After the emperor ascended the throne, the Dark Guard organization was made public, its leader Yuan Hao was named Zhongyongbo, and the three deputy commanders were also named the founding counties, but for a while, everyone in the court looked at the four new high-ranking officials. The officials felt like a man on their backs, and it was extremely uncomfortable to see the four of them, after all, no one wanted to always have a pair of eyes behind their backs.

All of a sudden, Yuan Hao and others simply became the public enemies of the officials, and there were often ministers who pointed the finger at Yuan Hao and others, and suggested to the emperor several times to abolish the department of the Dark Guard, on the grounds that this move would make the ministers feel cold and not conducive to the righteousness of the monarch and ministers.

The dark guard is equal to the eyes and ears of the emperor, Yang Yong will naturally not waste his eyes and ears, throughout the ages, the surface is sanctimonious, secretly corrupt and bend the law, there are many ministers who plot against him, spy politics is not good, but in feudal society, the imperial power is high, and there is no spy politics at all, no matter how fierce the ministers oppose, the dark guard is still retained.

In order to prevent the power of the Dark Guards from swelling too much like the Jin Guards of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yong also has many restrictions on the Dark Guards, for court officials above the seventh grade, the Dark Guards only have the power to collect information, whether they are traitors or not, they do not have the power to directly search and arrest, but for officials below the seventh grade, the Dark Guards are much more relaxed, and they also have the right not to interfere with local officials when handling cases, but they still have to be restricted by the Criminal Department, and the officials are relieved.

Although the Dark Guards made a public appearance in the court, the vast majority of its internal members were still secretly active, forming a bright and dark two systems, over the years, the development of the Dark Guards has been even more rapid, almost every county has a stronghold, and relying on the support of the emperor, countless industries have been opened in secret, inns, green buildings, restaurants, teahouses, and everything is included, just such as the Four Seas Inn. There are at least 100 in the country.

Of course, which belong to the industry of the Dark Guard, this is also a secret, otherwise I know that I am being watched by one eye and ear all the time. No one dares to rest assured to go in and consume, once exposed, this industry will give up, so although there is news that many industries are set up by the dark guards across the country, but the truth is not real, except for the insiders of the dark guards, no one knows the truth or falsehood.

Relying on the cover of these industries, the Darkcoat Guard is not only self-sufficient for most of its funds, but also can easily detect all kinds of news. Yang Yong can basically keep his ears and eyes clear to the outside world.

But said that after the guy from the Four Seas Inn went out, he stared at the gray-clothed young man all the way, and outside the Sihai Inn was the most lively Suzaku Street in the capital, among which there were many inns and restaurants, and the gray-clothed young man seemed to be unaware of the guys who followed behind. Every time the Dadi Restaurant Inn enters, all of them are looking for the scholars who come to Beijing to talk, the gray-clothed young man only talks once in each inn restaurant, whether it is sold or not, the gray-clothed young man leaves immediately, however, it seems. The gray-clothed young man's eyes and eloquence were very good, and he entered eight stores in a row, sold a total of seven times, and only failed once.

The guy who followed behind looked secretly dumbfounded. In the blink of an eye, the gray-clothed young man has earned nearly a hundred gold coins, what is the concept of this money, a seven-grade county order in Dasui, except for Lu Mi, the salary of a year is only thirty yuan, half a day's work. The young man in gray earned the salary of a county magistrate for 30 years.

Coming out of the eighth restaurant. The young man in gray may have no test questions in his clothes, and finally stopped entering the restaurant. The inn, glancing around, into an ordinary alley, the man looked at the sky, secretly anxious, or followed.

By this time it was almost dark, and after a while, another person appeared in the alley, looked down and checked the few marks left in the alley, turned a few corners, and was stunned to see several figures with swords, and the man who had followed before had fallen to the ground.

"Run." The man flashed a thought, suddenly turned around and ran backwards, but before he could escape a few steps, his chest suddenly hurt, and his feet suddenly weighed a thousand pounds, and he couldn't take a step, looking down, a three-edged arrow penetrated his chest, he smiled bitterly, since the other party had a long arrow in the army, a burst of darkness hit him, and he fell to the ground with a bang.

There were a total of five people in the alley, the gray-clothed young man from before was among them, and the other four were all fierce-looking, holding sabers in their hands, and one of them said in a deep voice: "Look through, who are these two people?" ”

One of them sighed: "It seems that they are all guys from the Four Seas Inn." ”

The gray-clothed young man's face was pale, and he said a little scared: "Could it be that you are mistaken, they are not following me." ”

"Fart, if we weren't guarding in the alley, and you brought this tail to the Lord, you would have ten lives and would not be able to escape the wrath of the Lord."

The gray-clothed young man's originally pale face turned whiter, apparently frightened by the words of the other person.

"Pull the arrow, chop the wound with a knife a few more times, leave quickly, although this place is biased, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will come."

"Yes." In whispers, several people quickly mended the wounds several times, and then threw the corpses aside, and several people quickly disappeared into the gradually darkening sky.

The owner of the Four Seas Inn has been smiling all the time, as if nothing had happened, the business in the lobby has been very good, until the evening, three strangers entered the inn, the boss left from the counter, leading a few strangers into a secret room behind.

As soon as he entered the secret room, the chubby shopkeeper suddenly knelt down: "Dong Zhenghao, the head of the subordinate dark clothes, see Lord Baihuwei." ”

A man in his thirties with a thin face was obviously Wei Baihu of the Dark Guard, and he raised his hand: "Get up, Lord Dong, you sent an emergency signal for this seat to come over, but something major happened." ”

"I don't dare to hide it from my lord, although I don't know whether this matter is true or false, but it is really urgent, and I dare to use urgent information to pass it on to my lord." After speaking, Dong Zhenghao told the scene that happened in the lobby of the restaurant at noon, and told his guess.

Hearing that it might be a leak of the exam questions, Wei Baihu's face was shocked: "This matter is not trivial, whether it is true or not, it must be investigated, is there a problem with the person you sent?" ”

This Wei Baihu Mingyun is still the clansman of the great general Wei Zisheng, most of the officials supervised by the dark clothes guard, and its members generally rarely recruit the sons of the various gate lords, this Wei Yun is different, he violated the clan rules and was driven out of the Wei family, in order to be able to prevent the Wei clan people from looking down on himself, he vowed to stand upright in the court, and finally put into the dark guard, and explained a lot of Wei's secret luck to the court, almost let the general Wei Zisheng fall, and he also made meritorious service to promote to the hundred households.

It is not easy for the members of the dark clothes guard to stand in the middle of the court in a dignified manner, they have to make enough contributions, and it is only possible after being promoted to a thousand households, and now seeing that a great achievement is about to fall into his hands, Wei Yun became excited.

"If you go back to your lordship, you will send a total of two people one after the other, as long as he lands, he will definitely not be able to escape." Dong Zhenghao said confidently.

"That's good." Wei Yun nodded and asked, "Did the scholar who bought the test question be monitored?" ”

"Yes, yes, he is staying at the Four Seas Inn, and he has sent a person to keep an eye on him, do you want to arrest him immediately?"

Wei Yun thought for a while, frowned and said: "No, in a few days it will be the day of the big exam, if there is a lot of uproar, no matter whether the test questions are leaked or fake, it will be unfavorable to the exam, I don't know how many people wish that the exam could not be held, if this is the case, the emperor's thunder is angry, who can deserve it?" "It's still thoughtful." Dong Zhenghao hurriedly agreed.

"Master Dong, is there a way for you to get the test questions he sold without alarming that scholar?" Wei Yun asked.

"Yes, yes." Dong Zhenghao nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "As long as it's night, after he sleeps, the humble can send someone to stun the scholar with incense, take the exam questions directly, copy them overnight, and put them back before dawn to ensure that the gods don't know the ghosts." ”

"Okay, let's handle it like this, if you find the residence of the gray-clothed man who sells exam questions and arrest him overnight, maybe you don't need this trick to know."

Dong Zhenghao nodded hurriedly, but he was a little uneasy in his heart, how could the two guys sent out not come back yet, could it be that they were too far away.

There was a knock on the door of the secret room, and Dong Zhenghao hurriedly said to Wei Yun: "The three adults will wait a while, and they will come when they go to their posts." ”

Wei Yun nodded: "You go." ”

As soon as Dong Zhenghao walked out of the secret room, he saw his guy Dong Er standing anxiously at the door, and when he saw him come out, he immediately said with tears: "Boss, Dong Si, Dong Wu are dead, and the officials of Jingzhao Mansion are asking questions in front." ”

"Ahh Dong Zhenghao couldn't help but exclaim, there were more than fifty people in the Four Seas Inn, and there were ten people in the dark clothes guard and him, in addition to him, Dong Dazhi and Dong Jiu were nine of them, Dong Si and Dong Wu were the people he sent to follow the young man in gray, but he didn't expect to wait for their deaths.

"Sir, you have to hold steady. The officials in front were still waiting for the adults to ask questions, and if they didn't go, they would rush to the backyard. Seeing that the boss's body was a little shaky, Dong Er hurriedly said.

Although the dark clothes guard is very frightening to all officials, but it can only walk in the dark, if it is exposed, in addition to retiring, it is to turn into a bright guard, and the bright clothes guard can only do some miscellaneous work, or logistics work, and will never be reused, so the dark guard and the official are completely two systems, Dong Zhenghao settled down, and had to walk to the lobby.