Back to Tang Dynasty to be Emperor

Deng Tongda and Zuo Yi came out of the Han Palace, and they hurried to Chang'an county government office, and found that Wuzuo Feng was not in the county government office. Deng Tongda quickly ordered Zuo Yi to find him at Feng's house and brought him to the county government office.Zuo Yi took the order, not daring to be negligent, and the quick horse arrived at Wu Zuo Feng's home in half an hour.The Feng family has been a gangster for generations, so although they are not a wealthy family in Chang'an City, they still live a prosperous life. The family members of the Feng family knew that the head arrester of the left-wing county government led him into the living room, and hurriedly told him that they were still studying in the backyard. Von of the autopsy question.Feng heard that Zuo Yi came to the mansion to look for him, so he knew there must be something urgent, so he hurried back to the front hall with his family.Zuo Yi didn't say much when he saw Feng, and told him to go to the county government first.Feng didn't ask too many questions, changed his clothes in a hurry, took the things needed for the autopsy, and followed Zuo Yi to the county government office.

In the room of Deng Tongda in Chang'an County Yamen, Deng Tongda told Feng who was standing in front of him what Li Ke meant, that is, to recommend him to Dali Temple.Feng thought that he had heard it wrong for a long time and didn't recover. It was only when Deng Tongda conveyed Li Ke's meaning again that Feng was sure that it was true.Overjoyed, he thanked Deng Tongda for his recommendation.

Indeed, as a wuzuo, being a wuzuo in Dali Temple and being a wuzuo Feng in the Chang'an county government are two completely different places.Naturally, Deng Tongda didn't dare to take credit, so he told Feng what Li Ke had said, and Feng nodded endlessly.

Then, Deng Tongda ordered Zuo Yi to continue to investigate what Li Ke ordered. He took Feng away from Chang'an County Yamen and came to Dali Temple.Deng Tongda's Chang'an county magistrate, it is not difficult for him to have an audience with Dai Zhou, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.It happened that Dai Zhou was on duty at Dali Temple today. Although he didn't know Deng Tongda, Deng Tongda and Li Ke solved Qian Ning's case together in the ninth year of Wude, which made Dai Zhou, who was very interested in legal cases, remember Deng Tongda's case. name.Today Deng Tongda asked to see Dai Zhou, Dai Zhou naturally did not dare to neglect, and ordered the guards of Dali Temple to bring Deng Tongda to his room.

"Deng Tongda, magistrate of Chang'an county, my subordinate, Feng has met Dai Shaoqing." Deng Tongda and Feng Shili said.

"Magistrate Deng doesn't need to be too polite." Dai Zhou said, then he turned his gaze to Feng, and asked Deng Tongda puzzled, "This is Magistrate Deng?"

Deng Tongda looked serious, and answered the question, "Have Dai Shaoqing heard of the Qian Ning case in the ninth year of Wude? The autopsy results of Wu Zuo Feng played a big role in cracking the Qian Ning case back then."

"What does County Magistrate Deng mean?" Dai Zhou seemed to have heard Deng Tongda's implication, and asked hurriedly before Deng Tongda could finish speaking.

Deng Tongda glanced at Dai Zhou meaningfully, and said in a low voice, "The Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple jointly tried the poisoning case of the queen and the noble concubine. The cause of death of the queen's maid, Xiang Lan, is an important clue. Why doesn't Dai Shaoqing let Feng examine it? Maybe There are still some clues to be found."

Dai Zhou knew what Deng Tongda was thinking when he heard Deng Tongda talk about the case of the queen and the noble concubine, but he did not dare to let this unknown person do the autopsy casually, so he said, "Xianglan The imperial doctor has already experienced the dead body, and it belongs to drowning, what else is there to check, can Deng county magistrate even trust the imperial doctor's examination?" Dai Zhou said, his face darkened, and he said in a deep voice, "Deng county magistrate I appreciate your kindness, and if you have nothing else to do, I will not be far away if I have to deal with official duties."

Deng Tongda seemed to be prepared for Dai Zhou's move, and he didn't get angry after hearing Dai Zhou's expulsion order, and said with a smile, "Dai Shaoqing is proficient in legal cases, and he should know that autopsies are different from those of imperial doctors. Some cases can only be handled by Dai Shaoqing." They will not check the cause of death of the deceased, but only draw conclusions based on the autopsy done by you, like the imperial physicians in the palace are the ones who treat the emperor and empress, will they examine carefully?"

"Prison affairs are nothing more important than the Great Prison, and the Great Prison is not more important than the first love, and the first love is not more important than the inspection. As the chief official in charge of prisons in Dali Temple, Dai Shaoqing needs to be cautious about some things, and don't take it too lightly." Deng Tongda chanted Li Ke A sentence written to Feng's autopsy record said in a stern tone, "The lowly official position will bother Dai Shaoqing."

After Deng Tongda finished speaking, he led Feng to Li Ke's room.Dai Zhou was shocked by the incisive and reasonable sentence that Deng Tongda said. He didn't expect Deng Tongda to be able to hit the nail on the head about the importance of autopsy in the prison. After careful consideration, he felt that Deng Tongda's suggestion did have merit.Immediately he shouted to stop Deng Tongda who stepped out of the threshold, and said with an apologetic smile, "The words of Magistrate Deng awakened Dai Zhou like a dream, I hope Magistrate Deng will not be offended by Dai Zhou's rudeness just now."

Naturally, Deng Tongda didn't dare to blame Dai Zhou for his contempt for him just now, and he said that he was not to blame, and he had already drawn Feng to Dai Zhou's eyes, and hurriedly introduced Feng to Dai Zhou.Dai Zhou heard that Feng was from a family of writers, and with the outstanding performance in the Qian Ning case, he must have a lot of abilities in his heart.

In the end, Dai Zhou accepted Deng Tongda's suggestion and wanted Feng to perform another autopsy on Xianglan.

When Deng Tongda saw that Li Ke told him that the matter was done, he said goodbye to Dai Zhou, left Feng in Dai Zhou's room, and left Dali Temple alone.However, when he walked out of Dai Zhou's room, he suddenly said, "Dai Shaoqing, if Feng's autopsy finds out that Xianglan's death was not the result of the imperial doctor's examination, then what Zhang Zhong said in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment will be the same." It's worth pondering."

After Deng Tongda left Dali Temple, Dai Zhou fell into deep thought about what he had better tell himself.Indeed, if, as Deng Tongda said, the cause of Xianglan's death had something to do with the imperial doctor's examination, then Zhang Zhong's testimony should indeed be deliberated.But Deng Tongda's words were just speculation after all, and Dai Zhou was not sure, so he ordered the guards to prepare a car and go to the Ministry of Punishment.

Because the case of the queen and the noble concubine was jointly heard by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, Dai Zhou had the right to go to the mortuary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to see the corpse without notifying the chief officer of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.When Dai Zhou and Feng arrived at the Ministry of Punishment, the officer of the Ministry of Punishment told Dai Zhou that Shang Liu Zhenghui of the Ministry of Punishment had already entered the palace to face the saint. Dai Zhou prevented the officer from returning the request of the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and took Feng to the morgue where Xianglan's body was kept.

Feng's autopsy was different from the autopsy done by Dali Temple. He first asked the guards about the time when the corpse was transported to the morgue, and what the punishment officers did to the corpse during this period. After answering, Feng then asked the guard to put the brazier with raging charcoal fire into the brazier, and put the brazier at the door, and then walked cautiously to the autopsy table.

Feng Xian started from the frontal head, and inspected the hair, forehead, brow, hairline, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, etc. one by one.Then turn the body over and check the back, the back of the head, the occiput, the nape, the two shoulder blades, the back, the waist, etc., and finally inspected the soles of the feet from the maid's vagina without avoiding suspicion.

After the autopsy was over, Feng stepped over the brazier with a serious face, asked the guards to remove the brazier, and took Dai Zhou to a place where there was no one before he said, "Dai Shaoqing, the result of the inspection by the officer is that the deceased was killed first, and then he was killed." pushed into the well."

"What?" Dai Zhou was surprised. He didn't expect that Feng's autopsy would have such a big relationship with the imperial doctor's results. Moreover, he had seen Feng's autopsy process, and thought that Feng's autopsy results would definitely be correct. There was only one possibility. , The imperial doctor's autopsy result was wrong.He really didn't dare to think about such a big case. It turned out that the cause of death provided by the imperial doctor's autopsy was all perjury.

"Are you sure?" Dai Zhou asked again.

"The little official guarantees that the autopsy result is not wrong with Xiang's head!" Feng said firmly, "As long as Dai Shaoqing gives the little official time, the little official may still be able to find out the real reason why the deceased was killed."

Silence, Dai Zhou began to be silent, he made a decision in his heart, Feng was silently waiting for Feng's reply.

After a while, Dai Zhou made a decision. He yelled at the guard of Dali Temple outside the door of the autopsy room in a stern tone, "Come here, bring the body back to Dali Temple. I want to check it myself!"

"No," the guard replied.

Immediately, Dai Zhou thought of what Deng Tongda told him when he left the room for the last time, and he couldn't help being startled, and then ordered, "Order, bring Zhang Zhong from the prison of the Ministry of Punishment to the prison of Dali Temple."

"Dai Shaoqing, who is this?" the officer of the Ministry of Punishment asked hurriedly when he heard Dai Zhou's words.

"You don't need to worry about it, I will explain it to you Liu Shang." After finishing speaking, he ignored the guards and left the autopsy room of the Criminal Ministry with a serious face.

Regarding the fact that Dai Zhou took away Xianglan's body from the mortuary room of the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Zhang Zhong from the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Liu Zhenghui, the minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, didn't know at all. I didn't know Dai Zhou would do this.At this time, Liu Zhenghui and Sun Fujia were reporting to Li Shimin the result of today's trial of Li Ke in the imperial room together with the presiding judge Wei Zheng, jurors Li Xiaogong and Wang.

After listening to Wei Zheng's report, Li Shimin was silent for a while and asked, "Then how do you think this case will be tried next?"

Wei Zheng didn't speak, and the other four naturally didn't dare to be the first to speak, and Wei Zheng thought for a while, sorted out his thoughts, and then said, "The authenticity of Zhang Zhong's confession needs to be verified. On the same day, the gate guards guarding the left and right sides of the palace gate and the Qianniu guards who live in the palace began to investigate, and the internal servants and maids of the two palaces of the imperial concubine, empress, and concubine Yin also had to conduct detailed investigations.”

Li Shimin did not agree to his request, but asked in a deep voice, "Are you dissatisfied with the investigation you made to the guards and eunuchs?"

Wei Zheng did not refute, and said righteously, "I just want to do everything myself, and I don't want any omissions."

The reason why Li Shimin asked Wei Zheng this is that the previous investigation was conducted by Changsun Wuji as the presiding judge. If he agreed to Wei Zheng's request, it would be tantamount to denying Changsun Wuji's previous efforts, and at the same time denying Changsun Wuji's contribution to the investigation. own loyalty.However, Wei Zheng did not answer Li Shimin's question directly. Instead, he answered Li Shimin with his correct attitude of "accepting the order of the emperor and being loyal to the emperor" from his status as the presiding judge, so that Li Shimin had no reason to refuse.

"Okay!" Li Shimin sighed, "Since I have appointed you to take full charge of this case, then I