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Chapter 372 Master Jia's soul has been hooked!
The magistrate of Xianghe County can handle matters such as adjudicating cases by himself, so why bother to find a Mandarin who can't compete with him in Xianghe County?

The reason is that Mazhi County is an old traitor and cunning, and this case is very difficult.

If the case cannot be dealt with quickly, according to the law and the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Officials, the officials involved will be fined.

That is to say, one year’s penalty for failure to decide one case, and five years’ penalty for failure to decide five cases.

In order not to be penalized and affect their performance appraisal, officials usually adopt three flexible methods for handling cases.

The first is to make big things into small things, and small things into nothing.

That is, not filing a case.

If there is no case, what is the trial?
The second is to dilute the nature of the case, such as murder is judged as manslaughter, and assault is judged as mutual assault.

In this way, it is not only convenient to quickly close the case, but also reduce the nature of the case.

Otherwise, there were always bad criminal cases during my term of office, wouldn't it be said that the county magistrate has no leadership and has ruined the reputation.

The third method is the simplest, quickest and most effortless, that is, no matter what the case is, regardless of the merits, the old case will be copied and the case will be closed hastily.

In short, in order to avoid being responsible for the backlog of cases, officials will do everything possible.

However, the case of the so-called soul monster is quite complicated. It may involve black magic and cults, or it may involve folk anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty. The relationship is so important that this little seventh-rank official in Mazhi County really dare not make arbitrarily judged cases.

If the trial is not good, it is a trivial matter that the official hat cannot be kept, but it is a major event that the head is removed.

Looking at the hundred miles of Xianghe, no matter whether he is in office or registered, there is no leader who is bigger than the deputy of the third rank department.

What's more, this leader is still authentic Manchuria.

Naturally, Lord Jia Jia, the Minister in charge of Tangling who was appointed to command the army and the people to fight the flood in Xianghe, and the Minister in charge of the Qianfeng Battalion, became the best person to handle the case.

That's right, hello everyone.

If the trial was wrong, it has nothing to do with Mazhi County.

Jia Liu, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, did not know that Mazhi County was careful. With hatred for demons and deep-seated feelings for braids, he went directly to the county government to bring people for trial without changing his clothes.

He wants to see whether science can defeat God, or whether God can overcome science.

No matter where the prefectural and county government offices are, there are three halls.

The third hall and the second hall are located behind the yamen. These two places preside over civil cases. In order to better protect the privacy of the parties involved, they can not be made public.

Of course, it is also more convenient for the magistrate to weigh the pros and cons and uphold justice.

Criminal cases must be tried in the lobby, and the presiding judge must be well-dressed, and the three shifts and six rooms must stand on shift as usual, and they are open to the common people.

Firstly, it demonstrates the ability of the adjudicating officials, and secondly, it is also a legal education for the common people.

"My lord, this case is complicated. Is it a closed trial?"

Before the official opening of the class, Mazhi County suggested that the case should not be made public, and sent officers to drive away all the people who came to watch after hearing the news.

So as not to find out some shocking things.

Jia Liu was not happy. It was the first time he was promoted to trial at such a young age. What's the matter without an audience?

What kind of play can you sing without an audience?
What kind of book do you write without readers?

The Mandarin wanted to make it public, but Mazhi County did not dare to disobey the order, so the gate was opened and the people were allowed to pour in to watch.

I don't know if the people hated the monster too much, or they were too afraid, but thousands of people came.

The lobby was full of people, and the street outside the yamen was also full of people. The queue might be two or three miles long.

There was a lot of discussion, and what was said was all kinds of bizarre ghost-calling cases.

There was a lot of chatter, and there were hundreds of scary ghost-calling cases outside the yamen before the trial started.

But most of them are "you heard about it", "did you know", "the four boys of my uncle's family".
Whether it is the place where the case occurred or the parties concerned, there is no clear reference.

According to what these people said, at least a few hundred people died in Xianghe County this month. However, in fact, except for a dozen normal deaths, the work of the county government has been idle.

The ignorant people are spreading rumors, and the scholars are also saying that there is something serious about it, which makes many people panic during the daytime. Thinking about whether to cut off the braids to keep safe after returning home.

Inside the yamen, Jia Liu, a third-rank official, was definitely not as polite as the seventh-rank magistrate, he sat directly on his chair, picked up the gavel, and ordered the demon to be brought along with him.

Soon, the two monsters were chained and taken to court, while the background music of "mighty" sounded.

Under the "Mirror Hanging High", Master Jia Jia was a little unexpected.

Because, the two demons who were brought up were actually one old and one young.

The old one is 60 years old, with white hair and beard, and few teeth left in his mouth.

The youngest is only seven or eight years old, and still wet.

Both young and old have one thing in common, that is, the braids are gone.

The majestic sound of the yamen servants and the knocking of the torture sticks scared the old and the young to kneel on the ground, not daring to raise their heads, all trembling.

It doesn't look like a monster in any way.

It was Jia Liu's first trial, and with so many spectators watching, he must not be innocent, so he turned around and asked Na Mazhi, "Is this the demon you caught?"

"That's right, it's a demon!"

Mazhi County is very sure.

"How to confirm?"

Jia Liu has doubts about this.

"My lord, the grandparents and grandchildren are behaving strangely, they lost their braids, and a spell was found on them"

Mazhi County said that the yamen servant asked the old man what the spell was for, and the old man said that as long as the spell was pasted on a person, the person would be seduced on the spot and become like a fool.After seven or seven days, it will die.

"Is it?"

Jia Liu still didn't believe it, he slapped the gavel, and asked the old man if he could draw talismans, and if this talisman could really steal people's souls.

"It's wrong, my lord!."

What Mazhi County didn't expect was that the old man retracted his confession on the spot, saying that the talisman was a peace talisman he had asked for his grandson from the Taoist temple, and it was not a spell that could seduce people's souls at all.

Jia Liu was upset, he patted the gavel again, and asked: "Then why do you admit that this spell can call souls?"

The old man looked frightened: "My lord, if Caomin doesn't say that, he will be beaten to death."

Jia Liu looked at Mazhi County, who also looked embarrassed, and then looked at Chen Butou, who had done a good job in arresting people.

Chen Butou was also in a hurry: "My lord, don't listen to the sophistry of this monster, the little one has never hit them!"

I don't ask Jia Liu if he tortured him for the time being, but he just asked someone to take the talisman that was found from the old man's body and look at it, but they couldn't find anything after looking at it.

So he changed his way of thinking about the case, approached it from another angle, and asked the old man where his braids were.

In the end, the old man said that he had heard that there was a monster who could call ghosts recently, and he was afraid that he would be called ghosts, so he cut off the braids of himself and his grandson.

"Ignorant, utterly absurd, there is no sorcery in the world, you just wait to scare yourself!"

The truth of the case can basically be judged at this point, that is, the yamen servants in Xianghe County came here in disorder, but in order to popularize the law and science, so that the people will no longer be afraid of rumors, Jia Liu actually walked out of the lobby with the so-called spell and raised his voice against A group of people said: "Lang Lang Qiankun, where did the demon come from, and where did the sorcery come from! The matter of calling the soul is purely a rumor, and the people do not believe it."

However, the expressions of the people told Lord Jia Jia that they still believed in God.

Helpless, Jia Liu chose the simplest way to refute the rumors.

I saw him paste the so-called spell "ba" on his back, and then turned it around three times in front of his face. After that, he stood still and said to the people proudly: "Did you see it? The spell of the soul is ineffective. What does this mean? It means that the matter of calling the soul does not exist at all. It is purely a rumor spread by a small group of people. The purpose is to make everyone feel insecure and achieve their ulterior purpose. The official hates it deeply, and I ask the common people not to."

While talking, suddenly, Mrs. Jia Jia stopped moving, and stared straight ahead.

The crowd was in an uproar, the people standing in front yelled "Yeah" and ran back, and the people behind ran out of the yamen frantically.

"grown ups?"

Ma Zhixian didn't know what was going on, so he hurried to the mandarin and called out to him, but after calling twice, the mandarin didn't respond, and just stared at the front like a fool.

After realizing something, Ma Zhixian was also stunned: "It's broken, my lord has been called out!"

(End of this chapter)