Judicial Office, Judicial Hall The nine judges sit on the throne conducting the trial. The 12 accused are both assistant generals, a senior leader of the First Prince.
The back is full of people who come to observe—the journalist from the publisher Journalist from the Shenzhou radio broadcast Including Yi He, former military advisor.
Zhao Lingxin intervened directly in the justice process. Issuing an amnesty decree, Yi He did not have to go to court. As for the secret agreement between Yi He and the government, a mutual agreement succeeded. The 12 suspects were informed of information in advance, so they don't have the slightest concern today.
Since this case is substantial, it is of interest to everyone. In this case, participants were social elites involved in treason charges, allowing the Supreme Judge to come to the trial for himself.
"According to Article 1, the Constitution of the Empire Sovereignty belongs to the Emperor alone. Breaking this rule established the Northern Zhou Empire of the Great Prince Zhao Tao, with the death penalty, 12 people charged."
The Supreme Judge read the verdict for over half an hour. Raise the legal section to accompany many claims. Until people were confused, some were even asleep. Without studying the new laws of the Empire, do not expect to understand them easily.
"As all 12 eventually participated in persuading people to surrender, plead guilty and cooperate with the Imperial Army, according to Major General Song Zihua, commander of the Northern Army. The court has approved a reduction of the punishments for all 12 convicts. Imprisonment for 5 years with social contribution activities."
The journalists quickly write down the judgment. Tomorrow news of the trial will appear in imperial newspapers, allowing people to argue over this judgment. Yi He got up from the chair and walked out of the trial hall. Today, Yi He is very comfortable. The agreement between him and the government came to fruition.
The Cabinet agreed to accept Yi He's offer to reduce the blame for the accused in exchange for Yi He's support to buy the northern part of the country's hearts. This was the best result that Yi He could help.
The court pushed all the offenses to the First Prince Zhao Tao. The death of the First Prince is confirmed; making the blame on the dead is very normal. Five years' imprisonment is just the forefront of social action. That opened a loophole for all 12 people to not restrict their freedom in prison. Under the play of the court, ordinary people were hard to notice.
Yi He walked out of the judiciary, took a horse carriage, and traveled to the city's commercial district. Several days ago, Yi He left the Central State Hospital, he went to Tianhuang Bank to open a bank account to receive enough money from the government for him to use. The government gave Yi He a one-room apartment as a residence. Yi He, who used to be a noble class before, was unable to accept only one room and lived with other people.
Yi He protested to submit an appeal to the Royal Secretariat asking for justice. Yi He claimed the citizenship of the empire. Previously, Zhao Lingxin had taken all the noble money in the capital, which contained Yi He's assets. Under the principles of national citizenship law, the government has no right to seize his property.
The Royal Secretariat did not want to argue with Yi He and returned a certain amount of money. Only Yi He dared to protest. As for the other nobles' descendants, all of them died, distant relatives did not dare to go to the capital, fearing the emperor, arresting and executing them. Zhao Lingxin's reputation in other regions was extremely dire. The government wanted to restore the emperor's reputation, so a compromise policy had been used for a while.
At this time, the Great Dazhou Empire was rich; the economy was ten times bigger than before. Only a small amount of Yi He's money could hardly cause the government's shin hair to fall.
Yi He, who received government damages, bought a small house and lived in Shenzhou's famous shopping district.
Yi He had become a little more familiar with the way of life in the city. He had to adapt to a lot of traffic regulations. Electricity in the city and a convenient plumbing system, turn the faucet and clean water will flow immediately. Even when he first went to the toilet, he didn't dare to feces on the ceramic toilet. Yi He had never used such a sitting toilet before. The whole toilet was white, clean and flawless, causing Yi He to hold on for a long time before using the new toilet.
Some of the ceramic toilet products have begun to arrive in Shenzhou. This quickly became popular as it was easy to excrete, no need for squat. It does not cause a bad smell and comfort; just press the bow lightly, the water will flow out with the sewage, incredibly clean.
People had never thought that going to the bathroom would be this easy. After trying this new type of toilet, they admitted that they could no longer return to their old lives. People's standards of life are getting better.
Yi He has a lot of problems with the bathroom. He couldn't understand why he brought the paper in the bathroom, and when he realized the truth, he got angry.
"Who has such a thoughtless mind? Wipe the bottom with paper." According to Yi He, the paper is too expensive to describe, and it is suitable for the graduate to write a textbook. Yi He was in the north, the merchants often didn't sell any new paper. He did not know that Shenzhou had a low-cost method of producing paper.
Yi He could hardly accept paper wiping his bottom. But when all the surrounding societies were like this, Yi He could only adjust to the modern society to not be strange.
With the cheaper paper, many books have been printed out. There were many bookstores and, of course, newspapers. But the newspaper did not receive much attention. Most people are still unable to read and write. People prefer to listen to the radio through the announcements' voice; it is much easier to understand.
The newspaper became popular with a small group of graduates, intellectuals and some students who started reading. Newspapers are incredibly cheap, and some parents have begun buying newspapers for their children to read. Although their popularity is still small, it is slowly growing in number.
Yi He's daily routine is to go to a coffee shop to read the newspaper every morning. The Yanhuang Great Continent had some coffee beans, but people were more likely to use them as medicine than to drink them. Zhao Lingxin knew that the Yanuang Continent had coffee beans. He quickly encouraged the establishment of a coffee shop.
The bitter taste, full of aroma, makes the brain clear and fresh, this drink quickly became popular. Yi He also admired coffee. The first moment the coffee entered his mouth, he immediately became a follower of this drink; he had to drink it every morning and evening. Yi He had a good mood, opened the newspaper, read and sip coffee happily.
"Peace is great." Yi He felt that this simple life was happier than anything. He no longer has to direct his army to battle. Now he is just an old man who complains in a coffee shop every day. But Shenzhou City is full of things to do without being bored. Newspapers are one of them.
Within the newspaper, in addition to political news and state announcements, there are also other columns. For example, there is a storytelling story, a short funny comic. There are interesting stories like the Three Kingdoms. The land is divided into three parts, with many brave people competing for the land. The content of the political battle is one that Yi He is very fond of.
This period has started to make the new generation read more newspapers because there is an interesting story in the novel column.
The story about western journey. The mighty monkey was subdued by Yulai in his five hundred years. Before traveling to the Indian subcontinent to bring back the Tripitaka, the story is full of excitement. Wukong must keep suppressing the demons along the way, creating a fantasy among people, even Yi He, who didn't like fiction. Still, pay a lot of attention to this. The tide of novel reading slowly began to grow in Shenzhou.
Previously, the culture of the great continent was often a simple narrative. But the advent of newspaper novel columns began to create a new culture.
People were particularly eager to look forward to new novels. The novel textures found in the newspapers are very few, less than half a page. It could not satisfy most readers' appetite.
Yi He would always write and send letters to the publishing house to hasten a new episode of the novel, just one episode a day was not enough. Asked the publisher to produce a book novel.
Zhao Lingxin was constantly following the news of the Empire, knowing that right now, the reading culture has already bloomed. The imperial culture will be even more advanced. He expects his country to be full of writers, musicians, masters of the arts. Leave great works for future generations to see and praise for hundreds of years.
Zhao Lingxin gave an order to the Secretariat to publish a large number of books on personal behalf. Zhao Lingxin asked the scribes to copy as many of the past famous literature as they could remember to publish them in literature and works from various countries.
Zhao Lingxin published two of the four Chinese pieces of literature. Both the Red Chamber's dream and 108 Liang Shan Mountain Heroes. All of these things helped create a great buzz among the intellectuals in the capital.
In tea houses and cafes, people are always discussing literary content instead of political topics, which are common in the past. People share their experiences with what they read and analyze them. Yi He was also one of them; he spent from morning till night endlessly discussing the literature's contents.