In a simple warehouse in Stone City, middle-aged Zhou Zheng sat in the table uneasy. When his eyes swept across the face of the serious-looking people sitting opposite him, his face became even more cramped.

"Mr. Zhou, don't be nervous. Your Highness, King Qiao, comes to ask about the matters related to Shangshu Zhang by the order of the Grandpa Prefect and the Prince Consort. I will not be involved. Just tell me what you know and tell me the truth. Everything else has nothing to do with you."

As a escort, Xie Yi attended the interrogation of this Yingtai minister in Shitou City and comforted Zhou Zhengdao with a smile.

But after hearing this, Zhou Zheng became more suspicious: "What is Zhang Shangshu who can ask? Besides, my name is beautiful and how dare I say that I am a famous person. Erlang, is there any misunderstandings in this? Taibao him..."

"Stop talking! If you ask, you will answer whatever you want, and you don't have to say anything else!"

King Qiao had never had a good impression of these Taiwanese ministers, otherwise he would not have come to interrogate them personally. Originally, Shen Zhezi sent him to make a name for him and shocked others with his title as the King of Sect. After all, Zhang Kai was the position of the Nine Ministers and was very popular. If he sent some swordsmanship, he would not be able to ask anything valuable. However, King Qiao was reluctant to be dissatisfied with the experience of being alienated and treated coldly by Taiwanese ministers in his early years. This time, he naturally did not want to let go of this opportunity.

"Please be careful not to be impatient, I will explain the origin and process of this matter for Mr. Zhou to make some considerations."

Xie Yi stood up to smooth things over, took Zhou Zheng to the corner, and then whispered to the reason.

After hearing Xie Yi's story, Zhou Zheng couldn't help frowning: "We are innocent and have been trapped in this city for a long time. We cannot communicate with relatives and friends in the city. The Zhang family's husband is worried about the safety of his father. Even if he makes a mistake, he will be unable to resist his feelings and act filial. As long as the prince-consort is willing to release Zhang Shangshu and us back to the capital, the complaints will disappear, how should we pursue it? Erlang, I think this move seems to be a bit of a big deal!"

After hearing this, Xie Yi sneered, and his tone became a little cold: "I don't agree with Mr. Zhou's words. If the Zhang family's husband was idle in the dark room, it would be harmless and laughed it off. Now it is seen in the city and heard by the ministers. How can people look at it casually! The prince-in-law led hundreds of us and others to risk their lives and sacrificed their lives in the enemy's camp, and then he took the capital back from the rebels!"

"Then the prince-in-law went to Qu'a to suppress the rebels. We were ordered to guard the capital, and we did not dare to slacken for a moment, for fear of letting down the heavy entrusted appointments of the court! Even if we did not express our merits, this painstaking effort was denounced as unjustly and virtuous, and arrogant with great merits. How can this make people feel at ease? I might as well say that King Zhou is willing to do military affairs in the cold and martial arts, and what we did is loyal and righteous. This name cannot be defiled by the dust. If we cannot be found to demonstrate justice, we will never stop!"

"Erlang, this, this...why is this? I'm not..."

Zhou Zheng saw that Xie Yi was already in a state of change and his mood was hard to be calm. In fact, from his heart, he was more inclined to the Zhang family. After all, he and Zhang Kai were both sick and trapped in the Stone City. Zhang Mu scolded Shen Zhezi, which was considered to be helpful to them. However, Xie Yi's resolute attitude forced him to face reality, and then realized that the current situation was different, and just being tough might not lead to good results.

"Erlang will never give up what he said. I wonder what the prince-consort will deal with this matter?"

As one of the many Tai ministers who left Taicheng and went to Jingzhou military camp earlier, Shen Zhezi's tough style left a big shadow on Zhou Zheng's heart. Moreover, they were expelled by the Jingzhou army, and Tao Kan had already expressed that he would not support them in order to compete with the Shen family, so he fell into the current situation again. At this time, he heard Xie Yi's statement, he would inevitably be afraid.

"Mr. Zhou, you have to understand, what if you are not the prince consort. The prince consort is busy with military affairs, so how can he have the leisure to do these trivial matters? However, the Zhang family's husband's words will inevitably lead people to misunderstand and look down on us. Taibao takes overall charge of the situation and handing over this matter to the prince consort. What does it mean? Zhou, don't you understand?"

"I understand, I understand..."

When Zhou Zheng heard this, he nodded slowly, but many thoughts turned to his mind. After a while, he stared at Xie Yi and whispered: "The prince-consort was obstructed when he saw Prince Tao, but I really had nothing to do with this matter. Please remember that I was the one who was the servant of the emperor, so I would like to tell me a few words in front of the prince-consort. I..."

"These small matters need not be mentioned again. The most urgent task is that His Highness Qiao personally holds the pen and studies this matter. After all, you must carefully weigh what to say and what to do."

After saying this, Xie Yi returned to his original position and sat down, handing him a look.

Zhou was frowning and slowly walking back, as if weighing the pros and cons. When he finally sat back to his original position, he seemed to have finally made a decision and said, "My family and Zhang Shangshu's family are also neighbors for generations. Zhang Shangshu is elegant and honest, and he is known to the world, so there is no need to mention these. Since the king asked, I would like to say something unknown to others. Zhang lives in the hometown, and the reputation of the township is really not high..."

Once the topic was opened, it was difficult to stop. King Qiao always had a gloomy face, but he just signaled the two clerks beside him to record all the things that Zhou Zheng said about Zhang. Zhou Zheng was explaining, while observing King Qiao's expression, but never improving. He simply gritted his teeth and said everything. Anyway, one thing is to betray, and one thing is also to offend. However, the current plan is to put yourself in a safe place first, and then consider others.

This question and answer took more than an hour, and a lot of the black materials from the Zhang family were dug out. It was not until Zhou Zheng scraped his stomach and could not think of anything else. King Qiao waved his hand and signaled that Zhou Zheng could retreat this time.

"Erlang, can I, can I return to the capital? My family business is difficult, and my heart is like an arrow. I hope Erlang can..."

Zhou Zheng stood up and looked at Xie Yi and said pitifully.

"Mr. Zhou, please rest assured. I had no choice but to leave you in Stone City earlier. Now that the prince-in-law has returned to the capital, Jiankang has sufficient defense, so naturally there is no reason to force you to stay."

Before Xie Yi could answer, Kuang Shu, who sat in the seat and listened but did not speak, suddenly smiled and said, "It's just that before that, I still want to ask Zhou Jun to help me. What Zhou Jun said before was really shocking to hear it, and I can't believe it..."

"I, I have no false words! If the envoy does not believe it, he can verify it one by one. If there is a little falsehood, he will be punished!"

After hearing this, Zhou Zheng quickly expressed his true feelings.

"We are naturally trusting Zhou Jun, but Zhou Jun must also understand that Zhang's Danyang Wangzong and Zhang Shangshu were also important officials who had long been in danger of the Qing Dynasty. If only this is the only one who is alone, it is really difficult for people to believe it. The prince-consort often said that if he did not give up his own evidence, he would not be able to describe his own evidence. If only this is used to discuss Zhang Shangshu's merits and demerits, he would inevitably lose his bias and become a bitten. Therefore, it is necessary to trouble Zhou Jun to carefully identify such many things. If he can obtain evidence from three people, he can show it to the public."

Kuang Shu said with a smile, but this words fell into Zhou Zheng's ears, but his expression changed. In order to get out of trouble and future, it was nothing to ask him to report Zhang Kai privately. However, Kuang Shu's words clearly meant that he wanted to collect more evidence for his reports, which would be too hurtful and offensive!

He lowered his head and did not dare to look at Kuang Shu, but just bowed to Xie Yi repeatedly, his expression full of begging.

Xie Yi was not good at Kuang Shu, a sense of surrender, but he knew that Zhang Mu had made such a fuss. If he could not make a conclusion with the advantage, the matter of the future may become an excuse for them to be criticized. Moreover, he was selling Zhang Kai easily this week, and he might not have sold them in the future. If he insisted on being forced and slandered by them, it would be difficult to end.

King Qiao loved the scene of Taiwanese ministers attacking and criticizing each other. Seeing that Zhou Zheng was speechless, he immediately snorted coldly: "In times of crisis, loyalty will not cherish his own selfishness. Just like the prince-consort, he will come to the battle formation and kill the thieves. The king of the seat is inspired by the call of righteousness and abandons his personal affection and returns to the king's way. Now you don't have to fight in battle formations, and you won't make it difficult for you to have a love choice. It's just that you are so embarrassed for justice? Just go, I don't believe that there are no one in the world who dares to speak!"

Zhou Zheng was even more entangled when he heard this, his expression was even more entangled, his legs were filled with lead water, and he was unable to move forward for a long time. After a long time of confusion, he finally lowered his head: "What the king taught me is in my heart, and I dare not cherish my life for the country!"

He couldn't do it if he didn't bow his head. His confession was still in his hands. He was collecting Zhang Kai's crimes, but who knows whether it would be the evidence of his slandering celebrities in the next moment?

With such a breakthrough, it will be much easier to interrogate others. These people trapped in Stone City have the same desire to share the same hatred of the enemy, but now they have a chance to escape and protect themselves. Most of them choose to disclose Zhang Kai's crimes. Occasionally, a few people are concerned about their old feelings and refuse to speak, but when the confessions of others have been taken into their hands, it doesn't matter whether these people speak or not.

King Qiao and others handled the case overnight. By midday the next day, all the detained people in Shitou City were arraigned, and the relevant confessions were piled up with more than 100,000 words. It’s not that Zhang Kai was really so guilty, and a large number of confessions were repeated.

The fun of King Qiao is to see how the Taiwanese ministers cling to their colleagues to relieve his pain of being excluded by Taiwanese ministers in his early years. Naturally, it is impossible for him to really do the trivial matters of the slashers and pen officials. Therefore, the task of sorting out the confession was handed over to Kuang Shu.

When Yi Ying was taken back to Jiankang City, the file was sent to Shen Zhezi's home in Wuyi Lane, which was deleted for half, leaving only nearly 10,000 words.

When Shen Zhezi picked up the file and looked at it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he felt that Kuang Shu was really a rare talent. Among these confessions, there were no major issues such as surrendering to the enemy and treason. At most, it was a small crime of bullying the weak. From this point, we can see that Kuang Shu was indeed a little political wisdom.

Nowadays, it is a relaxed and generous political environment, and even if there is any struggle, he rarely takes action. Even when Yu Liang was alive, he dared to kill the king of the clan directly, but he did not dare to blatantly frame celebrities.

If Zhang Kai was convicted of a serious crime of pursuing a rebellion, it would make people look at him at the same time. Zhang Kai would definitely not admit his guilt and resist it to the end. Even if he mobilized his own connections to escape from the crime, it would be difficult to pursue it and it would be left unresolved. If others don’t say it, Lu Wan from the Shen family and Lu family are undoubtedly a serious crime of pursuing a rebellion, and now it is still very glorious.

But sometimes if you continue to pursue such a small crime, you may put people to death! This is because fame is more important than life. If these small crimes are verified one after another, more and more things will be involved. In the process, Zhang Yan’s past fame and even the reputation accumulated by the Zhang family will be trampled on again and again. When he is ruined, there is no difference between death or immortality.

What made Shen Zhezi even more strange was that in this file, Kuang Shu marked in detail who confessed after each crime. In this way, this is no longer a simple crime, and it has the credibility of all the confessors as endorses.

In fact, Shen Zhezi was not interested in Zhang Kai's crime. After opening the file, he asked someone to copy it several times, one for Wang Dao, one for Tao Kan, and the other for Jingkou Shangtai.

Compared with the achievement of the purpose, Shen Zhezi was even more happy to accidentally discover the new talents of his subordinates. The current judicial procedures are simple and primitive. Although the Qin and Han dynasties have explored and made achievements in this regard, they have experienced the repeated practices of the Three Kingdoms and the constant internal struggle between China and the DPRK. Now it is an era of advocating mystery, and many laws have actually been abandoned for a long time.

In terms of specific administrative affairs, since there is no law to follow, many things are handled with a strong personal style and it is difficult to form institutionalization. For example, Yu Liang's style is stern and focused on punishment, and Wang Dao's blindly loose policy of missing the Internet.

Although what Kuang Shu did this time was not very glorious, he had a bit of unlearning and skillful taste. He could use the rules simply to increase the credibility of the final result. If he could be systematically trained, he might not be able to become an institutional talent in the future. But then again, a traitor like Kuang Shu actually has such talents, which really gives people an indescribable sense of weirdness.

Originally, Shen Zhezi had not considered what arrangements to be made for Kuang Shu. Although he had contacted Kuang Shu early, he had exchanged some interests before and did not have a deep understanding. However, he had an idea now. After pondering in his heart, he asked Kuang Shu: "I don't know where Kuang Jun wants to go in the future?"

After hearing this, Kuang Shu hurriedly bowed and said, "How dare the guilty man have hope? It is a great blessing to be protected by the prince consort and gain an inch of land." Of course, he also had ideas in his heart, but he knew that there was not much room for choice, so he might as well just let the arrangements.

"I intend to recommend Kuang Jun as a judge for the time being. I wonder if Kuang Jun is satisfied?"

When Kuang Shu heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. In fact, he was most willing to release him as a local official, preferably a county within the Shen family's sphere of influence. But he also knew that he did not have his background and had a big stain on his body. Even if he surrendered in time, it would be difficult to transfer any official of the official seal of the land. For example, the situation when Shen Chong changed from a rebel to a lord to a lord in the town was not something that anyone could do.

However, Shen Zhezi's arrangement cannot be said to have treated him unfairly. As an official under the Tingwei, although his rank is not high, he has power. Taking office in Taichung with a background like Kuang Shu is a good choice. If he really gives him a position of noble but no power, his background is insufficient, his prospects are worrying and he is scattered.

"Now, Chongxuan is the only one who is in vain, and the reputation of the law and punishment is in vain. I hope you can ask more questions to gain a wide range of knowledge. Du Daohui's family has a long history of law. If you have time in the near future, Kuang can visit him diligently."

If a structure is to be maintained, talents from all aspects are needed. In Jiangdong, the so-called Tingwei is more similar to a title, and he can hardly perform any actual functions. Many of the subordinates below are also empty. Shen Zhezi provided this opportunity to Kuang Shu, hoping that he could make achievements in this area and may be of great use in the future.

Of course, Shen Zhezi's power has not yet reached the level of direct appointment, but the positions he is seeking are not discussed except for Chen Ke's high position of two thousand stones, which is a high position of two thousand stones. None of the other positions are so significant. Even if his family has no contribution, once he has recommended it, he will usually not be rejected.

After finalizing this matter, Shen Zhezi waited for feedback from all parties. However, there was no news from Tao Kan, but Xuancheng's victory was sent to Duzhong.

Su Jun and other remnants were wandering in Xuancheng for many days, and finally they were trapped by Wen Qiao's Jiangzhou army on the bank of Jingxi a few days ago. Su Jun committed suicide in front of the formation, and his troops, Su Yi, Zhang Jian and others were all beheaded. The Liyang Rebellion, which lasted for more than half a year, finally came to an end!
Chapter completed!