When the officials and the people were fighting at the gate, the first drum hall that Hu Luan had passed had just begun. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

By the time the villagers rushed in, the black-faced judge sitting on the right was already trembling, and Hu Luan wanted to ask him if he was sure about the defense of the enslavement room, but the judge only had a long mouth, but his voice was stuck in his throat and couldn't come out, and he was already in a state of stammering.

Hu Luan had no choice but to lean into the ear of the person on the left again: "Zheng Yuhou, do these dozen people with knives have to use it?" ”

"Rest assured, these people are not ordinary recruits, but selected from the soldiers who have been in battle for a long time, Zheng Mao promises that with their prestige and courage, three or four hundred people will not dare to approach for the time being, and it can be used."

Hu Luanzhi nodded, this Zheng Mao is Liu Yanseng's old subordinate, who was formerly the judge of Dengzhou Mabu Academy, and at the beginning of the year, he was changed to Dengzhou Mabu Academy. His role is basically a bridge between Hu Luanzhi and Liu Yanseng.

Mabu Yuan was originally used as military judges, but after the end of the Tang Dynasty, military attachés became more and more blatant in politics. The main method of interfering in state affairs was to use the courtesy of the Mabu Yuan to erode civil prisons and even pronounce sentences. In the year when Hu Luan was the history of the state assassin, the local judicial power seemed to be divided equally between the Ma Buyuan and the state assassin history. On weekdays, Zheng Mao and Hu Luan had many disputes over prison affairs, but their existence also played a slight role in buffering and lubricating between Hu and Liu.

"But if these villagers are well-organized, I am afraid it is not very easy to say. After a long delay, the people who were in the middle of it might instigate the crowd to rush over. ”

"Can you hold out until the team training envoy arrives?"

"It shouldn't be a problem, the assassination of Shi Gong still has to be delayed, it will drag on for more than half an hour, and it will be easy to do as soon as the regimental training of the native soldiers arrives, and then as long as the officers with knives in the hall protect us from being held hostage, even if the chaotic people are not killed by the regimental training, they can only retreat."

After saying this, Zheng Mao stood up and walked to the door of the lobby. He put his hands behind his back, first condescendingly looked left and right to make a patrol action, and only after brewing a bit of his might did he say aloud to the people below:

"Fellow villagers, Zheng Mao, this official Ma Buyuan, if you have any grievances, you can express your grievances in Lizheng and the county office, and think it is mediation. In addition to the criminal and prison disputes in Dengzhou City, the yamen of the state capital only hears all kinds of cases prosecuted by the counties for the imperial history. ”

There was also a burst of chaotic shouting below, although it sounded chaotic at first glance, but one after another was staggered, and what "punish the cattle slaughterer" and "kill the cattle cultivator" can be roughly understood.

Cheng Yuan, who was mixed in the crowd, was in the dark: the shouts of these people were not like the noisy noise in the square, and they were not the uniform slogans shouted in modern parades, but somewhere in between. In this way, it will not cause the first two people to be arrested by the government as the first evil, and they will make an example of the monkey.

Looking back, sure enough, every time the monk quietly folded his hands behind him, the shouts came and went, and when he gradually shouted confusion and couldn't hear the content, he stood with his hands down, and the voice gradually dissipated, waiting for his next code. I don't know when, many villagers with hoes in the crowd have also slowly squeezed to the front and confronted the officials with knives.

Cheng Yuan knew that for Hu Luan, the current situation was undoubtedly a test.

However, Hu Luan understood in his heart that the original reason for the incident was that he was taken to the state capital by the subordinate counties a few days ago, and most of these people were hungry people after last autumn, and their surplus grain was not much left after the levy, and they had to eat up all the seeds in the hunger, and maybe they could not plough in the spring, so they slaughtered and ate their own cattle. Later, he abandoned the land to steal the cattle of other households, thinking that the state government did not announce the sentence in time, which aroused public indignation. In addition, the weather in the beginning of spring has been very cold, and seeing that this year's summer grain collection is approaching in a blink of an eye, the villagers are anxious and more likely to take the opportunity to agitate for some hidden figures, and finally formed the current situation.

He cleared his throat and began to speak, and under the effect of the structure of the palace hall and the fence on the middle road, even if he didn't pull his neck and shout, it sounded very clear:

"Fellow villagers, what grievances do you have, this official will make the decision, but there is a sequence, I must wait for the case in front of me to be tried, and then deal with it!"

When everyone in the hall heard this, they all became agitated, and the voices of "punish the cattle slaughterer" and "don't delay" rose one after another.

Since the Han Dynasty, those who kill cattle have often resorted to criminal law, especially at the beginning of the new dynasty, when the rulers were supposed to recuperate, and in order to encourage farming, the rulers imposed harsher sentences, often punishing them as capital crimes. The ancients were not like modern times, and did not have a clear sense of the free disposal of individual private property rights, and the ploughing ox was not only a production tool for farmers, but also had the meaning of "the capital of the world".

If there is a case of stealing someone else's cattle and slaughtering them, then not only will they be investigated in terms of punishment, but they will also cause public anger morally. The reason why Hu Luan had been delaying a few days ago and not asking for the guilt was that he felt that these hungry people were in the middle of life and death, so they delayed for a few days. For several days he had been asking the magistrate, the man to his right, to look through the precedents of the past for possible accommodation, but he did not know who had leaked the news that had led the "rebels" to make what was happening today.

In today's words: there are ghosts in the yamen of Dengzhou Mansion......

The plaintiff and the defendant, who had just played the first drum, were both kneeling on the ground, and the defendant had not been summoned for a long time, when he saw a large group of rioters rushing in, and he was already so frightened that he was dripping with urine and running down his pants to his knees. Although the plaintiff seemed to be young, he seemed to have some guts, and he was still impatiently waiting for Hu Tingshi to start the trial soon.

With a snap, Hu Luanzhi slammed the startling wood, and the noise of everyone slowly fell silent.

"Shen Zhang," Hu Luan looked at the plaintiff, you said that your brother's division of family property was unfair, and the official just finished reading the complaint you handed over, since the predecessor of the state government had already pronounced the verdict three years ago and refuted your complaint, why are you still entangled here? ”

The plaintiff saw that Hu Luan finally said his case, and hurriedly replied: "Assassin Shi Gong, three years ago, I was still young, and I did not leave a will after the death of the adults in my family, but I once said: It is better to hold the family business together as a brother, but once the family is separated, the property must be divided equally. There are neighbors who testify about this matter, and it is no joke. However, afterwards, the assets were all controlled by my brother Shen Yan alone, and I was not convinced, so I had to split up. Who wants him to take the opportunity to keep the big head for himself, but give me some scraps to burn coldly, the injustice of this family, and I hope to assassinate Shi Gong. ”

Cheng Yuan under the hall was anxious: "This kind of case belongs to the old accounts of many years ago, not only is it difficult to explain clearly, but it is necessary to carefully investigate the case record of three years ago, plus the plaintiff's father's deathbed words, and the summoning of witnesses, it is simply an excellent opportunity for Hu Luan's people to delay the army, there will be no in the plaintiff's statement just now, but you asked him to repeat it, obviously delaying, it seems that it is no problem to drag until the regimental training envoy leads people to the killing." At this time, Zheng Mao, who was beside Hu Luan, sighed slightly.

was secretly thinking in his heart, Chengyuan was suddenly stunned; "Shen Zhang? Shen Yan? How do these two names sound so familiar?

"Shen Yan, what do you say?"

"The grass people returned to stab Shi Gong, the division of the family three years ago was indeed managed by me, and as a long house, it should be so. The so-called eldest brother is like a father, and the division of grass people is absolutely fair! The two properties are completely equal! Three years ago, the confession of the grass people was still in the case record, and I hope to assassinate Shi Gong. ”

Hu Luanzhi whispered a few words beside the judge, but the judge didn't say anything, just nodded and sighed and was about to hurry away.

Zheng Mao was unhappy in his heart, and couldn't help but grab the judge's side from the door, pulled his sleeve and whispered: "Judge Shi, which one is in a hurry?" You have to go slowly, it is very difficult to find the paperwork of three years ago at the bottom of the warehouse, and it makes sense to delay it for a little longer. ”

The judge shook his head, glanced at Hu Luan again, and turned away.

Deng Mao was about to ask about the history of the assassination, but Hu Luan did not answer, but asked aloud after a long silence: "Shen Zhang, you said that there are neighbors who testify that the property must be divided equally, where is the person?" ”

The villagers in the hall knew that the assassin was going to summon witnesses to delay the time, and they all clamored, and several officials with knives hurriedly approached a few steps forward to stop them from waiting for an opportunity to rush up. Suddenly, the sound of "clanging" rang out, but it was the sound of a hoe and a sword intersecting. However, these officials were also afraid of causing great chaos and the assassination history was taken hostage, so they did not dare to kill or injure them.

"The witness is the widow Xu at the east corner of the street where the grass people live, she was originally waiting outside, thinking that she was rushed to the left by the chaos of Fang Cai, and the assassin Shi Gong can send someone to look for her outside the palace gate, and he may be waiting there now."

Hu Luanzhi waved his hand, and the officials who had already been washed out outside the Yimen had no choice but to maintain a scattered state, shouting one by one: "Witness Xu."

When everyone heard that the witness was outside the door, they hurriedly wanted to make way for a passage, and many people who were not interested still shouted slogans such as "death to the cattle slaughterer". Cheng Yuan looked around to find the monk who made the code, but the person suddenly disappeared, and he didn't know whether he took the opportunity to slip away or blended into another position in the crowd. The monk was gray-clad and gray-hatted, and it was really not easy to notice hiding among the villagers.

Then a slightly chubby woman slowly entered. Hu Luan in the hall observed carefully, this widow Xu had an ordinary appearance and a good figure, and she did not meet any of the Shen family brothers.

The widow made a salute to ask for words, but Hu Luan interrupted her and said: "No need to be polite, the last words of the old man of the Shen family before his death do not need to testify at all, this official only asks you, after the two brothers of the Shen family separated, who is more effective in management?" ”

The woman said: "Stabbing back Shi Gong, as everyone knows, the plaintiff Shen Zhang is the younger brother, although he was not an adult when he split up, he was more diligent and did not squander. ”

Hu Luanzhi nodded slightly, then looked at the two people involved, revealing an inquiry, the plaintiff Shen Zhang nodded angrily, and his brother Shen Yan wanted to open his mouth, but gave up, obviously the two had no objection.

Hu Luanzhi was about to continue asking, everyone's eyes suddenly turned to the back door of the lobby, but the judge Shi had already hurried back with the case record, Deng Mao saw that he came so quickly, he couldn't help but complain, he glanced at the judge Shi, and then took the case book and turned the page.

I was immediately taken aback at this glance, this was obviously not the testimony of the separation case three years ago, but the record of the cattle slaughter case.

was about to ask Judge Shi to go back and look for it again, but Hu Luanzhi suddenly struck the shocked Tang Mu and said something that surprised Deng Mao, Cheng Yuan, and everyone in the hall:

"The case of the Shen family's division of family property, there is no need for testimony in the case file, and it can be judged in one word!"