Poor Family 1

  Chapter 471 Joint Trial of the Three Divisions

  Because the criminals were detained in Dali Temple, for the convenience of extracting the criminals, the joint trial of the three divisions was usually arranged in Dali Temple. In the morning, the Lin Lingsu assassination case, which had been delayed for a year, was tried again.

  There is only one focus of this case. Was the assassination of Lin Suling committed by the three soldiers without authorization, or was it the deliberate plan of Commander Pan Yue?

   This is also the point of disagreement in this case. Because of this disagreement, the case was delayed for one year.

  But the significance of this case is not the case itself, but behind the case is the secret struggle between Liang Shicheng and Wang Fu for the Yushitai, and it is also the struggle between the Yushitai controlled by Wang Fu and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple controlled by Cai Jing.

Wang Fu and Li Yan won a major victory in the struggle to overthrow Yu Shen, so in the second round of the struggle for Yushitai, after Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng formed an alliance, can they block the aggressive momentum of Wang Fu and Li Yan? , this case is crucial.

  The key person here is Li Yanqing, the chess piece that Liang Shicheng placed in the Yushitai in order to regain control of the Yushitai.

The small public hall of Dali Temple has been fully furnished. There is a plaque hanging on it, with four large characters "Three Divisions Joint Trial" written on it. On the steps below, there are three large tables in the shape of "Pin". In the middle is Yushitai. This is also a common practice, except for some special cases, almost all cases of joint hearing by the three divisions are initiated and led by Yu Shitai.

On the left is Dali Temple, and on the right is the Ministry of Criminal Justice. There are three assistants sitting behind the chief judge of each case, and the two sides are full of Dali Temple guards wearing soap and red uniforms and holding water and fire sticks. .

  Li Yanqing looked around at Gu Yiqun and Zhao Shu, the doctors of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and they both said they were ready. Li Yanqing said, "Then let's start! Pan Yue will be interrogated first."

  A Dali Temple official shouted loudly: "The three divisions will interrogate, and the proposal is to commit Pan Yue!"

At the same time as the interrogation of the three divisions started, in the Zhizheng Hall in the imperial city, Wang Anzhong was reporting to Wang Fu about the trial of Lin Suling's case in the Yushi Hall. It wasn't that Li Yanqing wanted to start the trial of Lin Lingsu's case, but he got the news last night that Zhang Bangchang had impeached him from the heavens for using the supervisory censor to monitor Yu Shen and Cai Jing without authorization.

   This was of course Wang Fu's urgent arrangement. In order to please Wang Fu, he took the risk of arranging nine supervisory censors to monitor Yushen's mansion and Cai Jing's mansion.

As the censor Zhongcheng, Wang Anzhong is not without the right to call the censor. When encountering some major events, he will also mobilize a number of supervisory censors to participate. proctored exam.

   It’s just that the target of his monitoring this time is the newly deposed Xiangguo and the former old Xiangguo. To monitor such a high-level official without the emperor’s consent, he sent to monitor the censor without the emperor’s consent, which seriously violated official rules, and even the emperor could not cover it up.

  So after learning that he was impeached, Wang Anzhong stayed up almost all night, anxious and anxious. He no longer cared about the trial of the third division, which became an excuse for him to urgently ask Wang Fu to see the case.

After listening to Wang Anzhong's report, Wang Fu's face became very gloomy, "You mean, it's because of me that I can't stop this case. I approved this case, so you can't stop it. The responsibility lies with me, Wang Fu. do you mean this?"

   "The humble official does not mean to shirk responsibility, but just repeats Li Yanqing's words. As the censor Zhongcheng, the humble official does not have the right to suspend the case of the three divisions. This involves not only the imperial history platform, but also the Ministry of punishment and Dali Temple, unless it is."

   "Unless it's me who stops it, right!"

  Wang Fu glared at Wang Anzhong extremely dissatisfied, "I don't know, do I need you to remind me?"

  Of course, Wang Fu can suspend the case of the joint trial of the three divisions, but this is tantamount to handing over his handle to Liang Shicheng. Liang Shicheng sued in front of the officials, so how should he explain it?

   Originally a small case turned into a major event, that **** Liang Shicheng would let him go? Wang Fu knew in his heart that he must never get ahead in this case, and must let Wang Anzhong handle it for him.

At this time, Wang Anzhong was extremely worried, and his voice trembled a little, "Can you let the trial of the third division be put aside for a while, I promise to find a way to disturb Huang's case, but I heard that Zhang Bangchang had already supervised the imperial censor on the day of Tiantian's impeachment." Regarding the matter, I implore my husband to solve this matter first."

Wang Fu laughed, "I've also heard about this matter. The problem is indeed serious. The impeachment letter has been handed in. It is currently in the hands of Eunuch Li. Wang Zhongcheng, it is not difficult to solve this matter. The key depends on your sincerity. !"

  Wang Anzhong sighed helplessly, he knew better than anyone else what Wang Fu looked for sincerity.

  The trial in the small court of Dali Temple has ended the morning trial. In the afternoon, the three assassinated soldiers will be arraigned. Li Yanqing also knows that Wang Fu will not stand idly by, and there will be blocking actions.

  Since this case has been tried no less than ten times before, and now the trial is just a necessary formality, why can't it be completed in one day? The three parties agreed that they must close the case today.

  They only took a short break for half an hour before continuing to interrogate the three assassinated soldiers.

  The three soldiers who assassinated Lin Lingsu have been detained separately to prevent them from colluding in confessions, but the effect is not very satisfactory. The three soldiers obviously have already received the same hint.

The first person to be brought to court was the leader of the three assassins, Zhang Shun, a native of Kaifeng Prefecture, who was sturdy and burly. He was a prisoner when the assassination happened. in the hall.

   "Kneel down!"

   Dali Temple Zheng Zhao Shu yelled, and two guards hit his leg hard with water and fire sticks. Zhang Shuntong knelt on the ground, and he suddenly roared like a wild beast, which made the two guards tremble.

  Li Yanqing glanced at him, and said indifferently: "Remove the heavy shackle for him."

  Zhao Shu said in a low voice: "The censor doesn't know, this man is very cruel and aggressive, and two jailers have already been injured by him."

   "It's okay, if he wants to die, he won't insist on Pan Yue, let him open the shackles!"

  Zhao Shu had no choice but to wink at the guards, and the two guards tremblingly opened the shackles for Zhang Shun.

  Zhang Shun chuckled, but he didn't directly attack others like Zhao Shu was worried about. Instead, he sat on the ground, gently rubbed his wrists and ankles, and looked at Li Yanqing coldly.

   "You dog official is smarter than them. You know that I don't want to die. That's right, why should I seek death by myself? If you have any farts, just let it go!"

  Li Yanqing patted the gavel, and asked sharply: "Zhang Shun, I ask you, what's wrong with Taoist Lin Lingsu's practice at the top of the city?"

   "You dog official wants to coax me, dream! I will tell you, I don't know any Taoist priests, if Pan Yue tells me to kill, I will kill, and I don't know anything else."

"But in your first confession, you confess that you hate the art of victory. In addition, Lin Lingsu occupied 2,000 acres of land when he cultivated the Shenxiao Palace, including 30 acres of your family's land. You hate him so much. To the bone, I have always wanted to find a chance to kill him, this is also your confession, I have sent someone to verify it, it is completely true, then I can confirm that you have the motive to assassinate Lin Lingsu, the first confession is completely true!"

   "Nonsense! I was instigated by Pan Yue. The first time I was tortured to extract a confession, I wrote something against my will."

'Snapped! '

  Li Yanqing slapped the gavel again, "Bring Pan Yue!"

   After a while, Pan Yue was brought into the lobby and knelt down beside Zhang Shun. Li Yanqing said, "Pan Yue, this Zhang Shun insisted that you ordered him to assassinate Lin Lingsu. What do you say?"

   "Nonsense, when did I order you?" Pan Yue glared at him.

Zhang Shun sneered and said, "General Pan is so forgetful. It was you who told me that Lin Lingsu was going to cast a spell on the city wall, and you promised to give us five hundred taels of silver each afterward. You also said that you would go to the north of the city to inspect , to show that you are not there, have you forgotten what you said to me personally? I remember clearly. "

  Li Yanqing asked again: "Zhang Shun, did Pan Yue say it to you?"

   "Exactly! I wrote it clearly in the confession later."

  At this moment, 'Pan Yue' stood up suddenly, bowed to Li Yanqing, and then stepped aside.

  Zhang Shun was stunned, "This"

  Li Yanqing snorted heavily, "He's not Pan Yue, he's just an employee of Yushitai. You actually don't know Pan Yue at all!"

Zhang Shun knew that he had been duped, his face was flushed with swelling, he suddenly roared, and rushed towards Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing raised his hand, and the inkstone flew out like lightning, hitting Zhang Shun's left knee, Zhang Shun With a loud cry, he fell to the ground with a plop, unable to stand up.

  Several guards stepped forward and tied his hands behind his back. At this moment, there was a burst of applause from outside, "It's really exciting!"

  I saw three people walking outside, the elder at the head was Cai Jing, the person following him was Liang Zhongdu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Cai Jing's son-in-law, and the other was Zheng Zhi, Minister of Dali Temple.

   Gu Yiqun and Zhao Shu were so frightened that they hurriedly got up and saluted, and Li Yanqing also got up and saluted, "Long time no see, old man!"

  Cai Jing walked in and said with a smile: "As expected of being from Tanhua, he grasped the key point of the problem at once. Zhang Shun didn't know Pan Yue. This case is interesting. I don't know how Li Yushi discovered this loophole?"

"Before the humble job, I carefully investigated the defense of the city wall at that time, and found that five battalions were in charge of defending the city at that time. Among them, the defenders of two battalions were not Pan Yue's men. In May, I suspected that the three assassinated soldiers did not know Pan Yue. In addition, the previous interrogations were conducted separately, and Pan Yue had never met them, so I wanted to test it out today."

   "Did Pan Yue not doubt this?" Liang Zhongdu, the servant of the Ministry of Punishments, asked next to him.

Li Yanqing nodded to Liang Zhongdu, and said with a smile: "Pan Yue has never doubted that they are not his subordinates, and they have never been interrogated together. In fact, Pan Yue has more than a thousand people under his command. His tenure is too short. Most of them He didn't know each other, even if he met, he would take it for granted that these three were his subordinates,

  Zhao Shu also said: "Li Yushi is right. In the past, Liu Yushi insisted on separate interrogation. They really never met!"

  Cai Jing praised: "I see Zhiwei, no wonder Zhong Shidao admires you so much, it's not for nothing!"

  At this moment, an official ran in in a panic and said, "Wang Zhongcheng of Yushitai is here!"

  Cai Jing sneered, "How do I know he will definitely come today?"

  He winked at Dali Temple Minister Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi immediately ordered around, "Please Wang Zhongcheng!"

  (end of this chapter)