Although there are many magnificent and tall buildings near the Yamen of the Six Ministries, which handled the affairs of the entire Dayin Dynasty, there are not many civilians who are qualified to live here, and there are also heavy guards on both sides of the road, who hold the soldiers in their hands like statues, protecting the power distribution points except for the imperial palace.

Every twenty steps on the black wall behind them, a black winged eagle appeared, and the shining morning light fell on the feathers of the stone eagle, which was as majestic and powerful as a phoenix reborn from the fire, and could also reflect the ambition of the Dayin Dynasty to soar into the sky.

The buildings here are by no means inferior to the palaces in the palace, looking up only makes people feel grandiose and tall, and the people look at the buildings on this side of the eastern city from afar, and they are guessing what dignitaries live in it.

Except for a black towering building, which is called a crow's nest by the people.

The spire of the black building looks as disgusting as a crow's mouth, and the high black walls give people a terrifying and eerie feeling, much shorter than the six yamen, but it is the most terrifying place in the entire Yin country except for the black prison of the criminal department.

The officials who lived here knew the horror of this building, and if the heroic king in the palace was compared to an eagle standing tall in the sky, the people living in this building were the black crows who followed the eagle and devoured the carrion on the battlefield.

They have a very apt name - Raven Qiwei.

These crows are not only aimed at enemies outside the Yin Kingdom, but more often appear in the officialdom of the Yin Kingdom, when those officials are greedy for money and feast, they will find his guilt with an extremely quick reaction, come to them with black wings, tear him to pieces in the exclamation of their family, and then walk away.

Chop first and then play, imperial privilege, this is the most terrifying thing about Crow Qiwei.

The Great Yin Imperial Historical Observatory set up a general judgment in the local area, and was also in charge of the supervision of the locality, becoming the eyes and ears of the emperor in various places, and the Crow's Nest was a special institution that emerged from the Imperial Historical Observatory.

The Imperial Historical Observatory is in the light, they are in the dark, the Imperial Historical Observatory has the power to investigate and arrest officials, and the Crow Qi Wei in the Crow's Nest has the power to judge and kill, they only obey the orders of His Majesty the Emperor and are scattered in all corners of the Dayin Dynasty, even the Imperial Historical Observatory is not qualified to supervise them.

Whenever they executed an official who had committed an unpardonable sin, a black codex would reach the hands of His Majesty the Emperor with a bloody message.

From a certain point of view, the crow Qiwei is like a flock of fierce crows released from the hands of Emperor Yin, these black crows are extremely good at camouflage, they may be the servants who appear next to you, passing by you and asking you to buy flowers in plain skirts.

No one knows who is around them, maybe they don't have a family at all, even in the open and in the dark, so that officials everywhere can't guard against it, and they have monstrous hatred.

This majestic emperor has never

He doesn't manage the affairs of Crow Qiwei, because someone will manage it for him, and Crow Qiwei only acts on officials everywhere, and does not care about other things.

Even if Su Changqing let the rebels rush into Lin'an City to save himself last time, many crow guards watched the cavalry galloping and slashing in the city from a distance and were indifferent, they only did what they should have done at the beginning, unless Emperor Yinhuang personally ordered it, and it was rigid to the point that it could not be increased.

The officials in Lin'an City avoided the black-clothed people who came and went in this building, lest they would look at them, and they would not do anything bad during the day and not be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night, but this crow Qiwei is something more terrible than ghosts.

Those officials who thought of bribing them with silver, and in the end their own blood was spilled on the silver, they could not be bought and intimidated, and what they wanted was only secrets and blood.

At this time, in the middle of the building, in an extremely dimly lit room, there was a huge round table, and six guards of the Raven Guards were seated.

Among them was an old man dressed in black, who was missing a leg, and did not look old, but whose hair was extremely white, like a cloud of goose feathers and snow covering his head.

The director of the Crow's Nest - Fan Ningjiang is also the sage of the Xilin Dynasty, and the people sitting at this table now are all from the Xilin Dynasty.

In addition to the chief, it was the first time that the other guards had seen their colleagues appear so neatly here, their black crow's beak masks placed in front of them, revealing each other's true faces.

The commissioner looked around, looked at the eyes of these subordinates calmly, and said, "They are all alive." ”

The chief of the four guards said in a hoarse voice: "I have nothing to say about the invincible iron cavalry of the Yinguo, but the officials of the Yinguo who died in our hands are all wine bags and rice bags, and none of them can fight." ”

"It's all rubbish, and I've taken 36 heads this month, 20 of which I've thrown in the latrine. A female voice appeared in this dark room, and two of the guards of the six guards were women.

The chief of the five guards chuckled: "It seems that your indicators this month are not enough, do you want me to divide a few of your big heads, and then you have to invite me to the best restaurant in Lin'an City for a drink." ”

"Are your men so good? How many more heads will this have? You haven't lowered the bar, if Your Majesty knows about it. ”

"I don't care how greedy they are when I kill them, in short, once my subordinates find out, I believe that Your Majesty can understand our sincerity and will not embarrass us. ”

"Kill as much as you like, anyway, the people of Yinguo will never kill enough. ”

If their conversation is spread out and heard by the officials of Yinguo, they may not be able to sleep in the middle of the night, and they would rather line up to go to the criminal department to surrender than fall into their hands, which is also something that can be entrusted between three words?

Raven Qi

The existence of Wei is very few people in the people of the Dayin Dynasty, and even the officials dare not discuss this organization in private, at least from the moment they put on their official hats, there are a pair of black eyes against them, if you say bad things about them today, maybe tomorrow you will die in the thatched house at home, they are unlikely to appear anywhere.

The actions of the crow Qiwei are not restricted by the laws of the Yin Kingdom, and directly obey the orders of the Yin Emperor, there are a total of six Davids, and the secret service agencies that were established after the fall of the West have their presence throughout the Yin Kingdom.

Ichiwei was responsible for collecting information from the officials, recording in detail what the imperial officials had done recently, and finally organizing it into a booklet, researching the information for the director to plan.

The second guard is responsible for investigation and assassination, it is the largest number of guards, the number of people is planted in the whole territory of Yinguo, and it is also the most murderous guard, they have killed a total of more than 2,000 officials in the past ten years, from one to nine.

The three guards are responsible for making hidden weapons and training the crow guards, they make hidden blades and poisons, there are hundreds of kinds of so that the other party dies unknowingly, and train those prisoners who have committed serious crimes to enter the crow's nest as crow guards, there are thousands of death row criminals sent to the crow's nest every year, and in the end there are only two hundred people who can successfully become qualified crow guards, and the rest of the people who fail in training are disposed of by them silently.

The people of the four guards have never been in Lin'an City, but each of them is an extremely terrifying martial arts master, who once eliminated the demon sect sect that propagated the demon sect in Yinguo, and divided the body of the demon sect saint who bewitched the people, and let their crows eat it all away, few people in Lin'an City know about this matter, but it is their most powerful record, and under normal circumstances, they will not dispatch the four guards.

The people of the Five Guards, who are responsible for helping the commissioner deal with affairs, including the interrogation officials, are much more cruel than those in the black prison of the Criminal Department.

The number of the six guards is the most scarce, and their only job is to train the crows for them to carry messages, they feed the crows with special drugs mixed with pork, these crows are as large as falcons, and can even travel across the ocean to deliver messages, and they also have crow stations in various places, these crows can even bite a living person to death and eat it like a hound if necessary.

Now the six guards are all here, each of them is as strong as a tiger and as cunning as a fox, the director of the crow's nest put his hands on his chin, and coughed lightly a few times to stop their words, these crows and guards who are no different from demons in the eyes of the people, talk about the same as the men and women in the teahouse, but they are talking about some murderous topics.

Fan Ningjiang said softly: "There are only three tasks to go to Nanlu this time, I hope everyone can keep it in mind and do it in their hands." ”

The Captains of the Guards looked earnestly at their heads.

"The first task, find the whereabouts of His Royal Highness the Prince, this task is in charge of the second and third guards, and the task of negotiation is for Rouge to do, beyond that

Protect the safety of His Royal Highness. The second task, on the basis of the first task, is to penetrate the court of the Daqing Dynasty and bring any useful information back to the Yin Kingdom, this task is to be done by the people of the first and fourth guards, and the people of the third and sixth guards are responsible for the logistics to ensure that the crows can quickly deliver our information. The third task, which is also a possible one, is that if Rouge and Shizi fail to negotiate with him to return to Yinguo, you must become one of Shizi's helpers, no matter what he wants to do, help him assist him to do it, try to meet any of his requirements, and ensure that he does not act because of his impulse, which will lead to the failure of intelligence transmission, and even expose everyone's identity. ”

Listening to the director's words, some people's faces did not change, some people were faintly excited, and some people were thoughtful.

In the end, Fan Ningjiang said with a final word: "There are so many things to say, the information about Nanlu will be sorted out tonight, and I will stay in Lin'an City to sit in the Chinese army, and the relevant information and orders will also be issued from my hands, I hope everyone can come back alive, even if you can't die on the land of your hometown, try not to die in such a southern place, after three days of rest, we will come out!"

Pouring out of the nest is very much in line with the way they do things in the crow's nest.

Everyone nodded, and finally left the room, leaving only the woman codenamed Rouge, who was also the head of the guard.

The old man patted his disabled right leg and said to the woman, "Take me to see the crows, I have something to say to you by the way." ”

The woman nodded obediently, pushed the wooden wheelchair from the corner, gently carried the old man to the wheelchair, and pushed him out of the dark room.

The two of them stood in front of the crow cage, with a meat bucket at the old man's feet, and bent down slightly to pick up a piece of flesh and throw it into the cage. The crows screamed noisily and flew around in iron cages for the flesh and blood, and for some reason these crows had sharp fangs that could easily tear apart human flesh.

The old man threw the meat faster and faster, the sound of crows chirping and flapping wings became louder and louder, and the crows tore and fought, and for a time the whole cage could only see the feathers as dark as night, and finally the old man lifted the meat bucket and splashed the rest of the meat into it.

"In addition to the crows that like to eat meat, I occasionally eat some vegetables and fruits to make sure they have enough energy and nutrition, just like raising children. ”

"But after all, they can't change their bloodthirsty nature, which is no different from a man, talking about the way of benevolence and righteousness, doing treacherous and unrighteous things in his hands, and people will still fight after they come out of their mother's womb, no matter how many sage books they read, they can't change this fact, the excitement of smelling blood is much stronger than reading a good poem, and people are lowly creatures after all, sometimes worse than animals. ”

The woman could not refute what the old man said, and the old man threw flesh on a crow

On her body, there is now a blood-colored skeleton in the cage, and the flying feathers are reflected in her pupils.

The crow in the old man's cage showed a gloomy smile, this is the first time in ten years that Emperor Yin has issued an order to the hands of the director of the crow's nest, it seems that he finally has something difficult to deal with, and finally decided to let them outsiders do it, and they are not afraid that they will kill him after seeing the prince, it seems that he is really a little desperate.

The old man who was as white as snow let out a hoarse laugh, his voice was hoarse and sharpened like a swordsman sharpening his sword, and he said with a gloomy smile: "Chu Xiaohua, Chu Xiaohua, I thought you could really take the world as a chessboard in one step and three calculations, and it feels uncomfortable to be betrayed by the chess pieces in your hand." ”

The woman surnamed Jiang, who was under the pseudonym Rouge, said calmly: "There is no one in the world who has no last resort, even Chu Xiaohua is the same, teacher, what should we do next? Chu Xiaohua said that he wanted our crow's nest people to go to Nanlu to find the whereabouts of the prince, if we find the son, what should we do? What should we really do, not the order he gave you. ”

The old man smiled: " Although our prince died at his hands, he finally sent our princess back to Xilin, so that she inherited the position of the first emperor and became the empress of Xilin, from this point of view, Chu Xianzhao This person is kind to Xilin, even if he is Chu Xiaohua's child, the old man has never done the matter of revenge, but what about the restoration of Xilin, the old man does not bother to go back to that place at all, and it is impossible to go back, and now Xilin is no longer the Xilin in our past memory, and when you and they find the son, I will tell you what to do, by the way, you are still a virgin？”

The woman surnamed Jiang said without any waves: "Yes, my life was saved by you, teacher, if the teacher needs me to do something, I will do it." ”

The old man put his hands together on his abdomen, his brown eyes narrowed into a straight line, and said: "I just asked a little more, but I pity you haven't been able to marry and have children until now, if my daughter is still alive, she should be as old as you." ”

The woman was just silent, vaguely remembering that the old man seemed to have told her that her daughter and wife were raped by the Yinjun and killed in the big red city.

The atrocities committed by the Yinguo Iron Cavalry in Xilin have long since become a giant monument made of flesh and blood in the hearts of the displaced people in Xilin, and the names of the suffering are written on it.

The old man smiled at this fair woman dressed in black, who was a compatriot of the West like him, who had lost her family and was lonely.

"When a person can come out of suffering, even a coward can become a fearless warrior, when walking on the road of the world, there will always be countless scenes, there will always be scenes that will make you feel pain, but you must be strong to come out. ”

The woman looked at the crows who were still eating pork or crow meat, and some of the crows' eyes were looking at her, as if the weight of the eyes of countless deceased people was converging on her

"We have to go this way, right? Even if we die on the land of the Southern Continent." ”

Speaking of this, a trace of inexplicable sadness flashed in the eyes of the woman surnamed Jiang, and she said, "I only remember...... Many, many people died that night, and wherever I ran, I could see the fire. ”

The old man, who had been extremely human rights in the Xilin Dynasty, smiled and said hoarsely: "Chu Xiaohua lit the fire, but he couldn't control this fire, and now it has burned on his body. ”

"But he wasn't burned to death," she noted. ”

The old man's hand tapped on the tabletop, and said thoughtfully: "He will die, the black-clothed Xingqin, the troubled world...... The Xilin Dynasty was originally built on the former capital of the Great Qin Dynasty, and the West and the Great Qin have an inextricable relationship, and now this sudden appearance in the Great Qin Dynasty is also a symbol of the true revival of our Xilin. It is no coincidence that he betrayed the country of Yin this time, there is definitely someone who is helping him leave, and this person's strength is even above Chu Xiaohua, it is rare to see Chu Xiaohua deflated once, and I have been in a good mood recently. ”

The woman smiled, although this director of the crow's nest is simply a demonic existence among the hundred officials of the Yin Kingdom, no one has seen his true body and no one knows who he is, after all, his identity is very sensitive, but the qualification power is still here.

After Chu Xiaohua established the Crow's Nest, he asked him to be the director of the Crow's Nest, and when the old man asked him why he wanted to do such a job by himself, Chu Xiaohua said such a sentence.

"I know that you Xilin people have always hated us, so now I give you a chance to kill the people of Yinguo, to arrest and get rid of any officials in Yinguo who violate the laws of the imperial court, as long as the evidence is conclusive, you can kill as much as you like, I give you the power to kill first and then play, I believe that no one can do better than you. ”

The old man laughed loudly, and so did himself, perhaps remembering the past, and in such a smile, a great conspiracy was brewing in his heart.

Every time a woman sees the old man's smile, she will be sincerely afraid, under such a smile, there may be how many people will die under his smile, I am afraid that this time will be the most difficult mission in the history of the Crow's Nest, go to the distant southern continent to find the son of the Yin country who has defected, and must find him to have a chance to return to the northern region, otherwise the end can only be to stay in the southern continent for the rest of his life, like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, what they are best at is looking for a needle in a haystack, in the impression of the woman surnamed Jiang, the first time she saw the old man was at a banquet in the Xilin Palace, although the old man was still a black silk, but after all, he was among the ministers of the third grade at a young age, but he made everyone daunted, with a good hand, he was considered by the scholars of the Xilin Dynasty to be a genius in the literary world after the "book saint" Gu Wan, from the palace to help the emperor write the codex of the edict, all of them wrote the song called the book saint "Luo Shen copy" Dare to call the second line of the book post "Sunflower Fu" from the bottom of my heart

Pei, even the first Confucian Sun of the Western Dynasty is willing to bow down, and no one dares to ignore the dragon and phoenix among them.

When she was a girl, her father, who admired the old man very much, asked her to copy the "Sunflower Stickers" he wrote repeatedly, and from the age of eight to the age of fourteen, she did not know how to copy hundreds or even thousands of copies.

At that time, she never thought that she would hold a sword and kill people in the future, thinking that she would enter the school palace to study Confucianism like her father, and maybe she could become a respected female gentleman.

Until the arrival of Chu Xiaohua and Yinguo Tieqi, they burned her father and the peaches and plums he planted to ashes, and only she survived.

(End of this chapter) I want to talk about "The Throne of the Apocalypse" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~