But what Zhang Ping said is the truth, in the absence of any human and material evidence, her words alone cannot be used as a strong evidence to prove that what she just said is the truth.

Seeing that Xiting was speechless, Zhang Ping couldn't help but pull the corners of his lips slightly, revealing a smug smile, and then shouted: "Song Zhiyu, as the head of the Hexi Division, but you misjudged the disaster and reported the flood in a timely manner. ”

"Someone, quickly escort this person down, and wait for the fate!"

As soon as the words fell, he saw two officials step forward.

At the same time, a guard with a knife dressed in civilian clothes also walked in from outside the door and whispered a few words in Zhao Shuo's ear.

Zhao Shuo, who had been watching coldly before, suddenly shouted: "Slow! ”

The voice was as cold as frost, shaking everyone around him as silent as a cicada in an instant.

Zhao Shuo raised his eyes and glanced at the man standing on the right side of the door, holding the silver sword, and said coldly: "Ye Xing." ”

Ye Xing understood, and commanded sharply behind him: "Bring people up." ”

A moment later, a man in black stepped into the hall carrying a tall man.

The man lowered his head, his eyes glanced left and right, and when he saw Zhao Shuo, he hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Grass people Zhang Qi participates in His Highness." ”

Zhang Qi!

When everyone heard this, they all looked at the kneeling man in surprise, and Zhang Ping and Chen Jing stood up in shock.

Xiting frowned slightly and looked at Zhao Shuo, he couldn't find Zhang Qi everywhere, it turned out that he had taken him away.

"Just tell me what you know." Zhao Shuo said while playing with the teacup.

"Yes."

Zhang Qi knelt on the ground, looked at Zhang Ping and said, "Master Zhang, the grass people are the river workers of the River Division. ”

"When the flood that night, it was the grass people on duty, Qian Niangzi said the truth, that night it was indeed the Song chief who asked Chen Si to report the flood, but Chen Si did not agree, until the flood was about to order someone to report the flood, in this flood, Song was not as the adults said, retreated, but predicted the disaster in advance, the disaster was so tragic, all of which were caused by the Xiuhe Division did not agree with the prediction of the Song chief and delayed the flood report."

"Wow--"

"It turned out that the Xiuhe Division was reluctant to report the flood."

"I'll just say that the Song Mansion has been the water official of the Hesi Division since the old lady's generation, how could he not know that he was going to report the flood."

“......”

The onlookers at the door suddenly became noisy, all pointing at Chen Jing.

Chen Jing glanced at the door, immediately got up and pointed at Zhang Qi and shouted: "You said that the official was unwilling to report the flood at that time, but is there any evidence?" You were originally a river worker of the River Si Division, and naturally helped Song Zhiyu to testify, your testimony is not credible, and Hugh wants to frame this official here. ”

Zhang Qi heard Chen Jing's scolding, turned his head to look at him, then looked at Zhang Ping, and said firmly: "My lord, the grass people have evidence to submit." ”

Zhang Qi held a booklet above his head with both hands, and said loudly: "This is the water situation log of the Hexiang Village Institute, which records the water situation on the day of the flood. ”

When Zhang Ping heard this, his eyes showed a little essence, and he looked at Chen Jing with a slight twist of eyebrows, "This is ......"

"This water log has always been filed in the silicon, the day of the flood, the embankment burst, the Hexiang village was washed away by the flood, and the water log has already been washed away, how did you get this log? It's not nonsense, deliberately exonerating Song Zhiyu! ”

Although Chen Jing still scolded loudly, his voice was obviously less confident than Fang Cai.

Zhang Qi seemed to have expected Chen Jing to say this, looked at Zhang Ping, and said unhurriedly: "The water log of the Hesi Division is indeed to be archived and sealed in each silicon, but when there was a sudden heavy rainfall that day, Director Song asked the grass people to register the water level when he inspected the embankment and the water monument, and then he was not at ease, so he asked the grass people to record the estimated time and plan for evacuating the villagers in the book, so that it would be convenient for the water supervision to review it in the future." When the flood came suddenly, the grass people evacuated the villagers with everyone, and they forgot to archive the log, so the log was always in the hands of the grass people and was not washed away by the flood. ”

As soon as the words fell, a 'poof' sound was heard, and Chen Jingtan knelt on the ground.

Seeing this, Lin Congze glanced at Zhang Ping on the main seat, and Zhang Ping hurriedly gave up his seat.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Zhao Shuo move to the main seat and sit down, patted the shocked wood, and shouted: "Chen Jing, what else do you have to say?" ”

Zhao Shuo's voice was cold and majestic, revealing a piercing chill, which frightened Chen Jingzhi, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, there was a sudden rainstorm that day......

As he spoke, he suddenly seemed to remember something, his eyes rolled quickly, and his voice stabilized a little: "Yes, according to the "River Defense Order", anyone who fails to report the flood and causes casualties to the people, or destroys money, should be punished as an intentional murderer; But if the water and rain are too usual, it is beyond the human power to prevent it, regardless of it. ”

As he spoke, as if he had found the only life-saving straw, he knelt and moved a few steps towards Zhao Shuo, his eyes full of anticipation, "The rainstorm fell too suddenly that day, and I didn't receive a flood report from Lin'an County upstream, so it can be seen that this is an unusual rainfall, not to mention." ”

But Zhao Shuo seemed to have expected him to say this, and pulled the corners of his lips and sneered, "Envoy Chen, your flood control work has not been done satisfactorily, but you know this "River Defense Order" by heart. ”

His voice was soft, but it inexplicably made people feel a chill.

Sure enough, in the next moment, Zhao Shuo suddenly changed his words, stared at Chen Jing and said coldly: "Even if the rainstorm came urgently that day, the water gate of the flood storage area has been lowered and resisted part of the flood, but why is your embankment still bursting in a very short period of time?" ”

Chen Jing was dumbfounded for a while: "This ......"

At this time, Lin Congze suddenly took out a drawing from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Shuo.

Zhao Shuo spread out the drawings while listening to Lin Congze's explanation.

"In order to make it easier to know the current situation of water conservancy, our court stipulates that the river repair departments in various places should update the river map under their jurisdiction every three years and submit it to the capital water superintendent, which should indicate the local river map, river width, riverbed thickness and other information.

"This map shows that three years ago, the Pingyang County section of the Yuanjiang River was thirty zhang wide, and the official and His Highness went down to the river bank yesterday to investigate, and now the river is only more than twenty-six zhang."

"It can be seen that in the past three years, due to the frequent floods of the Yuanjiang River, the upstream sediment has been washed into the river section of Pingyang County, resulting in the silting of the river, the thickening of the riverbed, and the movement of the riverbank forward, but the River Repair Division of Pingyang County did not dredge the river, but let the siltation increase, so ......"

Lin Congze said, turned to Chen Jing and said: "When the flood flows, due to the narrowing of the river channel and the thickening of the riverbed, the formation of a bundle of water will definitely speed up the flow rate, so that the power of the flood will increase, so that the embankment will burst. ”