Imperial City Department.

Under the crooked tree.

Li Chenan and Changsun Jinghong had a simple lunch together.

Changsun Jinghong did not talk about the most likely changes in the future, but instead told some stories about the past.

For example, Empress Lu has a very high literary talent and has studied under Mr. Chunfu's seat for three years.

He is a classmate with the current emperor.

For example, Princess Yun'an has extremely high martial arts skills!

Her teacher is Changsun Jinghong!

For example, the county Ma Qiao Zitong, he had no extraordinary life experience, but was a poor scholar.

In the spring of the first year of Zhaohua, the cold in the late spring was extremely severe.

Qiao Zitong entered Kyoto and was preparing to participate in Enko that year. She stayed in Wenchang Temple, but almost froze to death.

Princess Yun'an accompanied Queen Lu to Wenchang Temple to burn incense and met him, so she rescued Qiao Zitong back.

That year, Enko, Qiao Zitong's top scorer in high school.

Princess Yun'an was overjoyed and asked the emperor to issue an order to recruit Qiao Zitong as a county horse. Qiao Zitong probably was grateful for Princess Yun'an's life-saving grace. He gave up his entry into the court and married Princess Yun'an in Meiyuan.

That was the second year of Zhaohua.

Changsun Jinghong seems to be really old.

He talked a lot, and did not need any response from Li Chenan. It seemed that he just needed such an listener.

Until the third year of Zhaohua, he stopped talking.

"Well, I haven't said so many words in a long time, my mouth is sore."

“Go…”

He stood up and lay on the rocking chair again, looking at the fragmented sunlight divided by the leaves of the big-leaf banyan.

"Go to seven places to be good for life."

"If, if you are uncomfortable, come out and slowly adapt to it."

Li Chenan stood up and bowed: "Is it really the Hall of Hell?"

Changsun Jinghong grinned and waved his hand. Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong also smiled knowingly. He took Li Chen'an to the seventh place.

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The Imperial City Department covers a huge area!

Walking southeastward from this crooked tree, Li Chenan saw many houses hidden in the forest.

Black road, black wall, black tiles, black doors, black windows.

Except for the occasional light yellow osmanthus flowers on the osmanthus trees, Li Chenan has not seen any beautiful color yet.

Such an environment can be described as solemn.

But in fact it gives people a very depressing feeling.

"Why have to be so dark?"

Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong thought about it, "I guess everyone who enters the Imperial City Department will ask about this question."

"Actually, Mr. Changsun said that this was not the case when the Imperial City Department was rebuilt twenty years ago."

"Empress Lu likes to be more gorgeous and thinks that although the Imperial City Department did not have the ability to see the light in the past, it is best to stand in the sun now."

"So at that time, there were many flowers and plants planted here, and most of these houses were blue bricks and green tiles."

Li Chenan was slightly surprised. Looking at what he saw, it was hard to find the traces of the past that Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong said.

“What happened next?”

Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong stood beside an osmanthus tree, "Of course it was the incident in Zhaohua for the third year!"

"I got into the car and waited for Lu Zhanxiao's entire family to be destroyed, so the lord was very angry."

"He wanted to do something at that time, but was dissuaded by Queen Lu, so he endured it."

"But in the winter of the third year of Zhaohua, when you were only a month old, Empress Lu hanged and died, and you disappeared!"

Hanging?

This word attracted Li Chenan's attention.

"This time I completely angered my lord!"

He leaned over and whispered in Li Chen'an's ear: "The Lord had a big fight with the emperor, and then took the seven Imperial City Division and everyone in Kyoto... there were thousands!"

"The lord brought these more than a thousand people, and that night, he cut off many people's heads!"

"There are senior officials in the court, the maids and eunuchs of the palace in the harem, and the Qianniuwei soldiers who guarded the palace at that time..."

"At that time, my subordinates were only a small spy from the seventh place, and I was lucky enough to participate."

Wang Zheng Jinzhong pointed to a dark building opposite and said:

"These blacks are not all paint, but... mixed with the blood of those people!"

"My lord said, use this as a mourning."

"The Lord also said... Imperial City Department is better off in the darkness. In the sunshine... no one will be afraid!"

Li Chenan was suddenly shocked, and he opened his mouth wide, "...How many people do you have to kill?"

Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong continued to walk forward, "Not many, only a thousand or eight hundred."

"How come I haven't heard of such a big thing?"

"Because the emperor suppressed this matter... that night, the fire broke out everywhere in Kyoto, burning many mansions. Of course, those mansions were actually empty, and the bodies were brought here. Later, they told the people that it was the bandits who were causing trouble."

"Jingzhao Mansion arrested many people from the world and slashed them randomly, and the matter ended randomly."

"Since you are the deputy director of the Imperial City Department, you will know these things sooner or later."

"Ji Tai, the old bastard, officially took power after that bloodbath."

"That night, Lord Changsun brought the Qidi people to kill the entire family of Prime Minister Liang who had already retired at that time... It cannot be said that it was a whole family. After checking, a few of them ran away."

Li Chenan pondered for a moment and asked, "I heard that behind the incident in Zhaohua for the third year was a man named Xi Wei?"

"Well, that guy is the mastermind. The Imperial City Department has been looking for him over the years... The Lord said he might have been looking for him in the past two days."

"Have you grabbed his tail?"

Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong shook their heads, "It was you who scolded Ji Tai to vomit blood today. The lord said that Ji Tai would definitely ask Xi Wei for advice, because there is not much time left for Ji Tai."

"So the Military Information Department has been dispatched today, and the Prime Minister's Mansion is under surveillance within ten miles of the radius."

"If someone really entered the prime minister's mansion, I'm afraid he could really wait for the rabbit to catch that old guy Xi Wei."

Turning over a dark courtyard wall covered with withered vines, Wang Zheng Jinzhong stopped.

Li Chenan looked up and suddenly heard a heart-wrenching scream and crying and begging for mercy.

Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong shook their heads, "The Lord has always said that you should not create such a big battle in interrogating prisoners. Have you forgotten these bastards?"

He pushed open the vacant door.

There is a plaque as big as a slap on the lintel.

There are two words written on the plaque in seven places.

He followed Wang Zheng and Jin Zhong in, and a strong smell of blood came to his face.

This is a square yard.

In the yard, five people were stripped of their clothes and hung on the cross with blood all over their bodies. One on the left held a whip in his hand and one on the right held a pig-killing knife in his hand.

There is another person ahead.

He sat on a chair with a roast chicken in his hand.

There is also a pot of wine next to it!

He slowly said while eating chicken while drinking: "Now I think about it, are you going to get it?"

"It's too late!"

"Skinned them!"

"I heard that a new Lord Xiao Li has come to our Imperial City Department. You can sew a thick human fur coat with a skin of 100 pieces!"

"Leave it to the commander to give it to this Lord Li. I guess there will be more work in our seven places in the future!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly looked up and his small eyes suddenly opened.

The whole family stood up from the chair, with a chicken in his left hand and a can of wine in his right hand. He ran towards Wang Zheng Jinzhong happily.

He grinned with a greasy mouth:

"Grand Commander, please eat chicken!"
Chapter completed!