At this time, Zhang Meng had long lost his previous momentum. In the face of death, he threw all his dignity out of the sky. His only direction of efforts now is to survive.

So after seeing Liu He, Zhang Meng immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic and said crying: "General, they are all villains who are confused for a moment. They are deceived by Han Sui, the old thief. Please ignore the past and spare the villain this time. The villain will definitely change his mind and become a new person. He swears to be loyal to the general to the death!"

But Liu He sneered: "Zhang Meng, you can hide your tricks from others, but you can't hide them from me. This is the end of your pretending performance. I know that you were tyrannical and unjust, and the people have lived a lot of hard life under your hands. Although I lack people under my command, there are no people like you who are neither capable nor qualities. If you come, drag them down with me and kill them for public display!"

"Ah? Great, General, please spare me. The villain is wronged, the villain is wronged..." Zhang Meng howled loudly and said, "All this was instigated by that horse. It has nothing to do with the villain. The villain was forced to do something bad. What evil things did? The villain is actually a victim..."

Since Liu He dealt with Zhang Meng near the city gate, there were some people who were brave enough to escape indiscriminately. When he heard Zhang Meng's shouting, an old man came to the front and said in grief and anger: "I'm forced to do nothing? Zhang Meng, do you have the attitude to say such things? A few days ago, you stole my niece and humiliated her to death. Is this also the instigation of Ma Wan? You were also forced to do nothing? You colluded with that Ma Wan and ran around the countryside. Today, you robbed the women of the people and levyed taxes tomorrow. Do you really think that the people in the city are blind?"

Then the people around him shouted excitedly: "Zhang Meng was arrested, everyone, let's see the general judge Zhang Meng."

After a while, dozens of people were surrounded by the city gate, and then more and more people gathered at the small city gate. And behind these people, there was a long queue. The people climbed onto the roofs, on the trees, stretched their necks, and watched the scene of Liu He judging Zhang Meng.

Countless people fell to the ground, crying loudly and shouting that the sky was eyeing. The evil people finally received evil retribution. Countless people were worried that Liu He would let Zhang Meng go, and loudly accused him of his evil deeds, begging Liu He not to let such evil people go and execute him to calm the anger of the people.

Seeing this scene, Liu He stood up and shouted loudly at Zhang Meng: "Did you see it now? This is what you call wronged? If you are wronged, what kind of wronged people in the city should be? Should it be snowing in June? A villain like you, living in this world is a sin. If I leave you behind, how can I be worthy of the will of the people? I will continue to pass the order, drag it down, and be punished by abandoning the market, and be executed at three o'clock in the afternoon!"

Then Zhang Meng was dragged to the market center, and then his head was cut off with a knife under the watch of the people. All the onlookers rushed forward and snatched Zhang Meng's body. Some even couldn't help but bite it directly. But in an instant, a corpse was bitten and snatched to pieces.

After executing Zhang Meng, Liu He could announce the appointment of Jia Xu's brother Jia Cai as the prefect of Wuwei. Although Jia Cai was born in a large clan, he has always been kind and righteous to the people and has always been prestigious among the people. However, because of Jia Xu, he has never been valued and is idle at home. Now that Liu He has appointed him as the prefect of Wuwei, the people immediately cheered.

After taking office, Jia Cai did not disappoint Liu He's expectations, and implemented a series of policies of light taxes and low taxes, attached importance to agricultural production, which restored the originally somewhat broken Wuwei to life.

Of course, the current Wuwei is not the original complete Wuwei County, but the eleven counties west of the river. As for Zuli County, the easternmost part, it is the garrison of the coalition forces under Han Sui.

The news of Liu He's capture of Wuwei spread wildly. The heads of Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang in the west heard the news and thought that they had few soldiers and could not fight against them. They also heard that Liu He was kind and kind, so they went to Wuwei in person to ask Liu He to surrender.

Liu He treated all those who came to surrender well, and let the prefects of the three counties still hold their original official positions. At the same time, he decided to establish a Hexi Protectorate, with Pei Qian as the Hexi Protectorate, and was appointed as the General of Anxi, supervising the military affairs of the four counties of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang. He also held the throne and Deng Zhi as the chief minister and Fang Yue as Sima.

In addition, in order to give the newly established Hexi Protectorate enough military force, Liu He divided 5,000 elite troops from the army and handed them over to Pei Qian for his jurisdiction.

It’s not that Liu He didn’t want to hand over more troops to Pei Qian, mainly because Hexi is barren and cannot support so many soldiers, even if they are farmed, they cannot do it. The power of Hexi needs to be slowly developed. Fortunately, after Han Sui retreated, there are no strong enemies in the four Hexi counties now, and these 5,000 soldiers are enough to deal with the situation.

"Master, in fact, in the early stages of expansion, we cannot get benefits from it. Instead, we have to rely on a lot of manpower and material resources. Looking at the world with such a thing, perhaps only the lord would do this, right?"

In Liu He's account, Lu Su smiled and said to Liu He, but his heart was full of respect. From his businessman's perspective, it can be seen that although Liu He's doing this seems to be a little at a disadvantage in the short term, once the Silk Road is rebuilt, it will be the foundation for the prosperity of the Han Dynasty to reappear. In this sense, Liu He's plan to four counties in Hexi is much more important than capturing Han Sui's old nest Jincheng.

Guo Jia and Xun You also nodded. As one of the wisest people in the world, they naturally knew Liu He's profound intention to do so. They believed that this was like Shang Yang's reforms back then, laying the strongest foundation for dominating the world!

At this time, after hearing that Liu He had occupied the four Hexi counties, Han Sui was furious and cursed: "Damn Liu He, damn guy, I really didn't expect that he would attack my Wuwei and seize the other three Hexi counties in one fell swoop!"

At this time, Cheng Gongying came forward and said slowly: "Lord, don't get angry first. In fact, Liu He abandoned us and rushed to the four counties of Hexi for thousands of miles. He was really a taboo in military strategists. Instead, we can take the opportunity to attack Anding, and then take advantage of Liu He's main army before returning to attack Chang'an. At that time, Liu He lost the fundamental important place of Chang'an, what's the use of even if he got the four counties of Hexi?"
Chapter completed!