Peerless Pirates

More than a mile south of the imperial city, there is a courtyard with a wall of more than two feet. The walls of the courtyard are covered with sharp wires, iron pieces and sharp porcelain pieces. The walls made of large stones are painted blue. Black is both thick and weird.

The entrance to the courtyard is only five feet wide and has only one thick iron door. At the door bolt, there is a small square opening covered with an iron sheet. This is used to convey messages. Except for this small door, the entire courtyard is Airtight.

Although this renovated courtyard was not built for a long time, it has become famous in Jiangning City because in just one month, three magistrates and two county magistrates were imprisoned in it. Although there is no plaque in this courtyard, the common people A name has been given to him: "Corruption Prison" because it is full of corrupt officials.

The night was dark, and the tall walls blocked the light inside. People passing by the courtyard could hear the occasional screams coming from inside, but there was deathly silence.

At the time of Haishi, the Corruption Prison welcomed two new "customers": Zhu Xiyi, a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, and Fang'an, a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The former impeached Yousi for violating the law, arrested middle-ranking and superior officials without authorization, and despised the state system, and the person in charge of Yousi Song Zheng should be beheaded. The latter impeached Song Zheng for taking advantage of his arrest to enrich himself by enriching his own pockets, and for not caring about the lives of officials by forcing them to death. He should be beheaded and whipped to death.

Among these two people, Zhu Xiyi and Song Zheng had heard that, like his third uncle Song Yu, he was one of the eight merit-examination doctors. As for Fang An, he had no idea that there was such a person. Regardless of whether he had heard of it or not, Song Zheng had never dealt with them. However, the words used by these two people to impeach Song Zheng were more "indignation" and more vicious than the other. It was simply more heinous than killing his father and harming his mother.

When Zhu Xiyi was arrested, he was drinking flower wine in Yuxiang Tower. He was sitting upright, but he was pretending to have a glass of wine with a flower girl. Fang An was fooling around with a concubine he had secretly taken to arrest him. At that time, I was working hard.

The door to the greedy prison opened, and the two men were pushed in by their necks. Both men's hands were tied, their mouths were gagged with broken skin, and their heads were covered with black hoods. Zhu Xiyi was feeling better, but Fang An had already wet himself. He had to take off his underwear, and as he was being sent to the dungeon, he was making a lot of noise along the way, which made the soldier behind him kick him in the butt from time to time.

Daqi was not like the previous dynasty, which was so polite to civil servants and was more particular about punishment than officials. Taizu Pang Dalai paid attention to attracting civil servants to serve as officials, but he was very cruel to officials who committed crimes. Especially corrupt officials, although they did not The later Zhu Yuanzhang was so powerful at "peeling off the skin and getting the grass from the grass", but he would never give the good fruit to eat. Otherwise, Song Zheng would have dared to punch and kick Lu Bingxuan when he was in Yuanzhou.

The hoods were taken off, and the flickering light of the fire made the two of them squint involuntarily. After they finally adapted to the light, they finally saw the appearance of the room clearly. The room was six to seven feet wide, with two holes inserted into the wall on one side. On the other side of the torch is a row of shelves, with iron drills, steel brushes, wooden spikes and other torture tools hanging on them. Next to the shelf is a large wooden box, and I don't know what kind of things are placed there.

A young man in white clothes was sitting opposite them, with a carefree and joyless expression. Next to him was a table, and on the plate on the table were purple grapes. The young man was leisurely holding a toothpick and putting grapes into his mouth. His movements were graceful, and even when he spit out grape skins and seeds, he covered them with his hands without making any sound.

After a long time, the boy finished eating the last grape, took the towel handed to him, wiped his hands, then raised his head and scanned the two of them.

"Let me introduce, my surname is Song, the one you wrote to be beheaded two days ago." Song Zheng said calmly, then turned around and ordered, "Go and take out the things from the mouths of these two adults."

Xiaoyao stepped forward and pulled out the cloth from their mouths, and they both coughed violently.

"Song Zheng, you are so courageous, how dare you catch me?" Zhu Xiyi straightened up after coughing and wheezing for a while. Even though he still smelled of alcohol, he now regained his composure. Fang Fang An Que's body was like chaff, trembling non-stop, and he had to lean on the rack behind him.

"You are also a fifth-rank official, so why can't I arrest you? Do you need me to repeat your authority?"

Zhu Xiyi snorted coldly and turned away.

"Mr. Zhu is indeed arrogant!" Song Zheng clapped his hands, "I wonder if you were also so arrogant when you accepted Lin Han's two hundred taels of silver?"

The corners of Zhu Xiyi's mouth twitched and she ignored Song Zheng.

Song Zheng chuckled and snapped his fingers behind him, "Go and show it to Mr. Zhu." Cai Yong took a piece of paper and walked up to Zhu Xiyi, twisted his neck with one hand and placed the paper on Under his nose.

"Sir, take a good look at your masterpiece. Even I was surprised when I saw it for the first time. If you want to get a middle grade in Zhizhou, it costs fifty taels; for the middle and upper grades, two hundred taels; and for the top grade, three hundred taels. Two; first class, five hundred taels. What a huge appetite! If you work for a few more years, I'm afraid the money you collect will be enough to build another Western Building."

"You are spreading rumors!"

"Look carefully, what is written above! Have you ever been wronged?"

"What evidence do you have?"

"Tsk tsk, I really can't shed tears without seeing the coffin. The latest chapter of Who Rules the World? Well, in a moment, I will let my brothers work hard and dig out the money you hid in the toilet."

Zhu Xiyi's face turned pale. He didn't understand how Song Zheng knew that he had tried so hard to hide the money in such a private place.

Song Zheng turned his gaze and stared at the trembling Fang An, "I wish you would restrain yourself and put the money in the pit. It would be better for you to just have someone deposit it into Chase Trading Company under your own name. You are so stupid, you can just use your son's or concubine's name."

"I...I'm afraid they'll steal it." Fang An was honest. He fainted when he saw the torture instruments next to him. He would answer whatever Song Zheng asked.

Song Zheng shook his head in disappointment, "I really don't know how you became a Beijing official. Even the level of corruption and bribery is so low. It's not as good as the officials below. Forget it, I won't punish you either. Say, why are you impeaching me? I didn’t hook up with your wife, why do you have to curse me to death?”

Zhu Xiyi said nothing with a sullen face. Fang An raised his head and glanced at Song Zheng quickly, then hurriedly lowered his head.

After waiting quietly for a moment, Song Zheng saw that the two of them had not moved yet, so he couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, "Don't say yes? That's fine, I'm tired of playing with tiger benches and the like. Tianqiao, I just invented a very fun thing, It's called 'Fairy Pants'. Let me try it on for you two. I also hope you can give me some advice so that I can improve it."

He hooked his hand, and a soldier bowed and said "yes", then walked to the side, opened the big box with the torture rack, and took out a strange-looking thing with a curse word on it, like an upward-facing trumpet. , the lower two slightly thinner openings look like a model of trousers, except they are much larger. The entire fairy trousers are made of upper and lower iron sheets, one iron sheet presses the other, look. The connection is very tight.

Song Zheng took the "fairy pants" over and waved them towards the two of them. "Two adults, take a look, these fairy pants are beautiful? After putting them on, you just need to tie the two tendon ropes underneath. This man will be a fairy." The pants stick to your body. However, from the crotch up, they are like a wide-mouthed bucket. There is enough room for your butt and lower body to move. When the time comes, I will catch another mouse, snake, etc. Often, if you put it in here, it will definitely give the two adults a surprise. Think about it, what will happen if the plush mouse is the companion of the lifeblood of the two adults? Or put the cool snake in, and it will I am absolutely willing to get close to these two adults’ little snakes.”

After such an explanation, Zhu Xiyi shivered and almost collapsed on the ground. As for Fang An, he rolled his eyes and fainted. Song Zheng grinned and said, "I haven't asked you to give your opinion yet, why did you faint?"

He turned his head helplessly, and was about to tell Cai Yong to splash cold water on Fang An to wake him up, but he found that several of the guards had taken two steps back, and some were still leaning on the cell door behind them. Apparently, they had just figured it out. What is this thing for? These "fairy pants" make people's scalp numb just thinking about it.

Song Zheng secretly thought, I really despise you, I just wanted you to make something like this on a whim, just to scare people. Catch a snake, mouse or something, you don't find it disgusting, I do. age:url (img1354248427147126020946620234460969645768.age:url(img1354248427147126020946620234460969645768.age:url(img13542484271471260209466202 34460969645768.age:url(img1354248427147126020946620234460969645768.png)'span

When Fang An woke up, he knelt on the ground on the spot and gave up everything. However, the answer surprised him. The person who instigated him was actually Xu Mingsu.

Well, originally I only planned to knock the Xu family for 50,000 taels of silver, but now I can knock a little more. Well, no matter how much black money I have, I can't give them an advantage. I have to ask Xu Mingxuan to send a message and give Xu Mingxuan a favor to save the old man Xu Yinshun. I don’t take Xu Mingxuan seriously.

Zhu Xiyi spent a little effort, and when Cai Yong and Xiao Yao took off his underpants and put on the fairy pants, this guy came out. The person who instigated him was Huang Song. As for whether it was Huang Yuandu's intention, it was still unclear. It's really hard to guess. Huang Song also had a collusion with the Duke of Guo's Mansion, and Pang Tong was accustomed to turning corners to harm people, so it's possible that it was the Duke of Guo's Mansion.

No matter who wanted to do it, Song Zheng could not pursue Huang Song. After all, Huang Song was the uncle of the state, and Zhu Xiyi's confession alone could not move Huang Song. Song Zheng could only keep the account in mind, and settle the accounts together when he has the opportunity in the future.

After coming out of the corruption prison, Song Zheng went directly to Xu Mingxuan's private residence. He directly told Xu Mingxuan what happened in Fuzhou and Fang An's confession, and put forward a condition to make up the difference between the Fuzhou granary and the treasury, and then spend another 100,000 yuan. Two taels of silver. Otherwise, the fate of the Ji family will be the fate of the Xu family. There are also excuses. Da Qi is currently short of military spending. Presumably the prince's palace and the prime minister's palace are willing to expand their financial resources.

Xu Mingxuan hates the Xu family deeply. Naturally, he will not play according to Song Zheng's bottom line. The extra benefit is Xu Mingxuan's personal offer. Of course, it is impossible for Xu Mingxuan to take over the Xu family based on this alone, or even He couldn't even kill Xu Mingsu. However, he had to eat his food one bite at a time. Xu Mingxuan was still young and had plenty of time.

That night, Mu Yu, Cai Yong and others who were responsible for checking Zhu Xiyi and Fang An gained a lot. Lang Zhong and Yuan Wai Lang were only minor officials in Jiangning City, but they couldn't stand up to the fatness of the two departments of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Household Affairs. Zhu Xiyi was a merit-examination doctor in the Ministry of Personnel, the fattest among the fat; Fang An was a Yuanwailang in the household department, and was equally fat. The two families only found out 47,100 yuan in cash and deposit receipts. One hundred and forty-eight taels. Including farm property, jewelry and jade, etc., the total value exceeds 80,000 taels of silver.

Song Zheng looked at the dazzling array of gold and silver treasures and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, "Cai Yong, take someone to collect the things. Follow me into the palace later and carry these things to the Tai Chi Hall!"