Rebirth of the eldest daughter

Chapter 1198. What is their real purpose?

Liu Yao sat at the table with a serious look on his face.

He thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think is wrong?"

"Master Cheng." Yu Jianling said the name firmly.

Liu Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Tell me more specifically."

Yu Jianling slowly analyzed his conclusion: "The first is the matter of the county magistrate opening the granary to release grain. The county magistrate has the key to the granary, and there is nothing wrong with him personally leading people to open the granary."

"However, after the accident in the granary, it was the master who took charge of the overall situation. The master is just the county magistrate's personal staff and subordinate. The county magistrate is not around, so it is not his turn to give orders."

"But he not only acted as the leader after the county magistrate left, but also took the initiative to accept the refugees, but was killed by the mob. Why did he let the refugees into the city at that time?"

Liu Yao nodded: "This is also what I am thinking about. It is indeed a bit unclear."

Yu Jianling continued to speak: "Secondly, even if it is not the master, the county magistrate will be in charge of the overall situation, but it will not be the turn of the bookkeeper."

"He, Master Cheng, is the person who manages documents and files, but when something happened to Master, he was the one who stepped in and took the lead."

"Finally, the other officials in the county government are very strange. They all seem to be in awe of Master Cheng. However, if you think about it from another angle, isn't this another kind of fear?"

"It's just that everyone in Luquan City obeys Master Cheng's orders. Even the people in the city place their hopes on him."

"We outside officials, apart from handling some official matters in accordance with the regulations, cannot get involved in other matters, and we don't know where to start."

"If the problem really arises from Master Cheng, our situation may be ten thousand times more difficult than originally estimated. Now we only hope that the general will act faster."

After listening to Yu Jianling's words, Liu Yao was speechless for a long time.

Until the end, he expressed his opinion: "Your Majesty, I think you can't just take everything at face value."

"Master Cheng is indeed suspicious, but what if this is someone with ulterior motives who wants us to see it?"

Yu Jianling frowned: "Why did Your Highness say this?"

Liu Yao did not answer, but asked: "Your Majesty, do you still remember the game of fighting crickets?"

Yu Jianling said: "What are you talking about? Even if others don't remember it, I can't help but remember it. Since we were young..."

Having said this, he suddenly realized that His Highness Ninth Prince was acting seriously.

So he stopped joking and showed a serious expression: "Your Highness means..."

Liu Yao spoke slowly: "Fighting crickets is the same as playing chess with those ugly scholars. They are fighting in a small space, and the crickets are in that little jar and you and I are dead."

"Both games require patience. Even though the cricket fight is fierce, it's not certain who will win in the end."

"Just like our current situation, Mr. Cheng is so suspicious, but we cannot draw conclusions prematurely, lest our preconceptions affect our judgment of the matter."

Yu Jianling listened to everything Liu Yao said.

He solemnly responded: "Yes, Your Highness."

Liu Yao nodded: "Before the general left, he said that news from Jiangbei would be sent to me. If nothing else happens, we will know about what happened three days ago right away."

As soon as he finished speaking, his confidant immediately came to report: "Your Highness, the general's secret guard has arrived with news."

Liu Yao immediately sat up straight and said, "Please come in." After a while, an unattractive man came in and respectfully presented a stack of letters:

"Your Highness, this is the latest news from various places in Jiangbei. Please read it. My master has told me that after reading the news about the water conditions, please hand it over to Mr. Meng."

Liu Yao nodded: "I understand, let's go down."

The secret guard retreated quietly.

After the secret guard left, Liu Yao opened the letter and read it carefully.

He reviewed the important information from each place one by one. The situation was almost the same as last time, but there was progress in the implementation of disaster relief regulations in each place.

When he turned to the situation in Luquan County, he hesitated and did not check immediately.

Yu Jianling asked: "Your Highness, how is the situation in various places?"

Liu Yao nodded: "The latest news before me is from three days ago, and the earliest news from Luquan is from two days ago."

"Nothing very special happened in various places three days ago. However, it is still unknown whether anything happened during these three days."

Yu Jianling analyzed: "It is expected that such terrible turmoil will not occur in other places like Luquan City."

"As the general said, if you want to make a big move in the remaining counties in Jiangbei, tens of thousands of troops are needed. Northern Qi will not have so many hidden stakes in Jiangbei."

"That's why they slaughtered the people, provoked the people's anger, and caused chaos in Jiangbei, so as to achieve their goals."

Liu Yao agreed: "You are right. The number of troops Beiyan has placed in Jiangbei is indeed not large enough to cause chaos in the entire Jiangbei."

Yu Jianling touched his chin: "That's strange. Why did they arrange so many people in Luquan?"

"If it's just to deal with us, it doesn't make sense. The general's skill is obvious to all. It would be very difficult for them to use these troops to take our lives."

"Luquan is the main link connecting the north and south of the Yangtze River. It is understandable that they are holding us back here and affecting the transportation of supplies between the north and the south, but I still don't think this is the main reason."

Liu Yao didn't answer immediately. He took out the letter about Luquan sent by the secret guard and opened it to read.

After a moment, he spoke slowly: "The situation in Luquan is almost the same as what Master Cheng said, so Master Cheng has not lied to us."

"But this letter also mentions that some people who fled to Luquan City have disappeared."

"Missing?" Yu Jianling shouted in shock, because he smelled a conspiracy, "Why did you disappear?"

Liu Yao put the letter on the table: "People fleeing towards Luquan City gathered from all directions, but not many came to Luquan City. The secret guard said that it did not seem like all of these people had left their lives on the road to escape. They roughly checked the number of people, but they didn’t match up.”

Yu Jianling clapped his hand: "This is really a strange thing. With so many things happening around Luquan City, the secret guards didn't take any action?"

Liu Yao said: "Most of the general's manpower is used for arranging the warehouses and transporting food, clothing, and medicinal materials. It is extremely rare to have manpower to inquire about information. They can only watch and cannot intervene. "

"As for my king's men, although there are some people who obey orders at the end of the year, they are not my king's confidants. Most of them are related to my mother and concubine. There are only a few people who I can directly use."

Yu Jianling comforted him: "We can't change what happened in the past, but we need to take precautions in the future so as not to be constrained everywhere."

Liu Yao nodded, and then said solemnly: "Your Majesty, do you think the current situation is very similar to what happened in the past?"

Yu Jianling thought for a while, then suddenly his eyes widened with a look of horror: "Your Highness means..."

(End of this chapter)