The first navigator of the Ming Dynasty

"Meet my lord, I'm a butcher Zhang!" As

a neutral voice came from outside the door, a middle-aged man dressed in a yacha uniform with a face full of meat stepped into the hall of the judge. This person is tall and strong, but he is actually a little fat. He walks slightly awkwardly, but has sharp eyes.

Zheng Hai looked back at the fat and strong Qi Zuo, just opposite the four eyes of the Qi Zuo, and the two pairs of sharp eyes locked on each other at the same time.

Zheng Hai and the butcher Zhang were stimulated by each other's sharp eyes at the same time, and they actually competed with each other in the air. Both of them refused to admit defeat to each other, staring into each other's eyes all the time, not blinking, not bowing their heads.

Zheng Hai was relaxed, with a slight smile on his face. He seemed to be competing with Ma Huan to see who would blink first when he practiced sniper aiming with Ma Huan before.

Ge Xin, the chief judge in the court, didn't seem to have heard of the butcher Zhang, so he tilted his head and whispered to Governor Zhao beside him: "Doesn't this work have a name? Why is it called Butcher Zhang?"

The governor replied in a low voice: "Lord Ge, the old man who used to be the butcher died last winter, and this butcher Zhang is the assistant and apprentice of the old man. For he was a butcher himself, as the brothers of the judge had called him. I got used to it, but I forgot his original name, so I always called him that!"

When Ge Xin asked the governor beside him, the eye confrontation between Zheng Hai and the butcher Zhang continued, and the two refused to admit defeat to each other, and they were secretly competing.

The butcher looked at each other angrily, his eyes were round, and the flesh on his face was squeezed away, and he looked fierce and vicious.

Zheng Hai smiled faintly, his eyes still staring sharply at him.

"I see!" Ge Xin listened to the governor's introduction, slightly relieved, and asked softly: "How is this person's ability to inspect?"

"Lord Huige, he is not inferior to the old man's work, and even surpasses it! The most admirable thing is that his eyes are extremely sharp, and no clue can escape his eyes, like divine eyes!"

Governor Zhao was full of confidence, and added: "Even the envoy Chen, Lord Chen, praised him for his unparalleled eyes. Said that his eyes were like... It's like the fiery eyes of the monkey in the storyteller's mouth!" After

listening to the governor's explanation, Ge Xin turned around, and then he realized that the prefect and the suspect were actually looking at each other in the hall.

I saw beads of sweat oozing from the butcher's forehead, and his face was a little pale.

And Zheng Hai was still silent, his face was as usual, still with a shallow smile.

Ge Baishi, who was dressed in a green robe, knocked on the startled wood three times in succession, and reminded loudly: "Why are you two so rude! Above the lobby, you dare to ignore the official, you are guilty!"

"This person must be a very vicious person!" I looked at him, and he didn't even avoid my divine

eyes, and I..." Ge Xin, the judge, was a little curious, and asked anxiously: "Tell me quickly, how are you?"

"I am defeated! His eyes are more terrible than mine!" Zhang stood there and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said in an extremely affirmative tone: "He must be a murderer, and he has killed many people!

In the hall, several officials who had just arrested and escorted Zheng Hai nodded one after another, thinking deeply. Someone muttered in a low voice: "It seems that Ge San is not wrong, this person is very skilled, and it is extremely dangerous!" "

Fortunately, he has always been very cooperative..."

The governor of the jury also whispered to the presiding judge, Ge Xin: "My lord, my eyes are like a torch, and this prisoner is very likely to have done a lot of evil

!" "How can you decide a case based on just a false guess!" Ge Xin softly rejected the governor's judgment, and then knocked on the alarm again: "Silence! Silence!"

Zheng Hai breathed a sigh of relief, and he could hear the words of everyone in the hall and the hall clearly.

He didn't expect that he would have such a negative evaluation of himself when he competed with the butcher Zhang's eyes on a whim! He

was really a little afraid that as soon as the investigation of this case began, he would be directly labeled as a vicious criminal, and this would be harmful to him!

Zheng Hai secretly rejoiced: Fortunately, the presiding judge was a person who knew right from wrong and had a clear sense of what

was wrong"Your Excellency, the two floating corpses of the Taiye Pool have been brought!" Several

officials carried two wooden planks to the small courtyard outside the lobby and prayed to the presiding judge.

Two wooden planks were covered with straw mats that covered the two corpses below, but one end of the straw mat was not completely covered, revealing black shoes and night clothes.

Ge Xin, the presiding judge, said to him: "Butcher Zhang, please examine these two bodies again."

Ge Xin said to the official next to him: "Governor Zhao, can you verify with him whether what the prisoner said is true?"

Zhang, who was a butcher, walked out of the lobby and came to the small courtyard where the body was parked in the ya, and lifted the straw mat.

I saw that the two corpses were all dressed in black night clothes, and only the face showed slightly pale skin, which was obviously caused by being soaked in water.

He had already experienced corpses before, and that was after the floating corpses were recovered. But at this time, in order to cooperate with the trial of the case, he repeated the standard procedure of conducting the autopsy one by one.

"The first male, a man in black with a long face and thin eyebrows, a long body... Unidentified, wearing a black night suit, black cloth shoes... There was a fatal wound on the back of the neck, judging by the shape of the wound, it should have been a sharp knife..."

, the butcher Zhang recounted the characteristics of the body in detail, and the governor and the official in charge of recording the body compared Zheng Hai's testimony one by one.

Zhang Youdao, who was a butcher, said: "The second male, with rough facial features, thick eyebrows and a big beard... Unidentified, dressed in a black night suit, black cloth shoes... There were two fatal wounds on his body, one on the back of the skull and one on the abdomen..."

After the governor and the official in charge of the records and the butcher Zhang Yiyi verified, they returned to the lobby and replied: "Tell your lord, what the prisoner said is accurate and there is nothing missing!"

Ge Xin, the envoy of the prosecution, nodded to the governor and the others, and breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't expect that the first time the case was tried alone would be so smooth.

He gently lifted the startling wood, knocked it down hard, and said loudly: "In this case, the facts of this case are clear. The prisoner Zheng Hai has already confessed, and the fact that Zheng Hai killed and dumped his body is clear. This is the end of the Taiye Pool floating corpse case..."

"Wait a minute!" Zheng Hai suddenly interrupted.

Ge Xin was stunned for a moment, his eyebrows couldn't help but be slightly raised, his lips were tightly closed, and his face was a little unhappy. He asked impatiently: "Prisoner Zheng Hai, what else do you have to say?" Zheng

Hai humbly asked: "My lord, I want to ask you a question, I wonder if my lord can give me a satisfactory answer?"

A murderer asked the presiding judge a question, and everyone in the hall was stunned, and then their faces showed playful expressions.

The officials turned their heads to look at each other, their eyes full of novelty.

Ge Xin exchanged glances with his colleagues in the jury, the governor, the inspector and other officials. They all thought it was funny, and at the same time they were curious about what Zheng Hai wanted to ask.

"If you ask, if the official knows, he will know everything!" Ge Xin smiled and replied.

"There are two laws governing the trial of criminal cases in our hometown: one is called confession leniency, and the other is called legitimate defense. I don't know if there is a similar statement here?" Ge

Xin carefully read Zheng Hai's words, feeling that these words gave people a refreshing and familiar feeling, but he couldn't tell where they came from or which classics they were cited.

Ge Xin looked dazed and asked with some curiosity: "Where does this statement come from? What is 'confession leniency' and 'legitimate defense'?"

Zheng Hai explained seriously: "Confession and leniency means that if a prisoner who violates the law confesses frankly and truthfully confesses the facts of the crime he has done, he can be exempted from criminal responsibility and given a lenient sentence..."

Ge Xin listened to Zheng Hai's explanation, nodded slightly in agreement, and muttered softly: "The law? It's the law, and although his words are a little strange, his ideas are good

! It's just...""Ridiculous! ridiculous!ahahaha!" Before Ge Xin could reply to Zheng Hai, the governor of the jury laughed and said: "It turns out that you took the initiative to confess the murder in order to reduce the punishment, it's really ridiculous! There is such a ridiculous prisoner, ahahaha, I am laughing to death..."

The other officials

and officials of the jury in the hall all laughed in low voices, and some whispers came from time to time:

"So he had this idea

...""This fool actually wants to reduce the punishment with

this...""There is such a stupid prisoner, Lord Ge is handling the case for the first time, this is really lucky

...""That's it, there is such a stupid prisoner in the world..."

"Silence!"

Ge Xin knocked on the alarm again, and then everyone in the lobby closed their mouths, and the room was quiet again.

The presiding judge, Ge Xin, looked at Zheng Hai again and said solemnly: "This official judges the case in strict accordance with the "Da Ming Law". According to the "Da Ming Law", there is no such situation of extrajudicial favor, and the official cannot obey the order. In addition, after the verdict of this case is announced, the case file will be sent to the Criminal Department, if you want to be lenient, you have to see the approval from above!"

Zheng Hai sighed and shook his head.

Although he knew that it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to have such a humane clause, he still said this concept. It's just a matter of giving it a try, but of course it would be nice if we could spread the advanced ideas of the 21st century a little...

However, how could it be so easy for the ancient traditional feudal ideology to break the shackles? Therefore, he was slapped in the face by reality in seconds!

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Note:

Shocking wood: A square piece of hardwood, with horns and edges, takes the meaning of "rules," and has the effect of solemnizing the law, strengthening the authority of officials, and deterring the person being tried.

Its official name is: "Qi Beat", or "Boundary Fang", "Fu Ruler", etc., and the name varies according to the identity of the holder. Usually the civil officials are called "Shocking Wood", the military attaché is called "Shocking Tiger Courage", the prime minister is called "Zuo Chaogang", the emperor is called "Zhenshanhe", and the queen (concubine) is called "Fengxia"...