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The fifth winter of the Great Cause.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, the weather is also getting colder and colder day by day.

Located in front of the county office in the center of Zhangqiu County, it is very lively today.

At the entrance of the yamen, Zhou Dewei, the head of the soap class, guarded the yamen with a part-time county soldier with a knife and a spear to maintain order. Judicial Zoro Cunxiao sat on a chair in front of the ya, today is the day of the trial of the cattle thief gang, and the county specially summoned the people of the whole city to watch.

Du Ruhui personally tried the case, and the county commander Zhang Yichen and the county governor Luo Cheng also came to observe.

It was cold, and the prisoners shivered, but no one sympathized with them. The people hated the cattle thieves the most. For many people, a cow is the most important asset of the family.

But there are always thieves who deserve to die, but they ignore the law, regardless of the life or death of the people, steal ploughing cattle and slaughter them privately.

"Mention the prisoner!"

Zhou Dewei picked up the spear in his hand and slammed it to the ground, so his brothers picked up the spear in unison and slammed it to the ground, shouting might.

Regarding this case, in fact, Du Ruhui has reached an agreement with Zhang Yichen, that is, he will not slack off, although he said that such a big case would be reprimanded again, but neither of them wanted to hide it.

Du Ruhui looked at the row of prisoners who were brought up, and couldn't help sighing in his heart, there are so many prisoners, this case has to be stabbed through the officialdom of Qi County again, and if you don't do it, you have to go to the imperial court.

There are too many people involved in this case, but the situation is clear.

The Ma Liansheng brothers were not only guilty of slaughtering cattle privately, but also were the leaders of a gang that stole cattle in Shuinan Village, Baishui Township, and basically half of the Ma family participated in the previous operations of stealing cattle and harboring stolen goods.

This time, not only did he defeat a cattle slaughtering gang, but he even brought out several cattle slaughtering gangs that Ma Liansheng's brothers had supplied when they stole cattle before.

Luo Cheng took the brothers in the county barracks, and along these vines, there were really a lot of melons pulled out.

The newly formed two-room and three-class teams have been busy around this big case every day these days, and it took many days and nights to finally sort out this big case that spans three counties of Qi County, Lu County, and Jibei County, and as many as more than 20 counties.

In this case, Luo Cheng led the county barracks to dispatch many times, and arrested a total of more than 300 people involved in the case.

There are cattle thieves, cattle slaughterers, and stolen goods and stolen goods.

Even in the end, many officials and officials in more than 20 counties in the three counties were implicated, which can be said to have alarmed the three counties.

People from other counties can't manage Zhangqiu County, and Zhangqiu County from other counties can't manage either, but none of them in this county have been spared.

More than 300 people are involved in the case, and how to try them is also a problem.

In the end, after some deliberation, Zhang Duluo and the three decided to handle the case in accordance with the law and punish them severely.

Stealing official cattle and horses is a sentence of one and a half years in prison, plus losing money, but this is only stealing a cow. And now this gang is a gang, stealing and slaughtering a staggering number of cattle.

As a result, ordinary prison sentences are no longer enough to punish them.

"According to the law, if you steal and slaughter a cow, you will lose money for half of the cow. And those who steal and slaughter two heads will lose money for three years. And those who steal and slaughter more than two heads will be severely punished. ”

The maximum sentence is three years, so stealing two ends has already exceeded the upper limit of imprisonment.

Then only heavier penalties can be used.

The laws of the Great Sui stipulate five kinds of punishments, namely death, exile, imprisonment, rod, and flogging, which are divided into 20 categories.

Among them, the death penalty is beheaded and hanged, and the stream is divided into 1,000 li, 1,500 li, and 2,000 li.

The sentence is one to three years, the cane is from 60 to 100 5 and the flog is from 10 to 50 to 50 degrees.

Penalties such as flogging and splitting were abolished, but various punishments were also allowed to be atonement in copper, with a clear price.

"This gang of thieves is extremely heinous and arrogant, and must be severely punished."

The sentence above the prison sentence was originally exile, that is, the exile was punished, but Du Ruhui directly skipped the exile sentence and directly sentenced the criminal who stole and slaughtered more than two cows to death.

Those who steal and slaughter more than two heads and less than five heads shall be hanged.

Those who steal and slaughter more than five cattle will be killed!

Not only were they sentenced to death, but they were also confiscated from their families, and their sons were slaves, women were slaves, and wives were all replenished.

What does it mean to replenish the wives of these condemned prisoners?

To put it bluntly, it means to be sent to the barracks to be a military prostitute.

This is the heaviest punishment for criminals, and the whole family is only a little better than the extermination of the clan and the three generations of the Jiu clan.

In ancient times, there were generally only several punishments for the family members of criminals, such as ordinary crimes that did not involve family members, and if it was a very serious crime, family members were involved. Either they were executed together, exiled, or sent to the court, or entered the sect department, or directly sent to the border to replenish the military camp.

The worst of these was undoubtedly the dispatch of reinforcements at the border passes, who were not only exiled to distant border barbaric places, but also had to serve hard labor and even be ravaged in military prostitute camps.

Luo Cheng still raised objections to this serious disposition.

After all, modern people pay attention to the fact that the crime is not as good as the wife and children, and the modern law will not engage in the joint action, not to mention that this kind of disposal of the slave girl and the servant wife to make up the army is too miserable.

But Du Ruhui said that stealing cattle and slaughtering them privately is a big crime, not to mention stealing and slaughtering so much, you know, these gangs have stolen and slaughtered thousands of cattle over the years.

"Stealing and slaughtering cattle is the same crime as killing people and setting fires, and if you steal and slaughter so many cattle, it is the same as slaughtering a village, how can you spare it. Especially in places like Zhangqiu, there are many bandits, and the more it is necessary to use heavy punishments to appease law and order. ”

Even Zhang Yichen supported Du Ruhui's verdict.

As a result, Ma Liansheng and more than 30 other prisoners were finally found to be extremely heinous, all of them were guilty of stealing and slaughtering more than two cows, and they were all sentenced to be beheaded, and their families were also implicated, all of them were reduced to slaves, and their family property was confiscated.

"Kill it!"

The word "decision" is added after the word "chop", that is, there is no need to wait until the autumn to ask for a beheading, and there is no need to report to the county and report to the criminal department for review.

Generally beheaded, after the death sentence, the prisoners are temporarily detained in prison, and then reported layer by layer, and finally reported to the criminal department and Dali Temple for review, only when the final judgment over there passes the death sentence, will the local place take the death row prisoner to the capital, and wait for the autumn to be executed in the capital.

However, with the addition of the word "decision", there is no need to go through these procedures, and he will be executed directly. Generally, those who can be sentenced to beheading and hanging, are criminals in serious and important cases whose evidence is full of evidence, and the crime is extremely heinous, and the impact is vile.

Don't give them a chance to live one more day.

There are also many prisoners who are only guilty of harboring, harboring, selling stolen goods, or stealing and slaughtering less than two cattle, and these people are also severely punished, basically with three years in prison and fines.

Du Ruhui even sentenced these people to punishment, and ordered that they should be deprived of the land granted to them by the imperial court.

He believed that these people were not qualified to own the fields of the imperial court.

As for those officials and servants of Zhangqiu Xu who accepted bribes from cattle thieves and slaughtered cattle and shielded them, they were all punished for the same crime as Ma Liansheng, and even because they were tolerant, the crime was increased by one degree, all family property was confiscated, and they were executed, and their children, wives and children were not slaves.

In front of countless people in Zhangqiu, Du Ruhui read out the verdict one by one, which was reported to the county order and approved by him, representing the final result of Zhangqiu County.

As soon as the verdict of this case was announced, it would inevitably shock Qi County, and even the Criminal Department of Jingshi and Dali Temple, becoming a typical major criminal in Dasui this year.

As a county magistrate and county lieutenant, he will never receive any praise for handling such a big case, and he will be impeached by the imperial historians for such a big leak, but both of them have already made up their minds.

When something happens, it's not something that can be done by turning a big thing into a small thing.

However, today's verdict can be so decisive, in fact, Zhang Yichen and Du Ruhui also asked Jun Cheng and Tai Shou, this case was reported to the above, it is said that Tai Shou and Jun Cheng had great differences in this case, but in the end Zhang Xutuo still pressed Tai Shou and persuaded him to maintain the verdict and support Zhangqiu County.

Du Ruhui also wrote to Daxing's grandfather, and the big man who was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry also supported Du Ruhui's decision.

"Slash!"

After the public trial was completed, more than 30 prisoners who were sentenced to be executed were escorted outside the east city gate.

With the shouting of Jia Runpu, the deputy lieutenant of the county and county barracks, the county soldiers waved their big knives one after another, beheading the outlaws one by one to show the public!