Chapter 29 Punishment of Thousands of Households

Back in the house, Gao Gong's mood is still difficult to calm down, he has been an official for decades, what the collapse of the city wall represents in his heart, there must be someone who is greedy for ink to repair the city wall, otherwise how could the city wall that the court spent a lot of money on collapse for no reason.

Thinking of the five dug up corpses, Gao Gong's heart was even more uncomfortable, this is not a natural disaster, it is clearly a man-made disaster! Pity five innocent people who took their lives because of other people's selfish interests.

"Someone!" Thinking about it for a while, Gao Gong felt that he had to ask about this matter, otherwise how to get the emperor's trust, this family, he must take care of it for him, and he must not let some people do anything wrong, harm the people of the world, and damage the emperor's reputation.

Hearing this, the little servant walked in, bowed his head and said, "Master, what do you command!" ”

"Go to Chongming's courtyard, let him find out the cause of the collapse of the city wall tonight, and find out the official in charge of this matter, and say that the old man will be useful tomorrow!" Gao Gong commanded with a straight face, this matter is not at ease when he is handed over to Shuntianfu to investigate, it is not a lie for officials to protect each other, and the speed of their investigation is not as fast as Jinyiwei in any case, he will speak with evidence when he is in the morning tomorrow, and if he does not find out about this matter for a day, this heart will not be stable.

The little guy took the order and left, and it didn't take long for Brother Erdan to take people out of the small courtyard to fight horses and rush to the Yamen of the Zhenfu Division, and a team of Jinyi lieutenants immediately went out to launch a vigorous investigation.

The methods of the Jinyi Guard are indeed extraordinary, coupled with the cooperation of the spies who are ambushed among the people, because of the collapse of the city wall, the Wang Foreman, who could not sleep all night, was seized two hours later to pacify the Yamen, and the wives and children and servants at home were also detained, so as not to ventilate and report the news to prepare the culprit.

Although Brother Erdan is an official of Jinyiwei, he has been running around with Shen Chongming all the year round, and he has no understanding of the means of interrogation, and now Gao Gong is anxious about the evidence of this matter, although he has the intention to take advantage of this incident to get over the addiction of the trial, but after thinking about it, he still handed over the errand to another Zhang Qianhu who cooperated in handling this matter.

Zhang Qianhu is not as strong as ordinary Jinyiwei, but his body is fat and horizontal all over his body, and with two almost erected eyebrows, it doesn't look like a good stubble at a glance, yes, this guy is a thousand households in Jinyiwei who specializes in torture, whenever he encounters a major case and needs to interrogate a prisoner, Zhang Qianhu will personally go out, no matter how tight the other party's teeth are, as long as he has his hands, none of them can carry it for two hours.

And Zhang Qianhu's hobbies are also very weird, usually he is nested in the compound of the pacification envoy like a carpenter, making some weird torture instruments with his own imagination all day long, not to mention that the prisoners are afraid of him, even the captains in brocade clothes are afraid of tigers, and they will never dare to disturb Zhang Qianhu without any major incident.

This incident is the first time that Shen Chongming has used the power of Jinyiwei in the capital to handle the case since he took office, although Zhang Qianhu has a strange habit, but he is also a normal person in dealing with people, he also knows that with Shen Chongming's current momentum, his future achievements are definitely not under the high arch of his teacher, and now he has won his favor, and it will be useful in the future, because of this, he took the initiative to participate in this matter, and he worked tirelessly to prepare to interrogate Foreman Wang himself.

Zhang Qianhu's eyes were vicious, looking at Foreman Wang, who was trembling and sweating and constantly kneeling under the hall, he knew that this kid was just cowardly, and he didn't need to dirty his hands at all.

"Master Ma, although you and I are colleagues, we have never drunk together, this is not our Jinyiwei's rules, today we finally got together, brother, I will have an idea, how about we drink a few glasses of him while trying the case!" Zhang Qianhu looked at Brother Erdan and said with a smile, the fat on his face shook and trembled, and he still couldn't hide his fierce look.

This Lord Ma is not simple, he is a confidant of Lord Shen, and it is also very beneficial for him to be able to have a relationship with him.

The person has been caught, and Brother Erdan knows that he will definitely be able to interrogate all the things clearly before dawn, and it is also a rare pleasure to stay up late to try the case while having a few cups on this big night, so he didn't shirk it, but said in a crepe manner: "Since this is the case, then the little brother is better to obey his fate than to be respectful!" ”

This wine is full of weirdness, Zhang Qianhu directly asked people to put the wine and food in the torture room, facing the west wall full of torture instruments, a large brazier was set up in the center of the torture room, the raging flames did not need a palm lamp at all, and the appetizers were simple, it was a few common snacks for drinking, but there was a lot of wine, and there was a big jar in front of each person, not to mention five catties.

"Hahaha, don't be surprised, Master Ma, this main dish is not easy to make, let's drink it slowly first!" Saying that, Zhang Qianhu hugged the wine jar and filled a big bowl for each of them: "Come, brother, I'll do it first as a respect!" ”

Watching him eat a big bowl without stopping, although Brother Erdan was a little apprehensive about this way of drinking, in order not to lose face, he still raised the bowl and drank it with his brows twisted.

"Okay, brother, I like a refreshing person like you, brother!" Zhang Qianhu gave a thumbs up and said with admiration on his face, and his title was changed, and then he turned his head and ordered: "Come on!" Serve the main course! ”

The two brocade captains on the side bowed, turned around and walked out, and did not let the red-faced Erdan brother wait for a long time, and saw the two of them carrying a suckling pig with an iron rod piercing the whole body walked in, and stood directly on the brazier, and the curious Erdan brother saw clearly that there were two brackets at both ends of the brazier, which was just right to hold the iron rod.

"Hehe, they all say that our Zhenfu Si Yamen is a tiger's den in Longtan that can't be entered, I'm afraid that people won't think that we have a cave here!" Brother Erdan dragged out the words again and again, and Zhang Qianhu, who didn't know his details, couldn't help but look weird, I heard that Lord Shen was abandoning literature and martial arts, but I didn't expect that this Master Ma under him was also like this! They are all cultural people, and they can't complain that they can become Shen's henchmen.

"Get on your knees!" As the suckling pig was put on the brazier, Foreman Wang was also escorted in, and the captain shouted, directly raised his foot and kicked on his calf, not giving Foreman Wang a chance to kneel on his own.

Foreman Wang pounced forward, just knelt behind the brazier, and looked up to see the second brother on the other side and the lower half of Zhang Qianhu's body, and the rest was blocked by the roast suckling pig in front of him.

The two ate and drank, and did not pay attention to the Wang Foreman who knelt there in fear, except for the sound of the conversation between the two in the torture room, the rest was only the sound of the suckling pig being roasted and the oil and water falling into the fire.

There have always been people adding firewood, so the fire has not been weakened, not to mention the Wang Gongtou who is kneeling next to the brazier, even the captains standing at the base of the wall are sweating profusely, and Brother Erdan and Zhang Qianhu, who are drinking wine, are already shirtless.

Smoked by the flames for more than half an hour, the Wang foreman, who had been sweating unbroken, was almost dehydrated, and his head became groggy, and some inappropriate cranky thoughts appeared from time to time.

"Brother Ma! Although you have been on an errand in our Jinyiwei for a while, you have been running around with Lord Shen, but I am afraid that you have not seen the punishment of our Jinyiwei! Mei Zizi drank half a bowl of wine, and Zhang Qianhu wiped it