1241 - Mutual Restraint and Counterbalance
When the surrounding residents who were fighting the fire saw it, they all quickly gathered over, helped me and Song Dazhe respectively, pinched people and fed water, and after tossing for a while, my mind finally gradually cleared up, and the vision in front of me also recovered from blur to clear......
I turned my head to look at Song Dazhe, and saw that Song Dazhe was surrounded by several residents, putting his head in a bucket of ice water and washing his face frantically.
I quickly got up and walked over, sat next to Song Dazhe, and said embarrassedly: "Brother Song, I'm sorry for you, I almost killed you for me......"
"It's all a trivial matter," Song Dazhe smiled at me, sat up, and continued: "You are a big celebrity in the exorcism world right now, and if you die here, it is a big loss......
"But, how do you know that something happened to Yan Qi's family?"
As soon as I asked, I saw Song Dazhe's expression suddenly stunned, and after a silence, he lowered his voice and said vigilantly: "It's inconvenient to stay here for a long time, you go with me first." ”
Song Dazhe stood up as he spoke, thanked a few residents who had rescued him, turned to a motorcycle parked on the side of the road, and waved to me again.
I didn't ask much, I hurriedly followed, sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, and Song Dazhe pedaled the motorcycle and took me away.
It didn't take long for Song Dazhe to take me back to his stall in the butcher's shop, and after unlocking the door and bringing me in, he first locked the door from the inside, and then took me into the back room, sat down on a chair, lit a cigarette and smoked.
Seeing that his face became more and more solemn, I hurriedly asked again: "Brother Song, do you have anything to say to me?" What's going on? ”
"Little Liuzi, there are some things I didn't make clear to you before, but now that I look at it, it is necessary for you to know more......"
Song Dazhe got up and walked to the desk as he spoke, took the key and opened the locked drawer in the middle of the desk, and said without looking back while rummaging through things in the drawer: "Just now you asked me how I knew that Yan Qi's family was in danger, in fact, I didn't know at all, but since you left, I began to worry, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that Yan Qi's disappearance was too strange, combined with some investigations I had done before that could not stand up to scrutiny, I wanted to go over and see you out of worry, but I didn't expect that something really happened over there......"
"Can't stand up to scrutiny? What do you mean? ”
I asked, and then looked at Song Dazhe, who had already turned out a small iron box from the drawer, and after opening the small iron box, he actually took out a small cloth bag the size of his palm, turned around and shook his hand, and threw the cloth bag to me.
I quickly raised my hand to take it, opened the cloth bag and looked inside, I saw a little golden light flashing in the cloth bag, reached out and pulled it inside, did not wait to take out the things inside, the first thing I felt cold between my fingers, I pinched the cold, took out the thing to see, and then I recognized that the cloth bag contained in a piece of yellow, orange and orange jade.
I was shocked, and I couldn't help but look up at Song Dazhe, and saw Song Dazhe smile slightly, sat back in the chair and continued to smoke, so he smoked and said: "You should not be unfamiliar with this thing, this is the identity symbol of the members of the Tianzhu Mansion, Xiaoyu!" ”
"I, I recognize ......" I nodded, and said, "Yellow Xiaoyu, do you mean that you are ......?"
"That's right," Song Dazhe replied with a smile: "It is rumored that since ancient times, the jade handed down from Tianzhu Mansion has seven colors: red, yellow, black, white, blue, blue, and purple, among which the yellow jade symbolizes the civil logistics organization of the four major institutions of Tianzhu Mansion - Six Zhongshu Province, and I am a member of the Six Zhongshu Province......"
"Are you from the Six Books Province?"
Song Dazhe's words shocked me again.
Although I haven't joined the Tianzhu Mansion yet, since Bai Long, Yang Death, Mao Xiaofang Dao Chang and other acquaintances are all masters of the Tianzhu Mansion, I am no stranger to the establishment of this mysterious organization.
Tianzhu Mansion was established in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, in view of the official position of the government office of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there are four major institutions under it, namely the five military capital protection mansions, the six Zhongshu provinces, the Kyushu Zhenfu Division, and the thirteen imperial history platforms.
The Five Armies Protectorate is the chief military organization of the Tianzhu Mansion, and is in charge of the largest exorcism world guard in the Tianzhu Mansion, because this escort army has been mainly composed of the five major exorcists of the 'Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Famo' since ancient times, so it is called the 'Five Armies', responsible for guarding the safety of the Tianzhu Mansion and the entire exorcism world, and serving as the public responsibility of the Demon Guardian at a critical moment;
Kyushu Zhenfu Division for the Ming Dynasty Tianzhu Mansion set up the pacification institutions, the members of the agency according to the ancient Kyushu division scattered throughout the country in accordance with the Yu water control of the ancient Kyushu division, in the name of "pacification envoys", hidden in the local folk suppression of evil and maintain the safety of one party.
The Thirteen Imperial Historical Platforms are the supervisory institutions, because in addition to the Jingshi and Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, there are a total of Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Huguang, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou thirteen political envoys, and the Jingshi and Nanjing are collectively called the 'two capitals and thirteen provinces', so it is named, and is responsible for supervising the other three major institutions of the Tianzhu Mansion in the dark, so as to prevent members of the Mansion from defecting into the devil or doing things that are unfavorable to the Tianzhu Mansion. Due to the arduous task of the Imperial Historical Tower, since the Ming Dynasty, there has also been a highly mobile exorcism team called 'Skywalker', and these Skywalkers will usually scatter around the country in order to check the work of the personnel of the Tianzhu Mansion in various places.
In addition to the above three institutions, Tianzhufu also has an institution, although the name is not as loud as the other three institutions, but it has been maintaining the normal operation of the entire Tianzhufu behind the scenes, the Tianzhufu headquarters and branches across the country Personnel flow, material distribution expenditures, and even the assignment of the action plan, all by this agency is responsible for the six Zhongshu provinces.
In ancient times, the imperial court set up six departments, respectively, officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, the six departments performed their duties, in charge of the affairs of the world, and such as today the Xufu has long declined, even if there are many branches, no matter how powerful it is, it is not a world after all, so the six departments of the province have gradually become a in the eyes of the people, both important and unimportant administrative and logistical institutions.
Before this, I had dealt with the members of the first three major institutions of Tianzhu Mansion, especially the Thirteen Dao Yushitai, because my master Bai Long was the supreme leader of the Thirteen Dao Yushitai - Zuodu Yushi, and due to the particularity of the position of the Six Zhongshu Provinces, I had never had any dealings with the personnel in this institution, so now when I saw Song Dazhe actually show the yellow owl jade of the Six Zhongshu Province, I was really surprised.
I looked at the Xiaoyu in my hand, and then at Song Dazhe, who was sitting on the chair opposite and frowning and smoking, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Are you from the Six Books of the Province?" Isn't that right? Aren't you the informant in charge of supporting Yan Qi in Yangzhou? ”
"That's just an external identity, a very small part of all my functions," Song Dazhe replied: "You should know that the four major institutions of Tianzhu Mansion have always performed their own duties, namely 'military agencies', 'supervisory agencies', 'pacification agencies', and 'administrative agencies', but although the surface division of labor is clear, but in fact, the secret functions of the four major institutions are actually overlapping, for example, the Thirteen Dao Yushitai is responsible for supervising the operation of the other three institutions all year round, so who will supervise the Yushitai?" As a result, the other three agencies have privately built a small team to secretly counter-monitor the operations of other agencies; And our six Zhongshu Province should be responsible for the distribution of materials in the entire Tianzhu Mansion, but do you think that the other three institutions do not have private independent small coffers? As the saying goes, 'where there are people, there are rivers and lakes', any corner of this world is indispensable for intrigue and mutual distrust, no matter how sacred the Tianzhu Mansion is, it will be the same after all......"
Hearing Song Dazhe say this, I seemed to understand a little, and replied: "I understand, the envoys of the Kyushu Zhenfu Division are scattered all over the country, and the Tianzhu Mansion will assign local informants to assist them in their work, and the tasks assigned by the informants are naturally responsible for the administrative and logistical organization of the six Zhongshu provinces of the Tianzhu Mansion, so the informants arranged by the six Zhongshu provinces for the Zhenfu envoys are actually internal personnel of the six Zhongshu provinces, and the purpose is only to assist at the same time, secretly monitoring the every move of the envoys, right?" ”