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Chapter 312 Xuan Langzhong personally interrogated Xu Lianying (1) (one more)
"My family was hearing about the thin-skinned and tender-flesh ones. How could they stand those instruments of torture that could scare people to death just by looking at them? So in order to survive, they had to admit to false charges within a few days and were tortured into tricks. gone."

"Beating is a trick..." Wanyan murmured softly, then nodded to signal Xu Lianying to continue without making any comments.

Seeing this, Xu Lianying hurriedly continued: "Then the magistrate of our county, Mr. Liu, wanted to close the case quickly. In addition, he and my family Zhengwen already had an affair, so he randomly assumed that my family Zhengwen and Duanyang had an affair. , and poisoned Cai Juren, my family Zhengwen was sentenced to beheaded, and Duanyang...Ling Chi was sentenced to death."

Having said this, Xu Lianying, who had been filled with righteous indignation, had red eyes and her voice became hoarse.

Wanyan picked up the cup and took a sip of tea calmly, without showing any surprise.

According to the laws of heaven, poisoning others to death is a capital crime, and murdering one's own husband is a felony that is detrimental to human relations and public morals. If the found facts are true, then it is not too much to sentence him to death.

"So what then?" Wanyan put down her glass, and continued to ask casually, "Your county magistrate will definitely not be responsible for this kind of murder. It must have been reported to the prefect of Yuhang, please ask him to review it."

When Xu Lianying heard this, she immediately widened her eyes and exclaimed, "My lord, you are really good at predicting things! The magistrate Liu of our county has indeed reported this matter to Master Zhang, the magistrate of Yuhang.

No one knows if it's because the magistrate Liu of our county said something to Mr. Zhang indiscriminately. Mr. Zhang didn't check or ask, but he used severe torture to extract a confession from Duanyang. , Pulling out nails, carving words on the face, and branding fire marks on the body, such a staunch little girl like Duanyang couldn't bear it anymore, and was beaten into a trick, admitting that she had committed adultery and murdered her relatives Husband..."

Speaking of this, Xu Lianying stopped again, and waited for a long time before continuing: "The result is that Mr. Zhang continued to sentence us to Zheng Wen's execution, and Duan Yang Ling Chi to death..."

"Hmm..." Wanyan replied thoughtfully, as if everything was as she expected.

"However, since the re-examination and the death penalty, shouldn't there be an autumn trial? The case has only been two months since today, and the results of the local autumn trial have not yet come out, and it has not caught up with the unified autumn trial of the whole country this year. .

The results of the autumn trial have not yet come out, why did you come to the capital directly? "Wanyan asked a little strangely.

According to the law of heaven, the death penalty can only be passed after passing the autumn trial. There are two links in the autumn trial.

The results of this review are divided into four types: "true, postponed, reserved, and reserved", that is, the facts of the case are true, the sentence is reasonable, and the death penalty is maintained; The magistrate re-tried; the case was true and the sentence was reasonable, but the prisoner was the only male in the family whose parents survived, so he was exempted from the death penalty and kept as a guardian.

After the local autumn trial, if the provincial governor's office, the chief envoy, and the procuratorate decide to "true", that is, to uphold the death penalty, they will be sent to Beijing for a unified autumn trial.

After entering Beijing, the case was first tried jointly by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the important members of the cabinet scholars, and the opinions were drawn up, and finally it was handed over to the emperor himself for adjudication. The death penalty could be carried out shortly thereafter.

Autumn trials are usually held in August, that is, the beginning of autumn, and it happens that after the autumn trials, the death row inmates can be executed together.

Now it is the twelfth lunar month, and this year's national unified autumn trial has long since ended, and the results will not be available until August next year.

In other words, if Xu Zhengwen and Duanyang were exempted from the death penalty as a result of the local autumn trial, everyone would be happy.But if not, the case will go to Beijing sooner or later and be handed over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for handling, but Xu Lianying traveled thousands of miles to Beijing directly before the results of the local autumn trial, and even beat the Dengwen drum of the Ministry of Criminal Justice , which is indeed somewhat unusual.

Hearing this, Xu Lianying sighed and said: "My lord, you don't know, but we know how the governor will judge us before the result.

I had no other way out, so I approached the group of scholars we Zhengwen made friends with on weekdays for advice. They said that instead of waiting for a predetermined result, it is better to go directly to Beijing to sue the imperial court, and pre-emptively explain the matter to the officials and lords in the capital, so as to avoid the governor and the others. When it was reported, it turned from popular to black, and preconceivedly disrupted the audiovisual of the officials and lords in Kyoto, so we still have a chance to survive.

I came to Kyoto, but I tried my best, not to mention seeing His Majesty, even the walls of the imperial palace.

So I thought about what they told me that the current head of the prime minister is a lord named Xuan, but the lord prime minister is even harder to see than your majesty, like a dragon, I can't even get close to the mansion of the lord, I can't see each other at all! "

"Cough, cough, cough!"

When Xu Lianying said this, she was interrupted by a nervous cough from the yamen servant standing behind her.

Xu Lianying didn't know what she said was wrong, she was stunned at a loss, looked at Wanyan, then looked back at the yamen servant.

Seeing this, the yamen servant hurriedly whispered in her ear: "The Prime Minister you mentioned, Mr. Xuan, is the father of the little Mr. Xuan above!"

Xu Lianying panicked even more when she heard this, her hands trembled so much that she almost threw the cup out of her hand, she immediately knelt down to apologize, but before she had time to kneel down, she heard Wanyan say: "Go on, you don't need to be so polite .”

Wanyan's own father, Wanyan, knows better than anyone else that Xuanying usually ignores big things, but now it's strange that he can find such trivial things.

Xu Lianying nodded in shock, and continued stammeringly: "I... I couldn't see His Majesty and the Prime Minister, so I... inquired again, and I heard that people who come to Beijing from other places to file an imperial petition usually go to inspectors. The court, the nine admirals or the Ministry of punishment.

How dare I go to the officials and lords in the Procuratorate and the Nine-door Admiral, and I heard that the adults in the Ministry of Punishment are all scholars, and they are the most impartial and considerate of the people's sentiments, so I... came with the courage Ministry of punishment. "

Wanyan smiled lightly when she heard the words, and said gently: "Elder sister, don't worry, as long as you tell the truth, no matter if it's the San Judicial Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the Infantry Commanding Yamen, justice and ordinary grievances will be served for you.

But if your words are inaccurate and fabricated, then it is not the result of getting out of the body. "

Wanyan smiled faintly, but her voice was inexplicably chilling.

(End of this chapter)