Although the mute had no power, he had a secret passage that no one else knew about and could enter and exit any layer of prison. If prisoners want to communicate with the outside world, they can contact their families through mute. As long as the dumb person pays for the first letter, the task can be completed. The mute took advantage of the opportunity to go out to buy letters, and asked the soldiers outside to deliver letters on their behalf, or directly to the families of prisoners, who would not ignore their own families after receiving the letters. Not only will I pay for this time, but I will also give the money for the next time to the dumb man, who is afraid that his family will suffer in it.

The treatment of the prisoners inside varies greatly, all because there is no outside family to take care of them. If someone is willing to spend money, the prisoner's life will be a little better, at least without worrying about the danger to his life. If there is no one to take care of you, not only will life be very difficult, but you will also be prone to accidents and deaths. Prisoners not only had to serve but also had to work, and without labor there was nothing to eat, so they had to starve to death in the prison of the Criminal Department. In order to be able to survive, in order not to be beaten by others, they had to go to work, although they still couldn't eat enough after working, but they didn't have to go hungry every day. There were good and bad places to work, and some prisoners went to repair river embankments or build large projects, which were not only dangerous but also physically laborious. If you go to some places to do maintenance work, it will be easy and you will have the opportunity to meet your family from afar. This is the greatest wish of all the prisoners in the prison of the Criminal Department, and when they are most satisfied, they can meet their families.

The people who pass through the prison can not only know whether the family members inside are alive, but also communicate with each other, which is a good opportunity for their families. In the first letter, the prisoner would tell his family that life was not easy inside, and that only by spending money could the prisoner have a better life. For the sake of the prisoners, in order to see the prisoners in the future, of course, the family will find a way to send money to the prisoners inside.

According to the rules, prisoners in the prison are not only not allowed to see their families, but they are also not allowed to have their own personal belongings, let alone money. But if you don't have money around, the prisoners will be worse off than dead, and they will even be bullied by other prisoners. For this reason, some prisoners who have access will find ways to save money or find a place to hide. However, the mute is a more "talkative" middleman, not only charging the least "handling fee", but also keeping a part of the money on behalf of the prisoner. Not only is it safe to keep it there, but you don't have to worry about Light Ash being snatched or stolen by others. Some people in the prison specialize in stealing money from other prisoners, and even rob other prisoners' property. Not only do these prisoners have their own forces, but they also have cell bosses or jailers behind them.

Prisoners need to pay money to intermediaries to contact their families, and they also need to charge a part of the "handling fee" for bringing money in to prisoners. Generally speaking, if the family gives the prisoner 100 yuan, the actual amount of money will never exceed 30 yuan, which is the so-called "handling fee". Generally speaking, the soldiers and officers on the outside should be divided between one and twenty percent, the cell bosses and jailers inside should be divided into three percent, and the middlemen should also collect nearly twenty percent, and the money in the hands of the prisoners is very small. The dumb man collects the least amount of money because the soldiers and officers will charge a little less because the mute is an old acquaintance. Besides, he usually doesn't have to share money with other cell bosses and jailers, so he only charges a "handling fee" of 30% or 5. Moreover, the dumb gang collects money from the prisoners, and when the prisoners ask for money, they ask the dumb men for money.

However, the mute does not participate in the internal transactions of the prison of the criminal department, and if the prisoner wants to buy off other cell bosses and jailers, he needs to have his own relationship. The prison has a semi-public price list with various price tags. For example, a clean cell with six people in one cell is 250 yuan per person a month; 500 yuan per person per month in a single cell; Eat a first-class meal, that is, eat gruel once a day, 200 yuan per person per month; If you want to eat two meals of gruel a day, it is 350 yuan per person per month; If you want to go from a general place to a better place, you can pay a lump sum of 1,000 yuan; If you have prickly heat or fleas on your body, you can pay a lump sum of 100 yuan, you can take a bath and wipe the potion once; For a one-time payment of 2,000 yuan, you can receive a set of half-new winter prison clothes. Not only are they thick, but they also have some cotton in them. During the Spring and Autumn period, prisoners could take out the cotton inside, wear winter clothes as spring and autumn clothes, and then stuff cotton into them in winter. In fact, every prisoner should have this kind of clothes, but the prison of the criminal department will not give it to everyone in vain. The first is because the quantity is absolutely insufficient, the second is because the cleaning is inconvenient, and the third is the right of the manager, and it is also their opportunity to make money, so that they will not waste this good opportunity in vain. As a result, the vast majority of prisoners do not have such clothes, and those who can wear them do so at great expense. This kind of clothes are worthless on the outside, even if they are brand new, they don't cost more than a dozen dollars, but on the inside they are a status symbol, and they can't be bought at all without a big price.

The dumb man said that the prison of the Criminal Department could no longer say whether it was good or bad for the prisoners, because everyone did not treat the prisoners as human beings. Not only do they use prisoners to make money, but they also earn their hard-earned money. It is the rule of the imperial court that the prisoners in the prison of the Criminal Department should help the Ministry of Industry and complete the construction of some major state-owned projects. But the prison does not need to go to the prison, and there is no need to send death row prisoners to work. According to the regulations, repeat offenders and death row prisoners are not allowed to participate in labor, and even if they want to go, they must be handcuffed and shackled. Handcuffs and shackles make it extremely inconvenient and dangerous to work, so it is not advisable to allow felons or condemned prisoners to work outside the home. However, in order to get a small amount of money and to receive a ration for one person, the prison of the Criminal Department not only made the felons and death row prisoners work, but also the half-dead prisoners. According to the rules, the prisoner is not paid for his work, but only one ration for each person, and if the prisoner does not work, he will not only have the ration but also a salary. The prison manager of the Criminal Department and the people of the Ministry of Labor agreed that the extra prisoners would only receive half of the wages and rations of the others. The prison of the penal department relied on these prisoners to make money, and the people of the Ministry of Labor took advantage of this opportunity to occupy more important positions, using the prisoners as civilians to keep accounts and receive full wages and food. Some understaffed or dangerous work is secretly handed over to the prisoners of the prison of the Criminal Department. If a prisoner dies unexpectedly, human life is not worth much, and it is easier to compensate. If the project is a public property, the prisoners will be reported as civilians, and half of the compensation obtained will be kept, and half will be given to the people in the prison of the criminal department. If they work privately, they can hide the accident from the outside world, and as long as they give a very small amount of money, they can seal the mouths of the people in the prison of the criminal department, and the prisoner's property is either divided among other prisoners or shared by the prison of the criminal department. The people in the prison will even hide the true situation of the prisoner and continue to demand payment from the prisoner's family. The mute told Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao that one of the prisoners had been dead for five years, and the jailers still demanded money and property from the prisoner's family every month, and the family thought that their family was still alive. This kind of thing abounds in the prison of the Criminal Department, but the dumb man did not do it. When a prisoner dies, the dumb man counts the prisoner's money and returns it to his family, who knows that his relatives are gone and will never return.

The mute also told Qin Tai that the number of people on the roster of the prison of the Criminal Department definitely did not match the actual number. The other yamen are all reporting accounts, all of which are more on the accounts, and the real number is relatively small, even the number of soldiers in the army is like this. However, this prison of the Criminal Department is different, not only is the number of managers reported less than the actual number, but even the actual number of criminals in the prison of the Criminal Department is more than that on the roster. What's the deal with the extra prisoners? There are a lot of jailers and handymen, which is understandable, because there are not enough people, three or four people can be paid for another regular job, and anyway, everyone doesn't care about the money given by these public families. But the prisoners are all documented, and there will never be good people who voluntarily come to the prison of the Criminal Department as prisoners, right? No, there are really people who are reluctant to leave the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and would rather wait for the prisoners to die in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

The first source of extra prisoners is this kind of prisoner. They have become accustomed to life here, or have lost all their family members and simply cannot support themselves. For the sake of his future life, one of the prisoners volunteered to stay in the prison of the Criminal Department. He asked to remain in prison, work with everyone every day, and have a place to sleep at night. When he is old or dead, he is thrown into a mass grave. The people in the prison of the penal department left the prisoner behind for the man's rations and money. With the first one, there was a batch, and later there were more such people, and it became a habit. The second offender has an enemy outside, and when he goes out, someone will find trouble for him. For the sake of themselves and their families, they would rather stay in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. These people pay a sum of money and continue to stay in the prison of the criminal department, and when the matter is over in the future, they will find a way to leave. The people in the prison of the penal department left their people behind and nominally let them go, which created an additional number of unregistered prisoners. The third type of person is not really a prisoner. Most of them are the children of female prisoners, they don't even know who their father is, and they are born as people who cannot leave the prison of the penal department. If these people want to go out, they have to take advantage of the opportunity that some people are unwilling to leave, and impersonation has a chance to leave. But these people have no experience, no money, and simply can't survive outside. Many more have returned to the prison or are reluctant to leave. There are also children of prisoners who are no longer able to live outside, or have no family to take care of them, and are sent to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment by their families. When their parents died, they became inmates who were not prisoners, not only were they not free, but they also had no chance of leaving the prison. They have become a money-making tool for the prison managers of the criminal department, and they have also become "substitute lambs". Some death row prisoners and a very small number of felons have taken advantage of these people who have no information. On behalf of death row prisoners and felons, to die or continue to go to prison, all the benefits are for the prison administrators of the Criminal Department.