"It turns out that General Wei is here. The villain Yang Aruo has seen General Wei. The good general knows that Huang Yan is not in the city at all. He has led his people to escape."

"Oh? Escaped? Why do you run away? Could it be that Yang Yishi, you led the crowd to occupy Jiuquan City? Huang Yan saw that there was no chance, so he left?" Wei Yan was very happy after hearing Yang Aruo's words. Now that Huang Yan is not in the city, Yang Aruo's attitude is so humble. It seems that he can easily take Jiuquan and quell the rebellion.

Sure enough, Yang Aruo said: "Huang Yan did such a despicable thing regardless of the safety of the people. The soldiers and civilians in the city unanimously opposed it. The villain usually has some reputation in the market, so they recommended me as the leader, occupied the city, and waited for the general to arrive. Now that the general has arrived, the soldiers and civilians in the city are all very happy, hoping that the general can enter the city."

Then Yang Aruo ordered the city gate to open and personally led the crowd to welcome Wei Yan into the city. The people were also happy, killing pigs and sheep, and eating pots of slurry and food to welcome Wei Yan's army into the city.

Wei Yan was naturally very happy and entered the city happily, ordered the people to be released. When other counties saw this, they all surrendered. At the same time, Dunhuang prefect Ma Ai also came to pay his respects to Wei Yan in person and accused Wei Yan of crimes. He failed to lead the army to provide assistance in time and watched the thieves grow stronger.

Wei Yan smiled and comforted: "Prince Ma repeatedly rejected Ma Teng's bewitchment and has always been a public servant. Yan admired such ethics very much. Yan knew that Ma Taishou had not many troops under his command, and was only enough to protect himself. He had no way to send troops to help him. It was a great contribution to the ability of Ma Taishou to protect Dunhuang for the court."

Seeing Wei Yan so considerate, Ma Ai was moved, so he had fun. At this point, the rebellion involving tens of thousands of people in Jiuquan County was quelled.

Of course, it cannot be said that it is completely pacified, because it also involves a Zhangye vassal state. Although tens of thousands of soldiers of the Zhangye vassal state turned to Wei Yan at the last critical moment and made a lot of contributions to defeating Huang Yan, they raised an army at the beginning to conspire with Huang Yan, which is enough to prove their style of standing on the fence. What Wei Yan needs is absolute loyalty and will not allow such a force that is not under his control.

However, Wei Yan only kept this in mind. Now is not the time to move the vassal state of Zhangye. The most important thing for the current plan is to completely unify the entire Liangzhou and truly establish his own prestige.

If you want to unify the entire Liangzhou, the most important thing is to reward those soldiers who have made meritorious service in the war, and at the same time find ways to stabilize the situation. As long as you give yourself a certain amount of time and completely establish your prestige here, you can deal with the Lushui Hu people as you wish.

Later, in order to allow Yang Aruo to temporarily serve as the prefect of Jiuquan and to ask Yang Aruo and Ma Ai to reward Yang Aruo and Ma Ai, Wei Yan ordered the reward of the three armies and the Qiang people in Juyan's vassal state.

For a moment, the counties cheered and thundered, and they were all grateful.

At the same time, in order to shock the various forces that were ready to move, Wei Yan decided to temporarily lead his army to station in Jiuquan, and then return to his garrison Wuwei after the situation was completely settled.

Not long after, Pei Qing responded. Pei Qing decided to use Wei Yan as the general of the Western Expedition and the governor of the Xizhou Governor's Office in Liangzhou City, and the governor of the Xizhou Governor's Office. During the holidays, he was in charge of the four towns of Hexi (Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang) and the entire Western Regions. His capital was temporarily in Yumen City (not Yumen Pass), and decided to reopen the Silk Road within one year, and Wei Yan was also responsible for the safety of the Silk Road.

At the same time, it was decided to still be assigned to Liangzhou, and Cheng Gongying was appointed as the governor of Liangzhou, in charge of the supervision of the entire Liangzhou, and in charge of the military and political power of Liangzhou except for the four towns in Hexi.

In fact, Liangzhou was very big before. In addition to the four towns in Hexi, there were also three counties, Anding, Northland and Jincheng. Before, there were three counties, Hanyang, Longxi and Wudu. However, the latter three counties were all included in Yongzhou, which led to Cheng Gongying actually having the only jurisdiction of the two counties, Anding and Northland. However, Pei Qing's appointment was still meaningful, that is, let Cheng Gongying guard against Ma Teng, and if the time is ripe in the future, he could lead his troops to recover all the old places in Liangzhou.

Of course, Ma Teng is still a nominal alliance after all, so Pei Qing did not clearly write these in his appointment letter. All of these are things that can only be understood but not expressed in words.

Of course, Cheng Gongying knew Pei Qing’s intentions, and he was only responsible for one county before, but now he is directly responsible for two counties, and his future is still very bright, so he naturally agreed with joy.

As for Wei Yan, although his power seems to be reduced compared to before, his responsibilities are to govern the four towns of Hexi and the entire Western Regions. Although the Western Regions are not under control now, as his own strength becomes stronger, he will definitely regain control of the Western Regions, so there is also a huge room for development in the future.

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

In addition, Pei Qing also issued an order to ask Ma Ai and Yang Aruo to go to Chang'an to discuss the merits.

After seeing this order, Wei Yan immediately ordered someone to invite Yang Aruo and Ma Ai, and told them Pei Qing's decision, and then warmly expressed his congratulations to them.

Among these two people, Yang Aruo is heroic, while Ma Ai is loyal and courageous. If it were someone else, she might have doubted whether Pei Qing had any conspiracy to summon them to Chang'an, but neither of them thought of it. However, after hearing Wei Yan's congratulations, they were all stunned because they did not think that they had made any contributions. Even if they were Xu Gong, they would at most continue to serve as their prefects, and there was nothing worth congratulations.

But Wei Yan smiled faintly and said, "You two may not know what the lord of the lord will mean to ask you to Chang'an to reconcile merits. To be honest, you will definitely be reborn after this. Even if you are comparable to first-class generals and ministers, it is no problem, because the lord has a unique elixir. As long as you take it, you will become the most powerful talents today. For example, Yang Yishi, as long as he takes the elixir, he may become a first-class general."

"This, is this true?" Yang Aruo and Ma Ai felt unbelievable after hearing this, but a trace of hope rose in their hearts. Wei Yan solemnly guaranteed the authenticity of what he said, perhaps such a thing was true.

Yang Aruo and Ma Ai came to Chang'an in skepticism, met Pei Qing and told Pei Qing about his merits.

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

However, Pei Qing praised them very much, praised Yang Aruohao for his heroic and righteousness, and praised Ma Ai for his noble character. He first rewarded a lot of money and then asked Yang Aruo to come to him at night.

"I'm finally here, I want to see the spiritual medicine for Mr. Pei." Yang Aruo thought silently with excitement on his face.
Chapter completed!