Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 18

Five days later, the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

On the lobby, sat Yang Ming, the left governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.Yang Ming is a well-known Qingliu and old scholar in the court.He is famous in court for his outspoken advice.

Unlike Xu Yuanju, the right servant of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Sun Henan, the Minister of Dali Temple, this Yang Duyuan's attitude towards He Liu was unusually cold.Yang Ming prides himself on being clean, and has always looked down on Jin Yiwei, who is like an eagle and a dog.

Lu Bing, the commander of Jinyiwei, once commented on Yang Ming: that old guy Yang Ming is clean, smelly and hard.

Under the lobby, He Liuku was standing.

According to the etiquette system, He Liu, who is a member of the sixth rank and a hundred households, can only stand in front of Yang Ming, a senior member of the second rank.

Yang Ming stroked his beard and handed a case file to a censor.The censor handed over the case file to He Liu in the hall.

He Liu took the case file and looked at it: "Ding Wang is not guilty?"

Yang Ming didn't look at He Liu at all.While flipping through the files of other cases, he said, "What? You Jinyiwei disagree with this result? This is the censor of the left and right of our procuratorate, the censor of the left and right, and the censor of the left and right." History—the result of the joint trial of the six officials."

He Liudao: "This subordinate doesn't mean that."

Yang Ming glared at He Liu: "Well, since there is no objection, let's go back to Jinyiwei with the case files and report to Commander Lu."

He Liu asked: "Dare to ask Lord Yang, where is this Ding Wang now?"

Yang Ming said without raising his head, "Let go. How can an innocent person be detained in the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

He Liu took the case file and left the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Lao Hu was already waiting there. Seeing He Liu's suspicious expression, he took the initiative to ask, "Why, did the Metropolitan Procuratorate also say that Ding Wang is innocent?"

He Liu smiled wryly: "Yes. The Metropolitan Procuratorate has already released him. We have to catch Ding Wang for the third time!"

Old Hu laughed loudly: "Zhuge Liang has seven captures and seven strikes against Meng Huo. This Ding Wang has three captures and three strikes. It is worth half of Meng Huo."

He Liu and Lao Hu surrounded Ding Wang's house in Donkey Meat Alley again with dozens of warriors.

As soon as he entered the door, Ding Wang actually spoke to He Liu first: "Master He, are you tired?"

He Liuyi didn't know how to answer for a moment.Not to mention Ding Wang, a small soldier, even those ordinary third- and fourth-rank officials would not dare to speak like this to him, the sixth master of Jinyiwei.

On the other hand, Lao Hu angrily reprimanded Ding Wang: "Ding Wang, I really don't know if you have eaten the gall of a donkey. Do you know who the person in front of you is? Have you ever heard of the [-]th Taibao of Jinyiwei?"

Ding Wang glanced at Lao Hu: "I know. Isn't this the sixth child of the Thirteenth Taibao? The Thirteenth Taibao can wrong an innocent person?"

Old Hu laughed: "In the 40 years in Jinyiwei, I have met all kinds of people. This is the first time I have met someone like you. Don't be complacent, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate say that you are innocent, but it does not mean that you are innocent. Jin Yiwei will say you are innocent. Jin Yiwei - even if you are innocent, he can still charge you with an innocence!"

Ding Wang nodded: "That's right, in the capital, everyone from first-rank officials to three-year-old children, who doesn't know that there is no reason for Jin Yiwei to arrest and kill people?"

He Liudao: "I don't have the time to grind my teeth with you. Please, come with us to Beizhen Fusi Prison."

Ding Wang entered Jinyiwei Imperial Prison again.

He Liu came to Commander Lu Bing's case.

"Sixth, did you come back from the Metropolitan Procuratorate? The Metropolitan Procuratorate also acquitted Ding Wang?" Lu Bing asked.

"Yes. Yang Duyuan of the Metropolitan Procuratorate said that this is the result of a joint trial by their six officials." He Liu replied.

Lu Bing scratched his nose.

Everyone in Jinyiwei knows such a legend.Whenever the commander Lu Bing was about to start a big case, he would definitely scratch his nose.

Lu Bingdao: "The joint trial of the four divisions of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the joint trial of the ninth level of Dali Temple, the joint trial of the six officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, all found a clean person. This matter has changed from interesting to shocking."

He Liudao: "Subordinates suggest that we, Jin Yiwei, personally try Ding Wang's case."

Lu Bing rubbed his hands: "Well, let the third brother Jin Wanguan chat with him first. If there is no result in the chat, let the twelveth brother Zhao Ci punish him!"

Jin Wanguan, the youngest of the Thirteenth Taibao, is recognized as a master interrogator in Jinyiwei.It claims to be able to jump ashore the fish in the water.Wan Anliang opened his mouth in front of Jin Wanguan and confessed about the silver theft.

Zhao Ci, the twelfth old man, was called a "corpse idiot" by Jin Yiwei's colleagues.This person loves to study dead bodies most, and was appraised by commander Lu Bing as "the best work in the world".At the same time, Zhao Ci is a master of torture.Half of Jin Yiwei's 200 kinds of small punishments were passed down from the ancestors, and the other half were pioneered by Zhao Ci.

He Liu handed Ding Wang over to Jin Wanguan and brought him into the "Truth Room".Jin Wanguan patted his sixth brother on the chest: "Don't worry, sixth brother. I can make this little Kubing speak in one night."

He Liu went home.

Lying on the bed at night, a series of questions flashed through He Liu's mind.

Is Ding Wang just a soldier who stole 20 taels of silver?Looking at it now, the answer is no.Hundreds of officials from the Three Law Departments of the Ming Dynasty are defending him. 20 taels of silver may be able to buy ten or eight officials, but it will definitely not be able to buy hundreds of officials from the Ministry of Penalties, Dali Temple, and Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The method of hiding silver in the pillar was taught by Ding Wang to Wan Anliang.He Liu had a strong intuition that this method came from "Jubao Yaoshu"!

Is Ding Wang related to the "ghost house case" 20 years ago, and the death of his father and wife?

Countless questions flooded He Liu's head.He Liu was sleepless all night.

Early the next morning, without waiting for Lao Hu, he went to Beizhen Fusi just after dawn.

At the door of the truth room, he saw Jin Wanguan sipping the tea offered by his subordinate Lishi.

"Third brother, has Ding Wang spoken?"

Jin Wanguan cupped his hands: "Sixth brother, I'm sorry. The third brother has interrogated no less than a thousand prisoners in the past 20 years. I have never seen a person with such a firm mouth! This man's words are so impeccable. Third brother, I am defeated! You It's better to find the old twelve and give him a big punishment!"

He Liu was surprised.In these years, I have never seen Jin Wanguan, a master interrogator, in such a mess.

He Liu had no choice but to go to Zhao Ci and Zhao Twelve, deputy surveyor.

Zhao Ci - the twelfth child of the Thirteenth Taibao.He is thirty-five this year.But he has been dealing with corpses for 23 years.

His father was a government servant in Shuntian Prefecture. When he was 12 years old, his father sent him to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion, where he became an apprentice under the old butcher Zuo Ren'an.

As an apprentice, his daily errand was to deal with corpses.Zhao Ci is extremely intelligent. At the age of 16, he learned the skills of his master Ren'an, and became the youngest official official in the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion.

Fifteen years ago, Lu Bing took over the Nancheng Miemen case from Shuntian Mansion and discovered Zhao Ci's talent.Lu Bing became Zhao Ci's guide and brought him into Jinyiwei.

After entering Jinyiwei, Lu Bing asked him to take charge of the autopsy.At the same time let him study the law of torture.

Unexpectedly, in addition to autopsy, Zhao Ci was also an expert in execution.Over the past two years, hundreds of torture methods have been produced that can make people unable to live or die.

He Liu cupped his hands to Zhao Ci: "Old Twelve, Third Brother has encountered a problem. Please help me, go to the truth room and punish the prisoner."

Zhao Ci agreed: "Okay, brother six. I'll go to the truth room right now."

(End of this chapter)