(Author's note: This section should never be read during meals)

Cheng Yuan secretly analyzed a series of methods of assassinating Shi Gong: first, so far, he has not thrown out a word of coercion to the people around the lobby. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hu Luan did not immediately stand up to the people, and did not even persuade everyone to go back like Deng Mao did. On the contrary, he used "things have a sequence" as a reason to unconsciously attract everyone's attention to a case in front.

During the whole process of the division case, Hu Luan asked the plaintiff and the defendant to fully express their arguments without any preconceived approach, and then made a reasonable judgment without denying either party. Unconsciously, some people in the audience have begun to believe: Assassin Shigong did not mean to delay time and look forward to reinforcements, and secondly, he was a reasonable person.

In this way, everyone will naturally have a sense of security in their hearts, but they are reluctant to rush around. If Hu Luan insisted on delaying time, then the frightened villagers would instead break the net and rush to the lobby. In fact, regardless of whether the behind-the-scenes manipulators of the incident were well-organized or not, or if there were any threats and inducements, the people in the closed yamen must have been quite nervous.

Another detail is that when Widow Xu came in, Hu Luan gave the official at the door a look and shook his head. Cheng Yuan looked back now, and sure enough, from a distance, the gate of the yamen was wide open, and it was not closed just now. This will invisibly reassure many people: Anyway, I will keep the way back, and I am not in a hurry to embarrass this old man.

Cheng Yuan works in the planning department of the municipal party committee, and of course he has heard many mass incidents mentioned by people from units under the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It now seems that even in modern governments, many officials often lack goodwill and sincerity in their public relations strategies, and they don't know how bad they are compared to Hu Luan's mastery.

"Eh, I'll go! Isn't the door already open? ”

Thinking of this, he suddenly flashed in his mind, "I'm a fool, I just watched the trial and entered the play, why didn't I notice that the door was open?" ”

He immediately set off and rushed to the back, trying to escape from the place as soon as possible, but he couldn't squeeze through. "Just now there are obviously two great opportunities to sneak outside, one is when Widow Xu comes in, and the other is when the Shen brothers draw a picture to go out, the people in the hall will give way to let them pass, and now that the time has passed, it is difficult for me to squeeze out without being noticed."

"I'm a fucking idiot!"

Cheng Yuan was sweating in a hurry, but at this time, he could only scold himself for being stupid.

"Borrowed, borrowed!" He stretched out his hands to pick up the people behind him, a fat man was pushed by him uncomfortably, and couldn't help but slap him the head, this is good, Chengyuan couldn't dodge, and the hat on his head had been caught.

Hu Luan in the lobby was glad that time had been bought again, he knew that Jiang Tuanlian was a reckless man, and he led his troops to cause a bloody case, which was definitely not the result he hoped to see. The culprit of the cattle slaughter had already been brought up, and when he was about to be questioned, he noticed a commotion below. From a distance, a well-rounded young man was moving stupidly in the crowd.

It doesn't matter if you look at this, but Hu Luan's nose will be crooked:

"This kid didn't practice your seal script well in the Sex Hall, but he actually mixed in with the chaos to watch the excitement!"

There was really no time to pay attention to him, Hu Luanzhi cleared his throat and asked, "The three people kneeling in front of you, but Chen Baoxuan, Cui Yan, and Zhang Qing?" ”

"Exactly, I am Zhang Qing, and the two of them are Cui Yan and Chen Baoxuan!"

The respondent was a man who appeared to be in his thirties, who seemed to have an elegant manners, but did not have much of the rustic air of a peasant. Cui Yan and Chen Baoxuan were always weak, their eyes were deep-set, their lips were white, and they were so thin that they could barely distinguish their original appearances.

Hu Luan's face sank, these cattle slaughterers have been locked up in the state prison since they were taken to the state capital, and he has only read the case files at the first trial, and has not been interrogated in person. Seeing that this Zhang Qing obviously looks like a person who has read a book, judging from his demeanor when he entered just now, where does he look like a hungry person?

"Zhang Qing, when you were interrogated in the county, you said: You are a starving person, and you have no choice but to do this illegal act, can you do this?"

"The history of backstabbing is indeed so."

"However, the county inspection point has no household registration for reference, and your name is not registered, how do you explain it?"

"Cao Min is really a person in the river, and last year there was a drought south of Fenshui, and the small people fled to the vicinity of Dengzhou, so they are not in the local household registration."

Hu Luanzhi secretly sneered in his heart, Hezhong Mansion (located in the southernmost part of today's Shanxi Province) is the jurisdiction of Li Shouzhen, the envoy of the Protector Army, since the founding of Gaozu Liu Zhiyuan, Li Shouzhen's attitude has been uncertain, not to mention Dengzhou Mansion, even it is not easy for the imperial court to transfer the local archives, although this person does have a Fenshui accent when he speaks, but this statement is obviously intended to cause a situation where there is no evidence of death.

He thought again: "Cao Zheng, the county lieutenant, sometimes doesn't look at things in the county, and always runs to Dengzhou City, and the Neixiang County Office has become a headless fly." It is confusing to record this kind of testimony without questioning! ”

"Come on! Splints waiting! ”

Hu Luanzhi threw the order, and the three officials immediately stepped forward, one of them seemed to be strong and held his hands, and the other two put four bamboo boards on the tibia of Zhang Qing's legs, and the two of them pulled hard from both sides, and immediately the people in the hall heard the sound of "Ga Zhi".

"Ah......h Assassin Shi Gong spares his life...... The little ones are honest, the little ones are all ......"

The so-called men are afraid of splints, women are afraid of bamboo sticks, and Zhang Qing can't bear it before half a cup of tea. As soon as Hu Luan waved his hand, the officials also let go of the torture tools.

"Say!"

Zhang Qing was already sweating profusely in pain: "Back stabbing Shi Gong...... The villain is indeed not a starving person fleeing the famine, but a leather merchant in Kaifeng City......"

As soon as these words came out, the people in the hall were already bursting with cheers. If the reason for the slaughter of cattle is actually the profiteer smuggling cow hides that were forbidden by the imperial court, then these people are really unforgivable.

Zheng Mao made an index finger motion across Hu Luan's neck, suggesting that he quickly pronounce the sentence of all the perpetrators of the cattle slaughter case to be executed.

Hu Luan was silent, and after a long period of silence, he asked: "You instigated the hungry people to steal cattle, and whose family did the cowhide supply to?" Tell the truth, otherwise there will be suffering! ”

"This ...... The cowhide is for the villain's own use, and there is no ...... Didn't ship......"

Zhang Qingzhi's words have not been finished, Hu Luan's second lottery has been thrown down, this time it is not so cheap, and he will definitely make him suffer more. The imperial court punished no more than three sentences per class, in order to demonstrate the country's prudence on corporal punishment. The records of the torture equipment are all written in detail in the confession for the criminal officer to inspect, Hu Luan knows that the second round of splints is the most important, otherwise there will be no substantive goods in this trial.

"Kill him! Strangle him! The people in the hall are still shouting, this time it is not a code of the organizers behind the scenes, but everyone is angry at the same time.

"Oops...... Plentiful...... Spare your life...... Thorn Shi Gong...... My lord...... Daddy......"

Hu Luanzhi ignored his pleas, but closed his eyes: "Eight stops...... Nine stops...... Ten stops...... Eleven...... Twelve ...... "He secretly grasped the proportions of the punishment, the officials would definitely torture this profiteer, so the force would be more violent, Hu Luan estimated that when he counted to twenty-seven or eight this time, Zhang Qing's leg might be broken, and he had to end it early......

Suddenly, there was a burst of stench, Zhang Qing fainted, and there was a mess of feces and urine on the ground, but the perpetrator was already incontinent. The two of them slipped Zhang Qingti up and wanted to pour cold water, but they saw two round things falling from his trouser legs with the filth in his crotch.

The official covered his mouth and nose with one hand and pinched the thing with a square scarf:

"The history of the assassination is reported that these are two wax pills, which seem to be hidden in the rectum of the criminal, and I think it was caused by the failure of the county to search carefully when he was imprisoned."

"Peel off!"

"No!"

After the servant gently wiped the wax pill, he took out the contents of it, but it was two pieces of paper with words written on them, and when he spread them out on the table, Hu Luan looked at it, and the general reason for the incident could already be imagined.

Hu Luanzhi turned his head to Chen Baoxuan and shouted, "Do you two know the inside story here?" Tell me the truth! ”

Chen Baoxuan and Cui Yan saw that Zhang Qing was tortured and tortured to the point of dying of pain, and they did not have the slightest denial for a long time: "I know that Zhang Qing is from Daliang City, he said that he killed the cow, the cowhide was transferred to him, and we were paid some grain and rice after ten days, and the beef was kept for us to feed our stomachs." ”

It turned out that the two notes in the wax pill, one of which was written by the eunuch Xu Fu in the court, asking the leather merchant Zhang Qing to find good cowhide for the leather drum made by the Han family. The other is a receipt written by Zhang Qing, indicating the required purchase price. This merchant was obsessed with his mind, greedy for the fat given in the palace, and even stole cattle to get skins for this huge profit. If you do this kind of thing, of course the people in the palace will have kickbacks and dividends, otherwise the businessman will not be so bold. Perhaps, this extremely harmful "unspoken rule" was initiated by the palace, and Hu Luan had caught some rumors before.

Thinking that Zhang Qing was afraid that he would implicate the eunuch Xu in stealing cattle skins without permission - if the merchant offended the eunuch when procuring, it was not only himself, but he was afraid that the whole family would be difficult to preserve, so he kept the two letters in the wax pills, and when Zhang Qing was detained by the county government, he was caught off guard, and even stuffed it into the rectum during the crisis, so as to mix with the local government.

Why didn't you destroy or swallow it then? Hu Luanzhi had doubts about this in his heart.

Yes, the internal government supervisor never pays a deposit for the outsourcing matters, since Zhang Qing handed over the goods first, of course, he also had a fluke mentality, and only secretly sent the wax pills out when his family visited, as long as there were two notes, then the internal supervisor Xu Fuling had concerns, at least there was the possibility of recovering the payment. Even the family's contracted leather business was able to continue.

Hu Luanzhi lamented the persistence of businessmen to make profits, even if they were between life and death, they still planned their future family business, and they did not know whether it was contemptible or respectable.

After examining the two notes again, he thought to himself: "Eunuch Xu's procurement book is stamped with the seal of the inner government eunuch, and I was a scholar in the court before I was released to Dengzhou, and I know that there is no suspicion of fraud, and the content of the note does not mention the method of procuring cowhides." In other words, at least from the superficial point of view of these two notes, Eunuch Xu is not implicated in the violation of the law. ”

After thinking about it, Hu Luanzhi gradually knew in his heart that exposing the scandals in the palace was certainly not an option, and how to do the best of both worlds was currently decided, but it was difficult to say whether the chaotic people in the hall could accept it.

"Take these two notes to the front of the lobby and show them to everyone."

Zheng Mao was stunned for a moment, he picked up two pieces of paper suspiciously, and after looking at them twice, he was obviously taken aback, and couldn't help but look back at Shi Gong.

"Hey...... Go ahead. ”

Listening to Zheng Mao's frustrated voice when he read it, Cheng Yuan below couldn't help but imagine how the criminal handled these two things in prison: "Hmm...... When should I come out every day, and then when should I go back again......" After a few moments, he was disgusted and didn't dare to think about it anymore, and when he looked up the lobby, Hu Luanzhi actually glared at him with anger on his face, which frightened him in his heart.

Suddenly, someone behind him poked his backbone, and when he looked back, it was the fat man who had just put down his hat. The man's eyes widened and he looked at Cheng Yuan and said:

"You, are you ......?"

The fat man hadn't finished speaking, but he heard a chaotic sound of footsteps approaching. This burst of sound came in a hurry, and there were many people who heard it, but there was no noise that accompanied human speech.

Hu Luanzhi was shocked: "Why did it come so quickly?" Hurriedly made a shocking call: "This envoy has reviewed the physical evidence and confession testimony of the county and government to which this case is located, and after the trial of the Dengzhou Mansion, the judgment is as follows......"

Just spit out a word, but heard a shout: "Slow! "But it was Cao Zheng who led the regiment to train the soldiers to arrive.