Liu Rong's revenge came quickly.

In the sixteenth year of Liyang, the eighth day of October

When Liu Lane was interrogated by officials from the Criminal Department and other three legal divisions, Liu Lane openly confessed in court that he, Xie Guang, Zhao Ben and others were just puppets pushed out.

There are other people who really collude with the pirates of the East China Sea, and all the rebellious things he has done are also instructed and instructed by this person behind his back.

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked!

The officials of the Three Law Division, who were originally just routine inquiries, looked at Liu Nong, who had a calm face, looked at each other, and was speechless in surprise.

No wonder these officials were surprised, since Emperor Liyang ordered Liu to be imprisoned, this Weiyi Marquis may have known that his death was imminent, and he had no worries in his heart, and he did not cooperate with the interrogation of the Three Law Divisions at all.

And because the stakes of this case are very high, these officials in charge of interrogation did not dare to rashly punish Liu, otherwise they would be summoned and would be suspected of extorting confessions by torture.

Therefore, later, when the officials of the Three Law Divisions saw that they couldn't pry Liu Rong's mouth open, they turned their heads to interrogate other people involved in the case.

Liu Lane colluded with the pirates of the East China Sea, and naturally there were people under him who had contact with the pirates, and after the incident of Liu Lane, most of these people were also caught and imprisoned with Liu Lane.

Liu Rong is not afraid of boiling water to kill the pig, his subordinates do not have the courage, and in the face of the interrogation of the Three Law Divisions, they will reveal the collusion between Liu Rong and the pirates through 1510 and 150.

Therefore, with these testimonies in hand, there is ironclad evidence of mobile collusion with pirates, and whether he himself admits it or quibbles or not, it cannot change the verdict.

As a result, the officials of the Three Law Divisions were too lazy to deal with Liu Lane, who would have thought that today, the silent Liu Lane suddenly broke out, saying that there was a mastermind behind him.

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In the face of Liu Rong's "mastermind" rhetoric, the officials of the Three Law Divisions did not dare to slack off.

After all, judging from the facts of the case they had, Liu Lane was the first to collude with the pirates, and the subordinates of Zhennan General Xie Guang, Honglu Temple Qing Zhao Ben and Liu Lane were all pulled into the water by Liu Lane after he cooperated with the pirates.

Therefore, these people can prove that Liu Lane colluded with pirates in the East China Sea, but they can't say whether there is a mastermind behind Liu Lane.

If there really is such a person, then I'm afraid only Liu Lane can tell his identity.

However, there are many doubts in this matter, and they can't just listen to Liu Rong's words, they have never heard that there is a commander behind Liu Rong, so whether this matter is true or false is not easy to judge now.

Maybe it was Liu who made a trick and deliberately fabricated such a person to share his guilt.

But anyway, since Liu Lane opened his mouth, they had to inquire clearly.

Liu Lane is now in a prison and has no contact with the outside world, so naturally he cannot twist the evidence, and then according to Liu Lane's confession and inquiring about the evidence, there will be a way to prove the truth of this matter.

However, these officials quickly closed their doors, and after Liu Lane said that there was someone else behind him, he didn't say much about it, how the officials in the video court coerced and lured, he just gritted his teeth and didn't reveal the slightest word about the identity of the person behind him.

The officials of the Three Law Divisions were helpless and asked Liu Lane how to let go, and Liu Lane was silent for half a pillar of incense before saying four words.

"I want to face the saint!"

"Impossible."

Cao Dahua, the left attendant of the Criminal Department who was in charge of the trial, flatly refused: "Your Majesty is furious because of what you are waiting for, I will never see you, so don't be delusional about facing the saint." ”

Liu Lane was not surprised by Cao Dahua's refusal, he nodded and didn't say much, and shook off the chains on his body.

"In that case, send me back."

Cao Dahua frowned, and shouted with a gloomy face: "Liu Rong, don't pretend here, don't think that this official will not dare to torture you, if it is beneficial to the country, this official is not afraid of taking responsibility." ”

The implication is that if Liu Lane does not cooperate, Cao Dahua will be held accountable for the damage to his reputation in the future, and Liu Lane will also be punished.

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In the face of Cao Shilang's threat, Liu Rong was not afraid, he looked at Cao Dahua with his eyes leisurely, and said with a somewhat sarcastic smile.

"Do you think Liu is scared? I put this 100 catties of meat here, you have the courage to dispose of it at will, if I can't stand the torture and spit out half a word, I will write the word Liu upside down. ”

Cao Dahua was furious and slapped the table vigorously: "Toast and don't eat and drink, come and clamp the stick." ”

Several officials wearing soap clothes took a few pairs of clamping sticks and came up, some clamped hands, some clamped feet, Cao Dahua waved his hand, and the officials pressed Liu Rong's hands and feet to put the clamping sticks on.

Then several people divided the work, some people held the clamp, some people held Liu Rong's body to prevent him from moving, and some people dragged the side rope of the clamp stick at two ends, just waiting for the order.

"Clip!"

Cao Dahua looked at it coldly, and ordered in a deep voice.

The servant's subordinates worked hard, pulled the side rope of the clamping stick, and drove the clamping stick to squeeze Liu Rong's fingers and ankles.

"Uh-huh...... Ah......h

Liu Lane instantly felt a sharp pain in his hands and feet, snorted, and his body wanted to struggle uncontrollably, but was held down by the officials.

He could only grit his teeth and stiffen up, but after a moment, his face was flushed, and cold sweat flowed, wetting his hair, his body convulsed, and he screamed in pain.

However, despite this, Liu Lane didn't mean to open his mouth at all, and when Cao Dahua asked the officials to pause, he collapsed on the ground, and he even had the heart to provoke Cao Dahua.

"How is Liu's speech? And what punishment there is, come with it. ”

Cao Dahua's eyelids jumped slightly, he glanced at Liu Lane deeply, and suddenly smiled coldly: "This official underestimated Wei Yihou, but it doesn't matter, there are still some gadgets in the Criminal Department, and this official can let Wei Yihou slowly understand."

The criminal department is tired of playing, and there is Dali Temple, Dali Temple is tired of playing and Long Xiao School, the official doesn't believe it, there are still iron men in this world who can survive the punishment of Sanya. ”

After that, Cao Dahua glanced outside the hall, it is now the beginning of winter, although the weather is not very cold, but it is also quite cold.

Cao Shilang's heart moved, and he thought of a good idea: "Come here, take the car and ice, and then remove Liu Houye's clothes, and give him defeat." ”

This is an ice torture, which is the most boiling in winter.

Cao Dahua used this method, it can be seen that he hated Liu Rong's ignorance, and deliberately cleaned up Liu Rong.

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However, what Cao Dahua didn't expect was that this ice torture was also useless to Liu Lang.

Liu Lane was dressed in a single coat and was in an ice bucket, standing up for nearly two hours, his body was almost frozen, but he gritted his teeth and didn't say anything.

Other officials were afraid that Liu Rong would freeze to death, so they persuaded Cao Dahua to use other methods, and Cao Dahua was persuaded to let Liu Rong be rescued, take the cold and hot soup, and when he recovered, he immediately applied the method of adding officials to interrogate him.

The so-called Tiejia Official, also known as Kaijia Official, is the torture of officials specially dealt with by the Criminal Department.

Mulberry paper is pressed against the face, water is sprayed until the paper is wet, layer by layer of paper, causing the prisoner's mouth and nose to be sealed, so that he cannot breathe and suffers from suffocation, so as to confess.

This punishment does not leave any external injuries, and the physical harm to the prisoner is not as great as other tortures, which is considered a relatively smart punishment.

Cao Dahua was afraid that Liu Rong would lose his life, so he used this method to force him to ask, but Liu Rong still refused to let go.

Cao Dahua put several sets of punishments on Liu Lane, tossed for a day and a night, Liu Lane had no good place on his body, but Cao Dahua still got nothing.

"Is it true that you really want Liu Rong to see Your Majesty? But in this way, he can leave an impression of incompetence in front of His Majesty. ”

Cao Dahua was very unwilling, but he couldn't pry Liu Rong's mouth open.

"Behind the scenes" Many officials of the Three Law Divisions know about this matter, and he can't hide it and not report it, otherwise he will be known by Emperor Liyang in the future, which is a big crime of bullying the king.

Cao Dahua has a criminal department director surnamed Zhou, who has always loved to meet his wishes, but he saw that his boss hesitated and didn't want Liu to face the saint, so he had a bad idea.

"Liu Lang's bones are hard, but Xia Guan doesn't believe that his heart is so cold and hard, isn't there still Liu Rong's two sons in prison, let's take him as a hostage and torture him, so can Liu Lane watch his son suffer and be indifferent?"

"This ......... It's too bad, isn't it? ”

Cao Dahua hesitated, not because he couldn't bear it, but because he was afraid that this matter would spread and his reputation would be hindered.

Director Zhou saw Cao Dahua's concerns, gritted his teeth, and took the initiative to speak: "My lord is merciful, but I am also thinking about official affairs, if my lord can't bear it, you might as well go back and avoid it for a long time, and this evil thing will be done." ”

In the future, the news will spread, and the bad reputation will also be carried by him.

Cao Dahua's eyes lit up, he looked at his subordinate approvingly, patted the other party's shoulder, and everything was not in words.

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After that, Cao Dahua excused himself to be tired, dispersed most of the officials, handed over the interrogation to Director Zhou, and returned home.

After Cao and the others left, Director Zhou immediately asked Liu Yu and Liu Tian to bring in the brothers Liu Yu and Liu Tian, and deliberately tortured them in front of Liu Rong.

Sure enough, Liu Rong could endure all kinds of torture without saying a word, but he couldn't see his beloved son suffering in front of him, and when he saw his two sons being tortured by Zhou She, he scolded Zhou at the same time, and his previous hard attitude was obviously relaxed.

Seeing this, Director Zhou was overjoyed, and was about to strike while the iron was hot, and completely borrowed Liu Yu's brothers to pry open Liu Rong's mouth, but he didn't want to be careless for a while, Liu Yu took the opportunity of the coma to paralyze the officials next to him, so that he broke free from the shackles of everyone, and hit his head into the pillar in the room and died.

And before Director Zhou and others could react, Liu Tian, who was being tortured on the side, saw that his eldest brother had committed suicide, and he also spit out the strip of cloth in his mouth, and shouted "Dad, avenge us" with Liu Rong, and then bit his tongue and committed suicide.

In the blink of an eye, both hostages were dead.

Director Zhou was frightened, and hurriedly asked Liu to tie up and stuff his mouth tightly to prevent him from committing suicide.

However, Director Zhou didn't know that Liu Lane had no intention of committing suicide at all, he glanced at the corpses of his two sons with some distraction, closed his eyes and rested, and honestly tied himself up by the officials.

He can't die now, he wants to avenge his wife and children first, and then go down to reunite with their family............

It didn't take long for Cao Dahua and others who heard the news to hurry over, and when they heard that Liu Yu's brother had committed suicide, Cao Shilang directly slapped Director Zhou a few times.

"There is not enough success, but there are more failures, how do you tell me to explain to Your Majesty."

But it had already happened, and it was too late to say anything, Cao Dahua sent two fires, asked Liu Rong to take care of him, packed his official uniform, turned around and rushed to the palace in a carriage, and asked to see Emperor Liyang.

Before Liu Lane broke the news, he didn't report it to Emperor Liyang for the time being, because he wanted to verify the truth of the matter from Liu Lane's mouth, so as to save in case something went wrong and damage his face in front of the emperor.

But now that Liu Rong's second son is dead, the matter can no longer be hidden, and it can't be hidden.

Therefore, instead of waiting for Emperor Liyang to inquire in the future, if he preemptively reported it, anyway, Liu Yu and the others were not killed by him, and he pushed the head of Zhou to come out and take the main responsibility, at most he was guilty of dereliction of duty, and he could not hurt his vitality.

Two hours after Cao Dahua entered the palace, the palace sent someone to take Liu Lane away, and King Duan, who had been paying attention here, heard the news and couldn't help but sigh to Princess Duan next to him.

"This Liu Lang is really ruthless, in order to take revenge, he actually gave up his two sons, this king is a little lucky, he is not dealing with this king."

Princess Duan also looked worried: "Now this Liu Lane is a poisonous snake covered in poison, it's not good to get in touch with him, the prince wants him to bite King Jing, you might as well make friends with him."

Liu Rong's father and son let Cao and Zhou Erren of the Criminal Department torture them in every way, and they will inevitably have a grudge against them, if the prince takes action to rectify the two, Liu Lane will definitely be grateful to the prince.

We don't ask him how to repay his kindness, but only let him concentrate on taking revenge on King Jing, even if it is the righteousness of the prince. ”

King Duan nodded and said: "Cao and Zhou are vicious and cruel, acting cruelly and unkindly, and they are not the way of righteous ministers, so they should indeed be rectified." ”

After that, he asked people to summon a few staff members to prepare to eradicate the cool officials, and by the way, he used this to buy and win over Liu Rong, a big killer weapon............