After nightfall, the prison of the Criminal Department became eerily quiet.
In fact, the Criminal Department located above the Jinyi Guards Office of the former Ming Dynasty had two prisons, one was the A prison in the southwest of the Yamen; the other was the B prison in the northwest of the Yamen.
The two institutes are also called the North and South Institutes by outsiders.
The prisoners held in prison A are mainly criminal officials, while the prisoners held in prison B are mainly prisoners sentenced to death.
As the top leader of the former government, the rich thief Lehun, the foreman of the Military and Aircraft Minister, was naturally imprisoned in Station A.
Also imprisoned in Jia Station along with the rich thief were thirteen important officials of the dynasty, including Yin Letu, the Minister of War, Kuini, the Minister of Rites, Fu Ming'an, the Manchu minister of the Ministry of War, Zhong Yin, the imperial minister, and Enming, the minister of the Ministry of Industry.
As a low-level civil servant who was not even a clerk, the jailer had no idea what the crimes of these important ministers were for which they were imprisoned, but the officials of the Ministry of Punishments knew all about it.
Today, half of the officials in the Ministry of Justice have been replaced from top to bottom.
The former official Se Kexi himself submitted a letter to resign. After the emperor agreed, he ordered Jingyan to be the Prime Minister of the Imperial College, and Tong Guanbao, the deputy commander of the Han Army with a white flag, to replace Se Kexi as the chief officer of the Criminal Department.
Guanbao was born in Zhengbaiqi Baoyi of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was a domestic slave of the emperor. This person naturally had a mission when he took over as the Minister of Punishment.
Sure enough, the first thing Guanbao did after taking office was to shake up the Ministry of Justice. He demoted or relocated many officials who had been promoted by Manchu Minister Se Kexi. Almost half of the main people in charge of each department were replaced, and then they were transferred
Three specialized teams were formed by capable personnel.
The first special team was headed by Liu Yong, the right servant of the Ministry of Justice, and had as many as 28 members, but only one rich thief, Lehun, was recruited.
That is to say, we must pry open the mouth of the rich thief Lehun and make him confess how many of his gang members have not been arrested, and what crimes he has committed behind the emperor's back to disgrace the Qing Dynasty.
According to the emperor's instructions, the focus is to find out whether there was a party between the rich thief and the thief Jia Shikai in Sichuan before.
The second special team is headed by Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Justice, and has 36 members. They are responsible for calling in the imperial minister Zhong Yin, the minister of war Fu Ming'an and other key members of the rich thieves who were arrested.
The task is generally the same as that of the first task force, which is to dig deep into the members of the wealthy party who have not yet been exposed, and to get these key members of the wealthy party to confess.
The third special task force is headed by He Longwu, the first-class imperial guard appointed by the emperor, and has 25 members. Like the first working group, only one person, Kuini, the Minister of Rites, is invited.
Because Queenie is currently the first and only one of Jia Shikai's gang members to be arrested in Beijing.
Another key member of the Jia thieves, Shang Yu, fled with money when he was discovered. At present, arrest warrants have been sent to various places, but there is no news of Asiha being arrested.
The members of the special team speculated that Asiha might have fled to the Huguang Jia bandit army, so they suggested that Asiha's wife, children and children should be arrested and they should be searched for relevant clues.
This suggestion was rejected by the working group leader and Longwu because the superiors wanted the investigation of members of the Fu Party and Jia Party to be conducted secretly and should not be expanded or make too much noise.
After all, the current situation in the capital seems to be stable, but in fact it is still not peaceful.
Beneath the calm lake water, there are hidden turbulent waves.
If you really set off a big eucalyptus rashly, it will most likely lead to irremediable consequences.
So far, the three task forces have made mixed progress.
The first task force that Liu Yong was in charge of could be said to have made no progress. The reason was that the rich thief was extremely hard-headed. Even if Liu Yong threatened the lives of his wife and children, the rich thief refused to confess and shamelessly claimed that he was the best in the Qing Dynasty.
A loyal minister or something, Liu Yong was so angry that he wanted to strangle this old traitor alive.
The emperor also requested that the rich thief should not be allowed to die easily, so Liu Yong did not dare to torture him easily in the face of the rich thief. As a result, the interrogation of the rich thief was delayed and no breakthrough was achieved.
In the past few days, Minister Liu was really like an ant on a hot pot.
The second special team responsible for underwriting made some progress, but the harvest was not big. They only dug out some small fish and shrimps, but no big fish were caught.
The third task force headed by He Longwu also made no progress. Even though it tried Queenie three times and tortured him three times, the official of the Ministry of Rites, who was tortured to death, insisted that he had not formed a clique with Prince Rui for personal gain.
What made He Longwu even more angry was that every time the interrogation was over, Queenie would use her last bit of energy to write a big word "injustice" on the ground with her own blood.
It was as if Queenie had really been wronged.
Queenie refused to recruit, and He Longwu also wanted to use this embarrassment to show off in front of the emperor, so after much thought, he prepared to have Mrs. Queenie, who was being held in the North Prison, escorted over.
The intention is for Queenie to witness the humiliation of his wife, thereby causing his dignity as a man to completely collapse. In this way, there may be a chance for a breakthrough.
However, this matter was dissuaded by a third-class guard under his command. The guard secretly told Mr. He that although Queenie's wife was remarried, she was the cousin of Jia Shikai.
But now Jia Shikai, the thief, has not been arrested and still holds a large army. It is not yet known who will win.
So if Mr. and Master do what Jia Thief's cousin did, what if Mr. and Mr. Jia are not overthrown but raise their troops to go north?
All night long, He Longwu was thinking about this issue, but he still couldn't make up his mind, because what the guard said made sense.
The interrogation of Queenie, he and Longwu were under orders, and it was official business.
But if Mrs. Queenie is involved, it won't be as simple as official business.
I was a little upset for a while, so I went outside the office to do some Manchurian stretching exercises, but I accidentally saw a lantern in the distance heading to the office.
There seemed to be a few figures vaguely visible.
Somewhat curious, I waved to the guard on duty and asked who had gone to the A-station just now.
The guard replied that it seemed to be Master Liu Yong.
"It's so late, Mr. Liu is not resting, and is he still busy interrogating the rich thief?"
He Longwu felt a little ashamed and admired Liu Yong's perseverance.
After sighing, I felt the coolness was overwhelming, so I went back to the house.
The person who just passed by carrying a lantern was indeed the servant Liu Yong, but he did not go to the A place alone, there were two others behind him.
If He Longwu had followed him to take a look, he would have been surprised to find that the two people behind Liu Yong were actually the current emperor Qianlong and his favorite minister He Shen.
In the middle of the night, the emperor suddenly came to the Criminal Department and said that he wanted to personally interrogate the rich thief, which made Liu Yong full of doubts.
In the hundred years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, no emperor has ever personally come to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment to interrogate a prisoner!
With doubts, they hurried to the Jia Prison Prison, called the relevant personnel and gave some instructions, and then the three of them went down the stone stairs to the depths of the Penal Department Prison.
Due to the unpleasant smell in the depths of the prison, Liu Yong ordered someone to bring the rich thief here for duty. He didn't want the emperor to say no, so he only took He Shen to the cell where the rich thief was imprisoned, and ordered Liu Yong to stay in the duty room until he was summoned.
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The emperor's behavior made Liu Yong even more confused and even more curious. He wanted to know what the emperor wanted to ask the rich thief.
But I was so far away that I couldn't hear it at all.
After the emperor said a few words to the rich thief outside the prison door, the rich thief suddenly stood up excitedly, grabbed the fence with one hand, pointed at the emperor with the other and roared:
"My, my, what a dog-legged me, what qualifications do you, Chen Jialuo, have to call me! Sooner or later, you, a bitch and a traitor, will be hanged on the city gate by our soldiers and civilians of the Eight Banners!"