Chapter 42 Things are not people
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In front of the gate of the county government, Chen Ming did not pretend to be arrogant, pretended to be tough, and elevated and declared that he was still 'unattainable' with contempt for the behavior of the two people in front of him. He calmly handed over two pieces of silver.
The official yamen is open, don't come in if you have no money!
Chen Ming's 'observance of the rules' made the two guards even more embarrassed and uncomfortable. "How dare you, how dare you ......" dodged with four hands, unwilling to accept Chen Ming's money. In the darkest yamen in the world, people also want faces.
The two of them went in and made a report, and it was the one surnamed Wang. Leaving the family to face Chen Ming, Chen Ming asked him about his father's situation. only to know that when it was dark, Chang Rui had already put Chen Hui and his party in prison.
"Narusa, that Hatu...... Say, it's getting late, don't disturb the adults to rest if you don't have anything important......"
"How much silver does he want? Is this enough? Chen Ming's expression was neither happy nor angry, his hand turned in the cuffs, and a silver ingot of twenty taels was thrown into the hands of Wang Ya Servant by him.
Of course, twenty taels of silver is enough to buy a Hatu! Hatu was immediately convenient. Then Chen Ming followed him, and Liu Wu walked behind the two of them carrying a box containing five hundred taels of silver.
"Chen Ming has seen the county lord." Facing Chang Rui, Chen Ming was very surprised how he was still clear-headed, instead of being angry and angry. Chen Ming, who bowed his head, didn't notice that Chang Rui's face had also changed. Because Chang Rui did not feel the slightest sense of fear and tension from Chen Ming, let alone the slightest anger.
Chang Rui was very surprised, Chen Ming's performance was beyond his expectations. After his face paused for a moment, he looked at Chen Ming's gaze with a hint of murderous intent. No one will be kind to the person who put his father in prison, is Chen Ming a merciless person? Probably not. Otherwise, he would not have entered the county seat by himself; Will there be a child of a good family who has no fear of the government when his father is arrested? There won't be. Chang Rui dares to vouch for his own head, there is absolutely no such child of a good family!
So what does Chen Ming's current performance mean?
Chang Rui felt a little more apprehensive in his heart. This person, when he does bad things, he always thinks a lot, and then he also hopes that the object can follow his own 'rules' step by step as he imagined and imagined. Changrui is a prime example.
What he wanted to see was a panicked Chen Ming who had no six gods and no masters, which would continuously bring him the wealth of the Chen family, not the current Chen Ming who made him uneasy. Liu Wu's five hundred taels of silver, he held it straight.
Without saying a few words, Chen Ming retreated.
He asked Chang Rui if he could let his father and his party go, and then the Chen family would have a good reward; Chang Rui's mind kept flipping because of Chen Ming's reaction, but no decision in this matter can be made easily, and in the end, he answered Chen Ming according to the dialogue he had prepared, saying that Chen Hui's guilt is conclusive, and it is not easy to exculpate, and there is a signal from above in this matter, if you really want to exonerate Chen Hui and others, you have to check all aspects. Since he Changrui came to Lushan County, he has regarded Chen Hui as a confidant, of course he can't bear to see him go to a dead end, if the Chen family is willing to come up with the silver, he can come forward in the officialdom to excuse Chen Hui.
Chen Ming finally offered to go to the prison to see his father and send some food. Chang Rui heartily agreed.
Walking out of the backyard of the county government, Chen Ming's face calmed down, and Chang Rui looked at him very unpleasantly at the end. Chen Ming also reacted, knowing that it was his attitude that made Chang Rui uneasy.
Think about it, as a person who is determined to 'fall into the grass', will Chen Ming go to Bird Yizhi County? But his fearlessness is precisely the last reaction that the 'good people' should have. Unless Chen Ming is not ready to be 'kind'!
The Lushan County Prison is located in the right corner of the entrance of the county government hall, mainly to facilitate the arraignment of prisoners at any time. There is a wall inside the prison door, and the passage is only on one side, which is to prevent the prisoners from escaping. As soon as you enter the prison gate, there are four right-angled and five doors in succession, followed by an "alley" about one meter wide. On either side of the "alley" are two rows of low cells, where ordinary miscellaneous prisoners are kept; At the southern end of the "alley", at a right angle to the east, is the inner prison, which is dedicated to holding death row felons. The inner prison is in the shape of a courtyard, with ordinary cells on the east, west and south sides, and two windowless cave cells on the north side, which is a women's prison for female prisoners who are sentenced to death.
Chen Hui and his party were locked up in cells on both sides of the alley, and they had not yet been convicted.
Feng Zhang, the ward warden, was Chang Rui's gang, and Chen Hui was thrown into prison, and the situation was not good. But after all, the time has only been half a day, and Chen Hui has fallen, but there is still the Chen family behind him, and the prison officials have not yet figured out the situation, and they dare not come to find Chen Hui's stubble.
Chen Ming took Liu Wu into the cell with the lunch box, and saw that the cell where his father lived was the outermost one, which could be said to be the cleanest one in the cells on both sides of the alley, not only a bed, but also a quilt.
From entering the gate to the time the jailer opened the prison door, Chen Ming threw out a small twenty taels of silver, not asking for anything else, only asking for the last fight before the last fight, these jailers would not ravage Chen Hui and the others. These people who were thrown into the cell together are not only Chen Hui's old team, but also everyone has the ability to fight and calculate, including the white servants, Chen Ming also thought that he was really 'falling into the grass' and took these people into his pocket.
Since ancient times, prisons in China have been self-contained, and although they are considered to be under the jurisdiction of the torture room, the cell heads and prison officials in the prisons only look at the silver, and they cannot see the royal law in their eyes. As far as Chen Ming knew, the prison in Lushan County was only cleared once thirteen years ago. It was because the cell bosses and jailers connived too much at the prison tyrants and bullied others too much, and they died themselves.
At that time, in the prison of Lushan County, there was a man named Zheng Zuo, who was sentenced to eternal imprisonment for pushing his father to death. Zheng Zuotong was in prison for a long time and was assigned as the prison head. He opened a pawnshop in the prison and exploited the prisoners. When a prisoner enters prison, he must pay him money and goods, otherwise he will be subjected to all kinds of abuse and even non-torture. Because of the benefits he received, Li Chun, the official not only turned a blind eye to his illegal acts, but protected and connived at him in every possible way. Zheng Zuo can even go in and out of the prison on his own without restrictions. Every time a newcomer was imprisoned, he would take his accomplices to beat them severely, bully them in every way, extort money and stolen goods, and torture them if they did not meet their demands. At the beginning, Zheng Zuo and others only tortured prisoners in Lushan County Prison, and later even the prisoners who passed by the prison were tortured and forced to take stolen goods, and then even the messengers who escorted the prisoners to the prison were also hanged and beaten by them. Each time the money is obtained, there is naturally a share of the official Li Chun. Li Chun received a total of more than 400 taels of silver before and after. Li Chun got the money, and let Zheng Zuotong do nonsense. Zheng Zuotong was also more unscrupulous, and even raped the female prisoners in prison. When Li Chun learned about it, he felt that he was too bold and reckless, but Zheng Zuotong immediately sent two hundred taels of silver to cover up the matter.
Later, when a prisoner from Gushi County, Gwangju was escorted into the province and passed through Lushan, he was also beaten and forced to stolen by Zheng Zuo and his accomplices, and was abused. The officer was furious and went to the Yamen of Ruzhou to complain about injustice. At that time, after the governor asked for the reason, Zheng Zuotong was brought to the state government for punishment, and ordered him to be put in prison shackles, but Zheng Zuotong actually gathered fellow prisoners to beat gongs and drums, and set fire to the prison, but fortunately it was extinguished in time. Na Zhizhou was also a coward, and after learning about it, he was afraid that the matter would be big, so he didn't dare to investigate further, and released Zheng Zuo's accomplices. Or the errand officer of Gushi County had a temper and went to the province to accuse. The province sent personnel to investigate, and Zheng Zuo and the party were brought to the province for interrogation. As a result, Zheng Zuo and his gang were all sentenced to death after the autumn, and Li Chun, the official, was also hanged.
The entire Lushan County cell was cleaned up.
However, to exist is to be reasonable. The existence of prison tyrants cannot be eliminated in China in the 21st century, let alone the Manchu Qing Dynasty before Qianlong? The government's knives can only deter for a while. Now that more than ten years have passed, the old things have long been repeated in the prison of Lushan County, Chen Ming can give money, but he is not willing to let Chen Hui and others taste the methods of those prison tyrants.