Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

When Yang Jing saw that the people were overwhelmingly supporting Chang Sheng, he felt his forehead start to sweat.

Shouldn't the common people support them? Why is it different from what they imagined?
Now that so many people applaud Chang Sheng, how will this case be tried and judged?
When Yang Jing didn't know what to do, Zhu Yunxi whispered something.

"Do you want to adjourn the court or temporarily withdraw from the court?"

When Yang Jing heard this, his heart suddenly moved. It is really a way to withdraw from the court. At least he can discuss with others how to judge this case.

"Then back out?"

Zhu Yunxi stood up from the chair and gave up the role to Yang Jing again, making Yang Jing the real presiding judge once again.

Yang Jing stood on the position of the presiding judge again, feeling extremely sad.

Who would have thought that standing in this position, the only thing he said was "retreat"?
Although Yang Jing was 10,000 times unhappy in his heart, but now the public opinion is raging, and the people are so angry that it has reached the point where they cannot retreat.

Therefore, he could only bite the bullet and take the gavel.

"In view of the complexity of the case, I have decided to withdraw from the court for the time being, and I will make a decision after discussing with several adults!"

The people were immediately unhappy when they heard this. According to their thinking, if Chang Sheng was not declared innocent, they would feel that there was something tricky about it.

Now seeing that the officials were about to run away, they were even more suspicious, thinking that they were going to concoct some crimes to frame the hero Chang Sheng.

In fact, Yang Jing, Yuan Tai, and Zhang Tinglan, the chief officials of the three legal departments, just sighed after returning to the back hall, and didn't even think about how to frame Chang Sheng.

Now they just feel in a dilemma and don't know how to decide the case.

"Give me a message, both of you!"

"Now that the case is like this, how should we characterize it?"

Zhang Tinglan shook her head depressedly.

"The military general Xungui is too ruthless. Two descendants of the Lu family were born out of nothing, which is equivalent to overturning the matter of exterminating the family."

"Once it can't be defined as the extermination of the family, based on Chang Sheng's status, the eight proposals will be discussed one by one. If you die, you will be exiled, be deprived of the title, and get back the iron coupon."

"If there are two more nobles, and they go all out to hand in the Dan Iron Ticket, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely push the boat along and give Chang Sheng a lesser punishment."

When Yuan Tai heard what Zhang Tinglan said, he started to make a big afterthought.

"I said at the time, we can't take it lightly, we must prevent the other party from cheating!"

"What did you say at the time? What did you say? The facts are solid, the evidence is so strong that even the gods will not be able to reverse the case!"

"Now they just brought in two girls and cornered us. How can you say this case is going to trial!"

Yang Jing got angry when he heard Yuan Tai's words. When did this guy say something like preventing the other party from cheating?
Now that the military general Xungui has made moves, the civil servants don't want to deal with it, and even complained to each other, what is this?
"Yuan Tai, if you have nothing to say, just shut up, what are you talking about?"

"Furthermore, when did you say those words, why don't I remember?"

"Didn't I tell you?"

"Even if I said it at the time, who would listen to you?"

"Then why don't you say it, you know we won't listen if you don't say it?"

Yang Jing and Yuan Tai quarreled in the back hall on the spot as you talked to each other.

Just when Zhang Tinglan was hesitating whether to persuade the fight, he suddenly saw a figure walking in.When Zhang Tinglan saw this person, she became furious and pointed at the other person's nose and cursed.

"What are you doing here, are you watching our jokes?"

It was none other than Zhou Zhiqing who overturned Chang Sheng's case with his iron mouth.

In fact, Zhou Zhiqing did nothing at all. The evidence was provided by General Xungui, who even wrote down the key points of his defense on a folding fan so that he could refer to it at any time.

As for the general Xungui, he just used his status as a civil servant and his mouth to let him speak out the content of his defense.

This is obviously using him as a firearm, but he still enjoys it.

Because when His Majesty the Emperor relegated him to Dangzhi County in Haizhou, all his colleagues and friends respected him.
In short, there is no intention of helping.

Only the third emperor's grandson ignored the past, not only helped him heal his injuries, but also gave him military merits, which made him stand out in the evaluation of magistrates, and personally proposed to His Majesty the emperor that he be promoted to the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture.

Although His Majesty the Emperor did not agree to the Third Emperor's grandson, Zhou Zhiqing must accept it!
What's more, the grandson of the third emperor is about to be canonized as the grandson of the emperor. If they take the initiative to recruit him, the magistrate of the county, if he doesn't cooperate, he will be too ungrateful.

"Master Zhang, don't be angry, the official came to the back hall not to make fun of the three of you."

"In fact, the lower official came to remind the three adults and help the three adults get out of the siege."

"Oh?"

When the few people heard this, their hearts moved in unison, and the two quarreling quickly shut up.

Zhou Zhiqing first bowed to Shang Yangjing of the Ministry of Punishment.

"Old boss, the third emperor's grandson is Chang Sheng's nephew. It can be said that he is the only family member of the third emperor's grandson. Do you really want to take the risk of annoying the third emperor's grandson to bring justice to the Lu family?"

Yang Jing snorted coldly when he heard the words.

"if not?"

"Are they all like you, becoming followers of power who ignore the laws of the country?"

"The evidence of Chang Sheng's murder is conclusive. Even if it's not for Lu's family, I, Yang, will uphold justice for the people of the world and uphold justice."

When Zhou Zhiqing heard Yang Jing's words, a faint sarcasm appeared on his face.

It's not that he doesn't believe Yang Jing's words, but he doesn't believe them all.

The reason why the old boss insisted on sentencing Chang Sheng to death must have the idea of ​​upholding justice, but more because he was afraid that this kind of thing would happen to him.

After all, as an official in the court, no one has said a few wrong words, and no one has offended a few people.

How can you be an official if someone kills you because you offended someone?
Therefore, this was the reason why the civil servants insisted on executing Chang Sheng.As for the affairs of the Lu family, in fact, no one cared about it. It was a little sad for a rabbit to die and a fox to die, and things hurt other emotions.

"Old boss Gao Yi, I admire you the most!"

"But the lower official has something to hide and wants to tell his old boss."

"The lower official got a piece of news from the third emperor's grandson. It is said that the Crown Princess suddenly fell ill and passed away."

"what?"

The three people in the back hall all changed their faces when they heard this, and their faces were full of disbelief.

"Is this true?"

"Exactly!"

"And according to the officials, the third emperor's grandson only mentioned something veiledly, and there is still a lot of truth left."

"What truth?
"The death of Mrs. Lu may be related to Royal Mixin, old boss, do you still remember the uproar of Hu Hu who was fired back then?"
Is it the tribute case?"

Yang Jing's face showed a solemn expression when he heard this, and his thoughts returned to ten years ago.

At that time, there was a big case in the imperial court, saying that the tributes offered by Hu merchants were poisonous, which killed the princess and other concubines in the Prince's Mansion, and caused several concubines to miscarry.

For this reason, Jin Yiwei arrested hundreds of Hu merchants and brought them all to Jin Yiwei.

As for what happened afterwards, Hu Shangyi was not released, most likely he died in the Jinyiwei Prison.

And the case of the Hu merchants' tribute was left alone, and even the most original records were burned.

"Old boss, I suspect that the death of the Crown Princess may be related to this matter."

"Think about it, if it weren't for the big case of Tongtian, who would have the ability to make the princess die suddenly?"

Several people fell silent when they heard this, and everyone was thinking secretly in their hearts.

If things were really as Zhou Zhiqing said, then the Lu family had violated the taboo of the old emperor, and even if Chang Sheng hadn't killed people in a rage, there was a high probability that they would not be able to escape the crime of beheading their entire family.

Therefore, from this point of view, Chang Sheng's murder was forgiven by the old emperor. It's just that the old emperor wants to save face. He is embarrassed to use the imperial power to pardon him and deliberately let them try the case to help the old emperor take the blame?
"Master Yuan, Master Zhang!"

"Old boss!"

"The emperor had no intention of severely punishing Chang Sheng. If you punished Chang Sheng too severely, wouldn't that be embarrassing for the emperor?"

"Your Majesty the Emperor's temper is clear to the three adults, right?"

"If the emperor

His Majesty thinks that you are ignorant, so you can only go to Haizhou and other remote places like the officials in the future. "

"This……"

As soon as Yang Jing heard this, he felt anxious at that moment, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab Zhou Zhiqing's hand and asked.

"Xiao Zhou!"

"I have always been kind to you, what do you think is the best way to deal with this matter?"

Zhou Zhiqing felt the oil on his hands, and his heart felt greasy, but he couldn't show it on his face, so he could only deal with it hypocritically.

"It's easy to handle!"

"Now that the lower officials have overturned the crime of exterminating the family, my lord can make an ordinary murder case and sentence Chang Sheng to beheaded according to the law."

"On the memorandum, you can speak more firmly and sharply to express your position, which can be regarded as an account to the officials below."

"As for how, how, and when to cut, then leave it to His Majesty the Emperor to decide."

"However, based on the humble opinion of the following officials, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely not acquit himself, and will definitely send Chang Sheng to a remote and wild place.
When the Three Emperors succeed to the throne and amnesty the world in the future, Chang Sheng will naturally be grateful to the Three Emperors and help the Three Emperors wholeheartedly. "

After listening to Zhou Zhiqing's analysis, Yang Jing nodded in appreciation.

"it is good!"

"Sure enough, I did not misunderstand you. I thought you were a talent back then, and recommended you to His Majesty the Emperor several times."

"It's just a pity, you don't look up to my old boss anymore now that you are the grandson of the third emperor, hahaha!"

When the other two heard this, they also hurried up to smooth things over.

"Brother Zhou, you won't leave this time when you return to Beijing. I don't know where you will go for high school next time?"

"The door of our Metropolitan Procuratorate is always open to you!"

"The gate of our Dali Temple is also very spacious, so we don't have to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to squeeze!"

Yang Jing couldn't help laughing and cursing when he heard that the two were digging the wall in front of him.

"You two get out!"

"This is the treasure of my criminal department. If you transfer back to the capital, you will also return to my criminal department as an official. How could you fool around with you two!"

Zhou Zhiqing just stood aside with a smile on his face and didn't say another word.

From now on, his mission has been completed, only waiting for the three of them to go out and pronounce the sentence.

"The three adults will discuss it again, and the next official will leave first!"

After Zhou Zhiqing left the back hall, the faces of the three who had been chatting and laughing just now turned gloomy.

"unacceptable!"

"Someone thinks that by climbing the high branch of the Three Emperors, they can tell us what to do?"

"It's fine for someone to be disrespectful to the two of us. How dare you teach your old boss how to do things? It's obvious that he doesn't take you seriously!"

Listening to what the two colleagues said, Yang Jing had a sneer on his face

"It's really too much!"

"But we also have to admit that he was right!"

"No one can force the emperor to let people go, and no one can force the emperor to kill people!"

"If the emperor doesn't want to kill, no matter how many reasons we make, it's useless!"

Several people studied for a while, and then returned to the front hall to try the case again.

Yang Jing saw that his position as the presiding judge had not been robbed, so his gloomy expression finally looked good.

In fact, Zhu Yunxi didn't want to sit in that position at all.

He reversed his uncle's case without a bottom line, which is quite shameless in itself.

If he decides the case by himself, people in the world can't scold him to death?
This is also the reason why he had to push Zhou Zhiqing out despite doing so much.

The purpose is to save face for myself and Grandpa Huang.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him with burning eyes, Yang Jing felt a fever on his face.

Because, next, he will make a decision against his ancestors!
"The officer below announces the result of the trial!"

"The evidence of Chang Sheng's murder case is conclusive, and he himself confessed to it. This is an iron case, with all the witnesses and material evidence, and he will never be allowed to deny it."

"But Gu Nianqi is the queen of Kaiping King and the wife and brother of the late Prince Yiwen, so the crime is reduced by one level, and changed from Ling Chi to beheading!"

Although Zhou Zhiqing made it very clear, Yang
Together, Jing and the others still felt that the sentence should not be too light.

Firstly, the sentence is too light and cannot be tolerated by the national law;
Secondly, it is also easy to be gossiped, saying that they are afraid of the powerful and the like.

Therefore, they raised the verdict by one notch to show that they had done their best, and that it was the emperor who didn't want to kill people and had nothing to do with them.

However, they managed to save a trick, which is to delete the words "Miemen" and "heinous".

But even so, when Yang Jing said this, the people around watching the excitement were still blown away.

Many of them have heard Mr. Shuo tell the story of King Kaiping, and now seeing that the son of King Kaiping is about to be beheaded, they would be happy to see the hell.

"Why do you judge like this?"

"You guys are guarding each other!"

"King Kaiping made great contributions to Daming, and Daming can't wrong the son of King Kaiping like this."

"The court is unfair!"

"The three laws are unfair!"

Yang Jing was dumbfounded when he heard the abuse from the people around him, and thought to himself, "What do these unscrupulous people really want?"

As everyone knows, the people watching the excitement are similar to the netizens of later generations. Generally speaking, this kind of case starts with the death penalty. If they are allowed to reverse the case, they must be acquitted.

Yang Jing looked at the two colleagues next to him depressedly, and saw that they turned their heads to one side quickly, as if they were afraid of getting involved with him.

The hatred in Yang Jing's heart, he made it clear in the room just now, and everyone announced it together.

Why did these two people change their minds just after they left the house?
Yang Jing thumped the startling drum a few times and shouted to the crowd.

"quiet!"

"My judge's judgment is not the final result, and the final result must be decided by His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Retire!"

"mighty!!!"

Amidst the majestic "mighty" sound, Yang Jing and the others slipped through the back door as if fleeing, leaving only Ying Tianfu Yin Songyi to clean up the mess.

Seeing that the three of them had given such a result, Song Yi felt depressed for a while.

While ordering people to bring Chang Sheng back to the prison, he ordered people to drive out the people.

The three escaped from Yingtian Mansion, and hurried back to their respective places, expressing their position in the judgment.

After reading the verdict of the three men, Lao Zhu saw that there was not a single word about the extermination of the family, and he also showed a relieved expression on his face.

If the civil servants insist on the word "destroying the door" to make a fuss, even he, the emperor, will feel very embarrassed.

After all, the Great Ming Law was formulated by him, and it was specially used to maintain the order of his Great Ming Empire.

No matter what, he, the emperor, cannot take the initiative to do things that violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if he wanted to do it, he had to let the courtiers beg him to do it, so as not to be stabbed in the back by the people of Ming Dynasty.

After the memorial of the Sanfa Division was handed over, the memorials of the three Dukes and several earls were also handed in.

They sincerely expressed their willingness to use the iron coupons rewarded by the imperial court to make atonement for Chang Sheng.

Lao Zhu hid in the Qianqing Palace, counted the number of Dan iron coupons, and found that seven had been recovered, with a smile on his face like a chrysanthemum.

Then he returned to the imperial case, drew Chang Sheng's verdict with a Chinese ink brush, and wrote his own verdict on the back.

One day later, Yingtianfu went to prison.

"Chang Sheng accepts the order!"

"Chang Sheng went against the law and disregarded human life recklessly. He should have been put to death early to follow the example."

"However, the Lu family insulted their ancestors, but there is a way to kill them. It is understandable for Chang Sheng to open up his ancestors and kill his enemies with his hands."

"After remembering him as a meritorious service, Duke Ying, Duke Song, and Duke Xin pleaded for mercy, and each offered pill coupons to atone for his crimes. However, death crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be forgiven."

"Take the title of Founding Duke, take back the Chang Jiadan iron certificate, and send Chang Sheng to Yunnan, and will not be pardoned."

"exile?"

Chang Sheng was dumbfounded when he heard the verdict. He had thought of ten thousand ways to die, but he never thought of living!
Although he was deprived of his title by the imperial court, the title cannot be kept just because of what he committed!
I had the cheek to give it to the emperor, it was to pray that the emperor would take the honor of his father and pass on the title to the third brother.

But this is just his wishful thinking, the emperor may not
will agree.

Now the emperor actually spared his life and just dispatched himself to Yunnan, which is tantamount to picking up a big deal!
As long as our nephew becomes the emperor in the future, we as uncles still worry about not having the opportunity to make meritorious deeds?
Even if I can't do it myself, the eldest nephew can return the title to Chang Sen for our sake!
Seeing that Chang Sheng didn't thank Chang Sheng for a long time, the two tigers who delivered the decree teased with a smile.

"Second Master Chang, don't you hurry up and thank you?"

"My humble minister, my humble minister, thank Your Majesty Long En, woo woo woo"

Erhu hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and pointed to the third grandson behind him who was anxiously scratching his ears and cheeks.

"Second Master Chang, you should thank him the most!"

"The third emperor's grandson was beaten by the emperor several times in order to intercede for you. The emperor really couldn't hold back the third emperor's grandson, so he opened his eyes to you."

"There are also Duke Xin, Duke Song, and Duke Ying. These three Dukes also gave their lives. Otherwise, you would never have come out alive like this!"

Chang Sheng nodded heavily when he heard the words.

"I see!"

"This time the Chang family owes a lot of favors, and I, Chang Sheng, will never pay it off in my whole life!"

Seeing that the two tigers had finished announcing the imperial decree, Zhu Yunxi hurried to Chang Sheng, and happily pulled Chang Sheng away.

"Second uncle, let's go home!"

"Third Emperor's grandson, this is not right, I want to be sent to Yunnan!"

"Not urgent!"

"Even if you are assigned to Yunnan, you have to go home to clean up first, and say goodbye to your family, right?"

"This……"