops rushing to help, and the strength is almost the same as our army at once, which greatly reduces our chances of victory!"

"Although we may not lose to the coalition of Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei, even if we win, it will definitely be a disastrous victory, besides, if we are engaged with Liu Bei's coalition army in Qingzhou, the back and forth battle of 50,000 troops will definitely not be able to end in a short time, and the two sides will at least fight for several months, which is very unfavorable to the people of Qingzhou, so peace talks are actually the best choice."

"First, it can allow me to wait in the previous wars, and the consumption of soldiers and horses has been alleviated, and at the same time, it will not delay the spring plowing of the people under my command, so that the people of Qingzhou, who have been devastated by war all year round, can take a breath."

Liu Zheng opened his mouth and first explained why he didn't choose to attack.

Of course, these excuses alone could not completely convince these soldiers below, and then Liu Zheng spoke again.

"Of course, if I choose peace talks based on these reasons alone, I will underestimate Liu Zheng, but in fact, I choose peace talks for two other purposes."

"One is that the imperial court's attack on Qingzhou has cost a lot, if we forcibly wipe out the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and occupy the entire Qingzhou, the strength of our territory will naturally be greatly improved, and we will seize Qingxu in a row, but after the strength of the imperial court is greatly reduced, it is bound to become more and more jealous of our army, and then the imperial court may choose to temporarily reconcile with Yuan Shao and go all out to deal with our army, which is not what I want to see."

"And if you choose to give up half of Qingzhou and let the imperial court occupy it, so that our army can also ease the relationship with the imperial court, and at the same time, Qingzhou and Jizhou are not bordering, our army does not have to directly confront Yuan Shao's men, and at the same time let the imperial court occupy Qingzhou, the imperial court has more choices, intensify the relationship between the imperial court and Yuan Shao, and make them fight more fiercely, and our army can profit from it, and watch them compete with each other to reap the benefits of the fisherman."

Qingzhou and Jizhou are connected, once Liu Zheng occupies Qingzhou, then Liu Zheng and Yuan Shao's territory is connected together. Although Yuan Shao said that he and Liu Zheng had some grain and grass transactions, in fact, Yuan Shao was quite an ambitious guy, and he would not do anything to see Liu Zheng become bigger.

At that time, it will inevitably be temporarily relieved with the imperial court, this-for-tat relationship, Yuan Shao and the imperial court are temporarily suspended, and the imperial court is going all out to deal with Liu Zheng, Yuan Shao on the side will naturally not sit idly by, he will definitely want to get a piece of the pie, and it is very likely that he will send troops to deal with Liu Zheng together, Liu Zheng just doesn't want to see this happen, so he gave up half of Qingzhou.

Anyway, Qingzhou has been stirred up by the Yellow Turban Army for many years, and there is not much oil and water to be fished in the entire Qingzhou, not to mention that it is only half of Qingzhou, in fact, it is a mess, let the people and horses of the imperial court regain control, at most, let the imperial court send some soldiers and horses to garrison here, not only can not collect much military salary and tax burden in Qingzhou, but also have to take money to appease the local people.

Such a result is extremely beneficial to Liu Zheng, with multiple benefits.

Then why did Liu Zheng put himself in a disadvantageous place for the sake of half of Qingzhou.