high official

Chapter 517 Control
After chasing away a bunch of ghosts and ghosts, Dudu Ji also fell silent, Wang Xian turned the muzzle back to the hall, stared at Zhuang Jing sharply and said, "Why don't you kneel?"

"Because I'm from Juren, just like your lord," Zhuang Jing smiled sarcasticly, as if the farce just had no effect on him: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, Juren does not kneel before seeing officials."

"So you are familiar with the Law of the Ming Dynasty?" Wang Xian sneered.

"I don't dare to say it if I am familiar with it, but at least I can write it silently." Zhuang Jing said without humility.

"Then you should know, what should be the crime for those who instigate lawsuits, write pleadings for others to increase or reduce punishment, or falsely accuse others?" Wang Xian asked quietly.

"Same crime as the criminal." Zhuang Jing was secretly vigilant, but he had been pushed down by Wang Xian, so he had no choice but to answer and then angrily counterattacked: "But the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" also stipulates that he cannot redress his grievances when he sees that others are stupid. Don’t worry about those who get the truth, and those who write incriminations for others without increasing or decreasing the crime!”

"That's right." Wang Xian nodded, looked at Zhuang Jing with no expression on his face, and said, "If your defense is completely true, then of course you have no responsibility." After a pause, his eyes became cold and he said, "But if Zhang Gouzi is finally proven guilty , you defending him is knowingly committing a crime, and you should be guilty of the same crime as him. If he is sentenced to beheaded, you will go to the execution ground with him!"

"This..." Zhuang Jing didn't expect that Wang Xian's questions were intertwined, and he had already pushed himself to the point where there was no way to retreat.

Master Zhuang's forehead was soaked with white sweat, and he already felt faint regret.Youdao is like a mountain. He thought that no matter how powerful Wang Xian is, he is also an amateur in cross-examination of words and lawsuits. He can easily defeat him and win a victory for himself.Now he realizes that he is wrong, this Wang Xian is not only a master in this way, but also surprisingly sophisticated and sharp!
If he had known this, Master Zhuang would definitely not have waded into this muddy water, so as not to be abused by him, but the matter has come to this point, so he can only bite the bullet and drink this cup of bitter wine.He made up his mind, knowing that there was a trap in Wang Xian's words, and if there was any leeway in his answer, he would catch him and slam him... For example, he said, 'I firmly believe that he is innocent. 'Wang Xian will ask, so, do you think what he said is the truth?I must say yes.Wang Xian can then say, if it wasn't for you, would you be willing to take responsibility?If I was talking about it, then Zhang Gouzi's full of lies later would make me very passive.

Although he didn't believe that Wang Xianzhen would throw himself into prison, just being run over by this man's iron mouth and steel teeth would make him fall into a huge passive position, so Zhuang Jing had to deal with it carefully. Such cases are called unjust cases. What I have to do is to prevent unjust cases from happening." He can't let Wang Xian be bombed, he must bring the flames of war back to Wang Xian in order to take the initiative.

"Don't change the subject. If Zhang Gouzi's testimony contains any falsehoods, are you willing to sit still?" But Wang Xian remembered his father's teaching of "you hit yours, I'll hit mine" and said with a slap in the face: "Answer my question!"

Seeing that his 'Dou Zhuan Xing Yi' had failed, Zhuang Jing had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "The premise is that the adults can prove that firstly what he said is a lie, and secondly that I know it!"

"If you're not sure, he's telling the truth." Wang Xian glanced contemptuously and said, "What qualifications do you have to stand here and defend him plausibly?"

"I'm sure." Zhuang Jing had no choice but to reply helplessly.

"Okay, once he tells a lie, you will sit still!" Wang Xian said with a nod.

"You..." Zhuang Jingxin said that this is too domineering: "My lord, let's stop entangled in the details and start asking questions."

"So, do you agree with what I said?" Wang Xian finally laughed.

"Agreed." Zhuang Jing was helpless, obviously as long as he didn't agree, Wang Xian would keep entangled in this issue.But he is worthy of being a veteran litigator. He found that he was suppressed before he even started, and he was impetuous. He quickly took a deep breath, adjusted his mood, and said, "Let's start."

"You agreed a long time ago that you don't have to wait so long." Wang Xian put all the responsibility on Zhuang Jing, then waved his hand and said, "Go to the platform first and wait for the summons."

"Your Excellency hasn't asked yet..." Zhuang Jing was dumbfounded immediately, before the relationship was just playing monkeys.

"How do I ask questions, do you need to teach me?" Wang Xian glanced at him and said, "I haven't summoned you yet, why are you so impatient to go to court?"

"The defendant Zhang Gouzi can no longer speak." Zhuang Jing said: "According to the law, he can be accompanied by a litigator."

"Then you have to wait for the official to confirm before you can go to court." Wang Xian slapped the gavel and said: "Are you going to roll down or be bombarded!"

"..." Zhuang Jing was speechless, so he could only retreat to the platform first.When he was about to go down, he saw that Dudu Ji's expression was already ugly, and he couldn't help sighing secretly, he still underestimated this kid surnamed Wang, he was really harder to deal with than the old fritters who had been in prison for decades.

After Zhuang Jing went down, Wang Xian slapped the startle and said: "The accused Li Chun will go to court."

"My lord, why did the defendant become Li Chun again?" Zhuang Jing found out that Wang Xian passed Zhang Gouzi a feint before, and couldn't help feeling a little worried, and protested outside the lobby.

"If you are a lawyer, let's just go ahead this time," Wang Xian said coldly, "If you dare to make noise again, you will be kicked out of the yamen!"

"..." Zhuang Jing knew that he meant what he said, so he could only keep his mouth shut.

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At this moment, Li Chun was brought up. Since he was under house arrest that day, it was the first time he walked out of the confinement room. He was still wearing an official uniform, but his official hat went somewhere.The whole person lost a lot of weight, and his beard was disheveled, and his expression was haggard. When he saw Ji Gang, it was like seeing a savior. He knelt down and cried, "The governor is the master of the child!"

Seeing his miserable state, Ji Gang was also very angry, but when he looked at Wang Xian who was sitting in the hall, he still restrained himself and said: "I am here to listen, you have to talk to Wang Zhenfu..." See Li Chun's face turned green, and he added: "Don't worry, with me here, no one can wrong you."

"Yes." Li Chun just got up, forced a fist at Wang Xian, and waited for him to ask questions with deep resentment.

Wang Xian glanced at him and said, "Who is in the hall?"

"Don't you know?" Li Chun said angrily.

Wang Xian slapped the gavel and said: "You dare to despise the court, slap your mouth!"

Zhu Jiuye stepped forward suddenly, but before Li Chun could react, he was slapped hard twice. At that time, his cheeks were bruised and his ears were buzzing.Li Chun was stunned for a moment, but seeing that Ji Gang didn't react at all, he realized that even if the ancestor was present, he didn't have the right to play tricks.Only then did he honestly answer: "My official, Li Chun, is the deputy governor of Jinyiwei North Town Fusi."

Wang Xian let out a snort, then opened the file and said: "There is now Lancao, a commoner's daughter, suing Jinyiwei Baihu Zhang Gouzi for killing his mother and blaming his brother Qi Dazhu, which caused Qi Dazhu to be unjustly killed by the court, and his mother also died of hatred. After the retrial of the imperial decree, our department mobilized the old files of your file and found many doubts. First, the wound on Zhang's mother was pierced by a dagger, while the so-called murder weapon left by Qi Dazhu in the original trial was a sickle. May I ask Deputy Zhen Fu, how to pierce the wound of the dagger with the sickle?"

"Well, the sickle naturally cannot pierce the wound of the dagger." Li Chun has experienced the whole process of the case, so how did he cover up this loophole until later: "The theory that the sickle is a murder weapon is the conclusion of Jiangning County, and this department does not agree. ” Paused and said: “Since Qi Dazhu is a vicious person, it is entirely possible that he had a sharp blade in his body, and he fled with the blade after the murder, and he did not throw it away at the scene.”

"Then why didn't Qi Dazhu mention the murder weapon in his confession?" Wang Xian asked.

"A treacherous and wicked person has always been stubborn." Li Chun curled his lips and said, "He just refuses to say, what can we do?"

"So, the murder weapon has not been found?" Wang Xian said in a deep voice.

"I found it later." Li Chun said.

"Then what is Qi Dazhu's motive for killing?" Wang Xian asked again.

"Of course it's a robbery." Li Chun said.

"Then why only more than [-] copper coins were found from his home, and the banknotes are less than ten guan?" Wang Xian said coldly, it seems that the ten guan banknotes are worth ten guan. "Other than that, nothing else?"

"He hid the murder weapon and the stolen goods." Li Chun was depressed. That Qi Dazhu was actually a wooden stake. I was sure where the wind would blow in the end, so I didn't dare to fabricate my confession, lest Qi Dazhu reverse the confession in court and drag himself into the water. "Our department didn't find it out. Dali Temple made a move. The murder weapon and stolen goods were found. The prisoner has no way to deny it and confesses truthfully."

"That is to say," Wang Xian said in a deep voice, "in the previous four rounds of interrogations by Jiangning County, the Zhenfu Division, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, neither the murder weapon nor the stolen goods were found, and they finally appeared in the interrogation at Dali Temple! Convict Qi Dazhu."

"Not bad." Li Chun nodded.

"That's strange," Wang Xianyi clapped the file in his hand and said, "Why does it say in the file of Dali Temple that all the evidences were provided by Beizhen Fusi!"

"That's what we found after digging three feet with great effort." Li Chun said.

"That is to say, you found it without Qi Dazhu's confession." Wang Xian asked, "And then provided it to Dali Temple, and then Dali Temple obtained Qi Dazhu's confession?"

"That's right." Li Chun nodded and said, "When the stolen goods and murder weapon were found, the case had already been handed over to Dali Temple, so they can only confront them."

"Very good." Wang Xian said in a deep voice, "Then let's confront each other today!" He clapped the case and said, "Tell the officials of Dali Temple!"

Soon, a civil servant in a blue robe came up to the hall, bowed to Wang Xian and said, "Your official, Zuo Cheng Zhang Yanzhi of Dali Temple, has met Lord Zhen Fu."

"Zhang Sicheng doesn't need to be too polite." Wang Xian waved his hand and said, "I am ordered to review Qi Dazhu's case, and moved to Wengui Temple to assist in the investigation. Presumably Sicheng Lord knows the details of the case well?"

"At that time, the lower officials participated in the whole process, so the Minister of the Temple sent the lower officials to explain the situation." Zhang Yanzhi said.

(End of this chapter)