Fang Tianba dispatched secret scouts that very night to investigate every single military tent in the camp. As the morning sunlight spilled across the earth the next day, a team of his most trusted confidants, who had followed him for years, had already laid a secret ambush around the final tent under surveillance. After two days and two nights of staking out the location, at the hour of noon on the third day, they finally seized a sneaky soldier who had come to this tent to release the refugees. Following further interrogation and identity verification, the man was definitively identified as a soldier under Commander Liu.
In a fit of fury, Fang Tianba subjected the man to severe torture. After seven days and seven nights of uninterrupted interrogation, threats, and enticements, the soldier finally broke, confessing that he had been dispatched by Commander Liu to secretly release the refugees. This lucrative business of extortion targeting the families of refugees, operating under the banner of the military, was already second nature to Commander Liu, who had amassed a huge fortune through these means over the days.
Fang Tianba posted the detailed facts of Commander Liu's corruption, abuse of power, exploitation of innocent commoners, and damage to the military's reputation throughout the camp. On the grounds of violating military law, he stripped Commander Liu of his rank, placed him under arrest, and five days later had him escorted back to the Imperial City to await the …
Chapter 88