Zhao Hu returned to the island before nightfall that day. With Gu Wuchen's personal intervention, the Inspectorate sent a policeman to secretly arrest former prison officer Ge Zuxin on his way back home. The policeman was led by Yang Pu himself to prevent the news from leaking.
, did not return to Jiangning City after arresting the person, and borrowed a place with Moling County Magistrate Chen Yuanliang in Moling County for secret interrogation.
Neither Gu Wuchen nor Lin Fu wanted to dig out any big bugs from within the Inspectorate at this time, but if Lin Fu wanted to completely control Jiangdao Prison, how could he use untrustworthy officials?
The officers and jailers of Jiangdao Prison must undergo a major change. This is the consensus reached by Lin Fu and Gu Wuchen.
Yang Pu led people to secretly arrest the former jailer Ge Zuxin; Lin Jingzhong obeyed Lin Fu's instructions and secretly arranged a U-Peng boat at the mouth of Jinchuan River. Zhou Pu personally led two boatmen to guard the boat, and Wu Qi took
Another celebrity, Marco, is lurking around and monitoring the prison island.
After hearing Zhao Hu return to the island and explain these arrangements, Lin Fu still had everything as usual. He also asked Zhao Hu to bring many net bags, fish baskets, harpoons, fish fishing rods and other fishing tools from the city when he returned to the island.
He came with a few baskets of chicken, duck and pork to subsidize and improve the life of the jailers. Zhou Shide, Jiang Jin and others did not feel anything unusual at all. They only felt that although Lin Fu, the new boss, had the intention to control the overall situation, he did not forget to win over them.
Head.
The task of using prisoners to fish in the shallow water of the river went very smoothly. Lin Fu chose a shallow beach on the north beach of the prison island with a water surface of 16 to 17 feet wide, which could not cover a person's thighs. He waded across the river, and the shallow water
Rotten rice is sprinkled on the beach as bait. Even if there is no fishing boat, as long as a person is not afraid of the cold water and stands in the shallow water and fishes with a net, he can catch a lot.
Ten people were selected, but three of them had experience in fishing in the lake. They knew that river fish are particularly stupid in the cold and harsh season of spring, so they took the others into the water to catch fish very wholeheartedly. On the first day, they caught forty or fifty fish, two or more fish.
Three hundred pounds of plump river fish.
Of course, Lin Fu would not provide enough fish to the prisoners. Every twenty prisoners would probably be provided with a foot-long river carp and two meals of fish and vegetable soup. The jailer's food was already slightly better, and he only added a small amount of river carp.
Fish improves the food, and one can gain more than 100 kilograms a day. The fish is exchanged with nearby villagers for vegetables, eggs, pork, rice and noodles, etc.
In the suburbs near the river, fish and meat should be very cheap, but this is not the case. Jiangning Prefecture, Moling County and Jiangning Garrison General Prefecture have changed the law to collect taxes. Not only fishing boats going to rivers and lakes have to pay, but also ordinary people
Even if you find a fishing net or a fishing rod at home, you will have to pay river taxes. Such exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, coupled with the fact that there are 150,000 households in Jiangning City, just outside the riverside, fish and meat will cost more than twice the price of rice to transport into the city.
, even four times or five times the price of rice. After all, in addition to making a profit when entering the city, vendors also have to pay the city tax and city tax.
After Lin Fu landed on the island, he saw the water camp boats under Jiangning's garrison general's mansion patrolling along the river many times a day. They were very dedicated in getting up early and working hard. They were not on guard against river bandits, but mainly to collect river bandits and apprehend those who escaped from the river.
fishing boats and people who steal fish.
Those who evade donations and resist taxes are arrested and the suspects are sent to the city jail. The city jail can use various excuses to exploit the suspects, and is naturally willing to share the wealth with the yamen that sent the suspects. Many people are caught by the yamen for trivial matters, and most of them are afraid
Those who went to prison and were severely tortured and exploited were willing to accept the punishment on the spot and leave. Even the murderers and arsonists could bargain for their escape as long as they had money - trying every possible means to catch the suspects became a job for various yamen.
Jiangning Garrison General's Mansion is originally a garrison office, and it is strictly prohibited to interfere with civil affairs. Not to mention arresting those who resist the law, and collecting river donations is not their business, but how can we not do such a thing? The matters on the ground are left to everyone.
The prefecture and county yamen were completely divided. They had the excuse of river defense. Naturally, they turned the Yangtze River, Chaotiandang, Longzangpu and other major water systems in and around Jiangning Prefecture into their own territory. They even turned the prefecture and county yamen's teams to collect river donations.
They were driven out of these waters. Most of the thousands of water battalion troops were dispersed to do these things and guard the river defense. River defense naturally became a joke, and even the small boats donated by the water revenue were often targeted by river bandits.
Although Jiangdao Dalao can only be regarded as a yamen from the ninth rank, it is still a yamen after all. At least you don't have to pay taxes when fishing on the river. You can bring river fish to the shore to exchange for rice and vegetables with the villagers, and you don't have to worry about the county yamen coming to collect donations.
If you can get an extra hundred or ten kilograms of fish every day, you can almost offset the many shortfalls since Lin Fu established the new rules.
It had only been implemented for three to five days. Changsun Geng, Zhou Shide and others all felt that this new boss was really smart in prison management. They even felt that it was necessary to find more honest and reliable prisoners and put them on the riverside to fish. You must know that there are fifteen people in Jiangning City.
Tens of thousands of households consume a large amount of river fish every day, and they transport the river fish into the city and sell them in the name of the Inspector General, making even more profits.
On the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month, which was also the eighth day Lin Fu went to Prison Island, Yang Pu brought a group of soldiers to the island. He took a document and announced that the deputy inspector Gu Wuchen would go to the island to inspect the island tomorrow. He brought people here to strengthen
Prison Island is armed to prevent accidents.
After the prison city proposal was rejected, Jiangdao Prison seemed to be forgotten. Unless there was a big problem over the years, no senior officials in the Inspectorate Department would still remember it. A few days ago, Xiao Xuanchou was inspected.
Lin Fu was sent to take office. He had been the highest official on the island for two years, but Xiao Xuanchou was too long to stay on the island. In just a few days, the deputy inspector would come to the island for inspection again.
Zhou Shide, Changsun Geng, Jiang Jin, Cao Shang and other low-level civil and military officials all felt flattered and sent Lin Fu to prepare for the reception, without even thinking of going elsewhere.
Lin Fudan welcomed Yang Pu into the courtyard where he lived alone on Prison Island.
"Have the jailers in the prison ever become suspicious?" Yang Pu was not at ease after all. He could not resolve the matter cleanly, which would be detrimental to Gu Wuchen's foothold in Jiangning. Many people in Jiangning city were waiting to see Gu Wuchen's good show.
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"With these few little miscellaneous fish, would they expect that the Deputy Inspector General would personally go out to arrest them?" Lin Fu said with a smile, "Everything is fine, just catch them tomorrow..."
"Well, Jiangdao Prison is full of prisoners who have no money to redeem themselves. Guarding this prison island can be said to be the least profitable job. They are trying to find ways to make money," Yang Pu introduced the interrogation of the past few days.
The situation, "Former prison chief Ge Zuxin was arrested and brought to justice by us, but he couldn't serve the sentence. He took a confession after only three or four days. They indeed colluded to deprive the prisoners of food and threaten lynching to force the less attractive female prisoners who had committed rape to come to the prison."
The brothels in Quyang Town in the east of the city sell their bodies for profit. Three of the women in charge of the female prisons are the madams in the brothels in Quyang Town. There are also cases where the wardens force female prisoners to serve in bed. It is rumored that you are coming to Jiangdao Prison to take over the position of Secretary.
After the prison officer, this activity was suspended, because I was afraid that I wanted to stop..."
"How do they want to stop?" Lin Fu spat, thinking that forcing female prisoners to sell themselves has never happened for thousands of years. He said, "On the first day I came here, they sent two female prisoners to try.
I, thought of dragging me into the water before I was willing to do so."
If a female prisoner is found guilty of committing adultery, she will be sentenced to jail. If the punishment is more severe, she may even be sentenced to official prostitution.
There are many records in the history of jailers forcing female prisoners to become prostitutes. Each of the sixteen counties of the Dai Viet Dynasty had an inspection department and nearly a thousand prisons in each prefecture and county. Jiangdao prison was not the only place where this dirty thing was done. If it were another place, the inspection department would
Even if the department chief knows that there are such evil deeds under his administration, he will probably ignore them. In the eyes of ordinary people, especially in the eyes of moralists, this may not be considered a bad deed at all. The former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Assistant
Chen Xiyan, who believed that Chen Xinbo resigned from office after losing the party struggle to give lectures at Xixi Society, even openly said that female prisoners who committed adultery should work as prostitutes in official brothels to atone for their crimes.
Yang Pu thought that maybe Gu Wuchen and Lin Fu just needed an excuse to clean up the Jiangdao prison. He smiled and said, "To avoid disturbing the situation, let's start here tomorrow."
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Before noon the next day, Gu Wuchen counted the time and almost boarded the boat at Jiuwengqiao Pier. Lin Fu and Yang Pu led more than ten people, including Changsun Geng, Zhou Shide, Jiang Jin, Cao Shang and other squad leaders and soldiers leaders to the south of the island.
The simple pier was waiting for him. A group of soldiers who came with Yang Pu were temporarily stationed in the prison chief's compound, and the prison cells were temporarily closed.
First, four military paddle boats came to drive away the fishing boats and merchant ships in the waterway on the south side of Prison Island, temporarily closing the waterway. Then Gu Wuchen came on an official ship. The official ship was filled with saber-wielding guard soldiers in dark red military uniforms.
Gu Wuchen was wearing a vermilion official robe of the fourth rank, with long legs and a black-crowned headdress. He stood very conspicuously at the bow of the ship. The official ship docked at the pier, and the guards and soldiers disembarked one after another. They stood on the pier in four rows. Chang Sun Geng and others watched.
I always felt that the newly appointed Deputy Inspector Gu Wuchen was very majestic, so I followed Lin Fu to pay homage.
"Under my command, Lin Fu, the prison chief of Jinchuan Island, led the officials to respectfully welcome Mr. Gu for inspection..." Lin Fu bowed and saluted, and asked Gu Wuchen to get off the boat.
"Okay, okay," Gu Wuchen got off the boat and said a few words. He looked at the officials around Lin Fu, standing on the dock, and said loudly, "You have been guarding here for eight or nine years.
After four years of hard work and great achievements, I have drawn up a list here. Those who are on the top of the list please stand to my left..."
Changsun Geng and others were slightly startled, thinking that Gu Wuchen was going to receive a reward, and they were very happy in their hearts. They stood aside respectfully and waited for Gu Wuchen to read the list.
"Book Office Zhou Shide, Wushu Primary School Cao Shang, Jiang Jin, squad leader Du Ziteng, Xiao Hu, Chen Dazhuang, Yang Hei..."
Changsun Geng listened to Gu Wuchen read out the list, and 80% of the jailers, squad leaders, and military leaders were all called and stood aside to receive rewards. Only he and the other two famous squad leaders who only knew how to do things honestly were not called, and he couldn't bear it in his heart.
I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Seeing Zhou Shide and others being so triumphant, I felt even more lazy and discouraged. I just wanted to go back and have a few drinks, letting the world be pure and dark, black and white.
Lin Fu stood aside with his arms folded, looking at the expressions on these people's faces, and thought to himself: The changes in their faces in the next moment will probably be wonderful!
"You all know in your heart that your hard work is great. Do you know what I will reward you?" Gu Wuchen squinted his eyes and looked at the prison officials in front of him. His expression suddenly changed. He pointed at the officials in front of him and ordered in a deep voice, "General
Let me take down all these criminals..."
Zhou Shide and others suddenly didn't know why. The guard soldiers brought by Gu Wuchen tied them up from behind like wolves and tigers. They thought of shouting injustice, but who would care about them? They took cloth dumplings and tied their mouths one by one.
They were stuffed and put aside to await their orders.
Gu Wuchen went to Lin Fu and Yang Pu again and said: "You will lead the people to disarm all the guards and guards on the island, imprison them and investigate them one by one. Never let a single traitor go..."
Changsun Geng was stunned by the great changes on the dock. Even if no one came forward to arrest him, he stood there at a loss.
"Chang Sun Secretary, what are you thinking about?" Lin Fu took off the sword from his waist and held it in his hand. He looked at Chang Sun Geng standing there in a daze and said, "Who among the guards and guards is one of these villains?"
Minions, you know this best, why don’t you follow me in to identify this person?”
"Ah!" Only then did Chang Sun Geng know that the new boss, with the support of the deputy inspector, was going to completely clean up Jiangdao Prison. He and the other two honest and innocent squad leaders were so frightened that they almost lost their minds.
Slowly following Lin Fu, Yang Pu walked towards Dalao. A group of guard soldiers who had come with Gu Wuchen followed them. Changsun Geng looked back again, only to see Zhou Shide and others tied to the dock. Gu Wuchen returned to
on board.
Changsun Geng didn't even know how the deputy inspector confirmed that he and the other two squad leaders were innocent. Seeing the confusion on his face, Lin Fu comforted him and said: "The former prison chief Ge Zuxin had already given Yang a message on his way back home.
Dian Wei led his men to intercept the case and arrest him. Among the officials, who was involved in the case and who was not involved in the case, the Inspectorate has found out clearly in the past few days. However, who among the soldiers and officers was the pawn, Ge Zuxin himself also did not know.
Not quite…”
Zhou Shide, Jiang Jin, Cao Shang and all the squad leaders and military leaders were all taken down in one fell swoop. Lin Fu had many guard soldiers, so the guards and servants inside the high wall naturally did not dare to cause trouble.
He honestly unloaded his weapons and was imprisoned in the C-shaped cell to await investigation. Yang Puxian led a team of security guards to guard Jiangdao Prison.
Even if the servants and many soldiers acted as minions, most of them were coerced. After being identified by Chang Sun Geng and two squad leaders, nearly twenty evil-minded criminals were picked out and put in chains, while the others were just gathered together.
The twenty officers under the two squad leaders were released after a simple inquiry because the leaders were innocent and had not done anything evil to their subordinates. With a feeling of fear and uneasiness, they were escorted by Yang Pu and all the guards.
Dinner was prepared for the prisoners under the supervision of the soldiers.
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