An anticlimactic assassination ended with seventeen assassins being killed on the spot and thirty-two assassins captured alive.
The veterans of the Zhenrong Army and the Forbidden Army brothers who came from Kaifeng Prefecture paid the price of two serious injuries and six minor injuries. (Note: The North Campus of Kaifeng Prefecture has a left and right army patrol department, and the soldiers inside are also called the Forbidden Army.
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Kou Zhun, the political counselor of the Song Dynasty, was furious and ordered the North Court judge Zhe Weizhong to interrogate the arrested assassins that day. Any local officials involved in the confessions, regardless of whether the assassins were talking nonsense, would be caught first.
Let's talk about it after being put under house arrest in the Yamen.
As a result, in just three or four days, twenty-four officials were arrested on the Yongxing Military Road. One of them even included a deputy director of the fifth grade transportation department.
However, these arrested officials unanimously insisted that they had nothing to do with the Red Lotus Sect. There were three reasons why they joined forces to hire assassins to assassinate Han Qing.
First, Han Qing was originally a wanted criminal, but Zhang Qixian, the former strategic pacifier, canceled the wanted order against him without giving any reason, and regarded the laws of the Song Dynasty as child's play.
Secondly, General Kou directly appointed a wanted criminal as the judge of the Sixth Grade Criminal Prison Division. He had Han Chuang study hard for more than ten years before he was able to obtain the title of Jinshi. He also worked hard for many years in the positions of chief registrar, county lieutenant, and county magistrate.
Everyone who has not been promoted for many years cannot be convinced!
Third, after Han Qing became the judge of the Department of Punishments and Prisons, he cleared up old scores and made up many accusations, putting everyone in the Yongxing army in danger. Kou Zhun's previous treatment of erring officials did not show any concern for everyone.
Come and do the hard work of governing the place for the imperial court and preventing party invasion!
Therefore, out of righteous indignation, the officials decided to hire a murderer to get rid of Han Qing, a powerful traitor who was doing all kinds of things. As for why the murderer was a member of the Red Lotus Sect, they had no control over it!
Of course, such nonsense could not deceive anyone. However, it made Kou Zhun, the political advisor, vaguely feel that a storm was about to come.
Having been in politics for more than 20 years, he has a deep understanding of what the Song Dynasty court behind him and the current Song Dynasty official family are like. He also deeply understands the dangers of political struggle.
In most cases, there is no absolute justice and fairness in officialdom. Winning or losing depends entirely on the balance of power between the two parties and the official's final choice.
The statements of the officials involved in the assassination case were obviously guided by experts behind the scenes. The clever part was that they placed Han Qing and him on the opposite side of the entire Yongxing Military Road officialdom.
As the de facto deputy prime minister of the Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun even had half a foot on the prime minister's position. Of course, he desperately hoped to uproot the three evil sects of the Red Lotus Sect, Maitreya Sect and Chunyang Sect, and seek three benefits for the Song Dynasty.
More than ten years of internal peace.
However, the officials of the Song Dynasty may not have the same idea as him.
The officials of the Song Dynasty actually wanted to see the Yongxing Military Road quickly restore stability and begin normal operation.
As for the dirty things happening under the officials' arse, except for being an official of the Song Dynasty but loyal to Our Lady of the Red Lotus, you can turn a blind eye to the rest.
It even included replacing death row prisoners with beggars and poor people, and colluding with local gentry to harm innocent people. In the eyes of the officials, it was actually not a big deal.
The officials of the Song Dynasty governed the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats, rather than with the poor people. Among the ten scholar-bureaucrats, at least nine came from the families of local gentry.
The people who are being governed, no matter which dynasty or generation they are in, are inevitably framed by the government and the wealthy gentry. The evil act of replacing death row prisoners with innocent people has never been avoided in all dynasties.
As long as the actions of officials can be controlled within a certain range and do not affect local stability, officials are usually unwilling to investigate further.
Therefore, if he cannot quickly grasp a stronger and more direct evidence and dig out the real big fish, Kou Zhun believes that the day when he will be recalled to Bianliang is not far away.
And once he leaves, the investigation of the Red Lotus Sect will definitely come to nothing.
Of course, with the benevolence of an official, he would definitely not throw Han Qing to the officials of Yongxing Military Road after using him up to calm the public anger.
However, Kou Zhun believed that if things continued like this, the officials would eventually "make peace" and find an excuse to transfer Han Qing from the position of prison judge on Yongxing Military Road to other roads.
Find a position in places such as Jiang Zuo Jian and Qin Tian Jian where the grade is high enough and you don't have to work, and let Han Qing be promoted!
"Judge Zhe, what are Judge Han busy with recently? Is there any new progress in investigating old cases?" Thinking that all his efforts may be in vain, even with Kou Zhun's calmness, he will inevitably feel impatient.
.Put down the officials’ confessions and ask in a deep voice.
"Reporting to Prime Minister Kou, Judge Han has not investigated the case in recent days. He has put all his thoughts on the treatment of the injured brothers." Zhe Weizhong was very good at talking. He smiled and responded in a low voice. "His
His medical skills are extremely good, and he snatched away the two seriously injured brothers from Kaifeng Mansion from the hands of Lord Yama. The injuries of the remaining ones with minor injuries were not worsened!"
"Oh?" Kou Zhun frowned and muttered in a low voice.
Let me remind you that the prison judge did not investigate the case but took up the job of a doctor. In his eyes, he must not be doing his job properly.
However, he still holds the position of Kaifeng Prefecture Yin. No matter how many times he actually appears in Kaifeng Prefecture, the imperial guards of Kaifeng Prefecture must be regarded as direct descendants of him and Zhe Weizhong.
Therefore, in front of Zhe Weizhong, even if Kou Zhun was dissatisfied with Han Qing's actions, he could not say that he should not spend the time and energy he originally spent on investigating the case on rescuing people.
However, after just a few snaps of his fingers, Kou Zhun realized that the person Han Qing probably really wanted to save was not the Kaifeng Mansion brothers.
Therefore, after taking a look at Zhe Weizhong, he asked again in a deep voice: "He saved the injured brothers, I'm afraid he just did it casually! He has been naked these days, and the one he serves is his confidante?"
"Kou Xiang's eyes are as bright as a torch!" Zhe Weizhong smiled and gently cupped his hands, "Anyway, he saved the person, whether he did it casually or not, we have to accept his love. As for the Ziling girl,
She was indeed rescued by him. This woman should know some inside stories about the Red Lotus Sect, but it is hard to say whether she is willing to come forward and testify against those people."
"If she doesn't want to, don't make it too difficult for her. After all, this woman is a strange woman with love and righteousness!" Kou Zhun was reasonable, pondered for a moment, and concluded Xu Ziling's matter in a low voice.
"She is not the only one who is affectionate and righteous!" Zhe Weizhong smiled again and added in a low voice, "Judge Han asked me to give you a message. There was also a woman named Bai present that day who helped him.
I am very busy. This woman named Bai has a rather special background. I also ask Kou Xiang, for his sake, not to trace the whereabouts of this woman for the time being. When the matter of the Red Lotus Sect is settled, he will naturally try to give Kou Xiang a
