The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 188 Killing until the family is frightened

The Shadow Guards do not have an independent office space, so they are currently merged with Dali Temple, but they are not transferred by Dali Temple.

After Zhou Shen and other examiners were arrested, they were directly escorted to Dali Temple for detention, while Jia Xu was personally responsible for the interrogation.

in the dungeon.

Zhou Shen was tied to the torture rack, with a look of unconcealable horror on his face, and he kept shouting: "Master Jia, the fraud really has nothing to do with me, Master Jia! I have been wronged, Master Jia!"

"Unjustly accused? Let's not talk about this first. Let's take a look at Master Zhou's property first."

Jia Xu sat on a chair. After hearing this, he calmly picked up a piece of paper on the table beside him, and then pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh, Mr. Zhou really has a rich family. The silver found at home is... Up to 100 million taels, and there are more than [-] acres of land and house deeds, tsk tsk, he is much richer than me."

"But I am very curious. Lord Zhou's annual salary as the Minister of Rites is only 2000 taels, and he has only been the Minister of the Ministry of Rites for nine years. Where did he get such a fortune?"

"I……"

Just as Zhou Shen was about to explain, Jia Xu reached out to stop him.

"Hey, wait a minute, don't rush to explain. I haven't finished speaking yet. Let's talk about the fraud in the imperial examination. Master Zhou, take a look at this examination paper. This is from Lu Yushu, a scholar from the Lu family in Fanyang. According to the examination papers, he is also the new Jinshi this time."

Jia Xu picked up a test paper and continued: "According to my investigation, Fan Yang and Lu gave Mr. Zhou a mansion in Chang'an at the beginning of the year. I wonder why Lu is so generous?"

A drop of cold sweat ran down Zhou Shen's forehead, and he argued: "I accepted Lu Yushu as my student. Is it okay for the student to give me the apprenticeship ceremony?"

"No problem, of course no problem."

Jia Xu nodded, with the smile on his face unchanged, and took out one test paper after another.

"The Cui family of Qinghe, the Yuan family of Henan, the Du family of Jingzhao, and the Pei family of Hedong... all of them have given Lord Zhou more or less benefits, and coincidentally, this time all the scholars from their families have become famous Jinshi."

"Master Zhou is so great that all the students he accepted became Jinshi? I didn't expect that there would be such a famous teacher as Master Zhou in the world. I am so lucky to the Tang Dynasty."

Although Jia Xu was smiling, his tone made Zhou Shen feel cold and biting.

Zhou Shen gritted his teeth and said, "So what? They are very talented. I only recommend talents and do not avoid relatives. Is it possible that I can still see talented people and not hire them?"

"Then please explain to me why the first characters of several lines of text in these test papers are their names!"

"Hiding your name in the policy answer, do you think you can hide this from me?!"

Jia Xu looked ferocious, grabbing Zhou Shen's hair and looking straight at him, his eyes filled with deep murderous intent.

"I will give you a quarter of an hour to provide all the names and the families involved. I will spare your family the pain of being exiled to the army. Otherwise, not only will you die, but all nine of your clans will also be killed!!"

Jia Xu's sudden outburst not only frightened Zhou Shen, but also surprised several other shadow guards in the prison.

Because they had never seen Jia Xu so angry, let alone doing something so disrespectful.

But they didn't know that Jia Xu was originally from a poor family and hated this kind of thing. But this time Li Chengdao asked him to cover up his name to ensure the fairness of the scientific examination, but it was screwed up again. The anger in his heart could not be suppressed for a long time.

Zhou Shen was completely shocked by Jia Xu's aura. The killing intent in Jia Xu's eyes made him have no doubt that if he dared to hide it again, the other party would kill him directly.

And his family lineage will all be killed! "I...recruit."

Finally, under the pressure from Jia Xu, Zhou Shen's psychological defense finally collapsed.

He knew he was going to die, and Jia Xu had no intention of letting him go, but if he didn't do anything, his family would be implicated.

In ancient times, when family bloodlines were highly valued, family was more important than one's own life, so Zhou Shen did not dare not to recruit someone.

After agreeing to confess, Zhou Shen directly confessed the list Wu Hanlin gave him.

After getting the list, Jia Xu's expression became even more ugly.

Of the 63 scholars from big families, 54 relied on connections, and only nine were admitted based on their true talents and knowledge!
One of the nine scholars was Wang Xuelin from the Wang family of Langya whom he was optimistic about.

As soon as he got the list, Jia Xu sent the Shadow Guard to arrest Wu Hanlin. This broker responsible for contacting major families was undoubtedly the best witness.

But when the Shadow Guards arrived at Wu Hanlin's mansion, they found him lying in a pool of blood with a dagger stuck in his back.

Was silenced.

……

The palace, the imperial study.

"The witness was killed?"

After hearing Jia Xu's report, Li Chengdao's eyes suddenly became sharp.

Jia Xu knelt on the ground and nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty, but I have compiled a list of the families involved in this fraud from the list confessed by Zhou Shen. A total of thirteen families were involved."

This number made Li Chengdao's eyes grow colder and colder, and he said, "What aristocratic families are there?"

Sensing the unkindness in Li Chengdao's tone, Jia Xu hesitated for a moment. He hesitated for a moment before saying: "Your Majesty, although these aristocratic families are hateful, Your Majesty cannot act rashly because there is no direct evidence and the impact is too great..."

"Say!"

"Headed by the Cui family of Qinghe, Wang family of Taiyuan, Lu family of Fanyang and other families with five surnames and seven hopes, the others include the Du family of Jingzhao, the Yuan family of Henan... and so on, a total of ten aristocratic families."

Jia Xu lowered his head and said.

When Li Chengdao heard this, he laughed angrily and said, "Well, the imperial examination is no longer for the imperial court to select candidates, but has become a place for wealthy families like them to arrange whatever they want!"

"Pass my order! All the scholars involved in the fraud case will be imprisoned and punished according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Since they want to play, I will play with them!"

"The aristocratic family is so rampant, I will kill them until they are frightened!"

(End of this chapter)