Seeing this, Lu Zongyi also casually ordered ten people from the Criminal Department.

These ten people are all men in their early forties.

Among them, there are even a pair of twins!

Although Lu Zongyi didn't want to embarrass Hu Changan, he was rigorous in judging the case.

To jump to conclusions is to be disrespectful to everyone.

Therefore, Lu Zongyi specially paid attention to the selection of people, and chose some officials who were about the same height and size.

Among them, Lu Zongyi also specially selected a pair of twins.

When everyone saw this, they were all shocked.

"What? Lu Shangshu actually chose the twins from the Criminal Department? Twins even look exactly the same, how can fingerprints be different? I look at this Hu Shilang, I'm afraid I'm going to retire in advance! ”

"It is said that these twins, even their personalities and tempers are quite similar, I have often mistaken the two of them before, and the fingerprints of the two of them are absolutely the same!"

"I think Hu Shilang is too big this time. I don't think he thought that there would be a pair of twins in the Criminal Department! ”

Everyone thinks that Hu Changan will lose this time!

However, Hu Changan still looks like an old god.

Heh, it's just twins.

In modern times, however, someone has done research on twin fingerprints.

With so many pairs of twin fingerprints that are different, Hu Changan didn't think he would overturn in front of the ancients.

Soon, these ten people lined up on the top of the main hall.

Hu Changan smiled slightly, took rice paper and coal ash and said, "Please dip your index finger in some coal ash, and then print your fingers on this rice paper." ”

"That way, your fingerprints will be clearly left on the rice paper."

When the ten people heard this, they did as they said.

After a while, the index fingerprints of these ten people were all printed on rice paper.

Hu Changan walked up to Lu Zongyi, handed the rice paper to Lu Zongyi, and said, "Please Lord Lu to see, are the fingerprints of these ten people the same?" ”

When Lu Zongyi heard this, he hurriedly took the rice paper and looked at it carefully.

However, he was completely stunned by this look.

At a cursory glance, the index fingerprints of these ten people seem to be really different?

Suddenly, Lu Zongyi found a problem: "Master Hu, do you see that the fingerprints of these two people seem to be the same?" ”

Suddenly, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that this Hu Changan still lost after all!

However, Hu Changan's face did not shake at all, but smiled and said to Lu Zongyi: "My lord, can you take a closer look?" ”

"I think these two fingerprints are roughly in the same direction, but they don't exactly coincide."

"One of the fingerprints has a greater tilt, while the other has a more gentle pattern."

"If you don't believe Lord Lu, you can fold this piece of rice paper in half in the sun and see if these two fingerprints can completely coincide?"

Lu Zongyi looked at what Hu Changan said, and he did as he said.

After a careful comparison, Lu Zongyi really saw the clues.

These two fingerprints are really as Hu Changan said, the tilt angle is inconsistent!

Lu Zongyi carefully looked at the remaining fingerprints, and then spoke cautiously: "Everyone, the fingerprints of these ten people are indeed different. ”

What?

Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

They never expected that the index finger fingerprints of these ten people were really different.

Even the fingerprints of the twins turned out to be different!

At this time, everyone believed Hu Changan's words for eight points.

Since even the fingerprints of twins who look the same are not the same, it is even more impossible for someone else's fingerprints to be the same.

However, at this time, the people behind the scenes were in a hurry.

If it is really as Hu Changan said, then wouldn't their small actions be exposed?

No way!

The things involved in this are not something that can be explained casually.

If Zhu Yuanzhang is involved, I am afraid that half of the people in the court will not be pleased!

Seeing this, an imperial historian suddenly stood up with color: "Your Majesty, I think this may be caused by too few people experimenting." ”

"There are only ten people, and the probability that the fingerprints will not be repeated must be very high."

"I think we have to find at least twenty more people to leave fingerprints to prove that what Hu Shilang said is true."

"What's more, Master Lu is not a professional draftsman, and sometimes he may not be able to see clearly."

"In my opinion, it is safer to summon a court painter."

"The painter has been immersed in this way all the year round, and he must be able to see it more clearly than Lord Lu."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he also nodded.

In a few moments, a team of court painters was brought in.

Successive dynasties would recruit court painters to paint portraits of royal officials.

In the Song Dynasty, the court painting academy was self-contained and had a strict hierarchy.

In the Ming Dynasty, although there were no painting academies for various reasons, court painters still existed.

Zhu Yuanzhang randomly ordered twenty more people as experiments.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people, so he naturally did not stick to the criminal department.

Among the six departments, some people were pointed out by Zhu Yuanzhang.

These twenty people, under the guidance of Hu Changan, left their fingerprints on the rice paper in turn.

Seeing that the fingerprints had been collected, Hu Changan also generously handed over the rice paper to the court painters for them to carefully identify.

Naturally, it takes longer to identify the fingerprints of 30 people than it does to identify the fingerprints of 10 people.

Moreover, those court painters are all literati, and they are not as cheerful as Lu Zongyi.

So a team of people studied like this for a long time.

Finally, when Zhu Yuanzhang's patience was about to run out, the painter led by him got up and bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Back to Your Majesty, none of these thirty fingerprints are the same." ”

Suddenly, everyone was in an uproar.

The fingerprints of ten people are different, perhaps it is still a coincidence.

But the fingerprints of thirty people are all different, which can never be described as a coincidence.

This shows that Hu Changan's words may really make sense!

Even Lu Zongyi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, nodded again and again, his eyes fiery.

If what Hu Changan said is true, then the Criminal Department will have another means to handle cases in the future!

This ironclad evidence is much stronger than those so-called confessions!

When the people behind the scenes heard this, they were about to break down in a cold sweat.

He thought that Hu Changan was just talking big, but he didn't expect that what Hu Changan said might be true!

As soon as he thought that he would be exposed at this time, the people behind the scenes were so frightened that they could hardly even stand on their feet.

Seeing the pale face of the master, the imperial historian hurriedly repeated the old trick and said to everyone: "Everyone, I look at these thirty people, I'm afraid it's still too few." ”

"Maybe find a few more people to leave fingerprints, and you can find exactly the same fingerprints!"