Cai Guozhen is already very old.

Since Shen's coup d'état, he has often reflected on himself in the middle of the night, whether what he has done is right, and whether he will have worries about the end of the night.

The more he thought about it, the more he could come to such a conclusion, and with the progress of Xiao Ruxun's Northern Expedition, such thoughts occupied his mind more and more, making him regret it.

Knowing this, why didn't he flee from Beijing as soon as possible like those officials who smeared oil on the soles of their feet?

At the beginning of Shen's rebellion, many officials learned about this matter, and felt that the big thing was not good, and the Jingshi was estimated to be unsafe, so they escaped from the Jingshi by smearing oil on the soles of their feet in advance, and Li Tingji, who is now the first assistant of the cabinet, is one of them, Cai Guozhen originally had a chance to escape, but he gave up.

I don't know why, he just gave up such an opportunity, although he sat firmly in the position of the secretary of the ministry, but such a beautiful situation only lasted for about half a year, and soon, Xiao Ruxun made a comeback and directly seized the throne, and they directly became prisoners.

At the beginning of the new dynasty, I don't know what kind of idea it may be to stabilize the situation, the new emperor Xiao Ruxun continued to use a large number of officials from the previous dynasty, many of whom supported Shen Zheng during the Shen Zheng period.

Shen Zheng's right-hand men Xiao Daheng and Luo Sigong were killed, Shen Cheng himself was killed, and after that, it seemed that no one was killed, and the new emperor asked everyone to force the Empress Dowager Ming and the Ming Prince to hand over power, and then became the emperor and stabilized the world.

But who knew that once the chaos arose, Zhao Shiqing, who was entrusted with a heavy task, was killed on the street, and the new emperor was furious, thundered and angry in front of the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty, and then ordered a thorough investigation of Zhao Shiqing's case.

In just a few days, it has been found on the head of Zhu Yinghuai, the Duke of Chengguo, and it is said that there are still fellow parties, and I don't know how many people will be affected.

This situation always reminds Cai Guozhen of the famous four major cases at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the four major cases led by Zhu Yuanzhang killed tens of thousands of officials, and the intensity was unprecedented, Cai Guozhen was very worried about whether Xiao Ruxun also planned to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang and also make a big case.

Then their lives will be really difficult.

Xiao Ruxun shouldn't be as ruthless as Zhu Yuanzhang, right?

Cai Guozhen can only look forward to this.

However, such expectations do not seem to have been answered.

Xiao Ruxun still made a move.

A group of officials with knives in black official uniforms broke into Cai's mansion and surrounded the Cai family's lobby, and a six-rank official from the Central Investigation Department appeared in the Cai family's lobby with a sneer, looked at Cai Guozhen and his family with a dead face, and announced his fate.

"Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Dali confessed, and Cai Guozhen, the secretary of the ministry, colluded with Zhu Yinghuai, the prince of Chengguo, to plot wrongdoing, and removed him from the post of secretary of the ministry, and handed over to the department for routine investigation."

The Liupin official finished reading the edict and sent the edict to Cai Guozhen.

"Cai Butang, take the order, then pack up, and you can go, don't worry too much, Your Majesty has instructed us to give you special treatment."

Cai Guozhen's face was as white as earth, her lips trembled, and she slowly stretched out her trembling hands and took the edict.

"Old minister...... Receiving ......"

After taking the edict, he only felt that all his strength was exhausted, and he fell directly to the ground, his family shouted in panic, and he was expelled by the officials of the Investigation Division, and then Cai Guozhen was lifted up and brought back to the Investigation Department for investigation.

The same thing happened at the house of Yu Jideng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Of course, it also happened in the homes of Liu Zuochang, Marquis of Anyuan, Chen Yingzhao, Marquis of Ningyang, Zhu Jixun, Marquis of Funing, Deng Shaoyu, Marquis of Dingyuan, Tang Shilong, Marquis of Lingbi, and Sun Yungong of Yingcheng.

All of them were taken away and taken to the prison of the Investigation Department under the pretext of assisting in the investigation.

In just a few days, three ministerial-level high-ranking officials were arrested and arrested, and a large number of nobles were taken away from their homes and isolated from their families, seeing the heavy losses of the Great Qin court, but the emperor did not seem to be worried, and immediately ordered his deputy to temporarily take charge of the affairs of the ministry and the court, arrest the government and deal with the government as usual.

It seems that this storm only had a huge impact on the officials and nobles, but it did not have any impact on the government and the world.

Those who should live their lives are still living as usual, and those who should do things are still doing things as usual, the life trajectory of the people in Beijing has not changed much, and the martial law in Beijing has been lifted quickly, as if it has never appeared.

But the emperor's anger is as always, and he will also get angry when he convenes a court meeting to deal with the government, and it seems that he is still haunted by the killing of Zhao Shiqing, and it seems that this big investigation will not end in a short time, and the longer it lasts, the more worried many officials will be.

They were afraid that they too would be implicated, and they didn't know when they would be caught and tortured in the notorious Investigation Division.

Now some inside stories about the Investigation Department have been spread, saying that the Jinyiwei and Dongchang spies who did not die in the changes in the Beijing Normal University have been included in the Investigation Division, and the new emperor has borrowed the power of these people to rebuild his own spy group.

Officials who once naively thought that the new emperor would not re-establish the spy politics now appear to be wrong.

The emperor established his own spy politics, or a more terrible spy group than Jinyiwei and Dongchang, as soon as he made a move, he was a national prince-level honorable and a ministerial-level high-ranking official, and this kind of action was unprecedented.

The little six-rank official directly took down the ministerial-level high-ranking officials, how terrible is this department?

Soon, the Central Investigation Department's reputation will be comparable to that of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and the officials have nothing to do with them.

Because it implements the emperor's will, it is the emperor who controls everything behind his back, it is the emperor who makes them do this, and it is justified and justified that the emperor who exercises power on behalf of heaven gives them the power of heaven.

There is no solution to this.

The Central Investigation Department has made a name for himself through this campaign, but soon, other departments will join him, such as the Central Audit Department.

The high-ranking officials and nobles accepted the package service inherited from Jinyiwei and Dongchang by the Investigation Department in the Central Investigation Department, and the collapse was half dead and half dead, and the people who originally decided to grit their teeth and hold on to it and absolutely refused to admit it saw those torture instruments and Zhu Yinghuai, who was tortured and not in shape, was already frightened.

A few nobles who secretly agreed that they would never be beaten into tricks were weak at first glance, and when they looked at those torture instruments, they were directly frightened.

They overturned their previous decision in an instant.

Cai Guozhen, who was old and frail, saw Zhu Yinghuai's tragic situation, and did not hesitate at all, Zhou Yao had not yet made a threat, he had already recruited, saying that he was indeed an accomplice and was forced into the game by Zhu Yinghuai, but he had no choice in the past, and now he wants to be a good person.

He wanted to confess to all the people involved, but Zhou Yao didn't give him this opportunity to bite the hell, but directly took out another list, handed it to him, asked him to sign it, and memorized the list on it so that he could charge them.

After that, he had to do this in front of the emperor, and pull all these people into the water, as long as this goal was completed, Zhou Yao could ensure Cai Guozhen's own safety and the safety of his family.