When I returned, I quietly inquired about the Royal Prison Department.

The result is similar to what Dongfang Mingyue said.

The Royal Prison Department - the "cecal department" in the palace compound, the minister is also the "jailer" rank.

The Royal Prison Department is not strange, strangely - the Royal Prison.

The King James Law stipulates that all "criminal murderers" are to be "thrown into the royal prison." It means that every "criminal murderer" in the four capitals, twenty-three provinces, and four billion people in the Ming Dynasty must be "thrown into the royal prison"!

How can you say that all the "criminal murderers" in the four capitals, twenty-three provinces, and four billion people are "thrown into the royal prison"?

However, this is true, because the Royal Prison is a bottomless pit!

I looked through the "Yearbook of Felon Offenders" of the Secret Service and found that at least hundreds of thousands of dollars were thrown away a year! It's true! However, it was never full!

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The Royal Penitentiary Department is the Department of the Rectum, so it is extremely chaotic, and there is no formal establishment except for the Minister and the Deputy Minister. The people on duty there are all old oilmen in the inner court, the emperor's close attendants and eunuchs, and there is no order of duty.

The Royal Prison Department is a prison with a high "upper and lower ceiling". The highest-ranking governor of a certain government may be imprisoned for offending the emperor, he may be released after a day, or he may die of old age inside; The lowest ones are the eunuchs who sweep the floor, serve the palace maids or something, and it is difficult for them to come out alive. The guards try to be as respectful as possible to the high-ranking imperial officials, and it's always good to be careful.

I have been preparing for a long time in advance, and I have prepared the plan, excuses, and gold yuan well.

Everything must be planned and all possible situations must be thought through, including: if they ask me what I am doing, I will say that I have several good palace maids who have been arrested and want to rescue them; If they ask for details, such as what you did with so-and-so on such and such a day, what will I answer; If they doubt, what else do I emphasize; If they don't agree, I'm going to increase bribes, even physical threats, and so on.

I divide my money into several parts. I don't know how big the appetite of these guys is, whether they want hundreds or hundreds, or thousands. So I had hundreds in my left pocket, a few thousand in my right pocket, and tens of thousands in my inner pocket, and I brought a total of 100,000 gold dollars! My money is only 100 gold dollars a year, which shows how corrupt I am. But this is nothing, the money I embezzled is far less than the money I paid, and the ministers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs above are greedy!

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I walked into the Royal Penitentiary Department.

The twelve auxiliary buildings are exactly the same, and I can't get lost with my eyes closed now.

The ground floor is a hall with iron railings throughout.

The guards who were drinking tea together all stood up, threw away their cigarette butts and stepped on them, and nodded: "My lord, are you here ......?"

Me: "I'm Dongfang Ju, director of the Department of Broadcasting and Reserves of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and I'm coming in to see a friend. ”

One of them hurriedly grabbed it and said, "Lord Dongfang, I'll take you there." Hey, let me take you. ”

There was someone next to me who wanted to grab it, but this person suddenly stood between me and the crowd, blocking them. He pushed them away and led me in.

He pointed to an iron fence gate and said, "Go from here!" ”

After entering the fence gate, there is a long, endless corridor, at the top of which is a row of light bulbs in a straight line, some of which are not lit, and some of which are turned on and off, so that the road is lit up and darkened, with a clicking sound, like a haunted.

The man nodded and said, "Hehe, Lord Dongfang, the villain is Xiao Lizi of the Zongren Mansion, and he is on duty today." I don't know who the adults are looking for here? ”

I took out a note from my left pocket, one hundred gold dollars, and handed it to him.

His eyes were straight, and he quickly grabbed it, touched it repeatedly, and stuffed it into his inner pocket. He patted his chest: "Don't worry, my lord, everyone you see is wrapped in me!" ”

I took out a piece of paper from my pocket, which was full of the names written to me by Dongfang Mingyue, a total of fifteen palace maids. I handed him the list and said, "There are fifteen palace maids in all." Some say they stole something from the palace - what can the palace lack? This little thing also catches people! ”

Him: "Fifteen? I thought it was one? Are the adults looking at them or trying to get them out? ”

Me: "It's all my friends, my friends in the palace, or friends of friends." Is it hard to get them all out? ”

He scratched his head and said, "Fifteen." Let me think about it, it shouldn't matter if the palace maids are there, who cares about them? ”

We talked as we walked, and he talked very carefully, and it seemed that the money was really not spent in vain.

So I knew everything about the Royal Prison Department.

The Royal Penitentiary Department has ten floors, from the second floor upwards, called one to ten "tubes".

One tube is called the temporary prison, and the high-ranking imperial officials are locked up, and they are well paid, and they can often go out—or put in other cylinders.

The second cylinder is a formal prison, in which most of the people in the prison are confined to it, and most of the people inside will starve to death, sickness, or be beaten to death.

The third cylinder is a key prison, which imprisons key people and all kinds of people who also need to obtain information.

The four cylinders are death rows, which are ready to be thrown into the Royal Prison.

More than five cylinders are confidential, controlled by the inner court, and a eunuch like him in the Zongren Mansion does not dare to ask.

The Royal Prison is on the basement level, and is said to be the size of the entire building – maybe bigger, and who knows, no one has ever come out of it alive.

The fifteen palace maids were on death row, and when the death sentence was full, they were sent directly to the royal prison. It's almost full lately, and if I'm a little late, I'm afraid I won't even be able to see each other.

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We walked and talked until we arrived at the site of a tube.

The so-called cylinder is the black language of the prison world, which probably means "paragraph" or "department".

The windows of the entire Royal Prison Department were closed, so it was as dark as a cave.

There is a large corridor on one side, dozens of large rooms on both sides, each room is closed by dozens of people, all rooms have no windows, only an iron fence door, the door is facing the corridor.

As we walked, we looked at the people behind the fence. There was a jailer at intervals, but the jailers slept leaning in their chairs, and they woke up occasionally and didn't think much of me when they saw me, they were used to it.

Xiao Li Zi was chattering with me about the Royal Prison Department, including how they tortured and killed people, how the people inside tortured each other, what interesting things had happened, etc., at this time, I heard the shouts of "Dongfang Ju" and "Dongfang Ju".

I wondered, could it be that there are acquaintances here, too?

Turning around, behind the fence of the prison cell on the side, there were really a few familiar faces - Mao Jianmu, the champion, Tao Yubo, and a few other members of the "Elite Association".

I thought they were all dead, but they were locked up here.

I walked over.

The ragged, yellow-skinned, and languishing elites were now so excited that they were so excited that they were holding my hand and shaking as if I had come to save them.

They said, "Oriental foal! Get us out, if this life should be done by dogs and horses! ”

It's all like this, and give me a drag!

I don't want to save them in my heart, it's not that I hate or hate them, it's not that I'm afraid of spending money, I just want to worry about Liu Xingchao, the head of the new inner court, who will find out about me and trouble me.

I asked the little plum next to me, "Can they fish it out?" ”

Xiao Lizi: "People with one tube and three tubes don't even think about it!" They are all the key objects of registration, and they are called every day! We will all be punished if we die, let alone fished out? No one cares about the second and fourth cylinders, but this matter can be discussed. ”

I shrugged my shoulders and said to them, "I can't help you." ”

They said anxiously, "Then can you help us and get some money." We're going to starve to death. ”

I looked at the craggy bones under their tattered clothes and said, "Dots? How to dot up? Giving you money directly? ”

They nodded: "yes, yes." Just give it to us. ”

Ha, can prisons also cost money?

I asked Xiao Lizi, "Is this okay?" ”

He said, "Money makes the devil grind." It's okay in the underworld, but why can't it be in prison? ”

Hesitantly, I slowly pulled the money out of my pocket.

The eyes of the guards next to him began to glow.

I decided to give them some change, after all, a paper gold dollar can buy a sheep, and there is no need for me to give them hundreds of thousands, those low-ranking eunuchs and jailers are easily satisfied.

I pulled out some change from my trouser pocket, a few dozen gold dollars, and handed them to the hands that were sticking out of the fence, like an old crow feeding a flock of little crows in a bird's nest.

They all said: "It's still Dongfang Ju enough, we will definitely repay death when we go out!" ”

The guards outside looked greedily at the change.

Bangyan Tao Yubo stretched out his hand, handed a paper gold dollar to the guard, and said, "Brother help us get more than a dozen quilts, a few large jars of steamed buns, and the rest of the money will be invited to drink!" ”

The guard also said, "No problem! Just wait, I'll be back right away. ”

He slipped away and ran away. One paper gold dollar is actually enough to buy hundreds of quilts and hundreds of jars of steamed buns, and it seems that he has earned a lot.

Bangyan Tao Yubo said: "Thank you, brother." I won't say more, if we can get out, we will repay us with death. ”

I said, "Don't say that, we're all brothers who can try together." Okay, take care, brother, goodbye. ”

I waved my hand and turned to leave. I don't give them money because I'm a good person, but I think that if they come out, I will exchange a little money for the gratitude of others, and even if I can't get it, I don't care about this money.

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We continued to walk up to the territory of the second cylinder.

There are many newcomers who stand in the wrong team in the first tube, and a large number of old people who stand in the wrong line in the second tube are the subordinates of the former head of the inner court and the former prime minister. The so-called "once a son of heaven and a courtier", when the new boss comes to power, he naturally wants to kill a group of former ministers and make room for his team.

The first tube is barely bearable, at least not starved to death or frozen to death, but the second tube is simply hell on earth. It stinks, and there is a peculiar strong smell, which is the smell of dead bodies. When I used to go to the county seat, I could occasionally smell it, and it was a criminal who was a violent corpse in the county.

The people at the gate of the fence were dying, and in the dark shadows lay motionless people inside.

These people are condemned criminals and the unforgivable. They themselves were desperate, and they looked at the yellow robe I was wearing and spat at me, perhaps remembering their former majesty.

I really saw a few people I knew, these are former ministers and ministers, but I know him, he doesn't know me.

My former boss was supposed to be in there, but I didn't see it, and he didn't call out to me. He's too old to make it through. This person who has been cautious all his life and has a moderate attitude in everything still can't escape the cold rules of this world.

I was lamenting the impermanence of life, and a faint voice came from my ears, "Lord Dongfang, Lord Dongfang", which scared me!

Following the sound, I looked down and saw a thin figure moving towards the door. The man's hair was about to fall out, his body was naked, his whole body was covered with white spots, and his hands and feet were like dead branches.

He raised his red and white eyelids, stared at me with godless eyes, and said word by word: "My lord, I am Li Zhibing, little Lizi, I served you before you entered the palace." ”

I remembered this half-dead man, and I remember that he was proud that he was the personal eunuch of Li Yongfu, the head of the inner court.

I said to Little Plum, who was standing, "Can this man fish it out?" ”

He scratched his head and said, "What do you want this kind of person for?" A slut, you can't live if you go out. ”

I sighed and left.