Chapter 42: Arraignment overnight
"What's going on?"
Seeing that the servants' faces were covered with blood, the expressions of the prefects changed greatly, and their hearts were panicked, and the originally orderly situation suddenly became chaotic.
"It's all quiet!"
One of the prefects interrupted everyone's shouting with a low shout, and walked up to the servant and asked, "What the hell is going on?" This place is an official post station, who dares to trespass? ”
"It's the brocade guard, and now there are more than thirty brocade guards guarding the door outside the door."
The servant stammered.
The prefects behind him all had white lips and trembled all over.
Jinyiwei, that's a notorious spy organization! It is a direct guard who only obeys the orders of the emperor!
At this moment, Jin Yiwei suddenly came to visit the post station, who was on the order, I'm afraid there is no need to say more, the answer is simple and clear.
"What to do? I'm afraid that Your Majesty already knows what we have done. Why don't we run away? ”
This group of prefects has been able to foresee their fate, and once they are transferred to the edict, death is already the best outcome.
It is often not only the wife and children in the family who are implicated, but also the relatives who are related to them by blood cannot escape the fate of death.
For now, the only way they can think of is to escape, as far as they can, and hide incognito.
"Run? Where to escape? The whole world is not the king's land, is it possible to escape to the outside of the territory to live a life where pigs and dogs are not as good? ”
"Not to mention, it's the Jinyi Guard who is guarding outside now! Do you really think that these murderous guys who don't blink an eye eat dry food? ”
The Danzhou prefect, who was the first to speak, turned his head coldly, glanced at everyone present and scolded loudly.
"What do you think we should do? Is it possible, do you want to be captured and wait for death? ”
"Once you enter the edict, even the gods will be difficult to save!"
This group of pampered prefects couldn't help but shudder when they thought of the cruel torture instruments in the imperial prison, and it was absolutely impossible to let them go to the imperial prison.
"If you stay in the green mountains, there will always be a chance. If you flee now, you will be convicted of corruption and perversion of the law! Now, the only choice for us is to obediently wait for the teacher to come to the rescue. ”
The prefect of Danzhou was in a stable mood and spoke slowly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please do your part. Otherwise, my brothers won't be polite. ”
Just as this group of prefects hesitated, the voice of the Jinyi Wei Qianhu outside the door came into the post station.
"There is not much time left for us to decide, and you can see what to do."
The prefect of Danzhou did not hesitate, pushed open the door and strode towards Jinyiwei.
"No, I can't go out, I've embezzled four million taels of silver over the years! I don't want to go in, I don't want to! ”
Some people are willing to tie their hands, and naturally there are those who are still unwilling to bow their heads when they reach a dead end.
One of the prefects remembered the huge amount of money he had embezzled over the years, and he couldn't believe that there was anyone who could save him.
Therefore, he chose to take a risk and wanted to escape through the window of the inn.
And as soon as the prefect showed his head, he was pierced by more than a dozen arrows shot out of the window.
Splatters of blood stained half of the walls blood-red.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty's instructions are to live or die. Once you escape, you will be decided! Of course, all those who die will be exiled from their homes, and I hope you will consider it carefully. ”
The brocade-clothed guard Qianhu who took the lead sneered and looked at the prefects in the post station.
Watching their companions die, the hot blood even remained on them.
The prefects who were awakened by these did not dare to make any other moves, and obediently walked out of the post station and were grabbed and taken away by the Jinyi guards.
There is no doubt that these prefects were all sent to prison.
After arresting this group of prefects, Jinyiwei quickly sent the news back.
"Your Majesty, this is the list of prefects in Beijing who have been caught. There was a negative corner who stubbornly resisted to death. ”
Gonggong Cao handed over the list handed in by Jinyiwei to Xu Jing's table and said cautiously.
"Hmm."
Xu Jing's anger was already restrained, and he nodded slightly, picked up the fold and looked through it one by one.
There were as many as 14 prefects who were caught! It almost covers most of the territory of the Daqian Dynasty.
This is just being caught, Xu Jing is even ready to do badly, expecting that in the entire Daqian prefect's mansion, it is extremely rare to have two percent of honest officials.
"Bring the one who takes the lead into the palace, and I will ask for it myself."
Xu Jing only glanced at it cursoly, and was not interested in looking more.
just instructed Gonggong Cao to bring the prefect of Danzhou.
Gonggong Cao just nodded and turned to leave.
About half an hour later, the prefect of Danzhou was tied up and sent to him by five flowers.
"Let's talk about it."
Xu Jing looked at the Danzhou prefect with blood on his face and tattered clothes and asked calmly.
"Say what? I don't know, but I ask Your Majesty to make it clear. ”
The prefect of Danzhou smiled faintly, revealing a puzzled look, as if he didn't know what Xu Jing was asking.
"You should know what I'm asking. There's no need to play pantomime here with me. It is better to tell the truth earlier, so as not to suffer from these flesh and skin. ”
Xu Jing was not annoyed by the refusal of the Danzhou prefect, but just spoke lightly and persuaded him.
"Your Majesty, I really don't know what you want to know. Today, the minister and his colleagues drank and had fun in the post station, and they were arrested and imprisoned. ”
"At this moment, the minister doesn't understand, what crime has the minister committed?"
The prefect of Danzhou raised his head and showed an innocent face, as if he really didn't know what was going on.
"You don't know? Drinking for fun? See for yourself what these are! ”
Xu Jing threw the death list sent by Xu Sen in front of the Danzhou prefect and drank coldly.
The strings of deaths written in red ink made the Danzhou prefect feel cold.
That's 100,000 people! Just turned into a list of deaths, no wonder the emperor in front of him was so angry.
Even the greedy Danzhou prefect has no list that dares to be greedy for too much.
"100,000 people, 100,000 dead! That's what you did! ”
"After so many deaths, can you still drink and have fun in the post station? What kind of official are you? Worthy of this official uniform given to you by the imperial court? ”
Xu Jing stood up and approached the Danzhou prefect and asked coldly.
The prefect of Danzhou was cold, and he only felt that the world was spinning. Once the matter became so large, it was absolutely impossible for the emperor in front of him to turn a blind eye and let the matter go.
And he is involved, no matter how little ink greed is, he can't escape being implicated.
"Your Majesty, the minister really doesn't know about this matter, if you don't believe it, you can go to investigate, if the minister has a word of lying, the sky will thunder, and you will not die!"
The prefect of Danzhou gritted his teeth and continued to deny it, saying that he was unwilling to admit his guilt and punish the law.
"Five thunders in the sky? You should have died a good death, you should have gone to hell a long time ago. But want to die simply? You don't deserve it! ”
"I will send someone to find out about this matter, and you don't think that anyone will be able to intercede for you. It didn't work! ”
Xu Jing opened his mouth coldly, not giving the Danzhou prefect a chance to refute at all and turned away.