If you use drone aerial photography, the Hanyang Prefecture Office in Hanyang City is a very standard Ming Dynasty municipal government office.

The government office faces north and south, located in the northeast of Hanyang City - the north represents the Forbidden City. In order to avoid taboos, the government office will give up its position in the north.

The Hanyang Prefecture Office covers an area of ​​about 100 acres, which is available to most prefecture offices. Its interior is along the central axis and is a building community with the lobby, the second hall and the inner hall as the core.

In addition to the two lobbys that are most familiar to people, the entire government office houses include ear houses, matching rooms, horse numbers, wing rooms, list houses, warehouses, department houses, official houses, back houses, etc., with a total of no less than a thousand houses... In fact, this is a pocket version of the Forbidden City.

With the yamen, there will be prisons. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, prisons must be set up in all prefectures and counties... This is one of the necessary governance facilities for the ruling group.

The choice of prison location is not arbitrarily determined, and the location is generally on the west or southwest of the yamen.

The east is the main source of life, the gate of life, and the gate of the gods are placed on the east side for ordinary people to enter and exit; the gate of death, the gate of ghosts is placed on the west side for death row prisoners to pass through. The southwest belongs to Kun land, which Feng Shui believes is a dirty place. The construction of a prison in this direction is for the full use of things.

Hanyang Prefecture is no exception. The prison is located under the western wall of the mansion and is adjacent to the outer wall.

The street outside the west wall of the government office is called Yaxi Street. It is said that it is a street, but it is actually not wide enough, so it can only barely accommodate two carriages to meet, which is more appropriate to call the alley.

Because they are adjacent to the prison, most people are afraid of getting bad luck, so Yaxi Street is a deserted alley. Apart from fortune tellers and snack stalls, there are only two wreath shops.

Since ancient times, there have been countless private activities within the prison system, most of which are shameful.

In addition, even on weekdays, officials and masters from all walks of life who come and go to the government office are not happy to see bad prisoners and prisoners coming in and out of the yamen.

In summary, the prison system is actually often escorted prisoners in and out, including output/input of prohibited items, and they all go to Xibianmen.

The Xibian Gate is located on the west wall of the government office, and it is an inconspicuous outer door.

This inconspicuous door is the first level that a thief rescue team focuses on.

In previous planning, the plan to enter prison from the front of the yamen was quickly rejected... People coming and going frequently, and multiple access controls were required to break into, and there were too many uncontrollable factors.

And Xibianmen is simple. As long as you break through this gate, you can get in touch with the prison system at the shortest distance while avoiding contact with other systems in the mansion.

Bao Shinan and Xiao Guan were at noon the next day after they "consisted" in the restaurant.

During this period of time, the yamen naturally got off work and rested. However, a few outstanding employees still had to work overtime...such as the prisoners in prison... These are examples of Aiying Aiya and deserve commendation.

The next moment, a small tube wearing a plain robe jumped off the carriage parked on Yaxi Street.

He dusted his clothes and reached out to take out two food boxes from the car. The small tube knocked on the animal-faced iron ring on the Xibian door.

As the sound came, the prison guard on duty soon opened the small window on the door to observe. He bowed and said, "Thank you hard and reported the name." Before the door latch rang, the door quietly opened half of the door and put the small tube in."

As soon as you enter the door, the small tube scans left and right.

What caught my eye was first a simple canopy against the wall, with only two men and a desk inside. The rest was a long tunnel under my feet.

The government and county government offices built in the early days all had some military design requirements.

The existence of this cliff is to provide defense lines for the government office after the city is broken. Therefore, both high walls are made of good blue bricks, with a height of 4.5 meters, and there are rain-proof sliding tiles... This is also stipulated by Zhu Yuanzhang: "The outer walls of prefectures and counties are 1.5 feet high, and are made of green plaster."

The small tube is now between two high walls.

The two prisoners in public uniforms looked stiff after the case. After putting the small tube in the door, they did not say a word, and first carefully searched his whole body, and did not let go of the food box.

After finishing, one of the slimming rats said: "Since you are in charge of your friends, you will have an explanation for your prison guards. Let me do it."

"It's hard to do it." Xiaoguan then lifted the food box, followed the face-slimming prison, and walked south along the wall for another twenty meters.

At this time, the door that really led to the yamen appeared on the left hand of Xiaoguan.

When entering this door, Xiaoguan noticed that unlike the first door opened from the inside, this second door, the face-slimming prison took out the key, which was a lock opened from the outside.

This usage idea is easy to understand: the first door needs to isolate the outside world, so it needs to be opened from the inside. The second door is the work door of your own people in the intervening corridor, and the duty staff needs to be opened at any time.

The little guard secretly wrote down this link.

After passing through the second door on the second wall, another wall appeared in front of Xiaoguan, and another high wall was facing him.

This time, the Guan Guan knew: the prison has arrived.

Sure enough, I walked south more than ten meters along this narrow corridor, turned east, and suddenly realized that the main gate of Hanyang Prefecture Yai has arrived.

After reaching this point, I had a general understanding of the small tubes of the government office terrain map in advance, and I was secretly surprised: from one gate to the gate of the prison, I was walking in the intervening path between the prison and the exterior wall along the way.

The prison building complex invisibly blocked contact between irrelevant personnel.

The tacit design of the prison system is exactly what the rescue team needs.

From the appearance, the legendary mysterious and gloomy prison is actually nothing special. It is a traditional Chinese foyer with an arc-shaped inner eight-character wall.

The entrance door of the hall is closed as usual, with a black plaque on it, with the word "Prison" written on it. There are the same black vertical plaques hanging on both sides, but there is a couplet: "I hope that people will enjoy their careers, but why are they always empty in prison?"

At this point, there was a guard on duty. The little tube behind the face-slimming prisoner looked at the guard carefully: There was an ordinary pawn with the word "ban" on his chest, leaning against a rotten chair and drowsy.

Theoretically, the jailers responsible for the prison system should belong to the large group of the "Zhuangshi" among the three yamen runners.

However, due to its strong professionalism and privacy, the prison system is an independent hill among the yamen runners. The squad leader is called the prison head and ordinary employees are called the prison guards.

This group of people has a special organization in the yamen, and is of equal rank to the head of the strong team who is called "Du Tou".

Usually, the banned soldiers are organized in county government offices with 6-8 people. However, in Hanyang Prefecture, due to its large scale, there are 14 people in total.

After the little guard glanced at the guard, he followed the face-slimming prison and entered the prison through the short side door.

When you pass through the gate, you first find a blue brick screen wall. Bypassing the screen wall, Xiaoguan sees another ordinary courtyard.

On the front of the courtyard is the prison lobby, and on both sides are office rooms and torture rooms... From the outside, there are actually many torture instruments hanging on the walls of the torture room, which look bloody and a gloomy smell comes out.

The one who was waiting for the prison guard in the yard with his hands behind his back and smiling was Bao Shinan Bao's prison.

When he saw Baozhang, the little manager who was mentally prepared was already prepared, hurriedly bowed forward: "Haha, Baozhang is really a believer!"

"Sincere, matters."

The head of Baozhang was particularly polite today. After a few greetings, he waved his face-slimming prison and personally led the small tube into the line.

Along the way, Baozhang also enthusiastically introduced to Xiaoguan: the left and right gates of the main courtyard lead to a courtyard where ordinary prisoners are imprisoned.

The left side door he led the small manager was the only way to go to the death penalty.

After passing through the left side door, Xiaoguan finally saw the legendary prison.

This is a courtyard where ordinary prisoners are imprisoned. Unlike the fence-style cell similar to the Datongpu in film and television dramas, the real prisons in ancient times were actually rooms made of bricks and stones.

When he arrived here, Xiao Guan didn't say much, and followed the prison head step by step through the narrow aisle.

There are a row of ordinary cells on both sides of the aisle. These rooms are made of blue bricks, with narrow windows and low doors.

Looking up, I saw that I was so narrow that I felt like a ray of sky above my head, and there was a rope net between the two eaves... The Nightmare and the director who were flying around in the film and television drama probably didn't expect this to happen.

Walking through the courtyard of ordinary prisoners and facing the narrow aisle are two forbidden rooms, which are housed by the prison guards.

Next to the forbidden room is the destination of Xiao Guan’s trip: Death Crime.

The death row prison is a separate gate. The prison door is carved with a "patterned pen" avatar, which looks like a "tiger head", so it is commonly known as "tiger head prison".

The foyer of Hutou Prison has a door in front and behind, with only two or three meters apart in the middle, just a distance of one room.

The two doors were wide open at this moment, and the small tube swayed and walked into the death cell with the Baozhang Head.

However, when the small tube passed through these two doors, he deliberately observed the position of the door frame. The next moment, he thought to himself: "It turns out to be true!"

These two prison doors are cleverly designed, one is the left and the other is the right. When a prisoner escapes, even if he can open the first door in a hurry, he will often be helpless in front of the second door. This can be seen with the wisdom of the ancients.

The manager didn't know this design in advance. However, before he set off, his "brother" and master Huang Zhong took out a piece of paper from somewhere and told him nine subtle points that need to be observed as much as possible: the joint of the prison door is one of them.

The dead prison courtyard is not as crowded and cramped as the Pulao courtyard outside. After all, the number of death row prisoners is relatively rare.

However, the construction of the dead prison courtyard is the most labor-intensive.

It is also a courtyard structure, with three cells with thick walls and bottom bricks on three sides, each with three walls - the thickness of the wall is 5 feet, and sand is poured inside to prevent prisoners from drilling holes and running away.

There are wells and sinks in the dead cell courtyard. In order to prevent prisoners from committing suicide by jumping into the well, the wells are only half a foot wide, and wheels and buckets are specially made.

As the head of the prison entered the courtyard, a prison came out from the ban rooms on both sides.

Next is the normal visiting process. First, the head of the prisoner was recommended, and then the small manager told the two brothers on duty and handed over the money.

Next, Xiao Guan handed one of the food boxes to the two brothers: "It's cold, eat side dishes to keep the cold."

After these procedures were completed, the banish soldiers got the benefits. Then they took off the keys hanging on the wall of the ban room and opened the door to a cell in the east of the courtyard for the small policeman.

After the thick wooden door opened, as the sunlight shone into the prison, the first thing the small tube saw was a thick fence - this fence was also locked.

Through the fence, Xiaotuan finally saw two people lying on the rotten grass in the corner of the prison.

The next moment, Xiao Guan shouted loudly: "Brother Tian, ​​Deputy Master Tian, ​​please come to see you!"
Chapter completed!