Concubine

Chapter 196
Tan Zhifu replied: "Mi Yuanwai and Quanbu Zhengshi both helped me in this matter. The sixth concubine turned out to be the concubine of a county magistrate in Puqi County, Wuchang Prefecture. I fell in love with it when I went to inspect after autumn last year, and wanted to ask the county magistrate to bring this concubine over, but the county magistrate refused, so I just..., I just..., I just..." Tan Zhifu repeated several times in a row I just feel embarrassed to say it.

Yang Qiuchi knew that there must be something very nasty in it, so he didn't pursue it and waited for him to continue.

Tan Zhifu swallowed with difficulty, and then continued: "I told this matter to Mi Yuanwai and Quan Buzheng, and they gave me an idea. I was confused by lard for a while. Xinqiao actually agreed. Mi Yuanwai asked someone to pretend to be a thief, sneak into the county magistrate's house, kill more than a dozen of his family members, and deliberately keep the concubine."

"I was in charge of investigating the case myself, and took the opportunity to accept the concubine. Then I paid for a death row prisoner to carry out the murder. After reporting it, I had the right to protect the governor. Everything went smoothly. The death row prisoner was killed. After silence, I won a lot of court pensions for the other family members of the county magistrate, and blocked their mouths."

"You are really fucking despicable!" Yang Qiuchi scolded angrily.

Tan Zhifu repeatedly kowtowed and said: "Tan is convicted... Actually, that concubine just came to my house not long ago. I took her to Mi Yuanwai's house as a guest. Mi Yuanwai saw her and liked her very much. I insisted on me I gave it to him, and offered him a lot of money, but I couldn't afford to offend him, so I had to sign the deed and hand over this concubine to him as a concubine."

"You! You are so fucking dirty, this woman is not a thing, can she let her come and go?" Yang Qiuchi laughed back angrily.

Yang Qiuchi didn't understand this point. The concubines in ancient times were really no different from things, they could be handed over and even exchanged with each other.

According to the "Love History Leilue" compiled by Feng Menglong, when the writer Su Dongpo was demoted, he gave away all the concubines around him. It is said that two of the concubines were already pregnant.Su Dongpo's friend Jiang Mou came to see him off. When he saw Su Dongpo's concubine Chunniang, he fell in love with him very much, so he discussed with Su Dongpo to exchange Chunniang with a white horse, and Su Dongpo actually agreed.Unexpectedly, Chunniang had a strong temper, and after angrily scolding Su Dongpo, she hit the locust tree and died.

After Yang Qiuchi finished cursing, he continued: "Prefect Tan, you must be honest and frank like this. Only frankness is your only way out."

Yang Qiuchi said this on his lips, but he thought in his heart, any of these things you frankly confessed would be enough to cut off your head after being verified, and there is a fart for confessing, but you can't say this.

Tan Zhifu is still trying to explain his last chance of survival: "I heard that the two of them mentioned this matter, and I knew that I had no choice but to give in. The disaster relief food from the imperial court arrived soon, and this time it was placed in my yamen granary Because the Mi’s granary is not far behind the magistrate’s yamen, all the food was quietly transferred to the Mi’s granary last night. It was originally planned to burn the granary tonight, but I didn’t expect, I didn’t expect my lord to come.”

Yang Qiuchi asked: "Have you ever seen a middle-aged man with squinting eyes at Mi Yuan's house?"

"A middle-aged person with squinting eyes?" Tan Zhifu said to himself, lowered his head and thought, "I seem to have seen... there seems to be one. Where is it... Yes, that time I took my little concubine to Mi Yuanwai At that time, Mr. Mi went out for a while and said a few words to a person outside. I felt that the person looked at us a little strangely... Now that I think about it, it seems to be squinting..., yes, it was a middle-aged man. young people."

Yang Qiuchi suddenly became interested: "The middle-aged man is at Mi Yuan's house? Is it a guest or a slave?"

"It's not like a domestic slave. It can be seen that Mi Yuanwai is very awed by him."

"Awe?" Yang Qiuchi frowned. It's probably not ordinary people who can make people like Mi Yuanwai fear.Then he asked, "Where is that person now?"

"I don't know. I haven't seen him since that time."

Yang Qiuchi immediately arranged for Nan Gongxiong to take Jin Yiwei to Mi Yuan's house to search for the middle-aged man with squinting eyes, and then continued the interrogation and asked Tan Zhifu: "What else do you have to explain?" Afterwards, Yang Qiuchi asked routinely, "Be honest. Frankly, if you find out that you didn't take the initiative to confess, then all previous efforts will be wasted!"

"Yes, yes!" Tan Zhifu also knew that the crimes he had already committed were enough to cut off his head anyway, so he could only grasp the straw of confession and leniency, and strive for leniency. Little things fell out, even the kicking of the widow's door and the digging of the family's graves were all confessed.

Yang Qiuchi's head grew dizzy when he heard it, and now he has no time to listen to him, so he ordered him to go down and write the confession materials by himself.

After Tan Zhifu signed the confession recorded by Master Jin, he was detained, and then the chief envoy of Quan was detained.Jin Yiwei asked him to kneel down, but the chief envoy of Quan stood proudly and refused to kneel.

Yang Qiuchi said in a deep voice: "Quan, you are a criminal now, why don't you kneel when you see me?"

"I'm a second-rank official of the imperial court, and it's not your turn to take off my black hat!" The envoy Quan Buzheng sneered.

Yang Qiuchi smiled at Luo Qianhu in astonishment: "This guy looks down on our Jin Yiwei, Master Luo, what do you think should be done?"

Jin Yiwei are all ruthless characters, people who are afraid of jackals and tigers in the past can't be Jin Yiwei, let alone a high-ranking official of Jin Yiwei.Just now it was about the matter between Empress Xu and the emperor. They were relatives of the emperor and the situation was unknown. He, Luo Qianhu, did not dare to intervene indiscriminately. With a backstage like the empress, even a higher official would not be afraid, not to mention that he has already captured all the stolen goods of the other party, and the crime has been confirmed.

The Jin Yiwei on both sides agreed in unison, took out the wax tokens that were specially used to slap the mouth, and slapped it hard, causing the blood to splash from the mouth and nose of Quan Buzheng, and after fifty blows, Quan Buzheng's cheeks were swollen It looks like a fermented steamed bun, several teeth have been knocked out, and the words are Ula Ula.

Yang Qiuchi took the time to ask: "How? Mr. Quan, are you willing to kneel? If you still refuse, I will beat you again!"

The chief envoy of Quan is also a Jinshi, a frail scholar. He has been pampered and pampered by officials for many years. Hearing that there would be another eighty killing sticks, his knees felt weak, he trembled a few times, and finally knelt down.

Yang Qiuchi wanted to get rid of his prestige first, only in this way could the interrogation be carried out smoothly and it would be possible to pry his mouth open.

Yang Qiuchi asked: "The surname Quan, are you willing to explain?"

Although the chief envoy of Quan knelt down, he still didn't say a word.

Luo Qianhu said angrily: "This guy doesn't seem to want to be punished if he doesn't use punishment, let's use punishment! Master Yang."

Yang Qiuchi nodded.

Luo Qianhu yelled: "Punish me, put a stick on me!"

Jin Yiwei brought the instruments of torture, and quickly mounted the pincers.

Luo Qianhu asked: "Let me ask you again, are you recruiting or not?"

The envoy Quan's face was pale, he bit his swollen lip tightly, and said nothing.

"torture!"

Jin Yiwei, who was executing the torture, exerted all his strength, and the pincers clamping his ankles were pressed tightly. The severe pain tore every nerve in the Minister Quan's nerves. This continuous pain caused the Chief Minister Quan to scream and widen his eyes. The eyeballs almost popped out.

This kind of pain is not comparable to the pain of slapping the mouth just now.These Jinyi guards are very experienced in holding the stick. Seeing that the prisoner is about to pass out, they reduce the force a little, and increase it when they wake up. The principle is to let the prisoner experience the continuous severe pain.

But in the end, the envoy Quan passed out, and Yang Qiuchi ordered the sentence to be relaxed.Wake him up with cold water.Yang Qiuchi asked: "Lord Quan, are you willing to confess?"

"Confession what?"

"You colluded with Tan Zhifu and Mi Yuanwai to embezzle disaster relief food!"

"I don't know what you're talking about, Mr. Yang," the envoy Quan said vaguely.

"Slap your mouth at fifty and you're still stubborn? Master Luo has found 8 taels of silver from your inner house. How do you explain it?"

"I don't have any silver in my house. I don't know why so much silver appeared out of thin air when Mr. Luo came to my inner house!"

What?Luo Qianhu was really annoyed: "You mean that I framed you?"

The chief envoy of power gave him a tacit consent.

Luo Qianhu's anger has already reached the top of his head: "Damn it, prefect Tan has confessed that Mi Yuanwai bribed you twice with 10 taels of silver, he gave 8 taels, you gave [-] taels, and prefect Tan gave two I personally sent it to your house for the first time, and you fucking said that I planted it to frame you! Can I come up with so much money to frame you?"

"Lord Luo has been a Jinyiwei for thousands of years, why can't he get it out?" the envoy Quan muttered.

This blow made Luo Qianhu furious: "Come here, drag me down and beat me hard!"

yes!Jin Yiwei agreed in unison, but did not move.

Luo Qianhu shouted angrily: "Why don't you do anything?"

"My lord, you, haven't you said how much you beat?" A Jin Yiwei accompanied him with a smile on his face.

Luo Qianhu was so angry that he slapped the table vigorously: "You idiot! I didn't say anything and just kept beating until I told me to stop!"
"Yes!" The guards in Jinyi rushed up to pick up the chief envoy and dragged him to the platform outside the court hall, rounding his arms and crackling.

Chief Quan Quan screamed for a long time at first, then cried for his father and mother, and finally stopped screaming, presumably passed out.

Sure enough, a Jin Yiwei ran up and said, "My lord, the prisoner has passed out."

"Wake up and hit again!" Luo Qianhu was so angry that his head was dizzy.

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