"What's your last name?"

"Ouyang, whose single name is Rong and whose courtesy name is Lianghan."

"Hometown."

"Luling, Nanlong County, Ouyang family."

"Position."

"From the fifth rank to Jiangzhou Governor's History, he once served as the seventh rank Dragon City Order...I was admitted as a Jinshi in the first year of Jiushi..."

Two voices, one asking and one answering, echoed in the empty lobby.

Ouyang Rong was not wearing official uniform. He stood in the hall with his hands behind his back and replied calmly and fluently.

After a question and answer session.

The questioning voice with a familiar voice directly above the lobby paused for a moment, and then asked the key question:

"Ouyang Lianghan, at the west city gate, the former military commander Zhu Lingxu was executed in public. Was it intentional or accidental?"

Ouyang Rong affirmed: "On purpose."

"Okay, since you said you were careless, how can you prove... Huh? Wait, what did you say!" The first person who asked the question suspected that he heard wrongly.

"Deliberately." Ouyang Rong nodded and said bluntly: "The expedition is about to begin. The general fled in fear of crime and tried to deceive the city defense. He also dared to attack and kill the guards. The city regulations and military laws are not allowed. He will kill without mercy. If he does it again, I will be killed.

The sword and the beheading were intentional."

"This...Brother Lianghan, what you said..."

At the top of the hall, Jiangzhou Sima Yuan Huaimin, who was in charge of the interrogation, couldn't help but look embarrassed and muttered in a low voice.

The clerk next to him who was responsible for recording the confession couldn't help but paused in his writing, glanced sideways at Yuan Sima, and asked with his eyes whether he wanted to record this confession.

Yuan Huaimin, who was pulled in for temporary interrogation today, also had a headache. He quietly looked around, taking advantage of the fact that the cold figure of the girl in palace clothes was not there, he said cautiously:

"Brother Lianghan, there is something wrong with what you said. After all procedures, confession is still very important. Generally, the guilty are convicted by confession. The confession is the most important... How about... How about asking again?"

Ouyang Rong took a look at Sima Yuan Da, who was wearing an official hat today.

"Ahem."

Yuan Huaimin cleared his throat, then with a serious expression, he spoke loudly again, echoing in the hall:

"Ouyang Lianghan, I would like to ask you, the former military commander Zhu Lingxu was executed in public at the west city gate. Was it intentional or accidental?"

"on purpose."

"..." Yuan Huaimin, secretary.

Ouyang Rong knew that Yuan Huaimin was doing it for his own good, so he nodded to his friend and shook his head.

Yuan Huaimin sighed helplessly, why are you so stubborn?

"What a deliberate move."

A cold voice came from outside the lobby. Rong Zhen Longxiu walked into the lobby and said expressionlessly:

"remember."

Yuan Huaimin hurriedly looked away and sat upright.

The clerk immediately became serious and wrote down all the confessions.

Ouyang Rong looked calm.

The girl in palace clothes walked past Ouyang Rong in the center of the lobby without looking away, walked up to the top, stood next to Yuan Huaimin's case, turned around, and looked down at Ouyang Rong coldly.

The atmosphere in the lobby fell to freezing point, and for a while, no one spoke.

Ouyang Rong felt more and more that this cold woman was like a refrigerator, cooling down wherever she went.

"cough."

Yuan Huaimin clenched his fist to cover his mouth, coughed, and asked seriously:

"Ms. Female Historian, the interrogation by Governor Wang is over and the confession has been recorded?"

Rong Zhen ignored it and took the confession file from the clerk. He lowered his eyelashes and scanned it quickly.

Yuan Huaimin was quite thick-skinned and not embarrassed.

It's late night and early morning now.

One day and half the night had passed since Zhu Yuheng led the front army to defect;

Five hours have passed since Zhu Lingxu was beheaded by Ouyang Rong at the city gate.

Xunyang City has now entered a state of emergency combat readiness.

Every household was ordered to close their doors and were not allowed to go out at will. On the streets were teams of patrolling soldiers who were waiting strictly, led by female officials.

The whole city is strictly prohibited.

Several of Zhu Lingxu's cronies have all been brought under control.

The generals of the former army camp outside the city were all ordered by the supervisor Rong Zhen to "act cheaply" and confiscated the fish charms. In such a large military camp, without this thin and petite girl in palace clothes speaking, it was temporarily impossible to mobilize a single soldier.

One pawn.

The same is true for Jiangzhou lobby.

Rong Zhen and other female officials took over directly.

Ouyang Rong, Wang Lengran and other officials involved in the Jiangzhou lobby were temporarily dismissed and handed over their official seals.

They need to be interrogated day and night by Sima, the criminal judge of the state, and the censor stationed in the state, and record confessions about the defection of the vanguard, Zhu Lingxu's absconding in fear of crime, etc.

Only when the suspicion is cleared can you get out.

At the moment, the Jiangzhou lobby is still brightly lit even though it is midnight, and officials at all levels are here, working hard overtime.

Zhu Ling's corpse, with its head and arms separated, was randomly pieced together and placed in an open-air courtyard, covered with a piece of white cloth.

Outside the lobby, it was surrounded and guarded by heavy troops.

Until the incident is thoroughly investigated and a characterization is given, not even a single mosquito can fly out.

Not only the Jiangzhou lobby, which is as bright as day, but also the low-key and silent Xunyang Prince's Mansion in Chaisangfang in the north of the city, to Xunyangdu Wharf on the banks of the river in the south of the city where the curfew is strictly enforced, in the entire Xunyang City, I don't know how many people are suffering from insomnia tonight.

However, from the handling of the current emergency situation, we can also roughly see how much control the Empress Wei of Luoyang, who serves as the referee, has over the city of Xunyang, which is thousands of miles away.

On the night when Guo Yu and Meng Shouguang falsely conveyed news about the Prince's Palace, if Ouyang Rong and Li Xian's family dared to leave the Prince Xunyang's Palace.

The fate of being beheaded directly at the city gate like Zhu Lingxu's was probably left to them, without even room for explanation.

And tonight, I will not be absent from the state of being completely taken over and strictly prohibited by the female officer.

This is the cruelty of political struggle, which does not value the process but only the results and established facts.

As for the process, as long as there are no handles and people are given the opportunity to step on the scale, it will be fine.

These are the rules of the game that Li Guoer lamented that night in front of the ruins of Juxian Garden.

But now, this hefty "treatment" falls on Zhu Lingxu, Wang Lengran and other Wei family's helpers.

Ouyang Rong pursed his lips and looked away from Zhu Lingxu's corpse in white cloth in the courtyard outside the door behind him.

He happened to catch the eye of Rong Zhen who had seen the confession.

The two looked at each other.

She asked coldly:

"I asked you to put down your sword. Are you deaf?"

"I heard it, but I'm not familiar with Lady Shi, so I didn't quite recognize it."

Ouyang Rong nodded and praised: "However, the voice of the female historian is indeed a bit scary. When the officer executed the prisoner, his hands shook. Fortunately, the sword is still sharp and it does not disgrace the officer's mission."

"So, you are still very proud?"

"I don't dare." After a pause, he said sincerely, "There is still room for improvement, and we must guard against arrogance and impetuosity."

Rong Zhen was not here to argue, so he was too lazy to argue, so he took out a "heavy" red cloth and threw it on the table.

Everyone looked and saw that there were fragments of Chen You's dagger that had been broken into four pieces.

The girl in palace clothes pointed at the broken sword and asked indifferently:

"Zhu Lingxu snatched Chen You's sword and attacked and killed you. But what's the explanation for the sword's condition?"

"That's what I asked."

Ouyang Rong smiled:

"Ms. Shi, is it because the lower neck is too hard, or is it because the sword's sharp edge did not cut open the lower neck? Well, no matter what the blame is, it must not be blaming General Manager Zhu for attacking, but blaming Xia Guan Ming for being too hard.

"It's not good to bring personal likes and dislikes into the trial."

"Neither like nor dislike." Rong Zhen said coldly: "I won't help anyone."

You don't help anyone, and you make a bad face to everyone.
To be continued...