Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1337 A lot of credit

  The lair of the White Lotus Sect was discovered last night.

  In the name of the warehouse, the leader of the person claimed to be a merchant.

   But it was a few nearby merchants who reported.

  Businessmen are like this. They like to look for business opportunities. Seeing that there is a warehouse here, they put up a banner.

  Because these people have no interest in doing business at all, they are impatient with any visitor, even if they just meet him, and they are confused when asked what business he does.

  Businessmen have the widest experience of the world, and generally speaking, they can't be fooled.

Coupled with the fact that the Bailian sect bandits are being hunted everywhere now, if it was the past, merchants would never deal with the government even if they found out something based on the principle of not causing trouble. That's good.

   But now, it is different to assassinate Qi Guogong.

   That is the teacher of the patriarch.

  Therefore, the officers were alerted, and the guards immediately began to deploy manpower around the cargo station. Sure enough, they realized that something was wrong, because it was difficult to tell how many thieves were in the warehouse. Immediately afterwards, they directly called in Xincheng Bingmasi.

  Xincheng Bingmasi came with a group of people and prepared revolvers. Immediately afterwards, all the people secretly blocked the entrances and exits of various places, and everyone rushed in.

But these thieves are not easy to save fuel. Not only did they set up traps in the freight station, several officers and soldiers fell into the trap and were seriously injured, but also the people inside were all highly skilled in martial arts. They had already prepared their weapons , this sword is very powerful, but no matter how skilled you are, you are afraid of the short gun. With a crackling sound, the short revolver jumped in the air, holding a long knife with silvery blades, and fell to the ground directly. , with four or five bullet holes in his body, dripping with blood.

  These people were stubborn, yelling in their mouths: "The dog officers and soldiers actually used thunder and thunder to deceive."

  After that, they were dragged out like dead dogs, and they were tested one by one, thirteen people.

Shuntian Mansion and Xincheng Bingma Division determined that if the warehouse is a lair, then there must be a party, and they must be entrenched nearby, just to echo, so the nearby architectural map was laid out long before the action, and they were in charge of commanding The most important thing is that Xu Ye, the secretary of the criminal house of Shuntian Mansion, stared at the nearby map, and had already found out the details of all the nearby buildings. Which buildings were more suspicious and might harbor religious bandits, and immediately organized manpower to attack.

   All of this was done in the middle of the night. By dawn, more than a hundred people had been arrested. These people included men and women, and many of them were young and beautiful 'women'.

   After Fang Jifan learned about it, it was rare for him to get up early and organize people to torture him. Fang Jifan had no interest in 'women'. There has never been a shortage of young and beautiful women in this world.

  People often have some kind of beautiful imagination about these people, but in fact, a group of villains who dare to kill officials don't want Xiaomin to pay attention to them.

The vast majority of the so-called Jianghu children may still be jealous of the government. If they meet honest people, they don’t know what kind of vicious people they are. But in this era, stripping off that layer of mystery, they are actually just a group of criminals.

Xu Ye is an old prisoner, and more than a hundred people came to interrogate them separately. He interrogated them one by one, and soon found a few who were not strong enough, and then selected a higher-ranking bandit from among them. After that, he specially entertained .

   But soon, the crown prince and Qi Guogong arrived.

  In this water prison, surrounded by concrete, like a wall of iron and steel, dozens of guards are lined up on both sides. The one who was arrested was the hall master, aged forty, and called himself Zhang Jin.

  He was hung on a torture tool, his hair was disheveled, and his body was already torn and bloody.

  Fang Jifan came in, frowning, he is not a person who likes to abuse violence, even when dealing with such criminals, you can give him standard punishment, but this kind of physical torture is really unnecessary.

   Facing such a situation, he felt compassion for such a bruised and bruised person. After all, torture is too cruel.

  Of course, Fang Jifan did not criticize Xu Ye, the times are progressing slowly, Fang Jifan is not a person in the clouds after all, naturally he knows that any era has its "foolishness".

"How did he say?"

  Xu Ye was refreshed, and he slowly showed Zhu Houzhao, and Fang Jifan and Fang Jifan spoke humanely.

"His Royal Highness, the Duke of Qi, he recruited them all, and handed over a roster. Not only in Beijing, but also in Baoding, Shandong and other places, there are their party members. I have already taken the roster and ordered people to continue to arrest the remaining party members. , within a few days, they can all be wiped out."

"anything else?"

"He himself admitted that this time, they planned to do a big thing. This time, they sneaked into a large number of backbones of the White Lotus Sect. They colluded with the people in the warehouse of Wang Gongchang and stole a large amount of gunpowder. It was a preparation. Mr. Liu is at a disadvantage."

  Fang Jifan: "..."

  Zhu Houzhao said: "Haha, sure enough."

  Fang Jifan said: "He really said that?"

   "Of course, they all made up their minds and thought that only by killing Liu Gong would they cause trouble. Then they could take the opportunity to start a riot, saying that Liu Gong is a cabinet scholar, and they are a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh."

  Fang Jifan gritted his teeth: "This group of rebels who have lost their heads, we, Fang Jifan, must smash them into pieces. Did they agree when to do it?"

  Xu Ye hesitated and said: "However... because the court has noticed, His Majesty sent people to protect Mr. Liu and others. They consciously lost their chance, so they gave up this plan."

  Fang Jifan exhaled: "In this way, they plan to return without success?"

"No." Xu Ye shook his head, and immediately replied very seriously: "They made up their minds again and thought that since they couldn't assassinate the cabinet scholar, they came all over, and they had to find another important target, so they thought about it. , are looking for the most suitable candidates.”

Fang Jifan sneered and said: "The person they want to choose must have a high position and authority, and he must love the people like a son, be loyal to the court, have a high reputation, be honest with others, and be based on faith. Only he can shake the foundation of the country, right?"

"The Duke of Qi is really a master of calculations, and he can predict things like a god. He is really a role model for villains." Xu Ye excitedly said, "That's right, that's what they think, so they plan to attack Zhang Sheng, Minister of Rites, and even Zhang Butang. They have already secretly inquired about the mansion, everything is ready, the only thing that needs to be done is Dongfeng, fortunately the humble people waited and caught it in time, otherwise Zhang Butang would have to be murdered by these thieves."

  Fang Jifan: "..."

  Zhu Houzhao said from the side: "Ah, it's not Fang Jifan they want to kill."

  Fang Jifan heard this, and couldn't help but glance at Zhu Houzhao. He couldn't restrain his emotions for a while, and was furious.

"There is no difference between killing me and killing Zhang Butang. No matter who you want to kill, they are all traitors and thieves. They are not as good as a group of dogs. They are so bold and reckless. How can they put the court and me in their eyes? Although this dog confesses , is a dead end, but when dealing with such rebellious officials and thieves, don't be polite, just beat him hard, and beat him for more than ten hours."

   After explaining, Fang Jifan left the cell angrily, and Zhu Houzhao hurriedly chased him out: "Old Fang, hey, Lao Fang, what are you doing in such a hurry?"

  Fang Jifan turned his head and glanced at Zhu Houzhao, seeing him catching up in a hurry, he said, "I'm not in a hurry, it's just that you are walking slowly."

  Zhu Houzhao forced a smile on Fang Jifan.

   "I'm very strange, why didn't they kill you."

Fang Jifan laughed and said, "I'm so happy that it's too late. Our Daming's confidantes are actually a group of drunks and rice bags. They have no winks and no IQ. Isn't this just God bless me? Your Royal Highness, this is the blessing of the court. "

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and seemed to think it made sense, but instead of nodding in agreement, he joked again and again: "Actually, I think they are quite smart...ah, ah...don't look at me like that, I'm just joking, anyway, let's Shuntian Mansion has cracked a big case, I have sent people to the palace to announce the good news."

   Just as he was talking, someone came in a hurry: "His Royal Highness, Duke Qi, your majesty is here."

  Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan were refreshed, they never expected Emperor Hongzhi to come so quickly.

  The two of them glanced at each other and hurried out to pick him up.

  When they left the dungeon, Emperor Hongzhi had already arrived at the main hall of Shuntian Mansion. Countless officials from all over Shuntian Mansion prostrated themselves in and out of the hall.

  Emperor Hongzhi was dumbfounded by the fact that the Shuntian Mansion had such a large formation. There may be thousands of people inside and outside. There are so many officials, the crown prince and Fang Jifan, it’s really...

  He was not in a hurry to ask about the arrest of the prisoner.

  Mu Bin stood aside, thinking in his heart, I hope that the ones arrested are not the real masters, but a group of thieves.

  Emperor Hongzhi picked up a few official documents on the copybooks and looked at them. In these official documents, there were mostly trivial matters, such as where it was stolen, which workshop had a dispute with the surrounding houses, and so on.

  Emperor Hongzhi looked at it carefully, and found that it was densely packed, but he also enjoyed it.

  A moment later, Zhu Houzhao and Fang Jifan came, and they bowed down. Emperor Hongzhi waved to them: "There is no need to be too polite. How is it? I heard that the prisoner has been arrested. Where is he?"

Zhu Houzhao did his part to report this kind of report, and said with a proud face: "Your ministers and others, I heard that there were thieves in Shuntian Mansion, so I did my best. After a thorough investigation, I destroyed several White Lotus Sect lairs last night. There are more than one hundred people living here. Among them, most of them are servants from all over the Shuntian Mansion, who have contributed a lot, especially Xu Ye, the official of the torture room, this man is a great talent, and he can catch every one accurately, even the servants admire him."

  (end of this chapter)