As the garrison of the Military Control Commission of the Jiangnan Obstruction District, Suzhou has permanently stationed troops of more than 3,000 people since the moment Suzhou was recovered, so a large area of ​​open space was opened as a military camp in the east of Suzhou City. At this time, it was also the site of the public trial meeting. The public trial in Suzhou was the Special Trial Court of the Ministry of Justice under the Senate.

The laws based on this special court are the charter of the United States of China and the special wartime bills. In base camp, civil and criminal laws are still being formulated and improved.

There were already a thousand-man army controls on the open space in front of the military camp. The trial court, built of logs and bricks, faced north and south. On the east side of the court were rows of stair seats built one by one. Members of parliament, citizens, representatives of righteous people from the occupied areas, and merchants would sit on it. As witnesses, of course, these people would eventually retreat with the United States army. On the west side of the trial court, there were huge cages made of logs, locked in hundreds of people, most of them were men. They were either officials of the Qing government, officials hired by officials, scholars participating in the Qing imperial examination, officials and gentry who raised food and wages for the Qing army, or captive Qing officers and generals, and of course there were also the lunatic merchants who were caught during this period.

These people came from the three prefectures in the occupied areas, the Cao Transportation Office, and the Caojiang Office. They were rulers in both the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. Now, the United States has finally found a legal and reasonable opportunity to cleanse them, which is the crime of traitors.

The crime of traitor is one of the top ten serious crimes in the Charter of the United States, second only to treason. The difference is whether the perpetrator belongs to the nationals of the United States of China. Obviously, these people in the cage are not citizens of the United States, but the Charter and Special Wartime Act of the United States grant the courts the trial and punishment of criminals who betray the Chinese nation. In contrast, the United States of China has the responsibility and obligation to protect the Chinese nation and its descendants around the world (regardless of whether they are a national of the United States, they are qualified as long as they have more than half of the Chinese bloodline). In turn, they also have the power to judge the same races who surrender to the foreign race.

In addition to the courtroom and the auditorium, most of the open spaces were occupied by the people of the Ming Dynasty, which was watching the excitement. It was the nature of the Chinese nation that people preferred to watch the excitement of the powerful and the jokes of the rich. In the center surrounded by all directions, there were four punishment platforms, two gallows and two guillotines.

According to the spirit of the Charter of the United States, the heaviest punishment for all crimes is the death penalty. However, compared with the laws of feudal countries, such as the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the tortures such as Lingchi and the execution of nine clans were abolished, and there were only three types of death penalty in the United States, namely, hanging, owlheading and firing. It should be pointed out that prisoners have the freedom to choose punishment, but considering the location of the Public Trial Conference, the more dangerous firing was excluded.

Li Xiangjun and Zhao Yue walked into the public trial meeting. Although they did not show their identity, Li Xiangjun took out his ID as a Taipei reserve member and was able to sit in the seat with Zhao Yue. With the arrival of noon, a group of judges came to the court. These judges wore black as the tone, supplemented by blue judges and hats, looking solemn and solemn. As the judges arrived, the scene of the public trial meeting became quiet.

"A prisoner with armor!" the assistant judge shouted loudly.

Two soldiers escorted an old man with disheveled hair. This person was Sun Dayan, a great gentry in Suzhou. Because most of the punishments in this public trial were implicated in the exile of the family, it was based on the family. The prisoner of the A-shaped character was Sun Dayan, but his relatives and servants were all included in the cage. More than a dozen were brought in the cage, all of which were direct relatives. A large area was brought into the military camp, but there were more than 320 clans, relatives and slaves. It can be said that the Sun clan had been caught in one fell swoop within the three palaces.

"I was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty in front of me, but now I am a commoner of the Qing Dynasty. It has nothing to do with you, the United States of China, and you have no right to blame me!" Sun Dayan couldn't escape and shouted loudly.

The special judge replied majesticly: "According to the Charter of the United States of China and the Special Wartime Act, those who betray national and national regimes are all traitors and everyone can punish them. Our United States of China, who is a descendant of China, can blame you for the identity of the same clan. This is one of the reasons.

The resentful offense of Sun Dayan, openly insulting the United States of China and the Special Court, was the second one!”

"What a bullshit court? Haha, Yelang's arrogant idiot. Li Mingxun was just a dog crawling around me back then. Now he dares to establish national legislation. How ridiculous is that I want to see the officials of the Ming Dynasty and be punished by the Ming Dynasty's laws!" Sun Dayan said loudly.

The special judge said: "The special court has been authorized by His Highness, the Lu Supervisor of Ming Kingdom, and can judge you with the Ming law. If you have treason, you will be rebelled, plotted against great rebellion, and plotted against rebellion. If you violate the ten evils, you will be punished and punished by nine clans!"

"No, absolutely not. We are willing to be punished by the special court of the United States!" Two or three people ran out of the prisoners, knelt on the ground, begging for mercy loudly.

This is not the first public trial. The results of the first three public trials have been preached to prisoners. If the sentence is sentenced according to the laws of the United States, the main evil will be executed, and the rest of the family will be exiled as slaves and confiscated. At most, seven or eight of the more than 300 people in the Sun family will die. If the law of the Ming Dynasty, none of these more than 300 people will survive!

"You old dog, you bully us and implicate us, but now you still want us to bury you for your life. Your heart is punished!" Sun Dayan's clan begged for mercy, but the slaves couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward one after another, with old fists. If it weren't for the soldiers maintaining order, Sun Dayan would have been beaten to death.

"Silent!" The special judge knocked on the small hammer, and naturally someone maintained order.

The special judge nodded slightly to the assistant judge, and the assistant judge announced: "Mr. Sun, a criminal, betrayed the nation, betrayed the Ming regime, made accomplices for the tiger, helped the evildoer to abuse, donated grain to the Qing captains many times, levied farmers, and bullied merchants. A total of seven unforgivable crimes were seven, twelve serious crimes, and there were countless other crimes. According to the wartime bill, Sun Dayan was sentenced to death and executed immediately!

Now Sun Da speaks rudely, slanders the United States with harsh words, contempts the court, insults the consuls and judges, and the crime is higher than the crime. Sun Da Yan, do you know that you are guilty. If you admit your mistakes to the Charter of the United States, you will be exempted from the crime of contempt and insults!"

Sun Dayan laughed and said, "Repent and admit his mistakes, who will admit his mistakes? Is that dog thing Li Mingxun? I'm more guilty, I'm already a death sentence. How about adding more? Could it be that you have to be punished first and then beheaded? Then come on, if I die, I will die, or denounce you, then Li Mingxun..."

Sun Dayan knew that he was dead, so he wanted to curse, but was blocked by the soldiers beside him.

The assistant judge looked at him coldly and continued: "The repeated offender Sun Dayan was stubborn and had no regrets and confessions, and he was executed.

He was a serious offender, participated in the imperial examination of the pseudo-Qing government, and opened his eyes for the Qing Dynasty. He divorced his wife and married a Mongolian woman from the Mongolian military flag to seek wealth and honor. He assisted his father in exploiting the village. He was sentenced to seven serious crimes and sentenced to sixty rods. He was detained as a slave and was sent to the mine. He had no special pardon and did not return his freedom."

"Sir Xie, Sir Xie!" Sun Bozhong was tactful and knew that it was not easy to save his life, so he hurriedly said.

The special judge knocked on the hammer and coughed lightly: "Sun Dayan insulted the Charter and the United States, slandered the consuls and judges, and had no manifestations of confessing guilt and repentance. The crime was higher than the punishment. Because his punishment was the death penalty for immediate execution, his crime was not increased. According to the spirit of the special act of wartime, the father's debt and son repayment, his crime of insulting and contempt for the court was borne by his son, and Sun Bozhong was sentenced to death."

"No, no!" Sun Bozhong didn't expect that Sun Dayan's rude words would implicate him, so he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy.

The assistant judge said: "Your father will not confess his guilt and repent, and he will naturally be punished by you!"

Sun Bozhong climbed to Sun Dayan and begged: "Dad save me, Dad save me, Dad, you admit it. If you don't recognize it, your son will die."

Sun Dayan spit out the rag in his mouth and cursed hysterically: "You idiot, if you recognize your father, you will be accused of being both inside and outside the country and not being recognized by your father. In the future, the Qing soldiers will definitely avenge your father and make a comeback for my Sun family!"

Seeing Sun Dayan like this, Sun Bo rushed forward and scolded: "Are you a dog guy going to kill me? I'll kill you and kill you!"

"Take them apart, Sun Bozhong openly insulted and beat his father, and the crime was higher than the top, and the death penalty was immediately executed!" The special judge scolded loudly.

These two people are so violent that they naturally have no chance to choose the method of death. Assistant judge Chong Soldier pointed, and the soldiers pulled Sun and his son to the guillotine. The guillotine suddenly became fresh and there was no blood at all. The death row prisoners tried the previous few times, but they didn't want to have any incomplete bodies, so they chose to hang them. This guillotine had never been used.

Sun Dayan was tied to a wooden board, with his hands and legs spread open. A soldier pulled up the wooden strips that fixed his head, put Sun Dayan down on it, and fixed Sun Dayan with two wooden strips with semicircular gaps. Four meters above Sun Dayan's head was a heavy forty-kilogram switch knife, which was controlled with a rope.

Originally, the guillotine was invented to deal with injuries to the management personnel and citizens' escaped slaves, and used to shock slaves from the United States. During the use, it was found that the straight blade was not easy to cut off the head and was also easy to roll the blade. Later, after improvement, the blade was trapezoidal, with the blade tilted upward, with a drop of more than two and a half meters enough to cut off the hard neck bones of a person.

The execution order was issued, and the scene of the public trial meeting was quiet. As the sharp sword fell, a crisp sound rang out. Sun Dayan's sinful head brush fell down and fell into the bamboo basket under the guillotine. The blood burst out from the neck was blocked by the heavy blade. The blood flowed down and fell into the prepared wooden barrel.

boom!

The public trial conference burst into cheers, like thunder. When the blood-stained sword rose high again, the atmosphere reached a climax.

Sun Dayan's son Sun Bozhong was lucky. When the sword fell for the first time, he was already shocked and fainted, so he silently accepted the death penalty. The executioner on the guillotine finally grabbed the pig tails of the Sun father and son, walked around the guillotine, and showed everyone on the scene, which attracted cheers from the people around him.

"Sun Qian, Sun Dayan's successor, helped the evildoer to commit abuse, did not repent, and was not a lifelong official slave, and he would not be forgiven for his crimes without a special pardon!

Sun Li and Sun Da spoke of their concubines, and they were accused of tigers, beating maids and slaves at home, resulting in one death and two disabled people, and sentenced to lifelong labor reform.

Sun Zhang, Sun Dayan's concubine, had two serious crimes, six misdemeanors, and showed signs of confession (confessing his guilt by himself), and the fact of remorse (announcing his ties with Sun Dayan, and as a witness to prove Sun Dayan's crime, and provided the location of the Sun's clan's silver treasury), sentenced to exile in Luzon and labor reform for four years."

More than 300 people in the Sun family were tried in public, of which only seven were sentenced to death. In addition to the Sun family's father and son, there were two other tribes in their clan, including the Sun family's dog legs, housekeepers, and slaves. The rest were mostly exiled and labor reform. Those with less crimes were exiled to Luzon, Yongning and other places. Those with slightly worse crimes were to go to the worse dangerous places such as Humal and Ligashibi. Those with more severe cases would either be sent to mines and caves as lifelong slaves, or they would only be said to be lifelong labor reform. Among them, those with ambiguous crimes would be exiled to Jincheng and Australia, but the public trial could not be said.

Among the more than 300 people, they were not completely sentenced. Seventeen of them were released to freedom, either slaves who were bullied and disabled by the Sun family, or maids and concubines who were forcibly bought. Among them, twelve people in the clan were returned to their private property, sent to Zhoushan, or obtained citizenship of the United States. The reason was that some of the families of these twelve people participated in anti-Qing activities in Zhoushan, and some were persecuted to death by the Qing captives, so they were given such preferential treatment.

Most of the slaves of the Sun family were sentenced to exile. These people were just exiled criminals and could restore their freedom as long as they were in the exile land. They were only limited to five years to life and were not allowed to leave the exile land. They also had the opportunity to receive a commutation of sentence. In addition to proving the crimes of the Sun family, the most important opportunity for commutation of sentence comes from themselves. If they can persuade their relatives to go to the exile land, they will not only restore their freedom to the exile land, but also get benefits such as bank loans and job arrangements. Therefore, public trial of war criminals and traitors is also the best way to immigrate.

In addition to Sun Dayan's family, the former governor of Jiangning of the Qing Dynasty, Tu Guobao, was also the former governor of Jiangning of the Qing Dynasty. Because of his meritorious service, his immediate relatives were pardoned. After the house was confiscated, they received a severance fee of 1,000 taels. Of course, if Tu Guobao could be pardoned by the Qing Dynasty, they would still live freely in Jiangnan. After all, they still had a lot of property in other occupied areas, and the fixed assets, land and real estate of these war criminals and traitors were not disposed of (no one dared to buy them), but Tu Guobao chose to leave incognito, and the whereabouts of them were unknown.
Chapter completed!