Fifteen days ago.

During the four-year purge of Guangxi, the Coordination Society arrested people everywhere, and its notoriety was revealed, giving people a particularly terrifying impression and shrouding it in a veil of mystery.

But in fact, as the largest secret service agency in the Han Empire, the Coordination Agency is not as mysterious as the nature of his work among all the departments of the Han Dynasty.

In Luoyang, it has its own government offices and its own branches in other states. will also often deal with other departments of the Chaotang state capital, which can be regarded as a career under the sun. Only members of the Coordination Agencies in enemy-occupied areas, such as Jizhou and Runan, can really be regarded as working on the hidden front.

The Unified Investigation Society and the Prefecture Division is a branch of the Unified Investigation Society in the Consolidated Prefecture, and the official office is located in Jinyang City, the seat of the Consolidated Prefecture, next to the Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, and the Consolidated Prefecture Pastoral Wang Yun is a neighbor.

All the intelligence in the state and the secret information transmitted from Jizhou must be collected, sorted, screened here, and then summarized to the headquarters of the Luoyang Coordination Agency.

The director of the Department of Coordination and Prefecture is a young man named Zhang Jun. A person from Chang'an, who was born in a poor family, failed to pass the imperial examination, he was first absorbed into the Internal Affairs Office, and then was appreciated by Wei Yi and recommended to Jia Xu to enter the Unified Investigation Agency.

Zhang Jun was like a fish in water and flourished in the unified investigation agency, and in less than two years, he was promoted to the director of the state department.

Although he is young, Zhang Jun's work ability is still very strong. He is good at fencing, riding and shooting, and has been a ranger for a while before, with rich social experience. After only one month as the director, he took care of the state department in an orderly manner.

A month and a half ago, Zhang Jun received a piece of information from Jizhou, which only had a simple sentence: There are spies in Jizhou who want to make big things.

When he first saw this information, Zhang Jun was full of slander. Who is the spy, what big things do you want to plan, the information is unknown, how can you track it down?

However, complaining is complaining, and Zhang Jun can also understand that it is not easy for the personnel of the Jizhou Coordination Agency to work in the enemy-occupied area. The high-level of the Yuan Group is not so easy to reach, and being able to pass on this information does show the urgency of the information, even if the situation is not clear, they must take the risk of sending it out.

Since the intelligence has no beginning or end, Zhang Jun had no choice but to work hard to launch crowd tactics to investigate one by one. After a series of investigations, Zhang Jun really discovered that a name named Chen Rang became the focus of their attention.

Chen Rang, a native of Dongjun. It is not known when it will enter the state, but it is probably only one to two years. Half a year ago, Lu Bu was recruited as a military advisor by the Zhonglang of the Bingzhou Army, and his identity was ordinary, and he did not become the object of concern of the Unified Investigation Agency at first, but after starting the investigation, he found that there were many doubts about this Chen Rang.

Chen Rang's experience before coming to Bingzhou was blank, although a local army like the Bingzhou Army was not as strict as the management of the Son of Heaven's descendant troops like the Pingcheng Army, but Chen Rang was extremely relied on by Lu Bu in the Bingzhou Army, almost to the point of obeying his words, and his status was even higher than that of his own Shangguan Military Division Ling Li Su, and he trusted a person who didn't know the roots, which had to make people feel abnormal.

Moreover, Chen Rang himself is also extremely mysterious, living in seclusion on weekdays, and sometimes going out on errands on Lu Bu's orders, rarely participating in military meetings, but often talking privately with Lu Bu.

In recent days, the Unified Investigation Agency has also discovered that Chen Rang and a team of grain merchants who came to Bingzhou to do business have a very close past.

The imperial court wanted to send troops to Jizhou, and Bingzhou naturally needed a large amount of grain to support the war, and Bingzhou was poor, and most of the grain and grass depended on the imperial court. In order to facilitate the transportation of grain to Bingzhou, Liu Wei came up with a method of ordering grain merchants to directly transport grain to Bingzhou, and then Bingzhou issued a grain receipt and returned to Luoyang's household department to settle the payment. There are a lot of businessmen who come and go to Bingzhou in the past few days, but generally speaking, these businessmen should be the chief or warden of the Bingzhou army to receive, and Chen Rang's frequent contact as a military advisor is suspicious. Moreover, although the group of grain merchants claimed to be Hongnong merchants, the unified investigation agency found that there were many people in the caravan with Yan Zhao accents.

Although Chen Rang has many suspicions, Zhang Jun still did not take measures to forcibly interrogate him, even if the Unified Investigation Agency has such rights, Zhang Jun still has to take into account Lu Bu's attitude.

As a secret agency, the military and political circles of the state actually do not have much good impression of them. Wang Yun's attitude was cold every time he dealt with them, and Ding Yuan simply sent someone to communicate with them, and he didn't come forward at all. Only Jiang Qi got along well with Jia Xu because he was a confidant of the Son of Heaven, and the two sides had several good cooperations.

Officials in the prefecture and prefecture are respectful of the agency, and Zhang Jun himself is unwilling to get too close to the officials of the prefecture, because after all, the agency is a department with supervisory functions, and it is not appropriate to develop too good relations with these officials. The two sides maintained a superficial harmony, but among them, Lu Bu was an exception.

Lu Bu never hid his dislike for the Unified Coordination Agency, and on several occasions if Zhang Jun had not maintained great restraint, the two sides would have broken out into fierce conflicts

Lu Bu's status in the military system of Bingzhou is second only to Ding Yuan, and he is very relied on by Ding Yuan and even the Son of Heaven. The Son of Heaven even issued an edict ordering the people of the whole country to call Lu Bu a loyal and filial piety lang, in order to demonstrate Lu Bu's virtue. Therefore, Lu Bu is so domineering, so Zhang Jun maintains a cautious attitude towards investigating Chen Rang, and avoids any unpleasantness with Lu Bu before there is conclusive evidence.

On the one hand, he ordered people to go to Dongjun to investigate Chen Rang's details, and on the other hand, he focused his eyes on the group of grain merchants, hoping to find out what was wrong. Now that the group of grain merchants had left Jinyang, Zhang Jun ordered people to track down the caravan and arrest and interrogate them if necessary.

However, after those days, the situation suddenly took a sharp turn. The members of the Coordination Agency, who had been sent to track the caravan, suddenly lost contact. Zhang Jun sent a team of people to search along the way, and finally found the buried body of the member in a dense forest in the mountains, and rescued a seriously injured member in a cave.

From the mouth of the member, it was learned that one of the group of them followed the group of grain merchants all the way south to the city, and the group of grain merchants joined up with the other group and suddenly turned to the east. This unusual behavior aroused their great suspicion, but because of the increase in the number of opponents, they could no longer stop them, so they had to continue to follow.

It's just that I didn't expect their tracking to be discovered by the other party at some point, and they were ambushed by the other party in a dense forest, and they were caught off guard and outnumbered, and almost all the people in the whole team were killed, only he broke out with serious injuries.

Finally, according to the wounded communist, the weapon used by the group that met the grain merchant in the city was a halberd. They fought so fiercely and skillfully that their comrades were killed almost instantaneously when they encountered them.

When he heard the weapon of the halberd used by the other party, Zhang Jun almost trembled with fear. He heard that the elite of Yuan Shao's subordinates was the Euphorbia Warrior who held the halberd, and was specifically responsible for protecting Yuan Shao's safety.

He didn't think it was strange for Yuan Shao to send spies to Bingzhou, but he sent all his elites over, which shows how important the task they came to Bingzhou to perform.

The words "Jizhou has spies in Jizhou and want to make big things" kept circling in his mind, and Zhang Jun was dizzy for a while.

If Chen Rang was a spy sent by Yuan Shao to merge the state, what big deal did he want to do?

Lu Bu's prestige in Bingzhou has actually far surpassed Ding Yuan, not only the soldiers and people of Bingzhou admired his bravery, but also called him General Fei in the foreign Xiongnu tribes, and worshiped him. In fact, Ding Yuan only relied on his status as a top boss and stepfather who had the grace to support him.

If it's Lu Bu...... Zhang Jun suddenly shuddered, and he didn't dare to imagine it.

The matter suddenly became extremely urgent, and Ding Yuan, Lu Bu, and even Jiang Qi, the lieutenant general of the Pingcheng Army, had already led their troops to Yuxian County, the border between Bingzhou and Jizhou, and was ready to march eastward. That Chen Rang also went with the army, not in Jinyang. Even the pastor Wang Yun of Bingzhou had to join in the excitement and ran to Bingzhou to carry out a sacrificial ceremony for a large army, even if Zhang Jun wanted to find Chen Rang for compulsory interrogation or warn Ding Yuan and Wang Yun.

In desperation, Zhang Jun had no choice but to order someone to pass on these things that happened in Bingzhou to the Luoyang headquarters, and he rushed to Yuxian with people. Although there is no direct evidence that there is something wrong with Lu Bu or that Chen Rang, it is at least possible to warn Ding Yuan Wang Yun and them before things go wrong, even if it turns out that he is unfounded and mediocre people disturb themselves, it is better than bearing the evil consequences of the erosion of the entire merger.

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In the fifth year of Guangxi, the spring thunder in March kicked off the spring of the Han Empire. In the spring and autumn, the peasants, the hardest group of people in the land of the empire, began a busy year.

On the land at the junction of Bingzhou and Jizhou, an atmosphere of solemnity and tension interrupted the busyness that should have been. The Son of Heaven wanted to use troops to Jizhou, and after a period of grain and grass reserves and army assembly, the state army approached the border of Jizhou.

The mountain rain is about to come, and the wind is full of buildings, and the farmers living on this land are the most affected by the danger of war.

In terms of publicity, Yuan Shao naturally became a heinous and unforgivable traitor through the ages. The government told those peasants in a very straightforward tone that if Yuan Shao, a traitor, gained power, he would force the wives of the people to become military prostitutes for his subordinates, and he himself liked to suck the blood of ordinary people and children to prolong his life, and it was even rumored that Yuan Shao also had a ** hobby of collecting other people's eggs.

Originally, the army conquest of Yuan Shao didn't feel that it had much to do with these ordinary people. But after these propaganda, Yuan Shao became a big demon that plagued the world for a while, and he could stop babies from crying in Bingzhou. In the eyes of the people, the army to conquer Yuan Shao has become a righteous army to protect the family and defend the country and save the people of Jizhou who are living in dire straits.

The neighbors and the countryside are talking about the coming war, imagining what kind of war it will be. What no one expected was that the situation would change dramatically over the next month.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.) ）