Patrol Captain

Dragon Court, Taiji Palace, the sun was setting at this time.

The setting sun poured down like molten gold, sprinkling across the eaves and brackets of the Taiji Palace. The patina of the gargoyles accumulated over the years glowed with a cold light, and the glaze of the beasts on the eaves had faded, revealing an ancient and vicissitudes of life atmosphere.

As dusk deepens, light and shadows move through the palace, lengthening the shadows of the corridor columns and causing sandalwood to rise. The carved wooden couch, green jade incense burner, and plain silk screen all outline different shadows in the light and shadow.

"dong dong dong"

Outside the imperial city, the dull evening drum sounded faintly, lingering between the palace gates.

Under the orange-red light and shadow, a figure was kneeling on one knee in front of an imperial desk.

"Chen Yuan took office today. What did this Qing family do? Is there any unusual movement?"

Emperor Wu's voice rang out in the hall, faint and elusive.

"Your Majesty, this general from Shu was very decisive and replaced all the important commanders of the Tianxing Army. Some people were dissatisfied and said disrespectful words. He dismissed several of them in court. He was merciless and cruel!"

"Haha!" After hearing this, Emperor Wu laughed, "Are you protesting to me?"

"This new official has done very poorly in his first three moves. Not many people will obey him, which is exactly what I want. However, I am a little disappointed. Why?"

"I think he should understand what I mean and stay quietly in this position. When I want to activate him, he can still play a role."

The figure kneeling under the imperial desk raised his hands and bowed, speaking in a low voice.

"Your Majesty is naturally wise, how can you argue with that reckless man from the Southwestern Tufu? Why not cut the Gordian knot? Anyway, the entire Divine Capital now knows that this Zhonglang Jiang of the Southwestern Tufu has received Your Majesty's great favor. Knowing that Your Majesty only promotes people based on their talents, you will forgive past mistakes and promote this man to an official."

"Just let it disappear quietly!"

This person's words were full of hidden murderous intent.

But the Emperor Wu, who was sitting behind the imperial desk, raised his eyelids slightly, with a hint of smile in the corner of his eyes.
"You are willing to share my worries, which comforts me. But don't be impatient and do everything according to the plan!"

"I want to hear good news from Shu."

"Continue to monitor!"

"Yes!" The figure kneeling on one knee lowered his head even more, and then when he was about to stand up and leave, Emperor Wu's voice sounded again, this time with a hint of intriguing taste.

"I heard that several businesses under the Minister of War encountered bandits while doing business outside the city, and many people died."

"Several servants from Master Qin's household are also missing."

"Your Majesty, it is indeed the news from the past two days. I heard that a murderer appeared in the capital of the gods and caused quite a stir. Jingzhao Prefecture is doing its best to track him down."

"Oh, is it so?"

"You go down!"

"I'm taking my leave!" The figure stood up, bowed and took a few steps back, then turned around and disappeared into the twilight of the Taiji Hall.

Behind the imperial desk in the twilight, the dragon head on the black dragon robe looked ferocious and majestic!

The night is as dark as ink, the stars are like diagonal bulls, and the sky is filled with starlight scattered among the sea of ​​clouds.

Above the sea of ​​clouds, there are eighteen suspended islands that look like palaces in the sky. Relying on the forbidden formation, they rise above the void, exuding a mysterious and solemn atmosphere.

A tall building, like a sharp sword piercing the sky, stands on the peak of a suspended island. Its flying eaves and corners outline sharp lines in the starry sky, and every glazed tile glows with a cold light, as if it were a peerless sword left behind by a god in the world.

The building is hundreds of feet high, with layers of brackets holding up the starry sky. The wooden corridors creak gently in the night wind, and the sea of ​​clouds flows through it. The Milky Way in the sky is like a waterfall, and it seems that you can pluck the stars from the sky with just a raise of your hand.

On the top floor of this building, a tall figure in a purple Qilin robe stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the starry sky and sea of ​​clouds.

In the corridor behind it, three soldiers in green armor knelt on one knee.

"You guys should insert your people into the Tianxing Army below. You don't have to care about anyone's face. If anyone disobeys, just kick them out."

Chen Yuan's faint voice echoed in the breeze from outside the sky.

"General, isn't this too hasty? You have just taken office and you may lose the support of the people! Moreover, with our cultivation level, it may be difficult to convince the people."

One of the men in green armor raised his head and turned out to be Niu Bing, the captain who had previously fought with the imperial guards on the imperial guards' training ground.

This person plucked up the courage to speak and expressed his doubts. He felt that the general's arrangement might cause a backlash and disunity among the people.

What he said was true. They had been fighting demons for years, killing people with piles of corpses, and they thought they were not afraid of anyone in terms of combat skills. But they had to admit that the Sky Marching Army, as the violent agency of the Sky Patrol General Administration, was made up of elite soldiers, and their cultivation was quite different. It was hard for them to convince the public by inserting people there abruptly.

Unexpectedly, Chen Yuan's voice with a hint of sneer sounded, "What I want now is not the loyalty of these soldiers and horses."

"I just want to control these soldiers as soon as possible and make them obey me. Those who don't obey me will be kicked out."

"If there are any who are jumping happily, it would be better to kill a few of them!"

"If anything goes wrong, I'll take care of it."

These words were filled with indifference towards the life and death of those below.

loyalty?

impossible.

These people are loyal to the current emperor, and under the intentional or unintentional arrangements of that emperor, they do not have control over too many resources. The only thing they can focus on now is the march these days.

He wanted to divide them, make them afraid, and allow himself to take control as quickly as possible.

Just use them as tools, there's no point in talking about friendship!
After all, he had killed the previous patrol angel, and the other party's team and influence must exist in all aspects. In addition, His Majesty had his intentions, and he could not control what the people below thought.

Presumably, what he did here would appear in front of the emperor's desk in the next second, but when he did so, the emperor said nothing. It was not that he acquiesced, but that he was just enduring.

"Yes!" Captain Niu Bing and several others spoke and responded solemnly.

"Go down!"

The three of them respectfully took their leave.

After the three people left, a figure walked out from the shadow of the attic. It was Gongsun Yang.

"Mr. Gong Yang, how is the work going?" Chen Yuan just turned around, his eyes shining.

Gongsun Yang smiled.
"This Patrol Department is really full of hidden talents. The clerk guarding the armory in the southwest is actually a master of martial arts. Although his face is not very good, I think it was because the adults held a meeting this afternoon to scare some people. I still entered the armory holding the adults' token."

"The weapons and equipment inside are beyond my imagination!"

When Gongsun Yang said this, he thought of the difficulties facing Shu, lowered his voice, raised his eyebrows, and a certain excitement was suppressed in his eyes.

"This kind of armament is enough to equip an elite force of 50,000 people."

".There are high-level gold puppets inside. They are made by high-level weapon refiners mixed with gold used to refine Taoist soldiers. They are hard to be damaged by swords and knives. They are high-level talismans equivalent to a strike from a master of the Heavenly Gate, and they are consumed in one go."

As a member of the demon front line, Gongsun Yang was very clear about the military equipment of the Shu Patrol Division. The armor, talismans, and elixirs were basically elementary and they were basically supplied by fighting demons. They were really incomparable with what was available here. There were also many rare things he had never seen. He was excited and described them all like an old child.

Chen Yuan's eyes sparkled as he heard this, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.
"With all these good things, we must find a way to get them." "I think maybe you can be competent in guarding the armory."

Chen Yuan and Gongsun Yang looked at each other and laughed.

What did they come for? They were hoping for a glimmer of hope to mediate with the court, bring more help, and break the situation in Shu.

If you think about it from another perspective, he now has the name, the soldiers, and the food, and things are going much more smoothly than expected.

Your Majesty is wise!!!

"However, as the general director of the patrol, I think the background of the patrol is far more than this. I want all the available resources of the skills and magical powers."

"I have just taken charge of this place. Most of my subordinates are insincere but insincere. Your Majesty is watching everywhere. The only ones I can rely on are my own people. Sir, you should familiarize yourself with the situation as soon as possible in the next few days. You will have to work hard."

Chen Yuan's current idea is to find out as soon as possible the resources under the jurisdiction of this patrol angel. He wants to control as many of them as possible.

Now we have to play a quick game, and he doesn't have much time left.

"I will definitely live up to the general's trust!" Gongsun Yang understood what he meant and bowed with both hands.

The next few days.

In the three headquarters of the Sky Patrol Headquarters in Guanzhong, Longyou and Jiannan, Chen Yuan's methods became more and more radical. He forcibly arranged for his own guards to be inserted into the Sky Patrol Army and serve as small leaders. Those who were dissatisfied were targeted.

Some major departments of the Tenth Bureau have also undergone a change of personnel, selecting people from the lower levels to take up the posts and adopting a differentiation system. Most of them are people who have climbed up from the lower levels and have no background.

For a time, there was widespread resentment in the three southwestern celestial patrol offices. The people inside often had complicated relationships, which involved the court.

In the court, the censors fiercely criticized Chen Yuan for his autocratic and lawless behavior.

The emperor's desk was piled with memorials impeaching Chen Yuan.

But in the end they were all kept and not sent out.

On the fourth day, Emperor Wu finally issued an oral order and sent his eunuchs to reprimand Chen Yuan.

Those who don’t know think that the current emperor is too protective of this border general from Shu and favors him too much.

I know, seeing this Lieutenant General of Shu doing this, I can only sneer, knowing that he won't be able to survive for many days.

On this day, there was wind and snow on the mountain road leading to Shu.

The sky was gloomy, and the biting cold wind brought heavy snow that fluttered and scattered, dyeing the forests in all colors, and the sky and the earth seemed to be covered with a layer of white armor.

"Rumble"

The mountains and forests shook.

On the steep mountain road, thousands of horses were marching on the snow. The sound of their hooves was like thunder, shaking the snow on the mountains to fall.

The golden light broke through the gloomy sky, like golden scales opening, thousands of soldiers trampled the jade, the iron hooves stepped on the snow like the sound of tearing silk, the flags rolled up, it was like white waves filling the sky, and the strange horses like dragon horses neighed, the fragrance turned into mist, and the mane condensed into ice crystals.

The leading general was wearing black armor and a scarlet cloak, which fluttered in the wind and snow. As the army was about to cross a mountain,

"yu"

The leading general shouted and pulled the reins, and the horse under him let out a roar that shook the mountains and forests.

The man raised his hand and the horses behind him neighed.

Then this person looked into the distance with a sharp gaze.

In the wind and snow, the outline of a majestic pass is faintly visible on the distant skyline.

In front of us is Tianxiong Pass, the northern gate of Shu.

This person used the Sky Patrol's teleportation array and rode at full speed for several days to rush to the "new Demon Suppressing Envoy" Gou Yue who was taking office in Shu!
Gou Yue, who returned to Shu at this time, was not affected by the wind and snow. His eyes were sharp and he was full of energy. He no longer looked as cautious as before.

He was highly valued by His Majesty and returned to Shu to serve as the Demon Suppressor. His Majesty asked him to take over and manage the current situation in Shu.

He naturally understood what His Majesty meant. As the emperor and his subject, he was a father and his son. He dared not forget His Majesty's words at any time.

The Shu area is a hot potato at the moment, but it is also a land of great fortune. Many people are rushing in. Previously, many officials in the court had attempted to intervene and sent people over. If he were alone, he would naturally not dare to do so, but with the emperor behind him, he was full of ambitions.

He did not feel any psychological pressure about stabbing Jiu Zhonglang in the back in the court, even though the other party had once saved his life at Bailongtan on the Shu Road. But they were all His Majesty's subjects, and if the king wanted his subjects to die, they had to die.

This time, the main purpose of going to control Fusi was to go to the Ninth Mountain. Gou Yue looked back at the two thousand Xingtian Golden Armor, with a gleam in his eyes. When he was about to set off again,
In the distance, in the wind and snow, a bird's cry was heard, and it echoed far away.

Soon, a black dot approached rapidly in the wind and snow ahead and shot towards here.

The black spot came from far away, breaking through the wind and snow with a sharp explosion. When it got closer, it was discovered to be a large black-gold bird about ten feet long.

When it got closer, white light emanated from the bird's body, and its black and gold feathers exploded, and a figure jumped out from it.

The man landed in front of Gou Yue, clasped his hands together,
"Master Gou!"

The one who came was a messenger who entered the pass first to report the imperial edict to the commander of Tianxiong Pass to facilitate entry.

"You're back, how's it going?"

"What did the eunuch say?"

"Your Excellency, the eunuch informed the local garrison commander and conveyed the imperial edict, and told him the news that General Chen would be the third patrol angel, and explained that your appointment this time was also authorized by the patrol angel."

"It seems that the garrison commander over there has received the news that Chen Zhonglang has been appointed as the Patrol Angel, and he is waiting for you to lead the troops into the pass!"

Gou Yue's expression perked up and he nodded.

"Sir, I heard a piece of news in the city that caused a big uproar." The messenger suddenly continued to speak with a solemn expression.

"Speak!" Gou Yue was startled and raised his eyebrows.

"Recently, there has been a bloody storm in Shu. Rumor has it that four stone tablets appeared in Jinguan City, causing many Musashi to rush to snatch them."

"It contains amazing information!"

"It pointed to a place. Someone found it and cracked it not long ago. It points to the Baiyujing in the world's legend!"

"Now, everyone in Shu is going crazy about it. Many masters who can't hide are preparing to gather in Jinguan City!"

"Because the place where the stone tablet appeared is in a mountain near Jinguan City!"

"Time is short, so I can only say a few words."

"Quick, enter the customs!"

With a loud shout, Gouyue's eyeballs widened. (End of this chapter)