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Chapter 1119: Secret investigation

Sun Luo did not recognize Tong Xin, the right-hand commander of the Archguard Division, and Tong Xin naturally did not care about Sun Luo, the prisoner in the prison. He only asked the jailer guarding the prison where Xi Jiang, the former left servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was imprisoned.

Seeing Tong Xin's arrogant look, all the jailers in the prison looked at each other, and some asked cautiously: "My lord, who are you?"

Tong Xin glared at the jailer, then took out a token from his arms and hung it in front of all the jailers. The words "Commander of the Guards Tong Xin" were clearly engraved on the token.

Some people may wonder, isn't Tong Xin the right commander of the Imperial Guards Division? Why does he hold the token of the Imperial Guards?

Quite simply, because the Gongwei Division was a newly established supervisory emissary agency of Emperor Wei, its existence was deliberately concealed by Emperor Wei and the eunuchs. Only a small number of people knew about, or vaguely heard of, the existence of the Gongwei Division.

In addition, in addition to the tokens of the Imperial Guards, the Imperial Guards also have the tokens of the military guards, Langwei and the Imperial Guards. In fact, as long as the Imperial Guards need it, the Internal Construction Bureau under the Imperial Guards will also allocate various tokens to the Imperial Guards.

A token used to prove identity to ensure that the guards of the Guards Department can move freely in any place.

"It turns out to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard."

After seeing Tong Xin's token, the jailers became more respectful.

Despite the fact that in the eyes of some insiders, the status of imperial guards in the eyes of Emperor Wei was not what it used to be. However, in the eyes of people who didn't know the truth, using the status of imperial guards to bluff people was still a tried and true method.

"Stop talking nonsense! Take this commander to see Xi Jiang!" Tong Xin shouted in a deep voice.

"Yes, yes." The jailers quickly agreed and led Tong Xin and the few guards behind him to the deep prison.

"Prætorian Guards?"

Looking at the direction in which Tong Xin and others were leaving, Sun Luo touched his chin, thoughtfully.

Just when Sun Luo was doubting the origins of Tong Xin and others, Tong Xin and his party, led by those jailers, arrived at the cells deep in the Dali Temple Prison. In one of the cells deep in the prison, Tong Xin and others had been dismissed

Xi Jiang, the former left servant of the Ministry of Civil Service, who was in custody, was sitting behind a table in the cell, closing his eyes and concentrating, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Suddenly, a sound of footsteps caught Xi Jiang's attention. He raised his head and saw several jailers opening the cell door. Immediately, a man (Tong Xin) dressed as a guard stepped in.

"What happened again?"

Xi Jiang sighed secretly, with a hint of bitterness and helplessness flashing in his eyes.

"Are you Xi Jiang, the former left servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs?" Tong Xin asked in a deep voice after looking Xi Jiang up and down.

Xi Jiang glanced at Tong Xin with confused eyes, nodded, and said carefully: "He is the sinner. I wonder who this gentleman is?"

Before he finished speaking, Tong Xin waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Take him to the torture room and I want to question him personally!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the guards behind Tong Xin came forward and lifted Xi Jiang up without any explanation.

Seeing the other party's posture, Xi Jiang couldn't help but panic. While struggling, he shouted: "Who are you? You have no right to abuse lynching!"

But in the end, Xi Jiang was led by Tong Xin and his party to the torture room at the end of the prison, where criminals were tortured to extract confessions.

At this time, Tong Xin dismissed the jailers and ordered them not to come near. Then he ordered a guard to watch outside and said: "Tong Hu, watch here, no one is allowed to come near!"

"Brother, don't worry." The guard patted his chest and said confidently.

Tong Xin then stepped into the torture room and closed the door.

At this time, Xi Jiang, the former Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who had been put into the room by two imperial guards, looked at Tong Xin with both anger and fear, and whispered: "You...could it be that

Was it sent by King Yong?"

However, to his surprise, Tong Xin chuckled, took out a stack of paper from his arms, and patted Xi Jiang's chest.

Immediately, he waved his hand and signaled the two imperial guards to let Xi Jiang go.

Xi Jiang glanced at Tong Xin in surprise, took the stack of paper with both hands, frowned and lowered his head to read through it. Unexpectedly, the more he read, the more frightened he became. He was so shocked that even a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

It turned out that the stack of paper actually contained Xi Jiang's resume so far, including how many people there were in his family, their names, how old they were this year, and even his birth date was clearly written on it.

Jiang's ancestors were dug out.

Seeing this, Xi Jiang's eyes flashed with deep vigilance, and he asked angrily and angrily: "Who are you?"

Looking at Xi Jiang's vigilant eyes, Tong Xin was unusually calm and said calmly: "Master Xi, you don't have to guess Tong's identity. If Tong asks you anything, you just need to answer truthfully, and everything will be fine."

However, Xi Jiang still looked at Tong Xin with vigilant eyes and said coldly: "I have nothing to say!"

Seeing this, Tong Xin frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he took out another red token from his arms and hung it in front of Xi Jiang.

"Tong Xin, the right commander of the Royal Guards of Chui Gong Palace?...Huh? Could it be the "Gong Guards"?"

A look of surprise flashed in Xi Jiang's eyes. As the former Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he had certainly heard of the existence of this superordinate Supervisory Department in the palace. However, the Emperor of Wei and the Internal Supervisor had always denied the existence of the Gongwei Department.

Therefore, people like Xi Jiang who only hear rumors dare not talk about it freely.

"It turned out to be His Majesty's people..."

After a false alarm, Xi Jiang smiled bitterly and shook his head. Facing Tong Xin, he asked half-jokingly: "Does the Commander want to conduct an unannounced visit? Forget it, Commander, please tell me everything the criminal knows."

Tong Xin nodded, and then asked seriously: "Master Xi, how much do you know about your friend?"

"Ah?" Xi Jiang couldn't help being stunned, because he didn't expect Tong Xin to ask him such a question.

After thinking about it, he said truthfully: "Xu Ji and I are both from Zaozhuang, Xiangyi County, and we are neighbors. My family was poor at the time, and he once generously helped..." As he said that, he raised his head and looked at Tong.

Xin, with a confused expression that seemed to be asking: Why are you asking this?

Tong Xin was silent for a moment, and then said seriously: "I suspect that there may still be a mystery to Xu Ji's visit to Master Xi to ask Master Xi to seek an official position for his son... In short, I need your cooperation, Master Xi."

Xi Jiang thought for a while and asked, "How to cooperate?"

Tong Xin thought for a moment and said in a low voice: "Xu Ji and his son are also in prison here. I will interrogate Xu Ji later and ask Xi Jiang to cooperate with me in defrauding him. I think this matter... is a bit strange."

"..."

Xi Jiang glanced at Tong Xin and was doubtful. After all, he didn't think Xu Ji had any other impure motives for asking him to help.

However, since Tong Xin had reached this point, Xi Jiang had no choice but to agree. After all, if Tong Xin really belonged to Emperor Wei, then his full cooperation with Xi Jiang might save him from prison.

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Seeing Xi Jiang nodding in agreement, Tong Xin ordered the two guards: "You two go and bring Xu Ji for interrogation."

"Yes!" The two guards clasped their fists and accepted the order. After a short time, they carried a man who was estimated to be about forty years old back to the torture room.

At this time, Tong Xin had locked Xi Jiang on a wooden frame specially designed for torture.

"Are you Xu Ji?" Tong Xin asked with a sullen face.

Obviously, Xu Ji had seen far less of the world than Xi Jiang. Tong Xin threatened him with a gloomy face, and was so frightened that his legs became weak and his face turned pale.

When he saw Xi Jiang who was chained to the torture rack, his face became even more ugly, sweat broke out on his forehead, and he muttered to himself "How could this happen?", "Why did this happen?" and so on.

sentences.

Glancing at Xu Ji, Xi Jiang sighed and said bitterly: "Xu Ji, I was really killed by you..."

Hearing this, Xu Ji turned his head and looked at Xi Jiang, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Because in Xu Ji's view, his close friend Xi Jiang was the left minister of the Ministry of Justice. How big a deal would it be for him to take care of his son a little? Why did it get to this point? You know, as far as Xu Ji knows, in the past, officials

There are so many cases of personal recommendation of officials within the department. Why are those people fine, but when it comes to him and Xi Jiang, bad things happen?

At this time, Tong Xin had lit a brazier and turned over a soldering iron, while the other two guards took out two thick whips from the shelf where the torture instruments were placed. Xu Ji was frightened by this scene.

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"You, who are you? Abuse and abuse of lynching, do you still have royal laws?!" He scolded sternly and inwardly.

"Huh!" Tong Xin snorted coldly and cursed: "You still have to be tough when you are about to die! Let me tell you, you are in big trouble this time!"

"I just asked my close friend for many years to do a small favor, but...is this going to cause big trouble?"

Xu Ji didn't know what was going on.

At this time, Xi Jiang sighed and said: "Xu Ji, what they are looking for is not me, nor you, but the person who reminded you to come to me for help."

"..." Xu Ji opened his mouth and was stunned.

Seeing this, Xi Jiang's eyes flashed with surprise: Is there really someone behind this?

He immediately gave Tong Xin a wink.

Tong Xin understood and said with a sneer: "Those are a group of rebels who are trying to overthrow the Wei Dynasty. If you collude with them, it will be a heinous crime! ... It doesn't matter if you don't recruit them, I have plenty of ways to make you talk."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two guards came up with thick whips. At this moment, they saw Xu Ji exclaiming: "I move, I move, it's Wang Hu, it's Wang Hu."

"That's it?"

Tong Xing looked at Xu Ji with distrustful eyes.

At this time, Xi Jiang asked Xu Ji in disbelief: "Wang Hu? The county captain of Xiangyi County? Xu Ji, what on earth is going on?!"

Turning to look at Xi Jiang's miserable state, Xu Ji sighed bitterly and said, "Brother Xi, I can't help you... Wang Hu opened several gambling houses in the county in the past few years. I passed by once

, I went to have fun, and I won dozens of taels of silver..."

Xi Jiang shook his head. He knew that Xu Ji had a small family fortune, and the gambling houses had always taken a long-term view to catch big fish with such wealthy patrons - I'll give you a taste of the sweetness first. If you end up losing money because of greed,

If you fall into it, you will end up being ripped off by gambling houses and bankrupt.

Sure enough, while Xi Jiang shook his head and sighed, Xu Ji said bitterly: "In the first few times, I could sometimes win a dozen taels, but then, I lost nine times out of ten. When I came back to my senses, I had already won.

I owe Wang Hu more than ten thousand taels of silver..."

"More than ten thousand taels of silver?" Xi Jiang was stunned for a moment, with a slightly angry expression on his face. After all, more than ten thousand taels of silver was not a small amount.

"I owe more than ten thousand taels of silver. I sold my land and house, but it's not enough... Later Wang Hu told me, he said, "Don't you have a close friend who is a high-ranking official in Daliang? Your son has been studying for many years.

He is smart and smart, so why not let him take the examination?" He also said that if my son becomes an official, he will forgive me the money I owe, and he also said that his youngest daughter will marry my son...

"Xu Ji said with shame.

Hearing this, Xi Jiang remained silent.


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