The sign with the words "I am here in person" is really too scary.
He didn't allow the Jin Yiwei at the yamen gate to think too much. Even if the other party wanted to rush into the yamen gate and kill the commander, he didn't dare to have any doubts.
You might even wonder if you could get a high-ranking official like Tongzhi, Zhenfu, or Qianhu later if you cut him off with a knife.
Tiqi bowed and his posture was so humble that outsiders could notice it: "What are you going to do? Can I ask the younger one to report to the commander?"
Gao Yangzhi always lowered his head. He was very unwilling to reveal his identity as a secret guard, so he just whispered: "Go to the prison."
Not much to say, only three words.
The Jinyi Guard Tiqi, who was leading the way, had already dreamed up a grand narrative and shocking conspiracy in his mind.
It seems that there is no hope of becoming a member of thousands of households.
Tiqi walked in front with his head lowered.
After a while, the two of them appeared in the courtyard of a locust tree with a fallen leaf.
The bare locust tree branches, even in today's sunny weather, look so abrupt and eerie, making people think of many bad things.
Normal people would not plant a locust tree in their own yard, which is very unlucky. But when it comes to supernatural beings, those families always have a few deciduous locust trees.
This is very unreasonable, but people can always take the initiative to help the author imagine a gloomy scene that the author cannot describe when looking at this word.
But Gao Yangzhi thought it was good to have a locust tree planted in Jinyiwei.
Here, ghosts are far less scary than people.
Looking at the dark steps going down in front of me, there are waves of gray disgust emerging from inside. If you get closer, you can feel the hairs on your hair, and there is a biting coldness.
This is probably Jinyiwei's prison.
Gao Yangzhi turned around and glanced at Tiqi, who was already waiting beside him: "What happened today."
Tiqi immediately looked around and saw that there were not many people in the yamen at this time. He immediately nodded and whispered: "I haven't seen the superior come here. The prison is dark. Today there are only a few dazzled old officials serving the prisoners. Don’t worry if it’s a bad trip.”
As he spoke, Tiqi carefully bowed his head and exited the Sophora Tree Courtyard.
Gao Yangzhi shook his head and smiled coldly.
Once something is done, there can be no trace left, but tomorrow is Hongwu's 25th Enke Trial. Even if his arrival is revealed in a few days, it is no longer an important matter.
Bending down and walking into the dark steps, Gao Yangzhi felt that he was descending into the abyss of hell. If Tianmai hadn't sent him the token that he now kept close to his heart, and Tai As Sun said, he was very reluctant to come to Jinyiwei's prison.
I am the one who wants to walk in Wenhua Palace.
I also registered for the current examination.
But as a secret guard, he was not allowed to consider these things.
I absolutely cannot let Mr. Xie know about this matter. Although he is my husband, some things are best hidden in the darkness and slowly rot like some people and things in this prison.
is the best.
Finally, Gao Yangzhi adapted to the coldness around him and was able to straighten his back.
Not far away, in front of a table were several old officials who had been working in prison all year round to repair people. They were hunched over and lying on a rotten wooden table.
On the table and on the ground were several wine jars that had been carelessly discarded.
Today, the Jin Yiwei has dragged the last ten scholars who fought in front of the Book and Newspaper Bureau three months ago to Baihu Street in front of the Yamen and beat them to death with canes.
At this moment, Gao Yangzhi's ears could vaguely hear the moans of those people coming from the darkness.
According to the explanation Jin Yiwei gave to the court a few days ago, all the more than a thousand scholars imprisoned in the imperial prison will be released before dark today.
Many of them are going to participate in the Enke Examination tomorrow. Jinyiwei is a law-abiding yamen and will never do anything to hinder the imperial court from recruiting talents from all over the world.
Although there have been slanders in the court, and many people have even continued to submit memorials in these days, the emperor has not gone to court to handle state affairs for three months. It seems that the studies at the main hall are far more important than state affairs.
All the memorials submitted were ignored by the grandson.
This made those officials in the imperial court who were still thinking about rescuing the thousands of scholars here feel like they were punched on the quilt.
Under the premise that the military did not support, even secretly rejoiced, and the civil servants could not unify their voices, those people gradually seemed to have forgotten the people in the Jinyiwei Yamen.
After all, there are still thousands of people in Yingtian City who are really going to take part in the examination tomorrow.
Gao Yang stopped and counted the light-transmitting windows on one side of the cage, counting from one to seven, and finally stopped.
"Tang Keke."
The sound was very small, covered up by the surrounding moans and the biting sounds of the insects and rats, and did not spread out.
Gao Yangzhi stood in front of the cage, staring calmly at the dark cage.
He seemed very calm, not even the slightest bit anxious.
Slowly, there was a sound of fumbling in the cage.
A hoarse voice breathed deeply into the turbid air in the prison that seemed to have been frozen for decades.
Snapped.
A pair of hands reached out from the darkness and grasped the cage fence in front of Gao Yangzhi.
Then, Tang Keke's cheeks, which had not lost weight but were much whiter, were revealed.
Probably exposed to the light from the darkness, Tang Keke squinted his eyes, glanced around vaguely, and then asked in a low voice: "Who is it?"
"Stop high."
Gao Yangzhi responded and squatted down.
Tang Keke muttered in a low voice: "Gao Yangzhi?"
Then, under Gao Yangzhi's gaze, his eyes slowly became clear.
"Gao Yangzhi!"
"It's you!"
Tang Keke, who had recovered his eyesight, looked at Gao Yangzhi who appeared in front of him, and shouted in a low voice with surprise on his face.
"Silence." Gao Yangzhi reminded in a low voice with a solemn expression. Under Tang Keke's eyes that gradually became puzzled, he continued: "The third master asked me to come."
"Third Master?"
Tang Keke muttered in confusion, then his eyes burst out with a bright light, and then he stared at Gao Yangzhi: "You are from the secret guard!"
Gao Yangzhi nodded as a response to this question.
Tang Keke smiled slightly, with an ambiguous expression on his face, then put his hands on the ground and turned around, leaning his back against the fence.
"Tomorrow is the day to try it out, right?"
Gao Yangzhi nodded: "Yes tomorrow."
"Presumably, you are a member of the secret guard, and you don't know this. So you came to look for me today, and you don't know either."
Gao Yangzhi hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded silently: "Sir, I don't know."
Tang Keke took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled it.
He turned back and glanced at Gao Yangzhi: "Let me guess, tomorrow will be Enke's trial, and the Third Master will definitely take action this time. The size of the bait that is thrown out will determine the size of the fish that can be caught.
The third master wants to make his master's knowledge popular all over the world once and for all. The Enke Examination in the 25th year of Hongwu will be a tragedy.
There should be no slander in the court, let alone in the world.
Therefore, Third Master needs a reason and an excuse."
Having said this, Tang Keke turned around suddenly, grabbed the two fences in front of him with both hands, and stared at Gao Yangzhi.
He said word for word: "So, Third Master needs me to die!"
Gao Yangzhi lowered his head indifferently and took out a brown paper bag from his sleeve.
It's a small, square piece with a slight bulge in the middle.
"After taking it, bruises will appear on the body, which can be interpreted as being beaten to death. The medicine works quickly and there is no pain."
Gao Yangzhi explained and stuffed the medicine bag into Tang Keke's fingers.
Then, he stood up slowly, waved his sleeves outward with both hands, and bowed in salute.
"Please go to death!"
Tang Keke stared at the medicine bag in his hand, silently twitching his cheeks and smiling.
He stood up with some unsteady steps, took a deep look at Gao Yangzhi outside the fence cage, nodded, just stared at Gao Yangzhi, stepped back step by step, and disappeared into the darkness.
Gao Yangzhi's mouth twitched a few times.
His eyes were fixed on the depths of the cage that he could not see clearly.
"Straight bitch!"
"The Ming Dynasty will last forever!"
With a bang, Tang Keke's burly body in the darkness fell heavily to the ground.
Hearing the sound, Gao Yangzhi let out a long breath and took out a key from his arms.
From the deepest part of the prison, the cells were opened, including the one where Tang Keke was held alone.
After doing this, Gao Yangzhi quickly walked to the door of the prison, lowered his head and bent his body and roared inside.
"Let him go!"
Immediately, Gao Yang stopped and retreated quickly, and arrived at the wall of the locust tree. He moved a few wooden boxes and objects that could be used as footrests, stacked them together, and climbed up.
Gao Yangzhi's hands clasped the courtyard wall, and with a strong step under his feet, the footings below were kicked over, and people came up to the courtyard wall. Then several cats were hidden among the layers of eaves, and their eyes moved from
In the darkness, he stared dimly at the prison gate below.
Time passed by drop by drop, seemingly dripping on Gao Yangzhi's heart.
Finally, cheers and countless footsteps came from the prison.
"Grandpa finally came out!"
"When I try to get on the list tomorrow, I will definitely impeach Jin Yiwei!"
"Let's go back first and discuss the recent guessing questions!"
Suddenly, several Neo-Confucian disciples who had been imprisoned for three months rushed out of the imperial prison.
However, it was also at this time.
From outside the Huaishu Courtyard, Sun Cheng, deputy Qianhu of Fusi of Jinyiwei North Town, led a group of Jinyiwei tiqi armed with embroidered spring knives and rushed in.
Sun Cheng glanced at the entire locust tree courtyard, glanced at the wooden boxes in a mess under the corner, and then pressed down with his big hand.
"The prisoner broke into the prison and escaped, and the Jinyi Guards captured him immediately!"
"Anyone who dares to disobey will be killed first and then reported. Kill without mercy!"
Following Sun Cheng's order, the knights in royal robes who followed him like tigers and wolves drew out their embroidered spring knives and surrounded the dozens of people who had just walked out of the imperial prison.
"I will be released by your royal guards when the time comes!"
"I can't bear to wait!"
"Are Jin Yiwei trying to take human lives?"
There was an angry Ji Zi who faced the surrounding Jin Yiwei and asked angrily.
Sun Cheng's face was gloomy: "Jinyiwei has always been very particular about rules. Even if the time has not come, even the King of Hell will come and take away your lives. Today, the time for release from prison has not yet come, so you dared to break out of prison privately, and you are guilty of conspiracy.
, if you dare to speak nonsense again, you will be killed!"
"kill!"
A group of royal guards and knights were full of murderous intent.
Naturally, the disciples were not happy, they just felt that Jin Yiwei was teasing them.
"You, the Imperial Guards, are looking down upon human lives and disregarding the king's law. We are about to go out today, and you and other lackeys, Dogtooth, must be like..."
Bang!
Sun Cheng, deputy Qianhu of the Jin Yiwei, did not give this man a chance to finish his words. He stepped forward, scabbarded his sword, and struck him hard on the chest.
The move was usually delicate and tight. Except for the ten sticks he received a few days ago, he had never suffered such a crime. He immediately hugged his chest with painful hands and fell to the ground.
The surrounding Jin Yiwei also began to press closer step by step.
Seeing that Jin Yiwei didn't seem to be faking it and really dared to kill people, the officials could only roar angrily, but they were forced back into prison step by step.
After a while, several old officials were heard shouting about injustice in the prison.
Then, there were several more screams.
Gao Yangzhi, who was hiding under the eaves, slowly held his breath.
I saw Sun Cheng walking in front with a livid face and leaving the imperial prison. Behind him were two knights in royal robes, one after the other carrying Tang Keke who had closed his eyes.
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The commander of the Jin Yiwei, Jiang Wei, was the first to arrive on the scene.
He glanced at Sun Cheng standing in front of the prison in confusion, and then looked at Tang Keke's body placed on the ground.
Jiang Wei's expression gradually became serious.
He waved his hand, and several Jinyiwei officials immediately came forward to check on Tang Keke's condition.
Sun Cheng bowed and walked up to Jiang Wei with his fists clasped.
"Reporting to the commander, today the prisoners in the imperial prison took advantage of the officials to eat wine and broke into the prison privately. All of them have been driven back to the prison by the lower officials. However, the lower officials came late, causing Tang Keke to be beaten to death by the prisoners privately. Next
If an official is incompetent, please ask the commander to punish him."
Jiang Wei's face became increasingly gloomy, and he stared at Sun Cheng for a long time, but did not speak.
At this time, the officials who went to check the situation took off the clothes on Tang Keke's arms, first took his pulse, and then checked his body surface.
Then, a person came to Jiang Wei.
"Reporting to the commander, Deputy Sun Qianhu's words are true. The judge Tang Keke has been beaten to death by the prisoners in the imperial prison. There are bruises and internal injuries on the body."
Jiang Wei snorted coldly, and then waved his hand helplessly: "Send the body out of the city and find a place to bury it."
Then, he looked at Sun Cheng.
Sun Cheng's expression condensed, he clasped his fists and lowered his head: "The lower official neglected his duty and came too late. I had to kill those few officials who were drinking and causing trouble."
Jiang Wei let out a long sigh: "Forget it, it seems that I can't let these Juzi students go today. I just killed a few people, but Sun Qianhu stopped the prisoners who broke out of prison today, which is a great achievement."
Sun Cheng just bowed his head to apologize.
Jiang Wei waved his hand and turned around: "I want to take charge of the Jinyi Guards. You can go into the palace and report."