After the coroner’s examination, the heads offered by Zhao Dae-young were all Tartar heads, and the people killed by Zhao Dae-young were barbarians and Tartars, not the people of our Ming Dynasty. This makes the case clear. Zhu Pingan impeached the case of Zhao Dajing killing Liang and taking advantage of his merits, after this hall checked, Zhu Pingan’s impeachment does not have any real evidence …….”
Just after this wave of interlude from Liu Dazhou and the others, Wang Xueyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, cleared his throat and gave a qualification to this Ministry of Justice presentation.
“Your Excellency is really clear-sighted, in the world of Baochengtian ……”
Zhao Dajing was overjoyed at the words, grinned and couldn’t help but smile, hands clasping fists to Wang Xueyi in the public hall with a series of compliments.
“Congratulations to Lord Zhao for regaining his innocence.”
“Since ancient times evil does not suppress justice, Lord Zhao has proven this truth again.”
“Congratulations to Lord Zhao, just now I’ve made an appointment with Lord Li, Lord Zhang and other colleagues to host a banquet at Nanchang Pavilion tonight to wash the dust and remove the bad luck for Lord Zhao.”
At the same time, many military officials in the gallery also got up to congratulate Zhao Dajing for regaining his innocence, and the people talked and laughed about the dust-washing banquet, and even made appointments to call on a few famous actors and flower girls to help with the festivities.
Zhu Pingan looked at Zhao Da Ying and the others who could not wait to celebrate, and could not help but shake his head and laugh.
This feeling of Zhao Dajing and the others was familiar, and there was no shortage of examples in history.
In the Spring and Autumn period, Yu Jian Jian destroyed this and the Duke of Qi who ate; in the Wei and Jin periods, Fu Jian who threw a whip into the river to break its flow; in the Second World War, Hitler who promised his soldiers that he would spend Christmas in Moscow.
And what happened.
Oh.
Reality always catches them by surprise.
On that day, Duke Zha of Qi was defeated and almost captured; on that day, Fu Jian’s army was defeated, and he died before he could fulfil his ambition; and on that day, Hitler’s head was bleeding under the city of Moscow, and he killed himself in the basement.
Now it is your turn, Zhao Daiying ……
“My lord, my humble servant has a few questions I would like to ask the coroner.”
Zhu Pingan withdrew his eyes from Zhao Dajing and the others and turned to face the main trial seat in the public hall, his dark ink-like eyes flickering with a refined light as striking as a burning flame, the corners of his mouth hooked up into an arc.
Eh?
What? You have questions again? Why do you have so many problems?
Zhu Pingan’s words made Zhao Da Ying and the others very upset, this is all ironclad evidence, why are you still mentioning questions, you’re damn sick!
“Zhu Pingan, now that the evidence is hard, do you still want to deny it?”Zhao Dajing looked at Zhu Pingan with a gloomy gaze and an aggressive face, questioning in a stern voice.
“Since the evidence is already solid, what’s wrong with me, Zhu Ping An, asking a few more questions, besides, Ta-Jen Wang has just asked for our opinions, what’s your hurry? What, is the public court run by your family?”Zhu Pingan asked indifferently.
“A bunch of nonsense!”Zhao Da Ying was exasperated.
“Zhu Pingan, if you have any questions, just ask. In the public hall, words are not forbidden. If you have questions, Zhao Dajing, you can also tell this hall.”Wan Gong, the Secretary of the Da Lisi, swept a glance at Zhu Pingan and Zhao Dajing and said expressionlessly.
After he finished speaking, Wan Gong glanced at Xu Shi’s direction with his afterglow before landing his eyes on Zhu Pingan.
Wan Gong is Jiajing twenty-three years into the bachelor’s degree, at that time Xu step is still the Hanlin Academy of the head of the Academy, at that time, Xu step on the talented juniors have to carry forward, Wan Gong is quite appreciated, more encouragement and care, for Wan Gong, is also a teacher and a friend of the relationship.
In Wan Gong’s second year as an official, Shou Wang funeral over Nanjing, the eunuchs want to make Chao Wang Fei, Wan Gong rebuked: “Ritual not Chao Hou, not to mention the consort!”He was also lucky to have Zhou’s help in this matter. This is also fortunate to rely on the Xu step around, Wan Gong before the danger is solved, the reputation of the rise.
So this time, Zhu Ping’an was in Xu Jie’s good graces.
Wan Gong was one of the presiding judges, and it was reasonable to allow Zhu Pingan to ask questions, so after he nodded, the other presiding judges did not raise their voices to speak out against him. Although Wang Xueyi had some displeasure on his face, he did not say anything and acquiesced.
“Many thanks, my lord.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked Wan Gong.
After thanking him, Zhu Pingan slowly walked to the two coroners and looked directly at them with a burning gaze.
The two coroners looked at Zhu Pingan’s gaze and felt as if they were being stared at by a fierce tiger, their bodies were a little uneasy, their eyes flickered a little as they saluted Zhu Pingan, not daring to meet his eyes.
“No need to be nervous, this official’s question is simple. These chiefs, were they captured last year?”Zhu Pingan asked indifferently.
The two coroners heard and breathed a sigh of relief, this question is simple, as long as the answer is truthful, it is enough, so the two answered with no pressure at all, and nodded their heads with certainty, “Your Honour, these heads were all captured last year. Lord please look at the neck knife marks, as well as the texture of the first level, has been waxed, tendons, warp ligament still exists, according to the Song Ci Gong ‘Cleansing of Grievances’ can be known, these first level is half a year to a year to chopped.”
“Are you guys sure?”Zhu Pingan looked at the two men and asked a follow-up question.
“My humble servant is willing to vouch for it on his head.”The two coroners returned without hesitation.
Well, there was no lie.
Zhu Pingan had been observing them, they subconsciously let out a sigh of relief when they heard their question, and when answering the question their facial expressions as well as the tone of their voices and body language did not show any trace of lying.
Based on the nervous behaviour of these two coroners just now, if they had lied, it would not have escaped their eyes.
“Hmm.”
Zhu Pingan nodded at his words, his heart was more certain, and his eyebrows stretched a few points. These first ranks were just fine for this year’s chopping.
What kind of question is this?
The crowd was puzzled, not understanding why Zhu Pingan would ask this question, in their opinion Zhu Pingan’s question was completely irrelevant to this case.
Zhao Qiu, Zhao Dai Ying and other people in the know couldn’t help but look at Zhu Pingan with contempt, I thought you Zhu Pingan was asking what question, but it turned out to be this one. We were worried for nothing and thought you were asking some tricky questions.
You think we are stupid ah, the year of the first level is easy to distinguish, must be quicklime or, grass ash or, save the effect of the first level is not absolute, in front of the time is also to be greatly discounted, shrivelling, rotting deterioration and so on inevitably, a year a kind, a little experienced people can easily distinguish a year, two years, three years of the first level. Therefore, in order to be on the safe side, they naturally use this year’s first grade to replace.
Anyway, the Ministry of Punishment had enough replacements for this year’s heads, so why take the risk.
Therefore, upon hearing Zhu Pingan’s question, Zhao Da Ying and the others were not worried at all. Because, these first ranks were originally captured last year.
“Ta-Jen Zhao, would you please confirm that these first ranks are your captures from last year?”Zhu Pingan turned to look at Zhao Dajing beside him and reached out his hand in a gesture of invitation.
When Zhao Dajing heard this, he turned his gaze towards Zhu Pingan as if he was looking at an idiot.
If there were other questions, Zhao Dajing would have thought about it for a while, but as for this question asked by Zhu Pingan, Zhao Dajing did not even need to think about it, and replied with great certainty, “Naturally, it was captured by this official.”
“Is Lord Zhao sure?”Zhu Pingan asked.
“Naturally sure, each of these heads was personally captured by this official, how could I be mistaken.”Zhao Dajing gave a cold smile and returned with an arrogant face.
