Cui Yingyuan has been in Shandong for nearly two years. Although he did not catch Xu Hongru, he did not find nothing.
Cui Yingyuan, the other top leaders of the White Lotus Sect, was still caught.
As the most important person captured so far, Hou Wu was naturally taken special care of by the fans.
His hand tendons and hamstrings had long been severed and he had been tortured several times.
He has been completely reduced to a useless person, like a pile of mud, and is imprisoned in the darkest and dampest single room.
But even so, he still didn't speak, which troubled Cui Yingyuan, who was eager to make contributions and express himself.
The White Lotus Sect is very powerful and intricately connected. It can be said to be everywhere in Shandong.
With just a few hundred of his subordinates, let alone the White Lotus Sect that had taken root in Shandong for hundreds of years, he could wipe out all of them.
Even this investigation and search for information requires a lot of effort, time and energy.
A few days ago, the factory manager wrote to me saying that Long Live Master had begun to doubt his efficiency and personal abilities.
This made him quite worried and made him even more eager to make progress.
But under the current situation, he can only start from the top. It's a pity that Hou Wu has not spoken yet.
But this Hou Wu was a poor man with no family at all, and Cui Yingyuan had no place to even threaten him.
This made him and the interrogators helpless, but they had to put their hope in him.
As for the other believers, they are just ignorant people and cannon fodder, worthless at all.
"I'm giving you three days, no matter what method you use, you must make him speak."
"If Your Majesty blames me, not only will I be unlucky, but you will also not have a good life."
Upon hearing this, several fans immediately showed bitter expressions on their faces, this was not going to cost them their lives.
They tried every possible means, they just barely managed to kill him with one knife, but they couldn't do anything even if he was carrying him to death.
"Qianhu, it's not that brothers are trying to shirk, there's really nothing we can do about it. This Hou Wu is harder than stone and harder than iron."
Cui Yingyuan also knows that there are difficulties, but there is a death order, and they can only choose to carry it out.
"Just do as I say first, and then I'll think of other ways to see if there can be a breakthrough."
Cui Yingyuan walked out of the prison melancholy, glanced at the blue sky with the scorching sun, and then looked around, falling into deep thought.
While he was thinking hard about his troubles, a member of the household came in a hurry on horseback to report.
Things have made new progress, they have captured another high-ranking member of the White Lotus Sect.
Cui Yingyuan seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and immediately wanted to interrogate this person personally.
The interrogation this time was much smoother. Cui Yingyuan had just started to torture him, but he couldn't stand it anymore and started to torture him all.
It turns out that he is a close associate of Shen Zhi, and Shen Zhi is Xu Hongru's right-hand man.
He is directly responsible for the mission and development of the White Lotus Sect in Yanzhou Prefecture, and can be said to be an absolutely high-level person.
According to what this person said, Xu Hongru is currently in Qingzhou and is already planning a rebellion.
Cui Yingyuan was not surprised or surprised, because the emperor had already given him support before he came to Shandong the year before last.
Fans who didn't know the inside story were not only surprised, but also a little excited.
"Qianhu, this is a big deal. We should report it to the factory owner and Long Live Lord as soon as possible."
Cui Yingyuan also nodded and immediately sent his horse back to the capital.
After he finished the interrogation, he immediately gathered all three hundred fans and Tiqi and rushed to Qingzhou Mansion.
After Zhu Youxiao saw Cui Yingyuan's letter, he also fell into a tangle.
Although the White Lotus Sect is a big scourge, the Kong family in Qufu is the real root of the scourge and is the most difficult to deal with.
He has always wanted to touch the Kong family, but there is really no reason or excuse.
The Confucian family is deeply rooted, and scholars all over the world naturally side with the Confucian family.
Invisibly, there is a huge force with great influence.
The Kong family lived in Shandong, and they sometimes spoke better than the court and officials.
It is not an exaggeration to say that they are real local emperors. The power and heritage of this iron-clad, thousand-year-old family cannot be underestimated.
The charges of occupying people's fields, buying and selling by force, and oppressing people are basically useless against a special existence like the Kong family.
Only by giving them a big label that they will never be able to recover from, was Zhu Youxiao able to overcome public opinion, ignore the obstruction of civil servants and scholars, and severely punish the Confucius family.
After much thought, Zhu Youxiao decided to play something big.
He wants to allow the White Lotus Sect to rebel, and then connect them with the Kong family, and eradicate the Kong family on the charge of rebellion. This is the best way.
Moreover, he cannot personally deal with this kind of thing, let alone participate in it.
You need someone who is absolutely trustworthy and ruthless enough to put your mind at ease.
This is a matter of bad reputation, and it is likely to cause dissatisfaction among most scholars in the world, leading them to oppose the imperial court, and even the country and the country will be in turmoil.
This is not what Zhu Youxiao wants to see, and he doesn't want to face scholars all his life, otherwise he will become the second Wanli Emperor?
Zhu Youxiao thought about it and found that only Wei Zhongxian was available, he was the most suitable to do this, and he was also the most suitable to take the blame.
As the eunuch of Bingbi and the factory supervisor of Dongchang, he not only has great power, but also has a reputation that has spread throughout the world.
He also has a lot of criminal records, not to mention how he is with the civil servants, but at least he is already incompatible with the Donglin Party members who now occupy a dominant position.
All this is so reasonable and reasonable. Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao immediately summoned Wei Zhongxian to start preliminary preparations.
First of all, Shandong’s manpower and strength must be strengthened.
"Have you read the memorial submitted by your subordinate Cui Yingyuan? The White Lotus Sect has revived and wants to rebel."
"I've seen it. I wonder what the long-lived master ordered me to do. Is he going to prepare for suppression?"
Wei Zhongxian, who was kneeling on the ground in a respectful posture, said:
"Suppression is definitely necessary, but it is not enough. Ten or twenty years later, they began to recover again, and future troubles cannot be eliminated forever."
"Since the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the White Lotus Sect has been active in Shandong. The Mongols suppressed it, and the previous emperors spared no effort to completely suppress it, but the results were not good."
"And they can recover and come back every time, which makes me very puzzled."
"Logically speaking, most of these cult members are ignorant commoners, and only a few leaders may recognize a few words."
"I suspect that there must be someone behind the White Lotus Sect who is deliberately working against the imperial court."
"Go to Shandong in person and conduct a thorough investigation for me. No matter who it is, they will be investigated to the end. As long as the evidence of the crime is conclusive, I will not tolerate it."
"Especially those wealthy and famous families, we must do our best to conduct thorough investigations in all aspects."
Wei Zhongxian still didn't understand what the emperor meant.
He didn't expect that such a thankless task would fall on him, but he didn't dare to refuse.