Ancient medical conditions were backward, and even the means of autopsy were very scarce, and the ancient times paid attention to the death of a person, so it was absolutely not allowed to dissect the corpse, otherwise it would be regarded as a great rebellion, so it was actually very difficult to find out the cause of a person's death in ancient times, and if you knew a little about medicine, you might use some covert means to kill others, so as to escape the punishment of the law.

As early as the Warring States Period, various countries had the post of "Lingshi", mainly responsible for leading some slaves to inspect the corpses, and in the Han Dynasty, there were a few famous officials in the county who were responsible for the autopsy, but there was no name at that time, until the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the name of the name did not officially appear.

At the beginning, the name of the funeral industry did not actually refer to the person who conducted the autopsy, but to the person who ran the funeral industry, but the autopsy was more taboo, and most people were unwilling to do it, and the people in the funeral industry were originally dealing with the dead, and the taboo in this regard was much smaller, so the general local state capital and county government will hire a few people in the funeral industry to work part-time in the yamen, usually they still do their own funeral industry, only when they encounter a homicide, they will be called to the autopsy, over time, the work has become the name of the ancient forensic doctor's profession.

It is precisely because the works in this period of the Tang Dynasty are all part-time, and they have not studied medical knowledge, so the means of post-mortem examination are naturally not very clever. In contrast, although the county lieutenant of Xinzhu County Wu is not a precious, his ancestors and grandchildren have served as county lieutenants for three generations, and he has summed up a lot of experience in examining corpses, so his autopsy methods are much stronger than ordinary presumptions, but even so, he still had to be reminded by Li Xiu before to find out that the body of suspected Hui Ming was burned after death, which shows how backward Datang's forensic science is.

Although Xiao Yu is an important minister of the Tang Dynasty and is very knowledgeable himself, he is from a noble family, so he naturally doesn't know much about such a lowly profession, so when he hears that Li Xiu concluded that the other party was burned after death just because there was no soot in the deceased's mouth and nose, it felt very ridiculous, let alone make him believe it.

However, in Li Xiu's opinion, it doesn't matter whether Xiao Yu believes it or not, the important thing is to let Li Shimin, Changsun Wuji and others believe it, so he asked Wu County Lieutenant to explain, as far as he knows, Wu County Lieutenant has verified his statement before.

When County Lieutenant Wu heard Li Xiu let him explain, he couldn't help but be more nervous at the moment, but this was his business, and he couldn't shirk it at all, so in the end, he could only grit his teeth and step forward and said: "Your Majesty, the three generations of the minister's ancestors and grandchildren have all served as county lieutenants, and they are also quite experienced in autopsies, so the minister dares to swear by the reputation of the three generations of my Wu family, that suspected Huiming's corpse is definitely a posthumous crematory!" ”

In this era, people value the family the most, and even the importance of the family is still ranked before the country, so when Wu County Lieutenant swears by the reputation of his ancestors and grandchildren, he can't help but make people more convinced, if he is not sure, he will never dare to make such a big oath.

"Why are you so convinced, is it because of the colt?" Li Shimin also asked with an interested smile when he heard this.

"It's not just a reminder of the horse, after the minister brought the corpse back to the county office, he once tried to verify the words of the horse, I first found a live pig, and then put it in the fire to burn, it turned out that the pig's mouth and nose were full of soot after death, and then I put a dead pig in the fire to burn, but the mouth and nose were very clean, in fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that when the live pig is burned by the fire, it will definitely scream loudly, and it will naturally inhale a lot of soot, but the dead pig will not have this situation!" County Lieutenant Wu was also a little bold at this time, and explained again at the moment.

"Your Majesty, the minister can vouch for the county lieutenant Wu, and the minister was also present when he did this, the situation at that time was indeed as he said, if His Majesty and you don't believe it, the minister and the county lieutenant Wu can do it again on the spot!" Zhang Xianling also spoke out at this time to vouch for Wu County.

Hearing the words of Zhang County's order and Wu County's lieutenant, Li Shimin couldn't help but smile indifferently, first looked at Li Xiu, and then spoke again: "I believe Wu's words, after all, this truth is also very simple, I don't know if you have any objections?" ”

Li Shimin trusted Li Xiu the most, even if Wu County Lieutenant did not do the experiment, he would not doubt Li Xiu's words, because Li Xiu's words had never been wrong over the years, and he was also sure that Zhang County Ling and Wu County Lieutenant absolutely did not dare to lie in front of him, so although he did not say it explicitly, he already felt that there was no need to do another experiment.

The ministers in the hall were all human spirits, and naturally heard the meaning of Li Shimin's words, so I saw that the eldest grandson Wuji was the first to express his belief in the judgment of Wu County Lieutenant, and the other ministers also echoed it, saying that there was no need to do any more experiments, but at this time, I saw Xiao Yu very stubbornly stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, there is no basis for what you say, and the old minister thinks that it is better to do it again to verify whether the words of the concubine are credible!" ”

Hearing Xiao Yu's old stubborn words, Li Shimin couldn't help but be angry, but as an emperor, he couldn't show too bias towards one side or the other, and if he wanted Xiao Yu to be convinced, he had to come up with solid evidence and put it in front of him, so in the end, he could only say helplessly: "Okay, since Xiao Xiang doesn't believe it, then let's do it in person in the palace to see if the horse's argument is credible!" ”

At the moment, Li Shimin immediately ordered people to prepare, and after a while, there were guards preparing two fires outside the palace, and two sheep were also led, although pork has been recognized by many nobles, and even Li Shimin likes to eat, but the most eaten in the palace is mutton, so the live pig can not be found, so it can only be replaced by live sheep, but it will not affect the result.

"Kill one of the sheep and throw it into the fire together!" Li Shimin led Li Xiu and the others to the outside of the hall, and then instructed the guards around him.

"Wait!" However, at this moment, I saw Xiao Yu interrupt Li Shimin's order again, and then stepped forward and said again, "Your Majesty, the minister wants to check these two sheep first!" ”

Seeing that Xiao Yu didn't even believe him, Li Shimin's face changed, but he couldn't do anything about Xiao Yu, an old stubborn, and finally flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "Since Xiao Xiang is not too dirty, then please take care of yourself!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" I saw Xiao Yu thank you again, and then he really stepped forward in person, and even opened the sheep's mouth to look at it, probably because he was afraid of being moved, which made Li Xiu in the back quite helpless, Xiao Yu, the old man, was simply too stubborn, and he didn't care about Li Shimin's face at all, and he deserved to be dismissed many times in the future.

Finally waited for Xiao Yu to check and confirm that there was nothing wrong with the two sheep, Li Shimin waved his hand, and immediately a guard stepped forward and killed a sheep with a knife, and when it was out of breath, it was thrown into the fire with the live sheep respectively, Li Xiu and others stood there quietly waiting for the results.