When encountering such a crisis suddenly, Li Ling was able to quickly grasp the key and respond, which showed his scheming and courage at this time.

However, he is not an official of the court after all, and he can't find a breakthrough if he wants to intervene, so he can only send a letter to Yang Zhen, who is in Hengzhou, asking him to help him investigate the Jingzhou government and Fei Chong. Yang Zhen naturally could not refuse this.

In fact, Yang Zhen said on the surface that he was ordered to come to Huaibei to take charge of the overall situation, but in fact everyone knows that he is just to protect and help Li Ling at close range. After all, Li Ling has made many enemies in the court. Now that he has no official position to protect him, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will not make any decisions about him. As long as he misses, he may be doomed.

But with Yang Zhen taking care of him nearby, the situation is different. The current Imperial City Department is much stronger than before, and as long as he comes forward, it will be enough to solve many problems.

However, even if he was willing to help Li Ling, Yang Zhen would not have stayed in a small place like Jiangcheng County. So after sending Li Ling safely home, he said goodbye and left and fell into Hengzhou Prefecture. This is the nearest prefecture to Li Ling, otherwise he would have to go to Xuzhou according to the previous rules.

It was precisely because Yang Zhen was in Hengzhou that Li Ling was sending a message quickly enough and sent people to rush there at night. At noon the next day, Yang Zhen also knew about the matter. He also knew how important the Cao Gang was to Li Ling, so he naturally would not refuse. He immediately drew the elite trusted people around him and asked them to disguise themselves to Jingzhou and join forces with the local Imperial City Spy to investigate the beginning and the truth of the matter.

Yang Zhen's reaction was already fast enough, and the Imperial City Department's efficiency was high enough. But now, unlike a thousand years later, the transmission of news and personnel exchanges still took a lot of time. In this way, ten days passed, and there was still no definite information from the Jingzhou area. However, there was another less good news from the Cao Gang - there was finally a dispute in the gang.

The leader of the gang, Yang Qinghou and several experienced officials, were almost all taken down by the government. At the same time, the Cao Gang was forcibly curbed by the officials of the two Huai Rivers, completely frozen their business. This was a severe blow to the Cao Gang.

What are the purposes of tens of thousands of brothers willing to join the Cao Gang and obeying the orders of Yang Qinghou and others? Isn’t it just to have a peaceful life and to support the family? Now, if such a big thing happened in the gang, everyone will almost lose the blame, so naturally some people will show dissatisfaction and complaints.

At the beginning, with the comfort of some middle-level figures such as the helm leader, the brothers were able to hold on for the time being, but as time went by and some bad statements continued to spread, everyone could no longer feel at ease. Some people began to clamor to leave the Cao Gang.

Moreover, this time it was not a few people with dozens of people, but a few thousand people went up. Some middle-level and above gang leaders also proposed to establish a new Cao Gang - they actually wanted to separate themselves from Yang Qinghou and Cao Gang, so that they could transport cargo on the Cao River again.

This is not what the upper class wants to split the Cao Gang, so some people are willing to see, so they take decisive action and arrest all the dozen or so guys who have provoked the split in the gang, and then take out the food and money of the helper to share the money and money to the brothers to soothe people.

Of course, people can still hold on, but the situation

But it did not completely stabilize it. After all, the food and money can only solve the urgent problem for everyone, and the key is their livelihood in the future. Moreover, in terms of prestige in the gang, no one can compare with the gang leader Yang Qinghou and others who are imprisoned.

Therefore, in order to solve the problem of splitting the gang as soon as possible, some people have proposed to go directly to Jingzhou to rescue the gang leader. Although some gang elders came forward to stop it, it was obvious that their weight was not enough. Even after the fifth day of the second month, some people have already gone to Jingzhou in batches!

When these things continued to spread to Li Ling, his face became extremely ugly. The Cao Gang members were really seeking death in such a way.

"No, we must not let them do this!" Li Ling finally said fiercely after walking back and forth in the study. This is not only a matter of the Cao Gang family, but also may also involve himself.

After all, many people in the government and the country knew that they had married Yang Qingxiao, the sister of the Cao Gang leader, and over the years, the two sides have cooperated a lot. Once the Cao Gang is really detained as a rebellious person, they will be over. Can they be spared?

Even if Fei Chong didn't take the opportunity to attack him, there were people in the court who were waiting to take the blame. The prince probably had already sharpened his sword and killed him.

Therefore, the Cao Gang must not do anything randomly this time, and it must come forward to stop it. But the problem now is that I am still observing the filial piety and cannot leave Jiangcheng County according to the rules...

Fortunately, Yang Qingxiao also made a decision: "I want to rush over and stop them!" She was the eldest lady of the Cao Gang, and she was loved by the brothers in the gang before, and her speech was quite important, even above many elders.

Li Ling originally wanted to stop him, but then he moved his heart and said, "It's good. In this way, you disguise yourself and take me over with you."

"Li Lang, you go too, but... your current situation..."

"Now the matter of the Cao Gang is more important, and it doesn't care about other things. Moreover, I'm going with you as your entourage, which should be able to hide my eyes. Fortunately, I am obeying the rules at home and no one comes to visit me. Even if I leave for a while, no one knows."

"Then let's go together." Yang Qingxiao was also a person who dared to make a decision and nodded immediately. In fact, she was a good wife and mother who had been a good wife for several years, and she was actually worried that she could control the situation. Especially since this matter was related to the calculations of some people in the government, her husband was better at dealing with such activities.

It is now decided that on the eighth day of the second month, the couple added another Li Moyun, and then disguised themselves and rode their horses to Jingzhou. At the same time, Li Ling also sent someone to send a message to Yang Zhen so that he could also go to Jingzhou to meet him, and then combine their power with the Imperial City Department to solve this problem.

I don’t know if the Imperial City Office’s eyeliners in Jingzhou have found any available clues in the past few days...

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Hengzhou and Jingzhou are nearly 500 miles apart. Even though Li Ling and the other two traveled day and night, they did not arrive in Jingzhou City until three days later. However, Yang Zhen arrived earlier than them and sent someone to wait outside the city gate. When he saw them coming, he led his way to an inn in the south of the city.

This time, the three of them were dressed as ordinary merchants, and Yang Qingxiao even pretended to be a man, so naturally she would not go to the official office. Yang Zhen's arrangement was reasonable.

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What made Li Ling a little puzzled was that they had to take a long way to the south of the city, even though they entered the city from the west gate. Is that inn the secret stronghold of the Imperial City Department?

However, after seeing Yang Zhen, he did not rush to ask about this matter, but asked the other party if he had any further clues: "How about it, has the spies from the Imperial City Department found that there is a shortage of armored crossbows under Fei Chong's command?"

More than one hundred military crossbows, more than one hundred armors are not a small number, even in a military camp with tens of thousands of people, it is also a very eye-catching existence. If there is a shortage, there will be some flaws.

Unexpectedly, Yang Zhen shook his head: "Sir, I'm sorry. So far, our people have not found any relevant flaws. I have asked someone to go to the armory to check it secretly, and there is no shortage... It's like, these things are not taken out for a lot of money."

"This shouldn't be." Li Ling frowned. Judging from his experience, all this should be the focus of leading control. How could there be no flaws? "Has the relevant account books been checked? Perhaps their methods are more concealed, and even stolen these weapons with more correct reasons under the pretext of scrapping."

"My people have also checked the account books of the armory secretly. In the past six months, no relevant weapons have been scrapped. Moreover, these weapons are closely watched by the army. Each item is registered. It is impossible to be tampered with and not discovered by others."

Li Ling was stunned again. Could it be that his idea was wrong? This was not a conspiracy arranged by Fei Chong, but a great death for Cao Kang. Is there really a guy who was jealous of money who transported the weapons south without hiding everyone?

Li Ling fell into deep thought. Yang Zhen was not easy to disturb at first, but after a while he didn't come back to his senses, he couldn't help but cough and said, "Sir, we can think about this matter slowly and investigate it slowly. There is another more important thing to solve now."

"What?" Li Ling asked a little surprised.

"The Cao Gang has already entered Jingzhou City. They can't stand it and plan to take the risk." Yang Zhen said with a serious expression.

"This is not true!" Yang Qingxiao, who had been silent all the time, couldn't help but hear this and said anxiously. Once she really got rid of prison robbery or something, there would be no way out.

Li Ling also said anxiously: "I have to try to stop them. Where are they now?" I believe that with the eyes and ears of the Imperial City Department, the whereabouts of these people have been grasped.

"They are hiding in this inn." Yang Zhen said. This is the purpose of attracting Li Ling and the others here. Then he said with a tight expression, "And when I came this morning, I found that there were more people watching the inn around this inn. I'm afraid their whereabouts have been targeted by the government!"

Li Ling took a deep breath again. It turned out that the movements of the Cao Gang were all in the control of others, and the government even deliberately guided them to do so. Therefore, if he could not stop them, the entire Cao Gang would really face a catastrophe, and Yang Qinghou and others who were in prison were even more dead.

At this moment, he no longer hesitated and suddenly stood up: "Where are they now, you can take us here!" The situation was urgent, and he had to participate as soon as possible. But when Yang Zhen got up to lead the way, he suddenly thought of something again, and then slowly fell behind his equally anxious wife, and muttered a few words in her ear...
Chapter completed!