There are only sixty prison rooms, which were converted from the original Yongchang County Yamen Prison.
The prison room is narrow and crowded, with a roof height of only 1.5 meters. When prisoners go to prison, they have to bend over, just like beasts wrapped in cages, and they will never stand up.
The aisle was only two meters wide and three meters high. The rats and cockroaches on the ground ran around. Zhang Wu looked at the low prison rooms around him, and a feeling of oppression and suffocation came to his face.
"Uncle Sun, it's been a few days. Why don't we have a new prisoner in this huge prison?"
Zhang Wu asked in confusion:
"Whether under that man's governance, Yongchang City has really flourished to the point where there is no way to pick up the road and no doors to be closed at night, and no people have violated the law for so many days?"
Sun Lao said, stepping the rat on the ground into blood mud:
"Your Majesty has just ascended the great treasure. The world was pardoned last month. The people are happy and the yamen will be together with Guangchen. Someone has to be arrested after a while, so as not to ruin the atmosphere of the whole world's celebration. It is normal for there to be no criminals in the prison.
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"So that's how it is."
Zhang Wu nodded repeatedly and pretended to be surprised.
However, the voice of the jailman patrolling the same patrol behind him made him pause.
"Actually, before His Majesty's general amnesty, there were no prisoners in the prison."
He spoke as an old jailer who was left in the Yongchang County Yamen era. He was limping on one leg and walking. Everyone was used to calling him a second child. He was the second child in his family and was a native of Yongchang County.
After hearing from the head of Sun Lao, their old prisoners were all recruited to be civilians.
Guai Er got the news in advance and broke his leg before he escaped.
After being renovated into a prison, the second kidnapping is actually more suitable to be a prisoner, and his seniority is more familiar with the affairs in the prison.
It’s just that the superiors are decent in hiring people, the cripple cannot take action, and they have a bad record of escaping labor, so the position of prison chief falls on Lao Sun.
Now that Yongchang State was first established, many positions were vacant. There was no prison in this prison or the chief officer in the prison. Lao Sun was the biggest official.
Zhang Wu asked in a daze:
"Uncle Guai, it shouldn't be. Before His Majesty's pardon, I saw the constable arresting prisoners on the road. How could our prison be empty?"
"If you take the time, you'll see it clearly."
Guai Er was unwilling to say more, and when he was tired of walking, he simply sat on the threshold of the prison room to rest.
Zhang Wu curled his lips, but had no choice but to look at Lao Sun and went to the prison.
Until he walked away, Sun Zhuotao said in a low voice:
"No need to go see it. As long as the prisoner has a healthy limb, he will not be able to go to prison."
"Had been taken to be a civilian?"
Zhang Wu pretended to be shocked.
Lao Sun nodded and said:
"There were still many prisoners when the prison was not remodeled, but most of them would be released from prison within seven days."
"The yamen does not ask whether it is right or wrong, or whether it is a minor or serious crime, and all prisoners are sentenced to labor service, and they are taken to the front line to be civilians, build city walls, and carry baggage."
"This time, there will be no life if you die."
Lao Sun sighed, his face full of sadness.
Go to the front line, that is to fight.
Even if you don’t start a war, you just have to face the battle and don’t have to suffer any disasters. You have to do whatever you want, no matter whether it’s cloudy or rainy, no matter whether it’s windy or sunny, or if you’re slower, you will be whipped. You will definitely be as thin as a hair if you don’t have three months.
It will not be until you die of exhaustion on the construction site that the supervisor will bury you on the spot.
Not to mention the tombstone, there is not even a corpse-woven straw mat.
In ancient times, labor shortages, so-called prosperous times, and military achievements for thousands of years were all based on the skeletons of the people.
Old Sun sighed and said:
"At that time, a group of people were saved in the prison, so the servants would escort them together on the road. The prisoners could still spend a few days in prison."
"Now His Majesty wants to build the palace and the imperial city, and he urgently needs manpower and is unwilling to give money, so the constables have to arrest people everywhere."
"You arrested me in the morning and I will be charged on the spot. If you go down, you will have to go to repair the city."
"this……"
At this moment, even though Zhang Wu was knowledgeable and used to darkness, his heart was still turbulent.
When Emperor Longqing was reigned, he was extremely corrupt from top to bottom, and the Tianzhuo was even more severely affected. The prisoners were ruthless in their money.
But compared with the people under Liu Qing's rule, those people are happy.
At least they still have a way out. Many of the people who are in jail are really guilty. As long as they don’t offend the prison guards and know how to handle things, their lives are very leisurely and they just lose their freedom.
Even if you have no money, you still have coarse bran to eat, so you don’t have to suffer too much.
Now, when it comes to Yongchang Country, prisoners even hope to be imprisoned.
After patrolling the prison for a few rounds, Lao Sun was in a low mood all the way, and he kept sighing, and Zhang Wu was the same, with great suffering and deep hatred to avoid clues.
It was not until noon that the two left the prison and came to the yard. The warm sunshine shone on their bodies and their mood calmed down.
The five prisoners, except for Zhang Wu and Lao Sun, one is a cripple man, one is born to be hunched and unable to straighten his back, and one is also a weak tuberculosis.
Zhang Wu wondered if he should break his leg as well...
But you always need to have an opportunity to do things so that it will not easily arouse people's suspicion.
It is not common sense that you have no servants to catch you and suddenly break your legs.
There are no prisoners in the prison, and naturally there are no cooks. Cooking for everyone will naturally become a new prisoner's job.
Mix the millet (millet) with thick bran, wash it, add some water, and steam it on a large pot over high heat.
Pick some vegetable leaves, add a handful of rice, boil it in water, and sprinkle some black salt, which will be considered soup porridge.
Eating white rice, pure millet, and stir-frying two dishes is a dream.
The four words "people don't live in life" are the most appropriate words to describe the people under Liu Qing's rule.
While eating a hard meal, Zhang Wu suddenly missed Emperor Longqing a little.
Don’t talk about the great principles of family, country and world. At least when I was in charge, we could eat white rice and have a few dishes every day, so that we could live a happy life.
Although we have lived forever and have awesome force, we cannot transcend the secular world. Eating, drinking, living, and transportation will always be affected by the overall environment.
Liu Qing's approach was to make the originally rich place in the south look like a ghost. Even if Zhang Wu had no grudge against him, he would have to beat his grandson hard.
Not for the people of the world, but for the better life of yourself.
"People are most afraid of being worse than bad."
He sighed in his heart, Zhang Wu cleaned the rice from the bowl, and consciously finished the last one, fed water from the well, and started washing the dishes.
He thought about finding a deep mountain forest to hide without being hindered by the world.
But humans are social animals and need to socialize.
If you don’t speak for decades, you will become mute and lose your language ability.
If you haven't seen anyone for decades, you will ignore your appearance and appearance.
For convenience, I don’t wear clothes, don’t shave my beard, don’t cut my hair, and become a savage.
He will lose his ability to think, his intelligence will decline, and he will become an idiot.
There are no grudges and hatreds in life, and no stumbling with others. Only the battle like the law of the jungle is left, and the word wisdom will leave you.
If it is an ordinary person, it would be fine if decades passed like this.
But you have endless life spans, and Zhang Wu cannot accept the depravity of his own will.
It is human nature to go to a higher level, pursue a good life, and pursue wisdom.
He can't change it, and he doesn't want to change it either.