Chapter 33 love that died thirty years ago

In judicial trials, the tradition of ancient China is confessionism, that is, confessions and confession transcripts are used as the main and important evidence, and even as the only evidence.Because the emperor of China is too merciful, no one will be punished unless he confesses the crime himself.Therefore, how to make the defendant confess the crime is the main task of the judge.It is impossible for the defendant to admit the crime himself, especially the thousands of defendants who have been wrongly imprisoned, even if they want to admit the crime themselves, they cannot admit it.The only way for the defendant to admit to the crime himself—in ancient times it was called “confession” and today it is called “voluntary confession”—was torture.Later, when some heroes went to court and confessed their crimes, the judge was still in a dilemma.All the confessions that Gai Fan made "candidly" and "voluntarily confessed" without being tortured were suspected to be false.The confession can only be trusted if he is beaten to the point of blood and screams.

In traditional Chinese academic and political thought, there is no thought of human rights, let alone democratic thought, only the authority of the emperor and the dignity of officials.The judicial trial was filled with darkness and blood.Small people are tortured and slaughtered like pigs and sheep, so that there is a saying among the people that "you will not complain when you die."In fact, it's not just ordinary people. The fallen relatives of the emperor and high-ranking officials will suffer the same misery once they fall into the hands of "jailers".The reader must have this basic understanding before he can understand some of the bloody scenes we have faced in history.

The killer, Mr. Shi Li, arrested Ms. Feng Yuan's younger sister, Ms. Feng Xi, and Ms. Feng Yuan's widowed younger brother, Ms. Feng Junzhi, according to Mr. Liu Wu's confession, and then taught them to "confess" and "self-confess" that they were with Ms. Feng Yuan to curse The conspiracy of cursing the emperor and old lady Fu.Ms. Feng Xi was aroused by this accusation, and right in the courtroom, she scolded Mr. Shi Li for losing his conscience.Mr. Shi Li looked at it; well, you are dying; instead of begging and begging, you roared at the court, where is the dignity of the law?So, the next mobilization.Woohoo, Ms. Feng Xi, as the younger sister of the Empress Dowager Feng, is also a jade leaf with golden skills, and now she is wailing.Died under the whip.

Mr. Shi Li has tortured a few people to death, but those people are small people, he doesn't care; now he tortured the sister of the Queen Mother Feng, it would cause a big disaster.He didn't dare to deal with Ms. Feng Junzhi again, and remanded her in custody, and then used his cleverness.As mentioned earlier, the few imperial doctors who followed Mr. Zhang You to Zhongshan did not follow Mr. Zhang You back to Chang'an. Therefore, Mr. Shi Li selected one of them, Mr. Xu Suicheng. After some secret talks, Xu Suicheng Mr. promised to cooperate, to appear in court, to testify formally.Sir, please listen to his testimony.His Excellency said: "Ms. Feng Xi and Ms. Feng Junzhi once asked me in secret. They said: 'Mr. Liu Che, the seventh emperor, has a famous doctor, Mr. Xiu. He cured the emperor's illness, and the reward was only a thousand taels. Now, I heard that The emperor Liu Xin is not in good health. You once volunteered to heal him, even if he was cured. It’s just a reward for a few more money, so you can’t be a prince. Why don’t you poison him to death, and Liu Jizi, the king of Zhongshan, can be the emperor. I promise to make you a Marquis.'" This piece of testimony is vivid and true to life.And the most vicious thing is, in fact, there is indeed such a possibility.When Mr. Xu Suicheng insisted that there was such a thing, no one was sure that there was absolutely no such thing.Hey, how do you know they didn't say that?In criminal cases under confessionism rather than evidenceism, a thief bites a bite and penetrates very deeply.However, Mr. Shi Li's performance was the most popular. He pretended to be surprised and expressed ten thousand disbelief.Then, just like acting on a stage, Mr. Xu Suicheng swore to the sky, beat his chest, and cried bitterly. Every move he made was a complete campaign for the Oscars. He swore that there was not a single word he said was false.

Now it's locked up. Mr. Shi Li insisted on the spirit of "everyone is equal before the law" and sent someone to the palace to summon Ms. Feng Yuan to confront her.Ms. Feng Yuan talked eloquently, and sadly denounced Mr. Xu Suicheng's accusation, and cross-examined Mr. Xu Suicheng a little bit overwhelmed.How could Mr. Shi Li dismantle the witness's perjury? He used his trump card and sneered back: "Feng, I think you were in front of a wild bear and put your life and death at risk. How brave you are, why are you afraid of death today?" la la?" This passage was like a bolt from the blue, awakening Ms. Feng Yuan from her dream. Only then did she realize that this was not a legal case, but a political case.Vaguely, she has seen the vengeful bloody hand hidden behind Mr. Shi Li.This is not based on evidence of innocence, and legal struggles are of no avail.So, she stopped answering, stood up and returned to the official immediately (if the court had not been set up in Zhongshan, which was under her sphere of influence, she might have been detained at that time).After returning to the palace, she told the people around her: "It was the previous emperor's business to save the husband from the bear. It has been thirty years now. How can anyone still remember it? And how could Shi Li keep secrets in the palace for thirty years?" Will I know later? Obviously, someone is framed in the palace, and there is no one to save. If I don’t die, she won’t give up.” That night, she abandoned her sick young grandson with poison and died on the imperial bed.

Ms. Feng Yuan committed suicide in grief and anger. In the eyes of the killer, it was another crime: committing suicide in fear of crime.It further proves that her crime is conclusive.Ms. Feng Yuan's father, Mr. Feng Shen, was very old and only served as a senior adviser to the Western Han government (invited by the court).Mr. Liu Xin ordered him to report to the Ministry of Justice (Ruyi Tingwei), and the result of the report was predictable.He refused to accept the insult, and sighed: "Our brothers are all high-ranking officials, and we have become marquises, but now we have become rebels. It is not a pity to die. I only hate that I have no face to face my ancestors." He raised his sword and killed himself.Then Ms. Feng Junzhi, and Ms. Feng Xi's husband and son, a total of 17 people, some committed suicide, and some were tied to the execution ground and beheaded.

However, when the old lady Fu and her tail-waving system were celebrating together, the two heroes stood up and shouted for injustice.One is Mr. Sun Bao, the commander of the capital garrison (Lieutenant of Sili), who requested a public retrial.The old lady Fu was furious, and taught Mr. Liu Xinsheng to order Sun Bao to be arrested-the charge was treason.The other is Mr. Tang Lin, the secretary-general of the imperial palace (Shangshufen), who continued to argue hard.The old lady Fu couldn't believe that there were so many idiots in the world, so she demoted Mr. Tang Lin to the border of a thousand kilometers away from Chang'an in the west, and became the chief of a local bunker called "Yuze" on the border of Dunhuang (Dunhuang County, Gansu Province) .However, Mr. Zhang You made meritorious deeds and was named the lowest-ranking Marquis (Marquis of Guannei), and Mr. Shi Li was promoted to Deputy Minister of Communications (Zhongtai Pu) for his meritorious service in the trial (he didn’t even get the lowest-ranking Marquis. must be very disappointed).

Five years later, Mr. Liu Xin died.After the iceberg fell, Mr. Zhang You and Mr. Shi Li were sent to Hepu (Hepu County, Guangdong Province), a wild and smoky coastal area 1,500 kilometers south of the capital Chang'an, where they died.However, Ms. Feng Yuan and the seventeen families could no longer be resurrected.sad husband.