After everyone took their places, Feng Shangshu shouted: "Bring people to commit crimes and suffer masters!" ”。

The emperor was here to hear the trial, and the three classes of officials were all shouting vigorously, as if they had drunk a big tonic soup.

After a while, the secretary of the Criminal Department brought the families of Xia Wanjun and Hikawa Ganghan, that is, the defendant and the plaintiff.

Under the sun, a young man in prison uniform, medium stature, and black and red complexion, faced with such a scene, he was unusually calm, and a pair of big eyes under his thick eyebrows were particularly attentive, looking around the court.

"Shanghai Xia Wanchun, meet His Majesty the Emperor!"

Xia Wanchun saluted in the direction of Zhu Cihong, obviously judging that the emperor was here through the surrounding honor guards.

Feng Ying nodded secretly, and secretly said that this kid is really good, calm enough.

According to the psychological behavior of other criminals, in a tense environment, they will only look at the presiding judge sitting on the public case for the first time, and if they still have the heart to look at others, they will only glance at them at most.

Zhu Cihong smiled slightly and said, "I only listen to the trial, and I don't keep the case." ”

Xia Wanchun was excited in his heart, but he didn't expect that his case would reach the sky and hear it, and the emperor would come in person.

I saw that His Majesty the Emperor was heroic, resolute and heroic, even if he was not wearing that coquettish regular clothes, people could see his unique appearance.....

"Yes!"

Xia Wanchun responded, and saluted the two chief judges and several officials of the Criminal Department: "Suspect Xia Wanchun, I have seen all of you!" ”

The people watched it and praised it in a low voice, secretly saying that this young man is good, he is not chaotic in the face of danger, and the miserable master of the Japanese people is like he has not been educated, and he ignores the officials and does not worship the emperor!

Feng Ying looked at Xia Wanchun in the hall, and said with a serious face: "Xia Wanchun, according to your surrender, Japanese businessman Hikawa Ganghan was killed by you by mistake, now, can you admit it?" ”

"I admit it!"

Xia Wanchun said categorically: "The grass people admitted this matter, but at that time, the Japanese merchant Richuan Ganghan was the first to commit violence, and the grass people heard the internal cry for help outside the hospital, so they climbed over the wall and entered the hospital to rescue, and accidentally killed the perpetrator. ”

Gu Wei on the side also asked: "According to the "Da Ming Law", it is a big crime to enter a private house privately, why do you still climb over the wall and enter the hospital and go to the Japanese merchant house to rescue the woman?" ”

Xia Wanchun said heroically: "I am brilliant and bright, how can I be bullied by the little Japanese country? If the maritime merchants of the Japanese kingdom insult my people, isn't it insulting my Ming Dynasty? The grass people are breaking the law with their own bodies, and outsiders are not allowed to insult my Ming subjects! ”

"Well said!"

The surrounding people erupted in fierce cheers, and even Zhu Cihong was impressed by this little brother.

The face of the Japanese foreign envoy Aoki's fart sank, and the bitter lord Hikawa Kisaka looked at Xia Wanchun with even more resentment, and pressed the saber on his waist with his right hand.

Feng Ying, the secretary of the Criminal Department, nodded slightly, and said: "Xia Wanchun, you tell the story of what happened that day in detail, don't worry, don't leave any details behind, Your Majesty and this official are in charge for you." ”

The Japanese foreign envoy Aoki farted and said in a weird manner: "Lord Feng, this is not your attitude towards adjudicating cases, right?" ”

Feng Ying patted the shocked wood and said angrily: "I see that you are allowed to sit in the hall because you are a Japanese foreign envoy, and if you talk too much, this official will invite you out!" ”

Gu Wei also said with a cold face: "Your Majesty didn't say a word, what are you talking about?" ”

Seeing that the Japanese people were deflated, Xia Wanchun's heart calmed down, when he first made the bricks, he just thought that he couldn't let the barbarians insult my compatriots, and when he really found out that he had killed someone, he was a little afraid.

Xia Wanchun doesn't regret it, if God can give me a chance to do it again, I will still shoot that brick!

Of course, I still wish I could have appeared earlier.

In Hikawa Kisaka's cannibalistic eyes, Xia Wanchun told the events of the day without humility or arrogance.

Aoki farted and the others' faces were red for a while and white for a while, like chameleons, and after being warned by Feng Ying, they didn't dare to speak easily, so they had to hold back.

Feng Ying was shocked and said, "The suspect has already explained and defended himself, so please ask the suspect to show human and physical evidence!" ”

Because this case was turned in by Xia Wanchun, he only needs to prove the true situation at the time and prove his innocence.

After a while, Xia Yunyi and the Shanghai Prefecture officials, who were already waiting outside the venue, came to the court and presented the testimony signed by the little woman.

After many searches by the factory guards and the Songjiang government office, the little woman Li who was hiding was finally found, but Li was unwilling to testify in court, so he only wrote a signed testimony.

The son was caught in a homicide case, and his father Xia Yunyi took a long vacation to follow up on the case as a father.

Zhu Cihong had long heard of Xia Yunyi, and his reputation in Jiangnan was very loud, especially in terms of knowledge and morality, and he and Chen Zilong, the governor of Fujian, had opened a literary organization and society in his early years.

During the Chongzhen Dynasty, when Xia Yunyi was the county governor of Changle, Fujian, he had excellent governance performance, and became one of the seven "excellent" counties with outstanding political achievements in the country that year was named and praised by the Ministry of Officials, and was also personally received by Emperor Chongzhen.

If it weren't for the fact that Xia Yunyi's mother died of illness and returned to his hometown for three years, maybe at this time, like Chen Zilong, he would have become the governor of a province in the Tianwu Dynasty.

Feng Ying and Gu Wei carefully examined Li's testimony and showed it to several officials of the Criminal Department.

In the end, Feng Ying was shocked and said: "The cause and effect of this case is clear, the Japanese businessman raped the woman in the front, Xia Wanchun came forward to stop the accidental killing, according to the "Da Ming Law" Volume 20, the brawl regulations: those who are right after the attack are justified defense and are not guilty!" ”

Hikawa Kisaka of Hikawa Okasaka frowned and asked in a stiff Daming official dialect, "What do you mean?" ”

The head of the criminal department, who was sitting next to Zhu Cihong, explained: "According to the law of our dynasty, the Japanese merchant Richuan Ganghan committed a violent crime, and Xia Wanchun took action to stop it, the reason is righteous, it is righteous and courageous, legitimate defense, and not guilty!" ”

Hikawa Kisaka said with a calm face: "What is justifiable defense?" ”

The director of the Criminal Department said: "That is, in the face of the person who has committed the unlawful infringement, if he takes the act of stopping the unlawful infringement and causes damage to the unlawful infringer, it is justified defense and does not bear criminal responsibility." ”

Xia Yunyi exhaled a long breath, his son was finally saved, it's still the new "Da Ming Law"!

He has worked as a county magistrate for five years, and he is also familiar with the "Da Ming Law", in the past, the so-called legitimate defense was only a reduction of the crime, etc., if the other party was killed, it was excessive defense, and he had to be sentenced to death!

("Da Ming Law" Volume 20: Those who are upright will be reduced by two degrees, and those who beat their brothers and sisters and uncles to death will not be reduced.) ）

This kind of justifiable defense case has happened many times in history, such as in the second year of Song Huizong's Daguan, there was a woman in Changzhou, Ah Ren, whose husband had been dead for ten years, but Ah Ren did not remarry.

Lu Hualin, the brother of the deceased husband, coveted Ah Ren's appearance and waited for an opportunity to invade and rape, and Ah Ren was in a hurry, and there was no escape, killing and injuring Lu Hualin, causing him to die of serious injuries.

Changzhou reported the case to the Zizhou Road Prison Division, which in turn reported to the Criminal Department, which believed that Ah Ren was exempted from investigation and did not need to bear criminal responsibility, and the court also gave her 50 horses of silk as a reward.

The new "Da Ming Law" refers to a large number of cases in various dynasties and generations, takes the essence of previous dynasties, and refines the facts of the case before it was formed.