After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 963 Death of Sun Yongping

Sun Yongping's death was somewhat sudden. It seemed that he committed suicide in prison out of fear of punishment, but in fact, his death was quite tricky.

Hai Jiao got the news from his colleagues in the Imperial Guard that someone inside had accepted bribes and secretly let in Sun's followers, and he didn't know what he said to Sun Yongping. When this person left, Sun Yongping hanged himself in prison.

This time is very delicate, because when this person left, Sun Yongping had already hanged himself. This person claimed that Sun Yongping committed suicide, but who knows if he did it?

The Jinyiwei were very angry. A person was imprisoned in their territory, and before they could find out the reason, he suddenly died. This not only showed that the Jinyiwei were incompetent and did not think highly of the person, but also made the outside world suspect that they were not clean. Sun Yongping died, but the Jinyiwei would most likely take the blame for it. It was simply a sudden disaster!
Hai Jiao had been on leave for several days and had not been involved in this matter from beginning to end. He was recognized as an absolutely innocent person, so the commander sent him a message, asking him to immediately participate in the investigation after his leave tomorrow. However, this investigation was probably just a formality. There was a problem within the Jinyiwei, and the commander investigated it thoroughly at the first time. He found the person who let Sun's party members into the prison to visit him, and this person did not dare to hide anything and immediately told the truth.

He had to tell the truth. Although he had brought the person in private, so many guards and jailers saw it along the way. Who could he hide it from? If no one was killed, everyone would turn a blind eye to it because of their long-term friendship. Afterwards, he spent some money and treated everyone to a drink, and no one would mention it again. This kind of thing was common in the past. Now the people in charge have changed, and the rules are much stricter, but it is impossible to completely prohibit similar things. He knew that his colleagues had done the same thing, and he didn't think his actions were a big deal.

However, he originally thought that he would take some benefits and bring the person in, just to facilitate the other party to check the confession with Sun Yongping, and nothing serious would happen. But the other party killed the person directly, which made him very passive. The higher-ups wanted to investigate thoroughly, and the insiders could not cover up for him. He was also very angry and felt that he was being cheated. Since he was destined to be severely punished and his future was ruined, how could he not drag the culprit into the water and take revenge?

The Jinyiwei arrested the prison visitor without saying anything. This person was very stubborn, insisting that he was just visiting the prison and had never killed anyone, but he admitted that he had persuaded Sun Yongping not to implicate innocent people and offend too many people. Sun Yongping was a fool, but he was also the eldest son of Lord Sun. Neither Lord Sun nor Lady Sun would hide anything from him. He knew too much, but he didn't necessarily know which things should be kept secret. Others had to remind him to leave a way out for himself, so as not to implicate his wife, children and grandchildren.

He almost said it explicitly, but he threatened Sun Yongping that if he dared to give out evidence of his allies' crimes, he would retaliate against his family.

According to the visitor, Sun Yongping chose to commit suicide because he was afraid that he could not withstand the torture of the Jinyiwei and did not want to lose the dignity of the son of the Prime Minister. The visitor was worried that he would not keep his word and deliberately lied about committing suicide, which was actually a deception to reassure himself and that he would change his mind once he left. Therefore, he waited in the prison until he took action before leaving. This person insisted that he did not kill the person, and at most he was suspected of instigating it, but everything was Sun Yongping's own wish.

The coroners in the imperial prison did not find any suspicious marks on Sun Yongping's body. The guards around the cell had been sent away early, and the visitor did not have any suspicious tools on his body. There were no witnesses or material evidence, and the Jinyiwei could not prove anything. They could only detain the man and conduct further investigation.

However, Haijiao felt that this matter was a bit shaky. The person who visited the prison claimed to be an envoy of Sun's faction, but he had no official position and was not a servant of anyone. He just claimed to come on the orders of Sun's faction in front of the bribed Jinyiwei military officer. If he was a stubborn man and had no intention of leaving after coming, then even if Jinyiwei sentenced him to death, it would not harm the interests of the officials of Sun's faction. The latter could completely deny the matter, or even shift the blame to others.

When Sun Yongping was in his prime, he was known for his cruel, stupid and vicious methods. He had harmed too many people and offended countless people. Among them were old students of Wumen, important ministers in front of the emperor, and even royal relatives, but he didn't take them seriously. No matter who it was, it was possible that they would kill and retaliate after he fell into trouble. Even within the Sun family, there might be people who regarded him as an enemy. If the Sun faction insisted that they had no knowledge, the Jinyiwei would really have no way to deal with them. Moreover, this time the Jinyiwei themselves had a traitor, and they were not confident enough to speak in front of the emperor.

It is said that the palace was also very angry. I thought that the Jinyiwei, Qishouwei and other upper direct troops were trustworthy and more reliable than the imperial guards, but I didn't expect that they would be bribed by foreign officials. This time, they were bribed to lead people into the imperial prison. Will they be bribed to lead people into the palace next time? !

The commander of the Jinyiwei could only appoint a few subordinates who were absolutely trustworthy and trusted by the royal family and the cabinet to continue to investigate the case and wait for the storm to subside. As for the Sun faction followers who might have planned the assassination of Sun Yongping, he had secretly recorded them in his little notebook and vowed in his heart that he would never let them go.

These are all later stories. Hai Jiao finished his three-day vacation, returned to the Jinyiwei, and immediately started investigating. Hai Changan rested at home for two days and returned to duty. He was still stationed in the streets outside the Sun Mansion, but he no longer had to guard day and night. After taking turns with his colleagues at night, he could go home and rest, and therefore he could come back with the latest news every day.

With the help of her brother Haijiao, Haitang would know what happened between the Sun family and the Jinyiwei every day.

It is said that when Sun Ge Lao learned how his daughter, Lady Sun, died, he was very sad. After the Jinyiwei arrested his eldest son, Sun Yongping, he looked even older and more haggard. According to Hai Changan, who had seen him, he looked like he had aged ten years, with all his hair white. When the news of Sun Yongping's death came, he sat in the main hall of his front yard, crying silently, and couldn't say a word for a long time.

The flag bearers and soldiers broke into the Sun residence under the pretext of catching the assassin, and quickly deployed defenses in the Sun residence on the pretext that Sun Yongping had colluded with the assassin, completely controlling all the houses of the Sun family. No matter how the Sun family protested and complained, the soldiers did not show any mercy, but only imprisoned them in disguise, isolated them from contact with each other, and took the opportunity to search for relevant documents, letters, and account books.

Although Sun Ge Lao and his son Sun Yongping had burned many letters and account books when they were trapped in the mansion, there were some things that they had not been on guard against. For example, Sun Yongping's wife and eldest son, concubine and illegitimate son had evidence of Sun Yongping's interest in Sun's party; the Sun family members who were close to Sun Ge Lao also had secret accounts that they had secretly recorded; Sun Ge Lao's youngest son even had letters between his elder brother and the assassin.

No one knew what they were thinking of by secretly keeping these things. But now all the things were found out by the soldiers and presented to the emperor. The evidence of the guilt of the Sun family father and son - at least Sun Yongping himself - was irrefutable, and even Sun Yongping's descendants and other sons of Sun Ge Lao could not escape.

Lord Sun saw all of this with his own eyes, and I wonder if he ever regretted what he had done?

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