After Cao Cao received Tao Qian's guarantee, he waited for Tao Qian to fulfill his conditions and hinted that Tao Qian would withdraw his troops immediately as long as Tao Qian's promise was fulfilled.

Although Tao Qian has decided to give up the position of Xuzhou Mu, there is no way to do so. If there is really hope that the dispute can be resolved peacefully and at the same time, he can also gain great reputation for himself, he may be able to continue to be Xuzhou Mu. Although he had agreed to Lu Bu before, he did not say when to pass the position of Xuzhou Mu to him. At least he has to wait until he has arranged everything before he can talk about it? For example, the future lives of his children, the appointments of officials from various places, etc. If these things are not handled well, he will not say anything else after he leaves office, at least he must protect his life?

So, despite the dissuasion, Tao Qian immediately ordered the 100,000 stone of grain, 5,000 pieces of silk and tens of millions of dollars promised to Cao Cao to Cao Cao's camp as a pension to Cao Song, and at the same time promised that he would not give up the pursuit of Zhang Jian in the future.

Although there were a lot of things promised, it was delivered to Cao Cao's camp in just half a day, which shows how urgent Tao Qian is about this?

Cao Cao was very satisfied with this. He accepted these benefits very happily and ordered the army to retreat that night.

On the way to retreat, Cao Cao said gratefully to Cheng Yu: "When we negotiated with Tao Qian during the day, thanks to the gentleman who falsely reported the matter in Hanoi to help me relieve the situation. Otherwise, I really wouldn't know how to change my words and agree to Tao Qian?"

But Cheng Yu said with a heavy face: "There is no false report in Xiaguan. Don't you know? The incident in Hanoi did happen. It happened yesterday. The spy came to report it to the lord as soon as possible. The lord thought you had already made arrangements, but he didn't expect that he didn't know it."

"What? Is there such a thing really like this?" Cao Cao was surprised after hearing this, and quickly said angrily: "I didn't expect this to be true. Yang Feng is so ungrateful. He colluded with the Huns to commit me Luoyang and dared to commit such a crime. I will definitely not spare him this time! It seems that I was wrong to give him a chance before?"

Cao Cao's expressions and words are naturally true and false, half true and half false. In fact, after hearing this news, he was still very happy because he happened to use this as an excuse to send troops to occupy Hanoi. Although the territory of Hanoi County is not large, its geographical location is very important. As long as you occupy this place, you can peek at Bingzhou at any time, and at the same time it can also pose a threat to Pei Qing's Hedong and prevent him from posing a threat to Luoyang.

So after learning the news, Cao Cao immediately ordered the baggage troops to move forward slowly. Cao Cao personally led the elite troops to advance lightly, and must arrive in Luoyang in the shortest time to repel Yang Feng's attack.

After Cao Cao retreated, Pei Yuanshao also led his troops to retreat. According to the prior agreement, he sent troops to occupy Pengcheng Kingdom, and asked Li Tong to temporarily serve as the prime minister of Pengcheng, and sent people to take back Liu He, the King of Pengcheng who had fled to Lu, and issued a notice to safeguard the order.

"What? Pei Yuanshao actually allowed Pengcheng Kingdom to occupy Pengcheng Kingdom!" Lu Bu was very dissatisfied when he saw Pei Yuanshao march into Pengcheng Kingdom. After all, he was about to become the new owner of Xuzhou. He naturally would not feel good when he saw that his territory was missing.

But Lu Bu knew that Cao Cao could not count on him at all now. If his Xuzhou Mu wanted to be recognized, he could only count on Pei Qing's support. Therefore, he still dared not offend Pei Qing at present, so he had to let Pei Yuanshao lead his army to occupy Pengcheng Kingdom.

"It's better to let Pei Yuanshao occupy Pengcheng Kingdom, so he becomes a barrier to my Xuzhou. I no longer have to worry about Cao Cao attacking my Xuzhou." Lu Bu can only comfort himself and find a psychological balance. And the most important thing for him now is to succeed as the position of Xuzhou Mu. Since Tao Qian has promised, he naturally thinks that this matter is a foregone conclusion and a natural thing.

So on the second day after confirming that Cao Cao left, Lu Bu led all the civil and military soldiers and soldiers to Xia Pi to prepare to accept Tao Qian's appointment.

However, when Lu Bu came to Xiapi City, he saw that there was already a lot of guarding.

Tao Qian stood on the top of the city himself and smiled at Lu Bu and said, "I wonder what General Lu wants to lead so many people to Xia Pi City?"

Lu Bu was not negligent, and got off the horse and bowed and said, "The envoy said before that as long as Bu helped the envoy repel Cao Cao, he would recommend Bu as the governor of Xuzhou. Bu came here today mainly because of this."

"So that's how it is." Tao Qian laughed and said to Lu Bu: "General Fengxian, since Tao agreed, how dare he disagree? But now the strong enemy has retreated, and the military and civilians in Xuzhou are in panic. If the provincial governor is replaced at this time, it may cause greater panic. Therefore, Tao's intention is that I will temporarily take over the general. After the military and people are at peace, it will not be too late for us to hand over again. Anyway, Xuzhou is always the general, so why should the general be anxious for a while?"

"This..." Lu Bu hesitated when he heard this.

However, Chen Gong, who was standing beside him, said loudly under the city: "Envoy Tao, how can you go back on your word? You had already agreed before. After Cao Cao retreated, he recommended General Lu as the governor of Xuzhou, but now he refused with such a low reason. Do you really think there is no one in our army? Mr. Tao had previously betrayed Zhang Jian and Zhuo Rong one after another due to improper employment, and then Cao Bao was defeated. Later, he even spent a huge price to make peace with Cao Cao, which had already caused great losses to the people. General Lu led his army to defeat Cao Cao and forced Cao Cao to retreat. You may have such a reputation as Tao Gong? If you appease the people's and the army's morale, I'm afraid General Lu is more qualified than Mr. Tao?"

Only then did Lu Bu realize that he was almost deceived by the old guy Tao Qian. He pointed at Tao Qian and said, "Mr. Tao, I thought you were a humble gentleman and a kind-hearted person, but I didn't expect you to do this. It's really disappointing. Now the belonging of people's hearts is very clear. I hope Mr. Tao will not go against the will of heaven. This would cause harm to himself and bring endless disasters to me in Xuzhou!"

Tao Qian smiled bitterly when he heard this. He didn't expect that there were really smart people under Lu Bu's command to see his intentions at a glance. After all, Lu Bu is strong and powerful. Although these people under his command seem OK on the outside, they have almost no combat ability. If Lu Bu really insists on attacking the city, these wastes can't resist at all, and will instead bring more unintentional disasters to Xia Pi.

"General Lu misunderstood. I was just worried that the general would not be able to appease the people, so I barely stayed in office. In fact, I was already tired of the life in the officialdom. Since General Lu had the confidence to appease the people, it would be better."
Chapter completed!