There are a lot of things happening outside, but Liu Xu doesn't know anything. Since Jiang Tongkang, a member of the judicial army, made a verdict on Liu Xu's case, Liu Xu was taken back to prison to await execution.

In the past few days, Xu Jin'er Xu Jin'er has not been able to visit Liu Xu again, obviously the prison has tightened the supervision of Liu Xu, and Liu Xu understands in his heart that it must be ordered by Jiang Senjun.

Liu Xu understood that it was Jiang who obviously wanted to rectify himself, or someone instructed him to rectify himself. When did he offend him or the person behind him, I really can't think of it even if I want to break my head.

Liu Xu struggled day by day in prison, but fortunately, there was still Liu Cheng who could chat with him and comfort each other, otherwise Liu Xu felt that he would really go crazy.

But today, Liu Xu finally doesn't have to endure the torment, because the jailer in the prison has come to take Liu Xu to the court, and Lord Zhizhou will try Liu Xu in person.

Now that Liu Xu knows that he asked Xu Jin'er to spread the rumors, it seems that he has finally attracted the attention of Lord Zhizhou, and the case is about to be retried.

However, Liu Xu didn't know the bottom in his heart, he finally made wine and sold it privately, and the facts are clear. Even if Lord Zhizhou retries this case, he is still guilty of this crime. Since ancient times, officials have protected each other, and I don't know if Lord Zhizhou will maintain Jiang Senjun's sentence against him in order to protect Jiang Senjun's face.

Liu Xu was unsure in his heart, and he was uneasy, at this time he didn't know that his case had caused dissatisfaction among literati and students because of the heavy sentence, and he had already gone to petition for him.

In the lobby of the state government, Kou Zhun sat behind the long case of the curly ear in the lobby.

Kou Zhun read the file of Liu Xu's case yesterday and already has a general understanding of Liu Xu's case. Liu Xu's illegal brewing and selling of liquor may be true, but it is obvious that the punishment imposed on him by the judicial army is too heavy.

Kou Zhun himself is a young man, and he already has some appreciation for a young talent like Liu Xu. In other cases, other officials agreed to the students' petition to retry the case, perhaps for perfunctory, but Kou Zhun really wants to exonerate Liu Xu now.

Kou Zhun thought to himself, a person who can write wonderful words, but doesn't care about fame and fortune, no matter how bad he is, he can't do much worse. Besides, brewing a few jars of wine and selling it privately is really not a big crime, and I also investigated, this Liu Xu also planned to apply for the wine shop documents, but it was rejected by the record to join the army, it seems that the wine shop documents were rejected, and it was also instructed by Liu Xu's offended person. However, if Kou Zhun knew that Liu Xu's words were plagiarized by someone else, he probably wouldn't think so. In the final analysis, Kou Zhun values Liu Xu's talent and doesn't want to ruin a talent.

Kou Zhun secretly calculated in his heart: This Liu Xu's private brewing and selling wine seems to be a real thing. But the sin can be light or severe, depending on one's own will. I can't completely ignore his crime, so I sentenced him to the same as the restaurant shopkeeper, fined 200 yuan, and beat him with 30 boards. It can also be regarded as a lesson for him, so that he should remember that in the future, he must do things within the scope of the law, and he must not transgress them at will.

If Liu Xu knew that Lord Zhizhou had already planned for his lenient punishment in his heart, he would definitely be grateful to Dade, and he would have lost the apprehension in his heart.

Liu Xu was brought into the lobby, and Uncle Qian was also brought over. After a few days of not seeing each other, both of them were much haggard, and the two of them looked at each other, and they both conveyed a trace of apology in their eyes. Liu Xu's apology was because he privately brewed and sold it to Uncle Qian, which involved him. And Uncle Qian's apology is probably that he did not stand the test and confessed everything.

When Liu Xu came in just now, he glanced around, and many onlookers outside the lobby thought that this court trial was a public trial, and Liu Xu felt a little comforted. In the open trial, you must always take into account the public opinion, and you can't just sentence yourself to Qiongzhou as easily as you do when you join the army. Liu Xu saw that Xu Jin'er, Ning Hao, and his father-in-law Xu Yanxin in the crowd of onlookers were all looking at him with concern on their faces, and he couldn't help but feel a little moved. And when Liu Xu found out that Wang Zeng was also here, Wang Zeng gave Liu Xu an encouraging look, which made Liu Xu feel a warm current in his heart, he still has many friends and relatives here. There were also a few scholar-looking people standing next to Wang Zeng, who thought they were Wang Zeng's friends.

Liu Xu was taken to the lobby and saw an official in a purple official uniform, with a Chinese character face, and a very generous attitude, sitting upright in the lobby, with a terrifying momentum. Liu Xu was overwhelmed by that momentum and couldn't help kneeling next to Uncle Qian.

In fact, Liu Xu has the identity of a county school student, quite a talent in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and in the Great Song Dynasty, where the literati were treated preferentially, he could not kneel in the court. However, Liu Xu has been in the Great Song Dynasty for more than two months, and he has a preliminary understanding of the various knowledge of the Great Song Dynasty. Da Song customized, the third grade or more is purple, and the Zhizhou in the hall is dressed in purple, needless to say, its power. Liu Xu really didn't have the courage to stand up in front of this Zhizhou, although Liu Xu looked down on himself for being spineless, but under the powerful aura of this Zhizhou lord, he really didn't have the courage to stand up. In later generations, even when they met with the county magistrate, they were all shocked, how could they be calm when they saw high-ranking officials at the provincial and ministerial levels.

It was Kou Zhun who sat in the hall, although Kou Zhun was sent out to pacify the envoys of Qingzhou Zhizhou and Jingdong East Road, but the current official family has more trust in him, and his own official privy deputy envoy has not been deprived.

The duties of officials in the Song Dynasty were divided into three categories: official, post, and dispatch. The rank is mainly determined by the previous officer, and the position is generally an honorary title, and the final dispatch is the power that is really exercised. The prefect and the prefect are dispatches, and they have no grade in themselves. Many Zhizhou are sent by Zhizhou with the official position of four or five grades, but Kou Zhun is sent to the official position of the second rank as the privy deputy envoy, so Kou Zhun can wear purple. "Officials are in the position of Yulu, and their posts are waiting to be chosen, and they are not sent to govern internal and external affairs."

Kou Zhun's official position, the full name of the dispatch should be the privy deputy envoy, Zuo Zhiyi, the doctor, the commander of the Qingzhou Prefecture Military and the commander of the Jingdong East Road, and the pacification envoy. In the Song Dynasty, the grade of officials should be judged by "officials", and at most by "position", rather than by "dispatch".

Although Liu Xu couldn't help kneeling under Kou Zhun's powerful aura, in Kou Zhun's eyes, he felt that Liu Xu knew how to advance and retreat, and he bowed his head when he should bow his head, and he couldn't help but think highly of Liu Xu again.

Kou Zhun began and said: "Jiang joins the army, you should first state the results of the interrogation and investigation of the case." ”

Jiang Tongkang, a member of the Qingzhou Judicial Army, retold Liu Xu's case.

Only then did Liu notice that it turned out that the person who was still doing this in front of a book case on the side of Kou Zhun's case was Jiang Tongkang, the Qingzhou judicial officer who tried Liu Xu that day.

After Jiang Senjun retold the case, Kou Zhun asked Liu Xu and Uncle Qian: "What do you say, can you plead guilty to this illegal brewing and selling of wine?" ”

"Back to my lord, the grass people are guilty, those high-grade soju are indeed sold by villains", Uncle Qian, like Liu Xu, has long been intimidated by Kou Zhun's aura, and he didn't dare to deny it, but he was afraid that if he refused to admit it, he was afraid that he would suffer from flesh and skin, so he had to admit that the wine was sold by himself. However, Uncle Qian is worthy of being a shrewd businessman, and he has some of his own little calculations. He knew that if Lord Zhizhou had no objection to this case, he would have countersigned Jiang Senjun's verdict and sent it for execution, and he was afraid that Lord Zhizhou would have other views. Therefore, Uncle Qian's words only admitted that he did sell those high-grade soju, but he did not admit that the wine was brewed illegally, nor did he say that he took it from Liu Xu.

"Back to the adult, that high soju is indeed brewed by students", Liu Xu had to answer truthfully. Under the powerful aura of this Lord Zhizhou, he really didn't dare to deny it. Besides, the last time the judiciary participated in the military to try himself, Uncle Qian had already admitted it, and the state officials also searched dozens of jars of self-brewed soju from his home, and it was difficult to argue with him.

"Then you admit that you sold the brewery without permission?"

"Student" Liu Xu didn't know how to answer for a while, his own admission could no longer be recovered, and he was punished by Lord Zhizhou.

Kou Zhun saw that Liu Xu was unspeakable for a while, and he already knew in his heart, and he basically decided that this wine was made by Liu Xu.

The facts of this case are actually very simple, it is nothing more than Liu Xu brewing some wine and selling it at home to make some money to make a living. In Kou Zhun's eyes, it's not a big deal, Liu Xu is a talent, and he doesn't like to be famous, it's difficult for a scholar to have any livelihood to do, and it's nothing to make some money by making wine. Kou Zhun is still very impressed by the wine made by Liu Xu, a smart person is a smart person, this high degree of wine has been made by Du Kang, how many people want to make this high-degree wine, but Liu Xu actually made such a high-degree wine, his intelligence can be seen.

Kou Zhun has already calculated the verdict of Liu Xu's case.

Kou Zhun sighed in his heart: He also made a lot of money selling wine, so he was fined 200 yuan and beaten 30 boards, so he should be taught a lesson. Liu Xu's private brewing has always violated the criminal laws of the Great Song Dynasty, and even if he wants to favor him, he can only do this.

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