readx; Starting from Ma Qing's swift arrest, Jinyi Wei Shun Teng quickly arrested more than a dozen White Lotus Sect disciples lurking in Beijing, and a huge and secret network of stealing the top military secrets of the Ming Empire gradually began to surface. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some of these White Lotus disciples were originally from Jingshi, and some came to Jingshi under the cover of doing business. Their targets were not limited to military factories, but also included low-level officials, officials and soldiers in the Beijing camp, and all those associated with the government. Of course, they did not dare to openly wander around the barracks and government offices, but "flies bite eggs with seams", and they are best at finding suitable targets in restaurants, casinos, brothels and other places where dirt is hidden.

After finding the target, these people first did what they liked, using small favors and small favors to get acquainted with each other; then use gambling, sex games and other means to make the other party unable to make ends meet, and even owe huge gambling debts; In the end, the true face of Lushan will be revealed, and what you really want will be revealed. And as long as you fall into the trap, you will fall deeper and deeper. For example, Ma Qing knew that he had committed a serious crime, and offered to let them help him escape to Xiangyang several times, but the White Lotus Sect still wanted to steal more advanced technology through him, so of course he refused to help him escape.

However, the White Lotus Sect also miscalculated, they didn't expect that the grenades made with the stolen technology had just been smuggled into Nanjing, and so soon the Jingshi launched an investigation, and before even a day arrived, Ma Qing fell into the legal net. Although these people are all single-line contacts, as the saying goes, "people's hearts are like iron, and official laws are like furnaces", under the punishment of Jinyiwei, they are like grasshoppers on a line, and they are quickly wiped out.

Zhu Youzhen has always had a different view on the "prohibition of extorting confessions by torture" in modern legal concepts. For those who have not committed a crime or who have only committed a minor crime, torture can indeed lead to torture, and even interrogators have deliberately abused punishment so that good people are wronged and real murderers go unpunished. However, the exact proportion of torture is a question worth pondering.

If the government has unlimited judicial resources, of course, it can theoretically rely on a complete chain of evidence such as human evidence, physical evidence, and circumstantial evidence, without the use of torture, and can convict without the confession of the suspect. However, in fact, this is impossible, let alone the current turbulent times, even in the United States, which was known as the most complete judicial system in the previous life, because of the excessive emphasis on evidence for conviction, and a group of unscrupulous lawyers in order to make money, they have hollowed out their minds to exonerate suspects, and it often takes several years, or even more than ten years, to determine a case, and consumes a lot of judicial resources.

On the surface, this is procedurally "fair" and ensures the "legitimate rights and interests" of the suspect. However, as a result, judicial resources have been greatly consumed, a large number of criminals have not been punished in a timely and appropriate manner, and the government has been unable to devote more resources to crime prevention, resulting in frequent crimes in the United States and harming the interests of more ordinary people.

Although the methods of torture are simple and crude, they are effective and highly efficient in most cases, saving judicial resources to a great extent. In particular, some habitual offenders, recidivists, and criminals with good psychological quality are called "hob meat" as the saying goes, and they will never admit their crimes if they are not allowed to suffer from flesh and skin. These are the two sides of the contradiction, and Zhu Youzhen believes that we should look at it dialectically and reasonably grasp the balance, so that justice and efficiency can be taken into account. Torture itself is not a problem, but how it is used.

Therefore, although Zhu Youzhen has long planned to carry out a major reform of the "Da Ming Law" and has abolished cruel punishments such as Ling Chi and beheading in judicial practice, he does not intend to abolish torture, but to regulate torture, to put it bluntly, it is to make strict regulations, under what circumstances torture can be used, and what kind of torture intensity can be used against what objects. Of course, Jin Yiwei was a faithful executor of Zhu Youzhen's reform measures, and Yan Zhengang had long formulated the "Interim Regulations on the Torture of the Fusi in Jinyi Weibei Town", which Zhu Youzhen personally approved and took effect.

In this "Regulation", it is stipulated that all torture must be carried out in the presence of three or more officials who are not related to superiors and subordinates at the same time, and must sign the interrogation record. On the basis of the suspect's gender, age, physique, the severity of the crime involved, and psychological condition, the various torture methods are to be strictly categorized, and the most appropriate punishment is selected, and the intensity is to be carried out in order from weak to strong. If, after all torture has been used, the suspect still refuses to confess, he must be reported to the repression officer for discretion and in any case ensure that the suspect does not die as a result of the torture, otherwise the interrogator will be held accountable, with the exception of dismissal or justice.

Like this group of White Lotus Cultists, they belong to the highest-level suspects who steal military secrets and endanger national security, and they are all strong adult men, and some have martial arts. As a result, they not only confessed all the disciples of the White Lotus Sect on their line in Jingshi, but also confessed their upline, that is, a Dharma protector who was responsible for the contact between Jingshi and the White Lotus Sect headquarters. This Dharma protector is actually a post guard, and with this identity cover, he can freely enter and exit the Jingshi.

Jinyiwei immediately arrested, and it happened that this post man had just returned to Beijing, and he was arrested as soon as he entered the post station. Yan Zhengang personally interrogated, and the focus was naturally on the grenade case. Although this guy has a hard mouth, after being tortured for several hours, he finally confessed. Because he was at a high level within the White Lotus Sect, the content he offered was also extremely valuable. According to him, there was a very important figure in Nanjing who was also a White Lotus cultist, and he smuggled grenades into the city in order to launch a mutiny, eliminate Guanning Tieqi and Wang Zaijin, Yuan Keli and others in one fell swoop, and raise the flag to rebel!

With such explosive news, Yan Zhengang dared to slack off, and immediately used the flying pigeon to pass the book and add a top-secret password to play Zhu Youzhen. At the same time, Nanjing's urgent performance was also sent to Kaifeng, and it was said that Chang Yinxu covered up Zhixin and other things.

Zhu Youzhen was shocked, and after a little thought, he felt that this so-called "pivotal big man" was probably Chang Yinxu. Secretly joining the White Lotus Sect in his prominent capacity, although it is a bit unbelievable, but in this troubled world, what is impossible. Even if he guessed wrong, Chang Yinxu openly and secretly seized the military power, and incited the officials and soldiers of the guard station to disobey Wang Zaijin and Yuan Keli's orders, which was already a serious act of resistance.

At this point, there can be no more hesitation. Zhu Youzhen immediately issued an order, no matter what means are adopted, Chang Yinxu must be arrested immediately. The officers and soldiers of the guard are not even as good as the rabble, as long as Chang Yinxu is finished, they may not be able to set off much storm, not to mention that at least the four guards of Jinwu are still willing to obey the edict.

After Wang Zaijin and Yuan Keli received this secret edict, they were discussing how to act, when someone suddenly came to report: "Shunguo Gong Chang Yinxu is scheduled to go north tomorrow to meet the saint, and today there will be a big feast in the mansion and invite the two adults to go!" ”

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