After returning to Hanoi, Yan Liang thought about Zhang He and Gao Lan. He found some soldiers who had served in the army under the command of the high-ranking officials and asked them about the details of the original situation. As a result, he found that the high-ranking officials' words were indeed problematic. When Chang Chun pretended to be defeated and fled, Zhang He suggested that there would be an ambush ahead, but the high-ranking officials forced them to chase him. He led several times of the army to besiege the city. However, he did not break through and lost his troops. When he left, he did not care about Zhang He and Gao Lan who were besieged because of the trap, and he also put the responsibility for the defeat on them. Therefore, the facts proved that all this was fabricated by the high-ranking officials.

"Ahhhhhh, this abominable high-ranking kid, it turns out that he was doing everything in the middle!" Yan Liang, who knew the truth, screamed in anger. He almost blamed his good brother. If it weren't for Chang Chun's blocking him, he would have killed his unjust brother with his own hands today, causing lifelong regret, but let the culprit get away with it.

"I really thank General Chang to what happened today. He let me know the grievances of my brothers and he saved my face. I, Yan Liang, will definitely be rewarded in the future. Not to mention this, I must make the boy named Gao pay the price, even if he is the nephew of the lord!"

Yan Liang's anger was rising, but he also knew that Gao Gan was Yuan Shao's nephew, so it would be difficult to touch him, so he had to come up with a solution.

After some thought, Yan Liang decided to trick the high-ranking officials into Hanoi first, then forcibly interrogate him, forcing him to confess his crimes and to report the result to Yuan Shao, and asked Yuan Shao to take charge of the high-ranking officials to severely punish them and clear his two brothers of grievances.

Yan Liang then wrote to Yuan Shao that he needed a person who could win the hearts of the people and had strong internal affairs to help him. For the sake of the overall situation, he could give up the position of prefect of Hanoi and only serve as the chief lieutenant. For the candidates for prefects, he strongly suggested that he be a high-ranking official, because he stayed here for the longest time, was the most popular among the people, and was also the most familiar with the affairs here. Otherwise, he would not be able to attack Xun You with all his strength.

Yuan Shao was very pleased after receiving Yan Liang's letter. He originally wanted to let Yan Liang and the senior officials go to Hanoi together, but some people said that Yan Liang's status was too high, and it was easy to form a conflict between the two after he went there. Yuan Shao gave up this idea. However, now Yan Liang started from the overall situation and took the initiative to ask the senior officials to go there. This immediately made Yuan Shao very happy. He showed Yan Liang's letters all over the generals. On the one hand, everyone could see Yan Liang's selflessness to show his correctness in employing people. On the other hand, he found a high-sounding reason for him to send the senior officials to Hanoi.

But Tian Feng said, "The officials thought this matter was inappropriate. Yan Liang was responsible for Hanoi. At this time, he suddenly asked the high-ranking officials to go there. There must be some inside information. The officials heard that the high-ranking officials slandered Zhang He and Gao Lan for rebelling in order to shirk their combat readiness. Could it be that Yan Liang knew the truth of the matter now and wanted to investigate the high-ranking officials clearly?"

Yuan Shao immediately snorted unhappy when he heard this, "The matter of Zhang He and Gao Lan's two thieves has been settled. There is nothing to say. Yan Liang is like a fire and has clear grudges. How could he talk to the thief? After meeting, he must have stabbed him with a shot. Yuan Hao, as a Jizhou nephew, how could he hearsay? What's especially hateful is that he actually slandered the high-ranking officials for shirking responsibility and claimed that Zhang He and Gao Lan's two thieves rebelled, but their rebellion was a fact. Now they are serving Pei Qing in Hanoi and fighting our army? And this is enough to prove that the two thieves were originally planning to betray!"

Afterwards, Yuan Shao refused to listen to Tian Feng's advice and insisted on appointing senior officials as the prefect of Hejian, and asked senior officials to fully cooperate with Yan Liang's work.

In fact, the high-ranking officials also heard the news and knew that Yan Liang was really looking for him for Zhang He and Gao Lan's affairs. However, he felt that he had Yuan Shao's support behind him and was not afraid of Yan Liang at all. Besides, Zhang He and Gao Lan had surrendered to Pei Qing, which is an indisputable fact. Moreover, because their family was killed, they had already formed a mortal hatred with their side, and there was no possibility of peace talks. Since this is the case, Yan Liang would not offend his own people because of an enemy, right? Moreover, this time he did not have to send troops to fight. He just needed to stay quietly in the city to easily take credit. The high-ranking officials had the confidence to turn misfortune into blessing, so they were not afraid of Yan Liang at all.

So the high-ranking official took office with great pride, but unexpectedly, he was captured by Yan Liang on the first day of his appointment. Although he and his personal soldiers fought desperately, how could he compare to Yan Liang's bravery? After a useless struggle, he became a prisoner.

"Yan Liang, what do you want to do? Do you want to rebel? Don't forget that your family is still in Jizhou, and Zhang He and Gao Lei's lessons from the two thieves are not far away. You should think carefully." Gao Gan thought that Yan Liang was actually a rude person, so he was naturally very scared, but he was still fearless. After all, he was Yuan Shao's nephew, and Yan Liang didn't dare to take it seriously.

However, he did not expect that Yan Liang would torture him severely and force him to ask about the truth at the beginning. If the senior official said something wrong, he would beat him up.

At first, the senior official was cursing, but later he didn't dare to say good things and could only say good things. In the end, he even begged for mercy from the other party. Finally, he was unable to support himself under severe torture, so he had to tell them all.

"Hmph, this is indeed the case, it's a complete picture." Yan Liang immediately asked him to write the picture after receiving the confession of Gao Jian. Gao Jian was hesitant at the beginning, but later Yan Liang became impatient and grabbed Gao Jian's hand, dipped it in ink, and drew the picture on the paper.

"You, Yan Liang, how dare you do this!" The high-ranking official couldn't help but be furious when he saw this. Yan Liang was too immoral, right? But when he saw Yan Liang's cold and murderous look, he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to shut up and not say anything.

However, in his heart, the high-ranking officials were fearless about this, because the lord was his uncle, so how could his uncle make things difficult for his nephew? This incident was destined to be a little thunder.

So the senior officials didn't care at all. Although Yan Liang was his uncle's confidant, he could still have a nephew with him again? After arriving in Jizhou, he still had the final say in everything.

The high-ranking official was then released and still became his prefect, but he was closely monitored by Yan Liang, so it was difficult to get freedom.

The senior officials were also silently paying attention to Yan Liang's situation. He found that half a month after he arrived in Hanoi, he had not seen Yan Liang send troops to fight a war. He asked Yan Liang in court why he was not moving when he was holding a meeting.

However, Yan Liang said lightly, "Now the enemy is strong. The morale of our army was depressed by you before. It has not recovered yet. If you want to fight, you will have to wait a few more days. Besides, I am the military commander here, and you are only responsible for internal affairs and have no right to interfere in military affairs at all."

"No, I am the prefect of Hanoi, and you are just a small captain. If you want to be under my jurisdiction, how can you say that I have no right to interfere in military affairs? After I go back, I will tell you all these things to my uncle."

The high-ranking official was very angry. Unexpectedly, Yan Liang dared to question his power, so of course he argued loudly and threatened.

"Hehe, do you think I'm afraid?" Yan Liang didn't care at all, and said with a faint smile, "Don't you want to go back to Jizhou? Okay, I'll go back with you tomorrow morning, just to talk about your intentional accusation of a good person."
Chapter completed!