On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, looking at the sun, the night moon is full.

Yesterday, a large number of Taihang horse thieves suddenly appeared in the fox lake of Youyi Yingzhou boundary, and after the soldiers of Youzhou Town discovered the bandits, they immediately made a decision, and urgently ordered the soldier Cao Shen to lead a team of fifty cavalry to reconnoitre. On that day, Luo Yi was assisted by Youzhou Mansion to catch money Pinzi Liu Wenqi, Pinzi Luo Shou and other errand officers, raided the rampant unprepared horse thieves, raided nearly a thousand horse thieves with dozens of people, and exchanged the whole team with wounded and none of them died in exchange for the head of one hundred and twelve horse thieves in Bauhinia Ridge of Taihang Mountain, which was a great victory, and the news was transmitted back to Youzhou Mansion, and the government immediately verified the head, and went to the place of battle in Fox Lake to check, and verified that there was no fraud, and many characteristics were found from the corpses of the 112 horse thieves, which is consistent with the list graphics on the wanted files of the government over the years. All of a sudden, the whole city was amazed, and Cao Shen, a soldier of Youzhou Town, became a brave general of the tiger.

On the same day, the Youzhou Governor's Office sent an expedited stagecoach to send the good news to Taiyuan, Bingzhou, with a speed of 600 miles.

Almost at the same time, encrypted letters were delivered in Youzhou City.

Staring at the secret letter that had just been translated, Yang Liang closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened it again: "Read!" ”

"Yes." The translator of the secret letter was the chief bookkeeper of the Governor's Mansion of Bingzhou, the brother-in-law of Yang Liang, the king of Han, Dou Luyu, who put down the pen in his hand and the book used as the agreed code, picked up the translated letter and stood up.

Dou Luyu tried to lower her voice as much as possible, hoping to alleviate the shocking content revealed by this secret letter.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han gave a lesson: On the fifteenth of this month, my relatives led all the elite eight hundred brothers of Heifeng Ridge to ambush Yi Feng at the junction of Yi Ying, and Yi Feng had already noticed it. With his body as bait, he pre-ambushed more than a thousand wild spirit horsemen in the back, and there were Youzhou town soldiers and Youzhou Mansion officials as guides. I led my brothers in a fierce battle. However, the enemy was outnumbered, and finally he was defeated, and he had no choice but to retreat. I lost more than 100 brothers in Fox Lake, and now I am temporarily withdrawn to Bauhinia Ridge to rest. I should take responsibility for the defeat this time, but the most critical reason for this defeat is that the soldiers and horses of Youzhou Town and the officials of Youzhou Mansion suddenly colluded with Yi Feng, and a certain special attention was drawn to the king's attention. Yan Rong, the governor of Youzhou, is extremely Youzhou Governor's Mansion and the people of the six states and fifty towns are very likely to have thrown themselves into the East Palace. If that were the case, the consequences would be dire. What we are going to do next? Wait for the king's command. The king of Changshan must pull out and knock!"

Joy and anger are often in shape, which is Yang Liang's personality habits, but this time he rarely did not get angry immediately, nor did he scold. There was no smashing of things. Draw your sword and swing it. He was unusually silent for a long time, and then slowly spit out a few words, "Yan Rong must die!" ”

"The King?" Dou Lu Yu was stunned, and couldn't help but say worriedly: "I haven't known what happened yet, maybe it's just nonsense for Wang Xuba to shirk responsibility after he missed." Yan Rong has been in Youzhou for many years, and he has always been close to King Jin, and he has never heard of him having dealings with the prince. ”

"There are still three caves in the cunning rabbit, and Yan Rong used to be under the command of the second child. First participated in Pingchen, and then the Pingjiangnan Rebellion. Later, he was promoted to the governor of Qingzhou, and then to the governor of Youzhou. But Yan Rong is not an idle person, although he was under the command of the second child earlier, but later he married Yang Xiong, the king of Qinghe County, and married the daughter of the king of the county for his son. Now he secretly joined the prince's door, which is not an uncommon thing. After all, Yan Rong has been sitting in the position of the head of Youzhou for many years, but it is even more difficult to go further. Originally, he ruled the thirteen states of Hebei such as Youyi, but not long ago this year, seven states were cut at once, and only six states remained. Moreover, the Eastern Expedition failed last year, and the last responsibility has not yet been clarified, as the head of Youzhou who is in charge of logistics of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Yan Rong's current position is very unstable. ”

"But now that the prince's position is even more unstable, how could Yan Rong secretly vote for the prince at this time? As long as he continues to hold on to King Jin, wouldn't it be more reliable? Dou Luyu still didn't quite understand.

"If you are in a hurry, you will go to the doctor indiscriminately, not to mention," he paused and sighed, "The prince's position was indeed a little unstable before, but that was already before. According to the latest information from the Jingshi, the second sage had visited the East Palace three times in the lunar month, and the prince was able to go to the palace almost every day to greet the second sage, and was even left to have a royal meal with the second sage several times. The Son of Heaven also added the guards of the East Palace to the crown prince, all of whom were the sons of nobles. There is a lot of such information, although each piece seems to be a little ordinary, but the things in the palace are never ordinary. Behind every ordinary thing, there is always a deep meaning hidden behind it. Yang Liang has always been kept in the palace and is especially sensitive to these things. Tong Guò came to a very unbelievable fact from the intricacies that he was constantly sending from the Jingshi, and the crown prince had once again gained the trust of the Son of Heaven and his wife. The change was sudden, but not without warning. The information received by Yang Liang also showed that the Son of Heaven suddenly came to the Yuan Mansion with the queen a few days ago. It is the Yuan family mansion where the Yuan princess was born, the former Northern Wei Dynasty clan, the gate valve family in the Sinicized Hu people, when the Son of Heaven took the Yuan family as the captive everyone, especially for Yang Yong, the prince of the Sui Kingdom, to marry the daughter of Yuan Xiaoju, and later Yang Yong was established as the prince, and the Yuan family naturally became the prince to marry, and the Yuan family also went to the next level and became the right relative of the royal family. However, since Yuan Xiaoju died of illness and died violently in the eleventh year of the emperor's reign, the relationship between the royal family and the Yuan family has become cold. If today's son suddenly came to the Yuan Mansion, the implication behind this is very obvious.

One qiē and one qiē are all related to the 'nephew' Yi Feng who had just humiliated him. It was Yi Feng who let the Son of Heaven and his wife return to the Yuan Mansion, it was Yi Feng that eased the relationship between the Son of Heaven and his wife and the crown prince, and it was Yi Feng that made this qiē confusing again.

Yang Liang paid close attention to what happened in Daxing City, and he believed that Yan Rong, the governor of Youzhou who was married to his cousin, must also be very aware of this qiē. The prince's position is heavy and stable, which must be the fundamental reason why Yan Rong defected to the prince's East Palace, and let the soldiers and horses in Youzhou collude with Yi Feng.

Dou Luyu was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

"Xiao Maha!" Yang Liang's gaze turned to look at Dou Luyu, "Tell Xiao Maha to come immediately!" ”

Dou Luyu reminded: "Xiao joined the army and went to Hebei. ”

Yang Liang frowned, "What are you doing in Hebei?" ”

Dou Luyu further reminded: "Yi Feng is now in Hebei. ”

This matter was originally arranged by him, but at this time he seemed to have forgotten about it, he accentuated his tone, and his voice revealed a trace of impatience: "Send someone to Hebei quickly, and tell Xiao Maha to come back immediately." ”

Dou Luyu was puzzled: "Yi Feng is not removed?" ”

Yang Liang spit out a sentence that he was actually reluctant to say in his heart: "At this time, let a person whose son has already served under the second child get rid of a person who has secretly corresponded with his son?" ”

Now Dou Luyu was even more surprised: "What does the king mean, Xiao Maha's son is the person of the King of Jin, even Xiao Maha is also the person of the King of Jin, and even Yi Feng is also the person of the King of Jin?" ”

Yang Liang pondered for a while, and his fingers tapped on the table: "The business in Huaihuang is so hot, this is not only the credit of Yi Feng, according to the news I know, there are many smuggling merchants between Huaihuang and Yangzhou, and they have close contacts, they sell grain, cloth, silk, porcelain, cane sugar, etc. from Jianghuai, and then sell back a large number of cattle, horses, livestock, skins, herbs, pearls, etc., from Huaihuang, the amount is amazing. This year, at least thousands of excellent war horses have been smuggled into Yangzhou from Huaihuang, and it involves such important materials as war horses. As for Xiao Maha, his son has completely voted for the second child, although he has not yet found that Xiao Maha has also been voted over there, but this matter is already worthy of our vigilance. We can't take the risk of letting a second man walk around my house and get involved in secrecy. ”

Dou Luyu still couldn't believe it: "King, King Jin is the most powerful opponent of the prince now, since Yi Feng is the son of the prince, why did he come together with the king of Jin?" ”

Yang Liang's judgment that had already been made was reminded by Dou Luyu, and he was a little shaken for a while. However, he quickly strengthened his intuition, although he did not have a definite intuition in these matters, but he had lived in the palace in Daxing for a longer time than the other brothers, so he was more sensitive to such intrigues. This acumen, as it has been proven many times afterwards, is that it is precisely with this intuition that it is possible to take precautions to save the day.

He said categorically to Dou Luyu: "I don't care how the second child gets close to the people in the East Palace, but there must not be such a half-hearted person on my side of the couch." You remember, the most ruthless emperor family, for that position, no matter how sinister the battle is possible. It's better to think more about the bad than to think about the good, and it's better to kill by mistake than to let go. Immediately arrange for a confidant to carefully monitor Xiao Maha. In addition, for the civil and military forces under the governor's office, they must also secretly check and audit. ”

Dou Luyu nodded, taking this order to heart.

"What should Yi Feng do now, continue to let the people of Black Wind Village take action?"

"Wang Xu pulls out such a rice bucket, it is impossible to move Yi Feng anymore. Yi Feng is very cunning, if he misses a blow, he must have already taken precautions, and if he wants to get rid of him by the hands of the bandits, he is afraid that it will be difficult to reach the sky. The chips in Black Wind Village have been exposed, and we can't use them anymore, so we have to find someone else. ”

"Also, since Wang Suba and the others are useless, there is no need to keep them anymore. Send a branch of men and horses to go to Bauhinia Ridge in the name of rewards and wipe out those bandits. They have been exposed, and more than 100 people were killed by Youzhou Mansion, and their heads were hung on the gate of Youzhou City. We have to prevent Yi Feng and Youzhou Mansion from following these bandits to find our side, so we must be cautious. Yang Liang said coldly with a gloomy face. To him, the Black Wind Thieves were nothing more than a group of bandits entrenched in the mountains. Keep it if you can use it, and wipe it out if it's useless.

"Yes, I will arrange for the right people to take over this task from the Black Wind Thief."

"It's good for you to arrange a reliable person to be in charge of this matter, you clean it up, and enter Beijing with me tomorrow, the Beijing division is already turbulent at the moment, we can't be careless, with you by my side, I can rest assured." Yang Liang said to his wife and brother.

PS: During the New Year, there are a lot of things, and it's hard to calm down and code words. Please forgive me, readers, and I will update it seriously after the New Year. Next, it's time to move on to the third volume! (To be continued......)