Chapter 51 Trial

Jia Huan, the investor of the teahouse incident, the political affairs officer, and several family members in the capital were taken to the Neichang Prison for interrogation. He himself refused to admit that he had a relationship with the Jia family and his father-in-law Cui family; but his son did not know what was going on, so he wrote a custody on the confession involving the Cui family.

Yuwen Xiao received the emperor's oral orders and arrested the doctor Cui Mingshan's family without any scruples.

Fortunately, Yuwenxiao was quite experienced in doing things. Jia family only arrested Jia Huan's family and did not touch anyone else, especially Jia Yingfu, the Imperial Heaven Superintendent.

Jia Yingfu is not a casual person. He defected to the Taiping Party as early as when Princess Taiping's brother Li Dan was still the emperor.

A comet happened to appear at that time, which was a rare bad omen, commonly known as the broom star. As the Imperial Heaven Prison, Jia Yingfu implied in front of the emperor that the prince wanted to replace it, intending to help Princess Taiping deal with Li Longji.

Although this matter backfired in the end, Jia Yingfu worked hard without credit, so it was absolutely right to take the team.

Now that Princess Taiping has great power, she will definitely not easily touch these old people.

Jia Yingfu was also tactful. Now he might not be able to get out of his relationship and did not think about lobbying and helping Jia Huan's family.

Even the people who are high-ranking officials of this clan stand by and watch, let alone others, it is wise to quickly hide outside the sight of the superiors in the wind.

A loyal old servant from Jia Huan's family finally saw Jia Yingfu and cried when they met and kept kowtowing and begging. Jia Yingfu only gave up a few words of comfort for the sake of the same sect.

Then his wife reminded him that he could go to see Princess Taiping to try, but he flatly refused.

In the past two years, Jia Yingfu can understand that Princess Taiping will not easily sing a stage drama with her son for such things that Xue Chongxun wants to do.

Jia Yingfu was unwilling to implicate himself, but just scolded Jia Huan in front of his family: He didn't know the current affairs, and now he still wants to get involved with the Cui family in Huazhou. Who can he blame?

At this point, the situation between the two families of Choi Langzhong and Jia Huan is already very bad.

It is not a complete solution to form alliances between the gentry through marriage, otherwise so many people would not have died in Wu Zetian.

This case is a Qin case, and the people who are being tried are the Minister of Justice, the Censor of the Censorate, and the Neichang Order. There is no idea about the people in the officialdom of the Neichang Order, but the Prime Minister and the Censor of the Censor made people feel that they are very important, so the case has become serious.

Xiao Zhizhong, the Minister of Justice, truly came from the officialdom by relying on his strength. Although Li Mi was promoted exceptionally, he was a bureaucrat who was really going to the official career. They abide by the rules and think this matter is very difficult as soon as they plan to do so.

Slandering the emperor is really a big or small thing. Xiao Zhizhong even participated in the formulation of national policies that carefully use criminal laws and win people's hearts. If he follows his opinion, such things can be punished in a symbolic way, indicating that right and wrong are wrong.

Yuwen Xiao was familiar with the eunuch Zhang Xiao and other people from the inner court and knew the inside story. He had been severely punishing the case when discussing the case internally: Today, he was very angry and personally sent an oral order to "capture Jia Huan and his envoy behind the scenes to imprison him overnight!"’If you get away with it, wouldn’t you live up to the trust of today?

The internal factory order was not available in the past and could not be put on the table.

But Xiao Zhizhong was very polite to Yuwen Xiao, for nothing else, just because his daughter was one of the third wife.

Xiao Zhizhong asked: According to Duke Yuwen, what should be done properly?

Yuwen Xiao's usually simple old farmer's face suddenly flashed with a hint of viciousness. He raised his palm and slashed it downwards and made an action: If you don't kill people, it will be difficult to eliminate the anger in your heart.Jia Huan and the behind-the-scenes envoy Choi Mingsun were convicted of ulterior motives and ill-intentioned plots, and killed the whole family to eliminate future troubles!

Xiao Zhizhong and Li Mi immediately looked at each other, and Xiao Zhizhong frowned and said: Is this Si Dian too heavy?

We don’t have to worry about whether it is important or not. After the review, we have to submit a memorial to the emperor for approval. If the emperor approves it, it will prove that it is not important at all.

Yuwen Xiao said calmly, if the memorial is rejected today, it would be a heavy blow.On the one hand, what does it matter?We are angry with what the emperor is angry about, and the emperor will never blame us.

In fact, Yu Wenxiao had no prejudice against Jia Huan, but he privately wanted to kill Doctor Cui.

That doctor, Cui Mingshan and Yu Wenxiao, had basically no contact. How did they make grudges?

In fact, the Cui family had never done anything to offend Yu Wenxiao, because the incident in which Cui Riyong was exterminated was caused by Yu Wenxiao from it. If Yu Wenxiao had not been present, Yin Ci might not have been able to kill hundreds of people in the family.

This matter ended up being counted on Xue Chongxun, because he was the leader of the entire Eastern Expedition Army at that time; but Yuwen Xiao thought it was possible that the ins and outs of it would leak out, and the Cui family would hate him.

Whoever may be thinking about himself and putting it to death first and then being quick is the principle of dealing with things that Yu Wenxiao has always believed in, and it is also the ruthlessness he has learned from the underworld of Jiangyang.

So he was obviously sorry for the Cui family. Not only did he not feel guilty, but he regarded him as a mortal enemy.

Yuwen Xiao said again: People like Cui Mingshan should have been eliminated from the government office long ago. Somehow, they were still in the Secretariat as officials before. Don’t you understand the holy intention?Cui Riyong was originally a party of Li Longji, but later contacted Li Longji to rebel and wanted to make a comeback, so he was wiped out.Cui Mingshan is from the Cui clan of Huazhou. What should you do if you think about it this way?

Xiao Zhizhong looked solemn and sighed: Having said that, it’s just that it’s hard to explain in front of his colleagues.The officials of the Political Affairs Hall have long reached a consensus that they should implement benevolent government to restore their vitality. Now, in order to please the emperor, we have destroyed the whole family for such a little thing. It is not like benevolent government, which is contrary to national policies.

At this time, Li Mi made a suggestion: I thought of a way.Du Gong (Du Xian) wanted to govern the local area after capturing Yingzhou, but most of the Hu people were difficult to educate and needed to migrate a large number of Han people.However, in the war-torn areas outside Yingzhou Pass, there were not many cultivated fields, and the Han people were reluctant to migrate to the northeast.Now the Jia and Cui families are in charge of the law. Why not kill one or two main culprits? All the others are exiled to Yingzhou: First, it is beneficial to the country and also supports Duke Du; second, exile is more relaxed than killing people, and the impression it gives to the court and the public is not so cruel.What do you think is a killing two birds with one stone?

When Xiao Zhizhong saw that Yuwen Xiao was going to be covered in blood in his hands, Li Mi's idea was undoubtedly a compromise. After thinking about it, he reluctantly agreed: If Duke Yuwen also agreed, we will do this when we review it, and then write a memorial and hand it over to see the situation.

Yuwen Xiao thought that Yingzhou was thousands of miles away from Beijing, and sending people away could be considered a good thing. After all, both Xiao Zhizhong and Li Mi agreed, and he was not easy to fight alone.

The three of them discussed and held a trial in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice. There are few cases in this place when the case is tried, and it is only the case of this kind of imperial case that is handled here.

The government and county government offices are hearing general cases. The Ministry of Justice only reviews and supervises such government affairs and does not handle them directly.

This saves a lot of trouble, because some people may watch and comment fairly when the prefectures and counties are under investigation, but no one can join in the fun at the Sixth Central Department.

The three presiding officials decided to kill two people and exile the whole family. This is truly a very serious criminal law, and it is even more severe than murder. Unless the crime of corruption is given to An is unreasonable.

So at the beginning, the people in the case would give a blow and say that they would be banished by ulterior motives and rebellion.

As for whether a criminal admits or not, it is not the most important thing, and he can even convict him.

This matter involves the regime and the country, so naturally it cannot be compared with civil cases, and even the rules do not need to be followed. As long as there is suspicion of rebellion, there is no need for too much evidence.

The presiding officials found some physical evidence and certification, and after some inference, the case was decided, and the main culprit was asked to be a captive.

Jia Huan and others yelled that they were unjustly refusing to admit the accusation, and then they withdrew from the court to suspend the trial. Only one night later, the prisoner, who was already dying when the trial was reopened the next day, was happily admitted.

So the case files and memorials soon arrived in the inner court.The six governments of the Southern Yamen were originally located in the south of the Daming Palace. It does not take time to operate inside and outside, so the speed is naturally very fast.

Xue Chongxun saw a document in Zichen Hall that discussed the whole story in detail. He didn't even read the words, but only looked at the trial results on the memorial.

When he saw the two people exiled hundreds of people to Yingzhou, he naturally remembered the joints of assimilating Yingzhou. After thinking about it for a moment, he was very satisfied with this treatment and immediately threw it to his sister Princess Hezhong and said: This memorial is correct. In addition, the family of the chief minister Wang Xianzhi who was escorted back from Youzhou also pardoned the death penalty and exiled him to Yingzhou together with the entire tribe in Youzhou.

Princess Hezhong said: Brother, I remember the last time there was a memorial about the governor of Youzhou, Zhao Qu. I heard that Zhao Qu and Wang Xianzhi had the same guilt. Now that my brother exiled the people of the Wang family, how should the Zhao family deal with it? Will it make people feel unfair?

Xue Chongxun recalled for a while and pondered for a moment: Zhao Qu and Wang Xianzhi are different. Besides, he has committed suicide and apologized. He doesn’t have to implicate his family anymore, just demote him to a commoner.

He also remembered the incident when the Huaqing Palace encountered an assassin. The general on duty was dereliction of duty but atoneed for himself, and Princess Taiping pardoned his family.

Xue Chongxun dealt with Zhao Qu based on this matter, which can be regarded as maintaining a continuation and tacit understanding in governance with Princess Taiping.

The tacit understanding between mother and son is slowly integrated through the eyes and movements of small things in daily life and similarities in dealing with things.