Lu Junzhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and his officials naturally knew that the case of the armory was handed over to Dali Temple, but Lu Junzhong was calm, but Zhu Dongshan and the others were quite stunned.

After the Wudefang case was exposed, the officials of the Criminal Department were gearing up and were waiting to follow the master of the ministry to show their skills.

Fan Wenzheng's case has already given the management of the Criminal Department a lot of rewards, this case is even bigger than the last time, and more people are implicated.

The will from the palace made Dali Temple take the case, which disappointed the officials of the Criminal Department.

Some people are even worried in their hearts, secretly thinking that the last time the case was not satisfactory to the sage, so they let Dali Temple take over the case?

Zhu Dongshan looked at Lu Junzhong, who was fiddling with the torture tools, and was really a little shocked in his heart.

Lu Butang didn't seem to think much about Dali Temple taking over the case, and he didn't have any displeasure, seeing Zhu Dongshan's face was a little unpleasant, he smiled: "Do you also think that the sage wants to reuse Dali Temple?" ”

"Xia Guan didn't think like that." Zhu Dongshan said softly: "Xia Guan is just worried that if this case is really handled properly by Dali Temple, it will still have some impact on us." ”

The officials of the Criminal Department are calculating, and they are all cunning and cunning, but because of this, they always think more than others.

Since the sage ascended the throne, once with the criminal department of the equal Dali Temple has already been trampled under the feet of the criminal department, the officials of the Dali Temple to see the officials of the criminal department, that is all humble and polite, to say something ugly, so many years, the criminal department has been eating meat, and Dali Temple just followed to drink soup.

Now that this big case has been taken by Dali Temple, is it possible that a saint wants to start reusing Dali Temple?

Zhu Dongshan bowed his head and said: "The sage is wise, and he is naturally insightful about this. ”

"To be able to connect the three important divisions of the three yamen in series, and do it quietly, it has not been exposed until today, how many people can do it in the Manchu Dynasty?" Lu Junzhong smiled faintly: "To do this, you must have at least two conditions. This is the first one, naturally he has the ability to make the three directors obey his orders, and they dare not disobey. This second, it is natural to have the courage of the sky, and there is no bear-hearted leopard gall

, who would dare to do such a big thing behind the back of the palace? ”

Lu Junzhong smiled strangely: "Did it do it properly? Su Yu's little ability, it is also suitable to handle a trivial case, such a big case, our Lord Su has nothing to do next. He put down the torture instrument in his hand and said lightly: "The saint is so wise, he knows that once our criminal department handles the case, there will definitely be a result, and the saint just doesn't want to have a result so quickly this time, or rather, the saint is like a mirror in his heart, he doesn't want this case to be too big, and he doesn't want us to really find out the nobles behind it." ”

Zhu Dongshan took two steps forward and said softly: "My lord, do you mean that the palace already knows who the real culprit is behind the scenes?" ”

"Dongshan, even we have a good idea in our hearts, let alone a saint?" Lu Junzhong carried his back with one hand, touched his goatee and said: "Think about it yourself, Xue Keyong pulled the carriage to the front of the Yamen of the Ministry of War for only half a day, and the palace sent an order to Dali Temple to investigate the case, and Dali Temple immediately invited the three directors of the Military Weapons Division, the Treasury Department and the Degree Branch Division to Dali Temple, which is not what Su Yu meant, but what the palace meant." A sly smile appeared on his lips: "This proves that the sage knows that this case is not only the work of a yamen of the Ministry of Finance, but also the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households." ”

"Oh?" Lu Junzhong smiled: "How can you see it? ”

"Her Royal Highness the princess has the inner treasury in her hands, and she is not short of silver." Zhu Dongshan leaned in and whispered: "And this bit of silver, the princess will definitely not look down on it." ”

Lu Junzhong smiled and said: "So you think the noble person behind this scene is the minister of state?" ”

Zhu Dongshan immediately said: "What the lord said is extremely true, and the lower officials also think so. ”

"In this way, who is behind the scenes is already about to come out." Lu Junzhong said with a smile: "Looking at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, there are only a few people who have the courage and ability to deal with such big cases." ”

Zhu Dongshan said in a low voice: "The lower officials think that among those people, Her Royal Highness the princess should have nothing to do with this case. ”

Lu Junzhong was silent for a moment before he said, "It depends on what the noble man behind him thinks." If he was afraid, the saint might turn a blind eye and let the case pass as soon as possible. In fact, the arrest of the director of the three divisions, the meaning of the palace is already obvious, this case can be done until the director of the three divisions, and then it is good to pull a group of people from these three yamen to cut off their heads. It's just that..... If someone thinks they are clever and thinks that the palace is a fool, maybe this case will come back to us in the end. ”

Zhu Dongshan saw that Lu Junzhong was in his chest, and his heart was also relieved.

As long as the palace doesn't want to use Dali Temple to suppress the criminal department, then even if it gives Dali Temple some sweetness, it is not a big deal, not to mention that this case was taken over by Dali Temple, for Dali Temple, it may not be sweet, it is likely to be just bitter water.

"The first thing that comes to Xiaguan's mind is the prime minister." Zhu Dongshan sighed: "But after thinking about it all afternoon, the more I pondered, the more I felt that it was wrong. The prime minister of the country sealed ten thousand households, and the palace often rewarded them, and the amount of the car that honored their Xiahou family inside and outside the capital, to say something unpleasant, he really wanted to use the silver, and sent someone to walk around the place, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver could be easily recovered. The remnants of the knife that appeared on the side of Wudefang are only a small part, and the silver that comes down from the ink is only 100,000 taels of silver in a year, you say that the prime minister of the country is such a shrewd person, how could he go to this water because of this mere 100,000 taels of silver? ”

Lu Junzhong smiled and said: "You are right, the prime minister and the princess are both shrewd people, no matter how foolish they are, it is impossible for them to do such a thing." In fact, the case itself is not difficult, but no one dares to tear it up. Now that Qin Xiao has torn the hole open, as long as the palace really wants to investigate, within a few days, this case will be revealed. Fu Xu said: "We don't have to worry, wait for Dali Temple to investigate first." ”

"What do you mean, the sage asked Dali Temple to investigate, did he not want this case to really come to light?" Zhu Dongshan asked cautiously.

The duty of most officials in Dali Temple is to go to the yamen on time every day to run errands, play chess and drink tea, return home at the end of the day, and have nothing to do.

Now that he has suddenly taken over a big case, many people in the yamen have not been able to come back to their senses.

Su Yu doesn't have much official business, he pays attention to health on weekdays, and the most common thing he says to his subordinate officials is to let everyone guard against arrogance and rashness, treat everything with a normal heart, and don't be in a hurry, but now the officials in Dali Temple are the most anxious.

Zhu Dongshan was not wrong.

Su Yu, the secretary of Dali Temple, is really depressed now.

Located in Xuanwu Street, the Dali Temple Yamen is a clear water yamen in Kyoto, the criminal department firmly holds the imperial penalty, the power of the Dali Temple has not only been repeatedly reduced, but also the yamen has been reduced several times, and the number of officials has been reduced by nearly half compared with the period of the first emperor.

This time, if you can do it to the satisfaction of the palace, you may not be able to revitalize Dali Temple.

It was only soon that he understood that the idea was good, but it was really difficult to do.

In order to prevent the three from colluding in confessions, they did not even let the three people see each other, each of them was imprisoned in a room, and then the most experienced interrogators of Dali Temple were discharged for interrogation overnight.

The will is very clear, Dali Temple only has one day, and within one day, the confessions of the three principals will be submitted to the palace.

Originally, the moment he received the will, Master Su was still a little excited, and felt that his opportunity to make meritorious service seemed to have arrived.

At that time, the criminal department suddenly rose, wasn't it Lu Junzhong who investigated the case of Zhao Yankuo for the sage, and since then Lu Junzhong has been on the rise, and then has continuously handled major cases, not only rising step by step, but also taking away and weakening the power of Dali Temple little by little.

After the three principals entered the Dali Temple, they almost unanimously became mute and deaf, no matter how they asked, the three of them were silent, except for a few kind words when they first entered the yamen, about the case of the armory, the three of them did not say a word.

Although there was a will in the palace to interrogate the confessions of the three people, it did not say that the case must have been committed by these three people, and they could only be suspects at the moment.

After all, they all have official bodies, and in the absence of any evidence to prove that the three of them joined forces to commit the crime, Su Yu didn't even dare to directly torture the three people.

Su Yu even thought that since the sage let the confession be interrogated within one day, if Dali Temple could quickly send the confession into the palace after dawn tomorrow, it would definitely make the sage's heart happy.

But he didn't have that in mind anymore.

Don't say early in the morning, as long as you can really get the confessions of these three people in one day, it will be a blessing from the Bodhisattva.

Until late at night, they couldn't get a word out of the three of them.

Su Yu had to go down in person, and came to the house where Han Day, the head of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Imprisonment, was imprisoned, and as soon as he entered the door, he had a cold face, and when he saw that Han Tian was still sitting on a chair, he was even more angry and said: "Someone, take his chair down!" ”

The yacha removed Han Day's chair, and when Han Day was standing, Su Yu sat down on the chair in front of Han Day, looked at Han Day, and said coldly: "Han Day, you have to understand that this official is trying the case by order. This case has already alarmed the palace, whether you say it or not, this case must be thoroughly investigated to the end. If you can confess truthfully earlier, and read that you take the initiative to confess, the official can still intercede with the saint for you, if you are stubborn, the official will not be able to protect you. ”

When Han Tian saw Dali Siqing come to interrogate him in person, he finally sighed and said, "If you have evidence, if you have evidence, you can kill it or not, and you will listen to it." Since Xiaguan was taken to Dali Temple, he didn't think about leaving alive, and the truth of this case has been forgotten. ”

"You're .....!" Su Yu was furious and said sharply: "Han Day, this is how you deal with this official? Do you want the official to reply to the palace like this? ”