Chapter 21: The Shocking Judgment

Hearing Kong Ming's words, the two of them were quiet for a while, Tang Zixian had been married to Kong Ming for so long, and he had never heard Kong Ming talk about his feelings, and now listening to Kong Ming say it was also a kind of torment for him, so that she knew in an instant that the people who were hurt were not only her, it was them, even Kong Ming was the same. What is it like to have only desire, but no affection? They know that this is just the beginning. Sure enough, Kong Ming's next words really shocked them. I don't know why Kong Ming's other wives all ran out and gathered around the table, they also had to listen to Kong Ming's true psychological words, and listen to their position in Kong Ming's heart.

"Maybe you don't know that not every man is in love, and not every man wants to have many women. Before you, I just wanted to find my way, the path of the strong, in constant exploration, but the devil sent you directly into my life. When I was young, I didn't understand love, but I paid directly, which made me silent for a long time after being betrayed. In those days, I only lived with wine, every day was muddy, I don't know how to pass, and then a few friends found me and asked me to slay the dragon with them, and at that time, I just left the wine a little, of course, where it was, I got the dragon blood, and now I think about it as a karmic cycle, if it weren't for that incident, I wouldn't have gotten the dragon blood, and of course I couldn't get so many young and beautiful wives, and I lost one, but in exchange for seventeen. This kind of business, if it is really done, it is still a good person with a good reward!"

Everyone listened to Kong Ming. just sank into that kind of sad feelings, but let Kong Ming's turn fool.

"Say, tell me quickly, what's going on in the back?" shouted Che Zimin, who was one of Kong Ming's many wives and the daughter of a Grand Duke Che Yin, a senior swordsman of the fire department. The character is a little anxious.

"Later, don't you know what happened next? I became an imperial baron because I could drink, which is ridiculous, how many people are fighting to the death on the battlefield. I don't get a knighthood, I get it with a drink. The world is truly impermanent!" Kong Ming sighed, the events at that time were really unforgettable for them. So in the midst of this gossip, a large group of women surround a man. It's been a morning. After lunch. A boulder fell directly in Kong Ming's heart, he would no longer worry about these bad things in the past, and for a while, Kong Ming's cultivation seemed to have reached a higher level, because this thing had been suppressed for too long, once it was put down, many things were indeed clear, and there was no obstacle to cultivating for natural improvement. Kongming's Sword Saint directly entered the second level of the Holy Rank. Because once the connection of the Three Saints has a level of advancement, then it will inevitably lead to other levels. This is also the advantage of multiple saints, but it is also a disadvantage, because time is limited, multiple saints need more time than single saints, this is not a mathematics such as one plus one equals two, but one plus one is greater than two, that is to say, the practice time of multiple saints is longer than the practice time between two single saints combined, however, things have disadvantages and advantages, in addition to more than twice the long time of practice, multiple saints will be easier to break through the bottleneck than single saints, because of the bypass, so in this case, the difference between the two is not too big, because it is easy for single saints to accumulate energy, but the storage of bottlenecks will consume most of their time, and it is difficult for multiple saints to accumulate energy, and there are fewer bottlenecks, which is conducive to promotion. The two are familiar with each other, and it only depends on personal choice. But one thing is certain, that is, Duosheng can choose the direction of single saint development in the future, but it is difficult for Shan Sheng to take the path of many saints, because the requirements of multiple saints will not be too different in all aspects, which directly cuts off the idea of many single saints.

Ten days later, the Sewing City Arena, because to conduct a public trial of those cases of raping people's women, a huge venue was needed, Feng Jiaming simply used this largest venue directly, which was completely free to the outside world, and the citizens could enter at will, and at this time, the entire arena was already overcrowded, and after reaching the limit of the seats, the city defense army never let people in. But there were still thousands of people crowded outside, in order to meet everyone's requirements, Feng Jiaming made a lot of money, not only put magic screens in every place where people could gather in Seyi City and other cities, so that everyone could see the news of the trial in the first time, but at the same time, many city guards were prepared in various places in case of accidents. This case is indeed too sensational, if according to Feng Jiaming's original idea, then these people should be directly executed, because only in this way can everyone know the determination of the guards, but Kong Ming's veto made him the only way to solve this problem that was not a big problem. During these ten days, he slandered Kong Ming a lot, but what surprised him was that in order to keep the case going, Kong Ming hired the best defense lawyers in the empire for both sides, and asked special personnel to conduct a detailed investigation of the case and collect evidence, instead of being one-sided because of the testimony of those eyewitnesses. Strictly speaking, Kongming is to let a real fairness appeal to the world, not only for the honor of the expeditionary force, but also for the sake of the soldiers who committed similar things in the future, so that those soldiers who committed crimes will not be simply executed, nor will they be placed in the position of letting those victims only see a head, and then go crazy, and then, there will be no more.

Feng Jiaming sat next to Kong Ming, and behind Kong Ming sat his wives, in front of him was the judgment table, the judge was under Kong Ming's construction, and a senior judge sent by the Supreme Court of the Empire would hear this case, not for anything else, just for this case is also a very important matter for the entire expeditionary force, Kong Ming must give a satisfactory explanation to all the soldiers and people of the expeditionary force, what is more convincing than the judge sent from the Supreme Court of the empire?

Below the judges were several probationary judges, and in front of them were flanked by both sides of the debate, and their lawyers, who were to be judged one by one, because the ten soldiers of the expeditionary force were convicted, and they could only be guarded by specialized men in a certain area, while the eight wounded women were on the other side, and they were to be tried one by one. The person awaiting trial sat next to the defense lawyer, and both sides were surprised to see this scene. They had no idea that such a trial would take place, and that it would be held in the midst of all the people, both men and women, without a face. Only those lawyers have seen the big scene, although the scene is the biggest in the whole day, but their professional ethics do not allow them to be stage frightened, and they will not be stage frightened. This is also an opportunity for them, because of the high attention, because of the peculiarity of the case.

It was ten o'clock in the morning. The trial officially began. Below the judge, a judge stood up and said:

"The trial will begin below, and in the course of the trial anyone may raise the issue of the establishment, and whether or not the establishment shall be approved depends on the circumstances. But no one is allowed to disturb the order of the trial, otherwise the court has the right to send him out. In the course of the trial. All shall be unconditionally subordinate to the judge's command......"

After a chain of programs. The trial has finally begun.

"Your Excellency, as the defendant's defender, we will plead guilty to the defendant. The process of the case is as follows: my client Li Tian rushed into the home of the plaintiff Ye Qian to search for the remnants of the resistance forces in the city, and in the process, Li Tian, who had been in the army for half a year, sexually assaulted Miss Ye Qian for some well-known reason due to his long military service. The evidence of this fact is conclusive, and the facts of the case are clear. The defendant also confessed, so we pleaded guilty. Li Tian's defender Yang Lin said that he did not deny the matter itself, in the past few days of discussion with Li Tian, they knew that this was a chance for the expeditionary force to give them a chance to live, so if the not-guilty defense is carried out, it will undoubtedly make the situation worse for the parties, because at this special time, the army can completely execute him for violating the order, the reason why this trial was held, and put him first, is to let everyone watch this trial, so that there will be a reasonable judgment for similar incidents in the future, and their trial is the standard for the same case in the future。 At the same time, they also know that this is the army giving them a chance to survive, and they must seize it.

After hearing the defendant's confession, the audience below felt a sense of relaxation in their hearts, because as long as they admit the facts, everything else will be easy, but things will not be as simple as they think.

"Your Excellency, I am the defense counsel for the plaintiff, and we believe that the facts are clear, and that according to the rule of Article 136 of the Imperial Civil Code, rape is punishable by a minimum of three years and a maximum of ten years, and if he is sentenced by such a law, we have reason to believe that all the soldiers on the battlefield will find such a beautiful girl to do something similar, and then they will be sentenced to three to ten years in prison, and then they will be directly out of the battlefield, and when their robes are fighting and giving their lives, they can bask in the warm sun in prison, and then when the war is over, they will be released and continue to live their dashing lives, they can even marry the woman they have violated home, and hold the child born from that tragedy, in order to repay her life-saving grace, I think most soldiers will have such a choice, because life and death on the battlefield are a momentary thing, and this kind of thing can survive and be cool, even I can't help but want to pay for it. ”

The plaintiff's lawyer's argument made most of the people laugh happily, just for his humor.

"This man is really talented. Kong Ming smiled. This lawyer directly avoided the premise of the law and played the favor card, which is the opinion of most people, but what others don't know is that this lawyer cleverly avoids the impact of this kind of thing on the psychology of the people in the war zone, and this is exactly what Kong Ming wants, as the Art of War says, anger can be restored, sorrow can be restored, but once there is no life, there is nothing. So as long as these people's lives are saved, they are worthy of them following Kong Ming for a while. Although in some ways they have ruined the reputation of the army, they have allowed Kong Ming to solve some things in the front, instead of waiting for them to appear more times before solving them, if it is in a place where the war is urgent, Kong Ming can only use that kind of quick method to solve this problem, which Kong Ming does not want to see. However, Kong Ming was soon disappointed.

"Yes, gentlemen, ladies, he comes from an army that is about to conquer the whole world, the expeditionary force of our Huayuan Empire, and this responsibility gives us reason to believe that if the soldiers of our expeditionary force do the same, then the army of the heroes of our empire will pay a tenfold or even a hundredfold price in the future conquests. Just because of the beautiful and beautiful ladies like my client, the expeditionary force will disappear, so in order to make the soldiers of our expeditionary force. Our heroes bring us more honor, and the plaintiff and I believe that this matter will be punished severely, not three years of dragonflies, nor ten years of seemingly heavy but life-saving ones, but the death penalty, Your Excellency. For the sake of the future of our expeditionary force, in order to soothe the broken hearts of our fathers and elders in the city, I built yì. The defendant was sentenced to death. The plaintiff's lawyer called out loudly, and all of a sudden, the atmosphere of the audience made his voice puff up.

"Death penalty!"

"Death penalty!"

"Death penalty!"

"Death penalty!"

The shouts of the audience spread one by one, and even the people who stopped to watch outside made the same sound. The voice rose to the sky.

The faces of the defendant Li Tian and the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were being interrogated below suddenly changed. If nothing else, because if they make the same mistake, then they will also be sentenced to death, but where is the word for rape? Sometimes it is a momentary impulse that will lead to lifelong regrets. More importantly, it is not under their control.

"Quiet!"

"Quiet!"

"Quiet!"

"Quiet!"

The judge, seated on the main table, struck the bell several times, even though he did not strike very loudly, because of the magic that was used in all of them. But it was heard by the whole audience. The scene quickly fell silent.

"Lawyer for the defendant, do you have anything to say?" the judge asked.

"Yes. Your Excellency, I have something to say. Hearing the generous speech of the plaintiff's lawyer made my blood boil and made me feel the urge to kill the defendant now. But my profession did not allow me to take my hands and kill such a young man with a sword, who had only made some mistakes. Because whoever can be without mistakes, after making mistakes, can improve greatly, this old saying tells us that everyone will make mistakes. So in order to prevent more people from making mistakes, and to give more people a chance to compensate for the mistakes they have made after making mistakes, the empire has enacted laws to give these children who have gone in the wrong direction a chance to change. It's like when we were young, and when we broke a bowl, our mother whipped us with a whip to let us know that we couldn't break that bowl, and if we just broke a bowl, and our mother cut us with a knife, how many people are still standing here? When we grew up, we began to fight, just like my client, he was just a young man born in a small town, in order to feed the whole family, at the age of sixteen, he resolutely went to the mercenary team, and became a mercenary who walked to the line of life and death, gentlemen and ladies, please ask with your conscience, what were you doing when you were sixteen years old? Whether to lie in the arms of your parents and play arrogant, or in the academy to pursue your beloved, but my client can only use his life to earn that little bit of pitiful commission through the edge of life and death again and again, to support his parents and younger siblings at home, in this battle of life and death, my client has been injured more than 20 times, leaving hundreds of scars on his body, and finally raised his younger siblings to adulthood, so that the family can live a good life. It stands to reason that he can stop, because at this time he has become a high-level swordsman, and with this level of swordsman, I think everyone knows what it means, it means that he can live a worry-free life for the rest of his life, it means that he can marry a beautiful wife and have a lot of lovely children. However, as soon as the Duke of Marina issued a recruitment order, he came to the expeditionary force, and for the cause of the empire, away from his family and the comfortable life, he came to the East China Sea, came to the city of Suiyi, and fought for the future of the empire. Of course he has committed an unforgivable sin, but gentlemen and ladies, if we follow the laws of the empire then we can see that my client will one day go home and once again take up the responsibility of being the pillar of a family. But if we should sentence him to death, as you ask, who will take care of his parents, who will take care of his brother and sister, who will take care of his grandmother, who will take care of his sick grandmother in the family, will it you, you, or you? It is true that he committed an unforgivable sin against Miss Ye Qian, and this sin will definitely accompany her for the rest of her life, and it is certain that she will still dream of Li Tian's ugly face in nightmares at night, but, gentlemen, ladies, does that mistake need to be filled with the life of a living person, does it need to be filled with the life of a family? Which is more important, reputation or life? You can vent your anger, you can laugh again when you cry, but is my client's life just a punching bag for you to vent and anger? If he dies, who can bring him back to life, who can take care of his family for him? The enactment of the laws of the empire is to make people good, except for those who are extremely evil, to give all people who have the heart of repentance a chance, so the crime of rape in the empire does not end a person's life because of the woman's momentary pain, nor does it end a man's life because of a woman's tear, this is the law of our empire. Our laws are not just protecting the weak, but all subjects. Yang Lin said that the brilliance is no less than that of the other party's lawyer.

So in the constant debate between the two sides, in the constant sighs of those who were watching for each of the two sides, and under the influence of people's minds constantly following the various remarks of the lawyers on both sides, all the people began to gradually think about the pros and cons of this case, for a time and for a lifetime, and the two parties involved, one was a soldier of the expeditionary force, a responsible man, a saboteur, an impulsive man, one was an ordinary woman, a poor and pitiful woman, a weak person, and the various effects of different punishments on the two of them in this case, the impact on the masses, but also on the laws of the Empire, on the expeditionary forces, on the newly annexed territories of the Empire. The two lawyers used their sharp words to present the unusualness of an ordinary case under the background of an era, and also made people more aware that such a case is actually necessary to be truly presented in front of everyone, this is not only about a rape case, but also the best way to teach the new area to quickly dissolve into the empire.

"Although Kong Ming said that it took some time here, it was really not easy for the people here to enter the role of an imperial citizen more quickly!"

"Indeed, at the beginning, we all thought that this kind of practice was not in line with the characteristics of the army, and it also made the expeditionary force lose a lot of things in the hearts of the people, but now he presents these things in front of people's eyes, so that people know that the expeditionary force is also a human being, and it is also a group of living people, and the reason why they fight is not only out of the pursuit of their own force, but also for the pursuit of the future, and he is teaching these people of Kongming Island. Alexander sighed as well. Kongming's words, sometimes it is really hard to guess, sometimes he will use an extremely strong force to solve a problem, and sometimes, he uses the power of this water grinding tofu, slowly, I don't know why it is like this, but when the actual effect is revealed, people know the deep meaning of this. Of course, these are all speculations on the part of others. As for Kongming......

"Husband, you are awesome, I never thought that there were so many things in a trial, how did you come up with it?" Tang Zixian asked on the side, this trial is extremely rare for people like them who have been in the upper echelons of the imperial capital for many years, not because there are few, but because they disdain to look at it, but when this kind of common scene in the imperial capital is displayed here, and when it appears in the eyes of millions of people, their power is directly revealed, how can such a thing be missed by a woman who is good at gossip?

"Hehe, this is not a strange thing, this kind of scene is common in the imperial capital, I just want to give these soldiers a chance to justify, let them survive, don't just untie their trouser belts and die, it would be a pity to do so, you must know that it takes more than twenty years for a senior swordsman to get, although our strength is strong, but we can't waste it like this." "Sometimes, the truth is as simple as that. (To be continued......)

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