The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 118 The Eighth Elder Turns Out
Ma Youlu said: "I, I haven't offended the two superiors!"

Fatty Xu asked: "You haven't offended us, so what's the point of giving us money? It's because you're guilty of being a thief."

Ma Youlu was in a cold sweat: "The servants went to set up a ship at sea before. Didn't they encounter three villages that were slaughtered by Japanese pirates on the way?"

"I'm thinking of sending you some money. I told you not to report that there are pirates making trouble in the southeast of the imperial court."

Chang Feng sneered: "Heh, how do you know that the three villages were slaughtered by Japanese pirates? Not bandits?"

Ma Youlu knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, so he immediately shut up.

Chang Feng also stopped talking to him.Instruct Fatty Xu to take off Ma Youlu's shoes.

Holding an iron nail, he made gestures on Ma Youlu's left thumb.

Ma Youlu shouted: "On business, what do you want to do?"

Chang Feng still didn't speak.Shi Wenyi next to him handed him a small hammer.

Chang Feng "ding, ding, ding" three times, directly piercing Ma Youlu's toe with an iron nail.

"Ah!" He howled like a pig, and fainted from the pain.

Chang Feng pulled out the iron nail. "Ah!" Ma Youlu woke up from the pain again.

Chang Feng didn't ask any questions, but raised his head and asked Shi Wenyi, "Where's the salt?"

Shi Wenyi handed over the salt.Chang Feng took it and sprinkled it on Ma Youlu's wound.

Ma Youlu fainted for the second time.Fatty Xu poured a basin of cold water over his head, waking him up.

Ma Youlu burst into tears and snot: "On the job, what are you doing? If you want money, I will give it!"

"If you want women, I can buy all the boat girls on the entire West Lake and give them to you."

"You guys are talking!"

Chang Feng and Fatty Xu ignored Ma Youlu at all.This is an interrogation technique in memory recovery.

First torture, then ask questions.The prisoner will be more anxious than the interrogator.

Chang Feng said: "Take off Ma Youlu's pants."

Fatty Xu took the order and stripped Ma Youlu naked.

Then Fatty Xu took out the soldering iron from the brazier, and gestured at Ma Youlu's place.

Chang Feng said: "I said fat man. We Jinyiwei use a branding iron to brand people, always on the chest. Why do you want to brand that place?"

"The burnt wound on the front chest can still heal. If the burnt part is damaged, it will be really damaged."

Fatty Xu said: "I just want to try, if the place is burnt, can it be cured with a panacea."

Ma Youlu was completely devastated: "Bosses, you don't want money, you don't want women, you must be trying to pry something out of me, right?"

"I must know everything, and I can say everything! You just ask!"

Fatty Xu put down the soldering iron.

Chang Fengdao: "Ma Youlu. 40 years old. His ancestral home is Shandong. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, his ancestor fled to Hangzhou. He has been doing business for generations."

"On the surface, you are the head of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce. In fact, you are the head of the Hangzhou branch of the Universal Association."

"Your business is all over the south of the Yangtze River. But the most profitable one is the smuggling of tea, silk, and porcelain to Japanese and Westerners."

"Am I right?"

Ma Youlu was dumbfounded: "The boss actually knew about the Universal Meeting?"

Chang Feng smiled slightly: "Jin Yiwei knows half of the things in the sky. Jin Yiwei knows everything about the earth."

Changfeng's cowhide blows really loudly.

Ma Youlu calmed down: "The job should be clear. Behind me stand the entire southeast official circles and scholars. There are also people in the capital who are my backers!"

"If you torture me here, you won't be afraid of them. Ah!"

Chang Feng sprinkled a handful of salt on Ma Youlu's toe wound.

Chang Feng said: "You know, there is a word in our Jinyiwei called Secret Arrangement."

"During the Western Wu Palace, Jinyiwei was also called the Gongwei Division. The first person we opened the Secret Order was King Xiao Ming."

"During the Chenghua period, everything from the governor of the second rank to the assistant minister of the third rank. We still talk about the secret order and the secret order."

"I have secretly executed you here without anyone noticing. Will your backers know that I did it?"

"Don't forget, we are brother-in-law who slept with a woman on the same boat. Who would have thought that I would kill my brother-in-law?"

Ma Youlu's arrogance immediately faded when he got up: "What do you want to ask?"

Chang Feng said: "I want to know everything about the Universal Society! Shi Wenyi, record the confession with pen and ink."

Ma Youlu said: "If I say it, I will die. The elders of the Universal Society will kill me."

Chang Feng scratched his chin: "Yes, you will die whether you say it or not. The difference is that Four Seas will kill you, and maybe leave you with a whole body."

"When we kill you, we eunuch you first with a hot iron. We eunuch first and then we kill you!"

Fatty Xu smirked at the side: "Jie Jie Jie. The eunuchs in the palace still pay attention to getting a whole body when they die."

"Before they die, they will use their life savings to redeem their treasures from the respect room outside Xihuamen, and they will be buried with the corpses in the future."

"A rich man like Ma Huishou ended up dead, thanks to Dehuang!"

Ma Youlu completely collapsed: "I said, I said everything."

The interrogation of Ma Youlu lasted a whole night.

The more Chang Feng asked, the more frightened he became.The influence of the Universal Society has penetrated into almost every prefecture and county along the southeast coast.

The entire southeastern officialdom can get a share of the smuggling trade of the gentry.

The total amount of smuggling trade with Japan and the West every year is more than ten million taels.Smuggling is huge profits, and the entire Universal Society can profit more than 400 million taels from it.

Half of the top treasury's annual total income is discounted!
Joining forces with Japanese pirates is the way they left themselves.In the words of later generations, the Japanese pirates are the backers of the Universal Society.

A large number of fake Japanese were arranged by them to the side of the real Japanese, and they plundered together with the real Japanese.

The smuggled goods were loaded on land, under the protection of the government and the guards.When it is transported by sea, it will be protected by Japanese pirate fleets.

What Yang Tinghe said before was right.If it is true, it will be investigated layer by layer according to the law of the Ming Dynasty.I am afraid that the number of people killed in the four founding cases of Kongyin, Guo Huan, Lanyu, and Hu Weiyong is not as high as this case of Tongwa.

The most troublesome thing is that the civil servants in the southeast have to sweep them away without saying anything.The Guards Army was also involved.

Investigate the Tongwo case, maybe there will be a mutiny!By then, the entire southeast will be in chaos!The new emperor's dragon chair was also unstable.

Chang Feng asked the last and most crucial question: "Who are the eight elders of the Universal Society?"

Ma Youlu laughed dumbfounded: "Even if I confess, I'm afraid you won't be able to move."

Fatty Xu picked up the soldering iron directly: "It seems that we should castrate first and then kill!"

Ma Youlu had no choice but to say: "I say it's not enough! The eight elders have the same status regardless of size."

"The first elder is Xiao Quan, elder brother of Bingbi Xiao Jing, the supervisor of ceremonies. He specializes in porcelain business in Jiangxi."

Changfeng took a breath.

The three chief inspectors are Xiao Jing, Qian Neng and Li Guang.

Xiao Jing is the chief writer.

He is Wynn's younger brother.We have a good relationship with Wynn.When Emperor Hongzhi moved to the East Palace, he was also Emperor Hongzhi's personal eunuch.

If one day Wynn is gone.Xiao Jing is definitely the successor of the Supervisor of Rites.

Move his fetal brother?Borrowing the common wind would not dare a hundred courage.

If his fetal brother is involved in the case of Tongwa, his chief supervisor, Bingbi, will not be able to do it.

This will upset the delicate balance of inner and outer orientation.

Chang Feng is a celebrity around Emperor Hongzhi.He knew how much effort Emperor Hongzhi put in to maintain the delicate balance between the inner and outer courts.

(End of this chapter)