Before noon, Lao Wu took those servants and coolies from Yujiang City to the yarn workshop, and the seven or eight servants were also dumbfounded after seeing the scene in the courtyard.

However, since they have been sent from above, they can do whatever they want! After checking the identities of each corpse, he directly asked the coolies to load the twenty corpses on a ship and transport them back to Yujiang City at one time.

Shao Xi took Lao Wu and Gao Guang back to Yujiang City with the ship, and today Cui Qi will be promoted to the court to try the Zhao family's crimes of perverting the law for bribes in Yujiang County, harming the people, privately increasing business taxes, raising private troops, and attempting to rebel, and the two witnesses Shao Xi found are also crucial, both of whom can directly accuse the Zhao family.

In the lobby of the county guard's mansion, Cui Qi originally asked Shao Xi to sit in the main seat, but Shao Xi said that he was the chief judge of this case, so he pressed him on the main seat, and he sat aside to watch how he tried the case of the Zhao family.

Cui Qi gave an order, and the officials in the government took Zhao Huajun, Zhao Feng, Zhao Hansi, Zhao Huafei, and Zhang Xiaoquan, together with the tax item, Zhang Xiaoquan and others to the hall for trial.

When they came to the hall, the other people were already so frightened that they knelt on the ground before the official could press them, but Zhao Huajun stood under the hall with an unconvinced face, refusing to kneel.

"Prisoner Zhao Huajun, now you are no longer the county guard of Yujiang County, but a prisoner under the stairs, why don't you kneel when you come to the court? Have you done all these years in vain? Have you even forgotten the basic rules for going to trial? ”

Cui Qi was sitting in the lobby at this time, which could be said to be full of momentum, and he no longer looked like a county man at all, and the tone of talking to Zhao Huajun had changed from ignoring the previous love to being bluntly questioned, unceremoniously.

Zhao Huajun was wearing shackles at this time, his official robe had been stripped off, he was put on a prison uniform, his hair and beard looked scattered, although the whole person was still beating his spirit, but he could also see that he was exhausted, but his face was still arrogant and domineering.

"Humph! You are just a small countyman, what qualifications do you have to judge this official? Whether the official is guilty or not is not up to you, a small seven-grade petty official, to decide. I am the official commander of Yujiang County appointed by the imperial court, and you are violating my Jingyuan laws by detaining me for interrogation without permission. If you want to interrogate, I won't be able to interrogate you, and the court will send someone to come, and you still want me to kneel to you? You're just wishful thinking! ”

This Zhao Huajun is a scoundrel, and Cui Qi can't do anything. Speaking of which, Cui Qi is now just a mere county officer, and the person appointed by the court has not been stripped of his official position by the imperial court, and is still his superior in theory, and this is indeed a fact. If there was no order from the imperial court, he, a seven-rank petty official, would really not be qualified to try the case of the Zhao family here, especially without the right to interrogate Zhao Huajun, which made Cui Qi feel a little embarrassed for a while.

Cui Qi glanced at Shao Xi helplessly, which meant "I'm not qualified enough, now I have to speak for you." ”

Shao Xi nodded with a smile and stood up. first took out the "Jing Chengsi" brand from the shoulder bag and slammed it directly into Zhao Huajun's face.

"I am the history of the 'Jing Cheng Division' four-quality supervision, and all officials have no rank in front of me, and their officials can be supervised and disposed of. As long as the evidence is conclusive, you can cut it first and then play, without reporting to the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Officials, and Dali Temple, do you think I have this qualification? ”

Zhao Huajun was stunned by Shao Xi's words, and he couldn't help but shudder in his heart, there is no official who doesn't know that "Jing Chengsi" can't be provoked.

If the "Jing Chengsi" wants to investigate and prosecute a certain official, as long as he targets you, basically nothing good will come of it. But now that he is facing a mortal situation, he can't care so much, and he can delay it for a while, hoping that the one in Kyoto can come to the rescue.

"Although you, the 'Jing Chengsi', have privileges in your hands, you can't disregard people's lives and frame others indiscriminately. Now the official suspects that you and the county prince Cui Qi conspired to kill the official, and wanted to seize the county's cloud yarn industry, so as to enrich your own pockets and seek personal gains. I will wait for the officials sent from Kyoto to hear this case fairly, and I will also accuse you of the crime of falsehood. ”

Shao Xi saw that Zhao Huajun was still a dead duck and refused to accept it, and he didn't bother to argue with him anymore, so he took out the imperial edict that Xiao Changyi had given him personally from his shoulder bag.

"There are two imperial edicts in the hands of this official, one of which was issued by the Holy Majesty of this mission, asking your local officials to cooperate with me unconditionally, if I take out this one, you may have to disobey it again. All right! I will now take out another imperial edict issued by the Holy Lord himself, allowing me to supervise the local officials in Jingyuan on behalf of the Holy Lord, if there is a person who is corrupt and solicits bribes and ignores the law of the country, there is no need to play, you can deal with it first, do you want to see it with your own eyes? ”

Zhao Huajun was completely stunned this time, this kind of edict is equivalent to letting Shao Xi act on behalf of the saint, everything Shao Xi does is equivalent to what the saint does, if he dares to disobey, he will be guilty of bullying the king, if he dares to say a word now, I am afraid that he will not even have to be tried, Shao Xi can order someone to push him out and cut him directly.

Shao Xi looked at Zhao Huajun and smiled coldly, and said: "Since I can act on behalf of the saint now, I am qualified to appoint the county commander Cui Qi on behalf of the saint to temporarily act as the county guard of Yujiang County, and try your Zhao clan's corruption and perversion of the law in Yujiang County for many years, raising private troops, and attempting to rebel, what else do you have to say?" It's better to finish it all together. ”

Zhao Huajun saw that the general trend was gone now, and it seemed that he couldn't wait for the one from Kyoto to send someone to rescue him, and suddenly like a deflated ball, his head drooped and he stopped talking.

Shao Xi suddenly shouted, "Why don't you kneel down quickly?" Do you want the official to order the execution? ”

Thump......

Zhao Huajun no longer had the arrogant and domineering appearance he had before, his legs were weak and he fell to the ground, his head bowed and waiting to be interrogated by Cui Qi.

Now that the main culprit has been suppressed at this time, the trial of the next case will be much smoother.

Because over the years, Cui Qi and Lu Ju have secretly collected many criminal evidence of the Zhao family's corruption and perversion of the law, private taxation, oppression of the people, and suppression of merchants, only for the Zhao family's property for personal gain.

The next trial was the crime of the Zhao family raising a private army, supporting the army and standing on their own, and attempting to rebel.

Now that the private army has been exterminated, there are countless pieces of evidence about the Zhao family collected from the barracks, which is naturally conclusive, and some generals who have captured a large number of prisoners can also be used as witnesses, not to mention that there is also a high level of ironclad evidence.

This crime must be, the Zhao family has no way to live, it must be all over the house, and the chickens and dogs will not be left.

Joke! No one can save themselves from the crime of supporting the army and trying to rebel, not even the one in Kyoto. What's more, this private army was originally raised for that person, would he jump out and admit that he intended to rebel?

It doesn't matter if it's a backbiter, or a scapegoat. In short, at the moment, this matter is going to be counted on the head of the Zhao family, even if your Zhao family doesn't admit it, the one in Kyoto will find a way to put this matter on your head.

Whenever Zhao Huajun dares to tell the truth, he will add another crime of framing, this is the end of following the wrong person and making the wrong calculation, and now no one else is to blame.

In the end, the trial was for the crime of soliciting a killer and assassinating an official of the imperial court, and the assassinated official was still an official who held the imperial edict and acted on behalf of the saint. To put it another way, this is no different from the assassination of the saints today.

You dare to kill anyone who comes out to do things for the saint, so do you dare to kill the saint when he comes out? Speaking of which, this matter is a matter of crooked mouth.

However, no matter who you stabbed you, it is already a capital offense, and there is no point in dwelling on the details. If all the charges are added together, it is a beheading, and when listed separately, it is also a beheading, is there any difference between a single cut and a thousand times?

Gao Cang and Gao Guang both testified in court, and the assassinations they did were all instructed by the Zhao family, that is, by Zhao Huajun.

The twenty corpses parked outside the hall are also physical evidence, and the most important point is that the two collars of silver that Shao Xi took from Gao Guang turned out to be the official silver given by Gao Cang during his momentary negligence, and there was even the mark of the Yujiang County Treasury on it.

At this moment, Zhao Huajun can't rely on it. It's only to blame that he has always used the county treasury as his own private treasury and the official silver as private money, and he has completely forgotten that there is a mark on the official silver for a long time.

The piles and piles are ironclad, and the Zhao family has been uprooted in Yujiang County since then, and the mountain that pressed on the heads of the people of Yujiang County has now collapsed.

In the future, local craftsmen and merchants will no longer have to be squeezed by his Zhao family, nor will they have to pay those harsh taxes fabricated out of thin air, and there will be no more forced bribery like Zhao Er.

After the case was heard, Cui Qi got up and bowed to Shao Xi and asked for instructions on how to deal with it.

If the normal procedure is followed, the entire Zhao family should be taken into custody, and then reported to the Criminal Department, and the Criminal Department will send someone down to supervise and review and then report back to the Criminal Department, and then the Criminal Department will draw up a disposition opinion, and submit it to the Holy Lord for a final ruling, and determine the final method of punishment.

Especially for an official like the county guard, before reporting to the Criminal Department, he has to report to the state, and he has to pass the level of the assassination first, so he doesn't know that he will have to go to the Year of the Monkey and the month of the Monkey, and no one can predict all kinds of changes in advance, so Shao Xi doesn't plan to delay.

Now that Shao Xi has the imperial order in his hand and can act on behalf of the saint, the execution decision he proposed is the saint's execution decision, and all the complicated and lengthy procedures in the middle can be skipped.

Therefore, when Cui Qi asked Shao Xi for instructions on how to deal with it, Shao Xi's opinion was that all the main culprits of the Zhao family should be executed, and all the relatives of the Zhao family should be sentenced to exile, and they would be exiled for thousands of miles, and they would never be allowed to return to Yujiang County again.

Shao Xi has been regarded as merciful in this matter, according to normal speaking, the charges of raising a private army, supporting the army and standing on his own, and attempting to rebel are enough to be copied and beheaded, and the nine clans will be punished.

But Shao Xi is still a little soft-hearted, after all, many of those collateral relatives don't know, not to mention that there are many old and weak women and children, if they are beheaded together, hundreds of people will all fall to the ground, aren't those who don't know anything about this matter wronged?

After all, he has crossed over from the modern world, and there is still some resistance in his heart to this kind of punishment, since he now holds the emperor's order, let it go if he can let it go!

Zhao Huajun and the main culprit of the Zhao family were escorted to the execution ground amid a cry and beheaded, and Cui Qi personally supervised and beheaded.

The landing of the heads also means that the Zhao family will dominate one side in Yujiang County from now on, and the days of covering the sky with one hand will come to an end.

It's raining, this is the first light rain in May in Jiangnan, and the dripping rain seems to be washing away the sins of the Zhao family, and it is also like the grievances of the people of Yujiang County for many years have finally been released.