"Bold! Who are you? Dare to break into my Netherworld at night. Take! As soon as the black shadow's words fell, a loud shout immediately came from the next house, and immediately after, five big men rushed out from inside and surrounded the black shadow.

"You are angry, and you are here to bring business to the Holy Lord." The dark shadow said to the people around him.

"If there is business that asks us to do it, we should come during the day. In the middle of the night, I see that you are clearly ill-intentioned. ”

"Hahaha! I didn't expect the famous Netherworld Mansion to be so cautious. Looks like I'm in the wrong place tonight. Leave. The shadow finished and turned to leave.

"Guest, please stay." Just then, a deep voice came from inside the house. Accompanied by the sound coming out, the house was lit up.

"Holy Lord, disturb your rest." The man with the ghost head knife who yelled at the black shadow just now bowed to the door and said.

"The others stand down. Yulin, you come in with the guest officer. The door is open. Once again, a deep voice came from inside the room.

"Yes. Holy Lord. The man with the Ghost Head Knife called Yulin waved at the others, motioning for them to stand down, and then said to the black shadow, "Please come inside." ”

After the black shadow followed Yulin into the door, Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu immediately stepped on the ridge of the house and came to the roof of the house with the lights on. Fortunately, there was a small skylight above the roof, through which Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu could barely see the situation inside the house.

Inside the house, a large light-colored curtain encloses a rosewood bed. Through the light in the room, a muscular man can be seen sitting cross-legged on a wooden bed in a curtain.

"Meet the Holy Lord of my house." Entering the room, Yulin commanded the black shadow sharply.

With the help of the lights in the house, Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu discovered that the black shadow was wearing a black hood, and only two dripping rat eyes were exposed on his entire face.

"Meet the Holy Lord!" The masked man had a loud voice, clasping his fists into the curtain.

"Yulin. Close the door. The man in the curtain commanded.

"Yes." Yulin walked over and closed the door.

"The guest officer is here late at night, I don't know what important things I need to serve?" The sound came from within the curtain again.

"I want to trouble the Holy Lord to solve the two of us for us." The masked man said.

"According to the rules of the industry, you should tell me who these two people are."

"This ......" The masked man glanced back at Yulin, who was standing alertly with a ghost-headed knife, and stopped talking.

"Don't worry about it. Yulin is my most trusted subordinate. You just say it's what it is. ”

"These two people are the two Korean princes who were captured by the Japanese people." The masked man said.

"Yulin, send off." After listening to the masked man's words, the man in the curtain did not think twice and gave the order to expel the guest.

"Holy Lord, we are willing to pay a high price. Don't you want the big money that comes to your door? The masked man who was rejected clearly didn't want to leave.

"Sending off!" The tone that came from within the curtain was obviously much heavier.

"Guest, please." Yulin walked up to the masked man and asked him to leave.

"General Wei Chi, don't you want to avenge your fifty-six family members who were brutally murdered by the Ming Emperor?" The masked man shook off the hand that had pulled him away, and shouted into the curtain.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Please leave quickly. The man inside the curtain was stunned for a moment, and then said.

"In the spring of the sixth year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli occasionally contracted a serious illness. The imperial doctors of the DPRK and China were helpless. Your father, who was an important minister in the court, out of the savior's heart, recommended to the Holy Lord a Jianghu Langzhong who had a good reputation and medical skills, and after this Langzhong took the pulse of the Wanli Emperor, he immediately prescribed a pair of medicines and decocted them himself.

Na Cheng thought that when the emperor was close to the eunuch to test the medicine, he found arsenic in it. Emperor Wanli was furious and ordered Jinyiwei to kill that Langzhong on the spot. Your father was also implicated in this, and was sentenced to death for the crime of conspiracy to kill the king. Pity your family, young and old, with fifty-six fresh lives, who died in one night.

"Actually, anyone with a discerning eye will understand, with your father's loyalty, how could he do such a rebellious thing as killing a king? The bowl of medicine fried in Langzhong must have been manipulated.

General, you worked hard to guard the border pass for Daming Town, but you were still chased and killed by the Jinyi guards who came by order. The general thinks about how your wife and your youngest son, who has just turned eleven, were hacked to death by the Jinyi guards who pursued you while you were on the run.

"As a man, he can't avenge his relatives, but he hides in this remote town as a shrinking turtle in order to protect himself, such a person is not worthy of being a man......" The masked man stood still and insisted on leaving, and told the court injustice that Shi Lang had heard of.

"Alright...... Don't talk about it......" Listening to the masked man's narration, the people inside the curtain could not hide their grief and indignation, and their voices were choked.

"General Wei Chi, as long as you take over this business and kill those two Korean princes for us, Emperor Wanli will definitely not negotiate peace with the Wa State again, and the two countries will definitely declare war immediately. At that point, it will be difficult to say who will win or lose. Once the Wa Kingdom defeated the Ming Dynasty, the day of the general's emergence came. The masked man saw that the attitude of the people inside the curtain had softened, and he lost no time in continuing.

"What does it have to do with killing two Korean princes and starting a war between the Ming and the Ming Dynasty?" The man inside the curtain asked.

"The general did not know that the release of the two Korean princes was the primary condition for the Ming Dynasty to negotiate an armistice with the Japanese state, and now the Japanese people in Busan have prepared to release them according to the agreement, and they have agreed with the Korean side that in three days, they will hand over people on the north bank of the Luxi River north of Busan.

Now, the people sent by the North Korean side to welcome the two princes back to Beijing have arrived on the north bank of the Luxi River to wait. As long as you kill the two princes before they send them across the Luxi River, the Japanese side will be tantamount to breaking the agreement. In this way, not only will the North Korean side not be spared by the Japanese state, but the Ming Dynasty will not give up.

At that time, it will no longer be possible for the Ming Dynasty, as the suzerainty of Korea, to negotiate peace with the Japanese state. As long as the war is together, why don't you worry about the uselessness of your skills, general. ”

“…… Okay, let's talk. ”

"The general is worthy of being an understanding person, and he can understand it at all. We knew that this business must be difficult and dangerous. Therefore, we are willing to pay 10,000 taels of silver as a reward for the general. ”

"That's fine, but you'll have to pay half of the deposit first."

"No, I have a silver ticket for the largest money bank in Busan, Huitong Bank, a total of 10,000 taels, and I will give it to you." The masked man spoke, and took out a silver ticket from his bosom and lit up.

Yulin stepped forward, took the silver ticket from the masked man's hand and checked it, and then nodded into the curtain: "It's the silver ticket of Huitong Qianzhuang." ”

"Then you're not afraid that I'll take the money and don't do anything." The man inside the curtain said.

"Haha. We have long known about your credibility, General. Besides, since we dare to hand over all the honorarium to you in advance, we are not afraid that you will break the contract. Let's talk about the ugly things ahead, if the general really breaks the contract, I'm afraid it will be difficult for your Netherworld to exist here. ”

"If you're so capable, why don't you do it yourself?"

"We are free of our unspeakable. The general still don't ask more. Knowing too much won't do you any good. ”

"Okay, deal."

"Don't worry, general, as long as you can kill the two Korean princes, we will keep our mouths shut about your background. In addition, there is a bamboo forest about a kilometer north of Busan, which is a must-pass on Busan's way to the Luxi River, which is a great place for ambushes. The general may wish to think about it. ”

"I know this better than you."

"Alright, farewell." After speaking, the masked man turned and walked out the door.

After the masked man walked out of the room and disappeared into the night, Yulin closed the door, put the silver ticket in his hand in the cupboard, and then said: "Master, this person knows your background well, and I am afraid that it will not be good for you in the future." See if I'm following him, looking for a chance to ......," Yulin said, raising his palm to make a motion to wipe his neck.

"No, this person has a lot of background, I'm afraid we can't afford to mess with it."

"And who could he be?"

"In my judgment, there are two possibilities: first, this person may be an assassin sent by the Liaodong Jurchens. The Jurchen tribes have always been eyeing the Ming Dynasty, and they wish that the Ming Dynasty would start wars with other countries in order to profit from it; The second possibility is that this person came from within the Japanese country. ”

"Isn't that infighting when he does this?"

"No matter which country it is, the struggle for power and profit in the court is deceitful

It's inevitable to come. How could a small Wa kingdom be an exception? If this person is really from within the Wa Kingdom, it means that there is a potential force in the Wa State that is looking forward to the war between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Ming Emperor, and its purpose is self-evident. ”

"If we really kill the two Korean princes, once the matter is revealed, we will ......"

"So what's the solution? Now that we know the purpose of coming, we have no choice but to take this business and do our best. If we don't kill the two princes, we can't afford to provoke the Jurchens and the Japanese people. For this business, if we don't accept it, we will definitely die, so we can only continue.

"Since we have received money from others, we will collect money from others and eliminate disasters for others. Don't say more, get off early. Starting tomorrow, preparations for the assassination of the prince of North Korea began. Let's go down. ”

"Yes, master." Yulin agreed, retreated to the door and gently closed the door from the outside.

Shi Lang saw that the lights were extinguished in the room below, so he made a gesture to Ye Ruliu to retreat. The two of them stepped lightly on the ridge of the house and quickly withdrew from the Netherworld.

When he returned to Ziwei Pavilion from the Netherworld, it was the end of the ugly time. Shi Lang and Ye Ruliu discussed and analyzed the situation they had just detected in Shi Lang's room.

According to Shi Lang's analysis, it is more likely that the masked man is a Japanese national. Because with the comprehensive strength of the Jurchens at that time, it was still an unrealistic fantasy to covet the great territory of the Daimyo, even if the Ming Dynasty was greatly damaged in the war with the Wa State, the Jurchens did not have enough strength to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Besides, most of the Jurchen tribes are located in the Liaodong area at the junction of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea, and if the Japanese really want to attack the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong is the place where they must pass, and the two sides will inevitably start a large-scale battle here.

In this case, the Jurchen tribes in the war zone will inevitably suffer from the flames of war. How could the Jurchens take the initiative to set themselves on fire? Therefore, if the possibility of the Jurchens trying to assassinate the two Korean princes is ruled out, it becomes the greatest possibility that the Japanese people themselves will have infighting, hoping to use the Ming and Japanese wars to fight for power and profit.

"So what are we going to do?" After listening to Shi Lang's analysis, Ye Ruliu felt very reasonable.

"Ming and negotiation is a strategy currently adopted by our Ming court, and in any case, we cannot let it be abandoned halfway due to unexpected factors. So, we have to find a way to stop this assassination. Shi Lang said.

"But at present, there are only two people in this city of Busan, and it is very easy to expose the brothers on the island to rush to reinforcements."

"Don't worry. In my judgment, since the Japanese people took the initiative to negotiate peace, I think they will also know the importance of the lives and safety of the two Korean princes to the peace negotiation. For the handover after three days, the Japanese will definitely send heavy troops to escort them.

"Although the Netherworld is a ruthless character, the people of the Japanese Kingdom are not vegetarians. When the time comes, you and I will only need to observe secretly and act when the opportunity arises. This incident is dealt with, and it may be a good opportunity for us to kill two birds with one stone. ”

"Killing two birds with one stone?"

"First, we may take this opportunity to find out if the owner of the Netherworld Mansion is the general Wei Chi who absconded back then, and then kill him. For the Ming Dynasty, he is a potential hidden danger with a heart of revenge, and for our current espionage and investigation work, the existence of this person is a big obstacle.

"Second, if through this incident, it is clear that the assassin of the Korean prince was the Japanese themselves, which is not a good thing for me Daming. An internally disunited Japanese state is good news for our Ming Dynasty to win this war. When the time comes, I will report this important information to the imperial court as soon as possible. ”

"Who is this General Wei Chi?"

"He was a general guarding the Liaodong Pass. As the masked man said, his father was killed by the Holy Lord because of that unjust case. He fought his way through a bloody battle to survive. At that time, he fell off the cliff after being stabbed by Jinyiwei, and everyone thought that he was no longer alive. Now it seems that he escaped death at that time. ”

"It's a pity!"

"There's no pity, since he has now become a lackey of the Japanese people, we should get rid of him."

“…… Okay, then let's rush to that bamboo forest in three days to see what kind of good show this general can perform. ”

"When the time comes, let's act when the opportunity comes."