Back in the reception room, Wang Sizong, Murong Deye, Wang Hebei and Yang Xiong all sat up.

"Lord of the General Hospital, if I tell the truth about Changhe Building, I am afraid that the Lord of the General Court will not be able to protect my husband and wife!" Hua Sanniang's expression was complicated, and she had already lost her arrogance.

Lu Ning nodded: "This official doesn't need you to explain it to Pan, as long as he explains the dealings with the lady of Bohai County!" ”

Originally, it was to investigate the Tongliao case, and as for the transfer of interests from Changhelou and other officials, it would be handled separately when the dust of the Tongliao case settled.

Although in history, there are many anecdotes that the law does not blame the public, for the sake of stability, burning a certain corrupt official bribing the civil and military evidence of the Manchu Dynasty, etc., but Changhelou is far from being able to make friends with half of the civil and military affairs, and it is not a big deal to buy a few private slaves from here; Second, Lu Ning also wants to be more true, if he can really be caused chaos in the world by a slave trader, he has been busy all these years.

Listening to Lu Ning's words, Hua Sanniang was stunned, and her face showed even more hesitation, obviously, she gradually understood that this Wen General Courtyard came prepared, and she might even know that the Song family was the big boss behind Changhe Building.

On that day, this Wen General Hospital, went to Changhe Building, perhaps, to step on the point?

It's just that his husband is drunk and making trouble, as if he caused trouble.

It's not such a coincidence, why did this General Court of Literature become the chief officer in investigating the husband's case?

"Come on, bring pen and paper." Lu Ning said to Hua Sanniang again: "You will write the main one, what year and month, and how much property did you give to the Liu family?" After a pause, "If you explain clearly and make meritorious contributions in this case, I promise you that you will be able to save your life." ”

In fact, today's fifth-class prison sentences are not necessarily more acceptable than the death penalty.

This dynasty removed the exile sentence, but the prison sentence can also be a bitter kiln work thousands of miles away.

The fifth-degree prison sentence is hard labor for life, and it is usually the most tiring and dangerous labor, such as coal kilns, quarries, etc.

In fact, those who are really working to die, who are tortured and weak, may die of illness in a few months or years, and those who are physically strong will also fall ill, and if they are a little older, they will not be far from death.

All of this is not as good as the death penalty.

But people are like this, for many people, it is better to die than to live, but it is better to have a breath than to have your head cut off.

Hua Sanniang's pretty face was uncertain, and finally, she said: "You also want to protect my husband's life!" ”

Lu Ning nodded slightly: "Yes!" He pointed to Wang Heizong and Murong Deye on the side, "They are all witnesses, if you make meritorious contributions, you will be the Son of Heaven who will write to the Holy Son of Heaven to express his feelings, and I will also protect the lives of your husband and wife." But if I can't do it, don't blame me! All I can say is, I tried my best. Besides, it also depends on the size of your meritorious service, right? ”

Hearing Lu Ning's words, he didn't pat his chest to vouch, Hua Sanniang believed him a little, not to mention, there was no better choice.

What's more, I thought about it for a night last night, and I thought about it for another day today.

Now that I think about it, perhaps, this Wen General Yuan went to Changhe Building, which was originally an errand assigned by the above, and the Holy Son of Heaven assigned it to the cabinet, and the cabinet assigned it to this Wen General Court.

Therefore, what seemed to be an occasional skirmish, step by step, actually set up a "special department" under the Holy Son of Heaven to investigate the case.

Hua Sanniang gritted her silver teeth, "Okay, I'll write." ”

Her handwriting was crooked, and there were many circles and forks instead, Wang Hebei re-transcribed a copy according to her dictation, and under the witness of several officials, read the transcribed confession to Hua Sanniang, who approved it and pressed her fingerprints on both confessions.

According to her confession, in the past two years, the property she gave to Mrs. Bohai County was worth about 1,000 yuan, and of course, in her confession, a large amount of money was in and out.

Lu Ning looked at it and nodded, and said to Hua Sanniang: "From today on, you will be imprisoned here, sit down." ”

Hua Sanniang seemed to have drained all her strength, and was sat down by the female jailer, her expression was a little trance-like, and she didn't know whether the choice she made was right or wrong. Lu Ning said anything, I was afraid that she didn't hear clearly.

Lu Ning said to Wang Hebei again: "Write a precedent summoning Liu's disc." ”

Wang Hebei was stunned, but did what he said.

The public disc that was chased after the camera is now also called "hook" and "summons".

After he wrote it, Lu Ning looked at it, stamped his official seal on it, and said to Yang Xiong: "Take it to Yang Shaoqing to seal it, and then go and get someone." ”

Yang Xiong was also stunned, but then gritted his teeth, bowed down and said, "Yes!" ”

There is Shaoqing of Dali Temple and the Great Seal of the General Institute of Wen, but something happened to him, and it has nothing to do with him, he just takes the ticket and takes the person.

And speaking of which, although Yang Shaoqing said that he was sick, he was not in the inner city mansion, but in a fine house in this city, which was very close to here, as if he was deliberately acting for the convenience of stamping his seal.

This is not the first time that an official document has been stamped, every time, Yang Shaoqing is very happy, as if, if it weren't for the strict rules of the imperial court, he would have left the official seal in this temporary government office and handed it over to the General Court of Literature for safekeeping.

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In the hall of Tianzi No. 1 Courtyard, Song Yanwu came with his wife.

Yang Xiong reported that in the Song Mansion, he was almost besieged by his servants, but fortunately, the Duke of Dongwu County drank the servants and accompanied his wife to come in person.

Originally, when he heard that Lu Ning had sent a hook post to spread the word to Mrs. Bohai County, Cao Han's face turned green, and he even quarreled with Lu Ning, of course, but he accused Lu Ning fiercely, and Lu Ning turned around and left.

Hearing that the Duke and Mrs. Tobu were coming in person, Cao Han even greeted him.

Lu Ning sat upright in the hall, Cao Han accompanied Song Yanwu and Liu into the hall, and when he saw Lu Ning's faction, his face sank: "Wen Zongyuan, haven't you seen Dongwu Gong yet?" ”

Although Song Yanwu has no real job, he is from the second rank after all.

"In the court, the chief official is respected, and when I ask about the case, I will talk about dignity and humility!" Lu Ning sat on the main seat, as if this hall was really a sacred public hall of a certain priest.

Cao Han was stunned, a little helpless, in the past few days, he also asked around about the details of the General Academy of Literature, but gradually there was a saying, it seems that the General Academy of Literature has not only been governing barbarians in the south, but also known as the "protégé of the Son of Heaven", and he is a popular person in front of the Son of Heaven.

However, Cao Han didn't believe it very much, if this was the case, he would not be famous in the capital?

I've never heard of it, when Wen Ah Dayou was edicted to the palace or edicted to the palace, just this, and "the protégé of the Son of Heaven"?

It is estimated that he also boasted about it, and the market spread falsely, and the three of them became tigers.

But now, is it true that he is a protégé?

"Tobu Gong wants to listen to the court trial, and this official will allow him to take a seat for Tobu Gong!" Lu Ning made a gesture.

Song Yanwu's face was gloomy, he snorted and sat down, and said: "General Wenyuan, the thief made a false accusation, and you will pass on the second order, I want to see, what do you want to do?!" Then he asked, "Why is there no seat for the lady of Bohai County?" ”

Lu Ning looked at Wang Sizong, and when he saw Wang Sizong bowing slightly, he knew that there should be this Liu family's seat, after all, the honor has not been removed.

Speaking of which, when it comes to the rules and regulations that follow the previous dynasty, he really doesn't know the law as well as Wang Heizong.

However, I know that there is a rule in the current Qi law that no matter how powerful or noble a woman is, no one is allowed to take the place of anyone who receives a summons.

If it is the previous dynasty, Mrs. Bohai can just find a relative to be interrogated.

Of course, if you receive a summons, you must be present, but if it is not a big case and you don't sit down in the end, the official who issued the summons is waiting to be impeached.

Especially the foreign wife, who was forced to show her head and couldn't sit down on the case, the official who issued the summons was guilty of the same crime as the false accuser.

The powerful of this dynasty, this kind of privilege naturally still has to be had.

Moreover, the jurisprudence is the jurisprudence, and in fact, the summons issued by himself should be the first summons to summon a wife in this dynasty.

If Yang Zhao didn't know his identity, it would be impossible to stamp the summons.

If you really encounter such a thing, it is natural to report it and ask the Dali Temple Secretary to decide, and even, even if the Dali Temple Secretary feels that the evidence is ironclad, he must discuss it with his cabinet colleagues, or even, give it to the Holy Son of Heaven and ask the Holy Son of Heaven to appoint it.

Of course, it is the same with the General Court of Literature now, that is, after the trial, he feels that Liu is guilty, and he has to report it layer by layer, and in the end, he still has to be determined by himself.

Don't say that it is from the second rank of the command, that is, the last of the five grades of the foreign woman, if you really want to punish the crime, you need to judge yourself, first except for the foreign woman's honorable position.

The difference is that he dares to issue a summons, and other officials, that is, Dali Siqing, will not issue summonses, even if they want to handle this kind of case, they will find ironclad evidence and go directly to the court.

It's no wonder that Song Yanwu is so gloomy now.

I feel that I just don't know what to do, breaking many unspoken rules, and looking for death by myself.

Lu Ning rubbed his nose, maybe, after a while, if he wants to change his name again, he really needs to change his identity, otherwise, sooner or later, he will make trouble about being the General Academy of Literature, and the world will know about it.

Liu's beautiful bun wears a light red power fence, a light veil covers her face, and she doesn't say anything after sitting down, looking very quiet and noble.

Lu Ning was speechless for a while, that day, just herself, Hua Sanniang and the three of her, you could see her arrogance and domineering.

"Hua Sanniang was seriously ill, but when she confessed, I was with many colleagues." Lu Ning said and made a gesture, and Wang Hebei picked up Hua Sanniang's confession and read it out.

Hua Sanniang did confess that she was exhausted and fell on the bed.

But if she brings it up now to testify, she can come from it, Lu Ning doesn't want her to be frightened by Song Yanwu's power after seeing this Song Yanwu, so she changed her confession on the spot.

"It's nonsense, my wife's jasper bracelet is obviously bought by my housekeeper!"

When Wang Hebei read the first article, in a certain year and month, Hua Sanniang gave Liu a pair of jasper bracelets, Song Yanwu was furious.

It seems that if he reads it, he will refute it one by one, and it will all be on himself.

Lu Ning smiled, "Dongwu Gong, have you thought about it, among them, what is especially precious is that there is a Khitan pure gold mask, which you also bought from Hu Shang?" ”

Wang Hebei was slightly stunned, Hua Sanniang's confession, there was no pure gold mask.

Song Yanwu's complexion immediately became extremely strange.

Lu Ning waved his hand, "It's getting late, and we'll confront you tomorrow, but if you want to wronged Mrs. Bohai County to stay here, the environment is not bad in Tianzi No. 10 room!" ”

Everyone thought that Song Yanwu would be furious, but on the contrary, Song Yanwu was not in his mind and did not speak for a long time.

Lu Ning sighed softly in his heart, it seems that he is really through Liao.

Investigating and prosecuting Song Yanwu through the Lu Daping case is, in fact, to startle the snake.

Since he couldn't suspect Song Yanwu Tongliao for no reason, he ordered to raid his house, after all, this guy has a lot of old days, his old subordinates, the generals of the Wusheng Army, and there are also prominent people.

For example, Dong Zunzhi, that is, the old department of Song Yanwu, was particularly brave and good at fighting, and made great contributions in the battle of Yangzhou, and is now the commander of the first army of the Beijing Garrison Battalion.

The 50,000 forbidden army of the Beijing garrison battalion is divided into five armies, and the commander of the 10,000-strong army of the forbidden army is from the three grades, if there is an additional title, the grade may be higher.

It's not that Song Yanwu's old department is still loyal to him, but he can't do it like a bow and hide it to be chilling.

Now, the secret supervisor has closely monitored the people who enter and leave Song Yanwu's mansion.

But the problem is that the connection between Song Yanwu and the Liao State cannot be very close, and he is certainly not responsible for collecting intelligence for the Khitans in Bianjing, but he doesn't know what chance he had to contact a certain Khitan nobleman.

At most, the Khitan nobles hoped that once the world changed, a war broke out between the two countries, and Song Yanwu could raise troops as an internal response.

In between, I'm afraid that I don't necessarily get a letter once a year.

It should just be a loose verbal convention.

The Khitan envoy who came to Bianjing to make secret contact with him does not know whether he is still there.

Therefore, although the secret prison is strictly controlled, there is nothing suspicious about the people who enter and exit.

Now, I hope to startle the snake, so that he can contact the Khitans again, and send some messenger or something, that is, to catch the thief and take the dirt.