Han Mo originally wanted to accompany Xiaoqian for a few days, but unfortunately most of the time, it would always be unfulfilled, early in the morning of the second day, the young couple had not gotten up to freshen up, Hui Niang reported outside the door, saying that someone was going to report to Han Mo about affairs, although Han Mo was very dissatisfied in his heart, but he couldn't ignore it, so he could only let go of his wife in his arms, get up from the hot quilt, and finish grooming under Hui Niang's service, and then came to the side hall.

Like most mansions, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mansion has a main hall and two side halls, the main hall is naturally used to welcome the so-called guests, and the side hall is used to meet the subordinates.

The person who came was Pei Yinghou, the head of the West Flower Hall, with an elegant demeanor, and when he saw Han Mo coming in, he immediately got up and saluted.

Han Mo just nodded, sat down on the main seat, and then said to Pei Yinghou: "Originally, I was going to the hall today, but I was tired, so I went later, why did you rush over so early in the morning?" But what's the urgency? ”

Pei Yinghou looked solemn and said respectfully: "Yesterday, the red sleeves returned to Wushui Lake, so I knew that the adults had returned, so I came to disturb them early in the morning, and asked the adults to forgive me."

Han Mo went to the Wind Country this time, only bringing red sleeves, although everyone in the hall knew that the hall master had left Beijing to do business, but they didn't know where Han Mo went...

Since Han Mo didn't say it, the people below naturally didn't dare to ask.

As for the red sleeves, she is naturally also a smart woman, knowing that Han Mofeng's trip to the country is very secretive, she naturally will not reveal a word.

The subordinates had already served tea to Han Mo, and added new tea to Pei Yinghou's teacup, Han Mo picked up the teacup, took a sip to moisten his throat, and then said lightly: "I can let you come over early in the morning, naturally it's not a trivial matter, what is it, just say it."

Pei Yinghou thought for a while, and finally arched his hand and said, "Go back to your lordship, Li Gu...... Something happened."

"Li Gu?" Han Mo frowned: "He has always been very careful in his work, what can happen?" ”

Han Mo's impression of Li Gu, the head of the three places, is still very good, that kid seems to be honest, but he is clean and neat, and he has always been very careful in his actions, what can happen?

He ...... I was caught" Pei Yinghou groaned for a while, and finally said slowly...

Han Mo's pupils suddenly contracted, and his expression became extremely cold for a moment.

The West Flower Hall is a dark institution, belonging to the Yamen directly under the emperor's direct jurisdiction, and Li Gu is the head of the three West Flower Hall, and belongs to the backbone members of the West Flower Hall, such a person was actually arrested, which made Han Mo surprised and a little angry.

Who would dare to catch the people in the West Flower Hall?

Han Mo's first reaction was that the West Flower Hall had a conflict with the dark personnel of the enemy country, and Li Jianfang might have fallen into the hands of the enemy. However, he thought that when the envoys of Wei and Qing arrived in Yanjing, the first condition of Yan's negotiations was for the two countries to transfer their dark officials out of Yanjing, otherwise the negotiations could not begin.

Although I don't know if the people of Wei and Qing really sent the dark officials out of the city temporarily, but at this time, it is impossible for the dark officials of Wei and Qing to make trouble in Yanjing, let alone directly clash with the West Flower Hall.

Unless the envoy doesn't want to talk about it.

The second thing that Han Mo thought of was that Princess Xiu's East Flower Hall and West Flower Hall had a conflict, but it was just ...... Will Princess Xiu really arrest the principal of the West Flower Hall?

Han Mo's eyes were extremely sharp, holding the tea cup in one hand, although his expression was quite angry, but more calm, and asked, "Who caught it...... Why was he arrested? ”

Pei Yinghou immediately said, "Yes...... People on the underground black market"

Han Mo was stunned, didn't understand for a while, and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"People on the underground black market..." Pei Yinghou repeated and explained: "Three days ago, news came out of the underground black market, Li Gu is in their hands, if you want Li Gu to come out alive, you must go to pick up people in person"

"People on the underground black market...... Catch Li Gu" Han Mo muttered to himself, his eyes shining with a strange light.

As a child of a family, the channels of information are naturally diverse, Han Mo has heard a lot of things since he was a child, and he has traveled through such a world, there is a very strong curiosity about such a world, so he has been tirelessly learning about the various stories of this world through various channels...

And the underground black market is naturally one of the stories he knows.

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Before entering Beijing, Han Mo only had a vague concept of the underground black market, but he only knew that there was probably such a group of people, after all, few people in this world knew the details of the underground black market.

The first time he got in touch with the underground black market was because of Chen Cang, or more precisely, because of a drug called "Wolf Bing".

Transporting disaster relief food to Yichun County, the convoy was almost attacked on the way, Han Mo used clever tricks to get rid of the group of assassins, and Chen Cang, the only surviving one, learned that after interrogation, he was a killer who had been secretly trained by a behind-the-scenes force through rigorous training.

It was a group of prisoners who had been rescued from the prison, and they got out of the cage but into the mouth of the tiger.

They underwent unbearable training, survival of the fittest, and finally became a group of death squads engaged in dark sabotage work.

The intensity of their training is appalling, because of a "wolf ice" drug, so that their training effect is multiplied, but the "wolf ice" also causes their body functions to suffer great damage, and before their bodies completely collapse, they are often sent out for a special mission...

But once the body collapses, then the whole person becomes a "living dead", and there is no consciousness except for breathing.

And the reason for all this is the poison of "wolf ice".

Wolf Ice was originally a special poison made by the West Flower Hall, but it leaked out for some reason, so Han Mo was even more furious, and at that time, Li Gu proposed to go to the "underground black market" for the first time to find out whether the "wolf ice" flowed out of the underground black market.

The so-called underground black market is naturally not an ordinary place, it is a force.

Hiding in the shadows, engaged in all kinds of illegal underground transactions, people under the sun are naturally difficult to understand the existence of this force.

Their trading items,Are some shocking goods,They have their own set of rules,Have their own set of purchase and export channels,This kind of underground black market,Since ancient times,It is an invisible shopping mall that ordinary people are difficult to detect。。。

You can't tell that their members may be peddlers and pawns, or street beggars, or gang children, or scholars and artists, each of them may be part of the black market, or they may be responsible for a certain link in the purchase or shipment.

This kind of place is naturally very dangerous and complicated.

There is always a lot of information to be found in the underground black market, but the people in the black market are extremely cautious and never leak any information easily.

Their source of information is even wider than that of the dark officials, but they have an unwritten rule that they will not easily participate in the battles of the various factions of the Ming side, and they will never divulge the information they know to the outside world.

All they have to do is buy strange goods, sell strange goods, and make huge profits from them.

When they realize that you are interested in entering the underground black market to find out something, they will become very hideous and do not care about killing you, because they will feel that the person who inquires is challenging the bottom line of the black market, and is trying to bring the underground black market into a dangerous environment...

Because the underground black market does not participate in the power struggle on the surface, and sometimes the goods they take out are indeed needed by many people, including dignitaries, princes and generals, and even ...... Royal people

So the authorities never treated them as enemies, but just allowed them to exist.

The members of the underground black market know very well that if they get involved in any power struggle, if they break some kind of unwritten agreement, if the authorities really want to crack down, they will suffer terrible damage.

So they follow the rules, so they never show mercy to those who break their rules

The strangeness of the underground black market lies in the fact that they are afraid of any yamen who does not break their underground rules, but they are not afraid of any yamen who breaks their rules.

In other words, this is a tumor that grows on Yan Guo's body, if it is punctured, it will definitely make Yan Guo very painful, and it will make Yan Guo bleed, but it is very troublesome to stay on his body.

And the nobles of Yan Kingdom were afraid of the pain, and they were even more afraid of bleeding from their bodies, so they just let this tumor stay on Yan Guo's body...

This is a big hassle.

Han Mo leaned back in his chair, his eyes were cold, thoughtful, and after a while, he asked lightly, "Do they have any explanations?" Why move our people? ”

"My lord, people in the underground black market have always been well-behaved." Pei Yinghou stared at Han Mo and said slowly: "Li Gu was caught by them, then there is only one possibility, that is, Li Gu broke the rules of their industry...... Our Xihua Hall is an intelligence yamen, and the most taboo thing in the underground black market is that outsiders enter their circle to ask them for information...... Although he didn't say it explicitly, his subordinates guessed that Li Gu was only afraid that he had entered the circle of the underground black market to inquire about the information, which angered the people in the underground black market and arrested him. ”

Han Mo touched his chin and didn't speak.

Li Gu once volunteered to go to the underground black market to find out the news of "Wolf Ice", but Han Mo still believed in Li Gu's ability very much, so he did not object.

It's just that not many people know about this matter, except for himself, only Li Gu and Red Sleeves know, and even Pei Yinghou doesn't know the truth of this matter...

Although Li Gu did not find out the whereabouts of Wolf Ice from the underground black market, he did not reveal his identity, and Han Mo was also worried about conflicts with the underground black market, so he decisively ordered Li Gu to stop tracking Wolf Bing's whereabouts to the underground black market.

Han Mo believed that Li Dingran would not disobey his orders, in the Xihua Hall, it was an extremely important rule for the upper and lower orders, and Li Gu, as the head of the three departments, naturally could not violate the rules of the department and go to the underground black market to inquire about the news without authorization.

This made Han Mo feel a little strange in his heart, Li Gu made sure that he did not leak his identity in his first action, and if he did not act again after that, how did the people in the underground black market find out Li Gu's identity?

The real reason why they arrested Li Gu was really because Li Gu had inquired about intelligence in the underground black market and broke their rules?

Han Mo always felt that something was wrong, and even felt that things were very weird, but what the truth was, he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"In fact, when Gongyan was alive, my West Flower Hall had a conflict with the underground black market... At that time, our people also went in to inquire about the news, but ...... was discovered by their people, arrested, and the public face was furious, and wanted to exterminate the underground black market, but ...... Their people belong to different people, three sects and nine streams, we don't even know who their snake head is......" Pei Yinghou sighed and said slowly: "Some people even suspected that even in the imperial court, they have their eyes and ears, and my West Flower Hall went out in a big way, but I killed dozens of them, but ...... Later, we received a snakeskin bag, and when we opened it, it turned out to be more than a dozen heads of our officials in the West Flower Hall......"

Han Mo's expression became even more gloomy, those people in the underground black market were really lawless.

"Gongyan Lao is naturally angry, and wants to fight with the people in the underground black market on a large scale, but at this time, many ministers in the court are worried that this will make Yanjing fall into turmoil, so they jointly wrote a letter, and finally the saint made a will, so that Gongyan Lao should not be enemies with the people in the underground black market, although Gongyan Lao is unwilling, but the saint will come down, and this matter can only be stopped."

Han Mo squinted his eyes, even Xue Gongyan, who had played the Dark Ancestor, couldn't suppress those guys, it seemed that the vitality of those people was really tenacious, and they could survive in such a heavily guarded capital city in Yanjing, and these members of the black market naturally had their own set of survival rules.

The most important thing is that not only are they in the shadows, and it is difficult to identify them, but their existence actually meets the needs of many people. They were able to survive because their underground black market trade had a strong living space, and there were many people who needed such an underground black market existence, including the aristocracy.

It's a strange industry, perhaps it's been around since ancient times, but it's just hidden in the sun, and most people can't see that they exist in this world at all.

Han Mo knew that such a low class was not something he could deal with, but now that Li Gu had fallen into their hands, it was inevitable that he would have to come into contact with them.

"Three days after the incident, you ...... What have you done? Han Mo stared at this Pei Yinghou and asked.

Pei Yinghou immediately said: "Back to my lord, this matter is very important, and I don't dare to make claims without permission, so I can only wait for my lord to come back and deal with it...... Fortunately, the other party gave a five-day deadline, and there are still two days left, so it's too late."

"What will happen if the official ignores it?" Han Mo stared at Pei Yinghou and asked.

Pei Yinghou said: "Back to my lord, if the adult doesn't pay attention to this matter, things will be much simpler...... As soon as the five-day deadline arrives, if the adults don't come forward, it will be equivalent to acquiescing that the underground black market can dispose of Li Gu at will, as long as they dispose of Li Gu, they will no longer be involved in the West Flower Hall, everyone will be safe, and they will not embarrass each other."

"What will they do with Li Gu?"

Pei Yinghou was silent for a moment before he said slowly: "I will send Li Gu's head back"

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ps: Remind me, I'm not a novice, the stories I write will be connected into one, forming a framework, everyone try to remember the branches I wrote, so that you can see a dense tree.

Haha, admitting that he was pretending, it was nearly 9,000 words in three hours. Everyone worked hard to smash the tickets and make me excited, so the possibilities for adding more are unlimited