Chapter 637: Strict Trial of the Murderer

readx; Zhu Youzhen asked Sun Chuanting to interrogate those brocade guards, but Sun Chuanting shook his head and said: "When I was just caught, the minister had already been briefly interrogated. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although those subordinates were greedy for life and afraid of death, they only confessed that the captured leader was a Jinyi Wei Qianhu, named Zeng Rusong, and nothing else was known. That Zeng Rusong was a hob meat, and he didn't open his mouth no matter how he asked. ”

Zhu Youzhen fell into deep thought, but he didn't just think about this case. Now that the scale of Qin Wangzhuang and Qin Bing is getting bigger and bigger, and the situation they are facing is becoming more and more complicated, he also wants to build a "public procuratorate and law" team from now on. Not to mention public security, it is definitely not a long-term solution to let Qin Bing take on his responsibilities all the time; The work of arresting criminals, interrogating, convicting, and enforcing punishments is still blank in Qinwangzhuang.

If it is an ordinary criminal, you can also ask Yang Sichang, the magistrate of Jingyang, to temporarily do it for you. But the magistrate of the county is originally in charge of civil affairs, according to modern parlance, it is an administrative personnel, and it is common sense that the judiciary is in the previous life, and Zhu Youzhen will have to carry out reforms sooner or later.

Especially for people like Jin Yiwei, according to the existing legal system, the magistrate has no power to try them at all, and he cannot convict them. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen decided to come by himself and set up a first-class judicial team as soon as possible. The legal provisions can refer to the "Da Ming Law", but the obvious unreasonableness should be completely discarded and followed Zhu Youzhen's intentions.

After a long period of consideration, Zhu Youzhen summoned Yan Ling and Xie Sheng to announce the immediate establishment of a public security bureau and a procuratorate. The Public Security Bureau took over the first regiment and took over the security work of Qinwangzhuang in an all-round way, and the first regiment was only responsible for the defense of the city in the future. For the time being, Yan Ling is the director of the public security bureau, and the staff below are called "policemen" and are drawn from the first regiment.

The procuratorate is responsible for criminal investigation, which is, to put it bluntly, the interrogation of criminals. Because he did not have the power to convict and pronounce sentences, Zhu Youjian did not set up a court for the time being. After the interrogation of the convict is completed, it can generally be handed over to the Jingyang County Ya; And special criminals like Jin Yiwei must be imprisoned first, and then dealt with when the conditions are ripe.

Zhu Youzhen's assumption is that the public security bureau will only arrest but not adjudicate, the procuratorate will only try but not judge, and the court will only have the power to make judgments. In this way, the judicial power can be divided into three, and the three departments can check each other, so as to avoid the emergence of freaks like Dongchang and Jinyiwei, who are above the law and have the power to grasp and adjudicate in one.

But who will be the person in charge of the procuratorate makes Zhu Youzhen very nerve-wracking. While he was thinking hard, Yan Ling suggested: "The last general wants to recommend someone, and it is only appropriate for him to interrogate the prisoner. But now that he belongs to the first regiment, I don't know if Xie Sheng will let him go. ”

"You're talking about Yan Zhengang, right?" Xie Sheng smiled, "He is indeed a suitable candidate, as long as His Highness needs it, I have nothing to be reluctant to." ”

"Who is Yan Zhengang, and you all respect him so much?" Zhu Youzhen said.

Xie Sheng hurriedly introduced: "Yan Zhengang is a native of Jingyang, he used to be a jailer in Xi'an Mansion, but he is an upright person, and he can't get used to those dark things in the yamen, so he angrily abandoned his post and returned to his hometown to farm a few years ago. Later, he joined the special combat team, transferred to the first regiment, and now serves as a company commander in the second battalion. He usually doesn't smile, and occasionally tells us how people are tortured in the yamen, and to be honest, I'm a little afraid of him. ”

"This king wants such a person!" Zhu Youzhen said happily, "Not only does he understand business, but he also has a natural deterrent effect on criminals, and it is really condescending for such a person to only let him be a company commander." Get him! ”

After a while, Xie Sheng led Yan Zhengang to hurry up. This is a middle-aged man in his thirties, tall and burly, with an awe-inspiring murderous aura in his gestures.

Zhu Youzhen asked, "Yan Zhengang, Xie Sheng must have already told you. If you want to leave the army and do your old job of interrogating prisoners, are you willing? ”

Yan Zhengang replied angrily: "The villain has been a jailer for more than ten years, and what he is most unaccustomed to is that the government abuses punishment against innocent people, and tortures them into tricks, and lets those who are really traitors and criminals go unpunished. If His Highness asks the villain to interrogate the prisoner, the villain promises that he will not wronged a good person, and he will never let a bad person go! ”

"That's a good point, but many of the prisoners are vicious, can you handle them?" Zhu Youzhen deliberately used words to provoke Yan Zhengang.

Yan Zhengang smiled faintly and said: "The villain has been in the yamen for a long time, and he has seen a lot of interrogation methods, and sometimes he also thinks about some methods by himself. No matter what the murderer is, the villain always has a way to get him to speak. ”

"Good!" Zhu Youzhen said excitedly, "Now there is a ready-made criminal, he murdered people without an edict from the imperial court, killed two Qin soldiers, and also slashed General Li Laiheng. I want you to ask him who is behind him, and find out what other evil he has done before. But he is a five-grade brocade cloth and a thousand households, do you dare to judge? ”

"There are only suspects in the eyes of the villain." Yan Zhengang still replied lightly.

Zhu Youzhen also wanted to see what Yan Zhengang had to do, so he found a secluded empty house, he hid behind Sun Chuanting, Yan Ling and others, and let Yan Zhengang sit in the presiding judge. Then he ordered Li Laiheng to bring a brocade guard.

Yan Zhengang first interrogated those little minions, and asked them in great detail from their names, ages, places of origin, official positions, and then to the circumstances of this murder. And he took the trouble to ask the same questions to everyone, taking notes as he went. Those people have become frightened birds, and it didn't take much trouble to try them.

Yan Zhengang compared the confessions of these people, and knew that the key to this case was on Zeng Rusong, a thousand households in Jinyi.

Finally, Zeng Rusong was also pushed up by the five flowers. This person was extremely arrogant, although he suffered a gunshot wound in his leg, and his nose and face were swollen from being beaten by the angry Qin soldiers, he still insisted on standing and not kneeling, and did not answer Yan Zhengang's questions.

Yan Zhengang was not in a hurry, and walked in front of Zeng Rusong and said with a slight smile: "I didn't expect you to be a tough guy." But the facts are all here, even if you don't open your mouth, just killing an innocent sergeant is enough to be a capital crime. If you can confess who gave the order, then you may still be forgivable as the executor; If you refuse to open your mouth and are willing to carry the black pot for others, then it is up to you. ”

Zeng Rusong's eyes rolled twice, obviously there was some activity in his heart. But in the end, he still scolded angrily: "This official is a five-grade brocade cloth guard thousand households, a dignified court official, what qualifications do you have to judge me?" You dare to imprison me, you are already a thief, and the acquaintance quickly released the official, maybe the official can spare you from death. ”

"You've got a mouthful of iron and steel teeth." Yan Zhengang sneered, "But I still want to see how hard your teeth are." Come on, pry his mouth open. ”

"You... What are you doing? Zeng Rusong screamed in horror.

At this time, several Qin soldiers rushed up and forced Zeng Rusong's big mouth open. Yan Zhengang conjured up an iron plier out of nowhere, snapped it twice, and smiled at Zeng Rusong and said, "Lord Qianhu, I'm going to get the pliers down, see if you have a hard mouth or this pliers is hard." ”