After passing through a few twists and turns of the Shaanxi Changyong Road, I came to the outside of the Imperial Prison, and the morning sun in April was still a little cold. Xu Liang greedily breathed in the fresh air outside, looking up at the sun in the eastern sky, this is the first time Xu Liang has seen the sun in the past half a month, because it is scarce, so precious.

The Yamen of Fusi in Beizhen is still deserted. The four Jinyi Guard Captains urged twice and took Xu Liang to a small room. There were already two officials sitting in the room whispering, and when they saw Xu Liang and others coming in, the two sat up straight.

Xu Liang looked at his eyes and saw a person on the left, about forty years old, with a Chinese character face and a short beard under his chin. The person on the right, his face is slightly dark, his eyes are pointed and his chin is pointed, at first glance, it seems that his whole head is smaller than that of ordinary people, this person is wearing a red robe official uniform, and he is actually a high-ranking official of the fourth grade.

"Get on your knees!" The officer on the left shouted.

Xu Liang sneered and said, "Xu is still a guilty person, at best, he can only be regarded as a suspect, and he has never been guilty. You don't have to kneel. ”

The official said angrily: "What a pair of sharp teeth! Since he is a guilty body, how can he not kneel when he sees this official and Lord Zhang? ”

"Xu only kneels five kinds of people in his life, the prince of heaven and earth, I don't know which one of the two adults occupies?" Xu Liang said.

The official said: "This official is Xia Keli of the Criminal Department, and this one next to him is Lord Zhang, the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate." We are ordered to hear your case. ”

Xu Liang glanced at the small-headed Yushi Zhang, and secretly said that this bastard with thieves and rat eyes was the superior of Shi Junsheng, the superintendent of Shaanxi Dao, who framed him, and looked like that, he was really obscene.

"It turned out to be Lord Xia and Lord Zhang, and Xu Liang, the person who was guilty, had seen two adults." Xu Liang held up the two hands clasped by the iron chain and gestured to the two, and his body was still standing straight.

Xia Yingzhong saw this. Before he could scold again, he heard Lord Zhang on the right slap the table, and asked with a gloomy face: "The person in the hall is Xu Liang?" ”

"Exactly." Xu Liang replied.

"Half a month ago. There is Shaanxi Provincial Supervisor Yu Shi Junsheng suing Xu Liang of Zhenyuan County for plotting untreacherous, and the saint was shocked. Ordered the official to try the case with Lord Xia. Master Zhang's small eyes were glowing with coldness, staring at Xu Liang gloomily, and said slowly.

"Where, the lower officials are only deputy judges, and all of them are presided over by Lord Zhang." That criminal department Lang Zhong Xia Keli hurriedly said with a smile.

Master Zhang paused, and then said: "This official judges the case and only asks about the facts, not anything else. What does the officer ask you? All you have to do is answer yes and no, and you don't need to say much. ”

Xu Liang was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but glance at this adult again, don't look at his small nose and eyes, he is so ruthless in doing things.

After speaking, Lord Zhang, the imperial historian of the capital, nodded slightly to the side, signaling that the official who recorded the record could start to remember, and asked in a deep voice: "This official also asks you, in September last year, the grain storage of thirteen grain and rice stores in Zhenyuan City was requisitioned by the Zhenyuan County Ya. Is there such a thing? ”

Xu Liang's borrowing of grain is well known to everyone in Zhenyuan City, and there is no need to deny it. Xu Liang nodded happily. "Yes." looked to the side again, and saw that in the corner of the room, there was actually an official in a famous seven-rank official uniform, who was struggling to write, Xu Liang realized that there was still someone in charge of the trial record here.

Lord Zhang, the imperial historian of the capital, pointed and said: "Remember, Xu Liang admitted to forcibly requisitioning grain from merchants. ”

Xu Liang was dumbfounded, he was obviously on a temporary loan, and he had made IOUs with various merchants. That's ready to borrow and repay, how can this adult judge the case be so taken out of context? Hurriedly shouted, "Your Excellency." There's a reason why the officials did this......"

"Presumptuous!" Master Zhang was furious. "Did the officer let you speak! Come on, slap your mouth twenty, give him a long memory! ”

"Yes!" Lord Zhang spoke, and two Jinyi guard captains stepped forward and tied Xu Liang behind him, and a bare-chested captain with a tiger's back strode in front of Xu Liang, smiled, raised his slap, and slapped him.

Xu Liang didn't react, he received a strong slap on the left side of his face, and suddenly his face was in hot pain, and he was about to open his mouth to cry out for pain, but in the blink of an eye, he slapped his right cheek again.

"The lower officials are wronged...... Ah......" Xu Liang shouted.

Smack, smack, smack......

The strong captain's slap was rounded, left and right, and after twenty slaps, Xu Liang's face was swollen like fermented steamed buns, and it hurt hotly.

Master Zhang's cold face did not have a trace of expression fluctuation, and when he saw that the execution was over, he continued coldly: "This official asks you again, the annex that Han Wangye set up in Zhenyuan City, Han Wangye was still fine when he left Zhenyuan, since Xu Liang You took office as the magistrate of Zhenyuan County, the courtyard was razed to the ground, is there such a thing?" ”

Xu Liang spat out blood and snorted coldly, "I don't know!" ”

"Nonsense!" Master Zhang got up suddenly, pushed the seat behind him, pointed at Xu Liang and sneered: "Lord Han's courtyard was demolished by you, the bricks and stones built the city wall, but all the jade antiques inside are for you to own!" The evidence for this is conclusive, and there is no room for denial! You say you don't know, but you deliberately deceived the official?! Come on, slap your mouth twenty more! ”

Xu Liang was suddenly furious, but his hands had already been pressed tightly by the lieutenant, and he couldn't move. The strong captain stepped forward, slapped his round face, and fired his bow left and right at Xu Liang.

After another twenty slaps, Xu Liang's originally swollen cheeks were swollen a little more, and at a glance, they were bloody, and blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth on both sides.

Xu Liang's cheeks were so swollen that he didn't feel anything, the anger in his heart had reached the extreme, and he stared at the adult Zhang with resentful eyes.

Xia Keli, the criminal department of the criminal department who was sitting at the table, saw Xu Liang's unrecognizable face, and he couldn't bear to frown, and his eyes hurriedly looked away.

Lord Zhang, the imperial historian of the capital, was unmoved, sneered at Xu Liang's eyes as if he was going to eat people, snorted lightly, and said: "This official asks you again, you have been in office in Zhenyuan for less than half a year, and you have recruited thousands of people to practice day and night on Jitou Mountain outside Zhenyuan City, yes or no?" ”

Xu Liang stared at him, staring at him deadly, and simply didn't speak.

Master Zhang sneered: "If you don't speak, this official will be regarded as a tacit acquiescence." As he spoke, he turned his head to the official in charge of the record and said, "Write it, Xu Liang acquiesced in recruiting soldiers and horses." ”

Seeing this, Xia Keli of the Criminal Department on the side cautiously interjected and said, "Lord Zhang, according to the opinion of the lower officials, now that Xu Liang is being tortured in the face, he may not be able to speak. Just now he didn't answer, not because he didn't answer, but because he couldn't speak. ”

Lord Zhang hehehe, stroked his palm and chuckled: "Lord Xia reminded me very well." That's it, Xu Liang, if you want to say yes, nod, if you want to say no, shake your head. How is it? ”

Xu Liang still stared at him angrily, neither nodding nor shaking his head.

Master Zhang waited for a while, and when he saw Xu Liang remaining motionless with this kind of cannibalistic eyes, he couldn't help but brush his sleeves and said angrily: "Don't think that you can be fooled by staring at the eyes of the double dead fish and not saying or doing anything!" Come, the prisoner refuses to cooperate, despises the court, despises the saint, and tortures the official! ”

The captain of the brocade guard in the house shouted loudly again, and the two captains walked out of the room, and when they came back, they dragged a pair of torture instruments in.

This is an iron heart to bend into a move! Xu Liang knew that it would be difficult to get better today, and if he did not cooperate again, in addition to attracting unnecessary torture, it would not have any impact on the outcome of the case.

When the two Jinyi Guard captains placed the torture instruments that were still stained with blood in front of Xu Liang, Xu Liang said with difficulty: "Don't fight, I said." ”

As soon as Xu Liang opened his mouth to speak, his mouth was full of pain, and he couldn't help grinning in pain.

"That's right." Master Zhang smiled and teased Xu Liang: "This official is the most reasonable in judging the case, I ask the case, you cooperate, we both save worry and trouble, why not?" ”

Xu Liang spit out blood again, and said, "You ask, I'll do anything." ”

"Okay, it's a man!" Zhang Dadao: "Then the official asks you again, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, you were a county magistrate in Jianchang, Jiangxi, but you served as the assistant envoy of the Yunshan Wei Gong Ancestral Hall?" ”

Xu Liang was stunned, how could he even pull out something so far away? This kind of thing is absolutely unclear to the people in Han Wangfu, so there must be someone who is not on the right path with him, and when he sees that he is in trouble, he will follow him. Damn, which turtle grandson is scheming behind his back?!

Xu Liang scolded the person who calculated himself over and over again in his heart, but in fact, it was a matter of an instant.

"Yes." Xu Liang nodded.

Master Zhang smiled even more happily, his little head shook his head, he approached Xu Liang, and asked Xu Liang: "The last question, this official has checked, Xu Liang, you are a person in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and in the same year, you were transferred to Jianchang Dianshi, and moved to Jianchang County in half a year. Who are the people who support you? Is it Huang Weizhong, the former Jiangxi left political participant? ”

Xu Liang's eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at Master Zhang in surprise. He was really surprised, not many people knew about the relationship between Xu Liang and Huang Weizhong, and the people who could roughly guess this relationship were the local officials of Jianchang County and Nankang Mansion. Now not only has they pulled out the Wei Gong Ancestral Hall, but also their godfather Huang Weizhong, what do they want to do?

Xu Liang was about to deny it, but when he raised his eyes and met Master Zhang's mocking eyes, he said dejectedly: "Yes." ”

"Hahaha!" Lord Zhang laughed loudly, turned his head to the official who was buried in the book, and said: "Master Shi, write it quickly, Xu Liang does not deny the deep relationship with the remnants of the eunuch party!" (To be continued)