I embezzled 100,000 taels at the beginning, and the empress begged me to be more greedy

Yecheng prison.

It's very gloomy.

From the deepest part, bursts of miserable screams were heard.

Ma Hengwei was holding a knife in his own hand at this moment and walked forward slowly.

The old man who assassinated Jiang Zuo was actually just a man in his thirties.

He disguised himself as an old man and approached Jiang Zuo, taking the opportunity to assassinate him.

Ma Hengwei, a member of the Thousand Cavalry Division, is now doing his favorite old job.

Torture to extract a confession.

At this moment, the assassin was tied to the wall. Even though half of his right hand had been cut off, he was still locked with an iron chain and hung in the air.

In order to prevent this man from dying, Ma Hengwei specially ordered a doctor to come and stop the bleeding for the assassin.

It would be too easy for him to die so easily.

Assassinating an imperial official is an unforgivable crime, and at least the nine generations of the clan must be executed!

The man in front of him was obviously a desperado and would not be threatened by any words from the Qianqi Division.

Ma Hengwei held a dagger in his hand and waved it in front of the assassin.

"I'll ask you again, who ordered you to do this? If you don't tell me, I'll take off your ears."

Ma Hengwei's words were cold and filled with murderous intent.

If the other party was any ordinary person, he would have been scared to death facing Qianqisi's questioning at this moment.

The assassin in front of him still had his head down, looking decadent.

All his teeth had been knocked out by Ma Hengwei. He could no longer speak clearly. He opened his mouth, which was full of blood, and uttered two words: "Don't... say..."

Ma Hengwei's hawk-like eyes showed no trace of emotion as he swung his knife.

With a flick of his hand, he slashed the assassin's right ear.

"what!"

The assassin yelled out in pain again.

Even though his body was locked with chains, he was still struggling frantically.

Ma Hengwei had interrogated this man for an hour but still could not get any clues.

In the past, he would have lost his patience and ordered people to kill him.

But now it’s different. Ma Hengwei must get the answer from the assassin no matter what.

Even though everyone knows the answer.

Jiangnan family!

Apart from them, no one dares to be so rampant.

But what?

Although the Thousand Cavalry Division was directly under the emperor and had the power of life and death, it was completely helpless in the face of the Li family's imperial token.

The power of the Jiangnan family is much greater than Ma Hengwei imagined.

Their brutal tactics made Ma Hengwei feel furious.

Liang Qi's family was killed, leaving only two sons...

Lord Jiang was assassinated, and his life or death is still unknown...

All these troubles made Ma Hengwei gradually irritable.

Thinking of this, he swung his knife again and directly cut off the assassin's other ear.

Another miserable cry was heard.

The other Thousand Cavalry Division guards behind Ma Hengwei were also feeling quite uneasy.

They had followed Ma Hengwei for some time, but had never seen Lord Ma so impatient and violent.

"Open his wound and put dozens of carnivorous ants in there, and wait until he is willing to speak."

Ma Hengwei said angrily, then turned and left the prison.

……

There was anxiety and chaos in the yamen at this moment.

Without Jiang Zuo's command, this group of people seemed to be leaderless and didn't know how to handle daily affairs.

These people usually received a lot of help from Jiang Zuo and they admired Lord Jiang very much. Now that Jiang Zuo was assassinated and hasn't woken up yet, they are quite worried and none of them are in the mood at all.

Especially Mr. Guo, who sighed all day long and walked around the yamen anxiously. The most thing he did today was to go find a doctor.

But all the doctors from Jizhou Prefecture had been invited, but there was still no sign of improvement in Jiang Zuo's condition.

"Master Guo, there are still some people seeking justice outside the government office. What should we do?"

I come here to report.

"Seek justice? What justice? Get them out of here! There is no such thing as so much injustice. Maybe it's just an assassin pretending to be one!"

Master Guo was impatient and cursed angrily, "Damn it, you bastard, how dare you do this in broad daylight..."

Because he was overly worried about Jiang Zuo, Master Guo had almost lost his mind and completely forgot Jiang Zuo's daily teachings.

After calming down, Master Guo reluctantly began to deal with other affairs in Yecheng, including daily inspection of water conservancy construction, supervision of Yecheng market and other matters. After a brief inspection, Master Guo returned to Jiang Zuo's room, quietly pushed the door open and went to visit Jiang Zuo.

At this moment, Jiang Zuo's face was pale and bloodless.

Master Guo was startled and quickly stepped forward to feel Jiang Zuo's breath with his finger.

Fortunately, there was still a faint breath.

Master Guo sighed again and looked at Jiang Zuo's face, feeling sorrow and sadness.

There were more tears in his eyes.

He murmured, "Sir, you can't be in any trouble. Just hold on for a few more days and we can go back to Anding County and live happily. You can just hold on... Don't worry, I will definitely help you get revenge!"

Master Guo was in tears and sighed repeatedly.

After a moment, his gaze stopped on Jiang Zuo's fingers.

……

Yecheng.

The new market set up by the government has also lost its former vitality.

In the past, at this time of day, Lord Jiang would usually appear in the market, explaining various new and exotic products to the people.

But now, everything is calm and quiet.

Almost everyone in Yecheng knew that Lord Jiang was assassinated and seriously injured, and he has not woken up yet.

Most of the people in Yecheng had received favors from Jiangzuo, and many of them were disaster victims. It was because of the help from the government that they were able to live a second life.

Although the common people and merchants were not buying or selling, they could still hear some discussions about Lord Jiang.

After a moment, a roar was suddenly heard.

"Everyone, get out of here! We're closed today!"

Following the sound, I saw a burly man holding a long stick and smashing it hard on the market sign.

"Smash them! Smash them all!"

Suddenly, a group of vicious people rushed into the market.

It was estimated that there were at least a hundred people, some of them holding swords, sticks and clubs. They came aggressively, beating anyone they saw and smashing any objects they saw.

Ordinary people dared not to stop it and quickly fled the market without even looking back.

"What are you doing! Stop it!"

The yamen runner guarding the market shouted sternly and drew his sword.

But the other party completely ignored him and without waiting for the yamen runner to react, he picked up a piece of porcelain and threw it at the yamen runner. If the latter had not dodged in time, he would have at least been injured.

On weekdays, the market is heavily guarded.

But today, due to the impact of Jiang Zuo's assassination, only a few yamen runners and more than ten Tiger Army soldiers were arranged in the market.

Facing enemies that were several times their number, these yamen runners and soldiers were completely unable to resist and had to retreat one after another for a while.

They had no choice but to retreat and return to the government office to ask for reinforcements.

But when the reinforcements arrived at the market, the gang of villains had already dispersed, leaving only a mess.

The Thousand Cavalry Division was dispatched and arrested several villains who had disrupted the market, but after questioning, they found out that they were bandits from the Jizhou Prefecture area, and all of them said that no one had instructed them to do so.

On this day, Yecheng seemed to have fallen into chaos again...