Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

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"Mighty~"

Amidst the yelling and shouting of the yamen servants, the trial of Xu Xiaode and his son's death case officially started.It wasn't until now that Guo Ye realized that in fact, Xu Hui had two younger brothers, one named Xu Qidan and the other named Xu Qizhuang.

This time not two lives, but three.

Guo Ye sat in the middle, Wei Ting sat on the left side, and accompanied him.As for the right side, there is a talented woman Xu Hui.

Of course it was against the rules for Xu Hui to sit here, but King Qin was furious, who would dare to touch him?

Immediately, Guo Ye slapped the gavel and said, "Lead someone into a crime!"

wow~

With the sound of fetters, two jailers were brought up.

"The villain Lin Dafeng sees the King of Qin, a thousand years old."

"The villain Cai Guohong pays homage to King Qin, a thousand years old."

Guo Ye said in a serious tone, "Lin Dafeng and Cai Guohong, are you the jailers guarding Xu's father and son?"

"Exactly."

"How did you enforce the law and kill Xu and his son? How much bribes did you take? Who is the mastermind behind it? Can't tell the truth? To be honest, everything is negotiable. If you are obsessed with it, hehe, I'm afraid you will inevitably suffer. !"

"Wrong, wrong!"

"What's wrong with it?"

Lin Dafeng said: "I said Qin Wang is a thousand years old, you don't know. Our criminal prison is not a good place. It is dark and humid, miasma and epidemics are prevalent, and there are even rumors that wronged ghosts are taking their lives. It is simply a shame to die. It's normal, but it has nothing to do with me."

Cai Guohong answered, "That's right, that's right. The three of them are old and young. How can they live in such a ghostly place? It's normal to have accidents, and it's not normal if there are no accidents."

"Oh? Really?"

"Don't dare to lie to King Qin Qiansui. If you don't believe me, I dare to swear to the sky, but if there is a half-truth, we will die!"

"Hmph, if swearing and swearing is useful, why do you want me to wait for court officials?"

Guo Ye sneered, and instead of arguing with them, he took out a stick from the bucket, threw it down, and said: "People are bitter insects, so you can't beat them, and people are woodcarvings. You can't beat them. Come here, take the two of them together." Pull it down, and take heavy responsibility for the twenty boards!"

Then, he warned viciously: "I have also been a government servant, and I know the rules of playing the board. Anyone who cares about the feelings of colleagues and refuses to work hard is against me! What will happen, you can think about it for yourself Yes! Give me a real fight!"

"Yes!"

The Yamen servants didn't dare to neglect them, they immediately pulled them down and fought hard.As soon as he lay down, there were bursts of crying father and mother.

Suddenly, the screams of the two stopped abruptly, and someone ran up to the hall in a panic, saying: "Qin Wang is a thousand years old, something is not right."

"what happened?"

"Lin Dafeng and Cai Guohong were tortured but... were beaten to death!"

"Ah?" Guo Ye's complexion changed, and he said, "Nonsense, you beat people to death with twenty boards. Could it be that the jailers in your Ministry of Punishment are made of mud?"

"However, people are indeed dead. If you don't believe it, see for yourself."

"Aha!" Suddenly, an official from the Ministry of Criminal Justice rushed into the hall and said, "Guo Ye, you have the courage to disregard human life! According to the laws of my Tang Dynasty, those who beat someone to death due to private affairs should be punished. Just give me a call! Come, come, come and join me in the palace to face the Holy Spirit."

"Who are you?"

"I don't change my name when I walk, I don't change my surname when I sit, that's the case with Master Cui Ren, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment!"

Chapter 2040 The Hypocrite

"Minister of the Ministry of Punishment?" Guo Ye frowned, and said, "That can be regarded as a high-ranking official of our Tang Dynasty, why don't I recognize you?"

Wei Ting explained: "Although Cui Shilang has always been named in our Ministry of Punishment, he has been seconded to edit the "Book of Zhou" these years. He neither goes to court nor comes to work in the Ministry of Punishment. It is not surprising that the King of Qin does not know him."

"Oh? Cui Shilang can still study history? It seems that he is a man of erudition and talent."

Cui Renshu curled his lips, and said, "What the King of Qin implies is that Mr. Cui is a nerd and not good at criminal names? Then you are wrong. In Tang Dynasty, when it comes to the art of criminal names, I recognized him as the second , no one dares to claim the number one. If you don’t believe it, you can ask Wei Shangshu.”

Wei Ting said: "I think there were people from Qingzhou who rebelled at the beginning, and the government arrested many people. Sun Fujia, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, advocated that all be executed, but Cui Shilang disagreed. He removed all the prisoners, gave them food, and interrogated them in detail. Only a dozen people were convicted, and the rest were all released."

He paused, and continued: "Later, His Majesty sent people to re-interrogate these ten people, and none of them complained of injustice. Since then, Cui Shilang has been in the heart of the emperor, and he has been promoted step by step."

Guo Ye sneered and said, "I didn't expect Cui Shilang to be a benevolent person. Then you judged the case rather than in vain? I just don't know if there are any real conspiracyrs among those released?"

"Of course not." Master Cui Ren said proudly.

"Mr. Cui has never wronged a good person or let a bad person go wrong in all the cases settled. If King Qin doesn't believe it, just send someone to investigate. But if there is an unjust case, you will take my pair of recruits away."

The old man spoke so confidently and confidently that Guo Ye was instantly furious. He thought to himself, could it be that this servant Cui is really as upright as the detective Di Renjie and can solve cases like a god?

Against this kind of person, wouldn't I become a common villain in movie novels?

Either way!

A real man can bend and stretch. If he is such a character, he will definitely be able to find out the truth of the case.

In order to let Xu and his son get their grievances cleared, what's the point of me temporarily lying low and being a small child?

Thinking of this, Guo Ye smiled all over his face, stood up and cupped his hands, and said, "I don't know Cui Shilang's reputation, I offended you just now, I hope you will forgive me."

"Hmph! I can forgive you, but the laws of the Tang Dynasty cannot forgive you. You and Xu Hui didn't know each other. To vent your personal anger, you beat the innocent jailer to death. You should be executed according to the law!"

Guo Ye took a deep breath and said, "Cui Shilang, you have wronged me. The use of punishment in the trial is justified. I just ordered [-] boards, which is not too much anywhere. They can only be regarded as their punishment. Bad luck, what does it have to do with me?"

"That's not the case." Cui Ren said.

"If it is out of public interest, let alone twenty hits, even two hundred hits are not considered a crime. On the contrary, if selfish motives are involved, even if you only hit ten times, you have to sit back! Common. But..."

"how?"

"Since you beat someone to death, you have to pay for it with your life. Hehe, their lives are not good, and your own life, King Qin, is not very good either!"

Guo Ye suppressed his anger and said, "Well, even if I want to pay for my life, His Majesty has to make an order in person, right? I will accompany you to the palace to face the saint later. Whether it is killing or cutting, His Majesty will decide. But before that, I want to ask you one thing."

"what's up?"

"The deaths of the three of Xu's father and son are strange. Please ask Cui Shilang to help me find out the truth."

"Oh, you're talking about this..." Master Cui Ren raised his eyebrows and said, "Actually, I have already investigated this case before you came."