"Your Highness, what do you think of this matter?" Liang Fu asked Zhu Zhanzhen about the fair young man who wanted to be Zhang Tai's lawyer.
Zhu Zhanzhen smiled slightly: "Since the case is being tried in court, it is normal to have a lawyer. Come in."
Nan Zhi walked in. He was a handsome and somewhat heroic young man, followed by an old man in a green shirt. He saw him bring a chair and was about to sit down.
"Who is this?"
"This is Nan Sheng Huai, Mr. Nan." Nan Zhi introduced.
Jin Wu sent a subordinate to go to Zhu Zhanchang and introduced the background of Nan Sheng Huai. He had been a prefect and his family had been in the family for hundreds of years. He was a famous clan leader in Guangzhou Prefecture. Nan Sheng Huai was a famous person in the family.
There are many virtuous people among the people and officials, and they are deeply loved by the people.
"Oh~" Zhu Zhanchen nodded thoughtfully after hearing this.
Nan Shenghuai said with a smile on his old face: "I have met your highness, and your highness has ten thousand blessings..."
"Get out!"
Zhu Zhanzhen's voice was soft and contemptuous, and he abruptly interrupted Nan Shenghuai's words with an imperative sentence, "Get out."
For a moment, everyone was stunned on the spot. Zhu Zhanzhen did not give any face to Nan Shenghuai, a well-known figure in the Guangzhou vassal vanity fair.
This also disrupted the original plan of Nan Shenghuai and others.
"This..." The people watching the excitement were stunned.
"Can't you hear me? Get out of the courtroom. Don't let anyone else come in. It's still said that you and Zhang Tai have colluded and you have to go to court as a witness."
It had been many years since Nan Shenghuai had been humiliated like this. The good old man Jin Wu came out to fight: "Your Highness, there are often some older and respected seniors in the court to listen."
"You can listen, stand and listen with everyone."
Zhu Zhanzhen never acted according to their expectations. Nan Shenghuai smiled awkwardly: "Your Highness, I am getting old, please allow me to sit for a while."
Who is sitting here?
Chief of the Third Division, Chief Judge, Prince of Pearl River County, what do you mean by sitting down? Are you on equal footing with us? You want to take advantage of me in name only, it's a nice idea.
"When you get older, go home and sleep."
Zhu Zhanyi refused to give in. Nansheng Huai originally thought of relying on his elders and overriding the young Prince of Zhujiang County, but he didn't expect that Zhu Zhanyi didn't care at all that he was an old man and had no idea of respecting the elderly and caring for the young.
Seeing Zhu Zhanzhen's performance, Nan Shenghuai had to retreat first.
In the first round in court, Nan Shenghuai came back angrily and had to stand among the crowd outside. After a brief confrontation, Nan Shenghuai couldn't figure out whether the Pearl River Prince was purely domineering or arrogant, or was deliberately trying to embarrass himself. Maybe later.
There may be more.
"Anyone who dares to disturb the court again will be killed."
Chen Youshan and his imperial guards stood before Zhu Zhanzhen with a look of murderous intent on his face.
"Continue the trial, Magistrate Liang."
After receiving the order, Liang Fu was shocked again: "Zhang Tai, do you have anything to say about Wang Dong's confession?"
Nan Zhi walked up to Zhang Tai and said, "Master Magistrate, is there anyone else who can testify to Wang Dong's confession besides himself? Where is the master of suffering?"
Wang Dong was speechless. The daughter of the owner of the scissors shop had been sold to no one knew where. The owner and his wife had died of depression, and there was no evidence of death.
Liang Fu looked at Zhu Zhanxi, who stretched out his hand and smiled to indicate for you to continue.
"Wang Dong, do you have anything else to say?"
"Everything I say is true, please understand clearly."
"Since there's nothing to say, let's keep it under wraps."
Wang Dong was taken aside, and he will be needed next.
Zhu Zhanchen patted his clothes and stood up, frowning slightly. When was this sloppy trial going to take place, he would ask some innocuous questions.
"Prefect Liang will directly interrogate Zhang Tai for pretending to be the prince and beating people in the street."
"Yes, yes, Zhang Tai, what do you say about you pretending to be the prince?"
Zhang Tai was about to defend himself, but Nan Zhizhi stopped him and said for him: "That day, Zhang Tai did not hit anyone in the street, but had a conflict and fight with the craftsmen of His Highness the Prince of Zhujiang County. Both parties are responsible."
, it is not his fault alone. As for the name of the impersonated prince, Zhang Taihua was named the prince. His Royal Highness the Prince of Zhujiang County may not be familiar with the local dialect. In fact, he was called Taizi and was not pretending to be the prince."
Puchi
Zhu Zhanzhen was almost not amused by him, and he was able to say this nonsense.
Isn't this just bullying the honest grandson?
Zhu Zhanzhen couldn't hold back his laughter. I'm a professional and don't laugh unless I really can't help it.
Nan Shenghuai was so anxious in the crowd that without his own backing, Nan Shenghuai even messed up the words he had prepared before.
He laughed for a while and said: "It turns out that you are not pretending to be a prince, but Xiao Bie Fan. In the local dialect of Songjiang Prefecture, I praise you for your cleverness."
Are you really just fooling me like this?
In fact, their preparation was not like this. Instead, they asked Nan Shenghuai to come up and sell his elders, and told Zhu Zhanzhen that the entire Nan family was of great use to him in Guangdong. Zhang Zixing could be killed and begged to leave a heir for his family. Nan would be needed in the future.
The Nan family will never postpone the place of home, and will not lack any filial piety from the Nan family.
Generally speaking, in their understanding, county princes such as Zhu Zhanzhen who went out to join the vassal state or princes like Zhu Liangzu would still give face to the local forces and take the opportunity to make money.
As for this matter, it would involve some officials they had arranged to come out and kill him as the scapegoat, so as to save face for Zhu Zhanzhen.
But Zhu Zhanzhen disrupted their plan from the very beginning. He didn't give Nan Sheng Huai any face, and he didn't care about a high-ranking family like the Nan family.
So the following rebuttal was what Nan did not know himself, saying that a scholar with only passable qualifications, but with limited abilities, was the tallest among the shortest of the three generations of the Nan family.
Liang Fu asked again: "What about your highness?"
"You go on with the interrogation. If you are interrogating you, ask the three people behind you. If they say this is local dialect, is it true? I don't understand. Don't lie to me."
The three of them looked ugly. Nan didn't know that this lawyer was unqualified. Just as Fang Shi had expected at the beginning, Nan didn't know if he would be able to do well if he was asked to appear in such a situation at his age.
Zhu Zhanzhen kicked the ball over, and Fang Shi could only say: "Your Highness, I feel that Zhang Tai's impersonation of the prince cannot be easily bypassed."
"Where are the other two?"
"Yes, yes."
"Master Liang, please continue the trial."
Liang Fu also made a conclusion on the matter: "Zhang Tai pretended to be the prince, and his crime should be punished."
Zhu Zhanzhen said bluntly: "Let's try the matter of rebellion."
"Yes, it's Your Highness."
"Someone bring it up."
At this time, a man came out and looked to be in his fifties.
"Your Highness, this is Zhang Yushu, the prefect of Chaozhou Prefecture. After our interrogation and verification, we found that he has long been colluding with Zhang Tao and Zhang Zixing to run the smuggling business, established a gang called Xin Chao'an, bullied the market, and privately led troops into the city. He is an unforgivable person. Your Highness, these are
It’s a confession.”
A large number of confessions were taken out, including confessions from members of the Xinchaoan Gang and confessions from some local Chaozhou officials, which basically solidified the evidence against Zhang Yushu.
"After checking his family property, we found a total of 118,000 taels of gold and silver, thirty sets of properties, and several land deeds."
Following Liang Fu's words, the people shouted: "Corrupt officials, big corrupt officials."
Faced with the accusations, Zhang Yushu kowtowed and admitted his mistake: "I am ashamed of the Holy One, and I am ashamed of the common people." As he spoke, his head hit the ground, and there was a solid bang.
The incident happened suddenly and there was no time to stop it. The collision resulted in death.
I didn’t expect that they could pull out a prefect and kill him in the court. What kind of energy is this? You have the final say in the Guangdong vassal?
It seems that Zhang Zixing's title as the King of Guangzhou is fake, but there may really be a powerful person behind him.
There was even more chill in Zhu Zhanzhen's eyebrows.
"Quick, quick, don't scare His Highness."
Zhu Zhanzhen sneered disdainfully and looked at the third division commander and the prefect. It seemed that this was the answer they gave him. They arrested a prefect and gave him an explanation. Don't investigate further if there is no evidence.
Do you really think you are coaxing a child?
Everyone was hurriedly dealing with the matter of Zhang Yushu who committed suicide to apologize. Zhu Zhanzhen, surrounded by the imperial army, still sat calmly and calmly, as if something had nothing to do with him.
In fact, if it were his second brother or second uncle, he might have really found out here. These people bowed their heads to him, and the confiscated silver would definitely belong to him. The Nan family also clearly wanted to honor themselves in the future and make their own decisions.
The prestige was established, and a corrupt magistrate and a gang leader were arrested. The people praised him and his reputation also increased.
Now that I have the face and money, I can almost call it a day.
But Zhu Zhanzhen is different. Their thoughts are not on the same level.
After cleaning up the blood stains, Liang Fu patted the gavel again.
"Zhang Yushu, Zhang Tao, and Zhang Zixing were corrupt, perverted the law, committed many evil acts, led troops into the streets, ignored national laws, and were punished by beheading." Liang Fu made the final trial.
"slow!"
Zhu Zhanchen finally stood up and objected.
"Zhang Tao led the troops to the streets. Is the Guangzhou Prefecture's Eastern Guard responsible? Is the commander-in-chief responsible? Isn't there a word about it?"
Huang Huihong came up hurriedly: "Your Majesty, Huang Huihong, failed to supervise me well, which caused his subordinates to commit such treacherous and unethical acts. Please punish me, Your Highness."
"Your Majesty Liang Fu, as the prefect of Guangzhou, failed to control the city guards and let the army enter the city. Please punish me."
Zhu Zhanzhen gave Chen Youshan a look at this time, and Chen Youshan walked away for a while.
"What I want is not an explanation for me, but an explanation for the people."
"As a local official, gangs have bullied the market and oppressed the people for a long time. Do you really not know? Is that Zhang Yushu the backer, or is there someone else above him?"
Obviously Zhu Zhanzhen was not satisfied with the answers they gave.
I've given you a chance, but if you don't use it, I'll have to do it myself.
If you are secretive and even want to join forces to deceive me, then don't blame me for being rude.
Just when Zhu Zhanzhen was about to get angry, shouts came from the crowd: "It's unfair, it's unfair, Mr. Qingtian, I'm wronged."
The crowd got out of the way, and a beggar-like middle-aged man stood in the crowd, holding up a brand new [Great Edict] and shouting injustice.
Here we come! You have arrangements, and I have arrangements too.
Suddenly another incident arose, and Liang Fu hurriedly said: "Take it away quickly, don't let anyone make trouble."
"You dare?" The man shouted back the crowd with righteous words: "Emperor Taizu has an order that anyone holding a royal edict can sue subordinate officials or high-ranking officials. No one can stop him."
The Prince of Zhujiang County was here and took out the title of Emperor Taizu. No one dared to touch him.
This man was holding a finely edited version of the imperial edict, which ordinary people did not have. Naturally, only the families of those who understood the law would have it.
Chen Youshan said loudly: "The Prince of Zhujiang County is here. If you have any grievances, please tell me."
"A grassroots citizen, Hu Youkang, a villager in Landing Township, Haiyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, sued Jin Wu, the governor of Guangdong, and gangster Zhang Zixing to kill thirteen members of my Hu family. There is no way to redress the injustice."
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
Updated to 11,000 words, please recommend and vote, please vote monthly