Return to the great era of China's eternal emperor, the Qin Dynasty, and change the established history.

Left-handed people, also known as "left-handedness" in ancient times, are regarded as ominous by the West. Although China also thinks that the right hand is the "forehand", there is no excessive discrimination against left-handedness.

Nowadays, the fact that Heifu is a left-handed man makes the confessions of Huyang Tingchang, merchant Bao and others come to blows.

Of course, the presiding officer Xi didn't believe it easily. He also specially asked Heifu to come forward and write his name on a wooden raft.

You may not believe it, but the state of Qin, which has always been called "foolish people", has the highest literacy rate among the Seven Heroes in the Warring States Period. Although Shang Jun burned all the poems and books, he set up a "study room" to train specialized legal practitioners, which is equivalent to higher education.

In addition, small village officials are also required to be literate. If the pavilion chief and the villagers can't read and count, how can they arrange corvee for the national statistical household registration? On this basis, there is "teaching by law and learning by officials". Shang Yang once said, "Anyone who knows the laws and regulations will ask the judge. Therefore, all the people in the world know nothing about the law. " Officials are required to popularize the law among the people. My immediate happiness is that I did this job when I was young, and I received people who came to visit the Dharma every day. After the people ask questions, the judge has to write the questions on the board, cut them in half, file half of them as "Legal Questions and Answers", and let the people take them back as vouchers. In this way, word and word spread, not only the law is deeply rooted in people's hearts, but also some smart people have access to literacy.

Heifu didn't know many seal characters, but could write only a few hundred. He knelt on the ground with a pen in his left hand, and wrote the four Qin seal characters "Heifu is not guilty" on the wooden board in a stroke. This matter is no longer in doubt. If he was right-handed, the word would have been skewed to nowhere.

Just now, the merchant Bao, who just made irresponsible remarks, collapsed. He slumped to the ground with a white and bloodless face, like a pool of mud.

After that, under the sharp and repeated cross-examination, the merchant Bao repeatedly apologized and admitted the fact of perjury with the director of Huyang Pavilion.

After he opened the gap here, Xi captured the three pavilion soldiers in succession. They all confessed that they only lied because they were forced by the pavilion chief and the thief.

Finally, begging for stealing and buying also confessed, leaving Huyang Tingchang alone tongue-tied, unable to speak.

He never expected that he would lose on the simple difference between his left hand and his right hand.

It's too late to recant the confession at this time.

At this point, the truth of these two cases has come to the bottom. After a brief summary with the officials, I began to "read dysprosium (jū)" in class, that is, read the judgment.

Thus, Heifu once again saw the meticulous Qin law. Almost every crime has its corresponding punishment.

First of all, three thieves were convicted.

Pan, a campus thief, committed the crime of "death" of escaping from garrison service, and the crime of "theft and murder" of robbing and killing people for many times. Only by the latter, he was guaranteed the death penalty. Combined punishment for two crimes, Pan will be sentenced to (ZHE) punishment. After being sent back to Jingling County, where he was born, to confirm all the crimes, he will be executed in public, beheaded after splitting the body, and hung the first corpse for public display ... Just thinking about that scene, Heifu's scalp is numb.

The other two Chu thieves had better luck. They just didn't meet the crime of "group theft" of five or more people. Because they were not Qin people, the government couldn't determine their previous identities and crimes. The two also said that they had never killed anyone. Therefore, according to the ordinary "other countries die" and "theft crime", it is regarded as a city Dan. As you can imagine, in the civil engineering of Nanjun, there are two more prisoners, and there is little chance of redemption for the common people.

After that, it's the turn of Hu Yangting to blame everyone.

"Huyang Tingchang Zhen, as a government official who fights for food, should have held two feet of wooden slips and preached laws and regulations to the people under his rule, but he just knew the law, wanted to rob and cheat, and falsely accused Shiwu Heifu of hurting people. All three crimes are combined, and you should be a coward and guard the border! However, after reading that he has a knighthood, the third-class knighthood is removed to atone for his crimes, and he is given the penalty of paying for ghosts. "

Yangting Changzhen knelt on the ground, just listening to his verdict.

As soon as he became an adult, he inherited his father's title and became a respected "hairpin", but he still wanted to be promoted to the fourth level of "no watch". In that case, he could be exempted from the one-month watch service every year forever ...

So a few days ago, he trained booth soldiers in Huyang Pavilion and went out to arrest thieves, but it was always fruitless. Until that day, after hearing that the merchant Bao came to report the case, he was overjoyed, but he didn't want to be beaten to it by two small shiwu, which made him very unwilling.

It's also Zhen's eagerness for quick success and instant benefit. She was confused for a moment, and after listening to the encouragement of the thief, she planned to seize the merit and cheat the reward. But I don't want to dig a big hole for myself, and I'm involved in a lawsuit, and the trial is still impartial.

After the incident, the family also quietly arranged for him, but in the state of Qin, at least in the tooling, no one dared to openly accept bribes from bending the law. The law of Qin clearly wrote in black and white what could be done and what could not be done, and countless Qin collectors who had been influenced by the law since childhood were staring at it!

However, in the end, they found a gap: they bribed the rice delivery officials, passed on information, coerced and lured the merchant Bao, and made him cooperate with the retraction of his confession. As long as you deny that you have cheated the reward, you can win this trial if you are guilty of beating an official.

But who ever thought that before Xi scrutinized them carefully, the lies made up by these people were defeated by Heifu's clever questioning.

Zhen, who has always been proud, actually capsized in the hands of a lowly scholar Wu Qiantou!

Now, every word that Xi reads sounds like the death knell in Zhen's ears!

To shave one's hair, to tattoo one's face, and to redeem one's guilt with money. Ghost, it is the mountains for firewood, is also a kind of hard labor ...

For Tingchang Zhen, who is in her twenties and has a smooth life, this is an unacceptable result!

"I don't accept it!"

Just after hearing the verdict, Zhen blushed and shouted roughly.

"I don't accept it, I want to beg for it!"

Begging for mercy is a unique review system of Qin State. If a party refuses to accept the judgment, he can request a review within the statutory time, and the county will inform Jun Cheng of the case. If he still refuses to accept the trial of Jun Cheng, he can continue to beg for mercy, and go to Tingwei in Xianyang, where the Supreme Court will make the final judgment for a period of three months. In this way, the unjust and false cases that the county neglects to judge at the moment will have the opportunity to be vindicated by Tingwei. The most famous is that in the first year of Qin Wangzheng, there was a musician named Jiao who was framed for stealing cattle. He refused to accept it and repeatedly begged for help. In the end, he found that it was indeed a unjust case, and all those careless county judges were punished.

"Are you sure you want to beg?" Xi asked.

Zhen stiffened her neck and said, "Not bad!"

Close the bamboo slips with wet handwriting and look down at Zhen.

"What do you think, this officer's judgment is wrong?"

"Do you think you are still being wronged?"

"Do you think that Jun Cheng and Ting Wei will be extra-legal for you?"

A series of happy questioning, like thunder exploding in Zhen's ear, made his lips pale and murmured, "I don't dare, it's just, it's just this punishment, it's too heavy …"

"Too much punishment?"

Xi sighed and said, "If you didn't have the above title, you could have made up for your sins a little, and you would have been punished even more severely! And you know, if you fail to beg for help, according to the law of Qin, you will be punished more severely! At that time, the punishment will be heavier, perhaps it will be flogging and toe-cutting! "

Zhen's heart was as white as ashes. He knew that his criminal facts were conclusive, his testimony was full of holes, and he was exposed in court and recorded in the book. Even if his family's hand-eye is all over the sky, he will sue to the county and Xianyang, and there is no possibility of reversing his case, so he nods, "I confess, and dare not mention begging again ..."

After Yang Tingchang confessed, the rest of the people would be easy to handle.

As one of the principal culprits, the crime of stealing and buying is added with the crime of cheating and rewarding, and he goes to the frontier. You still have to shave your head, because this person is only a male scholar and can't atone for his sins, so it may take a long time before you can return to your hometown, which is worse than the pavilion leader of Huyang.

Pavilion pawn three, because it is an accessory, for three years, somehow don't have to leave their hometown, such as hair grow out completely, almost free. Three people hurriedly nodded gratitude, think this is a big tolerance.

The merchant Bao was similar. He was punished for "false accusation and false accusation" and "false accusation" at the same time, and was sentenced to five years as a city official. When the merchant was taken down, he cried a snot and tears, saying that if he had known this, he should not have given false testimony to the pavilion director and others.

In a word, after reading the verdict, all the people in the hall pleaded guilty and were horrified.

Black husband looked at this group of people's appearance and felt very comfortable.

Now, he feels that the charge of "false accusation against sitting" is really good. Whoever falsely accuses you of being seated will bear the same punishment as false accusation. For example, if someone falsely accuses you of killing someone, but there is no evidence, it will eventually lead to losing the case. Then wait to be beheaded. Therefore, in the state of Qin, although there is a reward for accusing you of rape, you have to weigh it carefully before telling on it.

With this law, Heifu seemed to put on an anti-injury armor. After winning the case, all the guilt bounced back to the false accuser, so the six men, although their punishments were different, all suffered from shaving their heads and imprisonment.

What do you mean, take the consequences? What is self-restraint? What do you mean, he who harms others will eventually harm himself?

This is it!

But this carefree feeling was soon diluted by the harsh reality.

When Heifu complained on the road, he really didn't expect that these people would be sentenced to such a heavy punishment, and the callousness of Xi made him see the strictness of Qin Law once again.

"That's what happens when you step on the red line. No matter how many years you have been conscientious and careful before, if you accidentally violate the law for a while, your life will be completely ruined." According to the Qin law, a person who has committed a crime shall not be appointed as an official. Although the director of Huyang Pavilion was exempted from punishment by virtue of his title, he basically missed the officialdom in this life.

When her husband was sighing, Xi called him and Jiying forward, and the two of them hurriedly dequeued.

Xi closed the verdict, took another bamboo slip from the hands of the officials, and said lightly, "This officer has finished his punishment, so it's time to say that he will reward you."

Hearing this, Heifu and Jiying looked at each other, and they all saw the joy in each other's eyes!

After so many days of litigation, I finally waited for this moment!