After waiting for the inspection to be completed, Cheng Liu's conjecture was confirmed.

Almost at the same time, the county watchman received the latest news, and the mystery of this person's identity was revealed.

The deceased was also from Lingyang, similar to yesterday's Assassins, where all the spearheads were pointed at Lingyang.

At noon, Ma Qiu, a local official in Lingyang, entered the mansion, knelt down tremblingly in front of Cheng Liu's eyes, and handed over the information in his hand.

According to the official documents of entering the city, these two people entered Wanling about half a month ago, and have been living in Wanling since then.

According to the official documents entering and leaving the city, only the two deceased traveled together, so there was another person who was still lurking in the city, or left Lingyang earlier, but he could not find the relevant information, maybe it was not from Lingyang.

There are not many officials under Ma Qiu, but they are all the masters of Mingzhe's self-protection, knowing that there will be no war at this time, they all think about sparing their lives, and quickly investigate the relationship structure between the two.

Finally, the emperor paid off, and they finally found a suspicious clue.

Although they are from Lingyang, they have not been in Lingyang for a long time, but they entered the city last year, and since then they have been doing business, taking official roads, and rarely staying in the city.

Sweet Potato put away the official document, looked at Cheng Liu, who was a little melancholy, and said: "Childe, at this time, the entire Danyang County is under your control, and defenses have been built on both sides of the north and south, and no one should take the initiative to assassinate them, so this matter may still be a little strange." ”

Cheng Liu nodded slightly.

"Is there any movement over there in Luoyang?"

"I have already found someone to confirm that although they are going to Luoyang for business, there has been no turmoil for a long time, and they have always done their duty. According to the information given by Qiu Hong and Xiu Dong, perhaps because of the secret agents, someone wanted to uproot the intelligence network structure in the county guard's mansion. ”

Cheng Liu frowned, this was something he hadn't expected.

From the time he started to lay out to the present, all the territories that have been annexed are some dishonest territories, and the sixteen counties of Danyang County are almost all under his control, and even Dian Wei in the south and Gan Ning in the north, it stands to reason that there will be no defection.

But it was precisely under this extremely strong defense system that gave them the idea of disintegrating from within.

"Can you find the last clue?"

Sweet potato shook his head slightly: "I don't know, the spies over there reported that they found a strange caravan two days ago, and they stayed in Shicheng for about half a month, and they didn't leave the city until two days ago, and the direction was Wanling, according to the time, they could enter the city the night before." ”

Cheng Liu listened carefully.

Sweet potato continued: "Those two people, it is very likely that they came out of this caravan, that is to say, after they left from Lingyang, they first went to Shicheng, and then detoured from Shicheng to Wanling, but only left two people, stayed in Wanling City, and only when the time was ripe, they wanted to enter the mansion to assassinate." ”

Cheng Liu nodded: "Maybe it's just to find out information, and it just happened to be discovered." ”

With such an explanation, the causes and consequences were basically understood, and Cheng Liu no longer paid attention to this person, but just asked the sweet potato to prepare, and he had to go to Luoyang in person.

After Yu Youkui received the news, he rushed over at dusk and planned to set off with Cheng Liu.

This time, Xia Chan sat in the county guard's mansion, and all the intelligence networks were launched at the same time, transmitting Luoyang's information and dynamics to Cheng Liu in real time.

This time, Cheng Liu abandoned the carriage and rushed directly to Luoyang, the reason why he was so anxious was to verify one thing.

The two hardly rested all the way, and after arriving in Luoyang, Cheng Liu took out Guan Wen and entered the city directly.

Xiudong and Qiuhong had already converged, and the two took Cheng Liu and Yu Youkui to a remote mansion.

"If what the intelligence says is true, then these people are all from Luoyang, maybe it is related to the palace, my people are already investigating, but there is no important information back yet, so I can only rely on your intelligence."

After Yu Youkui sat down, he took a sip of tea and announced it directly and frankly.

Cheng Liu nodded slightly, and Qiu Hong also opened his mouth to explain at this time: "Jian Ye is already arranged, and their total number of soldiers and horses is about more than 20,000, and only the garrisons in the city, and the surrounding jurisdictions may be doubled again." ”

Xiudong also said directly: "There is no action in the Luoyang Palace, but some officials have already started to prepare, and it seems that they are also planning to recruit troops, I don't know which side it is aimed at." ”

From the current point of view, Cheng Liu's only concern is that the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising is advanced, and he has not made two preparations, and the current soldiers and horses are not enough to sit in Danyang County, so the only way now is to suppress the rest of the forces.

But the crux of the matter now is that all the intelligence is transmitting a message, and someone in the palace is taking the initiative to stir up trouble.

In addition, Luoyang recently re-issued a decree, and the tax was increased again.

In addition, the harvest of the people after the autumn is not good, the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and the winter is about to end.

"Can't you find out the news in the palace?"

Yu Youkui shook his head slightly: "Even if you can find out, you can't spread it, although those officials have some real power, but they are far worse than the one in the palace, and they don't dare to take the initiative at this time, so what you know is similar to what I know." ”

That's for nothing.

If we extrapolate from this situation, it may not only be his Danyang county guard who was assassinated, but the county guards of the other counties also faced the same problem.

In other words, the situation has really changed, and it has accelerated, and there will definitely be war in the spring and summer of next year.

Thinking of this, Cheng Liu subconsciously touched his Ouroboros mark through his clothes.

No, he has to stop the course of history, or at least slow it down a little more, or he will really miss it.

"What is Luoyang Ling's move now?"

In the end, Cheng Liu found that he still had to start with these officials.

After thinking about it, Xiudong replied: "I haven't shown up yet, but it should be similar to the meaning in the palace, after all the policies were implemented, although the people complained and even the interests of the landlords were damaged, but the happiest thing may be the Luoyang Order." ”

Cheng Liu subconsciously asked, "Why?" ”

"Luoyang Ling not only holds real power, but even has a series of policy help, naturally he is very happy, he will not pay these taxes directly, and even half of them will be used to train soldiers and horses, so if Luoyang is turbulent, he can take the opportunity to loot money, and he may have done so."

Therefore, it is no wonder that when Dong Zhuo took away Emperor Han Xian, he didn't even let go of the Luoyang Order......