The brocade guard agreed and was about to run down, Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "Slow!" Then he said to Luo Qianhu: "Obviously, this old boy knows that he can't escape the death penalty, and he can't resist the pain of this torture, so he wants to deliberately provoke Lord Luo, so that you can beat him to death in anger, so that it will become a confused case, and he will not be investigated, at least he can save his reputation." ”

Yang Qiuchi flicked a little, Luo Qianhu suddenly sobered up, nodded again and again, thinking that it was so dangerous, if he beat him to death without asking clearly, and there was no proof of his death, then he would be in trouble, after all, he was a high-ranking official in the imperial court, and he couldn't be handled. Fortunately, Yang Qiuchi reminded him and asked Yang Qiuchi what to do.

"Bring him up and try him first."

The envoy of Quan Bu had already fainted, and the two brocade guards dragged him up to the hall, threw him on the ground with a bang, knocked his chin on the bluestone slab, bit his tongue, and slowly woke up in pain.

Yang Qiuchi ordered to untie the rope on his body, took a chair and placed it in the middle of the hall, and helped him to sit on the chair. Ordered the Jinyi guards to bring a basin of cold water, soaked them in cold water with a towel and wrung them out with their own hands, wiped off the blood on his face for him, and frowned at those Jinyi guards while wiping them: "What are you doing!" It's really against you to start so hard! ”

Those brocade guards looked at each other, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Yang Qiuchi's gourd.

The political envoy of Quan Bu thought that this time Luo Qianhu would definitely beat himself to death in anger, but he didn't expect to stop beating him after a beating, Yang Qiuchi, the envoy of the Jinyi Guard, also personally washed his face, although he knew very well in his heart, Yang Qiuchi was singing red face, and the purpose was to ask for a confession, but Yang Qiuchi treated him as a human being, and he felt better after all.

After Yang Qiuchi finished wiping his face for him, the political envoy of Quan Bu opened his mouth with difficulty and said, "Thank you, Lord Yang." ”

Yang Qiuchi smiled slightly, instructed Jinyi Wei to take down the basin that had been washed into a basin of blood, took a chair and sat next to him, sighed first, and then said, "Lord Quan, I am also forced to do so." Please be sure to understand. ”

The envoy said vaguely: "I understand, Lord Yang, but you don't have to ask more, I won't say it." ”

Yang Qiuchi smiled and changed the topic: "I know what you're thinking, you want to stay up to the backer outside the rice to save you!" ”

A wry smile appeared on the red and swollen fat face covered with scars, and a look of admiration flashed in his eyes, but he still didn't say a word.

Yang Qiuchi has a criminal investigation career for many years, although he is engaged in forensics, he is also very familiar with interrogation, and he has never eaten pork and seen pigs run. Therefore, he knew that in this case, he must first break through his psychological defense line and cut down the spiritual pillar that he relied on to support, only in this way can he make a breakthrough.

Once this kind of psychological warfare is successful, it will be very advantageous to make a comprehensive breakthrough in joint crimes and find out all crimes. There is much more to say voluntarily than to force it.

Yang Qiuchi continued: "I know who is behind Mi Yuanwai, Mi Yuanwai's daughter is married to Xu Jingchang, the son of Xu Zengshou, the Duke of Dingguo, and Xu Jingchang is Queen Xu's own nephew. Mi Yuan has royal relatives like Xu Jingchang as the backing, so you have no fear. Is that right? ”

The envoy smiled, but although he smiled ugly, he still didn't speak.

Yang Qiuchi showed a hint of sarcasm on his face: "Although Mi Yuanwai has such a big backer, do you really think that Mi Yuanwai will use this backer to protect you?" Can this backer really keep you? ”

The smile on the face of the political envoy suddenly froze. He didn't think about this problem, and when he started thinking about it, he realized that the problem turned out to be so serious.

Yang Qiuchi noticed the change in his face and said: "Master Quan, I know that you have risen to this position step by step from the magistrate, and all of this was given to you by Mi Yuanwai, he has such a backer outside Mi Yuan, and he has a money channel, so you have climbed this big tree, of course, you are on the rise." ”

"However, you should know that you are just a pawn in his hand, why should he support you? I want you to be his puppet and be at his mercy, presumably, you have helped him do a lot of things over the years, right? Not to mention anything else, just these two votes of disaster relief food, you helped him embezzle, and you and Tan Zhifu got less than a fraction of what he wanted! ”

"However, he asked you to help him embezzle these two relief grains, not to make money, he has another purpose! Do you know that? ”

The political envoy of Quan Bu was stunned for a moment, and shook his head involuntarily.

Yang Qiuchi changed his words and suddenly asked, "Let me ask you, do you know the price of grain sold in the rice shop outside the rice company?" ”

The political envoy of Quan Bu didn't know why Yang Qiuchi suddenly asked this question, and shook his head again.

"A bowl of rice and a tael of silver!" Yang Qiuchi said hatefully, "Lord Quan, if it were you, would you buy such a high price of rice?" ”

The envoy shook his head again, and had already vaguely guessed the meaning of Yang Qiuchi's words in his heart, and looked at Yang Qiuchi nervously.

Yang Qiuchi said: "I said this, you should guess, it stands to reason that in the year of famine, grain is a good opportunity to sell at a high price, as long as the price is not outrageously high, and the people can afford it, it is easy for him to make a big profit on it, the reason why the rice is sold so high that almost no one will buy it, is that he doesn't want to sell the rice, but he doesn't want others to find out his intentions, so he sells rice at a high and outrageous price." ”

"He doesn't sell rice, so what will he do with the millions of catties of disaster relief rice he took from you? I believe that he did not take so much grain from you to sell it at a high price, but to hoard it for another purpose! ”

"For what purpose?" The envoy asked nervously, the guess in his mind was getting clearer, but he didn't want to hear that result, so he had to ask.

"Millions of catties of grain, even if his family eats it until they are old, they can't eat it all, and he doesn't want to sell it at all, so what is he hoarding so much rice for? Under what circumstances do you need so much rice? Who needs that much rice? ”

"Military rations? He's preparing military rations? Quan Buzheng's voice trembled, and Yang Qiuchi's persuasion revealed a terrible and shocking secret for him, and he had been being used as a gun by others without knowing it.

"That's right! He must be related to the rebels such as the Jianwen Yu Party, raising military rations for them, once the war starts, logistics support is the key, in a sense, the war is about logistics, without food and grass, no matter how powerful the army is, it will be vulnerable in the end. ”

Although the political envoy of Quan Bu did not understand Yang Qiuchi's words very well, he knew the meaning of the words. If Mi Yuanwai is really related to rebellion, then he ......, and the political envoy of Quan Bu didn't dare to think about it anymore, and the cold sweat on his forehead was already flowing, and he didn't know if it was because of pain or fear.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "He also asked you to raise food before, right?" ”

Quan Buzheng has begun to loosen the psychological defense line, as long as he is caught, this kind of private embezzlement of disaster relief food has a big target and involves many people, so it is easy to check, and concealment cannot be concealed, besides, this time the matter is enough to lose his head, and he doesn't care about more similar things, so he nodded.

"You tell me about the matter," Yang Qiuchi said, seeing that the political envoy of Quan Bu was a little hesitant, he added: "Lord Quan, I am helping you, I will help you see the situation in front of you clearly, if you can't see clearly, he is guilty of rebellion against the capital crime, you are an accomplice, when the time comes, the nine clans of Zhulian, Ling Chi will be executed, and if you want to say it at that time, it will be too late to regret it!" ”

A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the political envoy of Quan Bu, and he hesitated for a moment: "Just because he hoarded a large amount of food, he can't be convicted of rebellion, right?" ”

Yang Qiuchi has already seen that the political envoy of Quan Bu should not know the true identity of Mi Yuanwai, and if he can't make the political envoy of Quan Bu believe that Mi Yuanwai committed the crime of rebellion and capital crime, he will have hope in his heart, and it will be impossible to give a full explanation.

Yang Qiuchi asked the political envoy of Quan Bu: "Have you been in charge of disaster relief before?" ”

The political envoy of Quan Bu nodded: "I have been responsible, I have been an official for so many years, and I have been in disaster relief six or seven times." ”

"In previous years, there was a famine, are there so many hungry people in Wuchang City?"

The political envoy of Quan Bu was slightly stunned, thought about it, and shook his head: "Although there are hungry people, there are not so many. ”

"Then do you know why there are so many of them this time?"

The envoy shook his head.

"Then do you know why the hungry people all came to the prefect's yamen tonight?"

"They heard that they were going to put grain tonight."

"You and Governor Tan both know very well that your disaster relief grain has been given to the rice workers, and it has been replaced by mountains of silver in your inner house, so the news of the grain release must not have been released by you, otherwise what would you give to the hungry people?"

Listening to Yang Qiuchi help him speak everywhere, help him analyze, and even seek truth from facts to help him clarify his responsibilities, he couldn't help but be very grateful, and the hostility in his heart was much less, and he said at the moment: "My lord is right, it wasn't spread by me and Tan Governor's Mansion, at that time, I just said to Mi Yuanwai that after the grain was transported, the granary would be set on fire, and the matter of arson would be arranged by him, but he didn't talk about releasing grain, let alone spreading the news that he wanted to release grain." ”

"I believe what you said, if the food is destroyed by the fire, the hungry people have no temper, and they can only blame God, but if they find that there is no food in the granary, then there will be riots. At that time, you will no longer be able to be a ruler. So you don't shoot yourself in the foot. ”

"Thank you, sir!" Envoy Kwon said gratefully.

"Spreading the news of grain distribution is obviously not good for you, and even wants to kill you, do you know who spread this news? Do you know who are the people who are the hungry people who are clamoring for food? ”

If the political envoy of Quan Bu didn't know at this time, then he wouldn't be a high-ranking official like the political envoy, and after listening to Yang Qiuchi's words, the political envoy of Quan Bu said to himself: "Could it be that the rice staff did it outside?" ”

"Who else could it be if it wasn't him?" Yang Qiuchi instructed Master Jin to show the confessions of the domestic slaves who had instigated the grain robbery before the trial to the political envoy of Quan Bu. After only a few of them, his hands trembled, and he could barely hold the paper.

Yang Qiuchi added fuel to the fire: "If the conspiracy outside Mi Yuanwai is not discovered in time today, and the hungry people rush into the yamen and find that the granary has no food, you and the consequences of the Tan Governor's Mansion, you should be very clear." Even if you don't get beaten to death by the hungry, you two will be beheaded because you lose your relief food and cause a riot of the hungry! He knew the result, why did he do it on purpose, do you know? ”

"Why?" The envoy already knew the answer, but he still couldn't help asking.

"Because he wants you to die!"

The envoy of Quan Bu twitched in horror and muttered: "No, if it is like you said, he raised me to use me, but I am only in my fifties now, and I am already a high-ranking official from the second rank, I have more use value, how can he destroy the person who has worked so hard to raise?" ”

"Because he needs to use your death to light the torch of their rebellion!" Yang Qiuchi said coldly. "Corrupt officials like you who embezzle disaster relief food are just the best example of them preaching the common people in the court today, and the officials are forcing the people to rebel, and when the hungry people rush in, their people will take advantage of the chaos to kill a few of your dog officials who are hungry and civil!"

"Killing the court officials, storming the yamen to grab food, these hungry people face such a situation, do they have a way out? At this time, their people raised their arms and shouted, erected the recruitment flag, and tens of thousands of hungry people responded in groups, taking advantage of the situation to seize Wuchang City! ”

"He wants to use your death to force these tens of thousands of hungry people to retreat and rebel against them. The first step of their rebellion was to step on your blood, and you are still counting on him to save you! ”

Yang Qiuchi's words broke through the psychological defense line of the political envoy of Quan Bu, and his whole body seemed to have fallen into an ice hole, the person he had been counting on turned out to be the one who planned to kill him, the one who wanted to push him into the eighteenth layer of hell!

Trying to grasp the last straw, the envoy struggled and muttered, "Isn't his plot unsuccessful now?" I am a grasshopper on the same line as him, he should be able to save me, his son-in-law is the nephew of the current queen, he is the prince of Dingguo, the emperor's relatives and relatives, and he will definitely save him. ”

That being said, it can be seen from the heavy gasps and desperate eyes of the envoy that even he does not believe this sentence.

However, Yang Qiuchi had already decided to snatch away his last straw: "Don't dream, he won't save you, and he can't save you!" ”

"Why?" The envoy asked hoarsely.

(To be continued)