Chapter 681: It's all about the big picture

ps: The Battle of Civil Fort is coming, and the ending is very hard to write, so let's have some encouragement with a monthly pass!

"Ascend to the court, lead people to commit ......"

Mighty!

"Who is kneeling down in the hall?"

"The villain Yan Tong knocks to see the old man Qincha!" Yan Tong's hair was scattered, his eye sockets were deep, and he didn't have the arrogance of the day at all, and now he was like a poor worm.

"Yan Tong, do you know why Ben Qincha detained you here?" Meng Yan sat on the lobby and asked majestically.

"The villain knows."

"Don't talk about it yet!" Meng Yan pointed with his hand and ordered.

"The villain, Ji An and the others, under the instruction of Fang Junhe, the master of the Prison Military Mansion, murdered Lord Tang Tang, the superintendent of the Imperial History." Yan Tong knelt on the ground and said.

"How you accepted the order, and how you killed people, tell me one by one with this official." Meng Yan ordered.

"Yes, Lord Chincha." Yan Tong agreed, and once again described how he and Ji'an and the other guards killed Tang Yun under the instruction of Fang Junhe.

"Why did Fang Junhe order you to kill Master Tang?"

"This villain doesn't know!"

"Did he ever tell you that someone made him do this?" Meng Yan groaned and asked.

"I didn't hear that."

"Yan Tong, you = are also a slave of the Prison Military Mansion, you should know that Fang Junhe is just a master, he has so much power to let you kill people, is he still an official of the imperial court?" Meng Yan snorted coldly.

"In the Prison Military Mansion, the third master is equivalent to the overseer, we dare not disobey his orders, and as for whether it is the overseer's intention, we never dare to ask." Yan Tong explained.

"Fang Junhe has so much power?"

"Yes, villains are not qualified to see the Overseer at all. Everything is ordered by the third master. ”

"Come on, sign for him!" Meng Yan knew that if he continued to ask, he couldn't ask anything.

"Bring someone to commit Ji'an!"

"Lord Qincha, the villain is guilty, and the villain deserves to die. But it's not the villain who kills, the villain is just an accomplice at best......"

"Whether you are guilty or not, whether you say it or not, the evidence has the final say!" Meng Yan slapped the stunned wood, "Get up and talk back!" ”

"Master Xie Qincha!"

"Tell me everything about you and Yan Tong plotting to kill Master Tang and Tang Tang." Meng Yan ordered.

"Yes, Master Qincha, I really don't want to hurt people, there are old people on the villain, and there are small ones on the villain. But there is an order from above, and the villain does not dare to disobey ......"

"You mean, you brought in the meal for Lord Tang that night?"

"Yes, the innkeeper sent someone to bring the food and handed it to me, and then I handed it in." Ji'an Road.

"You're taking medicine in your meal?"

"Yes, Third Master Fang ordered it, and put some sweat medicine. Sleep dead, easy to start. "Ji'an Road.

"But Lord Tang is hard to get rid of because of the jade in his heart. He only ate a few bites that night and didn't eat again, so although he fell asleep, he wasn't completely unconscious, right? ”

"Master Qincha is right, that's it, I was afraid that he would wake up. Yan Tong said that it was okay, this weak scholar, even if he resisted, he couldn't beat the two of them. ”

"The method of killing people came up with you, or is it Yan Tong?"

"It's going to be a fake hanging, so. There are no scars on the rest of his body, Yan Tong said, why don't you hang him under the iron railing of the ventilation hole? Ji An said," the villain agreed without thinking about it at the time. ”

"But what you didn't expect was that the ventilation hole was too low to hang a man?"

"Yes, the ventilation hole is too short, and if you are tall, you can see the outside from the inside, so Yan Tong thought of going outside, wrapping his belt around Lord Tang's neck, strangling him, and then hanging on it." Jian said.

"Why don't you strangle yourself in a cell and find a way to hang on it?"

"In order not to leave a trace and not to alarm the other people in the cell, after all, this is still a county jail, and there are many prisoners in it." Jian explained.

"You two have really worked hard!"

"This official asks you again, do other people know about the murder of you and Yan Tong?" Meng Yan asked.

"You should know that when we were doing errands, Chen Xi and Wang Yong were outside to let us out." Ji'an Road.

"What did you do after killing Lord Tang?"

"We didn't do anything, we went back to sleep, and then according to Fang Sanye's instructions, when it was almost dawn, pretended to find out that Master Tang had committed suicide and went to the pavilion to report!"

"So, it was Guo Jianjun who arrived at the scene first?"

"Yes."

"What about Third Master Fang?"

"I didn't see it at first, but when it was dawn, Third Master Fang came, went to the cell to take a look, and ordered us to carry out Lord Tang's body."

"My lord, Xia Guan was in prison at that time, and he happened to see them carry out Lord Tang's body, and Fang Junhe was also at the scene." Ma Weiran interjected and said.

"Hmm." Meng Yan nodded.

"Did you notice the scratches on the walls?" Meng Yan asked.

"Scratches, what scratches?" Ji'an was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know why.

"Ji'an, have you noticed Lord Tang's nails?" Meng Yan continued to ask.

"Master Tang's nails are very long, he has the habit of smoking dry tobacco, and his nails are long, which is used to pick tobacco leaves."

"Okay, you draw the charge first, and then go down and wait for the verdict!" Meng Yan nodded and commanded.

"Master Qincha, the villain won't kill his head, right?"

"What are you talking about, you'll know when the time comes, drag it down!"

Meng Yan successively extracted and interrogated a group of criminals and witnesses, and Tang Chen's wife Tang Chen also called over.

Finally, all the prisoners and witnesses were called to the top of the lobby.

"After the investigation and interrogation of this official, regarding the case of Master Tang Tang committing suicide in prison, based on the testimony and confession of the current witnesses, this officer can conclude that Lord Tang's death was due to murder!" Meng Yan announced loudly.

Hearing the news, Tang Chen cried bitterly on the spot.

"According to the evidence that this official has now, Master Tang was instructed to murder and died, and this person is Fang Junhe, the master of the General Datong Military Mansion!"

"Fang Junhe, can you plead guilty?"

"Student pleads guilty!" Fang Junhe knelt down on his knees and knelt on the ground.

"Yan Tong. Ji'an, you two are the perpetrators of this murder, can you plead guilty? Meng Yan looked over.

"The villain pleaded guilty!"

"Chen Xi, Wang Yong, Bao Yongfeng, Jiang Zhiqiang. The four of you are also accomplices, can you plead guilty? Meng Yan asked.

"The villain pleaded guilty!" The four of them knelt down one after another.

"Okay, since you have pleaded guilty, this official will temporarily take you into custody, and after the case of Lord Tang's smuggling and treachery with the enemy is clarified, the verdict will be pronounced together!" Meng Yan was shocked.

No immediate verdict?

This made Fang Junhe and the others who were kneeling in the hall feel a little surprised.

"Brother Xiaochao, this official repairs a copy, you send someone to send it back to the capital as soon as possible, and hand it over to Lord Beiyafu. Please ask him to send someone to escort this prisoner back to Beijing and detain him in prison! ”

"Whoa!"

"Fang Junhe stays, and the others are temporarily detained in Yi County Prison!"

Fang Junhe was a little strange, didn't he say everything he should have said, those secrets that shouldn't be said, he was also going to bring them into the Hades Palace, what else did he leave him for?

"You all stand down."

"Yes!"

There were only two people left in the lobby, Meng Yan and Fang Junhe.

"This is the news that this official just received, can you take a look?" Meng Yan took out a piece of letterhead from his cuff and took it out. Handed it over.

Fang Junhe took it blankly, when he saw the content above. His face changed, and he was very pale.

"This is your so-called benefactor, who betrayed your loyal staff at a critical moment to save his life." Meng Yan slowly raised his eyes and said.

"What is the purpose of Lord Meng showing me this?"

"There's no intention, anyway, you've already decided to take all the sins you need. You are already seeking benevolence, this official just wants you to recognize this person before you die, and you will be reincarnated as a human being in the next life, and you must not give your life to this kind of person again. Meng Yan said lightly.

Fang Junhe's body shook slightly, this blow was big enough for him. Originally, he thought that Guo Jing should at least be grateful to him if he took all the blame off, but he didn't expect him to be so ruthless, and before he could take the blame off, he sold himself in a blink of an eye.

"You've thought about it, how to help him get rid of this panic, he said in front of the emperor that you have an old grudge with Tang Wei, what is this old grudge?" Meng Yan Road.

……

"Also, you are not among the prisoners escorted into Beijing, this way to Datong, this official still needs you." Meng Yan dropped a sentence and walked away from Fang Junhe's side.

"My lord......" Fang Junhe suddenly came to his senses, and Meng Yan's back was already far away.

"Let's go, Third Master Fang, our lord has ordered, as long as you don't run, this shackle and flail will not be given to you."

Returning to the pavilion, Meng Yan was not in a good mood, although Tang Wei's suicide case was turned over by him.

However, Tang Chu himself is accused of collaborating with the enemy for smuggling and betraying the country, and even if he knows that he is innocent, it is not easy to overturn the case.

But Guo Jing gave him this trick, which made him passive, the emperor still trusted Wang Zhen very much, and Guo Jing was Wang Zhen's person.

Even if the saint believes that Tang Wei was wronged in the case, he doesn't necessarily think that Guo Jing did it, Guo Jing has been guarding Datong for more than ten years, and the upper and lower levels have long been airtight by him.

Tang Qin's matter, it is estimated that he was careless.

Although Guo Nu didn't say much in his summons to him, he smelled a hint of danger, and smuggling was rampant at the border, so the emperor really didn't know anything about it?

If you want to say that Wang Zhen deliberately concealed it, but when Sanyang was there, Wang Zhen couldn't cover the sky with one hand, not to mention that there was an old queen mother pressing the formation, and Wang Zhen couldn't cover the sky.

The emperor knew about the smuggling of border generals, so why did he let it go?

After thinking about it, Meng Yan finally figured out something, which was probably a helpless move by the imperial court.

At this time, there must be no more accidents in the north, if the smuggling wind in the northwest military town is stopped, the grassland heroes who cannot obtain materials through guò trade will inevitably choose to occupy by force!

If another war breaks out in the northwest, fighting on two fronts will inevitably bring down the fragile finances of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, for the smuggling on the northwest border, the imperial court will turn a blind eye, as long as it is not too excessive, the imperial court will just not see it.

At present, the adjustment of the imperial court's foreign military policy is emphasizing the north over the south, mainly because the Luchuan battlefield in the south has fallen into a quagmire, spending financial resources and manpower, and finally nothing has been gained, while the neighbors in the northwest are becoming stronger and stronger, and we must be vigilant.

If the imperial court changes its foreign use of troops or changes its military defense policy, it will no longer turn a blind eye to the smuggling of border generals, especially those involving strategic materials.

Judging from the appointment of the emperor as the governor of Xuanda, the emperor has made up his mind to rectify the border defense in the northwest and even the entire northern section.

So what will the emperor do? (To be continued......) R1292