"I don't know what lord is going to mean!" When Ma Shaomin heard this, cold sweat oozed out of his forehead. He looked at Tan Zong with a puzzled look, but his heart was pounding. At this time, Tan Zong was like a mountain that made him look up to him, making him feel unprecedented pressure.

"Twelve years ago, Cuiliu Pavilion, Hangzhou, why did you collect 200 taels of silver?" Tan Zong looked at Ma Shaomin with a expressionless face and asked coldly.

"Green...Lu Liu Pavilion!" Hearing the three words "Green Liu Pavilion", Ma Shaomin's expression changed drastically. Fifteen years ago, he was a ninth-rank minor official in the Hangzhou government office. It was because of the "adventure" of Green Liu Pavilion that he rose up and sat in the position of governor of Yangzhou, becoming the assistant of Lu Weimin, and assisting Lu Weimin in handling affairs.

Lu Weimin never expected that Tan Zong's first surgery was his confidant Ma Shaomin. His face turned pale after a flash. If something happened to Ma Shaomin, he would definitely be implicated.

"It seems that Governor Ma is a noble man who forgets things. Then I will remind you that you were excluded by your superiors and your career was not satisfactory. Not only did you accept 200 taels of silver from the black-faced man, but you also signed a secret agreement to serve the organization behind the black-faced man." Tan Zong looked at Ma Shaomin with an extremely ugly face and said with a sneer, "Governor Ma, is there any mistakes in what I said?"

When Ma Shaomin heard this, he was shocked. His legs became weak and he sat on the ground with his butt, as if his face was ashamed. This was his most secret, but he unexpectedly revealed it easily by Tan Zong.

"Governor Ma, Lord Ma, Ma Shaomin!" Tan Zong looked at Ma Shaomin squintingly, and changed three names in a row, one of which was more severe than the other, "You have secretly formed associations, fought over your colleagues, colluded with Japanese bandits, harmed the people, and endangered the country. Can you know the crime?"

Hearing the four words "collusion with Japanese bandits", the people at the scene suddenly became buzzing and buzzing and whispering. The news was too shocking. No one would have thought that Ma Shaomin would do such a despicable deception.

"Sir, the official admitted to the party's business, but there is no such thing as collusion with the Japanese bandits. After all, the official is a Dashun citizen. How could he collude with the Japanese bandits to harm his compatriots?" Ma Shaomin was stunned at first, and then became anxious. He could not afford the charge of betraying the sect and forgetting his ancestors. So he stood up and said to Tan Zong with a red face, looking very excited.

"Ma Shaomin, I will tell you clearly that these Japanese bandits are the Suzhou Prefecture introduced by your organization. Otherwise, I will not follow the clues and pull you out of it in the investigation of the case!" Tan Zong looked at Ma Shaomin coldly and said loudly, "Ma Shaomin, I believe you did not collude with the Japanese bandits, but without the participation of you, how can your organization be able to open up many joints along the way and introduce those Japanese bandits quietly into Suzhou City? Invisibly, you have become an accomplice to those Japanese bandits who harmed my Dashun people!"

Facing the righteous Tan Zong, Ma Shaomin was speechless for a moment, and his face was bloodless. He was a senior official of Yangzhou Prefecture, where the Bishijie organization was located, and an important backbone of Aunt Mei's men. Naturally, he knew the powerful power of his organization and knew that in Jiangnan, except for his organization's ability to introduce Japanese bandits into Suzhou City without knowing the truth, no other force could achieve this.

"Come, take him down!" Tan Zong saw Ma Shaomin dead there, knowing that he had hit his mind, he waved his hand and ordered in a deep voice.

The two soldiers immediately stepped forward, raised Ma Shaomin, who was standing there on the left and right, and dragged him out.

"Sir, sir, the lower officials really did not collude with the Japanese bandits. If the lower officials knew that they colluded with the Japanese bandits, they would not be in vain with them even if they died!" Ma Shaomin suddenly came to his senses, turned his head, and shouted at Tan Zong in a shrill voice. Compared with death, he was more afraid that his reputation would be destroyed. In that case, he would really not be able to face the ancestors underground and be despised by his descendants.

The people in the yard looked at Ma Shaomin who was shouting loudly in shock. Everyone found that what Tan Zong said was probably the truth. This means that someone deliberately introduced the Japanese bandits to Suzhou City and created the inhuman bloody massacre in Yangzhou City. This is so thoughtful.

Who had such a powerful force that could hide it from the government and the omnipresent Supervision Office? Everyone had a big question mark in their heads.

"Yangzhou's side general Qi Anyu!" After Ma Shaomin was dragged down, Tan Zong looked at the shocked people and set his eyes on a tall and strong man not far in front of him.

As soon as Tan Zong finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on the strong man in unison. The people around him subconsciously took two steps back and kept a distance from him.

"I'm humble!" This strong man was Qi Anyu, a general in Yangzhou. Qi Anyu's face turned pale and turned. He walked forward to his scalp and bowed to Tan Zong.

"Qi general, ten years ago, you were just a patrolman of the Yangzhou City Defense Force. On the Mid-Autumn Festival that year, you met a friend at the Sihai Restaurant by the canal and joined the organization where the friend was. Since then, you have become successful and have climbed to the position of a general in just ten years. It is very likely that you will take over General Han to take charge of the Yangzhou City Defense Force in two years. I am not wrong!" Tan Zong stared at Qi Anyu tightly and said in Hongsheng.

"Sir, stop talking, Hu Yi confessed his guilt." Now, in front of Tan Zong's conclusive evidence, like Ma Shaomin, Qi Anyu's psychological strait was instantly defeated. He bent his legs and knelt on the ground, looking at Tan Zong with a pale face, with dissatisfaction, "Sir, Hu Yi admits to forming a party for personal gain, but colluding with Japanese bandits is absolutely impossible. Please check it out."

Tan Zong stared at Qi Anyu who looked at him with a cold expression for a while, then pulled the knife from a soldier beside him, walked forward and slashed at Qi Anyu's neck.

Qi Anyu thought Tan Zong was going to kill him, so he stretched out his neck and closed his eyes to wait for death.

"Qi Anyu, tell me, if I use this knife to kill you, will the one who kills you be the one holding the knife, or the one supporting the legs?" Tan Zong's knife stopped two or three centimeters before Qi Anyu's neck and asked in a deep voice.

"Hands? Legs?" Qi Anyu didn't understand what Tan Zong meant, and looked at him suspiciously, "Of course it's the adult's hand."

"Although it is the knife that I am holding in my hand that kills you, if I don't have both legs to support me, I will not be able to kill you naturally." Tan Zong took back the knife, threw the knife to a soldier beside him, staring at Qi Anyu quietly, "You said, in the killing of you, is it that only the hands play a role and ignore the support of the legs?"

Qi Anyu was stunned for a moment, then understood, and his face turned pale in an instant. Tan Zong compared the organization he was in to a "person". The "knife" in the hand of that "person" refers to the Japanese bandits, and he became the killed people in Suzhou City. The legs of that "person" refer to the people who provide services to the organization like he and Ma Shaomin.

Tan Zong's metaphor means very clear. If Qi Anyu's organization wants to successfully introduce Japanese bandits into Suzhou City, it is naturally necessary to cooperate with them, the grassroots personnel. Although they do not know the organization collusion with Japanese bandits, they have become accomplices invisibly because they are the same as those who lead Japanese bandits into the city.

Not only did Qi Anyu understand Tan Zong’s meaning, but the person who had not understood the conversation between Tan Zong and Ma Shaomin just now, after listening to Tan Zong’s metaphor, he also understood what Tan Zong wanted to express, and also understood the unforgivable "crimes" committed by Ma Shaomin and Qi Anyu.

Seeing Qi Anyu kneeling there in a daze, Tan Zong waved his hands at the soldiers beside him, and several soldiers stepped forward to drag Qi Anyu away.

In the following time, Tan Zong took out a piece of paper and named it one by one according to what was written on it.

Whenever a person's name is pointed, Tan Zong will indicate the time when he joined the organization of Bishiji. The soldiers around him then rushed over and arrested the person.

With Ma Shaomin and Qi Anyu set an example in front, everyone arrested gave up quibbling and denial, and they all begged for mercy to Tan Zong, trying to draw a clear line with the Japanese bandits.

Perhaps because of the nervousness in his heart, or perhaps because he was under too much pressure, the eyes of several people who were named by Tan Zong were dark and fainted on the spot, unconscious, and were dragged by the soldiers on their limbs. Under the shocked gaze of people around him, they were dragged away like a death dog.

As more and more people were pointed at by Tan Zong, a panic gradually filled the scene. Since Tan Zong did not point out what organization Ma Shaomin, Qi Anyu and others belong to, no one knew what the organization Tan Zong mentioned meant, for fear of being related to him, so people were panic and uneasy.

"Everyone, I will arrest other members of the organization to which the above-mentioned people belong to Yangzhou City tonight. There is a great possibility that unknown conflicts will break out. In order to avoid any accidents, please stay here for the time being. After I bring those people to justice and stabilize social security, you will go back to reunite with your family." Finally, in the suffocating waiting, Tan Zong put down the paper in his hand and said to the rest of the people in a deep voice.

After saying that, Tan Zong stood up and strode out of the courtyard. Zhou Dunran, Lu Weimin and Fang Youde followed closely behind him.

When Tan Zong and others left, the silent courtyard suddenly exploded. People gathered together in groups, discussing the previous scene with lingering fear.

There were 27 people named by Tan Zong this time, involving government offices, city defense forces, salt tax departments and wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou City. No one expected that there was such a powerful secret organization hidden beside him.
Chapter completed!