The Regent's Sweetheart

Chapter 241 Interrogation
Above the courtroom, Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, knelt in the center, surrounded by Eleven's shadow guards.

The regent sat at the top, and the Minister of the Ministry of War sat on the lower left side, peeking at the superior from time to time, never thinking that the Ministry of War would one day become a "Dali Temple" specializing in handling cases.

At the same time, I am also happy that this is the regent's reuse of his military department.

When asked his name, Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, said: "My next official, Wai Lang Li Dacheng, a member of the Ministry of Industry."

This is a rather skinny man with shrewdness in his eyes.

Li Dacheng, a foreigner from the Ministry of Industry, as the management officer of Jia Gucang and the labor camp, Jia Gucang is most afraid of tides, fires, and pests. It is impossible not to check the labor camp after such a big fire.

At this juncture when the government office in Lin'an was slaughtered, Lin'an was highly valued by the imperial court, and if accidents were not reported, they could be decapitated, or even ransacked and exiled.

Yan Sihan stared at the kneeling people at the bottom, and asked in a strict voice, "Why didn't you report the fire in the village behind the labor camp?"

Upon hearing this, Li Dacheng quickly explained: "Regent, the stockade caught fire in the middle of the night. As soon as the officials found out, they quickly took people to put out the fire. By the time we arrived, the stockade had already been burned down, and all the people inside were burned to death." The officials dared not decide on such a big matter, so they sent people to Lin'an City to report to the officials, but the people they sent out have not returned yet."

These words sounded okay, so I asked, "When did you send the person?"

"It was discovered that after the death of the person, he was dismissed and sent to go."

"According to the surviving lotus in the village, there are eight young children in the village. Have you ever seen them?"

Li Dacheng shook his head: "The lower officials have never seen it before."

After the interrogation of Li Dacheng, a member of the Ministry of Works, the four workers of the Ministry of Works were interrogated separately.

The first person to be brought up was a bearded man named Zhang Huzi, from Lin'an, and a worker in the sixth warehouse of Jiagucang's C warehouse.

As soon as he came up, he lowered his head, usually he didn't even see the official lord a few times, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to meet the famous regent in his life.

At this time, he didn't know whether to be happy or afraid. He just buried the body with good intentions, but he didn't want to be charged with murder and arson.

According to Zhang Huzi's confession, it was because he knew the lotus in the village that he kindly went to check with a few well-connected workers. After seeing the corpse, he couldn't bear it, so he wanted to help him bury him.

"When the stockade is on fire, can someone check it?"

Zhang Huzi wanted to shake his head after hearing this, but after thinking about it, he was stunned, and said: "We can't go out casually at night, and Cao Min doesn't know if anyone will go to check."

"Have you ever seen the corpse of a child in the stockade?"

"No, we started with the outermost ones and only lifted three."

After interrogating Zhang Huzi, the interrogation of the other three Wang Kun, Zhou Picheng, and Tian Dafu was similar to what Zhang Huzi said.

Not long after, the post-mortem examiner was brought over by the shadow guard. It was a man who was nearly forty years old. When he saw the Queen Regent, he knelt down and said, "The villain has inspected those corpses. They were all killed by a knife before pouring water on them." Burned with oil, most of the wounds were on the right side of the neck, although it was completely destroyed, it can be seen that the wound on the neck was deep and long, which was caused by a sharp weapon."

On the [-]th, the time report said that none of these people could escape from the stockade. They were killed first and then set on fire. This is why these people could not escape from the stockade after the fire broke out.

First, the Lin'an government office was slaughtered, but the wild dog gang was arrested by mistake, and then Hehua came to complain, and the village was slaughtered on the night Hehua came.

What's more, He Hua was assassinated as soon as she left the sight of the palace guards.

"My lord, my subordinates have sent people to Jia's granary labor camp to inquire about what happened that night." Eleven clasped his hands.

Yan Sihan looked angry, and said: "Send someone to the Lin'an government office to inquire about the situation, and see if Jia Gucang has sent someone to the government office to report."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)