Because of official business, Gao Shisheng and Itakura Shiro didn't talk much, and it was a good thing to meet acquaintances, telling him that he could come to the village as a guest in the future.

Back in the middle hall of the backyard, I happened to meet two Lang officials to ask about the relevant reasons, Meichuan Yuan Kongshan is old, his identity is special, he is allowed to sit in the room to answer questions, and the other monks and the monks of Jingkong are all kneeling in the courtyard to wait for the crime.

Although Yun Shouni's mother and daughter are the bitter masters, this case is mainly to judge the "sect theory" rather than killing, and the two showed their faces, and they were invited back to the side room for temporary refuge.

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I waited for about half an hour.

The Kimura brothers soon returned with Nagata Mori and Hasegawa Hayato, followed by the head of Zenko-in Temple, Zhenghiro, and his two disciples, and the other monks did not come, and they were busy transferring their belongings in the courtyard.

Seeing that the main people related to the case had arrived, there was no need to wait any longer, and the criminal record Matsugami Nobumune coughed lightly, and when he heard the sound, the Zhuang envoy retreated to the side under the leadership of Zhuang Tou and Fu Thief.

The purpose of retiring from the village office is to ensure the fairness of the case and to avoid the occurrence of collusion between the prisoner and the village officer, or the prisoner forcibly coercing the prisoner to confess.

The accompanying jailers and samurai were armed with forks and sticks, pressed their swords, divided into two columns on the left and right, and lined up in the courtyard, making strange "woo-wah" cries from their mouths to intimidate the prisoners.

The servants who watched the Murono Heizo were very amazed, where had they seen such a scene.

After a lot of shouting, the attendants who knelt on the left and right sides of the corridor of the platform slowly opened the Xuanguang door, and the two Lang officials wore the crown and belt, their faces were solemn, and after sitting on the table, the prestige was self-serving.

Yamauchi Shiyu is a well-known capable official in the county, a confidant of the county, and he can handle cases impartially in the past, and this time is no exception. It is still necessary to question people in turn, to examine the truth and falsehood, and not to listen to the words of a certain family.

The general sentence has a high status, and he can't be questioned first, so he nodded to the criminal record Matsugami Shinmune, signaling that the trial could begin.

Matsugami Shinmune acted neatly, tapped the table in front of him with the folding fan in his hand, and called, "What are you doing?" ”

"The subordinates are here." A middle-aged man in a white hat and plain clothes, hunched out.

"Was there a mistake in the autopsy?"

There is no mistake, the age and physical appearance of the deceased are the same as those described in the "funeral documents", and the position and shape of the wounds are also consistent. The "funeral certificate" is a summary report handed over to a superior official.

There is a rule that "the corpse cannot be separated from the ground", but it is often difficult for the county officials to arrive at the scene of the murder on the same day, and before the village collects the corpse, it is necessary to write a "funeral payment document" and forward it to the county together with the murder report, as the first-hand document for the torture officer to identify the corpse in the coming day.

If the corpse is obviously inconsistent with the description of the "funeral complaint", it means that the case must be a problem.

Gao Shisheng has been in Junfu for many years, and he is familiar with the documents such as "funeral payment pleading", and the records are very detailed.

Matsugami Shinmune waved his fan to signal, he could step back, turned his head to look at the kneeling prisoner in the hall, his eyes kept wandering back and forth, until he felt hairy when he looked at the people, and then suddenly broke off and shouted: "Hasegawa Hayato, Nagata Mori has not come out to accept the guilt!" ”

Hasegawa and Nagata were originally kneeling in the courtyard, and they were already nervous, and before they came, the Kimura brothers frightened the two of them for a while, and suddenly heard a broken drink, which frightened a spirit, and hurriedly kneeled out of the ranks, bowed down in front of the hall, and said that the villain listened to the sin.

"The two of you were originally military service and the country, and you should know the laws and regulations of Junfu, but not only did you not want to repay the country's kindness, but instead bewitched the good people, gathered people to make trouble, and disturbed the law, so you have to rebel!"

The two of them were shocked when they heard this, and they didn't dare to say anything, so they asked for forgiveness.

Seeing that the two of them were still afraid of the law and decrees, and they were not really stubborn people, Matsugami Zongxin's face turned slightly pale, and he reprimanded slowly: "The county guard wants to remove you and other yellow books, cut off your family name, and set an example. Fortunately, the acting official of Pingshan Villa, Gao Shisheng, begged for mercy for the two of you, and was willing to take your body as a guarantee, and the county guarded your two families for generations to serve the public, temporarily keep the crime, maintain the original verdict and not change it, and do it yourself in the future, don't defy the law again. ”

Matsugami Shinmune didn't know why Gao Shisheng was willing to intercede for the two people kneeling in the courtyard, but he was willing to sell a good one to his former colleagues, and bluntly told the two who asked for a favor for them, so as to preserve the name of the family and the identity of the military service.

Hasegawa Hayato and Nagata Mori thanked the county guard for his kindness, turned around and bowed twice to Gao Shisheng, and thanked him in unison: "Thank you for the grace of the head of the village, the villain will die hard." ”

Gao Shisheng accepted it calmly, stretched out his hand to help the two, and said: "You don't have to thank me, in the future, you should use the word loyalty and righteousness to serve the public wholeheartedly." After that, he signaled them to stand down for the time being, and not to delay the release of the sentence on Songshang.

Hasegawa and the others, what they made was just a small mistake, and the real highlight was the punishment of the two temples, which could not be spared by lifting it high and gently putting it down like just now.

"Please be questioned." Matsugami was sleek and unwilling to do anything that offended people, so he asked.

The Yamauchi clan is over thirty years old, with a long black beard, a dignified appearance, and an upright and honest person, but he is not afraid of these monks holding grudges at all.

"The clear monk can be under the hall!"

"The little monk is here." The first one was called by name, and the pure monk couldn't help but secretly complain, but he had to come out and ask for guilt.

"You lead people to provoke" theory, leading to murder, do you still have something to say? ”

"Ask the adults to learn clearly, the little monk is really wronged!"

"What are you going to say, are you still wronged?" The Yamauchi clan is not like the Gao clan, and has a family to teach the "Peace Law" and the "Laws of the Samurai".

He studied the "Song Criminal Code" by the professor of Junfu School, and I even admired Xu Zun, the detailed judge of Dali Temple, who judged the "Ayun case", and advocated the forgiveness of prudent punishment and not the likes and dislikes of sinners.

Even if the facts of the case are clear, the offender must listen to the justification and pay attention to convincing the thief with reason, rather than relying on torture to extract a confession and conclude the case hastily.

"This ...... Zenko-in Temple...... This is the property of my Umegawa Temple, even if the little monk and others are at fault, they are also forced by Zenko-in! The monk shouted grievances, it was just a subconscious move, and he couldn't quibble when he was asked, so he had to bite the bullet and say about the ownership of the house: "Besides, the title deed is also in the hands of my Meichuan Temple, and the land around Zenko-in Temple is clearly the property of my Meichuan Temple, how can it be considered a sin if I take back my own property." ”

Although he has something to say, Yamauchi also has something to say to him: "The Shangchuan family temple is a private person, and the family is unwilling to worship the Shingon sect, and it is not against the law to convert to the Pure Land, and the Junfu has long had a law that strictly prohibits the private transfer of the land title deed, and the Pingshan Villa was taken over by the Junfu two years ago, and the nearby land is owned by the Junfu, and the land around the Zenko-in Temple you said is owned by your Umegawa-in, but there is a document approved by the county, who is the guarantor?" Is there a receipt for the annual rent? ”

The monk was speechless, yes! Two years ago, the Kamikawa family was changed to Insa-gun, and the land here has long been returned to Sunfu. This house is only considered to be a Buddhist hall in the county and the village, so they did not send people to drive out the monks of the Pure Land True Sect, but they have to collect rent every year.

This kind of dispute over the ownership of land and property, it is useless to say anything else, according to the law, whoever leases is whoever, and you Meichuan Yuan said that it is yours, then just take the receipt of the receipt issued by the county to you after paying the rent every year.

"Back then, the Shangchuan family did promise to give this house to my sect." Seeing that the disciple couldn't resist, Meichuan Yuan Kongshan hurriedly spoke: "If you don't believe it, the judgment is unbelievable." You can ask Kamikawa-sama to come over and ask. ”

"I have just said that the resale of gift land and property, there must be a village and township as a guarantee, and the officials of Junfu issue documents, and change the title deed to make a number, not to mention that the Shangchuan family is only a verbal promise, even if it is really privately transferred to the land deed, without the guarantor document, it is not counted!"

"My Yuanjiang Temple family and the wealthy family all enjoy the right to "guard not enter", and there is no need for Junfu to admit this kind of thing... General Judgment...

"The Zen master can be silenced!" Yamauchi Shifeng was already respectful of his old age, and when he heard him regard the law of Junfu as nothing, he refuted unceremoniously: "At this time, I haven't asked the Zen master to take me to interrogate, and it's not too late to reply again." ”

After speaking, regardless of whether Meichuan Yuan's empty face was ugly or not, he admonished the Jingkong monk: "Tian Chuan belongs, innocent, no need to discuss again, Meichuan Yuan Qingkong, you are the culprit of the "Zongxuan" plus one degree, if you confess at this time, I can also reduce part of the guilt as appropriate, otherwise even if you are a monk, you can avoid death, and you will not escape the long stream of Qingdao!" ”

"The little monk pleaded guilty, the little monk pleaded guilty, and he was willing to ask the adults to give him extrajudicial grace!" The monk of Jingkong originally wanted to defend himself a few more words, but when he heard the words "Changliu Qingdao", his face was like earth, and he kowtowed to the ground, begging bitterly.

Even the servants present were afraid, as if they had seen a ghost alive.

Gao Shisheng secretly thought: "This Yamauchi Tong sentence is not a pedantic person, although he does not use the punishment, but he will also intimidate the prisoner and force him to confess, if you really invite the pure space monk to go to Qingdao for a while, it is better to beat him to death here and send him away as soon as possible." ”

Aoshima, which Yamauchi is talking about, is located in the sea between Suruga and Izu Islands, and is as famous as Izu Johachi. According to the records of Hachijo Island Chronicles and Qingdao Island History, in the 72nd year of King Xiaoling (219 BC) of the pre-Qin period, Xu Fu was sent by Qin Shi Huang to the East China Sea to find the elixir of immortality and arrived in Kumano, Kishu.

After Xu Fu and his entourage arrived in Kumano, they sent boys and girls to go around by boat to find the elixir. On the way, the boat was swept away by the waves, and drifted to Hachijo Island in the boat of a boy and a girl, and drifted to nearby Qingdao in a boy's boat. Since then, Hachijo Island has been called "Guardian Island" or "Female Island", and Qingdao has been called Male Island or "Boy Island".

Every year when the south wind blows, the virgins cross the sea to Hachijo Island to socialize with the virgins, and those who are interested can live together. After some time, the boy returned to Qingdao and returned the following year for this season. If a boy born to a boy who had lived together in the previous year, the boy would bring her back to Qingdao; If you give birth to a girl, you will stay on Hachijo Island.

Legend how beautiful the legend is, how cruel the reality is, Hachijo Island and Aoshima because of the isolation of the overseas, life is difficult, since the time of peace is a place of exile for felons, after the Heiji Rebellion Minamoto Yoritomo was exiled to Izu Province, once imprisoned in Qingdao.

"Those who have committed capital crimes and obtained loans are mostly affiliated with Qingdao in Junzhou and Zhangbadao in Douzhou, and they are all protected by envoys of the garrison"; "In the beginning, the monks were guilty of crimes, and they also served with needles. As a result, the edict dismissed him. Those who have been ordered to commit miscellaneous crimes to death shall not flow to the two islands, and shall be subordinated to the prison cities of the prefectures." That is, those who have been pardoned for capital crimes, and even monks who have committed crimes are sent to the two islands.

Before leaving for the two islands, the prisoners were branded with the words "Thorn with Hachijo Island" or "Thorn with Qingdao", which was about seven inches long. After arriving in Zhangba and Qingdao, he was guarded by the garrison on the island day and night to serve in labor, mostly in mining and shipbuilding. Some prisoners could not stand the suffering on the island, and even committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea.

Nowadays, the two islands are Imagawa and Hojo, and their role is still where the exiled prisoners are located. However, they are not responsible for providing food and water to the prisoners from time to time, and they are all self-sufficient on the island, and the natives are still struggling to survive, so where is there spare power to support the prisoners.

In order to solve the problem of lack of food and drinking water and the shortage of caretakers, the Tong Dao clan, who had been in charge of the "prison camp" on the island for generations, came up with many methods of killing murderers, such as "swallowing fish alive", "eating cloth bags", "persuading the king to drink", and so on, to maintain the number of prisoners at a certain number at all times.

"Swallowing fish alive" puts a very small iron hook into the belly of the fish, and then lets the prisoner swallow it, the iron hook enters the stomach, it is difficult to discharge, the hook breaks the stomach, and the prisoner will die; The "food cloth bag" was originally called the "soil cloth bag", which was filled with soil and pressed on the prisoner's stomach, so that the prisoner could only breathe out but could not breathe, and finally suffocated to death. To be specific, to play "stone cloth bags" is to put pebbles in the sack, tie the mouth tightly, and then use the sack to beat the prisoner, it is said that it is not easy for the prisoner to die when he is injured.

"Persuading the gentleman to drink" is to pour seawater into prisoners, and the seawater is salty and poisonous, how can people drink more, only "persuade" them three or four times, and the person will be finished.

Even if the prison guards are in a good mood and do not beat or scold the prisoners, they may not necessarily give them food. According to the "Peace Law", the prison authorities "shall give food but fail to give it 60 rods", that is, if the jailer withholds the prisoner's food, he will be beaten with 60 boards.

But on the two islands, which are isolated from the sea, the jailers have long deprived the prisoners of food and watched them starve to death.

This is also mainly due to the food shortage on the island. The grain supply of the two islands is self-sufficient, and is supplied by less than 100 island households on the island. At the beginning, the number of people who came to the assassination was still small, but the criminal officials and monks of more than 100 people could still be self-sufficient, but because the two islands were customized by the imperial court, all the bandits and thieves from all walks of life were exiled to the two islands, and the number of assassins reached about 1,000 at most, and the rations were seriously not available, which also affected the island owner and others to deduct food.

When Tong Dao was the owner of the island, he simply threw the excess prisoners directly into the sea and drowned.

The cruelty of the means is outrageous. At the beginning of the establishment of the new policy, the father of the Hokahata family of the flower general, the close attendant of the Hokahata family of the later Daigo king, had a sparse table, asking not to exile the prisoners to the two islands again, "The one who is subordinate to the heavy one is Hachijo two islands, followed by the second Tsukushi, and then three thousand miles to Mutsu." If we count the number of 300 people per year, about 3,000 people in 10 years, and 2,000 people are under control except for one point of death, and now only 180 people are under control. "Shikoku Island was called Iyo-no-Ni Na Island in ancient times, and Kyushu was called Tsukushi Province in ancient times.

It is said that the four places where the imperial court exiled sinners, and the sinister islands of Zhanghachi are even far away in the three remote borders of Shikoku, Kyushu, and Mutsu.

The notoriety of the two islands is well-known in Tokaido and Musashino, and the Yellow Springs Hell, where children cry at night, is not to mention that it is such a pampered monk as a clear space, even the officials and samurai are afraid to avoid escorting people to these two islands.