The night should come or come, Chang'an City should be dark or dark, but the street outside the Criminal Department is brightly lit, the torches are connected one by one, like two fire dragons, and the forbidden army wearing iron armor has blocked all the neighborhoods, and the officers of the Criminal Department who were originally guarding the street have been driven back to the yamen of the Criminal Department, and no one is allowed to come out casually.

The emperor sat at the door of the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment, sitting on the steps, and the chair brought by the people below was kicked away by him.

At this moment, people suddenly realized that His Majesty was a soldier in his bones.

Since the founding of Daning, there has not been a second prince who rushed into the military camp at the age of sixteen as His Majesty did when he was young, and other princes were still playing and playing, he had already bent his bow on his horse, and led his troops to Northern Xinjiang at the age of eighteen.

Kicking the chair away is obviously not dignified, after all, Your Majesty has to look like Your Majesty, and then Your Majesty doesn't care, who dares to care.

The steps at the entrance of the yamen were very cold, after all, it was a winter night, and someone tried to ask His Majesty to put a cotton pad under his buttocks, and His Majesty glared back at a glance.

Meng Changan naturally couldn't sit anymore, saluted, stood solemnly, and the knife had to be handed over to the Ouchi guards.

"The four of you used to recognize people, but one of them is from your Tingwei Mansion."

His Majesty ordered, and the four Qianban hurriedly went over and looked at it carefully, in fact, they had already seen it, and these guys wearing the official uniforms of the Tingwei Mansion could not be from the Tingwei Mansion.

"Nope."

"Strip off their clothes first, they desecrate the solemnity I gave them."

The four Qianban took off their official uniforms with their own hands, and then stood solemnly on one side.

The old dean squatted beside the emperor and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this matter still has to be stopped in moderation. ”

The emperor looked at Meng Changan and stretched out his hand: "I don't count what I said, he has the final say, when Meng Changan says enough, it will be enough." ”

After a while, an official walked over quickly: "Your Majesty, the inventory in the warehouse of the Criminal Department found that there were seven missing official uniforms of the Tingwei Mansion, which were supposed to be sent down two days ago, but Lord Tingwei took people south with people, so it was delayed." ”

"Who's in charge of the storeroom?"

"Yes, yes...... It's Wechen. ”

Several small officials were brought over and knelt in front of the emperor, and the one headed by him was just a seven-rank petty official, he knelt there trembling all over, and he couldn't control it if he wanted to, because his arms were shaking so badly that he lost his strength and fell down, his face was the ground, and he was hard to support his body, and he didn't dare to wipe the soil on his face.

"You've been bought?"

The emperor asked.

"Weichen, Weichen didn't have it, Your Majesty, Weichen doesn't know how those murderers stole the clothes in the treasury of the Criminal Department."

"That's your duty, and you think you're not guilty if you don't know?"

The emperor pointed to a small official kneeling behind the man: "Do you know? ”

The man kowtowed to the garlic: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen really doesn't know." ”

"Kill."

The emperor waved his hand.

The two inner guards went over and dragged the little official not far from Meng Chang'an, one pressed his shoulder and the other drew his knife, and with a poof, the head rolled out, and blood sprayed all over the ground.

The Emperor asked again, "Who knows now?" Say what you know. ”

One of the small officials cried and said: "Back to Your Majesty, it's him, he said two days ago that he lost the key to the treasury, brought a locksmith to change the big lock, and gave each of us twenty taels of silver so that we don't talk about it, Weichen later counted and found that there were missing clothes, but ...... But I didn't dare to say it. ”

He was referring to the man who was kneeling in front of him, and when he heard this, he was so frightened that he fell down again, and he couldn't get up.

"The people you brought with you are among the seven people over there?"

"In ...... In. ”

"Which one? Go and point it to me. ”

The petty official crawled forward and pointed at He Kui: "It's him...... But, but Wechen really didn't know what he was doing with those clothes, Liang Cheng, the head of the Ministry of War, introduced him to Wechen, saying that what he wanted to do most in his life was the Tingwei of the Tingwei Mansion, and he wanted to wear that clothes to experience it, and gave the minister five hundred taels of silver, just saying that he would try it on, Your Majesty, they deceived Wechen, and after Wechen took him in, he took a few clothes, and Wechen also blocked it, and he threatened Wechen that if he called someone to come to Wechen, it would be a capital crime. ”

"You think you can escape the death penalty like this?"

The emperor waved his hand: "Kill." ”

The little officials were all pulled up and dragged in front of Meng Changan, a knife fell, and the heads rolled down, and Meng Changan stood there still expressionless.

The old dean shook his head at Meng Changan, but Meng Changan turned a blind eye, just stood there quietly, don't say that the old dean, he didn't even look at those heads.

"Bring Liang Cheng, the chief secretary of the military department."

The emperor spoke, and immediately someone broke up the crowd and rushed out.

The old dean lowered his voice beside the emperor and said: "In the end, this matter will not reach Pei Tingshan, those people confessed their guilt, only saying that they are Pei Xiao's friends, Pei Tingshan can completely say that he doesn't know anything, His Majesty has arranged it for so long, you can't be in a hurry." ”

Seeing that the emperor didn't say anything, the old dean continued: "Now that Bai Shangnian's incident is still pressing, the Bai family has not yet been convicted, if Pei Tingshan is involved again, the two things will add up to too big, and the big one will give people a chance...... Dongjiang still has to be stable, and the affairs of the Bai family can also be shaken off, Bai Shangnian has never personally contacted Dou Huainan from beginning to end, and the most he can find out about his subordinates is the most he can do...... It's the same thing, at most, it's just a few insignificant minor characters who die. ”

The emperor said lightly: "But I can't let my people chill their hearts. ”

The old dean looked at Meng Changan again, and said in his heart, "Are you a reckless thing, really let Your Majesty sit here all night?"

Meng Changan was still unmoved, standing there expressionlessly.

Half an hour later, Liang Cheng, the head of the military department, who was about to die of fright, was put up and thrown on the ground, and he couldn't lift his head when he threw it on the ground.

"It was Chang'anyi's post Cheng Gao who was looking for Weichen, and Weichen didn't know what they were going to do, but he just took some silver from Gaocong and ate him twice, and Weichen was confused for a while, and he was confused for a while, Your Majesty."

"Kill."

The emperor said only one word.

The old dean suddenly reacted, Your Majesty investigated one person and killed another, which in itself does not want to make things too big, otherwise these people can keep a detailed investigation, and it is impossible to get nothing in the end with the means of the Imperial Governor's Mansion, Your Majesty is going to make a battle, the big one can scare people to death, but it will not really involve the reckless man in Dongjiang.

It didn't take long for Chang'an Yi's Yi Cheng Gao Cong to be brought, this person was about fifty years old, his hair was gray, and his face was as sharp as a knife and an axe, and he was actually very calm when he was brought, and he didn't seem to be afraid, which was in stark contrast to the previous people.

"Your Majesty, it was arranged by Weichen."

Gao Cong knelt down, but his upper body was still straight.

"Why?"

The emperor asked.

"Weichen is General Pei Xiao's old department, and later he was injured and had to leave the barracks, but General Pei Xiao asked someone to arrange Weichen to work in Chang'anyi, wanting to make Weichen comfortable in the second half of his life, Weichen is grateful to General Pei, but because Weichen came into contact with adults from the south to the north in Chang'anyi, I heard that General Pei Xiao may have been killed by Meng Changan, and Weichen wrote a letter to a few old friends who were in the army at the beginning, and it was a few of them."

Gao Cong pointed at He Kui's people: "They are also General Pei Xiao's old department, and they have all received the general's favor." ”

The emperor's face has not eased, although this Gao Cong is a smart person has carried the matter, but if this matter ends with Gao Cong's small Chang'an Yicheng, it is obviously not enough to slap the reckless man in Dongjiang.

"Where are those guys now?"

The emperor asked.

Gao Cong didn't say a word, and after a moment of silence, he bit off his tongue.

The emperor frowned: "Kill." ”

The Ouchi guards put the person over and chopped off his head in front of Meng Changan, and it was only at this time that Meng Changan was slightly moved, because he felt that this Gao Cong was a man, although Gao Cong was eager to eat himself alive, but he was worthy of respect.

"Your Majesty, that's enough."

Meng Changan bowed his head.

"Enough?"

The emperor snorted and pointed at He Kui's people: "Kill." ”

Another piece of swords.

It seems that a lot of people have been killed so far, as long as it is found out that all the people involved in the case have been ambushed, this case can actually be stopped at this moment, the old dean and Yan Jugang, the secretary of the criminal department, couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, but the face of the scholar Mu Zhaotong was obviously a little ugly, he didn't expect that the emperor would make such a big battle and it would stop, far from meeting his expectations.

So Mu Zhaotong took a step forward, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter cannot be arranged by these people, and there must be someone behind the scenes. ”

The emperor nodded: "What the elder said is right, I don't plan not to investigate. ”

The old dean glared at Mu Zhaotong fiercely, but Mu Zhaotong didn't look at him.

"The minister thinks that the origin of these people should be investigated, and there must be traces of these people entering Beijing."

Mu Zhaotong sneered in his heart, Your Majesty, you have thought of killing everyone so far?

The emperor snorted: "Tingwei Mansion." ”

The four thousand offices immediately stepped forward: "The minister is here." ”

"Go and check, don't be afraid of anyone you find, I asked you to check, when these people entered the capital, who put them in, and whether the people who let them in have anything to do with this matter, after finding out the origin, go to the place where they came to check and see if anyone else knows behind it."

The four thousand offices knelt down at the same time: "The minister obeys the order." ”

The emperor glanced at Mu Zhaotong: "Is the old man better?" ”

Mu Zhaotong hurriedly lowered his head: "The minister still feels weak and weak from time to time, and his energy can't keep up, he is always in a trance, and he fell again at home today......"

He was just about to say that Danchen could already return to the cabinet, but now that something so big has happened, how can he not return to the cabinet? Only by going back can this matter get bigger and bigger.

"Then Elder Ge will continue to recuperate at home, don't be in a hurry to come back, it is because I can't do without you that you must recuperate."

The emperor got up: "Go back to the palace." ”

didn't give Mu Zhaotong a chance to say one more word.

"Mr. follow, Meng Changan, you come too."

"Yes!"

The old dean and Meng Changan answered, looked at each other, one stared at the other and pretended not to see.

Yan Jugang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, only felt that he was top-heavy, and he had been holding on for a while, and at this time, His Majesty could no longer hold it when he left him, and sat down on the steps, only to feel that the steps were really cold.

The night breeze and night dew, Your Majesty sat in this place for almost two hours, and the sky was about to dawn.

When the day dawns, will it warm up?