Late at night, the wind was blowing, and the shadows of the trees were swaying and rustling.

In a guest room near the back door of Yao Xiangfu, the lights were dim, and Yao Yingchun was sitting in the middle, kneeling in front of a man of a similar age.

"Yao, Yao Lao, you have to save me! I did as you told me, but Ke Qianqian disappeared in the Song Mansion at night...... Most likely...... King Mu took the person away...... "Song Yuanqing was sweating in a hurry, and his words were interrupted and he couldn't speak clearly.

Yao Yingchun said slowly: "Yuanqing, the old man's grandson is busy dealing with the assassins you sent, where is the time to go to your Song Mansion to raise people?" His eyes suddenly sharpened, so frightened that Song Yuanqing sat still, not daring to squeak.

Song Yuanqing didn't expect that Yao Xiang had already known about the assassination he had sent someone, and two days ago, King Mu entered the palace alone to ask for the Kyushu dispatch authority for the disappearance case, which made him anxious, and he was desperate to hire a killer to assassinate him.

Who knew that King Mu was unscathed, and he still worked overtime every day to sort out the files, making him feel like he was on pins and needles, and he was desperate to come up with a way to make his daughter lose, in a vain attempt to delay the pace of his investigation.

"Yuanqing, from when you were a Huizhou city guard to the current head of the inspection institute, you have been following the old man for more than 20 years, it was the old man who pulled you out, do you remember? But today, you sent someone to assassinate my grandson, and now, I am afraid that we will part ways. Yao Xiang's tone couldn't hide his anger, he looked down at the man at his feet, thinking that he was jumping over the wall to assassinate Xiao Er, so he couldn't wait to kill him now.

Song Yuanqing now has no way to surrender, so he can only come to Yao Xiang. He refused to give up, and still begged: "Old Yao, you can't cross the river and tear down the bridge, Song has done so many things for you......"

Yao Yingchun heard that he was going to threaten, and immediately sank his face, "Yuanqing, if you have to think about it, can the old man let you open a place like Mengxiaolou to hide filth and dirt? How many women from good families have you kidnapped? Then you dare to touch the Wu Liu clan who guards the family in Zicheng City, Huaizhou, you have come to this day, the matter has been revealed, do you still want to threaten your true appearance?"

"Yao Lao, Song is one of the directors of the Sixth Academy, and it is useful for King Mu to fight for succession in the future! Yao Lao, Song has countless gold and silver, and Song is willing to dedicate it to Yao Lao, I just ask you to think of another idea to save our family." ”

Yao Yingchun was a little impatient, and said coldly: "Money is something outside the body, not to mention the money of a dying person, the old man doesn't dare to touch it." ”

Song Yuanqing heard him speak so decisively, and he also said fiercely, "In the case of the Wen family's extermination in Guancheng, Huizhou, Song did a lot of things for Yao Xiang, you are not afraid of ......"

Yao Yingchun sneered, "Yuanqing, now even the old man dares to threaten him?" How did the Wen family destroy the door, think about it, it was ordered by His Majesty, the emperor is like this, what does he have to do with me?"

Song Yuanqing had already said no more, and he was no longer trembling, he straightened his waist and looked up at the old man in the seat, "Song remembered the events of the year clearly, but now he is also forced to be helpless, just begging to survive, Yao Lao, don't force me." ”

Yao Yingchun's shrewd eyes flashed a hint of cunning, and he said, "Ah Yin, bring the things up." ”

A man walked out from behind the screen, the man was lean, dressed in a dark shirt, and had a dark complexion, walked up to the two of them, took out a roll of brocade cloth from his arms, and threw it in front of Song Yuanqing.

Song Yuanqing recognized the things in the brocade cloth, these things should be well hidden in his vault! He instinctively shrank back, "Yao Yingchun, don't you want to kill people?"

Yao Yingchun shook his head, he knew that Song Yuanqing was stupid, but he didn't expect to be so stupid, and said indifferently, "Yuanqing, you think too much, if the old man wants to kill you, you will die as early as when you write this confession." Now, the old man doesn't have to kill you, maybe you can't think about it yourself, and you can't say anything about self-determination. ”

Song Yuanqing's body was weak and he collapsed there. When I wrote this confession, I wrote it to save my life at that time, but I didn't know that this confession had already been transferred by Ah Yin.

"Show him the ledger too, or he will live in vain, and he will die before he dies to understand ......"

Ah Yin took out two thick account books from behind the screen and threw them in front of Song Yuanqing, Song Yuanqing just flipped through the two pages, which were all the accounts of his restaurants. He suddenly cried bitterly and crawled over to hug Yao Yingchun's ankle.

Suddenly, a thunderclap fell on the summer night outside, resounding in the sky.

The man on the ground shook and trembled, and cried even louder.

Yao Yingchun looked at the person at his feet, now pitiful like a lost dog, "Ah Yin, it's going to rain, and the old man is going to rest, you send Yuanqing back to his house, those people arranged by Xiao Er are all avoided." ”

"Yes. A purple light shot out of Ah Yin's hand, and Song Yuanqing, who was crying and shouting just now, suddenly disappeared, he picked up Song Yuanqing quickly, and disappeared after leaving the house.

June 20 is the day of the audition of the Academy of Painting and Calligraphy.

Yesterday it rained overnight, and the humidity was heavy in the early morning, and when Qi Muxiao took the people from the Cen Sen Wangzhou Inspection Institute to the Song Mansion to arrest people, he saw the white cloth that had just been hung at the door.

Qi Muxiao's face sank, and he said coldly: "If you want to see people alive and die to see corpses, if there are unclean hands and feet today, this king will never tolerate them!"

The people of the Wangzhou Patrol Courtyard rushed in, and the guards at the door knew that their master was self-judged, and now they didn't dare to stop it when they saw this.

Qi Muxiao paced in Song Yuanqing's extremely luxurious study, this Jin Nanmu's furniture was still wrapped in Phnom Penh, and Song Yuanqing's usual extravagant and lascivious life can be seen. He looked around and noticed a stack of letterhead peeking out from under the felt of the bookcase.

Is it Song Yuanqing's confession?!

The confession clearly wrote about the skin and flesh places he had established in the past five years for gold and silver and to vent his selfish desires, and there were two lists attached to it, one of which was the women who had been abducted over the years and the situation, and Fengyue places like Mengxiao Tower were the ones that Qi Muxiao had investigated before. The second list lists the officials involved in each state, from the governor of Sanpin to the county guard of Bapin, and the scope of the cases involved is staggering.

On June 21, when the sky was still bright, Qi Muxiao took the two deputy directors Cen Sen and Mu Wei, as well as a full ten boxes of files, into the harem early to ask to see Emperor Qi.

Although Emperor Qi, who was still in Gentle Township, was dissatisfied, he still summoned a few people. After listening to Qi Muxiao's report alone, he looked at Song Yuanqing's masterpiece again, and the angry breakfast was useless, so he directly asked Li Yongfu to prepare for the morning dynasty.

In the early dynasty, in the huge palace, Emperor Qi sat alone, with a black face, and his fierce gaze swept over every courtier in the palace, and the coercion of the superior made the Manchu Dynasty civil and military atmosphere dare not gasp.

They hadn't seen Emperor Qi angry for too long, and the peaceful days had passed for too long, and they had forgotten that Emperor Qi was also a bloodthirsty heroic warrior back then. Thirty years ago, Emperor Qi, who was only 17 years old, came to the front line of the war with the Northern Barbarians and led 100,000 elite soldiers to break the 300,000 rangers of the Northern Barbarians.

It is said that the blood of the soldiers killed in the battle stained the grasslands in the north and the sky red.

In this battle, the young Emperor Qi sat firmly in the country, and the story of his courage and good fighting was also widely spread and became a good story.

Emperor Qi suppressed his voice and said: "The case of the disappearance of the girl in Kyushu has been investigated by King Mu, and its main culprit, Song Yuanqing, committed suicide yesterday. Xuan Zhao, Song Yuanqing, the former director of the inspection institute, sold his lover slightly, committed the crime of unrighteousness, and heaven did not tolerate it, cut off his head, hung it at the south gate, and his body was whipped to the sun, in order to set an example. The Song clan was full of beheading, confiscating family property, and the rest of the people, the men were in the army, and the women were slaves. ”

All the courtiers bowed down for a while, not daring to raise their heads.

Emperor Qi stood up, looked at the group of people under his feet, and said casually: "This Song Yuanqing did something interesting before he died, Liu Minhong, do you know what happened?"

This Liu Minhong is the deputy director of the inspection institute, and his official position is the fourth grade.

As soon as he heard Emperor Qi call his name, he was so frightened that he peed his pants. , he replied tremblingly: "Back to the emperor, Weichen doesn't know." ”

"Don't you know, Song Yuanqing left a confession, and many names were written in the letter, some of which I am very familiar with. As he spoke, he grabbed the letter left by Song Yuanqing from the bookcase and threw it forward.

For a while, several princes and ministers who were kneeling on the ground trembled, and Emperor Qi saw it at a glance in the hall.

"I am on this list, and the first name I see is you Liu Minhong, can you plead guilty?" Emperor Qi asked sharply.

"Wechen...... Confessing his guilt ...... Liu Minhong was paralyzed, as the deputy director, he naturally knew that he had done all the dirty things, but how could he get out of the city? When he went to court today, he had already divorced his wife and children and sent them out of the city.

He didn't know that he was still a step slower, Qi Muxiao arranged for people to keep an eye on these big fish in Yanyang after reading the list yesterday. Deputy Director Mu Wei, although she is a woman, she is strong in martial arts, and she is mainly responsible for guarding Liu Minhong's family, and his wife and children are only five miles out of the city, so they were arrested.

Qi Muxiao raised his head and looked at the shivering man not far away, who was carrying no less than ten lives. When Cen Sen recorded the confessions of the women he rescued from Mengxiao Tower, he learned that this Liu Minhong was extremely perverted, and his methods of making fun with women were extremely cruel, and most of the female corpses dug up in the courtyard were committed by him.

"If a person lives more than three times, he will be decided, and his family will make a judgment again. Emperor Qi didn't wait for Li Yongfu to read out his guilty edict, and directly let people drag him out and behead him.

Yao Yingchun and the other old ministers knelt down and did not speak, knowing in their hearts.

Emperor Qi is going to kill today.

After that, the officials involved in the case in Yanyang were one person in the fourth grade, two people in the sixth grade, and there were more than a dozen people in the remaining eight grades and nine grades, who were either killed or assigned to the frontier, and the methods were ruthless.

Under the power of heaven, no one in the hall dared to speak.

Emperor Qi returned to the throne, swept over the remaining people, and said slowly: "Yongfu, go get a brazier and burn these letters." ”

Cen Sen and Mu Wei were shocked when they heard this below, and they both looked at the principal next to them.

Qi Muxiao shook his head slightly, signaling them not to make a sound, but his fingers curled up imperceptibly.

For the way of the king, grace and power are given.

The civil and military officials who knelt on the ground were relieved to see those letterheads falling into the brazier and turning to ashes in an instant. There are not a few of them who have been to Mengxiao Tower, and if they really blame it, no one can get rid of it.

Emperor Qi waved his hand, and Li Yongfu next to him walked to the stage with a golden edict with both hands, and said in a raised voice: "Kyushu is peaceful, my emperor said that the former director of the Wangzhou Inspection Institute Mu Wang, the director of the inspection institute, is given a hundred gold beads." The former deputy director Cen Sen made a meritorious contribution to solving the case, and served as the director of the Wangzhou Inspection Institute. Wu Zhen, the eldest son of the Wu family of Zicheng City Guard, was originally the secretary of Zicheng City, assisted the Wangzhou Inspection Institute to expose Song Yuanqing's meritorious service, and appointed the head of the Wangzhou Inspection Institute. His wife, Wu Liu, has both moral character, virtuous and virtuous, exposed Song Yuanqing's meritorious service, gave Mrs. Qing the name, and received seven products to worship. ”

This series of beheadings and rewards made the civil and military officials in the hall blind, and after the will was read, no one dared to squeak.

Yao Yingchun was very satisfied with this result, and hurriedly kowtowed: "My emperor is wise and martial, and Kyushu is peaceful and prosperous." ”

The ministers came back to their senses and shouted hard, "My emperor is wise and martial, and Kyushu is peaceful and prosperous." ”

Only the princes in front of them didn't look very good, they just bowed and agreed, I am afraid that only Qi Zhitong sincerely agreed.

After all, this brother, who just came back from the coast of the East China Sea a year ago, was crowned the prince within a year, and from a petty official with no real power in the sixth grade, with the help of the disappearance of a girl in Kyushu, he became the head of the sixth court of the third grade, which has to be terrifying.

But now, under the anger of Emperor Qi, who dares to say anything?