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Chapter 20 Coffins are good business

In the Wu Dynasty of Dayin, there was a Honglu Temple, and a minister of the Honglu Temple was set up to be responsible for diplomatic relations with the Quartet and the corresponding court etiquette and other duties.

In the dynasty before Dayin, there was still a little communication between countries in the world. Missions and caravans from various countries often appeared in Haojing. At that time, Honglu Temple was still an important part of the previous dynasty. yamen.

More than 800 years ago, Taizu Dayin overthrew the previous dynasty, established a tripod and established the country, and followed the official system of the previous dynasty. Honglu Temple was still a permanent institution of the court. For hundreds of years, it also took on the diplomatic affairs of welcoming and sending .

More than a thousand years later, the world has continued to change, martial arts have withered and declined, and the bloodlines of people and various birds and beasts have continued to decline. The foreign missions and caravans that used to travel easily tens of thousands of miles a day and night, but now only It can barely travel more than a thousand miles, or even hundreds of miles.

Since then, the diplomatic relations of various countries have been cut off, foreign missions have disappeared, the position of Honglu Temple in the imperial court has gradually become embarrassing, and its importance has continued to decline. Today, Honglu Temple has become a 'service department' with little authority. .

The Sijifang of Fengtiaofang, a garden mansion of the boss of Three Streets and Five Alleys, is the industry of Honglu Temple today.

Of course, the palace guard would not take the present-day Honglu Temple to heart. If he said that he was bullying, he would also bully him. How could the powerless and incompetent Hongluqing slap his head against the gate of the palace guard?
But the people who live in Sijifang, the palace guards are not willing to provoke them.

The Wu Dynasty of Dayin followed the previous Dynasty and divided the territory of Dayin into nine states.

Among them, Haojing is located in the middle-earth 'Zuzhou', which is the core of Kyushu and the place of origin that is not easy for all generations.

In addition to Zuzhou, there are East Shenzhou, Xiyouzhou, Nanmanzhou, and Beimingzhou.

To the east of Dongshenzhou is the extremely east Mingzhou; to the west of the Xiyouzhou is the extremely western desert state; to the south of the Nanman state is the extremely southern barren state; to the north of the northern Mingzhou is the extremely northern Fianzhou.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Dayin Wu Dynasty, martial arts were at their peak. The elite army in the capital city of Hao also had a very high military cultivation base. The huge army could travel thousands of miles a day. There are four major states: Mingzhou, Mozhou, Huangzhou and Fenzhou. , was also firmly in the hands of Dayin Wuchao.

Later, martial arts withered, and it became more and more difficult to break the bottleneck of the warrior's realm, and Haojing gradually lost control of the four great states.

After 800 years ago, on the territory of the Four Great States, the last Dayin’s garrison army city was destroyed, and Haojing was no longer able and unable to dispatch large-scale field troops to the Four Great States. The local forces in the Four Great States, Taking advantage of the trend, he announced that he would break away from Dayin's rule, and happily became king on his own.

Since 300 years ago, the decline of martial arts in the world has reached an extreme.

Now Haojing can barely hold the Zuzhou in Middle-earth, and the other four states in the south, south, and northwest. In name, they still respect Haojing's emperor as the co-lord of the world. Entered the lively 'Warring States' chaos.

Once the founding father of the Wu Dynasty in the Great Yin Dynasty, except for Zuzhou in the Middle Earth, there were [-] feudal lords in each state. 'Five and so on.

In the 300 years of chaos, some of the once aloof 'gongs' have been wiped out.

Rising up in 300 years, some "men" who used to be of humble status turned out to be powerful everywhere.

However, since these princes still hold the emperor Haojing as the co-lord of the world, they have to show one or two things in their attitude.

For example, collective tribute once every 12 years.

For example, the princes and princes need the canonization of the emperor.

For example, put a few unimportant sons and daughters in Hokyung as protons.

Sijifang has three streets and five alleys, and thousands of garden mansions are rented by these precious sons and daughters of thousands of large and small princes from the four major states in the south, south, and northwest.

What do these people say?

Each one is a scourge, and there are few good things.

East Shenzhou is the most literate and romantic, and it is the region with the most complete inheritance of classics and civilizations in all dynasties. The sons and daughters of these princes and sons of East Shenzhou, the mantra is - 'You wait for the barbarians, ahhh'!
Xiyou Prefecture is extremely rich in products, especially the specialty 'Jinsha'. The princes are very rich. The sons and daughters of these princes like to say - 'Oh, you poor ghosts'!
Needless to say, Beimingzhou has strong folk customs and strong military force, especially with many glaciers and grasslands, and is rich in cavalry. They like to lead a group of men to swagger through the city, they can do things, and they will never say anything. Their daily language is—' You are all a bunch of eggless motherfuckers', 'Believe it or not I'll kill your whole family'!
As for Nanban Province, the folk customs can not be said to be 'sturdy', but 'fierce, evil, ruthless, cruel', all of them are born to kill embryos, especially good at all kinds of witchcraft and secret techniques, the methods are cruel and mysterious, all of them are A real doer.They are taciturn by nature, and if they disagree with each other, they will directly attack them. They are the biggest security risk in Haojing City.

Just these people turned Sijifang into a huge hornet's nest.

Almost every day, various conflicts broke out between them, which often affected the innocent people of Haojing, and the major yamen in Haojing were too busy to wipe their butts.

But no matter how intense the conflict between them is, once the official Hokyung dares to intervene, they will instinctively join forces to fight.

There was once a case of murder by the head of Si Kou Tai, and it was found on the head of the son of a certain marquis.

As a result, more than two dozen Si Koutai's arresting officers were beaten to death on the street in broad daylight, and their bodies were thrown into the street.

The Si Kou of this dynasty was furious, and ordered Si Kou Tai to dispatch a large number of people to arrest the murderers. As a result, the protons of more than a thousand princes shouted in unison, and the golden bell and silver drum rang at the gate of the imperial city, which alerted the queen mother and the emperor, and organized tens of thousands of thugs to guard the violence. Resisting the law, he abruptly made Si Kou unable to step down.

In the end, this matter was finally revealed by the marquis's proton handing over a 'worthless' slave to bear the blame.

And after the slave servant was beheaded by Si Koutai, in order to appease the marquis proton, the queen mother also ordered the minister of Honglu Temple to secretly give the marquis proton, subsidizing a 'pension' equivalent to a hundred times the value of the slave servant's worth in silver!
Old He rambled and explained the speciality of Sijifang in Haojing City to Lu Wan.

Lu Ru asked Lao He in shock, "Is this all right?"

Lao He looked around and lowered his voice: "19 years ago, the Empress Dowager listened to the government behind the curtain, and the sons of the princes represented the princes of the four directions, and they went to the table to persuade them to come forward and fully supported the Empress Dowager."

"If it weren't for the support of the princes from all over the world, how could the queen mother..."

The topic was too sensitive, Lao He swallowed bad breath tofu and dared not continue.

Lu Yan understood: "So, we can't touch this Sijifang. Even if Liu Wu is hiding somewhere in the courtyard?"

Lao He stuffed two pieces of cold stinky tofu into his mouth and chewed it with a big mouth.

He looked at Lu Yan and said solemnly: "Unless someone is caught on the spot, otherwise... Besides, that Sijifang is not our team's jurisdiction. Hey, in the entire Sijifang, no yamen can control them. , those sons and daughters of the princes have always acted on their own."

"Then, let's put it down for now." Lu Ru shook his head helplessly: "Since they have already killed people and cleaned up the traces, then unless Liu Wu is a pig, he will not show traces easily."

"You can only let the ghosts squat around the Siji Square and see... try your luck."

"But the other fifteen brothers who were killed, especially the one who was killed the day before yesterday, we can look into their affairs." Lu Ru murmured: "It must be a big fish, it must be this time we are going down. They tried their best to track down Liu Wu, and they found some other clues, which attracted the most intense reaction from the big fish."

"It's just that in Haojing City, who would be so unscrupulous to attack the guards of the palace prison?"

According to the information in the small notebook, Lu Yan used a charcoal stick to circle on the map where the fifteen prisoners who had an accident the other day were killed.

He gestured lightly with his fingers on the map and muttered to himself in a low voice.

"It must be that they inadvertently crashed into something and saw certain people and things. But what would it be?"

"Especially on that day, which was the 28th of the twelfth lunar month last year, seven prison guards were killed overnight."

"According to the household accounts in Fangshi, according to the sequence of screams and fighting sounds they heard, the prisoner who was first killed was here, then this point, this point, this point..."

"Someone was killed, a sound was made, and then a brother who heard the noise rushed to investigate."

"It happened to collide with the murderer and was caught off guard. They were also killed on the spot."

"Then, the direction of the murderer's escape should be this line."

The charcoal stick in Lu Yan's hand was sketched on the map, and the spiritual light in his mind was slightly rippling. Intuitively, he drew a circle on the map.

"Those murderers, there is a [-]% probability that the lair is in this area."

"Well, it should be this section of Youkuangzi Street."

"Look what kind of shop is this?"

"Gold shops, silver shops, women's rouge gouache, ready-to-wear handkerchiefs, tsk, these shops are too professional, and the traffic is too high, the exposure is too high, ah, if there is a group of killers hidden, then the probability of revealing the stuffing is too high. too big."

"What kind of shop do you need to hide a group of people without attracting suspicion?"

"There are two coffin shops here!"

"One specializes in high-end coffins, which are prepared for the nobles of those rich and powerful courtyards. There is also a business in low-end coffins, which is prepared for ordinary people."

"It's a coincidence that the two coffin shops are still door to door."

"Old He, coffins are a good business, are you afraid?"

Lu Yan raised his head and looked at Lao He with a smile.

"If you're not afraid, just go to these two coffin shops with me, and at this time, let's find out!"

The faces of Lao He and the five ghosts twitched violently.

Lao He looked at Lu Chu and said, "After the brothers' accident, we searched these two streets and alleys, but we didn't find any useful information. Lu Chu, don't tell me, just rush. After making a gesture with this map, you found the murderer?"

Lu Yan took out a piece of money and threw it on the square table, then stood up with a smile: "Okay, let's treat it as a snack after dinner, right? Let's go and have a look, it's okay. However, we need to change our clothes. , This white robe of the palace guard is too eye-catching."

Lao He hesitated for a while, he gritted his teeth, nodded, stood up, picked up the coin that Lu Chu had dropped, and threw it to Lu Chu.

"Let's eat here and give them enough face, can they still ask for money?"

"Let's go, let's go, Lu Lu, let me tell you, in the future, on our own site, in addition to going into those little girls' quilts, the girls can't owe money for their skin and flesh, and we don't need to spend money on other food and drink!"

"The guards take a bite of them, drink a bite of them, and they still charge?"

"It doesn't make sense, absolutely doesn't make sense!"

(End of this chapter)