Martial law began in Shangjing, and the people knew exactly what was happening, and they were quiet in the joy after the New Year's Festival, and the whole of Shangjing was covered in red at night, including the red lanterns hanging high in every house, and the bloody killings hidden in the shadows against the fiery festival.

As the saying goes, the less you know, the less burdened you are, and now the people are the ones who live the most freely and happily.

In order not to disturb the atmosphere of the New Year's Festival, the relatives of the officials who were found to have committed the crime this time were all dealt with in accordance with the last incident of the eldest prince, but the venue could not be selected at the entrance of the vegetable market, Mu Haoyu specially ordered the beheading of the criminal officer to be executed directly in the courtyard of the Criminal Department, so as to avoid someone secretly stealing the beam and changing the pillar, Mu Haoyu specially ordered the Criminal Department to verify the identity of all the criminal officials, once there is a mistake, only all the officials of the Criminal Department are asked.

Even if someone wants to do something now, it is impossible, and the officials of the Criminal Department must keep their eyes open if they want to save their lives and those of their families, and they cannot be careless in the slightest, even if they give more silver, they don't want to think about who to use so much silver, I am afraid that in the end, the emperor will not even reward you with a coffin board in anger, how miserable it will be.

Now the people in the Criminal Department are like hungry wolves, catching who bites whom, whether you have committed a crime, whether you are a person in this matter, you have to start from your ancestors 18 generations down one by one, who makes you not stay at home and want to get involved, even if you only touch a side, it will not work, the excess curiosity is saved as soon as possible, once the crime is confirmed, no matter how big or small, as long as you are touched, you will be immediately detained pending trial, the Criminal Department has made a bloody capital this time, Pursuing the rule that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go, he ruthlessly stuffed people into the prison of the Criminal Department.

Mu Haoyu secretly praised the approach of the Criminal Department, he was not afraid of wrongful killing, the Criminal Department seemed to be strict but did not dare to really solve the unjust case, but anyone who was caught had a criminal record, and it was impossible to have a clean breeze on his sleeves.

This is a lot of curiosity. There are also officials who want to inquire about things, but they are unlucky, and as soon as they say a word, they are invited to tea by the people of the Criminal Department, and they are suspected of participating in all doubts, and they must go through three sessions of interrogation and live in the cramped and smelly cell of the Criminal Department.

A day trip to the Criminal Department is not a joke. Anyone who says that you show your innocence is in vain, and you have to go through the procedures of the Criminal Department before you can be released.

At the moment, many officials are tragic, who let them patronize and worry about themselves, and forget to look at the situation and lose their normal heart, then they will definitely go on a business trip. The people in the criminal department are very poisonous, how can there be a reason not to arrest people.

Many people went in at the end, and several people went in and never came out, which made the ministers rumor for a while, and they didn't dare to inquire indiscriminately, and you didn't see those officials who were released from the criminal department. What kind of appearance they all look like, compared to the beggars on the street, it is simply better.

There are many ministers who have aged a lot overnight, and they are exhausted, but they are not a joke. Some people who couldn't stand it lay there at that time, but the people from the criminal department called a sedan chair to carry the person home.

Once you meet an official of the Criminal Department on the road, it will be like seeing a ghost, and you will trot in the opposite direction to hide, how dare you go forward to say hello and then chat like before, and you can't hide. How dare you send it to the door, isn't it purely looking for death?

Fortunately, this matter was handled quickly, just in time for the conclusion of the case on the day before the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and all 93 convicts were beheaded, and there were 100 people whose families were slaves of the female branches, and these people were sent to various places after the 19th of the first lunar month. Now they are all locked up in prisons, and there are those who bite their tongues and commit suicide because they can't stand the blow, and those who hang themselves by hitting the wall, just look at it, there are all kinds of deaths. It's really become a drama garden, you sing and I will appear.

This is good, at the beginning, the officials of the Criminal Department also ordered someone to find a doctor for treatment, for fear that one more crime of negligence would not be acceptable, and they deliberately presented the matter to the emperor, waiting for the holy judgment.

Mu Haoyu didn't take it seriously when he heard it, and only said: "Since they don't want to live, they just follow their wishes." "The fewer people, the better, and the management saves people headaches all day long.

When the head of the Criminal Department received the Holy Decree, he was not afraid of the dead, and told the prisoners in the prison how to die and how to die, to ask for poison and poison, and to have white silk.

If you want to die, no one will stop you, and now all those who want to threaten with death are dumbfounded, I thought that everyone would make such a fuss with the emperor, and the criminal department would report it, and the dead people would be happy that the emperor would be soft for a while and would not know if they were lightly haired, and then they would not have to worry about the distribution problem.

How would have I expected that it would be such a result, that's right, the people who died before were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and they couldn't live much in life, so they could just give it a go, but unfortunately they miscalculated and looked down on themselves, and they didn't look at their identity when they were arrested, and they committed crimes against their families, and they were enough to raid their families and exterminate their families.

"I really don't know what these people think?" The officials in the cell chatted while cooking, wine, it must not be drunk, drinking alcohol is going to make a mistake, even if these people in the prison are powerless, once something happens, it will be them who will lose their heads, and they will not be able to do it if they are not careful.

Therefore, there is no need for the chief above to mention the special advice, and the officials who watched the cell below understood ruthlessly, when can you not drink wine, now is a critical juncture, and you must not make a difference.

The criminal department is united in its heart, and the criminal department is like an iron bucket, and no one has a chance to find out the slightest news.

"What else can you think, your head is in water." Colleagues who were keeping vigil together sat opposite each other and gossiped.

"To say that the emperor has been lenient, and he still wants to seek death and life, and he really doesn't know what to eat to grow up?" The cell boss mocked: "It's good to be able to save one life, and if you want to ask for something else, you're just looking for death." ”

"Why don't you say these people are stupid." Another said: "Do you think there are still people looking for death these days?" ”

"Hmph, if it weren't for the fact that these bastards had an accident at the beginning, we were so scared that we didn't dare to close our eyes for a few nights, so we stared at it for fear that we would be condemned by the emperor for half of our death." The man snorted in disgust, unable to understand his hatred.

"That is, not only our guards, but even Shangguan was taken aback, and hurriedly found a doctor to treat him, but fortunately, the emperor did not blame him. This saves a lot of heart. The other person cursed in his heart when he mentioned the chaos before.

"Now it's time for them to die, and they don't dare to die." The man laughed, a look of mockery.

"Not really." Another person took over, "Didn't there be another one who wanted to commit suicide by swallowing gold before." Okay, it happened that Shangguan came to inspect at that time, and when he heard it, he said to the woman that it is okay to swallow gold if you want to, is there no gold, isn't there still silver, the silver is not enough and there are no copper coins, you can use as much as you want, until you can really fall people to death, you didn't see the situation at that time. It's too cola, if it weren't for Shangguan here, I would have held back my laughter. ”

The man's face turned pale and blue, and he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and in the end he was really ashamed to see someone. I actually pretended to faint. The man's eyebrows were so happy that his eyebrows flew, "That scene was really painful, and the man just lay on the ground, thinking that we were all blind, and we couldn't see it if we were really dizzy, but we didn't hesitate to care." ”

"It's the same, I had the same thing with you on an errand last day. said that he was going to hang himself, but he really handed Bai Aya in, but he only held it tightly with his hand, and his eyes stared at the white silk in his hand. Why just watch? The other person was talking and having fun, which can be regarded as a good show.

Either the cell is a lot of fun, there are one and there are two, and the officials guarding the cell are completely addicted to this scene of laughter, and even the officials who occasionally come to inspect are not exempt from vulgarity. Every few days, I always have to go to the prison to see if there is any fun to see, and even if I can't get out of it sometimes, I have to call the subordinate who guarded the cell that day and say.

Because of this, the officials of the criminal department have this habit of watching people laugh at people, and they are also tired of it, and they always feel that something is missing if they don't watch or listen to it for a day, and they feel uncomfortable all over their bodies.

After a few days of death, no one had the courage to say that they were going to die, and they were very well-behaved, and no one was idle and scolded loudly, even if there was a voice, the voice was very low, like a mosquito humming.

The prisoners in the prison are honest, but the officials of the criminal department who are waiting to see the fun are worried, what to do if they have no fun, I really want to praise the wisdom of the people is great.

There is a cell boss who thinks, you don't act by yourself, you don't have to look at it, why don't we draw up our own script and let you act, this kind of work.

It's not for nothing, it's good to eat, it's good to drink, of course, it's not the big fish and big meat you think, as the head of the cell, the official can't taste a few pieces every day, how can it be the prisoner in the prison, the delicious food here refers to the porridge and small dishes eaten by normal people, not the usual moldy and rancid meals.

They are all people who have been accustomed to food and drink since childhood, and the most difficult thing to endure in the prison is not the stinky Gong bucket, the grass mat full of insects and ants, but the moldy and rancid food, which is difficult to swallow at first, and some people propose that this is unfair treatment, of course, no matter what you say, it will not improve, that is, the prisoner has nothing to ask for, thinking that it is still the young master and young lady who are serving a large group of young masters and young ladies who are following him, don't laugh.

One year there was a locust plague in the place, and there was no harvest in the fields, and those who had nothing to eat were so hungry that they could not eat, the soil on the ground, the leaves and bark on the trees, what they did not eat, as long as they could live. Now when someone goes to prison, they still pick and choose, and they really take themselves seriously.

In fact, those prisoners who went on hunger strike were all hungry for three days, and they couldn't stand it anymore, and the rancid green vegetable porridge on the ground was already cold and rancid, and when they picked it up and snorted twice, it was gone, and the eyes of the hungry people were glowing green, and they couldn't relieve their hunger after eating their share, so they went to grab what was left by others.

It doesn't matter if this robbery is a robbery, they are all hungry wolves, and they will start to grab, which is a good chaos in the prison, and the cell leaders saw that the opportunity was wrong, so they hurriedly called someone to pull the crowd apart, and demonstrated with the leather whip in their hands, so that they could all settle down, otherwise the leather whip would serve.

The prisoners who had been hungry for three days still had the strength to fight the cell boss, and they all obediently did not dare to make another attempt.

Therefore, the more a person's adaptability is in a bad place, the more it can play a huge role, and the ability to regulate itself is even more amazing.

Then again, when I turned to the previous acting, some people were shaken after hearing that they could eat normal meals, and there was no personal freedom to stay in prison anyway, so they would do whatever the cell boss said, so as not to make people unhappy and suffer from flesh and skin.

More than half of the people don't disagree, but they can't act, they can't learn, and their mentality is different, how can they perform the mood of really wanting to die at that time. It also feels awkward to imitate other people's nondescript self.

As soon as the cell boss heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, no, yes, let's change the way, as long as we can tell a few interesting jokes or interesting anecdotes in a house, it's okay, not limited to length.

In this way, no one is unhappy, it is a foregone conclusion, and what benefits can be gained by complaining and resisting, these days have worn out the arrogance of these people, and it is no longer like before when it was like the old man and young master and young lady, it is the most fundamental and important thing to be able to bend and stretch, and to be able to live.

The action of the cell boss made the officials smile suddenly, and vigorously praised the subordinates for their brains, and in the future, all the prisoners in the prison will do the same, and if they don't accept it, then they will starve until they take it, what if they starve to death? It doesn't matter, you can't die of hunger, as long as you let those stubborn donkeys know that you can eat well if you do it as required, if you don't do it, then you can eat it according to the original prison meal, there is a comparison to care, anyway, you can't get out of the prison, so you have to have a face and a backbone, whether you can eat it as food or drink it as water.

As a result, the Criminal Department has set such a ridiculous but extremely effective rule, the prison of the Criminal Department is no longer as cold and depressing as before, at least everyone can be happy, and no one complains about how hard and boring it is to keep the prison.

Some people who don't have a turn to schedule shifts, it's a pity that they grit their teeth and gnash their teeth, and in order to prevent the lower officials from accumulating grievances, they come up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

This series of things in the Criminal Department can't be hidden from Mu Haoyu, who is the emperor, and of course the officials of the Criminal Department don't dare to hide it, so won't it become a private criminal law to attract the emperor's suspicion, and then he will not be far from death.

Mu Haoyu laughed happily after hearing this, he didn't expect that the people in the Criminal Department could still have fun under high pressure, they are simply talents, how can there be a reason to reduce crimes, they should be greatly praised.

The official of the Criminal Department, who had been worried, instantly fell back into his stomach and happily performed his duties.

Mu Haoyu also asked the people of the Criminal Department to select a few officials, in order to write down the interesting stories in the mouths of the prisoners, and he also wanted to see and have fun.

When the officials of the Criminal Department received the order, they naturally did a good job, specially picked out a few words to write well, and organized the words to be recorded in prison.

Mu Haoyu was just for fun at the beginning, and he could feel more comfortable when he was in his spare time, where would he have expected that there were really noteworthy secrets in this, which was easier than the secret guards who specially collected secrets, and there were some things that the secret guards might not be able to find out.

Mu Haoyu frowned, pondering for a while, the Criminal Department did an unexpected good thing this time, it seems that it has to be used, and the prison needs to choose some reliable people to enter.

This matter, Mu Haoyu handed over to his henchman Tai Desheng to deal with it, and he must do it quietly, the Criminal Department is now united, sometimes it is a good thing to have an iron bucket, and sometimes it is difficult for Mu Haoyu himself, just like to put someone in the prison of the Criminal Department, he doesn't want to make a bright order, as long as many old foxes in the court smell it, they will immediately bite it and care if you are true or not, and they will definitely check it out. I'm afraid that I'll ruin my plan, so I can only act secretly without a trace.

In addition to this one thing, there is only one thing left to deal with the follow-up matters, so many vacant official positions, it is necessary to select reliable and loyal people, this time Mu Haoyu did not choose to let the minister promote, the minister was so frightened that he dared to take such a thankless errand, in case something happened, the promoter would also be held accountable by the emperor, so this great opportunity slipped away in front of him.