Feng Province's Provincial City, the Supervisory Department.
Several black sedans stopped outside the gates of the Supervisory Department. More than a dozen officials dressed in blue official robes got out and headed straight inside.
"Who are you?"
The guards at the entrance hurriedly asked.
The leading official produced a stamped document. "We're from the Surveillance Headquarters of Datong Prefecture. We've been ordered to investigate a case!"
The two guards saw the seal of the Central Authority's Supervisory Pavilion on the document and were startled. They were just about to speak when the officials from Datong Prefecture had already barged inside.
The people in the Supervisory Department were quickly alerted.
"People from the Surveillance Headquarters of Datong Prefecture? They're investigating us? Have they gone mad?"
Many officials found it utterly absurd at first.
The Feng Province Supervisory Department was responsible for supervision throughout the province. The Surveillance Headquarters in each prefecture came under its jurisdiction. It had always been them sending Investigation Teams to inspect officials in various places. Never before had officials from elsewhere come knocking to investigate them.
This was an outright inversion of heaven and earth!
The officials from Datong Prefecture had already entered an office building.
"Zhuang Hui?!"
In the lobby on the first floor, an official from the Supervisory Department suddenly shouted.
He recognized the man in the lead.
The Datong Prefecture official named Zhuang Hui turned his head and smiled. "Why, if it isn't Magistrate Ma."
Ma Xiangwen walked over and barked, "What do you think you're doing? Aren't you being far too presumptuous?"
He was an Investigation Commissioner of the Supervisory Department, a Fourth Rank Official, and a Level 14 official.
The Zhuang Hui he was questioning was merely a Third Rank Mandated Official, a Level 12 official.
That was why he spoke to