When Xiao Mu was talking about his inventions and creations to Lin Yi and Empress Zhang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Yangxing, was also not idle, and just now someone told him that the subordinates he had sent to Daxing to investigate had returned and were asking to see him outside the door. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Luo Yangxing hurriedly let people in, ready to listen to their report.

I saw a brocade-clothed guard come in, knelt on the ground and saluted: "See your lordship." ”

"Don't be polite, tell the official quickly, what have you found in the past few days? Why are you alone, why didn't Zhang Chao come back with you? Luo Yangxing asked.

"Lord Hui, I was ordered to go to Daxing to investigate this time, and I did find some strange things......"

As Xiao Mu expected, they really found something unusual in Daxing. In fact, the Ming Dynasty has come to this stage from the founding of the country, if the emperor has the heart, no matter where he sends someone to investigate carefully, it is not difficult to find some illegal things, which is not unusual, but this time Luo Yangxing's subordinates found some evil in Daxing.

It turned out that the head of the Jinyi Wei stall was named Luo Zhenxing, and Zhang Chao, another Jinyi Wei stall head who was also a member of the 100 households in Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, was sent to Daxing to visit. In the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei was under the jurisdiction of the Zhenfu Division, which specialized in investigation, arrest, and interrogation. The Zhenfu Division is divided into north and south, of which the South Zhenfu Division specializes in dealing with the law and military discipline of Benwei, while the North Zhenfu Division is specifically responsible for handling cases of the emperor's order. Therefore, Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao, as the Jinyi Wei Baihu of Beizhen Fusi, are simply familiar to them to do such an errand, they disguised themselves and explored in Daxing City and its surroundings, and after a private visit, they found some suspicious points.

First of all, it was found that Liang Yanyang, the former owner of Hongyuan Restaurant, who committed the crime, did not seem to have any family members, which made the two feel very surprised, Zhang Chao personally led people to visit Liang Yanyang's hometown Daimyo's mansion, and did not find any Liang Yanyang's family. Thinking that Liang Yanyang has passed the age of his establishment, but he has no wife and children, which is very rare in Daming, and the two are sure that Liang Yanyang's family must be hiding.

Later, they found out that Liang Yanyang's house did not have much money copied, which was far from the income from the abduction and trafficking of women and children that he and his subordinates confessed over the years.

Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao had a preliminary understanding and ruled out the possibility of corruption and personal enrichment by the government personnel who participated in the raid. After all, there is such a big case in the local area, it is supervised by the emperor himself, and the elders of the cabinet will be tried in public, and there are so many cases that big people are staring at, no one should have the courage to reach out and take this kind of hot money. In fact, Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao also felt that it was impossible, but they investigated it out of rigorous considerations, and the result was indeed as they expected, and there was no corruption of the officials involved in the case. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if there are people who are not open-eyed and are indeed greedy for ink, it is impossible to put most of the property in their own pockets and leave only such a little to the imperial court, no matter what, there is no way for such a blatant act not to be discovered, even if it is a fool who will not do it.

So both of them agreed that Liang Yanyang transferred his family's property in advance, trying to exchange his life for his family's worry-free life for the rest of his life. After all, the facts are already obvious, even if you are not an experienced person in handling cases, you can only make a rough idea, let alone the well-informed Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi's big stall.

So they discussed it and secretly interrogated Liang Yanyang, who behaved exactly the same as when he was in Daxing Yamen, confessing to the crimes he had committed. But when Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao asked about his family's property, he couldn't say anything.

Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao are naturally not vegetarians, and seeing that Liang Yanyang refused to explain honestly, they exchanged glances with each other, so they decided to give him a little look. Both of them are hereditary Jinyi Wei military households, although they are very young, now they are only twenty-five or sixteen years old, but they have been exposed to it since they were children, and they have been following the elders of Jinyi Wei since they were sixteen years old, so until now, they are also experienced, and they are naturally very proficient in the use of torture.

At this time, they were very confident, after all, they also heard that during the trial of the county government, Liang Yanyang was very timid, and he explained everything that should be explained like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and even what should not be explained, such as the relationship with Liang Yuehao, the county magistrate, was also said without being forced by anyone. For this kind of soft bones, Luo Zhenxing has seen too much, don't look at this Liang Yanyang's hard mouth now, when the time comes, as soon as the torture instrument is on, don't worry that he will not comply.

However, to the surprise of the two, no matter their coercion and temptation (in fact, there is basically only coercion, and there is no bargaining chip to lure, after all, Liang Yanyang's capital crime is a certainty, and even if they can give him a promise of happiness when the time comes, the two of them dare not make it, who can guarantee that the emperor will not decree that Ling Chi criminal law will be taken against this wicked person? ), or tortured, Liang Yanyang closed his eyes, stretched his neck, and was in a posture where oil and salt did not enter, and dead pigs were not afraid of boiling water, allowing Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao to go into battle again and again, using all their might, and failed to ask Liang Yanyang about the whereabouts of his family and property.

After some torture, Liang Yanyang was already dying, for the sake of his life, Luo Zhenxing and Zhang Chao temporarily stopped the torture, after all, if Liang Yanyang died, this case would be even more tricky.

The two had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, planning to ask Liang Yanyang's subordinates again, hoping to find some clues, but disappointed that these people were all small minions, and they didn't know anything about Liang Yanyang's family and property, and as for the kind of subordinates like "personal butlers", there were none of them.

Just when the two of them were working in vain and were at a loss, they stumbled upon an important clue in Daxing City.

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Xiao Mu was explaining his self-created "Famous Minister's Card" to Lin Yi and Empress Zhang.

"These four are the famous ministers' cards, and the pattern in the middle is the portraits of the four famous ministers I selected to stay in history." Xiao Mu put the four cards on the table, the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the four cards are symmetrically written with the word "minister", pointing to the first card, Xiao Mu said, "This 'day' card represents Zhuge Kongming, Zhuge Wuhou's deeds are well known, it can be described as 'out of the teacher of a table of real name in the world, a thousand years who can be in the middle of the world', think I Ming is now difficult state affairs, if there can be Zhuge Wuhou general characters to assist me, want to come to the Ming Dynasty is hopeful." ”

After talking nonsense seriously, Xiao Mu pointed to the second card, "The pattern in this 'ground' card is the portrait of Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang Wen, a generation of anti-Mongolian ministers, after being captured, he also swore to die and refused to surrender, bravely and righteously, leaving behind the famous sentence of 'who has not died in life since ancient times, and left Dan to take care of the sweat'." If my courtiers of the Ming Dynasty are all such loyal people, why worry about the immortality of the slaves outside the gate! ”

Saying that, Xiao Mu picked up the third card, and was about to open his mouth to continue the introduction, but was preempted by Lin Yi, "I know this card without you saying it, and the picture on it is obviously Guan Gong." ”

It's really because Guan Yu's appearance characteristics are too obvious, so even Lin Yi can see it at a glance.

"Yes, this 'Xuan' card is Guan Yu Guan Yunchang, the queen is really smart." Xiao Mu said, and praised Lin Yi by the way, "Guan Gong's deeds are known to women and children, and there is no need for me to introduce them." ”

"The deeds of Zhuge Liang and Wen Tianxiang are also known to women and children, you haven't been verbose and said so much nonsense......" Lin Yi sneered in his heart.

"As for this one, it is the anti-gold famous general Yue Fei, Yue Wumu's loyalty and righteousness, which should be admired by future generations, and I also respect it very much, so I also added it to this card." Xiao Mu also said the character represented by the last card.

At this time, Xiao Mu's brain was running rapidly: when Yue Fei was mentioned, there was no way not to think of Qin Hui. So while Xiao Mu was introducing, he was wondering in his heart whether to innovate again and add four "traitorous cards".

When Xiao Mu was thinking about it, Wang Chengen outside came in at an inopportune time to disturb him, and whispered to Xiao Mu: "The commander of the Jinyi Guard asked Luo Yangxing to see him, saying that the people sent to Daxing before had found important information. ”

Xiao Mu's train of thought was interrupted by Wang Chengen, and he was naturally very angry, but listening to Wang Chengen's tone, Luo Yangxing and they seemed to have discovered something terrible, so they hurriedly asked to see themselves, so Xiao Mu didn't care about thinking about adding the "traitorous card" for the time being, and took Wang Chengen and others to see Luo Yangxing.

"Luo Yangxing asks to see, I think there is something important to report to me, and I will be with me first." Xiao Mu said to Lin Yi and Empress Zhang, "By the way, I also have a design thing, called 'Mahjong Cards', and the gameplay is similar to 'Playing Horse Hanging', which is very simple and easy to understand. I will send it to you, and the imperial sister-in-law and the queen can call Concubine Ueda and Concubine Yuan, play two laps with them, and then continue to explain this card to you together when I come back. ”

"The emperor should take state affairs first, and the concubines don't matter here." Lin Ye said a very "reasonable" sentence in front of Queen Zhang, which made Xiao Mu difficult to adapt for a while, if Queen Zhang said this, it would naturally be very normal, but now that Lin Ye said this kind of thing, Xiao Mu had to sigh that women are naturally good actors.

Xiao Mu left with Wang Chengen, the mahjong tiles he said had not yet been delivered, and Concubine Tian and Concubine Yuan had not yet been invited, so Lin Yi explained to Empress Zhang the meaning of the cards that Xiao Mu had told him before.

"Sister-in-law, please see, these cards are all number cards, from 'one' to 'nine' respectively on behalf of a grade official to a nine rank official, so the small number is actually bigger than the number of the big card, sister must not be like my sister to be mistaken. As for the pattern in the middle of these cards, it is the complement of the official uniform of the corresponding grade......"

Empress Zhang listened to Lin Yi's explanation, but her mind was not on this card, "The emperor is in a hurry, it must be a matter of urgency, Daming is in an eventful season, I hope this time is good news......"