Loyalty in the Time of Tyranny Chapter 64

On August 27, the Imperial Guards escorted Zhang Feng and his gang back to Beijing to await trial.

Starting from Cizhou, after walking about two-thirds of the way, they walked onto the newly built official road. Zhang Feng and others were imprisoned in the car with iron chains on their hands, surrounded by golden wheat fields. Xu Linghou, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, rode his horse to the prison car and said to Zhang Feng: "Master Zhang, look, this is the official road you built with corruption. You have been an official for more than 20 years, and I am a fellow Jinshi with you. Why are you doing this?"

There is a knife beside Li Zi.

Zhang Feng was dishevelled and looked at the sky, as if he could no longer hear what Xu Linghou said.

Three days later, the Imperial Guards returned to Beijing, and Zhang Feng and more than ten other officials were thrown into the Dali Temple. On that day, Ethan Wang personally delivered the account book to the palace. When the emperor saw it, he was furious and ordered the Dali Temple to carefully interrogate Zhang Feng and other criminal officials, determined to find out the real culprit behind it.