little emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 99 Interrogation
It was nearly the twelfth lunar month in Beijing, and it had snowed heavily for several days in a row, and the freezing weather couldn't stop him from being anxious. Eunuch Huang was almost dragged by someone early in the morning to the Wenhua Palace where the cabinet handles official duties.

Ever since the gust of wind blew last night, Huang Jin's mood has been very sad.

It was still early at this time, and there was no one in the Wenhua Palace except for the few guards who stayed behind. Huang Jinwei sighed first, "Look, our family said it was still early at this time, so I asked you to be patient, but it just happened Such a monkey can't hold his breath."

Ye He, who was complained, ignored it, turned around and opened the door to enter.

"Oh ancestor! This place is not something that casual people can enter." The cabinet is an important place, and idlers can't even get to the side. That is to say, Huang Jin is a high-ranking eunuch who is the chief eunuch, and he travels between the cabinet and the Qianqing Palace all day long. The guards didn't stop it, and it would be useless to replace it with someone else.

Even so, seeing Ye He act so rashly, Huang Jin suddenly felt his scalp go numb.

Ye He is not in the mood to care about these things now. Ever since he learned from Huang Jin that Wanli had never seen Zhu Changluo's brocade box secret performance yesterday, this accident immediately made him break out in a cold sweat. It is too clear what the secret performance means to Zhu Changluo. With this thing, everything Zhu Changluo did became justified and well-founded. Without this thing, Zhu Changluo would have committed the great crime of accumulating money for self-enrichment and committing rebellion.

"Elder-in-law, please stay here and watch. I'll take a look first. If someone coughs, I'll come out right away." Without waiting for Huang Jin to agree, Ye Hejiao disappeared like a civet cat.

"Ouch...you monkey bastards, sooner or later our family will let you torment to death!" Huang Jin didn't finish complaining, and seeing that Ye He had disappeared long ago, he stared angrily, he had no temper for this guy.

The day after tomorrow is the day of Prince Rui's trial, Li Yanhua, Wang Youde and other people related to this case are also present.What is different from before is that this time Yubi appointed two heads of the criminal department, the presiding judge Wang Zhichen, and the second judge Wang Shugu.

Today, the two got together and reviewed the testimonies of Li Yanhua, Gao Xuedong, and Wang Youde. What is strange is that Zhou Heng, the governor of Shandong, also came up to join in the fun, proving that Zhu Changluo forcibly took five With thousands of soldiers and heavy supplies, this sudden news immediately caught the attention of the two chief judges!

Originally, this case was not difficult to try, and to put it bluntly, the charges were not serious, but it was just to prove that Prince Rui opened the mine without permission to make money for himself. In the end, as long as Prince Rui admitted his guilt, at most he would issue a few reprimands. There is really nothing else, but Zhou Heng's testimony suddenly brought up the matter of five thousand soldiers, which immediately changed the nature of the case and caused many twists and turns out of thin air.

As soon as these two things were connected, Wang Zhichen immediately narrowed his eyes with a smile. He was a caring person, so he naturally wished for more evidence like this. There was a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth, and he kept thinking secretly.

Wang Shugu frowned, "My lord, do you think that Prince Rui seems to be someone who wants to plot rebellion?"

As expected, he is an expert in adjudicating cases for many years, and his sentence of conspiracy directly points to the core.

The hands turning over the testimony suddenly slowed down. Wang Zhicheng and Zhang Shugu have been officials in the same department for many years, and the relationship between the two is not very good on weekdays. For a moment, "According to what Brother Shugu saw?"

Zhang Shugu was very displeased with Wang Zhichen's way of kicking the ball back and forth, and his face sank instantly.

"This time I was ordered by the emperor to go to Hexiang Mountain to preside over the search. According to what I have seen and heard, the mining is true, but the five thousand soldiers did not dare to comment without seeing it with their own eyes, but only based on these points To say that Prince Rui has the intention of rebelling against his superiors is biased, and in my opinion, the credibility of what Zhou and Li said must be compromised."

Wang Zhicheng snorted coldly, with undisguised contempt and sarcasm all over his face, "Brother Shugu is right, they treat all the people in our Ministry of Criminal Justice as fools, and they probably think that there are only two of them in the world. smartest."

It never occurred to him that Wang Zhichen would describe these two people as fools, Wang Shugu couldn't help but want to laugh, but Wang Zhicheng's subsequent words made him lose all smiles in an instant.

"It's just you and me here, and I don't want to spread my words to my ears. Mr. Wang, I have something to tell you the truth." The smile on his face disappeared, and it was replaced by meanness and coldness, "If you want me to say something foresight, this Rui Even if the prince adjudicates him for the crime of rebellion at this time, it is better than him usurping the throne and treason in the future!"

Those who can be officials in this capital, there are those who have no power, those who have no money, and those who have no influence. You can have nothing, but the only thing you can't do is to have a heart.

Wang Shugu, who was never lacking in understanding, was startled and angry when he heard the words, and jumped up as if his butt was on fire, "You...you are so courageous! Prince Rui has been kind to the people in both Beijing and Beijing, so how dare you speak so nonsense about such a wise king? Just to say that you, as the head of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, should know the laws of Ming Dynasty, slander the prince, and treat the barbarians! If you dare to say such a crazy thing again, I will definitely read your copy in the Golden Palace tomorrow!"

The words were not speculative, and Wang Shugu didn't dare to stay here for a moment longer, for fear that this Wang Zhichen would say something frightening again, and he would look ashamed and embarrassed.

Wang Zhichen's face turned ashen, and he sneered, "Damn! What kind of career can a needle-nosed guts accomplish!"

Huang Jin stared at Shen Yiguan in the Wenhua Hall, with a cloudy expression on his round, white and fat face, Ye He standing behind him seemed to have real eyes, wishing to turn into a sharp sword and pierce a few holes in Shen Yiguan's body.Ye He went in and searched all morning and returned empty-handed, but he couldn't find the brocade box after all.

Shen Yiguan's face is even longer than Changbai Mountain!Conscience of heaven and earth, he really didn't dare to do anything to that brocade box, he was neither stupid nor stupid, and he was not lacking in understanding, all the zhezi were registered in detail by the inner eunuch after entering the court, and the secret performance of this brocade box is even more important. There are records kept in several places, his selfishness is just to suppress it for a few days, if it can be delayed for a while, it will be for a while, and it will not be too late to submit it if it is really impossible.

Facing Huang Jin's gloomy face, Shen Yiguan was full of bitterness, stood up and bowed his hands, "Eunuch Huang, Mr. Huang, I just want to ask you, do you think I can do this kind of thing like throwing a stone at my own foot?" If you say yes, then the old man will not say anything else, we will immediately enter the palace to meet the saint, His Majesty wants to kill or shave, the old man has nothing to say!"

Huang Jin stared at the bachelor Shen Yiguan, Zhezi himself would not fly away with wings, but Wanli didn't see it, and the cabinet was nowhere to be seen, Huang Jin suddenly had a bad feeling.

With a few faint rays of light, he looked at this dim torture room. Compared with the prison he had entered before, this place was obviously a little more popular.You can see the thick black blood on the instruments of torture everywhere, on the ground and on the walls, no matter whether you like to see it or not, it will always fly into your eyes unconsciously. The thick bloody smell makes people want to vomit, enough to Let everyone who has just arrived here, without interrogation, have three souls on their heads and seven souls on their feet.

Zhu Changluo, who was sitting on the long bench, quietly stared at the presiding judge Wang Zhichen in front of him, and the other party was also sizing him up non-stop.

"Hello, Your Highness, I will ask you a presumptuous question. Can Your Highness be convicted?"

"Hello, my lord, I don't know what crime I have committed, how can I be convicted?"

The two of them are like gossiping, they treat each other with courtesy and respect, as if this is not a large prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the two are not presiding over a suspect, but like friends who have not seen each other for a long time. The little official couldn't help stopping his pen in surprise, and looked up secretly.

Wang Zhicheng suddenly laughed silently, saying it was silent or the voice was pressed against his throat, making a hoarse and low-pitched sound like a knife scraping porcelain, the sound was not loud but it made people's teeth sour and disturbing.The little official was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, his heart was beating wildly, every time Lord Wang made such a laugh, the person being interrogated would end badly.

"Your Highness was joking, what did you do in Jinan, and you need to be pointed out one by one by the lower officials?"

Zhu Changluo's eyes are as clear as snow water, calm and indifferent, "I have heard for a long time that the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice judge the case clearly and penetratingly, and today I saw that it is not true. The adults did not ask anything, but first insisted that the king is guilty. If this is the case, I will trouble you to point it out." stop."

Wang Zhicheng frowned, his expression already a bit annoyed, "Jinan Mansion Governor Li Daren ginseng Wangye opened the mine privately, concealed it and did not report it, rebellious offenders, will the prince admit it or not?"

"It's true to mine, but it's not always possible to hide it without reporting it. As for the crime of rebellion, it's even more unfounded. My lord said that I don't recognize these things."

"Your Highness pushed it cleanly."

Wang Zhicheng chuckled twice, "But it doesn't matter, but the official has a heart-to-heart message for the prince. In fact, the prince has accepted it, but it is just a few words of warning from the emperor. When he comes out of here, he is still a high-ranking man." The king is a thousand years old, but if the prince insists on going his own way and is stubborn to the end, the duty of the subordinate official is, although it is inconvenient to arbitrarily increase the punishment of His Highness, but..."

Speaking of this, Wang Zhicheng had a dark smile on his face, put his head into Zhu Changluo's ear, and said in a very low voice: "My lord may not know that torture is what I'm best at. There are 48 types of torture in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice." Punishments are specially prepared for those tough ones. There are also 27 kinds of minor punishments. It is most suitable to serve such delicate and expensive nobles as the prince. .”

The tone of speaking reached Zhu Changluo's ears, like a slippery and cold poisonous snake wrapped around a person's neck, the snake's letter spat lightly, its fangs stabbed, it was indescribably terrifying and annoying.

Zhu Changluo looked at his face in disgust, and his contempt grew even more, and he said coldly: "I know that I have sinned against me, but only spring and autumn! I have nothing to say about Mr. Wang's question, and all your methods will be left in the courtroom." Speak."

"Since the prince is obsessed with obsession, don't blame the lower officials for being rude." Wang Zhichen had lost his patience, his eyes flashed fiercely, he stretched out his hand, and two criminals behind him carried a bed.

The bed had a head and a tail, but it was empty in the middle. There were cowhide shackles at the four corners, and the iron bars as thick as bowls were black and pitch-black, revealing a chilling strangeness.

"This bed is called the fairy bed, and it is the most comfortable." Wang Zhichen had a schadenfreude smile on his lips, "If the prince doesn't tell the truth, I have no other choice but to invite you to get on and off the fairy bed and have a good time. The lord can take a good look at this bed, the two ends of the bed are hard and the middle is empty, seeing if those iron bars are there, they will make the lord's little body collapse straight... In a short while, the waist will be paralyzed and the legs will be weak, and the whole body will be like Crisp."

Zhu Changluo was startled and furious, the name of the fairy bed is nice, but you don't need to look at it to know that it is an extremely cruel punishment, so she couldn't help shouting angrily: "Wang Zhichen, you dare to torture this king, if you let the emperor know, your death is a shame!" Don't die!"

"Your Majesty is serious, the officials are all following orders, so it's good to listen to the officials' advice and say everything that needs to be said, otherwise..."

"Otherwise, what do you want?" A voice seemed to float from the sky, but hearing everyone's ears explode like thunder, Wang Zhichen looked behind him with straight eyes. His face instantly became pale.

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