Chapter 106: Prison
Chai Deyou was very miserable because Han Sanniang used a bone-clearing knife: "Shameless old thief, you hurt my husband, and you make a living by killing pigs. Today you landed in my hand and let you taste the taste of this bone-clearing knife."
Chai Deyou was shocked: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, help me, the official is guilty, your Highness, help me!"
The female turtledo Han Sanniang wanted to cut him alive. Looking at the frightened Chai Deyou, Zhu Cixuan had to wave his hand: "Han Sanniang, killing him is not busy at this time. Chai Deyou, when you were an official in Luanping County, did you do anything that hurt the world?"
Only a fool would admit this kind of thing. Chai Deyou shook his hands and knelt on his knees and retreated step by step: "No, no. The woman's husband is also a misunderstanding. The lower-ranking official wanted to collect taxes for the court, but this was too anxious, so he caused a life. His Highness, the crown prince clearly explained that the lower-ranking official was sincere to the court. Help your life, your Highness..."
Chai Deyou was scared out of his courage. He kept retreating and ran into Yuan Xiaoxiao and others behind him. Yan Yishuang and Xiang Liu pushed him: "You can't come forward and die soon!"
Zhu Cilang said coldly: "If I remember well, Han Sanniang's husband Wang Dachun died in the seventh year of Chongzhen."
Han Sanniang bowed and said, "That's right, that year, this old thief was plundering people's wealth and ointment during his tenure. My husband only owed eighty dollars a rent. The old thief ordered his yamen runners to beat my honest husband for three days and three nights. My husband could not bear it and begged hard. As a result, the old thief stabbed my husband to death with a red-burned iron rod."
How cruel was Chai Deyou? When he killed Wang Dachun, he used all the torture and inserted a burning iron rod into Wang Dachun's stomach. Amidst the white smoke and the burning smell, Wang Dachun was tortured to death.
Otherwise, Han Sanniang hated him to the core, for countless days and nights, she wished she could eat her flesh and drink her blood. Speaking of this, Han Sanniang gritted her teeth and her hand holding the knife was slightly shaking because of her anger.
Zhu Cixuan was furious and took out another file: "You dog official, I checked the files of the Ministry of Revenue. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the court did not impose taxes on Luanping County. How did you collect taxes? How much did you collect?"
In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Luanping had a severe drought. The people could not stand it. Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to exempt Luanping from tax exemption for two years and prohibit the government from collecting taxes in any name. However, Chai Deyou couldn't help but disobey the imperial edict, and continued to plunder and make money even more violently. He even sent people who wanted to go to Beijing to make an imperial examination and intercept them halfway.
But the matter finally broke into the capital. But for some reason, the case did not reach Chongzhen's imperial guards in the end. I thought someone had suppressed it.
Chai Deyou was so scared that he trembled all over. It was over. Now he was the stolen stolen person and was captured. It was not an exaggeration to rely on his resistance to the order and to plunder and make money.
At this time, Chai Deyou didn't want to ask Zhu Cilang for help. Instead, he hoped Han Sanniang and hoped that Han Sanniang would give him a happy ending, because the various tortures in the Jinyiwei prison were worse than death.
"You don't want to say that Luo Yangxing has several punishments in the imperial prison."
Luo Yangxing next to him hurriedly bowed: "If you go back to your highness, there will be thousands of punishments in the imperial prison. Among them, more than 200 are unique to imperial prisons. The officials thought that Lord Chai could bear at least seventy or eighty."
Seventy or eighty, each of which would make Chai Deyou regret living in this world. But what Luo Yangxing said was so ordinary, a scent of fishy smell came, and Chai Deyou was so scared that he peed his pants.
Yuan Xiaoxiao and others behind him frowned and took a few steps back. Zhu Cilang pinched his nose and said angrily: "Sent to the imperial prison, Han Sanniang will be executed. Remember, the person behind him who dug out will be severely punished once it is verified."
"No, no, no, the officials will not go to the imperial prison, nor will they go to the imperial prison. Please, kill me, kill me!"
Chai Deyou, the head of the Ministry of Personnel, was eventually thrown into the Zhao Prison. In the Zhao Prison, the Jinyiwei personally taught Han Sanniang how to use various torture instruments. These torture instruments that make people feel numb and terrifying were really terrifying.
After the imperial prison in the imperial prison of the vassal department tried the prison, it was submitted directly to the emperor. The three courts could not interfere.
How terrifying is the imperial prison? When all the civil and military officials heard it, they naturally felt a chill in their hearts.
Unlike the prisons that are usually built on the ground, the prison is a place where the sun cannot be seen. It is a semi-underground prison, dark and damp, with a cool feeling. Walking down from the door open on the ground, walking through a long stairs, you will see the real prison.
There are no windows on all sides of the prison and the walls are very thick. After separating all external sounds and lights, there are only a slight candlelight and constant screams. Each sound passes through your bones. You feel terrified, but people outside cannot hear any sound.
Torture and torture are the themes of the imperial prison. The most famous of the eighteen sets of torture instruments here are few people who can withstand the punishment of five sets of torture instruments.
The person who was persecuted to death in the imperial prison was dragged out from the back door of the prison when his body was rotten and unrecognizable, and threw it outside the wall. The whole street was filled with a stinking smell.
All the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did for them was just to strengthen the imperial power control. These officials were afraid of this and changed their fear.
Chai Deyou died, and his heart was dug out by Han Sanniang and paid tribute to her deceased husband. Before his death, Chai Deyou brought everything.
Luo Yangxing confessed to Emperor Chongzhen by Chai Deyou, but Zhu Cilang did not interfere anymore because he knew that his father would handle all this well.
Chongzhen was indeed furious because the name of Xue Guoguan, the Minister of Personnel, was written on the list of Chai Deyou confessed.
Who was Xue Guoguan, the first assistant to the Ming Dynasty. In the 47th year of Wanli, he was appointed as the chief official of Laizhou Prefecture. In the fourth year of Tianqi, he was promoted to the Ministry of Revenue. Several of them were Jianbai. After Chongzhen ascended the throne, Xue Guoguan was ordered to inspect the northern border and strictly investigate the deduction of military salaries by generals and officials. Later, because he had previously attached Wei Zhongxian, he was impeached by Nanjing Censor Yuan Yaoran and dismissed from his post and returned to his post.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen, he served as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, and entered the cabinet to assist in the government. Later, he was promoted to the Minister of Rites, and was appointed as the Prince Taibao, the Minister of Revenue, and entered the Wenyuan Pavilion. He was also appointed as the Shaobao, the Minister of Personnel, and entered the Wuying Palace. In June of the 13th year of Chongzhen, he was impeached and dismissed for accepting bribes and was finally sentenced to death.
Xue Guoguan, the minister who entered the cabinet to assist in government administration, was actually involved in Chai Deyou's case. This made Emperor Chongzhen very angry because Chai Deyou's confession had evidence of bribery to Xue Guoguan.
Chapter completed!