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Chapter 106 Watching the Tiger Fight (2)

The seven soldiers in the hall, each with gray faces, neither knew nor had the intention to know the eyes flying above their heads.

Let alone Cao Kaihe now, even the rest of the officials in this house are now like vicious wolves, who can swallow them alive as long as they move their lips.

They were all hoping that when the companion next to him could speak first, he would follow suit, and maybe he would be able to reduce his guilt a little.

But as soon as Liu Yun opened his mouth, he wiped away all this luck. He said clearly: "All the soldiers in the hall heard clearly: today's trial will be judged by Lord Caodu and witnessed by Qian Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. There should be no shirking and prevarication, and among you and others, anyone who can take the initiative to report and expose the perpetrator will be punished lightly."

The seven soldiers looked at each other, and finally put Cao Kaihe, who had a scary look on his face, out of their minds, and started rushing to answer each other.

But after a short time, he actually described the situation that night in detail. The confession not only basically matches the confession of the soldier in front, but also adds a lot of details.

For example, before departure, Xu Ming emphasized: Today is the order of the commander-in-chief, so it doesn't matter if you shoot or kill.

For example, on the return journey, Xu Ming said clearly again: To kill Shen Huai, you must use any means possible, Ye Hei will not be held accountable for accidental injuries.

Some people actively provided clues: they were just ordinary soldiers with limited skills, and those who really took on the mission of killing were a few martial arts masters pretending to be soldiers, whom they had never seen before.

This is not a sudden idea, this is premeditated.

Su Ya got goosebumps when he heard that, Xu Ming is so ruthless, he has never met him before, and he is so ruthless that he has to kill them all.It is said that Xu Ming's corpse is still parked in the criminal justice office, he will not die with peace, and suddenly cheat the corpse, right?
Su Ya couldn't help rubbing the goosebumps that suddenly appeared on her arms, and silently squeezed them forward again.

All the officials hearing the trial also looked at Shen Huai in horror, their eyes fell on his shoulders, and they all felt a burst of pain: This reckless robbery, regardless of priority, if I happen to meet it, will it happen? The luck of escape with all beards and tails?
"In broad daylight, you dare to confuse the crowd!" Cao Kaihe asked in a deep voice: "Liu Yun, you once said that this officer made a big fuss in the criminal justice office in order to snatch Xu Ming's body, and took the opportunity to change the soldiers in custody. Now this In this situation, are these soldiers real witnesses or fake witnesses?"

Su Ya secretly praised, Cao Kaihe is worthy of being a traitor in the officialdom, and he didn't miss this crucial link in his anger: Are these soldiers still the same as before?If the identity of the witness is false, how can the confession be true?

In fact, the point is not whether they are true or not. Can Cao Kaihe not know whether these are true or not?
The point is that it was Liu Yun who said the soldiers were replaced, and it was Liu Yun who brought the soldiers to court as important witnesses. If Liu Yun, the person in charge of the punishment, could not stand up, the trial would become a joke.

This trick is called attacking the other's shield with the other's spear, and you don't even have to explain yourself, forcing Liu Yun to show his cards first-anyway, the evidence in Liu Yun's hand will never be hidden, and sooner or later the showdown, it's better to bet on him, First divert your eyes, even if you want to get the hammer, then deal with the hammer when the time comes.

Shameless, really shameless.

Su Ya praised and scolded in her heart, the bigger the official, the stronger her ability to play tricks, and she wondered if Shen Huai had any countermeasures for hiding behind Liu Yun and Qiu Naicheng?
Thinking of this, she quietly turned her gaze to Shen Huai again. The man was looking at Cao Kaihe with his usual indifferent expression, showing no emotion at all.

On the contrary, Liu Yun looked hesitant and didn't speak for a while.

"I let you run out of words. At one time, I said that I was robbing Xu Ming by force, at another time, I said that I was changing people in public, and at another time, I brought up a few soldiers who didn't know where they came from. They insisted that they were my officers, Cao Bing. 12, are they all mine?"

The whispers in the hall started again, it was obvious that Cao Kaihe was tempted by what he said.

"The trick is so far-fetched and arrogant," Cao Kaihe sneered, "You still say that there is no one behind you?"

These words almost hit Qiu Naicheng in the face.

Everyone heard the meaning, and the inside and outside of the hall were immediately very quiet.

Qiu Naicheng smiled slightly, pretending that he didn't understand, picked up the tea cup and drank it slowly.

Liu Yun knew that he had ushered in a critical moment of testing.

He calmed down, as if he had never heard of Cao Kaihe's provocation, and calmly instructed the scribe to bring up the confession, after reading it carefully, he ordered a few soldiers to stand in front of him, and then respectfully said to Cao Kaihe: "Lord Cao, Trial and trial, how can the case be closed without trial, don't be angry, there is more to come."

and also?

Cao Kaihe's complexion became more and more ugly. He was surrounded by heavy siege at this time, unable to fight alone, but the more anxious he became, the more he couldn't think of how to stop this losing battle.

Indeed there is.

The yamen servant who went to the Miscellaneous Bureau to bring the newcomer certificate came back.

A team of craftsmen came in one after another, including Yuan Yutao.

Su Ya was taken aback, Yuan Yutao was simply a non-staff craftsman of the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, the kind who was paid to work, why was he brought to testify today?

But Yuan Yutao and Shen Huai didn't even meet each other, and they didn't even know each other at all.

Liu Yun didn't mention the situation of the pig iron mentioned by Lao Zhao, the manager of the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, but let the group of people identify it first.

Sure enough, some of them looked strange, but kept silent.

Liu Yun asked Lai Guojin to be dragged up and around again. After the demonstration, he successfully pried open the teeth of a group of people.

They are all earning a living, and they may not be free from oppression and resentment on weekdays. Seeing with their own eyes that their boss, Lai Guojin, is unlucky, they stop talking about it.

It turned out that what Lao Zhao said, under the restraint of Lai Guojin, the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau concealed a bag of lost pig iron offal, which was true.

So far, the source of the thief's hidden weapon has been locked in the Miscellaneous Bureau.

But this pig iron was stolen?Or was it sent out intentionally by Lai Guojin?
Liu Yun was not in a hurry to ask, but instead asked someone to bring two plates of fragments.

Some fragments with soil in them, of different sizes, were carefully placed on trays and brought to the group of craftsmen.

Someone reached out to pinch and rub it twice, and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it, "My lord, this is, where is the residue of the gunpowder blasting?"

"Where do you think it is the gunpowder residue from the explosion?" Liu Yun asked back.

"The nitrate is vertical and the sulfur is horizontal. The sulfur smell in this soil is strong and the color is scorched. It must be mainly sulfur, supplemented by saltpeter. My lord, this is gunpowder specially used for blasting." An old craftsman answered cautiously, and The soil in the palm was raised, allowing people to see it more clearly.

Then someone added: "Judging from the red pigment on the shell, it should be specially used to blow up the canal when dredging the canal."

The one who spoke was Yuan Yutao, who was tall and long-legged, especially conspicuous and young among the crowd.

He picked up a piece of black fragments and said, "When dredging a river, it is often necessary to blast underwater, so the shell is waterproof. This is my newly improved thin-skinned ammunition shell, which was handed in just after the year."

"You're right?"

"I will never admit my mistake," Yuan Yutao said categorically, "There are water-proof patterns that I specially added on this shell, and no one else has it."

"Then do you know which company this batch of gunpowder was delivered to?"

"Remember," Yuan Yutao's voice was steady and clear: "Give it to Cao Bing."

Everyone glanced at Cao Kaihe.

Although the management of river dredging belongs to the governor, most of the execution is undertaken by Cao Bing. Could it be that Lai Guojin is actually Cao Kaihe's man?
(End of this chapter)