"Thank you so much, Mr. Xue, for what happened today." As soon as Ji Gang left, the black clouds over the city and the imperial guards suddenly dispersed, and Wang Xian thanked Mr. Xue Fuyin.
“Haha.”
An ordinary answer stirred up a wave of excitement in Wang Xian's heart. Last night, Zhu Liuye cooperated with him obediently because of the emperor's decree. Now Xue Zhengyan is doing the same thing. In addition, the cabinet used extraordinary methods to deliver the imperial decree in time.
, Wang Xian understood five words at once - the emperor's will!
In the Ming Dynasty, in the Jinling Imperial Capital, and above the heads of hundreds of millions of people, there is a sky, a golden sun, a power that makes all living beings bow down, that is the will of the emperor!
This will is supreme and cannot be challenged. Anyone who dares to test the law will be crushed to pieces!
And this time, it was a small warning from the emperor, and of course it was not directed at him. The repairs to him had ended after the palace meeting. Now he was only used as a prop by the emperor to warn those restless guys.
, Although there are many mountains in this Ming Dynasty, never forget the sky above!
Otherwise, Wang Xian would not have received the full help from Xue Zhengyan, Zhu Liuye, Yang Shiqi and others this time, and the case would not have been handled so smoothly.
For him, successfully solving the case was of course a dream, but he was also completely pushed into a situation where he was in tit-for-tat with Ji Gang, and there was no way to slow down. Although the two sides were originally opposed, there was no face-to-face conflict, just like the prince and the king of Han.
They are fiercely strangled underneath, but they are still close brothers on the surface. But I believe that after tonight, there will be rumors in and outside the capital that Governor Ji was contradicted by his subordinates in front of his face, and the tiger's mouth took food from him. If Ji Gang didn't show his methods, he would take revenge on himself.
Not only will he lose face, but people will also speculate that this arrogant leader of the Jinyiwei is about to lose his power?
Therefore, after being pushed by the emperor, Wang Xian had to go to the Colosseum to fight to the death with Ji Gang. Although Wang Xian had already realized this and would face Ji Gang sooner or later, it was definitely not now!
But the world is like a chessboard. He is just a chess piece in the hands of the emperor. If the emperor wants him to advance, he will advance. If he wants him to kill, he will kill. Even if he wants to abandon him, he can only backhand him. How can he consider the feelings of the chess piece?
"Damn it, I'm not ready yet!" Wang Xian sighed depressedly when he left the Yingtian Mansion Office with the prisoners, "I often hear people talk about flattering and killing, but now I finally understand what it means to flatter and kill."
After recovering from his helplessness towards the emperor, Wang Xian shook his head, driving away the feeling of powerlessness that enveloped his body, and wanted to deal with the current situation first.
Since Wang Xian had not yet officially taken charge of the Zhenfu Division, Wang Xian naturally would not send the two to prison. Instead, he asked someone to open a reading room in a street hotel as a temporary torture place.
This move made the hotel owner very surprised, and he murmured that he didn't dare.
"Wu that store owner, we can't cut off your store money, why don't you dare to rent a house to us?" Shuai Hui said angrily.
"The official has misunderstood." The shop owner quickly wiped his sweat and said shivering, "I don't dare to take the money from the official. If the official wants to use the place, just use it."
"Oh, that's it." Shuai Hui scratched his head, obviously not yet adapted to the change of status. Grandma, it turns out that we are already the governor of the town who don't have to pay for eating in restaurants!
When he was about to take back the money bag, Erhei behind him gave him a shudder, and cursed in a low voice: "Can you show me some face?"
Shuai Hui rubbed the bag on his head and muttered: "I'm also trying to save money for you, right?" He still paid the shop fee, and the shop owner led everyone to the most secluded courtyard and ran away as if running away.
, the guards were guarding everything, Wang Xian was sitting in the main room, interrogating the first prisoner. Although the case was being questioned in the hotel, it was an imperial case, and the details were not sloppy at all. Wang Xian was questioning the case in the main hall,
〖Book〗The clerk was asking for records. This was the rule of the Ming Dynasty when asking questions. It was said that it could facilitate the extortion of confessions. The prisoners were interrogated separately to avoid collusion in confessions. After a while, the prisoners who were tied up in five huahuas were brought up.
He was a rather handsome young man. The guards asked him to kneel down, and he knelt down obediently.
Wang Xian looked at the young man expressionlessly. In addition to the fear and pleading common among prisoners, there was also deep guilt in his eyes.
Wang Xian originally hated this arsonist who killed thousands of people, especially his wife, who almost killed himself. His original plan was to catch this man and make him unable to live or die. However, after seeing this
Behind his eyes, he lost his anger and just looked at the young man quietly. He asked: "Name the suspect."
"My name is Jin Yingze." Since the young man surrendered, he naturally had the idea of being a good man and doing things well and would never implicate others, so he would not hide it.
"Are you the Hanlin inspector from Korea?" Wang Xian asked.
"Exactly." When he mentioned his status in the country, a trace of pain appeared on the young man's face.
Wang Xian keenly grasped this point and asked in a deep voice: "Since you are a Hanlin scholar, you have naturally read the books of sages. How could you do such a crazy thing?" He is well versed in people's hearts and knows to interrogate the accomplices first, and then defeat the principal culprit, so
The first person to be tried was Kim Yong-taek. And starting from Kim Ying-taek's status as a scholar, it is no wonder that he did not defend himself. In fact, Kim Ying-taek and Kim Ying-taek were worried that their compatriots would be implicated after learning that Jin Yiwei was going to arrest and execute all Koreans in Beijing.
Will run out and surrender. The person surrendering is not the hated Jin Yiwei, but Ying Tianfu, which means they still have something to say.
Sure enough, Jin Yingze lowered his head and said: "At that time, I did not expect that it would have such negative consequences."
"How?" Wang Xian asked.
"My cousin said that the emperor would watch the lanterns at Wufeng Tower that day, which would be the best opportunity to complain." Jin Yingze said sadly: "So he wanted to use cigarettes to write a big word of injustice in the sky, so I helped him.
Built that mountain of lanterns.”
"Writing with cigarettes" Wang Xian was stunned. He knew that there would be such a difficult thing in later generations, and he could do it now.
"I heard that the cigarettes made by famous craftsmen in the capital can write simple characters, such as "一", "曰", "二", "人" and so on." Wu Wei, who was well-informed, said softly: "But it can be written
You can't use a word as complex as "injustice" unless North Korea's craftsmen are more skilled."
Jin Yingze changed his mind when he heard this and said: "It turns out that the Ming Dynasty did not have this kind of ability. I didn't believe it at first. My cousin said that this could be done in the Ming Dynasty, so I believed it."
"So, he deliberately lied to you from the beginning," Wang Xian said quietly.
"" Jin Yingze stopped talking. This was a huge blow to him. Before, he thought it was the fireworks that failed to set off, which caused the fire, and he even comforted his cousin. Now it seems that it was his cousin who was crazy and concealing the fire.
Thinking of himself, he wanted to take revenge against the Ming Dynasty. Thinking that his family in North Korea would suffer because of this, Kim Yingze's eyes finally showed fear and resentment.
"I'm worried about whether your family will be implicated in this." Wang Xian's words speak directly to people's hearts.
Jin Yingze didn't say anything, but he acquiesced. "If you want them not to be implicated, you must first reduce your own crime." Wang Xianxun said kindly: "Listening to your description now, you should have been kept in the dark. This way
This can greatly reduce the charge. In addition, if you take the initiative to confess, I think it will be of great benefit to the situation of your family in North Korea."
"I said, I will say everything." Kim Yingze did not resist, only confessed.
"That companion of yours must be your cousin" Wang Xian asked.
Yingze nodded and said: "His name is Lu Chengjian, and he is my aunt's son."
"What is the relationship between Lu Chengjian and Lu Jieyu?" Wang Xian asked.
"He is Lu Jieyu's biological brother." Jin Yingze took the initiative to admit it without asking: "When the case of Lu Jieyu poisoning Concubine Quan was revealed, the emperor sent an envoy to North Korea to spread the message that the Lu family no longer had to live in North Korea. The implication was,
The king asked the king to kill the Lu family. My uncle was seriously ill at the time and died immediately after hearing the news. My aunt was also captured and killed by the king. My cousin escaped to my family's manor in the countryside and escaped.
Tribulation.”
"How did he get into the mission?"
"My cousin heard that I had joined the mission and was coming to the Ming Dynasty to congratulate him." Jin Yingze said bitterly: "He came to me and begged me to bring him to the capital. He wanted to find evidence and vindicate my aunt's family.
.My cousin and I have been very close since childhood. Seeing the miserable situation of others, we can't help but feel sympathy. In addition, because of my aunt's family involvement, my family's status has been declining, so I temporarily agreed to let him pretend to be a ghost.
Be my servant and come to the capital together."
"What happened next?" Wang Xian asked softly.
"After arriving in the capital, I went around with him to investigate, mainly asking the North Koreans in Beijing about the situation of the case at that time." Kim Yingze sighed: "But they have no way of knowing the secrets of the palace. They just asked suddenly and heard about it.
Lu Jieyu, who was extremely favored, was immediately deposed and executed. As for the reason, the Koreans in the palace kept it secret and couldn't ask any questions at all."
"So, I've been clueless for a while now," Wang Xian asked.
"Yes and no," Jin Yingze said depressedly: "Later, after many twists and turns, I found a nun in the palace. With a lot of money, I found out the truth. But both of us found this unbelievable. The emperor went on that expedition with only
Concubine Quan was alone. Lu Jieyu was in the capital at the time. How could it be possible to poison and kill Concubine Quan? To say the least, even if it was Concubine Quan that Lu Jieyu poisoned, she and those who knew about it should have died in their hearts. How could it be possible?
He talks nonsense everywhere and even tells Concubine Quan's maid that she is tired of living."
"It makes sense." Wang Xian nodded.
"We also feel that there is something fishy in this. It is impossible for Lu Jieyu's palace maid to say "being poisoned like Concubine Quan". It is probably someone who deliberately distorted and framed her." Jin Yingze sighed: "We wanted to find out at the time
Concubine Quan's maid asked for details, but she didn't know that she had gone crazy after seeing Lu Jieyu being tortured. Only Lu Meiren, who was the informer at the time, was left, but she could not leave the palace, and no one could see her.