In the Beizhen Fusi Edict Prison, Li Chun, who was appreciating the torture, was hurriedly called out: "My lord, Yangwu Marquis Xue Lu is here!"

"What is he doing here?" Li Chun heard this, and said suspiciously: "Do you want to be opened by our supervisors again?"

The grievances between Xue Lu and Ji Gang have long been rumored to be a laughing stock in Beijing, and everyone knows about it. In order to compete for a female Taoist priest, Ji Gang used a golden gourd to open Xue Lu's head, and the brains flowed out, this person didn't die, but from then on, he avoided Jinyiwei, because the emperor favored Ji Gang at that time, and he didn't ask a word.

"The sun is coming out in the west," Li Chunle said: "This old horseman has eaten the heart of a bear and a leopard today, and dares to go to the brocade guard to provoke?"

"My lord," said his subordinate, "he came by the emperor's order!"

Li Chun hurried to the gate and saw that Xue Lu was not only coming alone, he had brought soldiers. Li Chun was furious this time, "Marquis Yangwu, you dare to lead private soldiers to besiege the Jinyi Guard Yamen!"

"Look at it," Xue Jun's swarthy face showed a grinched smile: "This is Jingwei, Long Xiangwei!"

Xue Jun looked at the Jinyi Wei people with an angry and deflated look, and couldn't help but feel happy, he got off the horse and walked into the Zhenfu Division, looking left and right and looking at Ji Gang, he snorted, but he also knew that this person was not here, so he said: "Ben Hou has been given a holy decree, so you will receive the order quickly!"

"Recording prisoners?" Li Chun and Li Qian looked at each other after listening to the holy decree: "How did Your Majesty think of recording prisoners?"

"Do you dare to doubt the emperor's will?" Xue Lu scolded.

"Don't dare," Li Chun's hatred itched, but it couldn't be seen on his face: "It's just that the minister only heard that the prisoners in the Detention Department and Dali Temple have a system of reviewing and interrogating records, and I haven't heard that Jinyiwei also has a prisoner?"

Created in the Han Dynasty, it refers to the emperor, the assassin, and the county guard, and interrogates prisoners in custody, and checks whether the arrest and trial actions of the lower-level organs are legal and whether there are any errors, so as to promptly redress unjust cases and decide cases. This work of recording prisoners has not been done by the Criminal Department and Dali Temple for about seven years, because the world's major prisons are all in Jinyiwei, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are empty, and they can only review the case files submitted by the local judicial organs.

What kind of prisoner is recorded by the Jinyi guard, isn't this ridiculous, the prisoner is to check whether there are any wronged people in the prison, and the people who are imprisoned in the Jinyi guard are all people who were ordered by the emperor to be arrested, and there are many people who have been wronged and have no place to redress, but the emperor wants you to die, can you still live?

Li Chun just thought of this before he had a question, and Xue Lu's eyes widened: "The emperor said that he wanted to record the prisoner, Benhou just said hello, the old heavenly official Jianyi and Dali Temple Qing Xue Jun are the ones who review the prison, you go to them and ask!"

The soldiers and horses brought by Xue Lu quickly controlled the north and south yamen of Jinyiwei, and Xue Lu said: "Seal all the criminal files, follow Benhou to the Imperial Prison, and Benhou will check the prisoners in the Imperial Prison one by one." ”

Jinyiwei's edict that the world heard of changed color, so Xue Lu had already wanted to find out. Compared with the prison of the Criminal Department, it is simply heaven. If there are criminals in the government and the people, if they are arrested by the cavalry and sent to the imperial prison, some are even scared to death.

Xue Lu saw that under the tall blue brick wall in front of him, there was a heavy iron door. And this iron door is actually equipped with a winch, and people inside and outside can activate it together to open the door. When the guards saw Xue Lu, they were very vigilant, and seemed to be about to turn off the alarm, until Xie Chuan behind Xue Lu came over, and he obeyed the order to open the door.

"Your Excellency," said the guard, "what does that mean?"

"The Emperor's Decree Records the Prisoner," Xie Chuan said, "You quickly take Lord Qincha in." ”

Xue Lu went down the steps into the dungeon with great interest, but he didn't expect that a putrid smell almost didn't stun him.

The group covered their mouths and went in, and they had to play the lanterns, and along the way, they heard the sound of rats scurrying under their feet, and finally lit the lamp on the stone wall.

"Is this a human or a ghost?" Xue Lu asked, pointing to the figure in a single cell in front of him.

"Naturally," said the jailer, "but it's about the same as a ghost." ”

Xue Lu, who was invincible and murderous on the battlefield without blinking, could see it discolored, and it was naturally a miserable situation - I saw this person leaning against the wall, his face was incomplete, as if he had been gnawed by a mouse, his eyes were only empty sockets, there was no trace of good skin and flesh on his body, and maggots were faintly visible on the meat.

"The edict of hell on earth really deserves its name!" Xue Lu's face turned pale, and the guards behind him couldn't help but retch, "Who is this person?"

The jailer introduced on the side that all the prisoners in the edict were prisoners, and this person was also a celebrity before.

"His name is Liang," the jailer explained, "and it was originally a Hanlin Yuan classic. ”

"Ten talents," Xie Chuan saw that Xue Lu didn't know, so he said: "Zhang Yu, Yang Ji, Gao Qi, Xu Ben, Wang Xing, Du Yin, Zhang Shi, Liang Shi, Pu Yuan, Fang Yi, Qian Fu Ten people, also known as the Ten Friends of Beiguo, are famous all over the world." ”

Xue Lu is an illiterate old man, for so many years, the emperor hates him because iron is not steel, because this guy is first-class in war, but he refuses to read, but he is respectful to cultural people, and he said: "I have heard of Gao Qi." can be as famous as Gao Qi, that's really a big reader! How can he be beaten like this?"

"I was implicated in the case of Xie Jin. Xie Chuan said: "In the ninth year of Yongle, the emperor came back, didn't he catch Xie Jin and pull out many subordinates of the East Palace?"

After Xie Jin was imprisoned, he was soon tortured by Jinyiwei and implicated a group of people, these people were Dali Cheng Tang Zong, Zongren Mansion Experience Gao Delu, Zhongyun Li Guan, Zanshan Wang Ruyu, edited and repaired Jiang Ji, Pan Ji, Xiao Yinggao and Li Zhigang, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites. And these people have been tortured like never before, implicating a wider group of people, even Liang Shi, who is over sixty years old and about to become a minister, was also implicated, and because this person has always hated Jinyiwei, he even wrote poems to satirize Ji Gang, and Ji Gang was deliberately fed a few "dim sum," and it became the appearance of the person in front of him waiting for his breath if he was not a ghost or a ghost.

"What about the other East Palace vassals?" Xue Lu said, "It's all like this?"

Xie Chuan nodded: "Everyone else is tortured to the point that life is worse than death, except for Xie Jin." ”

"No," Xue Lu didn't believe it: "In the Li Zhen case back then, you Ji Dudu was in the case, and if you caught Xie Jin, can you often die?"

"The person that Master Ji wants to kill the most, isn't he already dead?" Xie Chuan wrote lightly: "As for why he didn't move Xie Jin, I have a guess, I'm afraid it won't sound good to say it, and Lord Ji won't admit it." ”

"You say," Xue Lu stared at him, "why?"

"He wanted the emperor to personally order to kill Xie Jin. Xie Chuan said: "For Xie Jin, this is a literati who is arrogant to the bone, if you want to torture him, he will be like drinking sweet wine, the more you torture him to death, the more he will achieve his arrogance and reputation." Only the emperor's holy decree will give death, will this person be revealed, how to say, what Lord Ji wants to see. For Master Ji, the emperor personally ordered the killing of Xie Jin, which was equivalent to truly ending Li Zhen's case, and the emperor chose to believe in him Ji Gang instead of Chen Ying. ”

"You are responsible for this. Xue Lu said.

"Then I didn't say anything. Xie Chuan said.

With the sound of the ankle chains, the prisoners in every room were pulled out, and the Wenchen who was imprisoned in the ninth year of Yongle only survived less than half of the people on the list, and some were stupid, and some were crazy. And the more than 200 Wenchen who had been imprisoned recently were also ragged and looked awkward, and the slightest sound made them tremble and panic.

Xue Lu's sympathy for this group of literati was far less than that of Jian Yi and Xue Jun, who came to record the prisoners, and when these two people saw such a tragic scene, they were all in tears. This is absolutely understandable to Xue Lu, he knows what he feels when he sees Pao Ze die on the battlefield.

"My lord," said his men, "Lord Jian asked the doctor to come and treat him." ”

"Forget it," Xue Lu waved his hand: "Call here." ”

In Jingyang Palace, Kang Huan looked at the things on the table and snorted: "Send it over, Wang Guifei is the head, the six palaces are all sending things to the East Palace, and the main palace can't be missing, right?"

The East Palace lifted the ban, which surprised everyone, and the news of the prisoner recording came from Jinyiwei, which made Kang Huan feel uneasy. She didn't know if it was the calm before the storm or the return of the East Palace.

"Where's the peach?" she said, looking around, "I haven't seen her all morning, where have I gone?"

The names of the eunuchs and palace maids around Kang Huan are all so rich in culture. Several of her big palace maids are called Peach, Li, and Qi.

"I don't know," Li replied, "Let's go and find it." ”

"Hurry up," Kang Huan said, "I have to go to the theater in the afternoon, there is a set of stacked green headdresses, which are placed in the warehouse, only she knows." ”