"You bastards! A bunch of extremely hateful beasts who do all kinds of evil!"
"You have arms and legs, but you can't eat or wear clothes? Do you want to do such evil things? I want to kill these three tribes!"
In the Xiande Hall, Li Shimin's roar spread far and wide.
Even Empress Changsun, who was usually gentle and gentle, was extremely angry after hearing what Tang Ping reported.
As a parent, what you hate the most is this kind of kidnapping, which causes separation of flesh and blood. It is simply a heinous crime.
Then a chamberlain came in and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Punishment just came to report that Duke Lu broke into the jail of the Ministry of Punishment and a fight is about to begin!"
Tang Ping raised his eyebrows, Cheng Zhijie was Qian Niuwei's biggest boss. His younger brother's daughter-in-law came to Beijing for a reunion, but the child was almost snatched away on the street.
Nowadays, everyone is imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. No wonder he would knock on the door.
"You go, everyone from the Prosecution Department comes to see me. The responsibility of guarding the prison of the Punishment Department is temporarily handed over to Qian Niuwei."
Li Shimin was itching his teeth with hatred. It was just the right time for Cheng Yaojin to come out. The king of a country could not go there and beat people in person, so he could just let Cheng Zhijie go.
He didn't say much. He knew that Cheng Zhijie's attacks would be serious. People would definitely get a good beating, but not all of them would be beaten to death.
Because this gang stole many children from various villages and brought them to Chang'an to sell them.
You must know that Changan now not only has a large number of people, but also money.
Some of these children buyers are ordinary people. They are either childless for various reasons, or they once had children but died young and are now infertile.
After these people made money in Chang'an, they wanted to inherit the family's incense, so boys from all over the country were best sold near Chang'an.
"I also ask my second uncle to introduce legislation from the Ministry of Punishment as soon as possible. It is the same crime to steal children and buy and sell them!" Tang Ping said with cupped hands.
"Don't worry, I'll give the order right away." Li Shimin looked at Tang Ping and asked, "How many of the children they sold to Chang'an did they recover this time?"
"They were collectively sold to a broker in Chang'an City who specializes in this business. There are a total of thirty-two children in this batch. Thirty of them were all rescued before we could take action. I have arranged for people to be sent to Xi Go upstairs, Haosheng will take care of you."
"There are two more that have not been found yet."
"Hey, I don't know how anxious the family is when they lose their children." The Changsun Queen sighed and said: "Most of these children are only one or two years old, and they can't remember things. Those kidnappers can't remember who comes from where." They were kidnapped from the local area, so now we can only distribute their photos to the government offices in various states, and then notify the parents of the missing children to claim them."
"I'm afraid that it was years ago that these children would not be able to return home. Your Majesty, why don't we take all the children into the palace? There are so many palace people who can always take care of them."
"Okay, I'll ask the chamberlain to clean up a hall and come out. Brother Ping, please send all the children over." Li Shimin nodded in agreement, and then asked Tang Ping: "There are still two children that have not been found?"
"Yes!" Tang Ping frowned: "The person who bought the two children was a woman from the workshop area, but no matter how we interrogated her, she just wouldn't say where the children were sent."
"Hmph, tell her that anyone who steals and sells children this time will be punished by death, and buying and selling is the same crime. If you don't tell her, don't blame me."
Tang Ping hesitated to speak, but finally said: "Yes!"
After leaving the palace, he asked Lu Yi, who was waiting for him: "Have you found out about that woman?"
"Found it!" Lu Yi nodded: "She came to work in Chang'an Workshop District more than a year ago. She worked in an oil-paper umbrella workshop. She was usually taciturn and had little interaction with the workers. Four days ago, she asked for leave and left Chang'an City for two days. sky."
"According to her registered information, she is from Tongchuan. People from the Secret Service went to Tongchuan and found out that she once had a husband and two sons. The husband worked as a miner in the mine two years ago, but was crushed in an accident. Legs. At that time, the woman went to the mine to find her husband, leaving a pair of sons at home..."
"What happened to her two children?" Tang Ping asked.
"Yes, the two children were playful and fell into the water and died. By the time she brought the husband with a broken leg home, both children were already dead. Neighbors said that since then, the woman has always considered it her responsibility."
Tang Ping nodded. This was probably the reason why the woman bought two children. But although she was from a pitiful background, it did not mean that she could do such a thing.
"Have you ever found his husband in Tongchuan?"
"No, the house was already empty when we from the Secret Service went there. After their family had an accident, they rarely walked around with their neighbors. The man in that family was not good at work and rarely left the house. The neighbors didn't even know that he had taken him with him. Where did they go with the two children?" "It seems that I have to ask that woman about their whereabouts." Tang Ping said helplessly: "Luyi, go to your house and ask Qingluan to bring the big blue man who sent Gou Shaoqun over. I’ll give you the suitcase, and you can take it to the prison of the Criminal Department.”
"promise!"
Lu Yi followed the order and left, while Tang Ping went to the Penal Department Prison. When he reached the door, he was stopped by several Qianniu Guards.
"Ping Guo Gong...we...we, General Cheng, are inside..."
If it were anyone else, the Qianniu Guards would have stopped him, but Tang Ping now had a high reputation in the military, and with his high position and authority, even if several Qianniu Guards stopped him, they would be a little timid.
Tang Ping smiled slightly: "Don't worry, my eyes are not feeling well today and I can't see many things. I came here to ask about the woman who bought the child. There are still two children that have not been found."
Hearing what Tang Ping said, several Qianniu Guards quickly stepped aside: "Ping Guo Gong, please come quickly."
"These people are so hateful and indifferent."
"No, if the thief is my son, I will definitely fight them to the death."
Tang Ping patted several people on the shoulders and walked in.
The smell of the prison is naturally not very pleasant, and there are still howls and howls in the prison.
Soldiers like Cheng Zhijie knew where to hit the most painful and least injured areas.
Whether those imprisoned in the prison were kidnappers who came from other places to sell children, or brokers who collected children in Chang'an City and resold them, they were all held down in their cells by Qian Niuwei and beaten severely.
Tang Ping was relieved when he saw this. The reason why he didn't kill them now was because the only ones who came to sell the children were thugs. The government planned to ask these brokers to reveal the kidnapping gang they expected to resell children.
This is not the first time that the kidnapping gangs have done something like this. The government still needs to know where they have done evil things in the past.
Someone happened to see Tang Ping coming in while he was being beaten, and shouted loudly: "Ping Guo Gong, Ping Guo Gong, Qian Niuwei rushed to the prison of the Ministry of Justice to beat people! We are willing to recruit, we will recruit anything, don't fight. !”
Tang Ping followed the sound and met Cheng Zhijie coming towards him.
"Boy Tang, stop minding your own business!"
"Don't worry, Mr. Lu, my eyesight is not good today and I can't see many things."
"Hahaha! He is indeed the most capable among the young people!" Cheng Zhijie heard Tang Ping's words and slapped him on the back.
"Thanks to you for stopping that kidnapper on the street this time, Chen Wu, Chen Wu, come here!"
A soldier in the cell over there who was beating people with a stick heard Cheng Zhijie's call and finally came to his senses and ran over panting.
When he saw Tang Ping, he immediately fell to his knees and said, "Thank you so much, Mr. Ping Guo, for saving my tiger cub. From now on, Mr. Ping Guo will be the savior of my whole family."
The child saved by Tang Ping that day was named Hu Zai, and it seemed that he was Chen Wu's son.
Tang Ping chatted with the two for a few more words, only to realize that some of these people couldn't stand the beating. They confessed a lot of things while being beaten, and the crimes they committed were too numerous to describe.
After all, some of those children may not have been so obedient during the transportation to Chang'an, and some may have been sick or injured. In the hands of people like them, almost all such children...
Tang Ping was filled with hatred. If he didn't feel that he was not as strong as these sergeants, he would have wanted to go up and beat them.
At this moment, Lu Yi finally brought the things Tang Ping wanted.
"Boy Tang, what is this?"
"Aren't there two more children missing? I want to use this thing to interrogate the woman who bought the children."
"Oh? What kind of torture device did you make? Let me see it?"
"It's not a torture instrument, it's just something used for questioning. If Duke Lu wants to see it, come with him."
When I came to the cell where the woman was detained, I didn't expect that I could hear the cries and howls of the people being beaten, but the woman's face remained normal, without any fear.
"Qin Liu, are you willing to confess?" Tang Ping asked.
The woman raised her head and glanced at Tang Ping and said, "Ping Guo Gong, I know you are a great hero, but my husband is from a single lineage. I caused him to lose two sons. Now I finally have two children for him." I won't say anything to keep the family happy."
"You woman are so unreasonable!" Cheng Zhijie said angrily from behind: "Then do you know that the children you bring also have parents, how should they mourn their children?"
"What do outsiders' affairs have to do with me?" the woman said calmly: "My husband was injured in the mine, but he didn't even get the compensation, and the mine owner ran away. My child fell into the water, and the villagers clearly saw it. , but thought they were playing in the water and did not rescue them."
"No one has ever thought about my old Qin family, why should I care about others?"
Tang Ping shook his head. It is said that poor people must be hateful. This woman blamed all her suffering on others. I am afraid that this is the only way to make her feel less guilty.
It is precisely this that makes her a complete egoist.
"Lu Yi, put something on her."
Seeing Lu Yi leading two people and holding some strange objects, some tied to her wrists and some attached to her forehead, the woman did not make any noise or make a fuss. She just said lightly: "Ping Guo Gong, no For the incense of the old Qin family, even if you torture me again, I won't say anything."
"Who said I was going to be tortured?" Tang Ping shook his head: "I just want to tell you that His Majesty will issue a decree soon. Anyone who steals and sells children will be guilty of the same crime."
"Your husband is a bad man. It's just a matter of time to find him. By then, according to the new laws of the Tang Dynasty, your old Qin family will be extinct now, not to mention whether it will have any future."
Seeing the woman's face turn pale, Tang Ping continued: "Besides, if you buy these two children, you will use up all the money you saved from living frugally in the workshop area this year and the money you originally saved at home. Right? Your husband can't even find a living, and it's a problem for the two children to eat with him..."
"Stop talking!" The woman looked at Tang Ping: "Even if they starve to death, they will starve to death as children of the old Qin family."
"You...you vicious woman!" Cheng Zhijie couldn't stand it any longer, pointed at her and said, "Tang boy, to torture her, just use these things of yours. I see you've connected the electricity, are you going to shock her?" That’s right, just shock her!”
Tang Ping looked at Cheng Zhijie with a dark look on his face and whispered: "Gong Lu, this is really not a torture instrument. I think it is more appropriate to call this thing a lie detector. It is actually used to test whether people are lying."
With Cheng Zhijie looking curious, Tang Ping continued to interrogate the Qin Liu family: "South of Tongchuan is Chang'an. Your man shouldn't go south with his children. It would be too easy to be discovered. So your man went with his children. East? Or north? Or west?"
Mrs. Qin Liu closed her eyes when Tang Ping asked, but what she didn't know was that Tang Ping had to wait a few seconds for each direction.
When Tang Ping talked about the west, the lie detector showed that her breathing, pulse and blood pressure fluctuated.
"It seems that they are heading west." Tang Ping said calmly.
But just such an understatement made the instrument show greater fluctuations.
Cheng Zhijie looked at Tang Ping in surprise: "How did you know you were going west?"
Tang Ping smiled and said, "I'll let Duke Lu know later."
Then he asked Lu Yi to bring him a map: "You went back four days ago. You went back to Tongchuan, and you brought your two children with you. It will probably take two days to get back, so the fastest your man can do is go to Tongchuan, which he left two days ago."
"And he is lame. How far can he walk in a day with two children over one year old? According to their walking distance, the most they can reach is Qibao Village? Guxian Village? Or near Shanglou Village? "
Similarly, with Tang Ping's culture, Qin Liu's heartbeat and breathing accelerated again when Tang Ping was talking about Guxian Village. Even in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment this winter, there was a little sweat on his forehead.
"Lu Yi, send someone to Guxian Village to rescue the people!"
As long as you know the place, he is lame and carrying two children. His characteristics are too obvious, so it is easy to find him.
After Tang Ping said this, Mrs. Qin Liu suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at Tang Ping: "You...how did you know?"
"You told me yourself!" For such a person, the more she wants to escape self-blame by blaming others, the more Tang Ping will make her blame herself.
"I didn't! You're talking nonsense! I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything!" Sure enough, after Tang Ping finished speaking, Mrs. Qin Liu looked like a crazy tiger.
However, the people of Qian Niuwei suppressed him so hard that he could not move.
Tang Ping asked Lu Yi to put away the lie detector, but Cheng Zhijie reached out to stop him.
"Hey, um... Mr. Pingguo, do you want to discuss something?"
The title has changed from Tang Xiaozi to Ping Guogong. Does Tang Ping still know what is going on?
He shook his head and said: "No need to discuss!"
"you!"
