Yesterday Liu Xu spent a whole day in prison, and today Liu Xu is finally going to be arraigned.

Jiang Tongkang, a judicial member of the army, interrogated Liu Xu very simply, or it should be said that there was no trial, but only a verdict.

Because when Liu Xu was taken to the judicial law court to try the case, Uncle Qian was already kneeling in the hall. Looking at Uncle Qian's painful expression and the blood stains that were faintly oozing from his body, Liu Xu knew that Uncle Qian had confessed. Liu Xu didn't expect Uncle Qian to keep his mouth shut, he is a businessman, there is no immovable punishment, and there are always few people who can keep secrets under Wumu. Liu Xu thought that if he passively used heavy punishment, maybe he would not wait for the torture tools to be used on him, and he would confess truthfully.

The sentence of Jiang Senjun to Uncle Qian was not too heavy, with a fine of 200 yuan and 30 boards. Although 200 guan is the income of Uncle Qian's restaurant for several years, fortunately, Uncle Qian has made more than 100 guan money by selling Liu Xu's wine, and the 30 big board is also a very heavy punishment, but compared to Liu Xu's punishment of being exiled for 3,000 li and distributing to Qiongzhou, it is already very, very light.

When Liu Xu heard that he was sentenced to exile in Qiongzhou, he was also extremely shocked. He was hacked, and he was hacked to death, and he was sent to Qiongzhou for more than 3,000 miles, this is the heaviest sentence except for beheading. Hainan in later generations is very beautiful and beautiful, but at this time it is indeed an uncivilized wild land, and exile there, but nine deaths and one life! Who did you offend, why did you have to kill yourself like this? Liu Xu can only hope now that the countermeasures he arranged can attract the attention of Lord Zhizhou.

The governor of a state will only try it in person when he hears a big and important case, and the small cases with the general surname are directly tried and concluded by the judiciary and the army. However, cases that have been tried by the judicial army must be countersigned by the magistrate before they can be executed. Of course, death penalty cases also need to be reported to the imperial court, and the current officials will personally execute the criminals.

And Liu Xu can only hope that Lord Zhizhou can hear some information before countersigning the verdict of this case, so that he can temporarily not countersign, or he can retry the case. If Lord Zhizhou countersigned, Liu Xuke would be exiled to Qiongzhou.

Of course, if the person who wants to rectify Liu Xu is Lord Zhizhou, then Liu Xu can only accept his fate. However, Liu Xu thought that the current Qingzhou Zhizhou had just come to Qingzhou to take office, and the official he was most unlikely to offend was him.

Liu Xu was taken back to his cell, and in torment, waiting for his final fate.

In the past few days, some rumors have spread rapidly in Qingzhou City, about the genius who wrote "When is the Bright Moon" during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Oiran competition on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting was too exciting. The topic of the talented man who wrote the lyrics of "When Will the Bright Moon" on that day have not cooled down is far from cooling, and now there are rumors about which "When is the Bright Moon" lyricist has naturally spread rapidly in Qingzhou.

Some rumors say that this talented man was arrested and imprisoned because the poem of the Mid-Autumn Festival was written so well that he swept the face of some powerful people in Qingzhou; There are also rumors that the words made by that talented man were too good, and he directly helped Yunzhu girl win the Oiran, and made a powerful person who supported Liu Piaopiao not get his wish, and was retaliated against and was arrested and imprisoned; There are also rumors that the wine made by the genius is so good that a certain powerful person wants his secret recipe, but the talented man refuses to give it, so he is framed by the powerful man for brewing and selling wine, and he is arrested and imprisoned. Anyway, all kinds of rumors point to the fact that this hermit genius was persecuted by the powerful and was taken to prison.

Then there were rumors that this talented man was not only arrested and put in prison, but also sentenced to exile in Qiongzhou.

When it was rumored in the streets and alleys of Qingzhou City that this talented man was sentenced to exile in Qiongzhou, the people of Qingzhou City also reached a boiling point in their discussion of this matter, and their words were full of sympathy for this talented man and full of indignation at the behavior of the powerful.

These people are not only commoners, but many of them are literati. And these literati feel that if they write a subtle and wonderful poem, they will be attacked, how can this work? If this is the case, who will dare to write wonderful poems in the future. These literati couldn't help but connect up and down, inquired about the news everywhere, and unanimously demanded that the matter must be investigated.

At one time, the students of Qingzhou were also indignant, and the students of the four universities in Qingzhou, the county school, the state school, the dwarf pine garden, and the Yunmen Academy all gathered at the gate of the state ya, demanding to meet Zhizhou in person and ask Zhizhou to retry the case. The people didn't dare to make trouble casually, and the students didn't have such concerns. Originally, these students thought that they were all proud sons of the sky, but this time it was time to speak out and show the style of the literati, so they had nothing to worry about.

Kou Zhun, the governor of Qingzhou, finally heard about this incident, and personally went to the gate of the state government to appease the students, and promised that the case would be retried publicly, and that the talented man would be given justice, so that he could persuade the students to disperse.

Although Kou Zhun is not very old, he has been in the power field for more than ten years, and he has held a high position in the power center that can be called a public level. It's just that I don't know, is this matter simply trying to get justice for Liu Xu, a talented man, or is there someone behind him who wants to give himself a disadvantage? However, in the past few days, Kou Zhun has also reported the rumors in the market, and it seems that it is impossible for him to analyze these rumors carefully. It seems that there are indeed people in the state who want to rectify this talented man named Liu Xu, and these rumors are probably spread by people who want to help him keep him.

Kou Zhun himself is a young man, he was a high school scholar at a young age, and he has some appreciation for young talents like Liu Xu. Besides, if this case is as the rumors say, if it is really because of the illegal brewing and selling of a few jars of wine, he will be sentenced to exile for thousands of miles, and he will be sent to the wild land of Qiongzhou and so on, it is indeed too heavy.

Since I promised to retry this case, if I am sentenced to such a heavy sentence, I am afraid that the hatred of those people and students will all be pulled towards him. It's just that among the powerful people in Qingzhou, who wants to rectify this Liu Xu? But thinking about it, he can't be sentenced to this heavy sentence no matter what, no matter which powerful person wants to rectify this Liu Xu, he can only sweep his face. Besides, sentencing Liu Xu to such a heavy sentence, although the law said that it was in the past, it was always inappropriate in terms of reason.

In Kou Zhun's heart, the pen of literati students is more energetic than those powerful people. Kou Zhun was born in a wealthy family and had been a high-ranking official, so he really didn't pay much attention to the powerful people in Qingzhou. When he came to Qingzhou, the official family personally summoned him, and he hinted that it was expedient to release himself, and he might be recalled soon. In Qingzhou, winning the hearts of students and winning reputation is far more far-reaching than having a good relationship with one or two wealthy families. If he re-judges, the person who wants to fix Liu Xu will be able to open his eyes and say, but if he doesn't open his eyes, he will jump out to find trouble, and even he will clean it up. Kou Zhun did it as a high-ranking official at a young age, and when he was in the prime of life, he had a sense of arrogance in his heart.

The rumors in Qingzhou City have spread so quickly in the past few days, it is not unprovoked, but it is the strategy that Liu Xu instructed Xu Jin'er that day.

Liu Xu knew that most of the civilian officials at this time cherished their feathers, and if his case was boiling over and attracted the attention of the magistrate, he would have to take into account the public opinion. And most of the people in the Xu Clan's martial arts hall are people in the market, and there are people from three religions and nine streams, and it is their strength to spread rumors, because they have a broad mass base.

However, what Liu Xu didn't expect was that his own matter caused such a big sensation among literati students, and some students went to petition for themselves. In fact, if the rumors were only spread in the market, it would be difficult to attract the attention of Kou Zhun of Zhizhou, and it was the students' indignation to petition for Liu Xu that finally attracted Kou Zhun's attention.

In fact, even Liu Xu himself didn't know why his affairs could spread so quickly among literati!

After Liu Xu's accident, he once thought of asking Xu Jin'er to go to Wang Zongyuan's uncle and nephew for help, but thinking that although Wang Zongyuan was a literati, he was only a small county to learn teachings, and it was difficult to have anything to do with the state government, so he gave up.

What Liu Xu didn't know was that in fact, his case was promised to be retried by Zhizhou Kou, and it was Wang Zeng who played the biggest role.

Don't look at Wang Zeng's age, but he studied under Zhang Zhen, in addition to Confucianism, he also studied other miscellaneous studies, and his sophistication is far above his peers. Since Wang Zeng heard the rumor that Liu Xu, who did the wonderful words of "When Will the Bright Moon Be There" in the Mid-Autumn Festival, was arrested for selling private wine, he was keenly aware that this Liu Xu was his friend Liu Xu. Wang Zeng was flexible, and first exaggerated the matter among the students of Dwarf Pine Garden, and cried out for Liu Xu. After hearing this, the students of Dwarf Pine Garden were indignant, and they each had their own close friends, so they connected in series, and finally there was a scene of petitioning by students from the four universities in Qingzhou at the entrance of the state yamen.