Chapter Ninety-Four: Interrogation

Ji Gang's arraignment of Zhang Sheng was in the Jinyi Guard's prison in the secluded forest.

"Zhang Yanshi," Ji Gang nodded: "How about the feeling of being in the edict in prison these days?"

Zhang Sheng was also calm, he shook his head first and said: "I didn't be an official who commanded the military guards in the morning, but now he is just a rich man, and the identity of the ordinary people, the governor of Ji Du doesn't have to be so polite." ”

Ji Gang said: "If this seat is not polite to you, on the first day you come to the edict, I am afraid that you will recruit everything." ”

"That's right," Zhang Sheng arched his hand casually: "I also want to thank Master Ji for your tolerance, knowing that I am flesh and skin, I can't help but feed Jinyiwei snacks, under Miki, maybe I have already seen the king of Hades." ”

"It seems that you still don't have the consciousness to be a criminal," Ji Gang's eyes sharpened: "Zhang Sheng, Rong Benzuo reminds you that you are now suspected of being a common widow, what kind of crime is this, you should know it." Whoever is accused of this crime will end up being beheaded all over the house!"

"Master Ji is gentle," Zhang Sheng said: "Xiaomin's business has been everywhere over the years, and the family business is bigger, and some people say that I am the second Shen Wansan, saying that my fate is close at hand-Xiaomin heard these words, and they all laughed away, to be honest, they have a clear conscience! If they are doing black-hearted business, as Master Ji said, they are all connected to foreign countries, then will I have a day to sleep? What is the difference between this and the pirate Chen Zuyi, who does all kinds of evil? Betraying Hua Gouyi, saying that I provided firearms to the Japanese and took the Japanese people to burn and loot in the land of the Ming Dynasty, such a fucking crime, I, Zhang Sheng, am dead, and I don't admit it!"

"Zhang Yan is really very backbone," Ji Gang said with a smile: "I refuse to admit such a crime, but how to explain the fact that the Qingyuan merchant ship secretly hid 200 firearms, this seat is also very curious, where did you get the firearms?"

"I heard that it is a brand new, no engraved two hundred Tianzi number firearms?" Zhang Sheng laughed and said: "I'm also curious, who has the ability to get such a good thing from the Ordnance Bureau, I want me Zhang Sheng to work hard, up and down the left and right, but I found some old guns equipped on the ship, and now there are ten out of ten new guns, in terms of cost, one is afraid to cost ninety taels of silver, I Zhang Sheng is not short of money, but lack of way!" Ji Dudu, you have to investigate the case quickly and find out who accidentally left the fire gun on my ship, this person, I must make friends!"

"Are you admitting that you are assembling firearms on your merchant ship?" Ji Gang said.

"Since the adults asked, then I will tell the truth," Zhang Sheng shook the shackles on his hands, changed to a comfortable position and sat on the ground, and said: "The sea is windy and dangerous, and the Japanese invaders are frequently infested, and it has not been settled yet. These kings and calves are vicious and vicious, and they don't want to die, and they are in groups of three or five, and they don't let go when they are eyeing the ships, and the merchant ships of my Qingyuan have been robbed countless times, and they are empty of people and goods. The goods are just that, and the people of my Qingyuan don't leave a single living mouth, I Zhang Sheng endured once or twice, and endured ten times eight times, this is the limit, will he be grateful to Dade for this group of widows, they burn and loot even more, and do all kinds of evil, Ji Dudu, if you have dealt with this group of widows, you will know that they are not worthy of being people, this gang of people in the state of Er, the things that came out of the barbarian land, three points of human appearance have not been learned, and seven points of beastliness are deeply rooted! They don't treat our Ming people as human beings at all, so what kind of etiquette can I tell them?"

"The Japanese invaded my homeland and killed my compatriots, but I Zhang Sheng could not stand up to fight," Zhang Sheng said: "It is better to put self-defense first." On my Qingyuan merchant ship, there are indeed firearms, and the origin can also be directly told to Master Ji, it was given to me by Tan Guang, the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion buys and replaces old guns every year, some of which are recycled, and some of which are not. When I Zhang Sheng saw these firearms, but they were rusty and lacked maintenance, they could still be used, so I tried my best to persuade Tan Guang and asked him to fold the old guns into silver and sell them to me. I am not a saint, but I can't tolerate being bullied like this. With this firecracker, my Qingyuan's ship sailed to sea, and it was smooth sailing. In the second or third year of Yongle, when the Japanese invaded the most, six or seven out of ten of my Qingyuan ships capsized at sea, and after three years, this situation no longer existed, which is why many coastal ships were willing to go to sea with me. ”

"Civilian ships and other merchant ships are willing to go to sea with your ships," Ji Gang was not moved by Zhang Sheng's righteous words just now: "I'm afraid it's not because of this reason." How did I hear that as long as you join the Qingyuan, large and small ships, you can be released without checking the text?"

"These ships have joined the Qingyuan, and they are ships under the name of my Qingyuan," Zhang Sheng said, "Naturally, they can be released." Does this have anything to do with the firecracker, Master Ji?"

"Of course there is," Ji Gang sneered: "The officials of the Municipal Department of Shipping have a vegetarian meal, and they can't find the firearms of the two ships, and let such a ship with forbidden things sail on the sea? Can this seat doubt that they can't detect other gold, silver, copper and iron prohibitions either? Isn't it that these things have also been let go under their noses? These things have gone straight to the nest of the Japanese Kou, isn't this a secret enemy?"

Ji Gang said it well, and suddenly made Zhang Sheng speechless. He looked at Ji Gang and said, "It turns out that Master Ji wants to handle a big case, and he is not afraid of implicating anyone, right?"

"This seat just won't let go of anyone who is suspected of being a colleague," Ji Gang said condescendingly: "Zhang Yanshi's justification just now is very good, but you sold a bunch of bitter feelings, but you still can't explain why the fire gun didn't appear on other ships, but appeared on your ship alone, and this ship went to the base camp of the Japanese Invadersβ€”β€”"

Zhang Sheng was still tortured as expected, but he refused to admit the origin of the 200 new guns, but there seems to be some new progress in the Ordnance Bureau of Ma Yun's interrogation.

In fact, Ma Yun has not tortured the craftsmen, the clues are actually provided by the two ambassadors of the Ordnance Bureau, they mentioned a more critical place, saying that in fact, after the Ordnance Bureau made weapons, it was not immediately given to people, more often the Ministry of Industry will put this batch of finished weapons into the armory, and the people of their Ministry of Industry will count and inspect to see how the quality is, and then hand it over to the army for use.

The Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty has jurisdiction over four divisions, two institutes, a hospital, five bureaus, five of which include the leather bureau, the saddle bridle bureau, the Baoyuan Bureau, the miscellaneous bureau, the ordnance bureau, the two most important bureaus are the Baoyuan Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau, and the Ministry of Industry also has jurisdiction over the two internal warehouses for the storage of ordnance and ordnance manufacturing raw materials - the E-word library and the Guangji library.

"So in the E-word library, it is very likely that there is a theft?" Ma Yun said.

"Here in the Ordnance Bureau, the quantity can be checked," Ambassador Chen Zhiliang said: "But in the E-character library, there have also been some thefts in previous years, and the number is not clear...... After all, this Ministry of Industry Shangshu is in Beijing - a few waiters and principals are not, cough cough, they are not as experienced as Huang Shangshu, and my father-in-law will know it as soon as he checks it. ”

Ma Yun nodded slightly, in the Ministry of Industry's E-word library, there are mountains of piles, and it is indeed not as good as the Ordnance Bureau, and it is quite difficult to check, and it may not be possible to find anything, because most of the firecrackers have been issued, and the new and old ones do not know the number, and the old ones have been rebuilt, and there is no difference.