Chapter 303: A Case Within a Case
Rest for the day in the Luoyang Palace.
By the next day, the prince was already in good spirits, and he was going to check around early in the morning.
Out of Chang'an City, he was like a bird flying at this time, only to feel that the outside world was full of freshness.
"Let's take a detour around Luoyang City today and take a closer look at everything!"
"No!"
A large group of Feather Forest Army guards echoed in unison at the same time.
Li Hongru has nothing to say.
Coming to Luoyang to check around is the prince's job, and it is just normal work at this time.
It was a little late to break with Li Jing last night.
Li Jing was a little interested in him, but he felt that he was too young, his heart was not fixed, and there was a gap in strength, so he just introduced a little bit of his cultivation experience.
This made Li Hongru hear in the middle of the night.
Li Jing didn't shy away from being old, and from time to time he talked about the content of great joy to refresh himself, but he was really tired after running around for two days.
Groggy and lying on the table, he slept until morning.
Li Jing had already conducted training for the whole army, while Li Hongru yawned and washed up.
At this time, he suppressed his tiredness and answered the 'no' with many people.
The chariot and horse group suddenly moved.
Some guards went to the intersections to inspect in advance, some guards stayed in the palace, and most of the guards accompanied them.
These guards are all carefully selected military masters, good at cooperating and fighting, and their personal strength is also extremely strong, and their strength is in the martial realm or close to the martial realm.
With Li Jing with him, this is one of the few top elite regiments in Datang, and few groups can stop it.
At this time, I went out of the palace in Luoyang, crossed the Huancheng River, and arrived on the street.
Many of the mansions were closed, and there was no one in them.
Li Hongru looked at the mansion group and stopped thinking again.
These mansions are very valuable, and if you resell them, you may have a difference of 100 gold in the future.
But Li Hongru also knows that these mansions cannot be touched.
He can pick up the leaks among the court officials, but he doesn't have the ability to eat soup in advance.
His eyes swept over the group of important ministers' mansions, and Li Hongru also entered the superintendent mansion in Luoyang at this time.
This is probably the lowest function of the academic profession in the Tang Dynasty, but the best school environment.
The school inspectorate is not even as good as the Simen Pavilion, but it is just a place for many students around a county to learn, and there is a big difference in the quality of teaching and the corresponding students.
This is the place of teaching left by the previous dynasty.
If there are two capitals in one dynasty, Luoyang City will officially play the role of the capital, and this superintendent will probably be expropriated and used as an important place for national learning.
The prince was more interested in the superintendent's school, and he also walked around this school to compare the differences between the schools in Chang'an City.
"Surrounded by green mountains and green waters, Luoyang is really a place of outstanding people!"
Just walked out of the palace and visited the superintendent's house, the prince's mood was extremely satisfied.
He boarded back into the carriage and took notes from time to time, and even sketched some rough outlines.
"Go to the county office!"
At present, there are not too many important buildings in Luoyang City.
In addition to the palace group, the area of the important minister's mansion, there is Guozixue, and the rest is the county government and other places to maintain the normal order of Luoyang City.
For the commoners, most of the areas where the prince traveled were forbidden areas, and the Inspectorate left a place for students and tutors.
At this time, he will observe many important places before going to the ordinary rich area and the civilian area.
"I heard yesterday that there was a murder in Luoyang City?" The prince asked Zhang Meng, who was following on the side.
"It seems that there is such a thing" Zhang Meng was stunned for a moment before saying: "Kou County ordered to do the verification, and it should be handled properly at this time." ”
When the prince came to Luoyang, he immediately had a murder case, as well as a blood well, which was not a good sign.
But the prince didn't care.
It is probably rare to see the county government trial case, and he is still a little excited and cautious at this time.
The convoy immediately headed in the direction of the county office.
A hundred meters away from the county office, everyone could hear the sound of shouting 'wronged', accompanied by the sound of killing sticks hitting heavy boards.
In the middle of the ring, the voice was much lowered, and he only cared about muttering wrongs in that low voice.
When it comes to homicide, if there is no reason for it, under normal circumstances, it is a life for life.
At this time, if you recruit it, you will die, and the voice can only grit its teeth and argue there.
"Prisoner Gao Maocai, can you plead guilty?"
Kou Zhun's voice came from afar, and the prince also got out of the carriage and began to walk into the county office.
"My lord, the small people are wronged, I'm just a tofu seller, how can I kill such a strong person!"
With a low quibble, Kou Zhun's startled wood was about to fall, and then he saw the prince coming from afar, and immediately ran down the hall.
"Kou Zhun has seen His Highness."
Kou Zhun saluted again and again.
He reviewed it overnight and checked it early in the morning, just thinking that the case would be closed as soon as possible and would not affect the prince's itinerary.
Unexpectedly, the prince actually wandered into the county government at this time.
Kou Zhun kept wiping the slight sweat on his forehead.
He only felt that he had probably committed a rush, and he had encountered all the bad luck.
"Excuse me!" The prince spoke.
Kou Zhun's salute seemed to remind him of something, and the man who was arguing on the ground suddenly turned his head.
This is an old man over fifty years old, who looks quite windy and frosty, and also has a somewhat honest appearance.
"Ask the adults to be the masters, ask the prince to be the masters, the small people are wronged, and the small people have never killed anyone!"
"You thief!"
Kou Zhun scolded, but the prince was here, and he didn't torture again this time.
Seeing the prince looking at the arraignment and those standing and waiting in the hall, Kou Zhun suddenly began to introduce the case.
Yesterday, a woman was doing laundry and fetching water from a well.
Hitting a bucket of water is a red color, and the same is true for another bucket.
The woman was immediately frightened, and when she waited for her husband, she called her neighbors to come and check on her.
Some old people muttered, "The blood well is unknown, there is a disaster of swords and soldiers in the world", "When the blood well comes out, the surrounding households may have to cut off their children and grandchildren".
Many rumors spread, and finally someone went to the county office.
When the county officials came and pulled up a corpse in the well, they found that there was a murder.
"The deceased was a bald monk," Kou Zhun introduced.
He also pointed to an old monk who had come from the surrounding area.
"It's a disciple of Hui Cong, a monk of Daye Temple."
"Amitabha, Zhizhang, a disciple of the little monk, never returned, but I didn't expect to see each other again is already separated by heaven and man, Amitabha!"
The old monk Huicong recited the Buddha's name again and again, and there was a sad look on his face.
The development of the Shi family in the Tang Dynasty is difficult, and it is not easy for him to accept a disciple, there is no one who dies, and his current expression is sighing for a while.
"The monk Hui Cong claimed the body, but found that the clothes on the body were not the monk's clothes of the temple, and our verification also shifted from people to clothes."
"The clothes were the usual green cloth shirts, but we found two sprouted soybeans in the green cloth shirts."
"When I sniffed and sniffed carefully, I noticed that there was a smell of beans on this green cloth shirt."
"We speculated that the clothes must have come from a tofu factory, so we took the deceased's clothes to various nearby tofu factories to inquire."
"Someone recognized that this green cloth shirt was worn by Gao Maocai, the old high tofu!"
After Kou Zhun introduced the current case, he arrived here for a quick trial overnight.
At this time, the suspect Gao Maocai was being interrogated.
At present, the trial of many cases is a difficult matter, and the county government and Dali Temple have piled up a lot of headless public cases.
Kou Zhun was able to quickly review this step, which was already extremely fast.
The trial is inseparable from forced confessions, and it is also inseparable from the service of the killer.
If he wanted to get more detailed information, Kou Zhun could only do this.
If he couldn't get some information from Gao Maocai, it would be difficult for him to investigate the case, so he could only register.
Li Hongru, who was waiting on the side, introduced a few sentences, and the prince basically understood.
"If he doesn't recruit him, will he be beaten to death like this?" The prince couldn't help but ask.
"It's hard to find out the people" Kou Zhun was embarrassed: "Some criminals are just so pitiful, they survived hard, and finally got rid of the suspicion of murder." ”
He also sighed slightly.
It's not that he's unwilling to use peaceful means, it's that he doesn't have the means to do it peacefully.
You can't invite a great cultivator who is good at interrogation to interrogate and interrogate this Gao Maocai as an idiot.
In comparison, the board is already a very humane interrogation plan.
It's just that Gao Maocai doesn't move, and he doesn't have a problem.
"Have you searched the suspect's house?" Li Hongru asked, "Where did the monk's robe go?" ”
At this time, the prince looked interested and wanted to see how Kou Zhun tried the case.
And Kou Zhun also entered a dead loop, in addition to pressing the shocking wood to be scary, he asked the official to hit the board.
Kou Zhun looked embarrassed, he only felt that he was too difficult.
"I searched through it last night, but I didn't find the deceased's monk's robe, and today I went to check again with the officials" Kou Zhun said: "It's been quite a long time now, presumably they should be back soon." ”
As soon as Kou Zhun's words fell, he heard a scolding sound in the distance.
Immediately, the two officials were like quails, and they were unloaded with waist swords, and bowed their heads and walked into the yamen under the swords of the guards of the Yulin Army.
"Gift...... Your Excellency! ”
"If you have something to say, say it quickly!"
Kou Zhun was in a hurry.
But his servants were very uncompetitive.
Seeing the posture of the prince and the guards of the Yulin Army, many officials in the yamen didn't even dare to breathe loudly, and the legs and feet of the two officials who came under the swords were still trembling, and their speech seemed to be slurred.
Today's trial was a bit terrible.
And when the prince asked, he had to show his real skills and find out the real culprit in the case, so that he could withstand the bad omen of the Luoyang blood well case.
Kou Zhun swallowed a mouthful of saliva and urged several times.
"We didn't find the monk's robe or the weapon of the murder, but we only found a vermilion hairpin, a Xia crown, and a red makeup in a corner of Lao Gao's tofu shop."
Half loud, the official who was barely able to calm down before he spit out.
"How is this stuff?" Kou Zhunqi said: "Gao Maocai, could it be that you are not old-hearted, and you still want to marry a daughter-in-law, so you can't prepare red makeup in advance!" ”
The fact that the officials found the murder suspect was somewhat bizarre, which did little to help the case.
When Kou Zhun had a headache, he had to ask casually.
"Xiaomin fought with the army in his early years, and his life was cut by the rebels, how can he prepare these things, my lord, Xiaomin is wronged."
Gao Maocai's reopening made Li Jing slightly refreshed.
Ordinary civil cases can only be heard in the classroom, but when it comes to retired soldiers, as the secretary of the military department, he has to ask some questions.
At that moment, Li Jing also opened his mouth.
When the official presented the items, they saw a lot of dust and mud on the red makeup, and everyone immediately believed Gao Maocai's words.
On the one hand, this Gao Maocai has a weak heart, and on the other hand, if he still has a heart, he will definitely not get a new red makeup to be stained with dust and new mud.
"Speaking of which, I received a case of the disappearance of a bride a few days ago, and I don't know if it's related!"
was concerned by the crown prince, and was voiced by Li Jing, Kou Zhun's head was already turning again and again, digging into some things in his mind, looking for a trace of connection.
"The case of the disappearance of the bride? What kind of case is that? Is this case involved? The prince said.
At this point, the case seems to have fallen into a case-within-a-case.