"As long as you surrender and confess, there is still a chance to kill me." He Qizhou then advised the assassin.
The assassin smiled miserably and said: "It's almost impossible, don't worry, someone will naturally take your life." After saying that, he slapped his Tianling Cap with a palm, and his brains overflowed, killing him on the spot.
He Qizhou was not surprised by this result. He was already somewhat certain that the assassin was probably one of Yueying's men. It was unlikely that a normal court official would have such skillful assassination methods.
"Do you recognize who he is? You should be more familiar with him than me." He Qizhou asked Li Qianhu next to him.
"Yeah. Drag him out and remove his disguise!" Li Yun responded, and then gave another order to his subordinates.
"Who oversaw the execution back then?" He Qizhou asked again.
"Liu Yushi." Li Qianhu replied.
"Then what are you waiting for?" He Qizhou walked out of the cell on his own.
"Okay, no more waiting. If anyone comes, report the situation to Mr. Zou immediately!" Li Yun called someone, whispered a few words in a low voice, and then led the people to quickly follow He Qizhou.
Liu Jinan did not go home tonight. More than a dozen Jinyi guards led by He Qizhou and Li Yun quickly found him, but they were unable to capture him for a while.
He Qizhou did not expect that the official office of Zuodu Yushi was exactly the same as the small courtyard where Ye Xu was imprisoned. The walls were made of huge rocks and the iron bars were as thick as forearms. They could be opened without human effort. Liu Jinan locked himself in the back room and took his time.
Burning paper in a charcoal furnace.
Outside the iron gate, He Qizhou was like an ant on a hot pot, and the Jinyi Guards were looking for a way to get into the house, because Liu Jinan was hiding inside and could not be hurt even by hidden weapons.
"You don't have to work in vain. This was used to trap top masters back then. If this house is not demolished, you won't be able to get in!" There was a hint of despair in Liu Jinan's tone, but he kept burning the secret cabinet in his hand.
documents taken out.
"Someone, go lift the roof!" Li Yun gritted his teeth and said.
"Go." Liu Jin'an didn't care. The roof made of arched stone was not so easy to open.
"Why should we repay kindness with hatred?" He Qizhou stopped, suppressing his anger, and asked in a deep voice through the iron fence.
"The general is too fair. He will never be able to give me what I have now. How many people in the world can resist such a temptation?" Liu Jinan seemed to be explaining his original choice.
"Then you will bear the defeat of Qi State and the bloodshed of your colleagues?"
"You can't bear it. But when the benefits are big enough, you have to bear it even if you can't bear it."
"Shameless! Who is behind you?" He Qizhou continued to ask.
"Do you think I can say it? If I want to say it, why do I have to do all this?" Liu Jin'an said.
"Why are you so anxious to kill me?" He Qizhou asked.
"Because you are targeting me, targeting Bo Zhou, because I know you will not choose to trade. Alas, I didn't expect that he actually missed it." Liu Jin'an said.
"We missed it again! Did you instigate it the first time? Does it have anything to do with the Chen family?" He Qizhou asked.
Li Yun said: "Didn't the first poisoning of Ye Xu succeed? He hid in the prison unexpectedly. No wonder no trace was found in the city."
"This is not the first time he said it. Ask someone else. I won't talk about this." Liu Jin'an knew that He Qizhou was referring to the assassination during the Lantern Festival last year.
"The police officer beheaded the fake Wang Dingbian and secretly hid him in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Does this have anything to do with the Military Procuratorate and the Criminal Department?"
"Tell me, how did you suspect me?" Liu Jinan did not answer He Qizhou's question. As soon as he got the news of Wang Dingbian's failure, Liu Jinan knew that he was in doom. He just couldn't understand that the famous Jinyiwei master could not do anything to him.
A boy who has yet to recover from a serious injury.
"You have known Wang Dingbian for a long time, right? I know that it was your procuratorate who was responsible for wiping out the Yan Gang back then. So you asked him to fake his death again when you were supervising the execution! Once he missed it, you were exposed -
Liu Jinan." He Qizhou said that he had heard Jiang Li talk about the Yan Gang incident in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and he originally thought that the person behind it was Shi Lan.
"Same as this time, you shouldn't be in a hurry to kill people and silence them!" He Qizhou continued.
"Oh, it's still too late. I should have sent someone to kill you when you went to the archives room of the Ministry of Justice. Unfortunately, I never found a suitable opportunity."
"I'm talking about Wang Zhiyi and Ye Xu. Wang Zhiyi's family has stopped making trouble, so why do they want to destroy his family? Ye Xu can obviously resist, so why do he want to kill his family?" He Qizhou asked.
Liu Jin'an said: "Wang Zhiyi's family did not know, but they knew that Jiang Zhiyi would not commit suicide. Based on this alone, they could not leave anyone alive. And Ye Chang, Ye Xu's younger brother, as long as he is not too stupid
You will know why your brother gave him so much money, so..."
"So you think that Ye Chang would be suspicious, so you killed him? I think the reason why Ye Xu kept the secret for you was because you promised to treat his family well? Don't you have any credibility in your heart?" He Qizhou said angrily.
"I paid for their parents to be buried, and also paid for them to go to Huashan to practice. They had sworn to give their lives to me a long time ago. Ye Xu is very affectionate and is a material for martial arts, so I will reuse him. He also
I want to transfer all my gratitude to my adoptive parents to Ye Chang, so I am willing to betray Yang Zheng..."
"No! He didn't betray my adoptive father. The one who really betrayed my adoptive father was you! It must have been you who took the initiative to replace Wen Ting and give the order to the detective cavalry. The order you gave to the six detective cavalry was that the enemy army came with 60,000 cavalry! So!
Only the reconnaissance cavalry in the relay will pass the order with this number, and the 30,000 cavalry that Ye Xu said was something you waited for him to tell you after he came back with the report. At this time, the defeat is certain!"
Liu Jin'an stopped what he was doing, as if thinking about the scene at that time, he raised his head and sighed: "Speaking of which, I am really ashamed of your adoptive father! He also sent people to escort our few planners with low martial arts skills to evacuate first, Ye
Xu, oh, and Zhang Luyao and the others were all the bodyguards who escorted us to escape. This is why they were able to escape alive. Of course, I did not treat them badly."
He Qizhou: "You used the trust of these survivors to gain the qualifications to investigate the case? And then you relied on the emperor's compassion for the soldiers who died in the battle to rise higher and higher?"
Seeing that Liu Jin'an was silent, He Qizhou said again: "You see Wen Ting died in battle, let Ye Xu kill the number of 30,000, and frame the relay's reconnaissance cavalry to protect yourself and those who benefited you.
.In order to cover up the lie and to make the ambush at Xifengkou evacuate faster, your adoptive father was put to death, and your master asked Wang Zhiyi and Liu Bozhou to lie about the military situation. I even doubt how the other four people who were traveling with them died!"
"Those who plan for big things don't stick to trivial matters." Liu Jin'an said.
"The life of a little person is a trivial matter? What about the life of your son Liu Bozhou? Don't you want to make meritorious service and fight for a way out for him?" He Qizhou said angrily. When he and Jin Yiwei walked out of the cell, the other party followed He Qizhou's suggestion to arrest Liu Bozhou.
"I can't survive, how can he survive? As long as the tie boat is there and the Liu family is still there." Liu Jinan said sadly.
"Where is the emperor's favor? Don't you want to give His Majesty an explanation?" He Qizhou couldn't help but asked anxiously when he saw that Liu Jin'an was determined to die.
"Why didn't you guess it was the emperor's order?" Liu Jin'an asked back.
"Bold!" Li Yun shouted.
"Nonsense, if it was the emperor's instigation, there would be no way to fight the war." He Qizhou sneered.
"Haha, I will give an explanation to Your Majesty right away." The pile of paper beside the charcoal stove became thinner and thinner, and the sound of iron hammers on the roof became louder and louder. Suddenly, the sound of broken wine bottles came from the back room.
"Who gave you the information when you repeatedly solved major cases? Who supported you?"
"Who set a trap for me in Jinan?"
"Did you instigate Liu Lin to kill people and make them dirty?"
"Is Wang Dingbian from Yueying?"
"Who is this 'general' they call?"
"How did the 'Great General' secretly communicate with the Northern Zhou Dynasty?"
…
He Qizhou had already heard something strange in the room and blurted out a string of questions, but no sound came from inside.
Half an hour later, the roof was pierced, and Liu Jinan fell dead next to the charcoal stove. His death was just like that of Ye Xu. The house was filled with ashes and the dust from the roof collapsed, covering the room in a haze.
Not long before, someone had reported to Li Yun that Liu Bozhou, a doctor in the household department, was assassinated at home. The couple were killed on the spot, and the assassin escaped without a trace.
…
Liu Yushi from the Metropolitan Procuratorate died, but He Qizhou's prison sentence was not over. Pang Wan, who took over the case, still felt that He Qizhou's crime was extremely heinous, especially after the witnesses and material evidence from Anyang County came two days later, He Qizhou's cell "
"Fortunately" moved to a single cell - death row.
The two deed recipients who were arrested did not confess to their crimes. The money they had obtained from congratulations to Qi Zhouduo had been squandered long ago. The loss caused to the people was 350 taels, which was far more than the 200 taels of corruption.
At the critical juncture, both sides disagree on whether it counts as exploiting civilians.
Because the maximum penalty was death, the co-trial officer of the Ministry of Punishment was replaced by another minister, and the court was still fairly balanced. Wan Zhiyuan begged several times, hoping to represent the Ministry of Punishment in the trial, but did not get Hu Mao's approval.
Because of the case of exploiting civilian husbands, more than a dozen officials had been sentenced before. Pang Wan used this as evidence and became unexpectedly tough and advocated for He Qizhou to be hanged. Hua Zhu, who was remembered by Bowen Qiang, was entrusted by Zhang Zhiren to become He Qizhou's lawyer, and
Based on the fact that He Qizhou had not made a profit, Huazhu put the blame on the two deed recipients, and the case was eventually transferred to the cabinet, hoping that the emperor would make a decision.
Chen Yu, the chief assistant, naturally agreed with the death penalty, but Liu Yan firmly opposed it. Regarding this matter, he and Pang Wan had already fallen out in Taoranju. If the prince had not intervened to mediate, they would have been involved in each other's affairs. The prince also discussed the matter as usual.
It was passed on to the emperor who was in retreat. Also presented was the suicide of Liu Jinan.
Xu Qinghan was also a little anxious. After blocking Pang Wan at the entrance of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and yelling at him, he became the target of verbal and written criticism from hundreds of officials. Not only did they want to punish him for insulting Shangguan, but he was also charged with harboring criminals. Some people even raised the issue.
The proposal to reduce the vassal status should be proposed after the two people colluded in private, and should be treated as forming a party for personal gain!
The rebellion with Pang Wan also directly caused the "Qingliu" in the court to be divided into two. Only a dozen people were willing to speak out to exonerate Xu Qinghan. After being demoted, Xu Qinghan had a low official rank and even went to court to defend himself.