Jia Xu quickly returned to Ma Chao's camp. Ma Chao had long known Jia Xu's ability, so he was not surprised by Han Sui's reaction. But the others, Ma Dai, Pang De, Duan Xuan, Zhang Xiu and others were very surprised. Anyone who suddenly appears and comes to steal their food and stomps on their heads will feel unjust for anyone. But Jia Xu had already had the credit of persuading Jincheng to surrender before, and now he had the credit of negotiating and dividing the land, which was enough to balance everyone's hearts a little.

Ma Chao immediately ordered his troops to withdraw from the encirclement. On the same day, Han Sui opened the west gate of Caohan City and led 20,000 defeated soldiers to run away. Looking at its direction, Ma Chao knew that Han Sui did not take the road of Jincheng, but took the river bridge. Han Sui first had to walk through the Great and Small Elm Valleys, then cross the river bridge next to Guiyi City and Jianwei City, and finally travel hundreds of miles north before entering the Hexi Corridor.

Ma Chao is not worried that Han Sui will repay his debts at all, after all, although he has the imperial court by his side, his strength is much more than Han Sui. Solving Han Sui is to resolve the threat of the imperial court in a short time.

Ma Chao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The campaign for more than a month finally came to an end with the end of the Battle of Caohan. These days, Ma Chao has been so busy that he is overwhelmed, there are crises everywhere, and the slightest carelessness is an abyss. Finally, Ma Chao can stop and rest.

But looking back, Ma Chao had a headache again, because Qiangzhong had not yet been solved, and Liangzhou still had many problems to worry about. Immediately, Ma Chao ordered Ma Dai to lead 30,000 horsemen to take over Jincheng, as well as Jincheng County and Wuwei County, and was responsible for sweeping up the bandits in the two counties; Let Duan Xuan lead 20,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry troops to take Tianshui County, Wudu County and a small piece of Hanyang County, and sweep away all the bandits in the territory; In addition, a letter was sent to Ma Teng, asking him to sit in Jincheng; Sent Zhang Ji to lead troops to clear out the bandits in Anding County, Hanyang County, and Beidi County.

Ma Chao gave himself the task of leading the rest of the men and horses into Qiangzhong. Ma Chao knew that the reason why Liangzhou was in turmoil was because of the turmoil in Qiangzhong next to Liangzhou. Only by completely pacifying Qiangzhong can Liangzhou be completely stabilized. As for how to pacify Qiangzhong, Ma Chao has also thought deeply about this issue. In the past, Liangzhou Sanming pacified Qiangzhong, and they fought for a while, and after defeating the opposition forces, they returned to the army. In this way, the rebel forces will make a comeback. Ma Chao planned this time to defeat Qiangzhong and not leave, directly divide Qiangzhong into counties, build cities, lead Huang to irrigate fields, and send officials to manage; And moved a part of the Qiang into Liangzhou, divided the ability of the Qiang rebellion, and at the same time moved some of the displaced people from Liangzhou into the Qiang, so that the Han and Qiang tribes were integrated with each other. Ma Chao thought, this can be regarded as an explanation for Ma Teng, his mother and this bit of Qiang blood in himself.

After a short celebration banquet, Ma Chao immediately took action, leading 100,000 cavalry and 50,000 people to march into Qiangzhong. When Ma Chao was preparing to raise troops, he didn't expect the Yellow Gate to announce the edict to come. Ma Chao had to sit and wait to greet him.

Ma Chao ordered people to set up the incense case, and after the yellow gate entered the shogunate, he stood in front of the incense case. Ma Chao glanced at it, he was an extremely strong man, his face was like a knife carved, resolute and majestic. If he hadn't known that this person was Huangmen, Ma Chao would have thought that this was a lieutenant under his command.

The yellow gate looked very difficult to tell, as soon as he entered the camp, he saw Ma Chao and his generals, everyone was full of murderous energy, but they were not stunned at all, and shouted angrily: "Who is Ma Chao?" ”

Ma Chao raised his head and said, "I am." ”

The yellow door glanced at Ma Chao coldly and said, "Kneel down and accept the order." "Don't talk nonsense.

Ma Chao knelt down. The yellow door was still dissatisfied, and looked coldly behind Ma Chao. Ma Chao understood, and when he looked back, none of Duan Xuan, Zhang Xiu and the others knelt down. Ma Chao nodded to them, and they reluctantly knelt down.

The Yellow Gate was willing to bring a scroll of silk, slowly unfolded it, and read it out loud.

Ma Chao already knew the content, which was to give him the reward of "General Shenwei".

However, when the Yellow Gate was reading the edict, Ma Chao suddenly thought of a problem, that is, there was no connection between him and Luoyang City, and once there was any change in the imperial court, he would not know until a month or two apart when he was far away in Xiliang. This is very bad for him. Especially Ma Chao knew that although the imperial court would strike the army this time, he would one day eliminate Han Sui, so one day he would have to go to war with the imperial court. If you can't get the information of the imperial court, it will be very unfavorable for the future war.

Seeing this bad-tempered yellow door, Ma Chao came up with an idea. This person is a regular attendant of the Yellow Gate, and he is in the palace. What decisions the imperial court has, he must be the first to know. Why not find an outlet from this person?

Thinking about it, the corners of Ma Chao's mouth curled.

That yellow door is Jianshuo.

Jian Shuo finished reading, stuffed the edict into Ma Chao's hand, and said without emotion: "Congratulations to the general." It is rare to be a general at such a young age. ”

Ma Chao said: "The regular servant has traveled thousands of miles to announce the decree, and it has been hard. The banquet is ready and ready to be seated. ”

Jian Shuo said coldly: "I still have to go back to the capital to report to Your Majesty, so I won't bother much." ”

Ma Chao saw that he was leaving, and he was anxious. This was one of the few opportunities he had to obtain information from the imperial court, and he couldn't let that opportunity slip away.

Jian Shuo turned around and left, Ma Chao hurriedly stepped up with an arrow, stopped in front of Jian Shuo, and said, "Why should Chang Shuo be in a hurry? If it is late today, and you still have to camp at night, it is better to stay in our army and leave tomorrow. ”

Jian Shuo looked at the sky, it was indeed almost dusk, and he hesitated: "But ......"

"Come on, set up a tent outside my camp tent, and prepare the utensils for life!" Ma Chao decisively ordered.

"Yes!" The subordinate soldiers replied without hesitation and went down to set up.

Ma Chao looked at Jian Shuo with a smile. Jian Shuo saw that the wood was already in the boat, and it was not easy to excuse himself, so he said: "Then bother the general." ”

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

Jian Shuo left quickly, and Ma Chao was not in a hurry. As long as he is still in the camp, Ma Chao has the opportunity to bribe him and let him provide information for himself.

At this time, Jia Xu suddenly walked up to Ma Chao mysteriously and whispered, "The young master should prepare some gold and silver valuables." There is no need to be stingy on this issue. ”

Ma Chao was surprised, but he didn't expect this Jia Xu to see through his intentions.

Ma Chao said in a low voice: "How does Mr. know my intentions?" ”

Jia Xu smiled and said: "The young master is suffering from the lack of news, so it is not difficult to guess. ”

Ma Chao was a little vigilant, if Jia Xu could understand him so easily, it would be a little dangerous. The lord of man should be the subject of accidents, if he understands it too much, then the position of the lord of man will be unstable. This is also the reason why Cao Cao had to kill Yang Xiu, not because he hated Yang Xiu's talent, but because he wanted to maintain the prestige and stability of his status.