More than a dozen large lanterns illuminated the room brightly, like daylight, Tang Yi, Sun Keyuan, and Jin Dan sat together, with three thick stacks of documents in front of them, all about the Niu Erhu case.

Since the news that Niu Erhu was killed by Dou Yu came out, hundreds of people were thunderous with joy, rushing to the prison to send food, drink, clothing, and some rich people took silver and stuffed it into the hands of the jailer, although they couldn't help much, they couldn't let Dou Ye be wronged inside. There was also a group of gentry students who went in tandem and petitioned for leniency.

For a while, Dou Yu turned from a small hundred households to a big hero and a big hero admired by everyone, which made Tang Yi cry and laugh.

It's just that he carefully studied Niu Erhu's file for a while, but he understood the reason.

Niu Erhu is a green-skinned scoundrel, he lived on the street by beating and blackmailing people in his teens, this guy often boasted a few years ago, saying that he wanted to pull up a group of people, go to Xiaguan to rob passing ships, make a fortune first, and then wait for the imperial court to Zhao'an, and then glorify the ancestors. He also said that he was also raised by his parents, and he knew that lack of virtue was not good, but lack of virtue was his job, and he couldn't do it if he didn't lack it!

It's just such a thing, a complete scumbag. I don't know what's going on, I was confused, I got on the hook, with the town guard eunuch as a godfather, Niu Erhu was even more unscrupulous, and his subordinates gathered hundreds of idle lazy people, in addition to asking for money everywhere, he also set up tax cards, exploited past merchants, and was ruthless, just in his hands, there were more than a dozen businessmen who were forced to die.

Nanjing's officials were intimidated by He Xuan's forces, and they could only let Niu Erhu go, this guy became more and more rampant, and almost became a tyrant in Nanjing City.

Tang Yi was not surprised by this. It has always been the case that the town guards and eunuchs in various places have raised a large group of thugs, collected money everywhere, and relied on the support of the emperor, and the local officials did not dare to do anything to them!

And most of the wealth collected will be sent to the palace. Honoring everyone, even Emperor Jiajing, is simply an open secret of officialdom.

Obviously, Niu Erhu is a mad dog under He Xuan, but this dog has encountered a ruthless stubble, Dou Yu is a hunter, has good kung fu, is righteous, and brave in battle. In the Zhenwu camp, although the status is not high, there are more than a dozen good brothers.

Tang Yi also inquired clearly, that old man Ge was indeed a money fan, he had two daughters, and the eldest daughter married a landlord in his fifties and became a house-filler.

The second daughter, that is, the second girl. She is more beautiful than her sister, only seventeen years old. usually helps out in the grocery store, and happened to meet Dou Yu, the two of them came and went, and soon it was time to talk about marriage, and the two parties were stuck on the bride price, and the old man Ge wanted gold. If you don't give it, you won't agree.

As a result, Niu Erhu's subordinates noticed the second girl, so they pretended to propose marriage to Old Man Ge, and promised to agree, as long as the girl sent it over. Immediately gave him a bride price of ten gold bars, and when Old Man Ge saw the money, he didn't ask what the other party was, so he agreed in one bite.

The second girl cried for three days, didn't eat or drink, Old Man Ge didn't listen at all, forced his daughter to get married, and waited until the sedan chair was carried to Niu's house, and then he knew that his aunt was the famous Niu Erhu.

The old man didn't think much about it, thinking that as long as he gave money, people did give gold, he ran home, opened the small box, grabbed out a gold bar, bit it hard, and suddenly broke a front tooth, and his mouth was full of blood, and the gold bar turned out to be fake!

Old man Ge and the old woman immediately quit, and the latte pimple wanted to deceive our daughter, which was too deceitful, and they rushed to Niu's house in one go, wanting to find Niu Erhu's theory.

turned out to find that the Niu family was in a mess, and the guests ran away without a trace, until they came to the cave room, and directly scared Old Man Ge to faint. His daughter was leaning against the big rosewood bed, her wrist had been cut, and there was blood on the floor and on the bed, and she was dead.

When he came to his senses and inquired, he figured out that when he sent his relatives over, he was bumped into by a brother of Dou Yu, and he hurriedly told Dou Yu when he turned around. Dou Yu exploded his lungs in anger, found a brother, rushed to Niu's house, and fought, but unfortunately it was too late, and the second girl had already committed suicide.

Niu Erhu also found out that the second girl was dead, and he was extremely angry, he relied on the strength of the crowd and beat Dou Yu away, but he didn't dare to enter the Zhenwu camp, so he thought about waiting for dawn to find his godfather to come forward and arrest Dou Yu.

Who knew that Dou Yu came back in the middle of the night, and when he arrived at the cave room, he saw the body of the second girl, he was completely moved to kill, and quietly found the room where Niu Erhu lived. Happy events turned into funerals, Niu Erhu borrowed wine to kill his sorrows, drank most of the jar, was in a daze, the world was spinning, Dou Yu rushed in, knocked him to the ground, unloaded his chin, and then carried it to the cave room, where the second girl committed suicide, cut both of Niu Erhu's wrists, and was stunned to shed blood.

Seeing Niu Erhu die, he took the body of the second girl out of the city for burial, accompanied her for a long time, and then returned to the city to surrender......

The case is not complicated, after many investigations, it was quickly figured out that this tragedy did stem from Niu Erhu's cheating on marriage, and Old Man Ge was open-minded when he saw money, which was also an important reason for pushing his daughter to a dead end.

Judging purely from the case, Niu Erhu's crime is not death, Dou Yu's murder methods are cruel, and he should be sentenced heavily, even if it is a decisive decision, it is not an exaggeration.

It's just that the problem should be so simple, Dou Yu implicated Zhenwu Ying, implicated Zhang Wei and Liu Xian, especially his actions were supported by the majority of gentry and were regarded as righteous men.

Just the 10,000-word petition for Dou Yu was piled up in a thick pile, and killing him would only cause public anger.

Although Niu Erhu is not guilty in this case, looking at what he did, let alone killing him, even if he was killed, he deserved it.

However, he was implicated behind the town guard eunuch He Huan, in the past few days, He Xuan has frequently sent people over to inquire about the case, and the meaning could not be clearer, that is, he is to deal with Dou Yu ruthlessly, not only him, the sergeant of the Zhenwu Battalion who accompanied Dou Yu to the Niu family that day, none of them could run, and they all had to die.

A small murder case turned out to be the key to the wrestling between the two sides.

However, Tang Yi wanted to investigate and bring down Zhang Wei because of his secret purpose. The easiest thing is to use this case as a breakthrough, deal with Dou Yu and these people ruthlessly, and put a hat on Zhang Wei, take him down from the Ministry of War, and then say something else.

It's just that once he does this, in the eyes of others, it is equivalent to standing on He Zhan's side, and if he doesn't do it well, he will offend the gentry and bureaucrats in Nanjing, and then a eunuch hat will be buckled on his head.

Tang Yi was just in his early twenties, and even according to the average life expectancy of a bureaucrat in the Ming Dynasty, he still had forty years of life in the sea.

Once he was beaten into a eunuch, then the next sourness can be imagined, Yan Ge has only started to deteriorate since he was in his sixties, and he was still a clear stream with a noble character before! Is it possible to bear a lifetime of infamy?

"My lord, no matter what, this Dou Yu can't die." Jin Dan said loudly: "If such a man is killed, his conscience will not be able to pass!" ”

"That's right!" Sun Keyuan also said: "Master, the imperial court is suspicious of Zhang Butang and Zhenwu Ying, if you boldly execute Dou Yu, arouse the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and if someone makes waves, I am afraid that ......" He did not continue, but the meaning was very clear.

Tang Yi pondered for a long time, "You are afraid, I am also afraid, this official is really boring, the higher he is, the more afraid he is!" ”

Tang Yi sighed with emotion, took the file again, rubbed his sore eyes, and continued to read. From the heart, everyone respects a good man, after Dou Yu buried the second girl, he could escape, with his kung fu, it wouldn't take too much to escape.

It would be great for him to come back and confess his sins.

I don't believe it, I can't find a flaw......

Tang Yi's bullish temper came up, back and forth, until he saw the dawn in the east, his eyes suddenly lit up, he stood up, and stretched his waist with satisfaction.

"Hehe, this time Dou Yu is alive, but the capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime is inescapable, and I have to punish him heavily."

What did Tang Yi find?

It turned out that after Niu Erhu beat Dou Yu away, he found that the bride was dead, this guy was indeed barbaric, and he had no feelings for the bride at all, but he was just a plaything, and he died, and he didn't even pretend to be a corpse, and threw it directly in the cave room. He wanted to find Old Man Ge and ask them to take his daughter's body away, but Niu Ye didn't bother to take care of it at all.

After thinking about it, this piece can just be used to make a fuss.

Tang Yi added a few sentences to the dossier: The second girl was seriously injured and did not die, and she woke up slowly, and the second tiger said: The living is my wife, and being half-dead is a drag. Angry and killed, just when Dou Yu returned, seeing this atrocity, he was filled with righteous indignation, and he stabbed two tigers.

After adding this paragraph, Sun Kewang and Jin Dan read it again and stretched out their thumbs one after another!

High, that's so high!

First of all, in a few words, the deliberate murder turned into a manslaughter because of the rescue, and the degree of severity dropped several notches at once, from a capital crime to a living crime.

Secondly, the three people involved in this paragraph of change, two of them are dead, Dou Yu will not make trouble for himself, that is to say, there is no proof of death, and no one can say anything!

Although the legal provisions of the Ming Dynasty are much stricter than those of the West at the same time, there are also a lot of loopholes, and there is still a way to drill them.

Tang Yi referred to the precedents of the past years and picked the heaviest one, with one hundred and twenty battles and five thousand miles of troops, and was degraded to Hainan in one breath, the ends of the earth.

As soon as the verdict came out, the gentry and the people were thunderous, everyone applauded, praised the justice of the law, and some people gave the people umbrellas.

Tang Yi didn't give He time to react, and immediately executed. The so-called one hundred and twenty sticks, if you beat them to death, thirty or forty can kill you, Tang Yi has the intention to release the water, plus a large number of gentry pay money, and the pockets of the officials who executed are full of silver, but they just responded to the story in vain, broke a layer of skin, and it was over after a three-to-five day break, Tang Yi specially sent eight personal guards to escort him and go to Hainan by water. Out of Nanjing City, it is under the rule of Hu Zongxian, even if He is unwilling, there is no way.

Tang Yi calculated very well, but he underestimated the stupidity of the dead eunuch, and a big trouble was waiting for him. (To be continued.) )