On the sixth day of October, after being assassinated, Han Jian and his party still headed for Luoyang City. Because the road outside Luoyang is smooth, the group will arrive in Luoyang City in the afternoon.

At this time, Luoyang City was in full swing preparing for a reception. Yang Yu, the king of Ji, went to the Imperial Historical Observatory from the morning, and heard the results of the investigation of the detained ministers by the three divisions.

"Let someone come to the side hall and wait." Yang Yu was in a very bad mood, and gave a word to the people under him.

Yang Yu originally wanted to solve the case quickly and detain some ministers, so that he could quickly settle the charges and confirm the case, but after the results of the interrogation of the three divisions in these days, the situation is not optimistic. Some ministers have no evidence of guilt at all, and they are convicted simply because they are slack, and he is afraid that the people will not be convinced. Therefore, he has been urging the people of the three divisions to do things well these days.

When Yang Yu arrived at the side hall, the person who came had been waiting for a long time.

A middle-aged official in his forties who was very mediocre, and he was not wearing an official uniform, saw Yang Yu come in, got up and saluted, and he didn't look very hurried.

"Why are you so anxious to come to this prison country?" After Yang Yu became the superintendent, he did a lot of radical things, and the ministers below also criticized him. However, the opposition below has basically been suppressed, because those upright ministers are basically in prison now.

The name of the person who came was Li Qian, and the official quality was not high at all in Luoyang City, but he could easily see Yang Yu, who was a prisoner.

"Your Highness, the king of the east was assassinated yesterday." Li Qian said.

"Oh?" Yang Yu was slightly surprised and hurriedly asked. "Are you dead?"

Li Qian shook his head slightly and said, "The East King is naturally safe and sound. ”

Yang Yu's face sank, and he sat down on the chair a little casually, and asked, "Who is so bold, but to find out the reason for the matter?" ”

"Didn't the assassins be sent by His Highness?" Li Qian asked.

Yang Yu said angrily: "What are these words, you mean that this prison country is going to assassinate the king of the east?" Didn't I inform you the day before yesterday, the king of the east went back to Luoyang, let him just take care of it, this time the matter is very important, and the capital must not be regenerated and chaotic. Who assassinated the East King? ”

Li Qian shook his head slightly and said, "Your Highness doesn't know, and your majesty doesn't know it." Today outside Luoyang. Two suspicious persons were arrested at the guard. According to investigation, they are the entourage of the assassin who assassinated the East King yesterday, and the person who assassinated the East King is said to be the brother of Zhang Yu, the head of the Ministry of Rites. Your Highness should know, right? ”

"Zhang Yu? There are so many people in the Ministry of Rites. Does this prison country need to be recognized by everyone? You say so much. Or do you suspect that the prison country sent someone to assassinate the king of the east? Yang Yu looked at Li Qian coldly and said.

Li Qian saluted and said: "The minister doesn't dare to speculate on the prince, but remind His Highness, even if he wants to kill the king of the east." Nor should it be the present. In today's extraordinary times, the most important thing is that His Royal Highness ascends the throne, and the King of the East is the lord of the foreign domain, as long as he does not have an army in the capital, he is not in the control of His Royal Highness? ”

Yang Yu said in a deep voice: "This prison country doesn't need you to remind me. When did the king of the east arrive in Luoyang? ”

"Today, His Highness should personally go out of the city to greet him as a sign of solemnity." Li Qian said.

"What kind of thing is the king of the east, he doesn't die, and he still needs this prison country to greet him? Li Qian, you are becoming more and more presumptuous, could it be that the errand that your master gave you was not to help this eunuch Guoshun ascend the throne, but to keep saying some irrelevant things here? Yang Yu said, "This prison is busy with official business, so I can't send it off, please go back." ”

Li Qian smiled and said, "Since His Highness is unwilling to greet him in person, should he also send someone to greet him?" Otherwise, the king of the east would definitely think that yesterday's assassination was done by someone sent by His Royal Highness. ”

"If the king of the east wants to doubt, let him go." After Yang Yu finished speaking, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Li Qian cleaned up his appearance and went directly out of the Imperial History Terrace, outside the Imperial History Terrace, there was already a person waiting for news.

"How?" The person who was waiting saw Li Qian come out and stepped forward to ask.

"He said it wasn't the East King he sent someone to assassinate." Li Qian motioned to the carriage to speak, and the two left, Li Qian said, "But how credible his words are, I don't know." ”

The waiting man said: "Now who wants the king of the east to die, besides King Ji, who else will there be?" ”

Li Qian glanced back at the man and asked, "Can you find out the origin of the Zhang brothers?" ”

"The two officials of the Ministry of Rites, who cares if they don't show up on weekdays? It is not easy to find out in a moment. But it's hard to say how much they have to do with King Ji. ”

Li Qian said: "That is, I don't know anything? ”

"Not really." The man said, "I went to check the Ministry of Officials and the Fengcha Division, and found that these two brothers only came out of the Ministry of Officials last year, and they were all teaching in the Gongyuan before, and the person who recommended them was actually Li Wei, the former servant of the Criminal Department, do you think this matter is strange?" ”

Li Qian stopped, looked at the man and said in surprise, "Levi? What the hell is going on? Are we people? ”

"Levi never mentioned these two men before he died, and it seems that things are not so simple. It is rumored that Li Wei once sold his official position, and he may have received benefits from someone, so he promoted these two people. ”

Li Qian suddenly felt his scalp tingle and said: "Now that the big thing is about to happen, even that woman has become a toothless tiger, and that little cub also obeys us in everything." We are not afraid of the king of the east, he has no power in the capital, and his soldiers have long been transferred back to Jiangdu. But if anyone wants to take advantage of the chaos, it may ruin the great affairs of the Lord. ”

"Sir is ...... mean"

"Who else wants the East King to die now, besides us?" Li Qian asked.

"Then there may be no one. It is reported that this time the king of the east returned to the north, passing through the territory of the king of the south, and the news from Yuzhou, the king of the south also intended to detain the king of the east to prevent him from returning to the north, and then I don't know what happened, the king of the south actually sent someone to escort the king of the east to the north, is it that the king of the south wants the king of the east to leave the land of yuzhou, and then send someone to kill the king of the east, so that people do not suspect that he did it? ”

Li Qian pondered slightly and said, "I heard that there is a person who has some grudges with the East King. ”

"Huh? The king of Yanning? He obviously took refuge in us, and recently he has been helping us everywhere recently, and the lord suspected that the king of Yanning County had a sinister heart, and said that this person had to be guarded against. But at this critical juncture, the king of Yanning County probably won't be so uncalm, you know, the king of the east is dead now, and it won't do him any good. ”

Li Qian sighed slightly: "No matter what, in another half a month, the matter will be settled." At this time, when the East King comes back, he may not be able to set off waves, no matter what, he must keep an eye on the East King's Mansion, even if the East King wants to make a small move, let him first, and when the matter is completed, the East King should also know the current affairs. The Lord said that the important thing now is to stabilize Luoyang, and as for the East King and those two calamities, it will not be too late to get rid of them in the future. ”

As they spoke, the man had already gotten into the carriage, which hurried in the direction of the officials. was originally going to welcome the East King back to Luoyang, but it was also over. (To be continued......)