To the northeast of Yangjia Zhuangzi is the Vortex River, and to the southwest, it is a common gentle earth and stone low mountain in the Central Plains. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This low mountain does not have an official name, and the people nearby named it according to the Zhuangzi adjacent to the low mountain, which used to be called Huangzhuang Mountain, and since Yang Huairen bought Zhuangzi, the low mountain is also called Yangzhuang Mountain.

Further southwest of Yangzhuang Mountain, there is another river, called the Wolf Tang Canal. The Wolf Tang Canal was renamed after it was passed by Jia Lushu, the then capital water supervisor, in the Yuan Dynasty, which was later known as the Jialu River.

There is a large area of gentle slope between Yangzhuang Mountain and Langtang Canal, which is encircled by the forbidden army, but there is no forbidden army stationed or training here, and even the people nearby do not know what the imperial court is doing in this land.

He Zhiyun was worried that Yang Huairen would go out alone, and originally wanted to ask Li Heiniu to follow Yang Huairen, but unfortunately after Yang Huairen wrote the recipe for compressed biscuits to him in the morning, You Shixiong took Li Heiniu and the cooks in the Zhuangzi to the side courtyard and was busy making compressed biscuits.

He Zhiyun had to change into men's clothes and accompany him. Lian Zigeng, an internal guard spy, had already seen He Zhiyun disguised as a man, but now that Yang Huairen was his immediate boss, he didn't dare to break it, he just treated it as Yang Huairen's personal entourage, and didn't say anything.

He Zhiyun accompanied Yang Huairen, and was taken around Yangzhuang Mountain by Lian Zigeng for half a circle, and came to this mysterious place.

When Lian Zigeng showed the waist card of the internal guard, several forbidden soldiers flashed to the side and let Yang Huairen's carriage drive into this mysterious place.

The land was very barren, surrounded by reeds one man high, and a large area of land in the middle was separated by a fence with a camp of only a hundred and ten guards.

What is even more strange is that there are no other buildings in the camp except for a row of earthen houses for the guards at the entrance, the ground is uneven and full of stones, and it does not look like a horse ranch or a school yard for training soldiers.

As a cook, Yang Huairen's vision and hearing may be the same as ordinary people's, but he was born with a keen sense of smell and taste.

Even sitting in the carriage, he smelled a familiar smell, and after careful identification, he was a little surprised, the source of the smell turned out to be gunpowder!

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the hillside, and Lian Zigeng's voice came from outside the carriage, "Tell Envoy Yang that you have arrived at the place." ”

Yang Huairen and He Zhiyun got out of the carriage, looked around, and found that there was nothing but weeds all over the hillside and a few dwarf trees that could not be named.

The two of them were a little suspicious, and they didn't know what Lian Zigeng was doing again, He Zhiyun stood vigilantly beside Yang Huairen just in case.

Lian Zigeng respectfully knelt down on one knee and bowed, and said slowly: "Special Envoy Yang, this place was originally a gunpowder work under the Ordnance Supervisor of the Ministry of War, and it used to be the place where gunpowder was made and stored.

During the Yingzong Dynasty, some ministers in the court felt that gunpowder was the murder weapon of the country, so this gunpowder was abandoned, and only dozens of forbidden troops were left to guard it, and it has been more than 20 years.

Later, Manager Ye asked the Empress Dowager for this place, and it was changed to the stronghold of our chrysanthemum internal guard to detain some important criminals. ”

Yang Huairen's gaze wandered around again, and said with a smile: "What can this barren mountain and wilderness do?" You said that you held important criminals, where were they held? Why didn't I see it? ”

"Don't worry, envoy, please come down with your subordinates."

Lian Zigeng led the way, led Yang Huairen and He Zhiyun to walk a few more steps, and came to a stone gate surrounded by weeds.

Lian Zilu waited in front of the door early, gave Yang Huairen a salute, walked to the right side of the stone gate, brushed aside the weeds, picked up a rope and pulled it, and there was a string of copper bells "jingling".

It didn't take long for the stone door to slowly open to the sides with a dull "whining" sound, revealing a hole about a zhang high and wide.

There is a long road in the entrance of the cave, on the mountain wall on both sides of the road, there is an oil lamp hanging every ten steps, looking from a distance, like a long snake illuminating the whole road.

Yang Huairen and He Zhiyun walked in, walked about a hundred steps, and suddenly opened up in front of them, and a hall covering an area of more than ten acres was displayed in front of them.

Yang Huairen was very surprised, this cave was actually behind the mountain of his Zhuangzi, it seemed that it had existed for a hundred years, thinking of the previous use of this secret cave, Yang Huairen inevitably felt a little afraid in his heart.

If this gunpowder is still stored in a large amount of gunpowder, if one of the guards on guard accidentally ignites them, it is estimated that the entire Yangzhuang Mountain will be razed to the ground, like the Yangjia Zhuangzi and the nearby Zhuangzi, they will be destroyed as soon as possible.

And the location of this secret base of the internal guard also verifies another point, the original king of Nanyang County must have been monitored by the Queen Mother, and now he is already in the internal guard, and he is also being monitored by the old woman.

Thinking of this, Yang Huairen felt that he should be more cautious in his words and deeds in the future, and he must not be caught by the stinky old woman of the Empress Dowager.

The furnishings in the hall are very simple, the middle area is like a large tent of the Chinese army in the barracks, and a huge stone carved screen wall is hung behind the main seat, and a large chrysanthemum pattern is carved on it.

This huge chrysanthemum has been gilded again, and it shines brightly under the light, but it looks very magnificent.

On both sides of the hall, there are two corridors in different directions, only one person is more than one person high, two people are wide, and I don't know where it leads. In addition, there are many desks in the hall, which is like an office place.

Around the hall, in addition to a few weapon racks, there are also several rows of bookshelves, which are filled with various scrolls, some of which are very old, covered with dust and cobwebs, and it seems that they should be the information that the internal guards have been searching for for decades.

"Lord Envoy, this is the Golden Ju Hall of our internal guard, and you are the hall master of the new Jin Ju Hall.

In addition, in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, there are eight other halls, which are also named after different varieties of chrysanthemums, namely white, pink, red, green, blue, purple, and ink. ”

Yang Huairen said in his heart as he expected, the Chrysanthemum Internal Guard has branches in various places, and the task is to spy on the news.

There were only a few internal guards guarding the lobby, and Yang Huairen walked in, and they stepped forward one by one to salute.

Yang Huairen waved his hand to show that there was no need to be polite, and then asked Lian Zigeng: "Where is the place where people are locked up?" ”

Lian Zigeng pointed to a corridor on the right side of the middle hall, "Your Excellency, please come with me." ”

This branch of the road did not extend forward, but a swirling staircase that extended underground, and after going down to a depth of about three zhang, Yang Huairen faintly smelled a smell of blood.