After nightfall, the prison of the criminal department was a little scary.

In fact, there are two prisons in the Criminal Department located above the former Ming Jinyi Guard Office, one is the A prison in the southwest of the Yamen; The second is the B office in the northwest of the Yamen.

The second institute is also known as the North and South Institute by the outside world.

The prisoners held by A are mainly the offender officials, while the prisoners held by B are mainly the prisoners who are sentenced to death in the fall of the criminal trial.

As the leader of the former government, the rich thief Lehun, the foreman of the military aircraft, was naturally imprisoned in the first office.

Imprisoned with the rich thieves were thirteen important ministers of the court, including Iltu, the secretary of the military department, Kuini, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Fu Mingan, the full servant of the military department, Zhong Yin, the former minister of the imperial department, and Enming, the head of the Ministry of Works.

The jailer, as a public servant who is not even a low-level official, does not know what these important ministers committed and went to prison, but the officials of the criminal department have a good stomach about it.

Today's officials in the Criminal Department have changed as much as half from top to bottom.

After the emperor's permission, he ordered the prime minister Guozijian and the deputy commander of the Han army with the white flag to replace Se Kexi as the chief officer of the criminal department.

Guan Bao was born in the White Flag of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and belonged to the emperor's domestic slave, and this person took over the Shangshu of the Criminal Department with a task.

Sure enough, the first thing Guan Bao did after taking office was to change the blood of the Criminal Department, and the officials who had been promoted by Manshang Shuse Kexi were either demoted or moved, and the main responsible persons of various departments and departments were changed by almost half, and then capable personnel were transferred to form three special task forces.

The first task force was headed by Liu Yong, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, and had as many as 28 members, but only one person called the rich thief Lehun.

is to pry open the mouth of the rich thief, let him confess how many of his henchmen have not been caught, and what crimes he has done against the Qing Dynasty behind the emperor's back.

According to the emperor's instructions, the focus is to dig deep into the fact that the rich thief had formed a party with Jia Thief Shikai in Sichuan before.

The second task force is headed by Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department, with 36 members, and is responsible for calling the former minister Zhong Yin, the military department waiter Fu Ming'an, and other backbone members of the rich thieves who have been arrested.

The task is basically the same as that of the first task force, which is to dig deep into the members of the rich party who have not yet been exposed, and the other is to have these key members of the rich party write confessions and confessions.

The third task force was headed by the imperial first-class guards and Longwu of the Emperor's Qin faction, with 25 members, and like the first working group, only one person was called the Ministry of Rites.

Because Queenie is currently the first and only one of Jia Shikai's henchmen in Beijing.

Another thief's confidant and backbone official Shangshu Asiha absconded with money at the time of the case, and the official letter of arrest has been sent to various places, but there is no news that Asiha has been arrested.

The members of the task force speculated that Asiha was likely to abscond into the Huguang Jia thief army, so they suggested that Asiha's wife, children, and children who had been thrown in Beijing should be arrested and relevant clues should be found from them.

This proposal was vetoed by the head of the working group and Long Wu because the authorities wanted to investigate the members of the Fu Party and the Jia Party in secret, and it was not appropriate to expand it, let alone make too much of a fuss.

After all, the current situation in Beijing seems to be stable, but in fact it is still not peaceful.

Beneath the calm waters of the lake, there are turbulent waves.

If you really want to start a big case, it is very likely to lead to uncontrollable consequences.

So far, the progress of the three task forces has been mixed.

The first task force in charge of Liu Yong can be said to have made no progress, because the rich thief is extremely the bones, even if Liu Yong threatens the lives of his wife and children, the rich thief refuses to confess, and brazenly says that he is the first loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty or something, so angry that Liu Yong wants to strangle this old thief alive.

The emperor also demanded that the rich thief should not be allowed to die easily, so in the face of the hard bone of the rich thief, Liu Yong did not dare to use the punishment easily, which led to the delay in the interrogation of the rich thief.

In the past few days, Liu Shilang has really been like an ant on a hot pot.

The second task force in charge of underwriting has made some progress, but the harvest is not large, only some small fish and small shrimp have been dug up, and no big fish have been caught in the net.

The third task force in charge of Takamu did not make any progress, and even though he interrogated Queenie three times in a row and tortured him three times, the official of the Ministry of Rites who was tortured to death insisted that he did not form a party with Prince Rui.

What makes He Longwu even more angry is that every time Queenie finishes the arraignment, he will hold on to the last bit of essence and write a big word "injustice" on the ground with his own blood.

It's as if he, Queenie, was really wronged.

Queenie refused to recruit, and He Longwu wanted to use this case to show a big face in front of the emperor, so he thought about it and prepared to let Mrs. Queenie, who was imprisoned in the North Institute, come over.

Wanting Queenie to witness his wife's humiliation, so that his dignity as a man will completely collapse, so that there may be a chance to break through.

However, this matter was persuaded by one of his third-class guards, who secretly told Lord He that although Queenie's wife was a successor, she was the cousin of Jia Thief Shikai.

And now Jia Thief Shikai has not been caught, he still holds the army, and the so-called deer is not yet known.

Therefore, if the Lord and the Lord take the cousin of the Jia thief, in case the Jia thief does not fall, but instead raises troops to the north, how will he deal with the adults at that time?

All night, he and Longwu thought about this problem, and they couldn't make up their minds, because what the guard said made sense.

The interrogation of Queenie, he and Takatake were on orders, and it was a matter of business.

But if Mrs. Queenie is involved, it is not a simple matter.

I was a little upset for a while, and I went outside the office to do a Manchurian stretch, but I accidentally saw a lantern in the distance going to the first office.

Vaguely, there seemed to be several figures.

A little curious, he waved his hand to call the guards on duty and asked who had gone to the first place just now.

The guard replied that it seemed to be Liu Yong Liu.

"It's so late, Lord Liu is not resting, and he is still busy arraigning the rich thief?"

He was a little ashamed of himself, and he also admired Liu Yong's old boy's tenacity.

sighed, only to feel the cool air, but went back to the house.

The person who had just passed by with the lantern was indeed Liu Yong, the waiter, but he did not go to the first place alone, and there were two people behind him.

If you come with Longwu to take a look, you will find that the two behind Liu Yong are the current emperor Qianlong, and his favorite minister He Shen.

In the middle of the night, the emperor suddenly came to the criminal department and said that he would personally try the rich thief, which made Liu Yong also have doubts in his heart.

In the 100 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, no emperor has personally come to the prison of the Criminal Department to interrogate the prisoners!

With doubts, he hurriedly came to the prison of Prison A, and after calling the relevant personnel to give a few words, the three of them went down the stone ladder to the depths of the prison of the criminal department.

Due to the bad smell in the depths of the prison, Liu Yong wanted to order someone to bring the rich thief to the duty room here, but he didn't want the emperor to say that he didn't have to, so he only took He Shen to the cell where the rich thief was held, and told Liu Yong to stay in the duty room and not go over without being called.

The emperor acted like this, which made Liu Yong even more confused, and he was even more curious, and he wanted to know what the emperor wanted to ask the rich thief.

But it's so far away that I can't hear it at all.

I saw that after the emperor said a few words to the rich thief outside the prison door, the rich thief suddenly stood up excitedly, grabbed the fence with one hand, pointed at the emperor with the other and roared:

"I'm here, what kind of dog's feet, what qualifications do you Chen Jialuo have to be called me! Sooner or later, you dog traitor will be hanged by my Eight Banners soldiers and civilians on the city gate! ”

(End of chapter)