high official

Chapter 21
　"Thank you, old parents, for your generosity." He Chang also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's do it one by one," Wei Zhixian said, "Let's talk about instigation first."

Master Sima on the side said: "According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", those who instigate and force others to commit crimes, as masterminds, shall be the first offenders. In this case, the Zhao family added two grades to the crime of false accusation and should be sentenced to beheaded. According to the "Nano Atonement Regulations" promulgated by the Ministry of Finance, 110 stones of nanometers can be exempted from capital crimes and changed to five years in prison." In fact, it is not just the Liangchang.Now that the banknote law is getting worse, the imperial court is naturally not stupid, accepting rice but not banknotes.

"What if the five-year sentence is also exempted?"

"Forty stone."

"Okay." He Changxin said, my life is not too expensive.

"Also, the atonement rice must be transported to Beijing. Are you going to transport it yourself, or have the imperial court transport it?"

He Changxin said, isn't that nonsense: "The imperial court will transport it on your behalf."

"Then you have to pay twice the shipping fee, a total of [-] shi." Master Sima sighed to himself, black, really dark, Master Yongle is really poor and crazy.

"So many..." He Chang gasped.

"This is the imperial court's regulation." Master Sima said with a straight face, "You can decide whether to hand it over or not."

"Hand over, hand over." He Chang said with a face full of pain, but seeing Wei Zhixian couldn't help being overjoyed there, he couldn't help cursing secretly, I don't know how many have entered this guy's private pocket!

He really guessed right. According to the regulations, the local government can keep [-]% as funds.

"Let's talk about abducting and hiding women. According to the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", whoever sets up a strategy to lure a beloved, regardless of whether he has sold it or not, will have a stick of one hundred and travel three thousand miles." Li Guandao: "According to the 'Nano Redemption Regulations' But Nami eighty shi can be exempted from capital punishment, and his sentence will be changed to four years in prison."

"How many stones does it cost to avoid imprisonment?"

"Thirty shi." Master Sima said, "You know...that's 220 shi." After a pause, he said, "And you sent someone to murder Wang Xian but failed..."

"Let's report the number directly." He Chang is numb because there are too many lice and they don't bite.

"According to the "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty", whoever murders a person, if he is injured but not dead, he will be hanged. The atonement standard is the same as that of beheading." Master Sima said: "That is three hundred stones."

"A total of 820 stones..." He Chang secretly calculated in his heart that it was almost the gold and silver that I planned to bribe Hu Buliu.Pretending to be heartbroken, he said, "After I hand over the 820 shi, I can go home, right?"

Master Sima looked at the magistrate in the hall, saw that Wei Zhixian's throat was itchy and coughing non-stop, he suddenly said: "There is one last one."

"What else?" He Chang hated these two corrupt officials so much, even if he was covered in iron, he would still be nailed by them!

"It was your butler He Fu, long-term worker Zhao Zhu and others who confessed that you murdered and buried your body." Master Sima flipped through the file and said, "Do you admit it?"

"They slandered me, I didn't kill anyone." He Chang subconsciously said although he had relaxed his vigilance.

"Then where did the concubine you bought two years ago go?"

"ran away……"

Before He Chang finished speaking, he heard a 'pop', Wei Zhixian slapped the gavel, and scolded: "My surname is He, you don't want to toast or eat fine wine! Do you think the three trees in the hall are just decorations?"

"Mighty..." The Zaolis beat the ground together with water and fire sticks.

"Wai Yuanhe, these people were interrogated individually, but their confessions were completely consistent. Based on this, you can be convicted of murder." Master Sima persuaded: "Anyway, you have already confessed to so many crimes, so why not? Is it just extra money?"

He Changxin said that it was extortion... After thinking about it, he asked tentatively, "Is this a serious crime?"

"It's not serious, it's just killing a concubine." Master Sima said with a smile: "According to the "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty", it's just a consignment to the army. Rice?"

"..." He Chang remained silent for a long time, but still whispered: "I really didn't kill anyone..."

"How dare you speak hard!" Wei Zhixian was furious, took out a fire stick from the stick, sprinkled it on the ground and said: "The stick is eighty, hit me hard!"

Four soap sticks moved immediately. First, two water and fire sticks passed through He Chang's armpit to lift up his upper body, dragging him away from the pole, and then the last two sticks went towards the bends of his hind legs respectively. Hit away.

He Chang knelt down first, then pulled back the first two water and fire sticks supporting him, and then his whole body lay on the hard brick floor.The four feet of the four soap slaves stepped on the backs of his two hands and two ankles respectively, and He Chang was firmly stepped on in a big shape!
Immediately afterwards, the two Zaolis took a deep breath of "hey", swung the water and fire sticks round, and were about to beat them down!
"Don't fight, I said, I said!" Now that he knew that Nanami could make up for the crime, He Chang's will to resist was very weak, and he screamed heart-piercingly before hitting him.

"Don't take it from the truth, or you will have to taste all the torture tools in this hall!" Wei Zhixian slapped the gavel and shouted in a deep voice.

"Hey, let me ask first, surely this crime can be avoided?" He Chang asked worriedly.

"Of course, it's just a concubine." Master Sima said with certainty, "It's lighter than other crimes."

He Chang looked at the county magistrate again and said, "The magistrate makes an oath to guarantee that I will not die, otherwise I will not say anything."

"You!" Wei Zhixian said angrily, "You dare to blackmail me?!"

Sima Qiu hurriedly persuaded: "Tang Zun just swear, we didn't lie to him anyway." As he spoke, he gave Wei Zhixian a wink.

Only then did Wei Zhixian reluctantly swear: "It is not a crime to kill a concubine. If there is any deception, heaven and earth will perish."

Only then did He Chang feel completely relieved, and told how he killed the concubine, how he buried the body, and where he buried the murder weapon and the bloody clothes.

Master Sima on the side wrote his confession with great effort, and after reading it again, he asked He Chang to sign it and present it to the county magistrate.

Wei Zhixian finally read the confession carefully, confirmed that it was correct, and then said, "Retire!"

Seeing that the yamen servant came to detain him again, He Chang protested: "Old parents, I have confessed and promised Nanami, why don't you let me go home?"

"The Nanami case has to be reported to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for approval, so Yuanwai has to wait for more than a month." Wei Zhixian said with a smirk: "I can only wrong Yuanwai and stay in prison for a while."

"Ah..." He Chang was stunned.

"Take it away!" Wei Zhixian waved his sleeves, like chasing away flies, and ordered the villain to be brought back to prison.

"Alas..." He Chang sighed helplessly, but this period of imprisonment was still inevitable.

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Back in the signing room, Wei Zhixian took off his official hat, laughed loudly and said, "What a 'stealing the sky and changing the sun', the surname He doesn't even know when his death is imminent!"

Master Sima Nian Xu smiled and said: "Yes, he thought it was as simple as beating the concubine to death. But he forgot how this concubine got here!"

It turned out that according to He Fu and Zhuzi's confession, that Linghua was a girl from a good family bought by He Chang from the kidnapper. She had a very strong personality.
This is not as simple as killing the concubine!Instead, he bought a good house, raped and murdered, and he was really guilty of a capital crime!
But Wei Zhixian and Master Sima, according to Wang Xian's plan, first fully paralyzed He Chang, and then deliberately did not mention the origin of Linghua, and only killed the concubine to induce a confession, so that He Chang thought that the crime could not be punished by death. And confessed all the crimes, and when he signed and pledged, the murder charge was confirmed.

At this time, He Chang's life and death are no longer in his control, but determined by Linghua's identity!

As long as the government investigates and finds out that Linghua is indeed the abducted good family, there is no need for He Chang to confess again, and his crime of rape and murder will be completely confirmed!

The identity of Linghua is not difficult to investigate, because the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" stipulates that the premise of buying a concubine is voluntary, and must be registered with the government, otherwise it is illegal.

The magistrate of Wei County asked the house to check, and there is no record of the Zhang family buying a concubine at all, and this alone is enough!

This also explains why no one claimed the female corpse after two years of death.Because she is not local at all!
So far, the case has been thoroughly investigated without any omissions.What satisfied Wei Zhixian the most was that he did not torture He Chang, nor did he force him to the point where he said he was Jin Yiwei... At this moment, Yuanwai He is still in the prison, dreaming of returning home after a period of time. Woolen cloth!

In this way, once the case is handed over, even if there is a quarrel at the top, it has nothing to do with him, the seventh-rank sesame official.At least Wei Zhixian has a clear conscience...

He personally and Master Sima worked all night in the signing room, and finally sorted out all the files.Then wash and change clothes for a while, and go straight to the provincial capital Hangzhou!

The reason for non-stop is also to quickly get rid of this hot potato...

Fuyang is only [-] miles away from Hangzhou, and it's down the river, and it takes an hour to get there by boat.

After entering Hangzhou City, Wei Zhixian went to the magistrate's yamen first... In his opinion, he went directly to the 'cold face and iron cold', but Master Sima said, don't, you dare to ignore your boss, and wait for him in the future Get it right.

In fact, Yu Qian, the magistrate of Hangzhou, is a kind-hearted elder. He was deeply shocked by the report from the magistrate of Wei County. "Wen Yuan's eyes are like lightning, it's the fortune of this government and the blessing of the people to be able to abolish such unjust prisons! Please accept my worship!"

The magistrate of Wei quickly supported the magistrate, at a loss, and said: "The subordinate is also a coincidence, and there are capable officials to help..."

"Hurry up and report to the adults in Taiwan!" Yu Zhifu held his hand tightly and said, "If He Jianguan asks, just say what I mean!"

"Thank you for your protection." The magistrate of Wei was very grateful, and gave a deep gift, left the magistrate's yamen, and went straight to the procuratorate's yamen not far away.

Zhou Jiantai happened to be discussing with He Guan, and when he heard that the county magistrate of Fuyang had come to report to him, He Guan's face immediately turned ugly.

Seeing this, Zhou Xin smiled and said, "Let's take a look together, what does this ignorant county magistrate want to say!"

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