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In addition to the state government office and the back house Furong Garden, the state prison is probably the largest building in the city. It is a very large courtyard surrounded by a high wall of eight feet.
In addition to being extremely tall, the outer wall of the state prison was covered with sharp clam shells and ceramic shards in the middle and upper parts to prevent climbing. It was also built to be six feet thick, and the middle of the two rammed earth walls was filled with river sand.
Even if a prisoner wanted to dig his way out and opened a hole in the rammed earth wall on one side, the river sand inside would roll out of the wall hole, making it difficult for the prisoner to escape.
In addition, there are towering prison pavilions built at the four corners of the state prison. Jailers guard the pavilions day and night, allowing them to overlook the situation inside and outside the prison.
In addition to a cave in the northwest corner that is usually closed for dragging corpses, the state prison has only one entrance and exit in the southwest corner. When you walk in from the gate, you will find the prison hall where the warden and jailers usually work and are stationed. Then inside are the outer prison, female prison and
Internal prison where serious criminals are detained.
There are only 60 cells in the state prison, and they are extremely narrow. Each cell is only three steps square, which is equivalent to holding an average of nearly 20 prisoners in each cell.
Fortunately, the weather in Xuzhou is quite cool after summer, and hot weather is rare. Otherwise, the terrain is like a furnace like Jinling. After summer, many people in this prison cell will be suffocated and heated to death.
It was close to noon, and the last night patrol of the day had been completed. Most of the jailers and clerks on duty had returned to the prison barracks in the front yard to rest. There were only a dozen jailers responsible for keeping vigil. No one expected that the new governor would take office.
On the first night of his life, he broke into the prison hall.
Seeing Fan Xicheng holding up the bronze seal of Han Daoxun as governor and the warden Zhang Xiaochuan who was being dragged to the prison gate by Zhao Kuo and others, the prison guard who was guarding the prison pavilion at the front door even asked someone to put down a small basket and ask for it.
Fan Xicheng put the bronze seal of the governor in and gave it to him for inspection.
After Han Qian signaled, Gao Shao and Zhao Wuji had already shot at the same time, and both arrows penetrated directly through the neck of the prison head. The prison head grunted, and he fell straight back, and then there was a sound
A dull sound of falling to the ground.
Lin Zongjing led a group of men and horses, quickly climbed up to the prison pavilion with a rope hook, took the swords and crossbows from the hands of the three prison guards who were guarding the high pavilion but turned pale with fear, and quickly opened the door from the inside.
Zhang Xiaochuan and Liu Bin turned pale when they saw the soldiers brought into Xuzhou by the governor, acting so decisively and ruthlessly.
The door in front of the prison hall was opened, and the clerk on duty and other jailer leaders who had fallen asleep ran out of the barracks. They didn't know what was going on. They only saw a group of people wearing official uniforms, surrounded by a group of tough soldiers.
Breaking into the main area of the prison hall, Liu Genzhu, the cell leader on duty, had died on the spot, with two arrows stuck in his neck, and blood was still seeping out.
"I am the new governor Han Daoxun," Han Daoxun took the seal from Fan Xicheng, raised it high under the rosin torch, and said sternly, "The jailers on duty tonight have all removed their armor and are waiting for review. Others are waiting. If they do not listen to the call, they will not be allowed to do so."
Anyone who dares to resist after leaving the barracks will be killed without hesitation! Whose name is the clerk on duty? Go quickly and bring all the jailers and prisoner lists to the public hall!"
Han Daoxun once served as a promotion officer in Chuzhou. Fan Xicheng and two other family soldiers had followed Han Daoxun since then and were quite familiar with the structure of the prison at that time.
Without Han Daoxun's deliberate instructions, Fan Xicheng led a group of people to check the closure of the passage from the prison hall to the prison cell. Guo Nuer, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng and others each led a group of people to replace all the guards on duty in the four-corner prison pavilion.
, temporarily keeping an eye on the movements inside and outside the state prison.
Zhao Kuo and Zhao Wuji led ten people to guard the public hall.
Han Daoxun silently looked through the directory and account books in the prison hall. There was silence in the prison hall.
Xue Ruogu plucked up the courage to ask: "Master Governor, is there news confirming that there have been changes in the state prison?"
"Thirty-six new prisoners have been detained in the past three days. Is it possible that Xuzhou is really the hometown of bandits? There are also several new prisons in the state prison, and there are only sixty jailers. Last night, six new prisoners were arrested on the grounds of the loss of soldiers and armor.
Ten iron spears, sixty simple knives, sixty iron shields, sixty pairs of armor. Whose idea was it? Could it be that all the soldiers in the state prison have to change their armor?" Han Daoxun ignored Xue Ruogu's words.
When asking questions, he stared at the jailer Zhang Xiaochuan.
Seeing this movement, everyone was anxiously speculating whether the new governor had gotten inside information and knew that there had been changes in the state prison. Only when Han Daoxun clearly laid out the doubts in the prison department's directory and accounts did everyone realize the existence of the state prison.
What is happening is not a simple problem, but a riot involving internal and external collusion that is about to break out.
Xue Ruogu and others looked pale. They were not stupid. As soon as the new governor arrived in Qianyang City, there were people in the state prison colluding with others inside and outside to conspire to riot. Everyone could imagine that there must be extremely key people involved to create such a situation.
In addition, the four fierce soldiers behind Zhang Xiaochuan and Liu Bin almost held their swords directly to their necks.
At this time, the people guarding outside the state prison dragged in the dead bodies of two jailers: "These two people tried to escape by jumping over the wall."
Staring at the two limp corpses that were not yet hard, Han Qian smiled coldly and piled them into the corner of the yard along with the cell leader who was shot to death first.
As long as the riots in the state prison were not launched and caught off guard, the situation would be easy to control. After all, the warden Zhang Xiaochuan was already under their control at the first opportunity and could no longer deceive people.
And even though there are cronies planted by the four surnames among the jailers, their prestige is not enough to seduce other jailers and cell leaders to rebel against the new governor. But if the information reaches the state camp, the problem may be much more serious than imagined.
When Da Chu was founded, in order to compromise with the Shanyue surname in exchange for the surrender of Xuchen and other states, almost all key positions such as military service and military service fell into the hands of the powerful surnames. As a result, the state camp had 400 to 500 soldiers and horses, mainly with the four surnames.
Most of them are descendants of Shanyue.
If they haven't controlled the situation in the state prison and the news leaks out, and the four surnames jump over the wall and encourage the state camp troops to riot, the situation will become a mess again. The best result then is for them to break out of the encirclement and retreat to Chenzhou
Or Langzhou, request reinforcements.
At that time, no matter whether Jinling is pacified or suppressed, his father will not have a foothold in Xuzhou.
If he wants to pacify him, his father will definitely be transferred away, and he will even be reprimanded and held accountable to appease the four surnames. If he wants to pacify him, another general will be sent to take charge of the situation, and his father will have no choice but to stand aside.
In order to prevent this situation from happening, Han Qian only followed Han Qian into the prison hall with forty men, and more than forty other men continued to disperse and lurk outside the state prison, completely sealing off the state prison.
It could also be that there was a change in the number of people on duty in the prison booth, and the prisoners were asked to see the flaws through the gate, and at this time there was agitation in the prison cell.
Although the gates are all made of iron, the prison cells are made of rammed earth, and the gates are not strong; what's more, these gates have been tampered with for a long time.
After removing the soldiers on duty that night and locking Zhang Xiaochuan and Liu Bin into a barracks, Han Qian and his father boarded a prison pavilion and saw two to three hundred prisoners in the prison yard inside.
They rushed out and crowded into the small courtyard, making noise and looking for tools for climbing. Some even dug into the courtyard wall with their bare hands.
"Nine hundred thugs rioted. Think about it, how many chances do you and your family have to escape?" Han Daoxun stared at Xue Ruogu and others and asked.
The corner of Xue Ruogu's mouth twitched. It was not difficult to imagine what a disaster it would be for the nine hundred prisoners to successfully riot and obtain a large amount of weapons directly from the prison hall.
"What should I do? Please ask your Majesty for instructions." Xue Ruogu is not stupid. No matter what, the only way to change the situation is to control the state prison side as quickly as possible.
"You lead the jailers who are aware of it to climb the prison wall to prevent the prisoners from climbing the wall and escaping." Han Daoxun knew that although Xue Ruogu was a civil servant, he had some courage to go to the state border to meet him alone, so he asked him to lead those who went into the night.
Afterwards, they returned to the barracks to rest. The relatively reliable guards climbed up the prison wall to prevent the prisoners from climbing out of the wall.
Although they can barely suppress the prisoners, they cannot concentrate all their hands to suppress the restless prisoners in the state prison. They must leave some of their hands and stare in the direction of the state camp. In that case, even the remaining jailers are not completely
It's reliable, but can only be used risk-taking.
"Li Tang, Qin Wen, two brothers, the time is critical, please help me to help you." Seeing that Han Daoxun trusted him, Xue Ruogu did not treat him as a suspicious person and took precautions. He also invited him out without hesitation and decided that there was no problem.
The two men, who were very courageous in their actions, helped each other and led the jailers to climb the wall to defend.
"I am the new governor Han Daoxun. Anyone who retreats into the prison cell at this time will not be held accountable!" Han Daoxun watched Xue Ruogu and the other three leading more than 40 frightened jailers climb the prison wall and shouted sternly at the noisy prisoners in the prison yard.
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"I'm afraid it won't work without blood." Han Qian lowered his voice and told his father.
Han Daoxun, who has been a promotion official for a long time, knew that the clamor had begun and it would not be easy to suppress it. Seeing that Zhao Kuo, Yang Qin, Tian Cheng and others had gathered thirty warriors in heavy armor and holding heavy shields in the courtyard,
No matter how much he couldn't bear it, he knew that if he didn't want the situation to get out of control, he had to drive these noisy prisoners back to the prison cells in the shortest possible time.
"Open the prison!" Han Daoxun's thin face became more and more serious. He hesitated for a while, and finally signaled Fan Xicheng to open the second door from the prison hall into the prison. Zhao Kuo, Yang Qin, and Tian Cheng led nearly ten people.
A heavily armored soldier rushed in to suppress the noisy prisoners.
