"Hey, Ah Cheng, you ...... Let's mourn and change. Yuan Tiangang walked to Lu Cheng's side with a sad face, opened his mouth a few times, but didn't know what to say, and finally could only turn into a long sigh, and then gently patted his shoulder and comforted.

After receiving the news of Lu Yan's death, Lu Cheng and Yu Wenzhong went to Chang'an successively according to Yuan Tiangang's arrangement that night.

In Yuan Tiangang's mouth, the two learned the cause of Lu Yan's death.

This time, Yuan Tiangang arranged for Lu Cheng and six people to enter the Qinling Mountains to find an extremely important medicinal material for him.

Mo said that in the Tang Dynasty, even in the 21st century, Qinling can be called a deep mountain and old forest, which can be described as full of crises, and it is precisely because of this that Yuan Tiangang will let Lu Yan, a master, lead the team into the mountain to prevent accidents.

Who would have thought that the accident still happened.

Because Lu Yan and the six had not returned after the scheduled date, Yuan Tiangang was uneasy, so he sent the elite force of the snake spirit into the Qinling Mountains to look for the traces of the six people, and only then did they find the bodies of the six people.

The corpses were not intact, they all had traces of being bitten by wild beasts, two of them were even more incomplete, and the four relatively intact corpses had obvious bite marks on their thighs, and the bites had festered and emitted a foul smell, perhaps because of this, they were not bitten.

Yuan Tiangang judged according to the situation of the corpse that the six people should have been bitten by some kind of poison in their sleep and died of poisoning, which can make Lu Yan, a master, poison and die without realizing it, which shows the horror of this.

But then again, it was precisely because Lu Yan and several people died of poison in their bodies that the corpses could be found by the snake spirits, otherwise they would have been torn to pieces by the jackals and beasts in the mountains, because next to the corpses, several bodies of wild beasts were also found, and these beasts died because they ate poisoned human flesh, and this unknown poison was simply terrifying.

Although it is incredible, Yuan Tiangang's explanation is very reasonable, and the situation of Lu Yan and the others' corpses is indeed like this, Lu Cheng and Yuan Tiangang have also learned a good medical ability, but they have exhausted what they have learned, and they can't recognize what kind of poison Lu Yan has.

In the end, he could only sigh that Lu Yan was unlucky, and a generation of masters finally died in the mountains.

……

"This relocation is a huge opportunity for us." In the secret room, Yuan Tiangang sat in the middle, and there were three people on his left and right - Xiao Qingfang, Lu Cheng and Yu Wenzhong.

After the secret conversation a year ago, Xiao Qingfang and Yuan Tiangang's master and apprentice have never been in contact again, not only that, but the two also specially caused some contradictions, in the eyes of the courtiers, Yuan Tiangang and Xiao Qingfang are not all the way at all, and the deep hatred is not counted, in modern terms, the three views do not coincide, and they can't get together at the same table, which makes Wu Zetian more relieved.

But Xiao Qingfang actually appeared here today, it can be seen that the content of today's conversation is by no means ordinary, Yu Wenzhong and Lu Cheng went north this time, in addition to dealing with Lu Yan's aftermath, there is also one thing to participate in this secret talk.

"This time Wu Zetian moved the capital to Luoyang, there will definitely be a large number of vacancies in the imperial court, and when the time comes, you can take the opportunity to insert henchmen into it and become the help of the snake spirit in the future." Yuan Tiangang said excitedly.

No one can understand the joy in his heart, this time he really single-handedly played with the whole world in the palm of his hand, throughout the ages, who can do this, only he Yuan Tiangang, and this is just the beginning.

On the second day of the "Luo Shen Monument" occurred, Wu Zetian officially ordered to move the capital to Luoyang, and the work has been in full swing, and it is expected that the capital will be officially moved within half a year.

"What the teacher said is very much, this move to the capital is too hasty, and there will definitely be many vacant seats, just so that you can arrange your own people in some critical positions for the future great cause." Xiao Qingfang said.

This move of the capital is not only because of "conforming to the will of heaven", in fact, even if there is no "Luo Shen Monument", Wu Zetian will move the capital sooner or later, this time it is just a boat pushing the river, Wu Zetian needs to use the move of the capital to complete her political goals.

Among the many political purposes, one point is extremely important, that is, to take the opportunity to suppress the aristocratic forces that oppose them, especially the old Guanlong nobles, and one way to suppress them is to let these people stay in Chang'an, which is called "staying in the old capital", which will inevitably cause vacancies in some departmental positions.

This time the capital was moved in a hurry, and the vacancies in these positions would definitely not be filled by enough people for a while, so Wu Zetian could only trust his cronies and let them arrange manpower to temporarily fill them, so as to maintain the normal operation of the imperial court.

Yuan Tiangang is a cronie of Wu Zetian's cronies, and there is a lot of room for maneuver.

"Master, having said that, you can't be careless, if you attract Wu Zetian's attention because of this, it will backfire at that time, and it will not be good." Lu Cheng persuaded that Lu Cheng acted extremely cautiously, even if his dear uncle had just died, it did not affect his rational judgment, it was for this reason that Yuan Tiangang trusted him so much, and handed over a lot of what he had learned to him, Lu Cheng was actually more like Yuan Tiangang's disciple than anyone else.

"Well, what Ah Cheng said is very true, so we have to take our time and not rush." Yuan Tiangang nodded and said: "Qingfang, this time the internal guard will not continue to install our people, at this sensitive juncture, you must not make mistakes on your side, we still have a lot of time, take your time, and then we can put the target in the army and develop our strength from the grassroots officers." ”

"Yes, Qingfang understands!"

"Ah Cheng, as soon as the matter is over here, you rush back to Hongzhou immediately, and after the arrangements are made, you will go back to Chang'an, and you will return to me in the future."

"Lu Cheng obeyed."

"Wen Zhong, the matter of the Kuaidaomen will be handed over to you in the future, you must be careful, and at the same time, just in case, transfer part of the power underground, and you will be fully responsible for this matter."

"Yes, Wen Zhong will definitely live up to the master's trust." Yu Wenzhong clenched his fists and said.

Kuaidaomen, ostensibly a gang, is actually an institution dedicated to cultivating killers for snake spirits, created by Lu Yan, and Yu Wenzhong was cultivated by Kuaidaomen.

"Teacher, Mr. Lu is coming to Chang'an, and Wen Zhong is in charge of the fast knife door, what should I do with the little junior brother?" Xiao Qingfang suddenly asked, the little junior brother in her mouth was naturally Huang Chong, that is, Li Shouxin.

"You don't need to worry about this, you already have a clever plan for the teacher, and your little junior brother is of great use for the teacher, hum, you will definitely surprise Na Wu Zetian in the future." Yuan Tiangang said as if he remembered some scene, and showed a sinister smile.

This smile made the three people present shudder, but they didn't ask again.

……

As the saying goes: Nine times out of ten, things in the world are unsatisfactory.

Just when Yuan Tiangang was talking secretly with his three cronies, a news came from Hongzhou - Huang Chong was missing.