I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 35 Confession
"My lord, what should we do with the remaining villagers?"

Gao Hanwen on the side sniffed the bloody smell in the air and the death of the villagers, his stomach twitched, and then he looked at his hand in a daze, speechless for a long time.

"Just as Mr. Gao said earlier, arrest them all and take them to the Yamen. After the confession is completed, the innocent ones will be released."

Seeing Gao Hanwen was speechless, Ma Ningyuan stepped forward and gave him an answer.

"Yes!"

The soldiers took orders, and soon all the able-bodied villagers of Taoyuan Village were escorted back to the yamen. Only a few women, children, and the elderly were left at the scene to collect their bodies.

……

"Teacher, this is the whole process of my trip to Taoyuan Village to suppress the rebellion with Mr. Gao!"

In the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang Province, Ma Ningyuan handed over the booklet to Hu Zongxian, while Gao Hanwen knelt on the ground without saying a word.

Hu Zongxian took the notebook and nodded after browsing the contents above.

"You have done a good job. After the screening is correct, put all the innocent villagers back! The other Zhang Daniu must let him speak as soon as possible. I want to see who is planning this behind the scenes." Hu Zongxian put down the notebook and said to Encouraged by the two of them.

"Yes, I'll go to interrogation right away!" Hearing this, Ma Ningyuan couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in his heart. He was finally able to help the teacher a little bit.

"I'll go too." Gao Hanwen's faint voice reached Ma Ningyuan's ears.

"Okay." Ma Ningyuan looked at the expression on Gao Hanwen's face and did not refuse.

……

In the prison, Zhang Daniu was tied to a pillar, dying, without a piece of good meat on his body.

When he first entered the prison, the guards tried all kinds of punishments on him. He just gritted his teeth and stiffened. He passed out several times, and then he was awakened by cold water. The whole process was repeated. Countless times, but Zhang Daniu's eyes were fixed on the way he came, as if he was looking forward to something.

'Da da da' There was a sound of footsteps, and Zhang Daniu's originally dull eyes suddenly became angry.

"Did he say it?"

"No, he said he must see you two before he would speak!"

"It's alright, you go down."

"Yes!"

It was Gao Hanwen and Ma Ningyuan who entered the prison. After finishing their report, they rushed to the prison without stopping.

"How does it taste here?"

The jailer opened the cell respectfully, Ma Ningyuan looked at the miserable Zhang Daniu, his face was full of joy, Gao Hanwen smelled the musty smell in the cell, and couldn't help frowning.

"It's okay." Zhang Daniu grinned, blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and there was no tooth in it.

"Previously the jailer said that you must see us before you will confess. Now that we are here, you can talk about it." Ma Ningyuan smiled and said.

"Who instructed you? And how do you know how to write?" Gao Hanwen also asked his own question at the right time.

"No one instructed me. As for writing and recognition, I taught myself. You two dog officials! Hahaha." Zhang Daniu's face was full of jokes.

"You trickster, you deliberately entertained me, didn't you! Come and punish me." Ma Ningyuan was furious when he heard Zhang Daniu's answer, and immediately called the jailer, wanting to continue the punishment.

"No! If torture is used again, he will not be able to hold on. He is deliberately provoking us now, and he wants to die."

After asking the question, Gao Hanwen kept observing the expression on Zhang Daniu's face, seeing Ma Ningyuan's few words and being aroused by him, Gao Hanwen admonished him aloud.

"Begging to die?" Ma Ningyuan also quickly reacted to Gao Hanwen's reminder, and a trace of fear flashed in his heart.

"You want to die because you want to keep the people behind you, right? They may be your relatives, your friends, your boss, and of course your teacher, am I right?" Gao Hanwen As he spoke, he stared firmly into Zhang Daniu's eyes.

And when Gao Hanwen mentioned the teacher, Zhang Daniu's pupils shrank suddenly, and they returned to their original state in just a moment, and it was impossible to notice if you didn't look carefully.

And Gao Hanwen had a panoramic view of all this, and then he found a chair to sit down, and said calmly, "Your teacher ordered you to do this, right?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." The horror in Zhang Daniu's eyes flashed, and he quickly returned to normal.

"In this way, it will make sense even if you know how to read and write." Ma Ningyuan also nodded, agreeing with Gao Hanwen's opinion.

"Come on, go down and find out if this Zhang Daniu has ever attended a private school, and arrest all the educated people he has been in contact with recently!" Immediately afterwards, Ma Ningyuan called his subordinates and ordered in a deep voice.

"My... my lord! We can't afford to mess with those people." After hearing Ma Ningyuan's request, his subordinates showed embarrassment and wept.

"I'll catch it as soon as I say it, and I'll take care of it if anything happens!" Ma Ningyuan's preoccupied eyes swept over his subordinate, causing him to shiver involuntarily.

"Yes, yes, my lord! I will do it now."

After hearing about the measures taken by Ma Ningyuan, Zhang Daniu panicked completely, and shouted: "Don't touch the teacher, come to me for anything!"

Gao Hanwen and Ma Ningyuan looked at each other, nodded, and then Gao Hanwen said, "Speak up, tell us everything you know! We might consider not using torture on your teacher."

After Zhang Daniu hesitated for a moment, he finally chose to tell the truth.

"The thing is like this. When I went up the mountain to cut firewood a year ago, I rescued an old man who was accidentally injured. Later, the old man recommended me to study in Bailu Academy to thank me."

"Egret Academy?" Ma Ningyuan couldn't help being shocked when he heard this.

"What's the origin of this Bailu Academy?" Seeing Ma Ningyuan's attitude, Gao Hanwen couldn't help being a little curious.

"Your Excellency Gao doesn't know that Bailu Academy is one of the most famous academies in Zhejiang. There are countless talented scholars in it! Some of them have even held high positions and are respected by scholars in Jiangsu and Zhejiang!" See Gao Hanwen Interested in this, Ma Ningyuan immediately introduced the ins and outs of Bailu Academy to him.

"The current Bailu Academy is run by Lu Dongxing. He was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Jiajing, and he resigned and returned to his hometown. He is quite famous."

Ma Ningyuan glanced at the expression on Gao Hanwen's face, and then added.

"Then Bailu Academy is not accessible to ordinary people, you can enter to study just because you saved someone?" Ma Ningyuan immediately raised his own question.

"It's said to be studying, but it's just an audience. Because of my humble birth, ugly appearance, and dark skin, those scholars are unwilling to associate with me! Therefore, I only learned how to read and write." Zhang Daniu said, his tone Gradually sank down.

"Then how did you come into contact with these topics about changing rice to mulberry?" Immediately afterwards, Gao Hanwen asked the answer he was most concerned about.

"Those scholars are talking about it, and the teachers in the college seem to be quite critical of it."

"Then one day, a teacher who taught in a private school approached me, hoping that I would take action to lead the villagers to resist the harsh government, and told me the inside story of changing rice into mulberry without any reservations. He also talked about the rise and fall of the world Everyone is responsible..." Zhang Daniu's voice gradually became quieter, and gradually turned into a whisper.

Ma Ningyuan sneered twice, and said contemptuously: "So you listened to his rumors and led the villagers to kill the soldiers who measured the fields!"

"Have you recorded it all?" Ma Ningyuan looked at the subordinate staff and asked.

"My lord, it's all recorded."

(End of this chapter)