Volume 3: Tempered into Steel Chapter 103: If you have the means, you can't avoid being afraid
"Ahh Eldest brother! No, official, just spare me, I said, I'll say anything! The blue shirt was tied to the torture rack, and his mouth kept crying and begging for mercy.
"Wouldn't it be better to be honest and explain it earlier, and it would cost you more trouble?" Guo Mao threw the wet soft whip in his hand aside.
"Say!"
"Datong's commander Shi Biao's only son, Shi Hou is my classmate, and he instructed me to solicit customers for him......"
A moment later, Guo Mao found Zhu Qizhen with a bloody confession.
"Stone queen? Did you say who was involved in the prison? Zhu Qizhen looked at the confession and asked.
Guo Mao shook his head and said: "All the means that can be used have been used, presumably he is indeed a little minion, and he can't contact anyone other than Shi Hou, so he really doesn't know who else is involved in this matter." ”
"Don't know? How many people did he know about the people who entered the Guozijian through this means before? Zhu Qizhen asked again.
"Your Majesty, the minister knows that when Warat invaded, there were indeed cases of donating money to prison, or even donating officials, I am afraid that there is no way to convict in this way alone." Guo Mao hesitated.
It is indeed an old tradition to sell officials, and when the imperial court has no money to fight, people will spend money to buy officials, but all dynasties and dynasties have had moderation, such as similar regulations that officials of the fifth rank and above cannot buy.
Some people even say that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang raised various prisons was because he had no money to fight, so he killed a group of officials and raided his house to fight a war.
For Lao Zhu's character, there is indeed a possibility (ridiculing Emperor Hongwu).
Hearing the betrayal, Zhu Qizhen's head hurt unconsciously. In this dynasty, this kind of thing is even officially allowed.
Completely treat the official position as a special commodity, and when the country needs money, it will be sold openly.
"Send someone to keep an eye on the stone queen, and follow him Lao Tzu, if there is a little lawlessness, take it directly!" Zhu Qizhen said and stood up and walked towards the outside of the edict prison, the yin qi in it was too heavy to stay for a long time.
"Yes! The minister is still with you for protection, right? Guo Mao followed behind.
Zhu Qizhen didn't reply: "No, go do this, I'm back to the palace." ”
Dong Taiqi's teacher's surname is Yu, a single name is a friend, and the academy under his name takes the meaning of Dengtang and enters the room, and is named Dengtang Academy.
Dong Taiqi and Zhang Yan hurried all the way, and came to the academy in less than a stick of incense.
At this time, Yu You was sitting in the classroom, not teaching as usual, and he was reading quietly with a book, frowning and thinking from time to time, and suddenly smiled brightly after being smooth, there was really no answer, so he wrote it down on paper.
Zhang Yan and Dong Taiqi stood at the door, although they were anxious, they still waited patiently outside the door, not daring to disturb the many students in the classroom, and glanced at the sky from time to time.
"Brother Changfeng, I delayed your review!" Dong Taiqi sighed.
"Kangping, take advantage of this to quickly memorize the scriptures, stop talking." After Zhang Yan finished speaking, he immediately squinted his eyes, and began to chant words in his mouth.
Dong Taiqi opened his mouth, and suddenly felt that he was not working hard enough, and immediately learned from Zhang Yan to review the scriptures and meanings that were ripe in his mind again.
"Kangping, Changfeng, come in!"
Before Dong Taiqi could recite two sentences, a loud voice came from the classroom, it was Yu You.
"The foundation Dong Kangping and Zhang Changfeng met the teacher." The two entered the house to meet Yu You, and greeted a group of students.
At this time, there were young talents in the classroom, or old Confucian students in their forties and fifties, who were in the age of their destiny.
"Since you're here, why don't you just come in and find a seat to sit down?" Yu You's tone was a little complaining, but his eyes were full of kindness.
Dong Taiqi and Zhang Yan glanced at each other, smirked, and didn't know what to say, telling the truth seemed too pretentious, and if you made up a reason casually, it didn't seem solemn enough.
"Go and sit down, you two have just arrived, you have already saved up a lot of questions for the teacher, let's discuss them later." Yu You's smile was warm.
"Yes! Thank you, Mr. ”
When the two sat down, Yu You said: "The way of Jingyi lies in the accumulation on weekdays, and it is difficult to achieve success in the short term. ”
"Yes!" The audience replied with a bang.
Yu You nodded and said: "Today, the young hero, Pingwala, cut the tyrannical domain, eradicate the traitorous ministers, and punish the national thief."
I think that this strategy should be based on the word "change in the world......"
Shibiao Mansion
"Slow down, boy! What's wrong with this panic? "Mrs. Shi is taking the maid to go out shopping, full of jewels, full of nobles.
"Hey, my mother is talking to you, why don't you like to answer!
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Seeing that Shi Hou ran into the backyard like he had lost his soul, Mrs. Shi was even more strange.
This mansion was specially bought by Shi Biao for Shi Hou to study.
On weekdays, there are only two mothers and sons, and the rest are all descendants of the Shi family, Shi Biao is busy with military affairs, and often comes back to live for a day or two in the middle of the night.
Shi Hou still ignored her mother, went straight back to her room, and threw out the flowery maid dressed inside.
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"Young Master, I'm Cuihuan, Young Master, it's time for me to go to bed today, why did you throw me out? Why are you so ruthless! The maid knelt outside the door and cried.
The door was opened from the inside with a bang, and Shi Hou reached out and slapped Cuihuan with a slap, and roared: "Get out!" ”
Cuihuan covered her face, tears the size of beans in her eyes dripped down, covered her mouth and nose lightly, whimpered and ran away.
The door slammed shut again, and the stone queen hid alone in the house, his face no longer as fierce as he had just faced the maid.
Sitting at the foot of the bed with his hands on his knees, trembling all over, his mouth kept chanting: "Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei!" ”
"Guo Mao, the commander of the Jinyi Guard? How, how is he! It shouldn't be! He wouldn't normally care about such a thing......"
"Really?" Shi Hou thought of a possibility, her eyes widened with horror, and a person dressed as a boy appeared in her eyes.
Although Shihou has never seen Zhu Qizhen, he has seen the portrait of Taizu Taizong, and under the confirmation of the two, the faces of the three people slowly merged, and the similarity reached eighty percent.
"No, it won't! No, it won't! The stone queen got up from the bed like crazy, and then looked frantically for something in the room.
"Hou'er, it's my mother, if Cuihuan doesn't like it, I'll change it, don't scare my mother.
You can tell your mother anything, even if the sky falls, your mother and your father will give you a top! Mrs. Shi stood outside the door, surrounded by a crying Cuihuan.
"The sky is falling! The sky fell! The stone queen seemed to be stimulated by her mother's words, and kept repeating this sentence.
He had come out of bed, his eyes unfocused, wandering aimlessly around the room.
Suddenly, he stopped, looked at a set of study confessions on his desk, and the brilliance in his eyes returned.
But in a hurry, he stepped on his right foot with his left foot, rolled to the corner of the table with a grunt, and then got up from the ground despite the pain on his body, and slid wildly on the inkstone with the ink ingot in his hand.