The officials who were already frightened were startled by Luo Yangxing's sudden closing of the door, the light in the prison was already dim, and as the cell door fell, the entire prison was dark. The officials were panicked, and some officials were already squeezed to the ground by the surging crowd, and if it weren't for Luo Yangxing's sudden ignition of the brazier hanging on the surrounding wall, there would have been a stampede.

"What do you mean? Why did the door suddenly close? Wen Tiren was disheveled, and shouted angrily at Luo Yang in horror.

"Back to Wen Shoufu, the edict prison is an important place in the imperial court, if there is no major incident, the prison door will not be opened, and the official will naturally close the door!" Luo Yangxing stood aside with his hands and said casually.

"You!" Wen Tiren was so angry that he almost didn't catch his breath, and finally asked Luo Yangxing: "Then why didn't you remind us first?" ”

"I forgot!" Luo Yang's sex is vibrant.

"Humph!" Wen Tiren flicked his sleeves and snorted coldly.

"Everyone, please come with this official!" Luo Yangxing smiled lightly and didn't care, and began to take everyone to visit the Imperial Prison.

The so-called Imperial Prison is a large prison that was built according to the emperor's will. The person in prison did not violate the laws and regulations of the country, but was convicted by the emperor. Before the Ming Dynasty, although there were edicts and prisons in all dynasties, but it became a permanent or even unwritten system, but only the Ming Dynasty did not like the ancient system, and created its own edicts, that is, Jinyi Prison, which was handled by the Beizhen Fu Division, which could directly torture and torture, and act according to the emperor's will.

Therefore, the edict of the Ming Dynasty has always been notorious, and it was rated as the first of the chaos by the scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

It is also played repeatedly, and those who can speak will say that the edict is the master of the people, and the public weapon of the world, and it cannot be pretended to be a human hand, otherwise the law will be in danger from top to bottom.

Those who can't speak directly begin to harden, saying that the state has set up three legal divisions, specializing in criminal prisons, or presiding over the formation of the system, or presiding over rehabilitation. It is that the ministers are not allowed to use grievances as access, and the Son of Heaven is not allowed to take joy and anger as the priority. Since the officials of Jinyi were in charge of the edicts, and the judicial department was almost a fictitious, the emperor should immediately abolish the edicts.

However, the emperor is not stupid, he will not cut off his hands and feet, it is Chongzhen, a stupid child, who began to be fooled and lame by the scholars, but after a few years, he reacted and did the same as the factory guard and the army. The scholars are unreliable, the nobles are unreliable, and at this time they can only rely on the inner servants.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is a torture instrument, made of iron and wood, more than three feet long, more than five inches to the ground, and an iron bar runs through the middle. Whoever clamps a person shall erect his stick upright, and one person shall support him, and shall rest on it, and shall hastily tie the rope, and still use a stick to hand it to the left of his foot, so that the person being tortured shall not move. Luo Yangxing pointed to the rows of clamps placed on the side of the wall and introduced them to the ministers, patted the sticks and asked, "Do you have Yaxing to come up and have a try?" ”

"Hehe, Commander Luo laughed! Let's move on! The ministers waved their hands in refusal.

"Good!" Luo Yangxing didn't say much, and continued to go down with everyone, and when he passed by a cell, he pointed to the torture instrument on the table and said, "This is a finger roll, if there are people who do not admit their guilt in my edict prison, use a stick, and the woman uses it to shake her fingers!" So don't worry, even if you enter my prison, you won't use this torture instrument. ”

"Huh!" Wen Tiren, Qian Shisheng and other ministers put pressure on Luo Yangxing: "What does Commander Luo mean by this? ”

"It's not interesting, this official is just joking with your lords, if there is any disrespect, I hope you adults Haihan!" Although Luo Yangxing said with a sneer on his face, he did a good job of etiquette.

"Commander Luo, we are waiting for the emperor's order to visit the edict, and we have to write down our experience tonight, isn't it that Commander Luo wants us to write these torture instruments on my experience?" Wen Tiren asked.

"Those who are imprisoned are all the most heinous people, how can they confess their sins without punishment?" Luo Yangxing asked rhetorically, and then said: "Since your lords' time is precious, then this official will take you to visit first!" ”

Immediately Luo Yangxing did not say much, and took a group of ministers to visit the edict from top to bottom, the conditions of the edict prison are of course not as good as the high-end suites of the three law divisions, but it is still much better than other cells in the Ming Dynasty, at least each person has a single room.

According to a teacher's "Prison Miscellaneous", the teacher was locked up in prison and saw three or four corpses dragged out of the door every day.

Seeing that the teacher was a little frightened, an old prisoner comforted him and said that this was a good time, but the dead were still rare, and more than ten people died every day in previous years.

In prisons, the poor lay on the floor, locked the doors at dusk, and the prisoners were in a small room full of people. Someone died in the middle of the night, and the living and the dead lay on top of each other, and there was no way to avoid it. Such an edict is simply a conscientious enterprise.

And the high-end suite of the Three Law Divisions is completely different, although the threshold of that place is not as good as the Imperial Prison, but it is not something that ordinary people can enter, money can make ghosts grind, and the prisoners who have entered the Three Law Division, in addition to not being free, as long as they are willing to spend money and live a small life, they are no worse than the outside.

For example, Li Mengyang once scolded Emperor Xiaozong's brother-in-law Zhang Hening, Xiaozong only has one wife, Zhang Hening's relative is naturally conceivable, fortunately, Emperor Xiaozong knows what Zhang Hening is, although Li Mengyang was imprisoned, but he also punished Zhang Hening in private.

And when Li Mengyang was escorted out of prison, in addition to having no freedom, it was simply enjoyment, of course, this was not for nothing, but a reward obtained through bribery, even he himself said that Yu was imprisoned, and he used 6,400 gold a day.

The most amazing thing is that after this gentleman was released from prison unscathed, Zhang Hening was "occasionally" on the road, first scolded him confidently, and then whipped Zhang Hening's two teeth. And in the end, the matter was settled.

After the ministers visited the prison, Luo Yangxing continued to lead people down, and when he passed by the next cell, he pointed to the prisoner who was covered in pus and blood and could only see a human form, and ordered the jailer waiting at the door of the cell: "Open the door and drag him out!" ”

When the jailer opened the cell door and dragged the man out, the ministers were dumbfounded when they saw the man by the light of the brazier, and even more could not help but run to the side and retch.

I saw that although this person was a human, he no longer had any human form, there was no good skin on his body, pus and blood were dripping, his limbs were bloated, and his body was full of sores and poison. When he was pulled out, his hands and feet couldn't move, and his ears obviously couldn't hear the sound, and his eyes had already been blinded.