When Jiang Xizhen woke up, he was already sitting in the interrogation chair in the wolf's den......

"What are you going to do!"

Then he immediately let out a scream of terror.

"Hey, wake up, sleep soundly!"

A brocade guard next to him smiled brightly as he spoke, but the flame on the wooden stick in his hand reached under the chair, and the carbon block that had been stained with gasoline in it was immediately ignited, and the raging flame instantly rose and was pumped into the flue on the back of the chair. The densely arranged spikes immediately transmitted the heat to Jiang Xizhe's ass and back, although the heat was not enough for a short time, but it had already made him collapse directly......

"Let me go, what do you want to ask?"

He screamed with tears streaming down his eyes.

At the same time, he struggled desperately, trying to get rid of this terrible thing, but as a result, the spikes that had not pierced his skin began to pierce in. Then the obvious stinging pain came from his back and buttocks, and he instinctively twisted his body, but the result was that the spikes on the other side also began to pierce in.

At the same time, the burning sensation increased suddenly.

"Let go of me, please let go of me quickly, I will do anything, I will say whatever you ask......"

He screamed heartbreakingly.

"Do you really have to do anything?"

Yang Yong's face suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

The hideous face of Yang Qing's number one executioner made Jiang Xizhen tremble almost subconsciously, but the heat of his butt and back was still rising......

He nodded desperately as if he were broken.

"Well, I actually forgot what I wanted you to recruit."

Yang Yong said apologetically.

Jiang Xizhen looked at him without tears.

At this time, the heat under his ass had reached an unbearable level, he didn't care about Yang Yong, desperately screaming and trying to stand up, but he couldn't break free from those solid iron bars after being imprisoned. The result of the struggle was to get more spikes into his skin, and even after stabbing repeatedly, he could hear the blood falling, making a snorting sound on the hot steel, a sound like a demonic laugh. And Yang Yong, who was opposite him, watched his struggle with a smile, watched the smoke coming out of the clothes under his buttocks, watched the smell of burnt flesh come out, and even began to roll his eyes when he was burned......

"Ah, I remember!"

Yang Yong suddenly patted his thigh and said.

The brocade guard in the back quickly pulled out the burning carbon box and pushed it into the stove next to him.

Jiang Xizhen was still struggling and screaming on the residual temperature.

But soon he collapsed on the interrogation chair as if he had collapsed, covered in cold sweat, and at the same time let out a long *****, hanging his head and trembling with exhaustion.

Then a woman walked in.

"You know her, right?"

Yang Yong patted her buttocks, motioned for her to take a step forward, and then said to Jiang Xizhe.

Jiang Xizhen looked at her like a dying breath.

"Ruhua, tell me what you want to report?"

Yang Yong said.

"Back to the uncle's words, the slave family wants to report this Jiang Gongzi for fornicating with Jiannu, before he and his friends drank on the slave ship, saying that he bought a large number of Japanese slaves in the country for the emperor, and then sent them to Jiannu, and handed them over to Jiannu, who helped send them to Yanmen Pass and then to Chang'an. And he not only went once, but also had a private meeting with Chen Mingxia, the master of Jiannu, and he also said that Dorgon, the chief of Nanu, was a corporal of Lixian, and said that the first emperor could not govern the country as well as that Dolgon! ”

Ruhua said.

"Jiang Juren, you are a traitor! is not only guilty of traitor, but also slandered the first emperor, you have to rob your family for this great treachery! ”

Yang Yong said gloomily.

Jiang Xizhen had already relieved himself, and he lowered his head and said nothing.

"So do you recognize what she said?"

Yang Yong said.

"She is a prostitute, but she is just framed because of her dissatisfaction with prostitution!"

Jiang Xizhen said weakly.

"He said you were a prostitute, and he was framed."

Yang Yong said to that Ruhua.

"The slave is a prostitute, but his friends are not prostitutes, are they? The pacification envoy arrested all the people he was drinking with and found out when he asked, and he heard from his friends that their collusion with Jiannu was not only that. A friend of theirs who was by the emperor's side also went to the northern capital to meet many high-ranking officials of Jiannu, and said that this was done by the emperor's order and there was no need to be afraid, and they even said that they should let Dolgon and King Gui work together to kill the Duke of Chu! ”

Ruhua said.

"Jiang Juren, do you think your friends will testify against you in order to avoid the pain of flesh and skin?"

Yang Yong said to Jiang Xizhe.

The latter looked at Ruhua with hatred.

Needless to say, that's for sure, what kind of goods are there, there is no better than him, although he has a good relationship when he drinks, usually sings poetry and songs, and even shares a prostitute, but if he really wants to sit in this interrogation chair, he will not hesitate to push him out to resist the crime of raiding the house and destroying the door.

But......

Ruhua's words reminded him.

"Yang Zhenfu, Juzi did go to the north before, and he did see Chen Mingxia, and sent the purchased Japanese slaves to be transferred to Yanmen Pass, but what kind of crime is it to act on orders?"

He said justifiably.

Well, there is no need to deny this kind of thing.

He just went there, and he admitted everything he did, but he did things according to orders, which the emperor ordered him to do, was it wrong for him to act according to orders? Can you still control the emperor? In the past, the emperor didn't come, Yang Qing and you can do whatever you want, but now that the emperor has returned, this Ming Dynasty is not the time for you to act arbitrarily, why should I be afraid of you as a person who does things for the emperor?

"What? It's a crime to do things for the emperor, and your Jinyiwei is still bigger than the emperor? ”

He said proudly.

"In this way, the case is indeed more complicated, this involves the emperor, it is really difficult for me to make a small town envoy, and it has to be decided by the Duke of Chu, but you have to write a confession to me first!"

Yang Yong said with a smile on his face.

Just write, let's do things for the emperor are still afraid that you won't be able to do it? Jiang Xizhe, who has been deeply educated by tradition since he was a child, and still stays in the concept of the country in his mind, thinking that he has the signature protection of the emperor to do things for the emperor, so he doesn't have to worry about anything at all, so he calmly put on the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and wrote more than 1,000 words to describe in detail the process of going north. However, he was very clever not to say that they planned it on their own initiative, but to become the emperor through Qian Qianyi's decree to buy Japanese slaves for them, and then he and Huang Zongxi and these people shared their worries and pooled money to buy them, and he was responsible for sending them to the north to hand over to Chen Mingxia. As for his slander of the first emperor, he resolutely did not admit it, and likewise he did not admit those boasts of Dorgon, he admitted that he had bought a batch of Jiannu and sent them to the north by order, and any plan to make Dolgon and King Gui echo the north and south was purely false.

Of course, none of this is meant to be important.

Yang Yong looked at this confession with satisfaction, and then said to his subordinates: "Put him in prison!" ”

Then he went to find Yang Qing.

Yang Qing has not yet gone to pick up the car, this is a special order of the emperor, because the governors of various places and those all have to take some time to come, so the first assistant Shi Kefa and the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Gu Xichou, the waiter Qu Shiyun and others who returned first, went over to prepare for the next sacrifice to the emperor's mausoleum. The military and political affairs of Nanjing are temporarily presided over by the civil and military officials led by the state of supervision, and after the preparations are completed and the participants from all over the country have arrived, the civil and military officials on Yang Qing's side will rush to the city again, and it will not take a few days to follow the newly built highway anyway, and the farthest such as the governor of Yunnan will have to spend some time to Fengyang.

"Take care of this guy, put his confession aside first, and you immediately take someone to Anqing, intercept those Japanese slaves there, and then detain them on the spot, and then get a confession from them."

Yang Qing said.

The evidence must be sufficient, after all, this is a conviction of an emperor.

"What about the rest of the people who participated?"

Yang Yong asked.

He was talking about Huang Zongxi and others.

"Don't catch it yet, wait until you need to!"

Yang Qing said.

This allows for a chain of evidence.

First of all, Jiang Xizhe didn't control the leakage of the inside information in the painting boat, I have to say that it is really not a good habit for them to like to talk nonsense on the painting boat, and then he was reported by a loyal prostitute, and he admitted the whole thing.

And then there are the confessions of these Japanese slaves.

That's enough!

As for Huang Zongxi, it depends on whether Jiang Xizhen bites them hard enough, if Jiang Xizhe is sensible enough, he will know how to do it.

Qian Qianyi couldn't run away.

After all, he is by the emperor's side, and he can even let Jiang Xizhe, the Datong Society, bite the old money into the mastermind, and then watch the Donglin Party and the Datong Society bite each other. But in this case, Mrs. Qian will definitely be widowed, alas, fate is always so impermanent, wouldn't she have to be implicated if she married Chen Zilong back then?

Chu Guogong sighed and shook his head.

Yang Yong immediately took Jinyiwei to Anqing.

At this time, no one knew that the secret investigation of the emperor's treason had begun, and both the elders and those talents were immersed in excitement. As for Yang Qing's cronies, although they were a little impatient, they still maintained restraint under Yang Qing's suppression, and as for the standing members of the Four People's Congress, they reacted calmly to the emperor's return......

Actually they're pretty busy too.

Their main work this year was actually to set up an examination committee, that is, the Four People's Congress would hire some people to form a special organization to give questions to people from all over the country who participated in the new-style imperial examination. In order to ensure the fairness of the examination questions, these candidates must be tested at the Four People's Congress. In order to ensure that these test questions are not leaked, all test papers are kept in the vaults of the Imperial Bank before the exam, and can only be removed before the start of the exam.

Moreover, the standing members of the Four People's Congress also engaged in a fierce struggle over whether or not to unify the examination questions across the country.

In the end, however, it is up to the provinces to distinguish between provinces.

Each province has a separate test question, otherwise Jiangsu and Zhejiang have too much advantage, although it is not almost monopolized as it was back then, but it must be understood that whether it is to take the Bagu Wen or the other four subjects, Jiangsu and Zhejiang actually have an absolute advantage over other provinces. Even in recent years, the advantages are still growing, especially in engineering, which really needs to carry out unified test questions, and it is estimated that other provinces will not be able to take a few Jinshi. This will definitely not work, even Yang Qing will not be able to suppress the anger of other provinces, not to mention that he himself does not want Jiangsu and Zhejiang to be dominant, so he still supports the different examination papers of each province to balance the number of jinshi in each province. It's just that as compensation, the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi add up to half of the number of people, after all, the population of these three provinces is far more than half of the current Ming control area.

The Four People's Congress is mainly engaged in this year.

Of course, they also gave the new emperor a dismount, and they vetoed the emperor's decree that the household department should contribute a sum of money to support his imperial camp.

The reason is simple.

There is no such compilation.

Neither the Jinyi Guard nor the Ming army system has the establishment of this imperial camp, this is done by the emperor himself, so you will pay for it yourself, and the taxes of the imperial court are not for your private use. In fact, Zhu Cihong is a temptation, he doesn't care about the money, he looks at the attitude of the Four People's Congress towards him, or whether the Four People's Congress respects his authority, but it is obvious that the Four People's Congress does not like him.

Later, the emperor asked Han Zanzhou and Lu Jiude for money from the inner treasury.

But they said they had no money.

Then, in order to prove that there was really no money, they sent a carriage of account books, according to which the palace still owes the Imperial Bank two million, waiting for the emperor to find a way to pay it back.

This book is true.

Because the most important properties of the royal family are under Zhang Yan's name, and the rest is also divided between Concubine Yuan and Princess Kunxing, the main income that the palace can obtain at present is actually the rent of the imperial village. But the income of these Huangzhuang is undoubtedly unable to afford the increasingly huge charity and education expenditures, after all, the Huangzhuang only has such a small amount of land rent, most of which is one or two percent, and the total is only a few million a year.

This one really can't afford to support those orphanages.

Compulsory education, construction of orphanages, nursing homes, hospitals......

Which one is a black hole that swallows gold.

Not enough is normal, enough is not normal!

The shortfall of each year is directly supplemented by loans from the Imperial Bank, and then these loans are returned by Zhang Yan and several women from their own earnings at the end of each year, in fact, their main income is the bank, which is nothing more than a game of left hand to right hand. But through these somewhat head-wrenching operations, Yang Qing and those women and the eunuch leaders who were their henchmen did make Zhu Cihong poorer than his father, and there was not a single dragon yuan in the warehouse of the palace.

In other words, the palace has to go to Zhang Yan to borrow money on a monthly basis!

Why don't you grow your own vegetables?

The palace is so poor!

Why don't you reduce the food in those primary schools and orphanages? Why don't you raise the rent of Huangzhuang a little more? Or you just kill all those moths, especially your aunt's super big moth, her personal assets are probably running to tens of millions! And your sister is millions, and even your little sister has more than two million family assets! That little girl has to sprinkle rose essential oil on toilet paper, and you will be rich all of a sudden if you raid their house.

Well, at least not for now.

In the end, Zhu Cihong had to face the problem that the Four People's Congress did not give public funds, and the private funds were negative, but fortunately, there was still his uncle.

His uncle was rich.

Poor King Fu is lying down again!