Chapter 1346
Both sides felt that Mr. Tong was a good person
Chapter 1346 Both sides felt that Mr. Tong was a good person
"I plead guilty," Master Zheng said.
Once the conversation started, the subsequent self-confessions and evidence became very slippery.
"Because I have suffered from syphilis for many years, I have been contemplating suicide. However, I do not want to die an ordinary death. Therefore, I came to the Northeast Prefecture to commit a bloody incident to expand my influence. Then, I will use my death to persuade people to make peace, so as to give the people of Wei an opportunity to abandon the city and flee south."
His confessions are becoming increasingly slippery, and he's even started bragging about them.
Boom boom boom!
"Zheng, the ringleader, just tell us how you committed the crime and who your accomplices are. If you dare to embellish yourself or try to glorify yourself, don't blame us for reporting to His Majesty and having your entire family of ten generations executed!"
Upon hearing the words "extermination of ten clans," Master Zheng recalled the massacre of the Jin family by Emperor Wuxing and the devastating blow to the aristocratic alliance caused by the Jin family. This strengthened his resolve to confess his crimes, cut his losses, and preserve the aristocratic alliance.
Damn it, why do evildoers like to put on a mask of righteousness and claim they are doing this for the good of so-and-so?
Let's be honest and say that I'm a bad person and I like to do evil, is that not okay?
Fearing that Zheng Si might say something wrong and make the logic incoherent, Mr. Tong took over the conversation and said, "Master Zheng Si came to me. Seeing that the Zheng family was powerful, I cooperated with him to commit these major crimes."
"I thought that with the power of the Zheng family and my own strength, the capital city, which was going through internal strife and war, would definitely not be able to find out about us after we committed these crimes. We could continue to live as good people and noblemen, and be respected by others."
"Unexpectedly, God wasn't blind; it was our evil deeds that were uncovered... Those trainees were utterly useless, and Commander Lin was a good-for-nothing who ruined things for me and Master Zheng!"
Fang Jiuxiong, Zhao Hefu, Su Xiaonian and other trainee murderers were also held in the crowd, but they were all tortured by Wei Jun, who only wanted to die quickly and stop tormenting them. Therefore, they did not care about what Mr. Tong said.
In fact, they had no idea who their master was.
All he knew was that he was a bodyguard kept by a nobleman, and after being fed and watered, he would wait for the nobleman to give him orders to become a bodyguard.
If their generation did not receive orders from their master, then they should get married normally and give birth to a new generation of assassins for their master.
As for who General Lin's master is?
Because the Great Wei is going through a difficult time, the aristocratic alliance cannot be touched. If it is touched, the Great Wei will be in danger of being torn apart.
After discussing it, everyone decided to portray Commander Lin as a spy that Gu Chengyong had kept in other military camps.
“Gu Chengyong is connected to me. After Gu Chengyong was eliminated, I took over part of the Gu family’s hidden power. Fearing that Zheng Qianming and his group would discover that the students were related to me, I secretly contacted Commander Lin and asked him to use his position to poison Zheng Qianming…”
"But Chief Lin is also a good-for-nothing. He can even fail at something so simple!" Mr. Tong personally recounted a complete chain of crimes, explaining and connecting multiple cases.
After hearing this, everyone agreed with this statement.
In particular, scions of prominent families such as Master Zheng and Mr. Wen Tao felt that Mr. Tong was righteous and took all the blame upon himself, completely severing the government and military's desire to investigate these cases, thus protecting the Ming family and the alliance of prominent families.
Indeed, Mr. Tong's act of confessing his guilt is not only beneficial to the beleaguered Great Wei court, but also to the aristocratic alliance.
On the one hand, the Wei court had given the people the truth, rallied their strength, seized upon the mistakes of powerful clans, and then exploited their resources for the Wei army to fight against the enemy. This also allowed them to temporarily avoid breaking ties with the clan alliance and preserve the integrity of the Wei dynasty.
One side of the powerful clans: This assassin was worth raising; he was too loyal. He took all the blame upon himself, preventing Emperor Wuxing from investigating further. We escaped a disaster!
Yes, that's right. Both sides think Mr. Tong is a good person.
Therefore, both parties acknowledged his testimony.
Since everyone agrees, that's the evidence and witness testimony.
The witnesses are the landlord, Young Master Chen, Young Master Bai, Master Bai the Third, the student murderer, and the people from the Tong Family Escort Agency.
"Master Zheng, relying on his family's influence, summoned us to a separate courtyard and made us sign and fingerprint documents, assigning us to carry out acts of causing trouble by suicide, slandering the Qin family, accusing the Prince of Ye of raising a private army, and possessing weapons to enhance their power, all in an attempt to sow discord between the Prince of Ye's faction and His Majesty..." "Liu Qing was a fool; after being incited by Master Zheng, he personally pushed his wife and mother out to commit suicide, using their lives to cause trouble..."
"The late Master Kang the Second was also present. Arrest him; we can't let him get away with it!"
Oh ho, there's still one that slipped through the net.
Standing next to Wen Tao, Master Kang was stunned, but Wen Tao was even more stunned... He instinctively took several steps back to distance himself from Master Kang, and shouted, "I am innocent! I am not involved!"
You're innocent my foot! Was it because you helped Young Master Ming hide in Taifeng Town?
Master Kang instinctively turned tail and ran for his life.
however……
boom!
With a single blow from the Wei soldiers' spears, Master Kang was knocked to the ground, and soon the Wei soldiers would rush up and capture him.
Master Kang's head was buzzing. He shouted, "Injustice! I'm innocent! Chief Tong is making up lies to frame me... Evidence! You need to provide concrete evidence to arrest me!"
Hey, here comes the empirical evidence.
"Report! We have obtained the list of Zheng's accomplices. It has been verified that it is written in personal handwriting. We can verify its authenticity by comparing the handwriting with fingerprints!" The leader of the Imperial Guard personally led a group of Wei soldiers to the place provided by Mr. Tong and found the only list written in personal handwriting.
They went to more than one place and obtained eleven pieces of physical evidence, as well as a surviving witness.
The survivor was a trusted servant (not the one who was rubbed and cooked to death).
The servant originally didn't want to confess, but he had been in contact with Master Zheng for too long and had developed symptoms of a sexually transmitted disease. He also had a close relationship with the servant who was cooked to death. Therefore, he wanted to testify and drag those who had bribed him down with him!
"Scholar Liu Qing, Scholar Yang Ming, Young Master Bai, Second Master Kang, Landlord Xie... all thirty-six of them have given me gifts. Many of these gifts have inscriptions on them, which can prove that they were given to me by them!"
"Second Master Kang gave me the most gifts. He was very eager to curry favor with Fourth Master Zheng, a direct descendant of the Zheng family. But this country bumpkin who had lived on the frontier for a long time didn't know that Fourth Master Zheng had venereal disease and his whole body was rotting. Yet he always liked to stay close to Fourth Master Zheng. He's probably already been infected with the venereal disease. Hahaha! I have another one to die with!"
Master Kang has gone mad. He feels itchy all over and cries out, "Doctor, quickly find a doctor to save me! I don't want to die! I haven't done anything wrong!"
Waaah, he just wanted to curry favor with Master Zheng, and to make contributions to powerful families so that he could gain resources and move his whole family to the capital or Jiangnan.
He wasn't a bad person; he was just fed up with this harsh and cold place and, in his eagerness for change, became an accomplice.
"I'm also a victim! Quickly call a doctor to save me!" Master Kang cried out hoarsely, on the verge of collapse.
Mr. Wen Tao was even more devastated than him.
Zheng Si has venereal disease? Kang Er likes to be near Zheng Si, so what about him? He's very familiar with Kang Er and has also been in contact with Zheng Si.
Wen Tao felt itchy all over and couldn't help but roll up his sleeve to check if he had any rashes... After seeing a red rash, his vision went black and he collapsed on the spot.
boom!
"Mr. Wen Tao has fainted! Doctor, please help!" Tong Shanzhang and other fair-minded people shouted urgently. In short, the scene was in complete chaos.