Huangfu Li hurriedly ran in.

"My lord, Chang'an ride quickly."

Gai Xun was startled, stood up suddenly, and asked, "What happened to Chang'an?" ”

"The predecessor of Liangzhou assassinated Shi Zuochang, and the whole family of one hundred and twenty-three was killed." Huangfu Li's face was nervous and he said loudly.

"Who did it?" Gai Xun asked angrily. Who is so bold as to dare to kill people in his land.

"Li Zhonglang's military Sima Yanliang." Huangfu Li replied in a panic, "Listen to Kuaiqi, Lord Yan held Li Zhonglang's token and was ordered to raid Lord Zuo's residence, saying that Lord Zuo was corrupt and perverted the law, and during his tenure as the assassin of Liangzhou, he had embezzled 50 million military funds at one time. Lord Zuo resisted arrest with his servants and injured several of Lord Yan's subordinates, but Lord Yan was so fierce that he led people to forcibly rush into Zuo's house and killed the Zuo family without leaving a chicken or dog. ”

Zhang Wen was shocked when he heard this, and immediately his blood surged up, and he was dizzy.

Gai Xun opened his mouth wide, shocked and angry, and couldn't say a word. Zuo Chang was the assassin in Liangzhou the year before last, and Gai Xun was the Taishou of Hanyang at that time. Zuo Chang's embezzlement of military funds is the evidence he collected. Now I am relieved, but I am also in big trouble.

"What else did you say?" Tao Qian asked with great interest, "Where is that murderous military Sima now?" ”

"I heard that Kuaiqi said that he was still in Chang'an, and he was taking people to raid his house everywhere."

"Why not stop it? What about the troops in Chang'an? Sang Yang asked angrily.

Tao Qian said with a smile: "That military Sima is carrying the token of the Zhonglang General on official business, who dares to stop it?" Unless you don't want to live anymore. ”

Gai Xun sat down slowly, his thick eyebrows locked, and he felt at a loss for a while, and he couldn't find a way to deal with it. The incident happened in Chang'an City, and once the imperial court investigated it, as Jing Zhaoyin, he could not escape the blame. Although Zuo Chang's crime was extremely heinous and he died innocently, without interrogation and without playing the Son of Heaven, Li Zhonglang killed them all, which was too much.

"Yuan Gu, has Lord Zuo Chang ever done this?" Zhang Wen barely stabilized his mind and asked slowly.

Gaehoon nodded.

"The evidence is conclusive. I tried to stop him, but he wouldn't listen. Later, he was afraid that I would betray him, so he designed to frame me. He ordered me to garrison Ayang with 1,000 troops to resist the rebels of Lao Bian and Xian Lingqiang. If it weren't for the old side's face, I would have died a long time ago. Gai Xun smiled bitterly, "Now we have been miserable by this leopard." Zuo Chang is a person who often serves Zhao Zhong, and I heard that he is still a distant relative. Now we have no way out except to fight the eunuchs shirtless. ”

Zhang Wen sighed and said, "Immediately send out eight hundred miles to ride to Luoyang, and report to the Son of Heaven first." ”

"Boxin, Gongzu, immediately write a letter to Lord Situ, Lord Sikong, and Lord Yushi, and report the details to ask for help."

"Yuan Gu, you have a good relationship with the general, and you will write the general's letters."

At this moment, Bo Cui Weifei, the lord of the Taiwei Mansion, rushed in.

"My lord, Li Zhonglang is the opposite."

Zhang Wen's brain exploded, and he suddenly felt dizzy, his eyes were full of golden flowers, and his body was about to fall if he didn't obey the call. He hurriedly fell on the table and closed his eyes tightly.

Gai Xun didn't seem to hear it, frowning, lowering his eyelids, brushing his black beard, motionless, still thinking about Chang'an.

Sang Yang scolded angrily: "Don't talk nonsense. What's going on? ”

"Bao Hong, the governor of Fufeng County, came to write and said that Li Zhonglang was reversed." Cui Wei said nervously, "Yesterday afternoon, Li Zhonglang's subordinates Sima Zhaoyun and Wen Chou suddenly led an army to attack Qingwu near Maoling. ”

"What did you say?" Gai Xun stood up again, his face horrified.

Zhang Wen had just barely opened his eyes, and when he heard Cui Wei's words, he immediately closed his eyes in pain, and he was so painful that he even gritted his teeth.

The mulberry sheep was dumbfounded.

Tao Qian couldn't be happy this time, he looked at Cui Wei blankly, and asked in a low voice, "Qingwu?" ”

Cui Wei nodded and said with great certainty: "It is indeed Qingwu, and it is the property of the emperor's uncle, King Wuyang." Everybody knows that. ”

Liu Zhong, the head of Qingwu, immediately sent someone to ask Bao Duwei for help, and Bao Duwei rushed over with 500 people overnight. Zhao Yun and Wen Chou not only did not listen to Bao Duwei's dissuasion at all, but also detained Bao Duwei. The two couldn't attack for a long time, so they immediately transferred 3,000 men and horses from the wounded battalion in Huaili. Captain Bao said that they had breached the dock fort this morning. ”

Tao Qian asked in horror, "But there are still living people?" ”

In the letter, Bao Duwei said that all those who were alive except the women and children were killed by them. Rebellion, my lord, Li Zhonglang rebelled. Cui Wei immediately handed over a scroll of bamboo slips in his hand to Tao Qian, "This is a letter from Lord Bao, please take a look at it." ”

Tao Qian took it and gently put it on Zhang Wen's desk.

Zhang Wen slowly opened his eyes, forcibly held back the anger in his heart, looked at Sang Yang and said, "Boxin, immediately rush to Maoling with my warrant and order Li Zhonglang's people to withdraw from Qingwu." ”

"Slow ......," Gai Xun suddenly said to stop.

Zhang Wen and the others looked at him puzzled. Gai Xun's gaze then turned to Huangfu Li and Cui Wei who were standing in the room.

Zhang Wen waved to Huangfu Li and Cui Wei. The two of them knew that they were humble and inappropriate to stay on this occasion, so they hurriedly bowed and retreated.

"For more than ten years, Qingwu has been managed by this Liu Zhong, and the King of Wuyang or the subordinates of the King of Wuyang have never been to Qingwu. It's been more than ten years, and the head of Qingwu hasn't changed, and no one in Wuyang Wangfu has asked here, is it a little weird? Gai Xun walked to Zhang Wen's desk and whispered.

"Your Excellency has investigated?" Sang Yang asked.

"Someone looked into it." Gai Xun said: "Before Bian Zhang rebelled, he once told me about this Qingwu. Although this Qingwu is the property of King Wuyang, it has a lot to do with Cheng Qiu. Lao Bian said that he had investigated and that this Qingwu and the nearby fields were previously the property of the great general Dou Wu. After Dou Wu was killed for his crimes, he was sold here, and he handled many people successively, but the person who bought this place in the end was not King Wuyang, but Zhang Qiang, the younger brother of Zhang Rang, who came forward to do this, and the money was also paid by him. ”

Zhang Wen, Sang Yang and Tao Qian were shocked.

"This idiot has just come from Jizhou, and he doesn't know anything, otherwise, you are giving him great courage, and he will not dare to openly attack the dock fort where he is the emperor's uncle today. Since Li Zhonglang sent someone to fight Qingwu, there must be evidence. If this dock fort has always been a place where Cheng Qiu hides money, maybe Li Zhonglang will be able to find evidence that Cheng Qiu and the Xiliang bureaucrats bribed and cheated on eunuchs. In that case, the situation will be very favorable to us. ”

Gai Xun looked at everyone and continued: "Geng Cong and Cheng Qiu's true intentions to search Li Zhonglang's camp, Li Zhonglang must have known, otherwise he would not have attacked the Longxian County and Zixiushan military camps, and immediately shot out like lightning to arrest the corrupt officials in Xiliang. Obviously, he had a way to save himself. ”

Li Zhonglang stopped fighting, and suddenly tried his best to arrest people and raid his house, thinking that it was to find evidence that the Xiliang bureaucrats were corrupt and perverted the law, bribing and raping, and when he found the evidence, his life was saved. But he hid it from Lord Taiwei and the Taiwei Mansion, and acted privately, obviously with bad intentions, and wanted to drag us into the water together. ”

"Now he did. His iron horsemen are out in pursuit and unscrupulous, and we are cornered by him. Gai Xun grabbed his long beard and said hatefully, "Now that the wood is complete, everyone is tied to a rope by him, and I can't do it without accompanying him." ”

Zhang Wen looked at the bamboo slips on the desk, and was silent. Sang Yang and Tao Qian looked at each other, helpless.

Zhang Wen suddenly smiled, and said slowly: "Actually, we also wanted to catch Cheng Qiu just now, and we also wanted to force the corrupt officials in Xiliang to spit out some money, but we didn't want to make a big deal out of it, we didn't want to provoke their backstage forces, and we didn't want to clash head-on with the traitors in the palace." ”

"In fact, there is one thing that we want to do and what Lee is doing right now. We want the money of the corrupt officials in Xiliang, and Li Zhonglang is now checking it. I don't have to worry about money anymore. Zhang Wen said with a smile, "Li Zhonglang is probably using a cart to transport money to Xiliang now." ”

Gai Xun, Sang Yang, and Tao Qian smiled bitterly when they heard this.

"Since we have no way out, let's go with it." Zhang Wen said, "Which of you has a better way?" ”

Sang Yang pondered for a long time and whispered, "Should adults be cautious?" ”

"Li Zhonglang's purpose is nothing more than to use the evidence in his hands to make His Majesty and His Majesty unable to cure his crimes, and to blackmail the traitors in the DPRK and China to slander and frame him. His idea was beyond reproach, and it was the only way for him to save himself. But he knew nothing about the affairs of the imperial court, and he did not know that because of his impulsiveness, the contradiction between the bureaucratic family and the traitorous eunuch was revealed. ”

"He has made the trouble too big, he killed Zuo Chang, attacked Qingwu, and raided property unscrupulously, he has completely angered the eunuchs, and he has driven us all to a dead end."

"Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang don't think that Li Zhonglang did this because of personal grudges, because Cheng Qiu annoyed him, because they wanted to drive Li Zhonglang away from Xiliang. They definitely don't think so. ”

"They must think that this is a conspiracy by Lord Taiwei and a group of Qingliu people, and want to take the opportunity to attack them and destroy them. The traitors in the palace will definitely fight back. The traitorous eunuchs have the help of the emperor and are extremely powerful, and it is difficult for us to fight them. In the end, this matter is likely to be the third party disaster of this dynasty. ”

Tao Qian scoffed and retorted: "Bo Xin's words are wrong. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as long as we help Li Zhonglang find conclusive evidence, we will definitely be able to bring down the traitor. Why is Boxin so unconfident? In my opinion, we pretended not to know and let Li Zhonglang make trouble. Anyway, things have already made a big fuss, so I just made a fuss for him, at most, everyone is dead. However, once we have found the evidence, it is not certain who lives and who dies. ”

Sang Yang said angrily: "Gongzu, why do you talk like this?" It is a fact that our strength is not as great as that of a eunuch. Have you forgotten the events of the second year of Jianning (169)? ”

"In the second year of Jianning, Hou Lan, a regular attendant, arbitrarily brutalized the people in his hometown, and Zhang Jian, the superintendent of the post, wrote a letter of impeachment and demanded that Hou Lan be punished. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jian's recital was quietly detained by Hou Lan. He instructed the villain to falsely accuse Zhang Jian of contacting the party members and plotting against him, and wanted to arrest Zhang Jian. At this time, Cao Jie, the central attendant, took the opportunity to instruct the Tingwei Mansion to involve the party members who suffered from the party's troubles. As a result, more than 100 party members, including Li Ying and Fan Peng, were arrested and died in prison, and Zhang Jian's escape was spared. Subsequently, the traitors pointed out many famous men and heroes in the world as party members, causing more than 700 people to be unjustly killed and exiled. More than 1,000 students were arrested. Have you forgotten all these things? ”

"Now the power of the traitorous eunuchs is still as good as before, they are all Hou Ye now, they are all Zhongchang servants, Zhao Zhong was also named the general of the chariot at the beginning of the year, don't you know? What do you want to do with such inciting adults? ”

Tao Qian said angrily: "If you don't fight them, wait for death?" ”

There was silence in the room. Every man is thinking about his own thoughts.

Zhang Wen exhaled slowly and said, "It's come to this point, it's too late to say anything." Gong Zu is right, this is an opportunity, maybe we can take the opportunity to bring down the traitorous eunuch. ”

"Gongzu, immediately imitate Li Zhonglang's tone, and write an urgent chapter to the emperor, saying that in the process of annihilating the rebels, the troops accidentally discovered evidence of corruption and perversion of the law by the Xiliang bureaucrats. For the sake of the safety of the country and the society, Wechen plans to act quickly to punish the traitors. However, Weichen found that Lord Taiwei and some corrupt officials in Xiliang had a friendship between protégés and former officials, so he decided to hide from Lord Taiwei and directly play His Majesty, begging His Majesty to approve Weichen to cut first and then play, and purge Xiliang officials. ”

"We will send this secret letter to Luoyang first, and let Liu Shangshu personally present it to His Majesty. When the traitorous eunuchs got the news of Chang'an and ran to sue the emperor, I think Your Majesty should always be sober and not gullible and kill me immediately. ”

"Anyway, I still want the emperor to know that this incident was caused by Li Zhonglang for Xiliang's anti-corruption, not on my own purpose, and I don't have any ulterior motives."

Gai Xun praised: "It's still Lord Taiwei who thinks it through. The secret letter to several adults should also be sent to Luoyang first, so that they can prepare in advance, so as not to be caught off guard by the traitorous eunuchs above the court and lose the opportunity. ”

Zhang Wen nodded and said, "I hope that the edict given to you by the emperor is his true thoughts, otherwise, we will be miserable." This Li Zhonglang knows how to fight, he has never been in officialdom, he doesn't understand anything, and he makes us miserable. By the way......" he looked at Gai Xun and asked strangely, "Where did Li Zhonglang get all this evidence?" People, property, feel it clearly. ”