When Xu He was led to the back of the lobby, the man left.
In the lobby, Tang Shunzhi was interrogating the captured water bandits overnight.
Xu He looked from the screen wall to the front of the hall and saw a man dressed as a guard soldier sitting in the hall. Next to him were several wretched guys kneeling.
After careful identification, Xu He was surprised to find that there were actually two months of age in them.
Caught a real Japanese?
At this time, Tang Shunzhi knocked on the gavel and began to ask questions.
"Ye Baihu, who are these people?"
The officer stood up and intervened: "Your Majesty, the magistrate, with the help of local fishermen, we searched the Taihu Islands. During the search on Dayeng Island, we found these people, and then we captured them! There were two more among them. Where are the Japanese pirates!"
Tang Shunzhi nodded when he heard this and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Ye Baihu!"
After saying that, he turned to the people in the hall and said, "Who are your names? Where do you live? When did you drop the grass? Tell me everything. Don't hide it."
When Xu He heard this, he stared at the people in the hall.
I saw the two Japanese pirates holding their necks and not bowing down, but they didn't speak.
However, the other three people kowtowed and said, "It's unfair, we are just the fishermen on the island!"
How could Tang Shunzhi believe such nonsense? He directly called the yamen servant and gave him ten sticks first.
After a while, the sound of crackling sticks hitting the flesh was heard in the hall.
When the two Japanese pirates in the hall heard this voice, their expressions suddenly changed.
Tang Shunzhi said: "Can you two Japanese speak the language of the Wei Dynasty?"
Although the two Japanese pirates were panicked, they still acted like dead pigs who were not afraid of boiling water. They stared at Tang Shunzhi in the hall with arrogant expressions and refused to speak.
Tang Shunzhi was not used to them and said directly: "Pull him down too and give him twenty sticks."
When the government officials came up to drag him away, the two Japanese pirates were chirping.
Tang Shunzhi frowned and said to everyone in the hall: "Do any of you know a translator who understands the Japanese language?"
Zhejiang is close to the sea, and smuggling has been rampant in recent years. In many places among the people, some "self-taught" Japanese translators have appeared inexplicably, so Tang Shunzhi asked this question.
But everyone in the hall shook their heads. Not to mention that this kind of interpretation was more common in Ningbo and other places near the sea, while inland cities like Huzhou were very rare.
Besides, who can I ask in the middle of the night?
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Tang Shunzhi was in trouble.
The Japanese pirates were caught, but there was no way to pry their mouths open, which was very difficult.
At this time, Xu He coughed lightly in the back hall.
Tang Shunzhi heard Xu He's voice and knew that he had something to say, so he said, "I'm going to change my clothes and I'll be back soon. Beat these thieves carefully!"
After saying that, he lifted up his official robe and came to the back hall and said: "Liangsheng, you're here! It's a bit troublesome now. There's no one who can speak Japanese in the city for the moment. Those three water bandits seem to be just minor characters. I can’t ask anything at all.”
Xu He smiled and said, "Sir, even if you find an interpreter who speaks Japanese, you still won't be able to understand what those two Japanese pirates are saying."
Tang Shunzhi said in surprise: "What's the point of this?"
Xu He said calmly: "Because those two Japanese pirates are obviously Chinese people pretending to be Japanese pirates. They are not real Japanese pirates!"
"What? How did you know?"
Just kidding, Xu He had heard a lot of Japanese talk in his previous life.
Although time has passed, there are many differences between the accent and vocabulary used in Japan's Warring States Period and modern Japanese.
But after all, the two speak the same language, and their tone of voice and word choice are quite the same.
But the two Japanese people just chatted for a while, which was pure nonsense and had no flavor of Japanese talk at all.
So when Xu He heard this, he thought that many Chinese people pretended to be Japanese, shaved their heads into pieces and pretended to be real Japanese, in order to intimidate the people who were defending the army.
These two products obviously belong to this type.
After Tang Shunzhi heard this, he went out half-convinced.
When he entered the hall, he saw that the five people had been beaten to pieces and lay on the ground wailing.
So he said: "I hate Japanese people the most. If my people in the Wei Dynasty fall into trouble and become bandits, I can give them a chance here without beheading them. But Japanese bandits..."
After saying that, he took out the sign and threw it into the hall: "Since we can't find an interpreter at the moment, these two Japanese can't provide us with any information, so they will be killed directly! Hang their heads at the east gate tomorrow to warn the Japanese. slave!"
Everyone in the hall was so angry when they saw Tang Shunzhi coming back from the toilet?
I'm thinking that I'm afraid I've been having a fever and been unable to urinate these past two days, right?
But this Japanese was caught with great difficulty. Wouldn't it be a pity to kill him without even asking for any information?
So the hundred households just now said hurriedly: "Master Magistrate, these two Japanese were captured by the brothers in a bloody battle. You didn't ask any questions at all and just pushed them out and killed them. Didn't this make the brothers' blood shed in vain?"
Tang Shunzhi said with a dark face: "I don't need you to comment on what I'm doing. Come on, push him out and behead him immediately!"
At this moment, the two [Japanese pirates] who had just been chattering nonsense suddenly became wet in their crotches.
They rolled and crawled to avoid the hands of the government officials.
One of them hurriedly said: "Sir, sir, we are not Japanese pirates, we are not Japanese pirates!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was stunned!
Damn, after all this time, this guy is a fake.
Fortunately, they thought it was a real Japanese pirate just now, and felt that Tang Shunzhi's decision was too hasty.
From this point of view, Mr. Tang already knew that these people were pretending.
Tang Shunzhi sneered and said: "You bastard, you are obviously a citizen of the Wei Dynasty, but you pretend to be a Japanese pirate and point the butcher knife at your fellow villagers and neighbors. The crime will be increased and you will be killed!"
The other fake Japanese boy cried in confusion. He heard that if he didn't admit it, he would die, but if he did, he would die even worse. He was so frightened that he fainted with a "gudong" sound.
When the other person saw this, he was heartbroken and kowtowed quickly: "Sir, please let the villain live. The villain is also being coerced. The villain..."
"Pa!" The gavel sounded again, and Tang Shunzhi sneered: "It's impossible to survive, but I can make your death easier, and after your death, you can have your body sent back to your hometown and buried in your ancestral grave. If you don’t tell others, you are a scum pretending to be a Japanese!”
When the man heard this, the light in his eyes suddenly dimmed.
But when I thought that at least I could be buried in the ancestral grave, I burst into tears.
It turned out that this group of people were originally Japanese pirates on the islands in Fujian.
The leader is a big brother named Xu.
A while ago, the superiors asked them to sail across the sea to Ningbo, a total of thirty-eight people, led by a real Japanese.
After getting off the boat, someone picked them up, and they evaded the government and villages all the way, sleeping in the open air and arriving at Taihu Lake.
After arriving at Taihu Lake, everyone received instructions to kill several wealthy households in Nanxun.
When Tang Shunzhi heard this, he immediately discovered the key to the problem: "Who took you to find those wealthy families? Are they from the island?"
Nazhenwa shook his head: "I don't know if we are from the island, but after we landed, we found a place called Huanghuabin and knocked on the door of a house. The owner of the house took us there and pointed out Show it to us!”
"Give him paper and pen and draw the family in Huanghuabin!"
After the fake Japanese trembled and finished drawing, Tang Shunzhi immediately handed the lot to Zhou Ju: "You can take someone there yourself, and be sure to bring everyone in that household and the surrounding neighbors!"
Zhou raised his fist and said, "Yes, sir!"
After saying that, he hurriedly ordered people to go out.
