At the same time, in Jiankang City, Yang Guang, the king of Jin, faced two problems that were different from Li Jing's.

Due to Qian Wumei's bizarre receipt of a letter from the robbers asking for ransom, and considering that the leader of the remnants of the "Wild Goose's Nest" was likely to be hiding near Jiankang, Yang Guang decided not to return to Guangling for the time being, and personally sat in Jiankang to coordinate and direct the investigation of the case.

After Duan Da and Qian Wuliang were ordered to hand over the 100,000 yuan deposit to the robbers, Yang Guang ordered Duan Da to send someone to quietly follow the boat that came to receive the deposit, wanting to find the place where the robbers were hiding, but they did not expect that a few days later, the sergeant sent to follow them reported that they followed the bandit boat up the river and sailed upstream of the river.

Two days later, Pei Qiantong, who had gone to eastern Zhejiang with Li Jing on an errand, sent an urgent report to Yang Guangyu that Li Jing had led eight sergeants into Yandang Mountain to spy on the enemy's situation and had not yet returned.

In this way, although Yang Guang's previous suspicion was confirmed: the group of robbers who wrote to Qian Wuliang to ask for ransom were from eastern Zhejiang, and the reason why the robbers suddenly wrote to Qian Wuliang and asked him for ransom was mostly caused by Li Jing. However, what puzzled Yang Guang was that according to this inference, the bandit ship that received the ransom should have sailed eastward and managed to transport 100,000 guan back to eastern Zhejiang, but why did it go the opposite way and sail to the upper reaches of the river instead?

Immediately afterwards, Qian Wuliang received a second letter from the robbers. This time, the letter was brought to him by an old servant of Qian Wuliang's family. In the letter, the robbers directly offered Qian Wuliang to release the Qian clan who had been kidnapped by them in exchange for a ransom of 900,000 yuan.

According to the old servant who was released by the robbers and used to bring a letter to Qian Wuliang, more than 100 men, women and children of the Qian clan were indeed kidnapped by the robbers and taken to Yandang Mountain, and he was secretly escorted to Guangling long before Qian Wuliang received the first letter asking for a deposit.

From this old servant's account, Yang Guang confirmed two facts: Qian Wuxian's previous confession was true, and the Qian clan was now in the hands of this group of robbers, and this group of robbers was the group of robbers that Qian Wuxiao originally led, and their hiding place was in Yandang Mountain; The fact that the robbers were so eager to get a million-dollar ransom showed that they were not content to hide in the mountains, and wanted to do more, and urgently needed a lot of money to secure their next move.

Along with this, Yang Guang also faced another difficult problem: where to raise the millions of ransoms demanded by the robbers, and how to use the opportunity to hand over hostages and ransom with the robbers to wipe them out.

You must know that 900,000 guan "five strains of the emperor" was an astronomical amount of money at that time, and even Yang Guang wanted to raise 900,000 guan to trade with the robbers in just a few days, which was not an easy task.

For this reason, Pei Yun once suggested to Yang Guang that there was no need to really raise the 900,000 ransom according to the robbers' requirements, but only to agree to the robbers' demands on the surface, ambush the armored soldiers, and capture the robbers who came to accept the ransom in one fell swoop while trading with the robbers, and then force them to confess their hiding place in Yandang Mountain, and order Pei Qiantong to lead his troops into the mountains to clear them.

Yang Guang did not hesitate to veto this suggestion, what he thought was that no matter where the 900,000 ransom money was raised, it would take a lot of manpower to carry up to 900,000 "Kaihuang Five Plants" and load them on ships, and it would be difficult to carry them out quietly. Once they are recognized, they will lose a great opportunity to annihilate them.

Therefore, Yang Guang decided to do everything according to the requirements of the robbers in the letter, and instructed Qian Wuliang to take advantage of his convenience in the palace to take 500,000 yuan from the palace's big account as a ransom, and he bargained with the robbers through the old servant, urging the robbers to determine the time and place of handover as soon as possible.

Considering that the bandit ship that received the first batch of 100,000 yuan deposit was heading towards the upper reaches of the river, which was clearly a pretense and wanted to direct his attention in the opposite direction, Yang Guang decided to plan the plan, that is, he ordered Duan Da to lead a battalion of hussar battalions to sail up the river under the banner of the official army to pursue the bandit boat, and at the same time, he ordered the general Liang Mo to lead a hundred elite sergeants, pretending to be a man hired by countless money to carry 500,000 yuan of ransom, ready to trade with the robbers with 500,000 ransom at any time.

In order to pay close attention to the movements of the robbers, Yang Guang also sent 600 li to rush to Dongjiao City, and ordered Pei Qiantong to try to get in touch with Li Jing, who had entered the mountains to spy on the enemy's situation, and find out the hiding place of the robbers in Yandang Mountain, so as to cooperate with Liang Mo's troops to carry out operations.

Three days later, the robbers' reply arrived: since the money could only pay a ransom of 500,000 yuan, they could only release half of the hostages accordingly, and only after the money paid the ransom could they release their parents and the other half of their clansmen. The reply was still brought back by the old servant of the Qian family, and the robbers still did not agree with Qian Wuliang on a specific time and place of handover in the reply.

Based on this, Yang Guang expected that most of the robbers would notify Qian Wuliang of the time and place of the handover at any time, so as to avoid extraneous branches to the greatest extent and ensure the smooth progress of the handover, so he also instructed Qian Wuliang accordingly After receiving the robbers' reply, he hired Liang Mo and others in advance to carry the ransom as the people, and made a posture of being ready to trade with the robbers at any time.

Because it is guessed that even if the robbers successfully get the 500,000 ransom from Qian Wuliang, they need to use a large number of people to carry and transfer this huge amount of money, and this huge ransom undoubtedly has a strong attraction to this gang of robbers, and the one who led the team to trade with Qian Wuliang is likely to be the leader of the robbers.

As soon as everything was ready to stop, the notice of the robbers' transaction arrived: Qian Wuliang was required to load the 500,000 ransom that had been raised on the ferry outside Guangling City, and wait for the next step.

In order to ensure that Qian Wuliang, Liang Mo and others could report to Yang Guang in time the time and place of the transaction finally designated by the robbers, Yang Guang also specially ordered Qian Wuliang to bring the "Black General" on the ship, so that after the robbers designated the trading place, they could use it to report to themselves.

Qian Wuliang acted according to the plan, and as an employer, he urged Liang Mo and others to carry hundreds of packages of "Kaihuang Five Plants" to the ship, waiting for the robbers to issue the final transaction notice.