The officials in the lobby saw that the old man threw down the red head stick, and their hearts were cold, this red head sign has not been used by adults for many years, and it seems that this kid in the hall today will not be able to escape this catastrophe. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Several executioners rushed out viciously, and the water and fire sticks with the thickness of their arms in their hands slammed into his legs, knocking Ke Xiaochuan, who was already tied up, to the ground.

The two people in front of him crossed the water and fire sticks and pressed his head to the ground, and one person in the back stretched his legs straight and pressed them, and there was a five big and three thick execution servants on the left and right, and the water and fire sticks in their hands were round and slammed on the back of He Xiaochuan's thigh.

There was a loud "pop", He Xiaochuan's legs felt a sharp pain, as if the flesh of his hind legs had been scattered, and the leg bones felt a huge collision, and blood immediately oozed from his pants.

After receiving the first board, Ke Xiaochuan's face turned pale and bloodless, but he gritted his teeth and refused to shout.

The mustachioed master took out a copy of the written guilty statement and shook it in front of his eyes, "As long as you draw a charge, you don't have to suffer such a harsh punishment, huh?" Do you recruit or not? ”

Ke Xiaochuan's eyes were red, and he looked up at the mustachioed master and the guilty sheet viciously, "The grass people are wronged, and the crimes they have not done, how can they be recruited?" ”

Master Mustache shook his head with a sneer, and gave the executioner another look.

The official on the other side also hit the board with a heavy blow without reservation, and there were two more blood marks on Ke Xiaochuan's buttocks.

The mustachioed master asked again, "Why are you so troubled?" If you refuse to confess, these twenty boards are over, your kid will definitely die, and if you do, you may be able to live for two or three more months. ”

The huge pain made Ke Xiaochuan's whole body tremble, but he still clenched his teeth, the bruises on his face were exposed, and his eyes seemed to be spurting blood, but he still didn't have the slightest intention of bending into a move.

He endured the pain, closed his eyes and squeezed out a few words from his mouth with all his might, "Grass people...... Wronged, not guilty! ”

The state official gritted his teeth with hatred, "Under the punishment, this guy is so hard-mouthed, today the official wants to see if your bones are hard, or the board of the yamen is hard!" Hit me, hit me hard! ”

Ke Xiaochuan closed his eyes in despair, he didn't expect that he was a good man, and he hadn't made a name for himself in the rivers and lakes, but today he was going to die in vain in this Qizhou court.

Ke Xiaochuan's sister saw that her younger brother had suffered so much, and her distressed internal organs were about to explode, and when she saw that the servant picked up the third board and was about to hit it, her brows tightened, and she rushed forward desperately, lying on her brother's body, trying to block her brother's torture with her body.

The executioner was shocked by the sudden scene, but the water and fire stick in his hand could not be recovered, and he was annoyed that this woman was crazy.

This red-headed board is not the usual kind of pretentious board, this is really life-threatening, even if it is a strong and healthy man, it will not be able to get out of bed for a few days after being hit by a board, and a big man can be disabled by hitting seven or eight boards, and a weak woman is afraid that she will be hit by a board on her body, and it is very likely that she will be killed directly.

But at this time, it was too late for him to retract his strength, and he still hit Sister He Xiaochuan's back with seventy percent of the strength, only to hear a scream, she really couldn't bear it and fainted.

Ke Xiaochuan knew that it was his sister who helped him get this third board, and when he heard his sister's miserable scream, his heart was broken, and he struggled to get up and see how his sister was doing now.

But he was killed on the ground by four servants, and he was subjected to two large boards, where could his body still listen to him?

Ke Xiaochuan was furious for a moment, his eyes were about to split, and he scolded: "Dog officer! If anything happens to my sister, even if my Ke Xiaochuan becomes a lonely ghost, I won't let you go! ”

In front of many onlookers and many subordinates in the hall were scolded as dog officials, the state official was also angry, trembling and pointing at the hall with a hoarse throat and shouting, "Drag this Diao Minnu away, and beat this official to death!" ”

Yang Huairen didn't understand the situation at the beginning, and the case was not tried at all, just because Ke Xiaochuan appeared at the scene of the incident, he was identified as a murderer, which was too hasty.

First of all, what the state official said about "all human and material evidence" is to talk nonsense with wide eyes, there are quite a lot of witnesses, but these witnesses are all family members or servants of the victims, and when they see the master lying on the ground covered in blood, and there is another person standing in the house, they will naturally subjectively think that this person is the murderer.

As for the process of this person's killing, none of them saw it, so their testimony is insufficient, just like when you are walking and another person next to you suddenly falls, and someone next to you says that you pushed the person there, this reason is too far-fetched.

Ke Xiaochuan also said that he just came to collect debts, and when he entered the door, he saw that the deceased had already been killed, so he was lying in a pool of blood, and he just happened to meet it.

In fact, it is very likely to a large extent, as he said, that he was only the first person to find the body, but this statement also has no circumstantial evidence, but it is normal that his side of the story was not accepted by the state officials.

In this way, no one in all these testimonies can prove that Ke Xiaochuan is the murderer, and similarly, Ke Xiaochuan cannot prove that he is not the murderer.

As for the physical evidence, there was no physical evidence presented in the hall at all, and the state official said that the physical evidence was complete, and it was not tenable at all, but he was humiliated by Ke Xiaochuan's words, so he had a revenge mentality, and made a judgment without asking.

The crux of the matter lies in the fact that in the criminal proceedings of this era, there was no principle of "all doubts are made to the defendant", and in later generations, the judicial organs investigated and collected evidence to enumerate evidence to prove the guilt of the defendant, and if there was no absolutely sufficient evidence, it was impossible to determine whether a person was guilty or not.

But this is the Song Dynasty, it is ancient, the principle of the yamen to try this kind of criminal case is that as long as there is doubt, the defendant or suspect needs to present evidence to prove that he is innocent, if there is not sufficient evidence to prove his innocence, the yamen officials who try the case will judge a person's crime because of some insufficient circumstantial evidence.

Due to the degree of development of civilization and the limitations of social forms and ideas, this sounds absolutely unreasonable in modern times, but in ancient times, such judicial practices were understandable.

When a criminal refuses to sign and confess his crime, the government's practice is to extort confessions by torture, which has also led to a large number of unjust and wrongful convictions.