Chen Ying does things like wind and rain, and it is related to Yang Xu, the prince of the auxiliary state, who is the mainstay of the prince's faction, and he is even more attentive.

After his careful investigation, he carefully analyzed all kinds of strange things born in Qingzhou and Putai, and interrogated Xu Zeheng, the only and most critical witness, many times.

The key is that for such favored ministers and ministers, if it is another case, the emperor may turn a blind eye, or even come forward and make peace with the mud, but when it comes to the survival of the dynasty and the conspiracy, it is not something that any emperor can ignore casually.

Although Xia Xun has tried his best to stay out of the matter, so that people can't hold the evidence that he was present or instructed by him, and getting rid of Lin Yuqi is even more fake in Jinyi Weinan Town, making Ji Gang suffer a dumb loss, but what he wants to destroy is not a trace of a person, but a huge family, and even involves other forces and organizations, no matter how clever Rao is means are, how can he not show the slightest flaw?

Chen Ying secretly had a score in his heart, he felt that this matter, I am afraid that Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince, is really inescapable of being involved, but such a big official, there is no ironclad evidence, even if there are many doubts, it is impossible to take someone from it. This auxiliary prince was once detained and interrogated, and that time it was also not because he was doing business for personal gain or accepting bribes, but because he fornicated with foreign vassals and befriended foreign countries, which belonged to the category of anti-traces, Zhu Di really reacted quickly, immediately put him in prison, cut off all contact with the outside world, and immediately investigated.

But what about the outcome of that case? Several third- and fourth-grade officials fell to the ground, and Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qiguo, degraded Beijing, and the second prince, who was originally the most vocal, finally lost the throne, and it may not be that there was no reason for this. And this time, the crime is more serious than the first time, and the case is still in the nature of rebellion, but the emperor only placed Xia Xun in a quiet temple, temporarily restricting his freedom, but he was not imprisoned for investigation.

He positioned himself as: "The emperor asked me to investigate, and I will go all out to investigate, so as to get real evidence and knock Xia Xun down." But here, I must not do anything, today's Yang Xu has more authority and higher prestige than the Zhedong case, and he cannot fabricate evidence. Any evidence, the emperor may have personally intervened. I can't put myself in it. If I can't knock down Yang Xu, then I will deal with the plaintiff in turn, whether Ji Gang is finished or Yang Xu is unlucky, it will be beneficial to me and no harm. ”

The witnesses were detained in Beijing, and the witnesses detained from Potai included Wang Chentang, the owner of the opera troupe, and the old woman who had never known her name and surname, and everyone only called her mother-in-law. There are more on the Peng family's side, in addition to the owner of Peng, there are also several of his brothers and cousins who act as shopkeepers in various industries such as carriage and horse shops, martial arts halls, inns, etc.

Strictly speaking, these people are not criminals, especially that Granny Qiu is over eighty years old, and she is not sentenced to death after seventy, even if she is really confirmed guilty, she is rarely punished or imprisoned, not to mention that she is still only a suspect now, but at this time she cannot be placed alone, so they are all locked up in the waiting hall of the Criminal Department, and the conditions are better than in prison.

In order to implement Yang Xu's charges, Chen Ying has to get some stronger evidence from the large number of witnesses who were detained and returned to Beijing. However, when the suspects were arraigned, Chen Ying couldn't pry open the mouths of these people at all.

Xia Xun's notice had already wiped out all the evidence, so they had no fear, and through various forms of prompts and rehearsals in advance, they also had sufficient psychological preparation, they knew very well that if they confessed to the White Lotus Sect, there was only one way to die, and there was still a glimmer of life if they gritted their teeth.

On the other hand, the Metropolitan Procuratorate could not use the torture that was feared by the ghosts and gods like Jinyiwei, and secondly, too many people had paid attention to this case, and they did not dare to arbitrarily punish it, so as not to be suspected of "beating into a trick". The person to be investigated is a state official, and if you "torture the suspect and witnesses" into a confession, once the case cannot be conclusive, you will not be able to get out of it.

Chen Ying is now on the left and right, how can she sit firmly by Ji Gang's side? As a result, he could only use the careful thinking he had cultivated over the years to repeatedly interrogate and refute, but as long as the other party was speechless, the other party was really speechless, except for shouting that he was wronged, he never mentioned it again. When Chen Ying sent someone to mention them, they had already turned their homes upside down, there was no physical evidence to take, and there was no major punishment, so there was no progress in the case.

In view of this, Chen Ying kept a heart, and did not dare to let Xu Zeheng and a cadre of witnesses meet and confront each other, Xu Zeheng is a small county people, and does not understand the setting of these yamen in Beijing, he was escorted to Beijing by Jinyiwei, and then transferred from the imperial prison to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was tried and tried, he always thought that he was still under the control of Jinyiwei, and he did not dare to retract his confession because of Jinyiwei's severe punishment, but if he met with those people, noticed that things had taken a turn for the better, and then retracted his confession in front of the court, this matter would be troublesome.

Chen Ying, who has always prided himself on handling cases, finally came across a case that gave him a headache. From many clues, he clearly sniffed out that the Auxiliary Kingdom Duke was suspicious, but under the secret supervision of the experienced hidden dragon secret spy, all the powerful physical evidence was destroyed. As for the witnesses, needless to say, those people in the Peng family will not be able to say a word, even if you torture him to death, you may not be able to say a word. Old Lady Qiu is almost finished, and she can't ask anything. As for the boss of the troupe, he doesn't know much, and he is also a White Lotus cultist, life and death hang by a thread, it is impossible to tell the truth, he has been the shopkeeper of this troupe for a long time, he is good at dancing with long sleeves, and he is exquisite, and his answers are even more watertight.

Originally, Chen Ying felt that the most promising breakthrough point was Tang Sai'er's mother and daughter, but the midwife's mouth couldn't be pried open, the little girl looked innocent, and she couldn't ask anything useful from her mouth.

Although Chen Ying is a cool official, the cases he handles are conclusive, even if someone asks, he can't find anything wrong, his style of handling cases is very different from Jinyiwei's usual torture to extract confessions, and the brutal methods of framing out of nothing, the person targeted at the moment is Yang Xu, the case is in public trial, countless pairs of eyes are staring, and even if he wants to use it, he can't use that kind of means.

Because of the special identity of the defendant, coupled with the attention of various forces in the government and the opposition, Chen Ying had many scruples, and took this tricky case, which was quite a bit of a feeling that a dog bites a hedgehog and has no way to speak, Chen Ying began to feel that it was not easy to bring down Yang Xu like this, and the emperor kept urging him to conclude the case as soon as possible, Chen Ying had no choice but to decide to raise all parties to the trial.

At this point, he felt that he should be prepared for the second hand in advance.

The day before the trial of this case began, an imperial envoy in the Metropolitan Procuratorate suddenly ate the bear's heart and leopard gall and impeached Ji Gang, and he brought up the case of Chang Yinglin, the prefect of Huzhou, saying that Chang Yinglin was Ji Gang's uncle, and it was rumored that Chang Yinglin was greedy for money, and most of them bribed Ji Gang. Chang Yinglin's grave has now grown green weeds, but now it is talking about it again, and it is an ordinary corruption case, who will care when the big case of collusion between the Auxiliary Guogong and the White Lotus Sect is about to be tried? This impeachment note is like a pebble thrown into the sea, and not even a single wave is lifted.

Yang Xu's case, the three divisions will be tried.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is the chief judge, Xue Pin of Dali Temple, and Shang Lu Zhen of the Criminal Department are side trials, and these two side trials are purely here to play soy sauce. This kind of case, but any shrewd official, will not be mixed in, these two people are standard wall grass, before the case is known, for Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince who has been repeatedly attacked but does not fall, they will never fall into the ground, they have a good stone, wait and see the ending.

Xia Xun, as the biggest defendant, was not brought, because Chen Ying was worried that having him present would give people a boost to the suspect's testimony and affect the conclusion of the entire case.

Chen Ying was the first to mention the witnesses who came to the court, Zhu Tu and Chen Yunan. Zhu Tutang was seated, and Chen Yunan's official position was small, so he had to stand.

Chen Yunan had already memorized what he should say, and the hall said: "Xiaguan was ordered by Lord Zhu Qianhu to inspect the local anti-traces, and when he arrived in Qingzhou, it coincided with the death of the old lady of Pengjiazhuang in the local area. Xia Guan was worried that there would be traitors among them, so he wanted to sneak in to observe the situation. ”

Chen Ying interjected: "This Pengjiazhuang, but is it Yang Xu's family?" ”

Chen Yunan hurriedly said: "Yes!" However, the lower officials did not know about this at the time, and if they knew that it was the family of the father-in-law of the auxiliary country, the funeral ceremony was so grand and the momentum was so huge, it would not be surprising. ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Okay, you go on!" ”

Chen Yunan said: "Xia Guan pretended to be a condolence guest, took a gift and rushed to Peng's house, because Peng's family was full of hanging guests, and the guests did not know everything one by one, so they put down the official and entered the village. At this moment, Xia Guan happened to see a few little babies talking in a corner of the courtyard......"

Chen Yunan told the dialogue between Tang Sai'er and those children, especially when talking about Tang Sai'er's changes to the lotus flower and the golden Buddha, he said it in great detail, and the rendering was magical. When Xue Pin of Dali Temple heard this, he picked up the teacup a little uncomfortably and took a sip gently.

Chen Ying nodded after hearing this, and said, "You stand aside!" ”

Turning his head, he looked at Zhu Tu again, smiled politely, and asked, "Master Zhu, what did you do after you learned about Chen Baihu's report?" ”

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To be continued