The first rays of the morning sun shine on the earth, giving a very warm feeling. At the gate of Xuanwu in the south of Xianyang City, a group of three people wearing gray long shirts, with their heads low, looked listless, holding three white horses with patterns in their hands, standing quietly at the city gate, waiting for the city gate to open.

The common people outside the city were far away from them, and from time to time they looked at them with awe.

The three people leading the white horse were none other than Zhao Zhiyi and others who failed to capture the Little Snitch in Hongyang County.

After their first defeat, there was no trace of the Little Snitch, and even if they lured them with something more precious than the glass bottle, they did not lure them out.

The three of them, together with the intern iron arrester in Hongyang County, searched for more than ten days, but still did not find any news, and the little snitch seemed to have disappeared, and there was no news.

After the specified date, and there was no clue or news for more than ten days, the three of them had no other way to give up this task, and returned to Xianyang City in a gloomy manner, preparing to report to the Iron Capture Headquarters and let the other Iron Capture arrest catch the little snitch.

Although the three of them are dressed as ordinary people today, these three white horses with patterns reveal their identities, white, which means justice, and the horse's forehead will be dotted with a touch of vermilion, and the unique patterns on the body are the unique signs of the iron shop. This is also the reason why the three of them are obviously dressed as ordinary people, but the people are in awe of them.

Although Tie Zhu does things to fight crime, sometimes, he is still more or less eager for quick success, and his work is also a little impersonal.

Especially when doing some special tasks, it is usually for the purpose of completing the task, it is difficult to take into account the life and death of the people, and sometimes they will use the people as bait, as if the lives of the people are disregarded.

In doing this, the people can imagine what the people want about them. While they respected these blacksmiths who captured the Jiangyang thieves, they were afraid of them, and they really admired and feared them.

For the opinions of the people, the iron shop is known, and they are naturally a little uncomfortable in their hearts, after all, what they do, in the final analysis, is still for the good of the people, and the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

However, even if they know that the people are afraid of them because of this, they will not change because of this, and they still do things with the purpose of completing the task.

It's not that they don't like to change, it's not that they don't want the people to respect them, but because the Jiangyang thieves don't get rid of them for a day, the harm they bring will only get bigger and bigger, and they will exchange small losses for big benefits, and small ones will be big, this is what they do.

In addition to the iron fishing of the Qin State, other countries also have such departments, and they all do the same thing, but the names are different.

Xianyang City is located in the hinterland of 800 miles of Pizhou in the Qin State. Weishui passes through the south, Zongshan is in the north, and the mountains and rivers are yang, so it is called Xianyang.

It borders Qingzhou to the east and Liangzhou to the north, and was the center of political power of the Qin State. It is also the key place for the Central Plains such as Wei to the northwest of the mainland.

Xianyang has beautiful scenery, four distinct seasons, abundant products, outstanding people, and is a real feng shui treasure.

Xianyang has a history of more than 1,000 years, is the oldest and most well-preserved town in Hongyu Continent, and is also one of the towns that are still in use until today.

A thousand years ago, the capital of the Shang State that unified the Hongyu Continent was Xianyang, and it is rumored that the country with Xianyang will eventually unify the real Hongyu Continent again.

The total area of Xianyang City is 84 square kilometers, which is 2.5 times the size of other state cities, the city wall of Xianyang Kuocheng is about 2910 (more than 9700 meters) long from east to west, about 2580 (more than 8600 meters) long from north to south, and the circumference is about 10800 (36 kilometers) zhang;

Among them, there are four main city gates, and the names of these four city gates are named after the four legendary beasts, namely the East City Gate, the White Tiger Gate, the West City Gate, the Qinglong Gate, the South City Gate, the Xuanwu Gate, and the Suzaku Gate.

These gates are named as such, since the time of the city's founding. It can be seen how ambitious the country was to unify the Hongyu Continent at that time, and actually used the four divine beasts to name the city gate.

The four divine beasts are comparable to the existence of the gods, the sacred beasts that guard the four directions, and the totems of many countries, they are the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu.

The four divine beasts are integrated into the five elements and directions, and are represented by different colors: the eastern cyan is wood, the western white is gold, the southern red is fire, the northern black is water, and the central yellow is earth.

The so-called number of days, the left green dragon, the right white tiger, the front Vermilion Bird, the back Xuanwu. Therefore, the yin in the hall knows the order of the sun and the moon, and the ice in the bottle knows the cold and heat of the world.

The dragon appears; At the turn of spring and summer, Xuanwu rises; At the turn of summer and autumn, the white tiger shows its head; At the turn of autumn and winter, the Vermilion Bird rises, and it is collectively known as the "Four Great Divine Beasts".

Many people say that the Shang State was able to dominate the Hongyu Continent because of the help of the four divine beasts.

But this is just a rumor, whether it is true or not, no one knows, after all, a thousand years have passed.

Time will always erase something, the original glorious Shang Dynasty, to this day, only the legend of Xianyang City remains, as for other things, it has long disappeared in the river of history and has been forgotten by people.

Xianyang City, near the Suzaku Gate, is the palace of the Qin State, Zixuan Palace, the residence of the king of the Qin State, the residence of the royal family surnamed Liu, and the center of political power of the Qin State. The daily morning dynasty is also carried out on the Golden Crow Hall of Zixuan Palace.

On the left side of the Zixuan Palace, there is the Yulin Guard's military camp Yu Ling Field, on the right is the place where the ministers of the court and the central government deal with things - the Yushi Terrace, and behind the Zixuan Palace, there is the Black Ice Terrace, the headquarters of the iron shop.

There are four gates in the Black Ice Terrace, which are facing the Guangyi Gate of the Main Street, the Zhongyi Gate facing the Zixuan Palace, the Guardian Gate facing the City Gate, and the Justice Gate facing the Heavenly Prison.

At this time, facing the gate of Guangyi Gate on the street, Zhao Zhiyi, who had just entered the city from the city gate, led a white horse to the door.

"Your Excellency!"

As soon as the three of them arrived at the door, the iron catchers guarding the Guangyi Gate saluted Zhao Zhiyi one after another.

"Yes."

Nodding, Zhao Zhiyi handed the rope in his hand to an iron catcher guarding the door, and walked into the black ice platform with his head held high.

Behind him, Wang Yong and the others also handed the horse rope in their hands to Tie Zhu, who was guarding the door, and followed Zhao Zhiyi across the Guangyi Gate and entered the Black Ice Platform.

These gatekeepers are all served by some intern iron catchers, and each regular iron catcher will guard the gate for a period of time, and if the performance is not very good during this time, the same will be eliminated, and can only wait for the next selected opportunity.