The next day.

"Silence!"

Yang Xin slapped the wood and shouted.

At this time, he was sitting under the tower of the drum tower, but in order to make it easier for others to see him from below, he built an additional one-meter-high wooden platform at his feet.

With his roar, the crowd below fell silent in an instant.

All looked up to him with fear.

This guy who stirred up Nanjing's chickens and dogs in just one day has already left a deep impression on the people of the city, and the same legends about him that had been silent at the beginning have also surged in the city like mud and sand stirred under the water.

So people finally remembered that the guy in front of them was not just a brocade guard.

He is also an official killing god with more than five hundred beheadings, and folk rumors have reached thousands, and one person has killed Jiannu and still does not dare to go out of the mountain. A legend makes a 120-pound big knife, invulnerable on the battlefield, wears 100-pound armor and runs faster than a horse, and is even very likely to be able to spell, of course, it may also be a non-human who is a witchcraft.

This is a real murderous thing.

This is something that can stop crying at night in Jiannu!

"Take someone to commit it!"

He shouted majestically.

Because of the mask, his voice was quite mixed.

And the louder the sound, the more obvious it is, after all, the sound wave first hits the seven-millimeter-thick forged steel, and it will definitely reflect and then mix with what is behind him.

In short, his voice is still very intimidating.

The soldiers of the Dangkou Army, who had been waiting on the back steps for a long time, immediately dragged Ye Maocai and Lin Gongzi over, today is their public trial meeting, since they want to provoke, of course, they must be in the most murderous way, there is nothing more murderous than trying a veteran of Donglin Academy in public. Tens of thousands of visitors are drawn and counting, and the city is home to at least two million people, making it the largest and most prosperous city in the world.

Truly unbeatable.

After all, the population of this city is comparable to half of England.

And in this era of lack of entertainment, a public trial will definitely be the focus of everyone's attention.

The unlucky Ye Maocai and Lin Gongzi were escorted to the judgment seat in countless eyes, and the old man Ye was not punished, after all, he was very old and could easily die suddenly, that is, he was beaten a few times by Yang Xin, but Lin Gongzi was completely bruised all over his body, but not all of them were tortured, he was just arrested yesterday morning, and most of the injuries on his body were beaten by He Jing and others.

"The criminals Ye Maocai and Lin Wenyuan masterminded the assassination of the Holy Duke of Qinchayan, killed fourteen Jinyi guards, and colluded with the Japanese to attack Qingliuguan, killing fifty-six officers and soldiers and twenty-two soldiers of the Dangkou Army, can you two plead guilty?"

Yang Xin shouted majestically.

"If you want to add sin, why should you do it?"

Ye Maocai sneered.

"The old decay is just a village eunuch, more than sixty years old, for many years only teaching and educating people, what kind of person the old decay is in Jiangnan Everyone knows, Yang Yi wants to kill if he wants to kill, the old decay only owes one death in this life, why bother so much!"

He went on to say.

"Mr. Leisure is not guilty!"

"There is no excuse for the sin you want to add!"

……

The shouts below immediately rang out.

"Bring the loudest one here!"

Yang Xin pointed to an indignant green worm below and said.

Immediately after that, the soldiers of the Dangkou Army who were maintaining order below brought this person up, and this young man, who looked at him about twenty, stood proudly beside Ye Maocai and looked at Yang Xin.

"What's your name?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Yixing County, Changzhou Prefecture, lifts the son Lu Xiangsheng!"

The scholar said.

"Ugh!"

Yang Xin's face twitched under his mask.

"This official decides that everything is based on the law, and whether he is guilty or not depends on the evidence, and you and I have no right to assert whether the two of them are guilty at this moment, but since you regard him as a gentleman and a disciple as a disciple, then this official will be extrajudicial and allow you to defend him. This official is here for public trial, precisely to accept the supervision of the people, so as not to let someone say afterwards that this official planted a frame, but since it is an interrogation, no one is allowed to interfere with the interrogation, you can go back and ask those below who also think that Ye Maocai is innocent, whether you agree to defend them instead.

If they all agree, then you are his advocate from now on.

The others must shut up, and those who disturb the interrogation will be punished for misconduct. ”

He then said.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at him with some surprise.

Obviously, he didn't expect this notorious traitor to be so reasonable.

However, he still made a gesture and then turned around and asked, the following green worms probably know him, their accents should be from Changzhou, it is estimated that it is from Donglin Academy, this is already the afternoon of the next day, if someone through the stagecoach relay yesterday can send the news to Changzhou before dark, and then some students who can ride horses overnight are enough to arrive.

It's nothing more than two hundred miles.

These green worms quickly made a decision and agreed that Lu Xiang would be promoted to defend Ye Maocai.

At this time, there was actually no defense system similar to that of a lawyer, but there were litigators who wrote pleadings and represented lawsuits through behind-the-scenes activities, but they could not really participate in the trial, and their status was low and their reputation was notorious.

Litigants, to be exact.

Yang Xin allowed Lu Xiangsheng to defend Ye Maocai, which can be regarded as setting a precedent.

"Then let me ask you first, what will you do if the evidence of his truth is conclusive?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Mr. Leisure would never do such a thing."

Lu Xiangsheng said with certainty.

"But what if he did?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Of course, it's according to the law!"

Lu Xiangsheng said.

"Remember what you said."

Yang Xin said with satisfaction.

"Take He Jing and others!"

He went on to say.

Immediately, He Shoubei and those officers were brought up.

"Say, what happened before the Qingliu Pass that day?"

Yang Xin said.

"Back to Yang Yanshi, the little one was promoted by He Maocai when he was the Taichang Siqing, and that day he and Lin Wenyuan suddenly went to the Qingliu Pass, and when you arrived at the Qingliu Pass, the small one was blocked in front of the pass in the name of greeting, and then used the cannon on the gate to kill you. The small ones didn't dare, they said that you were a traitor, we were a traitor for the country, and they also gave us 200,000 taels of tickets, and the small ones were bought for a while, and then your convoy arrived at the gate, and the small ones did as they ordered.

Just didn't expect you to be in the car.

As a result, our cannon accidentally injured the Yan Sheng Gong behind him.

Inevitably, this matter was leaked, so they forced Xiao to kill all the injured Jinyi guards, and Lin Wenyuan also killed one with his own hands, and then they threatened Yan Shenggong with a knife, asking Yan Shenggong to say that he had encountered bandits, and said that even if Yan Shenggong arrived in Nanjing, if they dared not follow their words, they would have a way to let Yan Shenggong die.

And then it went over.

Until you suddenly appeared in Anqing, Lin Wenyuan ran to the gate again and asked me to keep it a secret.

He also brought a lot of wine and silver, and the little one was afraid of death and greedy for money, so he took the money, and then drank with him at the gate, and he and his domestic slaves kept pouring me and my brothers, and we didn't think much about it, so we were drunk by him. Who would have thought that after this dog got us drunk, he poured all the cannons and gunpowder into the water, and took all our swords and guns and threw them into the woods outside, and then invited the Japanese to kill us, but we were so frightened that we could only fight the Japanese with our bare hands.

They killed them all.

Fortunately, Yang Yanshi took the Dangkou army to arrest us, which saved our dog's life.

Yang Yanshi, the small one deserves it, you cut off the little one's head and the little one has no complaints, but they are the real masterminds, the little one can't let these wolf-hearted things get away with it, otherwise the little one is sorry for the more than fifty brothers who were killed. ”

He Jing cried.

The officers also spat angrily at Ye Maocai and the others.

"You lie!"

Lu Xiangsheng shouted excitedly.

"Lu Juren, don't assert it first, I said that this official is the most evidence-oriented in the trial of the case, and this official will not convict just because of their testimony."

Yang Xin said with a smile.

"According to their testimony, this case also involves the Wakou and the Yan Shenggong, I don't think there is any need to waste any more time, they confessed that it was indeed Lin Wenyuan's house slaves who led the way, as for who hired them is not known, because they are just carrying out the orders of the chief. Lin Wenyuan's house slaves led the way for them, and arranged for ships to transport them to Chuzhou, and disembarked at night outside Chuzhou City to raid Qingliu Pass.

After discovering the Japanese invaders, the official immediately accelerated the pursuit.

However, because the Japanese were in front of us and behind them, they were not able to enter the mountain in front of them, but when the official arrived at the mountain pass, he happened to bump into Lin Wenyuan walking out of the roadside farmhouse, and the locals also confirmed that they came down from Qingliuguan in the middle of the night, and hid there and waited after going down the mountain, during which Lin Wenyuan also sent domestic slaves who did not know what to do, and the boatman who transported these Japanese robbers could also testify that Lin Wenyuan's domestic slaves were waiting at the dock.

The house slaves have also confessed.

These people can be called in to testify if you think so.

If you don't think it's necessary, then let's bypass this obvious time-wasting link and directly invite the most critical witness, after all, you will think that these little people will be bribed and beaten into tricks, and this witness cannot be bought, and I dare not use him to torture, his testimony can make a real conclusion to this case. ”

Yang Xin said.

"No, I don't."

Lu Xiangsheng said.

"I don't think it's necessary, in fact, their confessions are here, if you want to see them, you can take them."

Yang Xin took out a stack of confessions and said.

"No, you don't."

Lu Xiangsheng said.

His expression was already complicated at this time.

"Then let's invite the most critical witness, please Yan Shenggong!"

Yang Xin put down his confession and said with a smile that no one else could see.