Chapter 501: The Secret History of the Jinyi Guard
The point that Xuan Heng stumbled upon was so important that this alone could completely negate our inference.
It turned out that when Xuan Heng was fighting with that half-human, half-corpse, with the flashlight of Old Mr. Yuan, he suddenly found that on the arm of that monster, there was a familiar tiger stripe symbol.
This tiger stripe logo is so special.
In the Ming Dynasty, some of the famous Jinyi guards were specially responsible for supervising the vassal kings everywhere, for fear that the vassal kings everywhere would rebel.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was originally a vassal king, and later overthrew the throne of his own nephew Emperor Jianwen before becoming the emperor, so he was very vigilant about the vassal kings everywhere, afraid that the same thing would happen again, thus threatening his throne, so he established such a branch in Jinyiwei to monitor the every move of the vassal kings in various places.
The Jinyiwei who performs this special mission has a special symbol, that is, on the left arm, there is a tiger stripe logo, which is extremely finely tattooed, not only has a vivid tiger-shaped logo, but also has five seal characters "Jinyiwei Division".
Moreover, the power of this kind of brocade guard is extremely great, as long as this kind of tattoo is exposed, you can directly control the vassal king, and the vassal king must fully cooperate, otherwise he will be punished with rebellion.
In addition, the establishment of this kind of brocade guard was extremely secret, and even the ministers of the court and the central government did not know about it, except for the emperor, the first ministers, and the vassal kings of various places. Because Xuan Heng was a close confidant of the vassal king Zhu Leting, Zhu Leting specially told him about this matter, and also showed him the tiger stripe logo map.
So, for the tattoo on the monster's arm, he recognized it at a glance. If it was a person in the Spring and Autumn Period, there would never be such a pattern on the arm. ”
Things are so complicated! Far more than we can imagine. In that tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period, how could there be a brocade guard of the Ming Dynasty?
After Xuan Heng said this, the vassal king Zhu Leting was also very surprised, because this kind of brocade guard was monitoring him, so of course he knew best, in the decades he was the vassal king, there were three such brocade guards who were responsible for monitoring him, and he was the most familiar with the third named Zhang Liangchen, and he had the best friendship.
If it is really as Xuan Heng said, that half-human and half-corpse monster is this kind of brocade guard, it should be one of the three people, but think about it carefully, the first two people were beheaded successively because they were involved in the political dispute in the court, only the third Zhang Liangchen, as the situation became more and more turbulent, and finally disappeared, therefore, the half-human and half-corpse monster is very likely to be Zhang Liangchen.
But how did Zhang Liangchen become like that? How did he get to the next space?
For these problems, Xuan Heng and they still don't know very well, but according to Zhu Leting's recollection, I really think that Zhang Liangchen is really special in many aspects, and there is one of the most critical things, which can best explain that Zhang Liangchen may have something to do with that space.
First of all, Zhang Liangchen likes Taoism very much, and the people who have the best friendship with him are several famous local Taoist priests, and every morning in the early hours of the morning, he began to get up to practice the art of vomiting, and he is not close to women, and many years after the death of his wife, he neither remarried nor took a concubine.
Not only that, he is obsessed with Taoism, and even to the point of perversion, for example, he will specially collect the first bubble of feces after the baby is born, and after collecting it, he will use it as sauce and eat it with a specially pickled radish; The first menstrual blood of a girl at menarche, he will also do everything possible to collect it and drink it with wine.
These behaviors are very weird, but in the late Ming Dynasty, the social atmosphere was already relatively obscene and chaotic, and all kinds of perverted quirks of the powerful emerged in endlessly, so this kind of thing was nothing for the powerful Jinyiwei, so Zhu Lotting didn't particularly care about it at that time.
But now that I think about it, maybe it was because of this obsession with Taoism that Zhang Liangchen discovered the secret of that tomb, and thus went through all kinds of unknown processes to become what he is now, but why did he stab Xuanheng and them? It seems to be for Old Man Yuan's urine, but why did he grab the urine?
For this kind of question, Xuan Heng still can't figure it out, but Xuan Heng and they are doing their best to investigate the matter; Of course, Old Man Yuan also told Xuan Heng about the situation we encountered, including that we already knew Xuan Heng's secrets, but he also repeatedly promised that we promised to keep the secret and would never announce it to the outside world.
Although Xuan Heng really didn't want anyone to know their secrets, but the matter had come to this point, he could only accept the reality, and in addition to us, a series of crises occurred one after another, some of which we need to face together.
At the end of the manuscript, Xuan Heng also revealed a biggest secret, and this secret was about Old Man Gao.
Xuan Heng said in the manuscript that the old man Gao, before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, was already an extremely famous swordsman, his assassination ability was extremely strong, as long as he wanted to assassinate the person, no matter how many guards were useless, he would eventually be killed, therefore, Jinyiwei once hired him to do things with a lot of money, and also sealed him an official position.
But this person has a very quirky personality, and is extremely murderous and lustful, although he has done a few things for Jin Yiwei, but Jin Yiwei feels that this person is extremely difficult to control, so he doesn't want to use him anymore, but he is very uneasy to let him go, because there are too many secrets of Jin Yiwei, the blind man already knows, so Jin Yiwei wants to get rid of him, but who knows, before Jin Yiwei can do it, I don't know what, he was noticed by the blind man.
Subsequently, the head of the commander of the Jinyiwei was cut off and put in the hall of the Jinyiwei headquarters.
Emperor Chongzhen was angry and shocked, so angry that a grass man dared to be so lawless and dare to kill the commander of the Jinyi Guard; It was shocking that the blind man had such a method.
Originally, he wanted to openly arrest the blind man, but was dissuaded by his ministers, who said that this blind man was close to the "body of a half-demon" and could see through people's thoughts.
These ministers didn't believe it at first, but after several rounds, their inner thoughts at that time were guessed by the blind man one by one, and finally they had to believe that the blind man did have this ability.
They all thought that the reason why the tall blind man had this ability was due to his thorough understanding of "Zhou Yi", but they didn't know that this was actually the talent of the tall blind man.
The ministers were worried that once the blind man was angered, if he moved the idea of assassinating Emperor Chongzhen, it would be too troublesome, after hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen also lamented that the heavens were about to die and the Ming Dynasty could not succeed, not only internal and external troubles, but also this kind of demon, so that as the emperor of the Ninety-Five, he could not even help a grass people.
However, this kind of treatment of Jinyiwei has been criticized by several imperial historians, and they all said that Jinyiwei should never deal with the blind man in this way, but should allow his high-ranking officials to be Houlu, and let him assassinate the leaders of the Houjin - that is, the later Qing Dynasty - and the rebels in various places.
Later, the court tried to make contact with the blind man again, but the blind man had lost trust in the court.
In addition, although the high blind man was very disgusted with the Manchu Qing, the Manchu court knew his name, and promised the high-ranking officials Houlu, hoping that the high blind man could help them do things, but the high blind man still refused, it can be seen that he still looked down on the Manchu Qing a little, however, the Manchu Qing still gave him a lot of gold and silver, and he accepted it unceremoniously, but in order to hide people's eyes, he still participated in some anti-Qing activities, but it was just for show.
When the blind man appeared in the cave, Xuan Heng, Zhu Leting and the others didn't know his identity, and when they saw Old Man Yuan mention the blind man in the manuscript, Xuan Heng and they knew that the uninvited guest who had appeared in the cave was actually the famous blind man.
In addition, Zhu Leting also revealed that Zhang Liangchen, the brocade guard, once told Zhu Leting some anecdotes about the tall blind man, because Zhang Liangchen had worked with the tall blind man for a short time, and the personal relationship was not bad, but the blind man with a quirky personality had a good chat with him. The two often drink together and talk for a long time.
Zhang Liangchen once asked the high blind man, how did he practice his peerless martial arts and mind-reading ability, at that time, the high blind man just smiled slightly, and did not explain, but laughed at Zhang Liangchen and said: "If you want to become an immortal, you must have a 'fairy bone', a mediocre person like you, brother, even if you drink children's urine every day and eat menstrual wine, it is useless, my skills are all because I am talented, and you ask in vain, it is not practiced at all." ”
This is the consistent style of the blind man, he always speaks so harshly, ordinary people may be angry when they hear this kind of words, but after Zhang Liangchen heard it, he laughed heartily, and said yes again and again, and humbly asked the madman six for advice, is there no ordinary person like him, there is no way to "grow into an immortal".
Seeing that he was so sincere, the blind man no longer just laughed at Zhang Liangchen, he solemnly told Zhang Liangchen: "It's not that there is no hope, ordinary people want to become immortals and attain the Tao first, and they must use strong external forces, the so-called 'one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven', even the chicken and dog can ascend to heaven with the help of external force, let alone a person?" ”
Then, the blind man said some incredible things to Zhang Liangchen, but at that time, Zhu Leting didn't seem to be very interested in these things, and felt that they were all mysterious and mysterious empty talk, so he didn't ask seriously.
These manuscripts of Xuan Heng are really too informative, and they are also too important to us, what shocks us is that that the tall blind man used to be a brocade guard!
After listening to it, my cousin said with emotion: "These pages of manuscripts of Xuanheng's predecessors are of great historical value, I have studied the blind man for so many years, and I have never seen this information, if it wasn't written by Xuanheng's predecessors, these historical materials would definitely be lost."
I think the reason why these historical materials have not been recorded is because there are too few people who know these insiders, and these insiders cannot be recorded in the official history, so they are slowly lost. ”
Old man Yuan nodded approvingly and said: "Well, the reason why I can become an authoritative expert in the history of the Ming Dynasty is also because I read the manuscripts of Xuanheng's predecessors, and in terms of historical value alone, my Xuanheng seniors are also immeasurable, so please be sure to keep this secret and not disturb their lives." ”
My cousin and Old Man Yuan are both historians, and they are inseparable from their profession, but now what we care about is, how did Zhang Liangchen enter the tomb of that monarch? What kind of mystery is there in the tomb of the king? Did that Zhang Liangchen really enter the tomb of the monarch with the help of the blind man?