There were still seven days before the public trial of Yao Xuhe and Li Li in Dali Temple. The five city soldiers and horses posted notices all over the city: If there are people who are willing to hear the trial, there are twelve registration offices in the capital, and the officials of the Political Affairs Hall will draw lots. The one who is drawn will be
A yamen official will come to your door to issue a number plate. On the day of the public trial, you can follow the number plate and enter Dali Temple to listen. Those who have not been drawn do not need to worry. The twelve hearing registration offices are all set up in open areas, and there will be people arriving every two-quarters of an hour.
The horse passed the message from Dali Temple. If the people are curious, they can bring their own seats to the registration office to listen to the news. The people in the capital have never heard of such a trial, and the registration office for the hearing was crowded.
The storyteller in the tea house and restaurant helped everyone guess after finishing his story: The court had made the case so big, lest even one of the common people didn't know about it, and something big would happen later. The officials asked what the big deal was, and the storyteller shook his head.
, said mysteriously: "In my opinion, only something bigger than Prime Minister Lin changing the land tax can withstand this trouble."
An inspector nodded repeatedly and echoed loudly: "In my opinion, I'm afraid the foundation will be disturbed."
Another judge also said loudly: "It's just a couple quarreling and breaking up. It can't shake the foundation. It's not such a big deal."
The storyteller's voice became louder: "The young couple, one is the daughter of a seventh-grade Zhima official, and the other is the grandson of the Minister of Civil Affairs. If the imperial court hadn't created such a big battle,
Who do you think will win?"
All the officials looked at each other in confusion for a long time. At first, the one hesitated and said: "Theoretically speaking... the Xu family should win."
Another one said: "I read what was written in the newspaper, and it is clear that their family has gone too far in bullying others. The Yao family is right."
The man just now hummed: "The yamen door is open, so don't come in if you have a reason or money."
The storyteller nodded and said: "That's right. Only when both parties are common people, or both parties are officials of similar rank, can it be a reasonable lawsuit. With such a huge disparity in status, how can we be reasonable? Otherwise, how could the Xu family do that?
Outrageous? That's called having, relying on, having nothing, fear~~" All the judges were thoughtful.
At the back of the crowd, there was a young man in green shirt sitting having tea. He ate all the peanuts on the plate leisurely, called the waiter to come over and paid, and then left. There was another man dressed as a wealthy man, sitting at the table next to him, and ordered the waiter to pay.
, I put it on the back and followed.
Not long after the green-shirted young man turned the corner, the old man also hurriedly turned the corner. At first glance, he didn't see the person he wanted to follow. Before he could look around, a figure silently appeared behind him and pinched his neck.
The old man stiffened and forced a smile: "I have no intention of hiding anything from His Highness."
The young man in green shirt stood aside with his hands folded and said slowly: "I don't want to know who you are or why you are following me. Just remember that if you don't pay attention, you will have to move."
The man held up his hand and said: "I, Qi Jianhui, met His Highness the Third Highness in the early years. Does Your Highness the Third Highness remember me?"
The young master in green shirt is none other than the idle Situ Cen. He sent an urgent message back to Chengdu early, asking his brother to send assassins to assassinate the leader of the Pang family army and the Pang family children. He got a reply a few days ago. This time the assassin succeeded easily, and the King of Shu has gone there in person
The Pang family army was accepted. Situ Cen was stunned for a long time while holding the letter and sending it. Then he stayed in the capital to watch the excitement and see what Jia Cong and his gang could come up with in the end. I went out for a stroll today and didn't want anyone to follow me. So I thought about it:
"Qi Jianhui...is from the Marquis of Xiangyang."
Qi Jianhui nodded: "Yes. Thank you, Your Highness, for remembering me."
Situ Cen looked at him for a moment and said, "Do you want me to help you?"
Qi Jianhui sighed: "Your Highness, does he know what Jia Cong is going to do?"
"I know." Situ Cen said, "He wants to change the law." Qi Jianhui was startled. Situ Cen continued, "If Uncle Qi doesn't listen to my advice, he will either leave the capital and go to another country, or don't make trouble with him. That guy
There’s nothing you can’t do that you want to do.”
Qi Jianhui was anxious: "Your Majesty! He wants to change the law!"
"I know." Situ Cen said, "I just want to see how he will take action step by step, and how the officials and people of the Yan Kingdom will respond. After returning to the Shu Kingdom, I can persuade my father to learn from his reforms."
Qi Jianhui was stunned. For a long time, he still didn't believe it: "What did your Highness say?"
Situ Cen smiled and said, "Forget it if you didn't hear clearly." He waved his hands, turned around and left. Qi Jianhui still wanted to follow, but he put a little force on the hand behind his neck to strangle him to death.
That night, Qi Jianhui fell seriously ill and was bedridden, so the Marquis of Xiangyang stopped getting involved in that business. Two days later, the eldest son of the Liguo Mansion also fell ill. He told his son Liu Fang behind closed doors: "Qi Jianhui is the most obedient person. He
Now that I have become a turtle, I obviously smelled something."
On the day of the public trial, many bamboo chairs were neatly lined up in the lobby of Dali Temple. Numbers were written on the bamboo chairs with paint. The people who had drawn lots sat down according to the numbers and were in high spirits. At six o'clock in the morning, the officials filed in.
As they entered, they were seated in front of the hall. There were seven or eight cameras surrounding the front and back, and fires were everywhere. Signs were set up in front of the adults' cases, and the three blocks in the middle read: Tian Gengzi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Luo Man, Minister of Dali Temple,
Lao Yanjia, the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Those on the left are the regent Jia Cong, the prime minister Lin Daiyu, the Taishi Zhan Kun, the cabinet scholar Zhan Qiao, Feng Ziying, etc., and the Jingying Jiedushi Jarvis is among them; on the right, Jia, the minister of household affairs
Tanchun, Minister of the Ministry of Industry Shen He, Minister of the Ministry of War Cheng Chi, etc., and sitting there impressively was Wu Tianyou, the new academician of the Hanlin Academy who had just emerged from Rexiao. The people sitting below were talking a lot.
Among the young people in Yishui, the old man Wu Tianyou stood out. There was an old scholar on the defendant's side who endured it for a long time, but finally couldn't bear it anymore. He stepped forward and pointed at Wu Tianyou and said: "You are such a failure..." He didn't say anything yet.
After saying that, an armed policeman pointed a gun at the old man's heart, and the old man suddenly became speechless. The armed policeman took off the handcuffs from his waist. The old man didn't know what they were, but he still stared at them. He only heard a "click".
His hands were cuffed. The old scholar shouted, "What's wrong with me!"
Lao Yanjia, the superior, shouted loudly: "Roar in the court, disrupt order, and blast them out."
The armed policeman responded: "Yes." No matter how the old man screamed, he pushed him outside. When he got to the door, the armed policeman took out the key and unlocked the handcuffs, and said to his colleagues at the door, "Keep this person away. Then.
Catch him as soon as he gets close." The colleague agreed. Now that the old Confucian was free, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say anything anymore, and he didn't care about being ashamed, so he ran away. The people in the hall couldn't help but talk about it.
Suddenly, a sound was heard, which was taken by Master Luo Man in the middle. Sitting below him was the fourth son of King Yan, who looked at Luo Man with mixed emotions. The minister of Dali Temple has been vacant for a long time, and Luo Man has only been in office for less than a month. It is obvious that
It was for this case that I took up this position. At first, several people in Lao San's house said that Luo Man was a loyal person, and that he was in Cao's camp and his heart was in the Han Dynasty. If he was loyal, how could he sit in that position?
Then Luo Man coughed and said loudly: "The court is in session." Then he looked down and said, "Today I am here to publicly interrogate Ms. Yao Jiazhen's request to divorce her husband Xu Cihe." The whole hall was solemn. "First of all, I need to confirm the identities of both parties.
"Please both the plaintiff and the defendant present ** documents." **This thing was just launched last year. It is still being done elsewhere in Yan State, but it has been completed in the capital.
Someone below bit his ear: "Hey, I know why the regent is making such a big fuss."
The person next to me quickly asked in a low voice: "Why?"
The man raised his chin: "Did you see? In the past, no matter whether the county magistrate, the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, or the Dali Temple were investigating cases, there was no such thing as checking the case. The regent wanted to re-establish a set of rules for investigating cases, and
It turned out to be different. This is to let everyone know about it."
The man thought for a moment and then nodded: "Brother, what you said makes sense."
The civil servants above had clearly taken their bodies from Yao Jiazhen and Xu Ci and presented them to them. Yao Jiazhen had a smile on his face, and Xu Ci's face was like gold paper. After reading it, Roman nodded and said, "Confirmed." He ordered them to be sent back.
."Ask the court clerk to read out the court discipline."
A woman stood up at the side. The sign in front of her said "Dali Temple Court Clerk Wang Zijuan". She said loudly: "Now read out the court discipline. First, all people present in the court must obey the instructions of the Lord of Dali Temple."
.second……"
The man below bit his ear again: "This has never happened before." The man next door was holding his breath and listening to what the clerk was saying, but he didn't hear clearly due to the interruption, so he couldn't help but glance at him. The man shrank his neck.
The clerk finished reading out the discipline and sat down. Roman said: "Please ask the plaintiff to read out the indictment."
A man on the plaintiff's side stood up and said loudly: "Hello, Mr. Luo, hello, Prince, and fellow citizens. I am the plaintiff's lawyer and I will read out the indictment for the plaintiff."
The talkative man added: "Why didn't he give his name?"
The person next door couldn't bear it anymore and glared at him: "Shut up! Secretary Wang just said not to make any noise." The man shrank his neck again and shut his mouth.
After a while, he knew why. He just heard Roman say: "Thank you. Plaintiff's lawyer, you can sit down. Please ask the defendant's lawyer to respond to the plaintiff's indictment."
The man said to himself: "It turns out that the lawyer is not called by his name at all. He is only called the plaintiff and the defendant... Oops!" He let the person next door step on him. People around him looked over and the man bared his teeth.
For half a day, I dared not speak.
The defendant lawyer stood up and said with red eyes: "My lord, there is a deep misunderstanding here. Mr. Xu did not sit down to do these things. It was just a boring fight between the female family members of the back house, which is commonplace."
Roman said: "Please invite the lawyers from both sides to start a court debate."
The defendant litigant said: "Master Xu and his wife have been married for more than three years. As the saying goes, one day for a husband and a hundred days of kindness..."
The plaintiff's lawyer on the opposite side said loudly: "Objection. What the defendant's lawyer said has nothing to do with this case."
Roman said: "The objection is valid. Please tell the defendant's lawyer the facts of the case."
The defendant's lawyer had no choice but to say: "What I just said was a misunderstanding." Then he relied on the plaintiff's indictment to argue one by one.
Sure enough, as Jia Cong and others had guessed a few days ago, Xu Ci pushed everything to Grandma Xu, Miss Xu San and Mrs. Xu. All three of them appeared in court to testify. They wore plain clothes, no makeup, and no jewelry. Three photos
Their faces were all sallow. Miss Xu San had lost weight and her eyes were red and swollen. She had been crying for an unknown amount of time. All three of them admitted that it was their fault and had nothing to do with Master Xu. Miss Xu San lowered her head when she admitted her mistake.
Choking and sobbing in a hurry, someone below said loudly: "What a man, he just pushed it to the girl in the backyard. This girl of yours is so thin that she is only skin and bones. You have the nerve to let her take the blame." He said "poof" heavily.
.Miss Xu San suddenly burst into tears. She was so sad and sad. Everyone immediately started talking about it.
Roman sat still for a while, and after half a day he clapped the gavel and said, "Quiet!" At this moment, everyone had basically finished what they wanted to say, and they all shut up. Roman said, "Can the plaintiff's lawyer agree?"
The plaintiff's lawyer sneered and said: "Of course I disagree. In fact, my client, Ms. Yao Jiazhen, had already expected that the defendant would probably blame everything on his sister-in-law, sister and mother-in-law. But there is still one most important thing.
, I’m afraid there is no way to evade it. The defendant’s lawyer just said that the defendant has never met any noble person, and has no intention of devaluing his wife as a concubine. It is all because the defendant’s mother frightened my client over trivial matters in the backyard. Is that right?”
The defendant lawyer smiled and said: "That's right. It was a misunderstanding."
The plaintiff's lawyer said: "Everyone in the Xu family knows that Mr. Xu was favored by a nobleman and was rewarded with an ancient fan worth a thousand gold. The fan bone belongs to Concubine Xiang, the fan surface is an authentic work of Tang Bohu, and there is also a mutton-fat white jade fan pendant. I
There are witnesses from your house. Your house really says this. May I ask Mr. Xu, where did this fan come from?"
Xu Ci stood up and said, "That's just a rumor spread by a servant from nowhere. How could there be such a fan?"
"Oh? So, the fact that there is no such fan is just a rumor spread by your servants?"
"They spread the rumor."
The plaintiff's lawyer sneered and said: "It's really interesting. Just the people in the area have heard of 'Tang Bohu' or 'Muet Fat White Jade'. How many of them know what 'Hunan Concubine's Fan Bone' means? They want to do it for Xu."
The third master made up a gift from a nobleman, but how did he come up with the four words 'Hunan Concubine Fan Bone'? The woodcutter in the mountains all thought that the emperor used a golden pole to carry firewood."
Xu Ci said: "My Xu family is the residence of the Imperial Academy, and everyone in the family knows elegance. This is not surprising."
The plaintiff's lawyer smiled and said: "I could have asked your servants to name another kind of rare fan bone, but I'm afraid they can't name it." Xu Ci's expression changed. The plaintiff's lawyer looked at him for a moment and said, "It's just too much.
No trouble." Then he turned to Roman and said, "Sir, please allow me to present the evidence."
"approve."
The plaintiff's lawyer walked up to Xu Ci, took out the fan from his arms and opened it: "May I ask Mr. Xu, what is this?"
Xu Ci was shocked. Fortunately, he covered his mouth in time, and after a while he said, "Wansheng doesn't recognize this thing."
The plaintiff's lawyer approached him and pointed out: "Why is there Mr. Xu's private seal on this fan?" The defendant's lawyer had no experience and did not know how to object, so he was at a loss.
Xu Ci gritted his teeth: "This private seal is a forgery."
"Should we invite Mr. Xu's book boy and friends to identify this fan and private seal?"
"The fan is fake! It's a fake!"
"This is clearly the one given to Mr. Xu by the noble man! Mr. Xu showed it off to many friends!"
"Nonsense! Then I was clearly thrown into the moat!"
"I managed to fish it out!"
"You can't restore the broken fan by taking it out!" Xu Ci shouted, "I've torn it into five or six pieces!"
"Who believes you!" the plaintiff's lawyer said, "You are willing to tear an ancient fan worth thousands of gold into five or six pieces!"
Xu Ci screamed: "I told you it was a fake, a fake! It's not real."