Zhu Laizi was thinking hard with a frown on his face. Su Jin didn't have time to let him think it over completely. He walked quickly to the door, opened it and said to the people standing outside: "Come here, blindfold Manager Zhu and send him out.
Don't hurt him, just knock him unconscious."
Mahan of the Dynasty agreed, pushed the door in, pulled Zhu Lezi and raised his fist. Zhu Lezi hurriedly shouted: "No, don't let me think about it for a while?"
Su Jin said: "Master, I don't have time anymore. There are big things to do as soon as dawn, and we have to send people out of the city in the morning. You can't afford to delay it, but I can't afford to delay it."
Zhu Lezi said: "Isn't there a third option?"
Su Jin said angrily: "You are a fucking dead man, do you know that? You are still bargaining with me here. What is your third option? Dynasty, take him out and bury him alive under the flowers. I still want to break into my house that day."
I haven’t settled the accounts with you yet. Let’s settle the general ledger together today.”
Zhu Lezi collapsed to the ground and murmured: "These three are all dead ends, what choice do I have?"
Only then did Su Jin realize that he did not have enough chips, which caused his hesitation. He quickly added more emphasis and said: "Do you understand what it means to make meritorious service for a crime? As long as you cooperate with me, the Third Secretary will protect the head of a little ruffian like you."
It’s so easy, since I’m giving you the second option, I can save your life, otherwise I won’t bother you.”
"Can you really save your life?" Zhu Lezi seemed to see a glimmer of light in front of him. He crawled over and hugged Su Jin's legs and said: "If I can save my life, I am willing to serve Mr. Su for the rest of my life. I will never have any second thoughts."
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Su Jin smiled slightly and thought to himself: If I let you live, how could I be worthy of so many souls who died in vain under your command, and how could I be worthy of the people who were oppressed by you.
"I'll give you ten breaths, you can choose it yourself. After ten breaths, don't even think about saying another word to me."
Su Jinban raised his fingers and counted down.
Zhu Lezi was unable to resist the urging countdown sound, and Su Jin only counted to five before he collapsed. Su Jin struck while the iron was hot, and through questions and answers, part of the behavior of Teng Wang Zhao Zongdan surfaced.
Zhao Zongdan is not only the general backend of the evil forces in this city, but he has also done some incredible things. He has nearly a thousand bandits in the mountains of Langtou Mountain, a hundred miles northeast of Yingtian Mansion.
The bandit's nest called Kuangfeng Village.
In Yu County and his own food court southwest of Yingtian Mansion, he maintained nearly 600 so-called royal guards.
There are also 200 personal guards in the royal palace in Yingtian City, and nearly 400 ruffians in the other four cities also rely on the rights granted by the prince to survive.
A rough calculation showed that Zhao Zongdan had more than 2,000 private soldiers. This was something Zhu Lezi knew. Zhu Lezi did not know how many there were.
Only then did Su Jin understand why King Teng was so crazy about amassing money. The royal palace had to allocate food, drink, weapons, horses, food, and supplies to so many private soldiers. To raise a private soldier, it was estimated that it would cost nearly two hundred and fifty-six dollars just for the money, weapons, and armor.
Ten guans per year, more than 2,000 people would cost nearly 700,000 to 900,000 guans. Su Jin calculated the income for the palace, and found that the annual income was approximately more than 2 million guans. Just to support the known number of private soldiers.
Items cost nearly 50%. According to this ratio, Prince Teng's Mansion would have maintained at least nearly 2,000 private soldiers.
Su Jin no longer wanted to think about it. A prince raised four to five thousand soldiers, disguised as bandits, gangsters, guards, etc. What was he going to do?
Since Taizu released his military power after drinking wine, the governors of various states in the Song Dynasty, the generals who originally led the troops, princes, etc. all surrendered their military power. As everyone knows, this was a measure for Taizu to concentrate military power. At the same time,
It is also to prevent someone from recruiting troops to be too heavy-handed. Since Taizu, this measure has become the ancestral motto and the court practice. According to the regulations of the court, a person at the level of King Teng can only have a guard of two hundred people at most, plus the guards.
The number of people in the courtyard and the armed forces in the palace will never be allowed to exceed five hundred.
It is obviously intriguing that Prince Teng raised so many soldiers at once and spread them out under various names.
Zhu Lezi also confessed that all the officials, big and small, in Yingtian Mansion were colluding with King Teng. From Tang Jie down, almost all county magistrates and heads of departments were frequent visitors to the palace. Zhao Zongdan was not stingy and shared the benefits with everyone.
, every year before the New Year, officials according to their rank and density must go to the palace to receive a share of the money. Zhao Zongdan used this method to pull all the officials on board.
Moreover, Yingtianfu Yin Tangjie was originally just a small sixth-grade inspector in Taichung, the imperial censor in the middle of the capital. Through the secret efforts of King Teng, Prime Minister Lu Yijian vigorously promoted him and became the Yingtianfu Fuyin who guards the land of Mulongqian.
, and because of this, Tang Jie naturally colluded with Teng Wanghang.
Some petty officials were quite upright and had their own principles and were unwilling to join them. Most of these officials were eventually transferred or demoted because of trouble. There was no real reason to defend themselves.
The only exception was Li Gang, the general deployed by the German army stationed here. He refused many attempts by the prince to win over him. Because of this, he became an effective force to intimidate Prince Teng, Tang Jie and others. Zhu Lezi and others
Everyone was told that if the German army patrolled any place, all actions must be stopped and no rash actions were allowed to avoid being caught by this ignorant guy.
Su Jin's scalp was numb when he heard that. At this moment, he had no time to think about these things. He just ordered to write down everything one by one. When all the records were completed, the fifth watch had already struck.
se is about to start to shine.
Su Jin quickly asked Yan Biyun, who had not slept all night, to help him find a way to send Zhu Lezi and the two signed confessions out of the city and to the capital. The method was very simple. Zhu Lezi dressed up as He Fenglou's companion, and as the
Just go out of the city with Fenglou's two real companions.
Huang Ergou and Qian Gou were left alone. Su Jin ordered someone to tie them up, gagged them, and put them into the carriage. He also made a list and gave it to Xiao Xian'er to help purchase.
Yan Biyun saw that there were incense tables, white candles, white cloths, incense bundles, blank memorial tablets and other items on the list, and suddenly felt confused. When he asked Su Jin, Su Jin didn't answer, but just urged to deal with it anxiously. Fortunately, these things are not difficult.
The things I was looking for were all quickly purchased. After all the things were loaded into the car, it was already halfway through the fifth watch, and the sky was gradually getting brighter.
Su Jin had finished washing up, straightened her clothes and went downstairs. She looked up at the sky. There were still some thin clouds in the sky last night, but now it was completely covered with black clouds. The air was also stuffy and suffocating. It should have been an autumn morning.
It's cool and pleasant, but for some reason at this moment, it's so boring that it looks like it's going to rain heavily.
Su Jin wondered in his mind, could this be a bad omen? He soon rejected his idealistic idea. For some reason, he became more and more like an ancient person, and even his ideas began to become superstitious.
Su Jin stepped out of the small gate of the back garden and boarded the car. Yan Biyun and others followed behind him, their faces as white as paper. Su Jin waved his hand and said: "You go back, the four of them from the Dynasty, Ma Han, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu
Just come with me."
When the girls were willing to leave, Xiao Sui'er had already burst into tears. Su Jin sighed, looked around at everyone, lowered his head and got into the car, shouting: "Let's go."
"Master, where are we going?"
“Yingtianfu Yamen Square.”
"...Master!"
"What's so wordy? Yingtianfu Yamen Square." Su Jin said quietly, with an unprecedented coldness and majesty in his words.
Xiaozhu stopped thinking about it, swung the whip and slapped Xiaoqing on the buttocks. The car suddenly started and drove straight out of the alley, followed closely by the car containing Wu Shi, Qian Gou Sheng, Huang Er Gou and others.
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Yan Biyun's eyes were filled with tears, and the big tears couldn't stop flowing down, but she heard Xiao Xian'er whisper in her ear: "Miss, Mr. Su said he was going to the Yamen Gate, isn't he throwing himself into a trap?"
The girls stopped crying and looked at Yan Biyun, trying to get her to make an idea.
Yan Biyun gritted her silver teeth, wiped her tears and said, "Let's go back, wash up and dress up, and go to the yamen gate to look for him. Today... today we are going to die... and we are going to die together."