They are engaged in assassination again, and they are singing about the decline of the Liang army, transmitting information to the Western Regions, and now they are even inserted into the government of Liangzhou.

What the hell are these guys trying to do?

Li Huai asked Ge Liang to bring one over, and he wanted to interrogate him personally.

Soon.

A man who looked to be in his thirties, with his hands and feet chained, was brought to Li Huai's royal court.

After this guy entered the door, he looked left and right, as if looking at the scenery, and finally set his eyes on Li Huai.

A contemptuous smile leaked out, and he raised his head slightly, as if he was ready to die at any moment.

"Presumptuous, why don't you kneel when you see King Liang!" The guard yelled, grabbed him by the shoulder, and when he saw that he was still resisting, he kicked him in the knee and forcibly pinned him to the ground.

This guy endured the severe pain, still raised his head unconvinced, and looked directly at Li Huai with his eyes like a sharp edge.

Li Huai smiled when he saw such a scene, "So anxious to show your unyielding attitude in front of this king?" ”

"I'm not showing it to you, since it's in your hands, if you want to kill or chop casually, I won't say anything." He gritted his teeth.

Li Huai was not in a hurry to interrogate him, but talked about the past, "When this king was the grandson of the eldest emperor of Luoyang, he also saw a lot of prisoners. ”

"Some prisoners cry and cry for mercy, some prisoners are numb, and some prisoners, like you, are eager to die."

"Do you know which kind of prisoner I admire the most?"

The thirty-year-old man frowned, not knowing what he meant, so he didn't answer anything.

Li Huai looked down on himself and said, "I look down on these three kinds of prisoners, and the fourth one I appreciate the most is the fourth." ”

"That kind of ...... Prisoners resigned to their fate! ”

He sneered when he heard this, and said proudly: "Then I am definitely not the fourth type, I will never resign myself to fate!" ”

Li Huai shook his head and corrected: "Of course you are not the fourth type, because you can't resign yourself to fate at all." ”

"Do you think it's easy to resign yourself to fate?"

"When I knew that I was going to be beheaded, time was short, and I still maintained my habits while wearing heavy chains."

"Every morning, when you wake up, you have to comb your hair first, sit upright when you eat, and chew the food carefully without making any sound, no matter how rough it is."

"After dinner, in the three-foot prison, I still take a comfortable walk, and I still have to read poems and lyrics, and I don't move my original ambition."

"At night, go to bed on time and sleep peacefully just like at home."

"So resigned to fate, do you think it's easy?"

Now, Li Huai gave him a mocking smile.

Although the man in his thirties didn't want to admit it, he already agreed in his heart that resigning himself to fate was an extremely high realm.

And it is a realm that he can't reach, he can die calmly, but he can't be afraid of death.

This is the effect that Li Huai wants, so that people admit that they are afraid, so that they will confess truthfully.

"What's your name?" Li Huai began to get into the subject, starting by asking his name.

"Zhou Haocang." He said.

"Can you read and break words?" Li Huai continued to ask.

Zhou Haocang raised his head, as if he had been humiliated, and raised his voice: "It's not a university question, but also a belly of scriptures." ”

"Then you should have a good background." Li Huai said with a smile.

In this society, the illiteracy rate is as high as 70 percent, and the remaining 30 percent are only literate and can write letters.

There are very few who can go through special learning.

Most of them were children of the scholar clan.

That's why those old scholars are so rampant, they monopolize the resources and talents that society needs most!

"The prodigal son whose family is ruined, what is his background?" Zhou Haocang laughed at himself, with a little arrogance.

Li Huai just wanted to let him know that his arrogance was worthless here!

"I have both a background and a belly of scriptures, dare to ask Your Excellency, can you tell the deeds?"

Zhou Haocang looked at him directly, "What do you mean?" Want to talk to me? I'm not as stupid as you think, I'm not going to tell you anything. ”

"No, no!"

Li Huai smiled and shook his head, "This king called you over, not to learn anything from you, but to know about people like you, after all, what can you know?" ”

Don't wait for him to answer.

Li Huai continued the previous topic, "Since you have a belly of scriptures, do you still remember your ambitions?" Since you were born noble, have you ever thought about recovering your family business? ”

Zhou Haocang was flustered by his question, and reason told him that it was best not to tell him anything when he didn't have a mouth.

But there is always a desire to vomit as soon as possible, like there is something in the heart that is eager to vent out.

He was distraught.

"What does my ambition and my background have to do with you?"

Li Huai was very helpless, but explained to him patiently, "It's all said, just to talk to you and get to know you, why are you always so hostile to me?" ”

"I know that you are a remnant of the previous dynasty, and most of your family members were also killed by the current court."

"But you also have to distinguish between black and white, when the previous dynasty fell, I was not born, no matter how much you hate, you should not hate me."

"yes."

Zhou Haocang took a breath fiercely, opened his mouth and wanted to roar something, but he held his identity as a literati and was afraid of being indecent.

Literati should be reasonable, debate, and convince people with reason!

"Since ancient times, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, once replaced, millions of heads will roll to the ground, only ambition, how can there be any black and white!"

"Look, you think so too, there is no hatred between us at all, the reason why you kneel here is only because you broke the laws of Liangzhou." Li Huai continued his words.

"I ......" Zhou Haocang was speechless for a moment, the meaning of his words was obviously hostile and did not need a reason.

Why was he thinking he was going to make friends?

"If you are a parent official, and someone under your rule commits a crime, will you be caught?" Li Huai didn't give him time to turn his brain, so he had to lead him astray.

Zhou Haocang's mind was confused, someone broke the law, should he be arrested?

That has to be caught.

Wrong.

What does it have to do with this?

"If, again, the prisoner dies and does not admit his guilt, should he be punished? And what kind of punishment will be used? Li Huai asked.

The highest level of judging people is to let him judge himself, and only he can find his own weaknesses.

Zhou Haocang was completely stunned at this moment.

Li Huai continued to add firewood to the fire, "You should use your knowledge to consider this issue, aren't you a belly of scriptures?" ”

"It's time for you to show your talents."

"You probably won't, you won't."

Zhou Haocang flashed countless punishments in his mind, each of which made him feel extremely frightened.

He didn't dare to say it, and he was afraid that he would accidentally say it.

"You lied to me!"

"You're just trying to make me punish myself."

Did he turn around?

There is no hurry.

"Do you think the punishment will work for you? If it is useful, does it mean that it is not afraid of death. On the other hand, if you think it's useless, then the proof of knowledge is not deep enough. ”

"Either you admit that you are afraid of death, or you admit that you are not a qualified scholar, and you cannot resign yourself to fate."

Li Huai directly gave him a yin and yang insoluble set, trying to completely defeat his shaky psychological defense.

"I don't choose!" Zhou Haocang shouted almost collapsed.

"Then you're nothing!"

"Someone."

"Punishment!"

Li Huai waved his hand.

In fact, he has already chosen, and people who are really not afraid of death will not collapse, and when he came in, that arrogance had completely dissipated.

Deep down he had doubts about himself, and although he was still a little hard-mouthed, it didn't matter.

The next various torture instruments will make him speak, and not only make him speak, but also shake his faith.

In the royal court, there was a constant cry like killing a pig, and he couldn't bear it with a tiger chair.

Soon.

Zhou Haocang was covered in sweat, tears and snot came out, and he was paralyzed on the ground, like a living dead.

Li Huai glanced at his confession, half confessed himself, half confessed his accomplices, and as for his superiors, he didn't know.

They usually don't meet each other, and every time he is not at home, his superiors will put a note in his house or something.

"How can you be sure that your superior personally went to your house to put it, and not that your superior sent someone to put it?" Li Huai asked.

"Feeling, and this kind of thing, the less people know about it, the better." Zhou Haocang replied very weakly.

Li Huai accepted this explanation.

People like Zhou Haocang, they estimate that there are many more, and this seems to be a long premeditation.

Don't consider this for now.

"Do you want to live?" Li Huai asked with a smile.

Zhou Haocang looked at him very puzzled, he wanted to say, does he still have a chance to live? Even if Li Huai didn't kill him, the people outside wouldn't let him go.

"You should live, you only have to live, your belly of scripture can be useful, you have a chance to recover your family, even if the family tree is destroyed, then you can rewrite it from your page." Li Huai encouraged him.

A divine light flashed in Zhou Haocang's eyes, if Li Huai told him this when he first came in, he would rather die headbutt.

Right now.

He wanted to live, and he felt that nothing was more important than living.

Merely......

"They should know I've been arrested, and even if you let me go, they won't believe me."

Zhou Haocang is a smart person, he knows Li Huai's intentions, and he can only live if he does things for Li Huai.

"As long as you get out, they'll think you've betrayed." Li Huai said with certainty that there is no way to undo this step.

After all, he has been in for too long, and when Ge Liang arrested people, he didn't think of using him in front of many people.

Zhou Haocang's face sank, and there was no hope.

"But."

Li Huai's words changed, "As long as you make them feel that keeping you is valuable to them, maybe they will deliberately pretend not to know." ”

"You're a Mingzi!"

"Akiko?" Zhou Haocang seemed to understand what he meant.

"On the contrary, if they are not willing to keep you, then my people will make the first move and stop the loss in time." Li Huai continued.

Zhou Haocang knew that this was very risky, but this was his only chance to survive, so he nodded fiercely, "I am willing to be Mingzi." ”

"Good."

Li Huai nodded with a smile and waved his hand, "Let's go down." ”

"Huh."

Zhou Haocang nodded and prepared to go down.

"You just left, didn't you learn etiquette?" Li Huai said faintly.

Zhou Haocang understood in seconds, and hurriedly turned around, prostrate on the ground, and pouted his buttocks, "The slave asked King Liang to say goodbye, and the slave retreated." ”

"Let's go."

Li Huai really let him go this time, even though he was Mingzi, he still had to act enough, announced his innocence to the public, and released the rest of the people by the way.

"Lord Wang, is he reliable?" Ge Liang asked with some concern.

Li Huai shook his head, "I can't say for sure, this guy is a wall grass, but it doesn't matter if he is reliable or not." ”

"I'm covering for your people."

Since there is a clear son, is there no dark son?

The first person who thought of counter-insertion was not Li Huai, but Ge Liang, and he had already done it, Li Huai released Zhou Haocang, a Mingzi, just to cover for his people.

At the same time, Mingzi is not worthless, and this wave will not be lost.

Li Huai thought about another problem at this moment, he scattered everyone, and the attendants at the door had to leave thirty paces away.

"This kind of trick of planting spies in the government, can we also learn it?"

Ge Liang was a little puzzled, where was King Liang going to plant the spies, and the remnants of the previous dynasty had already planted them.

The government planted spies?

After Ge Liang figured it out, his eyes almost popped out, and he lowered his voice and said, "Lord Wang, what do you mean...... Court?! ”