According to Li Sui's previous explanation, Aunt Lan retreated left and right, and interrogated Li Shiyu, who relied on the senior officials of the court, and was even more cunning and vicious, so Aunt Lan had no choice but to bring Xiahou and Chen Xing to confront him face to face.

"My lord, Xiaomin is a small businessman who makes a living by buying and selling some cloth, why is it so difficult for Xiaomin? The robber you summoned up, Xiaomin really didn't know, he stole his money, I sold my cloth, Xiaomin has nothing to do with him. If the adult wants to be convicted, he should be convicted, but it really has nothing to do with the small people? ”

"It doesn't matter? Why did he report you?! ”

Then Li Shiyu glanced at Chen Xing very indifferently, "He is a mad dog biting people, this person, Xiaomin doesn't know him, isn't it in order to get rid of his guilt, but he deliberately found someone to frame him." It's just that Xiaomin and this robber really don't know each other,"

It's really the master who doesn't cry when he doesn't see the coffin,

"Sophistry!" Aunt Lan: "Smack! He slapped the table and stood up, "Do you think we only noticed you today?!" How dare you quibble here! ”

"Since I can't pry your mouth, let the torture in the prison of the Criminal Department serve you! Look at your hard mouth or the torture instrument of the Criminal Department! I also want to see if there will be the Lord Chen in your heart to intercede for you before you can't stand it! ”

As soon as Aunt Lan mentioned Lord Chen, Li Shiyu's brows trembled twice, but he quickly retracted his expression, and these slight changes in his expression did not escape Aunt Lan's eyes, and Li Shiyu's whole person lost his previous arrogance.

"Someone! Carry the torture equipment of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment to the hall! Torture this Li Shiyu, who doesn't know the times! Until he confessed. "Aunt Lan gave an order, and a set of torture instruments was really brought in from the outside.

A few people came up, and without saying anything, they tied Li Shiyu to the shelf and hung their hands on it,

"My lord, are you starting the torture first?"

This kind of character who eats inside and outside, sells for glory, actually secretly conveys silver taels to Rouran Kingdom, if there are no silver taels, Rouran Kingdom may not come to invade the Central Plains, how can so many innocent people die.

I can't wait to pick his skin now, if it weren't for the high-ranking officials behind him and the evidence of Chen Shangshu, he would have been killed with a knife!

As a result, he kept prevaricating his guilt, and Aunt Lan ordered hatefully: "Whip me up!" ”

Just two whips went down, and that Li Shiyu came out, "Ah! Yes! Yes! His voice could be heard by the entire yamen of Jingzhao Mansion Yin, and Chen Xing knelt beside him, trembling constantly, as if the whip was about to be whipped on his body.

Then, the tortured soldier made a fire again, and burned the iron tongs, then Li Shiyu looked at the red iron tongs, and immediately opened his eyes, he originally helped Chen Shangshu to do these things for pleasure, where would he think that he would suffer like this, these whips, Li Shiyu has already begun to regret why he didn't say it directly just now, or, because confession can also avoid capital crimes.

This woman actually put iron tongs on herself again, how can she bear this?!

"My ......, my lord"

Before Li Shiyu could say the word "confession", an iron tong had already burned his chest. Yes! ……”

Li Shiyu screamed miserably, fainted in pain, and Aunt Lan asked him to wake him up with cold water left and right.

Aunt Lan sat in the hall, stared at Li Shiyu, and said:

"Do you want to keep quibbling?!"

Li Shiyu said weakly: "My lord, I confess." I confessed to everything, that is, you can no longer torture me. ”

Brat! It's cheaper for you! After only a few hits, you confessed.

"Okay, put down the criminal Li Shiyu and pull him to the front of the hall to talk!"

Li Shiyu knelt softly in the hall, all the majesty that had just come in was gone, and Li Shiyu, who had a vibrating mouth just now, was like two people.

Aunt Lan was quite impatient, "Tell me quickly, who instructed you to do this kind of stealing?" How many downlines do you have? ”

"There are twenty people in Xiaomin's downline, distributed all over the country, and this Chen Xing is just one of them. Xiaomin did these things completely under the command of Chen Shangshu of the current dynasty, and Xiaomin's errand was to exchange the silver money handed over from these twenty places into silver tickets every month and hand them over to Chen Shangshu, as for the rest, Xiaomin did not know. ”

Ay? What's going on?

Still want to eat whips?

"Smack!" Aunt Lan was shocked.

"Li Shiyu! If you still spit like this, don't blame me for torturing you again! ”

Li Shiyu hurriedly said: "Xiaomin is a small civilian saved by Chen Shangshu, it turned out that it was because he forcibly occupied a woman that Xiaomin liked, and as a result, the woman committed suicide, and the government arrested me." ”

"It was Chen Shangshu who saved Xiaomin, so Xiaomin has been running errands for Chen Shangshu, Xiaomin originally didn't know where these silver coins went, until the army of Rouran Kingdom entered, Chen Shangshu, happy for a while, drank more wine, and told Xiaomin about it, saying that these silver tickets were exchanged for silver taels at a transit station in the land of Qiantang, and they were to be sent to King Rouran,"

He also said that if the Rouran army hit the Central Plains, it would definitely be indispensable to Chen Shangshu's benefits, and he would be promoted to the rank of Taishi, second only to the rights of King Rouran. Naturally, the benefits of the brothers are indispensable. ”

This Chen Shangshu, the family has been an official for generations, earning the court's money, enjoying the benefits brought by the court, and the emperor is not thin to treat their Chen family now, besides, there is Concubine Xin in the harem. The benefits that others can't ask for, let him give them. Quick Eye 123

Now, what is the purpose of doing this kind of thing?!

******

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Li Suiwei sat on the dragon chair, with the former leader of the sword in front of him, and the Shangshu of the other four departments on both sides, all waiting for Chen Shangshu to come over to discuss matters.

Chen Shangshu hurriedly came, all the old ministers looked at him, Li Sui saw Chen Shangshu enter the hall, so he gave a look to the prince, the prince understood, turned down, after a while, he came up, glanced at Li Sui, nodded.

Chen Shangshu saw that it was not only himself who came this time, and he was still a little disappointed.

He always thinks about being the most powerful person in the dynasty, so powerful that the emperor will ask him if he has anything, and he also hopes that he can become the only person around the emperor who gives advice, and it is best to be above ten thousand people under one person.

However, today, this is obviously not the same situation, all the other ministers have arrived, and the emperor wants to discuss with everyone. This emperor is really young, and he really doesn't know that among the civil and military generals of the Manchu Dynasty, he is the most capable person.

Even, he can help the emperor repel the army of Rouran Kingdom, but unfortunately, he doesn't attach so much importance to himself, since this is the case, there is no need to help him! Let him die in the country!

Chen Shangshu knelt down at His Royal Highness: "The old minister sees the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Li Sui looked at his face, and there was nothing unusual, "Chen Aiqing, let's be flat." ”

Chen Shangshu stood up and stood on one side,

Waiting for the emperor to ask questions, ask those things about Rouran Kingdom.

"Zhong Aiqing, I, I want to ask you today, do you know a shop in the capital called Li's Cloth Village?"

Chen Shangshu "chuckled" in his heart, and his head followed with a "buzz", how could the emperor suddenly mention this? Did he know something?

How is that possible? It's been two or three years, and he's been doing it so secretively, he's been in the temple all day, that is, he missed the early dynasty a few times recently because the banshee was killed, and he won't know anything.

A few old ministers, look at me, let me look at you, what's going on today? In this hurry, he summoned himself to ask such questions, didn't he say that he wanted to discuss the battle ahead? This emperor has always been diligent, and he is shrewd and decisive, today, what's wrong, why is he confused?

Really, where would we know that, this cloth buying errand has always been done by the servants of the house, and at most the ladies and ladies will go to see it, how can we know?

"Back to the emperor, the old minister doesn't know. I've never been there. ”

"Back to the emperor, the old minister doesn't know."

Li Sui looked at Chen Shangshu, "So, does Chen Shangshu know?" ”

"Lao Chen doesn't know, but Lao Chen's family may have bought cloth in that shop, maybe they will know."

Li Sui glanced at Chen Shangshu, and a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, "Recently, Jingzhao Mansion handled a big case, because of a small case of theft, a big gang of thieves was actually dug up. ”

Li Sui stopped and looked at Chen Shangshu, Chen Shangshu's face had turned pale, and his expression gradually became nervous.

His heart was already up and down now, and when he talked about the thief gang, his heart became even more nervous, and he also had a hunch that today's affairs were by no means as simple as discussing state affairs.

There must not be any good medicine in this emperor's gourd!

Those old ministers are you look at me, I look at you,

"Your Majesty, at the feet of this Son of Heaven, there are still people who dare to act like this, and a gang of thieves has been formed, this is simply shocking!"

Li Sui said coldly: "Yes, I, after hearing this news, I was also shocked and angry!" But someone dares to do such nonsense! ”

Li Sui's eyes stared straight at Chen Shangshu for a while, and then turned his head and said: "According to what Jingzhao Mansion understands now, this big gang is an organization all over the country, and their stealing members are managed layer by layer, and the upper level only talks to their own lower level, and does not understand the affairs of other levels,"

"There is a junior prefect above the little thief, who is responsible for gathering the things stolen by the little thief in one place, and then, every month, he has to go to a fixed contact point and hand it over to his superior governor, and his superior prefect will collect the things of several junior prefects under his jurisdiction and hand them over to a certain place in the capital."

The more the four old ministers listened, the more solemn their expressions became, "Oh, this kind of organized and premeditated theft, this is the first time I have seen it in my dynasty, this form is really unexpected, what kind of person commanded such a big gang, if it is all over the country, how many things will be stolen this year." ”

Li Sui ignored the old minister, and continued: "And the gathering point in this capital is the Li family's cloth village, and they all have to hand it over to the boss of the Li family's cloth village,"

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu sighed and said: "I see, no wonder the emperor just asked everyone if they recognized him, they haven't heard of him, but they look very promising,"

Shangshu of the Criminal Department hurriedly answered: "Your Majesty, the old minister interjected, since we know that it is this Boss Li, then we still have to catch him now, in case he runs away, it will be difficult to say." ”

As soon as Chen Shangshu heard this, he couldn't wait to bite this troublesome criminal department Shangshu to death, he was angry and afraid at this time, and he didn't say a word.

Li Sui got up and stepped off his dragon chair, "Early this morning, the people of Jingzhao Mansion have gone to Li's Cloth Village to capture the bandit leader named Li Shiyu,"