Chapter 402 Black Prison Goes to Personal Interrogation
The criminal officer didn't dare to be careless, and wrote everything down in detail and presented it to the emperor, Xiao Chengjing was almost angry and vomited blood, if it wasn't for the prince and the queen to stop him, the emperor would almost rush into the black prison to interrogate Prime Minister Chen in person regardless of his identity. Therefore, less than a month after returning to the imperial capital, Fa Yanbo received a new task.
"Anyway, let me rest for a while." Looking at the young emperor, he sighed, "It's very tiring to help you investigate the case and kill it non-stop." ”
"I know... I understand... I'm sorry too..."The emperor smiled wryly, "If I can, I would like to go to the black prison for myself, and I would like to ask him, my grandfather was his mentor and treated him well, why did he harm my grandfather's family like this?" But I... It doesn't seem to be allowed to go to the black cell. ”
"Then you let someone else go."
"Except sir... I don't have anyone to trust...", the emperor looked at him faintly, "I know you're tired, but please, Lingyi. ”
Fa Yanbo picked his hair a little irritably, to be honest, he would rather run around the world to kill officials than take on this task, this is the emperor's deepest and most painful privacy, no one can pick it up more appropriately than the emperor himself interrogated, some things are not a good thing.
"Lingyi... I only believe in you. ”
After all, he couldn't resist the emperor's doggy eye attack...
At the same time, I don't understand it, isn't it good to ask my personal father-in-law to ask about this kind of thing? Why did Xiao Chengjing have to ask him to make a move? Don't...
Fa Yanbo, who was shocked to realize that he was regarded as a close friend or a crush by the emperor, broke out in a cold sweat for thirty-nine days. But after taking the task, he had to do it, fortunately, this was not a difficult task, knowing that he was coming, the criminal officer had already prepared all the information and confessions for him, and directly invited him to the criminal department to drink tea, so that he did not have to go to the terrifying and dirty black prison to be interrogated in person.
"The confessions seem to be full, but what about the evidence?" He asked.
"It's... It's been twenty or thirty years, and if you want proof..."The criminal officer wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, "I'm afraid... I'm afraid..."
More than 100 officials are beheaded in a year, and this prince is so bloody that no one dares to approach the officials of the imperial capital, he is just a small criminal officer, he can't afford to provoke his uncle, how dare he not give evidence if he wants evidence! But those things were twenty or thirty years ago, even if there is real evidence, how can the prime minister not be a fool and not disappear? Now I ask him for evidence, but he really can't find it except for these confessions...
patting the criminal officer who was shaking like a sieve, Fa Yan smiled thinly, "If you don't have it, there will be no one, and this king doesn't bite, so it's necessary for Lord Cao to shake like this?" ”
"This, this... Isn't the lower official afraid that he won't be able to make a difference?" the criminal officer smiled.
"After all, it's about the royal family, and for the sake of insurance, the king still has to interrogate him personally." He looked at the confession in his hand again, "Although this confession seems to be quite a lot, it is only half of what he says, and it is definitely not easy for him to be the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the emperor has specially explained, this time he must be allowed to vomit clean." ”
Fa Yanbo reopened the investigation, this was not an era of human rights, and he was at ease with torture. All the subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion have been tortured for several rounds and have long been completely skinless, and the chief housekeeper has cooperated with the investigation, but he is the least injured among these people, with only a few whiplash wounds on his body, but he cries out the loudest in pain.
The other few who have been tortured to the point of missing arms and legs rarely make a sound, and it seems that they are either too early to scream and have no strength or are really loyal. He is not verbose, he shaves off the long-term workers who are too low-level, and the rough sweeping rings, leaving Xiao Si, the personal maid of Lord Xiangye, and this big housekeeper.
Throw those confessions at the feet of the chief butler, in order to make the prisoners suffer, the black prison has always closed the windows in summer and opened the windows in winter, at this time the wide open windows blow into the whirring cold wind, and the flickering fire shines on the thin and white face of the Fa Yan actually shows a little forest, at this time, the smiling face that makes the Dijing lady obsessed looks in the eyes of the housekeeper, but feels extremely calm.
Even if he is in prison, he has his own connections, how could he not know that the person on the seat at this time is the King of Ink, who is known as the jade-faced Luocha.
"My lord, this is the villain's confession, may I ask... Any questions? The butler trembled and picked up the confession.
"It's a big problem." He said, "All the things in this seem to be complete but are actually vague, and many of them are simply clinging to it indiscriminately, how old is Ming Dacai, you actually said that he participated in the case of the former prime minister, and he was only four years old when the prime minister's case came out!" What can a four-year-old do? Also, Lord Lin of the Ministry of War, you said that he participated in the poisoning of Empress Yuan, Lord Lin is a native of Hainan, and Empress Yuan died for almost ten years before returning to the imperial capital from Hainan to seek officials, what do you say he did to poison Empress Yuan? Big housekeeper, there should be a limit to indiscriminate climbing! ”
"My lord, my lord," the butler kowtowed, "where do I dare to climb?" The words of this confession are true..."
"To be honest, I asked them to try the punishment here on you for a round, and there was very little shortage at that time, but don't blame this king for not reminding you."
"No... No... The villain has already said everything he knows..."
The chief manager lay on the ground and recited those confessions again from beginning to end, his words were reversed, and he seemed to be quite sincere, maybe it was okay to bluff ordinary people, but he was a guard in front of the Ming Jun Palace, thinking that he had seen how many cases Ming Jun had tried in the Ming Realm, how could he not see that he was reciting the draft. I'm afraid that the prime minister already knew that he would be arrested one day, so he wrote a manuscript in advance for these subordinates to memorize.
It's just dragging him down, Fa Yanbo is a little bored, thinking that if it drags on for a long time, there will be a turnaround? As the saying goes, to fight a snake is to hit seven inches, if you want people to tell the truth, in fact, you can restore the scene, but here is not the bright world and there is no evil mirror, but people... There are always a few people and things that care about the most, not?
He clapped his hands, and his men brought in two little boys from outside, the two children were no more than six or seven years old, and they were very cute, and the big butler's eyes changed when he saw these two little boys.
"Big... "The manager is so blessed to have two such lovely children at the age of sixty-two. He smiled and asked people to prepare a cold oil pot and firewood, while chatting with the chief manager, "The chief manager is really, he hid these two children so tightly that even this king has a lot of effort to find them." ”
"Lord Wang... The child is innocent..."The sweat beads on the forehead of the manager fell wildly, although he was married after following Prime Minister Chen, he never had children, his wife is the maid of the prime minister's wife, neither can give birth to children but is jealous, these two children are his old sons, and they are also illegitimate children, he is also afraid that he will be hated by the enemy when he walks too much at night, and he is even more afraid that he will be reprimanded by the lady when he finds out and sues his wife, and he can only hide the outer room family in the suburbs of Beijing, under the pretext that he has to go out to do errands to occasionally go to see, and the two children hurt like eyeballs.