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In the 21st year of Hongwu's reign, Huagang, the "Night-Not Harvesting" who once followed General Lan Yu to clear the desert, returned to Beijing and became a royal guard. He was ordered to escort a North Korean mission with Han Dao, a young official from the Ministry of Rites, and the envoy of the mission was the North Korean Crown Prince Li Fangyuan. The mission passed by the "Gujie Post" outside Peiping, the fiefdom of King Yan. Han Dao found that the old post official who received them had "died" two years ago. What was even more strange was that he himself died suddenly the next day. The entire mission was trapped in the foggy post station due to heavy rain. Suddenly, all the postmen at the post station disappeared, and a headless corpse was hung in the main hall. Bizarre events happened one after another. Li, a comrade-in-arms who followed Hua Gang through life and death on the desert battlefield many years ago, The fourth child suddenly appears again, together with Li Yan, a music girl who fascinates Huagang... What kind of secret is hidden in this inn, and what is the fate of this mission? Huagang, the Jinyiwei, relies on his own wisdom and talent to step closer to the truth of that many years ago.

There was a riot in the Great Sacrifice Hall where the Ming Dynasty worshiped heaven and earth. Wang Bin, the imperial censor, took Huagang, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, to investigate the case, but found a corpse with the waistband of "Huagang, a hundred households of Jinyiwei". Hua Gang's father Hua Zheng died mysteriously in the inn. The old servant Tuo Shu turned out to be Zhang Sanfeng's "Zhang Sloppy" disciple and said he could take Hua Gang back to the past. Can the past really be changed? Can the scars in Hua Gang's heart when he was young be healed? The protagonist Hua Gang faces the biggest test in his life, family and country, past and future. How will he make the final decision?

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang passed away, and Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne. The nobles who held military power were basically wiped out. The dead Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that the vassal princes who held military power at this time would become the emperor's biggest threat. The imperial court's proposal to reduce the vassal status suddenly surged. At this time, a bizarre case of spontaneous combustion suddenly occurred in the palace. Huagang, a member of Jinyiwei's 100 households, was ordered to investigate the murder case. When Huagang was at his wits' end, an official in the palace died mysteriously in the bathtub in the secret room. Suddenly, people inside and outside the imperial city were panicked.

Hua Gang successfully sent the North Korean mission to the capital, and finally got married to Li Yan. In the 28th year of Hongwu, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his time was running out. In order to allow his weak grandson to better control the government, batches of nobles with military power were thrown into prison by the Jin Yiwei, and the capital was shrouded in the shadow of a chill. The father of Huagang's wife Li Yan was You Sile of the Jiaofang Division. Before the "pinch test" of the Jiaofang Division ended that year, Fengluan Yang Junbao was found tragically dead in the "Nishang Building", with his head and body separated. There was also a Youshao dancer Yun Niang who died in disheveled clothes at the scene. It was just like the story of the overlord of Chu who was defeated and stabbed Yu Ji to death before committing suicide in Wujiang River. Huagang and his boss Huangfu were ordered to investigate the murder case. As the investigation deepened, Huagang discovered that the officials in the Jiaofang Department, junior fellow student Zuo Sile Hongxi, master You Sile Li Qing, Zuo Shaowu and Zhao Junling, appeared to be very sad, but in fact they were A man with evil intentions and many complaints against Yang Junbao, coupled with the newly selected pipa singer from Suzhou Prefecture and a pair of puppet masters who secretly competed for a performance on the emperor's birthday, made the whole case even more confusing. Hua Gang peeled off the cocoon in this chaos and discovered that the case was probably related to a drowning case many years ago. The emotional entanglement between Lan Fenghuang, Yun Niang and Yang Junbao, who committed suicide in the river, gradually became clear. Hua Gang also found Lan Fenghuang's mother. Just when the mystery of the case was about to be revealed, Lan Fenghuang's mother also died unexpectedly. In the end, through Hua Gang's intelligence, the murderer was finally caught and brought to justice, and the true cause of the emotional entanglement that year was also clarified.

This is a legendary detective story based on the real history of the early Ming Dynasty, in which the fictional Jin Yiwei detective Hua Gang is inserted. The real historical background and real folk scenes strive to bring readers back to the vibrant and crisis-ridden early Ming Dynasty. There are five stories in the "Jin Yi Pai Case" series, which in chronological order are "Ghost Station", "Farewell My Concubine", "Buddha Tribulation", "Reverse Scale" and "The Dead".

The stage of the story moves from the capital to Peiping, the fiefdom of King Yan. In the first year of Jianwen, the imperial court began to cut down vassals with thunderous momentum. King Zhou, King Dai, King Qi, King Xiang, etc. Were deposed as common people one after another. It was rumored that the next one would be King Yan in Peiping. At this time, after Huagang solved a series of cases, his reputation as a detective gradually gained popularity. This time, he rushed all the way to chase a flower-picking thief to Prince Yan's Mansion in Beiping. At this time, a strange case of an unknown female corpse occurred in Prince Yan's Mansion, and Hua Gang was also thrown into prison as the murderer. At the critical moment, Yu Yizi, a chess player from Prince Yan's Mansion, led Hua Gang to escape from Prince Yan's Mansion. However, at this time, he was involved in a shocking conspiracy... Beiping, under the jurisdiction of King Yan, seemed calm, but in fact, there had been undercurrents for a long time, and forces and spies from both sides gathered in it. Jinyiwei spy Zhao Jue received the secret order and sneaked into Peiping to collect evidence of King Yan's rebellion. Unexpectedly, he was imprisoned as a businessman by the Chief Secretary of Peking. By chance, Hua Gang, Yu Yizi, and Zhao Jue formed a three-person detective team to pursue the case of the unknown female corpse. The three of them have their own thoughts and purposes...