Chapter 90: Waist Cards

Seeing that Master Zheng didn't say it explicitly, Tianci said to him: "Brother Zheng, you can follow me to the guest room to discuss, I have something I want to ask for advice in person." After saying that, Tianci walked to a guest room, and Mr. Zheng had no choice but to follow in.

After sitting down in the room, Tianci took out something from his arms and handed it to Zheng Darthead, who took it and saw that it was a bamboo piece the size of a waist card, on which a lively koi was carved.

After seeing this object, Zheng Dangtou was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Tianci: "Where did this object come from?"

"It was found in the dark compartment under the car, if it wasn't something from the Guidart Bureau, then it must have been left by the thief, it seems that Brother Zheng recognized this thing?"

"Hmm. Zheng Darttou hesitated for a moment and continued: "This thing is the waist card of the 'Forbidden Guard', a secret organization of the Beijing royal family during the Wuzhi period. Then, he told Tianci about the origin of this organization.

At that time, the power of the forbidden army in the capital was very large, and relying on its influence in the court, officials at all levels of the forbidden army formed parties for personal gain, and the phenomenon of corruption was very serious. Later, after Yuwen Haotian, the son of Yuwen's family, was promoted to the commander of the forbidden army, in order to supervise the military discipline of the forbidden army and punish the corruption of the party in the army, a very small number of elites were selected from the forbidden army to establish the organization of the 'Forbidden Army Guard'. Although there were only thirty or fifty people at that time, they were very remarkable, and in less than a year, all the lawless officials in the forbidden army were eliminated, and the military discipline and military appearance were greatly improved, and it also won an excellent reputation among the people.

Later, even the emperor at that time also borrowed this organization to investigate and handle many major and important cases, and eliminated many dissidents, so it won the trust and reuse of the emperor, and gradually became a secret organization for the royal family, which was specially responsible for intelligence collection, secret reconnaissance, arrest and even assassination of some important members of the imperial court.

"Their waist card is a koi, it is said to be taken from the Yuwen family's family emblem, some waist cards are engraved with a "fishing" word, this kind of people are specifically responsible for setting up bureaus, reconnaissance, and some are engraved with a "catch" word, which is specifically responsible for arrest and execution. Therefore, the people also call them the 'fishing bureau'. Zheng Dart pointed to the pattern on the bamboo plaque and said to Tianci: "There are no engraved words on this bamboo plaque, which means that this person is a prefectural figure in charge of these two types of people." ”

Tianci nodded, but asked with some puzzlement: "Since Brother Zheng is a dart for the imperial court, why did the imperial court send this person from the fishing bureau to steal?"

"No, this fishing bureau was disbanded and reorganized more than ten years ago, and it no longer exists, and all the people involved in it have been arrested or killed as dissidents. Zheng Darttou continued.

After Yuwen Haotian, the eldest son of the Yuwen family, was crowned king, he was transferred to the Northern Regions and became the king of Zhenbei. At that time, a small number of middle and high-level officials in the forbidden army and the forbidden army and guards followed Yuwen Haotian to the northern regions, and the rest remained in the capital.

After Yuwen Haotian was transferred, the commander of the forbidden army was changed to Huang Shenyuan, the queen's brother, and after Huang Shenyuan took office, he restructured the original "forbidden guard" into the "Tianji Department", and the people of the "Tianji Department" all tattooed a tiger tattoo on their arms, and the folk also called it "Black Tiger Hall". Since then, the 'Forbidden Guard' or 'Fishing Bureau' has disappeared from the world, until a few years later, the Yuwen family was sentenced to the Nine Clans for the crime of treason, and the 'Heavenly Machine Division' carried out a bloody purge of the original 'Forbidden Guard', and strangled many people who were thought to be related to the Yuwen family. Later, the 'Tianji Division' (Black Tiger Hall) was expanded and reorganized, separated from the forbidden army, and became a secret organization under the command of the imperial court.

Wu Beikun used the 'Heavenly Machine' (Black Tiger Hall) to carry out a frenzied extermination of the pro-heir faction inside and outside the imperial court and the sympathizers of the Yuwen family. The 'Heavenly Machine' (Black Tiger Hall) was also in power for a while, and without the approval of the judicial organs, it could supervise the arrest of subjects at will, wantonly hunt and kill, and set off a chilling bloody storm in the capital.

"At that time, if you had one of these cards in your hand, you could lose your head at any time. Actually, it's pretty much the same now, it's just that no one has seen it for a long time. Zheng Dart raised the waist card in his hand and said to Tianci.

"So can it be considered that it was the people of Zhenbei Wang Yuwen Haotian who stole the box?" asked Tianci.

"Well, probably. Zheng Dart nodded.

"Why? You know what's in this box. Tianci asked.

After bowing his head and being silent for a moment, Zheng Dart said: "The box is actually some clerical account books and other things, which are darts from a merchant in the county town of northern Jin. This dart is entrusted to my boss by a certain important minister in the court, and there are two large boxes of dart silver, which have been paid off in advance, but the client has taken my boss's eleven-year-old third son away, saying that he is invited to the house to play with his son for some time, and he can pick it up when the dart is delivered, which is clearly taken as a hostage. That's all I know. After speaking, Zheng Dangtou buried his head in his palms painfully: "I killed the third young master!"

Tianci patted Zheng Dart's shoulder and comforted him for a while, he wanted to show Zheng Darthead the jade on his body to see if he knew the origin. But when he heard what he said, he didn't know much about the Yuwen family, and he didn't even know that Pisces was the family emblem of the Yuwen family, so he didn't mention it again.

"Brother Zheng, since there are such things as documents and account books inside, I will immediately order all checkpoints inside and outside the city to strictly check such objects, and make every effort to recover the lost darts of Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng Don't be too anxious for the time being, and give me a day or two. Although Tianci said so, he knew very well in his heart that there was almost no possibility of recovering the dart, just to comfort Brother Zheng.

"Without further ado, brother, I will leave and go back first, so that we can make arrangements. "God's gift stood up and said goodbye.

"Wait!" Zheng Darthead stood up and said: "You can take this thing, the matter of arresting the thief has bothered Master Zhang, no matter what the result is, I Zheng has received this love, and I will definitely do my best to repay it in the future." With that, he handed over the waist card in his hand to God.

"Brother Zheng is polite, this is just my job. In addition, this waist card was left to you by the man in black, and there must be some instructions, you still stay by your side, and it may not be useful in the future. After speaking, Tianci stepped out of the door of the guest room and led several officers and soldiers to leave the inn without looking back.