On the second day, a public trial was held in the city of Guangzhou, and the perpetrators of the Caisheng and Torture case were openly interrogated.

It was not yet dawn in the morning, and several streets next to the Guangzhou government were surrounded by water, and the scene was as lively as a temple fair. The people are curious about the difference between this so-called public trial and the case in the past, second, out of resentment against the case of Caisheng and Torture, and third, because most of the ten things in ancient life are very boring and it is not easy to have a lively look, so they all want to come and take a look. As soon as the curfew was lifted, many ran out of their homes and took up their seats at the place of public trial.

This public trial was held indoors rather than outdoors, and there were not many 'spectators' that could accommodate it, and it was roughly estimated that it could only accommodate about two or three hundred people, so these places were soon filled;

Yun Xi personally came to see the place of the public trial, and asked Qian Minglin curiously at that time: "Why do you want to have a public trial inside the house instead of outside?" Wouldn't there be more people who could see that? ”

"Your Majesty, it is not easy to maintain order in large numbers. If there are tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people watching in an open place, if the people are excited and want to kill a criminal, what will it do? Blocking the people may cause people to die and be injured, and if you don't stop the people, you will violate the constitution, which is not a good thing, so the minister arranged for a public trial in the house. Qian Minglin replied.

In the middle of the morning, Xu Boyuan, who was specially responsible for adjudicating the case, walked into the lobby from the back office and began to raise the court to question the case.

The process of questioning the case is no different from before, Yun Xi did not rashly move the court questioning mode of later generations, but only put forward the concept of 'public prosecution', and witnesses and plaintiffs do not need to kneel all the time, and they can stand up and speak after asking their identities;

The 'public prosecution' opened the eyes of the onlookers, and they talked with people who knew each other well, lamenting that there was such a way to ask the case; 'It seems that although the people do not raise the official and do not hold the officials accountable, even if no one reports these major cases, the government will not stand by and watch, and will use the method of 'public prosecution' to ask the case. A child of a family who had come to watch today thought silently in his heart. Somehow, today's public trial was attended by many children from families in Guangzhou.

But then the enumeration of the crimes of these people in the hall made the people forget all other emotions for a while, and only anger remained.

In order to thoroughly implement the concept of making the people angry, the public prosecution of the police station is very detailed, in addition to the crime of harvesting and cutting, there are more than a dozen crimes such as witchcraft, murder, kidnapping, abduction, tomb robbery, insulting corpses, fraud, assaulting the police, illegal drugs, etc., and each crime is followed by a detailed description of the relevant case. Therefore, the entire indictment is dozens of pages thick, and an hour has passed after reading the indictment book alone.

Although the majority of the people had already learned the news of the case from various channels, whether it was the Guangzhou officials who were secretly listening in the back, or the police and ordinary people inside and outside the house, they all knew the entire case for the first time. Not only the people, but even the policemen who maintained order looked at Ning Cai and the others with red eyes, Xu Boyuan, who was sitting in the lobby, saw a policeman take out his baton and knock it on the wall on the side a few times, he had no doubt that if this policeman was next to Ning Cai and the others, he would kill them immediately.

After the indictment was read, the police department released some of the evidence in the lobby. They did not bring the dead bodies, but they collected and folded the props, the 'big medicine' that had been refined and had not yet been sold, and the half-finished human bones, human flesh, boys' *** and other items were displayed in the hall, and they also summoned 'tainted witnesses' such as members of the big bones on the sea skin, and asked them what they knew on the spot.

This incident made the people present even more angry, and some people sobbed lowly, and they didn't know what was going on; Suddenly, a policeman who was only a few feet away from Ning Cai and the others shouted angrily, pulled out his baton and rammed it on the body of a prisoner.

The people present were even more excited, and many shouted: "Kill him!" Shoot him! ”

Qian Minglin immediately asked the rest of the police to take him down and take him away and maintain order, Xu Boyuan also patted the shocked wood hard, and it took a long time for the lobby to be quiet.

Then asked Ning Cai and others to plead guilty. Ning Cai and the others already knew that they would inevitably be killed in the end before the public trial, and they were afraid of Zhang Sanfeng's "spell" only to retain the three souls and seven spirits after death, so they had already agreed to cooperate with this public trial.

By the time the prisoners were finished, it was already noon. Xu Boyuan wanted to immediately announce how to deal with the criminal, but he thought of Yun Xi's instructions, so he decided to rest a stick of incense, and after a stick of incense, he announced the punishment of the prisoner.

Although most of the people had already guessed that the prisoner must be Ling Chi, and a very few might be able to be questioned, they were still reluctant to leave, and waited in the hall for the final result to be announced; Instead, a few people who didn't look like ordinary people squeezed out of the crowd.

The time of a stick of incense was very short, Xu Boyuan only lay down for a while in the back of the hall and then returned to the hall, announcing that all the crimes committed by these people were conclusive, according to the "Da Ming Law", Ning Cai and more than a dozen people were executed in Ling Chi, only three were sentenced to beheading, and all their family members were also sentenced to exile.

Suddenly, there was thunderous cheers inside and outside the hall, and countless people praised 'Xu Qingtian' in unison, which made him very proud.

The prefect Liu Chonglou and Qian Minglin, who were watching in the back hall, were a little jealous when they saw this scene, but they were relieved when they thought of Xu Boyuan's gray face on weekdays. Although the supervisor is very dignified in front of the people, it is not a good position in the officialdom, especially in the provincial capital.

Two days later, executions were carried out outside the city. Traditionally, the so-called Ling Chi execution is to cut more than 3,000 knives on the body of a prisoner, and to cut it for three days and three nights in a row; But the officials in Guangzhou felt that it was not necessary, as long as they could satisfy the people; And usually Ling Chi is a crime that is taken to the capital for execution, and there is no precedent in the Ming Dynasty in other places, and the executioners in Guangzhou do not have the ability to cut more than 3,000 knives and commit immortality, so in the end they were only executed for one day.

But the people were also very satisfied. They watched the prisoners, and cheered in unison for each of the deaths, from morning till evening, and after all the prisoners had been put to death, they cheered loudly for the last time, and then returned to their homes.

Taking advantage of the meager sunlight left, Qian Minglin instructed the police on the scene to drive away the people who wanted to take another piece of meat from the dead prisoners, bury the dead prisoners in mass graves, and clean up the scene.

Qian Minglin stood on the high platform, looked at the people who were returning to the city in the distance, and whispered to himself: "I don't know if Your Majesty will be satisfied with my actions after he finds out." However, even if they are not satisfied, there are still future witchcraft cases that can be remedied. ”