Guo's improved interrogation techniques are very distinctive.

But all the officials who are used with these tricks, even if they can survive in the end, are still in a half-dead state.

It's all tortured, and it's definitely not honest to confess, and if the incident happens, it's going to be a dead duck with a hard mouth, of course, there is no qualification to be lenient.

The end they face is a miserable end with their families.

Guo has always been very fierce to the prisoner and the family of the prisoner.

Originally, the treatment of the officials of the Wei Empire was good, and the treatment of their families was also good, and if one person committed a crime, he would definitely abolish the treatment of the family, and even some serious crimes would be investigated for the whole family, and the use of joint sittings to fight the political power of the other party.

Therefore, in the face of those officials who are stubborn and do not honestly give explanations, these methods can be well practiced, and true knowledge can be gained in practice, and benefits can be obtained in practice.

This time, it is just the opportunity for some newcomers who have not been practiced to get practice.

For example, directly use a red-hot soldering iron to burn off the flesh on a person's body.

Or cut a few wounds on the body first, then sprinkle salt on them, wipe them, marinate them, and then roast them with a red-hot soldering iron.

Or cut out a lot of long openings on the body with a knife, and then water the whole body with salt water, and marinate quickly to speed up the flavor.

Or let people sit on the ground, use a flat stone slab to pad his feet, and gradually increase the number of stone slabs for his feet, so as to challenge the limits of human flexibility and tolerance.

Or use a bamboo skewer to insert into a person's fingernails, one by one, one by one, and after ten fingernails are inserted, it feels very artistic.

When you don't have enough fingers, you can still put your toes on your toes.

Of course, the most challenging skill of the executioner is the [Boneless Phoenix Claw].

This requires the executioner to take out all the bones from the hands of the dishonest guys, but to keep the flesh and blood continuous, and the overall shape of the hands does not change.

The difficulty of this kind of punishment is very high, and so far there are only a handful of senior executioners who can use this trick within the three divisions.

Of course, this trick is basically useless, because the vast majority of people have confessed before this, and basically no one can hold up enough to let senior personnel use [Boneless Phoenix Claw] for interrogation.

If it really comes to that point, this person's three clans are all dangerous.

It's the same this time, basically in the [salt and pepper meat steak] link, all the tricks have been made.

The relatives and friends involved in this matter, their cronies, their trusted neighbors and partners, etc., all confessed, and there was not a single one left.

How did they withhold the materials, how did they give the materials to trustworthy people to go to Yongzhou to secretly dispose of them, and then exchange them for money, so that they could have money to live in luxury, or buy luxury goods from merchants in the Western Regions.

When asked them the reason, some said that it was red-eyed, some said that it was because others also took it, and some said that everyone took it, and if they didn't take it, it would be detrimental to unity.

There's an even more infuriating one.

He said that he felt that these lowly Li Shu didn't need three meals to survive at all, and it was enough to give them two meals, and it was simply delusional to want to eat meat or something, and the salted bibimbap was a rare delicacy, so it wouldn't be good to take away the excess.

All in all, he felt that the people of Li Shu did not deserve to be treated like this.

What's even more hateful is that this person is also from Lishu, a native of Qingzhou, successively served as the village chief and township head, and also went to Taixue to study, originally served in a county in Jiuquan County, but because of the lack of manpower, he was transferred by the county government to assist in the work.

Chen Zhen was very shocked and annoyed by this, and directly asked people to use a tiger chair on him, directly abolished his legs, and listened to his howl like killing a pig, so as to vent his anger.

"Since you have forgotten the hardships you have suffered before, then I will let you remember it well!"

These corrupt officials are corrupt for a variety of reasons.

Chen Zhen didn't want to hear these reasons anymore, many of them were the same.

As for the background, there are those from the scholar family, those from poor families, and those from Li Shu, no matter what social class they are in, there are corrupt people.

Therefore, it did not prevent Chen Zhen from using various interrogation plans on them, forcing them to tell the truth, and venting his anger by the way.

It's so annoying that you can talk about corruption so justifiably!

But the interrogation methods were indeed brutal.

Chen Zhen was the leader of this interrogation, but he didn't know who tossed these terrible interrogation methods.

It is said that it is really related to the emperor.

But Chen Zhen didn't dare to really pursue the reason for this.

At this point, Chen Zhen has caused the officialdom of the entire Liangzhou to shake, but this is nothing.

By 12 November, 38 more people had been confessed or found to have problems, and were again arrested by Chen Zhen's order and brought back to Guzang County for strict interrogation, and the local government was not allowed to prevaricate.

There were even cases where some officials cried and shouted and hid in the county government to seek the protection of the Taishou, and then the officials of the central investigation team rushed into the county government with iron cables to arrest people.

Some officials ran relatively fast, fearing that they would lose their lives if they were caught, so they hurried away when they heard the news, and even ran specifically to places like the county guard's office.

They think that the county guard is the supreme of a county, and it is the biggest snake in the land, no matter how strong the people from the center are, they must abide by the local rules, right? So they felt that they could be protected here, and they felt that the officials of the investigation team were afraid to come in.

But who knew that the officials of these investigation teams were more fierce than the other, and they did not hesitate to arrest people, no matter where they were, they would rush in and take people, without thinking about giving face to anyone.

The officials of the investigation team were fierce, while the other county officials were so frightened that they trembled, and they didn't dare to let go of a fart when they saw the investigation team take people.

Satrap?

was so frightened that he didn't even show his face, and he couldn't afford to be sick in various ways, so as not to lose face on the spot, and he couldn't raise his head in front of his subordinates in the future.

At the same time, Chen Zhen sent a commissioner to Cao Ren's location and demanded that the military judges in Cao Ren's army accept the command of the central investigation team, and hand over all 37 people in the army who might be involved in the matter to the central investigation team.

It was the first time that a central official rushed directly into the army to get people.

Cao Ren said that he also knew about the incident and was cooperating with the military judge to investigate the problems in the military.

He was quite cooperative, allowing the people of the investigation team to act in the army, and even offered to help without any act of hindrance.

For example, he said that it was not only these 37 people who were found to have problems, but also 10 additional people who were found to have accepted bribes, and they would all be handed over to Chen Zhen.

The more than 100 military judges in Cao Renjun's army were all under Chen Zhen's command, and Chen Zhen ordered the interrogation of relevant people.

The high degree of cooperation between Cao Ren and Mao Jue made this matter handle quite smoothly, and no one in the entire four counties of Hexi dared to resist the majesty of the central investigation team.

In just half a month, Chen Zhen has arrested 126 people, both large and small, who are involved in the case, both in the government and in the military, and there are many people involved in the case.

In the end, more than 900 people were confirmed to be involved in the case, but not all of them were officials and military leaders, and the largest proportion of the number were their families, clansmen and friends, as well as merchants who were contacted through these family members and friends.

These people together were more than 900 people, close to 1,000 people, and they united through various means to resell the imperial court materials back to Yongzhou and make a profit.

The affairs of Yongzhou were not under the management of Chen Zhen, and Chen Zhen only began to deal with the officials involved in the case after the grain and materials entered Liangzhou.

As for the direction of these greedy materials, whether it is necessary to cooperate with the investigation team in Yongzhou in the future, that is something that needs to be summarized later.