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Two days later, in the hall of the Ministry of Justice, Emperor Guangxu personally interrogated Long Wu.

Although it was said to be a personal trial, it was impossible for Emperor Guangxu to inquire about the case in person like a county magistrate, so the presiding judge was Sun Yuwen. On the lobby, Sun Yuwen sat facing south, and the ancients respected the north, so The important people had to sit in the north, and behind Sun Yuwen, a high platform was set up. On the high platform, there were Emperor Guangxu's dragon book case and dragon chair. Emperor Guangxu sat on it, and Lin Yuan and a group of ministers sat on both sides. .

Sun Yuwen slapped the gavel, and there was a crisp sound of "pop", the hall was suddenly silent, and a yamen servant shouted towards the door: "Lead someone into prison!"

Above the lobby, the yamen servants on both sides beat the water and fire sticks in their hands in unison. Half of the water and fire sticks are black and half are red. Black means water and red means red. , The yamen servants shouted in unison: "Wei... Wu..."

After a while, there was only the sound of shackles outside the door, and two yamen servants brought Long Wu into the hall. Lin Yuan saw that there was no sign of wear on Long Wu's wrist, and knew that Long Wu had not suffered much in the prison. The handcuffs were probably just put on when they were taken to the lobby.

Long Wu walked to the middle of the hall, knelt down on the ground, and said, "Grassman Long Wu, pay your respects to your lord."

Sun Yuwen said: "Long Wu, are you convicted?"

Long Wu kowtowed to the ground, and said shamelessly: "The grass-roots plead guilty!"

Lin Yuan was taken aback when Long Wu said "the grassroots pleaded guilty", and thought: "Why did this Long Wu plead guilty so quickly?"

Without waiting for Lin Yuan to figure it out, Long Wu continued: "Caomin smuggled opium and offended Tianyan, it is really a crime worthy of death!"

Emperor Guangxu spoke from behind at this time: "Long Wu, do you know that this opium is harmful to the country and the people? How dare you smuggle it?"

Long Wu said: "My Majesty, it is harmful to take too much opium, but this opium is also a good medicine, and the people smuggled it in order to use this opium for medicine."

Sun Yuwen slapped the gavel, and said angrily: "What a scumbag, you're making unreasonable words! What's the matter with the rifle in your opium box?"

Long Wu kowtowed upwards and said, "The grass people really don't know."

Sun Yuwen sneered and said: "It seems that if you don't want to be punished, you will not be recruited. Come here, and you will be punished." After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to the lottery and drew out a lottery. Then he will come up to execute.

Long Wu said: "The grassroots are wronged. Someone framed the grassroots."

Sun Yuwen said angrily: "It's nonsense, who can transport two thousand rifles to blame you, since you said it was blamed on you, it must be the person who transported opium for you, then who transported your opium ?”

Long Wu replied: "The villain really doesn't know who transported the opium. The opium transporter just borrowed the dock and warehouse of the villain, and the rest of the villains don't know."

Sun Yuwen sneered, and as soon as he raised his hand, he was about to throw the warrant slip, Rong Lu said beside him: "Master Sun wait for the punishment, I have something to say."

Emperor Guangxu said: "What do you want to say about Ronglu Aiqing?"

Rong Lu replied: "My lord, I think there are many doubts in this case, and it should be submitted to the Ministry of Punishment for further investigation. It is not appropriate to use punishment hastily. I just want to say that the guns transported by Long Wu are all useless guns. How can these guns be used?" What about the rebellion?"

Emperor Guangxu asked: "Is this true?"

Rong Lu replied: "People from the Ministry of Criminal Justice's Evidence Division have checked carefully, and the two thousand guns are not usable because they lack bolts or have damaged barrels. How can we plot rebellion in this way? Also, why are there only guns but no bullets? There are many doubts like this.”

Emperor Guangxu nodded after hearing this, and said, "It seems that there are still many doubts in this case."

Sun Yuwen looked at Lin Yuan as if asking for help, Lin Yuan stood up at this moment and said, "This Long Wu is planning to rebel! As for why the guns delivered are scrap guns, I'm afraid I have to ask Long Wu."

Rong Lu asked: "Master Lin, you say categorically that Long Wu is planning to rebel, do you have evidence?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Of course there is evidence." After speaking, he shouted towards the door: "Bring the things up."

Two yamen servants carefully carried a large box into the lobby. Everyone was puzzled and stared intently. The two yamen servants opened the box, and inside was the phonograph that Long Wu had given to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan turned to Emperor Guangxu and said, "Does Your Majesty know what this is?"

Emperor Guangxu said happily: "I have seen Western artifacts recently, and I know this thing. It is a phonograph. It was invented by a man named Emerson in the United States. This thing can record human voices. It is the most amazing thing."

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Since the Holy Majesty knows about this thing, it is great, and the Holy Majesty also explained the function of this thing for everyone, so I won't repeat it here."

Lin Yuan took out a disc-shaped record from the box, put it under the head, and then turned on the phonograph. After a burst of "squeaky" sound, there was a conversation between Long Wu and a man. These conversations were used by Lin Yuan to threaten Long Wu back then, but now Lin Yuan took them out as evidence.

The conversation was very short, but it was enough to explain Long Wu's conspiracy and rebellion. Emperor Guangxu asked, "Lin Aiqing, where did you get this thing from?"

Lin Yuan replied: "This Long Wu is devoid of conscience, and what he does is outrageous, so I want to collect evidence of his crime, but who knows that he found the evidence of his rebellion."

Emperor Guangxu's face was livid, and he asked angrily, "Long Wu, who is talking to you on the phonograph?"

After listening to this recording, Long Wu was almost terrified. It turned out that Lin Yuan didn't know that the phonograph had already existed in this era, so the way he thought of using the recording to threaten Long Wu was: invite a minister to a certain place. In a restaurant, and the synthesized recording was played in a nearby room, the minister would naturally think that Long Wu wanted to rebel. Lin Yuan also said the same thing when he threatened Long Wu that day.

Later, Long Wu heard that there was such a thing as a phonograph, so he was not afraid of Lin Yuan doing this, because he could reason that Lin Yuan was playing the phonograph, so he went to give Lin Yuan the phonograph. , Lin Yuan actually released this recording in public, making everyone think he was planning to rebel!

Long Wu said anxiously: "I said what I said here, but I didn't say it in that situation at all. There was no one who talked to me at all. All my words were said to a woman."

Long Wuyi pointed at Lin Yuan, and said: "These are all tricks he set for me. He asked me to transport him smuggled goods and pay for it. If I refused, he came up with this method to blackmail me... ..."

"Shut up!" Lin Yuan shouted angrily, "Tell me, can the recorded voice be faked?"

Lin Yuan turned to the people present again, and asked, "My lords, anyone of you who has heard of this voice can fake it." It was the first time that everyone present had heard of a phonograph, and the recording and synthesis technology was simply like a sound to them. It's like the Arabian Nights, so they all believe it.

Emperor Guangxu slapped the table hard and said angrily, "I must find out this person!"

Lin Yuan glanced at Rong Lu, and thought: "I'll give you some more information." So Lin Yuan said: "Qi Zuo Sheng, I think that this Long Wu has a backer in the court, so I don't know if I have to investigate it?"

Emperor Guangxu nodded, and said, "Sun Yuwen, Lin Yuan, I'll leave this case to you. If anyone dares to trouble you, you can go directly to the palace to find me."

Long Wu was furious, staring at Lin Yuan with red eyes, his voice trembling with anger: "You, you..."