The damp and dark Prison Department Prison was filled with a disgusting rancid smell.
A seventh-rank official from the Prosecution Department of the Ministry of Punishments covered his nose with a handkerchief and sat in the interrogation room at the end of the prison corridor, with his feet on the table and a look of disgust on his face.
"This way..." There was a burst of noise from outside, and the guards with knives were lifting out of the prison one after another, either a big man with a ferocious face and a careless face, or a trembling coward.
, lining up in the long and narrow passage of the prison.
"Name!" The seventh-grade officer closed his eyes and asked the prisoner in front of him who was pale and unsteady when he walked. Next to him, several guards with knives stared at him eagerly, and there were also documents writing records quickly.
"Wu Yifan!" the prisoner trembled.
"What crime did you commit?" Xiao Guan'er continued to ask.
"Lie to the traitor girl... several people!" The prisoner's voice was so low that it was inaudible.
"Huh?" When the young official heard about this case, he immediately became energetic. He put down his feet and picked up the file on the table to look at it. He grinned, "Ha!" Then he looked at the prisoner's handsome face and said, "You white-faced scholar."
You look so polite, do you like this tone?"
The prisoner lowered his head in shame, and a guard next to him laughed and said, "You don't know something. It is said that a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a steal, and a steal is not as good as a strong one. This death row prisoner likes to be strong, and it is boring to say that he is too submissive!"
"Ha!" The young official grinned again, "What the hell is it like? If the girl doesn't want to, I can't even take off her socks. This pretty boy is quite capable!" As he said that, he flipped through the file.
"Hey, how many people are involved? Hey, it's a serious crime to be executed!"
"Sir, spare my life!" The death row prisoner knelt down and kowtowed, "The villain wishes for it, but the villain has not..."
"Shut up!" the young official scolded in disgust, looked at the face of the death row prisoner, and suddenly smiled and said to the officer next to him, "This is a good trick, you will suffer a lot in prison, right?"
"You also know that people like this are the most despised in prison!" The officer laughed softly, "I heard that he was in prison and was forced to use guns all day long. Hehe, he had to stand one meter away from the wall.
You have to spray it on the wall every time, otherwise you will be beaten." He said and smiled again, "He was quite handsome when he first came here, but now he has lost his dignity!"
"Do you want to give you a way to survive?" the young official said with a smile.
"Yes, yes!" The death row prisoner kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic.
"Well, this counts as one!" The officer pointed at the prisoners on death row and said, "Write it down and send it to Luzon in three days!"
The clerk nodded and quickly wrote down the death row prisoner's place of origin, name, crime, age, etc. on the paper.
Then the death row prisoner was pulled down, and another person came over.
"Name!"
"Mei Bianzhi!" This death row prisoner was tall and strong, with a fearless face.
"This is a strange name!" The young official crossed his legs again, "Who are you from?"
"People from Liuyang!"
"What was committed?"
"Kill!" Mei Bianzhi grinned, "Kill three officials!"
"Huh?" The young official put his feet down immediately and looked at the death row prisoner carefully, "Why did you kill the official?"
"It wasn't an official job. My father had a dispute with the village chief. The village chief brought a few helpers from the village to my house and pushed my father to the ground and beat him. I was so angry as a son that I took a hatchet and chopped him at night.
Three people's bullies!" Mei Bianzhi said nonchalantly, "After he committed the murder, he knew he was guilty of death, so he went to the Yamen to surrender!"
"Confused!" The little official picked up the file and looked at it.
Obviously, the local officials and governors had their own reasons, so they were lenient.
"Don't you know if something happened, you didn't know to report it to the official? You felt happy because of your impulsiveness, but it ruined your life!" Xiao Guan'er shook his head and said, "Do you regret it now?"
"Report to the official?" Mei Bianzhi said with a disdainful smile, "What's the use of that? Not to mention whether the government will accept it or not, even if it is accepted, it will be a few words without pain, but in the end it will make you even more angry. I will not stop doing it, and I will go out first.
Let’s stop talking about this!” After saying that, he sneered again, “Hey, it can be regarded as a reminder to those village chiefs and gangsters, and they will not dare to bully the people at will in the future! Otherwise, I will not be the first, nor will I be the last.
!”
"Young and energetic!" The young official shook his head again, "You sit there and talk to me!"
Mei Bianzhi arched her hands and sat down on the stool to wait for the next step.
"You are a prisoner who will be executed. Although you escaped the death penalty, you probably won't be able to get out in this life!" The young official opened his mouth and said, "Now that I will give you a way to survive, are you willing to go?"
"Wouldn't it be stupid not to have a way out?" Mei Benji said with a smile.
"Okay, take note, this is another one!" The official waved his hand and ordered the clerk, "This person's personality is like fire, martial and aggressive, and he can be used as a strong soldier in the army!" After thinking about it, he added, "He has a good heart.
People who are kind and righteous are not just people who live by themselves!"
After saying that, he looked at the prisoner on death row and told the officer, "Give him a few mouthfuls of fine food these days. This good man has been wronged!"
His words can directly affect this man's future in Luzon. Prisoners who were also sent there, like the pretty boy, are only worthy of being a coolie, but this man can be half a soldier and half a civilian, and can marry as he pleases.
Buying a house and land will increase your status.
"Yes!" The clerk recorded it and said.
"I will never thank you for your kindness. I wish this gentleman to have many children and grandchildren, and a prosperous official career!" said the condemned prisoner, cupping his hands.
The young official smiled, waved his hand again and replaced him with a human prisoner with a deer head and rat eyes.
"Name!"
"Zhang San!"
"What was committed?"
"Child trafficking!"
"Huh?" The little official opened the file in his hand and looked at it for a few times, his face turned ugly, "Where is this local official? He is simply a fool. What else do human traffickers do? The Ming Dynasty rules child abductors.
They will all be executed without delay, why are they sent to the capital for what?"
"Sir? The villain is wronged..."
"Shut up!" the little official scolded, "Everyone who comes in here says they were wronged, and they still don't repent when they are about to die!"
As he said this, he waved his hands in disgust, "Pull it down and send it back to your place of origin for execution according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty. No delay!"
"Sir, this villain is wronged..."
The trafficker on death row was dragged away amidst screams. The officer next to him came to the side of the criminal officer and said with a smile, "Sir, after all, the superiors said they would investigate and send him to Luzon. It would be better to kill him."
Send him over to work as a coolie..."
"The prisoners sent to Luzon must at least be human beings!" The officer said with an unkind expression, "Human traffickers like these who abduct children are naturally heartless. Why should something that is not a human being be left in the world? Send it to Luzon?"
Bah, it’s easier for them!” He said, waving his hands and saying, “Next one!”
"Name!"
"Guo Daye!"
"What was committed?"
"Salt dealer!"
"What did you do?"
"The family was so poor that they couldn't take the blame, so they kicked a knife to block the road and rob them!"
"What did you do?"
"Grave robbery!"
"What did you do?"
"Carrying taxes, beating officials, and burning down official offices!"
Just like that, the junior official from the Ministry of Punishment asked questions one by one, distinguishing those prisoners who had committed serious crimes and those who were violent and violent from those who committed ordinary crimes, and divided them into two books to record them one by one.
After these people arrived in Luzon, they were used by the local garrison households according to the roster and files as appropriate.
After a busy morning, the young official also had pain in his back and legs, so he rubbed his wrists and stood up.
The officer next to him laughed again, "Good guy, these scumbags from our Ming Dynasty are all sent to Luzon, so the local people will be in trouble!"
"You can't control this remote place even if you send a bunch of scholars there!" The young official smiled, "Besides, Cao Guogong told me that the more vicious the better."
This chapter has been completed!