In the Dong'an Gate of Yanjing City, there is an ordinary yamen with blue bricks and gray tiles, which is not good-looking. The layout inside is slightly different from that of ordinary yamen, and the temple next to the main hall is not dedicated to the city god, but the statue of Wu Mu Yue Fei. In front of the ancestral hall on the west side, there is also a memorial arch of 'Baishi Liufang', plus the statue of Yue Fei, so that people who don't know the details think that they have reached some model unit.

But when you walk into the ancestral hall on the west side and carefully look at the names on the dozen sandalwood tablets enshrined, you will find that these 'ancestors' all have the same title - 'Eunuch of the Governor of the East Factory Official School', referred to as the Eunuch of the Admiral East Factory!

Yes, this is the tablet of the previous owners of the East Factory, all of which are enshrined in this ancestral hall to enjoy the steaming, so the true identity of this yamen is about to come out, which is the terrifying East Factory, referred to as the East Factory.

This place is a good way for old Yanjing to stop children crying at night, as long as you shout to the disobedient child: 'Cry again, let Fanzi arrest you!' Then the child will be scared out of his voice. Many Yanjing people grew up listening to the horror stories of this yamen, in fact, in the memories of many young people, the ferocity of Dongchang Fanzi is just a legend in the mouth of an old man. In their opinion, Dongchang is just a rudder of Jinyiwei, compared with the Jinyiwei under Lu Taibao's freshly dressed and angry horses, those Dongchang fans raised by their stepmothers are really not enough.

But now, Chen Hong, the current governor of the East Factory, is determined to revive the prestige of the East Factory, and under his orders, the fans who have been lazy for a long time are full of spirit to meet the first battle after seeing the sky again!

At noon, Chen Hong came out of the palace and came to his small kingdom. His younger brother Chen Hu also took more than 40 people with 1,000 households, 100 households, and more than 40 people, including 12 leaders, foremen, and secretaries, in the courtyard to welcome the arrival of the factory father.

Chen Hong stood up, walked through the kneeling crowd with his chest and belly, and then said lightly: "Let's get busy......" and said to his brother: "You can just follow." ”

When Chen Hu heard this, he smiled and said, "Brother......"

"Huh?" Chen Hong glanced at him and snorted from his nose.

"Oh, no, I'm damned," Chen Hong gently slapped his mouth and said with a smile: "That factory man, what are you doing here?" Although Chen Hong is the head of Dongchang, his foundation is in the celebrant and the emperor's side, so most of the time, Chen Hong has to serve the emperor in the palace, and his younger brother watches here.

"Look at that person...... Chen Hong lowered his eyelids and said, "Your Majesty asked again, Yan Donglou also urged him tightly, did you ask anything?" As they spoke, the brothers went to the backyard, in front of the heavily guarded prison, which was the edict of Dongchang. The edict of the Son of Heaven is the edict, and the place of imprisonment is the prison, so the edict is the place where the prisoners who are ordered to be arrested by the emperor are held. Originally, there was only Jinyiwei Prison, but later the East Factory was powerful, and I felt that every time there were prisoners who had to be sent to Jinyiwei, it was really troublesome, so I built a convenient one myself.

The Jinyi Guard's Imperial Prison looks normal from the outside, except for the heavily guarded and higher walls, it is no different from an ordinary prison, but this Dongchang Imperial Prison is worthy of being the territory of eunuchs, and it is full of evil surnames from the inside out.

There is no passage in this prison, only the only entrance, the surrounding walls are nearly three zhang high, made of square bluestone, the thickest part of the bottom is actually one zhang, the upper organs are dense, and those who touch it will die. Entering from the gate, you have to pass through three gates in a row, each of which hides thousands of catties, or even tens of thousands of catties of broken dragon stone, once something happens, it will fall immediately, and the intruder will only tear down the wall.

'What do you mean by solidity?' This is steel cast iron! So even if the level of Dongchang Fanzi has declined sharply, Chen Hong is not worried that someone will hit the prisoners inside.

After passing through the three gates and entering the black, gloomy, and dark cell with a strong rancid smell and a faint smell of blood, Chen Hong hurriedly covered his nose with a silk handkerchief, this kind of ghost place, every time he came back, he couldn't eat for several days, so it wasn't a last resort, he wouldn't come in. So he stiffened his head and asked Chen Hu to lead the way in front with a lantern.

This edict is divided into two layers, the upper layer is inhabited by prisoners who have made money, so that they can breathe through the wind, and there is a little sunlight at noon, and the lower level is inhabited by prisoners who have not been paid, the air is not circulated all day long, and there is no sunlight, and the environment inside is extremely bad, and some of the prisoners who are locked up in it have only committed minor crimes, just because they have not been able to bribe the jailers, they are locked up in the lower level, and they die with stubble, but those who are extremely vicious, and the king of Hades does not accept them, can survive in this harsh environment, and over time, It became a living hell on earth.

I only heard Chen Hu remind in a low voice: "The prisoners here have strange surnames, you always have to pay attention to your feet." As he spoke, he asked four jailers with big shoulders and round waists to surround Chen Hong tightly in the middle and escort him to the end of the dungeon.

Chen Hu hung the lantern on the lampstand, stretched out his hand and groped for a while, touched an iron ring, turned it left and right in a certain order, and then heard the sound of 'Caracalla ......', only to see the brick wall in front of him slowly open to both sides, revealing a pitch-black corridor, which is a secret prison, used to hold and interrogate prisoners, important criminals and felons sentenced to death, and is nicknamed the 'nineteenth layer of hell'.

Chen Hu took off the lantern and shone it into the corridor, only to see a fence gate made of thick iron pouring across his eyes, and behind the door stood two jailers with knives, hissing to the outside: "Check the card!" ”

Chen Hu wanted Chen Hong to see that his orders were strict, so he took out the waist card very cooperatively, handed it in, and after the people inside inspected it, he exclaimed: "Erjiaotou!" Quickly open the gate and respectfully hand back the waist card.

Walking along the stone corridor of the prison to the end, you will arrive at the destination of this trip, where Lan Daoxing is imprisoned.

Chen Hu ordered someone to light a row of torches, and the cell was as bright as day, Chen Hong couldn't help but be happy when he saw Lan Daoxing, and nodded approvingly to Chen Hu: "Good job!" "In prisons, torture is a legal practice to extract confessions, and after thousands of years of accumulation, it has already become an extremely scientific technology that can be used at will. The extent of the crime you want the prisoner to suffer is a matter of the above sentence.

If the order is to 'ask,' it means that there is no need to be punished, and if it is 'asking questions,' it is to be tortured but not to hurt people, and if you 'really ask questions,' you will definitely be beaten to the bones and left disabled; as for the most serious case, it is called 'good life really asking,' and those who say this sentence have not yet left the edict alive.

Lan Daoxing was imprisoned this time because of Lu Bingzhi's death, and Chen Hong got Yan Shifan's idea to pry his mouth open as soon as possible, but he was afraid that Jiajing would want to meet Lan Shenxian on a whim one day, so he didn't dare to torture him. Chen Hong told Chen Hu about the difficulty and ordered him to find a way.

Looking at it now, Chen Hong couldn't help but sigh, extorting confessions by torture is really a broad and profound science! I saw that the apricot yellow robe on Lan Daoxing's body had been removed, and he was only wearing a white gauze middle single, standing in a small wooden cage tailored for him, the size of the wooden cage was exactly the same height and width as him, and the internal force was full of small and sharp spikes on all sides, as long as Lan Daoxing's body moved slightly, the iron nails pierced into the skin, and he had to stand like a clay sculpture, which was a great consumption and destruction of people's physical strength and body and mind. Chen Hu said that within two days, he would undoubtedly be punished with this punishment.

It has been three days since Lan Daoxing was arrested and imprisoned, and Chen Hu said that if he was not interrogated, the prisoner might either go crazy or die. So Chen Hong hurriedly came, and when he saw that the blue fairy was really pale and crumbling, the snow-white middle single on his body also bloomed with plum blossoms, which were pricked by needles...... Chen Hong looked at Lan Dao Xingdao with a cat-like expression: "You are not from Longhu Mountain, you are from Laoshan Mountain." ”

Lan Daoxing's physical strength was exhausted, he had no interest in speaking at all, and he didn't raise his eyelids, only listening to Chen Hong jokingly: "I heard that Laoshan Taoist priest can pass through the wall, why don't you go through the wall?" Chen Hu and the jailers burst into laughter.

But Lan Daoxing still raised his head, making Chen Hong's boss lose face, Chen Hu was furious when he saw this, walked over, kicked the cage, and let the four corners of the cage that were tied to iron chains shake, Lan Daoxing's weak body also shook, and he was pierced in the back by more than a dozen nails, so painful that he yelled and trembled.

Lan Daoxing raised his head at this time, looked at Chen Hong with fire-breathing eyes, and said: "Gonggong Chen, you and I have no grievances in the past, and there is no enmity in the near future, why do you treat me like this?" ”

Chen Hong first sneered when he heard this, and then changed his gentle expression and said: "You and my brother, seeing Brother Lan suffer like this, our family is not happy, but the law of the country is like the sky, the emperor must know, who is the black hand behind you, as long as you recruit it, you can immediately regain your freedom, how about it?" ”

"What's behind it?" Lan Daoxing shook his head slowly and said, "I don't know what you're asking." ”

"Hmph, don't try to be sloppy with me!" Chen Hong's expression immediately changed and said: "Let me tell you Lan Daoxing, you have colluded with the demon Dao of the Quanzhen Sect, refined poison, and attempted to murder the emperor The charge has been confirmed, and this alone can cut you with a thousand knives!" ”

"I'm wronged, I'm wronged!" Lan Daoxing said loudly: "After the pill is practiced, the four eunuchs who test the medicine have already used it, and they are still safe and sound, so it can be seen that there is no problem!" ”

When Chen Hong heard this, a wave of anger appeared on his face, Qiu Jizi and they were also adamant, the pill is absolutely no problem, each formula is carefully selected, absolutely nourishing, non-toxic and no side effects, it is impossible to eat dead people! This was obviously not the direction he wanted, and he waved his hand irritably: "The mouth is too hard!" ”

Chen Hu said fiercely: "Give him something to taste!" Immediately, someone carried a bucket of thick salt water, poured it on Lan Daoxing's body, he was already covered with small wounds, and was covered with salt water for a moment, the pain made him howl like a beast, his body writhed involuntarily, and touched the nails on the inner wall, the pain was unbearable, but he couldn't pass out, the whole person was about to collapse, and let out a continuous howl, which was terrible and terrible, and made the listener change color, no wonder the torture place should be set up underground.

Chen Hong felt very enjoyable, probably this kind of unsound guy, his psychology is more or less perverted, in the eyes of ordinary people miserable things, but he felt extremely excited, his whole body was filled with tyrannical pleasure, his face was flushed with excitement, and he said: "Torture, torture, continue!" ”

Chen Hu over there stopped his hand and whispered: "Factory father, this has to be a degree, otherwise people will go crazy if they don't die." ”

Chen Hong was suddenly disappointed, looked at it for a while, and then ordered: "Listen to you." ”

"Let him out." Chen Hu ordered.

As soon as the jailer pressed the mechanism, the cage rose in response, and Lan Daoxing fell straight to the ground. Chen Hu ordered someone to splash him with cold water to wake him up. It took a quarter of an hour for Lan Daoxing to gradually regain his senses, and his whole body twitched like a wobble, and the whole body became a bloody person.

Afraid that the old brother would not be able to explain, Chen Hu said: "Don't look terrible now, wash it, wash it, you can't see the wound." ”

"I can't see the fart!" Chen Hong roared irritably: "If we don't pry his mouth open as soon as possible, we will all be finished!" ”

"Not really, right?" Chen Hu was surprised: "It's just a trial case." ”

"You know!" Chen Hong's eyes showed deep fear and said: "Xu Jie mobilized hundreds of officials, saying that this case involves important ministers of the imperial court, and asked the three law divisions to try this case!" Because the matter involves the palace, His Majesty doesn't want the foreign ministers to interfere, but if we drag on here for a long time, we will inevitably lose patience and hand over the case to the foreign court to investigate! What Chen Hong didn't expect was that this time the hundred officials were unusually united, especially those who were the officials of the science and Taoism, who submitted a letter without any faction, demanding that the case be transferred to the outer court and restricting the Dongchang from further arresting people.

Chen Hong obviously underestimated the antipathy and fear of the hundred officials to spy politics! As a kind of extrajudicial punishment, the existence of edicts and prisons has seriously undermined the country's legal system, and although there have been edicts and prisons in all dynasties, there are no different cases where such permanent institutions as factory and health agents were established as in the national dynasties.

In fact, the political system of China for thousands of years is that the monarch and the scholar rule the world together, so although the emperor theoretically has the power of life and death, but because of the checks and balances of power, in fact, he cannot do what he wants, except for very special circumstances, it will not easily destroy the country's judicial system, so that the country's political stability can be maintained.

But the shortcomings of the dynasty began with Taizu, although Zhu Yuanzhang was wise and martial, but after all, he was the founding emperor with the lowest cultural quality in all dynasties, and he did not understand that politics was a balanced game, and one required to read talents and ask for [***], so he abolished the power of the prime minister, created spy politics, and worked hard to build an extreme centralization, or the emperor's centralization.

If you only manage a place as big as a village, then you can only read it, but the territory of the Ming Dynasty is thousands of miles, the population is trillions, and no matter how powerful the emperor is, it is impossible to manage it, so it is impossible to read, and the power of the auxiliary monarchy will inevitably resurge, but it is just another face - a cabinet scholar.

But for the scholars, this is far from enough, because no matter how powerful the cabinet is in form, how many iron-clad ministers dare to expose the dragon scales, as long as there are factory guards who transcend the rules, once the emperor is angry, all restrictions will come to naught, and the safety of the ministers cannot be guaranteed at all! How can we talk about ruling the world together?

Moreover, when the power of the big spies is in the opposition, the factory and health agencies will often evolve into a devil's cave in the world that bends the law for personal gain and abuses lynching, and disobedient ministers and wealthy gentry are framed, arrested, blackmailed, and tortured and killed.

The legends of Ji Gang, Wang Zhen, Liu Jin and others are still in the rivers and lakes, and the officials absolutely cannot bear the power of the spies to threaten the court again. As long as you think about it, you will be closely monitored, arrested and brutally tortured by those perverted guys, and the officials will be like a man's back, restless in their sleep, especially those big-mouthed officials, who do not want to see the day of the revival of Dongchang.

No matter which camp you are in or what position you stand, as long as you are an official of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of spy politics will threaten your fundamental interests, so the officials rarely work together to write a book, hoping to bring the newly emerging Dongchang back into the coffin.

If this case is finally transferred to the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, and tried in accordance with judicial procedures, not only will it not be possible to carry out the work according to the wishes of Chen Hong and others, but it is very likely that the truth will be revealed, causing the indignation of people and gods!

In the edict prison, life and death are all taken away, so Chen Hong must not let the case drag on for a long time, he must close the case quickly!

Thinking of this, he put on a smiling face and said, "Brother Lan Dao, as long as you can say what I want, I will give you freedom, how about sending you out of the capital tonight?" ”

Lan Daoxing's lips twitched a few times, as if to say something, Chen Hong squatted down and approached, but he couldn't help but be smacked by him, spraying blood all over his face and said, "When I am a three-year-old child!" ”

"Torture me! Torture! Chen Hong's angry voice came from the underground of the edict and said: "What tricks are used, kill me!" ”

(To be continued)