Chapter 244 Feng Guan appears

Deng Tongda and Zuoyi left the Han Palace. The two hurried to the Chang'an County Government and found that the coroner Feng Guan was not in the county government. Deng Tongda hurriedly ordered Zuoyi to find him at Feng Guan's house and take him to the county government. Zuoyi took the order and did not dare to neglect it. It took a short time to arrive at the coroner Feng Guan's home. The Feng family has been coroner for generations, so although they are not a wealthy family in Chang'an City, they live a prosperous life. The Feng family knew the captain of the county government in Zuoyi, led him into the living room, and hurriedly told Feng Guan who was still studying autopsy problems in the backyard. Feng Guan heard that Zuoyi came to the mansion to find him, and knew that there must be an urgent matter, so he hurriedly returned to the front hall with his family. Zuoyi didn't say much when he saw Feng Guan, so he told him to go to the county government first. Feng Guan didn't ask much, and hurriedly changed his clothes and took the things needed for the autopsy in the backyard to follow Zuoyi to the county government.

In the study of Deng Tongda in Chang'an County, Deng Tongda said Li Ke's meaning to Feng Guan standing in front of him, that is, to recommend him to Dali Temple. Feng Guan thought he had heard it wrong for a long time and did not come back to his senses. When Deng Tongda passed on Li Ke's meaning again, Feng Guan was sure that this was true. He ecstatically thanked Deng Tongda for his gratitude and thanked him for his recommendation.

Indeed, as a coroner, being a coroner in Dali Temple and Feng Guan as a coroner in Chang'an County Government are two completely different things. Deng Tongda naturally did not dare to take credit, so he told Feng Guan the words of Li Ke, and Feng Guan nodded continuously.

Then, Deng Tongda ordered the left wing to continue investigating what Li Ke ordered. He took Feng Guan away from Chang'an County and came to Dali Temple. It was naturally not difficult for Deng Tongda's Chang'an County Magistrate to meet Dai Zhou, the young minister of Dali Temple. It happened that Dai Zhou was on duty at Dali Temple today. Although he did not know Deng Tongda, Deng Tongda and Li Ke solved Qian Ning's case together in the ninth year of Wude, Dai Zhou, who was very interested in the law case, remembered Deng Tongda's name. Today, Deng Tongda asked to see Dai Zhou, so Dai Zhou naturally did not dare to neglect and brought Deng Tongda to his study.

"The lower-ranking officials, the magistrate of Chang'an County, Deng Tongda, and the coroner Feng Guan met Dai Shaoqing." Deng Tongda and Feng Guan politely said.

"Mr. Deng doesn't need to be polite." Dai Zhou said, then he turned his gaze to Feng Guan and asked Deng Tongda in confusion, "Is this what County Magistrate Deng?"

Deng Tongda had a serious expression and answered the question, "Have Dai Shaoqing ever heard of the Qian Ning case in the ninth year of Wude? The autopsy result of the coroner Feng Guan played a great role."

"What does County Magistrate Deng mean?" Dai Zhou seemed to hear Deng Tongda's implicit voice, and asked hurriedly before Deng Tongda could finish speaking.

Deng Tongda glanced at Dai Zhou with deep meaning and said in a low voice, "The Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple jointly tried the poisoning case of the queen and the imperial concubine. The cause of death of the queen's maid Xianglan is a major clue. Why don't Dai Shaoqing let Feng Guan test it? Maybe some clues can be found."

When Dai Zhou heard Deng Tongda's words about the case of the Empress and the Imperial Concubine, he knew what he was thinking. However, he was either a traitor or a thief. He did not dare to let this coroner who came from unknown origin perform a mortal. Then he said, "The body of Xianglan has been experienced and died of drowning. What else can I do to check? Is the magistrate of County Deng even trusting the examination of the imperial doctor?" Dai Zhou said this and said in a deep voice, "I appreciate the kindness of County Deng's magistrate Deng. If you have nothing else, I will not send it to you."

Deng Tongda seemed to be prepared for Dai Zhou's actions. After hearing Dai Zhou's order to expel guests, he was not angry and said with a smile, "Dai Shaoqing is proficient in law cases. He should know that the situation of the coroner's autopsy is different from that of the imperial doctor. In some cases, Dai Shaoqing will not check the cause of death of the deceased. It is just based on the coroner's autopsy. For example, the imperial doctors in the palace are all people who treat the emperor and the empress. Will they carefully examine it?"

"There is no greater prison matter than the great prose, the great prose is more important than the initial love, and the initial love is more important than the test. As the chief officer of the Dali Temple in charge of the criminal prison, Dai Shaoqing needs to be cautious in some matters and should not be too contemptuous." Deng Tongda chanted a sentence from Li Ke to Feng Guan, and said in a stern tone, "If you are humble, you will disturb Dai Shaoqing."

After Deng Tongda finished speaking, he led Feng Guan to Li Ke and Dai Zhou's study. Dai Zhou was shocked by the incisive and reasonable sentence that Deng Tongda said. He did not expect that Deng Tongda could pay for the autopsy in the prison to be so sharp. After thinking carefully, he felt that Deng Tongda's suggestion was indeed worthy. Then he called Deng Tongda who stepped out of the threshold of the study and smiled, "Mr. Deng's words made Dai Zhou wake up like a dream. I hope that Dai Zhou would not be surprised when Dai Zhou was rude just now."

Deng Tongda naturally did not dare to blame Dai Zhou for his contempt for him just now. He said it was no wonder or not. He had already pulled Feng Guan to Dai Zhou's eyes and hurriedly introduced Feng Guan to Dai Zhou. Dai Zhou heard that Feng Guan was from a coroner family, and coupled with the outstanding performance of Qian Ning's case, he had a lot of abilities in his heart.

In the end, Dai Zhou accepted Deng Tongda's suggestion and wanted Feng Guan to have an autopsy for Xianglan.

When Deng Tongda saw that Li Ke told him that the matter was done, he said goodbye to Dai Zhou and left Feng Guan in Dai Zhou's study, and left Dali Temple alone. However, when he walked out of Dai Zhou's study, he suddenly said this, "Dai Shaoqing, if Feng Guan's autopsy found that the cause of Xianglan's death was not the result of the imperial physician's examination, then what Zhang Zhong, who was in the prison of the Ministry of Justice, is worth pondering."

After Deng Tongda left Dali Temple, Dai Zhou fell into deep thought about what he had best told him. Indeed, if the cause of Xianglan's death and the imperial physician's examination were indeed worth discussing, as Deng Tongda said, Zhang Zhong's testimony should be worthy of discussion. However, Deng Tongda's words were just speculations, and Dai Zhou was not sure. He ordered the officers to prepare a car to go to the Ministry of Justice.

Because the case of the empress and the imperial concubine was jointly tried by the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple, Dai Zhou had the right to go to the corpse of the Ministry of Justice to see the body without notifying the head of the Ministry of Justice. Dai Zhou and Feng Guan went to the Ministry of Justice. The servants of the Ministry of Justice told Dai Zhou that the Minister of Justice Liu Zhenghui had entered the palace to meet the saint. Dai Zhou stopped the servants from reporting the request of the Minister of the Ministry of Justice and took Feng Guan to the morgue where Xianglan's corpse was stored.

Feng Guan's autopsy was different from the autopsy of the Dali Temple coroner. He first asked the officers about the time when the body was transported to the morgue, and asked what the officers of the Ministry of Justice did to deal with the body during this period. After the officers answered the question he asked, Feng Guan asked the officers to put the charcoal-fire brazier with charcoal fires into the brazier and put the brazier at the door, and then walked to the autopsy carefully.

Feng Guan first checked the front head, hair, top door, harbor door, hairline, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, etc. Then he turned over the body to check the back, back head, occipital part, neck, shoulder blade, spine, waist and other places one by one. Finally, he checked the soles of both feet from the maid's vagina without avoiding suspicion.

After the autopsy was over, Feng Guan stepped over the brazier with a serious expression, asked the officer to remove the brazier, and took Dai Zhou to a place where no one was left before speaking, "Dai Shaoqing, the result of the minor official's inspection is that the deceased was killed first and then pushed into the well."

"What?" Dai Zhou said in surprise. He did not expect that Feng Guan's autopsy would be so big as the imperial doctor's results. Moreover, he had seen Feng Guan's autopsy process and thought that Feng Guan's autopsy results would definitely not be wrong. There is only one possibility. The imperial doctor's autopsy results were wrong. He really didn't dare to think about such a big case. It turned out that the cause of death provided to them by the imperial doctor's autopsy was perjury.

"Are you sure?" Dai Zhou asked again.

"The little official used his head to guarantee the autopsy results!" Feng Guan said firmly, "As long as Dai Shaoqing gives the little official time, the little official may also find out the real reason for how the deceased was killed."

Silence, Dai Zhou began to remain silent. He made a decision in his heart, and Feng Guan was waiting silently for Feng Guan's reply.

After a while, Dai Zhou made a decision. He shouted to the officer of Dali Temple outside the mortar door in a stern tone, "Come on, take the body back to Dali Temple. I will check it myself!"

"No" replied the officer.

Immediately, Dai Zhou thought of what Deng Tongda told him when he finally left the study, and was shocked and ordered, "Order it and bring Zhang Zhong from the Ministry of Justice to the Dali Temple Prison."

"Dai Shaoqing, are you?" The officer from the Ministry of Justice asked hurriedly when he heard Dai Zhou's words.

"You don't have to worry, I will explain to you Shangshu Liu." After saying that, he ignored the officers and left the mortal office of the Ministry of Justice with a serious expression.

Liu Zhenghui, the Minister of Justice, did not know about Dai Zhou taking Xianglan's body away from the mortal office of the Ministry of Justice, and Zhang Zhong was taken away from the mortal office of the Ministry of Justice. Not only did Liu Zhenghui not know, but even Sun Fujia, the chief official of Dali Temple, did not know that Dai Zhou would do this. At this time, Liu Zhenghui and Sun Fujia were with the presiding judge Wei Zheng, and the three judges Li Xiaogong and Wang Gui reported to Li Shimin today's trial of Li Ke together in the imperial study room.

After listening to Wei Zheng's report, Li Shimin was silent for a while and asked, "Then how do you think this case should be tried next?"

Wei Zheng did not speak, so naturally the other four people did not dare to speak first. Wei Zheng himself pondered for a moment, sorted out his own ideas, and then said, "The authenticity of Zhang Zhong's confession still needs to be verified. Wei Chen wanted to start the investigation from the guards of the left and right prison guards of the palace gate and Qianniu Guards who guarded the palace guards that day, and also conduct a detailed investigation of the eunuchs and the empresses of the medicine kitchen, and the eunuchs and palace maids of the palace concubines in the imperial palace."

Li Shimin did not agree to his request, but asked in a deep voice, "Are you dissatisfied with the previous investigations made to the guards and the palace maids and eunuchs?"

Wei Zheng did not refute and said righteously, "I just want to do everything myself and don't want any omissions."

The reason why Li Shimin asked Wei Zheng this was that the previous investigation was conducted by Changsun Wuji in the trial. If he agreed to Wei Zheng's request, it would be equivalent to denying Changsun Wuji's previous efforts and at the same time denying Changsun Wuji's loyalty to him. However, Wei Zheng did not answer Li Shimin positively, but instead answered Li Shimin with his correct attitude of "being the king's order and being loyal to the king" from his identity as the judge, which made Li Shimin have no reason to refuse.

"Okay!" Li Shimin sighed, "Since I have appointed you to be fully responsible for this case, I will take care of you."

"I received the order!" Wei Zheng said, "Don't worry, the emperor, I have sent someone to check the source and reason for the appearance of the two things "子子 and sandalwood in the palace. The clues in the testimony of the King of Han are also being searched. I will not wrongly accuse a good person, nor will I let a bad person go."

"Okay! I believe you. If there is nothing to do, please go ahead!" Li Shimin was very conflicted about the poisoning case of Empress Changsun. When he heard Wei Zheng's words just now, he suddenly felt a little tired and couldn't help but sigh.

"Goodbye to me!" Everyone bowed to Li Shimin and withdrew from the imperial study under the leadership of Wei Zheng.

In Li Shimin's imperial study, Wei Zheng and the jury who tried the poisoning case of the empress and the imperial concubine had just left shortly after reporting. The East Palace of Crown Prince Li Chengqian received news from Wei Zheng and others in the imperial study.

Li Chengqian's smile has often been on his face recently. He just heard what Wei Zheng said to Li Shimin in the imperial study room. Li Chengqian smiled sinisterly, "Wei Xuancheng is decisive and has a bad temper. No wonder his father sent him out of the study room without listening to his continued report. But with his father's attitude, Gu really doesn't know what he was thinking? Did he find out that the poison was caused by Li Ke in the end and he didn't want to pursue it?"

"Brother, you are a little worried about it. The father doesn't want to punish Li Ke. Can the ministers in the court let him go so easily?" Li You suddenly said in a gloomy manner.

Li You got Li Chengqian's favor because he gave the detoxification medicinal herbs to the queen, and the two had a common enemy, Li Ke. Therefore, birds of a feather flocked to each other and the two of them had a close relationship recently, and Li You often appeared in Li Chengqian's East Palace.

When Li Chengqian heard Li You's words, he understood what Li You meant. Indeed, as Li You said, if it was found out that the poisoning was done by Li Ke, and Li Shimin would not deal with it, would he not be able to guide his ministers to advise Li Shimin?

"The fifth brother is right, Gu forgot this method." Li Chengqian smiled. However, then his face darkened and said, "We are indeed not lenient to Li Ke, but how should we answer Hou Ruoyi's request to Gu?"

Li Chengqian thought about the conditions that Hou Ruoyi came to the East Palace to tell him today, saying that as long as he rescued Li Ke, he would marry him. Li Chengqian knew Hou Ruoyi's affection for Li Ke, and how could he miss such an opportunity, so he agreed to Hou Ruoyi to do his best to clearly understand the suspicion and charges for Li Ke. Now, when he heard Li You's words, he thought of Hou Ruoyi and couldn't help but feel sad.

Li You glanced at Li Chengqian who was talking to himself, and showed a look of pride on his face, saying, "Brother, why should you keep Hou Ruoyi's words in your heart? He has been ordered by his father to be the crown princess. Now she has not become the crown princess because of her illness. However, according to the law of the Tang Dynasty, she is still the crown prince concubine, so what's the difference between marrying or not in her words?"

"In the past, the eldest brother married Hou Ruoyi to attack Li Ke, so now this case is enough to kill him. Why should I give up the distance and use Hou Ruoyi to attack Li Ke?" Li Ke said with a gloomy smile.

After hearing Li You's words, Li Chengqian nodded and said that he was right, and at the same time, a smile appeared on his face.
Chapter completed!