Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Lu Chen carefully recalled the dossiers he had read in the past few days.

But no matter how he thought about it, he really couldn't think of such an iron case, there would be any flaws that could reverse the case.

The queen mother's account book cannot be fake, and the victim's testimony is not a big problem. Xia Yan himself did not deny the fact of corruption and bribery, and clinging to the power of the queen mother's gangsters when he was interrogated in the prison. Even his son Xia Yun thought he was a big corrupt official...

All these things, Lu Chen couldn't figure it out, and there were any unusual doubts in it.

"no problem!"

Seeing that the class was about to start, Lu Chen had no choice but to comfort himself like this.

"The outcome of Xia Yan's case has already been settled, and there is absolutely no possibility of any changes."

However, when he was thinking this way, an ominous premonition hovered in his heart inexplicably.

While thinking about it, the three judicial leaders in the hall were already in place.

After the simple ceremony, Dali Temple Minister Zhao Bingliang waved his hand impatiently.

"Bring prison officer Xia Yan to court!"

As soon as the solemn words fell, Xia Yan, who was wearing a sour-smelling prison uniform with a haggard face, was brought over by two yamen servants not long after.

The joint trial of the three divisions has officially begun!

Lu Chen calmed down, temporarily threw away the messy thoughts in his head, and then stood up as the supervisor of the case, and said solemnly to Zhao Bingliang on the presiding judge:

"Master Zhao, please pay attention to your wording. Xia Yan has not been fully convicted, so he is only a suspect now, not a prisoner."

No matter what, his current position is that he firmly believes that Xia Yan is a good official, so he naturally wants to stand up for Xia Yan.

Even if the current situation is quite unfavorable for him on the surface.

Seeing that Lu Chen stood up to defend himself even at this time, Xia Yan couldn't help turning his head to look at Lu Chen, as if he had accepted his fate, his eyes, like a pool of stagnant water, quietly rippled.

He could tell that this young man named Lu Chen really wanted to help him.

After all, he now has almost nothing and nothing to gain.

There is no benefit at all in saving him, and he has to take a huge risk, the gain outweighs the loss.

In such a situation, there are still people who desperately help themselves, and even offend the high officials in the court for this. It must be a lie to say that they are not moved.

Unfortunately.

"Lord Lu."

Before Zhao Bingliang could respond, Xia Yan opened his mouth slowly, and said to Lu Chen with a sad expression, "Thank you for your kindness, but Mr. Zhao did not make a mistake just now. I have indeed violated the "Great Xia Law". body, and it is such a serious crime that cannot be punished, Mr. Zhao said that it is not wrong for me to be a prisoner."

Such ignorant words immediately made everyone present slightly startled.

After reacting, Fang Ping suddenly narrowed his eyes, and gave Xia Yan a meaningful glance.

"Knowing that I will die, how can I use this method to reduce Zhao Bingliang's dissatisfaction with Lu Jishi, and to protect his benefactor's career as much as possible... Yes, it is not in vain for Lu Jishi to help him like this, but he is a kind person who knows how to repay him ...'

As if to confirm his judgment, Zhao Bingliang immediately felt an indescribable sense of comfort after hearing Xia Yan's words.

In the next second, he turned his head slowly and looked at Lu Chen with a hint of contempt on his face.

"What happened to Lu, did you hear that? Xia Yan himself admitted that he was guilty, instead of the old man labeling him indiscriminately. What else do you have to say?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen's face turned livid, and then he glared at Xia Yan angrily.

"alright."

Fang Ping, who had the highest authority on the scene, finally spoke.

He sat on the chair and said expressionlessly: "It's just a trivial matter, there's no need to get entangled in it, start the trial quickly, finish the trial early and go back to the government office early, everyone is busy, so don't be in this Waste of time on little things."

The boss of the Metropolitan Procuratorate spoke up in person, and the others had to sell him more or less.

Although Zhao Bingliang still wanted to ridicule Lu Chen, a lucky person he had long disliked, but Fang Ping spoke, and he had no choice but to swallow back what he originally wanted to say.

As the saying goes, the first level of the official rank crushes people, there is still a big gap between him, the third-rank Dali Siqing, and the second-rank Zuodu Yushi, and this guy has a lot of trolls... Uh, Yushi, can you not provoke me? It's better not to provoke.

Lu Chen backed away.

He is only in charge of supervising the case and has no power to judge. He can only intervene if unreasonable circumstances arise during the trial process.

After the short episode passed, Qian Yiqian directly said to Xia Yan below:

"Xia Yan, is it true that more than 20 well-known local people and 30 businessmen in Yongchuan County have jointly accused you of accepting bribes, dealing with unfair affairs, and setting up various names to extort money from them?"

Xia Yan replied without hesitation:

"Returning to the adults, this matter is true."

Seeing that he answered so simply and neatly, pleaded guilty honestly, without any intention of sophistry, Qian Yiqian couldn't help but smile.

Although I don't know why Xia Yan didn't struggle, he didn't have an excuse to evade, but directly admitted this serious crime.

But as long as he admits it's fine.

Zhao Bingliang glanced at Lu Chen inexplicably, and saw that his face was livid, obviously hit by Xia Yan's choice to confess directly, and immediately raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

However, he didn't notice that there was an imperceptible look of joy in Lu Chen's eyes, who had a very ugly face.

pat...

Lu Chen clenched his fists violently, with a trace of unknown excitement on his face.

'It's done! '

According to the current situation, there is absolutely no possibility of overturning Xia Yan's case.

As long as Xia Yan upholds the original judgment and proves that his judgment is wrong, according to the latest guarantee mechanism, he can get rid of the official skin as he wishes, and by then...

Thinking of this, his fists clenched even tighter.

In the eyes of outsiders, he was trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart, but only he himself knew how hard it was to suppress the surging joy.

After Xia Yan admitted the crimes committed by Yongchuan, Zhao Bingliang hit the iron while the iron was hot, and asked directly: "Xia Yan, I found the detailed records of the stolen money you bribed the demon queen's confidant Wang Yu in the account book found in the demon queen's bedroom. , what is your explanation for this?"

Hearing this, Xia Yan's face was a little complicated.

After a while, he sighed inexplicably, and then knelt down on the ground.

"Returning to the adults, this matter is true, and I have nothing to say."

There was no need for severe torture, no clever words to induce, or even forced questioning, Xia Yan accepted all the crimes Zhao Bingliang said and confessed them all.

This is the first time Zhao Bingliang has seen such an easy trial.

Never even heard of it.

No one is not afraid of death. Logically speaking, in the face of the fear of death, no matter who is facing the fear of death, everyone will struggle subconsciously, even if they know that the struggle is meaningless.

But Xia Yan didn't even have a word of rebuttal.

This is not for Zhao Bingliang.

It took him a while to react, and then he looked at the last senior official in the three law divisions.

"Lord Fang, I've finished all the questions I want to ask, and the criminal officer also admitted his crime of bribing and colluding with the Demon Queen's gangsters. Do you have anything else to ask him?"

As he spoke, before he could calm down and open his mouth, he went on to say: "If not, according to the following, the result of this case is obvious, there is no need to retrial, and the conviction and sentencing can be done directly. I can prepare a dossier based on this and report it to Your Majesty."