Chapter 42: The Bloodstained Palace
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It is not surprising that the method of sitting together has existed in ancient times. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of the Warring States Period, the whole country is a soldier, five households are in the army, and ten households are not allowed to move without authorization. The purpose of this system is to strengthen mutual supervision and reporting among households.
However, in order to clear the remnants of the Zhang family as soon as possible, Li Jinzhong's two-by-two sitting in the Daming Palace was very different from the ordinary one.
Due to Li Jinzhong's vigorous sponsorship, on the night of Li Bin's murder, Lu Guangting was pardoned by the emperor and left Dali Temple, and returned to the palace to personally preside over the specific implementation of the two consecutive sittings.
According to the regulations he announced in front of thousands of servants on duty in the Daming Palace: All palace personnel and eunuchs who are on duty in the Daming Palace must have two guarantors come forward to testify that they were not at the scene of the crime on the night of the assassination of Xia Haitang Hanbing Palace and the murder of Li Binyuxiu Palace.
In other words, Li Jinzhong and Lu Guangting creatively changed the method of joint sitting of one person who is guilty and connecting others to a mixed method of joint sitting between the guarantor and the insured as long as there are not enough people willing to come forward to prove that one person has not committed the crime, then the person can be regarded as guilty and the joint sitting method between the guarantor and the insured.
As soon as the two-by-two sitting was carried out in the Daming Palace, it received immediate results: in less than a day, the Jinggong errand room located in the right Yintai Gate was full of the so-called Zhang's remnants of the party who were escorted from all over the palace.
But then then. The problem arises again: if these people are to be interrogated one by one in person within three days, they will find out. Don't say that the manpower of the "Jinggong Poor House" is seriously insufficient. Even the torture instruments used in the torture chamber to force the suspect to be honest are not enough. Li Jinzhong listened to the suggestion of Lu Guangting, asked the emperor for permission, and transferred all the manpower of the two yamen of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to enter the palace to assist the Jinggong in interrogating the suspect.
So, between day and night, not only in a Daming Palace, but also in the entire Chang'an City, the new graves in the "Wild Fox Fall" used to bury the palace people and eunuchs were added to hundreds of them in one day.
What made Li Jinzhong and Lu Guangting feel fortunate. On the evening of the second day after the execution of the two-by-two sitting, two eunuchs who were on an errand in Hanliang Hall took the initiative to find Luguangting and surrendered, claiming that they were the murderers who sneaked into Yuxiu Palace the night before yesterday to kill the prince.
After listening to the confessions of the two, Lu Guangting couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised, and personally presided over a detailed interrogation of the two for three hours. As a result, the time and methods of the crime confessed by the two were consistent with the facts, and when asked about the reasons why the two surrendered and whether there were other accomplices in the palace, the two only said that they could not bear to see more innocent people around them unjustly die, so they came to surrender, and refused to say anything more. Nevertheless. Being able to force the murderer to show up and surrender within two days was also greatly unexpected by Lu Guangting. On the other hand, he ordered the two men to be kept under strict care. While rushing to the Jin State Mansion, he reported the good news to Li Jinzhong.
After Li Jinzhong got the report, he was also in high spirits, and secretly said in his heart: Thanks to Xie Liangchen's ignorance of current affairs, he died under the emperor's sword, which gradually fading the forces that were secretly restraining in the palace. He thought that from then on, the two of them could open a gap to completely eliminate the remnants of the Zhang family, but who knew that he had slept all night, and only woke up from his sweet dream the next morning, and learned the news that the two murderers had committed suicide by poisoning. After conducting an autopsy, it was reported that the two had taken fatal ******** before they surrendered, and died of poison on the night of their surrender.
The deceptive trick of losing the car and protecting the handsome!
Li Jinzhong sneered, and immediately ordered Lu Guangting not to stop there, but to concentrate manpower, focusing on Hanliang Palace, to fully detain and torture all those who had contact with the two surrendered eunuchs before their deaths, and to track down their comrades before the deadline set by the emperor.
In this way, the two eunuchs who surrendered failed to exchange their deaths for the end of the brutal investigation, but instead triggered a larger-scale killing in the Daming Palace.
The palace people and eunuchs who could not bear the torture could not meet the requirements of the Jinggong errand, and some of them began to talk nonsense and bite others indiscriminately in order to save themselves from the suffering of flesh and skin. Everyone in the Daming Palace is in danger, and it has almost become a hell on earth.
The stormy Jinggong movement caused serious damage to the normal operation of the Daming Palace, and the court affairs and palace affairs were paralyzed one after another, which finally aroused a wave of dissatisfaction and opposition.
Jing Yuncong, who was elected as the ruler of the country, and Liu Yi, who enjoyed high prestige in the court and the opposition, as representatives, knocked on the palace to ask to see the emperor and implored the emperor to issue an order to stop the implementation of two-by-two sitting in the palace; The harem concubines led by Jing Xuan also used vivid examples to convey to the emperor the message that Li Jinzhong and Lu Guangting took the opportunity of the Jing Palace to kill innocents indiscriminately. Under the tremendous pressure of the harem of the previous dynasty, the emperor summoned Li Jinzhong and Lu Guangting overnight on the third day to inquire about the details of the three days since they sat in pairs.
Li Jinzhong is worthy of being a veteran of officialdom who has been in the palace for most of his life, and once he smells out that the wind is wrong, he immediately sees the wind and changes his course.
In front of the emperor, he deliberately avoided talking about how many people were tortured to death in the three days, but instructed Lu Guangting to submit the confessions of the two eunuchs who surrendered to the Hanliang Palace separately, and deliberately showed the emperor that the murderer of the prince had been arrested as scheduled, and took the initiative to say that since there had been a major breakthrough in the investigation of the remnants of the Zhang family, in order to maintain the normal operation of all affairs in the palace, the implementation of the two consecutive sittings could be suspended.
How did the emperor know that the two eunuchs had surrendered the day before, but that the murderers were arrested under the auspices of Li and Lu.
Two days later, the emperor held a meeting of 100 officials in the Xuanzheng Palace, announcing that the slain prince Li Bin was posthumously crowned as the king of Ling, and the Zhongshu Order, the Duke of the Jin Kingdom, Li Jinzhongjinggong protected the country, and the lord was known as the "Shang Father".
After a short and cruel baptism, Daming Palace gradually began to return to calm, but this calm was different from the past, with some grits of silence. (To be continued.) )