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Chapter 1,058: Prison Edict Again

The second year of Yuanfeng.

Zhang Yue is still complaining.

When you are in power, reporting illness is a common thing.

For example, when Cai Ting and Chen Shengzhi were in office, they were absent from court for more than a year due to illness.

However, Cai Ting and Chen Shengzhi were already old at the time, and indeed suffered from many stubborn illnesses, so they were not so eye-catching.

When Wang Anshi was appointed prime minister, he suffered from the five signs of birth, old age, illness, death and suffering.

However, it was all a matter of discord among the ruling team at the time. Zhang Yue actually complained to the emperor when he was in power, which led some people to speculate repeatedly whether Zhang Yue had lost his holy family.

But around the second year of Yuanfeng, a major event caught everyone's attention.

Years ago, Cai Que suddenly ordered a prison sentence and arrested more than 20 officials involved in the Xiangzhou murder case, including Chen Anmin, Wu Anshi, Wen Jifu, Liu Fengshi, and Pan Kai.

This incident is astonishing. Chen Anmin is Wen Yanbo's brother-in-law, Wu Anshi is the former prime minister and the eldest son of Wu Chong, the current magistrate of Daming Prefecture, and Wen Jifu is Wen Yanbo's sixth son.

They were yamen within the yamen, and they were all arrested and imprisoned by Cai Que. This was unprecedented.

Moreover, Wu Anshi and Wen Jifu were missing overnight, and some people rumored that they were hiding in Zhang Yue's Prime Minister's Mansion.

Chen Anmin was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment with two other officials who had committed crimes. In addition to them, there were several death row inmates from the Ministry of Punishment, and two or three jailers who lived with them. They ate and defecated in the same room.

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Chen Anmin was pampered and treated like this before.

Soon the jailer brought food. First he placed a large basin on the ground, then he poured porridge, cakes and vegetables into the basin. Finally, the jailer took a big pestle.

This big pestle was used to beat prisoners in the torture hall. Now several jailers worked together to use this big pestle to mash all the food in the basin and stir it into a paste.

When Chen Anmin saw the food, he almost felt sick to his stomach and asked the jailer, "Is this for people to eat?"

The jailer smiled, took a bite from the basin with his hand, and then said with a smile: "Ms. Chen, why can't you eat it? I ate it well."

After speaking, the jailer licked the residue on his hand with his mouth.

Seeing this, Chen Anmin grabbed the jailer's collar and immediately gave him a slap on the ear. After the jailer was beaten, he was still smiling.

"Ms. Chen, if you don't eat what you have today, you will lose it."

Chen Anmin turned around and saw several death row inmates squatting next to the big basin, eating with gusto. They had actually eaten half of the food in the big basin in an instant.

An official couldn't help but rushed to the swill bucket and started eating it with his hands.

"God damn Cai Chizheng!"

Chen Anmin cursed, and then sat down with a dejected face. In the thick wall next to the cell, Cai Qie was looking at everything in the room through the small holes.

Cai Que watched for a while with a smile on his face.

After a while, Cai Que returned to the Ministry of Justice's office and said to the people around him: "These people usually live in fine clothes and fine food, but they can't survive for more than a few days. You must remember not to be rude in any way, just use such humiliating methods."

It is called both left and right.

Cai Que also ordered: "After these people confessed, they ordered people to pretend to be officials to review. If these people's words are inconsistent with the original confession, they will continue to torture."

Cai Que walked out of the criminal court and got on the carriage and said to his confidants: "The rumors are spreading that all the prisoners in Xiangzhou Prison were tortured by me, Cai Que, and tortured to extract confessions!"

The confidant said yes.

Cai Que sneered after giving the order, and Zhang Yue wanted to try this trick himself to see who would jump into the trap.

Cai Que took a look at the gate of the Ministry of Justice and saw several people being shackled. One of them looked vaguely familiar. However, Cai Que couldn't remember it for the moment and was too lazy to care.

Cai Que told his confidants: "If you find a death row prisoner who has nothing to do with this case, drag him out and beat him severely, be sure to let the neighbors hear it."

And there was a person sitting outside the criminal department wearing a shackle, He Qi.

At this moment, He Qi's lips were chapped and he looked at the Dali Temple officials Dou Ping and Zhou Xiaogong who were also being shackled on the other side. These two people overturned the review request of Zhou Qing, the later official of Zhongshu Hall.

Finally, they were taken to the shackles together.

He Qiben is innocent. He has been running errands for Wu Anshi to make a living these years.

He Qi knew that Zhang Yue was under Wu Anshi's care and did not dare to do anything to him. He knew Zhang Yue's character, and in his current position, he did not need to kill anyone. Naturally, someone would figure out his thoughts and kill him.

He regretted a little, why he had to be inseparable from Zhang in the first place, knowing that the other party was not a thing in the pool, but still provoked him.

Therefore, He Qizhi has been living cautiously, not daring to offend anyone, let alone harming others again.

Now He Qi is living his small life with peace of mind. He has married another wife and concubine, the woman he loves, and has given birth to a smart child.

This child resembles He Qi very much, so He Qi gave him a single name with the character "Hou", hoping that the child would not be like him and rely solely on being smart, but would be able to behave kindly.

He Qi is ready to live a good life and think about nothing else in this life.

God was just joking with him. In the past, when he did all kinds of evil, he lived a good life. But now when he changed his mind and turned a new leaf, disaster suddenly started happening. He was jailed, or sentenced to prison.

He Qi knew that he had nothing to do with this matter, but when he saw that even Dali Temple officials were shackled with him, he knew that he was finished.

Because his shackles are twenty kilograms heavier than those of Dali Temple officials!

He Qi's neck and shoulders are now covered with a thick layer of scab, which will pull everything away at the slightest movement, causing blood and flesh to become blurred.

He Qi showed a wry smile. If he had known it... If he had known it... He Qi could not change anything.

As Cai Que expected, a few days later, these prisoners all confessed.

The Xiangzhou case eventually involved Wu Chong, the judge of Daming Prefecture. For example, Chen Anmin wrote to Wu Chong asking him to take care of the Xiangzhou case, and Wu Chong wrote back and agreed to take care of it.

At the same time, it was also learned that Wu Anshi and Wu Anchi had also intervened in the progress of the case. In addition, Han Zhengyan had served as the magistrate of Xiangzhou. Cai Que finally cared about Han Qi's face and did not arrest Han Zhengyan as well.

In fact, it was also because Han Qi was dead that Cai Que did not have to worry about anything, otherwise Han Zhengyan and Han Zhongyan would not be able to escape.

Liu Fengshi also hinted to Dali Temple to reject Zhou Qing's request for a retrial, which inevitably led to Wu Anshi swallowing Pan Kai's three thousand guans.

After Cai Que obtained the confession, he immediately prepared to go to the palace to report to the emperor.

On the way, Cai Que happened to meet Deng Runfu, the chief censor at the censorship station.

Cai Que didn't know whether Deng Runfu was waiting here intentionally, but he still saluted and said, "Cai Que has seen Zhongcheng!"

Deng Runfu asked: "Is there any clue about the Xiangzhou case?"

Cai Que said matter-of-factly: "I have the testimony and am ready to go to the temple to face the saint."

After saying this, Cai Que was about to go to the palace. Deng Runfu said: "Do you want to advance by fighting with the right attitude? Do you know that it will be difficult to establish a position in the future?"

Cai Quedao: "At the beginning, Han and Wei Gong lost all their appearance and never heard the words of fighting. Why did it happen to Cai?"

Deng Runfu said with a smile: "I was joking just now. I know that Your Majesty has been thinking too much these days. You must not enter the palace to let His Majesty know."

When Cai Que saw Deng Runfu saying this, he couldn't help but be furious.

But when Deng Runfu spoke up, he had to listen.

Cai Que retreated a step and said, "I obey Zhongcheng's order."

After saying that, Cai Que left. Deng Runfu saw Cai Que's cold eyes and said, "Cai Chizheng is so focused on getting the upper hand that you are too impatient to replace me."

At that moment, Deng Runfu turned around and entered the temple to face the saint.

When the official saw Deng Runfu, he asked, "What important matter do you want to see me about?"

Deng Runfu said: "Your Majesty handed over the prison of Xiangzhou to Cai Que, but the prison was very unjust, and Dali Temple actually did not accept bribes."

"But Cai did go deep into his prison in order to realize his merits, and his branches spread endlessly, implicating many officials. Just like Dou Pingping, who was an official of the imperial court, he was tortured until his body was completely bruised."

"Now these people have no choice but to accuse themselves, make false confessions, and bite ministers in order to protect themselves. I beg your Majesty to clear this prison as soon as possible so that these officials will not suffer anymore."

When the officials heard this, they were horrified and said: "My ancestors could not control the punishment of the officials. I only ordered the maximum number of shackles to be ten kilograms, and no punishment was allowed. Cai Que actually used the punishment in such a big way. Is this an attempt to subjugate the minister and frame him?"

Deng Runfu saw the plan, and immediately left and returned to the censor's platform to see Shangguanjun, the supervisory censor. Deng Runfu said: "Cai is indeed torturing ministers in the Ministry of Punishment. Although the emperor knows about it, he may not really blame him. You must impeach him.

We want Cai Chizheng to be ruined."

The superiors all agreed immediately upon hearing this.

Shangguanjun was a Jinshi in the third year of Xining, and ranked first in the emperor's imperial examination.

It was the time of the reform, and the emperor asked all the candidates about their policies in the palace examination. At that time, Ye Zuqia supported the reform in the policy question, while Shangguan Jun opposed the reform.

The imperial examination examiners Su Shi and Lu Dalin ranked Shangguan first, but Lu Huiqing ranked Ye Zuqia first.

In the end, Ye Zuqia won the first prize and Shangguan Jun won the second place.

Shangguan Jun always hated Cai Que. When he heard Deng Runfu say that Cai Que had done something illegal, he immediately went home without saying a word and immediately went to court to impeach Cai Que for torturing officials in the Ministry of Justice.

The next day Cai Que entered the palace again and planned to hand over the confession to the emperor, but the palace attendant stopped him.

Seeing the cold expression on the palace attendant's face, Cai Zhen couldn't help but be shocked and angry.

After Cai Que returned to the Yushitai, he received the imperial edict from the emperor.

I heard that the Censor's investigation into the Prime Minister's Department of Justice was quite inappropriate, so I sent another official to interrogate the person's money and deeds according to the evidence, to verify whether there were any differences, and to ensure that he was convicted and cleared for hearing.

Unexpectedly, Cai Que smiled complacently after reading the edict.

At the moment when Cai Que returned to the Yushitai, the emperor had ordered several chamberlains to lead the imperial squad to surround the Ministry of Punishment, and then went straight into the cell where Chen Anmin and his party were.

Deng Runfu and Shangguan also took action after hearing the news.

Together, they raided the interrogation of more than 30 officials, including Chen Anmin, and questioned them one by one about their confessions.

As a result, more than 30 officials gave good oral statements and confessions. Finally, they were asked whether they confessed, and all but one of them confessed. Deng Runfu and the superior officials were all shocked. They all said that Cai Que had beaten him into the crime, so why did these people basically refuse to recant their confessions?

Then the chamberlains peeled off the sleeves of these officials one by one and looked at the skin, but there were no traces of torture.

Deng Runfu was shocked when he saw this scene.

Shangguan Jun asked the officials of the Ministry of Punishment: "Didn't you say that there are cries of prisoners being tortured every day in the Ministry of Punishment?"

The official from the Ministry of Punishment said: "They are all other cases. Regarding the officials in the Xiangzhou case, I have been able to wait for orders, and no one dares to torture them."

When Deng Runfu and Shangguan Jun heard this, their expressions changed drastically.

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