Zhuge Qiao was startled by this bold idea, and even the war horses under his crotch were neighing Hercules. A row of guarding checkpoints at the distance immediately cast a glance over, thinking that something had happened. Seeing that Zhuge Qiao's group of people was brightly dressed, either rich or noble, they turned around.

While tightening the reins and comforting the horses, Zhuge Qiao said to Deng Fan with a dry smile: "Sir, don't joke, don't joke. This joke is not funny at all."

"Why, why is it a joke?" Deng Fan asked back.

Zhuge Qiao was already afraid of the cold, and suffered some trouble at night, and felt his breathing rapid. Now he was frightened by Deng Fanyi and stuttered: "Weigong and others are all loyal ministers of the court, and they are old people who follow the advanced emperor's hard work to win the world! You guess so randomly... If it spreads out, it will cause a big mess! We should still find people first, and don't worry about those...those..."

Zhuge Qiao didn't know how to continue talking for a moment.

"Who is still a loyal minister of the court?" Deng Fan sneered. After a while, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhuge Qiao: "Bosong is a rare loyal and kind person."

Zhuge Qiao's face changed: "Shize, what do you want to say?"

"Behind this fire, there must be other people who are in charge. Those who manipulate must have benefited from this fire, right?"

"That's right."

"BoSong, think that after this fire, Sun Quan's eldest son was lost and disappeared, and the envoys he sent were missing, and the court was in full swing, and they were all suspicious of Sun Quan's general's plan. In this case, the Sun family and the court would inevitably cause trouble again. For a long time, the General of the Cavalry would have to stay in Youzhou to deal with the situation in the northern border that would inevitably turn over..."

Speaking of this, Deng Fanluo lowered his voice: "BoSong, who will benefit from this?"

Zhuge Qiao gasped: "The scholar said that some people in the court were unhappy to see the General of the Cavalry return to the court? Who is it?"

"What do Bosong thinks?"

Zhuge Qiao frowned and thought for a moment.

Since defeating Cao Wei and unifying the world, the court has introduced a large number of ministers who once served in Cao Wei in order to show magnanimity. These people are not the same as the old ministers who have followed Xuande Gong for many years, but have deep foundations and sufficient potential. In recent years, they have fought for power in the court, and have formed several factions, with an undercurrent.

When Deng Fan mentioned this, Zhuge Qiao's first reaction was that those characters were making trouble again.

But after thinking about it, he really couldn't understand who could get benefits from blocking the General of the Cavalry into the court, and he couldn't understand how those characters could be involved with the Central Military Advisor Yang Yi, Changle Guard Li Feng and others.

Could it be...

Zhuge Qiao's brows became tighter and tighter, and he had no idea for a moment.

Deng Fan waited for a while, and saw Zhuge Qiao not answering for a long time, and laughed: "Bo Song, you go to another place with me, you can probably understand it."

"where?"

"Hurry, there may be changes later." Deng Fan said only.

He took the horse's head, waved a light whip, and led Zhao Lu and others away.

Late at night, the group lit torches, galloped and walked away, and their figures disappeared at the end of the long street in an instant. Zhuge Qiao gritted his teeth and urged his horse to follow.

The group did not go to any new places, but returned to the northwest of the fire. Jianyangli, which was originally regarded as the command center by Jiang Wan. The two of them had sat at the door of Jianyangli to rest and waited for news to be searched in the fire.

Jiang Wan was no longer here at this time, and stayed here, responsible for the continuous supervision and search of the fire scene, which was replaced by soldiers under Jinwu.

Jinwu was a very powerful position in this dynasty. He was responsible for the inspection, banning violence, and supervising traitors in Chang'an City. He was in charge of the Northern Army and could not take office unless he was a close confidant and important official. In recent years, the former general Guan Ping was the one who served as Jinwu and directly controlled the five northern army schools.

After the Chang'an camp fire broke out, the subordinates of Chi Jinwu, who were stationed in the north of the city, arrived at the fire only a little slower than those of Li Feng, the troops of Changle's guard. They immediately took over the surrounding Zhulifang and the twelve city gates and closely searched for all suspicious people in the city.

However, Guan Ping was in a high position and was not directly present. At this time, he stayed in Jianyangli. The person who was responsible for commanding was a senior general under Guan Ping.

After hearing Deng Fan, Zhuge Qiao and others arrived, the general came out.

Both parties had met, but Deng Fan was not polite and immediately said: "I want to check the entry and exit records of all personnel around the fire."

Deng Fan led the Sun envoy to Chang'an. Such a thing happened that day. It was natural that he was responsible for investigation overnight.

The general nodded at first, then looked puzzled: "General Deng, the records of entry and exit of various checkpoints are being summarized one after another. At this time, there are only two books from the five schools of Dasuocheng, so it has not been copied clearly yet... If the general allows it, why not wait until the records are complete tomorrow morning and I will personally submit a visit?"

"It's urgent, why should I wait for the copy? Please get the documents originally recorded in the checkpoints at various places, and I'll read them now."

The general was silent for a moment.

"Can there be, what's the difficulty?"

"There is no difficulty, but the five schools have rules for the five schools." The general said with a expressionless face: "Please wait until tomorrow morning!"

Deng Fan said "hey" and anger flashed on his face.

Zhuge Qiao quickly took two steps forward and asked for help for Deng Fan. He is the son of the prime minister, and he is the son-in-law who is with the emperor every day. He knows many people in Chang'an City and has a wide range of feelings. Now, the people who are missing in the fire include Prime Minister Zhuge's nephew and Zhuge Qiao's brother, and his words are even more earnest.

But the general's temper was actually stink and hard. Zhuge Qiao said all the good things, but he just didn't allow it.

The two of them had been entangled for a long time, and Deng Fan lost his patience and quickly walked out, giving a wink at Zhao Lu.

Zhao Lu led his subordinates to escort the crowd like wolves and tigers. The general was about to shout, but Zhao Lu took out two things from his side and raised them to the general's eyes.

In his right hand was a fuxin with copper-made silver. The general was shocked and stood up. It turned out that it was one of the fuxins commonly used by Zhao Yun, the general of the Central Protector and the army, earlier.

Zhao Yun led the imperial guards with the position of General of the Army, and was above Jinwu, Guangluxun and others. Although he was now in his prime and rarely intervened in military affairs, the positions of Zhongdugu and General of the Army were always there. In theory, he could cross Jinwu Pass and command every soldier in Chang'an City.

Let’s look at Zhao Lu’s left hand, which was a long sword. This long sword was nothing special, but the sword body was of ancient shape and was the Zhangwu sword given to the important ministers by the late emperor.

The Fu Xin represents Zhao Yun, and the Zhang Wu Jian obviously represents Lei Yuan, the General of the Cavalry. Deng Fan and others have Fu Xin and the long sword is in their hands, so if Zhao Yun and Lei Yuan directly support Deng Fan.

In the face of the authority of these two important officials, let alone the rules of the five schools, even if they are to hold Jinwu, the former general Guan Ping himself would not be able to do it here.

The general's face changed and changed, and he finally flashed down.

Zhuge Qiao casually clicked a familiar school to lead the way. The group rushed into Jianyangli, and bypassed a few turns, and then arrived at a house where the checkpoint was recorded.

As the general said, the records of entry and exit of various checkpoints were being summarized one after another. There were only two documents left in Jianyangli, and the sorting and copying were very slow. However, Deng Fan did not read the sorted contents, but directly took the original documents to watch.

Many of the documents were written in a panic, with very sloppy handwriting, but the format was based on the rules of the court, with time to enter and distant, name and position of personnel, purpose of entering and leaving, horses and carriages, etc., and were written in full.

Zhao Lu and his soldiers surrounded the house. Deng Fan and Zhuge Qiao lit the candles and looked at them carefully one by one in the house. After they saw all the records, they were transferred to the document.

In theory, this move was a little disrespectful to Guan Ping, who was so disrespectful to Guan Ping, while looking through the documents, Zhuge Qiao was worried that Guan Ping would come and blame him, and everyone was not good-looking. But until dawn the next day, the two of them had read all the documents and even some of them sent later, and no one disturbed them.

The two stayed up all night, and Zhuge Qiao was dozing off in the early morning. He barely insisted on continuing to search, but he never saw anything special, and his spirit could no longer support him.

Deng Fan's eyes were blood-red, but his spirit was very high. When the bright colors in the outside world were penetrated into the room in the early morning, he put a few silk books in front of him, and finally looked aside carefully, finally sneered twice, and threw it on the table.

"Shi Ze, what did you find?" Zhuge Qiao asked with one hand holding the desk table and struggling.

"I know how Ling, Brother Ling, Sun Deng and others left the fire." Deng Fan said slowly.

Zhuge Qiao stood up suddenly, and because his legs were numb, he staggered two steps and almost fell down.

"Speak quickly!"

"After the fire broke out, the Chang'an garrison cleared the field, patrolled, guarded the outside world, and laid out the sky, the sky, the earth and earth nets. Even if the firefighters entered and left, they recorded the records in full, and there were no obvious omissions, which showed that the Five Northern Army Clans were well-trained and deserved to be the elite of the center."

Deng Fan lowered his head and thought for a moment, and let out a long sigh: "If we came a little later, one of the contents would probably be deleted, modified and adjusted to avoid others seeing them and seeing the flaws. Fortunately, we have time to do it..."

Zhuge Qiao ran to Deng Fan: "Shize, what exactly are you talking about?"

Deng Fan spread several silk books flatly on the table and pushed them to Zhuge Qiao: "Please read Bosong."

Zhuge Qiao rubbed his eyes hard and looked at the silk book. He saw that there was a place on the first one that was hooked out: "The second hour of Xu, the second whistle of the character "Bing" was written on the road. Liu Yue, the right supervisor of Yulin, Zhuge Qiao, the son-in-law of the Duwei of the Prince of Yulin, and the fifteen men of Yulin Lang, and the seventeen horses."

At that time, Zhuge Qiao was anxious and went out without a talisman message. He was intercepted by a checkpoint halfway. Later, he was able to pass by Liu Yue, Yulin Camp. This was the record of passing the checkpoint. At that time, the fire was in full swing and there were few soldiers around him. Zhuge Qiao went straight into the fire and only hit the checkpoint.

Zhuge Qiao turned to the next page.

On the silk book on the second page, the two lines of characters that are drawn out are: "The second hour of Hai, the character Bing of the sermon crossing the road, Liu Yue, the right supervisor of Yulin, and twenty-five men of Yulin Lang, twenty-five horses and four carriages."

"Twenty-five people? Four cars? This is..." Zhuge Qiao murmured, looking at the next page.

After four or five pages, it was a record of Liu Yue and others following the crossing road from east to west and crossing the checkpoint. There were related records from the first whistle of the character B to the fifth whistle of the character B, while there was no such record in the sixth whistle of the character B near the straight city gate. In other words, Liu Yue and others disappeared somewhere between the fifth and sixth whistle.

This is normal. Zhuge Qiao remembers clearly that Liu Yue said at that time that he was coming to investigate the fire scene under the order of the emperor. The route of his group was obviously turning south between five or six sentries and entering the north gate of Jianzhang Palace.

The problem is that it took them a whole hour to explore the fire. And when they came, including Liu Yue himself, there were a total of sixteen riders, but when they went, there were twenty-five riders and four cars.

Zhuge Qiao looked up at Deng Fan. Because he raised his head too hard, several bones in his cervical spine made a sound, causing a burst of soreness.

He said in disbelief: "Is it Liu Yuzhang who did it? He, he... he hid my brother and others in Jianzhang Palace?"

Deng Fan nodded slightly: "It's not just Liu Yue..."

If there are two strange things around this fire, it may be even more likely to be blamed on coincidence. But if three or four items come together, each of them is so playful, it is not something that coincidence can explain. If you have to use a thread to pull all these things together...

Zhuge Qiao suddenly stood up and said sternly: "The Central Military Advisor Yang Yi pushed the envoys and others to Chang'an Camp; the fire set by Li Feng, the Changle Guard, was done; Liu Yue, the right supervisor of Yulin, secretly took the people out; and then, then, Jinwu Guanping intends to cover up their movements?"

He was frightened by this, and without waiting for Deng Fan to answer, he shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible! Impossible!"

He really couldn't believe it.

These people are all key figures in Chang'an City and are the most trusted people of the imperial court and the emperor. How could they do such a thing secretly? How could this be possible? What do they want?

Just now, Deng Fan said that a group of people in the court were unwilling to see the General of the Cavalry return to the court. But why could it be them?

Guan Ping and General Lei Yuan of the Cavalry are colleagues fighting side by side. How friendly are they?

Yang Yi is also acquaintance.

As for Li Feng and Liu Yue, they were just there. Their status was less than that, and the cavalry general had nothing to do with them.

In any case, there must be a huge reason for this. Zhuge Qiao didn't bother to think about it anymore, grabbed the silk book in front of him and said to Deng Fan: "Let's leave immediately, go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion first, and then..."

At this moment, the clanging sound of armor came from outside the house.

Deng Fan and Zhuge Qiao had rich military experience. I immediately heard that it was Zhao Lu and other soldiers who met someone, and then saluted them in unison.
Chapter completed!