Zhao Ning looked at Zhou Dejian and asked: "Is your Excellency really Zhou Dejian, the governor of Xiangyang Prefecture?"

"My official robe is naturally that of Zhou Dejian, the magistrate of Xiangyang Prefecture. The imperial court handed over Xiangyang Prefecture to me, and I am the imperial court official. Who dares to pretend to be the imperial official, let alone stand in this court!"

"Then why is Governor Zhou telling lies with his eyes open?"

"This good man, when did I tell lies with my eyes open?" Zhou Dejian felt unhappy. If Zhao Ning hadn't brought so many people here, he might have ordered someone to arrest Zhao Ning.

"Then let me ask you, do you recognize this Guo Chang?"

Zhou Jiande hesitated for a moment and said: "I am busy with official duties every day. I have met countless people and handled countless cases. How can I remember them?"

"Then you just said you knew him?"

"I remember it wrong."

Zhou Jiande felt proud in his heart, if you want to quibble with me, can you quibble with me?

I took the imperial examination to become an official. I may not know much about other things. Sophistry is a unique skill that I have honed over many years.

"misremembered?"

"Yes, I remembered it wrong."

Zhao Ning's eyes fell on Guo Chang: "Just now you said that the loan money also included Prefect Zhou's share?"

Guo Chang hesitated and hesitantly said: "I seem to have remembered it wrong."

"You also remembered it wrong?"

Guo Chang glanced at Zhou Jiande and said, "Yes, I also remembered it wrong."

After all, it is not a glorious thing for the prefect to borrow money from the private sector.

If you see through something, don't tell it, and if you tell it, you'll be doomed. This is the principle of officialdom since ancient times.

Guo Chang also let something slip just now, but now he quickly came back to his senses.

Zhao Ning asked: "You mean, you don't know Prefect Zhou?"

"I don't know him, how can I know Magistrate Zhou!"

"Then the triple interest you mentioned before was your Guo Daguan's own decision?"

"I didn't say triple interest!" Guo Chang looked very confused. "Did this official remember it wrong? Even they themselves said it was double interest."

Zhao Ning smiled instead of getting angry: "I have been talking to you for a while, do you think I am a reasonable person, and that as long as there is no direct evidence, I can't do anything to you?"

Guo Chang said quickly: "This official, where do you start talking about this!"

Zhao Ning said: "It seems that people who are reasonable always suffer, and the other party only needs to be unreasonable."

Zhou Jiande quickly said: "This good man, everything is about reason and law. This is a misunderstanding. Otherwise, you first ask these people to withdraw from Xiangyang City. If you have any needs, tell me, I will definitely

Handle it properly.”

Guo Chang understood immediately and said: "Yes, this good man, if you have any needs, you can put them forward. We will satisfy everything we can. We all come out to make a living and make money, so we are not shabby."

Zhao Ning's face darkened: "Let me ask you one last time, if I am trying to reason with you, will you try to reason with me?"

"This good man, of course we are reasonable. Otherwise, I will be the host today and invite you to dinner and sit down and have a good talk." Guo Chang said.

He knew that Zhou Jiande wanted to be soft and practice Tai Chi, so he immediately jumped out to cooperate.

If it doesn't work, just give money and stabilize this group of people first.

Later, Magistrate Zhou asked the imperial court for instructions, and the imperial court sent troops to deal with this group of people.

Zhao Ning stopped answering his words and said to Jing Chao: "Please help him recall what he said."

"yes!"

Jing Chao smiled, showing a row of white teeth.

He walked up to Guo Chang in two steps, grabbed Guo Chang's hair, dragged Guo Chang aside like a butchered pig, then grabbed his head and banged him against a pillar.

Guo Chang didn't react at all, and his head banged loudly.

Zhou Jiande was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that this group of people would dare to lynch people indiscriminately in the courtroom.

Guo Chang let out a miserable cry.

After a few bumps, Jing Chao stopped and asked, "Has your head cleared after the collision?"

"Don't...don't hit me..."

"Do you remember?"

"Prefect Zhou, help me..."

Seeing Guo Chang's retort, Jing Chao signaled again.

Two imperial guards came, pushed Guo Chang to the ground, and then placed his palms on the ground.

One of the Imperial Guards smashed it down hard with an iron bone, and with a crack, the bones of his hand were cracked. Guo Chang howled in pain.

Zhou Jiande was so frightened that his face turned pale. He said: "You use lynching indiscriminately. Do you know that this is a serious crime?"

The family members on the side were also dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

In their hearts, Guo Chang is an unattainable big shot. He can crush several people to death with just one finger.

But now, this big man is like a pig in a pigsty, as if he is being pressed on the killing platform.

The shock in their hearts simply cannot be described in words.

Zhao Ning said calmly: "If you don't remember, continue beating until you remember."

"I remembered! I remembered!" Guo Chang shouted with his last sense.

"How many times the interest?"

Guo Chang trembled all over and shouted incoherently: "Three times! It's three times! It's three times the interest! Don't fight! It's three times the interest!"

"Who asked you to charge three times the interest?"

Guo Chang said without hesitation: "He is from Guo Daguan, he is from Guo Daguan!"

Speaking of Guo Daguan, Guo Rong is here.

He was brought in by Hu Quan. When he came in, he saw such a scene and stood there in shock for a while, not knowing what to say.

His eyes fell on Zhou Jiande again and said: "Prefect Zhou, what is this?"

If he hadn't seen Zhou Jiande sitting on it, he would have thought he was in the wrong place.

The prefect's Yamen was unexpectedly surrounded by a group of people of unknown origin.

What is this not about rebellion?

Hu Quan walked up to Zhao Ning and said in a low voice: "Official, this official Guo has plenty of food. He said it himself."

Seeing Guo Rong coming, Guo Chang seemed to have seen a life-saving straw and shouted: "Master Guo, save the villain, save the villain!"

"What are you doing!" Guo Rong said.

Zhao Ning said: "Are you from Guo Daguan?"

"I am, who is your Excellency?"

"Did you ask him to collect three times the interest?"

"Who are you?"

"I'm asking you something."

"Don't you know that this is the prefect's Yamen..."

Zhao Ning waved his hand, and Jing Chao walked up to Guo Rong in three steps and slapped him.

There was a snap.

Guo Rong was beaten so hard that he fell to the ground, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, and his face quickly swelled.

Zhao Ning was still sitting there, and he said calmly: "I was trying to reason with you at the beginning, but you just refused to reason with me. So today, let's put the reason aside and talk about fists. It's settled.
Chapter completed!