Chapter 164: The Truth Revealed

The Prince of Wei also arrived on horseback.

Three thousand armored soldiers followed behind him; as always, there were only three thousand, yet they could exert a pressure as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth splitting.

Everyone looked over once again.

The Prince of Wei chuckled and said, "Wei Shao, Wei Shao, you have been wronged all these years..."

The entire scene was in an uproar!

Wei, Wei?

So this Wei Shao had been the Prince of Wei's man all along!

Wei Shao dismounted and bowed respectfully with cupped hands: "The Prince of Wei has shown me, Wei Shao, kindness as heavy as a mountain and bestowed his own surname upon me. A scholar dies for one who recognizes his worth; I have no regrets!"

"This..."

"Big Brother?"

"Great Leader! You... you are the Prince of Wei's man?"

Du Biao wore an expression of utter disbelief.

The other brothers of the Baiya Army were the same.

This was something no one had expected; this Wei Shao was simply too good at lying low! Because in this era, no matter who you were, as long as you had the Prince of Wei as a great tree to lean on, you would never need to worry about your official status, position, or power. With such an identity, who would come to the Baiya Army to be a mere bandit?

Zhang Xiao also exclaimed, "The Prince of Wei's man?"

Who could have imagined it?

The Great Leader who had single-handedly created the grand spectacle of the Baiya Army was actually someone the Prince of Wei had arranged to be here long ago!

It was too chaotic!

This circle is truly messy.

Liu Zheng also sighed while supporting his forehead, then smiled faintly.

A single horse ranch had now implicated several different factions.

Yang Ke, strictly speaking, was the Crown Prince's man, while this Wei Shao was the Prince of Wei's man. And what about Du Biao? Liu Zheng looked at Du Biao with ill intent.

Du Biao gasped, "I didn't, I'm not, I really did become a bandit!"

Liu Zheng held back his laughter.

Wei Shao—no, it should be Wei Shao—looked coldly at Yang Ke at this moment: "All these years, I have indeed had the intention to clear the brothers' names and secure a future for them; what is wrong with that?"

"If I were like you, focused only on myself, the Prince of Wei would have summoned me back to Qingzhou five years ago, during the peak of the Baiya Army, to reward me for my merits, yet I did not..."

"Because I care for these brothers, and I want to continue leading them to drink and eat meat!"

As he spoke, Wei Shao's eyes turned red.

"Big Brother!"

"Great Leader!"

The brothers present were all moved, shedding tears of emotion.

Liu Zheng also sighed slightly.

All this time, Wei Shao had been running back and forth across the entire Longyan Dynasty, single-mindedly trying to manage this horse ranch and the Baiya Army well. Yet, it was precisely this that gave Yang Ke the opportunity to exploit the situation, to spread rumors, and to bewitch people's hearts...

But now, it was too late.

With all these conspiracies and schemes leading to the exposure of Wei Shao's identity, could he still continue to be the Great Leader of the Baiya Army?

Perhaps there is a will of heaven in the dark.

The time when the Baiya Army was at its peak was also the time for them to fall apart.

The Prince of Wei laughed, "I just don't quite understand; that day, when Prefect Liu found Wei Shao and pointed out in one sentence that he was my man, how did you know?"

Swish, swish, swish.

The eyes of everyone present turned to Liu Zheng once again.

So all of this was also stirred up by this Prefect Liu?

Liu Zheng smiled faintly and said nothing.

Instead, Jiang Xuan, who was beside Liu Zheng, gave a cold snort: "What is difficult about that? As long as something exists, it leaves a trace! The Young Master had me investigate the outsiders who had come to Baiya City over these days. Surprisingly, half of the outsiders who arrived were from Qingzhou!"

"Ice three feet thick is not formed in a single day; why were there so many merchants from Qingzhou in Baiya City?"

"That is the first point!"

"Secondly, I intercepted several letters using a Falcon. Although the content of the Han was in code, we cracked it! The numbers all corresponded to characters in the *Strategy of the Warring States*, and by taking that content, we had your secret letters! And the Young Master also learned from these letters that, in fact, there was no such thing as an Account Book in the Baiya Army because the transactions were sensitive, which is why he suspected Yang Ke!"

The Prince of Wei and Wei Shao's expressions changed instantly.

Only then did they realize that the code they had used for so long had already been cracked by someone else!

"Thirdly..."

Jiang Xuan smiled faintly: "The Young Master told me about the concepts of 'Big Data' and 'Presumption of Guilt.' To determine whether a person and a place are related, one can start from two aspects! First, their movement trajectory; if it is too frequent or deliberately avoided, there is major suspicion!"

He looked at Wei Shao and smiled: "Great Leader, that is exactly the case!"

"I sent people to infiltrate the Baiya Army and investigate the Great Leader's movement trajectory within the Longyan Dynasty over these years, and discovered that the Great Leader seemed to always deliberately avoid Qingzhou, at most only operating in the vicinity of Qingzhou..."

"Why is that?"

Hearing this, everyone exclaimed in surprise.

Especially Wei Shao, who could not help but smile bitterly. That's right, these were all old matters. He was originally the person sent by the Prince of Wei to control this Baiya Army and the horse ranch, the person sent to open up a rear base for war horses... How could he dare to have too much connection with Qingzhou?

Thus, naturally, he would deliberately avoid contact with Qingzhou and only communicate via letters.

But he never expected that this would also become the basis for others' suspicions.

This Jiang Xuan had synthesized all the traces of his travels over the years and was actually able to analyze the places he had deliberately avoided!

If he had nothing to hide.

He should have gone to Qingzhou if he needed to, instead of waiting until this year, for the first time in all these years, to return to Qingzhou to invite the Prince of Wei to come and protect his Baiya Army.

The more you try to cover it up, the more obvious it becomes!

Wei Shao laughed heartily: "Prefect Liu has grand strategies and great talent; Wei Shao is convinced!"

King Wei also looked at Liu Zheng with burning eyes.

Zhang Xiao also looked on, stunned.

How long has this Liu Zheng been in Baiya? To think he could investigate everything in such detail. And the entry point was so ingenious, leaving everyone shocked beyond measure.

Wei Shao had always been one of King Wei's men.

And Yang Ke, starting five years ago, had already been turned by the Baiya Prefecture, acting as an inside agent for Zhang Chengjiang and Zhang Xiao.

Everything was now clear.

It all suddenly made sense.

Yang Ke trembled all over, looking at Wei Shao with malice: "So, you knew this all along and deliberately played along with me? Then you used a body double to replace yourself, but the body double aside, for the sake of today's outcome, Wei Shao, you even... your own wife and son..."

Wei Shao shouted: "Did you think I didn't know what the Wang woman was trying to do when she insisted I bring Wei Rong today?"

He could no longer hold back, his eyes bloodshot, spittle flying: "Prefect Liu advised me to perform a blood test, and only then did I know that Wei Rong, that Wei Rong... was it you, his biological father, who killed him, or was it me? Yang Ke, we were brothers for many years, and only today do I know how vicious your heart is, that you could even lay a hand on your own biological son! Using the name of a non-existent 'Account Book' to lure so many people here to kill me!"

"Those who commit many injustices are doomed to destruction!"

"Today, how will you face the entire pugilistic world, the entire Baiya Army!"

Boom!

Everyone in the hall had their expressions change drastically.

Seducing his sister-in-law? In the pugilistic world, that is a major taboo!

No...

Yang Ke had only been in Baiya for ten years, how could he have a son as old as Wei Rong? It seems this Yang Ke had long been having an affair with Wei Rong's mother, and it is even possible that it was because of her that he joined Baiya...

Yang Ke could no longer hold back, his face turning deathly pale as he collapsed to the ground.

"Yang Ke, you son of a bitch!"

That Pei Qianyun could no longer hold back; just a moment ago, a group of people had struggled to hold him down, but now he suddenly broke free, smashing his twin hammers over. Who could stop this blow?

At this moment, not a single one of the Baiya Army brothers who had once been determined to follow Yang Ke stepped up to stop him.

At this time, their hearts had long since gone cold...

They only watched with cold eyes.

With a boom!

The twin hammers fell, and Yang Ke died on the spot, half his body smashed into the earth.

Everyone, surprisingly, did not feel it was bloody, but rather felt it was extremely satisfying.

Everything seemed to come to an abrupt end, vanishing like smoke in the wind.

This Baiya Palace was flowing with blood tonight.

And at this moment.

Outside the Baiya Palace, Baiya City was still filled with song and dance, merrymaking, and laughter.

Everyone looked at all this, stunned.

Listening to all this, stunned.

They seemed to feel it was extremely ironic.

Prefect Liu!

It was Prefect Liu again!

This one Prefect Liu had completely overturned the situation in Baiya City. If not for this Prefect Liu? Yang Ke would have surely succeeded! The Baiya Army would very likely have changed hands, returning to the control of the Baiya Prefecture!

Instead of like today...

Everything had come to light.

Although after tonight, the Baiya Army would also cease to exist.

But at the very least, it gave everyone the truth.

Terrifying!

Is this what Prefect Liu is like?

"Oh my, have I arrived late? Is the good show already over?"

However, just at this moment, a flippant voice rang out once again.

It was the main army again!

Crown Prince Xie Fang, accompanied by Chen Ping and others, rode over with a playful look on his face.