Dong Wenqing suppressed the fear in his heart, and said calmly: "Zhong Tong's judgment is really good in telling this story, but the investigation of the case must be based on real evidence!" ”

Zhong Hao smiled and said: "This is natural, the evidence official is about to talk about it!" ”

"First of all, this official can confirm that Huazhi County did not die early this morning, but last night. Because the official found that the blood left by Huazhi County had dried up. I don't know if you have noticed, in fact, the bloodstains will change with the change of time, if Huazhi County really died after the third quarter of Yinzheng, and now it is just the time of Chenzheng, less than two hours, and the room is not ventilated, the weather is not too hot, and the bloodstains will never dry up completely. However, when the official went to the room in Huazhi County, he found that the blood stains from Huazhi County had completely dried up, which means that the time of death in Huazhi County had definitely exceeded four hours.

Because it takes at least four hours for the blood to dry up completely. If you don't believe me, you can do an experiment on the spot, kill a chicken, sprinkle the chicken's blood in the room and see if what I said is right. Therefore, the official concluded that the time of death in Huazhi County should have been last night. ”

When Mrs. Qi heard Zhong Hao conclude that Huazhi County died last night, she couldn't help but shake her body.

Zhong Hao glanced at Mrs. Qi coldly, and then said: "If it was really the Xia people who killed Huazhi County, then why didn't the Qi family report to the official last night?" This alone shows that Qi was lying this morning.

There is also a very important detail that can show that Qi is lying, because I found that there were half a bucket of feces in the toilet behind the screen. If Qi slept with Huazhi County last night, then there would definitely not be so many defecation in the commode. Because when people sleep, their metabolism will slow down, and their excrement will be much less than when they are not sleeping. Therefore, I believe that she must have lied when she said that Huazhi County was sleeping when she went out this morning.

And this morning, Qi's Buddha Hall was worshipping Buddha as if nothing had happened, but the voice of Huazhi County was still heard at the third quarter of Yinzheng. Then the matter is obvious, it must not be the Qi family who killed Huazhi County themselves, but Huazhi County who colluded with other men to murder him. And the two of them killed Huazhi County last night, the two must be very scared, and the two of them must have not slept all night last night. You may also be thirsty because of nervousness, and when you are thirsty, you will drink water, and if you drink more water, you will naturally have more stools. This half bucket of defecation is estimated to have been left behind by Qi and the murderer after not sleeping all night, otherwise there would not be so much. ”

County Lieutenant Cao nodded after listening to Zhong Hao's words, thinking that there was some truth, but he continued to ask: "Then why can you conclude that this man is Dong Wenqing?" ”

Zhong Hao smiled and said, "Because he's tall!" ”

Lieutenant Cao couldn't help but be stunned.

Zhong Hao immediately explained to Zhang Zhixian and to everyone: "When this official inspected the knife edge in Huazhi County, he found that the wound was pierced into the chest from top to bottom, and judging from the wound, the murderer was holding a knife and stabbed into the chest of Huazhi County, which clearly shows that the person who assassinated Huazhi County must be very tall.

If a person shorter than Kachi Prefecture is holding a knife and stabbing it in the chest of Huazhi Prefecture, the situation of the knife should be from the bottom up. Because Huazhi County itself is tall, and Qi's figure is not very tall, so this murderer must not be Qi's, but this tall man can only shoot. And among the people in the Lin Mansion who are taller than Huazhi County, it seems that only Dong Wenqing is the only one. ”

Zhong Hao paused for a moment and continued: "And just now I asked Cui Du the commander, this year, with the help of the Pingxi Army, Huazhi County captured this batch of Xia spies, in order to reassure the people, the county government said to the outside world that they were wiped out. And there are not many people who know that this group of Xia people has slipped through the net, only a few subordinate officials of the county government and a few leaders of the Pingxi Army. And Dong Wenqing helped the counselor of Huazhi County on official business, and happened to know that these Xia people had slipped through the net. After assassinating Huazhi County, he deliberately wrote the words 'revenge', which made people think it was a vendetta and turned their attention to the Xia people's spies. Who knows, it is precisely because of this that the official feels full of suspicions. This Dong Wenqing is a little smart, but he was mistaken by being smart!

On the whole, he is very tall, he can enter the Qi family's room, and he can stab without the defense of Huazhi County, and he knows that the Xia people have slipped through the net, these conditions are met, except for Dong Wenqing, there seems to be no one else! ”

When Zhong Hao said this, he shouted at Dong Wenqing: "Dong Wenqing, don't you still admit your guilt?" Based on these doubts alone, the official has nothing to blame for the execution. You must know that under the five woods, there will be something, are you willing to confess your guilt now, or will you be punished but then confess your guilt?! ”

When Dong Wenqing heard Zhong Hao's analysis, he no longer had the previous calmness, and said with a gloomy face: "I didn't expect that the design I thought was seamless was flawed everywhere in Zhong Tongju's eyes, alas, that's it, that's it!" ”

After listening to Zhong Haosi's meticulous analysis, Qi also knew that it was difficult to hide, and couldn't help but sit on the ground.

………………

The defense line in the hearts of the two criminals has been broken, and the rest of the interrogation will be easy, and under Zhong Hao's interrogation, the case will soon come to light.

It turned out that this Huazhi County was poor before, and the Qi family was born in a large family, but he didn't think his family was poor, so he was committed to marrying him, and asked his father to sponsor his studies. When Huazhi County was down, he never gave up on him, and studied hard with him.

Unexpectedly, after Huazhi County became an official, he became more and more estranged from the Qi family, and since marrying the concubine Feng, he rarely went to the Qi family's room......

Qi's is at the age when are half-old and still charming, and when they are like wolves and tigers, they can't help but feel lonely. Since Dong Wenqing came, firstly, Dong Wenqing and the Qi family are relatives, and secondly, Dong Wenqing is indeed a wind ~ suave and a talent. The Qi family is still charming, and they often help Dong Wenqing, and after coming and going, the two hooked up and became adulterous.

Originally, Huazhi County didn't care much about Qi's family, which just gave convenience to the two, and the two took the opportunity to worship the Buddha and often had trysts in the Buddhist hall.

It's just a few days ago that Huazhi County suddenly discovered the personal sachet that Dong Wenqing gave to Qi's family, although he didn't immediately suspect the two of them, but he was also suspicious.

Dong Wenqing and Qi were afraid that Huazhi County would find out about their adultery sooner or later, so they secretly discussed, and finally made up their minds to kill Huazhi County so that the two could stay together. And Huazhi County has been an official over the years, and has also accumulated a lot of money. killed Huazhi County, and these family wealth belonged to the widow of Qi's county, and the silver was enough for the two of them to spend for a lifetime. The Qi family also thought about selling the concubine Feng of Huazhi County to relieve the hatred in his heart.

So, last night, the Qi family deliberately went to call Huazhi County to his room, saying that he would discuss the matter of congratulating a certain adult in the court, but he took the opportunity to ask Dong Wenqing to kill Huazhi County.

The course of the incident is no different from Zhong Hao's speculation, and there is basically not much difference.

After listening to the confessions of the two, Zhong Hao couldn't help sighing, this Qi family is afraid that he is shrewd and strong, although he is accompanied by the cold window of Huazhi County, but he is afraid that everything is above Huazhi County, which arouses disgust. This can be seen from the fact that Huazhi County likes the concubine Feng Shi, who is not outstanding in appearance, but has an extremely gentle personality.

Alas, what a pitiful and hateful thing!

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After Zhong Hao's interrogation, after letting Qi and Dong Wenqing detain, he immediately asked Cao County Lieutenant to take the murderers Qi and Dong Wenqing into prison.

The assassination of the magistrate of this county is not a trivial matter, but it is a matter of great impact.

Fortunately, Zhong Hao quickly clarified the case and arrested the murderer.

However, they did not make their own decisions about the disposal of the murderer. In such a bad case, I am afraid that the imperial court will treat it specially, and it is very likely that the murderer will be escorted to Tokyo to be sentenced to Ming Zheng.

Zhong Hao did not say anything about the murderer's disposal, although the case was clear, but there was no immediate verdict. Of course, strictly speaking, he does not have the power to sentence his sentence in this sentence. Zhong Hao just wrote down the case in detail and prepared to play it to the imperial court, of course, this performance also asked Cao County Lieutenant and Xu Tuiguan to be named together, and when he returned to Linzhou, let Zhang Zhizhou also be named, and then issued in the name of the state government.

As for the matter of the Yincheng County Ya, it will be temporarily handled by the Cao County Lieutenant. Fortunately, Yinzhou County is only a small border county, and there are not too many things in this county. Even if there is something, most of it is related to the army, and the Pingxi Army has commanded Cui Feng here, and the absence of the county will not affect the operation of the county too much. Of course, as for the arrangement of Yincheng County, in fact, Zhong Hao has no right to put his beak, and his power to pass the judgment is not so great.

After the trial of the case, Zhong Hao paid the difference.

At this time, it was almost noon, and Cui Feng and Cao County Lieutenant went to a restaurant near the county government to set up a banquet to entertain Zhong Hao and Xu Tuiguan and their party.

However, now that Lin Zhixian is newly mourned, Zhong Hao and the others are naturally not good at drinking and feasting with great fanfare, so they don't drink any water, but just replace wine with tea.

County Lieutenant Cao admired Zhong Hao's ability to investigate cases as a young general, and kept asking Zhong Hao for advice during the banquet. He is also engaged in public security and criminal litigation, so he naturally needs to learn more about this matter.

Zhong Hao found out that most of the cases were based on the reasoning and suspense and film and television dramas that later generations watched, of course, there was also a lot of luck, and there was really nothing to guide Cao County. Books with practical criminal names in ancient times, such as "Collection of Records of Clearing Grievances", did not appear until the Southern Song Dynasty, and there is no way to guide them. It was Zhong Hao who could only give him general guidance and tell him that he needed to pay attention to those details when investigating the crime scene.

Xu Tuiguan was also very impressed by Zhong Hao's investigation skills, and it was indispensable to listen to Zhong Hao's guidance during this banquet. This Xu Tuiguan also belongs to the judicial mouth, so he is naturally very concerned about these things.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but be a little speechless, his half-baked investigation level can even point out others, which is really wry.

Zhong Hao couldn't help but express deep concern about the level of punishment of this Great Song Dynasty judicial official. In this era, not only was the case-solving technology backward, and there were no criminal investigation methods like those of later generations, but also the level of the criminal names of these judicial officials was also very problematic, and they had no level of logical reasoning and the consciousness of forming an irrefutable chain of evidence. It is no wonder that such judicial officials do not cause unjust, false and wrongful cases to be heard!

In this era, the trial of cases basically relied on torture to extract confessions, and once you felt that you were suspicious, you would be sentenced to a big punishment, and the matter would basically be over. Many crimes were not committed by this suspect, and after this heavy punishment, he had to obediently admit his guilt. This kind of trial method will naturally lead to a lot of torture.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty still attaches some importance to this judicial official, and there is a special subject of law in the Great Song Dynasty scientific examination, which mainly tests the knowledge of laws and regulations. Many of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty judicial mouth were born in the Ming Law Department.

However, this Ming Law Department mainly examines the knowledge of laws and regulations, and these Jinshi of the Ming Law Department are mainly familiar with the laws of the Song Dynasty such as the "Song Criminal Code". These judicial officials, who were born in the Ming Law Department, are naturally very familiar with how the case should be judged according to the law after the facts of the case are clear. However, there is nothing that can be done about the investigation and trial of this case.

These judicial officials who were born in the Ming Law Department are only familiar with this law and are very good at adjudicating cases, but they have not learned how to solve cases!

It is no wonder that they were all scholars, and that they had learned about the law from books. There are no special books for this investigation and trial, and no one teaches these things. Of course, the scientific examination of the Ming Law Department is not examined, because they have no experience in the investigation and trial of cases, but they are very familiar with the judgment of cases according to the law.

Of course, Zhong Hao is now just a small general judgment, and he is powerless for the lack of professional judicial officials like Da Song who investigate and try cases, so he can only sigh. Zhong Hao himself is not very proficient in this investigation and trial, and he can't help if he wants to.

I don't know why, Zhong Hao suddenly remembered that in later generations, Yin Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian of Kaifeng Mansion was rumored to be like a god in solving cases. Zhong Hao's time in Tokyo is not long, and he has never had anything to do with this Bao Qingtian, but he has never had the opportunity to visit, because he has never seen Bao Qingtian who is like a god in this case. Today, Zhong Hao suddenly thought of this bag of Qingtian, and couldn't help but have some small regrets. If you talk about the current characters of the Great Song Dynasty, who is the most famous in the millennium, this Bao Qingtian is definitely the first to bear the brunt.

However, it seems that Bao Zheng is not Kaifeng Mansion Yin now, because Zhong Hao knew when he was in Tokyo that the current Kaifeng Mansion Yin is Zeng Gongliang, and Bao Zheng seems to be in the Imperial History Observatory.

Zhong Hao felt that if this Bao Qingtian really decided the case like a god, it seemed to be a good idea for the imperial court to let Bao Zheng train the officials of the Great Song Dynasty.

But then again, the judicial officials of the Great Song Dynasty are not fixed, and they are not only promoted in the judicial mouth. In the Great Song Dynasty, this county lieutenant may be promoted to a county magistrate or county commander tomorrow, this magistrate may be promoted to Zhu Cao to join the army tomorrow, and this judicial officer and manager may be promoted to a general judgment tomorrow.

Of course, these things are all general matters in the imperial court, and now it is not Zhong Hao's turn to worry about this small general judgment.