He Bin, Zhou Yi and others looked at each other, quickly put down the wine in their hands and ran out.

They rushed into the next door, only to see a group of students from Songyang Academy who were drunk alone. There were women playing the piano on one side, and there were several women on the table, snuggling in their arms.

"Who dares to break in without permission!" a young man said angrily.

Zhou Yi asked: "Who just said that they attacked the Minister of Rites of the imperial court?"

"It's me!" A thin young man said boldly, "What, do you have any objections?"

This man was obviously drunk, not even the slightest bit drunk.

He Bin showed a smile on his face and said lightly: "Catch him."

"Hey, how dare you arrest people randomly! We are students from Songyang Academy!"

An imperial city commander slapped the thin young man in the face, then took out his waist badge and said, "We are from the Yamen."

"People in the government office can't arrest people at will!"

"Who just said that they attacked the Minister of Etiquette of the imperial court?"

The others were immediately frightened and did not dare to say anything. They all looked at the thin man.

Zhou Yi lifted the person up and dragged him out.

The people outside were extremely panicked when they saw it, and Zhou Yi said: "The Yamen is doing errands, and no one can stop them!"

No one really dared to stop it.

If they were wearing the uniforms of the Imperial City Division, no one would dare to stop them.

The thin young man was taken to the Imperial City Si Yamen of Yingyang County and was severely beaten.

After being beaten, the person became much more awake.

"what name?"

"Liu Jie." Liu Jie was so frightened that his legs couldn't help but tremble.

He Bin held the pliers and asked politely: "Tell me, who ordered you to attack the Minister of Rites?"

"Excuse me! I don't know anything!"

"Don't know? You just said yourself that you attacked the Minister of Rites, and now you are telling us that you don't know?"

He Bin signaled to others to hold him down, and then used pliers to pull out one of his front teeth.

This young man was already very thin, so his screams became even more heartbreaking: "Spare my life! I wasn't the one who attacked! It was a classmate of mine!"

"who?"

"It's Hu Weizhi! It's Hu Weizhi!"

"Where is he?"

"He's at my place."

"really?"

"Absolutely true!"

"Then why did you say you were the attacker in the restaurant?"

"I'm just talking big words and bragging!" After Liu Jie's front teeth were pulled out, he couldn't speak. But he didn't have the energy to pay attention to the pain now. Instead, he said very cooperatively, "They look down on me. I have been here since I was a child."

He is thin and not very good at reading. He likes to brag and find comfort."

He Bin asked again: "How do you know it was Hu Weizhi who did it?"

"He told me personally that he has a good relationship with me and we are good friends."

"What did he tell you?"

"It was last month. He told me that he was going to do something big and go to Luoyang."

"What to do?"

"He didn't say that at the time, he just said that if it was done, he would be promoted and make a fortune, and he would take me with him when he came back."

"and after?"

"Later he came back. He had nowhere to go, so he came to my place. When he came back, he told me that he had attacked the Minister of Rites of the current dynasty."

"He told you personally."

Liu Jie nodded vigorously: "Yes!"

Liu explained the address.

He Bin said to Zhou Yi: "Go find someone."

"yes!"

An hour later, Zhou Yi came back and the person was brought back.

Hu Weizhi shouted: "I am a student of Songyang Academy, why do you arrest me!"

"Don't be nervous, we just brought you back for questioning." He Bin said politely.

After speaking, he said to Zhou Yi: "Let's give him a good beating first, so that we can be more cooperative."

Zhou Yi punched Hu Weizhi in the abdomen, which was so painful that Hu Weizhi almost fainted.

"I'm asking a question, you answer, are you the one who attacked the Minister of Rites in Luoyang?"

"It's not me!" Hu Weizhi suddenly seemed to be greatly stimulated, "It's not me!"

"Tell the truth!" Zhou Yi punched him again, causing Hu Weizhi to let out a heart-rending wail.

"Stop." He Bin said at this time, "let him go."

Zhou Yi untied Hu Weizhi.

He Bin said: "You have two choices. One is not to tell the truth. We will continue to fight. If you are killed, we will throw them into a mass grave, together with your friend."

Liu Jie on the side immediately said anxiously: "Hu Weizhi, tell the truth! What you told me before, or we will both die!"

"Second, if you tell the truth, we will keep you alive. As you know, attacking the Minister of Rites is a serious crime and may require beheading."

Hu Weizhi's eyes dodge.

He Bin's tone was gentler: "Even if you don't say anything, if we take you to Luoyang now, there will be many people who saw you that day, and they can still identify you."

"I...if I say it, can I really survive?"

"Really." He Bin said.

"I said... I said, it was the Minister of Rites who I attacked that day."

"Who ordered it?"

"It's Wang Shoude, the prefect of Henan Prefecture."

"Wang Shoude, the prefect of Henan Prefecture, is a high-ranking official. You are just a student at Songyang Academy. How can he have anything to do with you?"

"I...it was last year when the prefect Wang was giving lectures at Songyang Academy. I met Wang Qianjin who came with him. I fell in love with his daughter at first sight and went to Luoyang privately to look for her..."

"I had a private relationship with his daughter, and it was discovered just last month. He said that as long as I help him complete one thing, he would marry his daughter to me. Not only that, he also recommended me to be an official without even taking the imperial examination.

Passed the exam."

"What did he ask you to do?"

"Assassination of the Minister of Rites."

He Bin continued to ask: "Why?"

"He said that the Minister of Rites is here to promote the New Learning, and that the New Learning is bad government. As long as the Minister of Rites is assassinated, the implementation of the New Learning can be stopped."

"Don't you know that assassinating the Minister of Rites of the dynasty is a serious crime?"

"I..." Hu Weizhi lowered his head, "I will do anything for Qian'er."

There was silence for a while.

He Bin continued to ask: "Why are you back here again?"

"I went to see the prefect Wang and accidentally learned from Qian'er that her father wanted to kill me, so I fled back to Yingyang and hid here with Liu Jie."

On August 17, a confession was quickly delivered from Yingyang to Tokyo and placed on the table of Zhao Guan's house.

After reading the confession, Zhao Ning's face was as cold as a piece of ice.

"How brave! Even the Minister of Rites of the imperial court dared to assassinate him!"

Gao Qiu said: "Your Majesty, please calm down."

"Where is Mr. Wang Shoude now?"

"In Luoyang."

Zhao Ning walked back and forth. The more critical the moment, the more he had to calm down.

Now that people from the Confucius family are involved, the atmosphere has been heated up. Wang Shoude recommended the prince to participate in politics, so there must be a next step plan.
To be continued...