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Chapter 880 Interrogation by the Ministry of Punishments
Cai Jing was in a daze, from riding horses to carriages, and then to boats, he was delayed for half a month on the road before he could get from Jiangning Mansion to Chang'an.

Different from the excitement and vigor when he first entered Chang'an, when Cai Jing saw the majestic walls of Chang'an City again, he felt more lonely in his heart.

This time, I don't know what the future will be like.

He is familiar with the law and knows that there seems to be no major problem this time, but all this is decided by the emperor. He said that you have committed a serious crime, so should your crime be minor?How to judge is not a matter of others.This is the biggest disadvantage of the rule of man. If there is a law and you don't follow it, you still take it for granted.

As it was getting late, Cai Jing was thrown into the sky prison instead of the supervisory prison.This gave Cai Jing a glimmer of hope.If he were sent to the prison of the Supervision Department, he would be convicted of being a corrupt official, and he would be sentenced to ten or eight years at the lightest. He would be exiled and relegated to the army.If this enters the sky prison, the general supervisory department cannot intervene.All interrogated by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, as long as he pleads guilty with a good attitude, he is not afraid of being unfair.

"Here, Tianzihao prisoner, your dinner is here."

The jailer opened the cell door and put the food on the floor.

Cai Jing was stunned when he saw it: This is an unusually rich meal, including chicken, fish, sheep and vegetables.

He was also an official, so he didn't know that the treatment was so good only before the beheading of the prisoner.

Cai Jing was stunned for a long time, but still couldn't resist the protest of his stomach. He cried and laughed, picked up the chopsticks and picked up the rice, like a madman.

"Let me tell you, Boss, this trick of yours has been tried and tested! Look at that officer, he was so frightened that he lost his wits..."

"Some people don't cry when they don't see the coffin. If you scare him, you will be more honest. The Criminal Department came to take care of him and said, let us treat this person well, saying that His Majesty is the most important thing. We didn't do anything wrong, right? ?”

"Of course, of course, the boss is the most wise!"

"No matter how wise you are, can you surpass Your Majesty?"

"exactly……"

Cai Jing would never have thought that the meal he ate was just a normal meal.He thought it was a decapitated meal, and ate it so sadly that he even licked the bottom of the bowl clean.He was lamenting himself, regretting that he had listened to Cai Bian's words, how did he end up in such a mess?

He originally thought that he had just committed some crimes and that he was not worthy of death, but unexpectedly, he was killed.

"Can't Your Majesty tolerate me? Yes, yes, Your Majesty values ​​merchants the most. I broke the rules. How can Your Majesty tolerate me? Of course I have to kill and then quickly... No, isn't Your Majesty the most respectful of the law? Why is this so?" Do you act completely out of common sense this time?" Cai Jing thought one after another, and fell asleep in a daze.

While half asleep and half awake, he was kicked twice: "Get up, get up, it's your interrogation today, don't pretend to be dead!"

The sky prison was completely dark, and Cai Jing didn't even know what time it was.Since someone said he was going to be interrogated, it should be the next day.

"Hey, let me untie the shackles for you now, and don't even think about running away. Dozens of my brethren are out there holding things. If you run away, we have the right to kill you, understand? Be obedient , come with me, hand it over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and you will be fine!" The jailer, who seemed to be the leader, warned Cai Jing repeatedly.

"Don't dare, don't dare..."

Cai Jing cherishes his life, so where would he take risks?Besides, he is a literati, with no strength to restrain a chicken, how can he escape?

"It's best if you don't dare, to tell you the truth, there are no less than a hundred bandits and heroes from the forest who have died in our hands... Don't dawdle, hurry up!"

After getting out of the prison, Cai Jing happened to encounter a ray of sunlight, and Cai Jing narrowed his eyes involuntarily.

"Delivery envoy, come with us!"

It took a while for Cai Jing's eyes to get used to it, and he saw a group of fast arresters looking at him coldly, with sharp knives around their waists and hands on the handles, just like Zhong Kui, with ugly faces.Where did Cai Jing dare to resist, under the coercion of a group of police officers, he walked slowly towards the Ministry of Punishment.

The Heaven Prison and the Ministry of Punishment are only separated by a street, and they can be reached in half a quarter of an hour.

As soon as Cai Jing arrived, he heard the gavel slap inside, and a majestic voice sounded: "Bring the suspect to the court!"

"Bring the suspect to court!"

"mighty……"

Cai Jing was brought to court under the sound of water and fire sticks being hammered to the ground.

Cai Jing took a closer look, hey, good guy, isn't this Su Shi, Su Zizhan, the new Minister of Punishment! "Old acquaintance!" Cai Jing suddenly felt a little hopeful. He and Su Shi had met a few times, and they had discussed poetry, poetry, calligraphy and ink together. If Su Shi was willing to open the net, he might not beheaded.

"Your suspect, do you know what crime you have committed?"

Su Shi changed his previous heroic appearance and became extremely serious.

Cai Jing's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly replied: "The offender violated the commercial law of the "Da Shun Law" and committed the crime of using power for personal gain..."

"Very good, since you have pleaded guilty, I won't say much. Do you know how to deal with this crime?" Su Shi said coldly, seemingly impersonal.

Cai Jing's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he said his words carefully: "If it is serious, you will be dismissed from office, if it is light, you will be demoted and exiled, no matter how severe it is, you will be whipped twenty times..."

Su Shi nodded slightly, and said blankly: "Very good, since you already know how to punish, I don't talk too much. Let's admit it, over the years, you have lost much of your power by taking advantage of it." money?"

Cai Jing looked up at the "Mirror Hanging High" hanging above Su Shi, and the blue sky and white sun painting the wall behind him. His legs and feet were so weak from the scare, and he dared to hide it, and immediately said: "Criminal... criminal Illegal gains over the years, more than [-] yuan..."

"You're honest. Well, this is the account obtained by copying your family. Just go through it and see if there is any grievance?" Su Shi asked someone to show Cai Jing an account book. Cai Jing didn't dare to be sloppy. Judgment!If he made a mistake, wouldn't it be too unfair to sentence him to a "judgment"?
It has to be said that the Supervision Department is very efficient. In just half a month, it checked the evidence from the four prefectures of Jiang, Huai, Jing, and Zhejiang, even Chang'an. Very clear.

The more Cai Jing looked at it, the more frightened he became. He thought he had only made one hundred thousand guan, but why would there be hundreds of thousands of guan in the account?
"Wrong, the prisoner only lost one hundred thousand guan, where did he get hundreds of thousands of guan?" Cai Jing couldn't help crying.

Su Shi said coldly: "I didn't wrong you. It is true that you only earned one hundred thousand yuan, but you dare to say that your net worth of several hundred thousand yuan has nothing to do with it? According to your salary, it is calculated according to your family property before being a Jinshi. It's only [-] guan, now it's ten times more, how do you explain it?"

After Cai Jing heard this, he immediately collapsed to the ground. He never thought that his crime would be so serious that he could be given a heavy sentence.

(End of this chapter)