Lao Bai seemed to have not slept for several days. He looked tired, but despite his handsome appearance, he had a kind of morbid beauty.
"What else can we do? The prison is full! These are all implicated. The real perpetrator is in prison. The three generals are personally interrogating them."
Li Qinglin became more and more puzzled after hearing this.
This was the first time he had encountered such a situation since he infiltrated the Ministry of Justice, so he asked about the case.
"In the military camp, a cavalry captain was so bold that he dared to smuggle and sell the banned weapon Jackdaw Crossbow!"
Lao Bai smiled coldly, "He dares to sell such a national treasure? Even if he is skinned alive, it won't be enough! Now the three generals are interrogating him overnight. Who is his seller, who is his contact person, how long has he been selling it, all of them must be asked to get to the bottom of it!"
Jackdaw Crossbow? Li Qinglin was stunned when he heard this.
Isn’t it such a coincidence?
Could it be that the Jackdaw Crossbow in the hands of the Rakshasa Sect was made by this cavalry captain? !
How did this get online?
Lao Bai explained a few words and then hurried away to interrogate the prisoners.
Li Qinglin walked into the filing room with a heavy heart.
He seemed to have thought of something, and asked the clerk. After rummaging through the files for a while, his eyes lit up, and he took out a volume of "Records of Feng County - Taoist Temple".
After a stick of incense, Li Qinglin's eyes flickered and he thought to himself, "As expected."
The leader of Luosha Sect, Hai Dakuo, is a retainer of the Shan family, a big family in the inner city. He left more than 30 years ago and settled in the outer city. He has been smooth sailing all the way and established the current middle-level martial arts school Luosha Sect! "This Hai Dakuo is obviously the Shan family's black glove, one of the spies in the outer city. Could the Jackdaw Crossbow in his hand be made for the Shan family?"
"The cavalry captain who smuggled the banned weapons, the buyer behind it is the Shan family? Or is it more than just this family?!"
Li Qinglin thought of this and his expression became stern. He suddenly felt that this matter was very risky and he was afraid that there might be more to come!
Who knows, it might even implicate myself as the Chief Justice!
"Captain Li, we don't have enough manpower. Could you please come over and interrogate a few prisoners together?"
Just as I was thinking about it, a voice came, and trouble came.
Jin Qiandai came over with a few small flags.
Jin Qiandai is the flag bearer, a ninth-rank official, and is in charge of ten small flags.
Originally, Li Qinglin was qualified to recruit his own team, but since he had a shallow foundation and was too young, not many people believed in him.
Secondly, Li Qinglin didn't want to be distracted too much by other things, so the best strategy was to focus on practicing martial arts and keep the great power within himself.
Jin Qiandai personally invited him. Not far away, Bai Jing was carrying a prisoner towards the secret room. Li Qinglin couldn't refuse and had to follow him.
When the door of the secret room was opened, it was dark and damp. The layout was exactly like that of a large prison. It was equipped with all kinds of torture instruments, such as knives, benches, nail chairs, steel needles and branding irons. The blood was black and could not be washed off.
The prisoner who was being interrogated before was still hanging upside down on the chains, his long hair wet with blood.
The judge, who was whipping people with a whip, saw Jin Qiandai and his men, called them "Sir" and immediately made room for them.
Bai Jing tied the prisoner to an iron stool and snatched the whip from Xiaoqi.
Snap!
After the whip was applied, the unconscious prisoner suddenly woke up, with a bloody mark on his body.
The whip was not smooth, but had some barbs and roots, and was dipped in salt water. Once it hit the body, it would tear off large pieces of flesh.
Li Qinglin didn't know if it was an illusion, but he saw a hint of enjoyment on Bai Jing's face. His hands were trembling and his pupils were slightly dilated due to excitement.
"Uh, this guy has this habit..."
Li Qinglin muttered silently.
In fact, there was no need for Li Qinglin, the flag bearer, to personally carry out the execution, he just came here to set up the scene.
Generally, when interrogating a prisoner, especially one with martial arts skills, there must be multiple or more judges of the same level to accompany the interrogation.
After all, for a martial artist, even if he has steel nails inserted into his body, his hands and feet are disabled, or even he has inhaled numbing powder, he may still have the strength left to fight back in desperate situations.
Jin Qiandai entered the secret room, sat upright on the armchair, drank his herbal tea leisurely, and commented from time to time which judge's interrogation skills had improved.
Li Qinglin listened to the endless screams and saw all kinds of bloody scenes.
He frowned subconsciously.
It's not that he is soft-hearted and can't bear to see the scene of torture, but he feels that the matter of the cavalry captain selling banned weapons is too complicated and these judges can't handle it at all.
Now the person has been tried and sentenced. When the investigation begins, the first person to be held accountable will be the criminal prosecutor.
Li Qinglin walked up to the clerk in charge of recording and glanced over the confessions.
Suddenly, his eyes fixed.
"Tan Tu, son of a carpenter in the shantytown, with a tight skin and membrane cultivation, is a sword-bearing guard in front of Zhangzhou School's tent. He joined the company five months ago. On the day of the incident, he was in the Tiger Cavalry Camp..."
The clerk saw Li Qinglin's gaze stop in front of Tan Tu's confession letter and couldn't help but explain, "This man hasn't confessed yet! He's stubborn and refuses to confess. Li Zhangqi wants to interrogate him personally?"
Li Qinglin did not answer, but looked at a man not far away, who was dying and only breathing instinctively, and was still tied to a rack.
Li Qinglin could still vaguely see some resemblance of Carpenter Tan's wife from this person's appearance.
"Carpenter Tan..."
Li Qinglin silently recited a few words in his heart, then turned to the clerk and said in a low voice,
"This man is already half dead, what else can we interrogate him for? Go get some healing medicine, wait for him to wake up and feed him some thick porridge. Once he comes to his senses, we can torture him again!"
Upon hearing this, the clerk looked a little hesitant and looked at Jin Qiandai.
"Why are you standing there? Brother Li is kind, so we can't let him down. Go get the medicine!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the prisoners in the secret room cried even louder and howled at the top of their lungs.
Jin Qiandai was furious. He slammed the table and stood up. He stared at the prisoners in the secret room with his eyes as big as copper bells. He was surrounded by a fierce aura, and several nearby judges were so frightened that they dropped their whips.
"Pretending to be miserable? That means you're not miserable enough! Try harder!"
Li Qinglin frowned when he saw this, and walked to Jin Qiandai and said,
"Brother Jin, I think there is something fishy about this case. We may have to change our mind overnight. It is better not to use torture."
Jin Qiandai heard this, his smile remained, but a little colder, and he waved his hand.
"Brother Li, you are worrying too much. I, Old Jin, have been a judge for decades, and I know all the twists and turns. Smuggling and selling banned weapons is punishable by death and the entire clan! Who will change this?
Who dares to change it? "
Hearing this, Li Qinglin sighed and stopped trying to persuade him.
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Finally, he made an excuse, saying that the punishment was too harsh and he was not feeling well, so he simply left the secret room and finished his shift early.
Before leaving, he informed Lao Bai and hinted that he should not use violence and just show his respect.
I don’t know if Lao Bai listened to it.
Seeing this, many judges looked at him strangely, some sneered, some were puzzled...
But Li Qinglin was the flag bearer, and a higher rank could crush anyone, so how could they dare to say anything? The next day.
Li Qinglin originally wanted to slack off and not report to the Ministry of Justice. He could just take a sick leave afterwards.
However, he never expected that a guard from the yamen would come in person and anxiously ask him to go to the Ministry of Justice as soon as possible.
As soon as he arrived at the Ministry of Justice, he saw Bai Zongqi, whom he had met once before and who had lent him his warrant to read books in Tianyi Pavilion.
General Bai stood in the corridor of the compound. He did not have any dignity of a general flag. He stood aside with some stiffness and fear, explaining something to the three people in front of him.
One of them was wearing a white pheasant robe with a curved collar and wide sleeves, a leather belt around his waist, and a fu hat on his head. He was the county magistrate of Feng County, Lu Yuan!
The other two people, one has a square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, he is one of the centurions of the Ministry of Justice, Jiang Yan.
There was another person who looked like a butler, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were as vicious as a poisonous snake.
In the middle of the courtyard of the Ministry of Justice, a row of judges knelt down! Dozens of flag bearers, seven or eight flag bearers such as Jin Qiandai and Bai Jing, and several clerks, all of them were honestly bare-chested, carrying thorns on their backs to plead guilty, their faces pale, and their bodies covered with marks of caning.
They were the ones who tortured and extorted confessions from the prisoners yesterday!
There were more than a dozen judges who did not participate in the execution, but stood by and watched.
Lao Bai looked at Li Qinglin and winked at him, asking him to come to him quickly.
Li Qinglin returned to the team immediately.
After a while, the butler politely invited Magistrate Lu to leave with a smile and got on the carriage together.
Jiang Yan and Bai Zongqi walked up to the group of judges, one after the other.
Jiang Yan smiled coldly, "It must be unpleasant to be pecked in the eye by a goose after hunting it all day long, right?"
Jin Qiandai, Bai Jing and others buried their heads like quails and did not speak a word.
"You should know with your assholes that the school leader Zhang Zhou dared to risk his head to transport the forbidden weapon Jackdaw Crossbow. How could he dare to do that without a powerful person backing him up? Even if he was offered a chance to ascend to heaven in one step, he would not dare to do that!"
Jiang Yan was like an angry lion, with a neck as thick as a pillar and blue veins exposed.
"The person who executed yesterday will be demoted one rank. As for Xiaoqi, pack up and get out!"
"Jin Qiandai, Bai Jing, the rest of you will be suspended from work for three months and fined for half a year!"
"Get out of here!"
The kneeling judges stood up one after another in an eerily quiet manner. Many of them took off their round-collared robes, took off their coupons and swords, leaving only their close-fitting white coats, and walked out of the Judicial Office barefoot.
When passing by Li Qinglin, many people looked ashamed, covered their faces and walked around him.
Xiaoqi is not part of the staffing system and is considered a temporary worker in a sense. If anything goes wrong, they will naturally be the ones to take the blame.
Jiang Yan walked up to Li Qinglin, looked at him deeply, and said, "Are you Li Qinglin?"
Li Qinglin clasped his hands and said, "Master Jiang, it is me."
Jiang Yan's tone softened a little, "Captain Zhang Zhou asked me to tell you a message, saying thank you for saving that kid Tan Tu, and I will treat you to a drink if I have the chance in the future."
At this point, Jiang Yan paused and suddenly said meaningfully, "It's good to be cautious, but there are some things that can't be avoided by being cautious..."
Hearing this, Li Qinglin seemed to be thinking about something and looked at Jiang Yan in surprise.
But he didn't want to say more. He glared at Jin Qiandai, Bai Jing and others fiercely, then turned around and walked away.
"What's going on?" Li Qinglin asked Lao Bai in a low voice.
Lao Bai glanced around and said, "We have hit a wall. The buyers of that batch of Jackdaw crossbows are the Shan, Jia, Wang and other big families in the inner city! And behind the school leader Zhang Zhou, there is another big shot!
The housekeeper just now is from the Shan family. These big families are intertwined with each other, and even have people in the court. The eldest daughter of the Shan family is the concubine of the current emperor! Behead them, who dares to behead them? Many of the military equipment, even the Jackdaw Crossbow, were funded by them!"
Uh, who dares to sue me? Li Qinglin was puzzled when he heard this.
If that's the case, why did the big families like Shan, Jia, and Wang hide their true intentions and secretly ask the army for the Jackdaw Crossbow? Moreover, it seems that there are other forces that are fighting against them...
(End of this chapter)