Two days later, in the lobby of the Criminal Department, Emperor Guangxu personally interrogated Long Wu.

Although it is said to be a personal trial, it is impossible for Emperor Guangxu to ask about the case in person like a county prince, so the chief judge of the case is still Sun Yuwen, above the lobby, Sun Yuwen sits in the north and faces south, and the ancients respect the north, so important people have to sit in the north, behind Sun Yuwen, a high platform was erected, and the dragon book case and dragon chair of Emperor Guangxu were placed on the high platform, and Emperor Guangxu sat on it, and Lin Yuan and a group of ministers sat on both sides.

Sun Yuwen slapped the startled wood, and there was a crisp sound of "popping", and the lobby was suddenly silent, and a servant shouted outside the door: "Bring someone to criminal!" ”

Above the lobby, the officials on both sides beat the water and fire sticks in their hands in unison, the water and fire sticks are half black, half red, black is water, red is red, and the meaning of water and fire is ruthless, implying that the law is not merciful...... Wu ......"

After a while, only the sound of shackles outside the door could be heard, and the two officials brought Long Wu into the hall, Lin Yuan saw that there was no sign of wear on Long Wu's wrists, and knew that this Long Wu did not suffer much in the prison, and this handcuff was just put on when he was escorted to the hall.

Long Wu walked to the middle of the hall, knelt on the ground, and said, "Grass people Long Wu, meet your lord." ”

Sun Yuwen said: "Long Wu, are you guilty? ”

Long Wu kowtowed to the ground and said ashamedly: "The grass people are guilty!" ”

As soon as Long Wu's sentence "grass people know their guilt" came out, Lin Yuan was taken aback and thought: "Why did this Long Wu confess his guilt so quickly?" ”

Without waiting for Lin Yuan to figure it out, he only heard Long Wu continue: "The grass people smuggled opium and angered Tianyan, it is really a crime that deserves death!" ”

Emperor Guangxu spoke in the back at this time: "Long Wu, do you know that this opium has brought disaster to the country and the people? How dare you smuggle it? ”

Long Wu said: "Qiqi Sheng, it is harmful to smoke too much opium, but this opium is also a good medicine, and the grass people smuggle it, all because they want to use this opium in medicine. ”

Sun Yuwen was shocked and said angrily: "What a Diao Min, strong words!" What's the matter with the rifle in your opium box? ”

Long Wu kowtowed to the head and said, "The grass people really don't know. ”

Sun Yuwen sneered: "It seems that if you don't move the big punishment, you won't be recruited, come and go to the big punishment." After speaking, he stretched out his hand to the lottery holder, and drew a decree sign, and when the order signed landed, the official was about to come up and execute.

Long Wu said: "The grass people are wronged, and someone is planting the blame for the grass people. ”

Sun Yuwen said angrily: "It's nonsense, who can transport 2,000 rifles to blame you, since you said that it was you who transported opium, it must have been done by the person who transported opium to you, then who transported your opium?" ”

Long Wu replied: "The villain really doesn't know who transports the opium, and the person who transports the opium only borrows the villain's wharf and storehouse, and the rest of the villain doesn't know. ”

Sun Yuwen sneered, and as soon as he raised his hand, he was about to throw the order sign, Rong Lu said on the side: "Lord Sun, use the punishment slowly, I have something to say." ”

Emperor Guangxu said: "What does Rong Lu Aiqing want to say? ”

Rong Lu replied: "Back to the saint, I think that there are many suspicious points in this case, and it should be submitted to the Criminal Department for further verification, and it is not appropriate to use the punishment hastily. ”

Emperor Guangxu asked, "Is this true?" ”

Rong Lu replied: "The people from the Case Evidence Department of the Criminal Department have already carefully examined it, and the two thousand guns, either lacking bolts, or having damaged body tubes, are all unusable, so how can they rebel?" Also, why are there only guns without bullets? There are many doubts like this. ”

Emperor Guangxu listened, nodded, and said, "It seems that there are still a lot of doubts in this case." ”

Sun Yuwen looked at Lin Yuan as if asking for help, Lin Yuan stood up at this time and said, "This Long Wu is going to rebel!" As for why the guns transported are scrap guns, I'm afraid I have to ask Long Wu. ”

Rong Lu asked: "Lord Lin, you said categorically that Long Wu was going to rebel, do you have any evidence?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Of course there is evidence. After speaking, he shouted outside the door: "Bring things up." ”

The two officials carefully carried a large box to the lobby, everyone was puzzled, and they all stared intently, the two officials opened the box, and inside was the gramophone that Long Wu gave to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan said to Emperor Guangxu: "Does the Holy Lord know what this is?" ”

Emperor Guangxu said happily: "I recently looked at Western artifacts, and I knew that this thing, it is a phonograph, which was invented by a person named Emerson in the United States, and this thing can record human voices, which is the most magical." ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Since the Holy Lord knows this thing, it is very good, and the Holy Lord also explained the role of this thing to everyone, so I won't repeat it below." ”

Lin Yuan took out a disc-shaped record from the box, put it under the magnetic head, and then turned on the gramophone, and after a sound of "Boom Lala", there was a conversation between Long Wu and a man, these conversations were used by Lin Yuan to threaten Long Wu that day, but now Lin Yuan took it out and used it as evidence.

The conversation was very short, but it was enough to explain the rebellion of Long Wumou, and Emperor Guangxu asked, "Lin Aiqing, where did this thing of yours come from?" ”

Lin Yuan replied: "This Long Wu has lost his conscience and done all the things that hurt the heavens and reason, so he wanted to collect evidence of his crimes, but who knew that he found evidence of his rebellion." ”

Emperor Guangxu's face turned pale, and he asked angrily: "Long Wu, who is talking to you in the gramophone?" ”

After listening to this recording, Long Wu was about to be frightened, it turned out that Lin Yuan didn't know that the era of the Ludao phonograph already existed, so he thought of the method of threatening Long Wu with a recording: invite a minister to a certain restaurant, and release this synthesized recording in the room next to it, that minister would naturally think that Long Wu wanted to rebel, and Lin Yuan said the same thing when he threatened Long Wu that day.

Later, Long Wu heard that there was such a thing as a gramophone, so he was not afraid of Lin Yuan doing this, because he could deduce that Lin Yuan was playing a gramophone, so he went to send a gramophone to Lin Yuan.

Long Wu said anxiously: "I said the words here, but I didn't say it in that situation at all, there was no one to talk to me at all, and my words were all said to a woman." ”

Long Wuyi pointed at Lin Yuan and said: "These are all the sets he gave me, he asked me to transport private goods for him, and he asked me to pay money, I didn't agree, he came up with this method to blackmail me......"

"Shut up!" Lin Yuan shouted angrily, "Tell me, can this recorded voice also be faked?" ”

Lin Yuan turned to the people present again and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, any of you who have heard of this voice can also be faked. "It was the first time that everyone present had heard of a phonograph for the first time, and the art of recording and synthesis was like a fantasy to them, so they were convinced.

Emperor Guangxu slapped the table fiercely and said angrily: "I must find out this person!" ”

Lin Yuan glanced at Rong Lu and thought, "I'll add some more ingredients to you." So Lin Yuan said: "Qi Shengshang, I think that this Dragon Five has a backer in the court, I don't know if it has to be investigated?" ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded and said, "Sun Yuwen, Lin Yuan, this case will be handed over to you, whoever dares to make trouble for you, you will come directly to the palace to find me." ”

Long Wu was furious, his eyes were red and his eyes were red and his voice trembled: "You, you ......"