Ning Weimo did not go to Zhenyuan Palace. Of course he knew that no matter how many times he went, the Queen would never be able to see him.
He said he was going to Zhenyuan Palace because he simply didn't want to see Lin Ye.
Going to see Lin Ye at this time was equivalent to throwing him into Lin Ye's pit.
"Show me that list just now."
Ning Weimo pointed to the paper Yao Xinyuan put on the table just now, and one of his subordinates quickly went over and took the list and handed it to him.
Ning Weimo took a closer look and found that none of these names were unfamiliar.
"Go and check how old the people on this list are. Why do I remember that there is not a single young person..."
After muttering to himself, Ning Weimo asked him to take a closer look at the list of his subordinates.
It is not difficult to check the files of these people. Since the establishment of the Service Office, the rosters of officials of various ministries and local officials are naturally available in the Service Office.
It didn't take long for his subordinates to find all the files according to the list.
After comparison, Ning Weimo confirmed his guess.
"Six people, the youngest is already in his fifties."
Ning Weimo said to himself: "It seems that the person our general arrested has nothing to do with the disappearance of His Highness."
Lin Ye made everyone in the city feel that he was the only one trying his best to find the missing His Highness.
That's why Lin Ye offended so many people and even did some unbelievable things.
But that was to save His Highness, so even if these things like arresting the servants or even the nobles in the palace were spread, the common people's evaluation of Lin Ye would probably only be those four words... Loyalty and Righteousness
Courage.
"What a courage...what a strategy."
While Ning Weimo was talking to himself, he admired Lin Ye's method to the point of admiration.
If nothing else goes wrong, none of the six household officials invited by Lin Ye will be able to walk out of the government office alive.
"quick!"
Ning Weimo suddenly came to his senses: "I sent people to chase Master Xumi and Master Yao at high speed. I told them that I had urgent matters to discuss with them and asked them not to go to the government office and come back quickly."
His subordinates quickly agreed, and they would rush to chase Yao Xinyuan and Xumi Pianruo when they left home.
If Lin Ye was going on a killing spree in the government office at this time, would it be embarrassing if the two assistant masters arrived?
Such a cruel thing happened to them directly. Even if they wanted to pretend they didn't see it, they couldn't pretend not to have seen it.
Government office.
Lin Ye was sitting on the main seat in the lobby, looking at the six people standing in the lobby, Mr. Hube, who was still standing confidently and looked unafraid of power.
"Zhao Qinfeng."
Lin Ye opened a file and looked at it.
"More than ten years ago, you were working as a counting clerk in the treasury. Your rank was no higher than the seventh rank, and your salary was no more than 40 taels of silver per month."
Lin Ye glanced at the man named Zhao Qinfeng.
"Almost twenty years."
Lin Ye said: "You were a seventh-rank official at that time. How come today, almost twenty years later, you are still only a sixth-rank official?"
Zhao Qinfeng looked neither humble nor arrogant and said: "Coming back to the general, my ability as a subordinate is limited. I don't ask for promotion. Wearing a sixth-grade official uniform is already taken care of by the court. How can you dare to ask for it?"
Lin Ye said: "Then you are diligent."
Zhao Qinfeng didn't know what Lin Ye was thinking when he fell to the ground, so he could only lean down and say: "Thank you, General, for the compliment. I dare not say that I have contributed to the court. If I say that I am diligent, I am still qualified."
Lin Ye said: "It seems that there is really something wrong with the employment of the imperial court. It is really inappropriate for a diligent person like you to be buried like this from the seventh grade to the sixth grade in twenty years."
Zhao Qinfeng replied: "I just told the general that the lower official is really stupid. He only uses brute force to do things and doesn't know how to adapt. He is already taken care of by the imperial court at this sixth-grade official position. If it is higher, the lower official is afraid of delaying the important affairs of the imperial court.
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Lin Ye asked: "Have you ever had any complaints in your heart?"
Zhao Qinfeng said: "I never complain."
Lin Ye looked at the file again: "If I were yours...I would have no complaints."
Zhao Qinfeng was slightly startled.
Lin Ye said: "You are just a sixth-grade official. You have real estate in several counties on the outskirts of Beijing. You have a six-bedroom concubine. You have a manor in Dinghong County alone and a thousand acres of private land."
Zhao Qinfeng's expression changed drastically.
After a while, he raised his voice and said: "Even if you are a general, you cannot frame the court officials like this. Even though I am humble, I will not let you manipulate me. I will go to the office to sue you!"
Lin Ye threw the file at Zhao Qinfeng's feet: "Take this and sue me?"
Zhao Qinfeng immediately picked up the file and subconsciously tore it apart.
But after tearing it apart a few times, I discovered that the file was just a blank sheet of paper with not a single word in it.
Lin Ye watched it twice before, and it turned out that it was all just pretending.
Lin Ye looked at Zhao Qinfeng's furious look as if he were watching a monkey, and there was a hint of blood-tinged excitement in his eyes.
"I didn't say that I had wronged you, I just didn't write down the information I got from my investigation on paper."
Lin Ye asked: "Have you heard about my personality?"
Zhao Qinfeng almost gritted his teeth and said: "I have heard that you are cruel and ruthless. They also say that no one can have a relationship with you. As long as you offend you, you will kill them all and never leave anyone a way to survive."
Lin Ye said calmly: "I don't know when the rumors started to become so pertinent."
He stood up and walked slowly to Zhao Qinfeng.
Lin Ye said: "You have only heard my words about being cruel and cold-blooded. In fact, you can't feel it, or you can imagine what it is like to be cruel and cold-blooded and kill everyone."
Lin Ye took another step forward and said to Zhao Qinfeng from a very close distance: "Let me give you an example."
"You have six concubines in several counties on the outskirts of Beijing. Five of them have given birth to children for you. The eldest child is almost 20 years old this year, and the youngest is only six years old."
When Lin Ye said this, Zhao Qinfeng's face turned as white as the shredded paper in his hand.
His face was pale, but his eyes were blood red.
Lin Ye turned his head and looked at Zhao Qinfeng: "Now, have you experienced it firsthand, what is cruelty and cold-blooded killing?"
Zhao Qinfeng rushed forward: "Lin Ye, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
Pang Panghai, who was standing next to him, kicked Zhao Qinfeng on the lower back. With this kick, Zhao Qinfeng was kicked out a foot away.
When Zhao Qinfeng struggled to remember, Pang Panghai kicked him in the neck again.
No matter how hard he exerted his strength or struggled, being at the foot of the huge sea felt like he was being pressed under a mountain.
"That year, when you were a clerk doing inventory in the treasury, someone found you and asked you to help replace the grain and grass given to General Liu Jigong of the Northern Expedition into coarse sand."
Lin Ye returned to the chair and sat down, his tone still calm when he said these words.
But every word was filled with cold murderous intent.
"Some people want to get rid of General Liu Jigong, but they are really greedy."
Lin Ye said: "Their purpose of going to Northern Xinjiang was really just to kill Liu Jigong, but they were used to it, so they conveniently sold the rations to the Northern Expedition."
"You can't sell it without any explanation, so when General Liu Jigong went on an expedition, you only gave him three days of ten days of food and grass. These three days were only filled with sand and rocks, not much.
Grains of grain.”
When Lin Ye said this, the joints of his fingers turned slightly white.
"If you are not satisfied with killing a general who may be your source of wealth, you will sell military rations to foreign enemies..."
Zhao Qinfeng was so frightened that he was trembling, but he could still roar.
"I didn't do that! I was just a counting officer sent by the Ministry of Revenue to escort grain and grass in northern Xinjiang. What could I do!"
Lin Ye said: "You can smile from ear to ear after being given a large sum of money, and you can look proud when you fill the grain bags of the Northern Expedition soldiers with sand and soil."
Lin Ye just looked at him.
"You are a minor official, then seventh rank and now sixth rank, but you personally handled this matter at that time. You have not been promoted in these years, not because you are stupid, but because you did it on purpose. You were afraid of being known by others.
If you hide your wealth and become a small official, who will take notice of you?"
It was rare for Lin Ye to say so many words in one breath.
He turned to look at the other people, who were now pale with fear.
"Liu Maolin, when you were escorting grain and grass to northern Xinjiang, you were also a seventh-grade inventory official."
"Zhang Shixun, you too."
"Zhao Dongke, you too."
"Wang Jin, you too."
"Yue Jinzhong, you too."
Lin Ye said: "The six escorts sent by the Ministry of Revenue to Northern Xinjiang for inventory are now all here."
Jiao Tianbao took a step forward with his hand on the knife and shouted at those people.
"Kneel down!"
Those people knelt down almost at the same time, and no one hesitated at all.
"General, I am willing to say."
Among the six people, the official named Zhao Dongke crawled forward and knelt over, not far from Lin Ye, kowtowing and talking at the same time.
"General, I only ask the general to spare my life. I am willing to tell everything about what happened back then. I can say it in front of the assistant ministers in the office. No, no, no, I can say it in front of His Majesty!"
Lin Ye glanced at him.
He said: "Do you know why I have investigated you all thoroughly, but not a single word has been written on the paper?"
Zhao Dongke shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know. I am willing to do anything. As long as the general speaks, I can go and testify against the culprits now!"
Lin Ye sighed softly: "You are really not smart enough, but you are really evil-hearted. When you betrayed your compatriots for money, you didn't even hesitate at all."
Zhao Dongke said anxiously: "I'm not betraying them. They were the masterminds of all this back then. We had no choice and we had no choice but to do it..."
Lin Ye smiled, actually smiled.
He said: "It turns out that when I said that you betrayed your compatriots, you were not thinking of the cowardly soldiers who were burned alive outside the northern border, nor those who shed their blood to defend the enemy from outside the country.
Men...but the people who command you."
Lin Ye nodded: "They are indeed on the same side as you, and you are indeed compatriots."
Lin Ye stood up again.
He walked up to Zhao Dongke, squatted down, looked into Zhao Dongke's eyes and said seriously: "I won't leave a word on the paper, and I won't just take evidence of your crimes back then or now, but I won't do anything.
Will it be handed over to the court, why? Think about it carefully."
Zhao Dongke still shook his head: "Xiaoguan is indeed stupid. I don't know what the general wants to do, but now I really know that I was wrong and I am willing to follow the general..."
Lin Ye said: "For people like you, the word loyalty is the same as shit. In fact, I don't care whether you are loyal or not, but I won't tolerate you being unjust."
He stood up: "The reason for leaving no evidence of guilt is... I just want to take revenge with my own hands. I will dig you out one by one and chop you alive. No one can avenge this revenge for me, not even Your Majesty."
After saying this, he looked at Zhao Qinfeng, who was lying softly on the ground, and said with a serious face: "I didn't scare you just now. For revenge, of course I want to destroy the family."
Zhao Qinfeng rolled his eyes upward and fainted.
Lin Ye returned to his seat and sat down. At this time, he finally looked a little more relaxed.
He said: "More than 10,000 cowardly soldiers were killed by you back then. I will not kill more. Killing more than 10,000 is enough to make up for the capital. Doubling the number of kills will earn interest."
He looked at the six people and smiled again.
He smiled and said: "But I'm just like you, I'm greedy, so I don't have a definite number. I don't have ten thousand or twenty thousand. I just die."