Chapter 68: Justification and Unreasonableness (I)
In the entire court of the Tingwei Mansion, Sun Shaoqian's voice was so loud that it seemed that he was the chief judge today, and Lu Zhe's momentum was completely suppressed. Han Jian glanced at the empress, who looked solemn at this time, without joy or sorrow, but just looked at what happened in the public court with a cold and onlooker attitude.
Lu Zhe was afraid that Sun Shaoqian would deal with criminals privately in public, so he persuaded: "...... General Sun Lao should serve the public, if he kills someone without going through the court trial, how can he explain it to the world? I'm afraid it will also stain Ling Lang under Jiuquan. ”
"My son died unjustly." Sun Shaoqian also seemed to accept Lu Zhe's statement and sighed.
Lu Zhe said a few words of comfort, and finally calmed Sun Shaoqian temporarily, and he also breathed a sigh of relief for the next step of the trial.
"Take someone to commit it!" Lu Zhe slapped the shocked wood and shouted. Under the intimidation of the yacha, Lin Xiaoyun, who was dressed in a white prison uniform, was dragged out.
At this time, Lin Xiaoyun is no longer the majesty of the day, the whole person is clothed, the bracelet and anklet will jingle every step he takes, and the clothes on his body are clean, mainly because Han Jian came to say hello, even if Lu Zhe was afraid of Sun Shaoqian, the general of the Eastern Wuwei, and did not dare to judge the case for personal gain, he had to give Han Jian some face, so Lin Xiaoyun did not suffer much in the cell these days.
Seeing Lin Xiaoyun come out, there was a slight uproar in the crowd. The main reason is that Lin Xiaoyun was described as a cold-blooded murderous demon in the complaint before, and the people were vying to see his appearance, Lin Xiaoshu saw that his little nephew's feelings were a little out of control, and Sun Shaoqian couldn't wait to go forward and chop him with a knife when he saw Lin Xiaoyun.
"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”
Lu Zhe slapped three times in a row, and shouted: "Silence." "The surroundings have regained calm.
Lin Xiaoyun was pressed to the front of the hall, his knees were still straight, and he could only kneel honestly when he was pressed from behind. Lu Zhe shouted: "Verify the correct body!" ”
A man in his forties came out from the back office with his hands in his hand to describe a little obscene, walked forward, carefully identified Lin Xiaoyun, turned around and saluted: "Go back to Shaofu, but it is the culprit Lin Xiaoyun." ”
The person who spoke was the land protector of a few streets around Lin Xiaoyun, and this person was obviously a little afraid of Lin Xiaoyun, because the previous person of his land protection position was Lin Xiaoyun's uncle Lin Zhan, and Lin Xiaoyun also relied on Lin Zhan to be an errand in the yamen, and ran rampant in his territory.
As the land protection retreated, Lu Zhe asked, "The criminal Lin Xiaoyun, can he admit to the crime of murder?" ”
Lin Xiaoyun's head was grabbed by the hair and lifted up, although Lin Xiaoyun's body was restrained at this time, he still did not give in, and shouted: "I didn't kill anyone!" ”
Sun Shaoqian, who was on the side, grabbed the big knife and made a gesture to chop, and said: "You rabbit cub, do you dare to deny killing people on the street?" See how the old man cleans you up! ”
The yacha hurriedly went to persuade and stop him, and Lu Zhe also came down from the front of the hall, so that he could appease Sun Shaoqian. Lu Zhe wiped a cold sweat before returning to his seat, and said in his heart that today's work was not done by people.
"Since the criminal does not admit to the crime of murder, bring witness!"
The two witnesses were brought up from the back office, and Han Jian felt familiar at a glance, they were all members of the Sun family, and one of them was knocked on him with a stick that day and was knocked open by him with a sword.
"Testimony!" Lu Zhedao.
"Master Guan, it was like this that day, my young general, was stabbed in the chest by this Lin Xiaoyun, and the bleeding did not stop, and after a while, my young general ran out of breath. At that time, we all witnessed it with our own eyes, and asked the official master to give my young general the master. ”
One of the testimonies spoke extremely fluently, without timidity, and spoke as if it had been arranged a long time ago without even changing the air. The other next to him echoed casually, saying that Lin Xiaoyun was the murderer.
Han Jian sighed in his heart, and sure enough, he avoided the important and light.
"Hmm." After listening to the witnesses' testimony, Lu Zhe nodded slightly, and then said, "It's a murder weapon." ”
A saber about three feet long was held in front of the hall by the yacha, the saber was not sheathed, and there were some mottled red and black blood stains on it, Han Jian felt familiar at a glance, wasn't it the saber that Sun Bao revealed when he withdrew that day?
Because Han Jian did not witness the killing process that day, it is not clear why Sun Bao's sword ended up killing him.
"I'm going to talk back." Lu Zhedao.
A servant stepped forward and knelt down to state the status of the autopsy that day, mainly about the results of the comparison between the murder weapon and the wound.
"Back to Shaofu, the murder weapon matches the wound of the deceased, and this blade is indeed a murder weapon."
In a word, it is equivalent to saying that there are all kinds of human and material evidence, and in the past, this is an ironclad case that cannot be denied at all. If the criminal wants to quibble, the next step is to wait for the big punishment, and if he doesn't get a trick, he can directly wait for the verdict to be pronounced after signing the case.
The human and physical evidence was all there, and Lu Zhe's momentum followed, and then he was shocked, and shouted: "Lin Xiaoyun, the human and physical evidence are all there, are you still cunning?" ”
This time, Lin Xiaoyun didn't say that he didn't kill anyone, but just yelled: "I don't accept ......"
Lin Xiaoyun killed someone, he originally wanted to deny it in order to escape responsibility, but now he was accused on the spot, although he felt that he had no way to deny it, but he felt that he was very wronged. He couldn't say exactly what he had wronged, so he had to shout "dissatisfied".
Lu Zhe made a gesture of pressing, and it took a lot of effort for the two yacha to press Lin Xiaoyun, who was like a wild calf, to the ground.
"The criminal refuses to confess, someone comes, and he will be tortured!"
At this point in the case, Lu Zhe breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if he had completed his mission, and all that remained was to see how long Lin Xiaoyun could endure. And Sun Shaoqian is not as horizontal as just now, he still wishes that Lin Xiaoyun would not confess and suffer a little more before losing his head. The people are also very satisfied with this result, they like to watch this kind of "honest and unashamed Qing officials angrily sentence the murderer", and the harder the government fights, the more enjoyable they will be.
Han Jian glanced at the calm Empress again, knowing that if he didn't go out at this time, Lin Xiaoyun would finish playing.
"Ning Gongzi, can you step forward and say a few words?" Han Jian was cautious and asked the empress for her opinion first.
The empress glanced at Han Jian sideways and nodded, "Accurate." ”
Han Jian originally came here to disturb the court, but now that he has been ordered by the emperor, he is more confident. He knew that even if he didn't follow the emperor's orders, there was a Sun Shaoqian roaring there, he was not abrupt, at most half a catty and eight taels.
"Wait!" Just as Yacha brought out the torture instrument and was about to be tortured, a loud shout suddenly sounded in the crowd, and then Han Jian's figure appeared in front of him.
Han Jian attracted the attention of everyone inside and outside the internal government for a while.
Lu Zhe saw that it was Han Jian, and he screamed badly in his heart, thinking that the king of the east would be sentenced if he didn't come to the case, which not only calmed Sun Shaoqian's anger, but also didn't have him to bear any responsibility. It's good now, as soon as the East King comes, he can't deal with the conflict between the East King and Sun Shaoqian.
"And who?" Sun Shaoqian asked.
"I'm just an invisible, bystander." Han Jian walked into the yamen and said loudly, "Lu Shaofu's trial of the case is too hasty, how can it be convincing?" ”
When Sun Shaoqian heard this, his heart was on fire, and there was a "bystander" who was not afraid of death when he touched his moldy head?
"What did you say?" Sun Shaoqian waved his big knife and made a gesture to rush forward, but the yacha next to him was already waiting, and he hurriedly stopped it when he saw this scene.
"General Sun, you dissipate your anger." At this time, Lu Zhe couldn't sit still at all, got up and said, "Your Royal Highness the King of the East, if you have any opinions on this case, don't have any unnecessary disputes with General Sun." ”
Lu Zhe's words caused an uproar in the audience.
The people originally thought that this was just an ordinary murder case, even if it was a young general who died, it was not unusual, at most it was murder to pay for life. Fortunately, Xiaodongwang, one of the four kings of the Wei Dynasty, also came to hear the trial in person, and directly came forward to shield the criminals. The case of the small grass people paying for the lives of the big officials has become a dispute between the two powerful people.
Afterwards, the people present went out and shouted and had something to talk about, and they would say, look at a big general, there is a king over there. The general Doudong King is alive and well.
And Sun Shaoqian was slightly stunned, although he also knew that there was someone in this case who put pressure on the Tingwei Mansion, but he didn't expect it to be King Xiaodong. Now in Luoyang City, in addition to the emperor's official titles, the largest is the East King.
"It turned out to be the King of the East." Sun Shaoqian calmed down a little, and glared at Han Jian coldly, "His Royal Highness the East King didn't run an errand at the Shangting Office, how could he come to the Tingwei Mansion, could it be that he was too idle to even do the emperor's errand?" ”
Han Jian said coldly: "No, although I am in the emperor's place, I am also one of the people involved in today's case." On that day, Ling Gongzi robbed the people's daughter, fought with others, and happened to be present in the next, so he came to be a witness today. ”
Han Jian's words once again made the onlookers a voice of discussion, from the beginning, this case has been defined as a homicide case, and now Dongwang came out and directly pointed out that there were still "robbing people's girls" and "fighting fiercely" on that day, and listening to Dongwang's meaning, the deceased did not seem to have died unjustly, but was still one of the principals.
Sun Shaoqian shouted: "Nonsense! ”
"General Sun said that he was talking nonsense?" Han Jian sneered, and picked up the Sun family who was kneeling on the ground and still speaking fluently about the case just now, "Let me ask you, what is your name?" ”
This person was obviously frightened by Han Jian, and he had to think about a simple question before he replied tremblingly: "Villain...... Last name...... Six. ”
"Okay, Sun Liu. I ask you, do you still recognize me? Han Jian asked with a hideous look.
Sun Liu's frightened six gods had no owner, and he said: "Recognize it...... Recognize ......"
"I don't just recognize that day in the tea house, you rushed up with a stick to beat me. That's a majestic tightness. ”
"No......" Sun Liuda shouted, "I went up on the orders of the young general, it's none of the villain's business......"
This statement is tantamount to admitting that he had seen Dongwang on the day of the crime, and that there had been a conflict between the two sides.
Han Jian sneered: "But I am not the only one present, there are still the chief minister of the Shangting Department, Mrs. Gu, and I am the erudite Mr. Cui. A group of you robbed the people's daughters, but when they were reprimanded by Old Lady Gu, you had to stick your body, completely ignoring the law and discipline, so what is the difference between you and the mountain bandits who are full of evil? ”
Han Jian let go of his hand and let Sun Liu collapse to the ground, Han Jian turned to look at Sun Shaoqian, his eyes were sharp and his tone was cold, and he asked, "Old General Sun, do you still think that you are not qualified to come out and say a word?" ”