No matter how much the palace maid cried out, the Hundred Cavalry showed no sympathy. They brutally dragged the palace maid out of the crowd, pinned her to the ground, and beat her mercilessly with sticks.

This was completely different from when they were beating Li Jue. With the first blow, the palace maid's leg bone made a "crack" sound, and one of her leg bones was broken!

"ah……"

"My lord, this servant truly..."

"My lord, spare me... I remember now, when I passed by the sea pond just now, I saw... two eunuchs!"

Upon hearing this, Yuchi Fan immediately waved to his men and then ordered them to drag over the palace maid who was barely alive.

"You saw two eunuchs?"

"What clothes were they wearing, and what were they carrying?"

"Reporting to...Reporting to Your Excellency, they were dressed as ordinary eunuchs...no, no, the lowest-ranking servants' clothes. They had nothing in their hands...but it seemed like they had something in their sleeves..."

"The two of them walked extremely fast, disappearing in the blink of an eye..."

Upon hearing this, Yuchi Fan waved to his subordinates.

"Drag out all the eunuchs dressed as servants!"

"promise!"

Before long, more than a dozen eunuchs dressed in menial clothes were dragged out of the Shanhai Courtyard. Even the three who had been beaten to death earlier were dragged over like sacks.

"Your Majesty, according to this palace maid's confession, the murderer must be among these thirteen... no, including those who are already dead, it should be one of the sixteen!"

Li Shimin waved his hand without even looking up when he heard this.

"Kill them all!"

"promise!"

Upon hearing this, the eunuchs were so frightened that they immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"Your Majesty, spare our lives! We truly don't have the guts to kill!"

"Your Majesty, you cannot believe the words of that young palace maid. We really did not kill anyone!"

Li Shimin snorted coldly upon hearing this.

"I don't have time to figure out whether you killed anyone or not. I just need to know that once you're dead, the murderer will be dead too!"

"Your Majesty, spare my life!"

"If you want me to spare your lives, then find the real culprit, and I will naturally forgive you!"

"This servant..."

Li Shimin's interrogation was very rough, but very effective.

Immediately, a eunuch jumped out and addressed everyone.

“Each of you must confess what you did today. Anyone who cannot be identified by three or more witnesses is suspected of murder!”

Upon hearing the eunuch's words, Li Jing raised his eyelids slightly and cast an admiring glance at the man.

"Your Majesty, if this man survives this calamity, he can be promoted to chief eunuch!"

Li Shimin nodded upon hearing this.

"This person is indeed quite intelligent. If he survives, he can definitely be put to good use in the future!"

The two exchanged a brief word before continuing to eat and drink, completely disregarding the lives of the eunuchs.

In fact, neither Li Shimin nor Li Jing cared about the lives of these people.

The origins of eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty were complex. Apart from a small portion who were inherited from the Sui Dynasty, the vast majority of them had their feet cut off during the suppression of rebellions.

For example, during this expedition to Goguryeo, they brought back more than a thousand eunuchs.

Therefore, in the eyes of Li Shimin, Li Jing and others, the eunuchs in the palace were nothing more than talking tools.

There's no real difference between one person dying and a hundred dying.

Li Wang was going all out, interrogating all the kneeling eunuchs under the watchful eye of the Hundred Cavalry Guard.

Although it was just a flash of inspiration, he was actually quite capable, and he interrogated everyone in less than a quarter of an hour.

"Your Majesty, I have found the real culprit!"

"who?"

Li Wang pointed to the two people kneeling in the middle and said.

"Your Majesty, it should be these two!"

"oh?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin didn't even raise his head. He simply gave Yuchi Fan a gesture, and Yuchi Fan immediately dragged the two men out and tortured them.

However, to Yu Chi Fan's surprise, the two seemingly thin and weak eunuchs did not confess even though their legs were broken; they just kept shouting that they were innocent.

Are they really innocent?

The truth may be very cruel, because neither Li Jing nor Li Shimin really cared who the real culprit was.

Their goal today is singular: to give everyone in the palace a warning and to refrain from doing anything taboo!

However, after Yuchi Fan had been torturing the two men for a while, Li Jing suddenly spoke up.

"Your Majesty, these two are most likely the real culprits!"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin immediately stood up and called back the Hundred Cavalry Commanders who were carrying out the execution.

"stop!"

"Do not kill them. Immediately take them to the Imperial Hospital for treatment, then send them to the Hundred Cavalry Division for rigorous interrogation. We must find out who is behind this!"

"promise!"

After the Hundred Cavalrymen dragged the two away, Li Shimin immediately waved to Li Wang.

"come over!"

"This servant greets Your Majesty!"

"May I have your name?"

"Your Majesty, this servant is Li Wang..."

"Li Wang?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shimin frowned, thinking that he should issue a special decree to strictly prohibit the palace from recruiting people with the surname Li as eunuchs.

How did you determine that those two people were the murderers?

"Your Majesty, I had long suspected the two of them, but I had no evidence. After questioning everyone just now, only the testimonies of these two corroborate each other, and there is no third person to corroborate them."

"oh?"

"Then how did you guess that the two of them were suspects?"

“Your Majesty, I am the eunuch in charge of the flowers, plants and trees in this area of ​​the lake. I have never seen these two people before today. As for the others, they are all like me, working near the lake year-round. Therefore, these two are the only strangers among the eunuchs present.”

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