In the increasingly powerful country of China, the title of general represents countless military exploits, and without the fight on the battlefield, it is impossible to be a marquis and a general, even the children of princes and nobles are no exception. Therefore, many children of the nobility were sent to the guard barracks or directly to the battlefields of Sijiang, in order to exchange their military exploits for status and continue the longevity of the family. It is also because of this that Emperor Zhu Chengyuan set up a 50-member legal team in different armies, which was under the jurisdiction of the emperor and ordered the five-grade lieutenant to strictly investigate corruption and rectify the army's style. Small problems can be resolved through consultation with the generals of the soldiers, and major matters must be reported directly to Emperor Zhu Chengyuan.

If there is no fighting, the Law Corps may report to the Emperor every three months on the status of the army; If there is a war, the Law Corps must report it monthly; In case of special circumstances, it is necessary to report immediately, without delay, otherwise it will be severely punished! In order to prevent certain people or certain families from forming gangs and consolidating military power, the Law Corps must be randomly transferred by the Emperor of the Military Department every year. On the other hand, if the law team is powerful and makes waves, the soldiers and generals can report to the court for strict investigation.

In the imperial city, in Anhua Palace, Zhu Chengyuan is reviewing the chapters. At this time, Qiu Sihai, the emperor's personal eunuch, walked in slowly, leaned over and bowed, "Your Majesty, the letter from the law team of Annan Province has arrived." ”

The emperor didn't raise his head and said, "Present it." ”

Then Qiu Sihai lowered his head and bent over, and stepped forward to deliver the letter to Zhu Chengyuan's hand. Zhu Chengyuan flipped through the letter, but did not find a special sign that is only available for major events, so he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and slowly opened the letter and read it.

"Your Majesty, the minister is Qi Gao, the captain of the law team of the Annan Provincial War Barracks. In the past three months, except for Wang Kaitai, the general of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, and Lin Zhijiang, the general of the Dragon Armor Battalion, who continued to disagree, there was no other abnormality in the battle barracks. Thanks to His Majesty's trust, he was given the post of Captain of the Law Corps in the 19th year of Dahua, and it has been more than three years since then. In the past three years, the minister has been cautious and has never dared to neglect the tasks assigned by His Majesty, but the minister has more than enough strength and not enough brains! The minister asked His Majesty to allow the minister to be transferred to the frontier to kill the enemy, so as to repay His Majesty's kindness in the past three years. ”

Zhu Chengyuan shook the letter in his hand with a smile, looked at the second assistant Lai Si who was examining the chapter and smiled: "Lai Si, you come to see the letter from this kid Qi Gao." ”

Hearing this, Lai Si hurriedly stepped forward to take Qi Gao's letter, and after reading it carefully, the smile on his face became more and more obvious. Lai Si looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, if the minister remembers correctly, this is the third time that Qi Gao has petitioned to go to the frontier battlefield!" ”

The emperor nodded and said, "That's right, it's the third time." ”

Lai Si asked again: "Your Majesty is worried that his father Qi is rich, right?" ”

The emperor replied with a smile: "Three years ago, he came to see me, saying that his precious son wanted to go to the battlefield, but he was afraid that he would be transferred to the frontier if he joined the army on his own, so he came to ask me to make arrangements." ”

Lai Si smiled sheepishly: "Your Majesty, didn't he promise you what conditions?" ”

The emperor tapped his finger at him and smiled: "The entire cabinet belongs to you as a thief." Qi Youqian promised me to participate in every disaster relief mission in China, and in addition, donated millions of silver to support the development and production of weapons in the Ministry of War. ”

After hearing this, Lai Si looked at Emperor Zhu Chengyuan with wide eyes, he is the second assistant of the cabinet, he knows how terrible it is to have famines, floods, and droughts, and he knows how huge the silver taels to relieve and settle the refugees are. Lai Si gave Zhu Chengyuan a thumbs up and said, "Your Majesty is wise and martial!" Then this time Qi Gao should refuse, money matters. ”

After hearing this, the emperor looked disdainful and said, "The second assistant of the dignified cabinet, that's all. ”

He then threw the letter to Rice and said, "In the name of the Cabinet, you find a valid reason to reject his request, remember, don't mention me." ”

Lai Si was stunned for a moment, and then leaned over and bowed: "Your Majesty is wise." "But I don't know what I'm thinking.

The emperor ignored him, looked at Qiu Sihai who was standing on the side, and said, "Go to Xuan Huang Fu Leng." ”

"Yes, the old slave will go now." Qiu Sihai trotted out with his head down.

After a stick of incense, Huangfu Leng appeared in the main hall, and Emperor Zhu Chengyuan said to him: "Two years ago, I asked Wang Yongwen to go to the north to investigate the pension issue of the fallen soldiers, do you remember? ”

Huangfu replied coldly: "Remember, Lord Wang basically got nothing. ”

Zhu Chengyuan hummed and continued: "At that time, before Wang Yongwen arrived, all the sixteen officials who distributed pensions in North China Province, West China Province, and East China Province disappeared mysteriously, and no one has been killed or seen in the body so far, and the silver and silver involved in the case are missing. Wang Yongwen's investigation found that the pensions of all the border fallen soldiers in the three provinces were either paid less or not at all, which made people feel chilled. A while ago, the Shadow Thirteen sent by me had news that an assassination organization on the rivers and lakes, the Blood Knife Gate, might have something to do with it. In addition, Shadow Thirteen also sent back an important news, the Blood Knife Gate appeared in Annan Province. ”

The emperor looked at the emperor who bowed his head and said coldly: "Within two months, find this Blood Knife Gate and find out this matter, if you should arrest it, you don't need to keep it if you should kill it." In short, in the future, there can be no more bloody knife gates on the territory of our country. ”

Huangfu Leng glanced up at the emperor slightly, he had followed the emperor for more than ten years, and he rarely saw such a murderous aura on the emperor. Immediately leaned over and said, "The minister personally went to Annan Province." ”

Zhu Chengyuan rubbed his temples and said, "Go ahead and do it, I'll let the shadow guard inform you if there's anything." ”

……

At the mouth of an alley in the west of Annan Road, Ye Chen and Chen Bing were stopped outside the alley by several strong men. They found it according to the address provided by Qin Xiaoqin, which was the entrance to the black market.

One of the big men walked up to Ye Chen and asked, "Who introduced it?" ”

Ye Chen looked at him and replied, "We are from the Black Snake Gang, Boss Xu's people. ”

The man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "What about you two interrupting me?" Xu Jingjing has been dead for many days, how the is there still the Black Snake Gang? After speaking, a few men behind him were about to step forward and make a move on Ye Chen and Chen Bing.

Ye Chen felt accompanied by a smile and said: "A few big brothers, we were indeed from the Black Snake Gang before, no, since Boss Xu's death, casinos and many properties have been seized by the government, and we have no livelihood, so I want to come here to buy some good things to sell." As he spoke, he shoved a few taels of silver into the leader's hand.

When the leading man saw that this kid had a little eyesight, he immediately let the two of them in.

Walking into the alley, a big man helped them open the big wooden door on the side of the alley and said, "Go in." ”

Ye Chen and Chen Bing had never seen what this black mayor looked like, so they walked into the door in disbelief, and walked along the path until they saw the sturdy man at the stairs before they understood that this black market had always been set up underground.

The two walked down the stairs slowly, and after a while, they saw a very large field, where there were various stalls, some selling medicine, some selling knives, some selling antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the most outrageous thing was that there was a sign with the word "sell your life" written on it. Ye Chen and Chen Bing were shocked by this underground world, they really didn't know if they didn't know it, and they were shocked when they saw it.

The purpose of the two of them here is very clear, only to look at the knife, and nothing else, in order to prevent being suspected by people in the black market, the two also deliberately pretend to be street gangsters.

Ye Chen looked around, but there was nothing he was looking for. The further you go in this black market, the fewer stalls there are, and some of them are small storefronts one by one, and there is a person sitting in each of them, like the bookkeeper of a small restaurant. Ye Chen took Chen Bing into a weapon shop casually, and the boss didn't look at them, and played with the objects in his hands. After turning around, Ye Chen had all the weapons that could be named, and half of the weapons that he had never seen before, which really opened the eyes of the two brothers.

Seeing that he didn't have the Mo knife he wanted, Ye Chen took Chen Bing and walked to the next arsenal, which was similar to the previous one, but the decoration style was different. Walking to a shelf, Ye Chen's eyes lit up, and the knife in front of him was the Mo knife in the hand of the man in black last night. Ye Chen picked up the Mo knife and looked at it carefully, and suddenly, the shopkeeper on the side snatched the Mo knife in Ye Chen's hand and said, "This knife is not for sale, you can take a look at the others." ”

Chen Bing was unhappy on the side, and said: "Why don't you sell it on the shelf, what kind of attitude!" ”

The boss on the side laughed instead of being angry, and said, "You know it's a chick at first glance, so let's come back to the black market first." ”

Ye Chen also laughed and said: "Boss, introduced by a friend, the brothers are here for the first time, and they don't understand the rules here, please forgive me." ”

The boss said, "It's okay, I often meet people like you, who are penniless, and they still want to buy good things, and they want to be beautiful!" ”

Chen Bing was about to have a seizure when he heard this, but was pulled by Ye Chen, and then said slowly to the boss: "Our two brothers both like knives, but we haven't seen this knife in your hand, so I want to ask if this knife can be sold to me and my brother." As he spoke, Ye Chen pointed at himself and Chen Bing, and took out the only fifteen taels of silver left from his body. Qin Xiaoqin gave them these silver before they left, telling them that this was the case handling fund of the Supervision Division, so that they could save some money, of course, it would be best not to spend it! But who knew that Ye Chen was so generous, and he used it up twice.

The boss shook the silver in his hand and said with a smile: "That's it, I'll sell you this knife, but this is the only one in our store, and there is nothing else." The boss glanced at them and continued: "This knife is called Mo Dao, and it is very sharp, the Xijiang Tiger Guard has heard of it, so they use this knife!" ”

Ye Chen pretended to have picked up a treasure, and hugged the boss deeply, which made the boss embarrassed. Ye Chen said: "Boss, please help us find another such Mo knife, I can't have it, this brother next to me doesn't have it, this seems how unrighteous I am as a brother, how can I gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes in the future!" ”

The boss was embarrassed and said: "If you are not satisfied with the two, this knife is still not allowed to be sold casually, if you let the king of Hades here know that I sold this Mo knife to you, maybe it will be another fat beating, and I will still sell it to me secretly by one of my brothers." ”

Ye Chen asked again: "Boss, where did you buy this brother of yours?" Can you take us there? ”

At this time, the boss just didn't speak. Seeing this, Chen Bing handed the only one or two pieces of silver left on his body to the boss, and said angrily: "No, that's all left." ”

The boss smiled and replied, "My brother works as a coolie in the Hades factory, and according to him, there are many blacksmiths in that place who make these knives." ”

Ye Chen asked again: "I heard you mention the king of Hades just now, who is this king of Hades?" ”

The boss was puzzled: "Come to the black market to buy things, you don't even know who the king of Hades is, it's strange!" Hades is the underground overlord of our black market, no matter who it is, doing business in this black market must be nodged by Hades. ”

Ye Chen glanced at him and said, "It's the first time I've come, I've never heard of it before, so I'm lonely." By the way, what does Hades look like? Where's his factory? ”

The boss replied: "No one has ever seen what Hades looks like, not even the factory knows where it is, and every time my brother comes out and goes in again, he is blindfolded and very mysterious." ”

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Ye Chen said goodbye to his boss and walked out with the Mo knife he bought wrapped in a cloth on his back.