Emperor Taizu continued the tradition of the criminal department of the previous dynasty, and used the criminal department to review the case of the world and remove the officials for crimes, and re-hired them after amnesty, or to prove the case of injustice to the document. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but also worried about the monopoly of the criminal department, so the establishment of three auxiliary yamen, Dali Temple, Yushitai and the trial of the criminal court, said to be an assistant but in fact disperse the rights of the criminal department, check each other, but on the bright side of the four major yamen is still headed by the criminal department, so the post of the criminal department has a weighty position.

The clouds travel all day long, and the wanderer does not come for a long time.

Three nights of frequent dreams of the king, love and relatives see the king's will.

It is cramped to return to normal, and the bitter road is not easy to come by.

There are many storms in the rivers and lakes, and the boat is afraid of falling.

Go out and scratch your white head, if you live up to your life.

The crown is covered with Jinghua, and the people are alone and haggard.

The cloud network is restored, and the old body will be tired.

Long live the name, lonely after death.

The poet Du Zimei's sentence "The crown is covered with Jinghua" is used to describe those characters who can eat and hold down in all directions, have all friends, and can cover all aspects. In Kaifeng Mansion, there is only one person who can really afford this sentence "the crown is covered with Jinghua" - Wan Chongtian, the "general" of the Shangshu of the Criminal Department. Historically, the post of secretary of the criminal department of various dynasties has been held by civilian officials, but at the beginning of the founding of the country, the black and white roads were extremely chaotic, and it was still possible for civil officials to formulate laws.

When he was a child, the back garden of the criminal department, the military pavilion was broken. Wan Chongtian was standing upstairs looking at the bright moon in the sky, and the night breeze of late autumn was blowing on his face, and he felt a trace of coolness. "People are really old. He sighed in his heart: "When I was young, a thin shirt in the winter was over." He said that, but the muscles under the thin silk were as strong and powerful as those of a young man. When Wan Chongtian was young, he fought in the north and south, roamed the rivers and lakes, and from a country boy in Luoyang to today's status, he relied not on luck, but on absolute strength. On the battlefield, he strategized, on the rivers and lakes he licked the blood of the knife, in the officialdom he coped with it easily, now the power is in hand, dominate one side, recruit a wide range of guests, and his masters are like clouds, and he is the first force of the six northern provinces with the power of one person, becoming a recognized "general" in black and white.

"Recognize the wind" Wan Chongtian shouted softly, not loudly, but a fierce man in black immediately appeared beside him. Cui Zhifeng is Wan Chongtian's right-hand man, some people say that he is simply Wan Chongtian's shadow, where Wan Chongtian is, Cui Zhifeng must also be there, but you can rarely find his existence. Cui Zhifeng was sent to Fusang to learn ninjutsu by Wan Chongtian when he was young, and he has done the essence of various genres in twenty years, sword skills, light body techniques, stealth techniques, and assassination techniques have been perfected, and he has unified several ninja forces such as Iga, Koga, and Wind Demon as a "streamer green beast", and was called "Heroes from the East" by the major princes of Fuso , for a time the fame of Fusang, the fame of the ninjutsu master Hattori Hanzo, but when the sun was in full swing, he was urgently recruited back to the Central Plains by Wan Chongtian, he had no complaints, left everything in Fusang, and resolutely returned to the Central Plains (see the humble book "The Legend of the Heroes from the East" for details). After returning to the Central Plains, he has been unknown, because if a person is too famous, there are many things that cannot be done, not to mention that Wan Chongtian does not want his shadow to be recognized.

"How's it going for you to check?" Wan Chongtian asked.

"It has been verified that the people of the Jingang clan used a lot of money to hire the killers of the Tang Sect, wanting to be unfavorable to the general. ”

"Who's the killer?"

"Tang Wanfeng, who ranked fifth. ”

Wan Chongtian frowned slightly, glanced at the full moon in the sky again, and sighed: "There are many talents in the rivers and lakes, Tang Wanfeng is a young man who is famous, if he doesn't make a move, he has never missed, he is really a talent, he will do something in less than ten years, he should have taken it for his own use, but he is arrogant and arrogant, hey! This time my dispute with the Jingang clan actually involved him, he really doesn't know the height of the sky!"

"The general's love for materials is admirable, but this time the general can't be soft. ”

"He is ranked fifth on the killer list, in fact, it is more than enough to rank third in terms of strength, but you can't underestimate him, and if you are not careful, you may capsize in the gutter. One of the reasons why Wan Chongtian has lived so long is that he does not take any opponent lightly, and he often says: "Those who respect their opponents will respect themselves." ”

"Report to the general, there is one more Tang Sect killer who came with me this time. ”

"Oh! This is not Tang Wanfeng's style, he has always been a loner, do you have any information about this person?"

"It has been ascertained that this person is a side disciple of the Tang Sect, surnamed Tang Mingqi, at the age of eleven years old, he can lift the stone lion in front of the house, when he was a teenager, he went to Tibet to practice Tantric Mahamudra, and created a set of palm methods called 'Dabei Fu', although the fist method goes all the way, but the mind is meticulous, and he is a master of both internal and external cultivation. ”

Wan Chongtian frowned again, and a wisp of black clouds covered the moon, and the sky and the earth suddenly darkened a lot. Cui Zhifeng's evaluation of people has always been accurate, he said that Tang Qi is a master, and Tang Qi is a real master. Wan Chongtian thought for a while and asked, "How old is he this year?"

"Thirty-five years old. ”

"Thirty-five years old. Wan Chongtian repeated it and said: "Standing at thirty is the time when a person's martial arts and experience are at the peak, and this Tang Qi is not easy to deal with. ”

"Do you want your subordinates to test it first?"

"It's okay, but you don't have to do it yourself, it's too risky, let the 'knife and needle group' go, this group of people has broken a lot of things recently, and it's useless, remember that their bodies must be brought back." Wan Chongtian said this, as if that group of people would definitely die under Tang Wanfeng, which means that this group of people was simply sent to death. It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Wan Chongtian is extremely hateful, and he once made a big move with the Shandong "Divine Sword Hall" hall advocate laughter, not only killed Zhang Crazy Laugh in three moves, but also washed the Divine Sword Hall in blood, and no one was spared. But Cui Zhifeng can understand Wan Chongtian's intentions, there must be extraordinary means in extraordinary times, if Wan Chongtian doesn't kill a hundred like this, how much peace will there be in this world?

"It's really a little unseemly for the needle girl and the knife master to come in, and it didn't come to this point, but they were originally death row prisoners, and they originally intended to let them wear their crimes and make meritorious contributions, but it seems that it is not possible, you will give them a ride if you recognize the wind, and they will be buried well afterwards. ”

After speaking, Wan Chongtian raised his head and looked at the moon, the black cloud had dispersed, the moon hung in the sky like a bright lamp, Wan Chongtian took a deep breath of the cold air of late autumn, and then slowly spit it out, and the turbidity immediately dissipated in the cold night wind.