Chapter 800 Suspension of Major Cases - Public Trials and Executions
On the second day, a public trial was held in Guangzhou to publicly interrogate the criminals involved in the mutilation case.
It was still dark early that morning, and several streets next to the Guangzhou Fuyamen were surrounded by water. The scene was as lively as a temple fair. The people were firstly curious about the difference between this so-called public trial and the past public trials, and secondly, they were
The third reason is that most of the ancient life was boring and it was not easy to see the excitement, so they all wanted to take a look. Many people ran out of their homes as soon as the curfew was lifted and came to the
The place where the public trial takes place takes place.
This public trial was indoors, not outdoors, and there were not many 'audiences' that could be accommodated. It was roughly estimated that it could only accommodate two to three hundred people, so the seats were filled quickly; but even so, there were still some people later.
Many people wanted to squeeze in to have a look, which caused those who had occupied seats early to complain, and later there was a quarrel. Fortunately, the police responsible for maintaining order had anticipated this, and saw that it was already full and they were about to squeeze in.
Throw them out and guard the door. If someone comes out, let them in.
Yunxi came to see the public trial place in person. At that time, he asked Qian Minglin curiously: "Why should the public trial be held inside the house instead of outside? Aren't there more people who can see it that way?"
"Your Majesty, it is not easy to maintain order with a large number of people. What if there are tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people watching in an open place, and if the people are so excited that they want to beat the criminal to death? If you stop the people, there may be death or injury among the people. If you don't stop the people,
It violates the regulations, which is not a good thing, so I arranged for a public trial in the house." Qian Minglin replied.
In the middle of the morning, Xu Boyuan and Xu Tongpan, who were specifically responsible for the trial, walked into the lobby from the back office and began to question the case.
The process of questioning is no different from before. Yunxi did not rashly copy the model of court questioning in later generations. He just put forward the concept of "public prosecution". Witnesses and plaintiffs do not need to kneel all the time. They can stand after being asked about their identities.
But today's case is a "public prosecution" filed by the police department. The bodies of those who were harvested and cut by them have not yet been claimed. It is estimated that as they gradually decompose, even if someone wants to claim them, they will not be able to do so, so there is no
Plaintiffs.
The 'Public Prosecution' opened the eyes of the people who were watching, and they started talking with people they knew and were not familiar with, and lamented that there is such a way to investigate the case; 'It seems that although the people do not prosecute the officials, these big people
Even if there is no one to report the case, the government will not sit idly by and will use the method of 'public prosecution' to investigate the case.' A young man from an aristocratic family who came to watch today thought silently in his heart. Somehow, there are many people in Guangzhou who are involved in today's public trial.
Disciples from aristocratic families came to watch.
But the crimes committed by these people listed in the hall made the people temporarily forget about other emotions, leaving only anger.
In order to thoroughly implement Yun He's concept of making the people angry, the police department's indictment was very detailed. In addition to harvesting and harvesting, the charges include witchcraft, murder, kidnapping, abduction, tomb robbing, insulting corpses, fraud, and assaulting police officers.
, illegal pharmaceuticals, and more than a dozen, and each charge was followed by a detailed description of the relevant cases. Therefore, the entire indictment was dozens of pages thick, and an hour passed just by reading the indictment.
Although it took a long time, the case was too shocking and horrifying. Although most people had learned about the case from various channels, whether it was the Guangzhou officials secretly listening in the back, or the police and people inside and outside the house, they were all first
They knew the whole case completely. Not only the people, but also the police who maintained order looked at Ning Cai and the other criminals with red eyes. Xu Boyuan, who was sitting high in the lobby, saw a policeman pull out his baton and knock hard on the wall nearby.
After a few blows, he had no doubt that if this policeman were next to Ning Cai and others, he would beat them to death immediately.
After the indictment was read, the police station announced some evidence in the lobby. They did not bring the dead bodies, but the tools they used to harvest and cut them had already refined the unsold 'big medicine' and semi-finished human bones.
Human flesh, boys' vaginas and other items were displayed in the hall, and 'tainted witnesses' such as members of the Big Bones were summoned to question them on the spot about what they knew.
Each of these incidents made the people present even more angry, and some people started sobbing quietly, not knowing what was going on. Suddenly, a policeman who was only a few feet away from Ning Cai and others shouted angrily,
He pulled out his baton and pounded it on a criminal.
The people present were even more excited, and many shouted loudly: "Beat him to death! Beat him to death!"
Qian Minglin immediately asked the other police officers to take him away and maintain order. Xu Boyuan also patted the gavel hard, and it took a long time before the lobby became quiet.
Then they asked Ning Cai and others whether they had pleaded guilty. Before the public trial, Ning Cai and others had already known that they would eventually be punished. They were also frightened by Zhang Sanfeng's "magic" and only wanted to retain three souls and seven souls after death, so they had already agreed to cooperate with this.
In the drama of a public trial, it was natural to talk about pouring beans through a bamboo tube.
By the time he finished questioning the prisoner, it was already noon. Xu Boyuan wanted to immediately announce how the prisoner would be dealt with, but he thought of Yunxi's instructions, so he decided to take a break and burn a stick of incense before announcing the punishment for the prisoner.
Although most of the people had already guessed that the culprit must be Ling Chi, and a very few might be able to be executed, they were still unwilling to leave and stayed in the hall waiting for the final results to be announced; there were a few who did not look like ordinary people.
People squeezed out of the crowd.
The time for burning incense was very short. Xu Boyuan only lay down at the back of the hall for a while before returning to the hall and announcing that these people were guilty of all crimes. According to the "Ming Dynasty Law", Ning Cai and more than a dozen people were executed in a hurry. Only three people were executed.
They were sentenced to death, and their entire family members were also sentenced to exile.
Suddenly there was thunderous cheers inside and outside the lobby, and countless people praised 'Xu Qingtian' in unison, which made him very proud.
The prefects Liu Zhonglou and Qian Minglin who were watching in the back hall were a little jealous when they saw this scene, but they were relieved when they thought about Xu Boyuan's usual disgrace. Although the supervisor's questioning is very prestigious in front of the people, but it is not a big deal in officialdom.
Good location, especially in the provincial capital.
Two days later, the execution was held outside the city. Traditionally, the so-called Lingchi execution required more than 3,000 cuts on the criminal's body for three days and three nights. However, the officials in Guangzhou felt that it was not necessary and as long as they could
Just satisfy the people; and usually, for crimes like Ling Chi, criminals are taken to the capital for execution. The Ming Dynasty has no precedent in other places, and the executioners in Guangzhou do not have the ability to cut a person more than 3,000 times without dying, so in the end the execution was only carried out for one day.
But the people also felt very satisfied. They looked at the prisoners and cheered in unison every time one of them died. They cheered from morning till night. After all the prisoners were executed, they cheered loudly for a while before returning to their homes.
Taking advantage of the meager sunlight left, Qian Minglin ordered the police present to drive away the people who wanted to take another piece of meat from the dead criminals, bury the dead criminals in random graves, and clean up the scene.
Qian Minglin stood on the high platform, looked at the people who were returning to the city in the distance, and whispered to himself: "I don't know if your majesty will be satisfied with what I have done after knowing it. But even if he is not satisfied, he will still
There are future major witchcraft cases that can be remedied."
