It is almost noon. According to the order of the sun, earth, and moon, at this time the emperor and all officials should offer sacrifices at the Moon Altar in Xicheng. This means that the activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth are coming to an end. The next step is to offer sacrifices to ancestors, and then return to the palace.
, the officials can take a small amount of water and rice to rest, and the banquet will begin at three or four in the afternoon, and will last until evening with singing and dancing, enjoying the flowers, the moon, and the fragrance of autumn.
Chang Yu and Kuang Ren drank too much tea in the Yamen. When they heard it was quiet outside, they thought of going out for a walk. They slipped out of the back alley and walked for more than a hundred steps without seeing anyone, even though it was already noon time to cook.
, but there was only a trace of smoke. This shows how attractive it is for the royal family to leave the palace, and it is not just empty talk to lead the people to empty streets.
Of course, it’s not that there are absolutely no people around. Some people like to join in the fun, and some like to be quiet. There are always a few old people squatting at the door in the alley, gossiping. Maybe they are too old to squeeze in, or maybe they are looking after the door at home.
When the streets are empty, it is the happiest time for thieves to climb over walls, drill through doors, and steal chickens and dogs.
But the yamen is not a vegetarian, especially after yesterday's chaos. All the soldiers and horsemen were named by the big boss of Dongchang. How dare you be careless today during the big festival? They can't get involved in the emperor's security. Public security is their responsibility.
If something goes wrong again, it would be really unjustifiable.
Therefore, when Chang Yu and Kuang Ren were walking through the streets, they could always encounter soldiers from the Army and Horse Division armed with sticks, and from time to time they would encounter patrols from the Beijing camp. This shows that Wang Jiayan was also fully prepared.
Both groups of people interrogated Chang Yu and the two of them. After Kuang Ren showed his belt, they all respectfully held their hands and said thank you for your hard work. In their opinion, these two people were patrolling spies from Dongchang.
Although the teahouses and restaurants on the street were not as noisy as before, there were still guests in twos and threes chatting about the excitement today. The two of them wandered around the streets and alleys of Dongcheng and felt a little hungry. Chang Yu said to Kuang Ren: "
I was going to treat you to a meal, but I just remembered that I didn’t bring any money.”
"I'm asking you for my humble duty." Kuang Ren was overjoyed. After all, there were not many opportunities to invite the eunuch to dinner, and it wasn't possible for anyone to do so.
"Our family has a big appetite. Do you have enough money?" Chang Yu smiled and walked into a small restaurant on the street. This was a mutton soup shop. There were not many people in it. Kuang Ren followed behind.
Hehehe smiled: "Enough, today is a big day... you can eat whatever you like, and eat as much as you like."
After a while, two bowls of hot mutton soup were served, and the mutton was also given in sufficient portions. The steamed buns were really more appetizing than the delicacies in the palace, at least Chang Yu thought so.
Kuang Ren finally had the opportunity to treat the guests, and knowing that Chang Yu had a big appetite, he asked the shopkeeper to cut another plate of mutton and the two of them ate it. The food was so delicious that it attracted the attention of the diners at the table. After all, it is so popular in this kind of fly restaurant these days.
It's not often you see heroic people.
"Staff, would you like two steamed buns with mutton soup? It might be cheaper without adding meat?" A customer shouted at the door, and the store readily agreed. Most of the people who come to eat in this kind of place are ordinary people, and those who are greedy and can't eat meat.
Make a bowl of soup to satisfy your craving.
Chang Yu inadvertently glanced at the diner at the door, raised his eyebrows slightly, and tapped his fingers on the table quickly. Kuang Ren knew something was going on, pretended to pick up something, and glanced sideways at the door. He saw that he was in his forties.
The thin man had a tired look on his face. At first glance, he looked like a begging refugee, but his whole body exuded a vigorous aura. He was definitely not a casual man. However, this man was definitely unfamiliar to him and he had never seen him before in his memory.
The man seemed to be hungry, so he stood in front of the stall without even coming in and stared at the shopkeeper serving him soup. His eyes were shining and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "Sir, please come in and sit down," the shopkeeper greeted.
"Eat here at the door. It will cool down faster." The man took the mutton soup and steamed buns and glanced inside the store, just in time to catch the eyes of Chang Yu and Kuang Ren. The three of them looked at each other for a moment and then each looked away, showing no signs of confusion.
There were waves, and then the man squatted at the door and started eating and drinking.
Suddenly he raised his eyebrows, as if he had thought of something. When he stood up and was about to look inside the store again, he suddenly found that the two people in the store were standing in front of him. The young man had a wicked smile on his face: "Why, remember
Already?"
"What are you remembering?" The man held the bowl with a confused look on his face.
Chang Yu sighed, this man was the thin man who committed a murder in public on Chaoyangmen Street last night. He stabbed three people to death in the blink of an eye and then ran away with a puff of smoke. He ran faster than a rabbit and even chased him.
, but I didn’t expect to meet him in this fly restaurant.
I thought that last night there was a big black and white manhunt, and this guy should have been arrested. Who knows, he escaped and he really had something. However, he didn't take advantage of today's holiday to escape from the city. Instead, he openly walked on the street.
If you go to Liaoda, do you think the skilled person is brave, or is he stupid?
"Don't you feel familiar when you look at me?" Chang Yu sneered. The man in front of him was too calm. Although he pretended to be confused, he didn't panic at all. Ordinary people's expressions were definitely not like this.
"I don't know you." The man shook his head: "You may have recognized the wrong person."
"If you were a ghost, maybe I could admit my mistake, but you are a human being, so you can't be wrong." Chang Yu smiled faintly and winked at Kuang Ren: "It's not convenient to talk here, take him to a quiet place."
As soon as Kuang Ren moved, the man screamed and threw the bowl in his hand towards Chang Yu. At the same time, he ran away. The hot mutton soup hit his face, but Chang Yu had already been prepared and dodged sideways and jumped into the air.
He kicked the man over with his body and fell to the ground. The man rolled over and tried to escape again. At this time, Kuang Ren had already rushed over...
"Be careful, he has a knife." As soon as Chang Yu finished speaking, Kuang Ren felt the cold air passing by him. He was so frightened that he quickly shrank his neck, and his chest was cut open by the man. If he was slower, his throat would be broken.
!
"What a thief!" Kuang Ren was furious and kicked him away, but the man hid like a loach and ran towards the alley next to him.
Chang Yu and Kuang Ren stopped chasing, and stood there looking coldly at the entrance of the alley. After three breaths, the man slowly retreated, and four or five tough soldiers holding steel knives surrounded him.
If you can have a good chat, you may be able to avoid death, but if you are still stubborn and want to jump over the wall, then you will only die. Chang Yu sneered. The man looked around with a sharp blade in his hand and his eyes fell on Chang Yu with cold eyes: "You are
People from Fangba?"
"I'm asking you now, not you asking me." Chang Yu snorted: "The emperor held a knife at his feet and killed three people. You are not ordinary cruel."
The corners of the man's lips curled up: "It doesn't sound like the right thing to say."
"It depends on whether you are talking about white or underworld." Chang Yu spread his hands and said, "If you are not stupid, you should know that I am from the Six Doors, and I will take you to death today."
Huh, the man suddenly laughed: "Are you from a six-door company?"
"Why, it doesn't look like it?" Chang Yu shrugged and glanced to the side. Although this was a street intersection, because the common people went to see the emperor's excitement today, there were not many people watching at this time, only about ten people.
Still watching from a distance.
"If you are from Liumen, then I am the founder of Liumen." The thin man raised the dagger in his hand and shook it: "Why don't you come and kowtow to the grandmaster when you see him..." Kuang Ren didn't finish his words.
He took a step forward and shouted: "You stupid bitch." As he spoke, he grabbed the weapon of the person next to him and was about to do it, but Chang Yu held him back. Kuang Ren glanced at Chang Yu sideways in confusion, but saw that his expression was solemn.
"Are you from a six-door company?" Chang Yu stared at the thin man with sharp eyes.
"These six doors are not your six doors." The thin man seemed to be twisting his tongue, but Chang Yu's expression became more solemn and interrupted him: "Of course I know the six doors you are talking about. If you
Really, maybe I can really save your life, but if you talk nonsense, I will definitely cut you into a pile of mud."
"Do you really know?" The thin man was startled, his expression changed and he was no longer as indifferent as before.
Chang Yu really knows.
The so-called six doors are what ordinary people or later movies and TV dramas called the government agencies. In fact, the earliest common people referred to the government agencies as six doors was mainly because the buildings of the government halls at that time had a three-bay, six-door layout. Over time, it became a public house.
Until the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty, it also became the nickname for civil servants in some yamen, that is, public servants.
But in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Men was just a name for government offices among the common people. Why is it said to be just among common people? Because in the late Ming Dynasty, there was an organization that was unknown to the common people. It was called Liu Men. It was a collection of martial arts masters and spies.
A mysterious organization that combines agents and killers.
This "Six Doors" usually only takes over gang conflicts and important criminals who have been wanted by the government for a long time. At the same time, it has considerable friendship with various sects and has a decisive power in the court and the Jianghu.
Even if you disturb the heaven, you can just leave it alone.
This organization was actually first established in the Tang Dynasty. Anyone who is familiar with Tang history knows that before the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the world was dominated by green forest heroes. The Seventy-two Routes to rebel against the king and the like were all martial arts heroes fighting for the world. Later, the Li family made
After conquering the world, becoming a king and losing a bandit. Although those heroes have no chance to ascend to the great treasure, they still make all kinds of troubles in the arena. Therefore, in order to completely eliminate the remnants of the rebel forces and the powerful green forest forces, the Ministry of Punishment established the Six Gates.
Organize and train up-and-coming young men to become eagle dogs, and travel around the world to spy on intelligence and assassinate powerful people.
Later, this organization disappeared for a time until it was reestablished during the Wanli period.
Some people may be confused. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a Jinyiwei, an East Factory, and even a West Factory for a period of time. Their functions and authorities were not limited to six doors, so why did they need to create an extra six doors.
In fact, it is easy to understand. You can think of Six Doors as a special department of Dongchang or Jinyiwei, just like the police department in later generations also has the anti-gang department, organized crime and triad investigation department... It can also be an outsourcing department.
The members of its organization have no establishment, just like Su Jing, Fan Seng, Wu Shu and other Jianghu people around Chang Yu. They do not participate in the work within the organization and have no right to participate. They are only responsible for doing some shameful Jianghu things.
In addition, it must be combined with the current situation at that time. From the end of Wanli to the Apocalypse, the emperor reused eunuchs in order to suppress the civil servant group. As a result, the Dongchang controlled by the eunuch group covered the sky with one hand. As a check and balance technique for the emperor, naturally he had to create a
Try some tricks to balance it out a little bit.
However, the power of the eunuch group was so overwhelming at that time that Liumen had little progress and was almost reduced to a handyman. It could only do some hard and dirty work in the periphery and did not meet people. It was not until Emperor Chongzhen came to power that it had its moment of glory.
At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was a polished commander when he first came to power. Jinyiwei and Dongchang were both members of Wei Zhongxian. There was no one available to bring down Wei Zhongxian's gang members. In the end, they could only take the wrong approach. So the Liumen organization was reused and started to bring down Wei Zhongxian.
Wei Zhongxian worked very hard during the process and performed very well.
However, with the fall of Wei Zhongxian and Emperor Chongzhen taking the throne, the Six Doors disappeared.
As for why it disappeared, there is an old saying...
So the highlight moment of Six Doors is also his reflection.
In the blink of an eye, it had been almost 20 years since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne. Suddenly, someone appeared and said that he was from the Six Sects. Chang Yu, who knew about this mysterious organization, was very surprised.