Chapter 1518 The traitor turned out to be his own family
"Someone must have rebelled and joined the government! When I find this person, I will cut him into pieces!" Peng Ju explained to the two of them and said through gritted teeth.
"Not only himself, but also his whole family will be killed!" Brother Zhang also said bitterly. Brother Liu also expressed his resentment.
They said this for a few words, and Brother Liu asked again: "Brother, where are you going now?" The entire Putai County, and even the entire Binzhou, may no longer be safe. Where will they stay now? In other words, where is it still safe?
"Go to Jinan!" Peng Ju said. The general altar in Binzhou has probably been confessed, and he must not return to Binzhou. As for other places, he even had a vague suspicion that the entire Shandong was not safe. In this case, he decided to go to Jinan.
Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province. Although Jinyiwei has the most fans, it also has the largest number of people and the most frequent population movements. Of course, it is easy to be discovered if they put the main altar in Jinan, but there are only three of them, and they only stay for a while, so they will not be discovered.
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The three of them discussed how to get to Jinan for a while and decided on the route. However, they were very tired from running from Xiguan Village. They really didn't have the strength to walk tonight, so they found a relatively clean place in the woods to rest. Zhang
Brother Liu and Brother Liu took turns keeping watch.
Peng Ju was very tired today, but he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning. He thought about the general altar who might have been confessed, thought about his wife, children, and children who might have been arrested, and thought about his brothers who might have been tortured, and a strong feeling suddenly surged in his heart.
Feeling resentful, I secretly thought in my heart: 'As long as I survive this time and find out who the traitor is, I will definitely not let him go!"
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"Lord Luo Qianhu, the patriarch of the Tang family in Putai County, the talkers in each room, and their family members have all been arrested, a total of twenty-seven people." At this time, in front of the Binzhou Jinyiwei Yamen, in the morning
Baihu, who led his troops to arrest people from the Tang family, stood in front of a young man wearing the official uniform of a fifth-grade military attache and reported the report very respectfully.
"Okay. But Meng Baihu, I am only deputy to Qianhu, not Qianhu." The man said this first, and then asked: "Did I hurt the Tang family?"
"Luo Qian, Deputy Qianhu, Xiaguan wounded several people with spears, but no one was killed. But Xiaguan had no choice but to do this. There were more people in the Tang family than the Jinyi guards led by Xiaguan, and Shandong was very martial.
, if they cannot be suppressed from the beginning, it will not be easy to take away the head of the Tang family and others, and many people may have to be killed." Meng Baihu argued.
"I understand." Deputy Luo Qianhu said, "But are any of these captured people injured?"
"They are all minor injuries. They were caused by being caught so hard when I arrested them."
"That's good." Deputy Luo Qianhu exhaled and asked, "Have they admitted that they are White Lotus cultists?"
"No. I asked several times, but neither the clan leader Tang Shipeng nor anyone else recognized them as White Lotus followers."
"That's it. It seems that we have to let that person persuade him personally." Deputy Luo Qianhu muttered, and called someone to tell him: "Take Meng Baihu and imprison the people he brought with him into No. 3 to No. 6 A
A cell.”
"Yes, Mr. Deputy Qianhu." The man agreed and took Meng Baihu to the prison. Deputy Qianhu Luo waited in front of the door for a while, until the last team that was supposed to return tonight returned and said to the man next to him
Baihu gave a few instructions, turned around and walked into the yamen.
Not long after, he walked outside the public house that was originally home to hundreds of local households. After being informed, he walked in. Facing the man in the house who was only wearing Chinese clothes, he bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Luo Ming, has seen the deputy commander."
This Deputy Qianhu was the Baihu who arrested He Miao and Tang Saier's mother and daughter in the capital more than ten days ago. Qin Song heard about his performance in arresting He Miao and Tang Sai'er, and felt that he was a good person.
Because of his talent, he was promoted to Deputy Qianhu and sent to Shandong to participate in the mission of wiping out the White Lotus cultists.
"Ronald Luo, you don't have to be so polite." The deputy commander responded with a smile, not dissatisfied at all with Luo Ming calling him deputy commander. The Jinyi Guards are different from ordinary guards. There is a huge difference between the commander and deputy commander. Qin
Song had been a commander for fourteen years and had a lot of authority. If Luo Ming dared to call him a commander, he would yell at him loudly.
"Thank you, Deputy Commander." Luo Ming bowed again and straightened up.
"Your Majesty, the deputy commander, has been dispatched to Putai since Banwan. Thirty-seven troops from Lijin County have all returned, and a total of one hall master, twelve incense masters, and thirty-six families have been captured.
The clan leader and the speaker." He reported again.
"But has Li Er been caught?" the deputy commander asked, and after receiving a positive reply, he smiled and said, "Okay! There are a total of thirteen hall masters in the Shandong Temple of the White Lotus Sect, seven of which are in Shandong. They have been arrested today.
We arrived at Xu Dehu, the hall master in Binzhou, and captured Li Er again. Good, good. It would be great if other local hall masters could also be captured."
"However, have you found traces of Peng Ju?" After being happy, 1 asked again. It would be good to catch a few hall leaders, but the most important thing is the altar leader Peng Ju. Because the imperial court is increasingly cracking down on the White Lotus Sect.
The stricter the rule, the White Lotus Sect in various places had fewer and fewer contacts for fear of being discovered, which made the influence of the leader weaker and weaker in various places. Especially with the death of the leader during the Shaanxi rebellion in the 30th year of Hongwu, the altars in various places
The leaders competed with each other for the position of leader, leaving this position vacant. The authority of the central church became weaker and weaker. The altar leaders from various places actually became the most decisive figures in their own territories. Among the six altars, the Shandong altar was the strongest.
, the one with the most believers and the most wealth, and therefore the most attention from the court. So this 1 really wanted to catch Peng Ju.
"No." Luo Ming said: "For ordinary believers, they have not yet been interrogated because they want to be sent to Binzhou as soon as possible; but for the captured hall leader Li Er and various incense owners, they were tortured to see if they knew Peng Ju's whereabouts. But
Everyone said they didn’t know, and they didn’t know whether they really didn’t know or were pretending not to be a Taoist. They also tortured the hall master and the followers of the incense master, but these people didn’t know either.”
"Pass an order to interrogate the captured clan heads and speakers tonight, and ask them if they know where Peng Ju is!" 1 said. But although he gave this order, he did not have high expectations. These Lianxiang masters
If they are not White Lotus cultists, how can Peng Ju disclose his whereabouts to them?
"Luo Ming, do you think it's possible that Peng Ju had already learned in advance that the imperial court was going to suppress the White Lotus Sect, so he escaped in advance?" He asked again.
"1 Your Excellency, you suspect that some of the righteous people are just pretending to be righteous?" Luo Ming said, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Sir, I don't think so. Here in Shandong Temple, the only righteous people are Tang Jingyu and Mo Li.
The two of them knew the plan to wipe out the White Lotus Sect, but if they were still loyal to the White Lotus Sect sincerely, why did they kill Xiang Yuanhong in Suzhou anyway? Wouldn't it have been better to take the opportunity to murder His Highness Prince An? Now they are passing on the news to Peng Ju,
What's the benefit to them? Moreover, the two of them have been closely monitored, and they have no chance to pass on the news."
"Besides, if Peng Ju got the news in advance, why didn't he tell other White Lotus believers and just escaped by himself? Therefore, the official thought that Peng Ju was not in Binzhou by coincidence, rather than getting the news."
"Perhaps he got the news after leaving Binzhou, and when he got the news, there was only a very short time before the plan was launched, and there was no time to tell others." 1 put forward his conjecture again. He then said: "Of course, I am not doubting Tang Jingyu.
I have been responsible for monitoring him for more than eight years since he has been in the capital. I know that he loves his daughter very much, so much that he doesn't care whether he has a son.
," 1 paused and did not continue to talk about Mo Li, but added: "Besides, because of the urgent time, there is no time to transfer too many imperial guards from the south to the north. Most of the captains and guardsmen are from Shandong, but not from Binzhou.
.Perhaps some of them have become White Lotus followers and are secretly passing on the news, and Peng Jutou happens to be the first to know about it."
Luo Ming did not speak. Although what 1 said is not completely impossible, the chance is too small. Even if the local Jinyi Guards and Guards Station have been infiltrated by the White Lotus Cultists, they have no time to deliver the message and are easily discovered; even if the message
If it is passed on, the chance of being the first to be known by Peng Ju is even lower, even lower than the chance that the White Lotus Sect will rebel and overthrow the Ming Dynasty.
1 I also knew that the possibility mentioned was too small, so I did not continue, but just ordered: "Go down and urge the two hall masters and more than a dozen incense masters to be tortured! You must pry open their mouths! I
The officer allows you to use any means! Even if you are beaten to death, I will be responsible for it!"
"Yes, Sir." Luo Ming agreed. Seeing that he had no other words to say, he thought for a moment and said, "Sir, just now, Sir, I ordered that the captured clan leaders of each family should also be tortured."
"I did give this order just now."
"Sir, then the heads of the Tang family and the Mo family will also be tortured?"
"Tang family and Mo family?" 1 pondered for a while and said: "Since someone from the Mo family is the owner of the incense, there is no need to torture the clan leader, just the owner of the incense. As for the Tang family, don't torture yet. I will send someone right away.
It is said that Tang Jingyu came to Binzhou and it was up to him to persuade his clan leader."
"In addition, for the captured Tang family members, the captain is ordered not to insult or beat them privately; for the head of the Tang family and those who talk about Tang Jingyu's room, give them more food, so that they will not have the energy to speak when Tang Jingyu comes over tomorrow.
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"Yes, Sir." Luo Ming agreed, turned around and left.
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"Grandpa, it's time to eat." An eight or nine-year-old child held a rice bowl in his hand and approached Tang Shipeng and said.
"Okay." Tang Shipeng smiled and took the rice bowl from his grandson, praised his grandson again, and started eating. As soon as he moved his chopsticks, other Tang clan members in the cell also began to use their chopsticks to eat. There was not much food in the prison.
, and there was no oily smell at all. Everyone was very hungry and wolfed down the food without caring about anything else.
But one person glanced at the rice in his bowl, and then at the others. While eating, he moved to Tang Shipeng's side and said softly: "Second uncle, something is weird."
"Is there something weird? Jing Yan, what's weird?" Tang Shipeng was already older, he didn't eat as much as young people, and he wasn't too hungry. He put down his chopsticks and asked after hearing his words.
Tang Jingyan said: "Second uncle, my nephew noticed something was wrong this morning. It seemed that the jailer gave our family more food than other people. In the morning, my nephew didn't look more at it, so he was not sure yet. At noon,
I stared at the jailer for a while while he was dividing the food. He really gave our family more food than he gave to other people."
"Furthermore, since last night, the patriarchs of various families have been taken away and tortured. Only you, my second uncle, were taken away, but you were only asked a few questions and were not tortured."
"What do you want to say?" Tang Shipeng asked.
"Second uncle, my nephew wants to say, is it possible that someone in our family secretly defected to the government?" Tang Jingyan said in a very low voice that only the two of them could hear clearly.
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