【3rd Update】

It took five or six people just to bring in these materials.

This includes the verdict of Cai Jing, an insignificant but crucial offender.

After the punishment and 'self-hanging', many people were relieved, but they also cared about whether Cai Jing was guilty.

And in the file submitted by Kaifeng Mansion today, Cai Jing's crime was finally confirmed. After many days of interrogation, Cai Jing finally pleaded guilty.

In the file about Cai Jing, it is recorded that Cai did consult Cai Jing privately before the rebellion. And Cai Jing is a big reversal case, and he also gives advice and does his best. It can be said that he is the mastermind of Cai Qu and the promoter of this big reversal case.

According to Cai Wei's confession, Cai did praise Cai Jing's intelligence in front of him a few days before the rebellion, and claimed that he would reinstate Cai Jing as an official, and even take up the post of Zhongcheng in the imperial history.

That's why Cai Wei fled to Cai Jing's house after the defeat, planning to escape from the capital with Cai Jing. Unexpectedly, Cai Jing repeated the matter, and even wanted to deceive the court and win rewards.

In addition, Kaifeng Mansion also verified that Cai Jing had burned some letters at home before tying Cai Wei out of the house.

Kaifeng Mansion inquired about Cai Jing's cronies and servants in his family, and all of them proved that Cai Jing had indeed burned some letters before he left home on the day of the rebellion, and a few days before the rebellion, Cai Jing also went out many times. Due to Cai Jing's extremely poor reputation in the capital, he and his family rarely went out. Going out for several nights in a row, and suddenly changing the pattern of movement, is a clear sign of crime.

However, Cai Jing denied burning the letters, denied visiting Cai Qu, and denied conspiring with Cai Qu.

He denied all the accusations, and said in turn that it was framed by the powerful.

Who is the surname of the magnate, Cai Jing said those two words in the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion in a straight voice, and he couldn't hear a hint of Fujian accent. But the name is not visible in the records.

Zhang Qi looked up at the 'magnates' opposite, there were no traces of time on his young face, only a few longitudinal lines on his eyebrows, obviously often frowning and thinking. But Zhang Qi knows very well that the number of times this person makes others frown and have a headache should be ten or a hundred times that of himself. After many people frown, it's not just a few more lines on the center of the eyebrows.

Some gave their lives, some were demoted, and some were waiting for the most decidative decision of the imperial court.

Lowering his head, Zhang Qi's attention returned to the report of Kaifeng Mansion.

Of all the prisoners who were imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion, Cai Jing spent the most time.

In the tug-of-war, the presiding judge and the jury officer repeatedly stated that if Cai Jingken pleaded guilty, he would be spared his life. If you do not repent of evil and die, you must be strict to the end. Even if the court is lenient, it will not grant amnesty to thieves who do not want to repent.

But even so, Cai Jing refused to let go.

If the offender refuses to admit his guilt, the case cannot be closed. Whether it is the testimony of witnesses or sufficient physical evidence, the offender must be guilty of the crime.

As long as Cai Jing gritted his teeth and did not admit his guilt, this case would not be closed. In a hurry to close the case, Cai Jing could only deal with another case, and at that time, there was still a glimmer of life.

Until four or five days ago, many courtiers who cared about this big case still felt that the Kaifeng Mansion could only let Cai Jing die directly in prison, instead of being able to get Cai Jing's confession.

But I don't know what happened, Cai Jing suddenly admitted all the accusations, including the accusation that he was Cai Qu's rebellious mastermind, and also the idea that he was secretly lucky and hoped to get away with it.

According to the criminal justice officer of the Dali Temple and the trial court of the jury, Cai Jing's body still did not have any injuries after the last pass, but the whole person was sluggish and became stupid and stupid, completely missing the original high-spirited appearance, nor the resoluteness of denying the accusation before.

Zhang Qi also had an eye and ear in Kaifeng Mansion, and according to him, when Kaifeng Mansion interrogated Cai Jing, he did not use torture at all.

From the beginning to the end, that is, there was no beating, no clamping, and no torture instruments were put on him.

At the beginning, he only used the old skills of the Yushitai to deal with officials, and used dirty food to consume Cai Jing's will.

It's just that after Cai Jing refused to admit his guilt, the method of interrogation suddenly changed.

No longer in the hall, but in a dark cell. Eat photos for him to eat, drink photos for him to drink, just use the light to shine on his face, not let Cai Jing sleep, and I don't know where to get two iron bars to file in Cai Jing's ear.

It is said that the sound of iron bars rubbing against each other makes people hairy when they hear it.

When the ear report god reported in front of Zhang Qi, his two shoulders twitched and twitched, showing that he had palpitations. He told Zhang Qi without concealment: It didn't take long for him to rush out of the door, but when he thought about it afterwards, he was still panicked.

Under such torture, Cai Jing only survived for two days, and then it became whatever he wanted him to say, and the whole person was wasted.

After passing through the hall, Cai Jing had no other reaction than nodding yes. Shen Kuo took the confession and asked one by one, Cai Jing nodded his head, and then signed and pressed his fingerprints, and passed smoothly in one go.

Thinking of the content of the ear and eye report, Zhang Qi felt a chill in his heart, what kind of punishment is this? Cai Jing, the one who shouldn't be soft, is soft, is it really so poisonous?

Since there was no actual experience, Zhang Qi didn't know how terrifying the torture of Cai Jing was, but judging from the performance of the person who reciprocated, it was enough to make people frightened. is just a bystander, just changing the appearance of the city, and Cai Jing, who has personally experienced torture, can support it for two days is already very remarkable.

And Zhang Qi also determined one thing, if he can think of this kind of torture, such a person should not be provoked.

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Han Gang felt very strange that Zhang Qi was always looking at him, could it be that there was something dirty on his face?

But there was nothing unusual on Han Jiang's side at all. And the officials who have just entered and exited the hall will also remind themselves that they are right.

After thinking about it for a while, Han Gang put it down and continued to look through the file submitted by Kaifeng Mansion.

Because Cai Jing finally pleaded guilty, Kaifeng Mansion left him with a life in the sentence, but he was sentenced to exile from the Western Regions.

And Cai Bian was dragged down by Cai Qu and Cai Jing, and failed to just degrade the official like Su Zhe, but took away the official body, became a flat-headed commoner, and vacated a good position.

Cai Qu, Zeng Bu, and Xue Xiang promoted and appointed many officials in the two governments. These officials, all with the labels of Cai, Zeng, and Xue, although they did not participate in the rebellion, it is impossible for them to be implicated at all. If nothing else, the seat under their ass is a piece of excellent fat that attracts many salivating eyes.

It's just that the cakes left by Cai Qu, Zeng Bu, and Xue Xiang are still very time-consuming to divide up.

Because the number of their henchmen is a little too much - in the Kyo Baiji, they can be found everywhere. The position is also critical - Cai did not say that Xue Xiang had mastered the Sixth Route Shipping Division and the Third Division for many years, and the officials on the Bianhe River transshipment and the imperial court's financial planning were more or less personally picked up by him. It is related to the stability of the Beijing Division, one is not good, the capital is in chaos, the water transportation of the Bianhe River is in chaos again, and the three people in the East Mansion cannot escape the responsibility.

On the premise of not damaging the stability of the court, cleaning up the colors left by the three traitors on the court is a protracted and large project. It requires not only careful planning, but also patience.

But cleaning up their relatives is an imminent and slightly less difficult problem.

The imperial court wanted to calm things down, but his relatives and friends could not go unpunished, and it was certainly not feasible to keep him in a high position.

It's not just a matter of three or five people being transferred to remote counties, but a large number of them. Except for Zeng Gong and Zeng Zhao, who have already been convicted and exiled, there are still at least dozens of people who want to be removed from their posts and demoted.

The most typical is Su Shi's younger brother Su Zhe.

Su Zhe is in the office of Chuzhou Tongju, compared to Su Shi, who was in opposition at the beginning of the self-change law, Su Zhe first accepted Wang Anshi's conquest and became a subordinate official of the regulations of the three divisions, but then he rebelled in front of the Son of Heaven, so his official road was more bumpy than Su Shi's.

However, this time Su Shi only chased down the words since he was born, and exiled him to Jiaozhou, and he was pardoned and could not return. His younger brother is just being dragged down, and of course it won't be too heavy.

Han Gang flipped through the proposal written by Zhang Qi himself: "Taizhou Xixi Salt Affairs? ”

This is a very light punishment, still in Huainan. In addition to working hard, at least he is still an official.

"It's not too heavy." He smiled at Zhang Qi.

"It's heavy enough, there are many gnats in Xixi, from spring to autumn, people can't sit in the open air, and livestock can also foam in the mud, otherwise they will get sick."

"Really?"

Zhang Qi said: "Fan Wenzhenggong once held this position, and there was a poem about the gnats in Xixi, 'The cherries are heavy when they are full, and the catkins are light when they are hungry.'" But if you know to leave here, don't ask about the future. ’”

Han Gang said with a smile: "I don't realize that Wen Zhenggong also has times when he is afraid of the heavy. ”

"Fan Wenzheng proposed to build the seawall because he was afraid of mosquitoes in Xixi."

Zhang Qi said this, and chuckled.

However, if the imperial court arranges for Su Zhe to do salt affairs now, he must be eager to take office, for fear that the imperial court will change his mind.

For example, Su Shi's brother Su Zhe and Zeng Bu's relatives should be dealt with, which is a matter that needs to be thought about.

The Su family is not big or small in Shuzhong, and it is also a famous family, with many relatives and friends. And the Nanfeng Zeng family is one of the best families in Jiangxi, including the son-in-law of the Zeng family, there used to be a subject of seven jinshi, and several states in the northwest add up to not so much. The Zeng family's in-laws are all over the north and south, and Wang Anguo married the daughter of the Zeng family.

In addition to Zeng Gong and Zeng Zhao, the Zeng family still has many other children in the officialdom, all over the government and the opposition. However, since he is a member of the Nanfeng Zeng family, of course he is implicated.

After this blow, the efforts of several generations of the Zeng family have come to naught, and there is very little hope that they can rise again in the future.

Han Gang didn't pay much attention to the Zeng family, if Shilin had too many voices of grievances for him, let them repair books like "Taiping Guangji" - as for history books, it would be impossible, it was not a position that the relatives of the convicts could do.

He now cares about exams

- The etiquette examination of this subject is finally about to begin.