Who doesn't want to be promoted, especially like Fan Zhongping, who doesn't do anything about crimes, and he won't take things that shouldn't be taken, but is it an official position? Or is the higher the better?

After all, who would think that his official position was too low, especially for someone like him, who was relatively modest, and even he thought that the prefect of Hangzhou was the final end of his officialdom career.

Now that the imperial court has begun to investigate Zhou Tong and Wu Qian, and he is about to be promoted, although it is temporary, but in his opinion, the imperial court is almost unavailable now, as long as he takes root in the position of political envoy, does a few good things, and cleans up the mess of Zhou Tong and Wu Qian, the imperial court will recognize his ability.

As for what is the envoy, he also has a candidate in his heart, this official position is in charge of the criminal code of a province, and the official responsibility is not as complicated as the important one that the political envoy is going to come, so it is enough to find a similar person to go up, understand the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and be sober and not easy to be confused.

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, wrap it on the lower officials, the lower officials understand..."

In fact, for an official like him, Zhu Song still has some like-minded implication for him, after all, he was also a bad little prince before, but he didn't expect that now he has to shoulder the heavy responsibility of Jinyiwei.

"Okay, Master Fan, you can go down, remember what this king told you today, and don't say anything about what happened in the line, what you saw and everything you heard, otherwise this king will invite you to drink tea in the edict!"

Fan Zhongping was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the lower officials all understand!" The lower official retired. ”

After Fan Zhongping left, Zhu Song got up and came to the courtyard, and suddenly a purple electric light crossed the sky at this time, and then thunder roared, and a little autumn rain fell on the ground, and the temperature dropped a few points in an instant.

"The people who should have come have also come, and the things that should be said have been said, and now is the right time, let's go to the prison and meet the families of these two adults."

Zhu Song and Lao Cao got up and went to the Hangzhou prison, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the brocade guards had already cleaned up all the inside and outside of the Hangzhou building, and there were no local jailers and officials left in Hangzhou.

Zhu Song went to prison leisurely, Lao Cao didn't come to the prison before, but he only came once or twice, and he still caught a few murder suspects in Kaiping, and Lao Cao personally went down for interrogation.

He doesn't like this kind of place, but as the long history of the Han Palace, His Royal Highness is the commander of Jinyiwei, although he has no official position in Jinyiwei, but he has to follow His Highness closely.

At this moment, he was not idle inside, the screams and executions came and went, but Zhu Song was not so cruel, he directly did it to the daughters and children of these two adults, and all those who were beaten and beaten were those subordinates.

Ten people were tortured together, and ten heart-rending screams rang out one after another, setting off the entire prison as terrifying, dim, and viscous as the eighteen layers of hell beneath its feet.

Zhu Song walked inside, and suddenly heard the cry of a child, and he squinted at the Jinyi guard next to him.

"Why is there still the cry of a child, didn't this king say not to hurt women and children?"

The brocade guard who was staring at him trembled with fright, and hurriedly explained.

"Your Highness didn't do anything to the woman or the child, who was frightened and wept by the scream."

Hearing this, Zhu Song realized that he was really smart and confused for a while.

"Did the ladies say anything?"

The brocade-clothed guard shook his head: "Your Highness, some of these ladies have opened their mouths, but they are all talking about trivial and painless things, and some simply don't speak, maybe they know something." ”

"Your Highness, let's just execute, these women have dog skin plasters stuck to their mouths, and if they don't clean up ruthlessly, they won't open their mouths!"

Zhu Song did not agree, but asked again: "The little concubine of Lord Wu, the one who gave birth to the child, Wu Qian is such a child, he regards this child as a treasure, and the status of his little concubine in the family will naturally rise, so let's take the child away from his mother's side, don't torture the child, if the child is hungry, give him food to eat, and give him water to drink when he is thirsty, and then take the woman to a clean cell, and the king will personally ask." ”

"Understood!"

After a cup of tea, everything was done, and Zhu Song sat in the cell, looking at the woman in front of him who kept kowtowing to him in a panic and asked him to return his child.

"Your child is fine, but what you say next is important to your child, and I hope you don't hide it."

The woman's mood was extremely unstable, and she couldn't listen to Zhu Song's words at all, Zhu Song waved her hand, and immediately a brocade guard grabbed the woman's hair and snapped it to two big-eared stickers.

After two slaps, the woman finally calmed down and looked at Zhu Song in fear.

"Do you understand what this king said?"

The woman nodded in horror, tears welling up in her eyes, and it was clear that she was worried about her child.

And Zhu Song just wants to grasp the point of mother-son connection and let her speak.

"Do you know what you lords have done? If you know, tell me, and then sign the pledge, and the king can guarantee the safety of your mother and son, and everyone else will be seated together, but the king can protect you. ”

This woman is just a concubine, if she hadn't given birth to a child, I'm afraid that her status in the Wu Mansion would not be as good as a maid, because the other sisters are like this, except for the main room, they are basically called in front of the maid.

And when she gave birth to a child, her status was naturally rising, and sometimes she knew things that she didn't even know about the main room.

Under Zhu Song's coercion and temptation, he began to confess Wu Qian's illegal deeds, such as embezzlement of the national salt tax in Mexico, as well as the embezzlement of land property, and Wu Qian had clearly mentioned to him that he wanted to blow up the nine dikes, and then use this as an excuse to detain the salt tax of the two Zhejiang provinces to enrich his own pockets.

Zhu Song didn't expect any definite evidence from her mouth, as long as there was such a witness as her, it would be enough, Zhu Song immediately asked people to sign and draw a confession, and showed his confession to other ladies and children.

Zhu Song knew that they were united, and all they could say was trivial things, and what they couldn't say was because they had already been told that they didn't dare to say it, and Zhu Song just wanted to tear a hole between them.

Fear, as long as it appears, will spread, and if people's psychological defense line collapses, it will be contagious.

What Zhu Song had to do was to spread this fear and psychological collapse farther and farther away, until the entire cell was filled with a beautiful atmosphere of honesty.