Great Wei scholar

It is still night.

Among the forests.

There was a sound of begging for mercy, it was Li Jianquan's voice.

"Please, please, please, let me go, let me go, I can assure you, I really won't say anything."

"The four of them are already dead. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I can go directly to the north and never return to Dawei again."

"Leave me alone."

Crying and shouting sounded, and the night was full of sky, and everything seemed extremely quiet and strange.

Xu Qingxiao turned into a crow, stood on a tree, and watched all this quietly.

At this moment, Li Jianquan was extremely dirty and messy, his scalp was disheveled, he was kneeling on the ground, kowtowing constantly, his eyes were full of panic, and there was also a kind of fear, fear of death.

"Hand over the secret letter, and you will be spared."

With an indifferent voice sounded.

Soon a figure appeared, dressed in black and covering his face, his face could not be seen clearly in the night.

"It's impossible for me to give you the secret letter. If I give it to you, I will die faster, but I can guarantee that I really won't tell it."

"This matter has nothing to do with me. From the beginning to the end, I just want to live. Tell the adults above for me. As long as he is willing to let me go, I can leave Dawei like a dog."

"If I go back to Great Wei again, I will die without a place to bury me, and my children and grandchildren will die badly. My lord, my lord, please, please."

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the other party, feeling extraordinarily excited.

Obviously already knew about the mysterious deaths of the four Zhang Wang.

"It seems that you are really toasting and don't eat fine wine."

The voice was indifferent, and the next moment, he directly landed his foot, crushing Li Jianquan's palm, and using his inner energy, shattered every bone in his palm.

Ugh!

A cry came from the throat, like the roar of a wild animal. The sound was not very loud, but Li Jian's face was extremely distorted, and he was sweating in pain.

"Li Jianquan!"

"Hand over the secret letter, the adults said, he will give you a way out, and give you another 1 taels of silver, so that you will be carefree in this life."

"I advise you to hand it over, so as not to suffer from flesh and blood."

The voice of the man in black sounded, extremely indifferent.

"Let me leave. I can really guarantee that I won't go back to Dawei. I won't reveal the secret letter even if I die. Telling it is a dead end. I'm not stupid, my lord, please let me go."

Li Jianquan was indeed not stupid, the secret letter was his only life-saving thing, if he handed it over, he would surely die.

"Row!"

"My lord's guess is really accurate, you are worthy of being an old Jianghu, and you refuse to hand over the secret letter even if you die."

"Since that's the case, it's okay to let you live, but...do you know that there is no one in this world who won't leak secrets except the dead?"

The man in black said coldly.

The next moment, he grabbed Li Jianquan's head with one hand, and then a cold force poured directly into his body from the palm of his hand.

Li Jianquan struggled frantically and let out an extremely miserable cry, but nothing helped.

After half an hour, the man in black left.

But soon, a voice sounded.

"My lord...you!"

With the dull sound sounded.

At this moment, everything is quiet.

It was completely quiet.

In the forest, a figure slowly disappeared. This was Li Jianquan's last scene.

And Xu Qingxiao stared at the figure intently.

It's... the King of Huaiping County.

At this very moment.

Xu Qingxiao woke up from the dream.

Everything is roughly clear.

In Shouren Academy.

The sun has shone into the room.

Xu Qingxiao remained silent.

After a while, Xu Qingxiao left Shouren Academy directly, regardless of Yang Hu and the others, and went straight to the Ministry of Punishment.

When they came to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, everyone looked at Xu Qingxiao, with strange expressions in their eyes. No one greeted Xu Qingxiao, and Xu Qingxiao didn't say anything, and went directly to the document library.

The file vault of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was extremely large, and there were files in it. When Xu Qingxiao arrived, the new manager of the file vault immediately stood up, looking extremely awed.

"Master Xu, what dossier do you need, I will fetch it for you immediately."

The latter spoke and asked Xu Qingxiao.

"No, I'll find it myself."

When Xu Qingxiao entered the case files, what he was looking for was not case files, but some historical materials. There were not only case files in the case files of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but also a lot of information materials, divided by year.

Not long after, Qingxiao found what she wanted.

A volume of files was taken down by Xu Qingxiao, and Xu Qingxiao didn't even return to his office, and stood directly in the file warehouse to read these files.

From day to night.

Then from night to day.

For two whole days, Xu Qingxiao stayed in the file warehouse, and the entire criminal department didn't know what Xu Qingxiao was doing.

But in the hearts of everyone, they felt inexplicably that Xu Qingxiao was just cramming.

Mao Shi.

There is only one day left before the three-day appointment with His Majesty.

And at this moment, Xu Qingxiao completely understood.

This time, he came to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to read the dossiers since the disaster relief case in Pingqiu Mansion.

I roughly understand the background at that time.

Emperor Wu's Northern Expedition failed, and he was suspicious in his later years, which put enormous pressure on the court, so that everyone was in danger.

In order to protect themselves, some vassals even colluded with the Tuxie Dynasty and the Chuyuan Dynasty, and might rebel at any time.

The internal and external turbulence is extremely turbulent.

King Huaiping was not qualified to rebel, but his father was. Prince Huaining was qualified to compete for the throne, second only to Yongping's grandfather.

And what does the rebellion need most?Massive amounts of money and silver.

Therefore, it is entirely possible that the king of Huaiping County corrupted ink with 2000 million taels of silver.

Already planning to rebel, are you still worried about rebelling or not?

Just why there was no rebellion in the end is another story.

Xu Qingxiao roughly speculated that Prince Huaining really wanted to rebel, and made his son do some shameful things to collect a large sum of money in a short period of time, creating internal troubles and at the same time improving his own strength.

But in the end, Emperor Wu returned and suppressed all this with means, so that Prince Huaining could not rebel, and then asked King Huaiping to clean things up.

That's why there are clues left.

What Xu Qingxiao came to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to investigate was the motive.

Now that the motivation has been determined, there are two remaining things.

First, physical evidence!Where is Zhang Nantian's secret letter!Finding the secret letter written by Zhang Nantian is the physical evidence!

Second, the witnesses, all the people are dead, and the king of Huaiping County is indeed clean and neat, and in the end even his own subordinates will not be spared, so there is no need to look for witnesses, but what Li Jianquan said Absolutely.

The only witness is Zhang Nantian, who is already dead. If there is genuine energy remaining in his veins, it is an ironclad proof.

But Zhang Nantian's body had long since disappeared. According to the file, although Zhang Nantian committed suicide, the Ministry of Punishment dismembered him into eight pieces and threw his body into the wilderness as a warning to others.

It has been decades since this incident, and it is impossible to find the body.

"Where is the physical evidence?"

"How to get witnesses?"

Xu Qingxiao frowned, thinking hard.

After half an hour.

Xu Qingxiao suddenly realized that he knew how to find witnesses.

The next moment, Xu Qingxiao went straight to the inner hall of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and pushed the door open without any consideration.

"Xu Qingxiao? What are you going to do?"

Zhang Jing was reviewing the files, when he suddenly saw Xu Qingxiao intruding into it, he couldn't help scolding angrily.

"Master Shangshu, the matter is of great importance, give me some decrees of heaven."

Xu Qingxiao said.

The so-called decree of heaven is an extremely precious thing. As long as something is written in the decree of heaven and then burned, it can be heard by the heavens and appear in the hands of the empress.

It is something that will only be used for really big cases. Each department has a few, and it will never be used on weekdays.

"How many? Are you crazy? There are only three in the entire criminal department, and why do you want this?"

Zhang Jing stared at Xu Qingxiao and said so.

"Handle the case!"

"Big case!"

"Sir Shangshu, will you give it? If you don't give it to me, I will leave. When I go to court tomorrow, the next official can only say that Shangshu hinders the handling of the case."

Xu Qingxiao said with a rascal face.

"you……"

Zhang Jing was a little depressed, but seeing Xu Qingxiao's anxious and serious eyes, he finally gritted his teeth and said, "I'll just give you one."

"Row!"

Xu Qingxiao nodded, one is fine.

"Wait!"

Zhang Jing angrily put down the file in his hand, then went to the side bookcase and took out a yellow imperial decree, which was like an imperial decree, but the imperial decree was cloth and paper, this one was pure paper.

"Thank you, Master Shangshu."

Xu Qingxiao thanked him, public is public, private is private, Zhang Jing really can not give it to himself, after all, this thing is of great significance, not giving it is not a small shoe, as for hindering the case just now, it is just talk, it has no effect.

"Humph!"

Zhang Jing snorted coldly, but seeing Xu Qingxiao turn around and leave, he immediately grabbed Xu Qingxiao.

"Xu Qingxiao."

"I asked you something, and you gave me a letter of approval."

Zhang Jing pulled Xu Qingxiao and asked in a low voice.

"What's the matter?"

Xu Qingxiao was a little curious.

"Are you sure about this case?"

Zhang Jing asked seriously.

"Tomorrow will solve the case!"