On the second day, after Li Tingbiao entered the palace, he met Emperor Chongzhen for the first time, and he requested that the suspected eunuchs and palace maids be escorted to the imperial prison for strict interrogation.

Chongzhen felt that it was a bit inappropriate to use large-scale torture in the palace, so he approved Li Tingbiao's suggestion.

Under the escort of the Jinyi guard, a large number of eunuchs and palace maids were sent to the imperial prison, passing through the official office area on the first line of Chengtianmen along the way, which shocked everyone, this young majesty should have felt the crisis and should investigate the matter thoroughly.

After Li Tingbiao's strict screening, half of the eunuchs and palace maids were released from the edict the next day, and these people escaped death and wept with joy.

According to the identification of the ears and eyes arranged in the palace, Li Tingbiao kept all the eunuchs and palace maids who colluded with the foreign court and provided information in the palace to the foreign ministers, even if they were suspicious.

In the edict prison, the interrogation of some of the remaining palace maids and eunuchs by the Jinyi guards continued, and from time to time there was the sound of whipping and splashing water, and there was a trace of the smell of burnt flesh.

Many people have been beaten with open skin and flesh, and they are no longer human, and some have fainted several times, and they have been woken up by cold water, and then continue to be grilled, and so on.

In a torture room, a eunuch was tied to a tiger chair, and a charcoal basin was placed in front of it, in which several red-hot soldering irons were placed. ”

The hot soldering iron dangled in front of the eunuch's face, and the hot air curled several of his heads, the eunuch was numb from tossing, his hair was messy, hanging down weakly, and his mouth kept muttering: "The slave and maid are not poisoned, the slave and maid are wronged......."

When this brocade guard heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Still fucking pretending to be stupid, Lao Tzu is asking you, under the old cypress tree in Wenyuan Pavilion, what did you say to Wen Tiren?" ”

As he spoke, he slammed the red-hot soldering iron under the eunuch, followed by a heart-piercing scream.

In a nearby torture room, a palace maid lay trembling on the ground, her clothes were disheveled, only strips of cloth were left from the whipping, and there were red blood marks on her arms and legs.

A brocade-clothed guard squatted in front of her and said, "Look at your originally delicate body, it has been beaten like this, so let's recruit it, so as not to suffer some more flesh and skin." ”

The palace maid had tears in her eyes and remained motionless, which made the interrogation Jinyi Wei Baihu angry all of a sudden, and waved her hand and said, "Serve the execution!" ”

After the Tang Dynasty, the government of various dynasties used the usual method of extorting confessions from female prisoners, and the woman's hands were generally very skillful, if they were injured or disabled, they would hurt the woman very much, and the pain of ten fingers and heart when tortured was extremely unbearable.

Jin Yiwei picked up one of the palace maid's hands and praised softly: "Tut, look at your little hand with white palm bones and slender fingers, it's a pity that it's wasted." ”

As he spoke, he slowly put the palace maid's fingers in the hand, and glanced at the palace maid again, seeing that she still didn't react, the brocade-clothed guard Baihu said coldly: "Punishment!" ”

The brocade-clothed guards on both sides of it pushed back at the same time, and the palace maid suddenly raised her head, screamed, and fainted.

A scoop of cold water quickly splashed on the palace maid's face, the palace maid lay on the ground and shivered smartly, only to feel that the hairs of her hands were painful, and she said like a mosquito: "I will recruit....... I'm ....... I've only had sex with Commander Luo once....... I...... I only told him once that His Majesty was cold......."

Several Jinyi guards looked at each other in a daze, all of them found a strange color in each other's eyes, but they didn't expect to have a lace news reviewed, or about the commander of Jinyiwei........

During the edict and prison, Li Tingbiao was personally in charge, and he had to deal with these mountains of interrogation materials every day, classify and compare them, and obtain some effective information from them.

He also selected a few smart and reliable young Jinyi guards from his cronies, taught them, and assisted himself to sort them out together, which was also intentionally cultivating a few people, so that they could stand alone in the future.

The scope of screening the ears and eyes in the palace is shrinking step by step, and the daily torture is gradually increasing, Li Tingbiao is not in a hurry at all, he firmly believes that as long as the person who has committed the crime, there is nothing in his hands that cannot be spit out.

In Kunning Palace, Zhu Cihong was lying on the couch, his face was much better, and he had long stopped vomiting.

In fact, he was fine as early as that night, and he has been pretending to be weak, and he has used all kinds of acting skills he learned from the later "I Am an Actor" program.

After learning that the suspects in the palace were all sent to prison, he knew that Li Tingbiao had realized his purpose.

His purpose is very simple: first, to use his poisoning to make Chongzhen feel that all this is a conspiracy of some courtiers, so that he will be afraid and suspend the disposal of the Yongwei Battalion.

Second, use this matter to purge the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, find out the eyes and ears of all the courtiers in the palace, and then use these eyes and ears to get rid of some courtiers who are accused of colluding with the inner court.

In terms of the current situation, he is about to forcibly take the position, and the time is not ripe at the moment, so he can only barrel this kind of soft knife, which is more thorough than directly letting the Yongwei battalion kill people with firearms.

Sure enough, in recent days, Chongzhen always felt that there were people in the court who were plotting against him, and today there was news from Liu Yuanbin, the supervisor of the Yongwei Battalion, that the generals of the Yongwei Battalion learned that the crown prince was poisoned, and everyone was angry, and the whole battalion was ready to be prepared by the Qing Jun, just waiting to find out who was poisoned behind the scenes.

Chongzhen became extremely anxious for a while, and he really wanted Li Tingbiao to find out who was behind the scenes as soon as possible, but he was afraid that after finding out, the Yongwei Battalion really came to the side of Qingjun........

After two days and two nights of tossing and turning, he finally decided to make a final decision on the mutiny of the Yongwei Battalion.

At the court meeting, Emperor Chongzhen's Sacred Heart was dictatorial and issued a decree to kill all the officials who slandered the crown prince and the Yongwei camp in the court!

At the same time, the general of the second rank hussar who won Huang Degong was changed to the general of the third rank of Zhaoyong, and the general of Sun Yingyuan was changed to the general of the third rank of Zhaoyi, and the two still retained the general army of the Beijing camp and were in charge of the Yongwei battalion.

The Yongwei Battalion of the Beijing Division was led by Huang Dequan and stationed in Daxing, and the Yongwei Battalion of the Xincheng Garrison was led by Sun Yingyuan and stationed in Langfang.

This series of holy decrees was issued, which made the ministers in an uproar, although a large number of officials opposed it, Chongzhen turned a deaf ear and behaved extremely strongly.

Zhu Cihong was quite satisfied with this result, Emperor Laozi still didn't dare to move the Yongwei camp, and took away Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan's hussar general and Jinwu general rank Just a meaning, this thing is equivalent to a military rank, it's just good-looking, and the most important military position has not changed.

As for the garrison, Langfang is eighty miles away from the Forbidden City, and Daxing is only forty miles away from the Forbidden City.

On the second day after the decree was issued, the imperial court held a grand cane execution ceremony, and more than 20 officials were dragged to the noon gate by the brocade guards to carry out the cane punishment.

Under the observation of hundreds of officials, these officials howled desperately, shouting heartbreakingly for Emperor Taizu's original intention of setting up officials, and bitterly calling Emperor Chongzhen for his unreasonableness, and his words were extremely poignant.

Some civil officials also desperately pleaded for mercy, accusing the emperor of unjust punishment, but Chongzhen just looked at him coldly and was not moved at all.

In the end, more than 20 civil officials were killed with a cane on the spot, realizing their dream of defrauding the court cane all the year round, and even some civil officials who pleaded for mercy were also disabled on the spot, and they could only lie on the bed for the rest of their lives to write and talk about national affairs.

After watching some officials who were full of farts on weekdays being killed with rods, Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan kowtowed in front of the noon gate to thank them, and on the same day, they led the Yongwei battalion to go to Daxing and Langfang respectively.

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Congratulations to the book friend [JackieZXW] for becoming the first leader of this book! Thank you so much!

According to the rules, it seems that an alliance leader wants to add ten chapters........

Recently, I am working on the outline of the second volume, but I really don't have any manuscripts in reserve, so I owe it first, and pay it back slowly.......