According to the Han system, the edict prison was originally in the hands of the Imperial Governor's Office, and was not subject to other places. However, after Emperor Guangwu, he added Luoyang Imperial Prison, which was directly under the ban, but made the Tingwei Bureau, which was in charge of breaking the prison, start to fight.

Coming out of Shizhong Temple, walk two miles to the northwest, bypass the back door of the Imperial Palace, and walk along the road behind it that is so wide that there are not even a few trees to the end, and you will arrive at the boundary of Luoyang Imperial Prison.

Compared with the various government offices in Luoyang City, where the stacked bed frame houses are still insufficient, the door of the edict prison looks much simpler. It was just a gate with a height of three feet, plus a fence like a female wall, and there were soldiers in armor patrolling all around, and the faces were all solemn. At first glance, this doesn't look like an official office, but more like a customs office.

Standing at the gate of the Black Cave Prison, the immortal warlock holding Wen Zheng in his hand took a slight breath and rubbed his face like a chill, until his face was hot, and he didn't stop. What is shown in the eyes of the jailer is the most common kind of lively expression of the Dumen officials.

"The following is the secretary office who came to the edict of the old servant of the temple Zhang Laozhong, and the documents issued by the temple are here, and the brothers are also asked to make it convenient. ”

Wei Ye's self-reported door did not cause a slight reaction, only after the doorkeeper checked his documents, he sent a lonely forbidden son to lead him in. It is completely different from the busy and busy of the ant nest in early spring in the ordinary department, nor is it like the deep twilight of the old dogs in the Qingshui Yamen, as soon as you step into the edict prison, it is like stepping into a big tomb, and the forbidden jailers are silent like the ghost puppets in the tomb like the chief of the Taishan Pavilion and the Zhangren of Artemisia.

In this piece of dead and alive qi, the main hall of the Imperial Prison Department is particularly gloomy, and the yin qi is so thick that it is almost visible to the naked eye.

Normal people must have palpitations in their hearts in this kind of place, and the half-hung fairy warlock with a keen sense of spirit must also beware of the slightest hint of gloomy coldness that seems to be absent from the surroundings invading their minds, but there are also people who live in this kind of place like a fish that is about to die in a rutted car and is happy to be in the heavy rain.

According to the Han system, the hook shield order is one of the forbidden internal officials, with a rank of 600 stones, and the affairs of the inner palace and pond are in charge. But it is such an eggless eunuch, and he is not the number one in the palace, so he has taken the way of the old eunuch Zhang Rang, a veritable emperor's godfather, and can also be the ruler of the land and the court and the prison affairs, just like the style of the Jiuqing nobles.

Although this majestic style of being in charge of the prison still carries the word "power", it is also vaguely a bit of the meaning of the factory officials who sat in the East Factory in later generations.

At present, the freshly baked Zhou Factory is sitting in the main hall of the Imperial Prison Department just and peacefully, and the two columns of people in front of him are sitting neatly.

As for the Taichang Temple, although it is claimed to be the irreparable yamen in Jiuqing, it seems to have a set of experiences for the eyes of **** eunuchs. Since the Taishi Order, the reputation is as high as the doctor's sacrificial wine, the Qing is noble and noble like the doctor of the Five Classics, and even the Taizhu Order, Dazai Order, Lingtai Cheng, Dongguanlang, Dr. Taichang Temple, etc., who are known as the civil officials of Confucianism and Qinghua, are almost full. People who don't know still think that Taichang Temple moved collectively, and since then they have changed to work in the Imperial Prison Bureau.

The most amazing thing in this is the ancestral order that belongs to Shaofu, this old man's official rank is also 600 stones, but he is not below the hall everyone, but in order to mix a familiar one in the eunuch party, he is so generously mixed in the pile of Taichang Temple officials who are used under the hall, or Zhou Bin feels that this old man is so shameless It is really insulting to the official, so he called him to the hall to sit at the head.

Who knew that this old man was not ashamed at all, and he was so satisfied that he sat down at the bottom, and even Zhou Bin, who was used to seeing selfish and shameless things in the forbidden, felt that this man was a rare talent.

Since the officials of Taichang Temple, who were born in Taibanshi, don't take their names to heart, Zhou Bin will not carry them around, but just hold his hands and say calmly: "Everyone, the Taiping thief rebelled, and everyone will discuss it, how about it?"

In this world, most of these eggless officials who came out of the forbidden world are big. Although most of the subordinate officials of Taichang Temple do not have much oil and water, how can they not be clear about the background of these internal officials who can go out to make a big difference? Whether it is Taishi Taizhu or the doctor, they all peek at the green jade belt hook and black brocade ribbon on the waist of this dead eunuch, as if they have seen a splendid future in the future.

Of course, even if the dough is thrown away, Qingliu's shelf can't be poured, and the few civil officials in this class who have the courage to embrace the eunuch party immediately started talking in a loud tone, and the sesame mung bean officials of the doctor's rank have no place to insert if they want to respond well.

"Rebellion! Rebellion! In the four hundred years of the country's dynasty, there are those who stand in the mountains, forests and islands to resist the king, and there are those who think that the Son of Heaven is the forerunner, and then they want to advocate chaos in Gyeonggi and covet the artifact, such a fierce person has never heard of it!"

"There must still be a remnant party, and it is necessary to torture and plunder, and find out the remnants of the party and kill them together!"

"Yes, yes, there are many people who believe in evil ways in the capital, and they also need to be strictly investigated and arrested. ”

The adults and gentlemen set the tone, and the subordinate officials below who were dressed in miscellaneous official clothes and whose official rank was less than 100 stones listened with a sad face, and they also lowered their voices when they discussed, and they were very lacking in confidence.

Although these people are said to be officials, they are basically not on the right path to take the inspection and recruitment, they are all officials who have turned into officials, and the bowl of yamen rice that has been eaten from generation to generation is very much a bit of family inheritance. is also because of the inheritance of several generations, all of them are old and poor ghosts who have dealt with the three sects and nine streams in the capital, whether it is "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" or "Jackal in charge", which faction is in power and cannot do without these miscellaneous officials who are in harmony with the family and the wealthy.

Because it is too thoroughly integrated with all aspects, it has reached the realm of "gentlemen are not parties", don't look at these officials and small positions, and they may not be inferior to the party and the eunuchs. These two factions of people, all these years of manipulation of each other's bricks and bricks, are about to smash out their brains, when it comes to the competition, they definitely take killing and maiming each other as the first goal, and they don't think about anything else.

If we start with the well-known team of ten permanent servants who are famous in the history of eunuchs, and end up with the corrupt officials and cool officials who are willing to obey the orders of the eunuchs who are willing to die, this political group called the eunuch party is like a bald old vulture. So sometimes sober as a corporal as a corporal, sometimes as a bastard to the late stage of schizophrenia, the famous Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty is the crown of a vulture on the bald top that pretends to be a peacock.

And these gentlemen who are determined to turn themselves into eunuchs are at best chicken feathers glued to the vulture's bare buttocks with paste, and they still look a little imposing, but when the wind and rain come, it is the difference between topping a ball and not topping a ball.

Holding a faction of pious listeners, listening to the few Confucian officials in the hall who were famous for governing the scriptures pretending to show that their positions were far greater than the actual significance, these half-official and half-official miscellaneous officials glanced at the hall slightly, and whispered a conversation from time to time:

"The Confucian ministers from the west of Taichang Temple and Longxi have also arrived this time, why haven't you seen the people from Yingchuan and Nanyang?"

"Pull it down, Yingchuan and Nanyang are all genuine party members, and they have always been at odds with these wealthy families in the west, that is, the Fufeng Huangfu clan and the Hongnong Yang clan, and those party members have never been regarded as their own people. ”

Speaking of Luoyang Cheng Cao Mengde, who has made great contributions this time, but he was born in the Cao family of Qiaojun, and Cao Jugao has a son, but he can keep the family style of the Hou Cao family in Pingyang. ”

"Cao Teng, the heir of Cao Jugao, is a eunuch, whether he is the descendant of Prime Minister Cao Shen or not. The ancestor is an eunuch, the father is a Confucian minister, the Cao family of the county is like the northwest wealthy family, and the eunuchs do not rely on ......"

"The affairs of the world are either attributed to Yang, that is, to Mo, how can there be a saying that both sides do not rely on both sides? Slate pressed bean sprouts, this lawsuit still has to be fought, you and I are on the emperor's errand anyway, let's take a look. ”

The adults and gentlemen in the hall are like waves, the waves are floating above, and the wind is about to rise, and a group of clerks in the hall are like stones, and the stones are sinking down, silently looking at the sky. Anyway, the officials from Confucianism are naturally easy to discuss, and Zhou Bin is also a dead eunuch who has a pursuit of going to the big mink of the rank of a thousand stones, and he can still tolerate the little fault of these sour sons.

After quietly listening to the impassioned words that had little extra meaning except for expressing his stance and standing in line, Zhou Bin raised his eyelids, glanced around at the people in the hall like looking at the pines and cypresses and green bamboos in the harem garden, and opened his mouth with a delicate tone with a slight femininity:

"Since the promise of the will, the fool is sincerely afraid, and he is afraid that he will mess up the errand, but he is sorry for the king of heaven and earth, and he is sorry for the ancestors and parents, and the fool's experience is like this, and you are probably about the same. I won't say much about the side words. I invite you old gentlemen to come today, that is, to discuss the rules of the case. ”

Speaking of this, this half-old and not young eunuch turned his head away, flipped through the submission handed over by Luoyang Cheng and the Northern Lieutenant Office who first reported the matter on the case in front of him, and then chuckled: "It is said that the five-color stick of the northern lieutenant who killed Uncle Jian is so powerful, but as a result, the rabble who hunted and fought also suffered a big loss, and only caught one alive. ”

This dead eunuch used the topic to play on it, but in the eyes of the people next to the hall, whether it was Huangmen Jian Shuo, who was provoked by Luoyang Chengjia Beiwei, or the old lady of the Cao family, and the old eunuch Cao Teng, who also had some official reputation, was always a dead eunuch. This kind of thing is also like a dog biting a dog, a turtle biting a turtle, and onlookers are just watching, and it is best not to mix. Everyone pinched their noses to praise you stinky feet who had no eggs and gelding, in order to make some progress and development in your career, but not to plan those shady and dirty things in your inner eunuch circle.

Of course, whether they despise or are dissatisfied, the brave people who dare to speak out in front of these arrogant eunuchs are either reasonably and legally sent to Dongyue Taishan Mansion as a subordinate official in a series of two batches of party troubles, or they are directly kicked out of the ranks of eunuchs and kicked back to their hometown to eat old rice and eat themselves. None of the civil officials in the hall were willing to reveal this bit of slander, so they had to show sincere smiles and nod yes.

In the end, it was Taishi Ling, a senior member who was not low in rank and had a good face, and stood up and spoke:

"The tiger is out of the sheng, and the turtle jade is destroyed in the coffin, and this gentleman does not take anything. If we are commanded to do things, we will be faithful and diligent in the king's affairs, and this is the way to be a servant. Although the two thieves of Kong and Ma have been imprisoned, according to the non-commissioned officers of the forbidden army in the West Garden, the horse thieves are proficient in strange arts, and they are not comparable to ordinary gangsters who drill holes over the wall. Therefore, the members of a certain Lingtai office, according to Dong Zi's "Spring and Autumn Dew" and the method of Jingfang Zhan Dian and prayer, opened a stone room in the edict prison for the ambassador to ask about the case. Fortunately, the Son of Heaven Hong Dejiayou, now the stone room has been completed, even if there is no wooden official to draw a prison, he is not afraid of thieves to escape. ”

Zhou Bin nodded slightly, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, revealing a little smile lines, which was regarded as thanking Tai Shiling for his knowledge, and raised his eyes to look around at the officials. was swept away by the damp gaze of this eunuch, and suddenly the hall was silent, and even the sound of hair falling to the ground could almost be heard, only Zhou Bin's voice sounded unhurriedly: "It's hard to think that Taishi Ling has a heart, rank, why don't you go down to the hall together, and accompany Yu to see the stone room?