Yue Kuohai, who was forty years old at the time, was born in the army and was a third-rank official in the Ming Dynasty. He is currently the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
"Yue", "Kuo" and "Hai" all have the meaning of "broad", "grand" and "majestic". Put these three words together on one person, and the domineering spirit behind his name is overwhelming. Yue Kuohai lived up to his name. He was a strong man like an iron tower, 1.9 meters tall, with thick eyebrows and beards, and bulging muscles. With an appearance like a terrestrial yaksha, Yue Kuohai looked majestic and oppressive even if he didn't do anything but just found a place to stand. His strong leadership temperament, which he has cultivated through many years of immersion in the officialdom, is far better than Zhong Yi, who overturned his NPC identity last time.
But Yue Kuohai, who looks like a master who can fight well, is not easy to mess with, and is an awesome thief, is actually not suitable to be a Jin Yiwei. Without him, Jin Yiwei prefers to recruit some ordinary-looking faces that others cannot remember after seeing them. However, Yue Kuohai's tough-guy appearance and towering height are so unforgettable. .
Therefore, since Yue Kuohai transferred from the army to the Jinyi Guards, he has been doing commander-in-chief work. He can't do front-line investigator work at all, it is too conspicuous. If we say that in the Ming army before, Yue Kuohai's cultural accomplishment was not very high, and he liked to solve problems more with his hands than with his brain; but after many years of training in the position of Jinyiwei, he is now a general with both wisdom and courage, and an official The Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guards is by no means unworthy of his position.
Today, the morning of the fifth day of May, Commander Yue, who was always busy with everything on his hands, was unusually absent from his office at Fusi Yamen in Beizhen. Instead, he came to Xianyifang (today’s area northwest of Ganshi Bridge in Xidan, Beijing to Xisi Mutton Alley) to keep a close eye on him personally. Those who received such "care" and attention from Mr. Yue were naturally the "Three Youths of the Xiang Family" whom I mentioned earlier.
Yue Kuohai stared intently at the Xiang family Sanqing in the crowd, and seemed not to notice that a thin figure fell silently behind him. But when the latter was within a stone's throw of him, Yue Kuohai spoke up: "Master Lin, you are late."
The person who came was Lin He, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei. The name Lin He sounds a bit difficult to distinguish between male and female, and it seems that it can be used as a male or female name. Deputy Lin was a man, but he was born with a male-female appearance. His appearance was more feminine, and his figure was quite slim. Compared to Yue Kuohai, he was a completely different extreme. The two envoys of Jinyiwei may only have their sexual orientation and strength in common. We have nothing to say about the former, so we will skip it directly; but when it comes to martial arts alone, there is no doubt that both of them are top-notch masters and the strongest in martial arts.
"Haha... This place is not far from Fucai Fang. I paid more attention there when I came here. That's why I arrived late." This was Lin He's explanation.
"Fucai Fang, was that where Lady Su Shou was attacked the night before, right?" Yue Kuohai has a good memory, and Lin He recalled the location as soon as he mentioned it: "I have asked Ji Ling'er to put her under house arrest in Pu Mansion; The people of the Xijian Sect and Sixiangmen who planned the ambush were also uprooted by the Jin Yiwei. This matter has been decided, is there anything else to see in Fucai Square?"
Lin He smiled and said: "Yes, we missed one - the killer Peng Ou."
"Then what did you find?"
"Time is short and we have gained nothing." Lin He shook his head sincerely: "I just thought that that night, Mrs. Sushou was seriously injured and was rescued by Peng Ou. Could it be that the vacant house where they took shelter from the limelight was in Fucai Fang? After all, judging from Mrs. Sushou's injuries, the situation must have been extremely critical at that time, and it was unlikely that Peng Ou would even cross the border.
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Several people hid too far away, dragging Ruan Dandan's internal injuries without treatment. At this moment, his whereabouts are unknown, and no trace can be found in the city. It is likely that he has returned to his hometown. "
Yue Kuohai was silent for a moment, and then responded: "Yes, what you said makes sense. However, Jin Yiwei does not have enough manpower or time, and cannot waste its efforts on a nearly useless killer."
"Master Yue, do you think Peng Ou can't make any trouble? After all, this person killed layman Wharton, and is suspected of killing Hu Ji, the great disciple of the Kongtong sect, so we can't let him go like this, right?"
"I didn't say let him go." As the two of them were talking, the three Xiang brothers wandering on the street were almost out of Yue Kuohai's sight. He immediately moved his tracking position and motioned for Lin He to follow. "Things need to be prioritized. Last night Peng Ou broke into Pu Mansion at night and was injured by Ji Ling'er. It would be a good fortune if he can still breathe now."
"That's right." Lin He tapped his toes and followed Yue Kuohai's steps gracefully. Deputy Ambassador Lin is known as "One Crane and Three Excellent Skills", which means that he possesses three excellent kung fu, among which "one unique skill" is Qing Kung Fu. The effect of Qinggong performed by a person of Lin He's stature is definitely much stronger than that of Yue Kuohai under the same internal strength conditions.
"Have all the hard-nosed people in the arena settled in the city?"
"That's right. The leaders are Lu Lingyuan and Tan Shang, the two masters, as well as Zou Yi, the flying horse, Shen Huai, the master of swords and bows, Gongsun Xiao, the Poison King of Xiling, and some masters who are not as good as these. These are They have entered the city one after another in the past two days, for fear of being delayed." The names Lin He reported were all familiar characters in the world.
Yue Kuohai was noncommittal: "But more people will still choose to sit outside the city and watch."
"Huh... Yes, for those guys who don't have confidence in their own strength or have a clear understanding of their own strength, it is a good idea to fish for their own money."
"However, this kind of idea plays into the hands of our Jin Yiwei." Yue Kuohai and Lin He used Qinggong to go up and down the roof and the alley, but it did not affect the tone of their speech at all. Even Yue Kuohai, who is not good at light kung fu, did not sound like he was gasping loudly: "Snatch those elites in the city to catch turtles in the urn, and the speculators left outside the city are just a ragtag group and will not be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty sergeants. .”
Lin He continued: "But the problem we are facing now is... the bait used by Jinyiwei to catch turtles is not satisfactory."
"The three brothers of the Xiang family are indeed qualified." Yue Kuohai's eyes were still closely following the three youths of the Xiang family on the street: "After all, they are three first-rate masters, and the three brothers always work together as a team. , are inseparable from each other. This shows that if other forces in the world want to attack them, their own side must at least arrange an equal number of strong people of similar level to have a certain chance of winning."
"However, if it is Gongsun Xiao who uses poison, then it may be more troublesome to deal with the matter. After all, if the poison is used well, it is not uncommon to kill a dozen or even dozens of people at the same time."
"Haha... Even if the above situation occurs, Mr. Yue still has a backup plan, right?" Deputy Lin has a little habit of speaking. He likes to chuckle "haha" before saying something, which always makes him uncomfortable. People who know him well misunderstood this as sarcastic or sarcastic.
Yue Kuohai had worked with Lin He for many years and must have known about the latter's oral habits, so he looked as usual: "That's natural, I won't just bet my money on this bait."
"Now I'm here to keep an eye on the Xiang family's Sanqing. I just think there's a fish here that's most likely to take the bait. Jin Yiwei is everywhere.
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The net is cast all over the city, but every important person will be noticed. As long as you are patient enough, you will definitely hit one. "
Lin He followed Yue Kuohai's words and said: "As long as a fight breaks out between people in the Jianghu, there will be a situation where one party loses or both lose. No matter what the situation, our Jinyiwei will just pick peaches after the war."
I believe that at this point in writing, all readers have already figured out: This so-called "Sacred Treasure Controversy" was probably not a shocking scam concocted by the imperial court from the beginning to deal with the entire martial arts world, right?
That's right. In the rumors, the magical treasure with mysterious functions like Aladdin's lamp does not actually exist. Since last year, the sixth year of the Apocalypse, after the big explosion at Wang Gong Factory, the only ones surrounded by the Imperial Guards sent by the imperial court were some broken walls and ruins that had not been turned into ashes at the center of the explosion. Therefore, it was announced that Just a doubt.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), the "Wang Gong Factory Explosion" occurred in Beijing, killing more than 20,000 people. The cause is still unknown. However, according to the analysis of modern historians, the most likely cause of this disaster was "gunpowder explosion" rather than other "meteorites", "hurricanes" and "earthquakes".
The explanation of the extraordinary phenomena recorded in history books such as "all men and women were naked", "undressed", "undressed" and so on after the explosion is surprisingly simple: the ignition point of the human body is much higher than the ignition point of clothing. They were simply burned up in the heat wave of the explosion.
In history, the famous "Carpenter Emperor" - Ming Xi Zong Zhu Youxiao, passed away this year, the seventh year of Tianqi (1627), at the age of 23. When Xiao Qi wrote this story, he made slight modifications to the timeline. At this time, Zhu Youxiao had fallen ill due to an accidental fall into the water, but he had not yet taken the "magic medicine" and was still clinging to death on the dragon bed.
In Xiao Qi's writing, two events that should have been unrelated to each other, "The Big Explosion of Wang Gong Factory" and "The Death of Ming Xizong", were successfully related. The critically ill Zhu Youxiao had been unable to be saved by the imperial doctors half a year ago, so he pinned his only hope on the vast world.
If Zhu Youxiao's health could last a little longer, he might have used a more peaceful method to visit famous doctors and strange people, but he had no time to travel slowly across mountains and rivers to find them. Therefore, the imperial court borrowed the well-known big explosion a year ago as a shell, and then came up with the widely circulated "divine treasure" lie, thus gathering countless heroes from all over the world in the capital.
However, there were so many people from all walks of life arriving in Beijing, and it was impossible for all of them to know some medical skills and have the talent to rejuvenate. Naturally, these people became useless to the emperor. Even taking a step back, they are time bomb-level destabilizing factors to the imperial court and the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Youxiao and several eunuchs worked together and came up with a final plan: forget it, kill them all.
Those who implement this policy are undoubtedly Jin Yiwei and Dongchang. As the boss and second-in-command of the Ming Dynasty's secret service, Yue Kuohai and Lin He knew this matter clearly. At this moment, for some unknown reason, the first and second-in-commands of Jin Yiwei began to talk to each other, exposing their conspiracy in a place where no one was around. Obviously these are plans that the two of them have known about for a long time, but they still feel uncomfortable not saying it out loud.
"Oh?" Yue Kuohai suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?"
"Haha..." As if he was infected by Lin He, Yue Kuohai couldn't help but chuckle first: "It's okay, it seems we made the right bet."
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