Frontier Army Warrior

Chapter 681 Digging Deep into the Dirt

Emperor Zhao Zhen's dragon desk was already piled high with memorials.

He didn't read the whole thing, just flipped through part of it, and the content was almost the same.

Impeach Lin Feng, deputy commander of the Imperial Guards, for sabotaging the plan to counterattack the rebels and arresting important court officials without reason. This is tantamount to treason and must be severely punished.

There are also people who impeached Lin Feng for killing an imperial guard officer for no reason and ignoring the laws of the clan. I hope the emperor will punish him severely.

After reading only a dozen memorials, Zhao Zhen held his forehead with his hand and felt that his head had grown bigger.

What bothered him was not the large number of memorials, nor how serious the issues in the memorials were.

Instead, many ministers were kneeling outside the hall, all of them with the determination to fight to the death. They were determined to kneel and die outside the hall if they did not agree to punish Lin Feng.

Zhu Qisheng stood to one side, grinning and gasping for air.

It turns out that Lin Feng agreed so readily because he wanted to catch Jiao Sanqiang?

It was said that Jiao Sanqiang disobeyed Lin Feng's orders and delayed the military plan, and later followed Zhao Wenqi to steal Lin Feng's credit.

This kind of thing happened a lot in the army before, and everyone just laughed it off and kept everything in their hearts.

Why did they mobilize such a large force to capture Lin Feng?

Jiao Sanqiang is still an accomplice, so what about the main culprit Zhao Wenqi?

This is not the most important thing. The key is that Lin Feng disobeyed the order and even didn't listen to the emperor. How could this be tolerated?

Zhao Zhen was silent for a while, finally flicked his sleeves, stood up and walked towards the inner hall.

He decided to ignore everyone and, like before, stick his head in the sand so that no one could see him.

Zhu Qisheng followed the emperor excitedly and served him carefully.

I was afraid that a small mistake would make the emperor unhappy.

The result was contrary to his expectations. When Zhao Zhen walked into the inner hall, he saw many people kneeling inside.

The two in the lead were his beloved concubines.

Concubine Du had heard the news a long time ago, and Concubine Wan also received instructions from her father that this time Lin Feng must be brought down.

The two imperial concubines, one had a long-standing grudge against Lin Feng, and the other had directly affected her father's life and property.

So, she followed the example of the ministers in the court, brought a group of sisters, and knelt in the inner hall to petition.

When Zhao Zhen saw this situation, he almost fell to the ground if Zhu Qisheng had not been quick to act.

Zhu Qisheng carefully supported Zhao Zhen and sat down in the side hall.

"Alas, these ignorant people make me very sad..."

"Your Majesty, please have some tea to cool down."

"No, bring me some wine."

"Your Majesty, you can no longer..."

Zhu Qisheng was halfway through his words when he saw Zhao Zhen glaring at him and quickly swallowed his words of persuasion.

He waved back, signaling the eunuch to quickly get wine for the emperor.

"Go, summon Prince Rui to an audience immediately."

Prince Rui hurried into the palace and when he entered Zhao Zhen's study, he saw that Zhao Zhen's face was red and knew that he had drunk a lot of wine.

"Zhao Xun, tell me, how should we deal with this matter?"

Zhao Zhen called him by his name, looking dazed.

When Prince Rui saw that Zhu Qisheng was the only one in the imperial study, he moved closer to Zhao Zhen.

"Royal brother, Lin Feng is much more powerful than the rebels. We can only support him. Don't reject the wolf at the front door and invite the tiger at the back door."

"Where's Zhao Gui? Send him out to fight and capture Jingdong City for me. How could our Zhao family not even have a famous general?"

Prince Rui smiled bitterly: "Brother, do you believe Zhao Gui can take Jingdong City?"

"How could I not believe it? He was so confident and confident, so he must have a strategy in mind."

"Alas, even if Zhao Gui is powerful, with only a few battalions of the existing Imperial Guards, the rebels wouldn't be able to lay siege to Kyoto City."

Zhao Zhen immediately became angry.

"This is not possible, that is not possible, you should tell me what is possible!"

Prince Rui sighed, "My Royal Brother, Lin Feng has been summoned to the capital and has been unstoppable all the way. If he had been allowed to take control of the Imperial Guards earlier, the rebels might have been defeated by now."

"But how do you want me to treat these old ministers?"

"Is our Zhao family's kingdom and country more important, or are these old ministers more important?"

"Without Lin Feng, can our Zhao family achieve anything?"

Seeing Zhao Zhen start to be unreasonable.

Prince Rui was helpless: "Brother Huang, please get some sleep first. I will figure out a solution."

"Think about it quickly, I can't sleep."

Regardless of the chaos inside and outside, Lin Feng had already returned to Cannes.

Cheng Liang was ordered to put Jiao Sanqiang in jail.

Lin Feng demanded that the trial be carried out as soon as possible and that conclusive evidence be obtained so that certain bigwigs in the court could shut up.

Therefore, Cheng Liang did not rest. The first thing he did after returning to Cannes was to interrogate Jiao Sanqiang.

Jiao Sanqiang was put on a heavy wooden yoke and chains around his body. He was dragged into the house and forced to kneel on the ground.

Cheng Liang was very rude to him because he was very frustrated because he had failed to catch this man many times.

"Jiao Sanqiang, you can see that once you enter this place, don't have any other ideas. Confess your crimes honestly. It will be a relief for both you and me."

Jiao Sanqiang shook the chain on his hand disdainfully.

"Boy, have you ever heard that doctors cannot be punished?"

"Fuck, you didn't listen to a word I said, so stop talking nonsense. Come on, start the torture."

Jiao Sanqiang's eyes widened and he looked a little dazed. How could this happen?

Cheng Liang was angry and didn't want to say anything more.

A strong man came over, pressed Jiao Sanqiang to the ground, took off his shirt, and exposed his buttocks.

The other man holding the whip dipped it in cold water, raised the whip and whipped it down.

With a "pop" sound, Jiao Sanqiang's whole body twitched suddenly, and the severe pain made him breathless.

When he ordered Xie Weicheng to be beaten, it looked very satisfying. It turned out that this was how it felt when someone beat him.

Before he could recover, a snapping sound shattered his resistance again.

"Slow down, wait, I'll tell you, I'll tell you..."

Jiao Sanqiang screamed with his teeth bared.

Cheng Liang sneered: "This is just the beginning."

"That's enough, I know I can't handle the rest."

Jiao Sanqiang was very familiar with these torture instruments. Even the toughest men in the army could not withstand three of them.

At the same time, he also understood that since he dared to take action, he would not be polite to him in the future.

Cheng Liang waved his hand and asked the clerk to prepare to record.

"I just stole Lin Feng's credit. I take responsibility for it."

"anything else?"

"Isn't this enough?"

"It seems that the beating is not painful enough, whip me again."

Just as Jiao Sanqiang opened his mouth to speak, he was whipped and started howling in pain.

“Ouch, that hurts…”

The torturer didn't care about this. He dipped the whip in cold water and started whipping him hard.

Jiao Sanqiang was just being stubborn. After enduring three whippings, he fainted.

After being awakened by the cold water, he immediately shouted and confessed his crimes, no longer hiding or resisting.

Looking at the brutal torture instruments in front of him, Jiao Sanqiang was forced to confess his own and others' crimes from back to front.

Cheng Liang received instructions from Lin Feng and was not only focused on Jiao Sanqiang's crime this time, but also had to dig deeper into this person's past stains.

Unexpectedly, this trial caused the clerk to write seven long pages.

Even Cheng Liang was stunned by Jiao Sanqiang's past.

It turns out that these court officials are so conscienceless. Not to mention the moral bottom line, even the legal bottom line has long been chiseled into a sieve by their misdeeds.

For a whole day and night, Jiao Sanqiang was completely exposed.

Cheng Liang excitedly took the confession and went straight to Lin Feng's command center.