Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 51 Guilty
When Du Chunbin, Du Zi, Du Chenrong, Du Jie, Du An and others lined up in front of the government office looking like criminals, two different scenes clearly appeared on the wide and crowded street.

One is fear, the other is joy.

Fear is in the front, joy is in the back, the difference is clear.

Du Chunbin had already made certain plans on the way to the escort. He felt that since Chen Qingsi wouldn't give him a way to survive, then he shouldn't leave any room for him.Be prepared to incite a few hot-tempered thugs and make the situation impossible to end.

When I came out, looking at the soldiers on both sides of the government office, I felt dizzy.

I finally understood where Chen Qingsi had been for an hour and a half after he left.

Looking at Chen Qingsi standing on the broken wall of the government office, he knew that he was doomed this time.

As for the idea of ​​inciting rioters, there is no trace of it.

Xi Junmai's troops stayed at Fuchuanshan to prevent the rebels from resurrecting. Their mission was to deal with the rebel mobs and incite the people in front of them. What was the difference between that and seeking death?
In Chen Qingsi's hands, he might still have a chance to survive, but if the army gets a chance, his head will be covered with lime and become their merit.

Qingkong walked over quickly and handed Chen Qingsi a piece of paper with dense handwriting.

After reading the message in his hand, a trace of anger flashed in Chen Qingsi's eyes.He did not ask the people to come forward and testify...

Trust is something that needs to be built step by step.

So far, except for the people who have benefited from Du Chunbin and been encouraged by him, most of the people who are officials are just watching the fun and have no intention of participating.

Most of them knew the evil deeds of Du Chunbin and his group, but asking them to testify was another matter.

Let the people redress their grievances directly. If there is no response, it will not be embarrassing.

He had to set an example and prove himself first.

Chen Qingsi jumped off the broken wall, came to the desk that Kuang Zheng had moved, and sat on the floor.

With the sound of "pop" and the ringing of the gavel, the nine prisoners in Dujia Village couldn't help but tremble.

"Du Zi, do you know your guilt?"

When Du Zi heard the first person calling his name, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "Mr. Chen, please spare my life, Magistrate Chen, please spare my life..."

He was crying, kowtowing constantly, with tears and runny nose streaming down his face.

"I'm asking you if you know your guilt!"

Chen Qingsi knocked on the gavel again and her tone became a little more serious.

"Knowing the guilt, knowing the guilt, small guilt."

Chen Qingsi suddenly felt that there was no sense of accomplishment. The script should not be about the prisoner forcing a quibble. Instead, he, the Qingtian Master, used evidence to make the prisoner speechless and plead guilty.

How come this is just the beginning? I'm full of guilt before I even ask.

"Then I ask you what crime you have committed?"

Du Zi's face was pale, but he couldn't stop kowtowing, his head was bleeding, and he couldn't say a word.

Chen Qingsi sounded the alarm again: "I want to ask you, where is the wife of the Zhou family?"

Du Zi screamed in horror: "I didn't kill you. I didn't kill Mrs. Zhou. She, she committed suicide. I really didn't kill her. I didn't kill anyone." At this moment, there was a cry of surprise from the crowd. .

"Aunt Zhou..."

"Aunt Zhou fainted..."

Chen Qingsi asked Jiang Chen to bring Aunt Zhou up.

Most of the Confucian scholars of this era were proficient in some simple medical skills. Jiang Chen pinched Aunt Zhou's hand and patted her cheek to wake her up.

Aunt Zhou woke up and saw Du Zi not far away. She didn't know where she got the strength from, so she rushed forward, scratching and biting Du Zi, biting and tearing Du Zi until blood dripped from her body, while she growled. Roaring and crying, "I will give my wife my life back, I will give my wife my life back."

Chen Qingsi let Mrs. Zhou vent for a while, and then someone pulled him away, stared at Du Zi and said, "But your friends didn't say that? They all said in unison that you beat her to death with your own hands."

Due to lack of manpower, when he went to deal with Du Chunbin, he gave his wife and Qingkong a task, asking them to try to interrogate Du Zi and Du Chenrong to see if they could find out anything, and specifically asked them to interrogate them separately.

As a result, many crimes were revealed effortlessly.

Of course it's not that Qingkong, the cold swordsman, is gifted, but that people like Du Zi and Du Chenrong are too weak to withstand psychological pressure.

In the final analysis, the people in Dujia Village were not treacherous or evil people from the beginning. Some of them were even good people who had never done evil. The worst ones, like Du Zi, were just local hooligans, not even bullies.It was Du Chunbin who took them out of the village, gave them the knives to do evil, and dragged them into hell with various temptations such as fields and houses.

People who have never been exposed to power suddenly gain power and cannot control this power rationally and rationally, so they begin to use it indiscriminately.They are already at a disadvantage, so they bully those who are even more vulnerable.

But this kind of people lack the psychological quality of real villains, and a simple intimidation makes them confess everything they know.

Chen Qingsi leisurely drank tea with Du Chunbin because he knew there was progress in the interrogation.

Du Zi was frightened by the crazy Aunt Zhou and did not dare to hide anything. He cried and begged: "County Magistrate Chen Mingjian, I am very fond of Madam Zhou. That night, I drank too much and saw Madam Zhou passing by. Under the instigation of the brothers, I tied her to my home. I really didn’t want to do anything to her, I just wanted to show her that I have a lot of money, and she doesn’t have to suffer if I follow me. But she was like crazy, hitting the wall. He's dead. I'm just trying to save my face, so I said that the murderer was really not killed by a villain and has nothing to do with him. County Magistrate Chen is aware of it!"

Chen Qingsi laughed angrily: "Let's assume you are telling the truth, but do you really think this has nothing to do with you? According to our criminal law, the murderer deserves his life..." He was about to say that if he confesses and is lenient, he can choose a way to die.But when Du Zi heard that he was guilty of death, he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, unable to accept the continuation of the trial.

With Du Zi as an example, the people's attitude became obviously enthusiastic.

They each cheered and ran to tell each other.

The interrogations of other people went smoothly, but most of them were guilty of occupying houses and fields, bullying the weak, etc., but there was no murder case.

Seeing Chen Qingsi’s strong attitude, the sentence was reasonable.

While the people were applauding, it was also time to settle accounts after the fall.

An aunt dragged a strong man out of the crowd and said, "The county magistrate, this man robbed my land and beat my son who failed to live up to his expectations. He still can't get out of bed."

The strong man did not dare to resist, but kept kowtow and confessed.

Those who supported Du Chunbin's intention to force him into the palace received more or less benefits.

Especially those whose men died in the battle with Chen Shuozhen, leaving orphans, widows, mothers and cubs, unable to protect their fields and houses.

Those who resist weakly will "please" leave, while those who resist strongly will be beaten severely and then violently occupied.

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