Chapter 121: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes
Edict of Prison.
Cell No. 1.
Zhao Mian is locked up here.
Jinyi Wei Baihu Ji Gang personally went to the punishment to serve.
At this time, Zhao Mian, who was wearing a cloak, was taken off his clothes, pressed down on his back, and his hands and feet were also tied.
This position allowed the two rows of ribs on his chest to protrude, leaving only a layer of skin covering the ribs.
"Zhao Mian, have you ever participated in the assassination of Crown Prince Yiwen?"
While asking, Ji Gang used a sharp knife to flick back and forth on Zhao Mian's ribs.
The movement is like playing a lute.
This torture is Ji Gang's invention of playing the pipa.
Zhao Mian howled miserably, and said weakly: "There is no ......"
"Ever there? When? ”
“.......”
Zhao Mian simply stopped talking.
"Pretending to be dumb?"
Ji Gang sneered: "Tell me honestly about your comrades!" Otherwise, Lao Tzu will make you regret coming to this world as a human being! ”
The sharp knife continued to cut and cut back and forth on Zhao Mian's chest and ribs.
The first few hits were bearable.
The further back, the flesh slowly blooms and cracks, itching and hurting.
Zhao Mian's expression was full of pain, and he howled loudly.
With every flick, he sweated like rain, the flesh and blood on his chest were blurred, and his mental state was like coming back from the dead, born and dead.
The pain is unbearable, but you can't die, and so on.
At this moment, Zhao Mian can't survive, can't die, life is better than death, tragic and unspeakable!
Ji Gang was very calm, and issued psychological attacks from time to time: "Don't expect others to save you, you can't save now!" ”
Zhan Hui, the secretary of the ministry, and Xia Changwen, the secretary of Dali Temple, tried their best to protect Zhao Mian.
But Zhao Mian is in the edict prison, and they can't get it out if they want to.
If you can be transferred from the edict to the criminal department, it will feel no less than hell and ascending to heaven.
"Don't say yes, do you? If you don't say it, your wife doesn't necessarily don't say it. ”
Ji Gang smiled.
Zhao's wife, Liu, was locked up in cell No. 2 next door.
He is also being tortured.
Of the one hundred and eight course meals invented by Ji Gang, more than a dozen are specifically aimed at female prisoners.
Extremely vicious!
"Ji Baihu, His Royal Highness the Taisun is coming to the edict."
Ji Gang hurriedly put down the work in his hand and went to greet him.
......
Zhu Yunxi stood outside Liu's cell.
"Old sister, let's meet again."
Liu's female stream was stained with the light of his husband Zhao Mian, so he was fortunate to live in the private room of the edict prison.
But she didn't feel lucky.
"His Royal Highness Taisun, I have been wronged!" Liu begged bitterly.
Wrong a hammer!
Emperor Hongwu has traded with you face-to-face, and he still shouts injustice?
Zhu Yunxi smiled gently: "Old sister, you can't talk nonsense." ”
Whether Zhao Mian is corrupt or bribery, or rebellion, it is a dead end.
The difference is that corruption and bribery must be stripped of the skin.
Half a year ago, Lao Zhu stipulated that anyone who embezzled more than 60 taels of silver had to be skinned.
At that time, Zhao Mian was strongly opposed, for fear that something would happen to him.
Now it's time to implement it accurately!
It was as if it had been made specifically for him.
It's full of sincerity.
If he plots to commit a crime, Zhao Mian will die more comfortably.
It's over with just one sword.
Of course, if you are unlucky, you will be sentenced to Ling Chi......
Also, if you commit the crime of treason, the whole family will be implicated!
Liu's focus is here.
She is not an official and will not be skinned.
But will die!
After being tossed for a few days, he suddenly saw the emperor's grandson, and Liu's eyes were instantly excited.
"His Royal Highness Taisun, everything was asked by Zhao Mian to do it! It's true! ”
Liu's tears rained down, counting Zhao Mian's various sins.
said, and even talked about how Zhao Mian didn't care about his family on weekdays and breaded his second wife outside......
"Humble position, see His Royal Highness Taisun!"
Ji Gang came up and saluted.
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "Well, how is Zhao Mian's case?" ”
Ji Gang said: "Soon, three days at most, I promise to let Zhao Mian open his mouth to identify with the party!" ”
Li Zhigang on the side was full of disbelief.
So Zhao Mian is a second-grade scholar, full of poetry and books, will easily admit the great crime of rebellion?
Don't want the clansmen?
Ji Gang had a confident smile on his face.
The main reason is that he is too busy, and since he has to interrogate the recruitment, he has to interrogate the imperial doctors of the hospital one by one.
Since the imperial grandson asked Zhao Mian, the focus of work in the next few days will have to be Zhao Mian.
Ji Gang is confident that as long as he concentrates on treating a person, he will definitely be impressed.
Actually, for Zhu Yunxi.
Zhao Mian is of little use.
He originally wanted to sit on Zhao Mian and assassinate the prince Zhu Biao to do things.
Now the murder of the crown prince has really happened!
Of course, if Zhao Mian can refer to the party, it is the best.
Otherwise, it will take a lot of time to investigate.
The Ming officials protected each other, and the cover networks such as the interests of various alliances were brought into full play, and many incidents had just made progress and then reached a stalemate.
For example, the violent death of Yuan Tai, the right capital.
There is no way to find out what has been covered.
Yuan Tai should have also been poisoned, and he may be the same group of people who plotted against Zhu Yunxi.
Zhu Yunxi knows that the biggest fish of the civil official group has not yet been caught.
His next target is the big fish!
......
The imperial grandson came to the imperial prison in person to interrogate Zhao Mian's rebellion, which immediately caused great panic among the civil officials.
They knew that this young man wanted to make a big deal out of it!
It must be stopped!
Zhan Hui, the secretary of the ministry, felt a strong sense of crisis in the dark.
He felt that he had a good chance of planting it here!
Tea is not thought, rice is not fragrant.
In the evening, Zhan Hui instructed the old servant: "Prepare the official robe, I will go to meet the imperial grandson!" ”
He decided to talk to the imperial grandson alone.
Mandarin Palace.
Zhan Hui was summoned.
Zhan Hui has done imperial history, and his demeanor is straightforward.
After entering the temple, he was courteous for several weeks.
Politely greeting a few words, Zhan Hui went straight to the point.
"Your Royal Highness, although Zhao Mian's crime of sitting on dirty has become a fact, but he is the secretary of the household department, and he has always been loyal to the country, how can he murder the crown prince Yiwen?"
Zhan Hui is in charge of the two important departments of the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, with a high position and authority, and he has an aggressive attitude when he talks to people.
Seeing the imperial grandson sitting on the dragon chair, looking at it seriously, Zhan Hui continued: "Zhao Mian must have been falsely accused by a traitor, so rashly trying his crime of rebellion, wouldn't he trap the monarch's father for injustice?" ”
Adulterer, are you talking about me?
Zhu Yunxi glanced at him: "The crime of rashly trying rebellion is to trap the monarch's father in injustice?" ”
He looked directly at Zhan Hui: "Three years ago, South Korean Gong Li Shanchang was seventy-seven years old, but did he ever rebel?" Did you let him go? When you have trapped your father in injustice, are you the work of your ministers? ”
Back then, Li Shanchang was impeached by a group of imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it was Zhan Hui and Zhao Mian who led behind the scenes.
They took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of paving the way for the crown prince Zhu Biao to frantically attack the Huaixi nobles who were not the prince's descendants.
Zhan Hui defended: "Li Shanchang's case is a Qin case, and it is a ......."
Zhu Yunxi forced to ask, "What is it?" ”
Zhan Hui was speechless for a while, and didn't dare to continue.
If he says, this is what the emperor means.
Then he's scrapped!
If Lao Zhu knew that someone dared to throw the pot at him, he would have to peel his skin!
Faced with the trap, the scheming Zhan Hui closed his feet in time.
He frowned: "His Royal Highness Taisun killed the official with a rod for the first time in prison and was imprisoned, which is really not good for the fortunes of the country." ”
Zhan Hui provoked each other with righteousness, and there was a sense of blame in his words.
But he didn't dare to blatantly blame the imperial grandson, all because of the noon incident.
The officials who dared to spray the emperor's grandson are all dead!
Zhu Yunxi said lightly: "Lonely has a clear conscience!" ”
He said: "As for the large prison you mentioned, there are thieves who assassinate the crown prince, how will the dynasties deal with it?" Such a big rebellion, if it is not completely eliminated, this is not good for the fortune of the country! ”
Zhu Yunxi's meaning is very clear, even I, the imperial grandson, have been cursed and poisoned.
Back then, my father, Prince Wang Yiwen, must have been assassinated!
Zhan Hui looked at Zhu Yunxi for a while.
The emperor's grandson is like a stone in a pit, smelly and hard, soft and hard not to eat, it is really difficult to do!
You can only kill them!
It's a pity that I can't get rid of it......
Zhan Hui stroked his beard and said: "Well, His Royal Highness Taisun's words are not unreasonable, after the old minister returns, he will definitely investigate in detail!" ”
He groaned and said: "However, people's hearts are sinister, dare to do it in the palace forbidden, the people behind the scenes must be very deep, and they will want to find out for a while, how easy is it to say?" ”
Zhu Yunxi's gaze was as sharp as an eagle, piercing straight to Zhan Hui's face.
He said unceremoniously: "Who is assassinating Gu, who is leading the scenes, Zhan Butang must know it, right?" ”
Zhan Hui's face instantly turned white, then turned red, then turned white, and finally returned to normal.
In just a few breaths, he can change his face like this.
Zhu Yunxi had to take it!
Zhan Hui seemed to have been misunderstood, and said solemnly: "His Royal Highness Taisun is serious, if the old minister knows who did it, he will definitely not let go of this traitor and thief!" ”
Zhu Yunxi looked at him with a smile, as if admiring his acting skills.
Zhan Hui was bored, and retired after speaking.
I didn't even drink hot tea.
His back is so straight, like a righteous gentleman.
Zhu Yunxi smiled.
Attacking the enemy will be saved, and the crisis will be solved.
Zhan Hui Lao'er's abacus is really loud!