Zhao Qiyang endured the pain of his broken arm and stood under the moonlight, looking at the brightly lit governor's mansion in front of him.
He was involved in a car accident. If His Royal Highness hadn't sent someone to rescue him in time, he would have suffered more than a minor injury like a broken left arm.
The left arm is now tied with a splint and bandage and hung around the neck.
As long as he moved a little, tearing pain would be felt from the broken arm.
But even this kind of pain still couldn't cover up the euphoria in my heart.
As a fifth-rank criminal official, he never expected that one day he would lead a team to arrest a third-rank governor.
The telegraph machine in the room made a ticking sound, and the telegraph operator quickly announced loudly: "His Royal Highness's order, start action."
Zhao Qiyang walked up to the military general who was assisting them. He pointed to Governor Ma Kaiheng's residence and said solemnly: "You military people will control everyone first, and our investigation team will follow immediately.
His Royal Highness's order, anyone who dares to resist can be shot to death on the spot.
I also have a personal request. Once you find someone burning paper, please stop it immediately.
I don’t need to say anything unnecessary, the action will begin immediately.”
The officer said confidently: "For us to capture such an undefended place, it will be a piece of cake.
My request is not to alert the guards, but to arrest everyone on the list."
After the officer finished speaking, he walked to the prepared troops and gave orders without saying a word, only using gestures.
The Second Fleet Marine Corps is a model force in the military, and it is a piece of cake to perform this task.
After they saw the officer's gesture order.
Everyone acted in unison and immediately started to act. They only communicated with each other using gestures and made no unnecessary sounds.
The dexterous soldiers climbed over the courtyard wall and knocked out the gatekeepers.
They then opened the door and everyone filed in.
When the soldiers saw patrols in the mansion, they came up behind the patrols with dexterity and used naked choke to deal with the patrols.
These people could not make any sound, and they fainted in just a few seconds.
The soldiers took out handcuffs to restrain the patrolman, blocked his mouth, and continued the operation.
All entrances and exits of the mansion have been blocked, and a large number of soldiers have been ambushing the inner house.
"Kick open the door."
An order sounded in the silent night.
The soldiers immediately took action, kicked open the front door, and took out their pistols and pointed them at the people inside.
"Under the orders of His Highness the Crown Prince to handle the case, you surrender immediately. Anyone who dares to resist will be shot to death immediately."
The governor of Nanyang, Ma Kaiheng, woke up directly from his sleep.
In his confusion, he was pulled out of bed.
He looked at Zhao Qiyang's figure outside the door and shouted: "I am the governor of Nanyang. What you are doing is insulting to politeness. I will go to the Holy Land to accuse you."
I am an important official of a third-grade country, so at least I should be allowed to wear my clothes."
While he was taking the opportunity to get dressed, he immediately wanted to run to the tea cup in the corner of the study room.
boom!
There was a crisp gunshot, and a bullet hit Ma Kaiheng's thigh.
Ma Kaiheng screamed and looked at the gun in Zhao Qiyang's hand that was smoking.
"Zhao Qiyang, how dare you shoot?"
Zhao Qiyang pointed his gun at Ma Kaiheng and ordered: "Take him to the hospital immediately for treatment. We cannot let our governor die before the case goes to trial."
The people from the investigation team immediately stepped forward, gave Ma Kaiheng a simple bandage, and took him to the hospital for treatment of his gunshot wound.
Ma Kaiheng led the investigation team. Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers, they began to carefully search Ma Kaiheng's study.
He specifically searched for the tea cup that Ma Kaiheng wanted to touch before.
While investigating the tea cup, I found the entrance to the basement nearby.
The military's highly skilled officers had excellent bomb disposal skills and quickly dismantled the tea cup.
This is a mechanism with a fuse connected below. As long as the fuse is touched, the gunpowder built in the basement will directly detonate the gasoline bomb in the basement, burning everything in the basement.
When Zhao Qiyang saw the mechanism in the basement, he was overjoyed.
The fact that the basement is so complicated proves that the things stored there are extraordinary.
The army removed the petrol bombs in the basement and made sure the basement was safe.
He and the officer leading the team walked into the basement.
As soon as they entered the basement, they saw neatly stacked boxes.
These boxes contained neat gold and silver bars, as well as imperial gold and silver coins.
Zhao Qiyang knew that this was the smuggling proceeds obtained by Governor Ma Kaiheng in recent years.
He didn't care at all about how much money there was here, and went straight to the shiny box inside.
When he saw the things in the box, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.
These are neatly stacked books and letters, with the top books showing signs of being turned.
After inspection, Zhao Qiyang found that these were letters Ma Kaiheng had communicated with others, as well as account books recording information on corruption, bribery and smuggling.
These things are extremely important to him.
Zhao Qiyang and his people immediately sorted out things that could be used as evidence.
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Ma Baosheng was having sex with his concubine when suddenly the door was kicked open and he immediately shrank with fear.
His face turned purple and he shouted loudly: "You idiots, what do you want to do..."
He looked up and saw the cold muzzle of the gun, and immediately shut up.
"Hero, have mercy on me, I have money, I have a lot of money."
"Idiot, take a closer look at who we are. We don't dare to ask for your ill-gotten gains."
Ma Baosheng was frightened by the gun. He thought a robber had come in.
He heard a strong voice, and then he took a closer look, and saw that the people entering the house were people wearing official uniforms of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and people wearing military uniforms.
When Ma Baosheng saw this scene, he collapsed directly to the ground and couldn't say a word.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate broke in with the army, and there was no other possibility except that their incident had happened.
Ma Baosheng had previously discussed with his brother and others how to transfer evidence of crime?
He did not expect that Prince Su Shu would act so quickly and start arresting people as soon as he arrived in Nanyang.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! His brother is the governor of a province, and he thought he could delay it for at least a month or two.
Give them enough time to erase the evidence and find several prestigious scapegoats to calm the anger of the prince and the court.
In the Huang Mansion, Huang Ying saw that the imperial army had surrounded Huangjia Village.
He knew that the situation between the Wu family and the Ma family was over.
He lamented: "Inform the army at the entrance of the village that we surrender.
Our Huang family came to Nanyang to settle down, and it grew from a small village to a village larger than the average county town. The entire village is made up of our Huang family.
It is not easy for a clan to grow and develop, and we cannot let it be ruined."
Huang Ying had no choice but to surrender for the sake of his clan.
If the Ministry of Punishment sends someone to arrest him, he can still ask the young men in the village to resist. The core members of the Huang family will go to the dock not far away to find a way to escape from the empire.
The world is so big, there is always a place for the Huang family.
He didn't expect the prince to be so ruthless and directly sent troops to encircle and suppress him.
The army's artillery was set up at the entrance of the village. The artillery could not only cover the entire village, but also the dock next to the village. They couldn't escape at all.
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Admiral Zhou Renjie of the Nanyang Squadron of the Second Fleet commanded the armored cruiser and asked the Marine Corps to surround the customs smuggling team from the road.
The army responsible for arresting Wu Hongyou, director of the Nanyang Customs Administration, was lost.
Zhou Renjie received a call for help and immediately led his troops to reinforce the situation.
Wu Hongyou resisted stubbornly and led the customs anti-smuggling team to resist the imperial court.
The customs anti-smuggling team has ships that have been eliminated by the army, and the ships have large-caliber artillery.
It is difficult for an army without heavy weapons to capture the customs anti-smuggling team.
Zhou Renjie ordered: "Let's call out again. If we don't surrender, we will launch an attack."
The loudspeaker on the armored cruiser made a loud sound at the customs anti-smuggling team huddled in the port.
"Wu Hongyou has violated the laws of the empire and will be sentenced to death by the empire.
Don't follow Wu Hongyou's stubborn resistance. Think about the future of yourself and your family. If you go against the empire, you will definitely not end well.
Lay down your weapons and surrender, we will attack in three minutes."
Zhou Renjie started staring at his watch to count the time.
Three minutes passed quickly, and the person opposite was still indifferent.
He immediately gave the order: "Fire."
The armored cruiser's naval guns opened fire immediately, hitting fixed targets at close range, with no possibility of missing the target.
Huge flames exploded on the naval anti-smuggling team warship.
Zhou Renjie only asked the artillerymen to fire one shot and waited for the reaction from the other side.
His mission is to capture criminals, not to annihilate them all.
As he expected, the warship on the opposite side quickly raised a white flag.
The huge guns of the armored cruiser continued to lock on the opposite side to prevent them from making small moves.
Zhou Renjie sent a small boat to the warship to take over everything on it.
They quickly took control of the ship, and Wu Hongyou was tied up by his subordinates and handed over to Zhou Renjie.
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Prince Su Shu stayed up all night, waiting for the results ahead.
The arrest of the Ma brothers was extremely smooth, and they had no precautions at all.
Ma Kaiheng's residence was initially cleared of gold, silver and other precious metals worth 26 million taels of silver coins.
There are also some antiques, calligraphy, paintings and jade that cannot be accurately valued.
The most critical point is that in Ma Kaiheng's residence, important letters between Ma Kaiheng and other people were found, as well as account books for smuggling and official selling.
Ma Kaiheng not only cooperated with the Wu family and Huang family in smuggling, he also secretly sold official positions in Nanyang.
Prince Su Shu learned from the searched letters that Ma Kaiheng's promotion was inseparable from buying and selling officials.
His master, Zhao Zhong, was the main operator of this matter.
Prince Su Shu slammed the table angrily and said, "Moths, these worms' sins cannot be forgiven."
The Huang family was just a merchant family, and they chose to surrender when the army pressed on the territory.
The Huang family also had the account books in their hands, so they chose to hand them over voluntarily and began to report on some officials who assisted in the smuggling.
What surprised Prince Su Shu the most was Wu Hongyou, the director of the Nanyang Customs Administration. This man was very good at winning over his subordinates, and he dared to use a warship to arrest him.
If Prince Su Shu had not requested the Royal Navy's Second Fleet in advance to help him capture these criminals.
Wu Hongyou, director of the Nanyang General Administration of Customs, probably rushed out of Nanyang in a warship and fled with his confidants and stolen money.
At dawn, people were awakened by the sound of gunfire. They went out for activities and asked what happened last night.
When they heard the news, they felt that everything had changed.
The prince used the army to arrest officials including the governor of Nanyang, Ma Kaiheng.
Many people clapped their hands and cheered. The higher-ranking officials were arrested, the happier they were.
When many officials heard the news, they were panicked.
Especially the officials who were closely related to Nanyang Governor Ma Kaiheng, they were most afraid that the prince would come to arrest them at the next moment.
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Zhao Qiyang was holding a pamphlet in his hand and was reporting to Prince Su Shu on the relevant situations that the investigation team had carefully sorted out in the past few days.
In order to put every detail of the evidence to the test, he only slept for three hours a day and spent the rest of his time leading the investigation team to sort out the evidence.
He led people to find the most important evidence among the complicated evidence.
"Your Highness, we have collected the confessions of brothers Ma Kaiheng, Wu Hongyou, the Huang family, and some important officials.
There is now a sufficient chain of evidence to restore the details of the Nanyang smuggling den case and the Nanyang official selling case.
In addition to the governors of Nanyang, these cases also involved 367 officials of various sizes in Nanyang.
Some people with more serious crimes have been detained in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Punishment, and 176 officials with minor crimes are now under residential surveillance."
Zhao Qiyang now has a headache. The officials involved in these two cases involve most of the officials in Nanyang.
If all these people are really arrested, all the yamen in Nanyang will be paralyzed.
Prince Su Shu did not reply. He first looked through the evidence that the investigation team had worked hard to compile.
He confirmed that the evidence was clear and he saw no obvious problems.
Prince Su Shu looked at Zhao Qiyang and encouraged him: "Master Zhao, you have done a great job.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! I need to fully understand the situation of the case before I can give a solution.
Your investigation team will continue to dig deeper along the clues to see if we can uncover some important cases."
Zhao Qiyang left the room, and Prince Su Shu handed the pamphlet and the case report he compiled during this period to the telegraph team.
He immediately asked several messengers to relay the details of Nanyang-related cases to his father.
What to do next with this case? Should Ma Kaiheng and others go to the capital to interrogate it, or should it be interrogated locally.
For the officials involved in this case, how should they handle it?
All these things require clear instructions from his father before he can proceed.
Prince Su Shu is waiting for news from his father.
He knew that the results of this matter would not come out within a day or two.
The father would have to discuss the results with the ministers of the court before giving him a specific decree.
Several days passed, and Prince Su Shu was anxiously trying to make an inquiry.
He received a telegram from the capital.
Emperor Su He asked Prince Su Shu to escort the principal criminal to the capital for trial.
The cases of Ma Kaiheng and Wu Hongyou also involve some other officials and need to be tried together.
The remaining officials involved in the case in Nanyang will be tried locally.
All officials involved in the case will not be pardoned without major meritorious service.
Prince Su Shu temporarily acted as the governor of Nanyang and could not return to the capital until the new governor arranged by the court took office.
He put down the telegram with a smile on his face.
He does not need to deal with the troublesome Ma Kaiheng and others personally, he only needs to deal with some accomplices.
My father's attitude remained the same as before, and all officials involved in the case were punished.
The official ecology here in Nanyang really needs to be purified.
The empire takes so many people for the imperial examination every year, so it is necessary to eliminate some unsuitable officials and allow new blood to join the officialdom.
In this way, there will be no redundant officials like in the Song Dynasty.