These men stopped talking.
Liu Hong stopped for a moment, wanting to say something but couldn't.
There is no point in saying anything, but if you don't say anything, wouldn't your tea cup be smashed in vain?
Just when Liu Hong was in a dilemma.
Zhou Cong, who was inspecting thousands of households, stepped forward and whispered: "Sir, most of these sixty-eight people are from the lower family, but there are also upper and lower families within the lower family. We can interrogate one by one and find out who among these sixty-eight people." It’s on the shelves, they know better.”
Liu Hong nodded and said: "Food is the most important thing for the people. They have just had enough food for a few years, and yet they dare to lay waste to the fields. Later, we will interrogate one by one. If we answer honestly, we will be less vulnerable." It’s painful, but if you don’t answer honestly, it will be too late by then." BIquGe.biz
After finishing speaking, Liu Hong turned around and left, coming to the execution room.
The dedicated recording staff sat down and placed the pamphlet on the table.
Liu Hong also found a seat to sit down. Subconsciously, he reached out to touch his tea cup, but then he thought about the fact that the tea cup had broken and left him. At that moment, he could only retract his hand from his arms calmly. return.
Liu Hong, the commander of the Jinyiwei, was also a murderous master. He was once a guerrilla general from the Nine Sides. He was hit by an arrow in the thigh and was sent back to the capital to recuperate. Then he was activated during the defense of Beijing, and later Entered the Jinyiwei system.
He has a very close relationship with Zhu Ji, but his brain is more flexible than Zhu Ji's, and he has slightly more ways to make money. In recent years, before the implementation of the new tax system, the Emperor ordered Zhu Ji to investigate the private properties and lands of hundreds of officials. This is Liu Hong was shocked, and he immediately sold all the property in his name at a low price and distributed it to the brothers below, asking the investigators to keep less of his property.
This has also led to Liu Hong's life being relatively shabby in recent years, and the tea cup is also the most precious thing in his body and even in his home...
After a while, the first person was brought over.
This man was just an honest common man. His only problem was that he liked to take advantage. As soon as he came in, he saw the shelves filled with all kinds of torture instruments. The smell of blood made him collapse on the ground and fainted... …
Liu Hong sneered. When he fainted and fell down, he still protected his head.
Then Liu Hong sneered and said, "If you don't get up again, I will kill you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man woke up immediately, and then hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "My lord, I did nothing wrong. My lord, you don't dare to kill me."
"I'm going to ask you one question, and you answer it. Don't say anything else. Answer honestly, otherwise no one can save you."
"Yes, sir, you ask, you ask, I will answer honestly."
"What's your name? Where are you from?"
"Wang Jinchan, whose nickname is Fucai, is located in Wangjiabao, more than 20 miles outside Luoyang City." The man quickly replied.
"Who found you?"
"It was a stranger who came to find me, but I thought he was talking nonsense and kicked him out. But two days later, I heard that Wang Gouzi from the same village suddenly became rich, and he leased land everywhere, and it only took one year. There was only one tael of silver. I immediately thought of the foreigner and went to his house to have a look. Seeing the real money and silver, I couldn't restrain myself and went to several houses for him and made more than 20 taels. silver."
"Do you know the foreigners' heels?" Liu Hong then asked.
Wang Jinchan shook his head and said, "I don't know, he's just dressed cleanly, white and fat."
"What does the foreigner's accent sound like?"
"I don't know, I just know that I'm not from here..."
Liu Hong sighed and glanced at Zhao Cong.
Zhao Cong waved his hand instructing and said: "Take him down, put him in another cell, and then bring another one up."
After the words were spoken, two Jinyi guards stepped forward and dragged Wang Jinchan down.
"Sir, I told you honestly, when will you let me go back..."
"grown ups……"
"grown ups……"
After a while, another man was brought in for the same questioning. Zhao Cong, Liu Hong and others stayed in the cell for two hours, and they finally figured out the situation in Luoyang Mansion.
There were sixty-eight people, including twelve people on the line. These twelve people had met the foreigner, and each of them received more than three thousand taels of silver from him.
The rest of the people were developed by these twelve people. The first twelve people gave money, and they went out to lobby and organized the people who had fertile fields close together.
Various means were used to achieve this goal. Many people were unwilling, but if the surrounding people agreed, they would be coerced by the villagers. Even if they were unwilling, they had no choice but to comply.
Liu Hong and others began to focus most of their attention on the first twelve people.
Liu Hong and Zhou Cong had just returned to their residence. Before they could take a sip of tea, they saw a guard in golden clothes hurriedly running towards them.
There was also a secret letter in his hand.
"Sir, this is a letter from Lord Commander Zhu."
After Liu Hong heard this, he quickly stood up and took the letter.
He quickly peeled off the ink pad and took out the letter. Liu Hong looked at the letter with a serious face. After reading it, he put the letter back into the envelope.
"Sir..." Zhou Cong said softly
Liu Hong sighed and said slowly: "His Majesty was furious and gave us two months to solve the case. Commander Zhu gave us one month. If we can't complete it, he will come in person."
After Zhou Cong heard this, he hurriedly said: "For one month, it is better to start from the top. At the beginning of the new tax system, we once monitored the officials of the two provinces and six departments. At that time, several people were a little weird, but there were no Whatever happened, the matter was shelved. The original records are still there. Now you can go through them again and you will definitely find some clues. When the time comes, arrest the person and torture him to extract a confession."
"I thought about it too, but His Majesty said that this matter should not be made public and should be carried out secretly. We should handle this matter in order not to affect the new tax system. If we start from the top and investigate, if there is something wrong, we will The sin is even greater.”
"Sir, we must know how to protect ourselves wisely. Now while we are dealing with the officials' wrongdoings, we are also targeting the people of the three prefectures. If we can find evidence from below, of course it is good, but if we can't find evidence from below, we can only Use the knife above, otherwise His Majesty will not let us go easily, and Commander Zhu will not be able to protect himself."
Liu Hong nodded, and then said: "From now on, brothers must be alert and interrogate throughout the night, both sides at the same time."
"Yes, sir." After Zhou Cong finished speaking, he immediately went down to arrange the interrogation.
Time is tight and the task is heavy.
Jin Yiwei also started running for interrogation from the three houses.
With so much money and so much courage, the person behind it must be a powerful and wealthy person, or maybe a group of people.
For several days, nothing was found.
These deceived people are ignorant of everything.
Liu Hong immediately ordered to solve the problem in his own way. No matter whether he was recruited or not, he would first give each person twenty whips, starting with the group of people who had seen that person.
Kind words are of no use, but a whip can really gain something.
Learned the name and identity of another person from one person's mouth.
And this person is the shrewd middle-aged man who was pushing and fighting with others in the cell.
His name is Zhang Sanjiang, the third eldest in his family. He has been very smart since he was a child and doesn't like to work.
The reason why he didn't say anything during the first interrogation or the interrogations that followed for several days was that he wanted to wait until the matter was over to blackmail this person, Zheng Wanheng.
Zheng Wanheng is the shopkeeper of Zheng's shop in Luoyang City and a grain merchant.
He rarely appeared in the shop on weekdays, but during the Qinyang disaster a few years ago, Zheng Wanheng came down once to buy food and hoard it. It was this time that Zhang Sanjiang recorded his appearance.
I didn't know his name at that time, I only knew that he was from Zheng's store.
And when Zheng Wanheng appeared again and asked the people to rent land to him with money, Zhang Sanjiang felt something was wrong and recognized that he had seen him before. Zhang Sanjiang did not recognize him at the time, and then took over. After paying the money, Zhang Sanjiang ran to the city to investigate his details secretly, and then he found out Zheng Wanheng's name and identity...
When the officials arrested all these people, Zhang Sanjiang was not afraid, but happy.
The fact that so many people were arrested proved that this matter was very big. The bigger the matter, the more money he could extort.
But no matter how smart Zhang Sanjiang was, he would never have thought that these officials were so evil and could not find out anything, so they would torture ordinary people.
Originally he thought he could bear it, but he was naive. He was dragged into the torture chamber without asking any questions. First, he tied himself to the wooden frame and was hit with ten whips. Each whip ripped open his skin and flesh. Ten lashes later, Zhang Sanjiang told everything he knew. This surprised Zhou Cong, who had been beside him. He told me everything without even asking me anything...
When fellow commander Liu Hong found out, he was greatly surprised. He immediately took the Jin Yiwei to Zheng's shop. In broad daylight, he rushed in and caught Zheng, who was fat and fair and spoke with a Shaanxi accent, in the back house. Wanbao.
After Zheng Wanheng was caught, he was quite panicked.
But when he saw Liu Hong, he was no longer afraid. Instead, he said hello: "Master Jin Yiwei, you came to arrest me. It was a little later than I expected."
This greeting shocked Liu Hong, and he felt that something was wrong.
Everyone in the shop, as well as everyone in the Zheng family, were imprisoned.
When Zheng Wanheng's identity was confirmed, Liu Hong interrogated him personally.
In the torture chamber, Zheng Wanheng was already bruised and out of breath.
Liu Hong's face was ferocious, and he was out of breath.
"Who is it?"
"Sir, I have already told you that the mastermind of this matter is Governor Li Bing. Before you said it, you beat me, and after you said it, you beat me even harder. Sir, I will say whoever you want me to say. ”
After Zheng Wanheng came in, before the execution began, he summoned him. He ran to these three places and did all the things. The masterminds were the two people appointed by the imperial court to preside over the new tax system. Provincial governor, Li Bing.
When Liu Hong heard this, he was furious. After some torture, Zheng Wanheng died, but he still bit Li Bing and refused to let go.
"I'll give you one last chance. Who made it happen? Otherwise, your whole family will die?"
"I told the truth, why don't you believe me? It's Li Bing, the governor Li Bing."
After Liu Hong heard this, he threw up his sleeves and left, and Zhou Cong hurriedly followed. After the two of them left the execution room, Zhou Cong asked: "Sir, are we going to inform the commander and your majesty about what is going on here?" ah."
"I will write it myself later, but I always feel that this matter seems weird." Liu Hong frowned tightly.
"Is it really Lord Li Bing..." Zhou Cong said in a low voice.
"I don't know, either. Could it be that Governor Li wants to use this trick to make us kill people? Civil officials like this are much more sinister than us. No one knows what they want to do. Please inform your Majesty of these things first, and then command the envoy My lord, let them know and we will continue our investigation.”
"Then this person..."
"Don't kill it yet, keep it. Keeping it is always useful."
"Yes, sir."
………………
Forbidden City, back garden.
A man and a woman stood in the pavilion.
The man is handsome and the woman is beautiful.
The man in the imperial garden is of course Zhu Jianshen, and the woman is Zhang Yan who was called over from the palace of the Empress Dowager by Zhang Bao.
"You are having a good time in the Royal Grandma's Palace."
"good."
"Have you ever thought about me?"
Hearing Zhu Jianshen's words, Zhang Yan blushed and did not speak or answer.
Zhu Jianshen looked at Zhang Yan's appearance and felt very happy in his heart. He took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang Yan.
"Then, this is the poem I wrote for you. You can read it after you return to the palace."
Zhang Yan stretched out her hand timidly and took the letter.
When Zhu Jianshen was handing over the letter, he accidentally passed it across her fingertips, and Zhang Yan quickly retracted her hand.
Zhu Jianshen didn't think it was anything, and said immediately: "I'm going back to the palace first. When you go to the palace of the emperor tomorrow, you can also write me a letter and I'll pick it up."
After saying that, Zhu Jianshen smiled, then blinked at Zhang Yan, who looked shy, and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Zhang Bao, who was standing aside, had a strange expression on his face, lowered his head and hurriedly chased after him.
Zhu Jianshen, who was walking away with his hands behind his back, thought to himself: "I am really a lover. Look how shy this little girl is, hahaha."
But Zhang Bao, who was following him, kept shaking his head in his heart, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don't get closer to the prodigal son anymore. You are the emperor, you must be upright and behave like a king...
Of course, Zhang Bao didn't dare to say a word of these words. Although His Majesty is kind, everyone in the civil and military dynasties knows that he is petty. He can still work for another ten or eight years. Don't say the wrong thing and retire early. , went to Nanjing to keep company with Xu Youzhen.
Zhang Yan looked at Zhu Jianshen's back and couldn't figure out how his majesty could fall in love with the daughter of a small family like her for no reason.
She returned to the palace of the Empress Dowager with the letter, and then opened the letter in her room.
I saw it read:
There are three thousand things in this world, but there are three things I love.
Qing Sun and Moon.
The sun is morning, the moon is evening, and you are morning and evening.
Zhang Yan looked at these lines and blushed even more. His Majesty's literary talent is really good...
After Zhu Jianshen returned to Qianqing Palace, he began to process the memorials. After a while, Zhu Ji came, bringing a disc of Liu Hong's text from Luoyang Mansion.
After reading the CD, Zhu Jianshen's good mood immediately disappeared...
The person in charge is Li Bing.
This is illogical.
Zhu Jianshen put down the text on the disc, thought about it carefully, and then said, "Commander Zhu, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty, I have two opinions. The first one is that this matter was indeed done by Governor Li. He wanted to use this matter to let the Jin Yiwei arrest a group of people."
Zhu Jian sighed deeply, and then continued: "The second view is that someone is deliberately framing the blame. What I ask you is, of these two different views, do you prefer the first or the second? .”
"I prefer the second option."
"If you are leaning towards the second option, let Liu Hong talk to Governor Li. If anyone else frames the fault, we can just arrest them."
"Your Majesty, could you be more cautious?" Zhu Ji paused and then said.
"Zhu Ji, don't forget, you are Jin Yiwei, there is nothing to be cautious about, just do whatever you want."
"But Your Majesty, if..."
Zhu Jianshen waved his hand: "I know what you want to say. If it is really framed and has nothing to do with Li Bing, then it is even more important to kill the chicken as a warning to the monkey, keep the matter small, and convict a group of people. Kill a bunch of damn people.”
"Yes, Your Majesty." After Zhu Ji finished speaking, he walked back, but was stopped by Zhu Jianshen: "Zhu Ji, some things are not allowed to be brought to the table. If it is really Li Bing who used this method to intimidate me this time, Even though I helped him, he also violated a taboo, and after the new tax system was implemented, he was allowed to resign."
"Also, this matter should be investigated from different angles, but there still has to be a final result and a secret investigation."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After Zhu Ji withdrew, Zhang Bao stood aside with a puzzled look on his face.
"Your Majesty, did you find anything out of the investigation?"
"Yes and no." Zhu Jianshen said and handed the disc to Zhang Bao.
After Zhang Bao read it, he frowned.
"Your Majesty, it can't be that the thief is shouting to catch the thief."
Zhu Jianshen chuckled: "It can't be Li Bing's. He comes from a poor family and knows the value of food. Even if he wants to use his crooked ideas to attack those who oppose the new tax system, he will not focus on farmland."
"The slave is even more confused. Your Majesty, what are you talking about to Commander Zhu?" Zhang Bao asked as he didn't understand. He has always done this very well.
"Someone wants to frame someone up and blame me. They hate me and Li Bing. Then I will not follow his wishes and slash the knife he swung at him again. Li Bing has been in these two places for a long time. He said it, They are all officials who have done their work but have not contributed much. If we catch them all, there must be someone in charge. This is called killing by mistake rather than letting go." After Zhu Jianshen finished speaking, he frowned...
He stood up and said: "Zhang Daban, I want to meet the Taibao, and I still need to let him know about this matter."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
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