In the early morning of the next day, the inland river heavy trough fleet towed by two steam engine ships set off, and Liu Mu also went north to Chang'an with the ship.

This is a very ordinary fleet in the eyes of ordinary people, not much different from ordinary grain fleets, the only difference is that the ships seem to be very new.

The new ship is not a special event either.

However, when the fleet passed through Luoyang, there was a major event that was not small.

Liu Mu's fleet traveled north along the canal, and it was certain to be kept secret from the common people and ordinary yamen, but the important garrisons in various places needed to provide the necessary covert protection.

When Liu Mu passed through Luoyang, someone asked to see him.

Yanagi sat in the cabin and looked at the item at hand, which was a short knife with the word tile on the hilt.

"Who's coming?" Yanagi turned his gaze to the guard.

The guard replied: "The person who came claimed to be the adopted son of the Duke of Changping County, who had been taken down by the Criminal Department and was about to be taken to Chang'an for trial, so please ask Lang Jun to save him." ”

Liu Mu picked up the short knife again and took a look at it, then put the short knife away: "Pass my order, and ask Wenyue Pavilion's people in Luoyang to investigate, who leaked my whereabouts." ”

"Order." The guards didn't even ask Yanagi if he wanted to see each other, and turned around and left after listening to Yanagi's order.

It takes more than half a day to replenish the coal and fresh water in Luoyang, where the last major supply port before the steamship returns to Chang'an, and the next supply point is the small supply, which is a spare supply port rather than a common one.

As soon as Liu Mu's boat stopped in Luoyang, someone came to ask for a meeting, and Liu Mu couldn't bear it.

After the guards left, Jiang Ke asked to see him.

"What is Lang Jun's plan?"

"Zhang Liang, although he used to be a member of Wagang, is also a subordinate of General Li Ji. But there is a saying that can tell him that a man will not die if he does not die, he knows very well what he has done, and he also knows very well how much of his ability to command troops is false. Don't think that Brother Mao Gong will always protect him, since the Criminal Department wants to take him, there must be enough reasons, why should I save him? ”

Jiang Ke took a step forward: "Lang Jun, the people from Wagang are naturally the kings of the West Wing, Lu Guogong, and the British dukes, and the Changping County Duke often asks the British duke for advice, if you don't care about it, I'm afraid it will cause some criticism." ”

Liu Mu asked rhetorically, "What is the name of the person outside?" ”

Jiang Ke didn't know either, so after leaving, he sent someone to ask, and then returned to the cabin to report: "Lang Jun, it's called Gongsun Festival." ”

"Pass my orders and tie them up. After the fleet was replenished, he set off immediately, sent a fast horse to inform first, and then after arriving in Chang'an, he handed over Gongsun Jie to the Criminal Department, and asked him how he knew the detailed time of my arrival in Luoyang, and that Zhang Liang was not the leader of the secret escort fleet on the list, and knew whether the news of my arrival in Luoyang was before or after he was arrested by the Criminal Department. ”

Jiang Ke wanted to persuade again, but Liu Mu gently slapped the table.

Without speaking, Jiang Ke understood that Liu Mu was already unhappy about this, and immediately said: "My subordinates will arrange it." ”

Liu Mu then said: "There are some things I know you are doing for my good, but there are more things that you don't know. Good intentions may not do good things, if it were someone else, I would at least come forward and ask the Criminal Department to take care of one or two before the case was decided, Zhang Liang couldn't. ”

"Xie Langjun."

Jiang Ke thanked him because Liu Mu gave him an explanation for this arrangement.

It stands to reason that Yanagi doesn't need to explain to him.

A few days later, when the fleet approached Chang'an and was still some distance away from the wharf, a small boat from the escort army came up with people from the criminal department to pick up Gongsun Jie, and told Jiang Ke that Zhang Liang had not yet entered Chang'an, and was still on the way to be escorted. But the Tang Emperor has already issued a holy decree, Xishikou asked to confiscate the family property, all the fake children were arrested and brought to justice, and Zhang Li's waist abandoned the city.

Jiang Ke was taken aback, he never expected this to happen.

And Liu Mu is still in Luoyang, how can he guess the Tang Emperor's sentence to Zhang Liang. Jiang Ke believed that Liu Mu must not know about Zhang Liang before entering Luoyang, and Liu Mu had not been in Chang'an for almost two years.

Jiang Ke asked the people in the Criminal Department: "I don't know what the crime is?" ”

"Witch! The saint is royal approval, generous on the outside and treacherous on the inside. The people from the Criminal Department gave Jiang Ke a brief explanation.

After Jiang Ke expressed his gratitude, he sent someone to hand over the Gongsun Festival with five flowers to the people of the Criminal Department, and Gongsun Festival scolded Liu Mu for being unjust, and even ignored the feelings of the Wagang brothers and so on.

The people from the Criminal Department were about to go to fight Gongsun Day, but Jiang Ke stopped him: "Please leave a book as evidence, Gongsun Festival does not care about humiliation, there must be an explanation for this matter." ”

"Yes! Prepare pen and paper. ”

The people from the Criminal Department didn't beat Gongsun Day, but they gagged him.

Witchcraft is taboo, and Zhang Liang has been found out by Li Shimin for his evil deeds such as taking meritorious deeds and falsely reporting merits, especially once when he was fighting outside, Zhang Liang was so timid that he was stunned when the enemy army raided.

At that time, Zhang Liang sat there expressionless in fright, unable to even speak, let alone take countermeasures.

The general thought that Zhang Liang was not afraid of danger, and it happened that the adjutant general returned with a battalion of soldiers and horses to take the initiative to meet the enemy, and the officers and men in the battalion also went all out to win a big victory.

Afterwards, Zhang Liang took the lead in this great achievement.

There are always insiders in this matter, and with Zhang Liang's witch Gu case this time, Li Shimin has a full reason to kill Zhang Liang.

On the wharf, the Tang Emperor Li Shimin greeted him personally, and Liu Mu sat in Li Shimin's carriage and entered the palace together.

On the way, Liu Mu asked: "Second brother, Zhang Liang's second brother should have known about that little, why did he suddenly want to kill him and raid his house?" ”

Li Shimin's face instantly became ugly: "If it is an ordinary trivial matter, then even if it is a little bit of military exploits, it will not be pursued for the sake of leading the troops back then." Several of his fake sons gave him ideas, and he could be forgiven for a little money by borrowing the matter of Luoyang to repair the railway, but he did something to beg for death. ”

Yanagi was curious: "What's the matter?" ”

"You know better than the second brother and me, the choice of the railway route is a very skillful thing, Zhang Liang's wife instructed Zhang Liang's many fake sons to secretly attack, or bribe, or threat, or deceive. In the selection of the route of the railway, the route was chosen in some fields that they had secretly bought. ”

Liu Mu understood: "Is he cheating a little compensation, or saying that he planted an orchard, or a fertile field or something?" ”

"Abominable than this."

"What else?" Liu Muxin said that Zhang Liang was indeed looking for death, didn't he understand how important the railway was to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin was really angry, and took a deep breath before saying: "The place he chose Huayuan sent people to finally determine and found that it was very dangerous, there were three places that were easy to be soaked in water when there was a lot of rain in summer, and some were once a riverbed, and a big hole may suddenly appear in Huayuan's experience." ”