Brocade tears

Meng Kuang's first nomination mission was very successful, and she almost set a record for the fastest execution of an assassination mission.When the head of Beizhen Fusi who assigned her the task saw the head in the box, she was really shocked.And the Asura mask on Meng Kuang's face also left a deep impression on him.

On the second day after his return, Meng Kuang was summoned by Luo Sigong.That was the first time Meng Kuang met Luo Sigong. He was a tall man with a firm face. His eyes were full of aggressive ambition. Meng Kuang had never seen such a look in his eyes.He looked at Meng Kuang with appreciation, and the first sentence he said was:

"I heard that you have an Asura mask, you will wear it in the future, it will be good for you."

When Meng Kuang saw Luo Sigong, he was only covered with a black scarf, not an Asura mask.Meng Kuang was stunned by this sentence, but Luo Sigong had already changed the subject:

"Do you know why I asked you to assassinate Yue Tingmao?"

Meng Kuang shook his head. She had been in a state of confusion all the way back these days, as if she had lost herself.She thought about it for a long time, but she was not willing to be Jin Yiwei's murder weapon. She wanted to find out who the target she was going to assassinate was, and wanted to distinguish whether they should be killed or not.Both her father and her second elder brother once told her that there must be a bottom line in life, what should be done and what should not be done, and you should have a steelyard in your heart.Although a soldier is a member of the organization, he must not be swallowed by the organization.

If Yue Tingmao was someone who shouldn't be killed, then if she killed him, it would be a crime of murder.As the monk said, she will go to Avici Hell and will not be reborn.

What kind of people should be killed and what kind of people shouldn't be killed, this question is too complicated, and she couldn't figure it out for a while.She only knows that criminals who commit crimes and are extremely vicious should be killed; killing the enemy in order to protect themselves on the battlefield is a helpless act and can be forgiven.But if you kill an innocent person, it is really a crime.She didn't know whether this simple and even rude judgment method, which was entirely based on private courts, could be regarded as a reasonable bottom line. She forced herself not to think about it, because she had a hunch that if she was involved in this matter, If she got into a dead end, then she might not be able to be a Jinyiwei in her life.

Luo Sigong seemed to know exactly what she was thinking. He looked into Meng Kuang's eyes and said:

"Meng Kuang, I came to you today to talk about this matter. You are a soldier, and the bounden duty of a soldier is to obey orders, go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and defend the homeland. The duty of Jin Yiwei is to protect the safety of the emperor, and also to protect the country. An Wei. We want you to kill people, so you don't have to feel burdened. This is Yue Tingmao's file, and I specially pulled it out from Jin Yiwei's secret file to show you." He pointed to a stack of confidential files on the table and said.

Meng Kuang opened it and read it carefully. While reading, he heard Luo Sigong say to her:

"Yue Tingmao's father's name is Yue Feng, from Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province. He is a businessman, but he is very irresponsible. He was a businessman in Mengmaoluchuan area, and had a good relationship with Longchuan Xuanfu Division Duo Shining. In the first year of Wanli , Yue Feng lured Duo Shining and his wife to death, won the gold medal seal, took refuge in the Burmese Xuanwei Department, falsely accepted his order, and acted as Xuan Fu on behalf of Duo Shining. Later, he colluded with the Burmese soldiers and repeatedly invaded the southwest departments. Ten years, 11 In [-], wars broke out in many places in the southwest and looted. The local officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties in order to resist the rebels he organized. In February of this year, in order to wipe out Yue Feng's forces in one fell swoop, the imperial court appointed Liu Chen as a guerrilla general and Deng Zilong as a general Each sent five thousand soldiers to the suppression campaign, and tens of thousands of government troops and local armed forces were mobilized to join forces to attack and suppress. The war was finally reversed, and the Beizhen Fusi Inspectorate also found out why he was able to retreat our army in consecutive defeats. He left a son in Jiangxi in his early years, Yue Tingmao, who had a channel in the army, and arranged secret operations in the troops of Wu Jixun and Qianhu Qi Weiyuan, who commanded Wu Jixun and Qianhu Qi Weiyuan in the early stage of the encirclement and suppression, and leaked the deployment of our army to Yue Feng, causing our army A disastrous defeat. This Yue Tingmao not only killed so many soldiers in our army, but also suffered so many families. He himself is also rampant in the Linchuan area, robbing the land of the good people, and occupying the daughters of the people. Many of his wives and concubines were raped. It is really a heinous crime to rob them.”

Meng Kuang read the secret file, and it was exactly as Luo Sigong said.She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart, if she was killing such a villain, she could finally feel at ease.

"I asked you to do this mission to tell you that Jin Yiwei's assassination missions are all well-known masters. The people on our blacklist have posed a great threat to my Ming's safety. You assassinate them to defend the country. , to defend our homeland. When the task is released, we will not tell you the ins and outs of the assassination target. Thoughts that should not have affected the progress of the mission. The purpose of the regulations is to ensure that the Jinyiwei agents we send out can complete the mission accurately. Meng Kuang, your first mission was completed very well, and now I want to transfer you to If you enter the Fusi Prison in Beizhen, you will temporarily belong to Xiao Changsheng, a hundred households, as Xiaoqi."

When Meng Kuang left the official office of the government office where Luo Sigong worked, he understood one thing, that is how much this boss really liked her.She was probably the only one whose boss would personally find her after completing the mission to relieve her depressed feelings.He hoped that Meng Kuang would love this military position, love Jinyiwei, and be loyal to Jinyiwei until his death.

If her boss is such a person, if she can assassinate, capture and eradicate silverfish in Jinyiwei, and protect the peace and cleanness of her homeland, perhaps it is not a bad thing to be loyal to Jinyiwei.The only premise is that the death of her father and brother has nothing to do with Jin Yiwei's internal affairs, otherwise, no matter how charismatic Ren Luo Sigong is as a leader, he cannot keep Meng Kuang.She thought so at the time.

On the second day, she went to the prison to take up her post, which was also the guard most closely related to the death of her father and brother.As for her boss, Baihu Xiao Changsheng, she had heard her father and elder brother mention him.This person studied under Chu Zhongquan, the head coach of the new barracks, and is Chu Zhongquan's only personal disciple so far.It is said that Chu Zhongquan's specialty is actually interrogation and investigation, and his ability to penetrate people's hearts is the most terrifying thing about him. It is really a bit of an overkill to be transferred to the military recruits, which is why he is jealous of his superiors.Both he and his elder brother Chu Yi are very terrifying figures, and Xiao Changsheng is currently working with Chu Yi.Chu Yidao served as deputy thousand households in the prison management office, and Xiao Changsheng was one of the hundred households under him.

Chu Yidao is Li Laosan's direct disciple, and he is the only one who knows about the fact that his father and Li Laosan secretly robbed Sui'er from the imperial prison.Meng Kuang has always been extremely suspicious of Chu Yidao, guessing that he should have leaked the information that his father and brother left Beijing with Sui Er.The clearest goal for her to join Jinyiwei is to get close to Chu Yiyi and find out what kind of role he played in the series of events of the death of her father and brother.This goal is about to be achieved.

Speaking of Xiao Changsheng, her father once told her that there are several ruthless characters in the prison, all of whom are devils who treat human life like nothing.The Chu brothers are the best among them, and Xiao Changsheng is even better than the Chu brothers.Although Li Laosan was known as the "King of Hades", and he did not know how many people died at his hands, he was reasonable and benevolent, and generally he would not take human lives lightly.Chu Yidao was vicious by nature, ten times worse than his master's methods.People gave him the nickname "Ghost Hook", making a pair of big curved hooks, with tricky moves, specializing in the muscles of the human luteal bone and wrists and ankles. Those who are hit by the tricks are in pain and cannot die quickly. They lose their ability to move and die slowly in torture. It is very abnormal. .

Meng Kuang was jealous and suspicious of this person, so he was extremely vigilant and reported to the prison.Although the main duty of the Prison Management Office is to manage the prison, there is also a team in charge of arrests.The hundred-person team under Xiao Changsheng's hands is a team dedicated to arresting, but basically all the people arrested by the prison management are sentenced to death.Those who still need to be interrogated are escorted to prison, and those who dare to resist without interrogation will surely die on the spot.Life and death are all up to one's own decision, comparable to Yama in the world.

And Xiao Changsheng, who is in charge of the arresting team of the prison management station, probably got the true biography of his master Chu Yidao, and has the title of "Desperate Man", because wherever he appears, people will die, see Seeing him is like seeing a ghost messenger, and he will die immediately.

The period when Meng Kuang served in the arrest team of the prison accounted for most of her nine-year military career, starting from August in the 12th year of Wanli to the end of December in the 17th year of Wanli, four years and four months.Meng Kuang believes that these four years and four months can be said to be a long period of darkness. Although the military life is no longer as painful as the first time in the new barracks, the mental torture is unparalleled.Meng Kuang felt that her life in the past four years had been to go on missions repeatedly, arresting people, killing people, arresting people again, and killing people again.She captured businessmen collaborating with the enemy, treasonous frontier officials, frontier army officers who wanted to rebel, eunuchs who had fallen from the court power struggle, and officials who formed cliques for personal gain... She killed countless people and witnessed countless living hell.What impressed me the most was the battlefield where the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood were suppressed to suppress the Shandong Uprising. When the prisoners of the defeated army were escorted back to Beijing from the battlefield, the corpses were piled up like a mountain in the hot summer, and the rotting stench was so suffocating that the birds and beasts disappeared. She still doesn't want to think about it.

At the most painful time, she was really bored and wished she could go to Luo Sigong, she didn't want to stay in the prison anymore.But she didn't do that, she knew that Luo Sigong was tempering her temper, and wanted to repeatedly forge her piece of pig iron into fine steel, if she gave up at this time, she would lose Luo Sigong's appreciation. , She has come so far, she can only grit her teeth and endure.She kept admonishing and comforting herself that killing people is to protect the homeland, and arresting people is to order the court order. She is doing what she should do, and this dynasty needs people like her.

She really convinced herself that more and more dead souls were killed by the knife, and her mind became more and more cold and numb. By the time she was transferred from the prison, she had almost become the most terrifying spy killer in Jinyiwei, " The name of "Sword Shura" spread throughout Beijing, and even her superiors Chu Yidao and Xiao Changsheng were afraid of her.

She couldn't remember when the name "Teng Dao Shura" became famous, but it must have first spread from the army.Thinking back carefully now, it may have happened at the beginning of the 17th year of Wanli. At the end of 16, Zhang Jing fell from power, and in 17, a large number of his followers were implicated.She received the task of entering the Beijing Army to arrest the officers of Qianhu who formed a party with Zhang Jing for personal gain. At that time, because Zhang Jing was still undercover in Nanya, the intelligence received by the prison was wrong and the size of the enemy was miscalculated.She led an arresting team of 50 people, and encountered a 300-member Beijing army rebellion.But the ending has not changed. She still completed the task perfectly. In this capture operation, she completed the feat of beheading a hundred people alone. The Asura mask tormented the remaining captured rebels like a nightmare. Shocked the whole army, and at that time she was still an officer of the general banner.

She has been very tired in the past four years and four months. She has always wanted to find out whether Chu Yiyi was related to the matter of his father and brother back then, but she tried many times, or asked around the people around Chu Yiyi back then, but there was nothing. As a result, the answers given by everyone were either ignorant or inexplicable.It seems that Chu Yidao never told anyone about the robbery of Sui'er from prison by her father and brother, and it is impossible for her to find evidence to find out whether Chu Yidao betrayed her father back then, and to whom.Unless she confronted her face to face, how could she do such a reckless and stupid thing before she had a firm foothold?She also went to the suburbs where her father and brother had an accident many times to search for clues, but as time went on, both the traces in the field and the memory of the witnesses were all blurred, and she found nothing.Her investigation has reached a stalemate, and she can only see if the second brother can find out other clues when he is away.

During this period, she wrote several letters to her second brother, explaining that she had reached a stalemate in her investigation, but the second brother always avoided talking about it, and only pointed out very vaguely that if she couldn't find out, she didn't have to force her to gain a foothold in Jinyiwei. The most important thing is to leave everything else to him.But he didn't tell them what he found out after so many years, and he cut off contact with his family many times, which made her very worried.Every time she wrote a letter, she hoped that her second brother would return as soon as possible between the lines, but it didn't work.

At the end of the 16th year of Wanli, with the downfall of Zhang Jing, the middle official of the East Factory, the government was reorganized, and Jinyiwei also ushered in a major purge.Among them, Nanzhen Fusi was the hardest hit. Seventy percent of Nanzhen Fusi's Jin Yiwei either lost their official positions or were arrested and imprisoned.In the end, Wang Daoming, a thousand households from the former Nanzhen Fusi Inspection Office, was promoted to the Nanzhen Fusi Zhenfu envoy.Luo Sigong, the governor of Beizhen Fusi and the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, was promoted to the full-time post without accident, and took charge of Jinyiwei.This marks that Jinyiwei has since left the control of the East Factory, and the power check and balance of the factory guard has changed again.

By the end of the 17th year of Wanli, the internal cleaning of Jinyiwei was basically completed, and all the important personnel at all levels were fixed.The ranking of the new thirteenth Taibao was released: Luo Sigong took the top spot, Wang Daoming took the second spot, Wu Gang was the third of the thousand households of the Southern Yamen Military Office, Zhang Dongwei was the fourth of the thousand households of the Northern Yamen Inspection Office, and the Northern Yamen Inspection Office Luo Xunxing, a thousand households, five, Feng Chengxing, a thousand households of the North Yamen Management Office, six, Qiu Jianxing, a thousand households of the Beiya Prison Office, seven, Guo Dayou, the deputy thousand households of the Beiya Patrol Office, eighth, and Liu Kenan, a thousand households of the Nanya Inspection Office Nine, Chu Dao of Beiya Prison Office, ten, Xiao Changsheng, Deputy Qianhu of Beiya Prison, Eleven, Fang Ming, Deputy Qianhu of Nanya Zhijun Office, twelve, thirteen are temporarily vacant.

The thirteen vacancies are an old rule to encourage the people below to fight to fill the vacancies.This is also a very special ranking, because during the Jiajing period, Yu Runan, the first [-]th member of the Taibao, was promoted exceptionally. He was originally a farmer in Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, but he was very brave and performed outstandingly on the battlefield against the Japanese. And was promoted to Jinyiwei by Hu Zongxian.After Yu Runan left Jinyiwei, the ranking of thirteen has been vacant, and no one has filled it, which also has a commemorative meaning.

Looking at the overall situation, the strength of the Beiya has completely overwhelmed the Nanya, and the Jinyiwei Dahan General in the palace has been completely excluded from the ranks of the Thirteen Taibao, which means that the strength of the Jinyiwei secret service has grown unprecedentedly.

At the beginning of the 18th year of Wanli, Meng Kuang, who was the general banner of the Beiya Prison, was finally promoted again.She was transferred from the prison, and her military rank was promoted to Shibaihu, and transferred to the Beiya Patrol Office, where she served under the command of Guo Dayou, the deputy of Qianhu.She came here to make up for an old man who is about to retire under Guo Dayou's command. After entering the patrol station, she will not lead troops for the time being, and only go out with Guo Dayou on special missions.

Meng Kuang is relatively withdrawn and not sociable, and he has never heard of Guo Dayou's name before.After receiving the transfer order, she asked someone to inquire a little bit. Everyone said that Guo Dayou was a good person. On the surface, he looked very kind and easy to get along with. They are totally different, both Chu and Xiao are vicious people, their subordinates are headstrong, they are not allowed to refute at all, and they will not get close to their subordinates.However, the relationship between Guo Dayou and his subordinates is very harmonious, and his popularity is extremely high.He has a very wide network of contacts in the court, and he is an unfathomable person.

What is strange is that the day before reporting to Xunkan, Meng Kuang received a letter sent by Xunkan. Guo Dayou asked her to meet at the lakeside of Cibei Temple in the southwestern suburbs of Beijing, and specifically told her to wear casual clothes , not to be conspicuous.Meng Kuang was confused by this strange request, but she still changed into casual clothes on the day of the report according to the request of the letter. She only covered her face with a white cloth and hung the Asura mask on her waist, and rode to the Temple of Mercy to attend the appointment.