At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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As long as it is found out, convicted, and then reported to the central government for reporting, it can be officially started after the emperor's order comes down.

I don't know how many people will die, how many heads will be lost.

The main members of this investigation team are from Jingzhou, and the leader is a member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Wailang, in his 20s, very young. His name is Chen Zhen, and he is from Nanyang County, Jingzhou.

He didn't surrender with Liu Cong, but later entered the official career by promoting filial piety and serving in the Ministry of Punishment.

In addition to Jingzhou people, there are also a few Yangzhou people in the team. All in all, there are almost no officials from these two states in Liangzhou, and naturally there is no relationship to talk about.

Without further ado, let's start working immediately.

Mao Jie carefully inquired about the news, and learned from Chen Zhen that this matter was a sudden attack for any governor of the state, and it seemed to be a whim for Guo Peng.

The whole preparation process took less than half a month, and everyone set off in a team.

The emperor gave the order as if on a whim, and then asked everyone to set off in a team at high speed, and no rest was allowed.

In such a short period of time, even if someone wants to leak the secret, the news cannot be spread, especially in a place as far away as Liangzhou.

It was a sudden attack, which meant that these people were not given any reaction time and chance to react, just to catch them by surprise and obtain greater results.

I don't know if this is the case in other states, but of course it is in Liangzhou.

That's why Mao Jie was frightened into a cold sweat, and then secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

Sima Zhongda, you are really my benefactor!

Mao Jie sighed so much.

If it weren't for Sima Yi's advance notice, allowing him to choose to reconcile with Zhuge Liang, the situation would be dangerous.

He made Zhuge Liang give up the initiative to report and cooperate with him. He and Zhao Xian led the anti-corruption storm. Now that the case is in progress, he has the initiative.

It would be dangerous if he didn't know about this matter and Zhuge Liang cooperated with the Central Investigation Team to expose this matter.

The surprise attack of the Central Investigation Team did not greet anyone this time.

Mao Jie was still worried that Zhuge Liang would go to Luoyang, but he didn't expect that this time Luoyang took the initiative to move closer to Liangzhou and attacked Liangzhou!

Very dangerous.

After sighing in this way, Mao Jie and Zhao Xian took the initiative to hand over the corruption case of road construction and food that was under investigation to Chen Zhen's central investigation team.

A very cooperative look.

Chen Zhen took over such a big case when he first arrived, and immediately became excited, and immediately led the central investigation team to fully accept the investigation of this case.

Chen Zhen asked Zhao Xian, including the entire state law and order, to obey the command of the central government and investigate the case together.

Then the case exploded.

On the fifth day of November, the case began to be investigated. After almost five days of rectification, Chen Zhen sent people to 29 counties in the four counties of Hexi to arrest the first batch of 41 important suspects.

Those who were directly responsible for the road construction sites that caused the food shortage were arrested and brought to justice, and then strictly interrogated.

People from the central investigation team led the state and county security forces to go straight to the place to arrest the person. Without any explanation, they took him away, and the interrogation began after they were brought back.

Their interrogation techniques are very distinctive.

According to gossip within the Third Division, these techniques were suggested and approved by His Majesty the Emperor, and they also had special names.

【Teppan BBQ】

【Salt and Pepper Steak】

【Salt water bacon】

【Stir-fried shredded pork with rattan sticks】

【Tiger Stool】

【Ten fingers connected to heart】

【Piercing】

【Boneless Chicken Feet】

These seemingly ordinary or even the names of a dish, each name represents a torture.

Once these tortures are needed, it means that the official cannot escape unscathed.

Chapter 1060 One thousand and seventy officials of the investigation team are more fierce than each other

The interrogation technique improved by Guo is very distinctive.

However, any officials who are used to these tricks, even if they survive in the end, are half dead.

They have all been tortured, and they must have not confessed honestly. If the incident happens, they will die if the duck mouth is stubborn. Of course, they are not qualified for leniency.

The ending they face is to usher in the end miserably with their families.

Guo has always been very cruel to prisoners and their families.

Originally, the treatment of the officials of the Wei Empire was good, and the treatment of the family members was also good. If one person commits a crime, the treatment of the whole family will definitely be abolished, and even if the crime is serious, the whole family will be held accountable, and the political power of the other party will be attacked by continuous sitting.

Therefore, in the face of those officials who are stubborn and dishonest, these methods can be well practiced, and true knowledge can be obtained in practice, and benefits can be obtained in practice.

This time, it happened to give some newcomers who had never been practiced a chance to practice.

For example, burn the flesh of a person directly with a red-hot iron.

Or cut a few wounds on the body first, then sprinkle salt on it, marinate it, and then bake it with a red-hot iron.

Or cut a lot of long cuts on the body with a knife, then pour the whole body with salt water, marinate quickly, and speed up the taste.

Or let people sit on the ground and use flat stone slabs to step up his feet. If he is not honest, he will gradually increase the number of stone slabs on which to challenge the limits of the human body's flexibility and tolerance.

Or use bamboo sticks to insert people's fingernails, one by one, and then one by one. After all ten fingernails are inserted, it feels very artistic.

When you don't have enough fingers, you can also use your toes.

Of course, the most challenging executioner's technique is [Boneless Chicken Claw].

This requires the executioners to take out all the bones from the hand of the dishonest guy, but keep the flesh and blood unbroken, and the overall shape of the hand does not change.

This kind of punishment is very difficult, and so far there are only a handful of senior executioners who can use this trick in the third division.

Of course, this trick is basically useless, because the people who have confessed before this account for the vast majority, and basically no one can last long enough for senior personnel to use [Boneless Chicken Claw] for interrogation.

For that matter, the three clans of this person are all dangerous.

It's the same this time, basically during the [Salt and Pepper Steak] session, all of them have been recruited.

The relatives and friends who participated in this matter, their cronies and clansmen, trustworthy neighbors and partners, etc., all confessed, and there was no one left.

How do they embezzle supplies, how do they hand over the supplies to trustworthy people to secretly dispose of them in Yongzhou, and then exchange them for money, so that they can spend their lives in luxury, or buy luxury goods from traders in the Western Regions.

When I asked them why, some said it was because of jealousy, some said that others took it and he took it, and some said that if everyone took it, it would be bad for unity if he didn’t take it.

There is one more irritating one.

He said that he felt that these lowly Li Shu could survive without three meals at all, and that two meals was enough for them, and it was delusional to want to eat meat. The same will not happen.

All in all, he felt that the common people of Li and Shu did not deserve such treatment at all.

What's even more hateful is that this person is also from Li Shu. He is from Qingzhou. He has served as village head and township head. He also went to Taixue to study. He originally worked in a county in Jiuquan County. Due to the shortage of manpower, he was transferred by the county government to assist .

Chen Zhen was very shocked and annoyed by this, so he directly used a tiger stool on him, directly crippled his legs, and listened to his howling like killing a pig to vent his anger.

"Since you have forgotten the pain you have suffered before, I will let you remember it well!"

These corrupt officials are corrupt for various reasons.

Chen Zhen didn't want to hear these reasons anymore, many of them were the same.

As for family background, there are those from noble families, those from poor families, and those from Li Shu. No matter what social class they are in, there are corrupt people.

So it didn't prevent Chen Zhen from using various interrogation plans on them, forcing them to tell the truth, and venting their anger by the way.

It's so irritating that you can talk about corruption so confidently!

But those interrogation techniques were indeed brutal.

Chen Zhen is the leader of this interrogation, but he doesn't know who made these terrible interrogation techniques.

It is said that it really has something to do with the emperor.

But Chen Zhen didn't dare to really look for the reason behind it.

At this point, Chen Zhen has already caused a shock in the official circles of Liangzhou, but this is nothing.

By November 38th, another [-] people were confessed or found to be faulty. They were arrested again by Chen Zhen's order and brought back to Guzang County for strict interrogation, and the local government was not allowed to prevaricate.

It even happened that some officials cried and shouted and hid in the county mansion to seek the protection of the eunuch, and then the officials of the central investigation team rushed into the county mansion with iron chains to arrest people.

Some officials ran faster, for fear of losing their lives if they were caught, they ran as soon as they heard the news, and even ran to places like the Sheriff's Mansion.

They think that the sheriff is the supreme ruler of the county, the biggest local snake, no matter how strong the people from your central government are, they must abide by the local rules, right?So they feel that they can be protected here, and feel that the officials of the investigation team are afraid to come in.

But who knows that the officials of these investigation teams are more fierce than the other, and they don't hesitate to arrest people. No matter where they are, they rush in and arrest people without thinking about giving face to anyone.

The officials of the investigation team were vicious, while the other county officials were terrified and trembling. They watched the investigation team take people, and they didn't dare to let a fart go.

Prefect?

I was so frightened that I didn't even show my face, and I couldn't afford to complain about being sick, so as not to lose face on the spot and not be able to hold my head up in front of my subordinates in the future.

At the same time, Chen Zhen sent a commissioner to Cao Ren's location and asked the military judges in Cao Ren's army to accept the command of the central investigation team and hand over all 37 people in the army who might have problems involved in this matter to the central investigation team.

This is the first time that central government officials rushed directly to the army to arrest people.

Cao Ren said that he also knew about this incident and was cooperating with the military judge to investigate the problems in the army.

He was very cooperative, allowing the investigation team to do things in the army, and even offered to help, without any action to stop him.

For example, he said that it was not only the 37 people who were found to have problems, but an additional ten people were also found to have accepted bribes, and they would all be handed over to Chen Zhen.

More than 100 military judges in Cao Ren's army also accepted Chen Zhen's command, and Chen Zhen ordered the interrogation of relevant people.

The high level of cooperation between Cao Ren and Mao Jie made the matter go smoothly. No one in the four Hexi counties dared to confront the majesty of the central investigation team.

In just half a month, Chen Zhen has arrested 120 people, large and small, involved in the case, including those in the government and the army. There are a lot of people involved.

In the end, more than [-] people were identified as involved in the case, but not all of them were officials and leaders in the military. The largest number of people were their family members, clan members, and friends, as well as merchants contacted through these family members, clan members, and friends.

These people add up to more than 900 people, close to 1000 people, and they are united by various means to resell the imperial materials back to Yongzhou and profit from it.

The affairs of Yongzhou were not managed by Chen Zhen, and Chen Zhen only started to deal with the officials involved after the food supplies entered Liangzhou.

As for the direction of these embezzled materials, whether it is necessary to cooperate with the investigation team in Yongzhou in the future, that is something that needs to be summarized later.

chapter 1061 one thousand and seventy-one

There are really many people involved in this corruption case.

120 The six officials involved in the case, large and small, from the state-level government and the county-level government, are almost all over the state capital and county government.

From Wumengeng, Bowmaengeng, and office secretary in the state government, to Hucao, Cangcao, Jincao in the county government, and even the chief bookkeeper of the prefect of Jiuquan County were also suspected of being involved in the case and were taken away together. investigation.

These officials, whether they were from noble families or poor families, or the lowest-level officials from Li Shu, were all suspected or convicted of crimes.

The investigation is not over yet, and is still going on. The accountants brought by Chen Zhen took out all the accumulated financial statements of the prefectures and counties over the years and recalculated them.

According to the data of the Central Ministry of Finance and the Audit Department, one-to-one correspondence to see if there is any problem.

If there is a problem, it will be another fierce investigation, and only if there is no problem at all, it will be let go.

That is to say, the four counties in Hexi had been established for a short time, and there were not so many accumulated financial files, so it was easier to review, so Chen Zhen sorted out the things that needed to be sorted out relatively quickly.

In places like Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Jizhou, it is really a headache to investigate the old files.

It is estimated that it took more than a year for this big corruption case to be investigated from the very beginning.

So many officials, military officers, and their family members and friends were found involved in the case in more than a year. It is no wonder that Mao Jie turned blue with anger while shouting luck.

He knew that officials' corruption was inevitable, but he didn't expect that so many officials would be involved in this matter.