(I held on to the code for two chapters, and a severe cold was just too painful.) ）

"It turned out to be Commander Pang, and I was fortunate to be lucky. Since Commander Pang admits his identity, this matter is actually very clear. I admit that my guess was wrong, I thought that you were ordered by Yuan Mingyuan to stay and poison the Emperor, but it seems that Yuan Mingyuan has nothing to do with this matter. It's someone else who's really giving you orders, isn't it? Wang Yuan smiled.

Pang Long was silent for a moment and said, "I don't speak doesn't mean acquiescence, I just don't want to answer your question." Since the matter is already on my head, you will kill me. ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "That's natural, I said, I'm not interested in the things that follow." I just need to know who poisoned me, so that I can give an account to the Emperor. But General Pang, you are willing to take responsibility alone, although it is admirable, but it is also very stupid. You want to die with power and loyalty, but I can guarantee that if you die, you will be executed as a traitor. Don't you know that the crime of murdering the Emperor Taishang will exterminate the Nine Clans? You've hurt your family and all your relatives in the capital. People like you should have a lot of relatives, and dozens or even hundreds of people will die because of you. ”

"How is that possible? Li Dashuai obviously promised me......" Pang Long hurriedly stopped halfway through his words, because he was shocked and lost his words.

"Li Dashuai? Lee Kwang-pil is it? He promised you that he wouldn't do anything to your family, right? Wang Yuan stood up and asked in a cold voice.

"I won't say anything about me. Not a word was mentioned. Pang Long said angrily.

Wang Yuan sneered: "General Pang, I respect you as a man, so I am polite to you." Don't you think we really can't do anything about you? It is Yan Pingzhang who is the right person to judge you, he is a gentleman, so if you don't speak, he can't pry your mouth open. Or that he disdains the use of torture to extract confessions. But I'm not a gentleman, and I have a million ways to get you to speak. You think you're not afraid of death, but there are more terrible things in this world than death. Yan Pingzhang will only give you a clamp stick and beat you a few times. If I do it, I will be dumb, and I can make him speak. ”

Pang Long said angrily: "I, Pang someone, am an iron-clad man, if I make up my mind, no one will want to teach me to speak with punishment." I can endure all these punishments of you. ”

Wang Yuan sneered: "Really? Can you hold the whip and the club, and the ten sets of flails? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. The ten sets of shackles are the ten shackles designed by Emperor Wu's cool officials to Junchen, and each of them has a name. One is to set a hundred pulses, the second is to breathe, the third is to roar suddenly, the fourth is to inherit, the fifth is to lose the soul, the sixth is the same as the opposite, the seventh is the opposite, the eighth is the death of the pig, the ninth is to die, and the tenth is to break the family. Each of these shackles is actually a torture that makes people unable to survive and die. Taking breathlessness as an example, it is a kind of shackle with heavy shackles and narrow holes. After the prisoner was forcibly put on the shackle, the prisoner's trachea was compressed and deformed because of the compression of the narrow orifice in the neck. After adjustment, it forms a level where only the breath can enter and exit the hairspring. The prisoner can only breathe a very small amount of air, but he cannot die, and it is extremely painful to truly enter a situation where he cannot survive and cannot die. And if this kind of shackle is worn for a long time, most people will become wasted even if they come through. Because the brain and vital organs of the body are seriously hypoxic, it will cause irreversible damage over time, so as soon as the flail is put on, it is basically a waste person.

Take the sudden roar as an example, this flail is made of extremely heavy wood and weighs dozens of catties. Moreover, the center of gravity of this flail is unbalanced, and it tends to one side corner. When the flail is applied, the prisoner's hair is hung from a beam with a rope so that the prisoner can only maintain a standing position. Then he put it on the prisoner with a sudden roar, because the center of gravity was unstable, and the prisoner's body involuntarily rotated. Because the bun was tied, the prisoner could not fall to the ground, and could only barely maintain an upright state. In this way, the flailed prisoner spun like a spinning top until he died of exhaustion or fainted and vomited blood

These ten sets of flails were tortured by the four cool officials led by the cool officials Lai Junchen during the period of Emperor Wu. After Lai Junchen was killed, this punishment had already been abolished. Even later generations did not even dare to mention it, because each of these ten sets of shackles can be called torture to the extreme. But although it has been abolished and no longer mentioned, the infamous Ten Sets of Flail is still well known. Wang Yuan said it clearly at this moment, and everyone gasped. Pang Long was also pale, trembling with fright.

"Or I don't give you ten sets of flails, so what about inviting you into the urn?" Wang Yuan ignored everyone's stunned expressions and continued to say coldly.

Pang Long almost peed his pants. Inviting you into the urn is not a kind word, this is also a torture, and it is also from the hands of Lai Junchen. The cruelty of this punishment is that the prisoner is grilled on a charcoal fire with his hands and feet locked in the urn, and as the urn gets hotter, the person will also be roasted into jerky, which is the cruelty of this punishment. After the incident of Lai Junchen, before Wu Zetian wanted to execute him, he asked him what punishment he had to force people to confess, and Lai Junchen proudly said this method. Emperor Wu immediately said: "Please enter the urn." "In the future, Junchen will be roasted to death by the method of urn roasting. Such torture is as cruel as the Ten Sets of Flails.

"I said it, I'm not a gentleman. You want to poison and poison the emperor, and I have every reason to force you to confess. I won't list them all, but I'm sure you'll get you to confess as quickly as possible. But I didn't do that because I respected you as a man. If you have today, you must have served Datang for many years and made a lot of meritorious contributions. However, if you want to poison the Emperor, you have already undone all your credit. Do you think that it is okay to commit such a great sin and deny it, or even to think that you can die as soon as you die? The only thing you can do now is to confess and make amends. You may be able to avoid implicating your relatives, or you may be able to leave yourself a happy way out, you have to understand this. ”

Wang Yuan spoke coldly, his eyes indifferently looking at Pang Long, who was shaking.

Pang Long's psychological defense had already begun to crumble when Wang Yuan said the name of the punishment. When he heard Wang Yuan say that he could make up for his mistakes and save his relatives from being implicated, his psychological defense line began to collapse completely. He collapsed to the ground.

"I said, I said it all. But my whole family is in the capital, if I confess, won't they be able to escape death? Li Pingzhang warned me that I would not say a word after the matter was revealed, and that my wife and children would be taken care of if I died. My son can also be awarded an official commendation......"

"You don't say they can't survive. Because the facts of your crime of poisoning the Emperor Taishang are all there, everyone present heard what I interrogated you just now, and the master also recorded his confession. You didn't say a few words, but you assumed that my reasoning was a confession. If you don't draw a bet, you won't be able to do it, and we will draw a charge for you. Then your sins will be made public. Although we cannot prove that you were instigated, once your crime is revealed, your family in the capital will be killed by His Majesty and Li Guangbi. Because they want to dissociate themselves from the relationship, they want to show their attitude. Do you see what I mean? Wang Yuan shouted.

"Understood...... Understood......" Pang Long muttered.

"Besides, if you confess, I may be able to keep it a secret. As long as the poisoning of the Emperor is not known to the world, your relatives in Chang'an will be safe. Because the instigators behind you don't know what's going on in Chengdu, they think you just didn't succeed. Do you understand? ”

"You, are you really willing to do that?" Pang Long asked in a trembling voice.

"It's not up to me, it's up to you. As long as you tell the truth, I'll consider doing it. In fact, you and I both understand that you are just a pawn, how can you have the courage to come to Chengdu to do such a rebellious thing. I'm afraid you're just forced to do it. Wang Yuan sighed.

Pang Long suddenly got up and kowtowed to Wang Yuan and said: "Wang Xiangguo, I said, I said it all, please show mercy and kill me, but you must not spread the news, otherwise my whole family, more than 100 people in my family are afraid that it will be over." ”

"Then you don't want to say it quickly?" Gao Xianzhi shouted coldly.

Pang Long finally spoke slowly and confessed his inner feelings. It turned out that the night before Yuan Mingyuan came to Chengdu, Li Guangbi summoned Pang Long to his mansion. As a middle-level officer of the forbidden army, Pang Long actually had very few chances to be summoned by Li Guangbi alone. This time he was summoned by Li Guangbi, although Pang Long felt surprised, he was also ecstatic, and felt that his opportunity to soar had come.

Li Guangbi was very kind, and specially prepared a banquet to entertain Pang Long, making Pang Long feel that he seemed to be a character in Li Guangbi's eyes. However, in the study after dinner, Li Guangbi finally said the purpose of summoning him here. He asked Pang Long to follow Yuan Mingyuan to Chengdu to do errands under the cover of his identity as a coachman.

Pang Long was stupid at that time, because the matter he came to Chengdu to do was not anything else, but to attack the emperor. Where did Pang Long dare to do this, he begged Li Guangbi not to let him do this, but since Li Guangbi had already spoken, how could he allow Pang Long to refuse at will.

Li Guangbi told Pang Long that he must act according to his instructions, otherwise he would only die, because he Pang Long learned about such a confidential matter, and he had no other way but to die. If Pang Long dared to take this risk, then after the matter was completed, he could promote him to the position of deputy commander of the Dragon and Tiger Forbidden Army, and he could be promoted to one of the few senior generals of the Forbidden Army at once.

Pang Long weighed left and right, and reluctantly accepted the order, because he had no choice. Especially when Li Guangbi told him that this was His Majesty's order, Pang Long knew that he could only choose to go to Chengdu for an adventure. As for the reason why His Majesty wanted to kill the Emperor, Pang Long didn't want to know, and he couldn't figure it out.

After making up his mind, Li Guangbi discussed with Pang Long how to do it. Consultation comes, deliberation goes, there are only two ways. One of them is to sneak into the scattered flower building and attack the emperor directly; The second plan is to ask Pang Long to find a way to buy off the inner servants or guards. But neither option is credible. Because Chengdu is under Wang Yuan's control, the guards of Sanhualou are also Wang Yuan's men. Xuanzong's inner servants didn't know any of them. The risk of infiltrating or buying is too high, and it is likely that the matter has already been exposed before it has been done. So the two discussed until the second half of the night, and decided to poison the emperor with poison.

The plan was originally like this, because there were a lot of daily things that His Majesty gave to the Emperor for food and clothing during this trip. Li Guangbi asked Pang Long to find a way to mix the poison into the pastries that His Majesty had supplied to the Emperor. Especially in the emperor's favorite dragon whisker cake, the emperor only needs to eat the dragon whisker crisp and it's done. Moreover, Li Guangbi was thoughtful, and told Pang Long that he would provide him with a poison that could not be detected by a silver needle, and once poisoned, Lang Zhong would not know how to rescue him at all, so as to ensure that the matter succeeded. And afterwards, it was impossible to find out that he was poisoned and died, so that everyone could get rid of it. Pang Long was overjoyed and felt that this method had a higher chance of success. And he thought, even if he had something to do with it, he wouldn't suspect that he was just a coachman. So the two discussed some details and decided on this plan.

Before leaving the next day, Li Guangbi gave Pang Long some strange medicinal powder. Tell Pang Long that this is erysipelas and fire powder. The colorless and odorless powder form is more suitable for sprinkling on the dragon whisker crisp, and there is no difference at all. Pang Long carried this stone and scattered with him, and followed Yuan Mingyuan to Chengdu all the way.

On the way, Pang Long tried to dope the dragon whisker cake with poison several times, but he never succeeded. Because Yuan Mingyuan was too delicate, he arranged for several guards to follow a few big cars to monitor the drivers and prevent them from stealing. At night, he ordered the coachmen to push the cart outside his tent and ordered it to be guarded. Pang Long has been nervous, but he can't do it.

Finally, after arriving in Chengdu in more than ten days, Pang Long was still trying to find a way to start. However, he got the news from the guards that the Emperor Taishang was not in Chengdu, and he was dumbfounded. Because Li Guangbi told him that if he couldn't get it, he wouldn't be allowed to come back. If he dares to flee without permission, he will kill his entire family. Pang Long didn't know what to do.

But on the night of his arrival in Chengdu, when four of his accompanying guards were shot outside the Sanhua Building, Pang Long immediately realized that something was wrong. Sure enough, from other people's mouths, he learned that Yuan Mingyuan got the news that the Emperor Taishang was in Chengdu, and Wang Xiangguo was unwilling to let them see the Emperor. He didn't know the specific mission of Yuan Mingyuan's visit to Chengdu, but apparently, the death of the four guards frightened Yuan Mingyuan, and he was going to leave Chengdu the next day to return to Beijing, and handed over the vehicle and goods to Wang Yuan for transfer to the Emperor Taishang. In this way, Pang Long was embarrassed, firstly, he had no chance to mix the poison into the dragon whiskers, and secondly, he had no time to think of a better way. So he could only risk breaking away from Yuan Mingyuan's convoy and lurking in Chengdu City to find an opportunity to attack. Fortunately, he was just an inconspicuous coachman, and Yuan Mingyuan didn't pay attention to his disappearance. These drivers were hired to catch the car, and the car completed its mission when it arrived in Chengdu, as for whether to go back with him, Yuan Mingyuan didn't have the effort to care.

In this way, Pang Long stayed in Chengdu and lived in a small inn on a remote street in the west of the city. He walked around the Sanhua Building every day, looking for opportunities to get his hands dirty. Finally, his IQ was stimulated in the face of adversity, so he came up with a way to attract the palace attendants to buy food. Although the method was stupid, even Pang Long didn't expect that there would be a possibility of success, he was just an attempt in a hurry, but he didn't expect it to work. On that day, after learning from the guards that it was the Emperor Taishang who wanted to eat zongzi, he handed over three large zongzi mixed with stone fire to the guards.

He didn't dare to leave Chengdu immediately because he wanted to make sure that things had worked out. However, after such a delay, he found that he could never leave the city again. The manhunt that began in the city forced him to go into hiding. I thought that the firewood house in the courtyard that had been searched in Nancheng could escape this search, but unexpectedly it was planted in the hands of a civilian woman.

In the process of Pang Long's confession, the hall was silent, except for the sound of the tip of the pen rustling on the confession in the master's hand, the rest of the people listened to Pang Long's intermittent words in amazement. When Pang Long's words ended for a long time, everyone in the hall suddenly buzzed like a duck.

Even though he had predicted most of the situation in advance, when all this came out of Pang Long's mouth, Wang Yuan still felt a chill. Li Mao really dared to do anything, in order to cut the land and cut the city for the throne and mortgage the borrowed troops, in order to avoid the uncertain trouble after Xuanzong returned to Chang'an, in addition to hinting at Xuanzong, he really sent someone to kill his father. It can be seen that in order to keep his throne, he can do anything.

"Xiangguo, the confession has been recorded, please take a look at it." The master walked up to Wang Yuan with a confession full of paper and handed the confession to Wang Yuan. Full of joy, I was looking forward to Wang Yuan's mouth to spit out a few words: Your calligraphy is very good.

However, Wang Yuan didn't seem to care about the beauty and ugliness of his writing, but quickly read it and handed it back to him. "Take it to Pang Long and take a look, if it's okay, let him draw it."

The master was a little disappointed, and said that this Xiangguo was a literati, so how could he have no sympathy for each other. There is a sense of pearl casting darkness in my heart.

Pang Long lay on the ground, read the confession, raised his head and looked at Wang Yuandao: "Wang Xiangguo, I have confessed everything, can you not make a big deal about this matter?" Can you stop my family from being killed by them? ”

"Signing and drawing, what nonsense? What is my handsome family going to do, is it still bound by you? Tan Ping scolded.

Pang Long sighed, picked up his pen and drew a trembling note under the confession. But listening to Wang Yuan's voice, he said: "Hold it down, eat and drink well."