Chapter 320 It was you who killed him
Just when Gao Lian was executed in the painting by Zhao Duan.
Outside the prison of the Ministry of Punishments, a carriage escorted by the Forbidden Army on horseback and holding torches drove from the palace and stopped outside the formidable building.
Mochou opened the curtain and stepped down. Without any hesitation, he led a group of people behind him into the prison.
"Miss Mo?!" Due to Wang Chusheng's sudden death, several officials who were urgently arranged to take charge of matters here in the prison were shocked. They all came out to greet you: "Why did you alert you to come here? Could it be that His Majesty had some orders?"
Mochou was too lazy to pay attention to them. The female official's eyebrows were filled with evil spirits and she said coldly: "I want to interrogate Gao Lian."
"This..." The Minister of Justice who was present was stunned for a moment.
"Interrogate him alone. Take me to his cell. No one else can come near." Mochou ignored the other party's reaction and continued.
The Minister of Punishment immediately said: "Please, I will personally take the eldest girl there. Don't worry, she is well looked after."
Mochou glanced at him and said, "I said, no one can get close to me."
The Minister of Punishment's expression was stagnant, but Mo Chou ignored the big shot and directly nodded to the cell leader to lead the way, and then led a group of forbidden troops into the prison brazenly.
"Your Excellency, Mo Zhaorong is going to..." Next to them, a chief officer was nervous and worried. The witness died tonight, and they were afraid that your Majesty would convict him.
"Don't worry, don't ask! Do your job well!" the Minister of Justice scolded, staring at the latter: "If you don't want to die."
Beads of sweat instantly broke out on the forehead of the head of the Criminal Department.
The former waved away the gathered officials, turned his head and took a deep look at the prison, his expression was solemn, and he let out a deep breath.
Outsiders didn't know it, but he knew that after the Xuanmen coup, the empress purged the palace of rebels. This little-known female official had a lot of lives on her hands.
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"Mo Zhaorong, I'm at the front, locked up alone." Inside the prison, the cell leader smiled obsequiously and led the group of people through the corridor.
Pointing to a cell door in front of him, he said, "This is it."
Then, he yelled at the top of his lungs: "You are a corrupt official? Why don't you welcome the heavenly officials quickly!"
There was silence.
Mochou felt uneasy in her heart, and she walked over quickly. The imperial guards behind her knocked the prison head to one side, and gathered at the door, illuminated by torches.
In the cell, Gao Lian was sitting cross-legged and meditating like an eminent monk with his back to everyone, his head hanging down, motionless.
"Something's wrong!"
Mochou's eyes narrowed: "Open the door!"
Next to him, a forbidden soldier drew a knife and cut off the cell chain, stepped in, and pushed with the back of his knife.
As soon as he touched it, Gao Lian's body was so soft that it fell to the ground. His expression was peaceful, and he died extremely peacefully with no trace of injury.
"Dead!" The Forbidden Army sniffed and said in horror.
Mochou was stunned, astonishment appeared on his cold face.
"There are writings on the ground!"
As torches filled the cell, Mochou followed the sound and looked over, only to see a short confession written in blood on the ground in front of the body.
Mochou stared at this scene blankly, his expression becoming extremely weird.
Is it okay if the person is gone before she takes action? Who finished the job first?
"Leave half of the troops to seal the scene, and the rest will follow me out!" Mochou suddenly ordered, turned around and hurried out.
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"That's okay, you don't need to take me home, just leave me here."
Two streets away from the Ministry of Justice, on a quiet street.
Jin Jian dragged Zhao Duan and gently floated to the ground in an "invisible" state.
"Oh." The girl priest is obedient and prefers to be lazy. She was very happy to hear that she didn't have to work hard to take people back.
"Don't you want to send me back?" Zhao Duan saw her excitement and asked quietly.
"Yeah!" Jin Jian nodded vigorously. The girl was one of the most frank people, without any adulteration. She said confidently: "Flying with people is very tiring."
As he spoke, he exhaled heavily, pretending to be tired, to enhance his persuasion.
Then she stared at him with her big expectant eyes flickering - thanks to the crystal glasses, she evolved from the "dark eyes" Jin Jian to the "eyes can talk" Jin Jian.
For example, at this moment, there seem to be two big words written in my eyes:
Bill, please!
"..." Zhao Duan sighed, took out a banknote from his sleeve and stuffed it in. The latter smiled happily, lowered his head in joy, and carefully put the banknote into his purse.
"I'm telling you, this money is not for free. You must learn to forget what happened tonight and not tell anyone. Do you understand?" Zhao Duan warned. Jin Jian put down the banknote and raised her head blankly: "What happened tonight?"
"...Very good, go back."
"oh."
The golden simplification turned into a puff of starlight and disappeared.
Zhao Duan was the only one left on the cold street. He shook his head. After working with Jin Jian so many times, he could say that he was very happy and relieved.
Although this girl looks confused, she is actually a very smart and reassuring teammate.
"call……"
After exhaling, Zhao Duan walked on the deserted street, turned his head and looked back in the direction of the Prison Department, recalling the scene of Gao Lian's death in his mind.
"Does this count as applying what you have learned?" He complained to relieve the heaviness after the murder, and walked towards the imperial office ahead.
He was going to stay overnight in the Yamen on the pretext of seeking information. However, just after he had walked out for a quarter of an hour, he suddenly stopped in front of a crossroads.
I saw a familiar carriage with the emblem of the palace parked at the intersection under the moonlight.
Beside the car were several guards holding torches, as if they were waiting for him.
The car curtain was lifted, and with the excellent night vision of Shenzhang Realm, he clearly saw Da Bingtuozi's face that said, "It's really you."
inside the carriage.
When the thick curtains were lowered, Zhao Duan clearly heard that the Imperial Guards near the carriage, and even the coachman, all moved away in tacit agreement, leaving a sufficient distance to guard the surrounding intersections.
He looked across and saw Mochou lighting a small lamp for lighting in the car and putting away the flint.
The orange-yellow halo spread, illuminating their faces.
"Why are you here?"
The two said this sentence in unison.
Then they looked at each other in silence.
Zhao Duan chuckled and made a gesture of invitation, ladies first.
Mochou looked at him coldly and said, "Don't tell me that you heard the news of Wang Chusheng's death and went to the imperial office to check on the situation."
Zhao Duan was shocked and said: "Zhao Rong is extremely intelligent, and Zhao admires him very much."
Mochou sneered and said, "You think I'm stupid? You only need two legs to get to the Yamen?"
Energy conservation and emission reduction are not enough, but riding a horse does not require fodder? Zhao Duan was dissatisfied and retorted: "Miss Mo left the palace so late, instead of going to the Ministry of Punishment to check on the situation, she stopped me instead. She wouldn't have specially taken me into the palace to sleep with her, would she?"
Mr. Zhao accurately identifies the weaknesses of different people and is used to exploiting them. For example, he will use dirty jokes to make the princess retreat, and another example.
The mention of the empress at this moment made Mochou immediately lose his power. She said with a sullen face: "I just came from the Penal Department Prison. Gao Lian is dead. You must have killed him."
Zhao Duan remained silent.
He actually acquiesced... Mo Chou was startled. Even though he had already made a guess, he still couldn't help but stare wide-eyed: "How dare you?!"
How dare? !
Zhao Duan smiled and said: "As a minister, isn't it your duty to share your Majesty's worries? A smart minister should get things done without His Majesty opening his mouth."
His tone was slightly sarcastic: "Mo Zhaorong left the palace overnight, didn't he come to kill people and silence them?"
Mochou was stunned for a moment, and anger filled his face: "What nonsense are you talking about? How could I do that?"
"No way?" Zhao Duan chuckled and said, "But if it's not true, it would be strange. Why did you happen to bump into Gao Lian just after his death? What a coincidence, and besides, your acting skills are a bit clumsy, and people's thoughts are broken by it. Sometimes, you often use anger to cover up, and your expression has been exposed. "
Mochou, who had successfully been tricked out of her thoughts, took a deep breath. She knew that she had never tasted the benefits in many previous confrontations, so she stopped arguing with him and said with a straight face: "How could you..."
"How would I know? Or, how could I think this?"
Zhao Duan sighed softly, sat back on the soft cushions of the carriage, and said quietly: "Because His Majesty needs to die a noble death. Isn't this obvious from the beginning?" Chen and I When Hong Hong came out, he once heard him say that throughout the dynasties, the imperial envoys who were sent out to handle cases were not primarily there to investigate cases, but to figure out the emperor's thoughts first.
Just like during the late emperor's time, there was a case of imperial examination fraud. The late emperor sent four waves of imperial envoys to investigate the case, which took more than a year. Why? It was not because it was difficult to investigate, but because the late emperor was not satisfied with the conclusions of the cases submitted by the first three waves of people...
Haha, that's too far. In short, when Chen Yushi told me, I understood that he was hinting to me that His Majesty needed a major case to scare the monkeys. As the saying goes, if you hit with one punch, you can avoid hundreds of punches...
In the implementation of the New Deal, the most difficult thing to deal with was the interests of the families represented by the Jiangnan gentry, and Gao Lian, as expected, became the outcome of this game. "
He said helplessly: "So, when I arrived at Taicang Mansion, I mobilized troops and horses with great fanfare and put on a thorough investigation posture. Fortunately or unfortunately, Gao Lian is really the backer behind the scenes. Ha, if he wasn't, it would be my turn to have a headache. Find out who bears this grave sin.
If he were the late emperor, he would probably either directly convict him or pretend that nothing happened, but the situation facing his majesty is more complicated.
Your Majesty needs to be a magnanimous and wise king, a saintly king, to win the hearts and minds of the people and defeat the accusations of unfair government slandered by the rebel party. Therefore, she cannot act arbitrarily and can only go to the three-level trial. "
Zhao Duan was expressionless: "But obviously, some people don't want His Majesty to be such a wise king."
(End of chapter)