Li Guanhua seemed to be angry and laughed, "If you bring three or two soldiers with you, it's called treason. If you go to visit friends, it's called collusion. Then I would like to ask your lord, do you never bring servants with you when traveling? Don't you have friends?"
Li Guanhua's words only stunned the person sitting at the top.
"Don't quibble!" After the man came to his senses, he immediately refuted Li Guanhua.
When Li Guanhua heard this, he said confidently, "What I said is the truth. When you sent people from the state capital to arrest me, weren't there only two or three soldiers around me?"
Hearing Li Guanhua's words, the Anxi County Magistrate immediately helped Li Guanhua and said, "Brother Guanhua, you just came to visit me. I don't know how you can conclude that we are treason?"
After hearing this, Zhao Yanzhen suddenly spoke and said, "It sounds like General Li and the Anxi County Magistrate are both innocent. With two or three soldiers and no conclusive evidence, if everyone uses this as a frame-up, , then wouldn’t everyone in the court be in danger?”
With the support of Zhao Yanzhen, Li Guanhua immediately said in cooperation, "This is exactly what His Highness said! Please, Your Highness, please restore my innocence!"
Zhao Yanzhen turned to look at the man and said, "Can you produce conclusive evidence?"
When he heard Zhao Yanzhen speak, the man was stunned for a moment, and then whispered, "There is a letter here that may be used as evidence."
After speaking, the man reluctantly handed a letter into Zhao Yanzhen's hand. @
Zhao Yanzhen just glanced at the letter, and then asked a thought-provoking question, "How can you be sure that this letter was written by them and not forged by someone else?"
Hearing this, the man couldn't answer for a long time, but the Anxi County Magistrate said loudly, "They can't prove that this letter was written by me, but I can prove that this letter was not written by me! Please still Your Highness gave me pen, ink, paper and inkstone and asked me to write a letter on the spot."
After hearing the words of the Anxi County Magistrate, Zhao Yanzhen naturally agreed, but from the moment the man responded to the challenge with insufficient preparation, they were actually in a state of retreat.
The Anxi County Magistrate copied the letter in a short time. After that, the government officials got the letter from him and handed it to Zhao Yanzhen. Zhao Yanzhen only asked for a handwriting appraiser to examine the two documents. After confirming the letter, it didn't take long for the handwriting appraiser to give his result: "This letter is indeed not written by the same person. Although the previous letter has tried its best to imitate the handwriting of the latter letter, this imitation The traces are too heavy, so the font fluency is not enough.”
After saying this, the person seemed to know that the fluency of fonts did not seem to be convincing. So he continued, "In addition, there is another big problem with this letter, and that is that the inking points of some fonts in this letter are different."
Then the font appraiser pointed out only those characters with different ink spots one by one. Looking at it this way, this letter is indeed different from the previous one.
As for imitating other people's writing, unless you are familiar with it, you can't write so fast. Moreover, the Anxi County Magistrate got a copy, and he did not see how the writing was written on it, so he did not imitate at that time. The conditions under which they write.
The only way he could see the letter was if someone from the Anxi Prefecture gave it to them to read. However, the Anxi Prefecture wanted to kill them, so how could he take the initiative to hand over this forged letter? Show it to them.
Zhao Yanzhen only pretended to be angry and looked at the superior officials and said, "What else do you have to say now? Could it be that your evidence relies on a letter fabricated by others?"
"Is it possible that what you are doing is to exclude dissidents?"
After hearing Zhao Yanzhen's words, the official who originally came to review the case on behalf of the Anxi prefect who was not here, naturally couldn't sit still anymore.
He didn't know anything, why he wanted to be taken advantage of, so he immediately knelt in front of Zhao Yanzhen and said, "Your Highness, this matter has been handled by Magistrate Ke. I have never known about this matter. You are not worthy of such a big responsibility, so please wait patiently for Magistrate Ke to come back before concluding the case."
Hearing what the man said, Zhao Yanzhen only sneered and said, "Wait? How long can we wait? What if Magistrate Ke never comes?"
Hearing this, everyone in the lobby looked obviously shocked.
After all, they didn't see Magistrate Ke after the fire broke out on the thirteenth floor. Later, when they went downstairs, they didn't see Magistrate Ke either. No one knew where Magistrate Ke went.
Therefore, someone took the initiative to ask Zhao Yanzhen, "I wonder what your highness means by this?"
Zhao Yanzhen only glanced at the man and said, "It doesn't mean anything. I'm just making a hypothesis with you. But although I am a hypothesis, you have to pay attention to this matter. After all, these cases are not trivial, and I I am also here to investigate the affairs of Anxi Prefecture."
After hearing Zhao Yanzhen's words, this group of people immediately responded in reply.
Then Zhao Yanzhen only walked up to one of the officials and said, "I have only been here for such a short time, and people from the subordinate states and counties have already come to complain. The Anxi County Magistrate and General Li regarded them as rebels who were plotting rebellion. In addition, there is also the Xianghua Building explosion. Although these things cannot explain all the problems, in my eyes, they also have some bad connotations. Is this how you usually condone others to be tyrannical here? "
After hearing what Zhao Yanzhen said, everyone immediately dared not say anything. Zhao Yanzhen continued, "Who else is willing to review this case on behalf of Magistrate Ke? If you are willing, please raise your hand."
After hearing this, and seeing the failure of the previous group, no one at the scene stood up.
And this was in line with Zhao Yanzhen's wishes. He only feinted a shot and pointed it at an official who seemed to want to minimize his presence.
The official's reaction was much more interesting. He was very afraid of something going wrong. When he saw Zhao Yanzhen pointing at him, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Your Highness, I can't! I don't know anything!"
Seeing that man acting like this, Zhao Yanzhen seemed a little disappointed and said, "Why are you so afraid of taking any responsibility? As long as you enforce the law impartially, what else can I do to you?"
Then he asked in a serious tone, "Let me ask one last question, is there anyone willing to preside over these cases? I won't ask about your origins. Among the people present, if there is anyone who is willing to preside over these cases, and For those who enforce the law impartially, I will give them a chance to be promoted.”
After saying this, Zhao Yanzhen glanced at all the officials present. However, the people Zhao Yanzhen looked at lowered their heads in shame.
When Zhao Yanzhen saw this situation, he seemed to be heartbroken.
Just when he was about to speak again, a clear voice suddenly sounded from the group of people, "I am willing to enforce the law impartially and try the case, but does your Highness really not care about my humble words?"
When Zhao Yanzhen saw someone standing up, he naturally said cooperatively, "Of course I don't mind. Anyone who can stand up and take over this case has great courage."
Hearing this, the young man who had just volunteered himself walked out of the crowd. From the looks of it, that young man was not trapped on the thirteenth floor together that day. He only stayed calm with himself when everyone was anxious. Did the young man calmly handle the hemp rope? "
The two of them could be considered to have reached some kind of alliance at the moment.
Zhao Yanzhen asked the young man, "What's your name?"
The young official only immediately raised his hands and said, "I will be the official clerk of Anxi Prefecture. My surname is Xie and my name is Liu."
After Zhao Yanzhen learned the young man's name, he nodded to the young man and said, "Okay, thank you, I will leave the case to you for trial."
After hearing this, Xie Liu just raised his hands and said, "Thank you for your highness's trust. I will definitely live up to your highness's trust."
The two of them hit it off immediately.
However, those who flinched changed their expressions when they saw the young man coming out. Now that they saw the two of them hitting it off, they became even more panicked.
Some even wanted to stop him by saying, "Your Highness, this is absolutely unacceptable!"
"Your Highness, how can this Xie scribe, who speaks so lightly, take on such a big responsibility? This is unreasonable!"
However, Zhao Yanzhen ignored their words at all. He only said directly to Xie Liu, "Just go up and don't listen to their words."
Xie Liu nodded gratefully, and then walked up to the main seat. Then he pointed to one of the officials and said, "Just write the document for Xie Liu."
Hearing Zhao Yanzhen's words, the young official nodded naturally.
Then when they saw that Zhao Yanzhen almost ignored them, this group of people also
Feeling that they could not sit still and wait for death, they quickly took the initiative and said, "Your Highness, this Xie Liu doesn't know how to hear this case well. Besides, how can there be any reason for writing documents on behalf of the prefect? If Your Highness insists on handling the case in this way, please forgive us that we can't handle the case in this way." This performs this task.”
When they saw someone making a fuss about leaving, the others naturally followed suit. However, when they were about to leave, a group of people suddenly stopped in front of them, and the group of secret guards almost blocked their way.
One of them immediately asked Zhao Yanzhen, "What does this mean, Your Highness?"
Zhao Yanzhen looked at the man with a calm expression, "I have no other intention, but if you want to leave now, I will tell the court that you are blocking the case and not cooperating with me in handling the case. If you want to leave now, please do it." If you don’t want to be implicated, just cooperate.”
After saying this, Zhao Yanzhen then said to his guards, "Let him go."
The secret guards blocking their way immediately retreated to both sides.
However, when the secret guards retreated and opened a road, everyone did not dare to go to that road. Except for the few people who made the attack at the beginning and a few state officials, most of the others still stayed where they were. .
The man looked back at those people, and then said, "If Magistrate Ke comes back, he will be disappointed to see you like this."
As soon as he threatened, several more officials followed him.
