"Hmph, as a parent official, he actually colluded with lawless people and caused the people's families to be ruined. Come on, press the Qigao County Commander Li Canghai into the prison, and wait for the official to make the Ming Festival, and ask for the beheading!"

"Your Excellency...... Spare ...... Spare your life......" Li Canghai finally knew that he was afraid, and he trembled and lay on the ground and wailed.

If this official spares you, who spares Li Xiucheng's family, who spares Wu Qianlian's family. You are still shamelessly begging for mercy, press down!"

"Lord Lu, there is someone up there...... Someone...... That Jin Manyu is Boss Xue's person...... The lower officials can't help but obey ah......"

"Boss Xue? Erfeng Erlu, the people's fat and people's ointment, is it still the authority of Yulu given to you by Boss Xue?

"It's not...... No...... It was Jin Manyu who begged for superiors and subordinates...... But he is the shopkeeper of Boss Xue...... The lower officials can't help but obey ah......"

"Hold it down!" Lu Sheng was too lazy to talk nonsense, originally thinking about what Boss Xue's charges could get from this waste, but he actually knelt down to lick Jin Manyu in order to tie up Boss Xue. It's even more innocent!

"My lord, you don't follow the rules of officialdom...... It's not in accordance with the rules......" A heart-rending howl sounded, and Li Canghai was escorted into the dungeon by the officials.

Lu Sheng stared at the remaining two with a cold face, "Bring Li Xiucheng's information!"

"Yes!" Li Tong hurriedly ran out of the court, and it didn't take long for him to run with a pile of files, "My lord, it's all here...... It's all here......"

Now that the case has arrived, Lu Sheng can actually close the case. Li Xiucheng was wronged, Wu Qianlian's motive for killing was clear, Jin Manyu was innocent of death, and he deserved to die for his crimes.

Write down the original history of the case and hand it in, and absolutely no one can find fault with it. But Lu Sheng is a perfectionist, and he wants the case in his hand to be as perfect as possible.

That's why I proposed, take a look at Li Xiucheng's information. Find out how much Li Xiucheng suffered after being imprisoned, and by the way, see if there is anyone worthy of accountability.

After looking through the file, Lu Sheng suddenly frowned, "Li Xiucheng was sent to the Huanben Quarry to work as a coolie three days after he was imprisoned? You didn't beat him during the period? Also, why did you send him to the Huanben Quarry?"

"My lord didn't know that the Huanben Quarry was a place to guard the prisoners, and instead of wasting food in prison, it was better to send them to work on the construction site to atone for their sins.

It's just that the imperial court has long since abolished the servitude, so it made a contract with some merchants to let the prisoners go to work on the construction sites that are easy to manage and not suitable for escape. ”

"The prisoner works ......" between the TV fireworks, Lu Sheng suddenly brightened.

Before, the people were rewarded, hoping that someone could tell the relevant information about the opening of the Star Stripe Iron Mine, but no one knew about it. This made Lu Sheng once admire that the secrecy work of the mastermind behind the scenes was too good.

However, after this reminder, Lu Sheng instantly figured out why he had to find ordinary people as miners? It was completely possible to find prisoners in prison! Prisoners were in prison, and naturally it was impossible for them to contact relatives and friends to reveal information. No one cares where they go......

Thinking of the benefits of the prisoner's work, Lu Sheng was immediately convinced that this secretly complex industry must have been completed by using the prisoner. In this day and age, there will be no bill of rights.

What's more, Li Xiucheng, who came out of prison three years later, has changed so much. In his father's words, before entering, Li Xiucheng was relatively thin. Although he is not good at farm work, he is very smart and can always think of clever ways to make money, so the family lives a very nourishing life.

But Liu Xiucheng who saw him in the mourning hall was a burly man full of muscles. Obviously, Li Xiucheng's body has been fully exercised. It's a pity that he didn't make it out alive in the end.

"The government affairs of Qigao County are temporarily led by Cheng Jiguan and assisted by Li Tong, you have worked together for many years, and you should know how to cooperate with each other. Wait for the official to hand over the case to the envoy for decision. ”

After speaking, Lu Sheng took the file, and then asked the two to sign and draw, and then left Qigao County with the group.

"My lord, this is our ...... Where are you going?" Lu Jian asked suspiciously, because after Lu Sheng opened the Gao County Ya, the direction he went straight to was not Tongnan Mansion as he thought before, but turned to the southeast.

"Quarry! there's something I need to confirm. ”

Huanben Quarry is the main stone production site in Gangbuk Province and has a long history of 500 years. Five hundred years ago, there were no people in this gravel field near the sea, but in the great movement of population migration, the people who came here to clear the land did not find any land to cultivate, but found that under the rock formation, it was still unfathomable.

And these stones turned out to be granite with beautiful patterns. Since then, Jiangbei stone has become famous in one fell swoop.

The Huanben Quarry is just a corner of the huge quarry, and in addition to the Huanben, there are seven quarries such as the North Stubborn, the Southern Stubborn, and the Hyozuka.

Quarrying is also one of the important economic pillars of Thong Nam Province. But this pillar of the economy changed 50 years ago.

In the past, if a family was poor, they didn't even have land. However, if there is still a strong laborer in the family, then there are only two options, one is to work as a coolie at the dock, and the other is to move bricks in the quarry.

But since 50 years ago, when Gangbuk Province merchants contracted the quarry and signed a contract with the government, only prisoners worked in the quarry.

So, since then, no one wants to work in the quarry again. Even if the contractor of the quarry did not say that no one was needed to do the work, no one would want to.

Because since then, the quarries have been full of criminals with a lot of bad deeds. Gradually, this also became a common practice, not only did no one come to apply for the job, but the contractor also stopped recruiting coolies.

Compared to the paid coolies, the prisoners are the cheapest laborers. Every prisoner was shackled, and no one could escape from the impenetrable quarry.

You don't need to pay them, you don't even need to feed them, you just need to keep them alive and then work.

Of course, life is their own, and if they themselves are willing to die, then die. The contractor is not at all responsible for the death of one or two prisoners.

Lu Sheng's arrival surprised the contractor of the quarry, and soon, in the reception room, the contractor of the Huanben quarry and the cell head in charge of the jailer came to Lu Sheng.

"Yang Shi, the head of the jailers of the Quarry in the lower Huanben, meet your lordship. ”

"Grass people Wan Dongli, see the ...... adults"

Lu Sheng did not look back, but looked at the prisoners who were working hard in the quarry, under the whips of the jailers and overseers. In Lu Sheng's opinion, it is better to die clean than to live such a painful life.

Slowly turning his head, his eyes swept over the two who were cowering.

It's not that these two people have ghosts in their hearts that make them so cringe, it's really too big a gap with Lu Sheng. Not to mention Lu Sheng, as long as there is a decent official, they all have to be like Sun Tzu.

But Lu Sheng saw it just now, they were in front of the prisoners, and they were angry.

"Huanben Quarry...... Are they all prisoners?"

"Yes, yes! are all prisoners......" Yang Shi lowered his head, not daring to look up at Lu Sheng, and responded a little nervously.

"What are they guilty of?"

"There are many crimes, extortion, fighting, robbery, theft, gathering crowds to make trouble...... All kinds of prisoners, as long as they are sentenced to more than one year, they are basically sent to seven quarries to work as coolies. If he had committed a felony, he would not have come. ”

"Are prisoners easy to manage?"

"Good management, don't hide it from adults, in fact, those overseers themselves are also prisoners. The prisoners manage the prisoners, which is easier than us. Yang Shi hurriedly said.

"Why do you want to put masks on them all?"

"It's also for ease of management. Adults don't know, many prisoners have a grudge when they are outside, and when they meet inside, isn't it that the enemy is very angry when they see each other?

Especially since they came in because of the fights. So we put a mask on every prisoner, so that no one knew anyone, and they went about their own work. ”

"How do you hide the name?"

"Every prisoner comes in with a code name, and the name of the code is known only to us. ”

Lu Sheng glanced at the busy bee-like prisoners in front of him, and there were only about two hundred people.

"As far as I know, there should be about 1,500 prisoners assigned to the Huanben Quarry, why do I see only so much?"

"My lord, what we see is only a part of the Huanben Quarry, in fact, behind the wall, there is still a quarry, a total of eight quarries. There were about two hundred prisoners in each quarry. ”

"Why did you cut eight quarries?" Lu Sheng asked again.

"For the sake of reversing. Even if we let the prisoners wear masks, they will still find a way to hug each other after a long time. So we're going to break them up every month and randomly assign them to eight quarries. This is what allows the prisoners to work honestly. ”

"Very advanced management model...... Lu Sheng smiled, "I'm here to investigate a prisoner, Li Xiucheng, is he working in a quarry?"

"This ...... The villain doesn't know, and you need to check the roster. ”

"Hurry up!" After Lu Sheng finished speaking, Wan Dongli hurriedly stood up and ran into the distance, and after a while, he ran back with a thick stack of rosters.

"My lord, there is indeed such a person as Li Xiucheng!" Wan Dongli looked for about half a time on the roster, raised his head and said, "But...... He fell ill and died a few days ago......"

"Sick to death?

"The doctor said yes, tuberculosis!" Wan Dongli replied with a smile on his face.

"When did Li Xiucheng enter the quarry?"

"Three years ago, at this time, I worked in the quarry until I died of illness a few days ago......"

Lu Sheng's eyes flashed, and he stared at Wan Dongli for a long time. nodded silently, "I know, this roster, this official needs to take it away." ”

"My lord, what do you want the roster? Without the roster, we can't swap prisoners......

"The official is naturally useful, so he will borrow it for a few days, and the roster will be returned in a few days. ”

As he spoke, he ignored the expressions of the two and left the quarry with Lu Jian and the others.

"My lord, my subordinates don't quite understand, what do you want to do with the roster?" asked Gai Ying in a low voice as he began to become studious.

"Because that Wan Dongli is lying. ”

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