Chapter 495 - 455: Refugee Relocation
Late July.
The staff from the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Ministry of Justice arrived in Dongyang Prefecture.
That very day, they took Ning Dongsheng into custody.
Terrified for half a month, Ning Dongsheng, without being interrogated, spilled everything like a bamboo tube pouring out beans.
He exposed how Zhao Yunxing colluded with salt and grain merchants to scheme on hiking the grain prices, which officials were involved, and which merchants had connections with them.
He spoke so freely, his confession was even clearer than the one obtained by Ding Qiu.
However, he was a bit vague about Zhao Yunxing’s plans to incite the refugees to riot, after all, it was a false charge fabricated by Ding Qiu.
But he didn’t dare to retract his statement; under the interrogation of officials from the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Ministry of Justice, he could only push the blame, stating that all arrangements were made by Zhao Yunxing and he was unaware of the full situation.
Though the accusation was fabricated, upon further investigation by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Ministry of Justice, they indeed discovered that not all of it was false.
Evidence surfaced of plans to instigate the people to riot and embezzle the relief grains dispatched by the court.