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.