More than a hundred torches were erected in the open space in front of the camp, illuminating the entire camp.
Eight thousand soldiers from the Wangxin Town garrison gathered in the open space. When they saw the people tied to the pillars, some of the soldiers who had ulterior motives and could not hide their troubles began to lose control of their bodies. There were some who were shaking non-stop, and some even collapsed on the ground. Song Qiyun didn't even bother to look for them, they exposed themselves.
"Tie them up!" Song Qiyun waved his hand, looked at the more than twenty people, and sneered, "Look at how cowardly you are. With your virtues, are you worthy of being our soldiers in Daxia? Captain Dai, be careful. Examine, don’t let go of any detail! I want to see how many scoundrels there are in the Wangxin Town garrison!"
"Yes, General, you honor your order!"
The entire interrogation went smoothly. In less than an hour, Magistrate Niu's spies stationed at the garrison in Wangxin Town were found out one by one.
Song Qiyun looked at the hundred or so people kneeling in front of him, and then at the thick stack of confessions in his hand, and remained silent for a long time without saying anything.
He was so shocked that he didn't expect that so many people were willing to work for Magistrate Niu.
"Magistrate Niu is really very capable and has very good methods. He actually bribed so many people to work for him!" Song Qiyun vigorously clapped the paper in his hand, "You are eating Daxia's food and drinking Daxia's food." Shui, you are receiving salary from the Ministry of War, but you are secretly colluding with people with evil intentions. You are really good, and you are really loyal to His Majesty! When you do this kind of thing, don't think about it, what if something happens in the future? Will it drag the nine tribes into suffering with you?"
"Return...back to Vice General Song!" A school lieutenant surnamed Dong who was kneeling at the front said tremblingly, "The lowly officials don't know that the county magistrate harbors evil intentions. He...he was directly appointed by His Majesty, lowly officials. I thought this was His Majesty's tacit approval, so..." He swallowed twice, "If they knew that this was his conspiracy, no one in the humble position would be taken advantage of by him."
"You don't know anything, you don't understand anything, you just follow orders, right? OK, you listen to Magistrate Niu's orders, why don't you listen to General Wu? He is the top general of the garrison, right?" Song Qiyun sneered. After making a sound, he handed the confession in his hand to Dai Yi, "Send it back to the commander-in-chief. Please tell me how to deal with these people."
"Yes, I will retire at the end."
Dai Yi took four shadows with him and galloped back to the post house.
"General Wu!" Song Qiyun turned around and looked at Wu Fei, "Such a big thing happened, why didn't you report it to the public? A few days ago, the commander-in-chief returned to Beijing from Jiaping Pass, why didn't you report this to the commander-in-chief in person? Is there something unspeakable?"
"Back to your lord, I would like to defend myself. It is not that I have neglected my duties, but that I have a weak will."
"Weak-hearted? This is a good word. Please tell me why you are weak-minded."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Wu Fei knelt down on one knee, "The change of Lord County Lord began two years ago. At that time, Lord County Lord had a serious illness. After he recovered, his whole person underwent earth-shaking changes. Before Although the Lord County Lord is stern, he is also approachable, but after recovering from the illness, the Lord County Lord seems to be a completely different person."
"A new person?" Song Qiyun thought of Ying Shiwu's words, "Is it his appearance or his temperament?"
"It was a drastic change in temperament. He treated his subordinates extremely harshly, and even cut off their contact with the outside world. In the past, soldiers could write letters home once a month, but now without the permission of the county magistrate, even Meng County Cheng I have no right to write a letter to my family, let alone report to His Majesty. There is no possibility at all." He raised his head and looked at Song Qiyun, who had a very serious expression. "Your Majesty said that the commander-in-chief passed through Wangxin Town when he returned to Beijing. I also think that That was an opportunity, but the Lord County Lord did not let me see the Commander-in-Chief at all. I asked to see him again and again, but was blocked by the Lord Commander-in-Chief. He said that the Commander-in-Chief had been working hard from traveling and traveling, and if there was nothing important, don’t disturb the Commander-in-Chief’s rest. .”
"General Wu, what you say today must be true. Otherwise, you will be accused of false accusation. Do you understand?"
"I understand that I can take responsibility for what I say."
"Your Majesty, everything General Wu said is true!" The general kneeling behind Wu Fei bowed his hand to Song Qiyun, "In the past two years, the general has written many memorials, but none of them can reach heaven. These memorials are sealed in the general's archives. If the prince wants to check the account, he can go and get it."
"There's no rush." Song Qiyun waved his hand, "If the commander, general, or commander needs it, you can submit it to me."
"yes!"
"Apart from this, did Magistrate Niu have any other abnormal behavior?"
"My lord, there are many. Logically speaking, the general is the fourth grade, and the county minister is only the sixth rank. When he sees the general, he has to salute, but the county minister needs the general to salute him every time. If the general disobeys, he will be The general must be scolded in full fury. Several times he was punished in front of the people."
"Is there such a thing?" Song Qiyun frowned and looked at Wu Fei, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Wu Fei shook his head, saying that he didn't care about such trivial matters.
"Your Majesty, you know our general. He doesn't like to argue about anything, and he doesn't really care about whether he is wronged. But it is the general's temperament that encourages some people's arrogance and makes them insult the general even more! "The more the general spoke, the angrier he became, feeling unworthy of Wu Fei. He turned around and pointed to a few people kneeling in the crowd, "These people are in charge of the dining room of the camp. Every time the general offends the county magistrate, they either don't give him food, or they give him cold or rotten food. Your Majesty. , our general is a fourth-rank official in the imperial court, but his life is not as good as that of a Daxia commoner!"
"Is what he said true?"
Song Qiyun never believed one side of the story. Since both parties were here, let them confront each other face to face to avoid being wronged.
"Yes... it's true." The people who were pointed out didn't know Song Qiyun's identity, but after hearing that Wu Fei and his subordinates were respectful to him and called him "Prince", they also knew that this person had a good background. My surname was Song, and he was most likely a descendant of the royal family, so he didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he could only honestly explain all the immoral things he had done. "The reason why the humble officials did this is because the county magistrate told the humble officials that the military general had evil intentions and wanted to teach him a lesson. If the humble officials knew that this was the conspiracy of the county gentleman, it would not be wrong to give them a hundred courages. Dare you do this!"
"Very good. This puts all the blame on Magistrate Niu." Song Qiyun nodded and looked at the general, "If there is anything else, tell it today. Don't hold it in your heart."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your understanding!" General Pian said, "Just now, our general said that he wanted to meet with the Commander-in-Chief several times, but he was rejected by the County Commander. The general's statement was more euphemistic, and he also left it for the County Commander. A little bit of face, but the attitude of the county magistrate at that time was extremely arrogant and rude. He said that our general rank was too low and was not worthy of meeting the commander-in-chief, so don’t dirty the commander-in-chief’s eyes."
Song Qiyun wanted to ask if these were Magistrate Niu's actual words. Before he could ask, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from a distance. When the sound of horse hooves got closer, he took a closer look and saw Shen Haolin and Shen Haolin. Cha, Jin Miaomiao, Dai Yi, Mei Lin, and Mei Zhu were galloping towards each other. When they approached them, they slowed down.
"Commander, General!" Song Qiyun walked to Shen Haolin and Shen Cha's horses and nodded towards the few people who got off the horses, "I'm still asking questions, why don't we all listen together?"
"That's what I meant!" Shen Haolin walked at the front, with Shen Cha and Song Qiyun following behind him. "However, we have to wait for a while. I will send someone to ask Magistrate Niu to come over. Since Magistrate Niu made such an unreasonable decision, If something is not tolerated, then everyone should confront it face to face. All the soldiers can also be used as witnesses to testify, lest anyone turn their backs and refuse to admit it in the future."
"The general has no objections. The general is willing to confront the county magistrate. Everything is up to the commander-in-chief!"
