Ma Youlu said: "I, I haven't offended the two superiors!" ”

Xu Fatzi asked: "You haven't offended us, what are you doing with the silver for us?" It's not like being a thief. ”

Ma Youlu was covered in a cold sweat: "The errands went to Dinghai to ship before, didn't they encounter three villages that were slaughtered by the Japanese on the way?" ”

"I'm thinking of giving you some silver. Let you not go to the court, there are Japanese robbers in the southeast. ”

Chang Feng sneered: "Heh, how do you know that those three villages were slaughtered by the Japanese Invaders?" And not bandits? ”

Ma Youlu knew that he was speechless, and immediately shut up.

Chang Feng no longer spoke to him. Instructed Xu Fatzi to take off Ma Youlu's shoes.

He held an iron nail and made a gesture on the thumb of Ma Youlu's left foot.

Ma Youlu shouted: "Shangcha, what are you going to do?" ”

Chang Feng still didn't speak. Shi Wenyi next to him handed him a small hammer.

Chang Feng "ding, ding, ding" three times, and directly pierced Ma Youlu's toes with iron nails.

"Ahh He let out a pig howl and fainted in pain.

Changfeng pulls out the nails. "Ahh Ma Youlu woke up in pain again.

Chang Feng didn't ask any questions, looked up and asked Shi Wenyi: "What about salt?" ”

Shi Wenyi handed over the salt. Chang Feng took it and sprinkled it on Ma Youlu's wound.

Ma Youlu fainted for the second time. Xu Fatzi poured a basin of cold water on his head and woke him up.

Ma Youlu's tears and snot burst out: "Shangshi, what are you going to do." I'll give as much money as you want! ”

"If you want a woman, I can buy all the boat girls on the entire West Lake and give them to you."

"You're talking!"

Chang Feng and Xu Fatzi didn't care about Ma Youlu at all. This is an interrogation technique in large memory recovery.

Torture first, then ask questions. The prisoner will be more anxious than the interrogator.

Chang Feng said: "Pick up Ma Youlu's pants." ”

Xu Fatzi took the order and stripped Ma Youlu bare.

Then Xu Fatzi took out a soldering iron from the brazier and made a gesture in Ma Youlu's place.

Chang Feng said: "I said fat. Our brocade guards use a soldering iron to brand people, and they have always been branded on the chest. Why are you going to brand that place? ”

"The front chest is burned, and it can still be raised. When the place is burned, it is truly bad. ”

Xu Fatzi said: "I just want to try, if that place is burned, can it be cured with a panacea." ”

Ma Youlu completely collapsed: "The two superiors, you don't want money, you don't want women, you must be trying to pry something out of my mouth, right?" ”

"I must know everything, I must say everything! Just ask! ”

Fat Xu put down the soldering iron.

Chang Feng said: "Ma Youlu." Forty years old. His ancestral home is Shandong. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zushang fled to Hangzhou. Generations in business. ”

"You are ostensibly the head of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce. In fact, he is the head of the Hangzhou branch of the Four Seas Society. ”

"Your business is all over Jiangnan. But the most lucrative case was the smuggling of tea, silk, and porcelain to the Japanese and Westerners. ”

"Am I right?"

Ma Youlu was dumbfounded: "Shangcha actually knows about the Four Seas Society?" ”

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "Jinyiwei knows half of the things in the sky." Jinyi Wei knows all the things on the ground. ”

Chang Feng's cowhide blows really loudly.

Ma Youlu froze: "Then the upper errand should be clear, behind me stands the entire Southeast officialdom and Shilin." There are also people in the capital who are my backers! ”

"You torture me here, and you are not afraid of them. Yes! ”

Chang Feng sprinkled a handful of salt on the wound on Ma Youlu's toe.

Chang Feng said: "You know, our Jinyi Wei has a word called secret tailoring. ”

"During the period of the Western Wu Palace, Jinyi Wei was also called Gong Wei Division. The first person we opened a secret cut was Xiao Ming Wang. ”

"During the Chenghua period, what was the governor of the second grade and the waiter of the third grade. In the same way, we say that secret judgment is secret judgment. ”

"I've secretly killed you here. Will your backers know I did it? ”

"Don't forget, we're brothers-in-law of women who have slept on the same boat. Who would have thought that I would kill my brother-in-law? ”

Ma Youlu's arrogance immediately wilted: "What do you want to ask?" ”

Chang Feng said: "I want to know everything about the Four Seas Society!" Shi Wenyi, with pen and ink to record the confession. ”

Ma Youlu said: "If I say it, it will be a death." The elders of the Four Seas Society will kill me. ”

Chang Feng scratched his chin: "Yes, it's death if you don't say it." The difference is that the four seas will kill you, and maybe leave you with a whole corpse. ”

"We killed you by castrating you with a hot soldering iron. Castrate before you kill! ”

Xu Fatzi smiled wickedly on the side: "Truly." The eunuchs in the palace also pay attention to getting a whole corpse when they die. ”

"Before they die, they will use their life savings to redeem their treasures from the worship room outside the Xihua Gate, and bury them with the corpses in the future."

"The head of the Jockey Club is such a rich man, and in the end he ends up dead without a corpse, thanks to the famine!"

Ma Youlu completely collapsed: "I said, I said everything." ”

The interrogation of Ma Youlu lasted all night.

The more Chang Feng asked, the more frightened he became. The power of the Four Seas Society has penetrated into almost every prefecture and county on the southeast coast.

The entire southeastern officialdom was able to get a piece of the gentry's smuggling trade.

The total amount of smuggling trade with the Japanese and Western countries is more than 10 million taels every year. Smuggling is a huge profit, and the entire Four Seas Association can make a profit of more than 4 million taels from it.

Half of the total annual income of the top treasury!

Merging with the Japanese is a way back for themselves. In the words of later generations, the Japanese are the backstabbers of the Four Seas Society.

A large number of fake widows were arranged by them to be around the real widows and looted with the real widows.

Smuggled goods are loaded on land and protected by the government and the guards. When it was transported out at sea, it was protected by the Japanese fleet.

Yang Tinghe was right before. If it is really traced layer by layer according to the law of the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid that the number of people killed in the four major cases of the founding of the People's Republic of China, such as Kongyin, Guo Huan, Lan Yu, and Hu Weiyong, is not as good as this Tongwei case.

The most troublesome thing is that the civil officials in the southeast have to be swept away and left alone. It also involved the guards and the army.

Investigate the case of the Tongwa, and there will be a mutiny! At that time, the whole southeast will be in chaos! The new emperor's dragon chair was also unstable.

Chang Feng asked the last and most critical question: "Who are the eight elders of the Four Seas Society?" ”

Ma Youlu smiled dumbly: "Even if I confess, I'm afraid you won't be able to move." ”

Xu Fatzi directly picked up the soldering iron: "It seems that you still have to castrate first and then kill!" ”

Ma Youlu had no choice but to say: "I said it can't be done!" The eight elders are of the same rank, regardless of size. ”

"The first elder is Xiao Jing, the brother of Xiao Jing, the master of ceremonies. He specialized in the porcelain business in Jiangxi. ”

Chang Feng gasped.

The celebrant and the three bingbi, Xiao Jing, Qian Neng, and Li Guang.

Xiao Jing is the chief bingpen.

He was Wynne's younger brother. I have a good relationship with Wynne. When Emperor Hongzhi Qianlong sneaked into the East Palace, he was also Emperor Hongzhi's personal eunuch.

If one day Wynne is gone. Xiao Jing Tie is sure to be the successor of the Master of Ceremonies' palm seal.

Move his fetus? I don't dare to borrow a hundred dares from the wind.

If his fetus brother is involved in the big case, his chief celebrant will not be able to do it.

This upsets the delicate balance between the inner and outer sides.

Chang Feng is a celebrity around Emperor Hongzhi. He knew how much effort Emperor Hongzhi had put into maintaining the delicate balance between the inner and outer dynasties.

(End of chapter)