The Lone Guard of the Passionate and Loyal Soul

In Beijing in the summer of 1582 AD (the tenth year of Wanli), strange things and strange cases happened one after another. First, the silver stored in the inner treasury of the Ming Dynasty disappeared, and large amounts of tax silver transported from various prefectures and counties suddenly disappeared. The silver-melting furnace of the National Silver Mining Bureau was also forced to shut down because there was no silver to cast; then, two criminal thieves who were sent to the imperial edict mysteriously escaped from prison, and a village outside the city that specialized in making coffins disappeared overnight. They were all killed in a short time; what was even more frightening was that a criminal group with unknown origins known as the "Jiangyang Eight Sons" suddenly appeared in the streets and alleys and in the palaces of princes... Everything that happened suddenly made the young Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun vaguely feel that the biggest crisis since he ascended the throne was approaching the Ming Dynasty regime. Zhong Yuan, the imperial guard with a sword who was ordered to go out of the palace to arrest the giant thief, finally found the clues about "Jiangyang Eight Sons". However, he missed the capture and was easily killed by a giant thief named "Mirror" who was good at disguise. Not only that, but under the secret planning of "Mirror", the "Eight Sons of Jiangyang" used the most appalling method to successfully rob 300,000 taels of tax silver transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital, making everyone in the imperial court panic. This series of mistakes caused Zhong Yuan, the famous first bodyguard, to be demoted to six levels and imprisoned. The "Eight Sons of Jiangyang", a group of rare thieves