Chapter 896 Case Closed

Cai did get Chen Anmin's confession, and he was overjoyed in his heart, and the opportunity to bring down the prime minister and make a name for himself has come.

Tried the case with him was Deng Runfu, the middle of the imperial history, who had always complained about Cai Qu's approach, but now Cai Qu came to tell him that Chen Anmin had confessed, and specially asked him to go with him to tell Zhao Ji.

Deng Runfu didn't realize that this was a trap at all, and said to Cai Qu, "I didn't dare to go to the palace", and advised Cai Qu not to alarm Zhao Qu.

On the other hand, Deng Runfu took advantage of the opportunity to give Zhao Ji a lecture to accuse Cai of messing around, and took the opportunity to tell Zhao Ji: "Xiangzhou Prison is very wronged, and Dali Temple really didn't take bribes." And Cai did probe into his prison, and the branches were endless. ”

"Dou Ping is a courtier, and he has no full skin, and he is wronged and falsely accused. Begging for an early knot. ”

It just so happened that Shangguan Jun, who supervised the imperial history of the imperial government, also wrote a letter, saying that Dou Ping was tortured in the imperial history prison to extract confessions.

Zhao Ji was "very shocked", so when Cai did come to see Zhao Ji a day later, ready to report on Chen Anmin's confession and Prime Minister Wu Chong's suspicion of being entrusted, he went to the palace gate and was told by the envoy that the emperor refused to see him.

Subsequently, Cai did receive an edict from Zhao Xu: "I heard that the Imperial History Tai Survey Xiangzhou Law Department was quite inappropriate, and sent Huang Lu of the Imperial Academy and Wang Zhongzheng of the Imperial Medicine Academy. ”

This is the last line of defense set up in the Great Song Dynasty law to prevent the occurrence of unjust and wrongful cases -- all criminal cases with a sentence of imprisonment or more must start the procedure of "recording and questioning" after the conclusion of the trial.

The so-called recording is the process in which a judge who did not participate in the trial and does not have to recuse himself in accordance with the law verifies the case pleadings, then arraigns the defendant, reads the charges, verifies the confession, and asks the defendant whether the confession is true.

However, the officialdom routine is unfathomable, and in order to deal with all this, Cai has already made clever arrangements and designed smoke bombs.

When Huang Lu of the Governor's Yuan and Wang Zhongzheng of the Imperial Pharmacy sent by Zhao Xuan came to the compound questioning, Zhou Xiaogong, Pan Kai and other suspects, except for Dou Ping, who were still shouting grievances, saying that "eight out of ten things are false" in the original confession, the rest of the people were all obedient.

Huang Lu and Wang Zhong looked at each other head-on, no matter what, they couldn't imagine that this was the case, such a controversial case, no matter what the criminal officials were asked, they would only say yes, this situation is really rare.

There was no choice, so I had to examine everyone's bodies, because Deng Runfu had reported that Cai was indeed tortured.

As a result, this was not the case at all, "there was no trace of torture", and it was obvious that these people had not been severely tortured.

What Deng Runfu said before now seems to be completely untrue.

So when Huang Lu and Wang Zhongzhenglu finished questioning, they went back to report to Zhao Ji, saying that except for Dou Ping, no one else shouted unjustly and retracted their confessions, and Dou Ping himself did not have any traces of torture. In other words, Deng Runfu's words have moisture.

So Zhao Ji in turn began to be dissatisfied with Deng Runfu and others, thinking that they were spreading rumors about Cai Qu.

Things came to a big reversal, Cai did take the opportunity to cry, and wrote to Zhao Ji to tell Deng Runfu and Shangguan Jun, saying that they knew that Chen Anmin had a plot to ask for power, but they intended to excuse it, and "feared the ministers, so they made flying words to slander the ministers."

In the last interrogation, the two "intended to tempt the sinners to turn around, and the scolds had no different words", and Huang Lu and Wang Zhongzheng, who were sent by His Majesty, could completely testify for the ministers.

So Zhao Ji said that "the performance is not true, and the constitution is missing." Words involve slander, and inwardly avoid it. "For this reason, he dismissed Deng Runfu from his position as the middle of the imperial history and went out of Fuzhou;

With the principle of "not knowing, Gou is a friend." I don't know what to say. "For this reason, the right of Shangguan Jun to supervise the imperial history of the line of office, out of the glossy county.

Cai was promoted again because of this, and was appointed as the right counselor and the right to be the historian.

And what's the truth? It turned out that Cai was not simple, he knew that there was a recording procedure behind him, so he dragged these people out every once in a while for a mock exam.

If someone overturns the case, I'm sorry for the failure, go back and beat it up, continue to abuse, and then retake the exam.

After the second mode, the third mode, kept simulating the recording of this set of procedures, and finally Chen Anmin and others were all reflexed, no matter how much you ask, the case will not be overturned.

Who knows if you're a real exam or another simulation?

So when the emperor sent someone to really open the exam, he couldn't ask anything.

And Cai did know that someone would definitely beat him up on this case.

This requires Zhao to judge that the small report is not true.

How?

If you want to make someone else's truth lose credibility, the best way is to adulterate that person's truth with a little falsehood, so that the credibility of the entire truth will be greatly reduced.

Cai Qusao didn't open his mouth, so he let Deng Runfu and Shangguan obediently fall into his trap.

It turned out that the torture and torture that Deng Runfu heard at the Yushitai at night was not an interrogation of Dou Ping and others, but a smoke bomb deliberately released by Cai Qu.

He deliberately misled Deng Runfu, making him think that he was torturing Dou Ping and others, but in fact, he arranged for Yushitai officials to interrogate prisoners in other cases.

After knocking down the stumbling blocks around him and establishing his prestige, Cai did begin to do something to more "related people".

First of all, the trial of the "Pan Kai bribery case" began, and Chen Anmin's nephew, Dali Temple Commentator Wen and Fu, were arrested.

Wen Jifu was frightened and confessed that he had told his father-in-law and Prime Minister Wu Chong about the review of the Xiangzhou case in Dali Temple, and Wu Chong also promised that he would pay attention to the matter.

This confession is consistent with Chen Anmin's confession. Moreover, Wen Jifu also confessed that he had asked Dr. Taichang Wu An to inquire about the Xiangzhou case.

Immediately afterwards, Cai did arrest Liu Fengshi, the official of the Zhongshu Prison Inspection Office, who did not support his work before, and threatened him: The judge of Dali Temple has confessed to acting under your orders, and you still don't admit guilt?

Liu Fengshi was suspicious, saying that he had indeed been entrusted by Wu Anzhi.

Why did Liu Fengshi accept Wu Anzhi's request? It turned out that Liu Fengshi used to serve in the Privy Council, and he was a subordinate of the privy envoy Wu Chong at that time. After Wu Chong paid homage to the prime minister, he asked Liu Fengshi to be transferred to the Zhongshu torture room and appointed as a prosecutor.

And Wu Anzhi is the son of Wu Chong and the son-in-law of Wang Anshi, the former prime minister of the dynasty.

This is another big fish.

At this point, Cai did target Wu Anzhi and asked for Wu Anzhi to be arrested for interrogation.

However, Emperor Shenzong took into account the identity of Prime Minister Wu Chong, and did not agree to arrest him, "specially exempted from pursuing the film", and the Survey Institute "sent people to ask".

Wu An feared that he would be arrested and imprisoned, and admitted that he had also asked Liu Fengshi.

Also implicated was Han Zhongyan, the son of former Prime Minister Han Qi and the deputy envoy of the Third Department at the time.

Because at that time, in order to take care of Han Qi, the imperial court deliberately let Han Zhongyan know Xiangzhou to facilitate the care of his old father, and the verdict of the Xiangzhou case had his signature.

Under Cai Qu's combing, the facts of the case became as follows:

When Chen Anmin was the judge of Xiangzhou, he presided over the trial of the case and the judgment was improper;

Because he was afraid that the old case would be refuted, he asked his nephew, Dali Temple Commentator Wen and Fu.

Wen Jifu was invited by Chen Anmin and entrusted to his brother-in-law, Wu Anzhi, the son of Prime Minister Wu Chong.

Wu Anzhi was entrusted and instructed Liu Fengshi, who was close to the Wu family, to help.

Liu Fengshifu hinted that the judge of Dali Temple ruled that the Xiangzhou case was not a manslaughter.

Judges Dou Ping and Zhou Xiao of Dali Temple respectfully accepted Liu Fengshi's will, and then found that the original judgment of the Xiangzhou case was not at fault, and rejected Zhou Qing's question.

The chain of events and relationships is complete.

In May of the first year of Yuanfeng, the case was closed.

Liu Fengshi, the official of the former inspection of the middle book and the punishment room, was left in the Zhishi Museum, exempted from strangulation, and imprisoned in the Chenzhou Grain and Material Institute;

Dr. Taichang Wu An held an official position, exempted from strangulation, and replaced;

In the palace, Chen Anmin chased an official, stopped, and exhibited three phases;

Han Zhongyan, the deputy envoy of the third division, ransomed ten catties of copper;

Dali Temple's detailed official Dou Ping chased an official and stopped;

Zhou Xiaogong, the detailed councillor of Dali Temple, Dali Commentator Wen and Fu, replaced;

There are more than 10 people who sit in a row.

Prime Minister Wu Chong asked to retire because his son was involved in the case, closed the door and waited for the guilty three or four times, and finally went to the court to look at the matter at the urging of Shenzong.

After the results of this punishment were announced, Cai was indeed not satisfied, and led Yu Shi Deng to write to him many times, saying that the punishment for Wu Anzhi was too light.

The reason why Cai Qu stared at Wu An was naturally intended by his father Wu Chong.

However, just when Cai Quchun was chasing after him triumphantly, a bullet from Zhengzhou brought the matter to an abrupt end.