Chapter 266 Interrogation
Because no one had leaked any information beforehand, Li Xu, Cao Qian and others were caught off guard.
Now that the situation has developed to this point, Li Xu can't escape.
Once the imperial physician finds out that Li Xu has injuries, combined with the previous evidence, Li Xu's guilt will basically be confirmed.
But in a moment, Cao Qian has made a decision.
Abandon when necessary to avoid trouble.
The imperial physician came soon.
In order to be foolproof, three imperial physicians who are good at external injuries came, and Imperial Physician Chen was among them.
Li Xu was unwillingly taken to the side hall by the imperial guards and stripped for inspection.
Eunuch Gao beside the emperor brought two eunuchs to monitor.
Li Xu wanted to resist, but this was the imperial palace. Not only were there many imperial guards, but Yu Zheng, Zhou Boxu, Shen Changze and others in the palace all knew martial arts, so he couldn't escape at all.
And once he took action, he would be confessing his crime. And resisting in the palace would be a heavier crime, and his family would also be implicated.
After thinking it over, Li Xu accepted his fate.
The emperor and all the officials were waiting in the palace. A quarter of an hour later, Doctor Chen and Eunuch Gao and others came back.
"Your Majesty, Lord Li has a scar on his left arm and back." Eunuch Gao reported truthfully.
Hearing this, the whole court was silent.
The emperor stared at Doctor Chen.
Doctor Chen bowed and said, "After inspection, the knife wounds on Lord Li were suffered recently."
"Come here, take Li Xu down!" The emperor ordered in a deep voice.
The imperial guards obeyed the order and took Li Xu down immediately.
Li Xu surrendered without resistance.
Cao Qian looked at the captured Li Xu with a sullen expression.
It was a pity that the chess piece that had been buried for many years was destroyed just like that.
But now was not the time to feel sorry for it. The right thing to do was to protect himself.
The emperor glanced at Cao Qian who bowed his head and said sternly: "This case will be handed over to Prince Jing for trial, and the Dali Temple will assist."
The crime of assassinating a third-rank court official was not a light one, enough to get Li Xu beheaded.
Of course, killing Li Xu was meaningless, and the key point was to find out the mastermind behind him.
Feeling the emperor's pressing gaze, Cao Qian's heart sank a little more.
It seemed that he had to speed up his actions.
Li Xu was taken to the Dali Temple prison, Yu Zheng personally tried the case, and Zhang Ting and Xiang Maoyan assisted.
In the interrogation room, Li Xu was tied to the torture pillar. He glanced at the various torture instruments and showed a sneer on his face.
He had been in the Dali Temple for many years and had used these torture instruments to interrogate many prisoners, but he never thought that one day they would be used on himself.
After receiving a signal from Yu Zheng, Xiang Maoyan glared at Li Xu and said, "You are familiar with these torture instruments. Which one do you want to start with? Or do you want to try them all?"
Li Xu's scalp tightened: "Do you want to force a confession, Prince?"
Although he had never tasted these torture instruments, he knew clearly what it felt like.
Try them all? Even the toughest man couldn't resist.
Yu Zheng kept tapping the chair and stroking his hands, and said slowly: "Master Li, I understand the rules of Dali Temple."
Regardless of whether he is innocent or not, he will be punished before entering Dali Temple. If he can resist the criminal law, he will be interrogated again.
A good man doesn't want to suffer the loss in front of him. Li Xu looked at Yu Zheng and said, "Don't bother me. Whatever the prince wants me to do, just tell me."
"Really?" Yu Zheng looked at Li Xu and accepted his suggestion: "Tell me the person behind the scenes."
Li Xu's eyes flashed: "There is no person behind the scenes. I just want to sit in the position of the minister of Dali Temple, so I became murderous."
This crime is a definite fact, undeniable.
As for the rest, Yu Zheng had no evidence, and Li Xu didn't dare to say anything.
"Sure enough, it was you who killed my lord!" Xiang Maoyan was furious after hearing Li Xu's personal admission.
Zhang Ting, who had been silent, also had an angry look on his face. It is right
for people to want to move up, and it is not wrong to want to sit in the position of Dali Temple Minister, but such despicable and vicious means should not be used.
"Okay, then tell me, where is the assassin who assassinated with you?" Yu Zheng changed the question.
Being able to kill the accompanying guards in a short time and assist Li Xu in killing Sun Hechuan, such a master cannot be someone around Li Xu.
Thinking quickly, Li Xu said: "It was a killer hired from the Dark House, and it was over after the transaction was completed."
The Dark House is a well-known killer organization with many masters, specializing in buying murders.
It is reasonable to put the blame on them, and Yu Zheng has no way to verify it. Li Xu thinks he is smart.
"Really?" Yu Zheng's face is cold.
Li Xu insisted, "Yes."
"It's a pity that I don't believe it." Yu Zheng snorted coldly and waved his hand to let the jailer start the punishment.
According to the rules, the first punishment was the whipping soaked in chili water, and then the branding...
Li Xu gritted his teeth and resisted until the jailer smeared honey on his wounds and poured ants on him.
"Ah!" A miserable scream rang out in the prison.
The ants were eating away at his heart, and Li Xu was shaking with pain, and his teeth were almost broken.
But he didn't dare to confess. If he confessed, there would be no way to directly convict Cao Qian without evidence. If Cao Qian didn't die, his family would have to die.
Li Xu trembled like a sieve, and resisted it stubbornly. In the end, he fainted from the pain.
He is a real man.
Yu Zheng asked someone to wake Li Xu up.
Li Xu was covered in blood, and when the water splashed on him, blood and ants flowed all over the ground.
His teeth chattered, and he looked up at Yu Zheng in fear, not knowing when it would end.
It would be better to die than to be tortured like this.
Just when Zhang Ting and Xiang Maoyan thought that the torture would continue, Yu Zheng stood up, walked up to Li Xu, and whispered a few words in his ear.
After hearing this, Li Xu's eyes were filled with fear and struggle.
"Put him in prison and execute him in the autumn." After Yu Zheng finished speaking, he turned around and left without any hesitation.
Li Xu looked at Yu Zheng's departing back, and a panic arose in his heart.
He was afraid that what Yu Zheng said would come true.
Yu Zheng said, "You are so loyal, I wonder if your master will let you and your family go?"
"You think your death can buy your family's safety, but your master can even abandon you, what is the meaning of your family to him?"
Finally, Yu Zheng asked him, "How long do you think your family can live after you die?"
Li Xu's mind kept echoing Yu Zheng's words, and the more he thought about it, the more shocked he became.
The case of Sun Hechuan's assassination has been concluded, and Yu Zheng sent someone to inform Sun's mother and Sun Yijun.
Knowing that Yu Zheng found the murderer so quickly and convicted him, Sun's mother and Sun Yijun were both happy and angry.
They were happy that Sun Hechuan could finally rest in peace, but they were angry that the murderer was actually Sun Hechuan's subordinate, and it was really hateful that he hired a murderer to seize the position.
Li Xu did not confess anything else, so Yu Zheng closed the case according to his confession. So Sun's mother and Sun Yijun thought that was all.
Even with Jiang Shu, Yu Zheng did not say much to her, and Jiang Shu did not ask much.
In any case, the murderer was caught and the matter came to an end.
At the morning court the next day, Yu Zheng reported to the emperor and officially closed the case.
After hearing this, Cao Qian was not at ease.
As long as Li Xu was still alive, the assassination case of Sun Hechuan would not be truly closed, and there were variables.
Only the dead can make people feel at ease.
After the court, Yu Zheng followed the emperor to the study.
The father and son talked for a long time, and finally the emperor said coldly: "Just do it."
"Okay." Yu Zheng agreed. Yu
Zheng understood that the emperor hated the Cao family deeply.