"Sure enough, General Wei is here, the villain Yang Aruo has seen General Wei, so that the general knows that Huang Yan is not in the city at all, he has already led the crowd to escape."

"Oh? Fled? Why run away? Could it be that Yang Yishi led the crowd to occupy Jiuquan City, and Huang Yan saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, so he left? Wei Yan was very happy after listening to Yang Aruo's words, now that Huang Yan was not in the city, Yang Aruo's attitude was so humble, it seemed that he should be able to easily take Jiuquan and quell this rebellion.

Sure enough, I saw Yang Aruo say: "Huang Yan disregarded the safety of the people, did such a thing against the sky, the army and the people in the city unanimously opposed, the villain is quite famous in the market, so they pushed me as the leader, occupied the city, and waited for the general to arrive, and now that the general has arrived, the soldiers and people in the city are all overjoyed, looking forward to the general being able to enter the city." ”

Then Yang Aruo ordered the city gate to be opened, and personally led the crowd to welcome Wei Yan into the city, and the people were also happy in their hearts, killing pigs and sheep, and eating pot pulp to welcome Wei Yan's army into the city.

Wei Yan was naturally very happy, happily entered the city, ordered to go out of the list of the people, and the other counties also looked down on the wind when they saw this, and at the same time, Dunhuang Taishou Ma Ai also came to see Wei Yan in person, and confessed to Wei Yan, failed to lead the army to aid in time, and sat back and watched the thief army grow stronger and stronger.

Wei Yan smiled and comforted: "Ma Taishou has repeatedly rejected Ma Teng's bewitchment, he has always been public, this kind of ethics Yan admires very much, Yan knows that Ma Taishou has not many soldiers and horses, only enough to protect himself, there is no way to send troops to help, Ma Taishou can protect Dunhuang for the imperial court, this is already a great merit." ”

Ma Ai saw that Wei Yan was so considerate, and his heart was moved, so the guests and hosts rejoiced, and at this point, the rebellion involving tens of thousands of people in Jiuquan County was put down.

Of course, it can't be said to be completely calm, because this also involves a Zhangye vassal country, although tens of thousands of soldiers of the Zhangye vassal country fell to Wei Yan at the last critical moment, and made a lot of contributions to defeat Huang Yan, but they raised troops to conspire with Huang Yan at the beginning, which is enough to prove their style of riding the wall, Wei Yan needs absolute loyalty, and will not allow such a force that is not under his control to exist.

However, Wei Yan only kept this matter in mind, now is not the time to move Zhangye's vassal state, the most important thing for today's plan is to completely unify the entire Liangzhou and truly establish his own prestige.

And if you want to unify the whole Liangzhou, the most important thing is to reward those soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in the war, and at the same time find a way to stabilize the situation, as long as you give yourself a certain amount of time, let yourself completely establish your prestige here, and then you can clean up those Lu Shuihu people as you like.

Subsequently, Wei Yan ordered Yang Aruo to temporarily take the post of Taishou of Jiuquan, and asked for credit for Yang Aruo and Ma Ai, and ordered to reward the three armies and reward the Qiang people in the subject country of Juyan.

All of a sudden, the counties cheered and thundered, and they were all grateful.

At the same time, in order to deter the various forces that were about to move, Wei Yan decided to temporarily lead his army to be stationed in Jiuquan, and wait until the situation was completely settled before returning to Wuwei.

It didn't take long for Pei Qing to reply, Pei Qing decided to take Wei Yan as the general of the Xizhou Governor's Mansion in Liangzhou City, the Governor of the Xizhou Governor's Mansion, and the Fake Festival, to govern the four towns of Hexi (Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang) and the military and political power of the entire Western Regions, and his seat of governance was temporarily in Yumen City (not Yumen Pass), and decided to reopen the Silk Road within a year, and Wei Yan was also responsible for the security of the Silk Road.

At the same time, it was decided that Anding County would still be under the command of Liangzhou, and Cheng Gongying was appointed as the assassin of Liangzhou, in charge of the supervision of the entire Liangzhou, and at the same time in charge of the military and political power of the counties and counties in Liangzhou except for the four towns in Hexi.

In fact, the previous Liangzhou was very large, in addition to the four towns of Hexi, it also included the three counties of Anding, Beidi and Jincheng, and before that, it also included the three counties of Hanyang, Longxi and Wudu, but later the last three counties were included in Yongzhou, which led to Cheng Gongying actually having jurisdiction over only the two counties of Anding and Beidi, but Pei Qing's appointment still has a deep meaning, that is, let Cheng Gongying guard against Ma Teng, and if the time is ripe in the future, he can lead his troops to recover all the old places in Liangzhou.

Of course, the current Ma Teng still belongs to the alliance in name after all, so Pei Qing did not clearly write these on his appointment letter, all of which are things that can only be understood but not spoken.

Of course, Cheng Gongying knew Pei Qing's intentions, and he was only in charge of one county before, but now he is directly in charge of two counties, and the future is still very bright, so he naturally agreed with joy on his face.

As for Wei Yan, although on the surface it seems that his power is smaller than before, but his responsibility is to govern the four towns of Hexi and the entire Western Regions, although the current Western Regions are not yet under control, but in the future, with the strength of his own power, he will definitely regain control of the Western Regions, so the future development space is also extremely huge.

Therefore, Wei Yan also accepted the appointment with a happy face.

In addition, Pei Qing also gave an order for Ma Ai and Yang Aruo to go to Chang'an to Xugong together.

After Wei Yan saw this order, he immediately ordered someone to invite Yang Aruo and Ma Ai, and told them about Pei Qing's decision, and then warmly congratulated them.

Among these two people, Yang Aruo is heroic, but Ma Ai is loyal and courageous, if they were someone else, they might wonder if Pei Qing had some conspiracy to summon them to Chang'an, but neither of them thought about it, but after hearing Wei Yan's congratulatory words, they were all stunned, because they didn't think that they had made any contributions, even if they were meritorious, at most, they would continue to serve as their taishou, and there was nothing to congratulate at all.

But seeing Wei Yan said with a faint smile: "The two of you may not know what it means for the lord to let you go to Chang'an to do your work?" To tell you the truth, after this time, you will be reborn, even if it is comparable to a first-class general, because the lord has a strange elixir, as long as you take it, you will become the most first-class talent today, such as Yang Yishi, as long as you take the elixir, it is likely to become a first-class general. ”

"W-that's true?" Yang Aruo and Ma Ai felt incredulous after hearing this, but there was still a glimmer of hope rising in their hearts, Wei Yan so solemnly guaranteed the truth of what he said, maybe such a thing was true.

Yang Aruo and Ma Ai came to Chang'an suspiciously, met Pei Qing and told Pei Qing about their achievements.

In fact, Yang Aruo could still talk about the fact that he was trusted by everyone to take everyone to occupy Jiuquan City and drive Huang Yan away, but Ma Ai felt that he had done nothing and had nothing to say at all.

However, Pei Qing praised them a lot, praised Yang Aruo's heroic righteousness, praised Ma Ai's noble conduct, first rewarded a lot of money, and then asked Yang Aruo to come to him that night.

"It's finally coming, I want to see Pei Gong's elixir." Yang Aruo's face was full of excitement and thought silently.