Qiao Tianxing sat back on the stage tremblingly.

In accordance with the Imperial Regulations on Criminal Procedure, public prosecution is the main focus of criminal cases, supplemented by private prosecution, and in the First Instance, two chapters of "public prosecution" and "private prosecution" are stipulated, which include the crimes of annihilation, inducement, crimes of obstruction of security, credit, reputation and secrets, theft and robbery, crimes of obtaining property by fraud, crimes of embezzlement, and crimes of destruction and damage into the scope of "private prosecution".

The so-called public prosecution is that the patrol and arrest system files are filed and submitted to the procuratorates, procuratorial departments, and procuratorial subdivisions at all levels to be submitted to the trial divisions at all levels under the Dali Yuan.

In both civil and criminal proceedings, the defendant has the right to have a lawyer act as his or her defender, and in civil proceedings, both the plaintiff and the defendant can apply for the appointment of a defender, i.e., the court at all levels appoints a lawyer for them.

However, even in the south of the country, the procuratorial system and the lawyer system at all levels are not complete, let alone Jiangbei, and the habit of Chinese people to go to the lobby to complain about their grievances is to fight lawsuits, so many times, even if it is a very serious crime, they are also taking the form of private prosecution, and the prosecutor is usually a witness, which is inevitable at this stage, and can only be standardized step by step.

Therefore, under the "Imperial Criminal Procedure Regulations", there is a special "Provisional Statute of Criminal Procedure", which stipulates the legal surname of "private litigation" and trial without the presence of a litigator under the current conditions, and also clearly stipulates that the "Provisional Statute" is valid for ten years, after which the "Provisional Statute" will be abolished, and then litigation and trials that do not conform to the spirit of the Imperial Code will be regarded as illegal.

In this way, the transition period is ensured, and it does not make people feel that the original imperial criminal law is just an unrealistic empty letter, and with a clear time limit, it can accelerate the reform of the imperial judicial system, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone.

There are only two law schools in the empire today, one in Guangzhou and one in Jinling, and the other is the Yenching University Law School that is in preparation.

Nowadays, the lawyer system examination can only put the questions very simple, as long as you can be familiar with the legal code of the dynasty, most of them can be passed, so most of them are self-taught, and even have a group of poor talents who have bought the various legal provisions of the dynasty by rote, which is also a characteristic of the dynasty.

However, new things will always slowly move from immaturity to maturity.

The current Zheng family obviously belongs to the private lawsuit in the "Provisional Covenant Law".

Qiao Tianxing took over the Zheng family's form, and was playing a drum in his heart, when he suddenly saw the Zheng family kneeling down in the lobby and kowtowing, and said sadly: "Please ask the eldest lord to avenge the grievances of the people's daughter!" ”

Qiao Tianxing hurriedly called the patrol to help him up, and said warmly: "The law of the new dynasty does not need to bow down. ”

Zheng just wiped his tears, thinking of his relatives who died tragically, and wept endlessly.

While Qiao Tianxing was looking at the situation, Xie Yuyang, director of the Rehe Patrol Department, Zhao Huineng, chief prosecutor of the Rehe Procuratorate, and Master Gao, the consolation envoy of Rehe East Road, entered the lobby in turn, all of whom were invited by Ye Zhao.

Director Xie, Zhao Sijian, and Gao Qianhu were all worried and came to kowtow to Ye Zhao, but Ye Zhao didn't pay much attention to them.

The three of them sat on a bench far away, you look at me, I look at you, you can see the horror in each other's eyes.

When Qiao Tianxing ordered the legal patrol to summon Zheng Sanzi and other suspects, Tan Zhonglin, the governor of Rehe, and Wang Jingyou, the political envoy, also hurried over, and they got the letter that the emperor came to the court to hear the trial.

When Tan Zhonglin and Wang Jingyou kowtowed, Ye Zhao only hummed lightly.

Tan Zhonglin was both ashamed and ashamed, he had heard a little about the Zheng family's case, and he sent someone to investigate a few days ago, but he had not yet received a return. He also knew that Wang Jingyou was secretly collecting money in the paddock reclamation, but in this Rehe, Wang Jingyou was inextricably linked to the local government, and the lower-level officials in Rehe were more Wang Jing's old department, and without Wang Jingyou, his decree was simply difficult to access, and in the contest with Wang Jingyou, it could be said that it was difficult step by step.

Wang Jingyou also found a seat and sat down, his eyes flickering, and he couldn't see what he was thinking.

After a while, Zheng Sanzi and others also entered the lobby one after another, several of them can be said to have been escorted, and they heard that this case alarmed the emperor and prepared to abscond, but the Shenji battalion had already surrounded the militia compound, and the entire militia was fired.

Of the 23 people involved, 11 were in the countryside, and the remaining 12 were all taken.

After the cases of oppression of good citizens by consolation envoys appeared in the capital and some provinces, the Royal Military Council issued a regulation that the militia in all parts of the country was classified as a militia and subject to local supervision, and there was no longer a need for a military court to adjudicate, and the canonized consolation envoys in each province were controlled by the governor of the province.

At the same time, according to the conscription law just promulgated by the empire, a reserve army system will be established, and the reserve army will include retired royal soldiers, militia, etc., organized according to provinces, equipped with a certain number of training weapons, equipped with a certain number of active royal soldiers as the backbone of officers, and carry out organizational rectification and personnel adjustment once a year, and build training sites to conduct military training during the agricultural slack season every year.

This is also a measure to gradually rectify the propaganda and consolation efforts in various localities and to nationalize the militia system.

Zheng Sanzi's face was full of meat, and he knew at a glance that he was not a good match, but when he arrived in the hall, he glared at Zheng with a fierce look in his eyes, and scolded: "Little girl, I knew that you were a bad thing, and I didn't kill you, so I was unlucky!" ”

Qiao Tianxing asked him, he confessed to killing people and tyrannizing fields, and only said that he took a fancy to the Zheng family's good land, deceived the official family, and transferred flowers and trees to get the land deed of that field.

Listening to the answer in the hall, Gao Qianhu's tight fat face gradually relaxed, and his expression became relaxed.

Wang Jingyou, the political envoy, turned his wrist and the Buddha beads became slower and slower, squinted, and leaned back in his seat.

Qiao Tianxing immediately sentenced Zheng Sanzi and others to murder and rob the land, and the crime was unforgivable, and they were sentenced to death by hanging, reported to the Dali Yuan, and immediately executed after the expiration of the three-month appeal period.

Zheng Shi was full of tears, knelt in the hall, shouted Lord Qingtian, and turned around and kowtowed vigorously in the direction of Ye Zhao.

Looking at Gao Qianhu and the others with relaxed faces, Ye Zhao said coldly: "Xie Yuyang, Zhao Huineng, you two can be guilty." ”

Director Xie and Zhao Sijian's faces were like earth, and they knelt down together: "Minister, the minister is guilty." "In such a major case, it turned out that the emperor and the bitter lord came to hand over the case according to the procuratorate, and both of them could not escape the blame.

Governor Tan Zhonglin, political envoy Wang Jingyou, and Gao Qianhu also hurriedly came over to confess.

With a cautious look of pleading, Wang Jingyou was amused, Emperor Shengde turned out to be nothing more than this, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and the thunder was angry, but he just cured Zheng Sanzi, and at most dismissed Xie Yuyang and Zhao Huineng, it was really better to meet than to be famous.

Ye Zhao stared at Zhao Sijian for a while, and said, "I will give you a chance to make meritorious contributions." As he spoke, he pointed to Tan, Wang, and Gao, "These three people, dereliction of duty, caused continuous armed fights in Rehe, and even caused the tragedy of extermination. Now that I want to dismiss their officials, they will not accept it, and it will depend on your investigation and investigation of what kind of crime should be received, and the matter will be clarified, and you will still be prosecuted here according to the procuratorate. ”

Zhao Sizhen was stunned, if the emperor dismissed their officials, it would be nothing for the procuratorate to verify the guilt, but a few officials wore official hats and wanted to investigate them by themselves? This, where does this begin?

Although the local inspection and procuratorial systems are self-contained in terms of personnel and finance, and have no intersection with the governor's yamen and the political secretary's yamen, in the eyes of Zhao Sijian, the governor and the political envoy are naturally his bosses.

Wang Jingyou and Gao Qianhu were also dumbfounded, only Tan Zhonglin smiled bitterly in his heart, he knew that it would be like this. Seeing Wang Jing have a smile on the corner of his mouth before, Tan Zhonglin even felt a little pity for him at that time, I don't know whether to live or die, if the emperor doesn't peel off your skin, my eyes will be pulled out as bubbles.

Tan Zhonglin took out a small cloth bag, took out a stacked paper from it and presented it to Ye Zhao, and said: "Your Majesty, this is part of the evidence that Wang Jingyou and others sold land to collect money collected by the minister. ”

Ye Zhao nodded slightly, took it and looked at it, he had long expected that Rehe was so chaotic, it was impossible for Tan Zhonglin not to act, unless he saw the wrong person, if he was really wrong, then he could only punish the crime in one piece.

Wang Jingyou looked at Tan Zhonglin in amazement, in Rehe Wang Jingyou can be said to cover the sky with one hand, and Tan Zhonglin ate turtles several times, so for Tan Zhonglin, an outsider, Wang Jingyou didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that he had done something by the emperor's side, the emperor's courtier, this was just a young man, who knew that this biting dog was really wilted.

Ye Zhao looked at it for a while, then handed the stack of documents to Zhao Sijian and said, "That's very good, you come to check the authenticity." He also said to Tan Zhonglin: "Whether you are involved in the reclamation case or not, you need to appear in court according to the court's summons of you, whether you are a witness or if you are asked to defend yourself." ”

Tan Zhonglin hurriedly bowed and said yes.

Ye Zhao beckoned to Qiao Tianxing again, and Qiao Tianxing hurriedly trotted over.

Ye Zhao said to Qiao Tianxing and Zhao Si: "The cases in the province, you can handle them with read, and the governor and political envoy have no right to interfere, so you should keep this in mind." ”

Qiao Tianxing and Zhao Sijian bowed down and listened to Ye Zhao's entrustment, and they both bowed their heads one after another.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I killed people at the behest of Master Gao, I don't know anything, I don't know anything, the fields are all his!" Zheng Sanzi, who was being held aside, saw this scene and stayed for a while, then suddenly shouted, knelt down and kowtowed, and shouted: "Your Majesty, I have an octogenarian mother, the emperor spares his life, Master Gao, Master Gao, he promised to take care of my old mother, take care of my motherless child, Your Majesty!" "Knock knock kowtow.

Seeing that Gao Qianhu was about to collapse and his promise could not be fulfilled, how could Zheng Sanzi still be stubborn at this time?

"You don't give a!" Gao Qianhu's face turned green.

Wang Jingyou knew that he was finished, his body was weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

Ye Zhao didn't speak, and walked out of the hall in the high-pitched singing of "The Emperor Swings".

(To be continued)