"Beizhen Fusi handled the case, and on the order of the Son of Heaven, arrested Jiading Bo Yang Chengzu, if there is anyone who obstructs it, he will be killed!"

As soon as Jinyi Wei Baihu said this, the originally chaotic scene suddenly quieted down, and Yang Chengzu, who was standing behind the crowd and surrounded by officers, only felt that at this moment, it seemed that countless eyes were focused on him, and that gaze was as dazzling as the sun, illuminating his filth and nowhere to hide.

He also noticed that the officers who had been surrounding him had subconsciously taken a few steps back to the side, as if they wanted to dissociate themselves from him.

"I'm ......" Yang Chengzu opened his mouth, he looked at the soldiers who were focused on him, and couldn't say anything for a while.

He watched as the soldiers of the battalion silently made way for the brocade-clothed guards, and the wolf-like horsemen pounced on him, took out the jingling shackles and chains, and locked him up in public and led him out of the barracks.

After Yang Chengzu was taken away, a commander who witnessed the whole process silently stood up, opened his mouth, and said, "The commander of the capital has been taken away, and all the departments have returned to the camp, don't mess up because of this matter, the imperial court will appoint a new commander of the capital."

After he finished speaking, the officers gathered their subordinates and led them back to the barracks, and the other commander of the same commander could not help but blame himself for being a step slow in reacting, if he could stand up first, maybe the probability of making up for the position of commander would be greater.

A similar situation is also playing out in other places, Shaanxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, Ma Tai, who had just finished a day's work, had just returned to the mansion from the capital command envoy Yamen, when he saw Jinyi Wei holding the Beizhen Fu Commander card had been waiting at home for a long time.

He looked at the majestic Beizhen Fu Commander card, where he still didn't understand what was happening, he smiled bitterly, and could only bow his head and tie it down.

……

With the prince's direct questioning, the triage of the three law divisions was very fast, and in just half a month, the three law divisions collected relevant evidence and confessions and submitted them to the prince for review.

The crown prince knew that this was his hard-won opportunity to perform, so he didn't ask Su Yan what to do, but let his East Palace subordinates help with the staff.

In August of the twentieth year of Wu'an, the triage of the three legal divisions came to an end under the leadership of the prince, and all the officials involved in the case were severely punished, the first evil Ruan Mei was confiscated of his family property, and his whole family was exiled to Yingzhou together with the rest of the corrupt officials involved in the case.

Zhou Hezhi, the Duke of Pingguo, remembered that his crime was relatively light, and he was demoted from the Duke of Guo to a marquis, and he was fined a lot of money and family property, and the children involved in his clan were exiled overseas.

When the prince publicly announced the result at the court meeting, the courtiers praised the prince's thunderous methods, those moths that had not yet been found out did not dare to publicize it anymore, and shrank their heads one by one.

All this has nothing to do with Ruan Mei, after hearing the sentence against him, Ruan Mei seems to have aged more than ten years all of a sudden, and her black hair has turned gray overnight.

A few days after the verdict was pronounced, Nguyen My and his family were escorted aboard the ship from Xiaguan to Yingzhou, escorted by Jinyiwei, and after boarding the deck, he looked back at the bustling city with a memorable look.

He knew that if he went, he might not be able to come back for the rest of his life, not only him, but also his children and grandchildren.

After a few hours, the ship carrying hundreds of exiled criminals slowly left the port of Xiaguan, sailed out of the Yangtze River into the East China Sea, and then down the river, through the Taiwan Strait into the South China Sea, and finally arrived at Yingzhou Island after a long journey.

Yingzhou Metropolitan Division, Yingzhou Mansion, this place is the capital of Bactria in Yingzhou Island, the first Han people who landed on Yingzhou Island a few years ago and tried to settle here landed, they built residential areas here, built city walls, set up schools, with the increasing number of people who landed on the island, coupled with the intensification of contradictions with the natives, the imperial court changed the original Guinea Xuanwei Division to Yingzhou Division, and Guinea Island was also renamed Yingzhou Island.

After several years of operation and reclamation, the southern coast of Yingzhou Island is under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou Prefecture, and it is a few miles deeper

It is the indigenous people of Yingzhou who are forced to shrink their living space.

Because the indigenous people of Yingzhou are cruel and tyrannical and like cannibalism, Yingzhou Dusi allowed the common people to spontaneously form a group to protect the countryside to resist the attack of the natives, and the Han people of Yingzhou settled in semi-military tulou, if the natives dared to invade, they could hide directly in the tulou and rely on the shooting hole to shoot out.

Of course, this is only required by immigrants close to the interior, and in Yingzhou, the largest city in Yingzhou, there are tall walls that protect immigrants from all over the world, and they can live as if they were in Han.

As the ship sailed into the port of Yingzhou Port, Ruan Mei and the others were shouted and walked out of the cabin one after another, and as soon as they walked out of the cabin, the sun falling from the sky made Ruan Mei unable to open her eyes for a while, and hurriedly stretched out her hand to block the sunlight overhead.

The other prisoners reacted the same way, and during the long voyage from Kyoto to here, they were all confined to the cabin, not allowed to move around at will, let alone go on deck to bask in the sun.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the first time they have been in the sun for more than half a year.

Such harsh conditions naturally inevitably caused a plague, when the ship passed through Luzon, the plague broke out in the cabin, many people died, and the corpses were forced to be thrown into the bottom of the sea to feed the fish, but fortunately, he Ruan Mei was lucky, or he was born in the battlefield and his body was better than those civil officials, and he carried it.

"Let's go, hurry up and get off the boat, don't drag!"

The brocade guard in charge of the escort shouted loudly on the side, staring at the prisoner with an unkind face, and if anyone dared to take a step slower, the soft whip in his hand would be pulled down without hesitation.

In the past, they were high-ranking officials, but here, they are only the lowliest prisoners.

After the prisoners got off the boat one after another, the small officials waiting on the shore to receive the prisoners surrounded an official wearing a green official robe, and the Jinyi Wei Baihu in charge took the initiative to salute the official, saying, "Chen Qingfeng, a hundred households in Fusi Baihu, Xiabei Town, was ordered to escort 345 human traffickers, but there was an epidemic on the road, and only 280 people arrived."

"So many dead?" The official frowned and said, "That's a bit of a problem."

"There's no way around it, isn't it?" Baihu said with a smile, the official also knew that this was unavoidable, and did not dwell too much, and ordered someone to take the list and count it here, and then announced that the handover was completed.

Afterwards, he asked his subordinates to give some silver to the brothers of Jinyiwei, so that they could play in Yingzhou Mansion for a few days to relax and relax, and after the people of Jinyiwei left, he looked coldly at the prisoners who were gathered, cleared his throat, and said:

"This official is the experience of Yingzhou Dusi, if it is placed in the past, I am afraid that you adults will not look at me directly, but now it is different from the past, you are all smart people, smart people will not make you and me feel unhappy, of course, if anyone does not want to be this smart person, then this official has to teach him how to be this smart person."

When he said that, the little officials on the side all sneered softly, and their laughter fell on the ears of these once high-ranking officials and masters, which was particularly harsh.

The prisoners listened in silence, after half a year of "tempering", the edges and corners of each of them were smoothed, and no one in the cabin cared about their former identities, beating and scolding at every turn, eating pig food that even pigs hated, and drinking stinky water.

Those who survive from there will not be like a stunned green man who jumps out and gives people a head bird.

Seeing that no one couldn't help jumping out of that experience, he pouted in some disappointment, and he wanted to humiliate the once high-ranking official in front of everyone.

But he quickly recovered his mood, these people are under his hands, and he can tease whenever he wants, and there is a chance.

So, with a wave of his hand, he ordered these prisoners to be taken away together, and Ruan Mei and the others were forced to move forward under the loud reprimand of those small officials as if they were being driven livestock.

After they walked out of the port and entered the streets, they quickly attracted the onlookers of the people in the city, but they only looked at it a few times and lost interest, the imperial court sent many prisoners from the mainland to Yingzhou and Jedao every year, and those exiled prisoners were basically assigned to very dangerous and tiring ones

on the job.

For example, in the mines discovered and excavated by the authorities, most of the men were sent to the dark mines to mine day and night, and they either died of exhaustion in the mines, or died of accidents due to the poor safety environment, and few of them died well.

In contrast, the situation of those women is better, because Su Yan prohibits the official operation of institutions such as Qinglou, so women are generally sent to forced labor in less labor-intensive factories.

Bactria opened a large number of factories and plantations in Nanyang, many of which were set up with private investment, all of which required a large amount of labor, because the imperial court severely cracked down on luring Han Chinese from their own country to serve as coolies, so the source of labor could only be criminals exiled by the government, as well as slaves sold from Southeast Asia, India and even Africa.

There are many factories and plantations in the South Seas, such as textile factories that use spinning machines in abundance, canneries that use fruits and abundant fishery resources as raw materials for processing, and plantations that grow spices for Europe.

Under the pitiful gaze of the people, they were quickly sent to a camp for criminals, where they needed to stay for a few days, and then send them to a future "burial place" after the people above had decided where they would go.

Perhaps because they knew their future fate, the guards in charge of guarding the camp were much more gentle towards them, and some of the quick-witted prisoners hurriedly seized the opportunity to ask the guards questions about their future whereabouts.

Although there was discipline that did not allow them to disclose it to the prisoners, to prevent the prisoners from committing suicide in despair, these veterans did not strictly abide by it, and they thought they were kind enough to reveal a little bit to the prisoners who asked them, although they did not say it explicitly, but those prisoners remembered the rumors they had heard before they fell into power, and they all realized that their future was bleak.

As a result, their faces visibly darkened.

Ruan Mei didn't ask, he looked at the faces of those former colleagues, and immediately understood everything, but those colleagues did not commit suicide, but fiercely turned their eyes on Ruan Mei.

One of them yelled at him, "You hamami, it's all because of you, if it weren't for you, how would we be where we are today? Even before I die, I'm going to pull you down with me!"

As he spoke, he rushed directly towards Ruan Mei, his words instigated those prisoners who were sad in their hearts, and they all realized that they would fall to this point, Ruan Mei contributed a lot, and they all cursed loudly and approached Ruan Mei.

Seeing this, Ruan Mei's eldest son Ruan Lang and second son Ruan Ling desperately stepped forward to protect their father, Ruan Lang puffed up his chest and roared angrily, "What do you want to do? If you want to hurt my father, you have to step over the bodies of our brothers!"

Ruan Lang used to be a commander in the forbidden army before this, and his aura was something that those literati who were usually pampered and pampered could contend with, and the prisoner who took the lead looked at his strong body and swallowed his saliva, but he didn't dare to rush forward.

At this moment, the guards in charge of guarding finally noticed the movement here, and they ran towards this side, shouting, "It's against you, you want to gather a crowd to make trouble? Spread them all out for me!"

Seeing this, the prisoners who were in a dilemma by Ruan Lang seemed to have found the steps, breathed a sigh of relief, glared at Ruan's father and son with hatred, and dispersed before the guards could run over.

When the guards saw that the prisoners had dispersed on their own, they did not continue to run, but they kept a few more eyes on them, for fear that the prisoners would cause other trouble.

"Ni Zi, it's for the sake of your father that you're dragging you down." Ruan Mei sighed, his body slowly slumped to the ground, his hands grabbed his white hair, and said with self-reproach: "If Father Wei hadn't been transferred back to Jingshi, he wouldn't have ended up like this."

"Father, it's useless to talk about it now, our family will work together to survive this difficulty." Ruan Lang knelt in front of his father and said softly.

"Yes, father, the uncle is still the Duke of Liao, and the cousin's official position has not changed, which shows that the Son of Heaven has not completely given up on our Ruan family, and when the rumors change in a few years, the uncle will definitely find a way to get our family back." The second son said comfortingly, even though he also knew that what he said was very unlikely.

Ruan Mei smiled bitterly and shook his head slowly, although he was a little surprised that his brother did not lose his title because of this, but his brother's position as the left attendant of the military department was relieved, and the Son of Heaven must have an opinion on him, but he didn't know why for other reasons, he raised his noble hand and let him go.