Chapter 2906 Evil Man
Feng Dashan was kicked so hard that he screamed, "No, no kidding. There were probably seventy or eighty people like this. I didn't count them. I'll count to fifty..."
Bai Shan: ...
Everyone: ...
Unexpectedly, he failed in counting. It seems that in addition to teaching people propriety, integrity, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, we also have to teach them to count.
Bai Shan reached out and rubbed his forehead.
Those who hang out with Jia Dalang are not good people, and they often do a lot of stealing and shady things.
It took a lot of time just to confess these things. Bai Shan felt that Jia Dalang's men were probably selected from those who usually hung out with them.
Because he asked very detailed questions, he wrote down the names of all the thugs he had heard of who liked to steal and cheat like them.
Then he put the man in jail. He also instructed County Lieutenant Dong, "Don't put him in the same cell, put him in the side cell. Be nice to him tonight. Hmm, give him a chicken leg to eat."
Jia Dalang and others who were tied up and thrown into the cell were only given a black steamed bun and very thin porridge when they had their meal in the cell. However, Feng Dashan opposite them not only had dry rice, but also a big chicken leg on it. They knew something was wrong even with their toes.
Someone immediately rushed to the cell door and excitedly asked Feng Dashan across from him, "Have you confessed? Have you confessed?"
Feng Dashan was startled and shrank back, holding the bowl. He was far away from them. Two knives were hanging over his head, and he felt terrified. He said in fear, "Even if I didn't confess, they would know everything. Why do you think we were arrested? Because someone informed on us. Someone told the county magistrate everything we did!"
Jia Dalang asked with hatred, "Who is the informer?"
Feng Dashan: "I don't know. The county magistrate didn't say..."
Jia Dalang asked, "What did you confess?"
A yamen runner came over with a wooden stick and banged hard on the cell door, shouting, "What are you arguing about? If you're not hungry, give me some food. Don't talk to me or pass on any information."
He threatened Feng Dashan emphatically, knocking fiercely on his door and saying, "If you keep talking nonsense, I won't be torturing you in the main hall. You haven't been to our torture room yet, have you? Behave yourself!"
Feng Dashan was frightened, so no matter how much Jia Dalang and the others asked, he huddled in the corner like a quail, not daring to say a word, and couldn't even eat.
The rice with the chicken drumstick was placed on the ground. Several prisoners in the nearby cells couldn't bear to see it and squeezed to the door and said to him: "Hey, coward, if you don't want to eat the rice, give it to us."
"Exactly, what a waste to leave it alone."
"You're eating the food you got for betraying your brother," Da Heizi, who was in the same cell as Jia Dalang, couldn't help but shout, "Aren't you afraid of choking to death?"
Feng Dashan shrank back a little tighter, muttering, "Don't blame me. Even if I didn't tell him, the county magistrate would have known. He had to know anyway..."
Jia Dalang and the others still heard it. Their hearts sank when they heard it, and they looked at each other.
Yes, if they don’t tell Bai Shan, how can he not know?
There were too many people involved in that incident at the time, and Feng Dashan also confessed. I don't know how much he knew or how much he said.
Jia Dalang felt a little regretful. There were too many people participating at that time and it was too difficult to control them.
The next day, Bai Shan began to interrogate them, bringing them out one by one. However, those who had been interrogated were not put back into prison. Instead, they were taken to the yard and made to kneel. Every new person who was brought out could see the person kneeling there when they walked through the county government yard.
Seeing their pale faces, no one knew how much they had said, so when Bai Shan interrogated them again, more and more of them fell down. Finally, when it was Jia Dalang's turn to be interrogated, the five people kneeling in the yard all had pale faces and were already shaky.
Bai Shan found out a lot of things in the morning. Jia Dalang's affair involved more than one village. He had brought disaster to the village and harmed more than 300 households in the other two villages around.
This is a major and important case, especially judging from the confessions of the five people. I will skip lunch and continue the interrogation.
County Magistrate Fang and others were also alarmed and came over to watch.
County Magistrate Dong had the ugliest expression on his face. County Magistrate Fang and Chief Secretary Song also kept looking at him. With such a big incident happening, it was obvious that County Magistrate Dong had been derelict in his duty.
Even to County Magistrate Lu, who had already been promoted and left...
After watching County Magistrate Dong, Chief Clerk Song looked at County Magistrate Fang and said gloatingly, "Come to think of it, County Magistrate Fang has the responsibility of assisting the County Magistrate. For what happened in Dajing Village, County Magistrate Fang should also bear some responsibility, right?"
County Magistrate Fang said nothing.
County Magistrate Dong glanced at Song Zhubu. He and Song Zhubu had originally had a good relationship. Although their interactions had become a little colder recently because he was favored by Bai Shan, they did not hate each other.
But at this moment, County Magistrate Dong decided to hate Chief Secretary Song.
Song Zhubu had no idea that he had lost a friend with just a word or a glance, and he was still watching Bai Shan try the case with great interest.
Go ahead and try him, and in the end, the radish will be pulled out along with the mud, and the county magistrate Lu in Qingzhou City will also be pulled out.
Humph, smart and capable, with outstanding political achievements?
There is such a bandit nest under your rule, which has been causing trouble to the village for many years. How can you be considered smart and capable?
Even if County Magistrate Lu would not be dismissed from his post, his career would at least be cast under a dark cloud, and it would not be so easy for him to be promoted in the future.
Song Zhubu felt that although this matter might not benefit himself, it would definitely harm others, and the ones harmed were his enemies, which was enough to make him happy.
Jia Dalang was forced to kneel on the ground. Bai Shan took a sip of tea, raised his eyes and glanced at him, then lowered his head to flip through the other people's confessions, closed them and asked, "Confess?"
Jia Dalang sneered, "Your Excellency has already interrogated them. They know everything they need to know. What difference does it make whether you interrogate me or not?"
When he came in just now and saw the expressions of the people kneeling in the yard, he knew that most of them had confessed. Not to mention the long-term consequences, the fact that they had become bandits was enough to cost them their lives, not to mention that he had killed people.
Others might still have a chance to survive, but he definitely didn't.
Since we are all going to die, does it make any difference whether we recruit him or not?
Bai Shan nodded, waved to the clerk who was recording the confession, and simply leaned back in the chair behind him and said, "Then let's chat."
He said, "You are obviously aware of your crime, and this county has no preferential treatment for you. However, you are only alive once, and you are about to die. I don't mind taking a moment to listen to your story."
He said, "This county also wants to know how you grew up to be such a wicked person."
Jia Dalang no longer had the gentle demeanor he had shown in front of Bai Shan two days ago. He raised his head and bared his teeth at him, saying, "Of course, the father is evil and the son is evil. My father is an evil man, so of course the son he gave birth to is also an evil man."
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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