Chapter Fifty-six
After some rest, everyone came to adjust their breath. Welcome to read
The setting sun goes west and the geese return south, and it is dusk again.
Under Liu Xian's arrangement, the tranquility of Shaohua Mountain was restored to its peak, although there was only a few more bloody smell in the air.
The bloody sweep of Shaohua Mountain was too sudden, which led to the fact that everyone in the Zhongyi Hall except Zhen Guochang was ignorant of this. You can imagine how deliberate Zhen Guochang's arrangement was, which made people unpredictable.
The more than 100 people in the parable are dead, and only seven of them are now in charge. Such a large-scale massacre is indeed straightforward. The more than 300 officers and soldiers brought by Zhen Guochang are indeed cruel enough. Of course, no matter how he is, he doesn't care about it.
How cruel and arrogant, but facing Liu Xian's five thousand soldiers, he was simply a tiny witch, so he had to surrender.
Zhengyao did not expect the officers and soldiers to slaughter the mountain, and Liu Xian's appearance was something Zhen Guochang had never thought of. However, in the end, Zhen Guochang had to face the scene of being arrested, and now he has been taken to the Zhongyi Hall again, waiting for the final judgment.
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At that time, the Zhongyi Hall was temporarily built into the shape of a yamen court by Liu Xian's soldiers. Zhengyao, Zhang Cheng and Liu Yan sat in the three seats on the left, center and right of the court.
Since this place is under the jurisdiction of Xi'an Prefecture, and Zhang Cheng was originally the prefect of Xi'an Prefecture, Zhang Cheng was responsible for the trial. Zhengyao and Liu Yan, who were also imperial envoys, were responsible for listening and providing evidence. When the case was solved, there was no need to submit it.
The Ministry of Justice of Dali Temple can be executed immediately.
As for Liu Xian, he sat aside, drinking tea with fun, relaxed and comfortable.
"when!"
"Ascending to the hall!"
Zhang Cheng suddenly slapped a wooden board on the table, shouted, and began the so-called promotion to the church.
"mighty!!!"
The yamen officials composed of Liu Xian and others in the hall also came out, and they all held a wooden stick in their hands and kept beating the ground. This momentum was really under investigation in the yamen court.
The appearance of the case.
"Come prisoners Zhen Guochang, Yu Dan, and Zhou Yun up!"
"Yes! Sir!" One of the officials bowed and said, and immediately turned around and shouted outside the door: "Come prisoners Zhen Guochang, Yu Dan, Zhou Yun up!"
The sound complements people, they are so thick, but they seem more imposing.
Soon, three jing soldiers captured Zhen Guochang and the others into court and knelt on the ground in unison.
Although the effect of the incense has dissipated at this moment, Zhen Guochang's expression seemed to be more weak than before. His lips and tongue were dry. He faintly oozed out blood, his eyes were red, his face was pale and weak, and his hair was even more
It was a mess, unaware of it, and I thought he had taken drugs.
"Zhen Guochang, the former son-in-law, the imperial envoy and Lord Liu are here to hear the trial. I will ask you now, have you pleaded guilty? Who is the mastermind behind everything you have done?"
Zhang Cheng stared at Zhen Guochang without moving, showing his official power. This made Zhengyao, Liu Yan and others on the side lit up. It seemed that Zhang Cheng was really an official material and his momentum was indeed enough.
Zhengyao never believed that all this was just done by Zhen Guochang alone. Even if the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, he did not have the courage to do such a major rebellion. Besides, Zhen Guochang had previously told him that there was a mastermind behind it, but it was originally
When it was about to say it, it was interrupted by the bloody battle of the city by the officers and soldiers.
At this point, Zhang Cheng also wanted to find out who the mastermind behind this was.
"Haha, hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe."
After Zhang Cheng asked, he saw Zhen Guochang laughing for no reason, which made everyone puzzled. Could it be that Zhen Guochang was pretending to be crazy?
After Zhengyao sent Zhen Guochang a look, he said, "Zhen Guochang, success, king, defeat, bandit, has existed since ancient times. Now you have become a prisoner. It is better to tell everything in full, and you can also be considered one side.
A hero!”
Zhengyao understood that Zhen Guochang's group should actually be considered a frustrated group in the court, and they were also doing things with dreams. But the longer the time, they found that all ambitions and dreams were farther away from them, and in this case
After being instigated by others, it is easy to go on a wrong path, and then it gets deeper and becomes unable to extricate itself.
Zhen Guochang was at least considered a leader of the country. He has been an official in Shaanxi for decades and has his own world. Zhengyao called him a hero, which is also a respectful title for him.
Zhen Guochang looked at Zhengyao and said, "It's true that he is the 'Princess Consort of the Imperial Palace'. The success and defeat of the king are very good, very good! I plead guilty, I plead guilty!"
Judging from his tone, it was a bit more vicissitudes and a bit more miserable. The moment the hero was caught, it should be like this.
Zhang Cheng asked: "Okay, then I will ask you again, who is the mastermind behind the privately built weapons and the privately opened the mine?"
After all, it is still necessary to capture the final mastermind. Just punishing Zhen Guochang and other local officials is just a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
"Actually, I don't know who the mastermind is behind the scenes. I only know that we call him the lord, and we should be a high-ranking official in the court."
The so-called death of a person is good at speaking. Zhen Guochang has reached this point and even said that he doesn’t know who the mastermind is behind him. How can people believe this?
But Zhang Cheng was furious and slapped the table and said, "It's ridiculous! If you don't know, why do you have to do so many illegal activities? Do you know that any of the crimes you committed are enough to sentence you to death.
, even implicated the nine clans!”
Zhang Cheng's anger is also a normal manifestation. After all, it is difficult for a person to risk his life to do illegal things for a person whose name and identity are unknown.
It would be fine if you die, but once you are exposed, it would be a serious crime to be executed! Moreover, Zhen Guochang is also the Shaanxi Provincial Administration Commissioner and the Chief Executive with the highest local power. There is no need to commit such a great risk.
Therefore, this aroused Zhengyao's curiosity about the mastermind behind the scenes. Now one can think of the officials in the court. Although there are not many powerful people in the court, there are still a few. And the suspect is the most
The one is Yan Song. If it can be revealed that Yan Song is the mastermind behind it, then it would be natural to overthrow Yan Song.
The only thing now is that Zhen Guochang needs to expose him, but after what he said, it seems to be a little different. At least, even Zhen Guochang didn't know who the other party was.
"I didn't lie to you. What I told is the truth! I even admitted my death penalty. Am I still lying to you like this?"
"Then tell me how you contacted me, why did you promise to do such a tragic move? Privately building weapons and privately opening mines will implicate the nine tribes!" Zhengyao immediately snatched the words and asked earnestly.
But what Zhengyao is sure of is that he will never do this until he has to force him to do this. Someone must have seized Zhen Guochang's handle and threatened him, which makes Zhen Guochang fall deeper and deeper. As for the threats to him
People think they are also related to the mastermind behind this.
"I...I don't think about it either! Whether it's corruption or private weapons, I can't help but be forced. Do you know that you don't have to do anything, and you still have money to send it every day
Rizi, what a comfortable Rizi. However, this is just the surface. Suddenly one day, when I drank too much and went back to the study, I found a man in black in my study. At first I thought it was a burglary
The little thief, but before I could scream, he covered my mouth first, and couldn't breathe for a while. Later, he told me that my lord wanted me to open an arsenal and mine privately, for
Used by the lord.
"I didn't agree at the time, but he said that the lord had evidence of my corruption. Even my little nephew beat someone to death and was thrown away. If I didn't obey the arrangement, then all my crimes would be made public.
.If the emperor knows by then, I will definitely put the head on the ground!
"I was unwilling to give up but was helpless, so I began to win over people everywhere. I knew that only by doing this thing well can I save my life, because the other party was too strong. The first one I pulled in was to me.
It is Lord Luo Zhangluo, the commander of Shaanxi Province. The second is Lord Jiang Yi, the commander of the capital. As long as you successfully win over these two people, then the regular Shaanxi will be ours. If you want to open a mining factory privately, it will be easy.
More.
"It was originally going well, but the Xi'an prefect was a little ignorant and wanted to expose us. Now more than 100 officials from all over Shaanxi are involved. Even if I want to stay out of the matter, I will definitely do so.
Impossible! So we made a decision.”
"Kill the Xi'an prefect to ensure that the secret is not leaked." Zhengyao snatched the words and said.
"That's right, Pang Ye really doesn't know how to politely. He originally planned to tell him to turn a blind eye, but he didn't expect that he would write a letter saying that there was something wrong with Shaanxi. Fortunately, after the lord heard the news, he ordered that he must not leave a living mouth, and
It would have to cause an accident. As a result, we really led Pang Ye to the mountain, and then pushed him off the cliff while it was dark. The last article to the Ministry of Personnel was concluded by accidental death in mountaineering.
"But I didn't expect that there were really many things. The latter was as old-fashioned as the prefect of Hua Dongming and did not know how to be polite. I knew that he didn't know how to be water, so I tricked him into a rotten ship in the river, and then the shipwreck accident occurred;
Cui Jin was even more decisive and did not say anything, but he even quietly told Lantian County to investigate. We knew that once we went to Lantian County, the possibility of the situation being exposed would be very high, so he decided not to do it, and to let him go directly.
In Lantian County, the remaining Liu Futong had originally planned to greet him, but at the inn in the town he heard that he had already obtained reliable information, and he came to Shaanxi this time just to collect evidence. After hearing this, we will go back to the next level.
He couldn't hold back either, so he rushed into the inn and killed everyone he saw. The last fire burned everything clean."
Zhen Guochang smiled, the smile on his face was so bright, as if everything was just said was a very pleasing thing. Zhang Cheng, Liu Yan and others were wondering if Zhen Guochang was a bit psychopathic.
Zhengyao just bit his lip slightly, and a slight fluctuation flashed in his eyes, and said, "For your own private affairs, you will do bad things and kill people. You are really crazy."
"Crazy? Haha. Maybe. But what makes us wonder the most is that the lord actually ordered not to attack the new prefect, unless it was a last resort."
"What? There is such a thing? No wonder everything went so smoothly after I arrived in Xi'an Prefecture. But why did you still attack me?" Zhang Cheng asked curiously, as if he was no longer a trial, but instead
It's like talking about home.
"Why? Actually, we don't know either, because this is the lord's order!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!