Qin Tai was a little suspicious, what does this dumb man usually do besides doing these things? Zhan Xiaoxiao told her husband Qin Tai that the dumb man said that he was a husband and cooked for everyone every day. But Qin Tai didn't think so, if the dumb man was really just a teacher's cook, he would definitely not live until now. Whether it is the manager of the prison of the Criminal Department, or the opponent hidden in the shadows, they will not let the mute live so easily. The mute has long been a corpse, that is, he has been secretly plotted.

Under Qin Tai and Zhan's little questioning, the mute finally said how he survived. It turns out that the mute is not an ordinary handyman, but an old handyman who is in the same stream with some people. Dumb people don't have to cook directly, and they don't have to face the fire all day. Because he is not a chef, nor is he a chef's subordinate, he only specializes in one thing. There are at least three or four thousand registered prisoners in the prison of the Criminal Department, and there are at least five or six thousand so-called prisoners in addition to those who are not recorded. In addition to ensuring the food and clothing of the managers, the daily food received from the Ministry of Industry and other places could only ensure that the prisoners had two meals of gruel a day. These things are definitely not enough for everyone to eat, not only do they not have enough to eat, but they are also prone to illness. In order to feed everyone, in order to prevent everyone from getting sick, the prison of the criminal department came up with a heinous idea.

Every day, nearly 50 people die in the prison, and sometimes even more. In one summer and one winter, at least a thousand people will die. These corpses are inconvenient to dispose of, and throwing them into mass graves is also cheaper for wild dogs and wild wolves. A cell boss came up with a "clever plan", dogs can eat corpses, wolves can eat dead human flesh, why can't people eat dead human flesh? Human flesh is not only nutritious, but also can replenish everyone's physical strength. In this way, it not only solves the problem of food shortage, but also increases everyone's physical fitness. Since the use of this method, there have been a lot fewer sick prisoners. For this reason, the people in the prison of the criminal department always go outside to get the corpses to prevent the daily prison of the criminal department from being insufficient. Except in summer and winter, when there are enough corpses, the prison of the Criminal Department will secretly dig up corpses at other times.

The task of the dumb man is one, to dissect the corpse and divide the corpse into three parts. Put human skin, internal organs, and nails in a pile, disassembled bones in a pile, and human flesh in a pile. Human skin, internal organs, and nails cannot be eaten, let alone known to outsiders, so they have to be dealt with secretly. The bones are boiled directly with the gruel, boiled into porridge with meat and bones, and then the bones are strained out, and the gruel is divided and distributed to each prisoner in the cell. Human flesh is left to other people to deal with, and even the dumb don't know where it has gone. After dismantling the human bones every day, it is time for the mutes to move freely. Because the mute is "his own person", everyone doesn't care what the mute usually does. Even the mute secretly helped people deliver letters, and these people acted as if they didn't know anything.

Zhan Xiaoxiao explained, but couldn't help but want to vomit, remembering the meal he had just eaten, Zhan Xiaoxiao really wanted to vomit. For this reason, Zhan Xiaoxiao didn't dare to eat the food sent by the prison of the Criminal Department, even Qin Tai was not allowed to eat it, these things were too disgusting. When I think of the small fried pork and bone broth I ate today, Zhan Xiaoxiao really wants to kill. Qin Tai's face is not very good, he has seen a lot of dead people, and he has seen a lot of disgusting corpses, but he definitely does not eat human flesh. Thinking of these days, the meat dishes every day are made of human flesh, and Qin Tai really doesn't want to eat anything.

The dumb gestured to Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao, telling them that they didn't have to worry too much. The cell bosses and jailers ate clean, not only did they not add human bones, but the meat used was absolutely normal meat, not human flesh. The mute himself had never eaten anything like this, but he couldn't stop some of the handymen. Some of the handymen couldn't help but taste it every time they delivered food, but the dumb people didn't have time to stop it, and they couldn't speak, so they had to let these people do it. Some people only learned about it later, and since then these people have stopped doing it, or disappeared, and no one dares to taste this kind of thing all the time. If the prisoners knew, they would never dare to eat the gruel in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.

Qin Tai can tolerate the beating of prisoners by the people in the prison of the Criminal Department, can tolerate these people withholding the prisoners' rations, can tolerate the corruption of the people in the prison of the Criminal Department, can tolerate the existence of off-the-books accounts in the prison of the Criminal Department, can tolerate the existence of secrets in the prison of the Criminal Department, can tolerate the constant infighting in the prison of the Criminal Department, and can tolerate the existence of Jinyi Wei in the prison of the Criminal Department. However, Qin Tai could not tolerate the people in the prison of the Criminal Department not to be prisoners, and he could not tolerate the prison of the Criminal Department to eat human flesh and drink gruel mixed with human bones. Not only can't this kind of thing be done, but it's not something that a person should do. Since these people are no longer human beings, they are no longer qualified to be human beings if they do not regard them as human beings. If you are not a person, you can't be your own person, and if you are not a person in the Ming Dynasty, you are an enemy, and if you are an enemy, you must be eliminated. Besides, the dead are all subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and the people who are tricked are also the living Ming people, so they must be avenged.

Qin Tai thought about it for a long time, and finally decided on one thing. He handed Zhan Xiaoxiao a signal canister and asked Zhan Xiaoxiao to find a way to go out and put it on the sky. Zhan Xiaoxiao looked at this signal tube strangely, and this signal tube didn't even know about Zhan Xiaoxiao. But Zhan Xiaoxiao knows this kind of signal canister, this kind of signal canister is commonly used in the army, but each signal canister has its own belonging, and outsiders can't understand the meaning. Who gave this signal canister, when it got into Qin Tai's hands, and what is the use, Zhan Xiaoxiao doesn't know at all. However, if Qin Tai wants to do something small, Zhan Xiaoxiao will definitely complete it 100%.

Zhan Xiaoxiao not only has advanced kung fu, but also is smart and clever, so he will definitely be able to complete the task assigned by Qin Tai, which Qin Tai is very relieved of. Zhan Xiaoxiao saw the confident Qin Tai again, and it seemed that Qin Tai was about to exert his might. The signal canister is a tool to contact the outside world, which means that Qin Tai has to use the "killer feature" that he only knows.

When Zhan Xiaoxiao rushed out of the prison of the Criminal Department, everyone was a little strange that they did not stop Zhan Xiaoxiao immediately. The people who secretly monitored Qin Tai and his wife only paid attention to Qin Tai, and did not immediately report Zhan Xiaoxiao's rush out of the prison of the Criminal Department. Because the people above only asked him to monitor Qin Tai at all times, and did not allow Qin Tai to make any strange moves. Unexpectedly, such a delay changed the pattern of the entire prison of the Criminal Department.

Zhan Xiaoxiao pulled out the signal canister, and a beam of fire went up into the sky with a scream. The sound was so harsh that it was heard almost throughout the prison of the Criminal Department. Even the people underground noticed the abnormality, and the person who Qin Tai regarded as the main opponent also noticed the abnormality. When he learned that Zhan Xiaoxiao sent out a strange signal canister, he didn't have time to say anything, and passed out directly to the ground. When he woke up, the first thing he did was to kill the men who had come to report the news. But what's the use? The situation had changed completely, and all his odds were gone.

Soon after the signal was issued, the sound of running was heard outside the prison of the Criminal Department, and the soldiers in the prison saw nearly ten times more soldiers than themselves. These soldiers not only surrounded the prison but also directly took over the defense of the prison. None of the officers and soldiers in charge of the prison perimeter of the Criminal Department dared to move, not only because the other party was more numerous than himself, but also because the leader turned out to be the new official cabinet member of the cabinet, Tan Yan, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, who was in charge of the promotion of officials within the Ministry of War. This Tan Yan is not only a proud disciple of Gao Gong, the first assistant of the cabinet, but also a close confidant of Emperor Longqing, and the only person who can compete with Zhang Juzheng for the position of the first assistant of the cabinet in the future. Whether it was the officers and soldiers outside, or the officials of the Criminal Department inside, no one dared to clash with Tan Yan head-on. Besides, Tan Tan dared to mobilize troops in the capital and surround the prison of the Criminal Department, it can be seen that this was instructed by Gao Gong, the first assistant of the cabinet, or Emperor Longqing, who dared to stop Tan Lun's pace? Even if Tan Lun kills all the people here, there won't be any big problem. Head and future, who doesn't want it? No one dares to be disobedient.

When Zhan Xiaoxiao returned to her husband Qin Tai, Qin Tai told his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao all the secrets. It's not that Qin Tai doesn't believe his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao, but he is afraid that this matter will be overheard by others, or Zhan Xiaoxiao will accidentally say it. One day not long after entering the prison of the Criminal Department, a soldier who temporarily came to the prison of the Criminal Department to give him support suddenly stuffed Qin Tai with a note, and no one found a flaw in this matter. When Qin Tai was uninhabited, he read the contents of this note and knew the whole story of this matter.

It turned out that as early as when Zhang Juzheng proposed to let Qin Tai and his wife come to the prison of the Criminal Department, Zhang Juzheng decided to use Qin Tai and others to investigate the secrets in the prison of the Criminal Department with Gao Gong and others. Zhang Ju learned from his teacher, Xu Jie, the former head assistant of the cabinet, that there was a big secret in the prison of the Criminal Department, and the people inside had almost lost control. Xu Jie, who has been a subordinate and political enemy under Yan Song for so many years, certainly knows many secrets of Yan Song. But Yan Song seemed to have something to rely on, and he was not afraid of Emperor Jiajing dealing with him. When Yan Song's son Yan Shifan was sentenced to beheading, Yan Song once said a strange thing, saying that the royal family is not afraid that the affairs in the prison of the criminal department will be made public? Although Yan Song didn't say anything explicitly later, and Emperor Jiajing didn't kill the Yan family, Xu Jie felt that there was a problem. When Xu Jie found out that Yan Song was in power, a person from the prison of the Criminal Department would report every three months, and he wanted Yan Song to report alone. After Yan Song stepped down, especially after the death of Emperor Jiajing, the people in the prison of the Criminal Department seemed to report less and less. Xu Jie once asked once, and the other party's report was very simple, saying that everything was normal inside, and the other party didn't say a word if he asked again. Xu Jie is a person with a strong desire for power, of course he wanted to figure out everything inside, but he didn't expect to get nothing. When Xu Jie stepped down, he found Zhang Juzheng and told the matter.