Left-handers, also known as "left-handedness" in ancient times, were considered unlucky in the West. Although China also believes that the right hand is the "forehand", it does not overly discriminate against left-handers.
Nowadays, the fact that Heifu is left-handed makes the confessions of Huyang Pavilion Chief, merchant Bao and others self-defeating.
Of course, the presiding judge Xi did not believe it easily, and he specifically asked Heifu to come forward and write his name on a wooden tablet.
You may not believe it, but the Qin State, which has always been said to be a "stupid people", has the highest literacy rate among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. Although Lord Shang burned all poems, books and other things, he set up a "
"Study room" trains specialized legal practitioners, which is equivalent to higher education.
In addition, small officials in the countryside are also required to be literate. If they are the head of the pavilion and the people in the village cannot read or count, how can they compile household registrations and arrange corvee services for the country? On this basis, there is also the saying of "taking the law as the teaching and the officials as the teachers", Shang Yang
He once said: "If the officials and the people know the law, they will ask the judge. Therefore, all the officials and people in the world do not know the law." It is required that the officials must educate the people about the law. The joy in front of me has been doing this job when I was young, and receives people who come to visit me every day.
When people visit the law, after the people have asked questions, the judge has to write down what they asked on a wooden board, cut it in half, file one half as "Legal Questions and Answers", and let the people take back the other half as a voucher. In this way, it is passed on to ten
After passing the law, not only did the law become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, some smart people also had channels to learn the law.
Heifu didn't know many seal characters, and could only write a few hundred. He knelt on the ground with a pen in his left hand, and squarely wrote four small seal characters "Heifu is not guilty" on the wooden board.
There is no longer any doubt about this matter. If he was right-handed, the word would have been distorted to an unknown place.
The businessman Bao, who had been talking nonsense just now, suddenly collapsed. He sat down on the ground with an ashen face, like a puddle of mud.
Afterwards, under Xi's sharp and repeated cross-examination, merchant Bao repeatedly confessed to the fact that he and Huyang Ting Chang had confessed and perjured themselves.
After opening a gap here, Xi successively captured the three pavilion soldiers. They all confessed that they were only lying because they were forced by the pavilion chief to seek robbers.
In the end, Qiu confessed to the stolen goods, leaving the chief of Huyang Pavilion speechless and speechless.
He never expected that he would lose on the simple difference between his left hand and his right hand.
It is already too late to retract the confession at this time.
At this point, the truth of the two cases came to light. After a brief summary with his subordinates, Xi Zai began to "jū" in the hall, that is, to read out the verdict.
This time, Heifu once again saw the meticulousness of Qin's laws. Almost every crime had a corresponding punishment.
The first to be convicted were the three thieves.
Pan, the bearded thief, committed the "crime of death" for escaping from the garrison, and the "crime of robbery and murder" for multiple robberies and murders. For the latter alone, he was a definite death sentence. For both crimes, Pan would be punished.
He was sentenced to zhé, and after being sent back to Jingling County where he was from to confirm all crimes, he was executed in public, the body was divided and then beheaded, and the first body was hung for public display... Just thinking about that scene made Mr. Hei feel hairy.
numb.
The other two Chu thieves had better luck. They just did not meet the "group robbery" requirement for five or more thieves, and because they were not from Qin, the government could not determine their previous identities and crimes. The two also said that they had never killed anyone.
Extraordinary people. Therefore, according to the ordinary treatment of "death of another country" and "theft crime", Tatou was a Chengdan. It is conceivable that in the civil engineering project of Nanjun, two more prisoners were added, and the chance of being redeemed as a commoner was not
big.
After that, it was the turn of everyone in Huyang Pavilion to judge his guilt.
"Huyang Pavilion Changzhen, as a government official fighting for food, should have held a two-foot wooden slip to preach laws and orders to the people under his rule, but he knew the law and violated the law. He wanted to steal and defraud rewards, and falsely accused Wu Heifu of hurting others. Three crimes.
At the same time, he will be a kun, tattooed, and guard the border! But because he has a title, he will have his third-level title removed to compensate for his crime, and be changed to a kun, redeem his tattoo, and serve the punishment of ghost salary."
Huyangting Changzhen knelt on the ground and listened blankly to his verdict.
He inherited his father's title as soon as he came of age and became a respected "hairpin". However, he still wanted to move up a level and reach the fourth level of "no change". In that case, he would be exempted from the annual penalty forever.
The battle of the moon...
So a few days ago, he was training pavilion soldiers in Huyang Pavilion and went out to hunt down thieves, but there was always no result. Until that day, when he heard that the merchant Bao came to report the crime, he was overjoyed, but two young men, Wu Jie, got there first and let him
Very unwilling.
It was also Zhen who was eager for quick success and was confused for a moment. He listened to Qiu Qiu's instigation and planned to seize the credit and defraud the reward. Unexpectedly, he dug a big hole for himself and got involved in a lawsuit. The judge of the case was still the selfless Xi.
After the incident, his family also quietly helped him to make arrangements, but in Qin, at least on the surface, no one dared to openly accept bribes and bend the law for personal gain. Qin's laws clearly stated in black and white what could be done and what could not be done. Countless people
Qin officials, who have been influenced by the law since childhood, are also watching!
But in the end, they still found a crack: they bribed the clerk who delivered meals, passed on information, and coerced the merchant Bao Wei into cooperating with him to retract his confession and make false claims. As long as he denied that he had committed the crime of taking credit and defrauding rewards, he would then become a black man.
If you are guilty of assaulting an official, you will win this trial!
But who would have thought that before Xi could investigate carefully, the lies they had concocted would be defeated by Heifu's clever cross-examination.
Zhen, who has always been proud of herself, was overturned in the hands of a lowly soldier, Wu Qian!
Nowadays, every word Xi announces sounds like a doomsday knell to Zhen’s ears!
Kun means shaving your hair, tattooing means having words tattooed on your face, and tattooing means you can pay for the crime with money. Ghost salary means going to the mountains to collect firewood, which is also a kind of hard labor...
For Ting Changzhen, who is only in her twenties and whose life has been smooth, this is an unacceptable result!
"I don't accept it!"
As soon as she heard the verdict, Zhen blushed and started shouting.
"I don't accept it, I want to beg for help!"
Begging is a unique review system of the Qin State. If the parties are dissatisfied with the judgment, they can request a review within the statutory time. The county will notify the county magistrate of the case. If they are still dissatisfied with the trial of the magistrate, they can continue begging and go to the court.
The final trial of Xianyang Tingwei will be carried out by the Supreme Court, with a period of three months. In this way, unjust, false and wrong cases that were temporarily neglected by counties and counties will have the opportunity to be redressed by the Tingwei. The most famous one is the first year of the Qin Dynasty.
At that time, a musician named Dao was falsely accused of stealing cattle. He refused to accept the accusation and repeatedly begged for punishment. In the end, it was discovered that it was indeed an unjust case, and all the careless county judges were punished.
"Are you sure you want to beg?" Xi asked.
Zhen stiffened her neck and said, "Not bad!"
Xi closed the bamboo slip on which the handwriting was still wet, and looked down at Zhen.
"Do you think my judgment was wrong?"
"Do you think you are still being wronged?"
"Do you think, Jun Cheng, Ting Wei will show you extra mercy?"
Xi's series of questions were like thunder exploding in Zhen's ears. His lips turned pale and he murmured: "I don't dare, it's just that this punishment is too severe..."
"Do you think the punishment is too severe?"
Xi sighed and said: "If you don't have the title of Shangzao or above, you can offset the crime a little, but the punishment will be heavier! And do you know that if the begging fails, according to the Qin law, you will be punished by one level! The punishment will be even higher.
Seriously, maybe it’s torture, beheading the toes!”
Only then did Zhen feel disheartened. He knew that the facts of his crime were conclusive and his testimony was full of loopholes. It was also exposed in court and recorded in the love book. Even if his family had good hands and eyes and sued the county and Xianyang, there was no possibility of overturning the case.
, then he bowed his head and said: "I plead guilty, and I dare not mention begging again..."
After Huyang Pavilion Chief pleads guilty, it will be easier for the remaining people.
As one of the principal offenders, Qiu bought the goods and was sent to the border guard for "false accusation of rebellion" and "defrauding rewards". He still had to shave his head, because this person was just a civil servant and could not pay off his crime, so he was assigned to the border guard and might have to do so.
It took a long time to return to my hometown, which was even worse than being in Huyang Pavilion.
The three pavilion soldiers, because they were accomplices, had been Cheng Dan for three years. At least they did not have to leave their hometown. Once their hair had fully grown, they would be almost free. The three people quickly nodded their heads in gratitude, feeling that this was already a huge mercy.
The merchant Bao was similar. He was punished for "false accusation" and "fraud" at the same time, and was sentenced to Kun for five years. When the merchant was taken away, he cried with snot and tears, saying that he had known this was the case.
You shouldn't have perjured yourself for the pavilion chief and others.
In short, after reading the verdict, everyone in the hall confessed their guilt and were horrified.
Hei Fu looked at the miserable appearance of these people and felt extremely relieved.
He now feels that the charge of "false accusation and false accusation" is really good. Anyone who falsely accuses you and is found guilty will have to bear the same punishment as the false accusation. For example, if someone falsely accuses you of murder, but there is no evidence, and ultimately leads to the loss of the case, then you will be punished.
Behead your head, so in the Qin State, although there are rewards for reporting traitors, you must think twice before complaining.
With this law, Heifu seemed to be wearing an anti-injury armor. After winning the case, all the blame was returned to the false accuser, so the six people, although the punishments were not the same, all suffered from head shaving and imprisonment.
.
What does it mean to reap the consequences? What does it mean to be trapped in a cocoon? What does it mean that those who harm others will eventually harm themselves?
This is!
But this sense of pleasure was soon diluted by the harsh reality.
Heifu did not expect that these people would be sentenced so severely when he blocked the road to complain. He was so cold and ruthless that he once again saw the harshness of Qin's laws.
"This is the consequence of stepping on the red line. No matter how many years of hard work and carefulness you have in the past, if you accidentally violate the law, your life will be ruined." Qin Law stipulates that people who have committed crimes cannot be appointed as officials. The Huyang Pavilion Chief
Although he was exempted from some punishment by virtue of his title, he basically had no chance of officialdom in this life.
When Hei Fu was sighing, Xi called him and Ji Ying to come forward, and they quickly came out of the queue.
Xi closed the verdict book, took another slip from the official's hand, and said calmly: "After I have punished you, it's time to reward me."
Upon hearing this, Heifu and Ji Ying looked at each other, and they both saw the joy in each other's eyes!
After fighting the lawsuit for so many days, I finally waited for this moment!
