The big prison is different from the big prison. The big prison is under the control of the Ministry of Punishment, while the big prison is the imperial prison prepared for Lao Zhu when he wanted to set up the Jinyi Guards. However, due to Han Du's dissuasion, Lao Zhu gave up the idea of setting up the Jinyi Guards. This
Imprisonment is of course of no use.
Moreover, Lao Zhu was also stingy and reluctant to spend money. When he heard Han Du say that there would be hundreds of thousands of Jin Yiwei to support in the future, he immediately felt numb and never mentioned the establishment of Jin Yiwei again.
However, although there were no Jinyi Guards, the responsibilities of Yiluan Si still existed, so the imperial prison was changed to the Great Prison and fell into the hands of Yiluan Si.
As soon as the Shen family landed on the shore, they were secretly escorted to the prison. Shen Zhou was imprisoned in the innermost cell. The cell was dark and closed. Under the light of the torch on the mud wall, the doorpost of the cell left a pillar on the messy ground.
A dark shadow, like a ghost's claw crawling out of the underworld, kept rubbing and jumping on Shen Zhou's body.
Shen Zhou raised his head and stared at the flames dancing on the wall with deep fear in his eyes. This was the only thing he could see moving in the past two days.
There was no daylight inside the cell, and Shen Zhou didn't know what time it was outside. He just suddenly felt an unusually deep cold, as if even the fire in his eyes was beating much slower.
Shen Zhou's face was lost and dull, and he subconsciously turned his gaze in the direction of the corridor. After waiting for a moment, he saw a deep black shadow slowly protruding from the shadow.
The visitor was dressed in night clothes, and even his hair and face were tightly wrapped in layers of black cloth. He only had two eyes, which shone with a chilling light under the firelight.
Shen Zhou suddenly trembled, feeling as if he was enveloped by a bone-chilling chill. Extreme fear clenched his heart, making him forget to even breathe. He couldn't help but kick his feet on the ground several times, as if he wanted to get away.
This person.
"You, who are you?"
The visitor did not speak, but walked towards Shen Zhou in a leisurely manner, taking each step as if measured with a ruler.
Shen Zhou was suddenly invaded by a strong fear. He was so stimulated that he shouted: "Someone is coming, someone is coming quickly."
But Shen Zhou yelled several times, but there was no response from the prison, which was supposed to be heavily guarded.
The visitor walked slowly, deliberately lowered his voice, laughed twice with a bit of hoarseness, and said: "You don't have to shout, I have found too many reasons for this moment to transfer everyone away. Do you think
, just how many times you roar can you escape?"
The man in black walked outside the cell door, reached out and took out a key from his arms, and easily opened the cell door.
When Shen Zhou saw this scene, his eyes widened in fright and he backed away repeatedly. But the cell was so big, where could he retreat to? He retreated to the corner, and his legs were still kicking hard like playing a pipa.
He stood there, as if he wanted to squeeze himself out of the cell and stay away from this person who was getting closer and closer.
"You, who are you? Why do you have the key to the cell, and how did you transfer everyone away?"
The man in black approached Shen Zhou unhurriedly and sneered: "Of course I can transfer the people under my command. As for the key, what do you think?"
"Don't come over!" Shen Zhou was sweating on his forehead, his face was pale, and his eyes were wide open, filled with extreme fear.
Shen Zhou looked at the man in black who was approaching him step by step. He yelled in his heart and wanted to rush forward with all his strength. But with his physique, how could he be the opponent of the man in black?
The man in black just calmly stretched out his right hand and pinched Shen Zhou's neck. The scene was as if Shen Zhou took the initiative to give his neck to the man in black.
"Fighting to the death!" The man in black smiled ferociously, then tightly grabbed Shen Zhou's throat with his five fingers, and lifted him up bit by bit.
Shen Zhou felt an irresistible force, lifting him off the ground bit by bit. His eyes were wide open, and his face was full of fear of death. He wanted to desperately make some noise and fight for his life.
There was a chance, but no words came out of his mouth, only his chest heaving violently, and his throat making sounds.
The two feet were stretched straight, and the toes were stretched with attachment to the earth, wanting to touch the earth again.
"boom!"
A loud noise erupted, echoing repeatedly in the sealed underground, causing Shen Zhou to have a buzzing auditory hallucination in his ears.
The man in black was suddenly startled, and couldn't help but loosen his right hand. His eyes were full of surprise and fear, and he turned around to look for where the sound came from.
Shen Zhou suddenly fell to the ground, and the restraint on his throat was instantly released. After regaining his freedom, Shen Zhou desperately breathed air again and again. His greed for air reached the point of no regard.
Jiang Wei held the revolver in one hand and walked out of the shadows step by step with a smile on his face.
When the man in black saw Jiang Wei, his expression was not moved at all. When he looked at the person coming out from behind Jiang Wei, his pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a pinhead.
"So this is a game, a game against me?"
After saying that, the man in black looked back at Shen Zhou, who was slumped on the ground. Seeing that he looked completely useless, he looked back at the person behind Jiang Wei.
emperor!
Lao Zhu walked forward with a gloomy face, stood across the cell door, looked at the man in black, and asked in a deep voice: "How long are you going to hide it? Mao Xiang."
When the man in black heard this, he lowered his head helplessly and pulled off the black cloth covering his face, revealing a face that was familiar to everyone.
It was indeed Mao Xiang!
Lao Zhu sighed heavily, "I promoted you from a school captain, asked you to guard me, and put my safety in your hands. I didn't expect that you turned out to be a poisonous snake."
Lao Zhu really cared about Mao Xiang. If Mao Xiang was not Lao Zhu's trusted confidant, he would never have let Mao Xiang serve as the commander of Yiluan Division. One can imagine Lao Zhu's mood after being betrayed by the person he trusted the most.
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At this point, Mao Xiang was not going to make any excuses, but since Lao Zhu had talked about friendship with him, he naturally wanted to vent his grievances.
"Your Majesty also knows that I am always with you. If I really want to do harm to Your Majesty, Your Majesty, ask yourself, can you escape?"
Lao Zhu's heart sank, and this was what he couldn't understand. Since Mao Xiang was sent by those people, why did he stay by his side for many years, but never did anything bad to him?
"What exactly do you want to do?"
Mao Xiang sighed slightly and said: "I have served the emperor all my life, but unfortunately my background is a hidden danger. In addition, I have served the emperor through life and death for more than ten years, and I have blocked many open and secret arrows, but in the end, the emperor does not even have a title."
Give it to me.
And Han Du has only been in the emperor's eyes for two years. He was first made an uncle, and soon he was made a marquis. He has only been with the emperor for two years, but I have been with the emperor for more than ten years. Why does the emperor prefer one to another? What if it were changed to
Your Majesty, will you be willing?"
Lao Zhu laughed angrily and said: "Is that why you are here? Just because I banned Han Du but not you?"
Mao Xiang took a deep breath and said seriously: "Yes, I admit that in terms of talent, I am indeed inferior to Han Du. However, no matter how capable he is, he has only been with the emperor for two years. I have been with him for more than ten years.
Years, there is hard work without merit. Can't you give me a title? Even an earl will do!"
"More than ten years?" Lao Zhu smiled and shook his head. His tone slowly turned cold. He raised his head and looked at Mao Xiang and said sternly: "It's even more inappropriate to keep a dog that has been unfamiliar with it for more than ten years."
"Hahaha..." Mao Xiang laughed suddenly, looked at Lao Zhu with a relaxed expression, and said, "I know the emperor wants to kill me, but you can't kill me."
Lao Zhu always killed all the traitors and never let one go. For poisonous snakes like Mao Xiang, Lao Zhu hated him beyond measure. When he thought that Mao Xiang, as the commander of Yiluan Division, turned out to be...
Lao Zhu couldn't help but be filled with fear when someone else planted him.
If only Mao Xiang had the idea of murdering him, Lao Zhu might not be able to escape the day he was born.
Lao Zhu folded his hands and asked calmly: "I can't kill you? Do you think I don't dare?"
"The emperor has killed countless people in his life. He can kill whoever he wants. Why don't you dare?" Mao Xiang said in a relaxed tone, without any consciousness of killing anyone, and continued: "However, we are here in the Central Plains.
We have been in business for more than a hundred years. We have people both inside and outside the court. If the emperor kills me, then prepare to sleep with one eye open."
"If the emperor can let me go, I will tell you everything I know right away, how about that?"
Lao Zhu was threatened by Mao Xiang, and his face suddenly turned frosty. He had never been threatened in his life, but until now, the grass on the graves of those who had threatened him had dried up countless times.
"Haha" Lao Zhu smiled faintly at first.
This laughter made Mao Xiang feel cold all over.
When Mao Xiang was unsure, Lao Zhu continued: "You mean you? Oh, by the way, I heard that your original surname is Yang, should I call you Yang Xiang? Or what?"
Mao Xiang's pupils suddenly shrank, he suddenly thought of something, and quickly turned his head to look at Shen Zhou on the ground.
At this time, Shen Zhou didn't know when he quietly crawled in front of Mao Xiang close to the cell. When he saw Mao Xiang's murderous eyes, he was suddenly frightened.
He rolled out of the cell and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, save me, Your Majesty, please save me."
Mao Xiang saw how cowardly the head of the Shen family was, and his face turned red with anger. He wanted to step forward and catch him. But suddenly he felt a stinging pain in his eyebrows. When he looked up, it was Jiang Ying who raised his hand.
Pointing the black muzzle at him.
The steps Mao Xiang had just taken were momentarily paused, and he cursed angrily at Shen Zhou: "Trash! How can there be a family head like you among the six families?"
Shen Zhou fled to the emperor's side, and there was no life or death crisis. He suddenly became arrogant. Faced with Mao Xiang's insults, he jumped up and scolded him back: "I'm a waste? Do you think you are good? Don't you want to be a seller for glory?"
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After scolding, he quickly turned around and bowed to Lao Zhu, saying: "Your Majesty, I know the arrangement of the Shen family in Ming Dynasty. If the Emperor can spare my life, I will give you the list now."
A proud smile appeared on Lao Zhu's face, he glanced at Mao Xiang, raised his hand to stop the excited Shen Zhou, and said, "There's no rush."
"Yes, yes, there is no rush, no rush. Whenever the emperor wants it, the villain will give it to him whenever he wants." Seeing that his life was expected to be saved, Shen Zhou hurriedly nodded humbly, flatteringly like a dog wagging its tail.
He stood aside obediently and said nothing.
Lao Zhu smiled, looked at Mao Xiang and said, "It seems that you have never thought about truly repenting. What you just said was just a temporary measure on your part, right?"
Mao Xiang was immediately speechless. He really had never thought about repenting. In other words, Mao Xiang had never truly surrendered to anyone from the beginning to the end. He neither completely obeyed the orders of the six families, but also disobeyed Lao Zhu Yang.
From the beginning to the end, all he cared about was himself. If Lao Zhu could give him a knighthood, then maybe he would have found a way to sell out the people of the Six Families, so as to become a stepping stone for his promotion. Of course, if the Six Families were
If it can bring him more benefits, then maybe he will not hesitate to attack Lao Zhu.
The reason why he was angry at Shen Zhou's shamelessness just now was because Shen Zhou took the path he wanted to take, leaving him with nowhere to go.
"Ha, hahaha" Mao Xiang raised his head and laughed, his laughter full of frustration and sadness.
"Now that the matter has come to this, I have nothing to say. Whether you want to kill or behead him is up to you."
Seeing how clean Mao Xiang was, Lao Zhu nodded slightly with satisfaction and said: "You can't run away if you are cut to pieces with a thousand cuts, but before that, I have something to ask you."
Mao Xiang snorted coldly and turned his head to the side with a look of disdain, obviously not prepared to answer Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu didn't care, he was even more amiable than before, and said in a positive tone: "Originally, when I found out that Fang Benzhai colluded with the female officer to kill my grandson, I was thinking that the Guards Department is very strict in selecting school captains.
Things. Since Fang Benzhai’s life experience is not clean, it is extremely difficult for him to choose. Now it seems that there are
It should be due to your contribution, right?"
Mao Xiang's face twitched, and he said in a broken voice: "Yes, I was the one who arranged for him to enter the East Palace. Not only that, when he escaped, I also arranged it in advance."
Lao Zhu nodded, "That makes sense. Originally, I was still wondering how a small captain could accurately deliver the message to the female officer after leaving early."
Originally, both Lao Zhu and Han Du were surprised by this. You know, even though Fang Benzhai had colluded with the female official, it was impossible for him to let the female official do it a few months in advance. Fang Benzhai was not a god who could do calculations, how could he possibly know how many times he wanted to do this?
Will Zhu Xiongying get seriously ill in a few months?
At that time, Han Du suspected that Fang Benzhai had not left the capital at all and had been hiding in the dark, commanding the female officials. However, the Yiluan Division later found no trace of Fang Benzhai, and the matter was dropped.
After Han Du captured Fang Benzhai, he knew he would die and refused to say anything. This became an unsolvable mystery.
Now, Lao Zhu finally understood what was going on. It turned out that there was a poisonous snake lurking around him, delivering news to them.
Thinking of this, Lao Zhu's hatred for Mao Xiang burst out instantly, and he no longer wanted to say anything to him. He raised his hand, moved his fingers, and said: "Come here, take him down for me, and let him be punished!"
"No need!" Mao Xiang shouted suddenly, frightening Jiang Yu who was about to step forward. Before anyone could react, he held the key to the cell door in his hand and suddenly punched his temple.
stamp.
The one-card-long iron key was halfway into Mao Xiang's temple in an instant. Mao Xiang's eyes widened and his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't even say a word, and the look in his eyes quickly faded.
, the whole person seemed to have been torn apart, and fell limply to the ground, without any chance of living anymore.
Mao Xiang has led the Yiluan Division for many years and is fully aware of Lao Zhu's ruthless methods. He knows that if he is caught, he will probably be greeted by people who are desperate for life but not death. It would be better to die cleanly.
Therefore, after Lao Zhu rejected his plea for mercy, he was already preparing to seek death. He just deliberately yelled to scare everyone temporarily, and then took action quickly.
Jiang Wei's expression changed, and he quickly stepped forward to check Mao Xiang's condition. He placed two fingers on Mao Xiang's neck, but could not feel the slightest blood pulse, and his expression became gloomy.
Today's round was something he reported to Lao Zhu after getting the news and planned it himself. Originally, he wanted to expose Mao Xiang's true colors, and then take advantage of Mao Xiang's downfall so that he could make contributions and rise to the top.
Things did develop in the direction he expected. After Mao Xiang learned that the head of the Shen family had been caught, as he expected, he couldn't wait to come to silence him. This scene happened to be seen clearly by the emperor. Mao Xiang
Xiang was indeed exposed because of this.
However, he did not expect that Mao Xiang would be so decisive. When he saw that there was no way to survive, he gave up his illusions and committed suicide on the spot.
This makes Jiang Yu always have the feeling of giving up halfway and failing to do his best.
But now that the person is dead, it is useless for Jiang Yu to be reluctant.
He stood up slowly, turned around and shook his head towards the emperor, and replied: "He is dead."
Lao Zhu snorted coldly, "It's an advantage for him."
He waved his sleeves and robe, turned around and walked towards the outside of the prison.
Jiang Wei kicked Mao Xiang's corpse angrily, wanting to chop it into pieces and feed it to the dogs.
At this time, Lao Zhu's faint voice came from the front, "Bury it."
Jiang Wei was suddenly startled and quickly bowed and said: "I obey your order."
When Lao Zhu was talking, he walked straight out without stopping at all. Lao Zhu naturally hated Mao Xiang, but now that he was dead, Lao Zhu saw that he had been by his side for many years and had no intention of attacking him.
Go ahead and give him a decent face.
Jiang Wei lowered his head and looked at the emperor and his entourage. He didn't straighten up until the last person's back disappeared at the end of the corridor. He glanced at Mao Xiang's body and wondered why the emperor would let him go at the last moment even though he hated him deeply.