"puff!"

After listening to the servant's report, Wang Yuan spat out the tea in his mouth. He stared at the servant with wide eyes and asked, "Are you sure?"

The servant nodded heavily: "It is absolutely true! Our people saw with their own eyes the men of the Marquis of Zhenxi carrying the boxes from the cart into Gaoliu City."

"What came out of that box are all jewels! It's obvious that they were looted by the bandits in Jubei City."

Wang Yuan angrily slammed the table next to him. He had lost a lot of money! This time he really lost a lot of money!

"This Zhenxi Marquis! He deserves to die! He really deserves to die!"

"Now that he has all that money and food, and with his and his father's reputation, he will surely be able to expand within Xiliang in a very short period of time."

"I suffered heavy losses in this attack on Jubei City, but he was the one who benefited the most, and his men didn't suffer much loss."

"If I let him continue to develop, I'm afraid that within a year, I won't be able to gain a foothold in Xiliang."

Thinking of this, Wang Yuan became even more annoyed, and the servant hurriedly came up and hit his shoulder.

"Master, please calm down. I have sent someone to Gaoliu City to investigate and they have found out something."

Wang Yuan raised his eyebrows, and after hearing what the servant said, his anger subsided a little.

"Oh? What did you find out?" he asked in a deep voice.

"It is said that Ying Tianqian has been bedridden since he was infected with poisonous miasma during the attack on Nanyue. Now his whole family has been banished to Xiliang, and Ying Tianqian has handed over all family affairs to his son."

"That is to say, the person in charge of the Ying family now is Marquis Zhenxi, and the only person we really have to deal with is Ying Xuanze."

Wang Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly after listening to this. "That's good. After all, Ying Tiangan is a former general and a capable man who has experienced the 'Yongxing Rebellion' and the 'Seven Kingdoms Rebellion'."

"Without him as an opponent, it will be much easier to deal with Ying Xuanze."

"Next...it all depends on what that master in the capital does..."

......

One day later, in Beijing.

Late at night, at the general's mansion.

"Whoa!" A horse stopped in front of the gate of the general's mansion. A soldier got off the horse and entered the general's mansion after getting permission from the gatekeeper.

Inside the mansion, Huang Chan, who had just been promoted to the rank of general, was raising his wine glass with a smile on his face. On each side of his body sat a fair-skinned and beautiful dancer, serving him.

Sitting on both sides of the hall were important figures in the court, all of whom were from his faction.

At this moment, these people all had smiles on their faces. They all raised their wine glasses on the table and drank with Huang Chan who was sitting in the main seat.

"My Lords, enjoy yourselves tonight, and don't be polite to me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Chan clapped his hands twice. A moment later, more than a dozen dancers entered the hall and began to dance to the music.

The members of Huang Chan's faction all set their sights on these dancers, and some of them even stroked their chins while sizing up some of the dancers with extremely greedy eyes.

Huang Chan saw all of this. He smiled faintly and hugged the dancer on the left into his arms.

After kissing the dancer for a while, a servant suddenly came in hurriedly from the side door and whispered something in his ear.

After hearing this, Huang Chan reluctantly moved away from the beauty. He took the secret letter handed to him by the servant but did not open it in a hurry.

"Haha, if you like that dancer, you can take her away after the banquet. But I have received a secret letter, and it has to be sent 800 miles away urgently."

Huang Chan licked his lips and said, "It was sent by Wang Yuan. Can you guess what has caused such a rush?"

Imperial Household Manager Liu Jie stroked his beard and smiled faintly, "Wang Yuan? That's Xiliang's business. Since it's an urgent 800-li journey, I'm afraid it's the Northern Hu who are invading?"

As soon as Liu Jie finished speaking, the Minister of War Yuan Zhaojie smiled and shook his head, saying, "What are the Northern Barbarians? There is no need for the court to intervene. Wang Yuan can handle them on his own."

"Who? Oh! Didn't Ying Xuanze just go to Xiliang to be the Marquis of Zhenxi? I ​​think this letter is probably related to him."

Liu Jie thought it made sense, and then smiled and bowed to Huang Chan, saying, "Ying Xuanze has been in Xiliang for more than 20 days, and the bandits there are eyeing him covetously. Maybe..."

Liu Jie didn't finish his words, but everyone present understood what he wanted to say, so they all laughed at the same time in tacit understanding.

Huang Chan was in a good mood. He nodded slightly and said, "It seems that Wang Yuan wanted to tell me the good news in a hurry. He did a good job. We should find a chance to transfer him back to the capital."

He opened the letter as he spoke. He roughly knew the content of the letter. Long before Ying Xuanze went to Xiliang, he asked Wang Yuan to find a way to destroy the Ying family.

Although the result came a little late, Wang Yuan did not disappoint him.

Thinking of this, Huang Chan smiled slightly. He unfolded the letter and immediately looked over it.

Just with this glance, the smile suddenly froze...

Liu Jie, Yuan Zhaojie and others were always observing Huang Chan's expression. When they saw Huang Chan's smile freeze, everyone's faces became solemn.

They knew that the content of the letter was not good news...

Huang Chan's face darkened completely after reading the letter. He snorted angrily, crumpled the letter in his hand and threw it aside.

The dancer next to him stood up and left decisively, and then stood aside very obediently.

They would not be so ignorant as to stay there. General Huang had a very bad temper. Once, a dancer had her tongue cut off because she said something wrong when he was angry.

"Waste! A bunch of waste!" Huang Chan's face suddenly turned red, and this roar scared the dancers who were dancing so much that they all knelt on the ground.

Liu Jie and Yuan Zhaojie looked at each other, and then the former frowned and asked tentatively:

"What exactly does this letter say? Why is the general so angry?"

Huang Chan's face turned pale, and he coldly asked all the dancers to leave, and then said in a deep voice:

"Wang Yuan's letter said that after Ying Xuanze arrived in Xiliang, he was not killed by the bandits. Instead, he rebuilt the Tiger Guards and wiped out several bandit forces! A total of tens of thousands of people!"

When these words were spoken, several ministers were shocked.

"Impossible! The Huben Army was disbanded long ago. Where can Ying Xuanze rebuild the army?" Liu Jie questioned loudly.

"Could it be that the old soldiers followed them to Xiliang?" a minister asked.

"Even if it is, there are so many bandits in Xiliang. Unless it is the Tiger Guards of the past, how could it be possible to wipe out tens of thousands of bandits in such a short time?"

Huang Chan continued in a deep voice: "And Wang Yuan also said in the letter that this Tiger Guard Army is very powerful, with more than 10,000 infantry and several thousand cavalry!"

"This kid really has some tricks up his sleeves!" he said gritting his teeth.

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