At this time, Cheng Minzheng was like a man who had caught a life-saving straw, and Min Gui was shocked, but the noon gate was not a closed yamen, and this sound could not play a deterrent role at all.

Cheng Minzheng's shouting voice was only loud and small.

Min Gui was annoyed in his heart, waved his hand, and several officials immediately came out next to him, picking Cheng Minzheng's hands and feet with sticks, and "pouting" him, mentioning that in mid-air, the stick was suddenly withdrawn, and he heard a "poof", Cheng Minzheng fell heavily on the ground, lying there for a long time without moving, and the pain was so painful that he didn't even have the strength to hum.

"No matter how noisy it is, serve it with heavy flail!" Min Gyu said angrily.

Hua Yu next to him is very acquainted, as a whistleblower, there is no question of whether he is wronged or not, he will not offend the prestige of these officials in public, just like an old dog lying there, not throwing meat buns and stones over, and not moving to kill him.

Min Gui first subdued the clamoring Cheng Minzheng, and then patted the shocked wood: "Please file the file, put it right." ”

As Min Gui's voice fell, someone came out and took a case file and put it in front of Hua Yu, which was the transcript of Hua Yu's report on Cheng Minzheng, and at the same time, Li Dongyang and the Ministry of Rites had the case files related to the first review meeting, which were handed over to Hua Yu.

This is like the confrontation between the plaintiff and the defendant in the yamen, Min Gyu, as the judge and guide, will not express his opinion when the two confront, but only let the two explain in court that the other party is guilty and that he is not guilty.

Cheng Minzheng hadn't read the transcript that reported him, but he was familiar with the content in the transcript, and every day the people of the Pacification Division tortured him with the content in it, just to make him admit that the content described in it was true, but he insisted that he had not done it, and he would not admit it even if he died.

But Cheng Minzheng didn't admit it, there was Du Mu's witness, Xu Jing also confessed to bribing his disciples, and his family disciples also admitted the fact of bribery after being tortured, and there was no point in him biting it, thinking that he could go to the court for trial earlier to avoid being tortured again.

Cheng Minzheng did not admit to accepting bribes in the end, but admitted that he was not strict with his domestic servants, which was tantamount to admitting accepting bribes in disguise.

At this time, the preliminary trial of the case was completed, so it was reported to the emperor and began to pass through the court.

But when the noon gate was right, Cheng Minzheng came up and shouted injustice, obviously to overturn the previous confession, Min Gui had no choice but to continue to deal with it according to the process, after all, he needed to give an account to Emperor Hongzhi.

Hua Yu got his own playbook, his face was very ugly, if he hadn't listened to other people's words, he wouldn't have ended up like today, and he couldn't even stand up after being punished. But in order to be released from prison and return to normal life as soon as possible, he has to insist that what he has done is the truth.

If he wants to find evidence, he has to cite the results of Li Dongyang's first investigation, but Li Dongyang originally wanted to turn big things into small things, and the files of Tang Yin and Xu Jing were immediately dismissed, and some other suspicious files were also exonerated by Cheng Minzheng on the grounds that they were not made by Cheng Minzheng alone.

Li Dongyang is not helping Cheng Minzheng in this case, but maintaining the authority of the Ming Dynasty's imperial examination and legal system.

Hua Yu got the case file, and began to put it right, because Tang Yin and Xu Jing were not among the admissions, in fact, it was very difficult for him to argue Cheng Minzheng from the case itself, and he could only use the thirteen suspicious files to talk about things.

Cheng Minzheng exclaimed sadly: "The Ministry of Rites will have all the test papers transcribed by name, I am the representative of the Son of Heaven, since it is the main examination, the papers read are nothing more than the same examination submitted by each room, whether to admit or not is not my alone, if this is used to judge the crime, I have dissatisfied, I have dissatisfied!" ”

The words made Hua Yu speechless.

To say that Cheng Minzheng just got closer to Tang Yin and Xu Jing before the exam, after the exam, some people spread that Cheng Minzheng had a question, which was the fuse of the question, as for who was behind it, in fact, Hua Yu himself didn't know, he belonged to someone who was used as a gunman.

Now as long as Cheng Minzheng grasps the fact that the main examiner cannot decide who to admit, and Tang Yin and Xu Jing are not among the two suspects who are admitted, then this is meaningless.

After Hua Yu said anything, Cheng Minzheng had a point of view: "I want to see each room to take the same test, I want to see the person in charge of the Ministry of Rites, they can wash away my grievances and restore my innocence!" ”

By midday, the case was deadlocked.

At this time, even Min Gui saw that it was impossible to use Hua Yu to convince Cheng Minzheng, and at this time, Cheng Minzheng's proposal to meet the examiner and the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites was legally feasible, after all, the defendant was also qualified to submit a testimony to testify against him.

At noon, Min Gui called Bai Ang and Wang Shi together to discuss, and finally decided to play the emperor and let the emperor decide whether to summon the examiner of the Ministry of Rites and the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites.

The case was postponed to the afternoon for retrial.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon meal time, Shen Xi, Lun Wenxu and Sun Xu watched the entire interrogation process on the side, this case has no intention of implicating the three people for the time being, to say that the most related to the three of them is the thirteen suspicious examination papers, according to Shen Xi's expectations, since the three of them have made the "four sons" policy, the three of them are all in doubt.

Even if the same examiner is called out and put it right, as long as it cannot be proved that the three people got the questions from Cheng Minzheng or other channels, the three people have nothing to do with the case.

Lunch was very simple, rice porridge and dry cakes, not even vegetables, but the rice porridge was added with a little salt, so that it could finally be eaten.

Hua Yu and Cheng Minzheng's food is the same, Hua Yu eats there, but Cheng Minzheng is wronged, plus his body was severely tortured, and he was picked up and fell down just now, his body is like falling apart, where is there still an appetite to eat?

Sun Xu ate dry cakes and asked in a low voice, "Do you think Your Majesty will allow you to let all the rooms take the same exam?" ”

Lun Wenxu thought for a while and said, "Whether it will be an official or not, it doesn't seem to have much to do with it." As he spoke, he looked at Shen Xi and wanted to hear Shen Xi's opinion.

Shen Xi agrees with Lun Wenxu's words, in fact, what Cheng Minzheng proposed, Li Dongyang also proposed, Hua Yu felt that Cheng Minzheng was the first to ask the question, and he wanted to teach and receive it privately when he was reading the papers, but people who really understood the examination process of the Ministry of Rites knew that even if he Cheng Minzheng was the main examiner, he did not have the privilege of being arbitrary in grading, and who did not take it was selected by the same examiner from each room first, and then discussed together, it was not for him to be the master alone, even if he wanted to be the master, he could not know who each paper belonged to.

Even so, it is not true that Cheng Minzheng has private teaching and receiving when he is grading, and it is useless to call the examiners and officials of the Ministry of Rites out of the same room, but it is better to start with Xu Jing and Tang Yin getting the exam questions through bribery.

However, some people will think that Xu Jing and Tang Yin learned in advance about the "Four Sons of Attainments" exam question of the third policy question, but they still couldn't answer it when they came to the exam, does this mean that these two people are wine bags and rice bags, or is the question itself a fictitious one?

To say that Xu Jing and Tang Yin are both famous talents in the south of the Yangtze River, Tang Yin was still in the eleventh year of Hongzhi and should be tried to solve the Yuan in Tianfu Township. The two great talents, who got the exam questions in advance, couldn't answer them, this is simply a challenge to the IQ of the world's readers.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi felt that this case was pure nonsense after Li Dongyang's investigation results came out, but the arrow had to be sent on the string, and the pressure on the court was also quite great, and Emperor Hongzhi left the book in the middle for more than ten days before allowing Cheng Minzheng to be imprisoned, and it was also Emperor Hongzhi who realized that this was likely to be an unjust case.

Maybe the people behind it saw that this case could not be tried through normal channels, so they simply used torture to extract confessions, which was unreasonable, just to make you bend into a confession.

Shen Xi sighed: "Whether it will be an official or not, I only hope that this case will end today." ”

Not long after lunch, the palace sent someone out to deliver the decree, as Shen Xi guessed, Emperor Hongzhi did not agree to call the examiner and the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites to confront him.

In this way, the case was temporarily closed in court, at least in the morning, Cheng Minzheng did not get away with the crime, but at least he did not fall behind. And the afternoon one was relatively troublesome, because the other two parties, Xu Jing and Tang Yin, would be interrogated in court.

With Min Gui's "proposal prisoner", the people of Beizhen Fusi went not long ago, and escorted Xu Jing and Tang Yin to the noon gate from the prisoner car that had been waiting outside for a long time.

Compared with Hua Yu and Cheng Minzheng, the situation of these two Jiangnan talents is even worse, especially Tang Yin, who is still bleeding even if he changes into a clean white shirt.

Shen Xi recalled Tang Bohu's heroic posture when he fought with himself that day, compared with the current state of being unkempt and scarred and dying, it was hard to imagine that he was a person.

Shen Xi suddenly understood why Tang Yin looked down on officialdom since then, and this experience can be said to have completely subverted his outlook on life and values.

"My lord, I am wronged, please let me be the master!"

Because Xu Jing confessed early, he was not as injured as Tang Yin, and the first thing he did at the noon gate was to shout grievances like Cheng Minzheng.

Min Gui slapped the shocked wood and said angrily: "Such a vertical man, since he has confessed, why should he cry out for injustice?" ”

Xu Jing said with a handful of snot and tears: "Ask my lord to know that I was tortured and confessed as a last resort after being tortured, I have never bribed the people of the Cheng family, and I never knew the content of the exam before the exam!" ”

In a word, there was an uproar at the noon gate.

It took a lot of effort to finally convince Xu Jing to confess, and now he has just arrived at the court and he flatly denied it, if he doesn't even admit Xu Jing, then this case will only be left with Du Mu's testimony and Hua Yu's transcript that does not match the truth at all, and the case will become a big joke.

Min Gyu felt that his face was a little unbearable, and the case that Qin ordered him to investigate was not tried well, but he would be condemned.

If you don't admit it, then hit until you admit it.

Min Gyu picked up the red head sticks in the bamboo tube, held them on the ground, and shouted, "Hit!" ”

Because Min Gui is trying the case on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and it is in this place at the noon gate, it can be called the "court staff", under the court staff, even the second and third rank members of the court may be killed and disabled, not to mention Xu Jing, such a small person?

"Your Excellency...... Injustice...... Wronged ......"

Xu Jing belongs to the kind that is spineless, the kind that is easy to confess after a few tortures. Sure enough, after a few sticks went down, Xu Jing was already shouting, "My lord spares his life, I will recruit, I will recruit them all!" ”

In exchange, Tang Yin looked at him with disdain, and Tang Yin's heart was full of resentment...... I was blind and went to Beijing with you to take the exam.

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PS: Seventh Update!

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