Chapter 60 Xiao Chaohui

In the dungeon, those gangsters have been sent back to Gyeonggi Province. After all, they are not under the control of Guoan Division, so naturally they can't keep them all the time. So there are only three assassins in the whole cell, and because of this, the guards will get up early to toss them. They always have to do something to do in such a deserted place.

The three assassins have been stripped naked and tied to a strong scaffold. Their bodies are full of shocking scars. But they looked very calm, as if the pain from the body was nothing to them.

On the contrary, the tortured jailers became a little nervous. As they heated a soldering iron in the stove again, they asked in a harsh voice, "Who are you? Why did you come to Ansi in our country to make trouble? If you don't say it, there will be more suffering for you!"

In the face of such a threat, the three people did not even frown, but looked at the stone wall above and snorted coldly in their noses. Such an arrogant attitude made several jailers even more angry. Immediately, someone couldn't help raising the whip in his hand and slapped one of them. The man had a new wound on his bloody body, but he just stared at the torturer with a faint look and turned his eyes back.

"You..." The torturers were also a little hairy by their eyes, and they felt a little at a loss for a moment. At this time, the heavy stone door was pushed open, and Xu Jinghong and others walked down slowly.

"Lord Dusi, they refused to recruit anything, we..." Those jailers saw their boss as if they had seen a savior and hurriedly asked him for help. But Xu Jinghong didn't say anything more. He just waved at them and sent these people out.

After carefully looking at these three people, Xu Jinghong said, "It was my official's lax discipline, which made the three of them suffer some grievances."

When the three heard what he said, they all turned their eyes that were still staring at the top of their heads. Among them, the short fat man was even more puzzled and couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Xu Jinghong's gourd.

Seeing that the three had been moved by his own words, Xu Jinghong knew that there was a door and continued, "Actually, I already know that the three were not sent by the Fang family, so you have no deep hatred with me."

"How do you see this?" The short fat man couldn't help asking, and then found that he was a little talkative and quickly closed his mouth again. But this has given Xu Jinghong a chance to test. He smiled and said, "If you are sent by the Fang family, I'm afraid the target will not be a few criminals imprisoned here, but me, the leader of the National Security Department. Because as long as I get rid of my ally's trouble, the problem of his family will naturally be solved.

Although the three said nothing more, Xu Jinghong could still see some clues from their look. They obviously admitted it. After thinking about it, Xu Jinghong said, "Since you and I are not the real enemy of life and death, why do you have to insist on not saying your identity? In fact, as long as you are willing to tell the truth, I can let you leave the National Security Department.

"Hmm, Xu, don't pretend here. Seeing that we can't speak with a hard one, just do this to us. Let me tell you, it's simply delusional to want us to betray the master!" The man with slender eyebrows and the best martial arts suddenly scolded, "It's just luck for us to fall into your hands, but we admit it!" If you want to kill, just do whatever you want!"

As soon as he said this, the other two also surfaced their attitudes. Not only did they close their mouths tightly, but also their eyes. His unwillingness to cooperate with Xu Jinghong is naturally obvious.

Xu Jinghong pressed Xiong Geng, who was about to move forward to calm him down, and then sighed, "You're right. It's really a fluke to take you down this time. Not to mention anything else, let's talk about this brother who fought with me. If I hadn't taken advantage of your weapons and suddenly attacked your position, you wouldn't have been defeated so simply, let alone fall into our hands. And the other two are also in my hands because they are outnumbered.

Although the three still closed their mouths and eyes, there was still a trace of pride on their faces. A Jianghu people are most proud of their skills. Now the people who take them down admit their strength, which is also a kind of satisfaction for them.

However, Xu Jinghong's words did not stop there, and his words immediately turned around: "But I'm not a person in the world like you. What should I say about fairness. So it's a true fact that you fell into my hands, and it's impossible for me to let you go.

"With the martial arts skills of the three of you, you are not an unknown person in the world, and you may be a famous hero. Do you really want your martial arts to do nothing and die so awkwardly in this dayless place? Since then, there have been no names of the three of you in the world. Is it really worth it?

Among the three, the fat meat on the face of the short fat man shook again after listening to Xu Jinghong's words. Obviously, among them, his will was the weakest. But beside the other two, he had this idea, and it was impossible to show it. He could only resist the fear and desire in his heart. And all this was seen in Xu Jinghong's eyes.

After saying another good word, but the three were still unmoved, Xu Jinghong finally couldn't bear it: "Since the three are so good or bad that they have to live with their own lives, I have no choice but to do what you want. Come on, put him up and put him in separate custody. If he refuses to speak again three days later, he will be killed without mercy. No matter what kind of * they have, our country's Ansi will not be afraid! Unless one of them will tell the truth!" Speaking of this, Xu Jinghong's eyes swept over the faces of the three again and found that the short fat man's expression had changed again. He secretly took care of it.

"Yes!" Several servists waiting outside the door immediately came in, took the three guys who had been tied up so that they couldn't move, and arranged to be locked in the cell on the other side.

"Lord, do you have any countermeasures?" Seeing that the three were taken away, Xu Jinghong did not have much anger on his face, and Sun Zaiyuan thought of something.

"Mr. Sun has good eyesight. In my opinion, if these three people are allowed to stay together all the time, because of their face, none of them will betray the people behind them. However, as long as they are separated and imprisoned and given them enough psychological pressure, maybe one of them will say what we want to know. I didn't want to interrogate them immediately. I wanted to ask them after polishing their spirit, but I didn't want Lao Xiong..." He stared at Xiong Geng again.

Xiong Geng lowered his head with some shame and said, "It's your subordinates who caused trouble for the team. If you want to punish me, you can punish me."

"Falty, of course, it will be punished. But not now. Come here. I have something to tell you to do. If you mess up again this time, I will let you take people here to commit crimes in the future. Xu Jinghong whispered and told him.

Xiong Geng listened attentively and finally promised: "Don't worry, my subordinates will not ruin your big things again!"

"Then do it carefully. These three may still be of great use in the future." After patting the other party on the shoulder, Xu Jinghong left the somewhat cold environment.

Two days later, there was another wave in the court. As Xu Jinghong expected, the Fang family was impeached by a group of officials led by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, saying that he was corrupt and used the power of the court to collect money for himself. This time, it is not only a matter of words, but even the actual evidence is full, among which the handwritten confession of the three masters of Cao Liliang is the key.

The Fang family naturally refused to wait for death. They even said that they had been wronged. It is said that Cao Liliang's three families were bit randomly after being tortured by others to extract confessions, and the so-called corruption is even more nonsense.

This exchange between you and me has made the always calm court lively. But it's just that several officials gave each other a lawsuit to the General Secretary. The real chaos war has not yet begun.

While accumulating power and waiting for the face-to-face competition at the court meeting, the chiefs of several important states and counties in Dingzhou, Luanzhou and other dynasties also suddenly sent fierce speeches. The only target of their attack is to give this fight to Xu Jinghong, the national security division.

In the memorials of these people, the irrationality of Da Dao Guoan Division and all kinds of unacceptable means of doing things. It's as if these local officials who are hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles away have thousands of eyes and ears, they can master all the big and small things that happen in the capital.

In addition, they said bluntly that Xu Jinghong's origin is just a slave. Such a humble origin can actually sit on the five-grade senior officials of the court, which is really a blasphemy to the official position of the court. They believe that if such people are allowed to steal official positions, it will be harmful but not beneficial to the Song Dynasty. If the court cannot give them a clear solution - that is, to take Xu Jinghong or expel him from the court, they will resign.

With such fierce rhetoric and such a consistent spearhead, everyone in the court knows who is planning and promoting behind it. At this moment, many officials realized that if they can stand in the court for decades, the Fang family does have the capital to keep themselves from falling. Local connections alone are enough to make many people in the court dare not face it face.

But this is only relative to what ordinary officials said, this force is not a problem at all for several families in the same ranks of the seven. Of course, whether they will be determined to completely fight with the Fang family, but it is still unknown. Only when the real dynasty begins will everything come to a conclusion.

In everyone's expectation, the small court meeting held every five days was held on September 15th.

In fact, this small dynasty will sometimes have a more far-reaching influence on the North Korean bureau than the big dynasty. During the Great Dynasty, it was more than a show and let the officials in Beijing come to visit and inform them of the movements of the court in the next stage, which could only be regarded as a ventilation meeting. The small dynasty meeting is different. This is completely a place for several big people who control the real court situation to play. Only the conclusions passed in the small dynasty meeting can be completely universal in the Song Dynasty.

Speaking of which, the small dynasty will really not be as good as the big dynasty, only in momentum. Because only a few people participated, in addition to some of the main figures of the seven masters, there were only six senior officials at the first level, and even the princes with high titles were excluded. Of course, in fact, the senior officials of the six departments and the seven masters are completely the same thing, but some of them have not explicitly called out which one they are from.

As for the emperor, if there is still a certain right to speak in the dynasty, he will completely become a puppet. When several people come to the final conclusion of one thing, the emperor can only nod. Therefore, for Zhao Zhe, the small dynasty tormented him more than the big dynasty, but it was not possible not to go. But today is definitely an exception, because he knows whether he can take the first step to regain power and see the real chapter at this small court meeting.

There is another obvious difference between the small dynasty and the big dynasty, that is, the ministers sit and participate like the emperor. So when the ministers symbolically bowed their hands to the emperor, they sat down according to the usual rules, and then Lv Zhonghe announced, "Let's start today's court meeting."

According to the previous rules, they first discussed some things about governing the country, such as taxes - it's autumn, and grain taxes in various places should be levied, which is naturally a big deal - and there is an old-fashioned way of disaster somewhere that requires the court to allocate a certain amount of money. Originally, these ministers would argue about these matters because they represented their own interests, but today they are absolutely different. These are the most important matters for the Song Dynasty. Several officials said it very simply and it was smooth to reach a unanimous conclusion, but these were solved in half an hour.

If it can be so efficient in political affairs at ordinary times, the development and take-off of the Song Dynasty will be just around the corner. But this is just an example, because in the minds of these officials, nothing today is more important than the problem to be launched later, because it is related to their respective futures.

Seeing that other political affairs had been said, Wu Jingzi nodded to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Since he is an important member of the imperial court, it is naturally impossible for him to be alone. He is really a non-party person. He has a close relationship with the Wu family. This time, he also planned to make trouble with the Fang family after getting the approval of the Wu family.

However, before Lian Chong could speak, Fang Yuanshan, another key figure in this matter, opened his mouth first: "I have some memorials submitted by the governors of several prefectures and counties to Beijing. Do you like to have a look?" As he spoke, he picked up a stack of more than a dozen memorials from the short ones beside him.

Everyone naturally knows what is written in these chapters. But as if to reflect their selflessness, these people still asked like acting, "I don't know what is written in it?"

"It's about Xu Jinghong, who has been lawless recently in my Daliang City. Ladies and gentlemen, since this person entered the court, he has been disciplined and dared to do anything. The hands are stained with the blood of many people, but because there is support behind it, no one dares to mention it until now. It's really chilling to think about it. With that, Fang Yuanshan looked at Xu Wanyou and snorted coldly.

This move made Xu Wanyou very embarrassed. Today, Xu Zhengnian did not participate in the court meeting because of his health, so he became the highest person of the Xu family. However, he, who has never been very interested in court affairs, is also unfamiliar with such a struggle. After being pointed at by Fang Yuanshan and scolded, it is difficult for him to fight back immediately.

Fang Yuanshan was very satisfied with Xu Wanyou's reaction. It was he who was so embarrassed by the other party's point. However, he also knew that things should not be too much, as long as they suppressed the other party's momentum, otherwise it would be self-defeating. So soon he returned to his topic just now: "For good, there are still many people who are dedicated to the public in this world. These governors have made these folds for the peace of my Song Dynasty and suggested that the court expel these people. Ladies and gentlemen, should we do this for the sake of social security?

Knowing that someone is going to hit himself today, Fang Yuanshan's strategy is to make trouble to others first. As long as he can take the initiative of this court meeting, he may be able to get through this problem safely. Moreover, once Xu Jinghong's charge is really confirmed, there will be some problems for them to attack themselves again. After all, many things in his family have been figured out by Xu Jinghong. Once he has a problem, can these evidence still stand?

This is the best plan that Fang Yuanshan came up with after a few days of closed doors at home and thought hard, taking attack as defense!

However, Fang Yuanshan still underestimated the determination of these colleagues to take down the Fang family. They only do it when they find an opportunity. Now that the wind direction has changed, they will have other ideas.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, a voice sounded: "Are these people's memorials because they are loyal to the court? I don't think so. They are only loyal to your family, just to help you eliminate dissidents! Lord Fang, I don't know how to explain this?"

Someone actually exposed his words in front of him, which stunned Fang Yuanshan. This is obviously hitting people in the face, which is a rare thing in the officialdom. And when he turned his head and found that Chu Ling, who had always been kind to others, said this, he showed an incredible look.

In fact, it's not just him. Everyone present, including the emperor, was stunned. I really didn't expect that Chu Lingyi, who couldn't compete with him...