After dark, Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) continued to stay in the mansion and personally interrogated dozens of people such as the old bustard of the Red Lantern Garden, it was impossible for the Red Lantern Garden to be the only one in Fang Ziyu, there must be other people to answer Fang Ziyu, otherwise it would be impossible to quietly carry out secret activities without flaws.

When the time came, the messenger hurriedly reported:

"Report to General Wei, there is a Mr. Gao who asks to see General Wei."

Bai Liyan thought that it must be Gao Xun.

"Come in, please."

"No."

Gao Xun went to Yongxing River a few days ago to invite troops from Zhao Xun to enter the city and has not returned, most likely because the war is tight Zhao Xun can't pull away, and he suddenly returned tonight, and he must have moved to the rescue.

Gao Xun came quickly, he was already sweating profusely, Bailiyan poured him a bowl of water, Gao Xun drank it in three sips and couldn't wait to say:

"Brother Wei Xian, the murderer who poisoned Da Sima has a whereabouts."

Bai Liyan smiled bitterly:

"Yes, yes, but they have been silenced."

"Kill the mouth!" Gao Xun subconsciously thought: "In this way, there are masters in the city to respond. ”

Bai Liyan nodded:

"Exactly, and found the stronghold of the Black Turban traitors secretly contacting in the city, Red Lantern Garden."

"Red Lantern Garden!" Gao Xun was shocked: "Isn't that the biggest brothel in Chenling, do you know whose property it is?" ”

"Hmph." Bai Liyan said helplessly: "The property of Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Dingyang, and Guo Pan, the Huangmen Ling, Brother Gao thinks that the two of them will secretly communicate with the traitors?" ”

"Hiss......" Gao Xun's teeth were cold, and he said negatively: "No, definitely not." ”

"Okay, there is no clue about this matter for the time being, brother Gao, let's talk about the battle situation of the Yongxing River, why Zhao Shuai's soldiers and horses have not arrived yet."

"Not to mention, the rebels suddenly launched an offensive against Changqu a few days ago, and at one point routed the Changqu defenders and attacked the shore. Fifteen miles east of Changqu is the iron mine, Zhao Shuai was worried that the iron mine would be lost, so he sent heavy troops to reinforce Changqu, and fought fiercely for two days before driving the rebels across the river. ”

"What a coincidence!" Bai Liyan was even more sure that Jiang Yan's death must have been part of the Black Turban Army's planning of the Chenling Mutiny, and they pinned their hopes on attracting the Xian army to the Yongxing River and unable to get out, and then captured the Xianling and cut off the supply of the newly built Jiekang granary east of the Chenling, so that the Xian army was defeated without a fight.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan hurriedly asked:

"Then Brother Gao won't come here empty-handed, right?"

"No, Zhao Shuai ordered Governor Ye to lead 20,000 cavalry, set off early tomorrow morning, rush to Chenling, and arrive at noon at the earliest."

After Ye Xin's cavalry returned to the Yongxing River, it has been repairing in Wuping, and the Black Turban rebels broke through Changqu, which was muddy and swampy, which was not conducive to the operation of the whole cavalry team, Zhao Xun then transferred Wuping and Ruitian infantry to reinforce Changqu on horseback, and Ye Xin took over the defense of Wuping and Ruitian. It wasn't until Changqu recovered that Zhao Xun freed his hand and transferred Ye Xin to reinforce Qiling.

Knowing more about the battle situation, Bai Liyan asked:

"The Black Turban Army must have a bigger plan to attack on all fronts, do you know what the recent movements of the Guangxin Army are?"

"The king has secretly instructed Zhao Shuai to choose the opportunity to let the Duke of Guangxin lead the army north to return to Guangxin, in case the Black Turban Army breaks through Beihai County. Is the virtuous brother worried that Guangxin Gong will change at this time? ”

"It's not, Guangxin has Luo Songting and Chen Yunfeng to assist, and he will definitely not rebel regardless of the survival of the country, I am worried that there will be changes in Chenling, and there will be no one in Beihai County, and there will be variables again."

After all, Shanling is the capital, even if there is a palace change, the success rate will not be too high, if you use Shanling as bait to divert the attention of the Xian army and launch a rebellion in Beihai County, the consequences will be more sinister than the loss of Shanling.

"I hope that Governor Ye Dadu will arrive in time tomorrow to stabilize the situation in Chenling." Bai Liyan said worriedly, and a faint haze came to her heart.

Gao Xun ran all the way, he was already exhausted, and arranged for him to live in the mansion, Bailiyan continued to interrogate the old bustard of the red light garden, the guy and others overnight, until the ugly time, and found many contradictions from the interrogation of the old bustard and others.

First, the earliest proprietor of the Red Lantern Garden was not Ding Yang Hou and Guo Pan, but the great Sima Jiang Yan himself, which was already twenty-five years ago when Jiang Yan's brother was on the throne, that is, the father of Jiang Hai, the king of Xian, was not called the Red Lantern Garden back then, but called the Boudoir Jade Building, and the scale was far less large than today, only one-fifth.

The change of ownership of the boudoir jade fang was fourteen or fifteen years ago, and it happened that not long after Jiang Hai ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, the boudoir jade building changed hands to the hands of Jiang He, the eldest brother of King Xian.

On the eve of Jiang He's rebellion, the Yulou was shut down for a time, and the person in charge of investigating the rebellion of Fengyangjun was the Xiangguo Gongsun Yue, who implemented the new policy "Nongsang Order".

After the Fengyangjun rebellion was pacified, the battle of Jiangdong Xianguo was defeated, and the failure of the new deal reform and the impact of land cession, the internal and external dynasties quickly degenerated and corrupted, and the boudoir Yulou first came to the hands of Guo Pan, and officially changed its name to the Red Lantern Garden.

Second, the old bustard and his companions flatly denied that the Red Light House was secretly in contact with the rebels, and this matter was of course very difficult to investigate, and it was difficult to find out the evidence. But it is undeniable that the three copper chips on Yu Fu's body came from the Red Lantern Garden, and Bai Liyan personally interrogated the owner Ying Yan according to the door number on the copper chips, and Ying Yan denied that she had been notified of the row room.

The so-called row room is an indicator arranged by the brothel for women, and a certain number of customers must be completed every month in order to get the full amount of money belonging to the individual. Therefore, for every copper chip sold, a corresponding women's row house must be arranged.

This means that after the sale of these three copper chips, the Red Lantern Garden did not plan to arrange for Ying Yan to serve the remaining talismans. This just shows that among the bustards and their buddies, some people know that these three copper chips cannot be cashed, so there is no need to notify Yingyan at all, otherwise it is possible to find the guy or the old mother who notified the row house through Yingyan and the vine, and then chase after it.

In this way, even if Bailiyan chased the Red Lantern Garden, the clues of the three copper chips were completely interrupted when they arrived at the owner Yingyan, because this was an empty ticket, and it was impossible to find the person who rowed the house through the copper chips. This is obviously someone who has everything at the mercy of everything in advance, with the intention of disrupting the line of sight.

Third, the Red Lantern Garden, as the largest and hardest brothel in the mausoleum, has not been managed by the county government yamen for a long time, but has been owned by the Ouchi, which leads to the fact that after the palace maids in Ouchi committed crimes, the final outcome was to be brought into the brothel by Guo Pan to pick up customers, and the palace Ouchi actually bought or captured women from all over the country through the Red Lantern Garden, and sent women from all over the country to the palace, so you can imagine how many eyeliners were placed around King Xian.

Finally, according to the rumors in the market and the mutual corroboration of information from various channels, such a high-end brothel in the Red Lantern Court was secretly open to middle- and lower-level officers, and the fees were extremely low, which was exactly the same as the trick of the Black Turban Army in the early days of using deception to entrap mutinous generals and corrupt them with brothel women.

And the secret account made by the brothel boss did not mention the income of this batch of money, and the income generated by low-cost services decreased, and how he deceived Guo Pan and Ding Yanghou in the end, there is no explanation.

When asked how the old bustard of the red lantern garden explained this matter, the old bustard only said that he didn't know, Baili Yan wanted to use the torture rod to her ten sticks, and saw that the old bustard timidly said that every time the people who came to the brothel to consume, there were indeed some vulgar and strong men with swords of the forbidden army and men in cloth clothes with the standard weapons of the Xianjun army, holding copper chips to prostitute the house, which undoubtedly confirmed the fact that the defenders of the Lingling and the forbidden army had been infiltrated.

Moreover, it was under the eyelids of Baili Yan, Uncle Guang and King Xian, which lasted for a year, or even longer, and before that, there was no way to know how many people had been wooed.

According to this inference, there must be a high-ranking official in the tomb who has been providing cover for the rebels for a long time, so who could it be?

There is no doubt that Gongsun Yue is a minion of the Dao. It is impossible for the Marquis of Ding Yang, so there are only Guo Pan of the Yellow Gate and Mo Anzheng.

Guo Pan is the henchman of the Queen Mother, to say that he is in the big house, it is not impossible to have a secret relationship with the rebels, but what benefits can he get, not to mention that Guo Pan is already one of the top landlords in the country, and the wealth is rolling in every day, what reason does he have to collude with the rebels.

And Dasi Nong Mo An is the person of Jiang Min of Guangxin Gong, could it be that Dasi Nong is committed to Guangxin Gong and secretly collaborates with the enemy?

At the end of the interrogation to the ugly moment, the morning star was faintly bright, Bai Liyan couldn't grasp the clue for a while, and at this time the sleepiness attacked, he sorted out his confession, and slept on the spot in the back hall with wooden planks and clothes.

When the sky gradually brightened, Baili Yan faintly heard a thick horn in his daze, and the horn sounded throughout the sky, revealing a tactful and sad desolation in the dullness.

Bai Liyan sat up with her eyelids bent, frowning and listening carefully.

"What kind of horn is this, it doesn't look like it's from Nanying!"

The sound of the horn is obviously much lower, and it is a thin-walled long-barreled copper horn cast in bronze, which needs to be carried by two people on their shoulders and one person in the back.

Only during the New Year's festival and foreign guests will the bronze horn be played, but the voice has never been so low as today, and there is a faint mourning, Bai Liyan thought about it, can't it be that King Xian set up a battle to welcome Yu Chiguang, can he have such a big face? Besides, the sound is not right.

Just when he was wondering, the county guard came in a panic, with a look of horror:

"Lord Wei, what is the trumpet?"

"General Wei, the Queen Mother has returned to heaven."

Bai Liyan was stunned, and it took a long time before she came back to her senses:

"So, the trumpet sounds?"

"It's a wailing." Wei Xu said.

"Do you know when the Queen Mother will return?"

"I don't know yet, but it's definitely before dawn."

But if a national mourner dies at night, he blows a wail at four o'clock, if he dies before noon, he blew his wailing at four o'clock, and if he dies between noon and unitary hour, he blew his wailing at four o'clock.

"Lord Wei, there is news from the palace, who is responsible for the funeral?"

"This, there is no decree of the king, according to the rule, the internal envoy should be in charge of the funeral, and the prime minister should preside over the funeral, but ......" Wei Xu wanted to speak and stopped: "However, in terms of the current situation, the funeral should be handled by the Taiwei Ding Yang Marquis, Changshi and the internal deacon, or the great Si Nong Mo Anzheng presided over the funeral together." ”

The Interior Envoy was responsible for the various master of ceremonies in the palace, as well as diplomatic protocol, and was also responsible for funerals. According to the usual practice, whenever an important member of the royal family dies, the prime minister will take the lead, the chief Si Nong and the internal deacon will set up a leading group, and the Tai Lieutenant, the Grand Sima, and the foreign deacon will stabilize the internal and external political situation of the country, prevent turmoil during the funeral, and stop all external military use during the funeral to avoid evil spirits.

After a while, Gao Xun broke into the back hall untidy, and it was the first time he heard the wailing, and at first thought that the rebels had attacked outside the city overnight, and he was so shocked that he looked for him unclothed. Hearing the news of the death of the Queen Mother, Gao Xun was still taken aback:

"The Queen Mother is dead!"

"Yes, it should have been last night. In the middle of the night before yesterday, Wei went to check the pulse, the pulse was already very weak, and the lower limbs were ulcerated, but he didn't expect to return to heaven after a day. ”

Bai Liyan regretted that he was still counting on the Queen Mother to drag on for a few days to stabilize the situation. Now that the Queen Mother is dead, the undercurrent in the city will be even more turbulent. Ye Xin's 20,000 cavalry troops could rush to Chenling at noon, and no matter how chaotic it was, it could be suppressed.