Kaifeng Mansion, also known as Tokyo, Bianjing, north of the Yellow River and west of the Qinling Mountains is the land of abundance, the ancient capital of the eight dynasties, since ancient times it has the reputation of 'Qishu Mingxia Wufeng Tower, Yimen since ancient times imperial state'.

Xiao Yao and his entourage had just stepped into the majestic city gate of Kaifeng Mansion, and two officials squatting at the city gate greeted them, and the ghost hand Ling Han was pulled by the two officials as soon as he appeared, whispering a few words, and then he said goodbye to Fang Changqi and Xiao Yao and others with guilt, and was surrounded by two officials and went to the direction of the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion.

Divine Fist Fang Changqi saw that Ling Han, who had just returned to Kaifeng, was called away in a hurry, and knew that something big must have happened in the city. But after all, he was not a person in the government, and it was inconvenient to ask each other, so he had to wave goodbye to Ling Han and take the group back to the Kaifeng General Courtyard of the Sanshan Dart Bureau.

Although Xiao Yao had already seen the scenery of the Runing Branch of the Sanshan Dart Bureau, he was still startled when he arrived at the gate of the main courtyard. I saw the wall of Zhangyu in the Zhumen compound, the two huge and mighty stone lions in front of the door, and the gilded horse pile.

The family of the door saw their own head dart head back from a distance and hurried to greet him, the main courtyard of the Sanshan Dart Bureau covers an area of dozens of acres, and the style is not much better than that of the Kaifeng Mansion Yamen.

In fact, it is no wonder that at this time, there are traitors in the court who are in charge and see the decline, and there are repeated offenders outside who are tired of coping, and it seems that many times the government has to rely on the assistance of some martial arts people, so naturally it cannot suppress the development and growth of these forces.

The main bureau of the three mountains dart bureau is a three-entry courtyard, the first two are the daily orders and welcome guests of the dart bureau, the wide martial arts training ground, the tall and sturdy warehouse, the dining hall that can accommodate hundreds of people, and the residence of the dart master are all here, and the last entry is Fang Changqi's personal private residence, and most of his family members live in this deep backyard.

Xiao Yao was still unconsciously with Fang Changqi after arriving in Kaifeng, and at this time he woke up when he saw the gate of the Sanshan Dart Bureau, and hurriedly said goodbye to Fang Changqi of the Divine Fist.

Fang Changqi smiled and said: "Xiao Yao, you have a life-saving grace for dogs, now that you are on the ground, how can you not allow Uncle Fang to fulfill the friendship of the landlord." ”

At this time, Fang Ziyu had just been helped down from the carriage, and when he saw that Xiao Yao was leaving, he was struggling to stay, and said: "Brother Xiao, you are helpless in this Kaifeng Mansion, not to mention that Uncle Ling promised you to help you check the books in the mansion, if you leave us at this time, where should we find you." ”

Xiao Yao saw that Fang Changqi's father and son were sincere, but he couldn't shirk it, and besides, he only thought about going to Kaifeng first along the way, but when he really arrived in Kaifeng, he didn't know where to go.

At this time, the ghost hand Ling Han had been brought back to the official office of Kaifeng Mansion by several people who were in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard Master Zuo say: "Ling Zhutou, you are back, Lord Liu is waiting in the study and said that there is something important to discuss, you come with me." ”

When the two came to the study in the backyard of the Yamen, Liu Anshan, the prefect of Kaifeng, was waiting in the room.

But he saw Liu Anshan sitting alone at the desk in the room with a red face, holding a letter in his hand and checking it over and over again, but he didn't even notice the arrival of Ling Han and Master Zuo.

Master Zuo said softly: "My lord, Ling Zhutou is here." ”

Liu Anshan found the two of them at this time, and quickly stood up and handed the letter to the two.

Ghost hand Ling Han took this thin letterhead, did not rush to read the content first, but his attention was suddenly attracted by the seal at the end of the letter, this imprint is square and vermilion, it seems to be inconspicuous, but the four seal characters on the imprint are three points that anyone should be afraid of when they see it-Jiang Gong of Dongchang.

If you want to say who this Jiang Gong is, you have to start from the beginning.

At this time, it was during the Wanli period, and Shenzong was bent on pampering the concubine Zheng, who was a rare beauty, and what was even worse was that she was naturally good*, and Zhu Yijun was fascinated and obedient to her.

This Zheng Guifei and Shenzong have a son named Zhu Changxun, who was born lively and clever, Zheng Guifei instigated Wanli to want him to make his son Zhu Changxun the crown prince, and Wanli really moved his mind under Zheng Guifei's charming and charming style.

However, at this time, the ancestral law was to establish the elder but not the young, and the heir not to establish the concubine. Zhu Changxun is neither the eldest son of Wanli, nor is Concubine Zheng Guifei the queen of the dynasty.

Wanli's change of the crown prince was strongly opposed by the loyal martyrs of the Manchu Dynasty, which was the world-famous 'national capital dispute'. Zhu Yijun finally did not twist the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and since then he has never been angry and has not come to the court to listen to politics.

The affairs of the court and the central government were handed over to Jiang Jingzhong, the chief eunuch who had followed Wanli since childhood, and then Jiang Jingzhong chose the important matter to report to the Shenzong for knowing.

And Wanli himself lingered and entangled with Zheng Guifei in the bed every day, and Zheng Guifei used her plump and warm moving body to soothe and cater to Shenzong day and night, and Shenzong was ashamed of Zheng Guifei and loved him, and he was even more obedient after that.

Jiang Jingzhong saw that the emperor was 'working day and night' and had the heart to share his worries and solve problems for the emperor, and of course he would not listen to the daily reports of the ministers.

In fact, every day the courtiers can really enter Wanli's ears of the ten things that do not exist, Jiang Jingzhong in Wanli and Zheng Guifei under the favor of the * emperor is like the emperor.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty also had two institutions directly under the control of the emperor, but it was Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the power of Dongchang has increased greatly, and it has the authority to supervise Jinyiwei, since then Jinyiwei has gradually become a subordinate of Dongchang, and the commander of Jinyiwei is also under the control of the director of Dongchang.

At this time, the position of the governor of Dongchang was concurrently held by Jiang Jingzhong and Jiang Gonggong, so all the courtiers hated and feared Jiang Jingzhong, and the fear of this person was greater than that of Wanli himself.

The letter Liu Anshan received at this time turned out to be printed with the seal of Jiang Gong of Dongchang, so it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a holy decree.

Master Zuo and Ling Han carefully read the contents of the letter, but this time the ghost gate was closed in the area of Kaifeng Mansion, and the court of the palace finally got a reply.

The letter said that Kaifeng is the state of Tianfu Central Plains, how can we ignore the bandits and endanger the good people, Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan is not effective in suppressing bandits, resulting in the evil bandits in the jurisdiction, but the memory of its hard work and high ghost gate is also a rogue, this time will not be investigated, will soon send the East Factory Inspector Hu Gonggong to Kaifeng to supervise the suppression of bandits.

Master Zuo saw that the court did not pursue this trouble, and knew that the silver ticket attached to the prefect's letter had played a role, and he was secretly relieved.

As for Ling Han, he also knew the meaning of Lord Liu calling him here, but he said that it was rumored that every strange person under the command of Jiang Gong, the governor of the East Factory, was a skilled martial artist, and this Gong Hu must be a middle master.

If this Gonggong Hu can defeat the two of the Nine Lives Yama King and the black-faced judge, this plan to exterminate the bandits in the Ghost Gate Pass can be regarded as a sprout, and now seeing that the supervisor sent by Dongchang will come to Kaifeng Mansion soon, Liu Anshan of the Mansion summoned Ling Han in a hurry in the hope that he could come up with a careful strategy to suppress the bandits before Gonggong Hu came.

It is best to be able to fight a battle, and remove the evil tumor of the Ghost Gate Pass, which is entrenched in the Heshan area, and return the peace to the party, and then the Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan will not only have no faults, but may also fall some credit, if he can do a good job of 'activity activities', maybe there is hope for further progress.

It's no wonder that Liu Anshan in the study will be red and full of spirit.

At this time, on the official road from Jingshi Shuntianfu to Kaifeng Mansion, more than a dozen brocade guards with bright armor surrounded a silver-topped blue curtain vermilion lacquer sedan chair, the person in the sedan chair was none other than Kaifeng Mansion Yin Liu Anshan looked forward to the Dongchang supervision envoy Hu Gonggong day and night, the Ming Dynasty law clearly wrote that only the court officials of the third grade or more can take the silver-topped soap-colored covered sedan chair, and this Hu Gonggong is just a supervisor under the command of Jiang Jingzhong, the director of the East Factory, just a person from the rank of the fifth grade but dares to take such an over-the-top sedan chair under the blue sky and white daylight, which can be seen how rampant the arrogance of the eunuch eunuch party is at this time。

But said that Hu Gonggong received the hand of the governor Jiang Gonggong, did not dare to slack off and leave the capital to Kaifeng, this road has been running for some time, although he is just sitting in the sedan chair all day long to enjoy the blessing but still feel very impatient, at this time walking on the mountain road sedan chair is inevitably bumpy and shaking, Hu Gongcheng wants to uncover the sedan chair to reprimand these brocade guards of the wine bag rice bag, one by one looks five big and three thick people look like dogs but eat the court for decades in vain, why even a sedan chair can not be carried smoothly.

I only heard the sound of a few heavy objects falling to the ground sounded, followed by the entire sedan body but fell down sharply, but Hu Gonggong, who was still full of anger just now, suddenly became very calm, like a frightened hound on guard.

I saw that he quickly pulled out the hidden blade from the sedan chair under him, thinking that he was worried that there was an enemy ambush outside the sedan door, but Hu Gonggong jumped lightly but broke out of the window.

At this time, it was summer, and the car window was only carefully pasted with Zeng gauze net, which was expected to prevent mosquitoes, so it was naturally broken by Hu Gonggong.

And Grandpa Hu also took advantage of this collision from the narrow world in the sedan chair to the main road that their group was walking.

Speaking of which, even if Gonggong Hu saw hundreds of murderers besieging him with sharp blades at this time, he would not be half surprised, because at this time, although the power of Dongchang was even more arrogant, there were many people who were afraid of them, but it seemed that there were indeed more people who hated Dongchang Jinyiwei.

It's just that Dongchang is in full swing, and most people who can't resist can only bury this hatred deep in their hearts and dare not show it at all.

Of course, not everyone can be so forbearing, Gonggong Hu can't remember how many major cases of raiding homes and destroying doors he has personally handled since he joined Dongchang to follow Jiang Jingzhong Jiang's father-in-law, and he can't remember how many people he has persecuted with his hands, let alone how many unjust ghosts and wild ghosts secretly watch him every day, and even he can't remember how many assassinations he has suffered in his life.

The only thing he still remembered was that he was still alive and enjoying the glory and wealth that others could not imagine, but even though Gonggong Hu had experienced countless sneak attacks and assassinations, he still couldn't expect what would happen next.

Just now he jumped out of the sedan window, and the first thing he saw was not a swarm of outlaws, nor a sinister ambush, but a pair of feet when he looked up.

These feet don't seem to have anything special about the original, although the materials of the boots are luxurious, but compared with the extravagance of eunuchs like Gonggong Hu, I don't know how far it is, and Gonggong Hu's own most broken and worst pair of boots are much more gorgeous than this.

These feet are not particularly peculiar, they are just the size of ordinary people, and there are no flame entanglements and no hidden weapons attached.

But the position of these feet is very unusual, after Hu Gonggong jumped out of the sedan chair and unloaded a tumbling force, the person was in a half-squatting state, and the whole person was like an enraged wolf who was ready to show his fangs and choose people to love.

But these feet appeared in front of his eyes, less than a palm's distance from his head, blocking all the vision of this wild wolf, "What if it was not a pair of feet but a knife", Hu Gonggong couldn't help but secretly think.

Although he thought so, he didn't dare to stop for the slightest, and when the sword in his hand moved forward, he himself was already like a kite, as if he was pulled by the invisible silk thread behind him, and jumped backwards quickly.

Hu Gonggong's mind was unusually clear at this time, and even flashed many follow-up countermeasures, he was not naïve enough to think that a sword in his hand could help him get out of the current predicament and get rid of the mysterious feet in front of him.

But the reality is often very different from the prediction, and the mysterious man in front of Gonggong Hu just dodged the sword in a flash, but he didn't have the slightest intention of bullying him again.

It was only at this time that Gonggong Hu had the leisure to take a look at the surrounding situation, and saw that more than a dozen Jinyi guards who followed him all the way south to Kaifeng Mansion had fallen to the ground.

There were no traces of a fight or blood at the scene, and it looked like the men had been knocked unconscious by surprise with heavy hands. Looking at the position where these brocade guards fell, they were evenly distributed around the sedan chair as before they passed out, and more than a dozen people were knocked unconscious by the enemy in an instant, and they didn't even have the strength to draw their swords.

To say that although these dozen brocade guards are not the masters of the Shuntian Mansion brocade guards, after all, the real top masters in the brocade guards, with his identity as the superintendent of the East Factory of Hu Gonggong, he still can't be mobilized, but after all, it is a dozen martial artists who are proficient in martial arts, Hu Gonggong asked himself if he personally took action, although he could kill these dozen people without any damage, it was impossible for the other party to have no chance to resist, let alone silently and without harming his life.

And Gonggong Hu finally saw the uninvited guest in front of him clearly at this time, only to see that this person's long figure was wearing a huge cloak, although he wore a mask to cover his face, but only by a pair of shining eyes, he knew that he was not easy to match.

Seeing that the person who came didn't seem to have the intention of making another move, Gonggong Hu pretended to have the courage to ask, "Do you know the identity of us?" ”

Mysterious human: "If it is not bad as expected, your lords belong to the East Factory of Jingshi Shuntianfu, and they passed through here to rush to Kaifeng Mansion in Henan Province to suppress bandits." ”

Gonggong Hu lost his voice and said: "Since Your Excellency knows, you should also know what kind of crime it is to ambush Dongchang Jinyiwei. ”

Mysterious human: "Although I am not talented, I also have a rough understanding of the law, and according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, I should destroy the nine clans when I attack the East Factory." ”

Gonggong Hu pretended to be and said: "Then why did Your Excellency still commit such a catastrophe, the miscellaneous family thought that you were also lost for a while, for the sake of not killing people with heavy hands, if you leave quickly this time, the miscellaneous family will not be held accountable." ”

The mysterious man sighed: "It's just that there are some private matters to tell the lord, and if these attendants are awake, I am afraid that there will be some obstacles." Before that, can you ask the adult to take his hand off the belt, you must know that the buckle is extremely rare, and the adult should not waste it here. ”

After being exposed by the mysterious person, Gonggong Hu couldn't help but sneer, just now he stabilized the person in front of him with words, just to take advantage of the soul chasing needle on his spare belt to plot against the other party, you must know that this soul chasing needle is as thin as a cow's hair and fires extremely fast, plus each needle is fed with poison, and the idle martial arts master can't resist it. But he didn't expect the mysterious person in front of him to recognize this secret weapon unique to Dongchang.

The mysterious man saw that Gonggong Hu's hand had left the launch mechanism on his belt, so he took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and handed them over.

Gonggong Hu looked at the silver ticket in front of him, but he didn't stretch out his hand, but frowned slightly, and said, "What does Your Excellency mean by this." ”

The mysterious man said quietly: "This mere 100,000 taels of silver tickets are just some money to buy lives. ”

Gonggong Hu was shocked and asked, "Whose life did you buy?"

Mysterious human: "The ghost gate closes the life of the old and young in a village." ”

Gonggong Hu said curiously: "The miscellaneous family doesn't understand what Your Excellency means. ”

The mysterious man said: "The meaning of the next is very clear, I hope that my lord, you can raise your noble hand to open the ghost gate this time, and this 100,000 taels is just a little meaning." ”

Gonggong Hu asked in a gloomy voice: "What if the miscellaneous family doesn't agree." ”

The mysterious man smiled but didn't answer, but Gonggong Hu could already feel the murderous aura that began to fill the air. can only hold on, and said: "If the miscellaneous family depends on Your Excellency today, how should they explain to Shangfeng after returning to Shuntian Mansion, it is better to fight here than to die at that time." ”

The mysterious man saw that although Gonggong Hu was very inward-looking, his tone softened, and he was secretly relieved, although he could wipe out all the people of Gonggong Hu here, but once he did this, he would inevitably anger Dongchang.

After all, Dongchang is the key point of the imperial court, and the masters of it are not easy to deal with the subordinate Jinyi Guard, if Gonggong Hu dies here, there will definitely be more difficult characters sent out by Gonggong Jiang, but when the time comes, not only will the ghost gate be closed and there will be no place to be buried, I am afraid that even the Holy Sect will also be exposed.

I saw the mysterious man smiled: "Of course, I won't embarrass my father-in-law, once my father-in-law's men and horses arrive at Kaifeng Mansion, the villain can guarantee that the ghost gate will be out of Henan within two days, and then dare not attack the Kaifeng treasure land. ”

The mysterious man in front of Gonggong Hu gradually reined in his murderous aura at this time, and even the title became humble and polite, but the courage that had been taken away earlier resurfaced out of nowhere, and said with a smile: "God has the virtue of a good life, since Your Excellency knows so much about advance and retreat, why bother to be the unflattering villain, as long as you can return the tranquility in the Kaifeng Mansion, the means or something are still secondary." ”

As he spoke, he finally quietly took the stack of thick silver tickets handed over by the mysterious man, and shrank his hand in his sleeve.

In fact, to put it bluntly, what he wanted to do as an errand in the imperial court was only the words "fame" and "profit", since he could solve this task so easily and there was oil and water to be taken, why would he not do it.

What's more, if one side is a steel knife and the other side is a silver ticket, it is easier to choose.

The mysterious man saw that Gonggong Hu finally accepted the silver ticket, and his eyes couldn't help but show a smile, he was not afraid that Gonggong Hu would accept his money but not do anything, after all, he could block this Gonggong Hu once and block it a second time, he didn't say that Gonggong Hu on the other side should be able to figure it out.

Seeing that the matter was resolved, the mysterious man suddenly spoke again: "There is still one thing in the next place that I hope the adults will fulfill." ”

Gonggong Hu was in a good mood and waved his hand: "Your Excellency, it's okay to talk about it. ”

But I saw that the mysterious man stepped forward and whispered a few words, only to see that Hu Gonggong nodded while listening, and he could vaguely hear the words mentioned by the mysterious man in the conversation between the two seemed to be 'Kaifeng' and 'prison'.