The governor and governor had to go through the court in person, and the case was still being tried for a major case related to pirates and Japanese pirates, which caused a sensation in Guangzhou City for a while.

Chen Xi specifically posted a message outside that he wanted a public trial, which meant that the people were allowed to listen. The people ran around and told each other, and many people gathered in the Nanhai County Government.

Before Chenxi's sedan chair arrived, the people had surrounded the Nanhai County Government's three layers inside and outside.

Chen Xi rarely traveled in an official sedan chair. This time, in order to establish his official authority, he brought all his clothes. When he walked down from the sedan chair, the people all knelt down and saluted, calling him "The Master of the Blue Sky". Chen Xi's actions invisibly established his power for himself.

But establishing authority requires a price, and the people praised him because he was sent by the imperial court to wipe out local pirates and Japanese pirates. Since he was responsible for heavy responsibilities, he had to make a difference and give some explanation to the people.

Chen Xi arrived in front of the government office, and Liu Xiang, the magistrate of Nanhai, came out to greet him in person.

However, Liu Xiang was born in the second grade of Jinshi in the ninth year of Hongzhi. He lived in the capital for several years before he was transferred to Nanhai, Guangdong as a county magistrate, and was also the county magistrate of the governor's magistrate.

The yamen was guarding the Guangzhou Prefecture, and the yamen was already depressed enough. He was hindered from his work and did not feel like a hundred miles away. Now, there was a yamen governor who had been jailed to investigate the case.

"...Mr. Shen, aren't you kidding? Since ancient times, I have never heard of this yamen that can be borrowed. If you want to investigate the case, just go to your governor's yamen."

Liu Xiang persuaded Chen Xi with great sincerity, and almost knelt down and begged Chen Xi.

Both were from Jinshi, and Chen Xi passed the imperial examination three years later than him. But who is the Hanlin official and governor of the government as a Beijing official? He knew that he was too different from Chen Xi official, so Chen Xi proposed to borrow the yamen. While greeting the prefect and the governor's yamen, he advised Chen Xi, hoping that Chen Xi could "show mercy" and not cause trouble for him, the magistrate in the provincial capital.

Chen Xi said coldly: "Listen to the idea of ​​Liu County Magistrate Liu, I want to bring the person back to Wuzhou and then interrogate him? But I don't know how to delay the deadline for capturing the bandits. Can you afford it?"

Liu Xiang was speechless when asked.

Although Chen Xi borrowed the yamen without following the rules, he was a senior official and was killed by the fact that Chen Xi was far more than one level? Now Shen Xi is reasonable and well-founded. If he doesn't lend it, it would be like offending the governor of the three provinces and not having the best results. But if he borrowed it, it would be that he would not be able to get along with the governor of the government and still not pleased him.

Chen Xi did not wait for Liu Xiang to reply and shouted: "Come on the court, trial the case!"

"mighty!"

The yamen officers shouted the slogans. Chen Xi, wearing a big red official robe, came directly to the county yamen hall to sit down. He slapped the gavel, which scared Liu Xiang who followed him in.

Chen Xi shouted: "Take the victim, witness!"

The officials outside were preventing people from approaching the county government, but as Ma Jiu and others went over to say hello, the gate of the county government opened and the people rushed in. Suddenly, the yard in front of the county government hall was filled with black audiences.

The people didn't know what was being tried in the court, but saw a young man wearing a big red official robe sitting in the lobby with his arms straight, just like Master Qingtian in the play trying to judge a criminal, and he suddenly shouted loudly.

The group of people who had run outside the inn before complained were escorted to the court. These people were slow to react and did not kneel down when they saw the official. Chen Xi nodded and said insincere that he had a reputation, either an official or a desperate person who was indifferent to the king's laws, otherwise this would not have been the case.

Ma Jiu went up and kicked it. The man with a stingy eyebrows and eyes bent his knees on the ground, and immediately shouted: "It's unfair, sir, unfair..."

Chen Xi stood on the left and right respectively, and the county magistrate was the clerk of the county government. At this moment, Liu Xiang leaned over and said, "Mr. Shen, this person said he was wronged, so the case may be postponed and retried!"

Liu Xiang only knew that the case Chen Xi was going to be tried was related to pirates robbing ships, and he didn't know what the identities of the people transferred were. He wanted to wait for the magistrate and the prefect to make instructions before proceeding to investigate the case. He was the word "drag" with Chen Xi. But Chen Xi ignored it at all, slapped the gavel and shouted: "I mentioned you because you were robbed by bandits. Since you were the victim, what's wrong? Could it be that you wronged the bandits and Japanese pirates, so you first accused me of the crime?"

The man thought Chen Xi wanted to take revenge, so he first said that he was "unfair" but he didn't expect Chen Xi to come up and catch the flaws of his speech and argue with him.

Chen Xi did not give him a chance to consider it and shouted sternly: "I will ask you, who is your surname, where is your home? Who is the sued?"

The man hesitated a little and was slapped by Ma Jiu in the face.

Ma Jiu shouted: "Didn't you hear the question?"

The man was very angry and struggled to stand up and fight Ma Jiu. But when he saw the majestic yamen standing next to him, he realized that this was a court and everything had to be spoken according to the rules. He could only swallow his anger and reply: "When I say that, the villain is named Jiang Baifu, a merchant in Panyu County, who escorted a batch of official salt the day before yesterday...the tea leaves went out to the sea and went to Qiongzhou Prefecture. Unexpectedly, the sea was more than ten miles..."

"Bang!"

Chen Xi slapped the agglomeration and asked sternly: "Tell me clearly, is it official salt or tea?"

"Sir, it's tea, but the villain said it was wrong. It's tea, but the villain transported 300 kilograms of tea..." Jiang Baifu's speech began to intermittently at this moment.

Chen Xi said coldly: "You are a profit-making businessman who transports 300 kilograms of tea to Qiongzhou Prefecture. Wouldn't it cost you one trip to lose money?"

Only then did Jiang Baifu realize that he had made a principled mistake. He originally wanted to transport "three hundred stones" of official salt, but found that it was inappropriate, so he changed his words to tea, and said three hundred stones of tea. Suddenly, he realized that the tea transaction was not calculated based on stone, and the result was 300 kilograms, and he didn't want to expose the filling.

Jiang Baifu was so stubborn that he said, "If you want to know, three hundred kilograms of tea can make money, because the villain also transported some food..."

Chen Xi sighed lightly. The person he found was really inferior. After a few words, he had already lost all his flaws. However, although Chen Xi did not care about these little things, it made him realize one thing, that is, before the summer salt in Guangdong and Guangxi was inducing, the government had already begun to transport salt... This means that this salt is not official salt, but private salt.

The government takes the lead in buying and selling private salt!

Chen Xi thought to himself: "If you look back, you must follow this clue and check it out."

Chen Xi shouted: "Continue!"

“Yes yes.”

Jiang Baifu was already sweating coldly. He thought that this young governor would be able to deal with it. Who would have thought that he had fought with Chen Xi for two rounds? He felt a huge pressure. There was a Ma Jiu behind him who was about to take action at any time, which made him feel that the thorn was on his back, "The villain escorted the boat to sea..."

"etc."

After saying a few more words, Jiang Baifu's words were interrupted by Chen Xi, "Aren't the ships and cargoes all yours? How did you escort the ships to sea?"

In the Ming Dynasty, the employer and the sailor were not the same group. The one who carried the boat was the boss, and he was a bully on the boat. If a crew member was not honest, the boss would kill the man directly to the river and the sea. No one dared to say anything. As long as he turned around and drowned unexpectedly, he would be fine.

Obviously, Jiang Baifu bullied Chen Xi and did not understand the rules of running a boat, so he said that he was a merchant, but he said that he was a steward, but he said that he was a steward, but he said that he was not in line with the preface.

Jiang Baifu opened his mouth and saw Chen Xi's stern expression. He quickly avoided his eyes and said, "Sir, the villain is both a merchant and a boat to sea. The boat belongs to his own. The villain is not at ease with others."

After saying this, even he felt it was unbelievable and cursed in his heart: "What kind of governor is this? Why do you even know the matter of running a boat?"

Chen Xi also wanted to curse people. The person who complained was simply to test his IQ. As a young owner of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, the carriage and horse helper had seventy or eighty boats in his hands at the peak. If he didn't even understand the rules of running a boat, what business would he do?

Chen Xi slapped the awkward tree: "You can explain it well, continue talking!"

Jiang Baifu didn't dare to talk nonsense now. He thought for a while before saying, "After the villain went out to sea, several big ships came across, which scared the villain. The villain greeted them..."

After saying another word, Chen Xi interrupted him: "Speak clearly, how do you say hello?"

Jiang Baifu was stunned. Why did he even ask the details so clearly?

He stammered: "That's...in fact...in fact...the opposite side greeted him first. They asked the boat to stop. Several boats surrounded us. A group of people came up and killed everyone. Seeing that the villain could not match, he took a few brothers to the boat and rowed back to ask for help..."

"Sir, you must make the decision for the people! Those bandits are unforgivable, killing and robbing people will do everything they want. The villain's wife and children are on the boat. I pity them for death so miserably..."

Chen Xi frowned: "When you were on the boat, you actually brought your family with your family? Are you going to sea to sell goods to make money, or are you going to sea to take your wife and children to sea to be a bandit?"

"Hahaha……"

Perhaps Chen Xi’s way of asking questions was special. After this question was asked, the onlookers burst into laughter.

The Ming Dynasty prohibited the sea. Except for Ningbo, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, three ports with Maritime Warehouse Department, the rest of the land was not allowed to go into the sea. Since Guangzhou Port is responsible for communicating with Qiongzhou Prefecture, the government did not prohibit merchants from going to sea, but there are still clear regulations on the fact that the cargo cannot be brought to the family when they travel to sea.

In order to emphasize the pirates and Japanese pirates' murder and robbery, Jiang Baifu actually lied that his family was also on the boat, but he was exposed again.

Jiang Baifu defended: "The villain... the villain wants to move his family to Qiongzhou Prefecture, so he brings his family on the boat."

Chen Xi nodded and said, "You said before that the bandits' ships surrounded you, how did you jump onto the boat and escape... Don't talk about it, the one with a scar on the face behind you, you can say!"

When Jiang Baifu saw something was wrong, his heart was dark. The people who came with him were just a group of gangs. Even Chen Xi asked him, who was able to speak, and he was full of flaws. When asked, who could not speak, wouldn’t he be exposed?

"grown ups……"

"Bang!"

As soon as Jiang Baifu said, Ma Jiu slapped Jiang Baifu's head: "Sir, don't you allow you to speak, don't you hear it?"

Ma Jiu interrogated the thief last night and finally found out that those people were related to Japanese pirates. He was filled with anger. Now another group of people dared to come and trouble him, whom he respected the most. At this moment, he showed no mercy.

After arbitrage, Jiang Baifu's forehead was bleeding.

"Dare you hit me?"

Jiang Baifu was already a little angry at this time.

"Press you? I'm still kicking you!"

Ma Jiu kicked Jiang Baifu to the ground with another kick.

Liu Xiang, the magistrate of Nanhai County, quickly advised: "Sir, this... the officials you brought should not abuse torture."

Chen Xi looked indifferent and said, "It's just a normal question. If this person hadn't interrupted the words of the official in the court without roaring at the court, would his people punish him for being a little bit of punishment?"

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ps: The emperor is going to the hospital tomorrow. The update time is uncertain, please forgive me! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!