The six yamen of Shangshutai are located on Zhuque Street and Xuanwu Street near the imperial city.

The military department is located in the middle of Suzaku Street, after all, it is a major event for soldiers, and the military department is naturally the best place in the feng shui of Suzaku Street.

The Criminal Department is also on Suzaku Street, which is not too far from the Military Department, after all, the entire Suzaku Street is not too long, but compared to the Feng Shui of the Military Department, the Criminal Department is much worse.

The architectural style of the yamen of each ministry is not the same, most of the eaves are like phoenixes, pointing to the sky, and many of them are red walls and blue tiles, antique.

The Criminal Department is different from other yamen.

The entire official office of the Criminal Department is square and uncharacteristic, and the official office built of black stones does not have the antique or even solemn atmosphere of other official offices, but more exudes a gloomy atmosphere, which seems to emanate from every brick and tile on the high wall of the official office of the Criminal Department.

If you look down, it looks like a huge sarcophagus placed on the edge of Suzaku Street,

However, in the eyes of many people, there is no difference between the criminal department and the coffin.

The Kyoto Prefecture is responsible for the security of Kyoto, and the Criminal Department is in charge of the world's criminal names, and every executed criminal in the Tang Empire is in the Criminal Department.

In the eighteen states of the Tang Dynasty, where there is a case of death penalty, after the prisoner is put on death row, the file will be sent to the criminal department, and after the review of the criminal department, it is determined that there is no omission in the case.

The Criminal Department has the right to decide the life and death of secular people, but after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Criminal Department actually did not have much real power for a time, and as long as it has an official body of more than seven grades, the Criminal Department has no right to decide the case, only the right to execute, and the life and death of the official after committing the crime can only be decided by the Son of Heaven.

However, today's criminal department is no longer comparable to the previous criminal department.

At dawn, a horse-drawn carriage appeared on the street of Suzaku Street, and behind the carriage was a large drum attached to the cart with a rope, which was very secure.

Not only did the horse pull the cart, but there was also a man on the horse's back, so it walked very slowly.

When he walked in front of the gate of the military headquarters, the guards who had just taken the turn recognized that the young man who had come to the military headquarters to look for Han Yunong on horseback on horseback was the same young man who had come to the military headquarters two days to look for him.

The carriage pulled the drum, and such a strange behavior was unheard of on Suzaku Street, and the guards at the government offices on both sides of Suzaku Street were wide-eyed, thinking that they were dazzled.

Of course, on horseback was Qin Xiao.

The carriage walked on Suzaku Street, and went directly to the official office of the Criminal Department, which was full of gloomy temperament, Qin Xiao raised his head, looked at the three words "Criminal Deployment" on the door of the official office, and already remembered Gu Baiyi's evaluation of the owner of this official office last night.

"That's a madman." Gu Baiyi said: "For him, the greatest joy is to see others suffer inhuman torture in front of him, he is obsessed with blood, like a beast, and he is happy to do it." ”

Qin Xiao remembered very well that when he mentioned the cousin of the Criminal Department, Gu Baiyi, who was invisible, showed an extremely obvious look of disgust between his eyebrows.

Gu Baiyi was very clear about the life of Lu Junzhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and told Qin Xiao in detail, but Qin Xiao was already quite clear about this supreme official in charge of the imperial punishment.

Lu Junzhong's original name was Lu Zhi, he entered the Criminal Department in his early twenties, and he has been in the Criminal Department for more than ten years, and he only mixed up with the position of the commander of the Criminal Department, and he can be said to be promoted very slowly in the official office of the Criminal Department.

According to most accounts, Lu Junzhong looks very ugly, with pointed ears, a thin body, and an extremely uncomfortable yin all over his body

Depressed breath.

As an official in the Tang Dynasty, sometimes appearance is also very important, like Lu Junzhong, don't say that he can't talk about his appearance, even ordinary people can't match him, and his temperament is quite eccentric, so he is extremely unpopular in the eyes of his colleagues in the Criminal Department, and several officials of the Criminal Department are quite disgusted with the ugly Lu Junzhong, one of them is called Zhang Shun, and even ordered that Lu Junzhong should not appear in front of him.

Even the court officials were disgusted, and the whole of the Criminal Department naturally looked down on Lu Junzhong, and Lu Junzhong also became an alternative to the Criminal Department and was deeply excluded.

If it goes on like this, Lu Junzhong will be mixed up with the head of the criminal department at most, and he will return to his hometown when he is old, and this life will be spent here.

But the Holy Queen's accession to the throne gave Lu Junzhong a golden opportunity to leap up.

Before the Holy Empress ascended the throne, Emperor Dezong issued an edict and appointed the Holy Empress Xiahou as the prince, and the government and the opposition were shocked.

After the death of Emperor Dezong, the Holy Empress Xiahou ascended the throne in July of that year, called the sage, and named Tianchang.

And the first thing Xiahou did after ascending the throne was to clean up a group of courtiers of Zhao Yankuo, who had written against his succession.

However, Zhao Yankuo is not only incorruptible, but also has no low prestige, that is, there are more than 20 other officials, many of whom are also honest and loyal ministers, and if you want to eliminate such a group of people, it is naturally not just a matter of killing them, but you must come up with conclusive evidence.

The sage handed over the thorough investigation of Zhao Yankuo and a group of people to the Criminal Department, and secretly instructed the Criminal Department to find the evidence of these officials' crimes as soon as possible, but the Criminal Department has not made progress.

After all, before the Holy Queen ascended the throne, the real power of the criminal department was not heavy, and the criminal department of officials above the seventh grade did not have the right to interrogate and decide, and the high-ranking officials in the court committed crimes, which could only be tried by the Dali Temple.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, he did not hand over the task of trying Zhao Yankuo and others to Dali Temple, but handed it over to the Criminal Department, just because among the officials who wrote at that time, there was also a high-ranking official of Dali Temple.

After the establishment of the Criminal Department, He had tried such a group of loyal ministers of the DPRK and China, and he immediately panicked.

The most important thing is that most of the officials such as Zhao Yankuo have clear names and have extremely high prestige, and the Criminal Department is worried that if they really convict these people, they will be spurned by the government and the opposition.

Many officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice do not want to get involved in this hot potato.

At this time, Lu Junzhong took the initiative to ask for help, and the official of the Criminal Department was worried that there was no one, so he threw the errand of finding the evidence to Lu Junzhong.

Lu Junzhong had power in his hands, and immediately arrested two of the officials in the letter, not for the crime of treason, these two officials were caught in the hands of Lu Junzhong for some disgraceful things in the early years, and after entering the prison, it only took one day to admit that they had formed a party and conspired against others.

Lu Junzhong quickly arrested and imprisoned the confessed officials, as more and more officials were arrested, more and more confessions, in less than half a month, Zhao Yankuo was also arrested and imprisoned for the crime of rebellion, Lu Junzhong held the confessions of many officials, and he insisted on getting a charge with Zhao Yankuo's bloody handprint.

In the first half of the month, nearly 100 officials were implicated, 24 officials including Zhao Yankuo were sentenced to death, and other officials were either imprisoned or exiled.

As a result, Lu Junzhong was directly promoted to the squire of the Criminal Department.

In the next few years, Lu Junzhong recruited many ruthless characters to enter the criminal department and become his assistants, setting off even greater storms.

Within three years of the new emperor's accession to the throne, Lu Junzhong raised three major cases, implicating hundreds of officials, and with the acquiescence of the saint, countless officials were convicted by the criminal department, and then beheaded and exiled, and the vacant official positions were quickly replaced by officials loyal to the saint.

Not only that, but Lu Junzhong finally extended his bloody hand to the Li royal family, and many royal relatives died or were exiled, and the end was miserable.

But for everyone who was convicted, Lu Junzhong had in his hands the indictments they confessed to.

So later, people gradually learned that this Lord Lu secretly made people create all kinds of cruel torture instruments, known as the sixteen doors of the Criminal Department, that is, within the Criminal Department, there are sixteen execution rooms, and in each room, there is an extremely cruel punishment.

However, often before entering the Sixteen Gates, the prisoner has already confessed and concluded, and only those hard bones can enjoy the treatment of the Sixteen Gates, but no matter how hard the bones are, after entering the Sixteen Gates, they can't withstand the three punishments, and they often can't bear it.

When entering the prison of the Criminal Department, no matter how high or low the status is, no matter how serious the crime, there is only one identity when you come, and that is a prisoner.

When dealing with prisoners, first pour vinegar into their noses, soak them in feces and urine, have no water or food, and then place the torture instruments in front of the prisoners.

At the most terrifying time, as soon as some people heard that someone from the criminal department had come to the door, they immediately cut themselves off and would rather die than enter the criminal department.

After Lu Junzhong was promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department, he was majestic, thinking of Zhang Shun, who had served as an official of the Criminal Department, and had the intention of acting in front of this old boss, he made a post and wanted to visit the door, but when he came to the door, the old official Zhang Shun had already committed suicide by taking poison.

For this official of the Criminal Department, if hundreds of people die in a case, then he really can't bear his hard work, so as long as it is a case that Lu Junzhong personally intervenes into, it will inevitably end in a river of blood.

Countless officials died in the hands of Lu Junzhong, and when he was at his most majestic, high-ranking officials and nobles were like cats and dogs in front of Lu Junzhong.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Junzhong has countless enemies in the court, and all forces are eager to break Lu Junzhong's body into thousands of pieces.

However, Lu Junzhong is so arrogant, of course, because he does have the means, but more importantly, because he has the support of a saint behind him, and the snowflakes of impeachment have not been able to shake him at all, and he has been given the name Junzhong by the saint.

For Lu Junzhong, he knows very well that his backer is a saint, he can not care about anyone's opinion, but he is as loyal to a saint as a dog.

Dali Temple, has long been suppressed by the Criminal Department, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty has been riding on the head of the Criminal Department, the establishment has been repeatedly reduced, and now it has actually become a Qingshui Yamen, as long as Lu Junzhong looks at the case, Dali Temple will give up, dare not contaminate a bit.

Lu Junzhong made a fortune by making prisons, and every time he was imprisoned, he would bring him a huge harvest, but as the saint sat on the throne, the court could no longer hear the voice against the emperor, and the saint did not want the court to be in turmoil all the time, so over the years, under the hint of the saint, Lu Junzhong restrained a lot, pressed his bloodthirsty and twisted nature, and did not make too much trouble.

But just like a dog can't change the habit of eating, the pair of gloomy eyes of the criminal department look around, and no one knows when this extremely ugly and insidious and vicious criminal department official will have something happen again.

And Lu Junzhong, who makes people smell and change, also got an apt nickname.

Blood Hades!