Great Tang Southern Emperor

It is understandable for Lin Fa to be so barbaric, because this Qi Minzhi's title of ship king is not a false name, but he earned it with his own hands - the main reason is that all the ships he designed are very fast , It is much faster than the ship designed by the imperial shipyard, and it is for this reason that the imperial court's suppression of pirates often fails because the speed of the ship cannot keep up.

This situation continued until the beginning of this year. Yuechuan designed a super fast small ship, about the size of a fifth-tier warship, but the speed can easily reach [-] knots, but the speed of this ship is at the expense of the ship. Because of its physical strength, only four cannons can be placed on it, and its firepower is far inferior to that of a battleship. But even so, compared with the battleships of this era, this fast ship is enough to take on the main attack mission—this kind of ship is called Li Zhen named it a destroyer, and its function is similar to that of later generations of destroyers. The only thing missing is the anti-aircraft firepower.It's a pity that this kind of ship has been around for too short a time. So far, it has only been equipped with the Lingnan Navy District, and the rest of the places are still waiting.

But I have to say that this kind of destroyer is indeed very powerful, not to mention reliable performance, the speed is really fast. In the past, it was very difficult for the navy to destroy pirates unless it used encirclement circles, but since this destroyer came out, it has been repeatedly built. Miraculous work - in less than three months from the beginning of the year to now, the Lingnan Naval District has wiped out six groups of pirates, five of which were entangled by destroyers and then wiped out by large warships.

Chapter 1085 Trial ([-] words)

Chapter 32 Judgment ([-] words)

"Hmph." Being arrested, Qi Minzhi just snorted coldly and didn't even look at Li Zhen.

Li Zhen ignored his impoliteness, stared at him for a while, and said slowly: "Four years ago, there was a theft at the Yuezhou Shipyard. Also missing was a senior ship designer named Yan Minzhi and four or five apprentices led by him. Less than half a year later, pirates in Nanyang became rampant, and most of them were equipped with a fast ship called Laoshan class. Warships, because they are so fast, there are almost no opponents at sea, and even navy warships can only eat farts behind them-this kind of ship should be improved by you through the stolen fast battleship blueprints? Good guy, you know How much money did you lose when you set fire to Bengong?"

This matter was so big at the time, Li Zhen was deeply impressed by it. Original blueprints were stolen, and Yue Chuan had time to redesign a battleship with the same performance-the problem was that Yan Minzhi didn't know when Yan Minzhi stole the blueprints. A big fire was set off, and half of the warehouse where the drawings were stored was burned down. Countless materials were burned. In order to supplement the materials, almost everyone on and off the boat was busy with this matter during that period of time, and there was no time for others.

When they managed to complete the information and caught up with the peak period of going to sea, merchants came here to place orders almost every day, and several ships were launched almost every day, which led to the intermittent design of new ships. It was not until the middle of last year that the design work was completed, and after half a year of verification and commissioning, the destroyer was finally completed and delivered to the Navy, but the production capacity was still limited. Almost three months later, only two fleets of the Lingnan Navy District were equipped. That's all.

However, after more than three months of trial production, the manufacturing process of the shipyard has matured. It is expected that within the next year, it should be able to equip the entire army. By then, the arrogance of pirates should be suppressed.

"Hmph!" Qi Minzhi still didn't answer, but just stared at Li Zhen with obvious dissatisfaction in his eyes.

"Hey, you're already at this level, you're still so crazy? You're awesome, let Master Cheng teach you how to be a human again today." Cheng Chuliang, who was next to him, saw that Qi Minzhi had already reached this level, but he was still so rebellious Being unruly, he just didn't take Li Zhen seriously. He was so angry that he stretched out his hand to teach him a lesson.

"Don't, what's your rivalry with a dying person?" Li Zhen hurriedly pulled Cheng Chuliang back: "Besides, it's not good to use lynching, we are the government, and we have to judge him according to the law, otherwise no one will be convinced. We cannot even intervene in the matter of judging them, it must be handed over to those who are truly qualified and have the right to judge them."

Cheng Chuliang was speechless: "Hey, my lord, when did you become so pedantic? What kind of rules do you have with such scum? Besides, they don't talk to us, so why should we talk to them? "

"They are beasts, so are you a beast too?" Li Zhen asked seriously, but glanced at the crowd, and found that several of them had excited expressions on their faces, and it was all too clear what they were thinking. No need to guess at all.

But how can things be so simple?

A sneer curled up on the corner of Li Zhen's mouth, he just wanted to tease and tease this group of scumbags, but no one actually believed it.

"Yi love, you are the highest official here, and you have the right to judge the criminals, so I will leave this matter to you. As for the jury, there are so many people here, and everyone is an elite from the Tang Dynasty. Pick sixty people at random."

The jury system was established by Li Zhen a few years ago. Speaking of it, this is also his own reason, because he ruined the lives of more than 100 civil and military officials with a single sentence, and was attacked by the government and the opposition. Even walking on the street, pedantic scholars threw rotten eggs and rotten vegetables at him, so that he didn't dare to go out during that period of time, it was terrible.

So after the matter subsided, in order to retaliate, Li Zhen proposed the jury system to Li Shimin, and using herself as an example, she pointed out the disadvantages of arbitrariness, and suggested that local officials can refer to this system when trying cases. Select some well-known squires or scholars to participate in the trial of the case to prevent unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

After this proposal was handed in, everyone was speechless in an instant, although they were crazy against it in their hearts, because doing so would be equivalent to weakening the officials' own rights, and of course they were unwilling.But Li Zhen used himself as an example, and they criticized Li Zhen in the previous incidents, the reason was that he was arbitrary, if he disagreed, it would show that what they said before was all bullshit.

Now the matter is very interesting, all the officials don’t want to agree, but if they don’t agree, it’s slapping themselves in the face——The prince’s killing is arbitrary, now this kind of thing falls on you, and you don’t agree again, this is What kind of reason?Don't you still have double standards?Or maybe there are some things that the Crown Prince is not allowed to do, but you can do them as you should?Is the prince bigger, or you guys bigger?

Therefore, even though there were a hundred disagreements in their hearts, all civil and military officials still held their noses and passed the proposal-in fact, it was useless even if they disagreed, because the decision-making power for this matter was actually in the hands of the emperor and those ministers. In their hands, they are all people with long-term vision, so they can naturally see how beneficial the jury system is to restricting the rights of local officials and preventing them from becoming bigger, and how beneficial it is to the stability of the country.

That is to say, no matter how dissatisfied the lower-level officials are, this proposal will actually be passed, and it will be issued as a legal document as quickly as possible—of course, although the proposal is agreed, they will also pass this matter. The instigator, that is, Li Zhen, is hated to the core.

"Yes, my subordinate obeys." Fang Yiai had figured out what Li Zhen wanted to do, and a smile appeared on her face——His Royal Highness is still so naughty, but these idiots are naive enough, they really think that His Highness is a good gentleman up?They didn't even think about it, when did His Highness let the enemy go so easily?Don't these people have any clues about where the millions of aborigines in Nanyang have gone?

The jury was selected very quickly. They were all selected from the Boys' Army. Each of them could be said to be a national elite. They are all Li Zhen's confidantes, but the conditions are limited, so let's just let it go.

"Ahem..." With two dry coughs, Fang Yiai's face turned serious: "Well, the conditions are simple, let's do simple things. Now, Ben Duhu announced that the criminals in the No. [-] and No. [-] area of ​​Yegang will be tried. Assembly, start now, the first one is to take Piero."

"Whoa."

Piero was chained and pushed up.

Fang Yiai took out a booklet from her bosom (actually it was the list that Jin Ya gave Li Zhen), and asked in an official tone: "The criminal Piero, now you are accused of murder, smuggling, cheating, stealing, and robbery. , Strong female sex... and a total of twelve crimes, can you admit it?"

"Of course I won't admit it." Although Piero knew that he couldn't escape this catastrophe, he didn't feel a little lucky in his heart. I will also do a little smuggling and illegal transactions, but you can’t wrong people, I have never done murder—you’d better be responsible for what you said, and you’d better show strong evidence, otherwise I will appeal of."

"Evidence?" Fang Yiai was taken aback, there really are such shameless people?But Piero's words were a bit embarrassing for him. Where did he get the evidence at this time?

"Yes, the judiciary now advocates solid evidence, and punishment without education is not allowed. Since you want to solve the problem according to the law, you'd better show evidence, otherwise, even if I die, I will die with regret."

"This..." Fang Yiai glanced at Li Zhen, speechless in her heart, it's all your fault, what kind of trial is it?it's good now?Have you been questioned?Now how to do?

Who knew that Li Zhen was not in a hurry, but put her hand into her bosom, and asked Piero, "You want evidence, right? Then I will give you the evidence—but there is one thing, if you follow the crime just now , your punishment is beheading, but if Ben Gong presents evidence, then at least you will be beheaded...Are you sure you really want to see the evidence?"

"..." Piero felt a little guilty, did he really have any evidence?But the matter has come to this point, and Piero has no way out, so he could only forcefully say: "Yes, you said I was guilty, but you must let me be a fool, right? As for the cut in half...I admit it."

"Very good." Li Zhen took her hand out of her bosom.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were fixed on his right hand, because in their minds, this hand was likely to hold evidence that could cause Piero to die, and it might not only be Piero, it was very likely that he was present at the scene. The ironclad evidence of all criminals.Therefore, as this hand was slowly drawn out, everyone's hearts were raised, but when Li Zhen's hands were really taken out...

"Hi!"

Everyone was almost pissed off, because there was nothing, they went in empty-handed and came out empty-handed, not even a piece of paper.

"Your Highness, what are you doing?" Even Fang Yiai was a little angry, isn't this just playing with people?

"I have never said that the evidence is in my arms." Li Zhen said with a light smile: "The evidence is actually in my mind, and now I have identified Piero as guilty, and I have been convicted of all twelve charges..."

"What's the use of pointing it out?" Piero felt that he had been tricked, and said angrily, "Could it be that you are the prince, so you can wrong people for nothing?"

"Of course I won't wrong people." Li Zhen looked at him indifferently: "But since I say you are guilty, you are naturally guilty... Could it be that what I said can't be used as evidence?"

"Of course it is possible. If His Highness's words cannot be used as evidence, I am afraid there will be no one in the world who can be a witness." Fang Yiai finally understood Li Zhen's plan. To put it bluntly, he actually planned to die Before, I was angry with this group of scumbags again, first gave them a little hope of life, and then cut off this hope with my own arrogance and unreasonableness, let this group of people die in depression, even if they die, they can't rest in peace.

Fang Yiai misunderstood Li Zhen, of course he did have this idea, but the most important thing was not this.

It's not that Li Zhen doesn't have or can't find evidence, at least the ledger in Fang Yi'ai's hands has recorded all the criminal records of the black market, and Piero is naturally among them, and he can be put to death.The problem is that the account book is too terrible. If it is released, it will not only involve the people in the black market, but also those who have identities on the surface. If this list is released, I am afraid it will cause social unrest. Yes, even if Li Zhen doesn't plan to make it public, once some people know about the existence of the ledger, I'm afraid they will have trouble sleeping and eating, and will eventually take risks.

Apart from this evidence, Li Zhen can definitely be identified by local people. Piero is rampant in the black market. It is impossible to say that he has not offended or killed anyone. Just find a few witnesses to identify him... Question Because time is running out now, and at the same time, it is for the sake of the witnesses, lest they face retaliation afterwards, so Li Zhen simply made the designator herself—although from a legal perspective, he does not meet the status of a witness, but now he has the highest status , the conditions on site are crude, so it’s okay to make do with it, and no one will say anything if you think about it.

"I...you..." Piero was tongue-tied. He didn't expect Li Zhen to be so shameless. Logically speaking, the law is fair. Even if Li Zhen came forward to testify, the case cannot be filed without conclusive evidence.But his identity is different after all. The credibility of the prince is of course very strong in this era. Since Li Zhen is willing to identify Piero as guilty, then he is naturally guilty in the eyes of others, not to mention that Piero himself is not clean. The crimes that Yiai accused him of were all true and did not mean to wrong him, so others naturally would not say anything.

Even so, Li Zhen didn't intend to let him go: "Of course, Ben Gong doesn't deny you a chance. If you can prove that Ben Gong's identification is wrong and that it is a frame-up against you, you can also sue Ben Gong. Against false accusations, as long as the evidence is convincing, even this palace cannot escape the severe punishment of the law—the question is, do you have any evidence?"

What you said is a bit too rogue. You are suing others. You should be the one who produced evidence. Why should they be required to produce evidence?

But Li Zhen's identity is here, even if others complain about it in their hearts, they still agree with it on the surface.

Especially Fang Yiai, who was the presiding judge, praised Li Zhen out of conscience: "Yes, what His Royal Highness said is too true, Piero, you said you were not guilty, so why did you show evidence? Or is someone willing to testify for you... No? Then what else do you say? Since you can't give a more powerful explanation for our accusation, then your charges are naturally established...In this case, then the Governor Then it was announced: The Luzon Governor's Office accused Piero of murder, smuggling, gangsters, theft, robbery, rape... and a total of [-] crimes. Do you have any comments from the jury?"

"No."

"of course not."

"I have no opinion."

"pass……"

"..."

Soon, 60 jurors unanimously passed the decision, but Li Zhen was very dissatisfied: "I said, can you act a little more like it? How could all [-] people pass it? Did no one object to it?" Is it? Let’s forget it this time, and we can’t do it next time, so as to save some people from saying that we’re talking together.”

"..." The sixty jurors were ashamed, you are the prince, who would dare to object to your words?Doesn't this mean that it is against you?Besides, the truth is the truth, but you are saying it too blatantly, right?This is in front of so many people.