The criminals Wang Yueqian and Kong Xue are now being imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, and if Wei Liangchen wants to raise people from the Criminal Department, he must rely on the strength of Dongchang.

Because Wanli's edict to Wei Liangchen is strictly a "middle decree", the will to approve the red without a vote is not legitimate, and the criminal department can ignore it, so it is impossible for Wei Liangchen to directly take the edict to mention people, he needs a driving sticker from Dongchang.

The driving sticker is equivalent to the official document of arrest and arraignment, and the general practice is that the emperor himself grants the driving sticker to act as an intention, and then the celebrant sticks it and stamps it with a seal, and then submits it to the criminal department to issue it in the middle of the matter, and pays to sign a detailed approval document, so that the official school can take people after such a set of procedures.

However, there were some changes in this system in the Hongzhi Dynasty, because the driving sticker procedure was too cumbersome to issue layer by layer, and some urgent matters would be delayed, so at that time, the ceremonial supervisor compromised, and the Italian government school could directly take the person with the driver's sticker, without having to be signed by the criminal department, and then re-signed after the arrest was made.

Since then, this has been done more often, and although the weight of the criminal division has been weakened, the criminal division also has the right not to re-sign it. If the Penal Division does not re-apply the visa, the matter will be unlawful.

When the Jiajing Dynasty arrived, because Emperor Jiajing did not live in the palace and fought fiercely with foreign dynasties, he sometimes ordered the factory guards to arrest officials. In this way, the right to post the driving sticker is directly issued from the celebrant to the factory guard, but with the emperor's will, the factory guard can take people with the driving sticker. The arrested prisoners were no longer handed over to the Criminal Department, but were directly locked in the Fusi Prison in Beizhen.

But no matter what the procedure, the driving sticker is essential. Therefore, Wei Liangchen had to go to Dongchang to get a driving sticker, and then he could bring the prisoner over from the Criminal Department.

The East Factory is located on the edge of the Donghua Gate, not far from the Imperial City, and the area is not large, the scale alone can not catch up with the inner school field in the Imperial City, and even the 24 Yamen in the internal officials, divisions, Shangyi and other prisons are not as good.

But the name of this place is to make the officials hear the moved, enough to shock the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, more terrifying than the brocade guard.

All because the full name of the East Factory is "East Investigation Factory", and its responsibilities are also four-character "Zhongguan Affairs".

Wei Liangchen is no stranger to Dongchang, no matter in the past or present life, the name of Dongchang is like thunder.

I think that when he was based on the official supervision office in Zuo'anmen, he fought with the East Factory, if it wasn't for Tian Ergeng to come to the rescue, the office would probably call the East Factory to end.

He came out of the imperial city from Xihua Gate, and went around a big circle to Donghua Gate, and saw Tian Ergeng who came by the messenger of the inner servant on the way.

"It's urgent, let's go to the East Factory first."

Wei Liangchen signaled Tian Ergeng to rush to Dongchang with him, Tian Ergeng had already learned from the Xuanyu chamberlain that he would assist Wei Liangchen in investigating and handling the case of rebellion, and the nature of the case did not need to be said, so he did not talk nonsense, and went with Wei Liangchen.

At the same time of Dongchang Hutong outside Donghua Gate, I saw several horses galloping by.

"It's the Commander." Tian Ergeng took a horsewhip and pointed at a person.

Wei Liangchen looked at Luo Sigong and saw that the group was going to the palace gate, thinking that it was Luo Dadu who had gone to face the king.

Worried that Luo Sigong might have received the news and entered the palace to dissuade Wanli from retracting the edict and handing over the case to him to be supervised by Jinyiwei, Wei Liangchen hurriedly rushed to the Dongchang Yamen with Tian Ergeng.

There is a possibility that Luo Sigong is pro-Donglin Party.

The Dongchang Yamen is on the edge of the Dongchang Hutong, which is the residence of the eunuchs of the successive commanders of the Dongchang Factory, and the residence of the former Governor Chen Ju is here. The reason is that it is easy to communicate and command.

After the group dismounted, a staff member of the East Factory on duty brought someone forward to ask.

The secretary is the bottom official school of the East Factory, the East Factory is strictly hierarchical, and the bottom is the school captain, the fanzi, the secretary, the foreman, and the head of the class.

Ordinary people can see more are the captains and captains at the bottom, and these captains are already extremely vicious for ordinary people.

Therefore, the punishment of 100 households is already at the level of important people in Dongchang, and if such people come forward, I am afraid that the cases handled will have to be at the level of servants and governors.

The East Factory is now vacant, but there are four major directors.

The four people are Cao Yuankui, the eunuch with the palm seal of the internal official supervisor, Du Wenzhao, the palm seal of the Yin Sui supervisor, Zhang Jinzhong, the palm seal of the imperial supervisor, and Jin Liangfu, the eunuch of the clerical office of the celebrant supervisor.

The status of these four people in Dongchang is second only to the admiral eunuch, also known as the "inner four gears". Corresponding to the inner file is the outer file, mostly selected from Jinyiwei, such as Deng Xian, who believed in the letter with Wei Gonggong earlier, is the outer sixth file of the East Factory, known as Deng Liuye.

Cao Yuankui, headed by the four major internal files, is Wei Liangchen's nominal boss in the internal official supervisor.

The year before last, Deng Xian was instructed by Cao Yuankui to lead people to embarrass Wei Liangchen, the reason was that Wei Liangchen was nosy in Princess Shouning's mansion and beat him to kill Zhao Jinchao.

Beating a dog depends on the owner's face, Zhao Jinchao and Aunt Liang are not right, they are also the people of his Cao palm print, and Wei Liangchen is a supervisor under Cao Yuankui, how can this account be counted as the leader of Cao Zhangyin.

And the matter also involved the dispute between Bingbi and Dajue in the palace at that time, Cao Yuankui was standing behind Ma Tang, and Wei Liangchen was Jin Zhong behind him, so the small matter expanded, and finally there was such a big movement outside Zuo'anmen.

For example, some secretaries are specially responsible for court officials, some are specifically responsible for the criminal trial of Jinyiwei, some are responsible for the investigation of provincial officials, and some are specifically responsible for the military situation at the border gates.

In short, the foreman is not an ordinary officer, in the East Factory, he is the head of a department, and the scope of his work depends on the degree of favor of the person. If there is a person who is close to the head of the stall, he can divide the ministry with a lot of oil and water, and if there is no one above, it is most likely the ministry of clean water.

It doesn't matter if the secretary on duty at the gate of the yamen today has nothing to do with it, otherwise he wouldn't have taken turns to watch the gate.

After inspecting the official defense of Wei Liangchen and Tian Ergeng and others, the secretary was very strange and surprised, and he didn't know what the internal official supervisor Cheng (Wei Liangchen showed the official certificate of the internal official supervisor) and the servants of the Jinyi Weibei Town Fu Division came to Dongchang to do.

"I don't know what Grandpa Wei and Lord Tian are doing when they come to my East Factory?"

The attitude of the secretary is still very respectful, this is also to watch people cook, if it is an official from a foreign court, he will not be like this. But one is a person in the palace and the other is a person in Jinyiwei, so he can't help but treat him politely.

Wei Liangchen didn't say much to this secretary, but only asked him to lead him in, and then ordered: "Beat the drums, and the ministry and official schools in the factory, no matter how big or small, will come to the hall to listen to the order." ”

"Huh?"

The secretary was startled when he heard this order, and his subordinates were also stunned.

"My father-in-law is... The new factory company? ”

The eyes of the priest were almost straight.