As soon as the Shangyuan Festival passed, the Xixia Palace ushered in the first great court meeting after the Spring Festival.

On the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Chongming and the ministers discussed that the cases of Qian Weizhen, Liu Ben and others would be handed over to the Criminal Department and Dali Temple for joint trial. Once the evidence of the crime is confirmed, the main culprits will be sentenced to beheading after the autumn.

As for the other men, regardless of their age, they were exiled to Guangxi and other border areas. The female dependents were sent to the Huanyi Bureau or the workshop to serve as slaves.

Lord Wei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Lord Shen of Dali Temple bowed down to receive the decree together. Since the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the two began to interrogate a group of criminals one by one, striving to put an end to this case of rebellion as soon as possible.

Qian Weizhen is cunning by nature, pointing at a deer as a horse with one mouth, and still refuses to bow his head in the face of conclusive evidence.

At the beginning, he pitied him as an old minister of the first emperor, and the two adults did not torture him, seeing that he was still slippery, and lived up to his reputation as a money fox, Wei Shangshu finally couldn't bear it anymore and conspired with Lord Shen.

Lord Shen sent people to put down eighteen classes of torture instruments in front of the hall to serve, and guarded Qian Weizhen to try the former Yangzhou county guard. The Yangzhou County Shouben was stubbornly resisting, looking at the red-hot soldering iron placed in the ground, and his face was blue.

These people are pampered on weekdays, and they can't stand the slightest bit of flesh and skin, Lord Wei threw down a token, and just ordered his subordinates to put a stick on the guard of Yangzhou County, and he was so frightened that he trembled.

Although the soldering iron was never used, it made Qian Weizhen feel excited, reminiscent of the torture of the king of Shang back then.

Qian Weizhen's face turned pale, and he looked at the former Yangzhou county guards who were shaking like a sieve of chaff and confessed one by one, how the official money sent to Yangzhou in the past was withdrawn and retained, and how the money was laundered through Huitong Qianzhuang.

The confession pointed out that he was greedy for ink, but Qian Weizhen no longer had the confidence to refute it.

He could only point at Lord Shen with his trembling hand, and shouted loudly: "Cool official, I am a veteran of the two dynasties, you dare to torture to extract a confession, and you have to be beaten into a trick." ”

Lord Shen was too lazy to play these word games with him, only thinking about breaking down his last psychological defense.

Ordered someone to take the convicted county guard down, and Lord Shen made people erect a big urn in the courtyard, burned it with firewood, and smiled at Qian Weizhen: "The old man is familiar with the history of the Tang Dynasty, and he should know the allusion of inviting the king into the urn." The lower officials really didn't want to make such a decision, but the date of the grace period of the saint was imminent. The lower officials will wait for the boss for another day, and whether to say it or not, the boss will weigh it himself. ”

Lord Shen naturally would not really use lynching and fall into the infamy of extorting confessions by torture, but Qian Weizhen looked at the torture instruments placed under the hall, and was powerless to resist at all.

He was angry and afraid, looking at the raging flame under the big urn, which had already overshadowed the arrogance in his heart. Although he still doesn't open his mouth with a white face, the horror in his eyes has already betrayed his true heart.

Lord Shen said with a smile: "The boss guards the big urn and thinks about it carefully, and the lower officials will come to ask the boss a few questions tomorrow." ”

The jailer's tall horse, the hot tongue rolling, the pale face of the Yangzhou county guard, and the ridicule of Lord Shen were the last straw that overwhelmed Qian Weizhen.

On the second day, Qian Weizhen was helpless. If you don't say it, or make up some lies and excuse yourself, Lord Wei and Lord Shen join forces, and the two of them are sharp-eyed, where can he be allowed to have half a lie.

Even scared and coaxed, but after three or two sentences, Qian Weizhen first confessed to the house located in Minxiang, in a vain attempt to divert his attention, and prevaricated with the silver money.

That mansion was already under the control of the Hidden Dragon Guard, and all the things were in the treasury, so it was not a secret at all.

The two adults had already been entrusted by Chen Rujun to ask about the Liang family in Wuxi. Qian Weizhen couldn't shirk it, and then looked at the five big and three rough jailers in the hall, as well as those dazzling torture instruments, for fear that the flesh and skin would suffer, so he had to confess in one go.

The account book that recorded the disgraceful transactions of the Liang family, in addition to the one handed over to Su Guangfu, Qian Weizhen had another copy in his hand, which was hidden in the secret compartment of the study outside the Qian Mansion.

Lord Wei immediately retrieved it, and looked at the various unscrupulous behaviors of the Liang family, and sure enough, it was because the Millennium Sect held the handle of the Liang family in Wuxi that he said that the Liang family was moved to work for Su Duhan.

With Qian Weizhen's confession, the Criminal Department immediately issued an official document, first cut the name of the Liang family's imperial businessman, detained Liang Kum Kee's Mrs. Liang, and at the same time sent a team of officers and soldiers to Wuxi to take people, and escorted Mrs. Liang, Master Liang and others into the Imperial City of Gusu.

As soon as the prisoner car entered Beijing, Master Liang was so frightened that he immediately confessed, regretting that he should not have the intention of selling women for glory.

Liang Jinguan sat in her vain attempt to become a dignitary of the Houmen's Spring and Autumn Dream, and waited until she looked at the dazzling words of the Imperial Prison before she really woke up from her dream. She fell directly from the clouds to the ground and fell to the ground.

Mrs. Liang was locked up with her, and seeing that the initiator was still unrepentant, she wanted to break her neck immediately.

After listening to the transaction between the Liang family and Su Duhan, Lord Wei and Lord Shen looked at each other and smiled, and the corners of their mouths were deeply sneering.

Once upon a time, Su Duhan's name moved to the Imperial City of Suzhou, and he was the dream lover of many daughters waiting for the door.

If it weren't for the fact that he and Murong Wei were childhood sweethearts, they were the best candidates to be the concubines of the dynasty, and the official media would have smoothed the threshold of King An's Mansion a long time ago. Such a young man who is like a cloud and has a good demeanor is now reduced to marrying a merchant in order to calculate a few pennies, which is simply a big joke in the world.

In this way, millennialism has reached the point of exhaustion. If it weren't for the excellent interests in the head, they wouldn't be able to help Qian Weizhen easily. Lord Wei peeled back the cocoon, interrogated Qian Weizhen again, and asked him to explain how he reached an agreement with the Millennium Sect, so that the Millennium Sect promised to send the second son of the Qian family to escape.

Qian Weizhen thought about his daughter's reputation, and did not confide in the transaction of the fourth concubine after the success, but only confessed that he had left a letter to Su Guangfu to write to Qian Zhuo, and ordered Qian Zhuo to transfer all the silver money in his hand that could be dispatched to the Millennium Sect.

The two things are the same, even the daughter of a merchant like Liang Jinguan, Su Duhan can be patient. The Qian family is rich and rivals the country, and Qian Gui is a celebrity in the imperial city of Su in the past, how can Su Duhan let it go easily for the sake of the stability of the alliance?

Even if Qian Weizhen doesn't say it, his lifelong promise for Qian Gui is also clearly identifiable.

Once the opening is torn open, there will be no resistance to the next interrogation. The old house of the Su family impressed the Jiangyin area through Liu Ben's relationship, and the ugly act of transporting the poppy directly to Yunnan was also exposed.

Jiangyin helped the wall to fall down and everyone pushed it, and committed the big crime of rebellion, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty interceded for them. After the Criminal Department and Dali Temple presented the unforgivable killing of Qian Weizhen, Liu Ben, Qian Wen, Qian Jue and others at the same time, no one in the Manchu Dynasty objected.

Emperor Chongming was now the imperial pen Zhu Criticism, and decided to ask for the autumn queen.