After sending Luo Nayan away, Wang Yan sat alone in the study and pondered, Luo Nayan did not say anything to Wang Yan, but simply told Wang Yan about the situation in Youzhou and even Wuzhou.

The Li family in Bingzhou, the Ma family in Liangzhou, the Yuan family in Yanzhou, and the Lu family in Xiangzhou, the four major families are all big families that have been established for more than a hundred years, and their ancestors have all been officials in the court, among which the ancestors of the Li family have worshiped the prime minister.

At the beginning of the establishment of the White Lotus Sect, the foundation was rooted in the cool five states, the White Lotus Sect was like a lake beast outside, but in the territory of the five states, it was not guilty of any offences against the people, and won the hearts of the people, and for decades, it was inextricably linked with the scholars of the five states.

Sleepless all night, Wang Yan thought all night, but he didn't come up with a way to quickly defeat the White Lotus Sect.

The current situation is almost terminally ill, Wang Yan slowly clenched his fists, at this time, Aji walked in from outside the door, saw Wang Yan standing on the steps in front of the study, and saw Wang Yan's face, Aji was startled.

"Young Master! What's wrong with you? It can't be sick, right? I'm going to get a doctor! ”

"No, you don't! I'm not sick! You go to the government office now and ask Cui Chengzhi to bring me the tax accounts of Youzhou in the past few years! ”

At noon, Cui Chengzhi led a team of people to carry three boxes to the State Pastoral Mansion, went to Wang Yan's study, and put down the things.

Under the guidance of Cui Chengzhi, Wang Yan began to check the account books, and for the whole afternoon, Wang Yan did not go out.

The tax in Youzhou is one-third lower than the tax stipulated by the Great Liang, and there should be tens of thousands of taels of silver in addition to those handed over to the imperial court, but all the money in the account books of the treasury adds up to more than a thousand taels.

"Where did the rest of the money go? Is it because the people didn't pay, or is there another reason? Wang Yan raised his head and said calmly.

"It's all handed over to the White Lotus Sect." Cui Chengzhi said with a bitter face.

Wang Yan noticed the word in Cui Chengzhi's words, narrowed his eyes, and asked in a low voice.

"What's the deal?"

"After the tax is collected, part of it will be escorted to the imperial court, and the rest will be transported to the place designated by the White Lotus Sect, except for the officials." Cui Chengzhi raised his eyes and glanced at Wang Yan, looking a little worried.

"I know, Cui Fujun has worked hard, stay and finish eating." Wang Yan invited with a smile.

"Xiaguan thanked my lord, but there is something in Xiaguan's family, so I won't eat it."

"Since that's the case, then I won't be forced to stay, Fujun go slowly, Aji! Send Cui Fujun out of the house. ”

After Cui Chengzhi left, Wang Yan returned to the study and pondered for another half an hour, until Xue Ying brought the meal, and Wang Yan came back from his contemplation.

Under Xue Ying's waiting, Wang Yan had dinner, and later on, Aji came to the study.

"Young Master, as you expected, the White Lotus Sect has already surrounded Youzhou, and the state has the most soldiers, and there are cavalry in the White Lotus Sect's camp."

Wang Yan nodded, looking at the map of Youzhou on the table with deep eyes, and kept kneading the tokens of Baigongsha in his hands.

The White Lotus Sect is observing, as long as they make any big moves, the next step will be to besiege the city with a large army, although Youzhou City is strong, but the White Lotus Sect has been running Youzhou for decades, presumably it is not difficult for them to break the city.

After the independent unification of the army, Wang Yan discovered his shortcomings, that is, the lack of strategists, and when he came, he had already sent a message to his family, asking the old man to arrange for two strategists to come to Youzhou to help him.

Because of his arrival, Cui Chengzhi's official documents were to be presented to himself, Wang Yan looked at them very carefully, but found that they were all trivial matters, even so, Wang Yan still did not ignore any of the official documents.

After dealing with the affairs, it was already a child, there were many rooms in the inner courtyard, the side rooms on both sides of the main house were the bedrooms of Xue Ying and the dyed fairy, the dyed fairy house was lit with a faint burning light, Wang Yan pushed the door into the bedroom of the dying fairy, not long after, the burning light went out, the dyed fairy snuggled in Wang Yan's arms, did not ask for pleasure, she knew that Wang Yan was very tired today.

Early the next morning, Wang Yan left home with Aji early and came to a pawnshop in the east of the city, Wang Yan handed a wooden box to Xiao Er, Xiao Er opened it and took a look at it and went to the back hall, and soon the shopkeeper of the pawnshop came, looked at Wang Yan carefully for a while, then opened the door of the counter and invited Wang Yan in.

followed the shopkeeper to the back hall, the shopkeeper returned the wooden box to Wang Yan, and then walked to the shelf, fiddled with it for a while, and then heard the sound of the machine, and the shelf slowly opened inside, revealing the secret door.

Aji was a little hesitant, but when he saw Wang Yan walking in with the shopkeeper, he had to follow him in.

The walls on both sides of the secret passage are inlaid with fluorite, and you can barely see the road, and every hundred steps is a fork in the road, and you have walked ten forks in a row to come to an iron gate.

The shopkeeper took out a key the size of a baby's arm from his bosom and inserted it into the cave on the wall to the left of the iron door, and turned it around three times.

The iron door opened, and inside was a hall, and there was a table in the center of the hall, and the shopkeeper led Wang Yan to the table and sat down, and after a while, a person came out of the darkness, and it was a slender man, wrapped in black leather clothes, with only a black mask on his face, and two eyes exposed.

"I don't know what information Wei Yuanbo wants to buy?"

"Map of the distribution of secret passages under Youzhou City." Wang Yan said straight to the point.

"Fifty thousand gold." The black-faced man said calmly.

"Deal." Wang Yan didn't bargain, and took out half a jade pendant from his arms and put it on the table. "Take this jade pendant to the palace and give it to my wife, and she will give you 50,000 gold."

The black-faced man reached out and took the jade pendant, did not speak, walked into the darkness, and after half a pillar of incense, the black-faced man walked out with a scroll and put it on the table respectfully with both hands.

Wang Yan unfolded the scroll, his expression suddenly became solemn, the scroll is drawn in the map of Youzhou City, the black line passing through the wall represents the secret passage, the black line on the city map is confusing, and it can be seen that there are many secret passages.

"Is there anything missing?"

"Nothing is missing." The black-faced man said confidently.

Wang Yan put away the scroll and handed it to Aji, who was standing aside, and got up and arched his hand towards the black-faced man.

Leaving the pawnshop, Aggie turned his head several times, and only asked in a low voice until he was far away.

"Young Master, what kind of place is this?"

"Where Tianyan sells intelligence."

"Young Master, if Tianyan sells us intelligence, will it also sell it to the White Lotus Sect?" Aggie worried.

"Maybe, after all, Tianyan is a neutral organization, as long as there is money, there is nothing that can't be found from them." Wang Yan's expression was solemn, and he glanced at the house on the left-hand side, and in this house, there were three secret passages leading to the outside of the city.

Three days later, news came from Bingzhou that the White House family had occupied Huguan, and five days later, a team of 100 White House guards came to the city, checked the tokens, and Wang Yan invited the team into the city.

To Wang Yan's surprise, the team leader turned out to be Yu Feibai, and Murong Yao'er was also in the team.

"Young Master!" There was a shout from the team, and Wang Yan looked for it, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

The white armor of the White House guard was obviously a little small on the mole's body, and the mole had gained more than a circle of fat after several years of nourishment than it had been at the beginning.

Yu Feibai came to Wang Yan, took out an envelope and handed it to Wang Yan, Wang Yan took the envelope, stared at it for a long time, and intuitively felt the heavy weight in his hand.