Sign In a Lu Bu Fengxian at the Beginning

Compassion Palace.

Not long after King Zhou Zhi of Shu left, Eight Sage King Zhou Xian walked into the Palace of Compassion and Ning under the leadership of an old eunuch.

"Meet the Queen Mother."

After entering the Palace of Compassion and Ning, the Eighth Sage King Zhou Xian said respectfully to the Queen Mother.

"The Eighth Emperor Brother is here."

"Quickly move a chair for the Eighth Emperor."

The Eight Sage King Zhou Xian and the late emperor were brothers, and he was also the closest to the late emperor among the many brothers.

Therefore, there is no estrangement between the Queen Mother and the Eight Sage King Zhou Xian.

Seeing the eight sage king Zhou Xian coming, the queen mother said to the old eunuch who brought the eight sage king in.

The old eunuch who brought the Eighth Sage King into the Compassionate Ning Palace immediately moved a chair to the Eighth Sage King Zhou Xian.

"Thank you Queen Mother."

The Eighth Sage King Zhou Xian sat down.

I guessed in my heart that the Queen Mother suddenly summoned him to the Compassionate Ning Palace because of something.

You know, since the late Emperor was gone, the Empress Dowager rarely summoned him, the Eight Worthy King, to the Compassion Palace.

After the Eighth Sage King sat down, the Queen Mother said to the Eighth Sage King Zhou Xian, "Eighth Emperor Brother, Ai's family called you here, and I want you to take care of him during the time when the King of Shu returns to Luoyang."

"Recently, the court is not peaceful. The Ai family is afraid that the king of Shu will be involved if he doesn't know."

"The Ai family has lived in the palace for a long time, and can't leave the palace all the time."

"So, for matters outside the palace, the Ai family can only trouble the Eighth Emperor."

The Empress Dowager looked at the Eight Sage King Zhou Xian, and didn't make any detours, and directly stated the purpose of calling the Eight Sage King to the Palace of Compassion.

When the Eight Sage King Zhou Xian heard this, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Originally thought that the Empress Dowager suddenly summoned Zhou Xian, the Eighth Sage King, to the Palace of Compassion and Peace for some important matter, but she didn't expect it was to take care of the King of Shu.

"Don't worry, Queen Mother, I will take care of King Shu."

The Eight Sage King Zhou Xian understood what the Queen Mother meant.

The queen mother was afraid that the king of Shu would be involved in the affairs of the court during his return to Luoyang, so let him watch it.

After all, things in the courtroom have been a bit unsettled recently.

One by one officials were checked.

Even the six important ministers such as the Minister of the Ministry of Households and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment were taken down.

This made royal princes like the Eighth Sage King Zhou Xian have to be cautious.

"The Ai Family will trouble the Eighth Emperor Brother."

After the queen mother said this, she didn't say anything more.

Instead, he chatted with Eight Sage King Zhou Xian about other things.

...

At this time, Zhou Zhi had already left the palace and returned to the Shu Palace.

Sitting in the hall of Shu Palace, Zhou Zhi's expression was a little ugly.

Zhou Zhi didn't expect that the queen mother, his mother, would treat him so harshly this time.

It can be said that there has never been a reprimand and a warning.

This made Zhou Zhi very unwilling.

Zhou Zhi couldn't figure out who was the Queen Mother's parent and child.

Why did the queen mother treat her parent and child like this for the emperor brother who was not the parent and child sitting on the dragon chair.

"Queen, Erchen will let you see that Erchen is not worse than him at all." A trace of determination flashed across Zhou Zhi's face, and he muttered to himself.

"Three virtues."

Zhou Zhi shouted.

"My lord."

Santoku's figure appeared in the hall.

"Immediately contact the prime minister secretly, and say that the king has something important to discuss with him."

Zhou Zhi opened his mouth and said.

"Yes, my lord."

Santo turned and left the meeting hall.

"At this point, some things can no longer be turned back."

After San De left, Zhou Zhi's gaze was a little deep and erratic.

...

Hall of Mental Cultivation.

After Zhou Chen returned from the Compassionate Ning Palace, he continued to deal with the memorials placed on the dragon case.

Not for a while.

A factory guard came in and whispered something in Cao Shaoqin's ear.

"What's wrong?"

"What happened?"

After the factory guard withdrew, Zhou Chen asked without raising his head.

Cao Shaoqin immediately said, "Your Majesty, the Palace of Compassion and Ning has just replaced some maids and eunuchs."

"After the King of Shu left, the Empress Dowager announced that the Eight Sage Kings had entered the Palace of Compassion."

Cao Shaoqin told him the news that the factory guard had just told him.

The turmoil outside cannot be concealed from Dongchang, and the same is true inside the palace.

Even the Compassionate Peace Palace is no exception.

It's just that the Compassionate Palace is still a bit special, after all, it is the place where the Empress Dowager lives.

Dongchang can only do this, and generally knows the news.

To be more specific, it is not known why the Empress Dowager told the Eight Sage Kings to enter the Palace of Compassion.

"oh!"

Hearing this, Zhou Chen put down the memorial in his hand, raised his head, his eyes flickered.

In Zhou Chen's cognition, the queen mother is a relatively nostalgic person.

The maids and eunuchs serving in the Compassionate Ning Palace are basically old people who have been in the Compassionate Ning Palace for many years.

Why did the Empress Dowager suddenly change some maids and eunuchs in the Palace of Compassion and Ning?

After pondering for a moment.

Zhou Chen raised his eyes and glanced at Cao Shaoqin; "Let the people in Dongchang pay attention to the Eight Sage Kings."

"Look at what the Eight Sage Kings have been doing these days?"

Zhou Chen said calmly.

Now that he knew that King Zhou of Shu was restless, Zhou Chen also paid attention to the Queen Mother's actions.

It wasn't that Zhou Chen crossed the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and suspected that the queen mother had something to do with the plan of King Zhou Zhi of Shu.

But Zhou Chen knew that the most ruthless emperor's family.

In the house of the emperor.

Be ruthless first, and then be an emperor later.

This is the law of survival.

nothing else.

As the son of the queen mother, Zhou Chen believed that the queen mother would not treat one son more favorably than another. For the sake of one son, he would plot against another son.

No queen has ever done this before.

However, as an emperor, Zhou Chen couldn't regard this belief as complete trust.

The imperial defense that should be there is still there.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cao Shaoqin bowed.

Before, Dongchang had scruples about members of the royal family.

Without the permission of the emperor Zhou Chen, Dongchang would not monitor the members of the royal family.

But since the rebellion of Zhou Junxian and Xiaoyao Wang Zhouqian, Zhou Chen has let go of this right to Dongchang.

In Luoyang, whether it is the relatives of the emperor or the ministers of the court.

Or go down to local officials, traffickers and pawns, all are the targets of Dongchang.

There are no exceptions to speak of.

After finishing speaking, Zhou Chen continued to concentrate on processing the memorial.

Didn't take this matter to heart.

And Cao Shaoqin quietly left the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

With Dian Wei, the commander of the forbidden army, it doesn't take long for Cao Shaoqin to be on duty in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

His focus is mainly in the east factory.

The minister of the Ministry of punishment has just been taken down, and he, the second governor of the East Factory, has to make up his mind on many things.

...

A few days after Hubu Shangshu was ransacked and exterminated, Xingbu Shangshu was also found out for corruption and arrested.

The Minister's Mansion of the Ministry of Punishment was raided by Dongchang.

This news aroused considerable discussion in Luoyang City.

Although officials have been arrested every day for checking the household department these past few days, those officials are nothing compared to the minister of punishment.

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice is one of the six ministers, an important minister in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In addition to the four ministers who assist the country, the six ministers in the court have the greatest power.

Such an important court official's house was ransacked, and it was difficult not to arouse discussion.

What's more, the background of the minister of the Ministry of punishment is different, he is a member of the Zheng family in Rongyang, one of the seven great families of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Such a background, coupled with the high position and weight of the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, was ransacked, and naturally became a topic of discussion.

The Jiexiu Fan family, which was first ordered to be exterminated by the emperor Zhou Chen, was originally broken into pieces, thinking that they could escape the imperial court's extermination and hold back the imperial court's troops.

Unexpectedly, they underestimated the popularity of imperial power.

Zhou Chen, the emperor's decree to punish the company, directly broke the Fan family's method of breaking up into pieces, so that local officials had to do their best to suppress the Fan family's rebellion in their respective places.

In addition, Cao Zhengchun, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were chased by the three parties.

The members of Jiexiu Fan's family suffered a devastating blow for a while.

...

East factory resident.

Cao Shaoqin sat on the governor's chair, glanced at a factory guard below, and asked softly, "Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, how is the torture going?"

This is also Dongchang's consistent way of doing things.

Those who were imprisoned in Dongchang's prison were tortured by Dongchang's methods first, and let them have a taste of Dongchang's methods before being interrogated.

Just like Hubu Shangshu Fan Yongdou.

After entering Dongchang Prison, Fan Yongdou suffered several kinds of torture from Dongchang before Cao Zhengchun started interrogating him.

"Reporting to the governor, according to the instruction of the governor, basically all the ministers of the Ministry of punishment were recruited, but they were all those who were involved in corruption and bribery, and didn't say a word about it."

The factory guard bowed and said.

"Yeah?"

Cao Shaoqin grinned grimly; "It seems that our Minister of the Ministry of Punishment is the same as the Minister of the Ministry of Households, his mouth and bones are not so hard."

"Walk."

"Follow me to have a look."

Cao Shaoqin got up and left the hall, and went to the Dongchang Prison.

Generally speaking, in Cao Shaoqin's capacity, there was no need to go to Dongchang prison in person to interrogate these prisoners.

But the Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice is different. The Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice is involved in the big event of the three great families and the king of Shu conspiring to change the world. Cao Shaoqin had to go and see for himself.

The prison in Dongchang was gloomy and dank, very dark.

There was a smell of decay.

After Cao Shaoqin entered the Dongchang Prison, he went straight to the depths and stopped outside a cell.

It was Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments who was being held in this cell.

At this time, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice was being hanged in the prison.

After several tortures in Dongchang, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment was scarred and scarred. He no longer had the calm and authoritative attitude of the past, and some were just in a state of embarrassment.

Cao Shaoqin walked into the cell and looked at Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who was covered in bruises and was hung up; "Shangshu Zheng, you have tried several kinds of torture in Dongchang. It doesn't feel good!"

"If you are honest and explain everything the governor wants to know clearly, the governor will give you a good time."

"Otherwise, you will have to taste all the 108 tortures in Dongchang."

Cao Shaoqin looked at the Minister of Punishment and said softly.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment raised his head and glanced at Cao Shaoqin with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth; "I have confessed everything that should be confessed, and I have confessed all the crimes."

"What else do you want me to explain?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice said weakly.

Cao Shaoqin smiled softly; "It seems that Zheng Shangshu wants to taste the 108 kinds of torture in Dongchang. The prisoner next to him is Fan Yongdou, Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"Fan Shangshu passed out after tasting the 36-hour torture in Dongchang. I don't know whether Zheng Shangshu can persist more or less than him."

Cao Shaoqin looked at the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment with a gloomy look.

Hearing this, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, his pupils shrank involuntarily.

When he was imprisoned before, Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Justice saw the person imprisoned in the cell next to him.

Because the person in the cell next to him was lying on the ground with his back facing Shangshu Xingbu, Shangshu Xingbu did not recognize who the person in the cell beside him was.

I just saw that everyone in the cell next to him looked like a devil, and there was almost no part of his body that was intact.

Apparently, he suffered torture beyond Dongchang's imagination.

Originally, the minister of the Ministry of punishment was still guessing who the person in the prison next to him was, and it was worth Dongchang's use of such torture.

Unexpectedly, the person locked in the side room turned out to be Fan Yongdou, Minister of the Household Department.

I haven't seen you in just a few days, and I have become like that.

It's just unbelievable.

"What do you want to know?"

"I have confessed everything I should have done. I have confessed all my sins. I really don't know what else you want to know?"

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment glanced at Cao Shaoqin again and said.

Cao Shaoqin stopped talking nonsense this time, and looked directly at the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment and said, "Shangshu Zheng, the governor wants to know about the conspiracy between your Zheng family and the King of Shu."

As soon as Cao Shaoqin said this.

The face of Shangshu Xingbu changed immediately, but he quickly covered it up.

However, this did not escape Cao Shaoqin's eyes.

"Zheng Shangshu won't tell this governor, you don't know about it!"

Cao Shaoqin looked at the Minister of Punishment.

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment gave a bloodshot smile; "Cao Shaoqin, tell Your Majesty that if you want to deal with my Zheng family in Rongyang, you have to find a better excuse."

"There's no need to drag your own brother into the water."

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment said sarcastically.

Although the surface is calm, but in the heart, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice has turned up a huge wave.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Justice did not know how their conspiracy was leaked.

How did Cao Shaoqin know.

However, these are not what Shangshu Xingbu should consider now.

What Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice is now thinking is that since this matter has been leaked and Dongchang knows about it, then the person in the palace must also know about it.

So can their plan with the King of Shu succeed?

"Zheng Shangshu, it seems that you will stop crying when you see the coffin."

"Fan Yongdou suffered thirty-six kinds of torture, so he opened his mouth and confessed the conspiracy between your three great families and the King of Shu."

"Now you are pretending to be stupid with Ben Du, do you think it is Ben Du who doesn't know?"

Cao Shaoqin looked at the Minister of Punishment and said.

The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment looked back at Cao Shaoqin, and smiled weakly; "Since you know Cao Shaoqin, why bother to ask me?"

Cao Shaoqin wanted to deceive him, but it was not so easy.

If Fan Yongdou, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, really confessed, Cao Shaoqin would not ask him again.

What's more, when Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice gathered with Prime Minister Yuan Bo and King Zhou Zhi of Shu to discuss matters.

The Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment already knew from Zhou Zhi, king of Shu, that Fan Yongdou's family was executed by Cao Zhengchun and tortured by Dongchang, but they never spoke.

Now, when Cao Shaoqin said that Fan Yongdou had spoken, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment did not believe it at all.

"hehe."

Cao Shaoqin smiled grimly.

"Come on."

"Give Zheng Shangshu one hundred and eight kinds of torture in my East Factory one by one."

"If Zheng Shangshu doesn't speak, don't stop."

"If it still doesn't work, try again in turn."

"The governor wants to see how hard Zheng Shangshu's bones and mouth are."

Cao Shaoqin said ferociously.

Originally, Cao Shaoqin wanted to defraud the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment! Unexpectedly, the old fox, Minister of the Ministry of Justice, would not be fooled.

Then Cao Shaoqin stopped talking nonsense and could only use Dongchang's torture.

"Yes, Second Governor."

The factory guard took the order and began to punish Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment.

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