Chapter 15: Learning Underhanded Moves to Defend Yourself

The main gate of the Imperial City near the Chengtian Gate, the west side of the Thousand Steps Gallery, the North Zhenfu Si like a tiger towering coiled, adjacent to the five military governor’s office, and the east side of the six departments across the street, located in the core of national power.

When one of the small flags under his command came with orders, Qianhu Shen Qi was lighting a paper of secret reports on a candle flame, which quickly burned to ashes.

There are only two short lines on the secret report: “The injury is unharmed. The King of Yu wanted to be intimate with him, but he was hit on the head and left unhappily.”

Ashes crushed into powder between his fingers, Shen Qi carelessly blew a breath and asked, “At the home of Yu Cheng, the son of Yu Yong, the Secretary of the State Scholarship, can there be a hidden sentry?”

The small flag kneeled down and reported back, “There are two long followers, who usually deal with the mongrels of the western market, and have also received some benefits.”

Shen Qi commanded, “You change into civilian clothes and go to secretly meet these two people and teach them to steal the master’s family’s handwriting to come.”

The little flag understood, was ordered to go, but an hour or two, and returned with a stack of paper manuscripts.

Shen Qi flipped one by one, mostly family books, or a few pages of small order scribbles, to see one of the sentence “oblique moon sycamore well, the wave of light jumped on the Zhu Xuanxian wall”, issued a chilling light laugh: “It is here.”

He took the pen in the “Sumire” next to the word added a “wood”, and then wrote a post, told Yu Cheng a “not avoiding the sacred taboo, slandering the king”, so that people delivered with the jinyiwei commanding officer Feng to evil.

It turns out that Emperor Jinglong name Zhu Geen, people avoided the emperor, “Geen,” the word is never to use, have to change the word, empty word. Even if you have to use, but also have to lack of pen, and thus “Zhu Geun flower” only dare to write as “Zhu Cordial flower”, or with the nickname “Foshan flower” instead. If you are not careful, you will be imprisoned and caned for the smallest offense.

A few days ago, the report was sent back, and it was approved by the word “capture”. Shen Qi immediately ordered twenty to ride, whistling gallop to the House of Yu, take the hemp rope will be bundled back to Yu Cheng, shackled three wood, directly under the prison.

Yucheng, who was in chains, lost the honor of being a son of a family and cried out in tears that he was “wrongly accused”.

“A good big wood, no wrongdoing you?” Shen Qi shook his manuscript and said morosely, “It’s more than just an offense. ‘Waves of light jumping up’, that Buddha mulberry flower will be under, the son of heaven is the supremacy of the Ten Thousand Vehicles, supreme, this writing is not slandering the king but what! It seems that if you don’t use the torture weapon, you won’t realize the authority of the emperor.”

To know that the Jin Yi prison torture of the harsh, the world famous gall, broken spine, hook back, peeling, smoking intestines …… name no less than dozens of kinds of light to listen to the call people’s hearts and guts all cracked, scared Yu Cheng three souls and seven vampires fly, kowtow as if garlic.

Shen Qi disdainfully locked the cell door and returned to the hall.

Not long after, the State Prison Secretary Yu Chung even can not even take off the court dress, hurried to come.

Word prison this kind of thing can be big or small, the end depends on the handler how to deal with, Yu Siye believes that money can make the devil to push the mill, sensible to bring two big boxes of gold and silver and treasure money, to ransom his son.

Unfortunately, this time, the Jin Yi Qianfu did not follow the common sense, the money was not accepted, and the person was not released, obviously want to put his son to death.

If it is an ordinary lawsuit, even if it is a human life lawsuit, Yu Siye can also sell friendships, connections, and maneuver a little bit. But who dares to touch this offense of slandering the king? In case of stabbing up is a death sentence of beheading, and I am afraid that the family will be implicated.

Forced to do so, the dignitary, a civil official of the sixth rank, gave the eagle dog, whom they both scorned and disliked, a knee and begged bitterly.

Shen Qi coldly said:” Zhuo Qi died, the position of the sacrificial wine is vacant, you this Secretary of the Department should not be logical words about fifty years old, slightly blonde, but an unfamiliar face. He carefully said, “Eunuch, this top refers to ……”

That chamberlain smiled somewhat fawningly, “Your Excellency follow me and you will know.”

Su Yan quickly weighed, since there is a decree, perhaps the emperor wants to see him privately, so he followed. After passing through the hipped door and turning the root of the wall, he entered a remote courtyard full of flowers, trees and rocks, he felt something strange and asked the two men in front of him, “Eunuch, can you tell where to go?”

The chamberlain who spoke earlier said, “Your Excellency needn’t ask much, we’ll see soon enough.”

Su Yan suspicion was born, stopping his footsteps: “Palace forbidden land, do not dare to lightly involved, eunuch if you do not say clearly, I still go back to the noon gate to wait for the king.”

“It’s all the way here, and you can’t turn back even if you want to.” That little chamberlain who had been keeping his head down suddenly said.

Su Yan listened to his tone of voice bright, with a few points of young people’s unique bright, but also a ear of raw, backed up a few steps, alert: “Who are you guys? What do you want to do?”

The little chamberlain turned slowly, lifted his face, and grinned at him, showing his teeth.

Su Yan lost his voice, “Kid?”

Prince Zhu Helin raised his eyebrows, “You’re the brat! If I hear you say that again, I’ll punish you with ten laps in the schoolyard!”

Su Yan hurriedly compensated with a smile, “Your Highness, Your Highness the Crown Prince, it’s the minister who made a slip of the tongue. Not seen for many days, is your highness well?”

The corners of Zhu Hailin’s mouth trembled, and it seemed as if his eyes reddened a bit as he followed suit, and he ordered Cheng Sheng with his face turned away, “You first step back.”