Chapter 168: Suddenly my heart softened
[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, April 19, Chenshi, Tsing Yi Wei Edict]
Shen Huan's mood these days has not been very good.
First of all, on April 16, Song Jinhua brought two secret orders from the King of Jin, and at that time, he saw Song Jinhua's condescending "King of Jin's special envoy" style, and his heart was extremely unhappy.
However, after all, he had just joined the command of King Jin, and although he resisted these two secret orders, he had to do it.
The first secret order given by King Jin was to ask him to find a way to poison Xu Ke. He thought about this matter for a long time, and felt that it was contrary to the intention of the Son of Heaven and that the risk was too great, so he temporarily took it down and waited for the opportunity to act in the future.
The second secret order given by King Jin was to let him arrest Pei Caibao immediately, let Pei Caibao confess as soon as possible, and there was a master envoy behind the scenes. Naturally, who this "master envoy" is, Shen Huan can think of it without guessing.
For this instruction of King Jin, Shen Huan looked down on it in his heart. He thought to himself, what's the use of doing this? The King of Wei is now the Prince of Jiuzhu, and his prestige and power are already in full swing, how can a confession from Pei Caibao be able to bring it down?
According to Shen Huan's inference, even if Pei Caibao confessed that he was instructed by the King of Wei, and even if the Son of Heaven believed what Pei Caibao said, then what could it be? At most, it was nothing more than proof that Li Jin, the king of Wei, was not very broad-minded and refused to let go of his dead brother. However, after all, the testimony in Pei Caibao's mouth is completely true, after all, King Han has opened Cuiyun Tower privately for 30 years, even if King Wei intends to unravel this ugly matter, then he can also argue for a reason for "righteous annihilation", what else can the Son of Heaven do to him?
However, since Shen Huan had already recognized the master of King Jin, he did not dare not do his master's first errand. After some planning, he handed over this errand to Yang Wenyuan to do.
Yang Wenyuan really lived up to expectations, and on April 16, he arrested Pei Caibao and put him in his Nan'an Ping Division.
After all, Yang Wenyuan was careful, he knew that behind this case, the two most powerful princes of the dynasty were involved, and he thought that in case the news was leaked, he only brought a few cronies to Pei's mansion to arrest people.
After he arrested Pei Caibao, he was locked in a secret room in the Nan Division, and the news was tightly sealed, so that few people in the entire Nan Anping Division knew that Pei Caibao, their old thousand-family in the past, had become a subordinate prisoner in the Nan Anping Division.
However, what Yang Wenyuan and Shen Huan did not expect was that Pei Caibao was quite tough, no matter how Yang Wenyuan tortured him to extract a confession and persuaded him with good words, Pei Caibao seemed to be like oil and salt did not enter, and for his testimony in the morning of the first day of April, he only said that he was found by his own conscience, and he was bent on saving people, and there was no instigation from others.
After Yang Wenyuan asked, he was suddenly annoyed in his heart, in the past two days, he had used more than a dozen kinds of punishments on Pei Caibao's body. But no matter how Pei Caibao was punished, he always refused to say a word.
Yang Wenyuan spoke to Shen Huan and said, it is better for him to draw up two confessions, first let Pei Caibao sign and draw the charge, and then cut off the person's tongue. In this way, even if the Son of Heaven sends someone to re-interrogate, Pei Cai will not be able to retract his confession.
Shen Huan immediately smiled coldly at Yang Wenyuan, and just asked:
"Don't forget, Pei Caibao was still a thousand households of Nan'an Pingsi before! If you treat him like this today, you won't be afraid...... Will anyone do this to you in the future?"
Yang Wenyuan was shocked when he heard this, and immediately understood Shen Huan's intentions. He had to silently withdraw from the official room, and after that, he could always restrain Pei Caibao by pending, and he could not easily use any "green characters with five claws" and "nine dozen green characters".
However, what Shen Huan didn't expect was that on this side, Pei Caibao couldn't get the result he wanted here, and on the other side, early this morning, there was another unfavorable news from Bei'an Pingsi.
According to Shen Huan's subordinates, Nangong silently arrested a person named Kang Youren, who was not only the eldest young master of Kangmen in Shuzhong, but also a "powerful cronie" under King Jin.
Shen Huan couldn't help frowning again and again when he heard this, and said in his heart, what kind of thing is this! You King Jin still don't think it's enough? You even have to make friends with some people in the rivers and lakes! This "Shuzhong Kangmen" has a bad reputation in the rivers and lakes, and you King Jin is not easy to befriend, but you want to make friends with such a person who is good at poisoning?
However, at this time, Shen Huan, after all, had taken refuge under the command of King Jin, and he couldn't ignore this matter. So, he didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't have time to report to the king of Jin, so he immediately hurried into the edict prison and walked directly into the interrogation room where Kang Youren was being held.
Shen Huan saw that the interrogation room was empty, leaving only Nangong silent, and felt strange in his heart, so he asked:
"Nangong Qianhu, where are the people you are locked up here?"
"Who is it?" Nangong was silent, pretending not to know.
"Naturally, that Shuzhong Kangmen Da Shao! Where did you lock him up?" Shen Huan asked angrily.
Nangong asked rhetorically without saying anything: Pipi Reading Network
"How could Governor Shen know that my Beisi had captured the young man of the Kangmen in Shuzhong?"
"Ben Governor...... This governor naturally heard what people said......" Shen Huan hurriedly avoided the topic, and then asked:
"Nangong Qianhu, this governor asks you, what crime did he commit against this young master of Kangmen, and why did you suddenly arrest him?"
"According to the investigation of our Beisi, since this person entered Chang'an, he has been clinging to the wealthy by cunning means, wandering among the powerful, and bent on tricking him into witchcraft and witchcraft! This person is really a 'Jianghu demon'! If you allow this kind of 'Jianghu demon' to act arbitrarily and cause trouble in Chang'an, I don't know how many people will be deceived and deceived by him!
"You say he's a 'charlatan'?
"Credentials, the first trial, there will be it!"
"Nangong Qianhu, you are making such a big fanfare, just to arrest a 'Jianghu Warlock'? Your Beisi's duty should be to supervise the hundred officials in Beijing, when did you become so interested in those Jianghu people?"
"Shen Dudu, this person is in Chang'an City, and it is precisely those officials and princes who are specially befriended and attached to him with witchcraft techniques, and this department will arrest this person for interrogation, which is exactly what is needed to supervise hundreds of officials!"
"Ben Du doesn't have time to talk nonsense with you! Ben Du will ask you, this Kang Youren, where did you keep him?"
"How...... Governor Shen also wants to interrogate Kang Youren together?"
Shen Huan glanced at Nangong silently, and said coldly:
"This person has a great stake! The Governor will take him back to the Southern Office and interrogate him personally!"
"That's not right!" Nangong was silent but not in a hurry, and smiled at Shen Huan:
"Didn't Shen Dudu just say it? This Kang Youren is nothing more than a charlatan, not even an official, how can Shen Dudu treat him as a person with great stakes?"
"You ......!" Shen Huan was so angry that his right hand was silent, and some were speechless.
Nangong was silent, but still said unhurriedly:
"Governor Shen, you don't have to work too hard! The lower official knows that you are worried about my Beisi's case, but the governor has every opportunity, how can he bow down to everything and ask such a small case one by one? After I interrogate the eldest young master of the Kangmen clearly, the first one will return to the governor, how about it?"
At this moment, Shen Huan has been a little speechless by Nangong Buzhi, and besides, after all, Kang Youren is still dragging Nangong in his hands, although Shen Huan is the respect of the governor, but what Nangong said is reasonable and well-founded, and he can't force Nangong to hand over people.
The more Shen Huan saw that Nangong was unwilling to hand over Kang Youren, the more he felt that there must be a great deal of involvement behind Kang Youren. At that moment, he had no choice but to put his heart sideways, put down the shelf of the governor, changed a soft tone, and said to Nangong silently:
"Nangong Qianhu, this governor and you...... After all, my colleague has been a colleague for many years, can you look at the face of the governor and let that Kang Youren go?"
At this time, Nangong was silent, and when he saw Shen Huan suddenly begging him softly, he couldn't help but be surprised, but he thought about it, the person who could make the famous Shen Dudu not hesitate to put down his body and beg in person must be extraordinary, how could he let it go easily?
Nangong was silent with an extremely embarrassed face, and hesitated:
"Shen Dudu, if it is another prisoner, Nangong should obey his orders......! This Kang Youren, behind this person, are two princes, Nangong really dare not obey orders!"
"What do you want to do before you are willing to let people go?" Shen Huan's expression at this time was almost full of pleading.
Nangong said lightly:
"Shen Dudu, you know!"