There is a place outside the north gate of Guangzhou City called Baihua Bridge. There is a place not far from the bridge. This place was originally the cemetery of a wealthy family. It is quite large. There are mounds on one side and a pond on the other side. At the foot of the hillside are the tombs facing the sun.
When this business was still prosperous, many paper flowers and paper money were worshiped here all day long. This is where the name of Baihua Bridge comes from.
Later, the family declined, and the cemetery was reduced to a charity village where coffins were parked. The houses collapsed and the weeds were barren, and it was no longer what it used to be. In addition, it was surrounded by charity graves and was close to the cremation site. On weekdays,
Except for a few beggars resting in Yizhuang, this place became a sparsely populated place. After Yunxi's "Edict forbidding Beggars to Live in the Village" was spread to Guangzhou, the place became even more deserted and inhabited.
At this time, in the small house where the coffin was parked, an old man with goose skin and gray hair was discussing countermeasures with a man wearing a hood whose face could not be seen clearly in a secret room.
The man said in a very panicked voice: "Master Wu De, the news just came that Ming Guard soldiers surrounded the Gao family's house half an hour ago, and Gao Jingde has been discovered."
"Gao Jingde is different from us. His whole family is in Guangzhou. After being arrested, in order to avoid suffering a little, or even just to keep a child alive and continue the Gao family's incense, he will give up everything, so you can't stay here any longer.
, must go somewhere else immediately.”
"Gao Jingde was discovered? How was he discovered?" Master Wu De was still calm after hearing his words. After being slightly surprised, he knew there was no time to delay. He immediately started to pack his belongings and asked.
"There are too many traces of what he did. Maybe the Ming Dynasty's Jin Yiwei in Guangzhou or other people who found out about it reported it to their emperor." The hooded man said.
"He won't be able to survive even if he summons the Ming Dynasty's laws. Why do you think he will confess immediately? Even if he cannot bear the punishment and confess, it is impossible for him to confess everything in such a short time." Master Wu De asked again.
road.
"Master Wu De, this is the first time you have come to the Ming Dynasty. You don't know the customs of the Ming Dynasty people. The people of the Ming Dynasty are different from us and have no beliefs. You see that they believe in Buddhism and Taoism, but they believe in these
For the benefit, they only believe in these gods and Buddhas when they think they can bless them. Once they find out that the gods and Buddhas cannot bless them, they will no longer believe in them."
"The most important thing to them is to continue their descendants. In the situation where their lives can no longer be saved, they are willing to do anything to continue their descendants. As long as the people who interrogate them in the Ming Dynasty agree to let one of his sons go, they will
I will admit anything."
"I thought they were just pagans, but I didn't expect that they didn't even believe in their own gods and Buddhas."
"But originally this wouldn't be an obstacle, as long as I could successfully curse the emperor of the Ming Dynasty." Wizard Wu De said a little discouraged: "My head-lowering technique was broken. In order to prevent traces of the spirit ghost from being discovered,
I don't dare to send it out again, and it won't work if I cast the spell again. There are also capable people in the Ming Dynasty! This Taoist priest named Zhang Sanfeng really has some ability to have such a big name. But this spell is not my best spell. If there is a chance,
I really want to compete with him using his best spells to see who is more powerful."
"Wizard Wud, stop talking about this, pack up and leave quickly," the hooded man said.
"It will be soon." Wizard Wud replied. But at this moment, his expression suddenly changed and he said with a sneer: "Someone who shouldn't be here is here, and we can't leave anymore."
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"Dang, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong," a bell sounded. The sound of the bell was very pleasant, and it still made people feel very pleasant in the open wilderness.
But the hearts of everyone who heard the bell sank to the bottom.
Song Liang was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately said loudly: "Surround this place immediately, and no one can escape!" He then shouted to the people not far away from him: "You guys, follow me and rush in!"
The people he pointed out secretly complained: Now they had to risk their lives. But they did not dare to disobey Song Liang's order, so they could only arrange their clothes again and follow Song Liang into the yard.
When Song Qingshu saw this, he said a few words to the people around him and led them into the courtyard from another direction.
The moment Gao Jingde shouted that he wanted to reveal the other culprits, Song Liang understood why he did so. Participating in the witchcraft case was a crime that could be punished by the whole family, almost akin to conspiracy, and his family was found on the spot and proved to be unequivocal.
In order to survive, even if it is just to have a minor child be pardoned, it would be fine. I will definitely let him confess whatever he wants.
It happened that Song Liang wanted Yunxi to see his talent, so he ordered the soldiers not to take Gao Jingde away for the time being, and chose a place in the Gao family's house to interrogate Gao Jingde in person.
But Song Qingshu advised: "Brother Jinming, Your Majesty only asked us to come to inspect the Gao family. He did not ask us to come to interrogate Gao Jingde, nor did he ask us to arrest other criminals. We should still hand over the criminals to the Guangzhou Police Chief.
I will go back to the General Office or the Guangdong Provincial Envoy and report back to His Majesty."
Of course Song Qingshu understood what Song Liang was thinking, but Yunxi didn't let them interrogate the Gao family after getting evidence of the Gao family's involvement in two major cases, let alone arrest other criminals. They still didn't want to overstep their authority.
Good.
But Song Liang insisted on interrogating Gao Jingde. How could he usually have such an opportunity to handle such a case? His Majesty does not leave the capital often, let alone assign him to do something. This may be his only job before he is thirty.
The opportunity must be grasped tightly. Song Qingshu cannot be stopped, so he can only let him go.
Gao Jingde explained: "Since more than ten years ago, the guilty people have been looking for 'big medicine' everywhere to prolong their lives... Five years ago, the guilty people went to Dongguan County to visit the head of the Zhao family there, and for some reason they were searching for the 'big medicine'"
When I was in the country, I met a Taoist priest named Jin Rong by chance. Because of his superb skills, I started to recruit him and brought him into my house to combine "big medicine" for sinners...
In August this year, the mage called Wu De came to my Gao family under the introduction of the Taoist priest named Jin Rong. At that time, the criminals were very happy, because judging from the few spells he showed at that time, his ability
Above Jin Rong, I think there is one more person who can give great medicine to the sinful people."
"But after he mixed the 'big medicine' several times for the criminals, he suddenly produced the evidence of these 'big medicines' and coerced the criminals to do things for them. If they didn't obey, he would send the evidence to the court.
The various yamen made it difficult for the criminals and the Gao family to die well. The criminals panicked at that time, and agreed to them in order not to be executed by Ling Chi."
"He was about to carry out a massacre in Guangzhou, and asked the criminals to summon local people from Guangdong to do this 'business' to come to Guangzhou. The criminals had no choice but to pay a high price for Ning Cai, whom they had met before, and asked them to He summoned a few people to come to Guangzhou to collect and cut crops."
"But Ning Cai didn't confess you, why?" Song Liang suddenly asked. Ning Cai's confession yesterday did not mention that the person who sent people to find him was Gao Jingde, but only mentioned the wizard Wu De.
"Sir, although the sinner once bought the 'big medicine' from him, he didn't know the identity of the sinner. He only knew that he was the one who bought the 'big medicine'. People like them don't care about buying medicine. Regardless of a person’s identity, as long as they can do business in a safe place, they won’t ask who bought it,” Gao Jingde said.
Song Liang nodded after hearing this and motioned for him to continue.
"Then news came that His Majesty was coming to Guangzhou, and the criminals immediately told the Ude wizard to stop harvesting and harvesting in Guangzhou City and go to other places. But he just sneered and insisted on harvesting and harvesting in Guangzhou City. The matter of cutting."
"At that time, the guilty people had already noticed that something was wrong: Although I don't know why, this wizard called Ude was probably going to be detrimental to His Majesty! But when the matter reached that time, the guilty people could no longer retreat; besides, the guilty people were still pregnant with The extravagant hope was that I would not be discovered, so I continued to do it.”
"A few days later, shortly after His Majesty arrived in Guangzhou City, another man who called himself Su Dongli found the guilty people and reportedly brought something to explain to Wizard Wu De. He seemed to be the mastermind behind this matter, Wu De The German wizard was very respectful when he saw him, and I don’t know what the two of them said. After that, the Ude wizard began to arrange formations to be detrimental to His Majesty. He and Su Dongli also went out from time to time to see various places in Guangzhou City. Look, I don’t know what I’m probing for.”
"After that, Ning Cai and others who were engaged in harvesting and mutilation were discovered and arrested. After this happened, Wizard Wude immediately arranged a formation faster to murder His Majesty."
"What happened next was that Your Majesty was cursed by him, but His Majesty had a good destiny and was rescued by Wudang Clan Zhang Zhenren. When the guilty people knew about this, they felt very uneasy and wanted to surrender for a time so that my Gao family would not be overrun with people. But just when the guilty people were hesitating, Master Song came to my Gao house with his soldiers and discovered these evidences."
Of course, Song Liang automatically filtered out the words Gao Jingde used to excuse himself, and listened while thinking. When he heard the name Su Dongli, he suddenly felt that it sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard this name. Putting this down, Gao Jingde asked after finishing his words: "Do you know where the wizard Wude, the man named Jin Rong, and the man named Su Dongli are now? Where did they come from? Why did they want to murder your majesty?"
"Lord Song, Wizard Ude and Jin Rong later claimed to be from the Kingdom of Majapahit, and their faces were similar to the people of the Ming Dynasty, so they would not be recognized as foreigners in the Ming Dynasty. The criminals did not know how old they were, but Wizard Ude With his chicken skin and white hair, he looks to be in his fifties; Jin Rong looks to be in his forties."
"The two of them claimed that they were very dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty because it had attacked Majapahit several years ago, so they wanted to murder His Majesty."
"Jin Rong had left the Ming Dynasty and returned to his country a few days ago, but the Wu De wizard was still in the Ming Dynasty and was placed outside the Dabei Gate in the north of the city by the sinners. The sinners bought a piece of land outside the Dabei Gate five years ago. As the cemetery of the Sinmin family, we also went to the site to investigate and found out that the place was very desolate, with tombs and graves everywhere, and even beggars wouldn't want to stay there, so the Sinners placed Wizard Wu De there."
"Su Dongli also claims to be from the Kingdom of Majapahit, and the reason for murdering His Majesty is the same as that of Wizard Ude and others. The guilty people do not know where he lives. This person's whereabouts are mysterious, and the guilty people have sent people to follow him several times.
lost."
"If we have something to do, we always arrange to meet somewhere outside the Great North Gate. No one comes to that place on weekdays, and it is very quiet. Unexpectedly, the news leaked out. The sinners once bought a place there and moved the tombs of their ancestors.
Everyone knows about it, even if the guilty people go there, it will not arouse suspicion." Gao Jingde added.
"Majapa Yi Kingdom? Not Annan?" Song Liang was very surprised. He had always guessed that the Annan people were behind this plan, but he did not expect that it was people from the Majapahit Kingdom who were behind the scenes.
However, he then remembered that Zhang Sanfeng had said that most of the people who cast curses on the emperor came from islands in the Southeast Asia, and thought that maybe they were not telling the truth completely: they were actually from Annan, but they lied about coming from Majapahit.
He immediately stopped paying attention to their nationality issues and decided to capture Wizard Wu De first. After asking where Wizard Wu De was and asking some questions about Wizard Wu De and Su Dongli, he ordered Gao Jingde to be sent to Guangzhou.
The Police Headquarters will lead their troops to capture the Ud wizard.
Song Qingshu immediately persuaded and said: "Brother Jinming, Your Majesty did not order us to arrest other criminals. Brother Jinming just interrogated Gao Jingde, and Your Majesty will not care about it. But if my brother disobeys Your Majesty's order and goes to arrest other criminals, what if?"
It's good that we caught him. If we alert the criminal and haven't caught him yet, then His Majesty will probably blame my brother. Now, I'd better think twice."
Song Liang hesitated after hearing what he said. Song Qingshu's words were very reasonable. He would just interrogate and interrogate, but it would not be a good thing for him to arrest someone without permission and if he didn't catch the person, he would run away.
He thought for a moment and then ordered to go back home to report to Yunhe.
But at this moment, there was a sudden noise from outside the courtyard, and not long after, a man wearing a sixth-grade official uniform came in.
When Song Liang saw him, he was very surprised and asked: "Qian Tongpan, how come you are here?"
"Song Guard, Your Majesty ordered your subordinate to lead the police from Guangzhou to Gaofu. If the Gao family is indeed the criminal in two major cases, ask your subordinate to interrogate Gao Jingde on the spot and lead the police immediately after asking the whereabouts of the other criminals.
Go with the soldiers from the guard station to arrest the criminals." Qian Minglin said. After Song Liang took the people away, Yunxi was worried that other criminals would know about the raids on the Gao family and run away to other places. By then, even if
It was of no use to ask where the other criminals were, so they sent an order to Qian Minglin and asked him to bring the police to interrogate them on the spot. Then they sent people to arrest the other criminals.
