Late July.
The people from the Ministry of Justice and the Grand Court of Justice arrived in Dongyang Prefecture.
That very day, they put Ning Dongsheng under control.
And Ning Dongsheng, who had spent half a month in fear and trembling, spilled everything without even being interrogated, like beans poured from a bamboo tube.
This included how Zhao Yunxing had colluded with salt merchants and grain merchants, how they planned to drive up grain prices, which officials were involved, and which merchants had ties to them.
He talked with such sheer relief that it was even clearer than the confession Ding Qiu had obtained.
However, he was somewhat vague when it came to Zhao Yunxing preparing to incite refugees to cause trouble. After all, that had originally been a charge Ding Qiu fabricated for them.
But he did not dare retract his confession either. Under the questioning of the officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Grand Court of Justice, he could only push it all onto Zhao Yunxing's arrangements, claiming that he had not known the full story.
Originally, this matter was false. Yet after the officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Grand Court of Justice investigated, they discovered that it was not entirely false.
Because they really did uncover people planning to incite the common people to cause trouble, taking the opportunity to embezzle the disaster-relief grain allocated by the Imperial Court.
And there was not just one person. The prefect of Guangning Prefecture and the prefectural magistrate of Fuzhou both had such thoughts, and had even taken action for it.
Together with the fact that Zhao Yunxing was dead and could no longer provide evidence for his innocence, this chamber pot full of filth was dumped onto Zhao Yunxing's head.
The end of July.