The news of the arrival of Ma Jian's army at the border pass has reached Ning Ze's side.

In particular, Pei Ji was taken down by Ma Jian on the spot and escorted to the checkpoint for investigation, which made the Chinese soldiers quite excited.

Song Gao came directly to Ning Ze: "Lord Wang, Pei Ji's capture is good news! This means that you don't have to pay attention to him, you can directly send someone to transport all those treasures away." Anyway, Jin County has already been taken by our side, and his subordinates can't resist it at all. Not only can we get rid of Pei Ji with the help of Ma Jian and eliminate a scourge for our country, but we can also get a large amount of treasure to fill the treasury!"

Ning Ze wanted his subordinates to spread the news, and of course the treasure was said.

Song Gao learned that Pei Ji had been arrested and was ready to be investigated, so he immediately rushed over to offer advice, and in his opinion, Ning Ze's strategy had succeeded.

However, he obviously misunderstood Ning Ze's intentions.

There is no need to work so hard to get rid of Pei Ji, Ning Ze has a chance. The reason for this is to win over the general.

Therefore, after Song Gao finished speaking, Ning Ze shook his head slightly: "Those treasures, not only can they not be transported away, but they must also be secretly protected by additional people." Let no one approach it easily, and take care of it for General Pei! Spread the order, no one is allowed to fight the idea of these treasures!"

"Why is that?" Song Gao looked dazed.

"Alone has a deep meaning!"

Ning Ze sent people to strengthen protection, ensuring that no one could pose a threat to the house Pei Ji bought, and even secretly protecting Pei Ji's cronies and clansmen.

In fact, there is a sentence from him, no one in the entire Minjiang County dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head, unless he is impatient.

If Ning Ze was only the emperor or the prince of Huaguo, some people might take risks for the sake of that wealth. Even if he controls the whole of China, there will be people who gamble for their lives and flee overseas. But in the face of a mana, fairy-like Ning Ze, he really didn't have the courage to be born. It's useless to go against the immortals and flee to the ends of the earth.

When Ma Jian arrived at the border pass, Ning Ze had not moved, focusing on pacifying the interior of Minjiang County.

For Nam Sung, of course, he hopes to regain the lost ground as soon as possible. However, the matter in front of him was not handled well, and he would suffer a big loss if he rashly marched, especially if the opponent was Ning Ze. Therefore, Ma Jian decided to investigate Pei Ji's matter first, wait until the reinforcements from the surrounding counties arrived, and then confront Ning Ze head-on.

These days, he has been interrogating Pei Ji and asking him to truthfully explain the whole process. did not move rudely, but persuaded the civil and military officials in turn, knocked on the side, and at the same time asked Princess Chongwen to induce Pei Ji to tell the truth as his wife.

Pei Ji didn't hide it, and since the matter was exposed, he simply told it out. Starting from the tomb of King Yun, everything that happened after that was told over and over again?

But it is very unreasonable to hear it in Ma Jian's ears.

Not to mention Ma Jian, even Princess Chongwen, who is his wife, feels that everything her husband confesses is like a make-up made up? It is full of loopholes, and she feels that he is not telling the truth.

This is too unjust for Pei Ji? After all, the whole thing is really not hidden? He told the truth about everything that happened, how could he not be trusted?

What others think is unreasonable, and he himself thinks it is unreasonable, but the facts are the facts?

Could it be that he followed their wishes and confessed that he was bought by Ning Ze and indeed betrayed Nan Cheng? What did he say about something that didn't exist at all? And he didn't want to die!

Ma Jian interrogated for several days, and felt that Pei Ji would bite to death and not tell the truth, and there must be something wrong with it. He even used the idea of extorting confessions by torture many times? If he wanted to force him to tell the truth, what agreement did he have with Ning Ze? Did he secretly collude with Ning Ze. It's just that Princess Chongwen is here, and there is no way to give such an order in front of her.

Princess Chongwen must have protected her husband, even if she herself doubted the truth of what her husband said. However, the brother will not be allowed to torture his husband until there is conclusive evidence.

At this moment, the sent out Hosaku returned to the checkpoint and brought back some important information.

MeSign reported layer by layer and handed it over to Ma Jian.

Ma Jian was furious after reading it, and this time he had no scruples, and directly ordered Pei Ji's armor to be stripped off and tortured directly.

Princess Chongwen rushed to the scene when she learned of this, and hurriedly pleaded with Ma Jian to not allow Pei Ji to be tortured to extract a confession.

Ma Jian directly threw the secret letter in front of Princess Chongwen, and his anger could not be concealed: "You are still protecting him, see for yourself!"

The elder brother was so angry, Princess Chongwen felt that the situation was not good, picked up the secret letter and read it in detail, and suddenly turned pale.

The content of the letter is quite simple, and after careful investigation, it was learned that Ning Ze sent people to secretly protect the house that Pei Ji bought, and was very concerned about Pei Ji's cronies and Pei family, and immediately helped without revealing his identity if there was any danger. Anyone who tried to get close to the treasure would be intercepted by Ning Ze's people.

If Ning Ze and Pei Ji didn't cooperate secretly, and Pei Ji didn't take refuge in each other, how could such a thing happen?

After all, with such a large amount of wealth, the two sides are enemy generals of each other, and when Jin County and even the entire Minjiang County fall into the hands of Ning Ze, it is already inconceivable that the other party did not take the opportunity to annex these treasures. It even makes people secretly protect, which makes no sense!

The reason why Ning Ze secretly protected this treasure for Pei Ji while occupying Minjiang County did not have greed, there was only one explanation - he and Pei Ji had reached some kind of agreement to use this wealth as a bargaining chip to let Pei Ji do things for him.

Then everything makes sense!

Thinking of Pei Ji's concealment of Princess Chongwen, he was in a hurry to let the Pei family rush to Jin County, and it was rumored that he had plans to move to Jin County. Then Jin County was taken by Ning Ze, and even the entire Minjiang County fell into the hands of Ning Ze.

Isn't this just arranging a back road for Pei Ji and a back road for Pei's family?

Even if Pei Ji has an accident, the Pei family can be protected by Ning Ze, and at the same time, they have money that can never be spent, and they will be rich and prosperous for generations!

Princess Chongwen was very hurt, because the whole thing was confirmed, Pei Ji was only thinking about the Pei family, and he actually hid his wife! Just because she was Ma Jian's sister......

Knowing that her husband was really "collaborating with the enemy" and concealing that she only cared about saving her clansmen, Princess Chongwen, who was deeply devastated, did not protect him this time, but just retreated to the room to mourn silently.

Without Princess Chongwen's obstruction, Ma Jian, who was already furious, felt that the evidence was conclusive, immediately ordered his subordinates to be tortured, and Pei Ji was asked to confess and be detained no matter what.

For others, these steps can be omitted, and it is most appropriate to push it out directly and cut off the head. As the husband of Princess Chongwen, Pei Ji has a very high reputation in the army, and he still needs to improve the procedures.

His soldiers accepted the order to transfer Pei Ji from house arrest to his prison cell, where he was tortured every day to force him to confess.

A few days ago, Pei Ji also shouted loudly and wanted to see His Majesty face to face. After a few days of severe torture, the whole person's flesh and blood were blurred, his consciousness was chaotic, and he collapsed to the extreme. No longer has the majesty of being a general before, and he looks extremely desperate.

In particular, Princess Chongwen did not appear again, and only people spread the word that they were quite disappointed in him. Pei Ji, who doesn't know what's going on, is in deep despair and pain these days, and no one believes the truth after saying it countless times, and that feeling is really unimaginable.

In the end, he finally faced a collapse, and agreed to confess in despair.

When Ma Jian received the confession, he immediately ordered Pei Ji to be stripped of his official position and sentenced to beheading for collaborating with the enemy. Because of the enemy's imminence, he was imprisoned until the enemy retreated, and then the execution was carried out publicly.

The civil and military ministers all felt sorry, after all, Pei Ji was the strongest military general in Nancheng, but the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason was too serious. Not only will such a person not be able to help Nancheng, but it may become the biggest help for Ning Ze to annex Nancheng.

Pei Ji, who learned the verdict, cried and laughed in prison, but he didn't expect that he was loyal, but he caused today's situation because of greed. If there is regret medicine, you really shouldn't be greedy at that time, even if you don't want a penny, all the treasures are handed over to Ning Ze, it is better than being wrongfully punished now, and being charged with treason with the enemy!

He is not afraid of death, but he is so unclear that he will be labeled as a traitor, he is really unwilling!

The problem is that everyone doesn't believe in themselves, including the wife. That's her closest family, why does even she think she will betray Nancheng?

He was very aggrieved, he was loyal to Ma Jian, and he had never had a different heart. But Ma Jian was suspicious of himself and couldn't listen to a word of truth. Obviously, he didn't hide anything, he told the truth from beginning to end, and in the end, he had to bend into a trick and bear this charge that could make him stink for thousands of years!

Why didn't any of the civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty stand up to say a word for themselves? Why did a smart person like a military advisor not believe in himself and couldn't see that he was wronged?

The weak Pei Ji lay weakly in the prison, and the slightest movement would pull the wounds all over his body, and he was in pain.

He really couldn't figure out why he had come to this point, it seemed that greed was really harmful......

When all thoughts were lost, I heard someone outside speak: "National Teacher, why are you here?"

"The national division was ordered to come and give the prisoner a little treatment. Can't let him die in prison now......"

"Bang la la~" After a while, I heard the sound of unlocking, the iron chain was removed, and the cell door opened.

The jailer left, and the national teacher Xin Tieshan entered the cell.

Pei Ji sat up in pain, as if he had exhausted all his strength: "National teacher......"

"Hey, General Pei!" Xin Tieshan glanced up and down, and couldn't help but shake his head, "I knew today, why bother in the first place?"

"National Teacher, I really don't have a collaborator...... Pei Ji said with all his strength, "You have a body of mana, can't you tell the truth from the false?"

"General Pei, don't be excited!" Xin Tieshan said softly, reaching out to use his medical skills on Pei Ji's body, "You have such a catastrophe in your life, and your national division can't do anything! As for the truth, no matter how you explain it, it's useless." ”

"What do you mean?" Under Xin Tieshan's treatment, Pei Ji felt much better.

"Thou shalt not say, thou shalt not say! This is your destined fate, it is the will of God. No one can intervene, and there is no power to reverse it. Xin Tieshan said to him mysteriously, "But the general's life should not be extinguished, and he will be rich and noble in the future." Don't give up on a predicament, even if you are in danger, take care of yourself!"

"Is the national teacher saying that I still have a chance to clear my grievances?" Pei Ji was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Don't leak it!"