The confrontation in Luoyi's Qiankun Hall had boiled like a pot of porridge, but with a barked rebuke from the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, it was declared over.
However, that did not mean the matter would end there. It had only just begun.
At once, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long dispatched the Imperial Guard to Haiyuan City to seal it off and investigate.
A favored princess—one who had just received some mysterious inheritance—had nearly been killed, and a newly enfeoffed Marquis had died. This matter had to be accounted for.
All manner of investigations, open and covert, began in full.
By Benevolent Sovereign's order to cooperate with the investigation, Ye Zhen himself was successively questioned by the Great Zhou Internal Directorate, the Imperial Guard, the Heavenly Patrol Division, and others.
The questioning from the Great Zhou Internal Directorate and the Imperial Guard was still reasonable. They merely required Ye Zhen to recount the events in detail and the like.
But the questioning from the Heavenly Patrol Division headquarters was outright harassment.
The one questioning Ye Zhen was Xi Feng, one of the Heavenly Patrol Division's two Young Ministers of the Ministry of Works. One Grand Celestial Master, two Young Ministers of the Ministry of Works, five Patrol Commanders, and the covert division's Patrol Commander formed the Heavenly Patrol Division's main structure.
The Heavenly Patrol Division had directly sent a Young Minister of the Ministry of Works. Their level of concern over this matter was self-evident.
Ye Zhen estimated that, judging by the situation in Qiankun Hall that day, if not for considerations of status, Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu would probably have come to question him personally.
There was no other reason. If the matter were confirmed, the Heavenly Patrol Division would be in rather serious trouble.
Think