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

On the other hand, Heifu and Jiying have been taken to the county jail by warders since they came to Anlu County, but they are not cells, but guest houses in the county jail. It is said that this is specially prepared for their "self-confession". The room is not big, but it's still clean. There are two straw mats on the ground, which can let them rest, but they can't walk around at will. Someone has to keep an eye on the porch (toilet), and two meals a day are available-of course, they are just the roughest rice.

Ji is very upset. When Heifu reposes, he has been pacing back and forth, worried about this and that. After a while, he suddenly asks:

"Brother Heifu, do you think that Dr. Xi can handle the case impartially?"

"It should be possible ..." Heifu replied casually, lying on the straw mat.

He was also slightly surprised when he heard "Xi"' s self-registration number. I remember the TV program in the past life said that the biggest discovery of Yunmeng Qin bamboo slips was not the letter written by Heifu to his family, but the full excerpts of Qin law in the coffin of Anlu county officials named "Xi", which opened the door to the Qin Dynasty for archaeologists ...

Except for the scattered more than 1000 pieces of bamboo slips that I like to transcribe by hand, there are no other valuable funerary objects in the coffin. It can be seen that this is a civil servant who loves his job.

Such a person, should not bend the law?

It's funny. Now, Heifu can only pin his hopes on the fairness and justice of Qin Law.

It was already dark, and the two of them fell asleep in a daze. Unexpectedly, someone suddenly pushed the door outside!

Heifu got up quickly, and the faint light was scattered from the outside, but he saw a kindly-looking beadle in soap clothes, holding a pen and cutting it, and his costume was simply a replica of the "figurine of civil servants" in the Terracotta Warriors.

Seeing Ji Ying and Heifu salute him, the petty official said with a smile, "Don't bother. I'm just a petty official fighting for food, not an official. Please sit down and talk."

So Heifu and Ji Ying knelt on the straw mat. The warder who called himself "Le" sat opposite them, put a small wooden frame for fixing bamboo slips on the case, lit the oil lamp, yawned, and started the routine inquiry.

What you ask is nothing more than the names, identities, native places of Heifu and Jiying, and most importantly, whether they have any criminal records before!

"No, never!" Ji Ying shook his head into a rattle.

Heifu also said that there are three brothers in his family, all of whom are good citizens and have never done any Outside the Law.

"I wish I didn't." Smile happily on your face, but what you can say makes people shudder.

"If there is a former sin and it is deliberately concealed, it will be very bad for you after the county magistrate informs the township and village!"

Two people still say that they have not broken the law, but they have never mentioned their pleasure.

After a while, Heifu couldn't resist and asked, "Senior official, I'm here to serve in the county. The deadline is the first day of October. If we miss the service period ..."

Le gave him a reassurance: "Don't worry about the service. The county magistrate has sent a document to the county commandant to explain the situation. You can cooperate well with the trial."

Le also told them that after the information asked today was recorded, it would be sent to their place of origin for verification, and the township and village would be asked to give a written reply, which is called the "book". Not only the plaintiff, but also the defendant. After their identities are confirmed, the formal trial will begin.

The husband said, "Dare to ask the superior officials, when will the trial be held?"

Le said with a smile, "The origin of the thief's confession is not far away, just in the neighboring county. It only takes two days for the book to go back and forth. If there is no accident, the interrogation can begin in three days. At that time, as a self-report, you will go to court with the person you told, explain the incident, list witnesses and material evidence, and then cross-examine each other ... "

Black one leng, huh? This emotional trial of the state of Qin is to let the defendant and the plaintiff fight each other, and the court will sit in silently before making a decision.

At that time, both parties involved in the lawsuit will have to act as their own lawyers, arguing with each other?

This is what Heifu didn't expect. His impression of ancient cases is that the blue sky'm in all kinds of ancient costume TV dramas beats the gavel, and the board with thick arms hits the prisoner ...

In the end, when the beadle left, he dropped a sentence.

"At that time, you just need to truthfully state, absolutely can't lie! Remember, remember! "

After the door was closed again, Ji Ying began to worry, because although he had listened to some laws of popular science of township petty officials, he remembered clearly how much he had to pay a fine for what he had committed, but he never sued anyone and went to court.

"What should I do?" He looked at Heifu and asked.

"Cold salad!"

The husband fell asleep.

From this point of view, the state of Qin is famous for its legalism, and it has its own rules in judging cases, rather than fooling around according to the personal preferences of officials.

Not to mention the fact that his own side is right, he said that when he was in the Police Academy in his past life, he had attended the torture class, but he also went to the court to attend many times, so he confronted the defendant. He was afraid of a bird!

For a moment, Heifu was looking forward to the "interrogation" three days later.

……

In the imagination of ordinary people, the ancient trial is probably like this:

Outside the county government, there are a sea of people. Above the lobby, a plaque with the words "Spiegel Hanging High" is hung in the middle. Below, the magistrate is seated, wearing his black-and-white hat, and there are three hay cutter of dragon, tiger and dog in the hall. When the prisoner was brought up, the officials on both sides shouted "Mighty", and Mr. Qingtian slapped the gavel, pointing to the prisoner, saying, "Beat him 300 times first!" ……

However, when he arrived at the "interrogation prison", that is, the day he met in court, what Heifu saw was this:

The trial was not held in the yamen of the county temple, but arranged in the county jail separated by a wall. Inside the county jail was a prison and outside was a purlin. From the outside, it's a narrow courtyard, with no official style at all. It's just the pavement paved with stones, and even the fallen leaves are cleaned up.

After entering the purlin, Heifu found that there was no place where people could beat the drum and voice their grievances, and it was not open to the public. A "Lao Li", that is, an earthen screen, was blocked in the population, painted white on it, and a few lines of Qin seal characters were written in ink.

Heifu is literate, otherwise, how can he go to the barracks and write letters to his family? But see that the above article is called "The Way to Be a Official".

"Every official should be honest, prudent and firm, careful and selfless, careful and meticulous, quiet, not harsh, and careful ..."

Then there are the "five virtues" and "five losses" ... This is the requirement of the state of Qin for big and small officials, translated into vernacular, that is, to be honest in performing official duties, to be loyal to their duties, to prohibit jobbery, to be close to the people, to be an official, to eliminate the evils and promote the interests of the people, and so on, which should be similar to the contents of Several Guidelines for Honest Politics of Leading Cadres of the Communist Party of China.

In short, seeing Heifu become speechless, this is still the legendary "sudden Qin Dynasty?"

"I hope today's trial officials can really do these things."

Under the guidance of the warder "Le", Hei and Ji Ying bypassed the screen and stepped into the main hall, only to find that the judge sitting in the hall was not Anlu County Magistrate and Xiancheng, but the jailer! Today, he is dressed in black, wearing a tiara, sitting upright, very imposing.

Seeing this person, a big stone in Heifu's heart suddenly fell to the ground. Listening to the jailer's joy, this happy doctor is notoriously impartial in Anlu County, and he relies heavily on Xiancheng. Difficult cases will be handed over to him as his agent. If he tries the case, there should be no problem, right?

At this time, Xi was already trying the case of "robbing the merchant Bao". When Heifu and them were brought into the hall, it happened that the merchant Bao went to the villages and towns on the day he confessed, and he was robbed by thieves along the road nine miles away from Huyang Pavilion, and fled in fear.

Then, it was the turn of three thieves in chains to kneel under the hall and state their criminal facts.

The big campus man who had fought with Heifu first confessed, "My name is Pan, a scholar in Jingling County, and I live in a certain village. I was drafted into the army in February last year, and went to fight in the northern state of Zhao. Because of the heavy rain, I was afraid to travel far, so I fled. Then I stole into Yunmengze and got to know three other people. As businessman Pan said, I didn't commit any other crimes."

Ling County, one of the 18 counties in Nanjun, faces Anlu County across Yunmengze. When the big fellow was making a statement, the officials sitting on the left and right sides of the hall were holding pens to remember in the sand on the wooden slips and bamboo slips. That earnest effort, like the recorder in the court of later generations, will record all the words and deeds of the criminal, and then put them in storage as archives. Most of the Qin bamboo slips unearthed in later generations are similar things.

The chief judge Xi didn't interrupt Pan during his statement, but kept writing on the bamboo slips until he finished, and then asked, "Is there any other crime except this robbery of merchant Bao?"

Pan hesitated and said, "No!"

At this moment, Ji Ying turned to Heifu and muttered, "I remember that day, didn't he say that there were several lives on his hands …"