Chapter 139: The Contest

The evidence of Deshou's crime is very simple, first of all, it goes without saying that he personally went to Changting to boost morale, and even appeared among the main local gentry officials, telling them that the grasshoppers will not be able to jump for a few days after Yang Shunqiu, and everyone must unite closely around Lord De, and swear to serve the Queen Mother to serve the court. Looking at this situation now, it seems that the one who can't jump up should be Deshou, so naturally he jumped out very enthusiastically to point out the evidence. In addition, there is also the inside story of the concubine, who has already tasted it by Deshou, and even the privacy of the old guy's body can be provided, which is naturally absolutely impossible to fake.

The second is physical evidence, these are the rifles he provided to Dezhi, and even the two Grusen 57 cannons, which are all factory numbered, plus he bought it openly through regular channels at that time, he is a governor of Jiangxi, and it is too normal for his subordinates to add arms to the standard, and when I inquired about the sellers of the Mauser company in China, and checked the number in the sales records, I naturally knew that the weapons used by the rebels in Tingzhou came from the Yamen of the governor of Jiangxi.

All the human and material evidence is enough.

The Supreme People's Court of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Taiwan, which had just been hastily formed, immediately convened a trial, with Governor Yang once again personally acting as a judge, and Xue Fucheng, chief procurator of the procuratorate, who had also been newly formed, prosecuting Jiangxi Governor Deshou for the crime of treason. Then, after some lawyers' debates, including of course the lawyer appointed for Deshou, the jury unanimously found guilty, and Judge Yang finally ruled in absentia that Deshou was guilty of conspiracy and rebellion, and that he should be hanged according to a certain article of the Qing Dynasty law, and required the prisoner to be executed in Fuzhou immediately, otherwise the executioner would be sent to Nanchang for execution.

"This Yang Yi is getting more and more frustrated, what kind of people's court does he have, and what he doesn't even recognize the imperial court can sentence the governor of a province to death? It's just a laugh out of your teeth. Lafayette in Beijing was amused by his move. She found that her opponent seemed to have made a very low-level mistake this time, since he did not rebel publicly, and often said that he was a loyal minister of the imperial court, wouldn't it be a self-confess to do it again, telling the world that Yang Feng had rebelled.

"Queen Mother, I'm afraid it's not that simple, Yang Wei's announcement to the outside world claims that this Supreme People's Court of Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan is actually the judicial body of his governor's yamen, because he himself is busy with affairs. Therefore, there was no time to try cases one by one, so such a body was set up to try the cases in his jurisdiction, and as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he did have the right to try all the cases in these three provinces.

As for whether he has the right to try the governor of another province, if the governor commits a crime in his jurisdiction, it is indeed possible, you must know that Lu Dao also has the imperial history of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is the practice of the local governor, and the inspection of officials is originally within the scope of his duties. As for the power to execute, he does not have the power to execute in theory, whether it is the death penalty or any other conviction, it must be played and dealt with by the imperial court, but if he forcibly cultivates Deshou for a crime of treason, and then he will do something first. This is not without precedent. Rong Lu reminded her quietly.

Cixi then remembered that Zeng shaved his head back then, and indeed dared to bypass the autumn trial procedure and play the first cut and then play, if Yang Feng killed Deshou and then said that he was in accordance with the practice of Zeng Wenzhenggong, then there is really a theoretical basis, but Nima had a special purpose to shave his head back then. He's something, but since the Longhair Rebellion, the local governor has a lot of power. It's not like no one has ever done this kind of thing.

"This matter is not difficult to deal with, the court will look at it for the time being, if we don't speak, it is equivalent to not recognizing his verdict, if Deshou has the ability to block his rebels, then he will naturally make these become a joke, if Deshou can't stop his rebels, then let's get Deshou back in the name of the court, just say that it will be handed over to the Criminal Department for review, and then he will be rehabilitated." Rong Lu went on to say, in the final analysis, he and Cixi are both psychological, that is, they are trying to find a reason not to clash with Yang Feng head-on for the time being, and let a fool like Deshou rush to the front, it is best to teach Yang Feng a lesson, even if he can't go to the court, there is no loss.

Cixi thought that this was indeed a good idea, so the court did not say anything about Yang Feng's trial of Jiangxi Governor Deshou in absentia, but continued to give him a public order prohibiting his troops from entering Jiangxi.

"We are chasing the rebels, and we must not stop because of the orders of your military headquarters, for loyal people like us are vicious and hateful, and we cannot afford to let those rebels go unpunished. Besides, Li Yuncong's army is so far away, it is normal that this information is not smooth, even if I give the order here, it is estimated that it will take several months for the order to reach them, you don't know how difficult the mountain road in Fujian is!" Anyway, that's what Yang Feng said to the people sent by the Ministry of War to urge him to withdraw his troops.

"Lord Yang, don't your subordinates have a telegram?" The official said.

"Telegram? It's broken, I haven't been in touch for a few days, you don't know how delicate this kind of high-tech product is, and if you bump it, it's bad. Yang Feng said seriously.

After getting the telegram reply from his subordinates, Shangshu of the military department resolutely held back his anger, since Yang Feng couldn't get through here, he simply went directly to his subordinates, he hurriedly issued another order, and sent the order to withdraw the army back to Fujian in an expedited way of 800 miles to Nanchang, and then sent a general soldier by the governor Yamen to send it to Ningdu in person, and then handed it over to Li Yuncong, who was setting up artillery outside the city and preparing to bombard Ningdu City.

However, after taking a look, Li Yuncong threw it directly.

"We are the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and your military department directly ordered us, which does not conform to the procedure, and we are all rough people who have little reading, how can we know the truth or falsehood of your things, we only recognize the warrant of the Governor, and we don't recognize anything else.

Anyway, when you came out of Ningdu City, did you just run into the chaotic gang inside, and you used such a fake thing to deceive me, and you don't look at who General Ben is, how can you be deceived by your little tricks. Li Yuncong looked at the chief soldier with a Zhizhu expression of holding the ground.

"General Li, this is an order personally signed by Lord Gangyigang of the Ministry of War." The general soldier who ran all the way from Nanchang to here, and was so tired that he was almost like a dog dog, endured the anger in his heart and said.

"I'm sorry, General Ben can't read, and I don't know what the military department book is." Li Yuncong, who was there with a pen to approve his subordinates, and didn't know what documents he was talking about, raised his head and said honestly.

The general soldier was so angry that he almost fainted, and he trembled and pointed to his official document and said, "Then what is this?"

"You say this? I don't know what this is, painting and playing. Li Yuncong said with a smile as he signed his name.

He is not interested in playing with this adult, since he said that a large number of chaotic parties fled into Ningdu City, and have not yet come out to surrender, then as an official of the imperial court, he is full of loyalty to the monarch and the heart of serving the country, so he can't watch the chaotic party rampant and cause trouble to the people, in order to save the people of Ningdu as soon as possible, so the artillery regiment under his command immediately fired at the head of the city, and then under the cover of dozens of heavy machine guns behind, a team of sappers carried hundreds of kilograms of antimony and antimony across the moat and then piled up to the root of the city wall.

There are only a group of patchwork green battalion troops in the city, and there are not even a few guns in their hands, how can they withstand these wolf-like elite blows, and when they see the pile of zha medicine below ready to ignite, Ning Du Zhizhou is in a hurry, Dezhi was blown up by this thing and didn't find the bones and slag, but you can imagine how ruthless it is, and he is just to make some money as an official, and he can't take his life for this, so the sappers below are running back with the detonator, and the white flag on the city is raised.

Li Yuncong raised his hand with satisfaction, and the sound of guns and cannons immediately stopped, and then he saw the gate of Ningdu City opened, and Zhizhou led the defenders to walk out tremblingly, at this time the general soldier beside him was stupid, but now no one paid attention to him, and under the careful service of Ningdu Zhizhou, five thousand men and horses swaggered into the city.

And at this time, the second brigade led by Jiang Guidi also recovered Shaowu, leaving a battalion to garrison, he led the main force into Jiangxi, the target was directly aimed at Jianchang Mansion, this is to his own doorstep, Nanchang Deshou really couldn't sit still at this time, and the telegrams for help were sent to Nanjing one after another, and even to Wuhan. However, Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong were destined to see the excitement, but fortunately, Furun, the governor of Anhui on the other side, brought him a boat to train a thousand troops in line with the principle of a Manchurian family, which is all the elite of Furun's Fubiao, but fortunately, Furun's mind is still sober, and he did not forget to ask for a formal order to send troops from Beijing, and then he escaped.

"Brother Yang, haven't you thought about how this matter will end?" At this time in Fuzhou City, Yang Feng was talking to the visiting Li Hongzhang about wine, Li Er Devil came to admire the Songdao in person this time, and after Ito Youheng cut his own stomach on it, he could see that it was also Lao Huai's relief, and he couldn't help but ask during the banquet.

"The end? It's very simple, the court ordered Deshou to be beheaded, don't think that they don't know what they think, if they don't cut off Deshou's head, it means that the criminal department has a traitor, if that's the case, then don't blame me for going to the Queen Mother to ask the queen mother face to face, don't think that a bunch of eight banners are reorganized into a new army, they just make up flowers and garbage is still garbage. Yang Feng said with a disdainful face.

"Okay, count you ruthless!" Li Hongzhang said with a thumbs up. (To be continued......)