After dawn, the surrounding area of the public trial site in the south of the county seat of Linyun County was soon filled with people who had rushed from ten miles and eight townships, and they gathered in groups to talk about today's public trial.

The soldiers of Songjiangwei and the officers of the county government of Linyun County carried knives and guns and maintained order at the scene with expressionless faces, vigilantly observing the movements in the crowd.

In order to prevent people with bad intentions from mixing in with the people and making unpredictable moves against Li Yuntian, the 3,000 soldiers of the sailors who guarded Li Yuntian were all dispatched this time to protect Li Yuntian's three layers in the middle and three layers outside the ground to prevent anyone from approaching.

Li Yuntian lives in a large family in the county seat of Linyun County, and if the county government is not burned down, he naturally lives in the county government and does not like to disturb the local people.

When Li Yuntian got up and washed, Wang Lu and other officials were already waiting outside the courtyard, they got up before dawn, and rushed here one after another while Li Yuntian was still asleep to wait for Li Yuntian's summons.

In fact, Li Yuntian did not let Wang Lu and the others wait outside the courtyard, but the officialdom is highly hierarchical, who dares to slack off in front of the dignified Zhong Wangye, so they came here one by one to wait in advance.

Li Yuntian smiled helplessly after knowing about this matter, and ordered his subordinates to prepare breakfast for Wang Lu and the others, obviously these people ran over without much food, you must know that Zhao Dezhang's case is complicated and widely implicated, and the trial will not be concluded until at least in the afternoon, so these officials need to have enough physical strength to stay there.

As the presiding judge of this public trial, Wang Lu took the opportunity of having breakfast at the same table with Li Yuntian to seek advice from Li Yuntian, wanting to take care of the proportions of the trial and then lead the process of the court trial.

"For those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, we must make an example of them and make an example!" Li Yuntian knew that Wang Lu wanted to know his attitude towards Zhao Dezhang's case, so that Wang Lu could judge the case, so he said quietly after a deep sigh.

"Xia Guan understands." Wang Lu bowed to Li Yuntian when he heard this, although Li Yuntian's words revealed a hint of chill, but his face was not shocked.

As the presiding judge entrusted by Li Yuntian with an important responsibility, how could Wang Lu not know that Li Yuntian wanted to re-investigate the case, and the reason why he asked for instructions again was to show his respect for Li Yuntian, and secondly, he wanted to know whether Li Yuntian's attitude had loosened.

The officials of the Nanjing Three Law Divisions sitting around the table couldn't help but glance at each other secretly, their eyes showed a helpless and gloomy look, even though they had already been mentally prepared, they were still touched by Li Yuntian's cold words, and felt a chill rise up their backs:

If the dignified Prince of Daming wants to thoroughly investigate a case, then it must be very involved, and I don't know how many people will lose their heads for this.

Zhao Dezhang's case is not just about building a river embankment and silver two were greedy for ink, Linyun County died a lot of people because of the riverbank burst, since Zhao Dezhang doesn't have to carry this black pot, then someone must take responsibility, and the crime must be added to the first degree.

At that time, Zhao Dezhang was sentenced by the Songjiang Mansion to be executed, but he was lucky to meet the birthday amnesty of the Empress Dowager Zhang, and then he was able to reduce the crime and save his life.

Now that Daming has no celebration to "amnesty the world" in the next few years, as long as he is involved in Zhao Dezhang's case, then those who have committed capital crimes will definitely not be able to get out.

Three pergolas were built at the site of the public trial, the pergola in the middle was used for Wang Lu's trial, and the pergolas on both sides were prepared for officials such as Li Yuntian and the Nanjing Sanfa Division.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Yuntian's carriage appeared in the sight of the people on the surrounding hillside under the escort of many soldiers, which made the scene suddenly commotion, and people rushed forward to see the demeanor of the loyal prince up close, pushing the soldiers and errands who were responsible for maintaining order to the side.

Since there were already 40,000 or 50,000 people who came from ten miles and eight towns to see the excitement, far exceeding the number previously estimated, this brought a serious challenge to the security of the scene, and the soldiers of Songjiangwei and the soldiers of Linyun County were seriously undermanned in front of many people.

For this reason, the sailors who protected Li Yuntian had to be transferred to join the queue to maintain order on the spot, so that the situation could be controlled.

Wang Lu and other officials followed behind Li Yuntian's carriage, and after arriving at the scene of the public trial, they first hugged Li Yuntian and sat down in the pergola on the left, and then they all found their seats and sat down.

With the arrival of Li Yuntian and others, the noisy sound at the public trial scene gradually subsided, and the people held their breath and quietly waited for the interrogation to begin.

After the first moment of the hour, Wang Lu first got up and bowed to Li Yuntian, then sat down and slapped the shocked wood heavily, and asked Zhao Dezhang, who was wearing a prison uniform, to be escorted up.

Although there is now a lot of evidence that Zhao Dezhang was framed by a traitor, he was still guilty before the end of the court trial, so he naturally had to wear a prison uniform.

This was the first time Li Yuntian had seen Zhao Dezhang wearing a brand-new prison uniform, with a thin figure, gray hair, dark skin, and many wrinkles on his face.

However, although Zhao Dezhang suffered a lot, his spirit at this time was very good, and he walked with his legs whirring, and there was irrepressible excitement and excitement on his face.

Zhao Dezhang was originally sent to Liaodong, and Li Yuntian sent someone to transfer him from Liaodong in an expedited manner of 800 li in order to try his case.

In order to be in a hurry, Zhao Dezhang was fortunate to board a three-masted warship at the Port Arthur base of the Ming Army's naval division, and traveled south day and night, and finally arrived at Songjiang Mansion five days ago.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, Zhao Dezhang didn't know what happened at all, only that his case was going to be retried, which made him feel confused, and he couldn't figure out who had enough to go through his old case.

Although he didn't know why the government wanted to retry his case, Zhao Dezhang was keenly aware from the attitude of the officers who escorted him that his case was likely to be overturned, because those officers actually entertained him with good wine and meat along the way, which made him a lot fatter and his complexion was restored, otherwise his appearance would be much haggard than now.

Since Wu Shan already knew that Zhao Dezhang was framed, he would definitely not let him come back like this, and he must serve Zhao Dezhang with good food and drink so that Zhao Dezhang can recover as soon as possible, otherwise Zhao Dezhang will look like a dry little old man, which makes people more sympathetic to him, and at the same time hates the people involved in the case even more.

Wu Shan did not have the slightest power to resist in front of Li Yuntian, so he could only do a little thing for Zhao Dezhang to minimize the impact of this case.

It wasn't until he arrived at Songjiang Mansion that Zhao Dezhang was surprised to learn that Butterfly Dance complained at the Jiangnan Oiran Conference, and handed over the complaint in front of Prince Zhong, so that his case could be retried, otherwise even if Butterfly Dance entered Beijing to complain, it would be rejected by the Criminal Department, after all, Butterfly Dance had no evidence that Zhao Dezhang was wronged.

What is particularly important is that in ancient times, it was a taboo for the people to sue the officials, and no one in the officialdom wanted to see those people pointing fingers at the affairs of the government, so the criminal department naturally wanted to maintain the Songjiang Mansion, and in the eyes of the people, it was the protection of the officials and officials.

After learning that Li Yuntian asked Nan Zhili to preside over his case according to Wang Lu, Zhao Dezhang couldn't help but be overjoyed, burst into tears, and cried a mess, although his case had not yet been tried, but since Li Yuntian was in charge, he believed that Wang Lu would definitely give him justice.

Together with Zhao Dezhang, there was also the bitter master Butterfly Dance who sued, speaking of which she was the plaintiff in this public trial, at this time she had washed all the lead on her body, appeared in front of everyone in a white dress and plain clothes.

Since being transferred to Liaodong, this is the first time Zhao Dezhang has seen Butterfly Dance, looking at the daughter of a slim and beautiful girl who has grown from a little girl with nothing to do.

Zhao Dezhang felt extremely guilty in his heart, although he still didn't know how Diewu had come over all these years, but he knew that Diewu had joined the prostitution, presumably life was very hard, and he couldn't imagine the misery when Diewu was forced to pick up customers.

Butterfly Dance is also the first time to see Zhao Dezhang in these years, if it weren't for the Jiangnan Oiran Conference, she wouldn't even be able to leave Songjiang Mansion, seeing that Zhao Dezhang was a lot haggard before, her eyes couldn't help but moisten, trying to suppress her excitement, she knew that now was not the time to cry, and she had to survive this public trial no matter what.

"Knock on the Patrolman!" Zhao Dezhang and Diewu knelt side by side in front of the pergola in the middle, and saluted Wang Lu who was sitting behind the desk.

"Zhao Dezhang, this official asked you, do you have anything to say about the case of embezzlement of ink on the river embankment back then?" Under the gaze of everyone at the scene, Wang Lu stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhao Dezhang, and shouted with confidence.

"Patrol the adults, the grass people are wronged, and the grass people know that the renovation of the river embankment is related to future generations, so how dare they have the slightest neglect, let alone greedy ink!" When Zhao Dezhang heard this, he immediately looked up at Wang Lu, and said with sad eyes.

At this time, Li Yuntian, who was listening in the pergola on the left, glanced at Wang Lu when he heard this, picked up the tea on the table next to him and tasted it slowly.

With Zhao Dezhang's denial of embezzlement of ink on the river embankment, Wang Lu's court trial officially kicked off, and now the human and material evidence is conclusive, and the psychological defense line of the people involved in the case has collapsed, so they have pleaded guilty and surrendered to the law, and the next thing is just to redress the unjust case step by step and investigate the criminal responsibility of the people involved.

For Li Yuntian, this process is undoubtedly boring and tedious, but in order to show his attitude towards the case, he must be heard on the spot, and only in this way can the civil and military officials in the officialdom be deterred.

Compared with the calm and calm Li Yuntian, Lin Xin, who was standing behind him, looked around the black crowd gathered at the scene with a vigilant expression, considering that Gu Chen had already infiltrated Jiangnan, she was full of energy to deal with unexpected situations that might arise at any time, which made her feel like a great enemy.

Lin Xin was not afraid of Gu Chen, there were not many people on Gu Chen's hands, so she was unable to assassinate Li Yuntian at all, what made her feel jealous was the explosives in Gu Chen's hands, once Gu Chen attacked Li Yuntian with explosives, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Yuntian's pergola was surrounded by accompanying guards, Lin Xin had already given an order, if Li Yuntian really encountered a bomb attack, then everyone would rush to Li Yuntian as soon as possible, and protect Li Yuntian in the center with flesh and blood, because any escape would only give the attacker a chance, so it was better to stand by and the soldiers and errands scattered around would quickly come to support.