"Bang, bang, bang......" The sound of whipping was heard from the execution chamber in the prison, and at the same time, the prisoners screamed in pain as they were beaten, "Ahh

Bray saw that it was almost over, and the prisoner was beaten to the point that his face was distorted and deformed because of the pain, so he stepped forward and shouted, "Stop! ”

The shirtless jailer gasped and put away the whip, and Bray stepped forward to the prisoner and asked, "If you don't tell who is behind the scenes, what awaits you is not a whip, but a sword!" ”

The prisoner really couldn't support it, obviously he was not a strong-willed person, maybe the benefits given to him by the people behind the scenes were not worth the price he paid for with his life, so he quickly bared his teeth and said: "Don't, don't, don't fight, I said, I said, it was ...... who instructed me."

Bray smiled when he heard this, "Very well, what do you know besides him?" ”

"There may be other people united besides him, but the villain really doesn't know who those are!"

It seemed that this person knew only that, and Bray turned around and left the prison, and immediately went to the city hall to meet Charlie Cao, and reported all the circumstances of the interrogation to Charlie Cao.

After hearing this, Charlie Cao pondered for a moment and said: "General Bray, please go and invite General Basiliscus, the commander of the First Army of Constantinople, to say that the old man wants to see him!" ”

"Yes, Master Guoshi!"

Basiliscus's First Army of Constantinople was the Janissary Guard of the former Eastern Empire, which in later words was the Puppet First Army. And Apple's Second Army of Constantinople was the original city guard, that is, the puppet second army.

An hour later, Bray brought Basiliscus to see Charlie Cao. "Meet the National Teacher!"

In any case, the official rank of the national teacher is greater than the level of a mayor, even if the city is Constantinople, Charlie Cao is actually a high and low position to lead the position of acting mayor of Constantinople as a national teacher, so the officials still call him the national teacher.

Seeing the two of them coming, Charlie Cao stood up and said to Bray: "General Bray, it's none of your business here." Go ahead and get busy with yours! ”

"Yes, sir!"

After Bray left, Charlie Cao hurriedly beckoned Basiliscus to sit down. He didn't know that Basiliscus had another identity, and even if he did, he might have greeted him like this.

"General, I invite you to come over today, I just want to ask the general for help with something!"

Basiliscus hurriedly said: "The National Teacher has something to order. The last will surely serve! ”

"Hehe" Charlie Cao smiled and said, "Then the official will say it directly." The general is a nobleman of Constantinople, he should be very familiar with things in the aristocratic circle, and he should also know about other nobles, here is a list, you see, who is the least bold above, the most afraid of causing trouble, trouble the general to point it out! As he spoke, he took out a piece of parchment from the table next to him. Written on it is a list of the masterminds behind the scenes who were arrested and who attacked the open store in the middle of the night.

Charlie Cao did this because the list was not complete. There were many others whose names were not on this list, only six or seven names on it, and his aim was to get Basiliscus to point out the cowardly among them, and then secretly arrest that person and coerce him into revealing the identities and names of the other members, and to get rid of the masterminds who had secretly organized all the merchants and shops in Constantinople to close their doors. And Basiliscus was a nobleman among the nobles of Constantinople before, and naturally knew the nobles well.

Basiliscus didn't know what to do, but Charlie Cao asked him to come over, and he couldn't help but help, took the parchment and looked at it, and then pointed to one of the names and said: "This man has always had little courage, and he is also very afraid of things, otherwise he would not have been defeated so quickly with his family background!"

"Vitru?" Charlie Cao was a little surprised and asked, "General, what is the origin of this Vitru?" Why did the general say that? ”

Basiliscus said: "Master of the country, Vitru's ancestors used to be the emperor's imperial architects, and then the emperor admired his talent, and his ancestors became officials, so their family began to be officials from generation to generation, and when it came to Vitru's grandfather's generation, there were four officials at the same time, the highest official position was the consul, and some people were infantry generals, the highest title reached the marquis, and the family's property and land were countless, and it is said that their toilets (toilets) were made of gold!" ”

The title of the marquis is high enough, ordinary people, as long as they are not of royal blood, can only be an earl at most, only the royal blood and relatives are qualified to have the title of marquis or above, and this ancestor of Vitru actually has the title of marquis, which shows his favored Cheng dù!

"I see, this official understands, General Basiliscus, thank you, it's almost noon now, otherwise the general will dine here with this officer!" Charlie Cao said.

Although Basiliscus was very happy, he dared to stay for lunch, and quickly thanked him before leaving.

Charlie Cao saw that it was still early, and hurriedly went to report to Qin Dong, if Qin Dong agreed, he wanted to secretly arrest this Vitru and torture him to extract a confession, so that he could tell the names and identities of the other masterminds.

After all, the Senate is just a good place for discussions, it is not good to be a living room, Qin Dong's place of residence is in a manor in the city, in the city of Fatih, this manor is an old nobleman, the area is very large, the manor layout is very good, that night Balhan with the Marine Cavalry Division rushed into Constantinople and encountered a lot of resistance, including the owner of this manor with his personal weapons to resist the Hun army, At that time, the battalion commander who led the team killed all the private soldiers who resisted, and then killed the old nobleman and his family in a fit of rage, so the manor was empty.

At this time, Qin Dong was holding the battle reports sent from all over the country, and all parts of the Thrace region had been occupied by the Xiongnu army until now, in order to facilitate the rule, Qin Dong ordered the Xiongnu generals stationed in various places to find out the original local officials, and then find out the officials who were willing to continue to be officials, and were willing to obey the orders of the Huns to serve as local mayors, county guards, county magistrates and other official positions, which is also the policy that Qin Dong has always implemented to control razing with raze.

After all, the Xiongnu garrison generals were not familiar with the local situation, and most of the generals did not understand government affairs, so it was not possible for them to be local political officials, and now there was a shortage of officials, so Qin Dong ordered to find some officials with high prestige and a popular base from the original Eastern Empire officials to serve in these official positions, but the premise was that these officials must know that they were acting for the Xiongnu and were officials of the Xiongnu Empire.

"King, the national teacher is here!" An attendant stood in the doorway and reported.

"Let him in!" Qin Dong said casually, then picked up the edict that had been written on the table and handed it to the secretary next to him, when Charlie Cao came in, he happened to hear Qin Dong say to the secretary: "Send this decree to the cities, counties, and counties in the Thrace region, and let the chief executives of these cities, counties and counties strictly implement it. ”

"Yes, King!" The secretary took the decree issued by Qin Dong and went out, and Charlie Cao stepped forward to report: "King, the lower officials have come to report to solve the problem of food shortage in the city."

Qin Dong looked up and saw that it was Charlie Cao, and hurriedly said, "Oh, it's Lao Cao, how is the food crisis handled?" ”

Charlie Cao said: "This morning yesterday sent food, today again, according to the situation in various places, the response is very good, the beggars who have food have gone home, the civilians in the civilian areas have received food, after the removal of martial law, there are more people on the street, last night we arrested seven gangsters who took revenge on the owners of the shops that opened their doors to do business, after interrogation, we got this list from the mouths of the gangsters, but the lower officials think that this list should not be comprehensive, The people above should not be the final main messenger, these people are just small minions, there are big fish behind them, the lower officials want to find a timid person from these people, arrest them secretly, torture them to extract confessions, and let them recruit the people hidden behind them, so I came to ask the king for advice! ”

Qin Dong nodded and said: "Okay, this king said that you are fully responsible for this matter, and this king only results in it, no matter who is involved behind this matter, it must be investigated by this king to the end!" ”

"Understood!"

After Charlie Cao returned to the city hall, he immediately began to deploy, and he found Pete, the king of sycophants, and now this person acts as Charlie Cao's doglegs, just like the identity of a traitor, full of "traitor".

"Honorable National Teacher, your humble servant Pete is at your service, do you have anything to tell the villain?" When Pete arrived, he said to Charlie Cao with a flattering face.

"Pete, come on, come on!" Charlie Cao smiled and beckoned.

"Yes, Master Guoshi!"

Charlie Cao asked, "Pete, do you know the Marquis of Vitru?" ”

"Of course, Master Guoshi, there is no one in Constantinople who doesn't know about this waste, this is a person who likes to throw money and is as timid as a mouse, why did your lord ask about this waste?"

Charlie Cao nodded and said, "The national division wants you to find a few people to secretly tie up this guy and ask him who organized the nobles to threaten the merchants to boycott the market, can this matter be done?" ”

Pete slapped his chest thumping, "Master Guoshi, you can rest assured, I will definitely pry out the mastermind behind the scenes from his mouth!" ”

"Very good, the national division is very optimistic about you, our Great Hun Empire will never be stingy with wealth and official positions for those who are loyal to us, do a good job, Lord Regent still asked about you today!"

"Ah, did the king ask me again? Ah, this is really good, they are all cultivated by national teachers, and villains swear allegiance to adults and the Hun Empire! ”

Under the plot of a sinister villain like Pete, where could Vitru escape? That night, when Vitru came back from his uncle's house, he was arrested by Pitt halfway, and after torture to extract a confession, he finally learned who was behind the scenes, it turned out to be Chrysapius, and Pitt hurriedly reported the situation to Charlie Cao. (To be continued......)