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Chapter 825 Hongli, you traitor!

After night fell, the prison of the Ministry of Justice was eerily quiet.

In fact, the Ministry of Punishment, which was located above the Jinyiwei official office in the former Ming Dynasty, had two large prisons.

The second institute is also known as the North-South Institute by the outside world.

The prisoners held by A are mainly criminal officials, while the prisoners held by B are mainly criminals sentenced to death.

As the leader of the former government, the rich thief Lehun, the chief minister of military aircraft, was naturally imprisoned in Unit A.

Together with the wealthy thief, thirteen important ministers of the court, including Yiletu, Minister of the Ministry of War, Kuini, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Fu Ming'an, Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhong Yin, Minister of the Imperial Palace, and Enming, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, were also imprisoned in Station A along with the rich thief.

As the low-level civil servants who are not even considered officials, the jailers don't know what crimes these important ministers committed and were imprisoned, but the officials of the Ministry of Punishment knew all about it.

Today, more than half of the officials of the Ministry of Punishment have changed from top to bottom.

The former hall official Se Kexi himself wrote a letter to resign, and after the emperor approved, he ordered Jingyan lecturer, Prime Minister Guozijian, and Deputy Du Tongguanbao of Xiangbaiqi Han Army to replace Se Kexi as the chief officer of the Ministry of Punishment.

Guan Bao was born in Zhengbai Banner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and belonged to the emperor's domestic slave. This person took over as Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment with a mission.

Sure enough, the first thing Guan Bao did after he took office was to change the Ministry of Punishment. He demoted or relocated all the officials who had been promoted by Manchu Shangshu Se Kexi. Lean personnel formed three task forces.

The first task force was headed by Liu Yong, the right servant of the Criminal Ministry, with as many as 28 members, but only the rich thief Lehun was called.

It is necessary to pry the rich thief Lehun's mouth open, and let him confess how many of his henchmen have not been arrested, and what crimes he has committed against the Qing Dynasty behind the emperor's back.

According to the emperor's instructions, the key point is to dig deep into whether the rich thief had formed a faction between Sichuan and Jia thief Shikai before.

The second task force is led by Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Punishment, with 36 members. It is responsible for calling on the former imperial minister Zhong Yin, the Minister of War Fu Mingan and other key members of the arrested wealthy thieves.

The task is roughly the same as that of the first task force, which is to dig deep into the members of the rich party who have not been exposed, and to let these key members of the rich party write confessions and confessions.

The third task force is headed by the first-class bodyguard and Long Wu sent by the emperor, and has 25 members. Like the first task force, it only calls on the Minister of Rites, Queenie.

Because Queenie is currently the No.1 and only one of Jia thief Shikai's party members arrested in Beijing.

Another Jia thief's confidant, the official minister A Siha, absconded with money when the case happened. At present, arrest documents have been sent to various places, but there is no news of A Siha's arrest.

The members of the task force speculated that Asiha might have absconded into the Huguang Jia bandit army, so they suggested arresting Asiha's wife, children, and children who had been thrown in Beijing, and looking for relevant clues from them.

This suggestion was rejected by the working group leader and Long Wu, because the higher-ups hoped that the investigation of members of the Fu Party and the Jia Party would be conducted in secret, and it was not appropriate to expand it, let alone make too much noise.

After all, the current situation in the capital seems to be stable, but in fact it is still not peaceful.

Under the calm lake, there are turbulent waves hidden.

If you really want to start a big case rashly, it is very likely to cause unmanageable consequences.

So far, the three task forces have made mixed progress.

The first task force headed by Liu Yong can be said to have made no progress. The reason is that the rich gangsters are extremely hard-headed. Even if Liu Yong threatened the lives of his wife and children, the rich gangsters refused to confess, and they had the audacity to say that they were the number one loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. What, Liu Yong was so angry that he wanted to strangle this old thief alive.

The emperor also demanded that the rich thief should not be allowed to die easily, so Liu Yong did not dare to use torture lightly in the face of the tough character of the rich thief. As a result, the interrogation work against the rich thief was delayed.

In the past few days, Liu Shilang was really wandering around like ants on a hot pot.

The second task force responsible for the underwriting has made some progress, but the harvest is not great, only some small fish and shrimps have been dug up, and no big fish have been caught.

The third task force in charge of He Longwu also made no progress. Even though they interrogated Queenie three times in succession and tortured them three times, the official of the Ministry of Rites who was tortured to death insisted that he did not form a party with Prince Rui for personal gain.

What made He Longwu even more angry was that every time when the interrogation was over, Queenie would use her own blood to write a big word "injustice" on the ground with the last bit of energy.

As if he, Queenie, had really been wronged.

Queenie refused to recruit, and He Longwu wanted to use this case to show his face in front of the emperor, so after much deliberation, he planned to have Mrs. Queenie, who was imprisoned in the North Institute, brought over.

It is intended that Queenie will witness the humiliation of his wife with his own eyes, so that his dignity as a man will completely collapse. In this way, there may be a chance of a breakthrough.

However, this matter was persuaded by a third-class guard under him, who secretly told Mr. He that although Queenie's wife was a second wife, she was Jia Thief Shikai's cousin.

But now Jia thief Shikai has not been caught, and still holds the army, so it is not yet known who will win the battle.

Therefore, if Master He takes the example of Jia Bandit's cousin, in case that Jia Bandit does not fall, but raises his troops to go north, how will Sir He deal with himself then?

All night long, he and Long Wu were thinking about this problem, but he still couldn't make up his mind, because what the guard said made sense.

He and Long Wu were ordered to interrogate Queenie, and it was official business.

But if Mrs. Queeney was involved, it would not be as simple as business affairs.

Feeling a bit upset for a while, I went outside the office to do the stretching exercises in Lower Manchuria, but I accidentally saw a lantern in the distance going to the A office.

There seemed to be a few figures vaguely.

Somewhat curious, he waved his hand to call the guard on duty, and asked who had gone to Office A just now.

The guard replied that it seemed to be Master Liu Yong.

"It's so late, Mr. Liu is not resting, and he is still busy interrogating rich thieves?"

He feels ashamed of Longwu, and admires that old boy Liu Yong's tenacity.

After feeling a lot of emotion, I felt the cold was threatening, so I went back to the house.

The person who just passed with the lantern was indeed the servant Liu Yong, but he did not go to Office A alone, there were two people behind him.

If He Longwu came to see it, he would be surprised to find that the two behind Liu Yong were the current Emperor Qianlong and his favorite minister He Shen.

In the middle of the night, the emperor suddenly came to the Ministry of Punishment and said that he would interrogate the rich thief himself, which made Liu Yong full of doubts.

In the hundred years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor has never personally come to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to interrogate criminals!
With doubts, he hurried to the prison of Jiajian, and after calling the relevant personnel to give a few instructions, the three of them, the monarch and his ministers, went down the stone ladder to the depths of the prison of the Ministry of punishment.

Due to the bad smell deep in the prison, Liu Yong ordered someone to bring the rich thief here for value. He didn't want the emperor but said no, so he took He Shen alone to the cell where the rich thief was detained, and ordered Liu Yong to stay in the value room until he was called. past.

Liu Yong was even more confused when the emperor acted like this, and he was even more curious. He really wanted to know what the emperor wanted to ask the rich thief.

But it's so far away that I can't hear it at all.

After the emperor spoke a few words with the rich thief outside the cell door, the rich thief suddenly stood up excitedly, grabbed the fence with one hand, and pointed at the emperor with the other and roared angrily:
"Zhenzhenzhen, what kind of dog footed Zhen, what qualifications do you, Chen Jialuo, have to call me! Sooner or later, you traitor will be hanged on the city gate by my Eight Banners soldiers and civilians!"

(End of this chapter)