I am a commoner, but I will lead the empress to unify the world

Chapter 400 The Unexpected Mastermind

The little emperor looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, fair and tender, and looked very much like a catamite serving customers in a brothel.

The little emperor Yuan Xun was picked up and thrown out. He looked at everyone tremblingly. He was so pitiful and weak that he was almost scared to tears.

When he saw the half-dead Imperial Master, he became even more frightened and cried out,

"Master, what's wrong with you, Master? Did we lose? Did we lose?"

"No, you didn't lose. You won."

Shen Changgong smiled brilliantly, and then said,

"Bring all three of them to the lobby. I will personally interrogate them!"

"As ordered!"

The lobby of a government office is usually where offices are held and cases are decided, and it is where the officials demonstrate their authority.

Now, Shen Changgong sat directly on the official chair in the lobby.

Below, the little emperor, the imperial teacher, and the county magistrate all knelt down, trembling all over, not daring to say a word.

Who could have thought that they would be defeated in just one day.

He was showing off yesterday, but he knelt here this afternoon.

Became a prisoner.

On both sides, Shen Changgong's guards were also possessed by the spirit of drama. They lined up one by one, holding the wooden sticks from the yamen, and shouted in unison,

"Wei~wu~"

Shen Changgong looked at them strangely, wondering what they were up to.

Then, he looked at the three people below.

Glancing at the three of them, he still felt that this teenage boy would be more likely to open a gap.

There was silence in the lobby for a moment, a terrifying dead silence.

Suddenly, Shen Changgong picked up the gavel, slammed it on the table, and shouted,

"That kid!"

"Wow!!"

The child was so scared that he started crying. He grabbed the sleeve of the imperial teacher beside him tightly and cried so miserably.

If you don’t know, you might think that Shen Changgong has done something to him.

Shen Changgong was annoyed by his crying and banged the gavel again!

Snapped!

"Stop crying! If you keep crying, I'll skin you alive!"

The effect was immediate. The child immediately stopped talking, knelt down obediently, and did not dare to look up.

"This king asks you, where are you from?"

"I……"

Yuan Xun subconsciously glanced at the Imperial Master.

"I'm asking you, what are you looking at him for? Slap him!"

The guard at the side immediately walked up and slapped Yuan Xun three times in the face without holding back at all, causing the corner of his mouth to bleed.

"I said, I said, stop hitting me."

The little emperor said with tears in his eyes, pitifully,

"I am truly the illegitimate son of Emperor Kun, and my family is from Luanchuan County, Ziyang Commandery. He gave my mother a jade pendant and some gold and silver, and then left us alone.

He also didn't let us go back to Shengjing, so he asked us to stay there.

Later... Later, Da Kun died, and my mother and I fled west and came to Shuozhou County. We encountered soldiers and bandits, who captured my mother and stole all my belongings.

Then, I was begging for food, and the Yellow Croaker Cult found me and asked me to be the emperor."

"Gone?"

Shen Changgong frowned.

It seems that this kid doesn't know much.

"No...no, my lord, please don't kill me. I will do anything you ask me to do."

As he spoke, he also cast a coquettish glance at Shen Changgong in a stiff manner.

She even raised her orchid finger.

This scene almost made Shen Changgong vomit out of disgust.

Gongsun Wan'er and Fairy Meiyan also felt nauseous.

"Hit! Keep hitting!"

The guards stepped forward again and punched and kicked him.

Then, Shen Changgong looked at the Imperial Master again.

"As for you, tell me the truth about where your headquarters is and how many people are left. I will spare you the pain."

The Imperial Master was quite calm and said indifferently,

"We don't have a headquarters. Wherever I am is the headquarters."

"Humph, nonsense. A cunning rabbit has three burrows. I don't believe you didn't leave behind some team members, waiting to make a comeback."

"If you don't believe it, forget it."

The national teacher is a tough guy.

Shen Changgong then asked,

"Where do you get the money to recruit soldiers, buy food and weapons?"

"Those taken from looters and those contributed by believers."

Shen Changgong put on a cruel smile and snorted coldly,

"With just this bunch of poor people who can't even eat and rob some wealthy families, how can you support an army of 100,000?

Without the support of a major country, this cannot be done at all.

Tell me, which country gave you the money and how did they contact you?

The Imperial Master sneered,

"I told you, if you don't believe me, what can I do? I just robbed it. The food is only enough to keep me fed. The weapons are all broken. How much can I spend?"

"I see you won't cry until you see the coffin. Come, punish me severely!"

Shen Changgong is like a corrupt official and a villain who will torture people if he disagrees with them.

The guards pressed the imperial teacher to the ground, and two of them spanked his buttocks and back with wooden sticks.

The other two people were holding a torture device, which was made of a row of wooden sticks and several ropes connected together. The fingers were put into the device and then tightened.

This torture device is called "拶刑" (a polyphonetic character, pronounced the same as "撮" here), which is a torture device specifically for fingers. It is also equipped with iron needles that are inserted into the crevices of the nails.

As the saying goes, the fingers are connected to the heart. Most people cannot bear such severe pain.

The torture instrument was put on the imperial teacher's fingers, two guards pulled it tight, and then the others pricked him with needles.

The guards were trying very hard, and their expressions were like those of Madam Rong.

The Imperial Master screamed like a pig being slaughtered, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing.

He had no way to deal with such torture, but the little emperor who was slapped over there could not bear it anymore and shouted loudly,

"I know I know!"

Hearing this, Shen Changgong waved his hand, and the people who were torturing him stopped. He looked at the little emperor.

The little emperor, with a pig's head on his head, said,

"I... I remember one time, when I was sleeping with the Imperial Master, I seemed to hear him vaguely mention something about us not forgetting Daqian's kindness, and that Dakun and Daqian would be friends forever. I can't remember the details, but the Imperial Master was hit hard at the time..."

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

What the hell?

Why do these few short sentences contain so much information?

Even Shen Changgong blinked his eyes, thinking that things should be prioritized and the important ones should be dealt with first.

"Daqian? Do you mean Qian Kingdom?"

Shen Changgong felt a little unbelievable. He thought of several possibilities, but he had never thought of Qian Kingdom.

Gongsun Wan'er frowned and murmured,

"That's not right. Our Great Yan is in the far north, and Daqian is in the far south. There are six countries in between. How can they come across the whole world and interfere in the affairs of our Great Yan?"

However, Shen Changgong's eyes became deeper.

He remained calm and then shouted,

"Nonsense! Daqian is a million miles away from us. How could we possibly send you money? Tell the truth! Otherwise, I'll skin you alive!"

The little emperor wailed loudly,

"It really is Daqian. The Imperial Master really was talking about Daqian. I'm not lying. Don't kill me, don't kill me..."

Shen Changgong then ordered his men to continue to torture the Imperial Master.

This time, the national teacher confessed not long after and said it was Qian Kingdom.