"My lord, are you planning to torture us?" Facing Xia Yunyi's "threat", the Yangzhou prefectural prosecutor and the prison warden asked at the same time.
Xia Yunyi smiled and poured himself a cup of tea: "I am only investigating the case according to the order. Whether to use torture depends on the situation."
"Master Xia, don't forget the rules of officialdom."
"What rules?"
"Doctors should not be punished!"
"If you are stripped of your official positions and honors, you will no longer be scholars and officials, right?" Xia Yunyi took a sip of tea.
The prosecutor and the prison warden stopped talking.
They wanted to use morality and rules to restrain Xia Yunyi, but Xia Yunyi could use morality and rules flexibly.
Considering his status as an imperial envoy, this trick would not work at all.
"Tell me, how did Xu Mingbi die?"
"Sir, Xu Mingbi did die by hitting his head against the wall. The jailer in the cell reported the body immediately after discovering it," the Yangzhou Prefecture prison warden spoke first. "As soon as I got the news, I rushed to the scene and sealed it off. At the same time, I informed the prosecutor, the magistrate, and the prefect Zhang of the news."
"With several adults as witnesses, the coroner in the mansion began to perform an autopsy and finally concluded that the victim died by hitting his head against the wall."
"Please investigate carefully, Your Excellency!"
"Please have a clear understanding, Your Excellency the Imperial Envoy!" After the Yangzhou Prefecture Prison Ware finished speaking, the Yangzhou Prefecture Procurator bowed deeply to Xia Yunyi and repeated.
Xia Yunyi nodded. He had read the file before, and the contents recorded in it were consistent with what the two of them said.
but...
Although the file stated that Xu Mingbi died from a head impact, it did not specify whether he hit the head himself or was pushed by someone.
The possibility of homicide cannot be ruled out.
"Are you two telling the truth?" asked Imperial Envoy Xia Yunyi.
“Every word is true.”
"What if I find out you're lying?"
"You are at my disposal."
Xia Yunyi nodded and began to ask formal questions.
He asked very detailed questions, including but not limited to the time and order of arrival of all the people involved in the case at the prison, the clothes they were wearing, and the people accompanying them.
After asking about all the details of the case, Xia Yunyi pointed to the clerk who was recording the confession and said, "Go over there and check if there are any problems with the testimony. If there are no problems, please sign and seal the testimony."
Um?
The prosecutor and the prison warden stood there in a daze.
They were already prepared to be tortured, but they didn't expect Xia Yunyi would only ask them to write and sign.
"What? Any objections?" Xia Yunyi frowned.
"No objection, I'll write it right away!" The two of them ran to the table with gratitude to check the confession.
After confirming that everything was correct and signing their seal, Xia Yunyi let them leave.
Then.
Xia Yunyi summoned all the jailers involved in the case to his side.
There were not many jailers involved in the case, only three: a prison boss and two jailers.
Xia Yunyi questioned the three people as usual, and then asked them to sign their confessions.
After the jailers left, Xia Yunyi gave an explosive order to everyone, including the accompanying personnel: take a day off!
His reasons were very good. He said that Yangzhou was prosperous and that when he first arrived there he should experience the local customs and culture.
After receiving this news, Mei Chun, the commander of the Xiaoling Guard, thought for a long time and came to a conclusion: Xia Yunyi could not find any clues and began to give up on himself.
Officials in Yangzhou Prefecture had different reactions.
"What does it mean that the Imperial Envoy allows us to take a day off?"
"Can't you see that? The case has already been determined."
"What's the meaning?"
"The imperial envoy determined that Xu Mingbi committed suicide, so he only recorded our confession without torturing us, so that he could report to his superiors."
"It seems that the so-called gods are nothing more than this!"
"Say less, we are all officials, and the unspoken rule in the officialdom is to be humble and modest. There is nothing wrong with what the Imperial Envoy did!"
A small accident happened during the break.
Xia Yunyi accidentally knocked over a candle while reading at night, causing a fire in the room.
Although the fire was quickly put out, all the confessions were burned.
In order to supplement the confession, Xia Yunyi had to re-interrogate all the people involved in the case.
Although the questions he asked were the same as the first time, he changed the order of the questions.
After the interrogation, he obtained a second confession.
Was the first confession really burned?
No!
He wanted to compare the two confessions.
In order not to arouse suspicion, he deliberately lit a fire in the room.
After comparing everyone's confessions.
Xia Yunyi found the problem.
There were some discrepancies in the testimonies of the prosecutor and other jailers, but they were not major. They mainly involved additions and deletions of details, and different ways of expression.
On the other hand, the prison wardens and the jail bosses.
Their confessions were almost identical.
Ask whatever you ask, answer whatever you ask.
There are no superfluous words and no details omitted or added.
This is obviously not normal.
"Someone come!" Xia Yunyi shouted outside.
"exist!"
"Immediately arrest these two people!"
Mei Chun immediately took the official documents and led his troops to arrest the two men.
The two men firmly denied collusion and insisted that the consistency in their testimonies was due to their good memory.
Xia Yunyi sighed: "I will ask you one last time, do you confess?"
"My lord, I am innocent. How can I be guilty of having a good memory?" the prison warden cried.
"Yes, sir, please don't torture me into confessing!" the jailer pleaded.
Xia Yunyi sighed again and ordered Mei Chun outside the door: "Torture him!"
Mei Chun took the two men outside with a grim smile to be executed.
Unexpectedly, both of them are tough guys.
Hit with a board, clamp fingers, and pour saline solution on the wound.
After using three kinds of torture instruments, the two were still at a loss for words.
"Sir, they have no tricks..." Mei Chun, commander of the Xiaoling Guard, came in to report.
hiss--
Xia Yunyi felt that his head was a little big.
We can't continue to torture them. If we continue, it will be easy to beat them both to death.
Once they die, the matter will be completely unclear.
What to do?
"Report!" Just when Xia Yunyi was worried, a guard came in and saluted: "Your Excellency, there is a young man named Xia outside who wants to see you."
Xia Wanchun is back?
Xia Yunyi relaxed his brows and ordered, "Let him in."
A moment later, Xia Wanchun walked into the lobby, exhausted.
"Have you found out?" Xia Yunyi asked.
“Basically everything has been clarified.”
"Is it true that the Xu family occupied the people's land?"
“It is true.”
"What do you mean by count?" Xia Yunyi was very unhappy.
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