It has been three days since Pang Tong returned to Juyan City, and since Pang Tong sent the envoy, Zhang Yan has been very worried about Pang Tong, afraid that Pang Tong will be in any danger.

When he saw Pang Tong return safe and sound, the hanging heart finally fell.

Zhang Yan personally greeted Pang Tong's return outside Juyan City, and after the two met, there was no greeting, and Pang Tong directly reported to Zhang Yanzuo about the situation after his mission.

When Zhang Yan learned that Pang Tong did not help the Western Regions Alliance to deal with the Xianbei people according to the original intention, but in turn helped the Xianbei people defeat the Western Regions Alliance, he was very surprised.

"You must have your purpose in doing this, can you tell this king?" After Zhang Yan was surprised, he regained his composure and asked directly.

Pang Tong said: "His Royal Highness King Yan, please forgive your subordinates for changing their original intentions, but your subordinates are doing this out of consideration for the Han Dynasty. Hu Yanhui's Western Regions coalition army is just a group of rabble, and Hu Yanhui is also a little arrogant, and no one in his eyes, if he defeats the Xianbei people and captures Jinwei Mountain, he will use this as a place for development, continue to advance eastward, and restore the identity of the Xiongnu as the former overlord of the grassland. Moreover, there is a backbone in the blood of the Huns who will never bow their heads, and I am afraid that after the Huns become the overlord of the steppe, they will once again threaten the security of the Han border. In addition, since His Royal Highness King Yan wants to reopen the Silk Road, then the Western Regions will inevitably be an extremely important section of the Silk Road, if Hu Yanhui continues to exist in the Western Regions, it may pose a threat to the Silk Road, then all our previous efforts will be in vain. On the contrary, the Xianbei people seem to be powerful. However, it once regarded the Han Dynasty as a dependent force. If you can. We can even live in peace, which is undoubtedly the most exciting thing for the people on the border. Therefore, his subordinates had the courage to change their original intentions and helped the Xianbei people without violating the purpose of His Royal Highness King Yan. ”

After listening to Pang Tong's explanation, Zhang Yan felt that what Pang Tong said was also very reasonable, even if Pang Tong didn't help the Xianbei people. With the overall strength of the Xianbei people, I believe that they will also defeat the Western Regions Alliance. However, the emergence of Pang Tong accelerated the collapse of the Western Regions Alliance, and even made the Xianbei people owe Pang Tongyi a personal favor. At the same time, Pang Tong also showed the powerful power of the Han army's weapons to the Japanese law deduction, and the Japanese law deduction and others were deeply shocked, and there should be no more trouble.

"Shi Yuan, along the way, I have worked hard for you, and this king has prepared a banquet. Please hurry into town! ”

Zhang Yan welcomed Pang Tong into Juyan City and personally entertained him. In addition, Zhang Yan also gave a reasonable reward to Mafu Ayub, who served as the translator, for his merits.

In view of the fact that Ayub first served as a guide and led Zhang Yan out of the Great Gobi, thus winning the Battle of Jiluo Mountain, and then served as an interpreter to help Pang Tong complete the important task of envoy, Zhang Yan officially canonized Ayub and appointed Ayub as the captain of the Guards, directly subordinate to his subordinates, leading the deputy captain and eight soldiers.

The position of captain is a basic unit in the army, belonging to the rank of the seventh rank, and enjoying the salary of 600 stones, which is undoubtedly a very happy thing for Ayub.

Ayub immediately knelt in front of Zhang Yan and thanked him repeatedly.

However, the basic units in the army seem to be set a little high, and the military expenditure has been extremely high in recent years, which is largely due to the fact that the rank in the army is too high.

As a result, military spending is undoubtedly huge. For example, if there are 100,000 troops, then there are 10,000 captains alone, and there are 6 million stones per year, which is not counting the rank of captain and above.

Therefore, in the past two years, the state treasury has been in a state of deficit, and reform is also imminent.

However, in Zhang Yan's view, he formulated this grade and salary at that time completely to motivate grassroots officers, so as to stimulate their self-motivation to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. And in his opinion, it is precisely because the captain is the most basic officer, and it is also the most important, because when the war comes, most of the leaders who charge into battle are these captains who take the lead. And these captains are basically the pillars of the family, if this pillar is gone, then the family will collapse. Therefore, these 600 stone can be regarded as making up for them.

However, as Zhang Yan's territory expanded day by day, the number of troops increased day by day, and such a huge military expenditure also increased day by day, and eventually the state of the treasury was empty.

Since then, Jia Xu, Chen Qun, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Bing Yuan, Hua Xin, Wang Lang and other ministers of the DPRK and China have all gone up one after another, demanding that the military ranks be reformulated.

In today's Zhang Yan's army, in addition to the captains, there are countless generals, there are several people with the rank of general, and there is no subordinate relationship with each other, although there is nothing between the generals, but their subordinates are fighting openly and secretly.

All in all, the army is already developing into a deformed way, and a thorough reform is necessary. In addition to the armed forces, the existing bureaucratic system must also be renovated.

Zhang Yan had already been plotting reforms, and as soon as the matter here was over, he returned to Pengcheng and began to carry out reforms, so that the Han court would completely change into a new face.

At the banquet, Pang Tong spat out to Zhang Yan his true intention of letting the Xianbei people sign the alliance, and suggested that Zhang Yan deduce the leader of the Xianbei in the west to be placed under house arrest and brought back to Pengcheng, just like dealing with the attached Southern Xiongnu, to deal with the Xianbei in the west, and remotely commanding the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai.

If the Japanese law does not obey, he will be killed, and then choose a person from among the nobles who is willing to be a puppet to serve as the leader of the western Xianbei.

In addition, Pang Tong strongly recommended that the Han people be migrated to the Xianbei people's station, teach the Xianbei people to farm, let them gradually become Han Chinese, and consume the primitive wildness of their people.

I have to say that Pang Tong is very good at dealing with border troubles, and Zhang Yan attaches great importance to him, so he agreed to Pang Tong's suggestion.

The next day, the scouts came with the news that the Xianbei people defeated the Western Regions coalition army led by Hu Yanhui in Jinwei Mountain, Hu Yanhui himself was killed in the melee, most of the Huns were killed, and the coalition forces of the Western Regions countries broke up and fled back to the Western Regions.

When this news came, he felt that the most exciting thing was Pang Tong, because this strategy was arranged by him, and such a result was also expected by him early on.

The opportunity that Pang Tong was waiting for has finally come, and the Western Regions will become the place where he will make a splash.

Therefore, Pang Tong volunteered to Zhang Yan and was willing to send envoys to the countries of the Western Regions as an envoy again, so that he could recite the Tianwei of the Han Dynasty, let him belong to him, and live in peace with the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions. Whoever dares to be an enemy of the Han Dynasty will face the danger of destroying the country.

Zhang Yan felt that Pang Tong's suggestion was very good, so he began to plan for Pang Tong to send an envoy to the Western Regions, and once again sent Ayub to Pang Tong's side, responsible for protecting Pang Tong, and acting as a guide and translator.

In fact, sending Ayub to Pang Tong's side is also due to the consideration that Ayub is the prince of Dawan, and if Ayub can return to Dawan to become a king and submit to the Han forever, it is also a good choice.

However, for the identity of the prince of Dawan, Zhang Yan has never asked Ayubu, and he doesn't want to expose Ayubu, he is waiting, waiting for this prince to bring him some late surprises. Perhaps, Pang Tong and Ayub will become an eternal legend in the history of the Western Regions.

A few days later, the Western Xianbei Shan deduced from the Japanese law, led most of the Xianbei nobles, and 3,000 cavalry, and brought rich gifts to the city of Juyan.

This time, there was no more war between the Xianbei and the Han people, and Zhang Yan received the Japanese law deduction with grand courtesy, and during the meeting, Zhang Yan and the Japanese law deduction reached an agreement that the two sides would no longer fight and should maintain peace. But then, Zhang Yan asked the Japanese law deduction to go back to the capital with him to meet the current emperor of the Han Dynasty on the grounds that he was in the service.

Rilu deduced that he didn't know that this was a poisonous plan, so he gladly accepted Zhang Yan's invitation, and was ready to take the nobles of his clan to meet the Son of Heaven together.

Seeing that Rilu had agreed to his request, Zhang Yan secretly ordered the withdrawal of the army, and an imminent massacre was defused.

According to the agreement, Zhang Yan released the captured Xianbei people, but the horses, cattle, sheep and all the materials looted were not returned. There is no opinion on the deduction of the Japanese law, for him, as long as the person is fine.

A few days later, Zhang Yan officially sent Pang Tong to the Western Regions, Ayub, Ma Tie, and Ma Xiu accompanied him with three hundred cavalry.

And Zhang Yan, began to return to the court, Tai Shici led his soldiers back to Bingzhou, Ma Teng, Zhuge Liang followed Zhang Yan back to the court, Xu Shu was officially appointed as Zhangye Taishou, led an army of 10,000, stationed in Zhangye County, which is equivalent to nailing a nail directly to the traffic arteries of the Silk Road, and also nailed to the hinterland of Liangzhou under the jurisdiction of Ma Chao.

In addition, Zhang Yan wrote a secret letter to Xu Shu and asked him to pay more attention to Ma Chao. Xu Shu is a smart person, after seeing this letter, he naturally understands the truth, and for the appointment, he is also happy to accept it.

Rilu deduced that there were more than 200 Xianbei nobles, all of whom followed Zhang Yan to the imperial court to meet the Son of Heaven.

For Ma Chao's outstanding performance in this western expedition, Zhang Yan named Ma Chao Krupp, a first-class earl, and a thousand households in Xiangwu County.

In addition, Suo Guang was officially appointed as the Dunhuang Taishou, Yang Qiu as the Jiuquan Taishou, Cheng Yi as the commander of Zhangye's subordinate state, Yang Fu as the Longxi Taishou, Gai Shun as the Jincheng Taishou, Ma Dai as the Tianshui Taishou, Pang De as the Anding Taishou, Pang Rou as the Wuwei Taishou, Ma Gang as the Beidi Taishou, and Wang Shuang as the Wudu Taishou. Ma Chao is still the general of Zhenxi, the pastor of Liangzhou, and moved the governance office to Guzang City in Wuwei County, and has since guarded Liangzhou for the Han Dynasty.

As for the Qiang people who joined the battle this time, Zhang Yan sent people to send some cattle and sheep plundered from the Xianbei people, and returned 10,000 war horses to them as a thank you.

Everything was arranged, and Zhang Yan embarked on the journey back to the court, but what awaited him was a person who had the notoriety of killing the king...... (To be continued......)