Shen Xi knew that for the prefect yamen, these officials who were in the same league as Song Kuang, the biggest deterrent was not how many people were killed, or how harsh the punishment was, but with enough evidence to make Song Kuang speechless about his crimes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Once the crime is implemented, Song Kuang is already an unforgivable crime, and it is easy for Shen Xi to confirm Song Kuang's other crimes.

"Whoever wants to report others, or be reported by others, is up to you." Shen Xi stood up, "Leave the hall for the time being, and try again in half an hour!" ”

The trial was postponed for half an hour, and the people who heard the trial this time were a little more anxious in their hearts, and they all wanted to see the final finale, but at this time, the court trial came to an end for the time being.

Although the people regretted in their hearts, they didn't dare to make a noise, and watched Shen Xi enter the inner hall, and after the people left, there was a whisper of discussion outside.

Jing Yue went in and asked Shen Xi for instructions, and came out and announced loudly: "Escort a cadre of criminals to a wing room and detain them alone, give them paper and pencils, and if they can't honestly confess when they come out, they will all be treated as accomplices, and those with serious problems will be killed on the spot in accordance with military law!" ”

"Order!"

The two officers and soldiers first escorted Song Kuang, who was paralyzed on the ground, down, and then became an official of the prefect's yamen.

As a group of officials escorted to the side courtyard wings, only the officers and soldiers armed with killing sticks were left in the hall, and the people's voices gradually became boiling, and people began to crowd inside outside the yamen one after another, most of these people were local gentry and businessmen who had given gifts to Song Kuang, and after learning the news of "confession and leniency" released by Shen Xi, they were worried that their family would be confiscated for the crime of bribery or banditry, so they could only come to "confess".

"Who are you waiting for?"

Jing Yue held a saber in his hand and stood proudly in front of the lobby, like a door god.

An old man in a Confucian shirt in his fifties knelt down and said, "If you go back to the official, the villain is guilty, so I have come to ask Lord Governor for guilt!" ”

"The grass people are also here to plead guilty!"

Whoever comes late to report and expose this kind of thing, when the crime may have been set and there is no longer a need for superfluous confessions, then they will no longer be "tainted witnesses", but criminals who will be accused of bribery, and will be punished for the crime of bribery at least and the crime of gangsterry at the worst.

In the Ming Dynasty, any duty crime involving officials, whether it is official or private, voluntary or forced, as long as the guilty is convicted, it is at least the end of the family raid.

Raiding the family will mean that a big family up to the age of eighty old people, down to the infant baby, will be sent to prison for questioning, and it is not counted as suffering in prison, and finally the male will be assigned to the frontier, and the female dependents will fall into the sect, and the huge family will fall apart, and even the parents, wives and children will be separated forever.

Jing Yue admired Shen Xi at this time, and stood there sneering: "Please sin of the bird, the adult is resting, please kneel in the hall, the adult has an explanation, the confession that comes early can be lenient, and if you come late, you will be punished according to the crime!" ”

The heads of the major families didn't dare to talk too much nonsense, so they entered the public court and hurriedly grabbed a place to kneel, for fear that they would kneel late and not even have a place to kneel.

In the inner hall of the mansion, Shen Xi took a leisurely sip of tea and asked the jade lady standing aside: "Can the jade master think that there is something wrong with this official's trial?" ”

Yu Niang saluted respectfully: "Lord Shen does everything according to the rules and classics, and the slave family does not dare to talk about it." ”

Shen Xi said: "There is a place where the axe needs to be corrected, but it doesn't hurt to say that it is okay, is it because of the collusion with the prefect Song Kuang and others, worried about asking for guilt?" ”

Yu Niang couldn't help but shake her head and smile bitterly when she heard this, she had been investigating Song Kuang's crimes, and she wished that Song Kuang would be questioned and imprisoned earlier, how could she collude with Song Kuang?

But Yu Niang immediately thought of a person, it was Jiang Liwei who came with her to investigate the case.

At this time, Jiang Liwei was listed in the list of Song Kuang's party, and Shen Xi could "cut Jiang Liwei first and then play", and then report to the imperial court, and the imperial court couldn't find fault at all.

Song Kuang colluded with local thieves to kill innocents, kill good and meritorious, embezzle and accept bribes, misadminister justice, and derelict his duties...... All of them are big crimes, although Jiang Liwei was sent by the capital to investigate the case, but he accepted the benefits of Song Kuang's dozens of acres of land to shield and connive at Song Kuang, he was an accomplice, and it would not be too much to kill him!

Yu Niang said: "If you go back to your lordship, the slave family has never had any connection with the magistrate, please be aware of it." ”

Shen Xi said with a smile: "The jade master is a person, the official is still clear, the jade master says that there is no, then it should be not!" ”

What do you mean if I say no, then I should be no, you have no evidence, if there is evidence, I will definitely be convicted! Yu Niang was depressed in her heart, although she couldn't get used to seeing Jiang Liwei arrogant and domineering on weekdays, but after all, she and Jiang Liwei belonged to the same factory and health system, and they went to Guangdong to investigate the case together, so they saluted at the moment: "Lord Shen, how are you going to deal with Jiang Zhenfu?" ”

Shen Xi sighed: "It's not how the official wants to deal with him, it's how he grasps it, don't give him a chance, it's a little difficult for the official to do." ”

Yu Niang heard it, Shen Xi intended to let her "enlighten" Jiang Liwei, and asked tentatively at the moment: "My lord, Jiang Zhenfu may be used by traitors, and the slave family is willing to persuade Jiang Zhenfu to make him lose his way." ”

"That's for the best."

Shen Xi smiled and said, "Come on, send the jade master to see Jiang Zhenfu!" ”

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At this time, Jiang Liwei had just been carried to the side courtyard room, he was treated the same as those officials of the government, in a single house, his legs and feet were bound by hemp rope, and he was pressed to kneel on the ground, and pen, ink, paper and inkstone were placed on the ground in front of him, which was clearly for him to write a complaint against Song Kuang, the prefect of Huizhou.

Jiang Liwei's face was pale.

In and out of single clothes in the middle of the night, he didn't feel the cold at all, and at this time he didn't have the heart to care about things other than his future and fate.

If it doesn't make a good fuss, Shen Xi will kill him with a "personal vendetta", which makes him very unwilling, but he just received dozens of acres of land from Song Kuang, and it's not a big crime, why kill me?

But Jiang Liwei selectively ignored the things he did before collecting the money that violated his moral conscience and the laws of the imperial court, helped Song Kuang and other prefects capture Sui Zhu and others, secretly imprisoned and beat them, and finally beat Sui Zhu and others into tricks, and regarded the errands entrusted to him by the imperial court as a shortcut to make money and earn credit.

Jiang Liwei was very unwilling, and his desire to survive was extremely strong, but he knew that there was only one way to get out as soon as possible, that is, to obey Shen Xi and "honestly confess" Song Kuang's crimes, but he didn't know what major crimes Song Kuang had committed, whether it was Song Kuang taking bribes and accepting bribes, or Song Kuang's collusion with mountain bandits, killing good people and taking meritorious deeds, etc.

Jiang Liwei wanted to say, I just came to make soy sauce, and I collected dozens of acres of land, but I didn't get involved in the case, so I caught the wrong person, right?

At this moment, the door of the wing room opened, and Jiang Liwei raised his head and saw a face that made him angry and hateful, and the person who came was Yu Niang.

"Lord Shen ordered me to come down and ask Jiang Zhenfu a few words, can a few military masters wait outside?" Yu Niang said politely.

Those soldiers glanced at each other, they didn't believe what Yu Niang said at all, you must know that Jiang Liwei has kung fu, and if he doesn't keep an eye on him and let him escape, no one can afford to take this responsibility. Fortunately, Jing Yue then entered the room and beckoned, and several soldiers led the way out, and in the end, only Yu Niang and Jiang Li were left in the room.

Jiang Liwei struggled to get up from the ground, in front of Yu Niang, he wanted to maintain his prestige.

Yu Niang sighed: "Why is Jiang Zhenfu so hard? ”

"Yu Niang, it's really time for you to come, this official has just been imprisoned by Shen Zhongcheng, and you came, but you sincerely want to see my jokes?" Jiang Liwei's tone was not good, "Or is Shen Zhongcheng going to kill me, are you here to give me a guillotine wine?" ”

Yu Niang said angrily: "Lord Shen is fair and honest, although Jiang Zhenfu accepted bribes from the Song Governor's Mansion, he was not involved in the murder case, how could Lord Shen easily say that he was killed?" ”

Jiang Liwei said angrily: "Who knows what kind of mind he has!" ”

Yu Niang secretly thought in her heart, this is really the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman, if Lord Shen wants to target you, he will torture you in the court before, even if your leg is not broken, at least it will be a bruise all over your body, and now you are actually yelling at me, you have the ability to yell at Lord Shen!

Yu Niang said calmly: "Jiang Zhenfu, the Sui Tongzhi and others you seized are important witnesses in the case, Lord Shen is now in a hurry to go out to fight the bandits, and there is no time to delay in Huizhou Mansion, if you don't hand over the people, you will be ......an enemy of Lord Shen."

The atmosphere in the wing room was a little awkward.

In the past, Jiang Liwei liked to put music in front of Yu Niang very much, mainly because he was an official, and Yu Niang just had no rank, even if Yu Niang had someone behind him, he was still above Yu Niang.

Now the situation is different, Yu Niang is Shen Xi's lobbyist, and he is a person who treats crimes, and now Yu Niang is kind and persuasive, and he sees it as "cat crying mouse fake compassion".

"Jiang Zhenfu, what do you mean, give me a word!"

Yu Niang finally got a little impatient, I'm here to help you, it's not that I pity or sympathize with you, but simply don't want you to die in Guangdong, you don't appreciate it!

Jiang Liwei said: "This official doesn't know anything!" ”

Yu Niang finally shook her head helplessly, it seems that Jiang Liwei has too much affection for Shen Xi, Shen Xi can be fair and strict, if you change each other's identities and positions, Jiang Liwei will definitely announce personal vendettas, this is the gap in life.

Yu Niang said: "That Jiang Zhenfu is here to meditate on his own mistakes, and the slave family went to return to Lord Shen, and after the case was concluded, the slave family went back to the capital first." ”

Go back to the capital first, which means that it doesn't matter if you are dead, it has nothing to do with me whether you are dead or alive.

Jiang Liwei had originally considered confessing some things and striving for "leniency" for herself, but Yu Niang's arrival not only did not play its due role, but made his attitude become resolute, and he was ready to fight to death without compromising with Shen Xi. This is not only for the sake of face, but also for the sake of official authority, and the fact that people cannot be given authority.

If he comes forward to report, it means that he is in a nest with Song Kuang, even if Shen Xi doesn't clean him up now, maybe he will use this confession to embarrass him in the future, and then he will be controlled everywhere, and he will never be able to raise his head in front of Shen Xi.

Yu Niang left the wing room with a little regret, and then several soldiers came in again, and when they saw Jiang Liwei standing there, they were immediately angry, and directly pressed him to the ground, and scolded: "My lord asked you to confess, deaf?" If you don't write again, you'll chop off your hand! ”

Jiang Li only wanted to say, if you have the courage, chop my hand and see who dies first in the end.

At this time, he had already made up his mind, even if he gritted his teeth, he would fight Shen Xi to the end, and even prefer to die unyieldingly.

On the other end, Yu Niang went back and told Shen Xi in detail about Jiang Liwei's situation, Shen Xi was writing something, and couldn't help but raise his head and smile when he heard this: "This official has long expected that Jiang Zhenfu will not explain." ”

Yu Niang blamed herself and said: "The slave family is incompetent, please ask Lord Shen to condemn." ”

Shen Xi said: "What is the crime of the jade master? Even if you want to reduce the sin, it should also be the sin of Jiang Pacification...... Small punishments and big commandments are always needed. ”

Hearing Shen Xi say that he would "punish Jiang Liwei with a small punishment and a big commandment", which meant that he would not kill Jiang Liwei, the big stone in Yu Niang's heart finally landed, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. (To be continued.) )