Chapter 225 Judgment
After Ji Xin finished speaking, Xu Xu announced the end of the court hearing. Afterwards, Xu Xu gave an hour-long explanation of the key points of the law. This explanation was prepared by the Law Society over several nights and was as easy to understand as possible. The facts and applicable laws of this case were explained. For the arbitral tribunal that used the modern judicial system to hear a case for the first time, it is very necessary to explain the case and the trial process.
Unexpectedly, everyone was not bored by the interpretation process, but was very interested. After the trial process just now, many people wanted to understand why Australians did this. The permissible interpretation just satisfied their needs. Require. Although most people barely understand what they heard, they still have a preliminary understanding of the modern judicial system.
After giving all the explanations, the clerk announced that everyone should stand up:
"The verdict is announced below!"
Xu Quan stood up, picked up the gavel and struck:
"The defendant was found guilty of 'sabotaging a military marriage'!"
Everyone in the auditorium sighed and commented.
"In the name of the Senate and the people: the defendant is sentenced to seven years of hard labor and one year of supervision!" Licensing announced.
The so-called supervision means that after release, they must wear special markings on their clothes so that they can be supervised at all times. Not only is it restricted in many ways, it is also a very humiliating mark.
There was a huge discussion in the gallery - everyone was surprised by the harsh sentence. Because in the judicial practice of the Ming Dynasty, prison sentences were rarely imposed. Moreover, in a case like this involving a prostitute, as usual, it is nothing more than beating the policeman dozens of times, and then beating the woman dozens of times in the name of "correcting morals." If there are any shackles to show to the public, it will be very popular. I didn’t expect that the Australians would convict someone of such a serious crime for “sabotaging a military marriage”.
Everyone knows what the so-called "hard labor" in Australia means, which means that it fell into the hands of Fu Youdi. That ghost place makes people in Lingao frightened. Everyone suspects that this unlucky "jianhu" has entered the hard labor field. There is no chance of coming back alive.
Everyone was surprised that having an affair with a wife who was a soldier would end up like this. Australians think really differently. In the 17th century, both at home and abroad, the profession of soldier was only pursued by "scumbags" who were looked down upon by others. No one thought that it was a big deal that a soldier's wife was cheated on.
As the gavel of permission fell once again, the first trial conducted according to the newly compiled procedural law process came to an end. Everyone stands up, and the judge is the first to leave. Then the crowd slowly dispersed under the guidance of the police. In the auditorium that was being dispersed, two people did not move. They did not stand up until the crowd in the auditorium was almost gone and only stools were left on the floor. He is a middle-aged man dressed elegantly and luxuriously, and at first glance he is a distinguished Ming Dynasty man. Accompanying him was a young man. The two of them walked slowly towards the mouth. From time to time, young people moved the benches still left in the passage.
When they reached the entrance, several people in short coats immediately greeted them. Send them to the carriage that has been waiting for a long time.
Li Luoyou closed his eyes and took a rest. Gu Baocheng opened the beverage box in the carriage, took out a small thermos bottle, poured him a cup of tea, and handed it to his hand.
Li Luoyou took a sip. The tea was the finest Fujian Wuyi Mountain tea. After a few months, the Australians' enjoyment has become more and more sophisticated - when he came in the past, there was only a supply of hot water, but the tea was only low-quality coarse tea.
The carriage shook slightly and started slowly. The Mongolian horses are not very fast, but they are good at walking. The road near the high ground is smooth and the car can move very steadily. Li Luoyou drank two cups of tea and felt a little calmer. Sitting on the hard wooden backrest for more than an hour was quite tiring, not to mention the room was packed with people. If it wasn't for the hot weather and good ventilation, he probably wouldn't be able to sit down.
It was Gu Baocheng's suggestion to come to Dongshi to watch the trial - the case caused by the peach incident has become a hot spot in the streets of Lingao under the vigorous publicity of the Propaganda Department. Naturally, it has also spread to the Qionghai, and Li Luoyou is in Lingao. High accommodation. Li Luoyu had become very interested in the judicial system of Lingao last time. This time he heard that a case was going to be tried publicly in accordance with the "Australian and Song Dynasty Laws". Collect all relevant newspaper materials and show them to him.
Li Luoyou has shouldered the mission of rescuing the remnants of He Rubin's troops. It has been more than ten days since he arrived in Lingao from Australia. Since the Senate needed to meet to discuss how to deal with the remnants of the Ming army trapped in Qiongshan, Li Luoyou could only wait boredly on the Qionghai - sometimes Liu San or other senators he knew would come to chat with him, but most of them Part of his time could only be spent by reading Lingao's newspapers and books collected by Gu Baocheng.
Gu Baocheng has been in Lingao for some time, and he already knows a lot about the way Australians do things - they will express or imply many things in newspapers. Reading the "Lingao Times" and various locally printed books is the best way to understand their ideas. Nice window.
Li Luoyu was very interested in his nephew's opinions - of course, this was not a real insight, just as he regularly read the manuscripts from his residence. Many movements of the imperial court can also be seen in the palace.
However, the content of "Lingao Times" is much broader and the form is much more lively. Many of these forms were his first to see, such as the case of sabotage of military weddings. The newspaper not only reported on the causes and consequences of this case, but also gave a so-called "background introduction" to "Australian and Song Dynasty Laws", especially There are long articles on the concept and practice of "destroying military marriages". Li Luoyou read the newspaper article carefully and soon understood that the Australians were going to implement the "Australian Song Law" in Lingao. He felt a shock.
The implementation of new laws is an important feature of the new dynasty. The newspapers openly talk about the laws of Australia and Song Dynasty, which is clearly preparing to raise a flag to separate the country. Li Luoyou fell silent for a while - it seems that this Qiongzhou mansion will no longer be owned by the Ming Dynasty soon! The strange thing is that he is very calm about this reality, and he has no anxiety or anger in the past when he heard about the fall of Shenyang. At least, these people claimed to be descendants of Chinese Miao people, did not treat the people like slaves, pigs and dogs, and did many practical things that benefited the people of the place. The common people lived much better under the rule of the Australian and Song people than under the rule of the Jianlu people - much better even than the Ming Dynasty, which was also unkind to its people. Officials only care about their own glory and wealth, and do not care about the life and death of the people or the territory of the country.
Now, the officials who rule the people of the Ming Dynasty have brought him here just to reach an agreement that can cover up the disastrous defeat they suffered because of their reckless provocation of the war. Every time Li Luoyou thought about this, he felt desperate for the court. He had heard that the emperor was a diligent man who hoped to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, but with such a group of people serving as officials under him, it would be difficult for him to achieve anything even if Taizu were to reincarnate.
Seeing that he was very concerned about this case, Gu Baocheng proposed to observe the interrogation process. Li Luoyou has long been interested in the Australian judicial system - when he visited Dongshi last time, he found that the Australian judicial system and laws were similar to those of Europeans. However, my stay at that time was very short and I did not have time to see a court hearing. Now that there is such an important case, this opportunity cannot be missed under any circumstances.
Li Luoyou wants to watch the court hearing, and of course it is a special case - he plays a vital role in the next step of the planning institute's upcoming plan. Under the instructions of the general office, Ma Jia immediately took out two tickets from the "reserved tickets" and gave them to them.
The entire trial process made him feel surprised and reasonable - he realized that his past thoughts were correct. The Australian legal system was deeply influenced by the European legal system, including the form of interrogation. However, they made some innovations in the European system. For example, he had never heard of "destroying military marriages". He felt that even Europeans would not have such strange provisions in their laws.
"The Australians are trying to win the hearts and minds of the soldiers, and I'm afraid their plans will be very different in the future." Gu Baocheng whispered in the car.
"If he couldn't win over people's hearts, how could he annihilate the whole army in Hezhen? Could it be that he just relied on the sharpness of firearms?" Li Luoyou said, "If we talk about sharpness of firearms, the firearms of Guanning Town Army and Jingying Camp are not the same. Sharp, he was still beaten by Jiannu so much that he didn’t dare to leave the city, so he hid in the city and watched them kill people and set fires!"
Gu Baocheng knew that his uncle was talking about the invasion of the Jiannu into the fortress - the news coming from the north was very bad. The Jiannu killed dozens of people in the prefecture, took away countless properties, and took away more than 100,000 people.
In Gu Baocheng's view, in addition to sharp firearms and winning people's hearts, Australians are superior to the government in many other aspects. However, he did not dare to argue and just echoed: "Uncle is right."
The carriage arrived at Qionghaihaokou. This store occupies a large area, but the building area is not large, and the face of the house is not prominent - unlike other merchants who try to make their faces as spectacular as possible, the face of Qionghaihao It has a very simple appearance, with a three-bay face, both in decoration and style, that of a traditional time-honored store.
Qionghai does some retail business on the surface, selling various local products from the mainland. This is not its main business - its main business is bulk trade. The Qionghai ships in all kinds of bulk goods that Australians need from the mainland, especially Liaodong goods and export goods, especially all kinds of leather goods. Horseskin, deerskin, sheepskin, these are all equipment materials urgently needed by Lingao industrial system. In addition, various industrial raw materials such as raw lacquer, tung oil, and silk, which are abundant in Guangdong and other places, are also transported and sold here. a! ~!
