After traveling for a few more days, Liu Chang led his troops to Yecheng. Afterwards, Liu Chang held up an imperial edict and claimed that he had received a secret order from the emperor and came to inspect Wang Fen's accomplices, hoping to arrest these rebellious officials and traitors.

All were captured and brought back to Luoyang. Various previous rumors led everyone in the city to believe that Liu Chang came to inquire about Wang Fen on behalf of the emperor, and because the eunuchs had previously heard that Liu Chang had defected to He Jin, there was no such thing.

Anyone who dared to read the edict in Liu Chang's hand, Liu Chang led his troops into Yecheng easily, and no one thought there was anything unusual about it.

After entering the city, Liu Chang immediately invited all the officials and generals in the city to the place where Wang Fen lived before. After Wang Fen committed suicide, no one lived here anymore, and the court did not send any new Jizhou shepherds.

Come over. So Liu Chang made use of this place openly, and then let his troops occupy key places in the city.

After everyone arrived, Liu Chang was the first to speak: "Your Majesty already knows about your wolfish ambitions. If there is anything else we don't know, please tell us everything. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the rest of you if others tell you first."

His tone was cold and cool, letting people know that this matter is not going to be easy.

A middle-aged official said to Liu Chang in a flattering tone: "We really don't know about Wang Fen's conspiracy. The angels of Wanwang can understand our difficulties. If we know about such a conspiracy without a father and no king, we will immediately

Report to His Majesty."

Liu Chang's eyes widened and he scolded them loudly: "How could it be possible that you don't know anything? I don't believe that no one in this huge city of Ye knows about Wang Fen's conspiracy. Don't think about how to deceive me. For you,

I still know what these people are thinking. Don't try to deceive me to get out of this predicament. If you can't explain clearly today, you will all be taken to Luoyang for interrogation by His Majesty himself." Liu Chang said.

He saluted in the direction of Luoyang.

This person looked a little bitter and said: "I hope the angel can investigate clearly. This matter really has nothing to do with us. We are just local officials with little power. How could Wang Fen tell us such confidential things?

"His confidants must be those generals and colonels with military power." His face clearly showed the look of a dead Taoist friend but a poor Taoist. He wanted to blame all these things on those generals and colonels.

Liu Chang followed his hint and looked at the former captains under Wang Fen.

Liu Chang nodded and said: "What you said seems to make some sense, but you are in charge of the local household registration, money, food, and criminal names. You must be Wang Fen's cronies. It is definitely impossible to say that you don't know anything. You guys

It's better to take the initiative and tell everything you know, it will be better for everyone."

When a captain next to him heard this and put the responsibility on himself and others, he immediately said: "General Mingjian, these people are clearly trying to deceive the general. Wang Fen's accomplices include Xu You, Fang Shi Xiangkai, Chen Yi, etc.

People."

Liu Chang asked: "What about these people? Since you know that these people are Wang Fen's associates, you must have captured them all."

The captain said sarcastically: "Reporting to the general, they fled too fast, so we didn't catch them."

Liu Chang angrily said: "Did you not catch them, or did you let them escape on purpose?"

The others quickly explained: "They escaped early, and then Wang Fen committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine. Before that, we had no idea what these people were plotting."

Liu Chang glanced at them, and a man quickly came over and said: "General, I think it must be that they did not arrest them carefully enough to cause these people to escape. They must be accomplices."

Then the captain heard this and cursed: "You fart, you are just a little bitch. How can you frame our innocence out of thin air."

So the remaining people started to bite each other. Although they were trying to distance themselves from each other, Liu Chang's purpose here was to catch them all in one go, and he didn't care whether they actually participated in Wang Fen's conspiracy.

So Liu Chang grimaced and said: "Since you can't explain clearly, then wait until you enter Luoyang and slowly explain it to His Majesty."

Then he said to Zhao: "Please get all these people on the carriage and escort them all to Luoyang to await your Majesty's death."

Zhao Di immediately replied loudly: "Yes." Then he motioned to the soldiers next to him to escort these people into the carriage one by one. At this time, all the dozens of top officials in Yecheng were captured.<

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Everyone began to beg hard.

In order to allow them to go on their way obediently, Liu Chang deliberately acted like he was here to extort money from others, and then said to these people inscrutably: "I know that many of you are innocent, but I also serve the emperor."

The order came. So don’t make it difficult for me. But when I came, General He also told me that if there were people who had been wronged, he would never make it difficult. But General He is not like that.

It’s easy to see, but you still need to make more preparations.”

These people immediately understood and said: "It's just that we are in prison and cannot collect our belongings. Why don't we let the general go? We will prepare gifts for the general as soon as we get back."

Liu Chang shook his head and said: "You leave me a token, and I will bring something to your family. I really don't dare to let you out. But don't worry, as long as you are sensible, General Luoyang will definitely

I will take care of you."

So these people had no choice but to leave some tokens of words to Liu Chang, hoping to satisfy the general's appetite and allow him to come back safely.

Liu Chang said to them: "Don't worry, our people will take care of you all the way here, don't worry too much. Everyone's life must be worry-free."

So these people had no choice but to go away in a carriage.

Liu Chang arranged for Zhao Di to take Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao to escort these people back to Zhongshan. They should be imprisoned somewhere in Zhongshan County first.

Xin Zhao took the collected tokens and said, "Young Master will use these tokens to extort money from their family."

Liu Chang thought for a while and said: "It's all a show, but just keep their money and give it back to them when everything is settled. Just do it, don't go too far."

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Chapter completed!