Chapter 896 Case closed

Cai Que received Chen Anmin's confession and was secretly happy. The opportunity to defeat the prime minister and become famous in the world came.

The person who was interrogating the case with him was Deng Runfu, the censor Zhongcheng, who had always criticized Cai Que's actions. Now Cai Que came excitedly to tell him that Chen Anmin had confessed, and specially invited him to go with him to tell Zhao Xu.

Deng Runfu didn't realize it was a trap at all. He told Cai Que, "I don't dare to go to the palace," and advised Cai Que not to disturb Zhao Xu.

On the other hand, Deng Runfu took advantage of the opportunity of giving a lecture to Zhao Xu to accuse Cai Que of messing around, and took the opportunity to tell Zhao Xu: "There is a lot of injustice in Xiangzhou Prison, and Dali Temple has never accepted bribes. But Cai Que went deep into the prison, and the branches were endless."

"

"Dou Ping and Ping are both officials of the court. They are all stripped of their skin. They all accuse themselves of injustice. I beg to be reunited as soon as possible."

Shangguan Jun, the supervisor of the censor Li Xing, also wrote a letter saying that Dou Ping and others were tortured to extract confessions in Yushitai Prison.

Zhao Xu was "very surprised", so when Cai Que came to see Zhao Xu a day later, preparing to report Chen Anmin's confession and Prime Minister Wu Chong's suspicion of being entrusted, he walked to the palace gate and was told by the gatekeeper that the emperor refused to see him.

he.

Later, Cai Que received an edict from Zhao Xu: "I heard that the imperial censor's inspection of the Prime Minister's Department of Justice was inappropriate, so I sent Huang Lu of the Jianyuan to engage in an affair with Wang Zhongzheng of the imperial medicine academy. According to the ban, I asked him about his money to verify whether there was any difference.

”

This was the last line of defense established in the laws of the Song Dynasty to prevent unjust and wrongful convictions - in all criminal cases involving a prison sentence or above, the "interrogation" process must be initiated after the court trial.

The so-called interrogation is a process in which a judge who did not participate in the trial and does not have to recuse himself according to the law will check the case, interrogate the defendant, read the charges, check the confession, and ask the defendant whether the confession is true.

However, officialdom's routines are unfathomable. In order to deal with all this, Cai Que had already made clever arrangements and designed smoke bombs.

When Zhao Xu sent Huang Lu from the Admonition Academy and Wang Zhongzheng from the Royal Pharmacy Academy to come for questioning, Zhou Xiaogong, Pan Kai and other suspects, except Dou Ping, were still complaining about injustice, saying that "eighteen things out of ten" in the original confession

Except for "Xu", the rest of the people were all submissive.

Huang Lu and Wang Zhongzheng looked at each other. No matter what, they never imagined that this would be the case. In such a controversial case, the prisoners would just say yes no matter what they were asked. This situation is really rare.

We had no choice but to examine everyone's bodies, because Deng Runfu had previously reported that Cai Que was tortured.

Upon inspection, it was found that this was not the case at all. "There were no traces of torture." Obviously, these people had not been severely tortured.

What Deng Runfu said before now seems to be completely untrue.

So after Huang Lu and Wang Zhongzheng finished their questioning, they went back and reported to Zhao Xu, saying that except for Dou Ping, no one else had retracted their confessions, and there were no traces of torture on Dou Ping himself. In other words, Deng Runfu's words

, with moisture.

So Zhao Xu in turn began to be dissatisfied with Deng Runfu and others, thinking that they were spreading rumors about Cai Que.

Things took a turn for the worse. Cai Que took the opportunity to cry and wrote to Zhao Xu to sue Deng Runfu and Shangguan Jun, saying that they knew Chen Anmin had petitioned to be in power, but they deliberately tried to excuse him and "feared the ministers to judge, so they made a fuss."

The words are used to hurt the minister."

In the last interrogation, the two men "intended to induce the criminals to interpret their opinions, but the criminals had nothing to say." Huang Lu and Wang Zhongzheng sent by His Majesty can fully testify for me.

So Zhao Xu dismissed Deng Runfu from his position as censor Zhongcheng and went out to Fuzhou on the grounds that "the report was untrue and the constitution was wrong.

On the grounds that "I don't have any duty to examine the knowledge, I am just a friend. I only want to read the facts, but I don't know what to say." As an excuse, Shangguan Jun was relieved of his duty of supervising the censor Li Xing and left to know Guangze County.

As a result, Cai Que was promoted again and appointed as the official Youjianyi and Quan Yushi Zhongcheng.

And what is the truth? It turns out that Cai is indeed not simple. He knows that there will be an interrogation process later, so he drags these people out every now and then to conduct interrogation simulation exams.

If someone overturns the verdict, I'm sorry for failing the exam. I'll go back and beat him up, continue the abuse, and then retake the exam.

After going through the second model and the third model, they kept simulating the interrogation process. In the end, Chen Anmin and others were conditioned to react. No matter how much you asked, the case would not be overturned.

Who knows if this is a real exam or a simulation?

So when the emperor sent someone to actually start the exam, nothing could be asked.

And Cai did know that someone would definitely snitch on him about this case.

This requires Zhao Xu to determine that the small report is untrue.

How to do it?

The best way to make someone else's truth lose credibility is to add a little bit of falsehood to that person's truth, which greatly reduces the credibility of the whole truth.

Cai Que was so coquettish that he didn't even open his mouth, allowing Deng Runfu and Shangguan to fall into his trap.

It turns out that the torture and torture that Deng Runfu heard at night at the Yushitai was not an interrogation of Dou Ping and others, but a smoke bomb deliberately released by Cai Que.

He deliberately misled Deng Runfu, making him think that he was torturing Dou Ping and others, but in fact he was arranging for Yushitai officials to interrogate prisoners in other cases.

After overcoming the stumbling blocks around him and establishing his own prestige, Cai Que began to attack more "relevant people".

First, the interrogation of the "Pan Kai bribery case" began, and Chen Anmin's nephew, Wen Jifu, the Dali Temple judge, was arrested.

Wen Jifu was frightened and confessed that he had reported the matter of Dali Temple's review of the Xiangzhou case to his father-in-law, Prime Minister Wu Chong, who also promised to pay attention to the matter.

This confession is consistent with Chen Anmin's. Moreover, Wen Jifu also confessed that he had asked Dr. Taichang Wu Anchi to inquire about the Xiangzhou case.

Immediately afterwards, Cai Que also arrested Liu Fengshi, the prosecutor of Zhongshu Prison who had previously not supported his work, and threatened him: The judge of Dali Temple has confessed that he acted under your orders, and you still don't plead guilty?

Liu Fengshi was suspicious and said that he had indeed been entrusted by Wu Anzhi.

Why did Liu Fengshi accept Wu Anzhi's request? It turns out that Liu Fengshi used to serve in the Privy Council, and was the subordinate of Privy Councilor Wu Chong. After Wu Chong paid homage to the Prime Minister, he petitioned to transfer Liu Fengshi to the punishment room of Zhongshu and serve as a prosecutor.

job.

Wu Anchi was the son of Wu Chong and the son-in-law of the former prime minister Wang Anshi.

Another big fish was caught.

At this point, Cai Que targeted Wu Anchi and petitioned to arrest Wu Anchi for questioning.

However, Emperor Shenzong took into account the identity of Prime Minister Wu Chong and did not agree to arrest him. He was "specially exempted from pursuing and photographing", and the Mining and Surveying Institute "sent people to ask questions."

Wu Anzhi feared that he would be arrested and imprisoned, so he admitted that he had asked Liu Fengshi for help.

Also implicated was Han Zhongyan, son of former prime minister Han Qi and deputy envoy to the Third Department at the time.

Because at that time, in order to take care of Han Qi, the imperial court specifically let Han Zhongyan know Xiangzhou so that he could take care of his old father. His signature was on the judgment of the Xiangzhou case.

After Cai Que sorted it out, the case became as follows:

When Chen Anmin was the signing judge of Xiangzhou, he presided over the case and the judgment was inappropriate;

And because he was afraid that the old case would be refuted, he asked his nephew, Dali Temple Judge Wenji, for help.

Wen Ji was invited by Chen Anmin and entrusted it to his brother-in-law, Wu Anchi, the son of Prime Minister Wu Chong.

Wu Anzhi was entrusted with the task and asked Liu Fengshi, the prosecutor of Zhongshu Prison who was closely related to the Wu family, to help.

Liu Fengshifu hinted that the Dali Temple judge ruled that the Xiangzhou case was not homicide by accident.

Dali Temple judges Dou Ping and Zhou Xiao respectfully followed Liu Fengshifeng's decree and determined that there was no fault in the original judgment of the Xiangzhou case and dismissed Zhou Qing's challenge.

The story of what happened and the chain of relationships are complete.

In May of the first year of Yuanfeng, the case was closed.

Liu Fengshi, the official official of the former prosecutor's office, was transferred to the History Museum, exempted from imprisonment, and supervised by the Chenzhou Grain and Food Institute;

Dr. Taichang Wu Anzhi seizes an official position without restraint and replacement;

Chen Anmin, the prime minister in the palace, chased an official, stopped him, and made three rounds of narration;

The deputy envoy of the Third Division, Han Zhongyan, redeemed ten pounds of copper;

Dou Ping, the chief judge of Dali Temple, chased an official and stopped;

Zhou Xiaogong, the detailed commentator of Dali Temple, and Wen Jifu, the commentator of Dali affairs, were replaced;

There are more than ten people sitting there.

Prime Minister Wu Chong petitioned to leave because his son was involved in the case. He closed the door to treat the guilty three or four times, and finally came to court at the urging of Shenzong.

After the punishment results were announced, Cai Que was still not satisfied. He led the imperial censor to oppose him many times and wrote a letter saying that Wu Anchi's punishment was too light.

The reason why Cai Que kept his eyes on Wu An was naturally because of his father Wu Chong.
Chapter completed!