Throughout history, when the Seven Kingdoms stood side by side, only Lin Xiangru and General Lian Po of Zhao could cooperate with each other, making the country very strong for a while. With this experience, Zhang Chao also learned from the past, and tried his best to maintain a good friendship between several military advisors and the corps commander.

Soon after meeting the army commander and military advisor one by one, and giving a reward, Zhang Chao took Yuan Shao, who was captured and was also named the king of Ji, and a group of civil servants and military generals under him to return to Jinyang City. As for what will happen to these captives next, it will be necessary to take a good look at it.

Zhang Chao's standard for employing people is not complicated, it is just three sentences and nine words. Competent, loyal, and of good character.

And as long as it meets these nine words, Zhang Chao will reuse it. On the contrary, those former Jizhou officials who originally relied on flattery, Zhang Chao will definitely not be reused, he will arrange them according to the situation, but most of them are just doing some behind-the-scenes work, and even some are not eye-catching at all, and they are not famous, so they simply gave some money and sent them back directly. Whether you want to go into business or buy land to farm, that's what he needs to worry about.

At the beginning of 203 AD, the matter of Jizhou finally came to an end, and in more than half a year of history, Jizhou changed hands, and the Yuan family completely disappeared from everyone's sight.

In March 203, another battle between the princes, the battles between Liu and Cao and Liu and Sun, finally ended.

Under Zhuge Liang's careful preparation, neither Cao Cao nor Sun Jian took any advantage. However, Liu Bei successfully moved the capital to Chengdu and took over all the troops and forces of Liu Zhang, the former Yizhou Mu, and his strength increased greatly for a while.

Compared with the attack on Liu, Zhang Chao naturally achieved remarkable results when he captured Jizhou. In this regard, Cao Cao was very unconvinced, because from this moment on, Zhang Chao was not only in terms of his true strength, but even in terms of his apparent strength, he was not afraid to give up.

By March, the distribution of the power of the princes from west to east was Ma Teng of Liangzhou who led Liangzhou pastor; Dong Zhuo of Yongzhou led the Yongzhou pastor; Liu Bei led Jingzhou Mu and Yizhou Mu, known as Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty; Sun Jian led Yangzhou Mu and Jiaozhou Mu and merged them into Dongwu; Cao Cao led the Gon Prefecture Pastor, Qingzhou Pastor, Xuzhou Pastor and Yuzhou Pastor; Zhang Chao led and merged the state pastor and Youzhou pastor and Si Li and Jizhou pastor.

From the original dozens of princes, to the later dozen roads, and to the current six roads, the entire Han Dynasty territory is in the process of integration. Among these six roads, Cao Cao and Zhang Chao have the largest territory and the strongest power.

Of course, they govern the same four states, but the strength is still different. Just like Cao Cao, he has always occupied the four states of the Central Plains, relatively speaking, the people here live a richer life and have a more solid financial foundation.

However, the situation in the four states under Zhang Chao is not very optimistic.

Bingzhou and Youzhou both belong to the border of the country, and have been harassed by foreign races such as the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and the people are miserable, and even the population was once very sparse. Although Zhang Chao's proper management has made it improve after coming here, after all, the time is still short, and the benign role he can play is limited.

Si Li was originally rich, but because Luoyang was burned, there was no one to manage it for a certain period of time, so the current situation there is not very good.

Looking at Jizhou, he had just been squeezed clean by Yuan Shao, and the people had no money in their hands, and within a certain period of time, Zhang Chao could not get any benefits from it, but had to post a lot of money and things, and the situation was not optimistic.

Judging from this point alone, Zhang Chao's background is not very strong. Knowing this, after he returned to Jinyang City, he looked for the chief military advisor Guo Jia, and the two discussed, and this was a disarmament move.

After all, letting so many strong men join the army, this is also a lot of pressure on military rations, and even if so, it is better for these people to return to their hometowns to farm. There is not much else between Bingzhou and Youzhou, that is, there is a vast land that can be used.

As soon as this disarmament move came out, the world was in an uproar, not only within Zhang Chao's sphere of influence, but also other princes. Are they afraid that there will not be enough soldiers? This Zhang Chao actually did the opposite, and this courage was beyond their reach.

It's just that smart people immediately saw one point, that is, Zhang Chao's money and food available for mobilization must be under a lot of pressure, otherwise, the country has not yet been unified at this time, so how can he reduce the army?

Of course, this disarmament does not mean the disbandment of the army on the spot, but the removal of some of the old, weak, sick and disabled men from the army. And most of this was obtained from the capture of Yuan Shaojun when Jizhou was captured, and the number of these people alone once reached 500,000.

"Zhang Zhiyuan is actually disarmed? Did he think the world was decided? In the palace of Chengdu City, Yizhou, Liu Bei, who was dressed in a yellow emperor's uniform, looked puzzled and puzzled.

With the killing of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei took advantage of this to rise up strongly, persuaded Liu Zhang, and proclaimed himself Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, which was quite imposing for a while. At least many people who originally wanted to be loyal to the Han family came to him.

The comparison of the power of the princes is not only based on the size of their territory, but also on whether there are enough talents in their hands. Before Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei's subordinates did not even have a scribe like this, and now with him claiming the title of emperor on behalf of Liu, after playing the slogan of restoring the Han family, the people he voted for were like carp crossing the river, which made the Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty happy.

For example, after he became the emperor, there were many capable people who surrendered to him, especially recently, including Fa Zheng, Zhang Song, Meng Da, Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Li Yan, Wu Yi, Du Qiong, Qian Zhou, Zhou Shu, Zhou Qun, Li Hui, Yang Hong, Wang Ping, and the local forces living in Yizhou have surrendered to him.

In addition to the original subordinate Sun Qian, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, Ma Liang, Ma Tan, Yi Yuan, Zhang Nan, Feng Xi and other old ministers. In addition to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Xiu, Hu Che'er and other powerful generals, Liu Bei's strength skyrocketed for a while, and it was easy to use strong soldiers and horses to form too much.

With these confidences, Liu Bei also has the capital to compete with other princes in the world.

There are more soldiers and generals, and Liu Bei's ambition will naturally be greater. It's just that he also has hidden dangers.

The original Liu Bei's strength was not very strong, and there were only two capable people around him, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. At least Sun Qian and Jian Yong, people with a little wisdom, gave their own ideas. Later, it was Zhang Xiu and Chen Gong who surrendered, which made his strength increase, and then Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain as soon as possible, which made him stronger.

Now, although there are more soldiers and more generals, problems will also follow, and this is an internal problem.

People who are truly capable also have personalities. If you want them to obey others, that's a hard thing to do. is like Zhang Chao Group, when he dealt with Yuan Shao, he used all some old people, all of whom had been with him for some years. Even so, he was still very careful, and the relationship between the military advisor and the corps commander was extremely harmonious, which led to the move of unifying to attack Jizhou, and finally won the victory.

After capturing Jizhou, Zhang Chao did not immediately reuse the Jizhou officials he had just received, but sent them to Zhangjiashu College and Military Academy for them to study, and to understand and screen in the process.

This is naturally the reason why Zhang Chao has a lot of people available now. In comparison, Liu Bei's strength is much worse, he had very few people available before, and now there are more people, and it will take time to integrate.

It's just that after seeing Jizhou being captured, Liu Bei's ambition rushed out irrepressibly, and he also wanted to build a technique, and time waited for no one, so he would miss the run-in link. But fortunately, Zhuge Liang is still there, and he can try to avoid some internal friction and trouble.

It's just that in fact, can everyone really obey Zhuge Liang? I'm afraid it's not likely.

Liu Bei played the name of re-shocking the Han family, and not all of these people he accepted were worthy of the name. In many cases, prestige does not mean that you have enough ability.

It's just because of Zhang Chao's strong rise that Liu Bei really can't control it so much, what he needs to do now is to expand his territory and influence, only in this way can the Han family regain its glory and make him the emperor truly worthy of his name.

wanted to expand his territory, Liu Bei's idea naturally hit the princes around him.

At present, there are only three princes bordering Liu Bei's territory, namely Dong Zhuo in the north, Cao Cao in the east, and Sun Jian in the southwest.

For Cao Cao, Liu Bei is naturally unshakable, this is one of the strongest princes on the same level as Zhang Chao, if he does it, with Liu Bei's current strength, he will not dare to win. If you don't make a good one, you're being hit hard by someone else, then there's really nothing.

Unable to start a war with Cao Cao, Liu Bei set his sights on Dong Zhuo and Sun Jian.

Dong Zhuo is the culprit who subverted the Han family.

It can be said that without this person, the Han family would not have died so quickly. With this, Liu Bei also has enough reasons to make a move against this person.

Sun Jian, who took the initiative to attack himself a while ago, is normal to go back now. Everyone is an enemy, you fight me today, I will fight you tomorrow, no one can say one, two, three.

"Heirloom Division." Liu Bei couldn't make up his mind about whether to beat Dong Zhuo or Sun Jian first, so he ordered his attendants to go like Zhuge Liang, and he wanted to hear the opinion of this military advisor.

Soon, Zhuge Liang entered the inner hall of the palace and came to Liu Bei.

is still wearing a milky white robe, holding a snow-white feather fan in his hand, a confident appearance that can understand the hearts of people all over the world.

"Oh, the military advisor is here, please take a seat." Seeing Zhuge Liang appear, Liu Bei's face, which was still thinking about things, immediately burst into laughter. It's really not okay not to laugh, it is precisely because of the existence of this military advisor that he was able to have such a territory and strength so quickly.