Chapter 471 The Invisible Black Hand and the Emperor Who Eats Willgang

Seeing Qin Lei not speaking, the Qiao family and his son were stunned. They had imagined many situations, but they never thought that this young master would not speak.

In their hearts, Qin Lei has always been a strong person to the peak. If such a person has any displeasure, he will definitely speak out loud. How could he be so embarrassed?

Men from aristocratic families like them have always regarded women as objects and have no respect at all. Naturally, they will not understand why Qin Lei compromised.

They mistakenly thought this was a sign of his outbreak, looked at each other uneasyly, and Qiao Yuanshan tentatively said: "But we can make some adjustments, you see..."

"Please tell me." Qin Lei was a man, and he saw at a glance that the two of them were afraid. He didn't say it out loud, but instead followed the flow and said: "It's best to solve it properly."

'If it cannot be properly resolved, don't blame me for being rude...' This is the implication that the two of them heard. Qiao Qipei's face was even more nervous, and she glared at her son fiercely, telling him not to keep him indifferent.

Qiao Yuanshan quickly poured the beans on the bamboo tube and said, "It's better to get engaged first, but don't make it public. After the prince obtains the consent of His Majesty, he will make up for the ceremony." At this time, the procedure for marrying a daughter is very complicated, and there are the rules of "six rituals", namely: Nacai, ask for names, Naji, Nazheng, ask for dates, and welcome them. In other words, if you want to marry a wife, you need to go through six processes to propose first, then combine the eight characters, then get engaged, give a betrothal gift, choose the marriage date, and then have a reasonable and legal right to bridal chamber. Among them, "Naji", "Nazheng", and "Ask for dates" are carried out together.

So Qiao Yuanshan didn't say that you two can fly together. What he meant was that we still had to finish these "six rituals", but we could disrupt the order, first get engaged, postpone other procedures, and wait for a chance to talk about it.

This is exactly what Qin Lei wants. He came to Qiao's family to tell those gossip that the eldest lady of the Qiao family has a master. He did not plan to marry the girl home immediately.

Both sides took a step back and reached an understanding. Qin Lei wanted to linger for two days and take the opportunity to learn about the wintering situation of the people in Shannan. But an information disrupted his plan and he could no longer stay. He hurriedly bid farewell to the father and son of the Qiao family and headed north. As for Yun Shang, it was about to be the twelfth lunar month. She might not have been home for the New Year for a long time. Now she has a place to stay, so she naturally has to stay at home with her parents.

After saying goodbye to Qiao Yunshang, the team suddenly accelerated and ran northward.

The closer you get to Zhongdu, the colder the temperature becomes, and the scenery on both sides of the road becomes more and more desolate. Looking at the cold and frozen wild Liyuan, Qin Lei couldn't help but sigh: "The winter in the north is the real winter!"

In order to maintain the grace, when others were wearing furs, Le Buyi still wore only a long gown, and her nose was red with cold, muttering: "The prince will find that the atmosphere in Zhongdu City is even colder than this ghost weather."

With the fox scarf tightened, Qin Lei laughed and said, "Make a bet, do you think we can enter Zhongdu City?"

"No." Le Buyi's mouth was quite fast, and he smiled strangely: "Ninety-nine percent, the eunuch Xuanzhi is already waiting for the big carriage at the city gate."

Qin Lei nodded and said with a gloomy face: "I don't know how it's going now. I heard that people have been killed..."

Le Buyi's face also pulled down and said in a deep voice: "The Emperor is trying to block His Highness from the city, so that his minions can unscrupulously fight for the unjust prison!"

"Maybe they're overwhelmed, I don't know how to end it." Qin Lei sneered.

Le Buyi frowned and said, "The emperor has become obsessed with it."

Nearly a month has passed since Qin Lei and Boshang talked separately, and it has reached the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. More than 20 days ago, Dali Temple arrested the leaders of Shang Dezhong and Xin Litong, including nine new Jinshi for false charges such as dereliction of duty and abuse of power. This move aroused the rebound of the rest of the Jinshi. They went to demonstrate in front of Dali Temple and demanded to accompany the nine people to jail.

They thought that this time would definitely make His Majesty compromise like the two times before. However, although Emperor Zhaowu has always been known for "bullying the weak and afraid of the strong", he would not be afraid of these unfounded novices. With a sneer, he ordered the City Inspection Office to disperse them violently and arrested more than a dozen leading figures to realize their wishes.

In sharp contrast to this lively scene, the Three Laws' interrogation of Qinlei Group was really 'cold, deserted, miserable and miserable'! In the first few days, several six doctors were detained, which was quite lively. As soon as the news of Qinlei returning to China came, the old foxes who were in charge of the trial immediately made trouble... It happened that Wei Zhengyi's wife's third aunt died, and the Minister of Justice was bedridden due to excessive sadness and took a month off.

When he saw him quitting his phone, Qu Yan from Dali Temple immediately got inspiration. He broke his foot that night... his toes were bedridden, and he took leave for three months and ten days... and it was a hundred days of injury.

The remaining Censor Wang Piyan, the left censor of the Censorate, remained motionless. Neither the third aunt, whose little wife and uncle passed away, nor did he hurt the toe. Instead, he was healthy, happy, and even excited to direct his subordinates to arrest and interrogate.

Why is this happening? He has a grudge against Qin Lei, it's that simple.

When the censor was ready to do something big, he was embarrassed to find that no one was playing with him. Not only did the officials of the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Justice ask for leave on a large scale, even his one-acre three-point field had some poisonous weeds that were about to retreat...

The most outrageous thing is that even the yamen runners took leave. As a result, they couldn't get all the soaps in the station when they were promoted to the hall... This kind of trial of the three courts was the highest-standard trial of the Qin Dynasty, so the number of soaps in the station to cheer for the master was the largest, and there should be 2918. As a result, only half of them came, either four or five on the left or five on the left or four on the left, and the standing troop was not in order. The soul of the king and the popular soul was out of his body, and he was angry and stopped judging!

Why don’t everyone dare to come? Are you afraid of the censor leader who specializes in reporting? Maybe everyone already knows that the master is back. At most, offends the censor and is demoted, and offends the master. Maybe one day he will have to move.

But those who are capable of censors are all persistent people; those who are capable of censors are the most persistent ones. Lord Wang naturally would not give up. When he met his subordinates passively and slackened, he used his expertise - to make small reports and a memorial to report Wei Zhengyi, Qu Yan and his subordinates to Emperor Zhaowu.

Emperor Zhaowu was furious and immediately ordered someone to issue an order to send a message to Wei Zhengyi and Qu Yan, two pig heads, come to meet him.

As a result, it made his seven orifices smoke... Two guys who have always been timid even called him sick together, saying that he could not get up. It is understandable that Wei Zhengyi was too sad. You, Qu Siqing, could you fall into a coma even if you were injured in your toes?

After a burst of anger, Emperor Zhaowu felt a bone-chilling chill. He finally realized that a surging countercurrent was silently fighting against his imperial power. It was definitely not Qin Lei, and that powerful power was not something he could have. Thinking back to Wen Yanbo's fall, Emperor Zhaowu felt even more suspicious... How could a prime minister who had been in charge for 18 years suddenly become weak and powerless at a critical moment?

There must be something tricky about this!

He was already sure... there was an invisible black hand challenging his authority and trying to push himself back to his original cowardly state. But he could not fight back accurately because he didn't know who his opponent was... Jiang Zhiyu? It's impossible. This old guy has been away for more than ten years. Although several Shangshu were his former disciples, the influence was limited. Tian Minnong? It's impossible. If he had such ability, how could he be inferior to Wen Yanbo for more than ten years and never be able to make a comeback?

As for Gongshu Company, Wei Zhengyi, Qu Yanwu, Wang Anting, the same situation is true... They are all defeated generals under Wen Yanbo, how could they have such great energy?

Is it Li Hun? Is this old guy secretly stumbling to me on the excuse of recuperation? The answer is obviously no. If Li Sanjun had this ability, he would have been unified in the country for a long time. Why are he still squatting on the side?

This is impossible, and that is not possible. Emperor Zhaowu was really unable to understand it. In fact, he didn't know that the answer was infinitely close. As long as he could think outside of his inertial mind, he could know what was really thinking.

However, he fell into a misunderstanding and did not figure out who the opponent was until he died. This led to a series of wrong actions he had followed...

You must think and understand! I finally became an uncle, but I couldn't be forced to be a grandson again! Emperor Zhaowu was now stolen, but he couldn't understand no matter how he thought about it. He was distressed and anxious. Over time, his temper became very irritable! Finally, he came up with a solution that was not a solution, which was to catch people!

Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch! Catch!

Finally, the emperor could no longer bear this torment and broke out... His idea was simple and practical: Aren't you not showing up? Then I will arrest all your followers and examine them one by one, and there will always be someone who knows who you are!

The reason why the emperor has this courage is not only because of his fear of the unknown power, but because of his solemnity over the past six months, he has become a little... unable to find him.

In the distrust of all officials, the person who carried out this arrest mission was neither a constable from the Ministry of Justice nor a soldier from the city patrol department, but a royal secret spy who had been hiding for many years. Since we were going to the front, we had to have a title. But we had long known that increasing the organization was very difficult.

In order to avoid the court officials, Emperor Zhaowu had no choice but to make up his own inner palace. He attached the royal secret spy to the Imperial Horse Prison that raised his horses, appointed Lou Wanli as the deputy general manager of the Imperial Horse Prison, and led a group of newly released Imperial Horse Prison spies to start the first public mission... You have to ask who is the chief manager or the old eunuch who raised horses. Because of the ancestral system of all dynasties, only eunuchs can serve as the eunuchs of the Thirteenth Prison of the Great Nei, so the deputy general manager of Lou has no hope of being upright in his life.

With the evil fire of the stock, Deputy General Manager Lou took office. He is not like his master and has so many concerns. Since you ask me to arrest people, I will arrest them...

From November 20th to the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, there were more than 100 Beijing officials arrested, and with the more than 30 who had entered the previous period, the Ministry of Justice actually placed 20% of the total number of Beijing officials in the prison of the Ministry of Justice... Generally speaking, even if the country was destroyed, there would not be so many officials to be imprisoned at the same time. It is no exaggeration to say that it has never been there.

In fact, there is no need to catch so many people, but Lou Wanli wanted to perform better for the first time in public, so he was particularly active. Moreover, since ancient times, arresting people has been the favorite of cruel officials. Moreover, the secret agents in the Imperial Horse Supervision are low-key, basically from coachmen, sailors, shopkeepers, sedan chairmen, etc. As the saying goes, "If you don't have any guilt, you should kill them." The quality of these people can be imagined.

Emperor Zhaowu's decision to promote prison was not the biggest mistake he made. He appointed a restaurant to lead a group of social scumbags to carry out this matter.

When these spies discovered that those adults who were always tall and arrogant suddenly became inferior to themselves, and their property was swept by them and their female relatives allowed them to tease them, they immediately regarded them as the most comfortable thing in the world, and enjoyed it all night long. People had to sigh that interest is the best motivation!

As a result, more and more arrests were made. Anyway, His Majesty did not say what he could not ask. After a while, he began to arrest him in large numbers. Among them, the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, and the Kyoto Prefecture, almost no one from the sixth-rank chief officer to the fifth-rank doctor, formed the absolute main force of the army this time.

At this time, Emperor Zhaowu also felt something was wrong, but the matter was already in a big sensation, so he had to check it out. Otherwise, the emperor would wrongly accuse all officials, which would put his face down? The emperor, who was in a difficult position, had to grit his teeth and persevere, hoping that one day he would get the name and get rid of this big trouble.

Zhongdu around the twelfth lunar month, just like the one written in "Yueyang Tower Notes": "The wind is angry, the turbid waves are empty; the dusk is dark, the tiger roars and the apes are crying."

Except for those deep-rooted purple robe officials, everyone in danger of being in danger. Every morning, they dress neatly, say goodbye to their families, hug their wives, kiss their children, and then give their private money. Then they turn around and go out. With the crying behind them, there is a feeling of a whistle and cold Yishui, and the heroes will never return once they leave.

At dusk, the whole family and wife would wait at the door, looking forward to it until they saw the official coming back, and this was the day that had been safe.

Even so, the "black-handed brother" that Emperor Zhaowu had been looking forward to did not come out to fight back, as if he didn't care about his gangsters at all.

Emperor Zhaowu completely lost his mind, and he ordered the imperial horse supervision to be punished... This was an innovative move, but it was actually illegal, because the Qin Dynasty clearly stipulated that "the law and punishment cannot be used as a doctor." The imperial horse supervision secret agent, who had long been unable to control himself, completely executed this order.

In addition to the three old ways of whip, tiger bench, and pepper water, they also fully utilized their subjective initiative and developed new criminal laws such as "burning camps in fire" and "ant crossing the river", which added new wealth to the Qin Dynasty's torture and forced confession cause.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor obviously overestimated the ability of these delicate officials and masters to bear it. Before they could finish the tricks, they actually killed someone!

Moreover, three people were killed within one day, and the government and the country were in an uproar!

How could anyone bully people like this? The court officials were angry! But when they wanted to fight back, they found that they were helpless in the face of unreasonable violence, and they could be bullied... Stop the court? Since September, the emperor has stopped attending court, and all government affairs are handled in the imperial study. Stop the strike? Now is the coldest season of the year, and it also means the leisure time of the year. Until the first month of the next year, the yamen of all the adults were deserted and could not stop.

When all civilized methods are overthrown, officials focus on violence.
Chapter completed!