Ming Dynasty: Abandoned baby at the beginning, Zhu let me be the emperor

"The arsonist has been caught."

After leaving these words, Zhu Ming's figure disappeared in the cell.

After watching Zhu Ming leave, Wang Ganju, who had been calm at first, took a few steps back in a daze, looked around nervously for a while before regaining his composure.

The news that the arsonist had been caught spread throughout the entire Shanxi provincial capital in the blink of an eye.

The refugees who knew about this all applauded and were delighted, wishing they could tear the thieves who had set fire to their relief grain into pieces.

The refugees had great respect for Zhu Ming, who solved the food problem so quickly and captured the murderer.

"This Wang Ganju has such dirty hands."

In the dark room, the dim candlelight became the only light in this enclosed space, illuminating only the blurry faces of the two men.

One of them had a fierce look in his eyes and cursed with gritted teeth.

Wang Ganju left such a big tail for the arsonist. How should they deal with the matter?

"We underestimated Huang Sun. We didn't expect him to be so difficult to deal with."

The other person looked much calmer, but his tone was quite helpless.

No one would have thought that a kid in his early teens could use Zhang Xing as a hidden stake to lure Wang Ganju into taking action.

After hearing this person's words, the person who was complaining just now fell silent.

They indeed did not expect that Zhu Ming could really make up the deficit of 8,300 bags of grain so quickly.

I thought Zhu Ming would be too busy with the food issues and the arsonist would take the opportunity to escape.

"What should we do now."

After a long silence, he spoke again, looking at the man sitting opposite him with some confusion.

"give it to me."

The man was silent for a while and sneered.

Under the torture of Chen Ling and other Jinyiwei, the arsonists soon became unrecognizable.

The cruel appearance of the torture was so terrifying that even other prisoners felt terrified.

"Brother, why don't you just confess?"

The dying thief lay on the scarecrow. There was no good meat left on his back, starting from his buttocks which had been beaten to pieces by the killing stick.

Such cruel torture is beyond what a normal person can endure.

The leading thief heard his brother's plea and fell silent helplessly.

If I confess or not, I will die. If I can hold on for this period of time, those adults will not watch me being tortured until I confess.

"Brothers, grit your teeth. The other adults should already be discussing how to get us out."

He gritted his teeth, steeled himself, and began to cheer himself up.

"time to eat."

The brothers here are very close and the guards in charge of guarding don't care about this.

He walked to the entrance of their cell with a bowl of cold rice and threw the rice directly in front of them.

After saying that, he sneered disdainfully.

What's the point of being so loyal? You'll still end up in trouble because of your own hands.

The arsonists glared at the yamen runner unwillingly, walked over, picked up the bowl and started eating.

With a good attitude, you need to eat something so that you can hold on until someone outside comes to rescue you.

"shut up!"

When the rice was about to reach his mouth, a Jinyiwei ran over and kicked the rice away from the man's hand.

"Sir, even if we are guilty, we should not be starved to death."

The arsonist looked up with dissatisfaction at the Jinyiwei who kicked over his bowl, frowned and complained.

"poisonous."

The Jinyiwei said this in a cold voice, and rushed forward to capture the yamen runner who had just delivered the meal.

"Who are you and why did you poison this person?"

The Imperial Guard put his hands on the runner's shoulders and scolded him harshly.

The yamen runner just trembled, and then fell down with his limbs limp.

By the time the Embroidered Uniform Guards saw the front of the yamen runner, he was already foaming at the mouth and was dead.

"Someone really wants to kill us!"

Seeing the yamen runner commit suicide in front of the Jinyiwei, the arsonists also believed what the Jinyiwei had said that the food was poisoned.

All the toughness they had before was gone, and they began to huddle together in panic.

The reason why they had the confidence to refuse to confess even under the torture of the Embroidered Uniform Guards was that they thought there were people outside the prison ready to rescue them.

Now I didn't expect that they had no intention of saving me, but instead planned to kill me to silence me.

"We are following His Highness' orders to prevent them from killing you."

The Jinyiwei looked coldly at the arsonists who were trembling in panic in the corner.

Their responsibility is to pry open these people's mouths. How could they let them be poisoned to death?

"It's a dead soldier."

The noise here quickly alarmed Chen Ling. He turned over the corpse on the ground and opened its mouth.

The medicine packet that had been bitten open and not swallowed yet was still in his mouth.

It can be seen that these people were well prepared. As long as their whereabouts were discovered, they would commit suicide by taking poison.

"Go tell His Highness."

Chen Ling took another look at the arsonist who was still alive, then he felt relieved and spoke in a deep voice.

It's fine as long as these people are not successfully silenced.

When Zhu Ming heard that someone wanted to gas the arsonists in prison, he ran over immediately.

These people acted really quickly.

After taking a look at the dead yamen runner, Zhu Ming shook his head helplessly.

There are no more clues to be found from this man.

"You still won't confess?"

Zhu Ming let go of the corpse in his hand, turned to look at the arsonists who had slowly calmed down, and asked in a deep voice.

They were originally waiting for rescue, but now they are planning to kill them to silence them. The psychological defenses of these people must have been shaken.

Just as Zhu Ming thought, after he asked the questions, the thieves did not waver like before, but fell silent instead.

Noticing the change in these people's attitude, Zhu Ming sneered again.

"If they can poison you once, they will do it a second time and a third time."

"No matter how capable my Jinyiwei are, it is impossible for them to protect you forever."

Zhu Ming said as he slowly walked up to these people and spoke with a smile.

"If we confess, can you spare our lives?"

The eldest arsonist also raised his head and looked at Zhu Ming with the last bit of hope.

Now he finally saw the true colors of these people. As long as he could survive, all the talk of keeping silent was bullshit.

"No."

Zhu Ming immediately shook his head and rejected the thieves' idea.

"You burned the granary, which is a capital crime. You will die whether you confess or not."

As he spoke, he suddenly changed the subject: "Although you will die whether you recruit them or not, if you recruit them, you can guarantee that they will also die."

After Zhu Ming finished speaking, he fell silent.

These people are just abandoned pawns, they deserve to die, and those behind them deserve to die even more.

After hearing Zhu Ming's words, the arsonist had to lower his head again and remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zhu Ming was not in a hurry either. He had plenty of time now and could take things slowly.