Chapter 1061 - Overkill
In the evening, the Xiaowu Army Guanxi Qinglong Camp, a prison.
"Lord Wang!" Accompanied by Bai An and Lu Minen, Li Yuntian came to the prison, and the prison officer led his men to greet him at the gate.
"Did they confess?" Li Yuntian bowed slightly to the prison officer, and asked quietly as he walked towards the prison.
Li Yuntian's luck today is really good, under his order, the Xiaowu army raided all the private schools in the city in the same way, and as a result, no one could answer how many Xiaowu troops there were in the Qinglong City except for the boy from the Western Regions he met.
The parents and servants of the boy from the Western Regions were arrested, and Li Yuntian did not let people interrogate them, because he knew that there was no valuable information from these people, and the intelligence network of the Northern Yuan in Qinglong City was a one-line contact, and only the leaders of each contact point might know more information, and it was obvious that the other party would not give in easily.
Maybe it's because of the boy from the Western Regions, Li Yuntian doesn't want this matter to be bloody, but the punishment in the prison of the Xiaowu Army in Guanxi is borrowed from the edict of Fusi in Jinyi Weibei Town, which is enough to make people feel painful and die and live.
"No, they were all there to play dumb and say they didn't know why they were arrested." The prison officer bowed to Li Yuntian and replied in a deep voice, "According to the orders of the prince, they were only interrogated once, and then they were detained. ”
"Bring the leaders, and the king will see them." Li Yuntian had long expected such a result, and after giving a word to the prison officer, he walked into a room in the courtyard.
Since those people were sent by the Northern Yuan to Qinglong City as spies, it is obvious that they have all been trained and selected, where is it so easy to confess.
Soon after Li Yuntian, Bai An, and Lu Minen sat down in the room, a well-dressed middle-aged couple from the Western Regions were brought in by the jailers, and when they saw the people in the room, they couldn't help but show a look of surprise.
From Bai An's military attache robe and Lu Minen's military uniform, the middle-aged couple knew that the two were high-ranking officials of the Ming Army in Qinglong City, which made the young man sitting at the top of the top Although he was dressed in civilian clothes, the two realized that his status was higher than that of Bai An and Lu Minen.
"Get on your knees!" When the middle-aged couple came to Li Yuntian, the jailer on the side shouted in a deep voice.
"Knock on your lords." The middle-aged couple hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed in horror.
"Do you know why I put you in prison?" Lu Minen glanced at Li Yuntian and saw that Li Yuntian bowed slightly, so he looked at the middle-aged couple expressionlessly.
"My lord, my husband and wife are honest businessmen, and we haven't done anything illegal and undisciplined, so I don't know why we were arrested and put in prison." The middle-aged man in the middle-aged couple kowtowed to Lu Minen in fear, "Please be aware of it." ”
"You mean, you're a businessman who keeps to himself?" A sneer appeared on the corner of Lu Minen's mouth, and he looked at the middle-aged man with a grim expression, "Do you think our Xiaowu Army will arrest people for no reason?" ”
"My lord, although the little one doesn't know what went wrong, the little one dares to guarantee that the adult must have been deceived, please don't listen to the rumors." The middle-aged man hurriedly opened his mouth to shout grievances, and kowtowed to Lu Minen with a bang.
"Do you know why you weren't punished?" Seeing this, Lu Minen couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian pondered for a while and then said to the middle-aged man who was kowtowing.
"Please make it clear." Hearing this, the middle-aged man looked up at Li Yuntian, secretly guessing the identity of this young man in his heart, and at the same time feeling strange that the jailer did not punish them.
"Your son said you wanted him to become a businessman in the future, and he is working towards that goal, preparing his son to follow in his father's footsteps." Li Yuntian The middle-aged man was still denying, so he looked at the middle-aged man expressionlessly and said, "If you let your son know that you are a duplicitous spy, how do you think he will think of you?" ”
"Son?" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment when he heard this, an anxious look suddenly flashed on his face, and he asked Li Yuntian nervously, "What did you do to him?" ”
"He stayed in the private school." Li Yuntian saw that the middle-aged man became nervous, and knew that he was worried about the safety of the child in the Western Regions, so he said with a cold expression, "You have two ways to go now, one is to continue to resist stubbornly, but the spy will be executed, and the other is to make meritorious contributions and the family can be reunited." ”
"This adult, the little one is really just a businessman, not a spy at all, please be aware of it, don't be fooled by others." Hearing that the boy from the Western Regions was fine, the look on the middle-aged man's face suddenly relaxed, and then he kowtowed to Li Yuntian, and said loudly.
"You made a big mistake not to talk about the information you have in front of your child, or you spoiled him so much that he was just an ignorant child."
Li Yuntian suddenly sneered when he heard this, he knew that the middle-aged man still had a fluke mentality, so he looked at him coldly and said, "Can you tell me, why does he know the strength of Qinglong City, not only the Xiaowu Army, but also the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army, the Liaodong Army and the Guanxi Army?" ”
"My lord, this must be someone who maliciously planted it, the dog is only seven years old, how can he know these military information in Qinglong City?" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then touched his head to the ground and said to Li Yuntian in a loud voice, "Please be aware of it." ”
"If the king tells you that your son told him in public, what else will you say?" Li Yuntian's eyes were cold, and he glared at the middle-aged man and said, "This king doesn't want to see one more orphan in this world, but if you are obsessed, then you can only act in accordance with military law!" ”
"You...... You are the King of Chungmu! Hearing this, the middle-aged man suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Yuntian with a shocked expression.
There are a total of three people in Qinglong City who can be called "this king", that is, Li Yuntian and Hamiwei's Zhongshun King and Zhongyi King, it is obvious that Li Yuntian is not the Zhongshun King and the Zhongyi King, then only the Zhongwu King of the Ming Dynasty.
"Now that the news of your arrest has not spread, if you waste any more time, the people who are not allowed to contact you will escape, and then you will not have this opportunity if you want to make meritorious contributions." Li Yuntian didn't answer the middle-aged man, just stared at him coldly and said.
"Wang ...... Lord, if we confess, you ...... Will you spare our lives? The middle-aged man could already conclude that the imposing young man in front of him was the famous King Zhongwu, and he glanced at his wife who was kneeling beside him, and then asked tentatively.
Now that he fell into the hands of Li Yuntian, the middle-aged man's psychological defense line without the slightest psychological preparation collapsed, knowing that if he continued to deny it, he would definitely suffer enough, so he now wanted to atone for his sins to avoid ending up with a death.
"As long as you truly repent, then this king will give you a chance." Li Yuntian looked at the middle-aged man with a serious expression, "This king can send you to Jiaozhi or Jiangnan, where you will start a new life." ”
"Little ...... The small confession, the small one is the spy that Da Yuan planted in Qinglong City, who is responsible for passing on the information received. ”
After getting Li Yuntian's affirmative answer, especially after going to Jiaozhi and Jiangnan, the middle-aged man's eyes lit up, so that they could avoid being retaliated against by the people of the Northern Yuan, and then gritted his teeth, raised his head and said solemnly to Li Yuntian, "The little one secretly collects information in Qinglong City under the banner of doing business, and then passes the information to a pharmacy. ”
"Does the private school have anything to do with such a thing?" Li Yuntian groaned for a moment when he heard this, and asked with a serious expression.
"Nope." The middle-aged man shook his head and opened his mouth to explain to Li Yuntian, "The little one heard that the private school taught very well, so he sent the dog over, but he didn't expect to cause trouble for them. ”
"The king hopes that you have not hidden anything, otherwise you will be punished as you deserve." Li Yuntian glanced at the middle-aged man, and then ordered a guard standing aside in a deep voice, "Go, arrest the people in that pharmacy, don't make too much noise, it's best not to alarm the neighbors!" ”
"Obedience!" The guard bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, took the middle-aged man and his wife out, and asked the two about the specific situation of the pharmacy.
"Lord Wang, in the future, let the officials and others do this kind of trivial matter, you don't have to be busy with official business." Lu Minen saw that Li Yuntian wanted to wait here for the person who was arrested and interrogated, so he opened his mouth and said, he wanted Li Yuntian to go back to rest, and he and Bai An could do the rest.
To tell the truth, a small Northern Yuan spy is not worth Li Yuntian's visit at all, even Lu Minen and Bai An will not be alarmed, and now the three high-level leaders of Qinglong City are all here, which can be said to have given those spies enough face.
"This king likes to do things from beginning to end, since these spies are related to this king, then this king will end this matter." Li Yuntian smiled slightly, then reached out and picked a grape from the fruit bowl on the table next to him and threw it into his mouth to taste it slowly, if he was there, things would go much smoother, he didn't want to see the child in the Western Regions lose his parents.
It didn't take long for the unsuspecting pharmacy owner to be taken to the prison to see Li Yuntian, who had been deceived by the people of Xiaowujun in the name of seeing a doctor.
When he saw the middle-aged man and his wife kneeling in front of Li Yuntian, the face of the pharmacy owner suddenly became ugly, knowing that his true identity was exposed.
Originally, the owner of the pharmacy still wanted to resist, but after knowing Li Yuntian's identity, he had no intention of fighting at all, and honestly confessed his crime.
According to the owner of the pharmacy, he gave the information to an old man in the city who specialized in walking the streets at night and pouring night incense, as long as he could catch the old man, he would know the direction of the information.
It's a pity that when Li Yuntian's men arrived at the old man's house, the old man had already committed suicide by taking poison, and the clues came to an abrupt end.