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Volume 1: Saving the Three Thousand Beauties in the Harem Chapter 439: The Tokyo Trial

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    (Thank you to Da Meng and several brothers for the great reward! Thank you!)

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    ??In 1132, on the ninth day of April, all businesses in Tokyo were open, the streets were empty, Long Live Mountain was crowded, and both sides of the Jinglong River were crowded.  Merchants and common people from Kaifeng, Henan, Hebei, and western Beijing, as long as conditions allowed, all rushed into Tokyo City, just to witness an unprecedented trial of the century.

    Tokyo Trial!

    The subjects of the trial are the following thirty-four Jin war criminals, the gold owner Wu Qibi.

    As early as last year, when Di Lie besieged Beijing and drew up a list of thirty-four war criminals and announced it to the world, he decided to imitate the famous "Tokyo Trial" of the same name in later generations and have a trial of the century.  The crime of "war criminal" is not just a matter of words, it must be matched by "treatment", and trial is the most important part of it.

    The court officials of Tianshu basically agreed to punish the two chief culprits, the financial lord Wu Qimai and the Prime Minister Wanyan Zonghan, to thank the world, but a large-scale trial was another matter.

    There are many examples in the past dynasties of trying guilty ministers; there is no shortage of precedents in the past dynasties for tying the enemy to the chief.  However, when the entire enemy nation surrenders and is captured in one fell swoop, it is rare to hunt down the lost dog and judge the crime.  There has never been such a precedent in all dynasties.

    Therefore, when Di Liefang proposed this proposal, it caused great controversy among the courtiers.  Di Lie's motion can be said to have touched the foundation of Confucianism's "benevolence and forgiveness". Many ministers and Tokyo scholars wrote letters to oppose it, among which the memorial written by Yu Wenxuzhong was the most representative.

    Yu Wenxuzhong's memorials emphatically cited the examples of previous dynasties (Northern Song Dynasty) that destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and surrendered to Wu and Yue.  Regardless of whether these dynasties were destroyed by force or forced to surrender, their kings were able to be properly resettled and their ministers were able to continue to serve.  At the same time, a more powerful example was also cited: the Kingdom of Jin kidnapped the two saints and their clan, although it was doubly humiliating.  The imperial edict stated the culpability, but the trial was not publicized in front of the world.

    The memorial concludes by saying, "the barbarians from the north are rude and respect this law. How about my huge country, which is a country of poetry and etiquette?"

    According to the procedure, the memorial was first delivered to Queen Zhu.  Queen Zhu's reply was quite Taihang-style, "give mercy to others and be merciful to others."  And the approval of King Tianshu Hua.  But it is much more severe. "When Jin destroyed the previous dynasty, who invaded whom? Who is the real sinner? Tianshu destroyed Jin, but he was punished on behalf of heaven. To avenge the Han Dynasty, how can we not expose the crimes of the enemy chiefs to the world?"  , on the punishment of crime?¡±

    "To offend without comparing is the way to forgive; to retaliate with tooth is the way to be straight."  The country of the Central Plains already has too many ways of forgiveness, but what it really lacks is the straight way of grudges and grudges!  The land of the Central Plains, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and countless bones and displaced people who had been ravaged by the Jinlu for five full years needed it most.  It was a hearty and fair judgment that they could witness with their own eyes.

    The benevolent will be forgiven, and the evil will be punished; do not indulge in injustice, and good and evil will be rewarded. This is the right way in the world.

    The controversy caused by this incident spread from the court to the people, and among the people in the streets and shops.  There was also a heated debate.  According to the news collectors sent by Kaifeng Prefecture, who collected folk rumors in the Gyeonggi area, more than 70% of them supported the public trial of Jin Dynasty war criminals.

    The civil servants and generals within Tianshu's influence also wrote letters one after another, and the vast majority supported the public trial.

    In early April, Queen Yuan Sheng and King Hua jointly issued an edict: The public trial of Jin war criminals should be based on facts and the law as the criterion.

    Public trial of crimes, punishment of rape and elimination of evil, shocked the countries and warned the people.

    This is what Di Lie wants to achieve in this trial.

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    The location of the public trial ceremony was chosen at the Genyue site of the original royal garden.

    Genyue is located in the north of the imperial city, between the Xuanwu Gate of the imperial palace and the Longmen of the north view of the imperial city. It covers an area of ??more than ten miles and is built into a mountain called Long Live.  In the past, the Long Live Mountain had verdant peaks and secluded valleys, strange rocks, flowers and birds, lush forests and bamboos, green leaves and red buds, and flying pavilions and pavilions. The scenery was excellent when viewed from afar.  Being among them makes people forget about the colorful worldly affairs and feel the ambition to reach the clouds.

    What is regrettable is that this huge project, which consumed a lot of manpower and material resources and lasted for more than ten years during the reign of Jingkang, gathered countless treasures in the "hanging garden" of the Northern Song Dynasty. However, at the end of the first year of Jingkang, the city was besieged by the Jin soldiers.  For a long time, Qinzong "then ordered to take more than 100,000 birds and waterbirds from the mountains in the garden and throw them into the Muhe River. He also demolished the houses for fuel, chiseled stones for cannons, and cut down bamboos for cage fences. He also took hundreds of thousands of large deer and killed them to feed the guards.  ¡­¡±

    "I spent more than ten years and exhausted all the world's resources to build the fairyland on earth, but it was completely destroyed by my son's three strokes, five divided by two.  It is certainly a great sin to build a royal garden for the sake of personal enjoyment, to waste people and money, but to destroy this paradise on earth, where countless blood, sweat, wisdom and wealth have been poured into, is not a serious sin.

    This strange father and son really did not lose unjustly.At this time, things in the imperial city had already changed.  Di Lie also did not intend to use this city with obvious signs of the Song Dynasty as his capital. He simply opened the imperial city to the people of Tokyo and could come and go freely.  This made it possible to use the former site of Genyue as the venue for the public trial.

    Preparations for the trial are not complicated. Three high-pitched sheds are built in the shape of a zirconia in advance. The one in the middle is the trial stand, the left is the waiting stand, and the right is the witness stand.  With three high platforms as the center, a square safety fence circle is formed. People can watch from the outside of the circle, but entry and making noise are prohibited.

    There are 200 government officials from Kaifeng Prefecture inside the fence to maintain order, and a mixed battalion of the Tianzhu Army is surrounding the three towers to serve as security guards.

    The chief judge is Chen Gui of Zhi Taiyuan Prefecture, and the assessors are Zhang Jiao of Zhi Jingzhao Prefecture, Yin Zongying of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Zhao Si, the King of Yue.  King Di Lie of China, a group of civil and military ministers, and envoys from various countries sat on both sides of the trial platform, listening to the trial.

    The most eye-catching thing is the legendary female soldier team on the witness stand - the Tianjiao Battalion female soldiers.

    The female soldiers of the Tianjiao Battalion, except for the retired Princess Zhao Yuqiang, Ye Die'er, Yang Tiao'er and other girls, who were unable to show up due to their status, the other more than 200 female soldiers who survived the Battle of Nerling were in Xin Yunu  Under the leadership of the leader, representatives of Angel Camp, Tianlai Camp and countless humiliated sisters went to the court to testify.

    More than 200 talented female soldiers stood in a square formation, with green scarves wrapped around their heads, dark green military uniforms that were pressed close to their bodies, and wide cowhide belts that cut their slender waists into slender ones.  Each female soldier's bulging chest is hung with a shining silver medal, which is like a more beautiful scenery than when Gen Yue was not destroyed, which is dazzling

    People in Tokyo.  Half of them came to see Bei Nu's fate, and the other half came to see this legendary female soldier team.  They were not disappointed. This team of female soldiers had a neat military appearance, strong strength and softness, and heroic appearance. They couldn't get enough of it. It was really an eye-opener.  Full of respect.  Even Tianshu officials and envoys from various countries came.  I couldn't help but look sideways - I couldn't help it, it was too eye-catching.

    But no one noticed it.  Among this formation of female soldiers standing neatly in ten rows, only the first three rows are female soldiers. They are red-faced and green-dressed, as straight as a gun, heroic and dazzling.  Starting from the fourth row, all the way to the end of the team, some of the female soldiers in the center of the team are holding sticks, have narrow eyes, have scarred faces, or are missing fingersthe leader Xin Yunu.  He is also a semi-disabled person sitting in a wheelchair.

    ¡°These little ladies who dared to challenge the etiquette and inner fears that have existed for thousands of years and rise up to fight have gained a lot and lost a lot But standing in this place and integrating into this group, they  No regrets.

    On the ninth day of April, at 2:00 a.m. (six o'clock in the morning), when the first ray of sunlight shines on the earth, the trial of war criminals of the Jin Kingdom begins.

    Tens of thousands of people.  They were surrounded by dozens of people, and there was no way to get through.  If you really can't see clearly, you can climb up to the bare Wansui Mountain; if you really can't squeeze in, you can stand on the bank of Jinglong River.  Although it's a bit far away and the line of sight is blurred, it's fine as long as you can hear the verdict clearly.

    Well, in order to solve this problem of amplification, Zong Ying, who was in charge of the venue, used the simplest and primitive "communication basically relies on roaring"-selecting a hundred strong men with loud voices, and after a little training, they can be put into use.  As soon as the judge announced the verdict, these hundreds of "loudspeakers" shouted the verdict for miles around.

    Wu Qimai was undoubtedly lucky. On the day he completed the sheep-raising ceremony, just in front of the Hanhuntang Shrine, the Jin Dynasty emperor suffered from sudden cardiac arrest, ran out of oil, vomited three liters of blood, and died suddenly on the spot.  Queen Tang Kuo also vomited blood and fainted.  In this way, the thirty-four war criminals became thirty-three.

    On the ninth day of April, thirty-three war criminals stood in a prison car and were escorted to the trial stand by Tianzhu soldiers.  The important ministers, princes, and generals of the Jin Kingdom, all dressed in prison uniforms, shackles and shackles, with tattoos on their foreheads, with angry faces and malicious eyes, lined up on the stand waiting for trial.

    First of all, the presiding judge Chen Gui read out the opening speech: "Since Jingkang, the northern barbarians have repeatedly invaded our Central Plains, killing the people, trampling on the rivers and mountains, and the rivers and rivers are red, and ghosts are crying; they have also robbed the clan, driven all the people into slavery, or committed crimes.  Selling the frontier wasteland After Jingkang, the desire to destroy our Han Dynasty never died. Every year, we invaded the south, and the Spring and Autumn Period returned. We regarded our great rivers and mountains as a hunting ground. I, a righteous man from the Central Plains, a man of the Han family, am I someone who is willing to be killed?  We must strengthen our arms to rise up and fight back with determination; kill millions of horned Tartars and wash away the humiliation of thousands of days of cruelty and cruelty"

    An impassioned opening speech, led by hundreds of powerful men, roared for miles, deafening and profound, arousing strong resonance among tens of thousands of people in Tokyo.  Every time Chen Gui read a sentence, there was a cheer from the outside. At the end, the cheers came one after another, and they turned into a mountain and a tsunami.

    When the people's emotions were aroused to the extreme, the public trial officially began.

    The first person to announce the charges was Wanyan Zonghan.  The Prime Minister and Marshal of the Kingdom of Jin was also unlucky. He was originally ranked second, but because of the sudden death of the king, he was promoted to the number one war criminal.  But strictly speaking?, but it is not unjust, because compared to the financial leader Wu Qimai, Wanyan Zonghan has the most evil reputation in the Central Plains government and the public, and he is also the real executor of the invasion and destruction of the Song Dynasty.

    First, witness Zhang Xiaochun accused Wanyan Zonghan of leading a 60,000 Jin army as the left deputy marshal of the Jinxi Route Army to invade Taiyuan in January of the first year of Jingkang, and captured Taiyuan in September, killing the Song army soldiers who were defending the city and reinforcing them.  Tens of thousands of people.  What is even more outrageous is that after the city of Taiyuan was destroyed, the guard general Wang Zhen threw himself into a river and died for his country. Instead of burying such a loyal man with courtesy, Wanyan Zonghan ordered his subordinates to trample his body on horseback to vent his anger

    Speaking of the anger, Zhang Xiaochun burst into tears and was speechless with grief.  As the commander of the Taiyuan Defense War and Wang Zhen's comrade-in-arms, the testimony of Zhang Xiaochun, the original acquaintance of Taiyuan Prefecture, is extremely credible and contagious.  The people watching onlooked and heard the righteous people throwing themselves into the river, and all shed tears of sympathy; when they heard that the bodies had been brutally ravaged, they were all filled with righteous indignation.  There were nearly a thousand people approaching the fence at the scene, throwing hard objects such as coins, silver coins, broken silver, and even taking off their cloth shoes onto the waiting platform.  If the distance were not too far, the object was too small, and the lethality was too weak, it is estimated that the Prime Minister of Jin would have staged a spectacle of being beaten to death by money

    When the talented female soldiers stood up one by one and complained that they were ravaged and insulted by Wanyan Zonghan's beast soldiers on their way north, and that the women either endured the humiliation and lived in espionage, or committed suicide, the atmosphere at the scene reached climax.  Tens of thousands of people roared to the sky, and the sounds of executions reached into the sky.

    The female soldiers burst into tears.  Telling this painful past in public is tantamount to tearing open the long-healed scars again, which is heartbreaking.  But they are soldiers and must obey orders - most importantly, they must do this in order to seek justice for the sisters who died on the way north and for themselves!

    With smiles and tears, they will watch the enemy invaders perish for the souls that have passed away on the road to the north and on Daugher Ridge!

    With all the witnesses and material evidence available and the evidence conclusive, the presiding judge Chen Gui read out the verdict:

    "The slave chief Wanyan Zonghan has invaded the south several times since the end of Xuanhe. He besieged Taiyuan for nine months, causing countless casualties to our soldiers and civilians. After the city was broken, they massacred the surviving soldiers and civilians, and even trampled the body of the guarding general Wang who died in the water with his horse.  , the evil deeds are heinous He destroyed our city of Tokyo, captured and robbed the Emperor of Song Dynasty, killed and humiliated countless women of Zongji and the common people. It is really a heinous crime that cannot be pardoned and should be punished by death according to the law. Wanyan Zonghan, can you accept the sentence?"

    Since almost all of the people on trial were Jurchens, it was natural to have several interpreters. Every time Chen Gui read a sentence, there would be an interpreter to translate it.

    At this time, Wanyan Zonghan was extremely ill and his body had already collapsed.  The accusations against Zhang Xiaochun were just sneered in silence, while the accusations against female soldiers were ignored.  After hearing the verdict, he just rolled his eyes and said calmly: "Are you done with the tossing? Let's do it now! Do it as you please, let's see if a real Jurchen man will frown."

    Next, there is Wanyan Xiyin. Based on the fact that this minister of the Jin Dynasty served as the marshal's right supervisor in the Jindong Route Army that invaded the south, he cannot escape the responsibility for war crimes and is listed as the No. 2 war criminal.  Unjustly accused, not to mention tortured to death in Lengshan, the family fiefdom

    Pu Cha Shi¡¯s slave, the executioner who destroyed the Pingding Army.  From the guard general Ji Ting to the ordinary civilians, they all died at his hands and were burdened with blood debts.  In the Tianzhu Army, the witnesses alone are extremely important: Yue Fei, Wang Gui, Xu Qing, Guo Dashi all of them are the survivors of the Pucha Shi family's bloodbath and pacification of the Ding Army. Their testimonies are their personal experiences.  .

    Wanyan Zongqian, Alubu

    From April 9th ??to April 12th, the public trial lasted for three full days. The numerous crimes committed by the Jin Dynasty war criminals made the people of Tokyo seem to have returned to those unbearable years Looking back on the past and looking back on the present, it makes people cherish this hard-won peace.  An Ning, I am doubly grateful to King Tianshu Hua who ended this nightmare and troubled world and saved all the people from fire and water!

    On April 12, all war criminals who directly participated in the southern invasion, such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Zongmin (Arubu), Pucha Shijianu, Hu Shihai, Xiao Zhonggong and other 17 war criminals, were counted.  He was sentenced to death - "Mengshan is unyielding and the flowers are not spicy". This is a special death penalty for Jurchens, that is, pulling the ribs to death.  Use his way to return all his bodies.

    The rest of the war criminals who indirectly participated in the war of aggression to the south (such as supporting in the court), such as Wanyan Zongqian, Zongpan, Zongjun, Zongchao, Hunqi, Youmouhan, Sali Gudu, Pei Mantuni etc.  etc., and shall be sentenced to five penalties according to the seriousness of the crime.  For example, those who were deposed and extorted were sentenced to death penalty and imprisoned for life; Sali Gudu and Pei Mantu were sentenced to death penalty and imprisoned for life; Gao Qingyi, Xiao Qing, Yin Dahe, etc. were punished with eighty stick spines and three days of hard labor.  Years; and Aguda and Wu Qiqi bought all the princes, such as Wanyan Zongqian, Zongpan, Zongjun, Zongchao, Zonggu, Zongya, Zongshun, Zongying, Fulan, Shentumen, Welie, etc., all of them  Sentenced to¡ªcastration!  Imprisoned for life.

    All war criminals sentenced to life imprisonment, including more than 200 members of the Jin Kingdom clan, will be taken to Qinlong Island on a certain day and imprisoned, and will not be allowed to leave the island for life.

      With the country destroyed and the family destroyed, the sea and the sky are vast, the fate of these subjugated people will not be much better than the tragic father and son who were imprisoned in the Five Kingdoms City "sitting in a well and watching the sky"

    The Tokyo Trial united people's hearts and pushed King Hua's reputation to a higher level.  At the same time, in front of the world, he announced the complete end of the Jurchen Dynasty.
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