The gray-white high court in the south of Kyoto is extremely quiet in the night.
This is where the Ziyi Supervisory Office is located, and it is also the most feared place in Kyoto.
After the rebellion of the Shence Army was put down, a big storm broke out in Kyoto, and countless officials were involved. The Ministry of Punishment once went on a killing spree against officials in the DPRK. Every official in the DPRK was frightened, fearing that a catastrophe was about to happen.
Except for the Ministry of Justice making trouble in Kyoto, all other yamen are keeping a low profile. Unless there are necessary contacts on official business, the yamen try to minimize interactions with each other. Even officials from the same yamen avoid each other.
Stay far away and do not interact with colleagues.
The gang of villains in the Criminal Department are ruthless and can be accused of several crimes even if they are innocent.
There is no contact with the Ministry of Punishment's thorough investigation of the rebel party. Any convicted official can draw many accomplices from him. Even if he just says a few words on weekdays, he may be arrested and sent to the Ministry of Punishment Prison.
Torture to extract confessions.
Ziyi Prison is one of the few yamen in Kyoto that is not harassed by the Criminal Department.
Compared to the Criminal Department, the Purple Clothes Prison is actually more frightening.
Everyone knows that compared to court officials, the most trusted person of the saint is the eunuch. All the eunuchs in the purple prison are from eunuchs. Therefore, in the hearts of the saint, no matter how good the punishment department is, it cannot replace the position of the purple prison.
The Purple Inspectors have always been low-key, so low-key that the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty sometimes forgot their existence.
In recent times, this government office by the river seems to have been forgotten by people.
The current Ziyi Prison can be said to be leaderless.
The Ziyi Supervisor is directly subordinate to the palace and is under the control of the Inner Palace Superintendent. However, on weekdays, the Yamen Office is supervised by two guards. The two health supervisors are directly ordered by the Inner Palace Superintendent and follow the instructions of the Grand Superintendent.
Normally, this gray-white courtyard would have a health supervisor taking care of it. Even if there were special circumstances, at least one young supervisor would be left on duty to deal with various emergencies.
But now, not only is there no health superintendent in the hospital, there is not even a young prison inmate.
This is something that has never happened since the establishment of the Purple Clothes Prison.
A few days ago, there was Xiao Jianzhi and two young supervisors in the courtyard, but the three of them suddenly disappeared. The last instruction given to the government officials in the courtyard was not to leave the government office without permission.
There are more than a hundred people in the government office. These are all the staff of Ziyi Prison. The external staff in Kyoto and other places are naturally not included. However, these more than one hundred people can be regarded as the main core staff of Ziyi Prison.
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Xiao Jianzhi and the two young prisoners disappeared at the same time for several days, which already made the officials in the hospital smell a dangerous smell.
These people have been engaged in intelligence work for a long time. Almost all of them have undergone rigorous training and have a keen sense of smell in their bones.
Their sense of smell is indeed keen. In the dead of night, someone in the courtyard had already faintly heard the sound of horse hooves. Someone immediately put up a ladder and climbed to the top of the wall. Soon they saw that there were fire lights not far away from the Ziyi Prison Office. Along with the sound of horse hooves,
As they approached, four groups of people unexpectedly surrounded the Ziyi Prison Office from all sides.
Although the hospital was leaderless, these well-trained purple-clad officers responded quickly.
Before the soldiers and horses completely surrounded the government office, the government officials in the courtyard had been divided into four teams to guard the four gates of the government office.
Outside the main entrance of the Ziyi Prison is a small river, with an arch bridge built on it. After the soldiers and horses lined up outside the main entrance, a eunuch had already walked out of the military formation, reached the arch bridge, and screamed at the main entrance: "Saint
Purpose!"
Soon, a gap opened at the front door of the Purple-clothed Supervisor, and a man walked out, walked slowly to the end of the bridge, knelt down on one knee, and said respectfully: "Purple-clothed Supervisor's flag Yang Fu accepts the order!"
"Yang Fu, this decree is to be issued to everyone in Ziyi Prison." The eunuch said: "I will give you half a stick of incense and have everyone in Ziyi Prison gather in the front yard of the government office. If there is any delay, you will be punished.
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Yang Fu raised his head, glanced at the eunuch, and finally accepted the offer and returned to the courtyard.
The purple-clothed eunuchs gathered very quickly. Less than half a stick of incense, the main door opened. The eunuch looked back and then several people walked out of the army. The first one was also a eunuch, dressed in purple clothes, with close men beside him.
There was a general in gray armor, followed by seven or eight samurai with swords.
The eunuch who announced the decree stepped aside and waited until the purple-robed eunuch passed by before quickly following him.
The group of people crossed the bridge and walked directly into the gate of the Ziyi Prison. The courtyard was already dark, and all the officials from the Ziyi Prison had been gathered.
Everyone in the courtyard was shocked when they saw the eunuch in purple clothes.
The eunuchs in the palace wore the same colors as the officials in the court, but the colors of their clothes were also different depending on their rank.
The lowest eunuchs are all dressed in cyan, with green on top and crimson on the higher level. Purple is the color of the clothes of the chief steward of the inner palace. In the entire empire, only the chief steward of the inner palace is qualified to wear purple clothes.
Of course, the people in Ziyi Supervisor know that the chief internal supervisor has always been Wei Wuya, who is also the general manager of Ziyi Supervisor. Since the establishment of Ziyi Supervisor, the chief internal supervisor has never changed.
Now suddenly another eunuch dressed in purple appeared in front of his eyes, which was naturally shocking.
Many of the eunuchs in purple clothes had stayed in the palace, and some people had already recognized it. This eunuch in purple clothes was actually Tian Teng, the eunuch in charge of the palace.
Tian Teng is nearly fifty years old. He has been working as an errand in the palace since he was a child. He has climbed up the ranks step by step and has quite a lot of qualifications. A few years ago, he was transferred to the position of bank supervisor and eunuch. He is quite influential in the palace, although he is not considered to be the Wei Dynasty.
He is a confidant of Wuya, but he has also been conscientious in doing things for many years, and he is quite appreciated by the saint.
Yang Fu, the school flagbearer, was naturally surprised, but he still took two steps forward, bowed his hands and said, "Yang Fu, the school flagbearer, has seen... Eunuch Tian!"
Although Zifu must be the chief steward of the inner palace, Yang Fu couldn't figure out what the situation was for a while, and he didn't believe that Wei Wuya had been replaced by someone. He was not called the steward, but just the father-in-law.
A look of displeasure immediately appeared on Tian Teng's face. The eunuch who issued the edict observed his words and immediately scolded him: "Bold. Yang Fu, are you blind?"
The eunuch who declared the imperial edict was dressed in green clothes, but his status was actually not higher than that of Yang Fu. In the past, he would not have dared to speak loudly to Yang Fu, but now he obviously hugged Tian Teng's thigh and was very domineering, scolding Yang Fu.
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Although they were all eunuchs, the purple-clothed eunuchs were in a class of their own, and they didn't even look down on those in the palace. At this moment, the eunuch who issued the imperial edict scolded Yang Fu, and many people frowned, and some even had stern looks in their eyes.
Tian Teng had already ordered: "Declarate the edict!"
The eunuch then unfolded the imperial edict and said in a sharp voice: "The edict says: Tian Teng, the chief steward of the inner palace, has outstanding talents and is commendable for his loyalty. From now on, the purple-clothed prison will be under the command of Tian Teng, and Tian Teng will be responsible for all government affairs.
It is forbidden. Please do this!"
This decree was simple and clear, but when it was read out, it was undoubtedly like a thunderbolt hitting the purple-clothed prison, and all the purple-clothed prison officials present were shocked.
"Why, you didn't understand?" Eunuch Xuanzhao said solemnly.
Only then did everyone come back to their senses. Although Yang Fu was suspicious, he still took the lead and respectfully said to Tian Teng: "I have the humility to pay my respects to the manager!"
Others can only meet together.
"The saint's grace is great, and the miscellaneous family should be loyal to the master." Tian Teng was quite proud and said loudly: "The saint has told me that many people in the Purple Clothes Prison have been neglectful in their work in the past two years, so they must be rectified."
After a pause, he nodded slightly to the eunuch Xuanzhao. However, the eunuch Xuanzhao took out another edict, unfolded it, and said loudly: "The edict says: Purple-clothed Supervisor Xiao Jianzhi, Young Supervisor Xue Quan, Chen Xi are deeply favored.
, but did not want to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and sneaked into the inner palace at night with evil intentions. Fortunately, the imperial guards in the palace were loyal to their duties and killed the traitor Xue Quan, the traitor Xiao Jianzhi, and Chen Xi escaped cunningly. The purple-clothed prison officer was ordered to pursue the traitor and thoroughly investigate the traitor party.
Kudos to this!"
If Tian Teng took over the Ziyi Prison, everyone was shocked, and when they heard this edict, they were even more shocked.
At this moment, a samurai with a sword came forward, holding a package in his hand. He opened the package and threw it on the ground. A human head rolled on the ground. Although the head was stained with blood, someone still recognized it.
It is the head of Xue Quan, the young eunuch of the Purple Clothes Prison.
Xue Quan is one of the four young eunuchs of Ziyi Prison. He is not weak in martial arts and has outstanding abilities. He has always been admired by everyone.
Who would have thought that the young prisoner who was in charge of the purple prison not long ago would now be separated from his body and face such a miserable end.
Among the purple-clothed supervisors, many were directly under Xue Quan, and they usually received a lot of care from Xue Quan. When they saw Xue Quan end up like this, they were filled with shock and anger.
The things Ziyijian and his gang do are inherently shady, and they know a lot of dirty tricks. They all know that Xiao Jianzhi and others have always been loyal to the saint and Wei Wuya, and there is absolutely no possibility of rebellion. What the edict says may not be true.
real.
Moreover, great changes have taken place in Kyoto. Although the purple-clothed prison officials and subordinates have not yet fully understood the truth, they naturally know in their hearts that something must have happened in the palace.
Now that Tian Teng has replaced Wei Wuya, Xiao Jianzhi and others who have been loyal to the saint for many years have been labeled as traitors. If there is no strangeness in this, then even ghosts do not believe it.
But the edict was indeed issued from the palace. Even if it was false, who would dare to express doubt at this time?
The Ziyi Prison was surrounded on all sides, and everyone could see that the military commander and the attire of the military commander behind him were clearly from the Kyoto Military Guard Camp.
After the rebellion of the Prime Minister was put down, the Kyoto Armed Guards, as one of the main forces of the rebels, was naturally purged afterwards. Many officers of the Armed Guards camp, led by the Armed Guards commander Tang Changgeng, were arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, and
Not long ago, Tang Changgeng and many generals were directly taken to the execution ground and beheaded.
After Tang Changgeng was executed, the position of commander of Weiwu Camp has been vacant. However, the attire and armor of the general who came here today are clearly those of the commander of Wuwei Camp. In other words, Wuwei Camp already has one.
A new leader takes office.
However, everyone in the Ziyi Prison did not know the new commander in front of them. Logically speaking, to take over the position of commander of the Wu-Wei Camp, a general with outstanding talents must be selected, and he must have sufficient prestige and qualifications, otherwise
Among the Tang army, whose strength was based on military honors, it was difficult to subdue their subordinates.
If he was a senior and prestigious military commander in Kyoto, Ziyi Jian would be familiar with him, but the person in front of him was very unfamiliar.