Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

When Sun Guishan saw the iron gate, his expression changed slightly. He did not expect that they would find the iron house so quickly.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and go!" Fu Jiu kicked him on the butt, causing him to stagger.

Sun Guishan's face darkened. After standing firm by holding on to the iron wall, he glared at him coldly.

“Hey, you dare to glare at me!” Fu Jiu screamed and kicked him again.

There was a trace of murderous intent in Sun Guishan's eyes. He looked at him coldly, then glanced at Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan. Then he sneered twice, walked forward, grabbed the door lock, and twisted it hard.

The chain broke.

Sun Guishan pulled off the chain, took a step back, and looked at Fu Jiu provocatively.

Fu Jiu couldn't stand his look and went forward to push the door, but Gu Feiyan stopped him, "Let him open the door!"

Fu Jiu stopped and signaled Sun Guishan: "Did you hear me? Open the door quickly!"

Sun Guishan snorted contemptuously, took a step forward and kicked the door open.

Fu Jiu poked her head in to take a look. "It's pitch black. I can't see anything."

There was a mighty echo.

Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan looked at each other and ordered, "Go get some torches."

Fu Jiu took the torch and said eagerly, "I'll take him in with me!"

Gu Feiyan said indifferently: "Let him take the torch and go in alone!"

"Wait a moment," Chen Shao stopped Fu Jiu's movements and said cautiously, "Go and bring Qin An, Luo Shizhong, He Kaiyang, and the Weapon Supervisor rebels that the elite soldiers have already captured!"

If there are gunpowder or other explosives in the iron house, there must be someone among these people who knows about it.

The only way to eliminate hidden dangers is to let them go in first.

The elite troops have captured more than thirty people.

After Fu Jiu brought everyone over, Gu Feiyan taught him to use a special knotting method to tie everyone's hands behind their backs and string them all together.

Afterwards, Chan Yi came forward and gave them two injections, draining all their strength.

"Push them in!" Chen Shao ordered.

Fu Jiu pulled the rope and kicked them in one by one.

When he kicked He Kaiyang, he suddenly staggered with a pale face.

Upon seeing this, Fu Jiu withdrew his strength and kicked Luo Shizhong behind him.

Luo Shizhong lowered his head, and his legs went limp after being kicked by him, and he fell to his knees. A group of people were dragged to the ground by the same rope.

He Kaiyang fell on Luo Shizhong, and the person in front of him fell on him, one on top of the other. The pain, fear and sudden accident made He Kaiyang's tense heartstrings snap: "You can't go in, get out, get out quickly, there are explosives in this iron house!"

He Kaiyang's voice was inconspicuous amid the continuous cries of pain and curses.

But Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan both heard it.

Sure enough, these iron houses are traps.

Chen Shao drew out the sword of the elite soldier beside Gu Feiyan, stepped forward and forced everyone to stand up, then cut the ropes in front of He Kaiyang and behind Luo Shizhong, and kicked them both into the iron house separately.

"Please spare my life, sir, please spare my life..."

The two of them were trying to get out of the iron house, but Fu Jiu stood at the door, blocking their way.

"If you want to live, then tell the truth!" Chen Shao said in a cold voice.

"They, they put explosives in the iron house. They want to blow up you and the general," He Kaiyang said repeatedly. "What I said is absolutely true. If you don't believe me, you can find it. Yes, you can find Lord Sun. It was Lord Sun. It was him. He was the one who asked us to put the explosives!"

After signaling Fu Jiu to move aside, Chen Shao pressed, "Which Lord Sun?"

He Kaiyang and Luo Shizhong quickly climbed out of the house, looked around, and locked onto Sun Guishan and said, "Lord Sun, Lord Sun, please save us, we don't want to die."

Sun Guishan's pupils shrank slightly. Facing the gazes of Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan, he sneered, "What explosives? That's nonsense!"

"I'm not talking nonsense, everything I said is true!" He Kaiyang said excitedly, "The explosives are in this iron house, packed in bamboo tubes. They will explode as long as they are ignited! The iron mine, yes, they used this kind of explosives to blow up the iron mine!"

Sun Guishan sneered: "You said there was explosives in the iron house, so there was explosives? You have no evidence, how can you prove that you are not making it up?"

He Kaiyang stopped immediately.

Seeing this, Sun Guishan sneered with disdain. He had seen the power of the explosives before, and he didn't think he would have the courage to go into the iron house and take it out!

"I, I can prove it." Luo Shizhong said tremblingly.

Sun Guishan snorted and laughed: "What proof do you have?"

Seeing his arrogant look, Fu Jiu couldn't help but kick him.

Sun Guishan's face darkened, and murderous intent rose up again, but in an instant, he restrained himself and sat on the ground leaning against the mountain wall, saying calmly: "Master Chen, please kill me or chop me up if you want. There is no need to humiliate me or frame me again and again."

"I, Sun Guishan, have served as the governor of Yunnan County for more than 20 years. I have done my best for the emperor and the common people. Even if I die today, I will not let Datong down!"

Chen Shao nodded in agreement: "If the iron mine collapse hadn't happened, you would have deserved the title of worthy of Datong for your achievements in Yunnan County."

Sun Guishan seemed not to have expected her to say such a thing, and his expression changed again and again.

Chen Shao smiled and said sincerely: "You are indeed a rare talent. I am afraid that more than half of the ministers in the court are not as good as you. It can be seen that my Datong's way of selecting officials is still quite inadequate."

"If you want to kill me, just kill me. If you want to cut me up, just cut me up. There's no need to say these hypocritical nonsense!" Sun Guishan sneered.

"The iron mine collapsed, killing nearly 300 people." Chen Shao said calmly, as if chatting casually, "No matter how many good things you have done for the people and the country in Yunnan County, based on this alone, you are doomed to die. As for what you said about killing me or slicing me, once the evidence is fully collected, I will send you to the execution ground without you saying anything."

Sun Guishan felt a chill in his heart, but soon sneered again: "Then I'll wait and see!"

Chen Shao calmly said "OK" and turned to look at the others: "The same goes for you. If you have killed someone, don't even think about escaping the punishment of the law. However, if you can turn yourself in, I can, depending on the severity of the crime, spare your family members from being implicated!"

"I surrender, I surrender," He Kaiyang dragged Luo Shizhong to her and kowtowed, "I have never killed anyone. I just helped Lord Sun teach his people how to sharpen swords and polish armor, and other trivial things. I only received less than three thousand taels of silver as a reward!"

Luo Shizhong also kowtowed quickly: "Me too, I just helped teach a few words about how to control the temperature of iron smelting, I didn't do anything else, please show mercy, sir."

"Nothing was done?" Fu Jiu groaned. "Who put the gunpowder in there?"

"Sir," Qin An, pulling a group of people, came over a few steps, knelt down beside Luo Shizhong and said, "I am willing to go into the iron house and take out the gunpowder!"

Chen Shao glanced at him and asked Luo Shizhong: "How much gunpowder is in it?"

Luo Shizhong quickly replied: "There are fifty, placed in the four corners of the iron house."

Put it in the four corners of the iron house. If one is detonated, all will explode... This is to make it impossible for them to escape. Chen Shao was silent for a moment, and then continued to ask: "Besides gunpowder, what else is there?"

Luo Shizhong said: "There is also pig iron from smelting and wrought iron from forging."

Chen Shao signaled Fu Jiu: "Follow him and bring some sealed lamps."

After Fu Jiu and Luo Shizhong brought the lamp over, Chen Shao used his sword to cut the ropes that bound Luo Shizhong, He Kaiyang, and Qin An, and ordered in a cold voice, "Enter the house!"

Luo Shizhong and He Kaiyang were reluctant to go in, so Qin An pulled one of them each and dragged them into the iron house.

Fu Jiu followed them without hesitation.

Chen Shao nodded to Gu Feiyan and followed her in.