Chapter 440 The True Meaning of Cooking a Dog with a Dead Rabbit
Yang Qiuchi immediately understood that Ji Gang was framing himself, on the one hand, he was afraid that his ability was too strong to replace him, and on the other hand, he was probably thinking about Hong Ling and Liu Ruobing's two beautiful concubines. He sneered contemptuously: "You're dreaming!" He touched the pistol on his calf and thought to himself, even if I want to die, you can't live!
Ji Gang smiled and turned around to ask Gu Cabinet Master Gu and other three people, "Tell me, are you colluding with the carbon poison to murder the concubine Xian?"
The Jinyiwei, who was escorting behind them, suddenly pressed the heads of the three of them down, almost hitting the ground. He shouted: "Speak quickly!"
The three of them moaned in pain and replied one after another: "Yes!"
When Yang Qiuchi heard this, he guessed that the woman should be the Korean tribute concubine Shun.
Ji Gang looked at Yang Qiuchi proudly, turned around and asked the three guards who were kneeling on the side, including Pu Fangu, and others: "You will report to the emperor truthfully what you see."
Pu Fangu and the other three responded and kowtowed. Pu Fangu said, "The three of them are Mr. Yang, no, Yang Qiuchi's personal bodyguard. When he went to the tomb of the Concubine Xian to open the coffin and examine the autopsy for the second time, he went in alone and drove all of us out. He waited for almost two hours before he came out to say that he had done so long. I doubted at that time, why it took me so long to open the coffin and examine the autopsy. I reported this to the commander."
Yang Qiuchi looked at him coldly and didn't say anything.
Pu Fangu continued: "After returning to the capital, he took us to Wang Sicai and deliberately told the case again and again. He was very straightforward, clearly telling her that the matter had been exposed. Wang Sicai's face changed at that time. After coming out, he whispered a few more words to his concubine Song Yuner, and then Song Er left. I became even more suspicious and tried to notify the commander."
Ji Gang was even more proud and sneered: "Yang Qiuchi, your fellow party members have all admitted it, and there are three more witnesses here. Can't they be considered true evidence?"
Yang Qiuchi was extremely desperate. As for the evidence alone, torture and confession aside. This evidence is indeed sufficient and is enough to determine the case.
It turned out that Ji Gang had long been deeply doubting the threat that Yang Qiuchi had caused to his command position by Yang Qiuchi's ability to solve cases, and had long been thinking of getting rid of Yang Qiuchi. After Yang Qiuchi captured Zhu Wenkui, the son of Emperor Jianwen, Ji Gang began to increase the collection of Yang Qiuchi's relevant information. After the Ming Chengzu appointed Yang Qiuchi as the Tongzhi of the Jinyiwei, this doubt became even stronger. At this time, Ji Gang had fully mastered Yang Qiuchi's relevant information and began to conceive the next step of how to frame him out of nothing.
Immediately afterwards, Ji Gang misled Ming Chengzu's greed for merit and led to a wrong case, killing Lu Yuanshanmei and others, which caused Ming Chengzu's unhappiness. In front of Ji Gang, Yang Qiuchi appointed Yang Qiuchi to specifically solve the case of Xianfei, and asked Yang Qiuchi to bypass Ji Gang and report directly to Ming Chengzu. This made Ji Gang finally decide to take action against Yang Qiuchi and get rid of this threat.
When Yang Qiuchi and his group set out for the Xianfei Mausoleum for the second time to open the coffin and examine the autopsy, Ji Gang also sent his confidant Jinyiwei's secret spies to follow him quietly to the tomb and arranged for them to wait for an opportunity to frame Yang Qiuchi.
Pu Fangu told the secret agents about Yang Qiuchi's autopsy alone. After Yang Qiuchi and the others left, the secret agents dug the tombs and damaged the body of the concubine Xian in order to dirty Yang Qiuchi was disrespectful to the body of the concubine Xian.
Afterwards, Yang Qiuchi happened to use the trick of striking the snake. He originally wanted to find the person behind Wang Sicai's instructions, but unexpectedly, this news was revealed to Ji Gang by Ji Gang's eyeliner Pu Fangu. Ji Gang understood that once Yang Qiuchi solved the case of Xianfei, Yang Qiuchi's status in the mind of Chengzu of Ming Dynasty would be further improved. The days to replace him Ji Gang would not be far away. This further increased Ji Gang's determination to get rid of Yang Qiuchi.
Ji Gang immediately deployed a follow-up to Wang Sicai. Concubine Shun asked Concubine Wang to send a few batches of fabrics to Concubine Xian Palace. The Jinyiwei reported the news to Ji Gang. Ji Gang immediately found the best reason and decided to use Concubine Shun who had no background from North Korea as a sucker. Based on his previous information about Yang Qiuchi, based on the latest information on carbon poison to murder Concubine Xian, and combined with his previous ideas, he formed this complete frame-up plan out of nothing, and immediately started to implement it.
After Ji Gang immediately entered the palace to report the facts he had made to Ming Chengzu, Ming Chengzu was furious when he heard that Yang Qiuchi had damaged the body of Concubine Xian in order to destroy the body. He also heard that Yang Qiuchi had colluded with Concubine Shun and Gu Cabinet Scholars and murdered Concubine Xian with carbon poison. He was even more angry. In a rage, he immediately instructed Ji Gang to conduct a thorough investigation.
Ji Gang received the highest instruction from Chengzu of Ming Dynasty and immediately sent the Jinyiwei to launch a sneak attack on Song Yuner with a fishing net, and captured Song Yuner, who was following Wang Sicai. Then he arrested Wang Sicai, Gu Cabinet Scholar and Concubine Xian for severe torture. However, the three of them were tortured, but they confessed according to the so-called criminal facts arranged by Ji Gang to conspire with Yang Qiuchi to kill Concubine Xian.
Since the three of them had confessed, the criminal's confession was the king of evidence in ancient times, and a death sentence could be convicted by just confession. Ming Chengzu thought of the tragic death of Concubine Xian, and was furious. He slapped the table and ordered Concubine Xian, Wang Sicai and Gu Neige Scholar to take the three men to the Tianzhuo execution ground of the Ministry of Justice to be executed and the nine clans were killed.
After Concubine Shun confessed, she randomly scrambled to confess, recruiting almost all the Korean tribute concubines into accomplices.
In a rage, Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty did not investigate in detail and ordered all the Korean tribute women to be arrested and executed by Lingchi. This time, historical records recorded that 2,800 people were killed in a row. The Korean tribute women in the Ming Palace were almost completely killed.
Concubine Shun and three others were taken down to the Ministry of Justice's Heavenly Prison Execution Field and executed by Lingchi. Seeing that the conspiracy succeeded, Ji Gang felt very proud. Next, he waited for the Ming Chengzu to issue an order to destroy the nine clans of Yang Qiuchi.
Yang Qiuchi felt a chill when he heard Ming Chengzu's order to arrest and execute these Korean concubines and tribute girls. Ming Chengzu was really bloodthirsty and didn't know if he could escape this disaster. He touched the 77-style pistol on the calves and was ready to fight to the death.
After Ming Chengzu took care of the others, he looked at Yang Qiuchi coldly. Because Yang Qiuchi had never pleaded guilty, it was difficult to start directly. He asked again: "What else do you have to say?"
Yang Qiuchi said: "Emperor, I did not kill the concubine Xian, all of this is Ji Gang..."
"Ba~!" Ming Chengzu slapped his desk and shouted: "Shut up! The evidence is indeed sufficient. You dare to deny it and even frame others!"
Ji Gang smiled proudly at the corner of his mouth.
Yang Qiuchi was desperate, smiled miserably, and said loudly: "I have one more thing to say."
"You said!" Ming Chengzu stared at Yang Qiuchi with a blue face.
Yang Qiuchi said: "I finally understand the true meaning of 'Rabbit and dog cooking'. It is not that when a rabbit dies, he will kill the hunting dog to eat it immediately. In that case, others will say that the owner is unkind and righteous. Therefore, you must find out the problem of this hunting dog, such as barking at night, urinating and defecating everywhere, eating and picking on food, etc., and then killing the hunting dog. This way, you can say: You see, I don't have 'Rabbit and dog cooking'. I killed it because he made these mistakes! Of course, he has to kill the land!"
Ming Chengzu laughed in anger: "Hehe, are you accusing me of being unkind and righteous?"
"Yes!" Yang Qiuchi knew that the deadline was coming, and said boldly: "Since my debut, I shot and killed Hong Ying, the chief supervisor of Jianwen, captured Jianwen's confidant Wang Cheng, and solved the He family and Hao family's rebellion case. I informed me that I saved the rebellion case of the Xianfei, smashed the Duke of Wei, Xu Qin, Mi Yuanwai and others in Wuchang, and eliminated the suffering of the soldiers of the Dawn people. I defeated Jianwen's lair, captured Jianwen's confidant Cheng Ji, Jianwen's son Zhu Wenkui, killed the rebel emperor Luofa King, captured Jianwen's confidant Yang Yingneng, smashed the rebellion case of Li Zhiye, the commander-in-chief of Sichuan, and asked himself that he was loyal to the country and was loyal. Unexpectedly, he could not escape the fate of a rabbit and a dog cooking! Is this also a benevolence?"
Ming Chengzu sneered: "Are you giving me credit?"
"That's right! I fought for the emperor through life and death, and I died several times. I had no credit and hard work. I was tired even if I didn't work. Just relying on the evidence of the full range of loopholes obtained by Ji Gang's torture confession, the emperor would punish me for death and I would not accept it even if I died!"
"All loopholes?" Ming Chengzu sneered, "Okay, I'll just listen to you, why are there so many loopholes? Don't say that I'm unkind and righteous to you!"
"Okay!" Yang Qiuchi said, turning to Ji Gang, "I'll ask you, why should I obey Concubine Shun's instructions and murder the Concubine Xian? What's the benefit to me?"
"Concubine Xian gave you a reward!" Ji Gang felt that this reason was very sufficient.
"Hahaha! Reward? What reward can she, a concubine, give me? Will she be promoted or make a fortune?"
"Promoted..." Ji Gang remembered that the virtuous concubine had no such power and changed her words: "No... I will give you gold, silver and jewelry!"
"I solved the case of the He Yuanwai family funding the Jianwen rebellion and the Hao family's rebellion case. The emperor rewarded me with both of his families. Do you know how much money is? Although it is not as good as the people's fat and ointment you have plundered, it is enough. Just the money earned by the Hao family in Ningguo Mansion in a year can fill this house! And Concubine Xian, a Korean tribute concubine, has customized her monthly money. How much money does she have to buy me? I was already a rich party at that time, and would still be greedy for her little money?"
"Hehe, there are also shortcomings in people's hearts!"
"Do you think others are as greedy as you?" Yang Qiuchi sneered: "Okay, let me ask you another question. If you can answer it perfectly, I will die if I lead you to the neck, and I will never say anything!"
"So you're serious?"
"Do you think I'm farting like you?"
Chapter completed!