In the prison of the Governor's Office.

Di Renjie looked at the prison one by one. Without exception, all the prisoners had their eyes wide open, their seven holes were bleeding, and their faces were lying there with a hideous face, even their bodies were extremely twisted.

"What a powerful poison!" Di Renjie said in horror.

Soon the group arrived at a hall in the prison, where seven people were lying straight and straight, and they looked exactly like those prisoners.

Di Renjie came to the table, looked at the wine and food on the table, touched the plate of the dishes with his hands, picked up the wine glass and smelled it, and his brows became more and more powerful.

Then he looked at the jailer one by one. At this moment, Di Renjie suddenly stopped beside a jailer and squatted down. Bao Zheng and others hurried over when they saw this. Li Yuanfang exclaimed:

"This man is not dead!"

Everyone was surprised and looked carefully. Sure enough, the jailer lying on the ground had a slightly undulating chest, and a trace of almost imperceptible breath.

"Yuan Fang, Needle!" Di Renjie said immediately.

Li Yuanfang hurriedly handed the needle over when he heard this. Di Renjie signaled to help the prisoner up, take out the silver needle, carefully pricked a few needles on the prison guard's back, and then pulled it out violently.

"Hmph~"

"Puff~"

He heard the prison guard snorting in pain, a mouthful of black blood spurted out towards him, gradually opened his eyes, looked at Di Renjie and others with difficulty, coughed heavily, and a large mouthful of black blood spurted out again, and there were many red blocks mixed in it. The prison guard smiled slightly and said weakly:

"Haha...100,000 taels...it's worth..."

After saying that, he lowered his head and no longer had a sound.

"well!"

Di Renjie sighed lightly, stood up slowly and said:

"The poison they took was too strong and had already penetrated into their internal organs, and the immortals were unable to do anything!"

Everyone was silent for a while.

"The wealth is touching!" Gongsun Ce suddenly sighed beside him.

"Don't say it's someone else's fault, even our mansion is a little moved." Bao Zheng said in a narrow voice.

Di Renjie nodded and sighed:

"A hundred thousand taels of silver can be enough to live a luxurious life for several lifetimes, which is naturally crazy. Seven people, seven hundred thousand taels are really a big deal!"

At this time, Gongsun Ce's face suddenly changed and he said anxiously:

"Sir, since they dare to take the lead in the Governor's Office, the three maritime departments under the jurisdiction of the Panghaidao..."

Everyone's faces changed drastically, and they looked at Di Renjie, but who thought that Di Renjie shook his head and said:

"I'm afraid it's too late."

Everyone's faces immediately became gloomy, and Li Yuanfang said angrily:

"These people are so cruel. They kill so many lives and say they can kill them. They don't take the imperial court seriously."

Indeed, the openly poisoning of prisoners in the prison is not just not taking the imperial court seriously, but simply provoking it.

Di Renjie pondered for a while, turned to Bao Zheng and said:

"Mr. Bao, you can lead someone to the Maritime Service to see if you can find some clues." Speaking of this, Di Renjie suddenly sighed:

"The current situation makes us very passive!"

"George, let's take someone out!" Bao Zheng said seriously. The two dignified cabinet ministers were actually played between the hands of others. It would be fake to say that they were not angry.

Di Renjie nodded and said:

"Yangzhou is not as dangerous as the capital of God. It is in a dangerous situation. You can bring more troops here."

"The official understands!" Bao Zheng bowed and took Gongsun Ce and Zhan Zhao to leave.

"Sir, what should we do now?"

After Bao Zheng and others left, Li Yuanfang asked.

Di Renjie slowly walked out of the prison and replied in a deep voice:

"Since some people don't want us to hide in the dark, they will follow their wishes. Yuan Fang will let the guards take the banner of imperial envoys to the emperor tomorrow and wait for the imperial decree outside Chongyang Gate of Yangzhou."

"Yes, sir!"

Li Yuanfang agreed with excitement.

...

God's capital.

Just when the situation in Jiangning became confusing, there was also undercurrents in the Shendu City.

Zhuque South Street, Jinxiufang.

A few miles away from the south gate of the imperial city, Zhuque Gate, there is a magnificent mansion. It is famous and popular in the Shendu City. Just those who line up to give gifts every day are like crucian carp crossing the river, especially after the Xiaopinghe, Fuyang, was even more radiant and shining.

This residence was the residence of Zhou Zong, the father-in-law of the current dynasty, Lan Lingbo and the Minister of the Interior.

At this time, Zhou Zong was sitting on the chair of the Grand Master, without any red light of the past and full of energy. Instead, he looked at Chen Kun, the Minister of War, who was sitting at the lower head with a gloomy face.

"Mr. Chen, you are threatening Ben Bo."

Chen Kun did not feel afraid at Zhou Zong's glaring eyes. Instead, he slowly picked up the fragrant tea on the tea table and drank it happily before saying with a smile:

"Where is the old man in the current dynasty, you are a high-ranking and powerful person. The old man is just a small minister of the Ministry of War. You can just hold a finger to kill the old man."

Zhou Zong couldn't help but feel furious when he looked at Chen Kun, but he had a handle in Chen Kun's hands. He was afraid of throwing a mouse and could only hold back his anger and said:

"Chen Kun, what do you want?"

Seeing that Zhou Zong's face was ferocious, Chen Kun thought he was extremely angry, so he naturally did not dare to tease him anymore. Otherwise, he would not lose some rice if he could steal the chicken, wouldn't it be bad? So he straightened his body and said in a low voice:

"Mr., you probably have heard of it. Your Majesty sent two Grand Secretarys to Jiangnan?"

"Where is it?" Zhou Zong said frowned. What does it have to do with him whether the emperor sent an imperial envoy or not.

Chen Kun was speechless. Zhou Zong’s political sensitivity was too poor. He couldn’t tell such a simple thing. No wonder he looked as stable as Mount Tai. His feelings were a second-hand hammer.

"Mr., this time they went down to check the sea route tariffs." Chen Kun said helplessly.

"What does it have to do with my uncle when checking the tariffs? If they want to check it, go and check it." Zhou Zong was still a little confused and said impatiently.

"Well……"

Chen Kun was completely stupid. This was not a bad guy. He had already said so clearly that he could not recover. Chen Kun was so angry that he couldn't help but feel angry. He simply said directly:

"The 2.5 million generals whom the official pays you every year are given by the Yangzhou Xunhaidaoya."

"puff……"

"Ahem cough cough..."

Zhou Zong sprayed out a mouthful of tea, and was so choked that he coughed several times, but he couldn't care about that much, and looked at Chen Kun in panic and said:

"What did you say?"

"Don't panic, the prince. I've told you before that the 2.5 million silver was given to you by the Haigong Yamen." Chen Kun couldn't help feeling happy when he saw Zhou Zong was anxious.

"Yes, you did say it before, but what does this have to do with the patrol of the sea?" Zhou Zong said anxiously.

Chen Kun was really speechless this time and said angrily:

"Mr. Master, are you really stupid or fake? The Haigong Yamen is just a patrol of the sea route. What are you pretending to be with me?"

Zhou Zong sat on the chair when he heard this, his face turned pale and he kept murmuring:

"What should I do...What should I do..."

Chen Kun looked at Zhou Zong who was already in vain and chuckled softly:

"Mr., if the official remembers well, the official has been filial to you in the past three years."

"You also know how His Majesty hates corrupt officials now. That fate is more than just a miserable one."

"Hmph, you are talking about someone else. Ben is the father-in-law of the current dynasty and the biological father of the queen." Zhou Zong said with a harsh and introverted look.

"Is that true?" Chen Kun looked at Zhou Zong with a smile and said indifferently:

"The status of Xiao Pinghe, the Bo from Fuyang, is it expensive enough? The current Queen Mother's biological brother is different from being given the title and his majesty to take his title and his salary?"

Chen Kun's words immediately made Zhou Zong sit on wax. He knew very well who his emperor's son-in-law was, and he was brave and brave, and could not rub the sand in his eyes. If he knew what the consequences would be, he would shudder.

Seeing that the temperature was almost done, Chen Kun immediately stood up and said goodbye:

"My father-in-law, the official will surrender first. If you have anything, the official will be there at any time!"

As he said that, he turned around and strode away without waiting for Zhou Zong to reply.

As soon as Chen Kun left, Zhou Zong immediately collapsed on the chair. At this time, a figure walked out from behind the screen. It was Zhou Zong's wife Zhang. She looked at Zhou Zong with a pale face and said:

"Master, what Mr. Chen said just now is true. You really took them seven million taels of silver?"

When Zhou Zong heard Zhang's questioning, he waved impatiently:

"What's the use of saying this now!"
To be continued...