Spring and Autumn I Am King

Just after the Qingming Festival, the city of Ye was refreshing in the light rain. There should be no one in the streets and alleys, but the building in the inner city was surrounded by people at this moment. Wearing a soap-colored cloth and holding a stick, Zhijingo has completely sealed off this area.

"What happened?" asked someone who was late.

"Murder happened." The speaker was cautious.

"Who died?" The visitor was shocked. The inner city was heavily guarded, and there were often Jinwu on duty in the streets and alleys, especially this building was the most important thing. In broad daylight, who would dare to kill here?

So there was another round of discussion, and many people wanted to squeeze in to the front to see what was inside.

However, there was a shout on the street: "Dali Temple is handling the case! Those who don't care should avoid it!"

Zhijinwu and the others stood up straighter. Not long after, a few four-wheeled carriages approached. The leader of Zhijinwu hurriedly went to the door of the carriage to hold an umbrella, and then stepped off the carriage, a black-robed judge wearing a hat on his head. , with long beard and chest, over sixty years old, after coming down, he looked up at the weather and glanced around.

Some of the noble children who recognized him couldn't help but take a breath: "Dali Deng Xi, let Deng Zi, one of the six ministers, come in person, I'm afraid it will be a shocking case!"

An insider whispered to him: "I heard that Bo Xi, a traitor of Wu State, was killed!"

"Well killed!" As soon as these words were finished, they immediately aroused a burst of admiration, and the interest and curiosity of the audience became more and more intense...

On the other side, Deng Xi has stepped into the building with a serious expression. This building belongs to the property of Hongluling, and it is specially designed to receive foreign guests. However, as far as Deng Xi saw, there was no blood on the way, and there was no sign of fighting, which further confirmed the testimony of eyewitnesses outside: the murderer entered in a grand manner, and the guards did not stop it!

Deng Xi's brows furrowed a little further, and when he stepped outside the room where the crime happened, the magistrate who arrived first was transcribing the statement of the official in the building. After Deng Xi asked a few questions, he walked to the door under the guidance of his subordinates, and suddenly smelled the strong smell of blood in the house, and there were even blood splashes on the window paper.

The room was well decorated, but it was a mess due to the fighting: the table was cut into two pieces by sharp weapons, and the food and jugs above were spilled all over the floor. When you looked up, you could see a The fat, headless corpse slumped across the door.

On the other hand, Deng Xi's right-hand man, the criminal officer Zheng Mao, was squatting on the ground, carefully drawing lime lines around the corpse. Seeing that Deng Xi had arrived, he quickly stood up and cupped his hands: "I have seen Dali."

Deng Yi motioned for him to avoid the ceremony, and covered his nose and mouth with a silk cloth to take a look, only to see that the corpse was wearing a set of Luzhen brocade, with a fine jade pendant on his waist, the beheaded neck turned inward, and the back was heavily stabbed. After several swords, blood dripped and flowed all over the ground...

"Have you checked it out?" Deng Yi didn't even greet him, and asked bluntly. This is their style of doing things inside the Dali Temple.

Zheng Mao replied: "There is no doubt that it was murder, and it was not for money."

He walked to the door: "Look, Dali, the murderer broke into the door with a short sword, appeared in front of the deceased who was eating, raised his sword and stabbed, the deceased raised the case a few blocks, but injured his palm, he quickly turned around and ran away, thinking I wanted to go to the inner room to get a weapon, and while escaping, I called for help, but I was caught by the murderer at the inner door, hit the back with a sword first, fell to the ground and tried to turn around to beg for mercy, but the murderer stepped on it with his feet, one after another on his back. He was hit by three swords, each of them deliberately avoided the key point, and finally cut off the head of the deceased..."

After imitating the murderer's gesture of slashing his head with his sword, Zheng Mao finished his statement.

After more than ten years of development, Zhao's criminal law and inquisition system have been relatively perfect, at least reaching the standards of Qin and Han.

"Prison matters are not more important than big seclusion, big seclusion is not more important than first love, and first love is not more important than inspection. Covering the power of life and death, the opportunity to bend and stretch is in vain, so it depends on the law." In Zhao Wuxi's statement Under the influence, Deng Xi has completely accepted this point of view, and constantly warned the trial staff not to trust the confession, and the prosecutor must be present at the scene.

Therefore, whenever there is a case, the Dali Temple's subordinate criminal officer will be the first to dispatch, use some methods in the Linzhang Academy to investigate the scene, examine the corpse injuries, so as to determine the cause of death, and to corroborate with the excerpted testimony, everything at the scene must be excerpted On paper as an archive collection. In this way, the suspect is identified, and the evidence is then handed over to the judge who is responsible for the trial of the case, and the case is tried.

So after he finished speaking, Zheng Mao immediately asked Deng Xi for instructions: "Dali, the deceased is the former Wu State slaughter Bo Xi. According to eyewitnesses, the murderer was the official doctor Wu Feng. The evidence is conclusive. I hope Dali can issue a notice, Dasuo inner city, seal his house, arrest him and bring him to justice!"

Deng Yi shook his head with a wry smile: "You're right, but Wu Feng didn't escape."

"Ah!?" Zheng Mao just missed the good show because he came early.

Deng Xi said: "After Wu Feng killed the man, he took the head of Bo Xi and went to Dali Temple to confess his guilt. He confessed to his crimes!"

...

From Zheng State to Zhao State, Deng Xi has done legal work all his life. It was he who built Zhao State’s laws from scratch. The reason why he kept refining those clauses was to make the case clear and to exclude people from it. The subjective judgment of the case makes the trial approaching fairness and justice.

However, even with such a complete legal system, it is still troublesome to deal with this case, not because the suspect is hard to find and the murderer cannot be identified, but because almost the entire Yecheng knows who the murderer is...

After personally confirming the scene, Deng Yi returned to the Dali Temple Prison. In the dark cell, he went to look at the man covered in blood, but his face was relaxed and happy. He knelt in the cell and said to the dead father The young man who was talking to himself couldn't help but have a headache.

This person is Wu Feng. Ten years ago, Wu Zixu was wrongly killed by his husband because of Bo Xi's slander. Wu Feng went north to join Sun Wu and escaped. After that, he participated in the war between Zhao State and Wu State, and made some contributions as a guide. After the war, he persuaded Xu, Zhongwu and Shandao defenders of Wu State to surrender, and after Zhao Wuxi took pity on him, he was a loyal and good man, and he was successful again. The adopted son of Sun Wuzhen's biography, he was specially named "official doctor", and the food tax was 100 households.

After that, Wu Feng was very low-key, serving by the elder Sun Wu all the time, learning the art of war with him, and being summoned by the monarch from time to time to be the counselor of military affairs.

He has publicly declared long ago: "I will kill my husband and Bo Xi to avenge my father!"

No one knew about this matter in the entire Ye City or even the entire Zhao State. In the past few days when Bo Xi had to come north to Ye City and wait for Zhao Hou's release, Wu Feng even wrote a letter to Dali Temple, asking to kill Bo To avenge the father. However, before Zhao Wuxi and Deng Xi could respond, Wu Feng couldn't hold back and entered the building to kill Bo Xi.

So Wu Feng, who was less than thirty years old but had a splendid future, became a prisoner.

"The building is strictly guarded, how did he get in?" The court officer was very puzzled. He entered with a weapon and then killed him. Then he went out with his head in his head, and walked a mile to Dali Temple to surrender himself. This process is the most unreasonable thing. ...

"The entire Yecheng is protecting and helping him."

This is the thing that annoys Deng Xi the most. The law of Zhao State is not widely spread, but in this matter, dozens of guards in the building actually sit and watch Wu Feng bring his sword into Bo Xi's residence and kill him. The queen did not stop him, and let him go.

And those passers-by were surprised at first, and after recognizing who Wu Feng was, they all took the initiative to protect him and help him avoid Jinwu Sona. A wine merchant even threw away all the goods in his cart, and asked Wu to seal his carriage out of the city. After learning that Wu Feng was going to Dali Temple to confess his guilt and surrender, the wine merchant even drove the car for him himself, wiping tears along the way and loudly preaching the matter. He stopped what he was doing, and the people who went to the market also avoided both sides. The scene was like the presence of a prince, men and women, young and old, everyone was moved to tears, and they did a great job for Wu Feng, as if what he did was a heroic act...

The pre-Qin style, no matter which country it is, is very praised for revenge, especially the revenge of the son for the father, which is unanimously approved by the whole people. Although Zhao's folk customs have changed a lot over the past ten years, in this regard, it is no different from Chu, Qin, and Yue.

As a result, hundreds of witnesses along the way, just for the blood in their hearts, unexpectedly chose to be Wu Feng's accomplices, which made Dali Temple a little embarrassed.

So there was a long discussion in the Dali Temple about how to deal with the murderer, and finally they concluded: "Zhao's law is harsh, and no matter how close he is, he cannot be exempted from the law. The daughter-in-law killed two Zhongshan guards, and she was exiled outside the Great Wall for five years. Although Feng is an official and a doctor, he has made great achievements in the country, and murder cannot be forgiven, so he should be severely punished..."

But how to punish severely, whether to kill, cheat, or what, even Deng Yi couldn't make up his mind. Although Zhao Fa is perfect, in terms of sentencing, it still depends on the specific circumstances and there are two criteria. How to send a sentence in the end, I am afraid that we will have to wait for the evidence and witnesses to be fully gathered, and then consult various opinions after a public trial. Only then can a decision be made.

Fortunately, Zhao Hou fulfilled his promise to "never interfere in the execution of Dali Temple's punishment unless it is a last resort", and he did not have a single urging within a day after the incident. This is his trust in Deng Xi.

Deng Xi felt that he must enforce the law impartially, in order to be worthy of this trust!

However, at this moment, in Ye City, dozens of Wu Feng's relatives and friends who felt wronged for him gathered at the Dali Temple...

"Feng for the father's revenge~www.readwn.com~ What is the crime!?"

Dali Temple is a place where people can block the door casually, Deng Yi didn't think much about it, and let people disperse the matter.

On this day, that is, the third day after the incident, people came from outside the Dali Temple. This time not only some common people, businessmen, but also some noble children who are not too serious, and even the Linzhang Academy. A large number of scholars...

At present, a Linzhang student who called himself Gongyanggao worshipped the ground and shouted loudly: "The ancients said that the hatred of the father is not the same as the sky, the hatred of brothers is not against the soldiers, and the hatred of friends is different from the country. To take revenge for the father, to kill the enemy, what is the righteousness and righteousness? I hope that Dali can conform to the principles of heaven and human beings!"

"I also hope that Dali can conform to the principles of heaven and human beings! Also seal freedom!"

Hundreds of people came to the ground for a long time, regardless of their occupational status, and their thoughts were the same on this matter. Looking at the huge momentum outside, Deng Yi was angry and anxious, and was a little dumbfounded.

He did not expect that the Wu Feng revenge case, which seemed to be no big deal this time, would lead to a long-lasting debate, affecting the entire Ye City and even the entire Zhao State, so that there were countless scoldings in the Academy, almost split into two two……