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The day of Xu Qing and Zhang Yingxue's marriage is set for October 12, and the place of worship and marriage is in Tianbi Villa. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 There are still five days to go, during which Xu Qing is in Yizhou Yamen as a minister of the Imperial Mission to investigate and try major cases.

Before Xu Qing officially entered the Yizhou Prefecture, he had sent people to investigate the officialdom and the power of the Jianghu gang in Yizhou, and found out that Li Shi, the wife of Guo Mingyuan, the owner of Guojiabao Fort in Chengdu, was the sister of Li Tianxiong, the owner of Fuyun Mountain Villa in Yangzhou, and Mu Jianci pointed out that Li Tianxiong was a member of the Demon Gate in Hulu Valley, and Li Tianxiong and Li Yuerong were veiled at that time, Xu Qing did not fully believe what Mu Jianci said, but he did not believe it at all.

Xu Qing made two plans before leading the army to leave Yizhou, if Zhang Yingxue came to see him off and was willing to elope with him, he would go to Zhang's mansion to propose marriage, and form an alliance with the Zhang family, and then raid Guojiabao, not afraid of the devil's revenge on Xu Qing's forces in Yizhou, if Zhang Yingxue did not come to see him off, or came, but did not want to elope with him, he would never meet Zhang Yingxue again.

As Xu Qing wished, at dawn the next morning after making a marriage contract with Zhang Yingxue, Xu Qing led 1,000 personal soldiers, more than 1,000 people from Yizhou Yamen and 5,000 soldiers from the Yizhou Yamen to surround Guojiabao and blockade Guojiabao, only allowing people to enter and not to go out, and arrested Guo Mingyuan and his wife, Guo Mingyuan's son Guo Yan, Guo Mingyuan's daughter Guo Mingzhu, Guo Jiabao's housekeeper Guo An, and more than 100 leaders of the tent and family and detained them in the lobby.

After that, Guojiabao was raided, looking for evidence such as letters between Guojiabao and the Demon Gate and the Black and White Sect, checking Guojiabao's accounts, and recounting income and expenditure. The results of the statistics show that Guo Jiabao's annual expenses are only one-fifth of his income, and the annual balance is about 1,000 taels of gold.

Guojiabao has more than 1,000 family members, more than 100 maidservants, and Qizhou (now Jinan, Shandong) Guiyan Fort, Handan Huairen Fort, Ezhou (now Wuhan, Hubei) Zhaojiabao and called the four major forts of martial arts, in the martial arts is very famous. Guojiabao has a history of more than 100 years, and according to Guojiabao's current profitability, the balance of wealth should exceed 10,000 taels of gold. However, Xu Qing only found less than five hundred taels of gold from Guojiabao.

Tianbi Villa has a "Sword Saint", the Black and White Sect cannot occupy Tianbi Villa, Yizhou former assassin Shi Fan Wei opened his mouth to ask for bribes but did not dare to punish Tianbi Villa, Guojiabao has no top master who is famous in the rivers and lakes, and Tianbi Villa is a commercial competitor, not an ally, why was it not occupied by the Black and White Sect? If you didn't pay a bribe to the big corrupt official Fan Wei, can you still do business in Yizhou?

These are not enough to prove that Guo Mingyuan colluded with the Demon Gate, or that he was a person in the Demon Gate, but Xu Qing intuitively determined that Guo Mingyuan had a powerful backer or master behind the scenes, so that the Black and White Sect and Fan Wei did not dare to touch Guo Jiabao.

The whereabouts of Guo Jiabao's ministers' wealth were unknown, so Xu Qing interrogated Guo Mingyuan, Guo Wife, Guo Yan, Guo Mingzhu, Guo An, and the three account rooms separately in Guojiabao, and demanded that they explain the whereabouts of Guo Jiabao's huge wealth.

Guo Mingyuan's family of four did not speak and refused to confess. The housekeeper and the three tent offices were recruited in order to save their lives, saying that every year in the middle and end of the year, a group of mysterious black-clothed masked people came to Guo Jiabao twice, and quietly took away most of the profits from Guo Jiabao's various businesses in the middle of the night. According to the memories of Guo An, an old housekeeper in his sixties, Guo Jiabao was not like this before, and this strange thing happened since Li Shi, the wife of the castle owner and the sister of Li Tianxiong, the owner of Fuyun Mountain Villa in Yangzhou, married into the Guo family 20 years ago.

Xu Qing asked them if they knew the identities of those black-clothed masked men, and the answer was no.

Circumstantial and insufficient evidence cannot convict a person, but this is ancient, not modern, and the concept of the legal system is not so strong, Xu Qing intends to build Chengdu into another base for himself, and will never allow the forces of the Demon Gate to entrench in Chengdu, so he will bring Guo Mingyuan's family of four and more than 100 of his cronies back to Yizhou Yamen for detention and interrogation.

Through the interrogation of more than 100 people individually, a few of them knew about the fact that the black-clothed masked man came to Guojiabao twice a year to collect money and transport it away, but no one knew the identity of the black-clothed masked man. It seems that Guo Mingyuan has done a good job of keeping secrets.

If you want to pry Guo Mingyuan's mouth open, torture is one way, but it is not a good way. Xu Qing, as a student majoring in special operations at the Special Forces and Special Forces Academy of the Celestial Empire in the future, had no reason not to know about the notorious Tamoumo Prison in the United States.

The interrogation methods invented by criminal investigation experts in later generations, such as the method of building momentum, the method of iron case like a mountain, the method of pressurized interrogation, the method of decompression interrogation, the method of interrogation under increasing and reducing pressure, and the method of Huairou interrogation, have their own advanced points, and Xu Qing has already used them quite skillfully.

Guo Mingzhu, a thirteen-year-old girl who has not yet grown up, has not yet grown up, but has the prototype of a beauty, and in time it will be another Li Yuerong with a moon-like appearance. Xu Qingzhen couldn't bear to interrogate her, let alone behead her. Seeing Guo Mingzhu's frightened gaze, Xu Qing felt his heart tremble, his action to sweep away the demon gate was bound to hurt the innocent. The people in the Demon Gate are hateful and hateful, unscrupulous in order to achieve their goals, and regard human life as if they were a mustard, but many underage children in the Demon Gate, especially girls, have not committed crimes and should not be implicated in the crimes of their parents.

But for her own safety and the safety of the Tang Dynasty, Xu Qing had to eradicate the anti-Tang Demon Gate, and had to take advantage of Guo Mingzhu's young and ignorant to lie to her that Zhuang Ding couldn't stand the torture and confessed, those black-clothed masked people were all from the Demon Gate, and her mother and uncle were from the Demon Gate.

The disciples of the Demon Sect have been engaged in anti-Tang activities, and it is a capital crime to be caught. "Confess leniently, resist strictly", as long as Guo Mingzhu confesses and persuades her father, mother and brother to confess, they can be exempted from capital crimes. According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to capital crimes and treason, the family members of criminals can use money to atone for their crimes.

Xu Qing saw that Guo Mingzhu was still young, as long as she confessed and was willing to persuade her relatives to confess, she would be exempted from her crimes, and then after her relatives confessed, her relatives were given a lenient sentence on the grounds that they were forced by the Demon Gate to join the Demon Gate and did not engage in anti-Tang activities.

Guo Mingzhu cares about the safety of his relatives, and his heart is in turmoil, he is worried that his family will be executed, he is very scared, and he is under huge mental pressure, how can he not be moved when he hears that there is a way to avoid death, even adults are difficult to perceive that this is Xu Qing's false "potential", he can't be sure that Guo Mingzhu's mother and uncle are from the Demon Gate, otherwise there is no need for interrogation, just convict Guo Mingzhu's mother directly. This is a combination of the Momentum and Pressurized Interrogation methods.

Knowing that there is still a way to live, Guo Mingzhu's pressure suddenly decreases, this is the decompression interrogation method. Xu Qing released goodwill and implanted the image of a good person in Guo Mingzhu's heart, so that Guo Mingzhu was willing to cooperate with Xu Qing, which was the Huairou interrogation method. The pressurized interrogation method is used in conjunction with the decompression interrogation method, which is the supernumerated interrogation method.

Guo Mingzhu confessed: "Those black-clothed masked people who came to collect money were all from Zifu, when I was ten years old, I overheard my father and mother talking about Zifu, I asked what 'Zifu' was, but my father and mother did not answer, and sternly asked me not to mention the word 'Zifu' to anyone." My father's stern tone scared me to tears. I couldn't sleep that night, and when I heard movement outside in the middle of the night, I got up to check and found that there were several carriages parked in the courtyard, and a group of black-clad masked men were carrying boxes of things onto the carriage. A few days later, I asked my mother who those black-clad masked men were. My mother didn't speak to me in a stern tone, but said to me in a gentle tone, 'Children don't care about adults, this matter is related to the life and death of Guojiabao, you must keep it a secret and don't tell anyone, you know?' 'The Purple Mansion has something to do with the Demon Gate you said, right? ”

Xu Qing finally confirmed that Mrs. Guo and Li Tianxiong were from the Demon Gate, and the enemy surfaced and was happy, but felt sorry for Li Yuerong being from the Demon Gate, and said: "The Purple Mansion is the Demon Gate, the Purple Mansion is the self-name of the people in the Demon Gate, and the Demon Gate is the name of the Purple Mansion by the court and decent people in the martial arts." Little sister, you have done the right thing, and only by cooperating with me can you survive, whether you can save your father, your mother, and your brother's life, it depends on whether you can persuade them to confess. ”

Xu Qingchuan said to his soldiers: "Come on, interrogate the wife of the lord of Guojiabao Fort." The herald sent the order, and a group of personal soldiers escorted the husband of Guojiabao Fort to the interrogation room for interrogation.

Guo Mingzhu persuaded his mother to confess. Li was furious and slapped Guo Mingzhu hard, leaving five deep fingerprints. Guo Mingzhu stroked her hot face, cried aggrievedly, and cried: "Zhu'er confessed to save our whole family, and she is not greedy for life and afraid of death!" Master Xu said that as long as our family confessed, he would be lenient, not sentenced to death, and could use money to atone for the crime. Zhu'er has already recruited, and my mother has recruited too, and those secret conversations of yours are no longer a secret to Lord Xu. ”

Li Shi said angrily: "Why did I give birth to such a stupid daughter of yours!" We secretly engaged in anti-Tang and restoration activities, and we were arrested by the imperial court, how could we not be sentenced to death, but use money to offset the crime? After saying that, Li regretted that he didn't know how many secrets his daughter had mastered, and she didn't know what she confessed, so she shouldn't have said it.

Xu Qing asked Li in surprise: "Anti-Tang Restoration?" What country? Is the master of the Demon Gate a descendant of the royal family of a certain country in the Northern and Southern Dynasties? ”

Li Shi didn't answer, Xu Qing said: "Mrs. Guo, you are guilty of rebellion, you should be beheaded according to the law, you can't atone for your crime with money, but you are only a small role in the Demon Gate, and there is no rebellion, as long as all four of your family confess in vain, this official can let you go, and convict you of a very minor crime, just say that your husband and wife were forced to join the Demon Gate, and after joining the Demon Gate, there was no fact of rebellion, nor did it cause major consequences, and you are allowed to atone for your sins with money." Your children are innocent and acquitted. You are a family of four, whoever confesses, I will let whoever lives, and whoever does not confess, I will let whoever die. To tell you the truth, I already knew that you were from the Demon Gate, otherwise I wouldn't have investigated you. You have no secrets to me. I just can't bear to see a beautiful woman guillotine and become a headless female ghost......"

"Don't say it, I'll do it!" Lee's legs were weak, he was almost unsteady on his feet, and his face was pale and authentic.

Li confessed that he was a disciple of the Demon Gate, and that her husband Guo Mingyuan joined the Demon Gate after he married him. Their own children did not know about it, and they were innocent. Her ancestors were the Northern Zhou royal family during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, with the surname Yuwen, not the surname Li. Her grandfather joined the Purple Mansion and became the personal disciple of the previous lord of the Purple Mansion, and was ordered to establish Fuyun Villa in Yangzhou, changed his surname to Li, and carried out activities to restore the country. Zifu had long rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and was very supportive of the restoration activities of Li's grandfather and elder brother. As a secret base of the Purple Mansion, 80% of the annual net income of the Purple Mansion is handed over to the Purple Mansion, and the Purple Mansion sends people to check the accounts and collect money twice a year in the middle and end of the year. After she married into Guojiabao, Guojiabao became another secret base of Zifu.

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