Wei Qi and Gai Xun have been in Jinyang for a while, and although the two of them have different identities, they are both here for the Jinyang Sun family's extermination case. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Lü Bu gave full authority to Wei Qi to try the Sun clan of Jinyang, while Gai Xun sat in as a minister of the imperial court to ensure that the entire trial process was fair.

Before Wei Qi arrived, the seven-year-old boy Hao Zhao, with the help of the Tiance Army, had already retrieved the civilians who had originally lived around Sun's Dock Fort. Taishou Zhang Yang personally went to the village to appease these civilians, telling them that the Sun clan would not escape punishment and would definitely not be able to return to the dock fort, so they could live in the dock fort with peace of mind, and it would not be too late to move out after the new house was rebuilt.

Hao Zhao went door to door again, telling these civilians who moved back that if they want to live in peace in the future, they must expose all the evil deeds and evil things that the Sun family has done in the past, so that the government can completely knock the Sun family to the ground, so as not to be bitten instead of beating the snake.

Don't look at Hao Zhao's young age, but what he said is actually very reasonable, these civilians also heard that Sun Shu rebelled and was killed, and Nie Wei committed suicide in fear of crime, and knew that General Tiance really wanted to make decisions for them, so they all exposed the evil things of the Sun clan oppressing civilians and seizing land and property to the Taishou Mansion. Zhang Yang asked people to write down the names of the civilians who came to expose them, and then also write down the things that this person had exposed, and keep them all on file for the chief justice to check when he arrived.

After Wei Qi arrived in Jinyang, he first carefully checked the disclosure records kept in the Taishou Mansion, and then went to the Sun Clan's Dock Fort to ask them individually according to the list, and found that the answers of these people were not much different from the content of the records, and there may be some inconsistencies in terms of dates and numbers, but the major acts involving the Sun family's evil deeds are basically consistent. Wei Qi judged from this that these civilians should not be pushed by the wall and maliciously slandered the Sun family.

Hao Zhao led Wei Qi to the place where Xu Huang dug up the body of Feng Gui's family, which had been protected by a fence and a grass shed on top to prevent it from falling into the water. Hao Zhao told Xu Huang in detail about the conflict between Xu Huang and Sun's Haonu, and then told Wei Qi that when General Tiance arrived with his army, the bodies of Feng Gui's family of five would completely disappear.

Wei Qi jumped into the corpse pit, ignoring the filth inside, picked out some fine hairs with a silver needle that he carried with him, and then put them on top of a white cloth and wrapped them.

After Wei Qi returned to Jinyang City from Sun's Dock Fort, he personally went down to the cell to interrogate the patriarch of the Sun family and some important people in the clan. As he expected, the patriarch of the Sun clan insisted that the five members of the Feng Gui family were not killed by them, and the rebellion of the Taishou Sun She had nothing to do with the Sun family, and the reason why the Sun family wanted to confront the Tiance army was only because the general of Tiance slandered the Sun family for collusion with the Bai Bo army, obviously wanting to frame the Sun family and seek to seize the Sun family's dock fort and the property in the fort.

Wei Qi knew that he couldn't ask anything useful from the mouths of the patriarch of the Sun clan and the main figures in the clan, these people were obviously ready to carry it to the end, and they would definitely not admit the Feng Gui family's extermination case.

However, Wei Qi is not so easy to fool. He interrogated everyone in the castle one by one, including the underage child, and recorded the confession of each person he interrogated. Because these people have been held in separate places from the beginning, they have never had the opportunity to collude their confessions, so their confessions have many loopholes and inconsistencies.

After Wei Qi's interrogation, he took these confessions and compared them repeatedly, and then selected some important interrogation subjects, and then carried out a second round of interrogation, and then the confessions of these people were inconsistent with the first confession. Wei Qi was furious, and finally sentenced some of the Sun family's family members and Hao slaves who did not honestly confess, and the family members and Hao slaves who had ghosts in their hearts couldn't stand the torture and began to confess the truth.

Among the house slaves who honestly confessed, there were those who participated in the burning of the corpses of Feng Gui's family, those who participated in the burning of the entire village, and those who witnessed the murder of the Sun family's disciples with their swords.

Wei Qi took all these important witnesses out of prison, and then sent them to the barracks, and entrusted Cheng Lian to take care of them to prevent them from being secretly poisoned.

Wei Qi took the confessions of these domestic slaves to meet the patriarch of the Sun clan again, and then told the patriarch of the Sun clan that it was actually meaningless to continue to be stubborn, and that it was completely possible to convict the Sun family with the unanimous revelation of the villagers and the confessions of the slaves of the Sun family, as for the corpses of the Feng Gui family, even if they were sprinkled in the Jin water and could not be found, it would not have much impact on the trial of the entire case.

The patriarch of the Sun clan was silent, obviously having been defeated. Wei Qi suggested to the patriarch of the Sun clan that it was better to confess his guilt happily and exchange a repentant attitude for a trace of leniency at the trial, so that some members of the Sun clan could survive.

The patriarch of the Sun clan asked Wei Qi if there was really such a possibility, and Wei Qi told him that Bingzhou was actually very short of people now, and the general even the Baibo exiles were rare like treasures, so how could he really kill the entire Sun clan. Sun had come to this point by his own death, and if he had confessed his guilt happily and had not tried to challenge the majesty of the Tiance Army, perhaps Sun Shu would not have died.

The patriarch of the Sun clan repented so much, wailed and cried, and kept scolding himself in the prison for being blinded by lard, which caused his brother's tragic death.

In the process of Wei Qi's investigation and interrogation, Gai Xun has been wearing the clothes of his entourage and has been following him, watching Wei Qi handle the case silently throughout the whole process, and several times he can't even help but want to persuade Wei Qi that he doesn't need to be so troublesome, just convict Sun directly. Sun's evil deeds are too obvious, and there is no need for others to frame them again.

Subsequently, Wei Qi asked Zhang Yang to help spread the news of the public trial of Sun to nearby counties, so that the nearby people came to watch the process of the public trial on the day of the public trial.

Zhang Yang sent a team of soldiers to build a temporary wooden platform on top of the market in Jinyang City, and installed a lot of fences to prevent chaos on the day of the public trial.

On the day of the public trial, many people from nearby counties poured into Jinyang City.

Wei Qi was wearing a black deep robe, wearing a knight's head, and a long sword at his waist, looking majestic. He ordered the soldiers to bring all the important figures of the Sun clan to the high platform, and then let the village civilians who were already waiting on the side of the high platform come to the stage one by one, and expose the evil things that the Sun clan had done in public one by one. After each civilian had made an exposé, Wei Qi would ask the Sun clan if they could have such a thing, and the Sun clan would nod their heads in acknowledgement. After the civilians finished exposing them, Wei Qi asked the guards to bring some of the rich slaves raised by the Sun family with them, and continued to expose some of the things they had seen in public.

Around and below the high platform, there was a group of soldiers with loud voices specially selected by Wei Qi for Cheng Lian, and they retold the content of the conversation on the stage from near and far, so that the people in the distance could also know the process and content of the trial on the stage.

The public trial lasted for a whole day, and at noon there was a dry food specially sent by the Taishou Mansion. Halfway through the interrogation, the people in the audience were already shouting for the Sun clan to be executed.

In fact, many of these ordinary people have also been oppressed and harmed by the nearby wealthy clans, but they are not as miserable as Feng Gui's family.