Ru Yun patted the gavel and asked: "Are you, the Samarkand Kingdom, going to send troops to attack my Ming Dynasty?"
"I don't know. How can I know such a thing in detail?" Singer thought for a moment and replied.
"But during the interrogation of other spies from the Samarkand Kingdom, many of them said that Timur had the intention of sending troops to Ming Dynasty."
"The Great Khan has made many battle plans. Not only the Ming Dynasty, but even the countries in the Far West have planned how to attack. It cannot be just because the Great Khan intends to send troops to the Ming Dynasty."
"Bold! You, Samarkand, are a fan of the Ming Dynasty, and you dare to formulate, what, a battle plan to attack the Ming Dynasty. This is against the principles of the Ming Dynasty."
"Joke!" Singh laughed and said: "Our country of Samarkand is not much weaker than your Ming country. It's just because if you Han people are strong, you will always demote the surrounding countries to foreign countries. Otherwise, we will not compete with you."
They only communicated with you Mingguo as Fanguo. So the way of Fanguo is just a piece of useless paper in front of us."
The surrounding gentry and the officials who were listening were angered by what he said. The murder of Yunxi was certainly bigger, but everyone had already known about it before, so there was no big reaction at this time; but what Singer just said was different.
Because the Central Plains dynasty has been dominated by one family for a long time, traditional Chinese culture believes that the four directions should submit to China. This is different from the situation in modern times. Ordinary people just pay it forward. Officials and gentry, as people of status, even if they often complain
The government was also very dissatisfied with this. Bai Wenyu couldn't help but angrily shouted: "It's nonsense!"
Ru Yu asked a few more questions. Except for a few confidential matters, Singh had nothing to hide and answered Ru Yu's questions more honestly. Of course, his answers once again made the gentry and officials present very dissatisfied.
Rujun turned to ask Su Dongli. Su Dongli's answer was not as tough as Singer's. He was a businessman himself, and it was only because he was a Tianfang believer and did business in Nanyang all the year round that Singer brought him in, and he
I don't like pagan countries very much, so the two sides hit it off.
Normally, his behavior is not much different from that of the people sent by the Kingdom of Samarkand, but when something happens, it becomes different. As a businessman at heart, how could he be willing to die like this? Su Dongli cried bitterly and recognized a few people.
He denied several charges, and at the same time kept expressing his repentance to Ru Yu and praying for extrajudicial mercy.
Rujun ignored him and ordered Xu Boyuan to present the evidence he had collected. Xu Boyuan asked his police officers to take out a lot of compiled information collected from the Samarkand State stationed in Bao'an, the two shipping departments in Shanghai and other places, and presented it to him.
Testify in court.
After a long while, after the evidence was displayed, he called a few more witnesses. Most of these witnesses were peripheral personnel of the intelligence agencies originally sent by the Kingdom of Samarkand, and they had not committed any crimes. After careful consideration, Yunxi decided to pardon them and let them
Appear in court as a tainted witness.
This stage is very boring. These evidences are very boring, and because many of the evidences were originally written in other languages, the Jinyiwei personnel who translated these texts did not have high questioning skills, and the translation was very unsound. In some places, the translation was even wrong.
Someone read the evidence aloud, which made the people feel very impatient. Many people would have left if they didn't want to hear the final result. Even Bai Wenyu didn't listen to this paragraph. He turned his head and said to Bai Jingshuang: "What the second uncle said is indeed true, Your Majesty."
He wanted to go to war with the Kingdom of Samarkand. He was probably worried about the opposition of the civil and military officials, so he made the case public. However, my nephew still felt that if these two cases were just for this reason, there was no need to put the people on trial. He would wait until he returned to the capital.
Later, the three judicial departments were ordered to join forces to investigate the case, and the officials could be made public."
"That's true." Bai Jingshuang said, "Maybe His Majesty thinks this is safer, so he has a public trial."
While the two of them were talking, Bai Wenyu suddenly heard intermittently: "Guangdong... gentry... help the country of Samarkand..." Waiting words, he stopped talking to Bai Jingshuang and turned around, only to hear Ru Ru say again Asked a witness: "Say what you just said again."
"According to what Singer often said, there were many gentry families in the Ming Dynasty, especially in Guangdong, who were connected with them and helped them spy on the situation in the Ming Dynasty," the witness said.
Those present who heard this clearly were in an uproar again. It's not enough that one Gao family was involved in the witchcraft case, but there were other families involved?
Ru Yun knocked on the gavel several times in succession and asked the police to maintain order, and then asked: "Do you know which house it is?"
"Sir, this is a confidential matter. I am just serving tea and water, how can I know it?" said the witness.
Ru Yu turned around and asked Singer: "Do you think there are still people in Guangdong who are colluding with you?"
Singer felt a little confused: "Except for the Gao family, there is no such family. Even the Gao family was only able to be used by us with the help of witchcraft. How can there be other families like the Gao family?"
But unexpectedly, Rujun was stunned and shouted loudly: "I know it. It turns out that there are still people in your country of Samarkand lurking in the Ming Dynasty, so you told everything else freely, but you only concealed this matter. I just want to wait for the people who are still lurking in the Ming Dynasty to contact these families again to spy on the Ming Dynasty."
"We didn't..." Before Singh could finish his words, he was interrupted by Ru Yu: "You don't have to quibble, I have seen people like you a lot, and I am familiar with the matter of losing soldiers and protecting commanders, but now I have been If you find out, you still haven’t confessed honestly!"
Seeing that Ru Yu suddenly became so weird and what he said was so unreasonable, Singer simply stopped talking.
Rujun asked a few questions, but when he didn't say anything, she added: "The criminal is not honest. Come and punish him." As soon as he finished speaking, several policemen came up with torture instruments, dragged Singh out, and began to torture him. .However, no too cruel torture instruments were used, just beating boards and clamping sticks.
Of course Singer would not recruit. A devout believer like him is very determined and will not give in easily.
Rujun turned to Su Dongli and others and asked them if they knew about this matter. The policemen holding torture instruments looked at them eagerly.
Of course Su Dongli immediately called him: "But there is such a thing! There are other gentry families in Guangdong who are colluding with the spies of Samarkand. But the list of such people is very important. I don't know who they are."
Ru Yu got his confession and asked Singer louder to confess, but Singer just gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Time passed quickly during the execution, and it was getting dark soon. Although many people were very happy to see the execution, they were also a little impatient. Rujun took advantage of the situation and announced that the trial of the case had come to an end for the time being, and Singh was sentenced to Lingchi. , Su Dongli was sentenced to be cut in half, and the other spies of the Samarkand Kingdom were also sentenced to death.
But Rujun added: "However, there are still important points in this case that have not yet been clarified, so Singer and several other spies with the highest status sent by the Kingdom of Samarkand have not been executed for the time being to interrogate the important points; the rest of the criminals, I will report to your majesty, and if your majesty has no objections, he will be executed in two days just like the criminal in the witchcraft case."