Due to Master Guo's hard performance yesterday, the sensational scene was very successful, but the jurors unanimously found Zhang Shi guilty. People were confused, Master Guo was stunned on the spot, and even Zhang Fangyan was a little inexplicable, but how could anyone question it when it was written in black and white on the spot.

Tian Fuzhen was inexplicably weak in her chest, was her efforts still in vain? His gaze immediately swept to the auditorium sitting behind Zhang Fangyan, and he let them succeed. What made him strange was that Liu Lingyu and Lu Sizhen's faces seemed to be full of surprise, but then they were sincerely happy. Tian Fuzhen's heart thumped for a moment, could it?

But then he denied this unrealistic assumption, and he suddenly remembered that Li Xin had said yesterday that there was a plan to drag the knife when he had no choice but to do so, but now that the wood is in the boat, who can still have the power to return to the sky?

Looking at it again, Zhang Shi, who has been tossed by the trial for several days, does not seem to have an excessive reaction, no, it is not reflected at all, Tian Fuzhen sighed for a while, mourning is more than heart death, is a well-known man going to be ruined? It's a pity that Lu Jiu was affected by it.

If he is transferred by the imperial court because of this scandalous case, then the previous layout will inevitably suffer a heavy setback, can the United Trading Company continue, and can the industrial and commercial development after the big loan continue without the protection of the General Military Government? Once the shape develops in the worst direction, I am afraid that the entire plan of "using business to support agriculture and war to support businessmen" may be stillborn.

After a brief silence, the courtroom began to buzz again, and Zhang Fangyan had to bang on the startling wood again to maintain order.

Suddenly, a gendarme entered the courtroom and handed a letter to Tian Fuzhen.

Tian Fuzhen looked at it, his face changed, and the general of the dark path finally made a move.

"Elder Zhang Ge, the lower official said again!"

Perhaps because of Tian Fuzhen's voice, the "courtroom" was quiet, and dozens of eyes swept towards him. Zhang Fangyan was inexplicable, but directly refused: "The 'court' doesn't talk about miscellaneous matters, and we will talk about it after the other leaves the court." ”

Tian Fuzhen insisted: "Elder Ge, this matter is related to this case, and it must be said in court!" ”

Hearing that the case has been repeated again, Zhang Fangyan intuitively felt that the case was closed and turned back again, which was really an unprecedented toss, but there was a trace of expectation in his heart, but it was difficult to say whether he was looking forward to Zhang Shi's reversal of the case, or whether the truth of the facts should not be like this.

"Say it!"

Tian Fuzhen cleared her throat and glanced at the jury, but was about to speak when someone in the jury suddenly spoke.

"The presiding judge, Tong Sheng Miyan, reported that all the eleven people in this trial were favoritism and created unjust prisons!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was like throwing down a twelve-pound flowering thunder in the "court", and the jury members accused him of scolding him for being a ligue and a good person, and the presiding judge Zhang Fangyan was dumbfounded, and his heart was open today, and the climax was one after another, can he still let people try the case well?

But his face became more and more solemn.

"Tong Sheng Miyan, do you know the weight of what Fang just said, and the consequences?"

Mi Yan nodded firmly, "Mi Yan knows, and with a personal guarantee, everything he says is true!" After that, Mi Yan turned his head and looked at Lu Huizhong coldly, "Brother Zi'an, what you said was to show the way of heaven together and open your eyes for the warriors, why did you retreat when it came to the end?" ”

Lu Huizhong, who has always been confident and open-minded, didn't dare to look at Mi Yan's eyes at this time, but just bowed his head and was silent.

A quick-witted person can easily guess that behind Mi Yan's question, I am afraid there is an untold story. Everyone in the "court" was the most surprised, and the person whose heart finally hung in his throat was none other than Lu Sizhen, who had already realized that his troublesome son had been involved, and Mi Yan couldn't have eaten enough to say that everyone was cheating, the only explanation was that there was a reason for the truth, but he didn't dare to make a conclusion about how deep Lu Huizhong was involved.

The joy brought by the verdict of Zhang Shi's guilt did not last long, and it was poured down by a basin of cold water, Lu Sizhen's heart was already extremely cold, if Lu Huizhong was really involved in the favoritism scandal, he might even be affected, and he was not strict in governing the family With such an eldest son who was caught in a fraud case, he was really difficult to get out of the way, and the road to serving as an envoy was probably blocked, and even being marginalized by officialdom is unknown.

Zhang Fangyan realized the strict nature of the problem, if the jurors collectively cheated, then it would be impossible to rely on just a few young people, unless a pair of black hands hiding in the shadows behind his back were plucking the strings to command, and his face immediately darkened. Although he Zhang Fangyan only has a handful of old bones left, he wants to see who dares to do anything to the Ming King's law.

But Zhang Fangyan still continued to confirm to Mi Yan, "Is there any evidence for what you said about favoritism?" ”

Mi Yan said calmly: "Everyone benefits from this, adults follow the vine and touch the melon, according to the map, it will be clear at a glance!" ”

Zhang Fangyan was silent, and suddenly turned to ask Tian Fuzhen.

"Tian Fuzun, didn't you say that you want to talk about the turning point of the case? Say it! ”

Tian Fuzhen never expected that there would be such a person in the jury, who was not afraid of offending the powerful and exposed, and in the investigation intelligence before, he also felt that Mi Yan was too soft, but now it seems that he is gone, and the young man in front of him is clearly a good man who is upright! As soon as he thought of this, he gathered his mind and arched his hand:

"There is an overlap with what Mi Yan said, and the gendarmerie pickets today found important evidence in the home of one of the jurors and captured important witnesses."

Tian Fuzhen's words were loud, and the jurors who had been vigorously arguing and trying to defend their grievances before suddenly sat on their chairs like defeated attacks. The demeanor of these people fell into Tian Fuzhen's eyes, and he was already ninety percent sure that these people were really tired.

Immediately, Tian Fuzhen said: "Due to the complexity of the case, it is not appropriate to make it public now, and I also ask the cabinet elder to listen to the private report and details of the official!" ”

Zhang Fangyan agreed with Tian Fuzhen's opinion, and the two went to a temporary resting place after the "court", and only returned after a long time to announce it in court.

"Due to the serious turn in the case and the fact that most of the jurors were suspected of favoritism and malpractice, the presiding judge announced that the previous verdict in the case of Zhang Shi's murder of his wife would be cancelled and a retrial would be scheduled for a later date. Before the truth of the incident is revealed, you must stay in the barracks, not leave a step without authorization, and not exchange a word with the outside world without authorization, otherwise you will be severely punished according to the law of Da Ming! Retire from court! ”

Yiqiē seems to have returned to the original point, but Zhang Fangyan is not a fool, he can already clearly feel that there is one or several invisible forces that have reached out in this case, and the target is Li Xin, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town.

All those involved in the case were detained in the military police barracks, and Zhang Fang was strictly instructed to investigate the case of jury fraud in accordance with the Procuratorial Department, the Taiyuan Prefect's Yamen, and the General Military Office. At the same time, it was strictly ordered to block the news and not to disseminate the contents of the trial.

But the court allows people to attend the trial in court, and it is impractical to block the news. Soon, news of the jury fraud spread throughout the city like wings.

"What? Zeng Cheng? But the Zeng family in the south of Linquan Mansion? ”

"Exactly! After the general raided Zeng's house, he had five spies and confessed that Zeng Cheng had been bribed before he was selected for the jury. ”

It was Zhang Fangyan who asked, Tian Fuzhen who answered, and Liu Lingyu, the right-hand servant of the Imperial Procuratorate, who was sent by the imperial court, was dissatisfied: "Who selected him for the jury in the first place?" ”

Lu Sizhen's face was flushed, but he couldn't say a word of rebuttal, his son's matter made him already confused and disproportionate.

Zhang Fangyan still said a fair word.

"The Zeng family outside Linquan Mansion is also a well-known rich gentry in Taiyuan City, and if the children of his family are selected, there is no controversy! This must be blamed on Lord Lu! ”

Liu Lingyu's eyelids jumped, and he said in his heart, not earlier that he was selected by Lu Sizhen, and he only had one target for attack, and that was Li Xin. originally thought that this time he would be victorious in and out of Taiyuan, but he was really embarrassed, but he didn't know that the flowers were bright and dark, and what surprised him even more was that in this case, he and Lu Sizhen belonged to the same camp, at most, they just beat the side drum, looked at Li Xin on the left and tossed blindly, and attacked fiercely when he caught the loophole, and he never moved such a crooked mind with endless troubles.

It seems that the muddy water in Taiyuan is deeper and mudier than imagined, and I can't help but regret taking this errand in Taiyuan.

The jurors were all scholars, so naturally they did not let the officials and gendarmes interrogate, but sent the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture to interrogate them together with the inspectors of the Criminal Prosecution Department, and the facts were quickly tried.

Zeng Cheng's guy was also serious, he was closed in the gendarmerie barracks for a long time, and he didn't do anything else, so he was bent on winning over the jurors, and most of them were lured with money, among which the promised more was 100,000 taels of silver, and the less was tens of thousands of taels.

This made the judges smack their tongues again and again, and sighed that the Zeng family outside Linquan Mansion was rich! But what made them dumbfounded was Lu Huizhong, the eldest son of Lu Sizhen's family, who was sentenced to punishment and frugality, and Zeng Cheng's trick to buy him turned out to be that as long as the matter was successful, he would marry his own sister to him, otherwise he would not be able to see each other in this life. And this eldest son of the Lu family, who has always been keen on criminal and prison lawsuits, actually obeyed obediently.

On the contrary, Mi Yan, who is poor and humble, is not tempted by Zeng Cheng, and insists on his conscience and bottom line, which makes people awe-inspired.

Li Xin knew the inside story of Mi Yan, Lu Huizhong and Zeng Cheng, but he didn't expect that the whole case would change because of such an inconspicuous little person. Lu Huizhong seems to be hot and persistent in his ideals, but in fact, due to his background and character defects, he will lose his firm confidence and will and choose to give in when he encounters insurmountable resistance, but Mi Yan made ** stunned to persevere to the end.

Li Xin began to take a keen interest in the young child.