Chengqian Palace
"Your Highness! Your Highness! I got it! I got it!"
The prince Zhao Ming, who was waiting anxiously, suddenly lit up with joy when he heard the excited voice of his first companion, and he quickly stood up and walked out of the palace.
As soon as he arrived at the door, he ran into Li Wen, who was jogging back. Li Wen immediately handed over the memorial in his hand. Zhao Ming opened it and read it carefully before laughing and saying:
"Okay! Okay! I'll see how you die this time!
Embezzling more than half of the border army's pay has caused the border army to be in trouble with pay, and there is even a risk of mutiny. I see how you can escape this responsibility! "
"Li Banban!"
Zhao Ming suddenly shouted loudly.
Li Wen immediately responded: "Your Highness, my servant is here!"
"Immediately take the people from the Imperial City Department to the Ministry of Finance to arrest these two bold guys, Pan Zuocheng and Lu Chengjie, and ask me where they remember the list!
As the first receiver, they must have a list in hand! "
"Okay! I understand, I will definitely ask for the list!"
After speaking, Li Wen quickly trotted out and went to the Imperial City Division headquarters in the palace to transfer people.
At this time, outside the palace, Zhang He, who had just come out of the political hall, hurried back home. At the same time, the story of the border army's pay dispute spread throughout Bianjing at an extremely fast and incredible speed, causing an uproar!
The entire border army is clamoring for pay. This is not a small matter. If the Huns invade at this time, the border troops who cannot get their pay will simply stop defending. If the Huns enter the pass, the entire pass will suffer. No one can even think about it. Have a good life!
This is definitely no small thing!
Whether it was officials who had nothing to do with the matter or the common people, they were all discussing the matter in a lively manner, with sadness on everyone's faces.
Both the government and the opposition know about it, which means that everyone involved in this matter also knows about it.
These people panicked instantly. They were all happy when they took the money, but now when something goes wrong, they all panicked.
I don’t know who’s initiative led them to get together again in Fanlou.
After blaming each other,
Then they were suddenly surprised to find that Prime Minister Zhanghe did not come.
"Have any of you seen Zhang Xiang? Now that we have reached such an emergency situation, why didn't Zhang Xiang come?"
"I did not see it!"
"I didn't see it either!"
"It seems like no one went to notify the Prime Minister, right?"
"I go!"
Immediately, someone volunteered to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to find Zhang He.
However, at this moment, an old man came up from downstairs. The old man was dressed as a butler: "But anyone close to Zhang He would immediately recognize that this old man is Zhang He, the butler of Prime Minister Zhang He's house!"
Zhang Zhang walked upstairs, first glanced at all the officials present with a pair of cloudy old eyes, and then said coldly: "There is no need to go to the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister will not come.
The prime minister said, now that we have reached such a time, you still dare to get together. Aren't you afraid of being picked up by the prince? "
Everyone was shocked, and then they realized that they had done something stupid in their panic.
However, the words of the chapter were not over yet. He looked at the officials in the hall with contempt in his eyes, but calmly said on his face: "The prime minister said that the matter has come to this, and the matter must be cleared up as soon as possible. Originally, it was the best time to clear up the matter." The best way is to deal with those two, but after all, they are high officials of the imperial court, and it will be even more suspicious if they die for no reason.
But people always have weaknesses, and there are always people who will become more determined for the sake of their family. "
After Zhang Zhu finished speaking, he turned around and left, but his words were like a thunderbolt, which immediately woke everyone up.
Everyone in the hall heard clearly what Zhang Xiang said.
At the same time, this is indeed the best choice at the moment!
Immediately, someone volunteered: "I know where those two people live, and I will arrange the arrangements for their families. It's up to you how to pass the news on!"
"No problem! We are not without manpower in the Imperial City Department. The prince will definitely send the Imperial City Department to take action at this time. When the time comes, I will ask Anzi to reveal the information to those two people.
They must know what to do for the lives of the whole family! "
Immediately someone stood up to accept the division of labor and cooperation.
Everything was settled quickly, which also proved from the side how much energy this group of people had in the Song Dynasty, and they could even put their hands into such big things!
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Imperial City Division Dungeon!
Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!
"Ahhhh!!!"
In the dark dungeon, the sound of whipping and the wails of those being whipped were heard constantly.
Deep in the dungeon, on two wooden crosses, two middle-aged men who had been stripped down to their inner clothes were already covered in bruises.
In just one stick of incense, they had been whipped more than twenty times. The feeling of being whipped with a leather whip dipped in salt water was unbearable.
And these two people are none other than Pan Zuocheng and Lu Chengjie, the current assistant ministers of the Ministry of Household Affairs!
After Li Wen got the order, he immediately sent out the Imperial City Division to catch the two guys at home who had just received the news and were about to run away.
The two men were then brought to the dungeon of the Imperial City Division for torture, but until now, both of them were bruised and bruised but still refused to admit it, and they had never said anything about the list.
How could Li Wen believe their lies and immediately increase the intensity of the punishment?
Since you are not afraid of whips, then try waterboarding!
Li Wen showed a ferocious smile.
After waving his hands, a eunuch immediately put the two people down from the wooden frame, and then tied them to the table. With a grin, they covered their faces with a piece of rice paper and started dripping water!
These execution eunuchs were all senior eunuchs in the palace, and they also had another identity.
Not long ago, they were the same people who helped the prince to be popular.
Because of these civil servants, they lost the power they had finally obtained to approve red awards, which made them all hate these civil servants.
Especially these civil servants who are related to Prime Minister Zhanghe are their enemies among their enemies!
If these two people weren't still useful, they would have killed them directly!
But even if they can't Ling Chi, eunuchs like them who have climbed up from the lower levels still have many ways to make these two people's lives miserable!
They even hope that these two people can continue to be so tough-talking, only in this way can they use more methods on them!
Seeing that they had begun to execute the torture, Li Wen ordered to inform him of the results and then turned around and left the cell.
He believed that these people would entertain these two people well.
As the crown prince's companion, he naturally couldn't leave the prince's side for a long time, so he had to go back.
These eunuchs tortured the two people for a whole afternoon until night, probably because they were afraid that they would starve to death and have nothing to do.
The eunuchs then asked the jailer to give them some rice soup.
And while they were pouring rice soup, no one noticed what the jailer said quietly in their ears.
The next moment, the two people who were already a little unable to hold on smiled bitterly, but they were ready to continue to hold on.
Those people outside are despicable!
They should have thought of it long ago, and now it's too late to regret it!
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(End of chapter)
