Even though the person has been taken down, the people present are still talking about what Ude said just now. Even if their voices are a little hoarse, they are still talking hoarsely; not only that, the people gathered outside to listen to the voice coming from the window.
He also heard what he said, so Wu De's remarks quickly spread throughout Guangzhou.
Everyone expressed their resentment towards Ude, and many people talked loudly about using various torture methods to kill Ude.
But there are also a very small number of people who, although they are also very angry, remain calm on the surface and analyze the matter calmly.
"The imperial court must have investigated this matter clearly before the public trial. Ude must have said this before, and both His Majesty and the gentlemen in Guangzhou must know it. Then why did Your Majesty still order a public trial of this case?
What is your Majesty's purpose?" Bai Wenyu, who came to see the case in person today, was puzzled and asked the elders around him.
In fact, from the perspective of the wealthy families in Guangzhou, the public trial was just about telling the people the results. Regardless of the crime or the punishment, it had been decided before the public trial. Yunxi's tricks could deceive the ordinary people, but they could not deceive those with political experience.
But because of this, they didn't understand why a public trial was held. The previous case of harvesting and cutting was just that, it concerned countless people inside and outside Guangzhou, and a public trial could calm the hearts of the people; but this time the major witchcraft case seemed
There is no need for this.
What's more, cases like witchcraft have been very secretive since ancient times, and no one knows the details. Even if this time it doesn't involve the palace, there is no need to make it public.
"Did His Majesty become very angry with the Majapahit Kingdom after learning the truth and wanted to send troops to attack it, so he made the case public for remonstrance?" said an elder named Bai Jingshuang.
Bai Wenyu shook his head: "It's not like that. If His Majesty wants to attack Majapahit to avenge this, there are too many reasons. Even if the officials come to remonstrate, they can just turn a deaf ear. Why make this matter public?"
"If you want to legitimately implicate the Ude family, ask Majapahit to send them?"
"There is no need to make it public. If you tell Majapahit's envoy about this matter in private, that person will definitely kneel down and ask for His Majesty's forgiveness, and immediately inform their king of the matter after returning home. Send Ude's family to
Ming dynasty."
Bai Jingshuang put forward several suggestions, but they were all rejected. Just as he was about to say something, an idea suddenly flashed and he said: "Could it be related to the saying, 'There will be other warriors from the Tianfang Sect who will come to slaughter you Han people'?"
"what for?"
"Your Majesty, you will go to war with a big country of Tianfang Sect in the future. Because this country is too powerful, you need to mobilize the whole country to deal with it, so you need to eliminate all opposition?" Bai Jingshuang asked.
"This." Bai Wenyu said: "Is there such a powerful country now?"
"I don't know, but you can ask someone who is familiar with overseas situations. Some people from the Gu family go to Southeast Asia to do business all year round, and some even go to India and are very familiar with overseas situations." Bai Jingshuang said.
"This is reasonable, but I always feel that His Majesty is not just thinking about this. There must be other things." Bai Wenyu said.
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A stick of incense lasts five minutes. Li Decheng's original intention was to open the court in five minutes and announce the outcome of the witchcraft case. However, due to the treatment of Wu De's injuries, it was delayed for a quarter of an hour before Li Decheng walked out of the back hall.
, sat down again and ordered the prisoner to be brought up to announce the result.
"..., the person committed the crime of Wu De, with the intention of murdering His Majesty, which is a heinous crime, and punished three tribes, so I was executed at Lingchi; the person committed the crime, Gao Jingde, there was insufficient evidence in the case of witchcraft, but he participated in the case of harvesting and cutting, so he was executed at Lingchi; the eldest son
Gao Jingzhai was asked to be executed;... the rest of the Gao family were exiled to Annan."
"According to the "Da Ming Law", the final decision on the death penalty is made by your Majesty. After I have finished questioning the case, I will report the matter to your Majesty and ask your Majesty to deal with it. If no one is pardoned, the execution will be scheduled for five days on the first day of February."
The police and people present knelt down and cheered "Your Excellency is wise", including many Gao family prisoners who knelt down and praised him with tears of joy.
"Take the prisoner down." Li Decheng ordered again, and the police began to take the prisoner away.
The crowd of onlookers was about to evacuate when they suddenly noticed that Ude had not been taken down, and that there were still several criminals standing among them. When everyone took a closer look, they found that these criminals were all whom they had never seen before.
When the people were about to discuss, they heard Li Decheng sneer at Wu De: "Although you claim that you don't know who the Tianfang sect you said will come to slaughter the Han people, our Ming government has some clues. Qian Minglin,
Read the lawsuit!"
Qian Minglin, who quietly came to the plaintiff's seat during the break, immediately stood up and said, "Yes, sir." Then he picked up a pleading and read it loudly: "The Guangzhou Prefecture Police Headquarters was ordered to arrest the case of harvesting and mutilation.
The perpetrators of the witchcraft case..., but found that the Samarkand Kingdom sent many spies to the Ming Dynasty to steal the Ming Dynasty's secrets..., and after interrogation, it was revealed that Ud's intention to murder His Majesty was Samarkand.
The country colluded with Manchu Boyi to act together."
As soon as he said these words, the people present didn't think anything of it. The few gentry among the people, the envoys from various countries who were hearing the trial in the back hall, and the Ming ministers who knew something about the affairs of the other countries all looked horrified and moved. Many people's faces
They all looked surprised, much more surprised than they had just heard about Majapayi's involvement in this matter!
Samarkand is not a small country. On the contrary, it is the only powerful country today that can be called the Ming Dynasty. Its territory stretches from Congling in the east, to Anatolia in the west, across the Syr Darya River in the north, and to the Dashi Sea in the south. The people
Tens of millions and millions of troops are definitely not comparable to Majapahit who can only dominate a small place like Nanyang.
Since the Ming Dynasty has disclosed Samarkand's involvement in the murder of His Majesty the Emperor, it has no choice but to send people to convict Timur. If he does not plead guilty, he can only fight with swords. And Timur
Is it possible to plead guilty? No, so war between the two countries is a certainty.
The envoys from the foreign countries began to evaluate the impact of this incident. The Siamese envoy Ramali thought: "Although Samarkand also has a sea, it is too far away from the Ming Dynasty and is still to the west of India. It is possible for the Ming Dynasty to enter the army by sea."
It is extremely small, and it is only possible to march from the northwest and pass through those Mongolian countries to attack.'
'I heard that the capital of the Kingdom of Samarkand is called Samarkand. The place called Samarkand is over there. Timur will never retreat. It seems that the war will start over there. Even Timur
They might strike first and send troops to those Mongolian countries.'
'This has nothing to do with Siam. When fighting in the northwest, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty would not recruit our Nanyang police force. But thinking about the war between the two strongest countries at that time makes me excited. I must ask to go there when the time comes.
Take a look while you're at it.'
The officials of the Ming Dynasty who were listening were worried. Because Yunxi had stayed in Guangdong and Guangxi for a long time, all the six ministries in the capital sent ministers or ministers to Guangzhou to assist Yunxi in handling political affairs. Some middle-level officials of the fifth, sixth and seventh grades from various yamen also came.
, so there were many officials watching at this time, and many of them knew something about the affairs of the country.
In their view, Samarkand was a powerful country in the world, and the Ming Dynasty sending troops to conquer it could not guarantee victory at all, so it was really inappropriate to conquer it. Not only civilian officials thought so, but many military generals also thought so.
But now that this matter has been announced to the world, it must not be turned a blind eye. Murdering the emperor is a heinous crime. If there is no punishment, the entire Ming court will be humiliated; but now it is impossible to prevent this matter from being made public.
'I can only advise your majesty not to act on impulse, send some soldiers to the northwest, and have them come back to report that they have defeated the soldiers of Samarkand. The king of his country is also willing to admit guilt and settle the matter.' Many people thought.
.
Qian Minglin didn't pay attention to the comments around him and continued to read the lawsuit. After half an hour of reading, he finally said: "...So this matter was done jointly by the Kingdom of Samarkand and the Kingdom of Majapahit."
After hearing the lawsuit, the people looked up to look at the interrogator, only to see that the person sitting in the interrogator's seat was no longer Li Decheng. Instead, he was replaced by a middle-aged man wearing a second-grade official uniform that they had never seen before.
man.
This person was Rujun, the Minister of Punishment. Ruyu came to Guangzhou at the end of November to assist Yunxi in handling various matters, and then spent the New Year in Guangzhou.
When Yunxi wanted to order people to try the two cases of witchcraft and Samarkand spies, he immediately thought of him and ordered people to call him and let him try the two cases; but Ruyu was very careful, thinking that even if the case of witchcraft and spies was an outsider,
The crime had nothing to do with the palace people. After all, it involved the emperor. He didn't want to get involved and tried his best to shirk it. He didn't even want to interrogate the Samarkand spy case, but allowed Hei to push it over and couldn't refuse.
Yunxi probably knew what he was thinking. Although he was not happy, he finally agreed with his rejection and handed the witchcraft case to Guangdong Inspector Li Decheng for trial.
At this time, Ru Ru was sitting high on his seat. He coughed and said, "I, Ru Ru, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, will hear this case in accordance with His Majesty's decree."
"The criminals Su Dongli, Singer,... can you plead guilty?"
Unlike the witchcraft case, Yunxi did not let Su Dongli, Singer and others cooperate in 'acting', so they all acted in their true colors at this time.
I saw Singer lowering his head and thinking. He felt that he had been caught by the people of the Ming Dynasty. Even if he insisted on not confessing and pleading, or he knelt down and confessed and asked for leniency, he would still die. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was a country of pagans, and he could not bow to the pagans.
So although he didn't quite understand what Ming Dynasty meant by letting the people watch when they interrogated them, he still shouted loudly: "Yes, we are the people sent by Timur Khan to your Ming Dynasty to spy on the situation in your Ming Dynasty."
"But it was not Timur Khan's intention to murder your emperor. The Great Khan is far away in the West, how can he have time to plan this matter? The Great Khan cannot suffer such injustice."