People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 622
In the dry cell, screams of pain kept ringing out.

Hidden under the screams, there was a sound of leather whips and iron irons.

Li Xuan walked into the interrogation room calmly, the scarlet flames lit up the entire interrogation room, and the smell of blood rushed over.

Four black pawns were hung on the wall, and within a short moment, the four had been beaten to a bloody mess.

Seven-star whips, rib knives, bone-piercing spurs, and more than a dozen instruments of torture were placed on the table.

Li Xuan stood at the door, looked sideways at Zhang Huan, and asked calmly, "Is there anything special among these people today?"

"Yes!" Zhang Huan smiled, then walked to the middle of the four, and grabbed the face of the person on the left.

This is a middle-aged man in his thirties, with fair skin and three-dimensional facial features.

But at this time, whip marks had already been drawn on his face, and blood stains flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Zhang Huan picked up his long hair, looked at the black pawns around, and said with a sneer, "Every time this person is beaten, the others always look up as if they feel the same way."

"He's still a big shot." Li Xuan nodded, looked at the other black pawns who looked stunned, and waved his hand: "If that's the case, then greet them well, and add two more people."

All of a sudden, the two Qianniuwei who were torturing the others immediately stepped forward, their eyes fixed on the middle-aged black pawn.

At this moment, a burst of footsteps sounded outside the door.

Under the leadership of Zhou Qian, two Zhang Gu of the Ministry of Punishment, and Xu Butou of Hangzhou Governor's Mansion, walked in from the outside.

Seeing the three people being tortured on the wall, the expressions of the three people didn't change at all, as if it was commonplace.

The two Zhang Gu of the Criminal Department turned around and cupped their hands towards Li Xuan: "Gao Ping, Leng Lin, the Criminal Department, has met the King of Nanchang."

The tall one is Gao Ping, and the short one is Leng Lin.

"You two are welcome." Li Xuan waved her hands indifferently, looked sideways at Zhou Gan, and said, "Go through the formalities for a few of you, and the others will hand it over first, and the four on the wall will wait."

"Here!" Zhou Gan looked at Gao Ping and Leng Lin, raised his eyes and asked, "Who is going with me?"

"I'll go." Leng Lin stood up, Li Xuan waved his hands, and focused his eyes on the person on the wall.

At this time, Li Xuan waved his hand suddenly, and said in a cold voice: "Separate these four people into one interrogation room, one for interrogation?"

"Here!" The surrounding Qianniuwei immediately stepped forward and separated the four of them.

Although the four of them didn't scream, there was a trace of fear in their eyes.

After a while, Li Xuan walked into a cell alone, and it was the middle-aged black pawn inside.

Li Xuan instantly picked up a red soldering iron and walked up to him.

The fiery red soldering iron kept shaking in front of his skin, and he could clearly feel the scorching heat, but the soldering iron just didn't fall on his body, completely lifting his heart.

"It turns out that your name is Wenyi. You were the one who was at the east gate of the city that day. Your elder brother Wenzhong died at our hands in the previous siege. Now you just need to tell this king that Wenxu is hiding in the Where, this king will give you a chance to kill your enemies." Li Xuan's voice was very soft, but it penetrated directly into Wen Yi's mind like the voice of a devil.

Wen Yi raised his head sharply, staring fixedly at Li Xuan.

It has been two months since Wusheng Heizu fled to Tianmu Mountain, but during these two months, the government's pursuit has never stopped.

It was alright at first, but it was the arresters and guards from the Hangzhou government, and even the people from the Ministry of Punishment came, but there was nothing they could do about it.

After the three thousand soldiers in Li Xuan's hands were trained, they were soon put into the mountainous area to suppress bandits.

There were only a hundred people in the area, and they were directly defeated by the newly trained soldiers in the first confrontation.

Wen Zhong died in the battle that time, but few black pawns were captured alive, and even if they were captured, no one spoke.

In the following several sieges, the losses of the black pawns became more and more serious.

The officers and soldiers seemed to be able to directly lock their positions, hunting and killing them directly again and again.

The only one who is still at large is Wenyi's second brother Wenxiao.

The black pawns around Wen Xiao were probably all dead long ago.

Wen Yi tightly shut his mouth, no matter what Li Xuan said, he just kept silent.

At this moment, Wen Yi suddenly saw Li Xuan directly blocking the view from behind, deliberately moved closer, and said in a low voice, "Where did you say, where is Wen Xu, An Ning, An Ning Square in the north of the city?"

Seeing Li Xuan finished speaking inexplicably, then turned around and backed away, Wen Yi suddenly understood, opened his mouth suddenly, and shouted: "No, he's not in Anning Square, isn't he in Anning Square?"

With a "boom", the sharp long sword swung fiercely, and the iron chains on both sides broke instantly.

Wen Yi fell to the ground all of a sudden, and the long sword from before also fell in front of his eyes.

Then Li Xuan said coldly: "This king promised you to give you a chance, now you only need to kill this king, then Wen Xu can escape from Anning Square..."

Before Li Xuan's voice fell, Wen Yi had already grabbed the long sword and rushed towards Li Xuan.

But... Two sharp sword lights flashed, followed by the long sword falling to the ground, Wen Yi froze in place for a moment, two cuts had been cut on his wrists.

Li Xuan turned around, walked towards the door, and at the same time shouted in a low voice: "Order Qianniuwei, and the Jinwuwei will collectively attack and arrest Anningfang!"

"Ah, no..." Behind him, an extremely angry voice sounded, and a figure had rushed towards Li Xuan viciously.

At this time, there was a "whoosh", and a crossbow arrow suddenly shot out from Li Xuan's ear, and directly shot into Wen Yi's chest.

"The prisoner rioted, and his subordinates were forced to shoot him." Su Baotong cupped his hands at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction, then looked at Gao Ping, who was stunned, and said with a cold face: "Let's go, Gao Zhanggu, you heard me, he is hiding in Anning Fang, this time as long as you catch him, you Then I can go back to Chang'an for a business trip."

The corner of Gao Ping's mouth twitched slightly, and finally he cupped his hands to Li Xuan and said, "I will obey the order."

"Yeah!" Li Xuan nodded, and then quickly walked outside. Outside, Qianniuwei and Jinwuwei were all ready.

Gao Ping was at the end, glanced at Wen Yi who was lying on the ground, dying, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "It's a shame to die!"

Today's scene seemed somewhat strange to Gao Ping. The King of Nanchang simply separated the four of them, and someone soon confessed Wen Yi's identity. Wen Yi was forced by Li Xuan to confess to Wen Xu hiding place.

It's unbelievable to be smooth, and unbelievable to be smooth.

Although Gao Ping suspected that there was something strange in it, he didn't know how to figure out the strangeness inside.

Wen Yi was already dead, so it was difficult to make any progress even if he wanted to investigate.

Forget it, as soon as he turned around, Wen Yi quickly left the cell.

Xu Butou of the Hangzhou Mansion asked some of his subordinates to transfer the other black soldiers to the state prison with the new soldiers of the King of Nanchang, while he himself led another part of his subordinates, followed Leng Lin, and together with Qianniuwei and Jinwuwei, quickly rushed to Anningfang.

Gao Ping quickly joined Leng Lin, and only when there were fewer people, he explained the matter in detail.

After hearing his question, Leng Lin looked at him with some surprise: "Don't you know that the King of Nanchang has always been good at manipulating people's hearts, such things rarely escape his means."

Gao Ping was stunned, this fool.

There is no way to investigate this matter.

……

In Anning Square in the north of Hangzhou City, amidst the sound of morning bells and evening drums, the people returned home quickly, and the sky was gradually getting dark.

Under the square gate, the lights are bright.

A group of Qianniu Guards and Jin Wu Guards have completely divided the entire Anning Square.

Li Xuan looked at the head of the workshop standing in front of him, pointed to Xu Butou next to him, and said indifferently: "This is Xu Butou from the state government office. He is now in charge of all legal affairs in the state government office. Shi is coming, so..."

"My lord has a question, I will tell you everything." The head of the workshop licked his lips and quickly cupped his hands.

Li Xuan nodded slightly, thought for a while, and then asked: "In the entire Anning Square, has any house or houses been stolen in the past few months?"

"Stolen?" Although the head of the workshop was a little confused, he still said respectfully: "An Ningfang, most of them are real estate purchased by some officials who used to work in Hangzhou, such as Yuan Governor, no, Yuan Dudu."

Li Xuan waved her hand directly, and said, "I understand what you mean, let's continue."

"Here!" The head of the workshop slightly arched his hands, then stood up straight, and said in a deep voice: "Nowadays, most of the people living in the workshop are servants of these officials. Some servants do have unclean hands and feet, such as Zhao Si from the Li family. Xu Liu from the Wang family would occasionally steal some things and sell them quietly, the master doesn't care, and we don't have to ask too much."

Looking up and seeing that Li Xuan didn't say a word, the head of the workshop continued: "Other than these, there are not many outsiders entering our place. If something is stolen by an outsider, we can basically find it after we report to the police. .”

"Also, are there any other things that make you feel strange?"

"Strange?" The head of the workshop was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously looked at a certain mansion deep in the workshop.

"Say!"

"Yes!" Fang Chang shuddered suddenly, and then said quickly: "That is the Li Mansion. In the middle of last month, Zhao Si suddenly said that a thief had entered the house. The old man asked him what he had lost, and he said that he lost it yesterday. Two pieces of pancakes, half a pot of porridge was missing the day before yesterday, and he said it was stolen, but he couldn't explain how it was stolen. The old man said he had seen hell, and no one stole these things, and he didn't say anything after that gone."

Li Xuan looked sideways at Gao Ping and Leng Lin, and asked, "What do you two think is going on?"

"Someone is hiding in his house." Gao Ping was very sure.

"Then why are you still standing there?" Li Xuan waved her hand and said coldly, "Seal off the Li family's house and the two nearby houses, and search them one by one."

A large group of Qianniuwei and Jinwuwei immediately headed in the direction of Li's house.

Li Xuan, Xu Butou, Gao Ping and Leng Lin were at the end.

Li Xuan glanced at the head of the workshop, and asked calmly: "Which Li family is this Li family?"

The head of the workshop hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Oh, it is the British government, and this house is the property of the British government."

"Well, Li Jingye?" Li Xuan stopped suddenly, and asked with a surprised face: "As far as I know, no one in the Li family has ever worked in Hangzhou, right? Why did you buy a house in Hangzhou?"

(End of this chapter)