122 Public Trial Conference (Middle)
When the emperor got to try the rebels, the people were also talking. Although the system has been reformed, trials have been stipulated, and the jurors composed of ordinary people have the final say. But the people didn't expect that even for such a thing as rebellion, the emperor would dare to let the people pronounce a sentence.
Liu Hong attaches great importance to all kinds of discussions among the people. He knows that the **** people will not choose to go to court unless they have to. Therefore, the people who fight lawsuits are basically desperate people, and if they are not dealt with well, the social impact will be very bad. This is also his original intention of creating this trial system, which can not only give justice to the people, but also shirk responsibility in case something happens.
But Liu Hong knows that after the implementation of the new system, no one in the capital has ever been in a lawsuit. Although the new system was implemented for a short time, it also had a lot to do with the people's reluctance to deal with the government.
No one goes to court, and they don't know the benefits of the new system. Therefore, Liu Hong pondered that he would take advantage of this public trial conference to popularize judicial knowledge among the people and let them understand the benefits of the new system. Let them know that if there is a matter and go through the judicial process, justice can be found. When people are accustomed to finding justice through the law, the society will be extremely harmonious.
Because of such an idea, Liu Hong found Liu Ju, the secretary of Dali Temple, and discussed with him how to hold the public trial conference.
Liu Ju is now proud, not only in charge of the country's justice, but also in charge of the position of Zongzheng, and he can definitely be regarded as the emperor's close minister. Now that he saw that Liu Hong attached so much importance to this public trial conference, he decided to take a good look at it.
Originally, Liu Ju had almost done it through Liu Qi's guidance. The focus of everything revolves around making sure that the rebels can be wiped out. Now Liu Hong has put forward a new request, and as a courtier, he can only implement it wholeheartedly.
The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for the public trial. On this day, Liu Hong got up early in the morning, and he wanted to see with his own eyes the fate of these rebels.
Because Liu Hong had already instructed, this public trial meeting was quite formal, and everything was carried out according to the formal trial ceremony, in order to let the people know and understand this new system.
This public trial meeting caused quite a stir. Early in the morning, the people gathered from all directions, not only to see the public trial, but also to support the emperor.
The people of the Han Dynasty are the people who know the most gratitude in all dynasties, and they are definitely reciprocated by the grace of dripping water. They know who's good to them, so they reciprocate, even if they don't say it, they have to raise their voices and show solidarity with their benefactors.
Looking at the surging people, Liu Hong was very happy, and now he finally realized that the people's hearts were available. Looking at the angry look of this group of people, he knew that this public trial meeting would definitely not disappoint him.
This rebellion, at the beginning, was just initiated by those Runan families and picked by the Yuan family. But later, Liu Hong made a plan and pretended to be unconscious, and there was a great chaos in the capital, and many other families also joined the ranks of rebellion, wanting to fish in troubled waters.
In this way, there are hundreds of families directly involved, and even more indirectly involved. Coupled with Zhulian's, the people who need to be judged have already exceeded 10,000.
There are more than 10,000 people, and there are no borders. With so many people, let alone a one-time trial, it's not easy to find a place to fit them. Therefore, before the start, the people of Dali Temple, according to the strength of these people's crimes, divided them and tried them in turn.
According to the arrangement of Dali Temple, the public trial lasted for a total of 10 days, and the culpability of the trial was carried out in order from light to severe. Therefore, the judgment is only the least culpable part of them.
Don't look at these people who are the least culpable, but they are the most numerous. The treatment of them is also the most concerned by those people. This is also the most critical part of Liu Hong's imitation of the South Gate Standing Timber.
The trial is about to begin, and all the people are making final preparations. One of the most important aspects of this is the selection of jurors.
In order to show impartiality, jurors are selected on the spot. Most of the people, that is, watching the excitement, don't want to go up and be any jurors. But there were so many people at the scene, and there were many people who wanted to join in the excitement, so the first batch of jurors was easily divided by those who enthusiastically signed up.
Because of the prompts in advance, the jurors selected on the spot must be mainly ordinary people. Therefore when the people below saw that the chosen ones were like them. Even before the trial began, they felt that the trial was fair.
When the judges and jurors were seated, those who were tried were pressed up.
There are so many people who need to be tried in public this time, even if it is divided into ten days, if it is tried one by one, these times will definitely not be enough. So in order to save time, these crimes are not serious, dozens of people are gathered together to be tried together.
Seeing that the person to be judged was pressed up, there was a commotion at the scene, which made the people guarding the scene very worried. After all, the emperor was there in person, and if there was an accident, it would be a big deal.
Contrary to the guards, Liu Hong was not worried at all. He knew that the scene of the conference was guarded by a heavy army. Most of the people at the scene were grateful to him, and there was no need to worry about safety, so Liu Hong was very relieved to watch the public trial there.
The public trial conference, in the Han Dynasty, was definitely a novelty. Coupled with the fact that the outcome of the trial is the jurors who are the people, the final say, people are even more interested.
"Silence! Quiet! "The judge stopped the uproar and announced that the trial would now begin.
The judge's voice was emitted through a simple loudspeaker developed by the Royal Academy of Sciences named after Liu Hong, so that everyone at the scene could hear it clearly. Seeing such a miraculous thing, the scene immediately fell silent.
The public trial meeting looked quite solemn, but in fact, this thing is completely like a product. In that kind of emotional situation, that kind of pressure is very huge, even if it is wronged, under that kind of pressure, they can't talk back, not to mention that they themselves are really unclean.
Liu Hong is very clear about this situation, in his previous life, although he did not go through that special period, he has seen a lot of materials at that time. How many old revolutionaries, with such a strong will, have succumbed on such occasions. Using this means to rectify these small nobles of feudal society is absolutely not a problem.
And those who were judged also accepted their fate. When it comes to the rebellion, they feel that they will never be spared, and they will suffer from it, and almost all of them will be accused by the judge, so they honestly admit what charges they have, in order to die quickly.