Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Second Official Sentence
The court hearing process is quite boring.
The old woman and the young man were bitten to death by Zhang Yuanwai's son, who forced their girl to death.
Zhang Yuanwai and his son kept shouting about injustice and were still unwilling to plead guilty.
At the same time, the reason why Zhang Yuanwai was thrown into prison was because of blatant bribery, so the trial of Zhang Yuanwai was a public prosecution.
Since the two cases were inevitably connected, Zhou Tingyu directly tried the two cases together in one case.
During the prosecution, Zhang Yuanwai also complained that Zhou Tingyu had hinted him to bribe and promised him to bring the money directly to the Yamen.
But he didn't expect that Zhou Tingyu would suddenly turn against him and put him in jail in the name of bribery.
Such a statement was naturally refuted by Zhou Tingyu.
Even though Zhang Yuanwai saw Jiang Fan in the hall and tried his best to complain to Jiang Fan, nothing changed.
Jiang Fan was indeed just here to watch today and had no intention of directly intervening.
Before the situation is completely unclear and without sufficient intelligence support, it will be difficult for him to make an accurate judgment.
Therefore, the purpose of observing is to have an intuitive impression of these people, and then with the information that the Lin family can investigate, a specific analysis can be carried out.
Case trials in feudal society were very rough and procedural.
The road guide system ensures ultra-low frequency of population movement and extremely primitive transportation methods. It also makes social relations extremely simple for most ordinary people throughout their lives.
This simple social relationship makes it possible to trace the occurrence of any case.
Ordinary social relationship investigation is enough to solve more than 80% of cases.
Of course, it is unknown how many unjust and wrongful convictions there are.
After all, even in Jiang Fan's own world, which has a huge social electronic surveillance system called the "Eye of the Sky" and an inelastic mandatory requirement that "murder cases must be solved", the actual murder detection rate is still as high as
Less than 90%.
As for other cases of varying severity, the detection rate is even unbelievably low.
What's more, in this kind of feudal society?
The road guide system can ensure that most normal cases are solved, and there is basically no technical difficulty in this solution.
Check social relations, identify suspects, and arrest and interrogate the suspects if there is a plaintiff.
If the suspect refuses to admit guilt, he or she will be tortured directly. After a set of procedures, you can almost get a logically coherent confession.
After that, the case is convicted, the case is closed, and a summary of the case is sent to the superior government office, which will write it off.
If the superior government office believes that there are obvious doubts in the case summary, it will even directly send the case file back and request a retrial of the case.
What Jiang Fan saw today was the fixed process in front.
The plaintiff brought the lawyer to court, and the judge brought the suspect to court to confront the plaintiff.
There are doubts about the case, but what follows is the usual torture instruments.
Under the harsh torture instruments, Zhang Yuanwai and his son, who were obviously pampered and had never endured hardship, soon couldn't stand it any longer, and they reluctantly and painfully confessed to the charges brought by the plaintiff.
He took the summary of the case recorded by the clerk, stamped it with his fingerprints, and asked the yamen servant to take Zhang Yuanwai and his son back to the cell.
Then Zhou Tingyu stood up with a smile on his face and came to Jiang Fan in front of the old woman and the wretched young man who were shouting "Master Qingtian".
After bowing his luggage, he said: "My lord, please forgive me, that member Zhang wanted to bribe me before. He is obviously a cunning person. Such people are often full of lies and have no truth at all. I'm afraid it will be difficult to really punish them without being tortured."
The lower officials had no choice but to reveal the truth, so they tortured me in the hall, hoping not to disturb the Lord."
"Judge Zhou's words are serious. This is Judge Zhou's duty. I don't think there is any problem. Well, I have finished reading the case and I will return now."
Jiang Fan stood up and patted his butt. While speaking, he patted Zhou Tingyu's shoulder with the same hand to show encouragement.
The corners of Zhou Tingyu's eyes twitched obviously, but with an extremely respectful expression on his face, he sent Jiang Fan out of the court.
It wasn't until Jiang Fan's figure completely disappeared from sight that Zhou Tingyu regained his contemptuous expression.
He snorted coldly, turned his head and put his hands behind his back, and walked away with square steps.
Although the case was simple, the entire court hearing process still took some time.
It was already noon at this time, and the government of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not care about food. No matter officials or ordinary government servants, they had to find ways to solve three meals a day by themselves.
This also proves from the side how good the treatment of civil servants in the Zhou Dynasty was. After all... the vast majority of farmers only had two meals a day.
Not to lose weight, but to save food.
"Although I got Hua Zhan's confession today, the summary of the case still needs to be approved before it can be effective, so I have plenty of time. If there is really a problem with this case, I can just find the evidence in the next two days. It's noon, so go out and get something to eat.
Yeah."
Jiang Fan said to Tieniu beside him.
Of course Tieniu didn't have any objections. If Jiang Fan hadn't made a special request, he wouldn't even be willing to say a word of agreement.
After leaving the Yamen, Jiang Fan did not take Tieniu home, but walked towards a nearby shopping street with many food shops.
People in feudal society have not yet learned what cluster effect is.
Except for the morning market, which is equivalent to going to the market, all other business shops in Heyang City are almost distributed with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west.
Therefore, it is a very rare coincidence to have such a commercial street with many food shops.
It has also attracted a lot of popularity.
Jiang Fan has nothing in particular that he wants to eat. From the perspective of food culture, the difference between the food level in other worlds and the food level in his world is about the same as the distance between addition and subtraction and higher functions.
However, considering that the output of other worlds has very special effects compared to similar products in our own world, it is still a very tempting choice to eat as much as possible in other worlds.
Jiang Fan was strolling leisurely in this shopping street with his hands behind his back. When he was looking around for something that could at least whet his appetite, he suddenly saw two government officials patrolling the streets appearing in his sight.
The reason why I noticed the two government officials patrolling the street was because they happened to turn onto this street from the fork in the road.
At the same time, I took away two buns from a bun stall on the street.
And of course... no payment was made!
Wearing the official uniform of a government official, with a sword on his belt, he walked in a loose manner.
He was eating the buns on the street with one hand, and at the same time he kept looking at the other stalls. If he caught his eye, he would just grab the one he liked, without any intention of paying as usual.
Jiang Fan's brows furrowed completely.
How is this an official job? This is simply the behavior of bandits and bullies!