"Hey, what are you doing? What sin are you? Zhao Junsheng pretended to be surprised.

Mao Xiuzhi kowtowed again and again, "Your Majesty, the old minister has failed the grace of the saint and used his authority to provide shelter for the Xingyuan Association Konstantin and others, seeking personal gain and money, and the old minister is guilty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng put it down, got up from the desk and looked at Mao Xiuzhi, he picked up the teacup and took two sips, "Mao Xiuzhi, I always thought you were an honest person, but today, not only are you not honest, but you are cunning!" Just such a small thing, is it worth making a big deal about? ”

The beads of sweat on Mao Xiuzhi's forehead rose even more, he was terrified in his heart, he didn't know what Zhao Junsheng was talking about, so he had to explain another thing about his corruption and bending the law: "Eight years ago, the imperial garden was built, and the minister was in charge of organizing it at that time, and he used his power to embezzle 150,000 yuan!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Since I have said two things, it is better to simply say them all in one go, lest I ask again and again, my patience is not good, if you don't say it at this time, maybe you won't even have a chance to say it in the future!" ”

The last sentence frightened Mao Xiuzhi, and he hurriedly used his brain to recall other things he had committed over the years, "Five years ago, Xinfeng County ordered Hu Guizheng to give 100,000 yuan to the ministers, and the ministers dredged the yamen of the court and sought the position of Tianshui Taishou······"

Mao Xiuzhi said more than a dozen things about corruption and perversion of the law and selling official positions, and sweat rained down as he spoke.

Zhao Junsheng listened quietly, and opened a booklet from time to time to take a look, which recorded Mao Xiuzhi's political achievements over the years and the corruption he had done in secret.

Gone? Zhao Junsheng closed the booklet and asked.

Mao Xiuzhi was already paralyzed on the ground at this time, and nodded weakly: "It's gone!" ”

There was a loud bang.

I saw Zhao Jun slap the table violently, and said angrily: "Mao Xiuzhi, I see that you are really a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, it has come to this point, you are still sloppy with me, do you really think that my knife is unfavorable, do you think that someone can keep you?" ”

Mao Xiuzhi was not originally frightened by Zhao Junsheng's anger, he had committed so many things, if he really had to deal with it according to the law of the country, he would definitely not live, so he had decided to die, but Zhao Junsheng's last sentence reminded him of something, and his face changed again on the spot.

He remembered that there was one more thing that had not been explained, and the cases he had put down earlier only involved him personally, that is, no matter how it was judged, his family and relatives would not be involved, but the last thing involved the entire family.

Zhao Junsheng stared at Mao Xiuzhi's expression and eyes, and immediately knew that he had used this trick correctly, and immediately said: "Mao Xiuzhi, if you take the initiative to confess and strive for meritorious service, I can also look at the fact that you have followed me for so many years and have made contributions to the country, and only you will be held accountable, if you let me say ······ for you."

"Your Majesty······ A few months ago, King Jing asked the old minister to meet and asked the old minister to arrange a position for the people he brought, but how could the official position of the court be easily awarded? The old minister immediately refused, but then King Jing took out a booklet, which was full of those wrong things that the old minister had secretly committed in recent years, and the old minister was terrified, not only greedy for his current power, but also did not dare to confess to His Majesty, so he could only obey King Jing's wishes and be subject to him from then on! ”

Zhao Junsheng's face was expressionless, "During this time, what have you done for him, tell me one by one!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Mao Xiuzhi agreed, and hurriedly took out the things he did for King Jing.

Zhao Junsheng didn't know whether Mao Xiuzhi was controlled by King Jing, he was only guessing and doubting, because Mao Xiuzhi's secret files were very unclean, and this kind of person was the object of King Jing's coercion, if it was those ministers who only had some minor problems, they would not be easily coerced and controlled by King Jing.

This time, Zhao Junsheng just deceived Mao Xiuzhi, but he didn't expect to be deceived by him.

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Besides you, I'm afraid that there are other people in the court who are coerced and controlled by King Jing, right?" ”

Things have come to this point, and Mao Xiuzhi has nothing to continue to hide, he said: "The minister can be sure that there are two, and there are three uncertain!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to Kang Yide next to him: "Give him that ink, paper, and inkstone!" Write the names of the people who can be determined above, and the names of the people who are uncertain below! ”

Kang Yide immediately took a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and put it in front of Mao Xiuzhi.

Mao Xiuzhi stretched out his trembling hand and picked up the brush, and wrote down five names on the white paper, two on top and three below.

Kang Yide picked up the paper with the names written on it and sent it to Zhao Junsheng's imperial case, Zhao Junsheng took it and looked at the names of the five people on the paper, in fact, he had expected it, because these five people were the most unclean in the secret files waiting for the lawsuit, and King Jing only had the opportunity to coerce and control these five people.

But according to Mao Xiuzhi, the following three people are not sure of him, which means that these three people are not necessarily controlled by King Jing.

From the handwriting on the paper, it can be seen that Mao Xiuzhi's mood at this time is worried, fearful, and panicked!

Zhao Junsheng put down the paper with the name written on it and said to Kang Yide: "Bring the wine!" ”

Kang Yide bowed, turned around and waved his hand to a eunuch, who picked up the warm wine placed next to the stove and put it on the tray, took another wine cup, and brought it to Mao Xiuzhi with a glass of wine.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Mao Xiuzhi, the weather is cold, I will reward you with a glass of warm wine to warm your body!" ”

Mao Xiuzhi's eyes and face showed a look of horror, and he looked at the wine jug and wine cup on the tray like a frightened snake and scorpion.

Kang Yide said beside him: "Lord Mao, this is given to you by His Majesty, and you still don't thank Lord Longen?" ”

Mao Xiu's face was as dead as ashes, and he knelt down and thanked him: "Thank you, Lord Longen!" ”

After the salute was finished, Mao Xiuzhi slowly got up and stretched out his trembling hands to pick up the wine cup.

The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die!

This sentence flashed from Mao Xiuzhi's mind at this moment.

It was obviously a glass of warm wine, but Mao Xiuzhi drank it until he drank it without any temperature in his mouth, not even the taste of wine, he was so frightened that he couldn't even taste the temperature and the taste of wine.

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Mao Xiuzhi, how is this wine?" ”

The fear on Mao Xiuzhi's face became stronger and stronger, and he said against his heart in fear: "Thank you, Your Majesty, good wine!" ”

"Oh? Since it's a good wine, drink more! Here, pour him another glass! ”

The eunuch poured another glass, and Mao Xiuzhi watched as the clear wine was poured into the wine cup and brought to him, his face was as pale as a dead man.

A glass of wine went down again, Mao Xiuzhi felt that his whole body was gradually losing strength, and he slowly collapsed.

Zhao Junsheng was quite surprised and looked at Kang Yide: "You poisoned the wine?" ”

Kang Yide hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, without your will, how dare the old slave act without permission?" ”

"I just wanted to play a joke on him, he wasn't scared to death, was he? Check it out! ”

"No!"

Kang Yide walked up to Mao Xiuzhi and put his finger under his nostrils, got up and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, Mao Xiuzhi just fainted, not dead!" ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and sighed: "This old thing is really not scared, wake him up!" ”

Kang Yide asked the little eunuch to bring a bowl of cold water, he opened his mouth and took a sip, spraying it all on Mao Xiuzhi's face.

Mao Xiuzhi was stimulated by the cold water, slowly opened his eyes, and quickly struggled to sit up, reached out and touched his face and arms, he was dumbfounded: "This ······ I'm not dead? ”

Zhao Junsheng: "Ahem, what's the matter, do you think what I gave you is poisonous wine?" ”

Mao Xiuzhi was stunned, knelt on the ground and cried: "Your Majesty, the old minister regrets not being at the beginning······"

Zhao Junsheng looked at Mao Xiuzhi and said, "Jingzhi, are you going to live a long life this year?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the old minister is eight out of sixty this year!"

"Sixty-eight? I think you were in your forties when you joined me, just in the prime of life, and now more than 20 years have passed, and you can be regarded as one of the heroes of the Great Qian Dynasty! Among the emperors of the past dynasties, there are very few that can make me admire, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty is counted as one, Yuntai 28 generals, except for Cen Peng's early death, the rest have to die well, and the good beginning and good end of the monarch and the minister can also be regarded as a good story for the ages, although what you have done in secret over the years should be punished, but it is not heinous, and I am not a mean and ungrateful person, so I will not let you go through the judicial process, go back and write a piece of music to beg the bones to return to the old home! ”

Mao Xiuzhi wept bitterly, tears fell like rain, "Your Majesty Longen, the minister has nothing to repay, I can only wish Your Majesty the dragon health and health, and the Daqian Dynasty will last forever!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand, and Mao Xiuzhi got up and retreated.

Silence returned to the Winter Warm Pavilion, and after Zhao Junsheng finished reading the recital, he got up and moved his muscles, stretched his limbs, walked to the brazier and sat down, stretching out his hands to bake the fire.

"Kangyide, go and remind Jia Yue, his time is running out!"

"No!"

Before the letter of Mao Xiuzhi's beggar bones was delivered to the imperial front, the news was released by Jia Yue.

This news surprised many ministers and officials in the court, although this Mao Xiuzhi is older, but he is not the oldest, and there are not a few officials in the court at his age, seeing that Mao Xiuzhi's body is still healthy, how can he be willing to give up the power in his hands and beg to return to his hometown?

After receiving the news, King Jing Zhao Ting immediately sent his henchmen to see Mao Xiuzhi, and the henchmen soon returned.

"How? What did Mao Xiuzhi say, why did he beg for bones at this time? Zhao Ting immediately asked.

Wang Fu Zhan Shi Dai Lide bowed his hand: "Your Highness, Mao Xiuzhi said that he had to do it as a last resort, His Majesty still remembered that he had been following the hard work for many years before allowing him to beg for bones, and he also said that if people don't know unless they do it, they will never say more!" ”

Zhao Ting frowned: "What do Mao Xiuzhi mean by these words?" Is it because of ······ Understood, after Wang Tanzhi's accident, his father must have read the relevant files of the lawsuit, Mao Xiuzhi has made a lot of money over the years, although he has not done anything wrong, but he has also messed up the discipline and violated the law! ”

Dai Lide said at this time: "Your Highness, the situation around Wang Tanzhi's mansion has been clarified, there are indeed people from the Criminal Department squatting and guarding, as for whether there are people waiting for lawsuits around, it is not clear, those people are all fine secret agents, our people want to distinguish them, I am afraid it is not easy!" The minister thought that he couldn't wait any longer, Wang Tanzhi knew too much, once he was captured by the criminal department or people waiting for the lawsuit, several officials of the criminal department took refuge in the prince, if the prince knew about it, he would use the topic to play ······ at that time."

Zhao Ting nodded, "And my second brother, this guy is not a fuel-efficient lamp, don't look at him on weekdays silently, he looks conscientious, but in fact, he is very ghostly, he is now in control of the Imperial City Division, I don't believe he didn't receive the news, if he is caught by him, this king's trouble is not small, you go and arrange, find the right time to do it!" ”

"Understood!"

The next morning, the recital of Mao Xiuzhi's beggar bones had just been sent to the imperial front through the General Political Division, and the first two of the five-person list he wrote down were impeached by the Imperial Historical Observatory, which of course was secretly ordered by Zhao Junsheng.

After Zhao Junsheng saw the impeachment chapter, he made a royal approval on the spot, and sent it back to Yushitai for immediate dismissal and investigation.

With the dismissal and investigation of these two people, King Jing, who received the news, panicked, he already felt that his father already knew something, otherwise there would not have been Mao Xiuzhi begging for bones just now, and immediately two ministers who were coerced and controlled by him were dismissed and investigated, which is too coincidental!

How can there be such a coincidence? Unless there's a problem!

Zhao Ting's heart is urgent and rapidly rising, he must kill Wang Tanzhi as quickly as possible, although last night he has taken action to solve the secret stake of the criminal department that monitors Wang Tanzhi's family, and control the location of Wang Tanzhi's family, but until now Wang Tanzhi has not shown up, so Zhao Ting is not in a hurry.

At this time, why wasn't Wang Tanzhi in a hurry? Last night there was a fire in his mansion, he received the news this morning and quietly went to check, and found that although the mansion was burned, no bones were found in the ruins, and he also found that there was a secret stake of the criminal department that was killed nearby.

He guessed that it was either done by the waiting lawsuit, or it was done by Zhao Ting, the king of Jing, but he thought about it again, since the people in the criminal department were killed, it must not have been done by the people waiting for the lawsuit, and the waiting lawsuit was to ask the criminal department to assist in handling the case and wanted Wang Tanzhi, and it was impossible to kill the people from the criminal department, so it could only be done by the Jingwang Mansion.

After all, Wang Tanzhi was waiting for the lawsuit before, and he was subject to King Jing, so he always wanted to leave a way out for himself, so he paid special attention to King Jing's affairs, and specially sent another secret agent who contacted him separately to monitor King Jing, which finally came in handy this time.

Awaiting lawsuits, secret prisons.

Cui Ren, the head of the state department, was tied to a wooden frame, his clothes had already turned into strips of cloth, and his whole body was blurred with flesh and blood, and he had been tortured to the point that he was not human.

This is Jia Yue walking in, and several cool officials who were executed immediately saluted: "I've seen Si Zheng!" ”

Jia Yue asked, "Have you recruited it?" ”

One of the cool officials said: "Under the torture of his subordinates, Cui Ren admitted to seeing Wang Tanzhi on Chinese New Year's Eve, the location was at his house, and the two also had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner again and again, and then Wang Tanzhi left, and later Wang Tanzhi contacted him again and inquired about our internal movements!" ”

Jia Yue asked, "Where did Wang Tanzhi settle down, did he recruit him?" ”

"No, he said that Wang Tanzhi should have an exclusive safe house in Chang'an City, but no one knows where it is!"

Jia Yue walked up to Cui Ren and asked, "Where is Wang Tanzhi?" ”

Si Zheng······ My subordinates really, I really don't know! ”

"Keep beating me, fight to the death!" After Jia Yue finished speaking, he stepped back.

A cool official next to him picked up the red-hot soldering iron in the brazier and walked over, Cui Ren looked frightened, and finally collapsed before the soldering iron was imprinted on his chest, shouting: "I said, I said!" ”