Chapter 797 Eagle's Nest Old Man
Guangzhou Yacheng, observe the backyard of the envoy.
Qin Lang was really angry when he saw another box of bank notes that was found.
Thirty thousand guan.
"Where the **** is the lunatic, this is for us." Zhang Chao roared angrily. There are 10,000 guan in the Governor's Mansion, 20,000 guan in the Governor's Mansion, and now 30,000 guan in the Observation Office.
Three times before and after, 60,000 guan.
Qin Lang sneered.
"It seems that my arrival has hindered some people, generous and courageous enough."
Sixty thousand guan, it is enough to buy a state governor or even an observer. However, this aroused Qin Lang's curiosity. He really wanted to know who was behind it.
If the other party just gave money, it would not be enough to make him angry, but the way the other party gave money was really special. First, he quietly sent money to his desk in the backyard of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion under the watchful eyes of the guards, and then he was always able to put money in the Governor's Mansion and the Observer's Mansion ahead of others.
The other party is not only sending money, but also intimidating and showing strength.
"Do you think they will continue to send money?" Qin Lang smiled instead of anger.
"Damn it, I've never seen this kind of money giver. Anyway, I have to show up, or I have to leave a name, and I have to mention the request. Otherwise, who knows who the **** is who sent it, and what the money is for. ?” Zhang Chao was puzzled.
"Go to the transfer envoy Si Yamen!" Qin Lang said.
"Sanlang, if we don't go back to the port first, I don't believe it. When we go back to the ship, they still have the ability to come?"
Qin Lang pondered, "No, go back to the governor's office."
"That's too dangerous. We don't know how they got in. It would be too dangerous if there is a tunnel or something that we didn't notice."
Qin Lang sneered, "I have faced hundreds of thousands of enemy troops without fear, how can I be afraid of a rat who hides his face in Guangzhou City? If I quit Guangzhou City and go to the battleship, what will the people of Guangzhou think? Me, what do people in Lingnan think of me? Maybe this is the purpose of the rats hiding in the dark."
"But···"
"It's nothing but, I led so many soldiers and horses into the city, am I still afraid of these snakes and rats?"
A Huang received the news at the pier, and immediately led 3,000 people into the city with Yuchi Baolin and Zhang Daxiang.
In the triple city of Guangzhou, the city gates and walls were all defended, and even the east and west squares were also controlled.
"Sanlang, we have sent people to search and arrest the whole city. The city's foxes and rats, local ruffians, idlers and villains are all arrested."
Ah Huang was full of murderous looks.
Qin Lang just smiled, "If you do this, it seems that we are guilty and afraid."
"No, we are trying to scare the snakes out of their holes." Ah Huang has been in Lingnan for several years, and has been a long-time soldier, but he also has a murderous look. This guy who was born as a horse thief will be really angry.
Dare to touch Saburo, that is his eternal enemy.
"It's up to you, first go back to the governor's office."
Zhang Chao held a knife, "I'll take someone to dig the ground of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion three feet first, I don't believe anyone can come in."
When heading to the Governor's Mansion, Ah Huang and the others insisted on letting Qin Lang sit in the carriage, and temporarily installed a shield guard in the carriage, resolutely not letting him show up on horseback, just in case.
Be careful until you find the bold ones.
Yacheng is heavily guarded by 3,000 navy marines. In the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, all the original people were replaced, and all of them were replaced by their own people.
Not even a servant remained.
There are three steps for one post, five steps for one post, and more than a dozen teams to cross patrol.
"Sanlang, no more banknotes have been found, and there is nothing suspicious about it."
Qin Lang sat in the mansion and snorted twice.
"I believe that it is impossible for the other party to just calm down like this. If they have such a little ability, they can't be so arrogant."
"wait!"
Sure enough, after waiting for less than a moment, a patrol team in front of the mansion came to report and found a box on the roadside outside the mansion.
"Forty thousand silver notes!"
Qin Lang looked at the things delivered in front of him, but didn't even touch them.
What was supposed to come did come.
"Can it only be placed on the side of the road outside the mansion? It seems that they are much weaker than I expected. This arrogant capital is not enough."
"Sanlang, there is a letter below." Zhang Chao, who checked it, found it.
"Worship one hundred thousand guan, make a friend, the old man of Eagle's Nest!"
Jia Wuben who came over was shocked when he heard the word Old Man Yingchao.
"Many people in Guangzhou know Old Man Yingchao. Why did you offend this man when you first came to Guangzhou? You are in trouble." Jia Wuben looked solemn.
"This old man Yingchao is very mysterious. I have heard many rumors about him when I came to Guangzhou. He is a person who must not be offended. He is even called the underground king of Guangzhou."
Qin Lang dismissed the name King of the Underground.
There used to be underground caves in Chang'an City, and there were people there who claimed to be the king of the underground, but as a result, they are now either digging coal in Wu'an Prefecture, or drying salt by the sea.
In the face of the absolute power of the imperial court, daring to be king is courting death.
"Saburo, don't be careless, this old man of Yingchao is indeed very powerful."
"It's just a rascal." Qin Lang dismissed it.
"Listen to me slowly."
Jia Wuben slowly talked to Qin Lang about what he had heard about Old Man Yingchao. He heard that Old Man Yingchao was originally a high-status bishop of the Persian Zoroastrianism.
"This Zoroastrianism is the state religion in Persia, and it is called Zoroastrianism. After it spread to our Central Plains, it was called the Xian religion."
The Old Man of the Eagle's Nest comes from Manichaeism, a branch of Zoroastrianism in Persia. This is a branch sect founded by a man named Mani. This sect adopts the teachings of Zoroastrianism as the basis, and then absorbs Judaism-Christianity and other teachings , forming their own beliefs.
After Manichaeism spread to the East, it absorbed some Buddhist teachings, and even absorbed a lot of Han Chinese Confucianism and Taoism.
During Mani's lifetime, Manichaeism had spread to Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, and later spread to North Africa, Spain, Italy, Asia Minor and other regions under Roman rule. It was regarded as heresy by the Romans and was banned and persecuted. After Christianity became the state religion of Rome, it spared no effort to attack Manichaeism and regarded it as its biggest opponent.
In the East, Manichaeism has been subjected to **** cleansing just like in Persia itself, and is regarded as a heresy by the Zoroastrianism. Manichaeism continued to migrate to the east and spread to the east. At this time, it mainly gathered in the Sogdian countries in the Western Regions. The nine surnames of Zhaowu, Samojian (Samarkand) and Zheshi (Tashkent) became their most important missionary bases.
But before that, Manichaeism also had internal strife, and sectarian divisions occurred within. After one of the struggles failed, they went to Tianzhu via Tocharia.
The old man of Yingchao was just a very distinguished bishop who failed in internal strife and ran away. He went south from Samojian, traveled thousands of miles, and finally arrived in the east with the Arabian merchant ship, and began to preach in Guangzhou.
After experiencing countless hardships, the old man of Eagle's Nest believes that if he wants to preach, he must first have the force to protect himself, and even have the force to eradicate heresy.
So after gaining a foothold in Guangzhou, he began to train assassins while preaching. It is said that he established a training base on a mysterious island called Eagle's Nest.
On that mysterious island, there is a valley between two mountains, and a large manor is built in the valley, which is extremely beautiful.
There is a magnificent manor built on it, decorated with gold and silver, inlaid with various things, and pipes to circulate wine, milk, honey, and water.
The manor is filled with countless young and beautiful women who are good at dancing, music and singing.
This island manor is the Eagle's Nest, also known as Paradise.
Eagle’s Nest Old Man regularly recruits a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old teenagers, most of whom are orphans and beggars. He will train them outside until they are seventeen or eighteen years old, and then charm them with drugs and send them into the Eagle’s Nest.
When these young people wake up, they will be shocked by the beauty in front of them, thinking that they have entered heaven, and then they can enjoy themselves.
After they have had a good time for a month, the Eagle's Nest Old Man will fascinate them again, and then ship them out.
When they wake up and find that they are no longer in heaven, they will feel very disappointed.
At this time, the old man of Eagle's Nest will tell them that as long as you desperately complete the arduous tasks assigned to you by the organization and complete God's test for you, then you can return to heaven again after you die.
Elder Eagle Nest used this method to train batch after batch of assassins who were not afraid of death at all.
Then he used these assassins to assassinate rival sects and spread his teachings. Later, he even engaged in assassinations and robberies, extortion, and even accepted high-priced hires from others to kill for murderers.
After thirty years, Old Man Yingchao's reputation has spread all over the east, and he even became the underground emperor of Guangzhou City. Tens of thousands of people in Guangzhou even respect him very much.
No matter what kind of trouble, as long as they give money, the old man of Eagle's Nest can always help them solve it.
"This old man from Eagle's Nest has been in Guangzhou for thirty years? So how old is he?"
"I don't know. It is rumored that he is over a hundred years old, but he is still very good at martial arts. He is good at wielding a two-handed sword, and is also proficient in daggers and crossbows. He is especially good at poisoning. But no one has seen his true face, seen his People only saw him wearing a robe and a mask."
"Then what's his name?" Qin Lang asked.
"Some people say his name is Assang, and others say his name is Assassin. It is said that the old man of Yingchao has built more than 300 manors and thirteen paradise islands from the mouth of the Indus River in Tianzhu to Guangzhou. Have 60,000 assassins!"
"And millions of believers!"
"So, no one wants to mess with them!"
Three hundred manors, thirteen paradise islands, and millions of believers, this old man in Eagle's Nest is really awesome. Of course, Qin Lang didn't want to provoke such a ruthless person, but the problem is that someone else came to him on his own initiative.
"Why don't I go to some big Hu merchants in Fanfang and ask them to come forward and see if I can get in touch with this old man in Yingchao?" Jia Wuben asked.
Qin Lang shook his head.
"Then what? Since the old man in the Eagle's Nest is willing to give away one hundred thousand guan, then the request is definitely not simple. It must be the kind that I can't agree to. So, there is no need to talk. That's right."
Jia Wuben thought about it, "I think we can contact first, at least to test the truth, it is better than knowing nothing now."
"Alright." Qin Lang remonstrated like a follower!
He looked at the bank notes in front of him, a total of 100,000 coins, what a big deal. However, he believed that the old man in Eagle's Nest was definitely not afraid that he would blackmail his money and do nothing. Since they were confident that they could send it, they would have the ability to take it away, and maybe take his head along the way.
But Qin Lang just said in a cold voice, "With these 100,000 pennies in the treasury of the Governor's Mansion, we have a lot of things to do next, and there are many places to use the money. The money is just right!"
(end of this chapter)