"Princess Anping, you can't bend the law for personal gain just because Gu Changhe is your grandfather, right?"

Zhang Hongfang's voice fell, and in an instant, everything inside and outside the courtroom exploded.

"I was wondering why Princess Anping keeps defending this murderer. It turns out he is her grandfather."

"What kind of Princess Qingtian is using her status as princess to protect the murderer? Such a person is not worthy of being a princess!"

"Get out of Changyang County!"

"Get out!"

……

There was a lot of insults, and if spit could drown someone, then their spit would have turned into the sea.

Mr. Gu looked at Shen Yan, a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes, and then loudly said to everyone, "I am not Princess Anping's grandfather!"

"Princess Anping, I am the murderer who destroyed the rice seedlings in Changyang County. Please execute me according to the law!"

He sees death as home.

In Da Qin, if a certain amount of crops were deliberately destroyed, one would be sentenced to death.

Shen Yan looked at Mr. Gu and said, "Grandpa, I'm sorry that I couldn't get to know you before. I originally planned to wait until I've taken care of my official duties before getting to know you. I didn't want to inconvenience you, but I never thought I'd end up harming you."

Mr. Gu was beaten all over and he didn't shed a single tear, but when he heard Shen Yan say "grandfather", his face burst into tears.

He thought he would never hear this "grandfather" in his lifetime.

He didn't expect that his granddaughter, whom he had never met before, would use his last name when she was on a mission.

He had mixed feelings.

"Yan'er, why are you doing this?" Mr. Gu raised his hand to wipe his tears.

Shen Yan watched her close relatives cry in front of her, and her heart felt as if a cat had scratched her.

"Grandfather, whether it is you or anyone else today, I will not let them suffer unjust injustice."

"Okay, this is the court, not a place for you to recognize your relatives!" Zhang Hongfang shouted.

He looked at Shen Yan and sneered, "Princess Anping, since the truth has been revealed, why not leave the judgment of this case to you. After all, you are here under the emperor's order, and you will definitely enforce the law impartially to the emperor and the world." The people will give an explanation."

Shen Yan looked outside the court and saw Yun Cheng, who nodded towards her.

All is ready except for the opportunity.

Now, the east wind is coming.

"Master Zhang is right. I will enforce the law impartially. I will not blame a good person, but I will never let a bad person go!"

Shen Yan's voice was cold, her aura changed, and the entire atmosphere in the courtroom seemed to have changed.

She, who had always been at a disadvantage, instantly changed the initiative and gained the upper hand.

Zhang Hongfang also felt the change in Shen Yan. He was secretly shocked. What happened to make Shen Yan change so quickly?

Shen Yan didn't give Zhang Hongfang a chance to speak. She continued, "Mr. Zhang, you did a good job with the fake account books. It's hard for you to think so carefully. There is one account book for each village and every year. It is easy to replace, and it is not easy to make mistakes." Mistakes."

"Princess Anping, what are you talking about? I don't understand." Zhang Hongfang lost his confidence and suddenly became flustered.

"Then I will let you die plainly!" Shen Yan shouted, "Yuncheng, show us the evidence!"

When everyone saw Shen Yan looking outside the court, they moved aside and made way for him.

Yuncheng held a stack of ledgers in his hands, and behind him were five people, each holding a ledger in his hand.

Shen Yan had been deliberately stalling for time just now. She was waiting for Yuncheng and the others to find the real ledger.

When she discovered there was a problem with Changyang County's tax revenue, she sent Yuncheng to investigate, but she never found the real account book.

"Princess Princess, these are the real account books of the county government. I have already seen them and there is something wrong with them." Yuncheng said, "The top one in my hands belongs to Helin Village."

Shen Yan took a look at the account book and found that the rice output recorded by the villagers in Helin Village every year was accurate.

Every year when the villagers pay taxes, they report their own grain production, and then pay the tax based on the production. Finally, after the villagers themselves verify it, they sign and pledge it.

This real account book was operated according to formal procedures, and so was the fake account book. It was just that the numbers on the fake account book were wrong. As for the so-called signatures and pledges, it was even less clear who belonged to them.

Zhang Hongfang was sweating profusely as he looked at those account books. He hid those account books in the secret room. How could these people find them?

"Nonsense! There is no such thing as a true or false ledger!"

Zhang Hongfang raised his voice to cover up his guilty conscience, "Princess Anping, you are going to any lengths to exonerate your grandfather!"

"Let everyone know if there are true and false account books." Shen Yan said in a cold tone, "Yuncheng, send each village's true and false account books to themselves, and let them compare their own grain output. You can recognize your signature and stamp."

"Yes, Princess." Yuncheng was about to hand out the ledger.

"Stop him! Don't let him do it!" Zhang Hongfang stood up in a hurry. He pointed at Yuncheng and ordered the government officials in a hurry.

Just when the officer was about to rush forward, Shen Yan showed off the imperial gold medal.

"The gold medal is here. If the emperor is here in person, whoever dares to make a mistake will be shot to death!"

Shen Yan shouted sharply, and the yamen servant stopped immediately.

Everyone knelt down and said, "Long live my emperor!"

"No gift." Shen Yan said coldly, "Everyone, look at the account books in your hands and compare them carefully! See how much food Master Zhang has eaten from you!"

"I discovered it, Mr. Zhang, why are my family's corns deducted by five dan?"

"It's mine too."

"My family's rice crop is also missing by five dan!"

"This signature and imprint are not correct. I did not sign this word myself."

……

More and more people discovered the problem with the ledger, and they looked at Zhang Hongfang with anger on his face.

"Master Zhang, can you give us an explanation? What's going on?"

Only because of the large number of people and the extreme anger did the people dare to question Zhang Hongfang.

Normally they don't have the courage.

Zhang Hongfang's face turned red and white for a while. He hesitated and couldn't say a word.

"Mr. Zhang, didn't you hear what everyone was asking you? As the parent official of Changyang County, shouldn't you explain to everyone the matter of this fake account book?" Shen Yan's voice was cold.

Zhang Hongfang gritted his teeth, his face full of anger.

"You can't explain? Then let me tell you. The reason why the grain output in this fake account book is less recorded for everyone is because as a result, the tax on it is less. And the real tax that everyone pays is more That part goes into your pocket!”

Shen Yan shouted and asked, "Zhang Hongfang, how much tax revenue have you embezzled during the fifteen years you have been the magistrate of Changyang County? You still don't collect it from the truth!"

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