In a simple warehouse in Stone City, the middle-aged man Zhou Zheng was sitting in the seat nervously, and when his eyes swept over the serious people sitting opposite, his face became even more cramped.

"Zhou Jun doesn't have to be nervous, His Royal Highness King Qian came to inquire about Zhang Shangshu on the order of the Taibao and the concubine, and the rest is not involved. Zhou Jun, as long as you tell what you know, tell the truth, nothing else has anything to do with you. ”

Xie Yi attended the arraignment of the Taichen in Stone City as a juryman, and comforted Zhou Zhengdao with a smile.

But after hearing this, Zhou Zheng was even more suspicious: "What does Zhang Shangshu have to ask?" Besides, my name is shallow, how dare I say that I am a celebrity. Erlang, is there a misunderstanding in this? Taibao he ......"

"No further ado! Ask you anything, answer anything, and nothing else! ”

King Qian has never had a good impression of these ministers, otherwise he would not have personally interrogated them. Originally, Shen Zhezi sent him under his name, using his name as the king of the sect to deter others. After all, Zhang Min is the position of Jiuqing, and he is not shallow, if he sends some swordsmen and pencils, he will not be able to ask anything valuable at all. However, King Qian was uneasy about the experience of being alienated and treated coldly by the ministers in the early years, and this time he had this opportunity, so he naturally didn't want to let it go.

"King, please be restless, I will explain the origin of this matter for Zhou Jun in detail, so that Zhou Jun can weigh it."

Xie Yi got up and invited Zhou Zheng to the corner, and then whispered the reason.

After listening to Xie Yi's narration that week, his brows couldn't help frowning: "I am not guilty, I have been trapped in this city for a long time, and I can't communicate with my relatives and friends in the city. Zhang Jialangjun was worried about his father's safety, even if he lost his words for a while, it was a gesture of filial piety. As long as Ma Ken releases Zhang Shangshu and us to the capital, and the complaints disappear, how can they be investigated? Jiro, I think this move seems to be a bit of a fuss! ”

Xie Yi sneered when he heard this, and his tone became a little cold: "Zhou Jun said this, but I don't dare to agree. If that Zhang Jialangjun is gossiping in the dark room, it will not hurt, and he will laugh it off. Now it is seen all over the city, and the ministers hear it, how can people wait and watch! The horses led us and hundreds of others risked their lives, risking their lives, and forgetting their lives in the enemy camp to recapture Gyeonggi from the rebels! ”

"Then the horses worked tirelessly and went to Qu'a to kill the remnants of the rebels, and we were ordered to guard Gyeonggi, and we did not dare to relax for a moment, lest we live up to the trust of the imperial court! Even if he doesn't say anything, this piece of hard work is condemned as being wronged and virtuous, and proud of his merits, which makes people's hearts feel at ease! I might as well say Zhou Jun bluntly, we and other people who are willing to do martial arts are cold, and those who do it are loyal and famous. This name cannot be tarnished by the dust, and if it is not ascertained to show justice, this matter will not be stopped! ”

"Erlang, this, this...... Why? I'm not ......."

Zhou Zheng saw that Xie Yi was already discolored, and his mood was no longer indifferent. In fact, from his heart, he is more inclined to the Zhang family, after all, at the moment, he and Zhang Min are sympathetic to each other and are trapped in Stone Town. Zhang Mu reprimanded Shen Zhezi, which can be regarded as helping them. However, Xie Yi's resolute attitude made him have to face the reality, and then realized that the current situation is different, and blindly being tough may not lead to good results.

"Erlang will never give up what he said, I don't know how the horse will deal with this matter?"

As one of the many Taiwanese ministers who left Taicheng for the 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 stated that he would not support them to fight against the Shen family, so they fell into the current field again. At this time, hearing Xie Yi's statement, it was inevitable that he would be afraid.

"Zhou Jun, you have to understand, it's not a horse. He works hard in military affairs, how can he have the leisure to know these trivial things. However, Zhang Jialangjun's words will inevitably make people misunderstand and despise our merits. What does it mean for the Taibao to take charge of the overall situation and hand over this matter to the horses, don't you understand Zhou Jun? ”

"I understand, I understand......"

When Zhou Zheng heard this, he nodded slowly, but many thoughts turned in his mind, and after a long while, he stared at Xie Yi and said in a low voice: "Earlier, the horse was quite obstructed to see Tao Gong, but I really have nothing to do with this matter, please Erlang, you remember that I used to be Ling Zun's subordinate, and distinguish a few words for me in front of the horse." I ......"

"These little things, don't need to be mentioned again. It is imperative that His Royal Highness King Qian personally hold a knife and pen to investigate this matter. At this point, what to say and how to do it, Zhou Jun, you must weigh it carefully. ”

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

That Zhou was frowning and slowly walking back, as if he was weighing the pros and cons, and when he finally sat back in his place, he seemed to have finally made a decision, and opened his mouth to say: "My family and Zhang Shangshu's family are also neighbors for generations. Zhang Shangshu is elegant and clear-looking, and the world knows it, so there is no need to mention these again. Since the king has asked, I will say something that is not known to men. Zhang's family lives in the township, and the township voice committee is really not high......"

Once the topic is opened, it is difficult to hold it for a while. King Qian always had a gloomy face, and just motioned to the two scribes next to him to record everything Zhou Zheng said about the Zhang family. That Zhou Zheng was explaining, while peeking at the look of King Chen, but it never improved, so he simply gritted his teeth and knew that everything was endless. Anyway, one thing is a betrayal, and ten things are also offended, but the plan for now is to put yourself in a safe place first, and then think about others.

This Q&A was conducted for more than an hour, and a lot of black material of the Zhang family was dug up. waited until Zhou Zheng searched his intestines and couldn't think of anything else, and then Wang Qian waved his hand, signaling that this week was okay to retreat.

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

Zhou was getting up, looking at Xie Yi pitifully and said.

"Zhou Jun, please rest assured, earlier I was forced to leave you in Stone City, but now that the horses have returned to the capital, and Jiankang's defense is full, there is naturally no reason to force you to stay anymore."

Before Xie Yi could answer, Kuang Shu, who had been listening but hadn't spoken, suddenly laughed and said, "It's just that before that, I still have to ask Zhou Jun to help." The evil of the Zhang family that Zhou Jun said earlier was really shocking, and I couldn't believe it......"

"I—I'm not lying! If you don't believe it, you can check it one by one, and if you have a little falsehood, you are willing to be punished! ”

After hearing this, Zhou Zheng hurriedly said with a straight face.

"We can trust Zhou Jun, but Zhou Jun also has to understand that Zhang's Danyang Wangzong, Zhang Shangshu is an important minister who has long been in Qingwang. If this is the only isolated evidence, it is really difficult to be believed. If you only talk about Zhang Shangshu's merits and demerits, you will inevitably lose bias and bite. Therefore, it is necessary to trouble Zhou Jun to carefully screen such many things, if the three of them can provide evidence, they can be shown to the public. ”

Kuang Shu said with a smile, but when these words fell on Zhou Zheng's ears, his face changed. In order to get out of trouble and have a future, let him report Zhang Min in private, which is nothing. But Kuang Shu's words clearly wanted him to collect more evidence for his report, which would be too hurtful and offensive!

He lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Kuang Shu, but just waved at Xie Yi again and again, his expression was full of pleading.

Xie Yi is not very good at Kuangshu, but he also knows that Zhang Mu has made such a fuss, if he can't make a conclusion in the case of taking advantage of it, this matter in the coming day may become an excuse for them to be attacked. Besides, Zhang Min was easily sold this week, and he may not sell them in the future, if he insists that he is persecuted and slandered by them, it will not end well.

King Qian particularly liked the scene of the ministers attacking and accusing each other, and seeing that Zhou Zheng was silent, he snorted coldly: "In times of crisis, loyal bones do not spare their lives for personal gain." Respect such as Shen and the horses have to come to the battle array in person, kill the thieves, and Kuang Jun in the seat feels the righteous call, abandons his personal feelings and returns to the royal road. Now you don't have to fight, I don't let you choose between the two sides, but in terms of righteousness, is it so difficult? Let's go, I don't believe that there are no two or three people in the world who dare to speak! ”

When Zhou Zheng heard this, his expression was even more entangled, his legs were like lead water, and he couldn't move for a long time. After struggling in my heart for a long time, I finally lowered my head: "What the king taught, I feel it in my heart, and I dare to spare my life for the sake of the country!" ”

He can't do it if he doesn't bow his head, his confession is still in the hands of others, and he is now searching for Zhang Min's crimes, but who knows if it will become evidence of his crime of biting and slandering celebrities in the next moment?

With such a breakthrough, it will be much easier to interrogate others in the future. These people trapped in Stone Town are admittedly resentful of the same enemy, but now that they have a chance to get out of trouble and save their lives, most of them have chosen to disclose Zhang Min's crimes. Occasionally, a few people cared about the old relationship and refused to speak, but when the confessions of other people were already in their hands, it didn't matter if they couldn't open their mouths.

By noon the next day, all the detainees in Stone Town had been arraigned, and the relevant confessions had piled up with more than 100,000 words. It's not that Zhang Min really committed such a heinous crime, and a large number of confessions are repeated.

The pleasure of King Qian is to see how those Taiwanese ministers bite their colleagues, in order to relieve him of the pain of being excluded by the Taiwanese ministers in his early years, and it is naturally impossible to really do the trivial things of those swordsmen and penmen. Therefore, the task of sorting out the confession was entrusted to Kuangshu.

When Yiying and others were escorted back to Jiankang City, the file was also sent to Shen Zhezi's house in Wuyi Lane, and most of it was deleted, leaving only a few nearly 10,000 words.

Shen Zhezi picked up this dossier and looked at it, his eyes lit up, and he felt that this Kuangshu was really a rare talent. Among these confessions, there are no major issues of right and wrong such as defecting to the enemy and treason, but most of them are some minor crimes of bringing disaster to the township and bullying the weak. From this, it can be seen that Kuang Shu does have some political wisdom.

Nowadays, it is a relaxed and favorable political environment, and even if there is a struggle, it is rarely killed. Even when Yu Liang was alive, he dared to kill King Zong directly, but he didn't dare to frame celebrities too blatantly.

If Zhang Min is convicted of a felony of treason, it will make people look sideways, and Zhang Min will definitely not admit his guilt, resist to the end, and even mobilize his own connections accumulated in the past to try his best to get rid of the crime. Others don't say it, the Shen family and the Lu family's land play is undoubtedly a major crime of rebellion, and now it is still infinitely beautiful.

But such a seemingly innocuous little crime, sometimes if you continue to investigate it, it may put people to death! This is because fame is more important than life nowadays, and these petty crimes will be investigated one by one, and more and more things will be implicated, and in the process, Zhang Min's past fame and even the fame accumulated by the Zhang family will be trampled on again and again, and when he is ruined, there is no difference between death or not death.

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

In fact, Shen Zhezi was not interested in Zhang Min's crimes, and after opening this dossier, he asked people to copy it several times, one to Wang Dao, one to Tao Kan, and the other to Jingkou Xingtai.

Compared with the achievement of the goal, Shen Zhezi was more pleased to accidentally discover the new talent endowment of his subordinates. Nowadays, the judicial process is simple and primitive, although the Qin and Han dynasties have explored and made achievements in this regard, but after the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms and the continuous internal strife between China and the DPRK, and now it is an era of advocating Xuanxuan, many laws have actually been abandoned for a long time.

When it comes to specific administrative matters, because there is no old law to follow, the handling of many things is full of strong personal style, and it is difficult to form an institutionalization. For example, Yu Liang's neat style is biased towards criminal names, such as Director Wang's blindly loose network leakage policy.

Although what Kuang Shu did this time was not very glamorous, but when he touched it carefully, it had a bit of a taste of not learning and having skills, and he was able to use the rules to increase the credibility of the final result. If you can cultivate it systematically, you may not be able to become an institutional talent in the future. But then again, Kuang Shu, a traitor, actually has this endowment, which really gives people an indescribable sense of weirdness.

Originally, Shen Zhezi hadn't thought about what arrangements he wanted to give Kuangshu, although he had contact with Kuangshu early, but he had exchanged some interests before, and he didn't have too much in-depth understanding. However, he did have an idea at the moment, and after a little groaning in his heart, he asked Kuang Shu: "I don't know what Kuang Jun wants to do in the future?" ”

After hearing this, Kuang Shu hurriedly bowed and said: "How dare you hope that the guilty person can be protected by the horse and have an inch of land to stand on, it is a great luck." Of course, he also had ideas in his heart, but he also knew that he didn't have many options, so it was better to simply let the arrangement go.

"I intend to recommend Kuang Jun to be the court captain for the time being, I wonder if Kuang Jun agrees?"

When Kuang Shu heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, in fact, what he wanted most in his heart was to release him as a local official, preferably a county within the Shen family's sphere of influence. But he also knows that he has no background, and there are big stains on his body, even if he surrenders in time, it will be difficult to transfer to any official of the official seal. Like Shen Chong's transformation from a traitor to the chief official of Fang Town, not everyone can do it.

However, Shen Zhezi's arrangement cannot be said to be a disadvantage to him, Tingwei commented that as a subordinate official of Tingwei, although his rank is not high, he has authority. With a background like Kuangshu, serving as an official in Taichung, this can be regarded as a good choice. If he was really given a position that was noble but had no authority, his own background was insufficient, but his future was worrying, and he was scattered.

"Nowadays, the worship of Xuan is retreating, and the name of the law and punishment is nothing. Kuang Jun lives in this position, and I hope you can concentrate on asking more questions to see and hear. Du Daohui's family has a long tradition of law, and if he has time recently, Kuang Jun can visit frequently. ”

If you want to maintain a structure, you need talents from all aspects. In today's Jiangdong, the so-called Tingwei is more like an honorary title, and he almost can't play any actual functions, and many of the subordinate officials below are also useless. Shen Zhezi provided Kuang Shu with this opportunity, and also hoped that he could make achievements in this area, and he might be able to use it in the future.

Of course, Shen Zhezi's current authority has not yet reached the level of direct assignment and appointment, but the position he is seeking at the moment, except for Shen Ke's high position of two thousand stones, which is still to be discussed, the other positions are not very important, even if his family has no merit, once he is recommended, he will usually not be refused.

After finalizing this matter, Shen Zhezi waited for feedback from all parties with peace of mind. However, there was no news from Tao Kan, but the victory report from Xuancheng was sent to the capital.

Su Jun and other remnants wandered in Xuancheng for many days, and finally were trapped by the Wenqiao Jiangzhou army on the bank of Jingxi a few days ago. The Liyang Rebellion, which lasted for more than half a year, finally came to an end!