I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 178: Chase! Chase! Chase!
Gao Cheng was so nervous that he mobilized all the manpower he could to search for Liu Kui everywhere.

In order to increase the success rate and at the same time avoid making a big fuss, he also ordered the county magistrates in various places to mobilize all of them and search for Liu Kui in a low-key manner and never make it public.

It should be said that Gao Cheng was extremely unlucky. Just as he started looking for someone, Li Shao, the governor of Jizhou, arrived.

Li Shao met Gao Cheng at the Prime Minister's Residence of Bohai State and took out the emperor's edict and handed it to Gao Cheng. When Gao Cheng saw it, he felt dizzy and almost fainted.

King Liu Kui of Bohai was seriously suspected of treason and usurping the throne. The emperor ordered Li Shao, the governor of Jizhou, to arrest Liu Kui and bring him to justice for a serious trial. As long as the guilt was proven, he would be executed immediately without any leniency.

Gao Cheng felt that his death star was shining brightly, and his life might end here.

In fact, if it was just Li Shao who came to do the work, he could have evaded, made excuses, pretended to obey but secretly disobeyed, or even directly resisted Li Shao's intervention, because Li Shao, the governor of Jizhou, was also an official of two thousand stones, and in the traditional concept, he had no qualifications to intervene in the internal affairs of Bohai.

But the problem was that Li Shao came with the emperor's edict, which meant he was the emperor's envoy, doing things on behalf of the emperor. How could he, as a prefect, resist the emperor's order?

But Liu Kui was missing, what should he say?
Li Shao noticed that Gao Cheng's expression was not right, and realized what might have happened, so he hurriedly asked what the real situation was. Gao Cheng thought about it and couldn't avoid it, so he could only tell Li Shao with a bitter face - Liu Li was missing, and the whole family was missing.

Now it was not only Gao Cheng who felt dark in front of his eyes, but also Li Shao.

Li Shao almost lost his balance, but fortunately his subordinates supported him and helped him to calm down. He managed to calm down and put his hands on Gao Cheng's shoulders with a ferocious look on his face, almost squeezing out a word from between his teeth.

"What's going on? Tell me the truth!"

Gao Cheng was completely desperate and decided to give up without struggling any more. He told Li Shao everything that happened.

It is conservatively estimated that Liu Kui had been missing for seven days. Because he was busy dealing with local tax resistance, he did not pay attention to this matter. By the time he paid attention to it, it was too late. He could not find him anywhere.

And then here we are.

Li Shao felt a little desperate, and felt that his death star was also shining brightly.

The emperor's edict had just been delivered, and he mobilized his troops and rushed here immediately after receiving it. It only took a few days. Logically speaking, Liu Kui should have no time to respond, but he disappeared, and so many days ago?

At that time period, even he had not received the imperial edict from Luoyang, so how could Liu Kui suddenly disappear?

Are these two things related?

Was it just an accident? Did Liu Kui not escape?

If it was an accident, Liu Kui would not disappear without informing the world. He would not still be a child at heart and want to play hide-and-seek with everyone, right?

If it wasn't an accident, these two things should be considered together, then...

Before he received the imperial edict, Liu Kui already knew about it, and then he responded and escaped. So there is only one possibility.

When the emperor's edict was sent to Luoyang, someone leaked the secret and informed Liu Kui of the news. Liu Kui acted faster and gained a few days of time. Coupled with Gao Cheng's negligence, Liu Kui escaped successfully and disappeared without a trace.

Liu Kui has already seized the initiative. Even if an arrest warrant is issued, it is hard to say whether we can catch up with Liu Kui's escape. In case Liu Kui flees directly to the north or south without stopping, it is not certain that we can catch up with him.

If he has some accomplices to help him, then... he might even gather troops and launch a rebellion!
This is a big deal! This is a big deal!
Li Shao wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at Gao Cheng with empty eyes, walked forward and slapped him hard, leaving him with a confused look on his face.

It's already like this, why are you still hitting me?
"Listen, Governor Gao, you and I are now tied to the same rope. If we can't accomplish this and find the King of Bohai, we will both die. No one can escape. Our only way to survive now is to find the King of Bohai. Investigate immediately! Track him down immediately. Send out everyone you can! Chase him in all directions! Chase! Chase!!"

Li Shao also went crazy and didn't care about anything anymore. He dispersed the soldiers he brought with him.

Driven by a strong desire to survive, Gao Cheng didn't care about anything else and followed Li Shao's footsteps. He sent out all the people he could, chasing him in all directions and taking every road, not letting go of any possibility.

In addition, in order to determine where Liu Kui had left from, Li Shao and Gao Cheng arrested all the old servants in the Bohai Palace and the servants in the other courtyards, tortured them severely, and even killed and dismembered them in front of them, forcing them to tell them all the information they knew.

Things were not smooth at the beginning. Even a young servant confessed to having committed adultery with the King of Bohai's concubine. No one knew where the King of Bohai had gone, as if Liu Kui had really disappeared from the face of the earth.

Just when Li Shao and Gao Cheng were both in despair, a servant accidentally said something interesting. He said that on the morning when they left the palace to prepare for the other courtyard, he fell behind because of a stomachache and did not set out with the main group, but went to the other courtyard alone.

When he set out, he saw Liu Kui and his family hurriedly getting on a carriage and leaving Nanpi County with a caravan. After leaving the city, they were indeed heading towards the villa, but after he quickly arrived at the villa, he waited and waited but did not see Liu Kui's caravan coming, which he found very strange.

Li Shao immediately caught this suspicious point.

"Caravan? What caravan?"

The servant who was tortured cried and confessed what he knew.

"I heard that it was a caravan coming from Guanzhong, bringing a lot of goods from Liangzhou to sell. It seems that they also gave the king some wine, but I don't know about the rest."

"Guanzhong? Wine?"

Li Shao glanced at Gao Cheng and found that Gao Cheng was also looking at him.

Wine is something that not everyone can afford. The price of wine when transported from Liangzhou to Luoyang is higher than gold. If it is transported across the border to Jizhou, the price will be several times higher. Except for the rich and powerful, no one can afford such an expensive luxury.

Moreover, the world was unstable in those days. For a caravan to travel thousands of miles from Guanzhong to Jizhou for sale, what great ability did it take? And how powerful must the boss behind it be?

This news was very important, but Li Shao and Gao Cheng had served as officials in Jizhou for a long time and did not know much about things related to wine. It seemed that they had grasped the key point, but also seemed that they had not.

After a long time, Gao Cheng suddenly thought of something.

"If the King of Bohai left with the caravan, which came from Guanzhong, he would definitely be heading to Guanzhong. Do you think the King of Bohai is on his way to Guanzhong now?"

"Guanzhong?"

Li Shao frowned and thought hard, wondering: "Why go to Guanzhong? What's the point of going to Guanzhong? And to go to Guanzhong, they must pass through the Sanhe area, unless they change their route to Sichuan, but in that case the road is too difficult, so they must go through Luoyang. This is blatantly walking into a trap, then..."

Li Shao suddenly stopped talking.

Through these clues, he suddenly came up with some very horrifying associations.

If all the previous events were based on the premise that Liu Kui really had the intention to rebel and was preparing to usurp the throne, then Liu Kui's obviously unreasonable and contrary approach...

Could it be...

Could it be that they were heading straight for Luoyang and were planning to launch a shocking rebellion in the dark surrounding Luoyang?

Was his target Luoyang rather than Jizhou from the very beginning?
Didn't he think of rebelling in Jizhou, but went straight to Luoyang?
He had accomplices in Luoyang, and I heard that many of them had been arrested, but there must be some remnants, otherwise the news of the court's arrest of him would not have leaked, and he would not have known about this matter so long in advance.

Therefore, Liu Kui’s forces in Luoyang have definitely not been completely eliminated, and he must have a backup plan!

In this case, Liu Li is very likely planning to give it a try!

broken!

We are still here trying to catch him, but he has already gone for the emperor himself! He is going to give it a try!

After realizing this, Li Shao was scared out of his wits. Gao Cheng was also scared out of his wits when he learned about it. The two immediately made a decision.

Chase!
Chase!
Chase!
Even if the horses are killed, the legs are broken, and the buttocks are broken, we must stop Liu Kui's caravan! We must not let him reach Luoyang smoothly!

It should be said that they noticed it fairly quickly, and also derived an answer that was close to the truth through deduction, but the problem was -

too late.

(End of this chapter)