When the banquet in the Chunfeng Pavilion was going on lively, there were screams in the torture room of the Xiangyang County Ya Prison, and a group of jailers were viciously torturing several men tied to torture equipment, beating those men to cry for their fathers and mothers, and they died and came back to life.

"Big ...... Adult, small ...... The small one is a trick, the small one is a trick, it's ...... It was the Zhang family who gave a small sum of money to ...... The little girl who framed the Liu family and Zhang Gongzi had a ...... Adultery! ”

Finally, a tall, thin middle-aged man who had been beaten and bruised all over his body looked at the jailer who was smiling and approaching with a red-hot soldering iron, and his psychological defense suddenly collapsed, and he shouted to the man sitting on a chair in the torture room leisurely sipping tea with a frightened expression.

"Stop!" The man, dressed in the green robe of an official, raised his hand to stop the jailer holding the soldering iron in his hand, looked at the tall thin middle-aged man with a frightened expression and said quietly, "Do you have any evidence?" ”

"Yes, yes." The thin and tall middle-aged man nodded again and again, and said in shock, "The money that the Zhang family gave to the villain didn't dare to spend it, and it was hidden under the big tree in the yard, and the villain's family was poor, and he wouldn't have so much money anyway." ”

"What about you? Is there anything you would like to say to Bencha? A smile appeared on the corner of the blue-robed man's mouth, and then he put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the other torturers who were still holding on, and asked in a gloomy tone, "Now that the inspector has come to investigate the case in person, are you still lucky?"

"Big ...... Adult, small also recruited, the Zhang family gave the villain money to let the villain commit perjury, the villain witnessed the Zhang family's son forcibly kidnapping the girl of the Liu family, and the two did not go to a private meeting. ”

As soon as the blue-robed man's words fell, one of the tortured people couldn't hold it anymore and shouted, "That'...... That money is bought by villains...... Bought a few acres of land. ”

"Adult, the villain also recruits ......" Hearing this, the rest of the tortured people hurriedly spoke, since the first two people confessed, then it was no fun for them to carry it anymore.

A smug look suddenly appeared on the face of the man in the green robe, as the saying goes, what can't be asked for under Miki, he doesn't believe that these people can withstand the torture of the yamen, and as long as they overcome one person's psychological defense, others will no longer be able to support it.

"My lord, they have already confessed, the Zhang family bought them with money, and instructed them to commit perjury during the trial, and then made the son of the Zhang family escape the charge of **** women from good families."

Half an hour later, the man in the green robe went to a side room in the prison, bowed down and handed the confession in his hand to a middle-aged man who was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed and recuperating and wearing a seventh-grade official robe.

"Interrogate the people of the Zhang family and get evidence that they bribed Niu Feng!" The middle-aged man closed his eyes when he heard this, and ordered, he was Du Yi'an, the imperial historian of Huguang Inspectorate, who served as the imperial governor of Shandong Province in the Ming Metropolitan Procuratorate before he went out on patrol.

"My subordinates will do it." Hearing this, the man in the green robe got up and left with his confession, he was an official of the Criminal Department, named Bai Chuan, who was seconded by Du Yi'an to assist him in patrolling Huguang, and was a very experienced cadre.

"This Niu Feng, I don't know who I offended and was killed, but it's okay this way, it saves a lot of trouble." After Bai Chuan left, Du Yi'an slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.

His favorite is this kind of case of being stabbed in the back by the people around him, judging from the evidence of Niu Feng's corruption of ink provided by the lame man when he sued, there must be people inside the county government of Xiangyang County who provided him with materials, otherwise how could the lame man get these incriminating ordinary people?

Du Yi'an didn't care who the person who calculated Niu Chuan was, as long as the incriminating evidence provided by the other party could help him successfully take Niu Feng, although he didn't want to cause any trouble in the local area like most of the imperial historians, but at the same time, he also wanted to investigate and handle a case of sufficient weight to make a political achievement.

This is not only his qualifications when he was the imperial history, but also will be used as the basis for future promotion, and Niu Feng's official position is appropriate and the evidence is conclusive, he naturally will not let go of this opportunity to establish merit, this kind of political achievement sent to the door is a bit of a tyrannical thing.

Therefore, after receiving the lame young man's roadblock report, Du Yi'an decided to change his itinerary and first patrol Xiangyang Mansion to investigate the case of Niu Feng's corruption and perversion of the law.

The lame man is the elder brother of the girl of the Liu family mentioned by the few tortured people in the previous cell, and his sister committed suicide after being **** by the son of the Zhang family, and has lived a life worse than death in the past few years, dreaming of avenging his sister.

However, he naturally can't fight the people of the Zhang family alone, fortunately he met a jealous and hateful "nobleman" to give him guidance, so that he can block the way to report to Du Yi'an, otherwise how would he, a flat-headed person, know Du Yi'an's itinerary?

After receiving Du Yi'an's instructions, Bai Chuan immediately interrogated the Zhang family who were arrested and imprisoned in the county government jail, and the people of the Zhang family were much easier to deal with than the previous few bribed witnesses.

According to the confession of the Zhang family, they went up and down in order to get Zhang Gongzi rid of the charge of **** people's daughter, and spent a lot of money to bribe witnesses and officials in the yamen.

In order to buy Niu Feng, who was the main judge of the case, the Zhang family made a lot of money for this, and gave Niu Feng 2,000 taels of silver and some valuable gold and silver jewelry.

At the beginning, the Zhang family only gave 1,000 taels, but who thought that Niu Feng was insatiable, and under his constant hints, he only sent another 1,000 taels plus some jewelry, which satisfied Niu Feng's appetite.

"Niu Xiancheng, do you remember the fornication case between the son of the Zhang family and the daughter of the Liu family in the town outside the city two years ago?"

Because Bai Chuan's interrogation went very smoothly, when Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin returned home in a carriage after the banquet in Chunfeng Pavilion, Bai Chuan had already obtained evidence from the Zhang family that Niu Fengshou had been bribed, so Bai Chuan asked people to bring the nervous Niu Feng from prison to the torture room, and asked expressionlessly.

"Fornication?" Niu Feng, who was thinking wildly, was stunned when he heard this, and a look of surprise appeared on his face, he didn't expect Bai Chuan to mention this case, in his opinion, this case is very ordinary.

Because the incident happened suddenly, Niu Feng was confused and didn't know why he was arrested and put in prison by Du Yi'an, but there was no warning in advance, and after thinking about it, he didn't think that he could commit anything that could provoke the imperial history.

At this time, Niu Feng thought of the mysterious Scarface man who appeared in Bai's house that day, and vaguely felt that Du Yi'an's sudden arrival in Xiangyang City this time might be related to the person behind the Scarface Man, but he didn't know where he offended them.

As for the Li family behind Li Hongyu, although the Li family guessed that he fell into the ground during the court trial, he didn't think that the Li family could ask the patrol to press the imperial history, and now that Li Hongyu's child test was very smooth, the Li family couldn't afford to fall into a lawsuit at this time.

Now, Niu Feng finally got some news from Bai Chuan, and he never imagined that it would be involved in the "fornication case" two years ago, because the daughter of the Liu family committed suicide at that time, the case was quite big, so he was deeply impressed by this case.

"Niu Xiancheng, did you accept bribes from the Zhang family when you tried this case?" Just when Niu Feng pondered Bai Chuan's intentions, Bai Chuan looked at him expressionlessly, "To tell you the truth, Bencha has already obtained the evidence that the Zhang family bribed you, if you want to deny it, then wait to suffer!" ”

Niu Feng's face turned pale in an instant when he heard this, the meaning of Bai Chuan's words was already very clear, his receipt of bribes from the Zhang family was already a certainty, if he wanted to resist stubbornly, he would wait to be punished and served, and he would not be given any hope of getting rid of his guilt at all.

But then again, if he confesses his guilt, then it must be a dead end, just one time to accept more than 2,000 taels of bribes, only to get the emperor's grace to escape death, but generally speaking, only officials from Jinshi can or sub-preferential treatment, he is just a person, where can he get the emperor's grace!

"The lower official has been wronged, please be aware of it!" Therefore, after a fierce ideological struggle, Niu Feng knelt on the ground with weak knees, looked at Bai Chuan seriously, and decided to resist to the end.

"Hmph, since you can't find it happily, then this difference will fulfill you." Bai Chuan had already expected that Niu Feng would not be arrested obediently, so he sneered and shouted gloomily to the jailer on the side, "You wait and 'serve' Niu Xiancheng well, you must let him 'relax his muscles and invigorate his blood', and his whole body will be comfortable!" ”

"The villain obeys." The jailers naturally heard the meaning of Bai Chuan's words, glanced at each other, bowed down to receive the order, and then walked towards Niu Feng with a fierce attitude.

Although Niu Feng used to be their boss, but now that he has provoked the Patrol Lord, it is difficult to protect himself, and under Bai Chuan's command, they naturally dare not show mercy to their subordinates, so as not to provoke the fire.

Niu Feng's face suddenly turned a little green when he saw this, and a slight chill appeared on his back, it seems that torture is indispensable, to be honest, he is very familiar with this kind of scene, but he used to be a prisoner, but now he has become a torturer.

Bai Chuan noticed the change in Niu Feng's face, and a sneer of disdain suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, he wanted to see how long Niu Feng could last under this torture.

Niu Feng also deserves it, he has done so many things with a bad conscience before, so he deserves this retribution, compared to these tortures in the torture room, Li Hongyu's thirty boards in the lobby are really nothing, they are completely trivial.

At this moment, Niu Feng naturally would not have thought that his acceptance of bribes from the Zhang family was just a reason for Du Yi'an to take him down, and Du Yi'an's real purpose was his corruption in Xiangyang County.

You must know that the money and things embezzled are the taxes of the imperial court, which is very bad in nature, and the corruption cases are usually widely implicated, which is the most influential among all types of cases, and is also the most valued by the imperial court, so those officials in the court who want to climb up are usually famous for their investigation of corruption cases.