The cells of the Magistrate's House were already overcrowded.
Under the selfless and hard work of many shrewd, capable and experienced prosecutors of the Imperial History Zuotai headed by Ji Junchen, the "rebellious comrades" fell into the legal net one after another.
The eunuchs in the inner palace, the ministers in the court, the officials who returned to their hometowns, the heads of the prefectures and counties, and even the generals at all levels in the army were constantly arrested into the "Routine Gate", and now the "traitors" who have only been arrested can no longer be stuffed into their cells, and the Magistrate's Court has no choice but to vacate the row of houses behind the West Chamber, which store firewood, charcoal, office utensils, and other miscellaneous items, as a place to hold prisoners.
However, there are still a few cells in the prison that are very relaxed, and these cells are of course where the prime ministers are held.
In the beginning, these prime ministers were divided into separate custodys, but the cells in the prison became more and more tight, and these prime ministers were the focus of care, and if they were separated, everyone needed to be guarded, so their cells were moved closer again.
However, they have already confessed their guilt, and the emperor also believes that they have confessed, in the eyes of Lai Junchen, these people are already waiting for death, and it is impossible to turn the sky upside down, so now they are locked together, and they don't care much.
Judge Wang Deshou roamed back and forth outside Di Renjie's cell, many times, he looked at the cell where Di Renjie was being held, as if he wanted to say something, but finally lowered his head and walked away with a heavy heart.
Di Renjie sat cross-legged in the prison, eating lunch slowly, as if he hadn't paid attention to anything, but Wang Deshou's expression of wanting to speak and stopping was seen in his eyes without leakage.
According to the prison system of the Tang Dynasty, prisoners' food and drink were sent to their families and prisons, and this law was originally enacted to prevent some poor people from using prisons as charities and deliberately committing crimes in order to eat in prison.
However, in China, there is also a traditional custom of "compassion for prisoners", if the prisoner does not have a family, then the prison is required to provide food, but the quality of the meal can be imagined.
These detainees are all prime ministers, so naturally there are family members who deliver food, and it is impossible for the family members to let them eat the unpalatable prisoners.
It's just that when their families bring food in, they are subjected to a hundred times stricter inspections than ordinary prisoners.
Di Renjie was full, took out a water bottle and poured a bowl of water, and drank it slowly, at this time Wang Deshou went out for a walk and came back, constantly walking around Di Renjie's cell, as if he was inspecting the cell, but his eyes kept looking at Di Renjie.
Wang Deshou is not a cronie under Lai Junchen, he was born on the right path, studied the law at an early age, and after years of hard work, he survived to the position of judge.
Now seeing that others are easily promoted by constantly digging out the accomplices of the traitorous party, Wang Deshou is very hot.
However, most of the officials who could be released from trial were divided among Lai Junchen's subordinates, and the task given to him by Lai Junchen was to keep an eye on these prime ministers and not let others contact them.
These prime ministers, even if Junchen came to him to try them, it was not something he could judge at all.
Di Renjie, Pei Xingben, Ren Zhigu, these are all extremely popular characters, the head of a hundred officials, the prestige they have cultivated over the years, every move and even a look can give people great coercion, and the imperial historians who came to Junchen may not be able to understand this, but he, an official who climbed up step by step from a small official, will never ignore that the kind of coercion formed because of class has penetrated into his bone marrow.
Seeing that others were promoted one after another, Wang Deshou was ready to move, and wanted to find out a few traitors and fellow party members through several prime ministers under his care, he was not young, if he didn't seize this opportunity, it would be difficult to get promoted in the future.
He didn't want to pass up the opportunity, but he really didn't know how to go about it.
After thinking about it, he set his goal on Di Renjie.
Di Renjie has a nickname in officialdom, called Old Fox.
Old fox means smart, and smart people like to make deals with people the most.
A smart person has many eyes, and a person with many eyes is always less determined than a simple person.
When he came to Zhongcheng to interrogate the three prime ministers that day, Di Renjie was the first to admit his guilt, which just confirmed his analysis, so he pinned the opportunity for promotion on Di Renjie, but he just wanted to think that when he really walked in front of Di Renjie, he still couldn't raise the courage.
Di Renjie drank water, quietly observed his actions, suddenly coughed, and said calmly: "Judge Wang, the old man has already eaten, please take out the rice basket for me." ” "Ahh Judge Wang hurriedly came to the front of the prison door, Di Renjie lifted the basket, handed it out from the dining door, suddenly muttered, dusted off the placket, and said: "The old man's court clothes are still the new robes that he just received at the beginning of the year, you see, now he is wearing all the folds and stained with mud, it's a pity, I bother you to take it back with you, and ask my family to clean it well."
Tomorrow they will send me some lighter clothes, for it is very hot and humid in this prison, and it is really uncomfortable. ” "It's really inconvenient for Di Xiang to wear this court dress, it's really inconvenient to sit and lie down."
Wang Deshou finally got in touch with him, and hurriedly agreed, Di Renjie took off his clothes slowly and handed them to him, Wang Deshou took the clothes, lifted the basket, and said to Di Renjie diligently: "Di Xiang, I'll send it out" Di Renjie smiled slightly, and said in a calm voice: "There is a judge of King Lao." ” Ren Zhigu and Pei Xing were locked in Di Renjie's cells on the left and right, Di Renjie and Wang Deshou's answer, both of them saw it, and as soon as Wang Deshou left, the two quickly approached Di Renjie's cell, and said excitedly: "Di Gong, you are still scheming, you can do it like this" It turned out that yesterday Di Renjie took advantage of the jailer's unpreparedness, tore off a piece of underwear, bit his finger, wrote something on it, and then pretended to rest, lying with his back to the prison door, as long as the jailer was not in front of the prison, he used a hairpin to pick up the thread of the court suit, and finally stuffed the blood book into it, and it took a long time to smooth it out, and the disassembled silk thread was flattened, and finally it seemed that the robe was fine.
These things took him a whole afternoon, and the two prime ministers locked in his left and right cells could see everything clearly through the fence wall, and Di Renjie's actions naturally couldn't hide it from them.
When Di Renjie and Wang Deshou answered, their nervous hearts rose to their throats, and it wasn't until Wang Deshou went out that the two were ecstatic.
Di Renjie's expression was still very calm, he sighed softly, and sighed: "There are more and more people coming to Junchen to arrest, and the more people there are, the more it looks like that."
The emperor's taboo is nothing more than rebellion, not only one of the Junchen here to stir up trouble here, but also the kings of the Wu family, even if they don't come forward, they will take this opportunity to instruct them to play right and wrong in front of the empress, I am worried, they are all in hand, the empress has no doubt about it. ” Di Renjie lightly combed his beard and said worriedly: "Although the blood book has been sent out, I don't know if it can be found by my family, if my family finds it, will there be a chance to send it to the imperial front, if not, we will not even have the last chance of life."
Now, I can only do my best and obey the fate of God."
At this time, Lai Junchen was personally trying Zhang Qianqiao, the general of Zuo Yuxuanwei, Zhang Qianqiao was handcuffed with iron shackles on his feet and his hands were also wrapped in chains, and he was escorted to the lobby The stick slammed to the ground, shaking the ground slightly, making people panic when they heard it.
Zhang Qianqiao is a veteran of a hundred battles, he has seen the sword and sword, where will he put this bit of momentum in his eyes, he stood there steadily, and looked at Lai Junchen just sneered slightly.
Lai Junchen slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "The criminal minister Zhang Qianxuan, still don't kneel."
Zhang Qianqiao pursed his lips and said proudly: "This handsome man has made countless contributions to the country on the battlefield.
This great country has a share of the merit of this handsome.
What are you, in terms of merit, not as good as Zhang; In terms of official position, there is also a big difference between Zhang, Zhang was unjustly imprisoned, what is the crime, why do you want to kneel to you, the villain who can only flatter and pat the horse" Lai Junchen has arrested so many people, and he has never seen one so arrogant, he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "Zhang Qianxuan, this official is ordered to try you, you are an adult, you are guilty of rebellion, and you dare to roar in court, if you are so arrogant, if you don't admit your guilt, this official will be punished and waiting."
Lai Junchen gave an order, and his subordinates rumbled up those strange-shaped, blood-stained torture instruments again.
Zhang Qianqiao didn't even look at it, looked at the sky with his eyes, and said coldly: "You come to Junchen's notoriety, no one in the whole world knows how to judge Ben Shuai, but you can be Yu Shitai, Ben Shuai believes that he wants to judge Ben Shuai, unless the three divisions will be tried."
After Zhang Qianqiao finished speaking, he turned around and walked down the hall, and as he walked, he said coldly: "When all the officials of the three divisions have arrived, please invite Ben Shuai to the hall."
Lai Junchen trembled angrily, he thought he was crazy enough, but he didn't expect to meet a person who was even more arrogant than him on his territory, Lai Junchen slapped a piece of startling wood with a "pop" sound, and shouted loudly: "Come and take Zhang Qianqiao down for me, and the big punishment will wait" "Who dare" Zhang Qian's leopard's eyes widened, and he shouted loudly, bluffing the deacons who had just come up to retreat suddenly, and Lai Junchen shouted angrily when he saw this: "You waste, he is tied hand and foot, a waste person, what are you afraid of, take him down and take him down for me, and torture" Lai Junchen reminded those deacons with a word, they suddenly rushed up again, Zhang Qianqiao and the deacons had a fight, but his hands were tied, the shackles were short, and he couldn't even take a big stride, at first he knocked away a few deacons with his bravery, and then he was beaten down by a stick on his head and face, and his head was bleeding, and his hair bun was also scattered, and his hair was scattered, so he was not embarrassed.
As the chief general of the first army, when was he so humiliated by a group of lowly deacons, he was so angry that he shouted violently: "This handsome man is fighting to the death, and today he will get rid of you traitor for the court."
Zhang Qian turned around suddenly, knocked away several deacons, and went straight to Lai Junchen, who was sitting behind the judgment seat, and when Lai Junchen saw that he was angry and rushed to the crown, like a fierce tiger, his heart was also empty, and he hurriedly left his seat, and shouted while dodging: "Fools are all a group of fools, don't stop him quickly" There was a sudden chaos in the court, Lai Junchen was all over the house, Zhang Qianmiao then chased after him, and a bunch of deacons chased after Zhang Qianmiao's buttocks, and the sticks were beaten down like a torrential rain, Zhang Qianmiao didn't care, just gritted his teeth and chased after Junchen.
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Lai Junchen fled around the "Quiet" card and the "Avoidance" card, and kept shouting: "Zhang Qian has no king's law, and wants to assassinate the chief judge in the court, and he won't give me a knife to kill him."
The saber guards guarding in front of the hall saw that Junchen had ordered, and immediately broke into the court, Wei Suizhong snatched the knife from the hand of one of the guards, and caught up with Zhang Qianqiao with an arrow step, and slashed it fiercely, Zhang Qianqiao screamed "ah", and was stabbed in the back, and the blood flowed like a note.
Zhang Qianmiao only stared at Lai Junchen at this time, and ignored the rest, endured the pain and continued to chase, chased two steps, took a bigger step, was pulled by the iron shackles under his feet, and almost fell to the ground, at this time another guard took the opportunity to stab again, almost cutting off one of his arms.
Those saber guards moved, regardless of whether he was the commander of the first army or not, just cut down the knife in his hand like a cloak, just a moment of effort, and cut Zhang Qianqiao into a bloody man, Zhang Qianqiao was covered in blood, his eyes wanted to breathe fire, glared at Lai Junchen fiercely, and roared: "Lai Junchen is eager to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Er" He kicked his feet and slammed them off the spot, taking himself as a weapon, throwing a spear at Junchen, seven or eight wind and fire sticks forked in front of him, framed his arms, and picked them up again, forming a stick net, forking his whole person in the air, unable to move again.
Lai Junchen pointed at him and shouted, "Kill him, kill him for me" A deacon cautiously approached and looked, only to see that Zhang Qianqiao was on a stick, still maintaining the posture of rushing forward, his body was motionless, although his eyes were round, but he had lost his charm, the deacon tried Zhang Qianmiao's breathing again, and turned around to report: "Zhongcheng, he is dead" Lai Junchen exhaled, straightened his official hat, tidied up his official robe, and said hatefully: "It's good to be dead, it's good to be dead, this pious lawlessness, attacking the presiding judge above the public court, but you all saw the corpse being put out and the next person was brought to the next prisoner."
Zhu Bin, the leading lieutenant, was escorted to the lobby, and when he saw the blood all over the ground, his legs became weak.
He already knew that Zuo Yuxuan's general Zhang Qianmiao was hacked to death by Lai Junchen, and it was Fan Yunxian who was arraigned after Zhang Qianmiao.
Fan Yunxian believed that he had served the former emperor Li Zhi, and he didn't take Lai Junchen in his eyes at all, and as soon as he came to the court, he endlessly listed the grievances he had suffered and the merits he had made.
Lai Junchen was just disgraced by Zhang Qianxuan, full of anger, how could he listen to his ramblings, and slapped two shocking trees in a row, but he still couldn't make Fan Yunxian shut up, Lai Junchen was so angry that he simply ordered someone to cut off his tongue.
Even the general of the Jade Guard, he dared to slash and kill in front of the court, would he care about a eunuch.
Zhu Bin, who was squatting in the waiting room, saw Zhang Qianqiao being hacked to death and Fan Yunxian having his tongue cut out, and he was already bluffed.
Lai Junchen sat behind the case, glared at Zhu Bin with an angry face, and shouted in a deep voice: "Zhu Bin, you and others colluded to rebel, the facts are all there, above the official court, obediently confess, you can avoid the pain of flesh and skin" Zhu Bin was so frightened that his knees weakened, and he knelt on the ground with a "porphyr" sound, and said repeatedly: "Don't use torture if I recruit me."
Wei Suizhong flashed to Junchen's side, and said in his ear: "Zhongcheng, this person is a little shrimp taken out by the way, he was Yang Fan's boss" "Oh" When Lai Junchen heard this, the anger on his face immediately dissipated, he slowly turned his head, looked Zhu Bin up and down, and said with a slight smile: "Criminal Minister Zhu Bin, according to the information that this official has already checked, that Yu Linlang will Yang Fan is also your accomplice, but there is such a thing."
Zhu Bin was laughed at by him, he was really more scared than being stared at by him, and when he heard him speak, he nodded his head and said: "Yes, yes, Zhongcheng is wise, Zhongcheng is wise, Yang Fan is the same party of the guilty minister."
Yang Fan Yang Fan" Zhu Bin only remembered who Yang Fan was after speaking, and couldn't help but raise his head and look at Lai Junchen in a daze.
Lai Junchen nodded with a smile and said, "Well, the person who knows the current affairs is Junjie, Zhu Bin, you are a person who knows the current affairs."
As long as you are willing to confess honestly, this official here will not embarrass you too much. ” Lai Junchen put his elbow on the table, leaned forward, and said softly: "Yang Fan is in the most prosperous place in Nanshi, there are seventeen shops, it is really a rich prince, so many properties, how can he be owned by a person who has just been promoted to Lang General, you are his comrade, you know who gave him so much property, why did he give him such a big fortune, what do you want him to do?"
At this moment, Lai Junchen really looks like a good teacher who is full of patience, but this expression is in Zhu Bin's eyes, but he seems to see the devil smiling at him, Zhu Bin is even more afraid, he trembled and thought for a long time, and then hesitated: "As far as the criminal knows, this Yang Fan is extremely appreciated by the officials."
Lai Junchen's face changed suddenly, his purpose was just to bite Yang Fan to death, but he didn't want to bite out such a great bodhisattva.
Shangguan Wan'er is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, His Majesty ran to Wufeng Tower at night, and he didn't forget to bring her, this person is not so easy to knock down.
Without waiting for Zhu Bin to finish speaking, Lai Junchen slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "If you are bold enough to be loyal to the emperor, how can you be an accomplice to the traitorous party, and you can't bite others indiscriminately."
Zhu Bin was taken aback, and hurriedly changed his words: "Yes, yes, the criminal minister did not say that Shangguan was Yang Fan's accomplice, but just said that Yang Fan was clever and sought the appreciation of Shangguan to get close to His Majesty the Emperor, which is really ill-intentioned."
Lai Junchen said impatiently: "Okay, okay, don't mention the official waiting system anymore, you just have to confess, who used so much money to buy him" "This" Zhu Bin swallowed his saliva, thought for a while, and then said cautiously: "Di Renjie, the local official."
Lai Junchen glanced at him coldly, Zhu Bin immediately closed his mouth, Lai Junchen endured and endured, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and roared loudly: "You stupid person, everyone knows that Di Renjie has no money, he has so much money to give to Yang Fan, do you still need to move to the edge of Nancheng, and get up early every day to come to Miyagi?"
Zhu Bin hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the criminal minister is afraid of the power of the Zhongcheng tiger, and he is a little confused for a while, please allow the criminal minister to think about it again."
Zhu Bin said in his heart: "This person wants to be rich, well, Xue Huaiyi is rich, and when Yang Fan got married, Xue Huaiyi also gave a big gift, no, Shangguan can't be treated, if I confess Xue Huaiyi, who else will I tear up if Junchen comes, and King Liang will not succeed."
Zhu Bin thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with a suitable candidate, and couldn't help crying without tears: "Others don't want to confess and get through, I want to confess and get through, who is it good to recruit?"
Lai Junchen looked at his stupidity, closed his eyes and breathed steadily, opened his eyes suddenly, tried to keep his expression still pleasant, and said step by step: "Among the rebel parties arrested by this official, there is a Ministry of Industry Shangshu Li Youdao.
This Li Youdao was born in the Li family of Zhao County, and was a prince of Fubi.
Moreover, as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he was in charge of engineering, water conservancy, salt ponds, gardens, weapons, tuntian, mining and metallurgy, and currency minting, and he had a lot of money and financial skills."
Zhu Bin is a good student, and he understood just a little bit when he came to Junchen, and hurriedly said: "Zhongcheng, this Yang Fan is in an important position, commanding Yulin, they are no, no, it is us, we want to rebel, without such a powerful figure, then we can't open the palace gate."
Therefore, Li You promised to give him a general to do after the matter was completed, so he bought Yang Fan to be the internal response of the palace, and only waited for the army to arrive, so he responded from the palace, led his cronies to cooperate with the outside world, opened the palace gate, welcomed the rebels into the city, and forced the emperor to abdicate" Lai Junchen sat sideways, smiling and looking up, gently brushing his beard, with a leisurely expression.
He looked at the dust on the roof, as if a pretty woman in a goose yellow shirt with a beautiful and charming posture was flying down and rushing into his arms.
The little woman was graceful and charming, like a fresh flower after the rain, and like a grape with the fullest and most abundant branches.
He raised his head and closed his eyes slightly, as if he could pick the watery grape in his hand as soon as he stretched out his hand.
Although the lobby was still filled with the smell of blood, the tip of his nose seemed to smell the faint and inducing body fragrance of the beautiful woman, and Lai Junchen was intoxicated.
Everyone has something to pursue, some people are for the country and the people, some people are for the future, some people are high-ranking officials, some people are rich and glorious, and some people are intoxicated with power.
Lai Junchen felt that compared to these people, he really didn't want much.
Actually, he just likes to moan: let the man moan under his torture instrument, let the man's woman moan under him To be continued: