Sun Deng was Sun Quan's eldest son. Many years ago, when Sun Cao joined forces, Sun Quan placed the eldest son in Yecheng as a hostage. Later, the whole world was unified and Sun Deng was moved to Chang'an to live. Although there were still people around him, he was a member of the Empress Dowager Sun's tribe and was highly treated.

Sun Deng was known as a lover and kind person, and was good at writing and was appreciated by the Chinese civil and military officials in the court. He was close to many officials. In recent years, he has also held positions of 600 and 1,000 shi, and his place has achieved achievements in governance.

People at that time thought that the day when Sun Deng inherited his career was the time when Liaodong returned to the Han Dynasty to borrow the article.

But through this fire, Sun Deng disappeared? Even the envoys sent by the Sun family to Chang'an were nowhere to be seen?

Could it be that the Jiangdong envoy came to Chang'an to help Sun Deng escape and thus lift the court's central government's restraint on the Sun family? And what shameful plot did Sun Quan have?

In the past few years, the Sun regime has been used to using deceitful means in Jingzhou, Jianghuai, and Liaodong, and has succeeded repeatedly. The whereabouts of Sun Deng and others in the fire scene are unknown, and in the eyes of those who are interested, it is very similar to the usual style of Sun's family, and Jiang Wan is inevitably suspicious.

Originally, Liaodong was just a border area. Although Sun Quan took this as his foundation and made a lot of noise in the Sanhan, Fuyu, Woju, Goguli and other places; however, his strength was not comparable to that of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, the imperial court stationed elite soldiers and generals in Youzhou. Since last year, the cavalry general Lei Yuan himself stationed in Jicheng, and he was foolproof.

The problem is that since the beginning of last year, the chaos in Hebei and the six states in the Central Plains has just ended. God knows how many resentful people are, but they have to surrender due to the power of the court; and I don’t know how many broken powerful guests are scattered among the mountains, forests, and water.

Since the revival of the Han Dynasty, the country has been governed with ease and simplicity and rested with the people; and the expenses related to resettlement of civilian villages, water conservancy, roads and cities were not enough, so the court often failed to make ends meet. Previously, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang personally stationed in Luoyang to deal with the chaos, and tried to be meticulous in everything, so that he was able to sleep at night. This was because the court had a weak family and could not tolerate big efforts.

Once the chaos in Youzhou occurs, it will inevitably be regarded as an opportunity by the evildoers in the Central Plains of Hebei. It is impossible to say that one wave has not been settled and another wave has arisen and continuous turmoil. However, the financial situation of the court, which is stretched to the court, may not be able to be suppressed as safely as last time.

Many thoughts flashed through Jiang Wan's heart. He was anxious, but he immediately cheered up and ordered the officers and officials who had sufficient authority to be summoned to the fire to act.

These people were scattered around the fire. When Jiang Wan was summoned urgently, they arrived one after another.

Jiang Wan was not polite, and directly told the situation in front of him frankly, and then assigned a task: "You all subordinates of Jingzhao Yin, send additional personnel. Each pavilion department will send people to put out the fire. One hundred thousand fires will be urgently put out. Those who dare to be lazy and fail to advance will be severely punished."

"yes."

"Zhi Jinwu, Guangluxun's subordinates all retreated from the front and turned to the periphery of the clearing site. From now on, there will be people guarding every road around the fire site, and there will be people patrolling every section of the wall. Without my consent, no one is allowed to enter or exit. If there are living people in the fire site, all of them will come here. As for the city gate captain, I have kept a close eye on the twelve gates and I don't have to worry about anything else!"

"Affect the order."

"In addition, recruiting the desperate warriors into the fire scene, I must immediately know the situation in the fire scene and the post station! Be sure to determine the safety of the soldiers in the camp as soon as possible! Determine whether the Sun envoy and Sun Deng are inside, and how life and death are there!"

Zhuge Qiao Zhensheng said: "I can go!"

Deng Fan gritted his teeth: "I, I'll go too!"

Jiang Wan glanced at Zhuge Qiao, then shook her head at Deng Fan: "Bo Song and Shi Ze are waiting here! From now on, you must see every person and every body that came out of the fire. If Sun Deng or the envoy of Sun's clan, you must recognize him!"

Deng Fan accompanied the Sun envoy all the way from Youzhou, and they were very familiar with each other. Zhuge Qiao and Sun Deng had met several times, but they had not seen each other for many years, and their memories of their appearance were blurred. But Jiang Wan had such a serious request, so the two had to do it.

Jiang Wan continued to assign many tasks. When many officials left, only Changle Guard Li Feng, who had just retreated from the fire scene, was still present.

"As for Changle Guard..." Jiang Wan stared at him for a while: "You don't have to be busy putting out the fire. Go back to Changle Palace immediately and keep an eye on the inside and outside of the palace ban! I will ask Fei Yi to bring someone to help you!"

Even though his face was covered with dust and dust, Li Feng's face also changed. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "I'll go immediately!"

Li Feng left quickly, Jiang Wan turned around and saw Zhuge Qiao looking horrified. He walked a few steps, stood beside Zhuge Qiao, and lowered his voice slightly: "I have to be careful!"

Zhuge Qiao sighed.

He was both anxious and tired, and there were countless thoughts in his mind circling rapidly, but he didn't want to speak for a moment. He looked around and saw a cart with damaged wheels parked by the Lifang, so he simply sat down there.

Deng Fan stood beside Zhuge Qiao and waited for Jiang Wan to continue to command the busyness. Then he asked: "Chang, Changle Palace?"

"Changle Palace is the residence of the Empress Dowager."

Zhuge Qiao explained briefly, Deng Fan's eyes sternly, nodded slightly, and stopped talking.

Chang'an City has more than 60 miles of circumference. Although it is known as the 160 alley of the eighth street and Jiumo, most of the space is occupied by Jianzhang, Changle, Weiyang and other palaces and a series of auxiliary palace groups. Excluding the Beique Gao First Zone where high officials and nobles live, it is actually used for military garrisons. The area where the people live is not very large, and is generally concentrated in the north of Changle Palace.

After decades of turbulent times, the city and the city was scattered and many palaces were cleansed. In recent years, the imperial court's finances have been a little rich, so Jingzhao Yin started to repair this abandoned area and rebuild the Lifang. However, the project was very slow, except for Huangji and Xuanming Lifang, which were close to Changle Palace, who were scheduled to be the newly established Chang'an Camp, which was repaired and put into use early.

And to the south of this military camp, through the open channel, is Changle Palace.

After the fire broke out, Li Feng, the Changle Guard, was the first to discover it, and he rushed to the military camp through the bridge on the open canal, becoming a senior official in commanding the extinguishing of the fire in front. According to common sense, this is a merit.

But the problem is that the occurrence of this incident is likely to be related to Sun Quan.

Changle Palace is the residence of the empress dowager, who is Sun Quan's sister.

The Empress Dowager and Sun Quan were not in harmony, and the brother and sister rarely had any contact. This is a thing that everyone in the world knows. But Changle Palace is so close to the fire scene. Even if the Empress Dowager herself has no intention, how can she know if the people around her will be involved?

On the verge of caution, Li Feng, who was responsible for the guards of the access control of Changle Palace when the fire broke out, was inevitably suspicious. Therefore, Jiang Wan asked without hesitation that Fei Yi would come forward to assist Li Feng in the inside and outside of the forbidden palace.

If you think more, the Sun family's hidden power within the Han court was too deep and there were too many sects. And their plans must be even greater, and the court must have to deal with it with all its strength and not have any relatives.

Deng Fan and Zhuge Qiao sat side by side on the edge of the carriage. Seeing the fire in front of him gradually extinguished, many people were still running around.

Zhuge Qiao's clothes were soaked. After sitting for a while, he felt a bone-broken chill penetrate into his skin. Countless goose bumps suddenly appeared on his skin, and his face gradually turned blue.

Deng Fan advised him several times, but Zhuge Qiao was worried about his brother and refused to leave the scene. Deng Fan had to give up and went to find another felt robe and asked someone to use a brazier to keep warm.

The people rescued from the fire came to Zhuge Qiao and Deng Fan one by one according to Jiang Wan's request, and asked them to identify them. The two widened their eyes and looked carefully. They saw soldiers who had escaped and servants in the post station. They asked carefully one by one, but when they talked about the situation of the travelers in the post station and how the fire broke out in the post station, no one could understand.

After a moment, Jiang Wan hurriedly turned back, her face becoming more and more ugly.

Zhuge Qiao quickly walked up to him: "How?"

"The fire started very quickly, but only three or five people were burned to death in the fire scene, and no Sun's envoy was damaged."

Zhuge Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, and then thought that this confirmed that his brother and his group had indeed had plans, so he felt even more subtle.

Deng Fan asked in the first half: "Chang, Chang, why are the troops stationed in Chang'an camp..."

He also had a lot of problems, but now he was anxious and his tongue was knotted when he opened his mouth and couldn't explain it clearly.

Jiang Wan knew what he wanted to ask, and immediately replied: "When the fire broke out, the tiger-fang commander Zhang Yi led his soldiers to the arsenal to collect the rations for the month. This is a normal process and there is no doubt. After the fire broke out, he rushed back to the camp and tried his best to extinguish the fire and save people. He suffered multiple injuries from his family and is currently in emergency treatment."

Deng Fan nodded: "Then, can the soldiers who set up and clear the field gain something?"

"The outside of the fire site is all closed on the east, west and north sides. After carefully searching for each yard and one yard, nothing was found. The soldiers who set up checkpoints and cleared the yard strictly investigated fourteen intersections, east and west ends of the open channel, and searched for prison along the waterway, and did not see any suspicious situations. In the past half an hour, only Liu Yue and his party from Yulin Camp left this place... They were ordered by the emperor to come to see the fire."

Deng Fan "hissed" and gasped.

Zhuge Qiao also frowned.

In this way, Changle Palace became more and more suspicious.

"I'll go and ask Zhi Jinwu Guanping now, and ask him to use the capable people in the city to secretly monitor Changle Palace; in addition, I will also write overnight and urge the Prime Minister to return as soon as possible." Jiang Wan sighed deeply: "The searches around the fire scene will not stop, but they are all trivial matters... If you two have no priorities, go back and rest!"

The situation in front of us is very clear. The Sun family must have plans and may involve the empress dowager of the dynasty. The situation in the borders of Youzhou and even Hebei and the Central Plains may change dramatically.

The Prime Minister will return to Chang'an immediately, and the court center will make corresponding decisions tomorrow. But that is not something that the auxiliary general of the East Prefecture and the son-in-law of the emperor and the prince-in-law in front of the emperor. It is useless to stay here.

Jiang Wan was already busy and frustrated. Since he said this, Deng Fan and Zhuge Qiao had no choice but to say goodbye and leave.

Both of them had their worries, and they had only been walking for a long time. When they arrived at Zhangtai Street, Zhuge Qiao led his horse to the Prime Minister's Mansion south, while Deng Fan would follow the cross-distance road and head west to the General's Mansion in Beique.

Deng Fan suddenly pulled his horse and called Zhuge Qiao: "Bo Song!"

"What's the matter?"

"I'm not hiding Bosong, Sun Quan sent envoys this time to report to the central government, report his next arrangements, and prepare to seek the imperial enthronement."

"Canceled?"

"Since last year, the Sun family's power has penetrated into Sanhan, and plans to continue crossing the sea to expedition the east, and unite the hundreds of Japanese countries on the island of Zhongzhou. To this end, they built a large boat and hundreds of large ships that were enough to cross the sea in advance, and prepared translation, guides, and food and fodder. These are all real investments and cannot be faked. My general is in Liaodong, and Sanhan also has eyes and ears, and has been able to explore clearly and clearly."

Zhuge Qiao turned his horse's head: "That is to say..."

"Sun Quan was a smart man. Cao and Liu Shang were still in a confrontation. He had already seen that the Han family was unstoppable, so he abandoned the Jiangdong foundation and took Liaodong directly. From that moment on, he had given up his ambition to unify the world. All he wanted was the kingdom from a foreign land and overseas. This was a major policy that the Sun regime had already been determined from the top and long ago, and it was impossible to change at all."

Deng Fan's face was serious and his tone was very firm, which immediately shocked Zhuge Qiao.

For the past half an hour, Zhuge Qiao was always struggling and didn't understand why his brother had to do this for the Sun regime.

Hearing Deng Fan say this, he immediately followed Deng Fan's thoughts: "Sun Deng was in Chang'an in front of Qianshi Langguan, and had his own position, and was not detained in prison, and the court did not treat him as a hostage. If Sun wanted Sun Deng to return, there was open and secret means available, and there was no need to send a team of envoys to cover up..."

"That's right, that's exactly what it is." Deng Fan nodded repeatedly.

Zhuge Qiao felt chills, but his mind became clearer: "Even if these messengers were used... the messengers returned safely, and Sun Deng was hidden in the messenger team, which was called cover. Now the messenger and Sun Deng disappeared together. What is this? We should have tried to do something that was unaware of, but we did it so shockingly, fearing that the court would not be alert and not be wary? Continue to think about it, even if Sun had a comprehensive arrangement in advance, how could it be the same as a group of people? Isn't this a problem for his own family out of thin air?"

Thinking of this, the whole thing became more and more strange.

Deng Fan lowered his voice and said, "So, this matter may not be caused by Sun's instigation. Behind, behind it, there may be someone else who manipulates it?"

Zhuge Qiao asked repeatedly: "Who is manipulating it? How did it do it? Why do it? Where will my brother... and Sun Deng and Sun's envoys be?"

Deng Fan was dumbfounded and shook his head.

Zhuge Qiao smiled. Deng Fan was a warrior who often lived on the border. He naturally knew the Sun family, but asking him to infer the situation in Chang'an City was simply a blind eye. Zhuge Qiao himself had no clue at all and could not continue to infer.
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