Left-handers, also known as "left-handed" in ancient times, were regarded as ominous in the West, and although China also felt that the right-handed hand was the "forehand", it did not discriminate excessively against left-handers.

Now, the fact that Heifu is a left-handed hand makes the confessions of the Huyang Pavilion Chief, Shang Jiabao and others self-defeating.

Of course, the presiding judge Xi did not believe it easily, and he specially asked Heifu to come forward and write his name on a piece of wood.

You may not believe it, but the Qin State, which has always been said to be a "foolish people", is the country with the highest literacy rate among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States. Although Shang Jun burned all the poems, books and other things, he set up a "study room" to train specialized legal practitioners, which is equivalent to higher education.

In addition, the township officials are also required to be literate, if the pavilion chief and the people are illiterate and count, how to arrange conscription for the national statistical household registration? On this basis, there is also "take the law as the teaching, and the officials as the teacher", Shang Ying once said: "Those who know the laws and regulations of the officials and the people all ask the judges." Therefore, all the officials and people of the world do not know the law. "Officials are required to educate the people about the law. I was doing this work when I was young, and I received people who came to visit the Dharma every day. After the people had finished asking questions, the judge had to write down the questions on a wooden board and cut them in half, half of which was filed as a "Legal Question" and half of which the people had to bring back as evidence. In this way, not only will the law be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but some smart people will also have channels to read and write.

Heifu didn't know many seal characters, only a few hundred could write, he knelt on the ground with a pen in his left hand, and wrote "Heifu is not guilty" on the wooden board with one stroke at a time. There is no doubt that if he had been right-handed, the word would have been skewed to the point of nowhere.

Shang Jia Bao, who was still talking about it just now, collapsed suddenly, and he sat down on the ground with a dead face, like a puddle of mud.

After that, under Xi's sharp and repeated interrogation, Shang Jia Bao repeatedly confessed to the fact that he had committed perjury with the chief of Huyang Pavilion.

After opening the gap in his place, Xi attacked the three pavilion guards in succession, and they all confessed, saying that they were only forced by the pavilion chief and the thief to lie.

In the end, he confessed to begging for theft, and only the chief of the Huyang Pavilion was left speechless.

He never imagined that he would lose on the simple distinction between the left hand and the right hand.

At this time, it is too late to retract the confession.

At this point, the truth of these two cases was revealed, and after a little sum up with his subordinates, Xi began to "read 鞫 (jū)" in the court, that is, read the verdict.

This time, Heifu once again saw Qin Lu's meticulousness, and almost every crime has a corresponding punishment.

The first to be convicted were the three thieves.

The bearded thief Pan, who committed the "crime of death" by evading military service, and the "crime of robbery and murder" by robbing and killing people many times, the latter alone is a sure death sentence. Pan will be sentenced to a sentence of 磔 (zhé), and after being sent back to Jingling County, where he is from his hometown, to confirm all the crimes, he will be executed in public, and the body will be cut off and his head will be hung in public...... Just thinking about that scene makes Hauff's scalp tingle.

The other two Chu thieves were lucky, they just did not meet the "group robbery crime" of five or more thieves, and because they were not Qin, the government could not determine their previous identities and crimes, and the two also said that they had never killed anyone. Therefore, according to the ordinary "death of other states" and "theft", it is a city. It is conceivable that there are two more convicts in the civil engineering project of Nanjun, and there is little chance of redemption for the common people.

After that, it was the turn of the people in Huyang Pavilion to judge the guilt.

"Huyang Pavilion Changzhen, as an official of the government fighting for food, should have held a two-foot wooden slab to preach the law to the people under his rule, but he knew the law and broke the law, wanted to steal and cheat the reward, and falsely accused Shiwu Heifu of hurting people. The three sins are punished together, when the beard, the yellow, and the border! But remembering that he has a knighthood, he will cut off the third-level title to atone for the crime, and change it to a beard, ransom, and serve the punishment of the ghost's salary. ”

Huyang Pavilion Changzhen knelt on the ground, listening to his verdict blankly.

He inherited his father's title as soon as he became an adult and became a respected "hairpin", but he still wanted to be promoted to the fourth level of "no change", so that he could be permanently exempted from the annual one-month change of death......

So a few days ago, he trained the pavilion guards in Huyang Pavilion and went out to arrest thieves, but there was always no result. Until that day, after hearing that Shang Jia Bao came to report the case, he was overjoyed, but he didn't want to be taken first by the two junior soldiers, which made him very unwilling.

It was also chaste and anxious for quick success, and he was confused for a while, and after listening to the instigation of the thief, he planned to take the merit and cheat the reward. I didn't want to, but I dug a big hole for myself and got involved in a lawsuit, but the judge was still iron-faced and selfless.

After the incident, the family also quietly took care of Zhang Luo for him, but in the Qin State, at least on the bright side, no one dared to openly accept bribes and bend the law for personal gain, Qin Law clearly wrote in black and white what can be done and what cannot be done, and countless Qin officials who have been influenced by the law since childhood are also staring at it!

But in the end, they still found a gap: bribing the food delivery officials, passing on information, coercing and luring businessmen to make him cooperate with the retraction of confessions. As long as he flatly denies that he has taken merit and cheats on rewards, and then confirms that Heifu is guilty of beating officials, this trial can be won!

But who would have thought that before Xi could investigate it carefully, the lies made up by their group would be defeated in the clever cross-examination of Hefu.

Zhen, who has always been proud, actually capsized the boat in the hands of a lowly man Wu Qiantou!

Now, every word that Xi reads, listening to Zhen's ears, is like a doomsday death knell!

髡 means to shave the hair, 黣 is to tattoo words on the face, and ransom is to use money to atone for this sin. The ghost salary is to go into the mountains to collect firewood, which is also a kind of hard labor......

For Pavilion Changzhen, who is only in her twenties and has a smooth life, this is an unacceptable result!

"I'm not convinced!"

As soon as she heard the verdict, Zhen blushed and shouted thickly.

"I don't accept it, I want to beg!"

If the case is still not satisfied with the trial of the county, it can continue to beg and go up to the Xianyang court, and the Supreme Court will conduct the final trial for a period of three months. In this way, the unjust, false and wrongful cases that the county and county negligently judged for a while have a chance to be avenged by the court lieutenant. The most famous is that in the first year of the reign of King Qin, there was a musician named Talker who was framed for stealing cattle, and he begged again and again when he was not satisfied, and finally found that it was really an unjust case, and those careless county-level judges were all punished.

"Are you sure you want to beg?" Hi asked.

Zhen stiffened his neck and said, "Not bad! ”

I closed the bamboo slip with undried handwriting and looked at Zhen condescendingly.

"Do you think the judge's verdict was wrong?"

"Do you think you've been wronged?"

"Do you think that the county and the court will be extrajudicial to you?"

Xi a series of questions, like thunder exploded in Zhen's ears, his lips turned pale, and he muttered: "Don't dare, it's just, it's just that this punishment is too heavy......"

"Heavy punishment?"

Xi sighed and said: "If you don't have the title of Shangzai, you can atone for the crime a little, and the punishment will be heavier!" And do you know that if the beggar fails, according to the Qin law, you will be guilty of one more degree! At that time, the punishment will be heavier, maybe it will be a slashing punishment and a toe cutoff! ”

Zhen was like ashes, he knew that the facts of his crime were conclusive, his testimony was full of loopholes, and he was debunked in court and recorded in the book. Even if his family has all his hands and eyes, and sues the county and Xianyang, there is no possibility of overturning the case, so he said: "I plead guilty and dare not mention the beggar ...... again."

After the head of the Huyang Pavilion confessed, the rest of the people were easy to handle.

As one of the main culprits, he begged for theft and purchase, and was sentenced to the border with the crime of "false accusation and anti-sitting" and "the crime of defrauding rewards". still have to shave his head, because this person is just a public servant, and there is no way to atone for the crime, so he may not be able to return to his hometown after a long time, which is worse than the chief of Huyang Pavilion.

There are three pavilion guards, because they are accomplices, and they have been in the city for three years, so they don't have to leave their hometowns, and when their hair grows completely, they will almost be free. The three of them hurriedly nodded in gratitude, feeling that this was already a great tolerance.

Shang Jia Bao is similar, he was sentenced to five years of Chengdan for "false accusation" and "fraud and suspicion" at the same time, this businessman was taken down and cried a handful of snot and tears, saying that he should not have helped the pavilion chief and others to commit perjury.

In short, after reading the verdict, everyone in the hall confessed their guilt and was horrified.

Heifu looked at the embarrassed appearance of this group of people and felt extremely comfortable.

He now thinks that the crime of "false accusation and reverse sitting" is really good, and whoever falsely accuses you of being convicted will bear the same punishment as the crime of false accusation. For example, if someone falsely accuses you of murder, but there is no evidence, and you will eventually lose the case, then wait to be beheaded, so in the Qin State, although there is a reward for suing adultery, you have to weigh it again and again before filing a complaint.

With this decree, Heifu seemed to put on an anti-injury armor, and after winning the lawsuit, all the blame rebounded to the head of the false accuser, so that the six, although the punishment was different, was all subject to shaving of their heads and imprisonment.

What does it mean to be self-reaping? What is cocooning? What does it mean to harm others and ultimately harm oneself?

That's it!

But the exhilaration was quickly diluted by the harsh reality.

Heifu really didn't expect that these people would be sentenced so heavily when he blocked the road to complain, and his cold face was ruthless, which made him once again see the strictness of Qin Law.

"This is the end of stepping on the red line, no matter how many years of conscientiousness, caution, and carelessness violate the law for a while, this life will be ruined." Qin law stipulates that people who have committed crimes are not allowed to be appointed as officials, and although the chief of the Huyang Pavilion was exempted from a little punishment by virtue of his title, he basically had nothing to do with officialdom in this life.

When Heifu sighed, Xi called him and Ji Ying to step forward, and the two hurriedly came out.

Happily closed the verdict, took another slip from the officer's hand, and said lightly: "After the official has done the punishment, it's time to say that he will be rewarded." ”

As soon as he heard this, Heifu and Ji Ying looked at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes!

After so many days of lawsuits, I finally waited for this moment!