The Golden Age Chapter 388: Blood Hades
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The six yamen of Shangshutai are divided into Zhuque Street and Xuanwu Street near the imperial city.
The Ministry of War is located in the middle of Zhuque Street. After all, it is a major event for soldiers. Naturally, the Ministry of War is located in the best place of Fengshui on Zhuque Street.
The Ministry of Justice is also on Suzaku Street, which is not too far away from the Ministry of War. After all, the entire Suzaku Street is not too long, but compared to the Feng Shui of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice is much worse.
The architectural styles of the various yamen are not the same. Most of the eaves are like phoenixes, pointing towards the sky, and many of them are red walls and blue tiles, antique in appearance.
The Criminal Department is different from other yamen.
The entire office of the Criminal Ministry is square and has no characteristics. The office built with black stones does not have the antique or even solemn atmosphere of other offices. It is more of a gloomy atmosphere. , It seems to be emitted from every brick on the high wall of the Criminal Ministry.
If you overlook it, it looks like a huge sarcophagus on the edge of Suzaku Street,
However, in the eyes of many people, there is not much difference between the Criminal Department and the coffin.
Kyoto Prefecture is responsible for the public security in Kyoto, and the Criminal Ministry is in charge of the criminal names of the world. Every criminal executed in the Datang Empire has the life and death book in the Criminal Ministry.
In the eighteen states of Datang, where there is a case where the death penalty is imposed, after the prisoner is sent to death row, the file will be sent to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. After the Ministry of Criminal Affairs examines the case, it is determined that there are no omissions in the case. Then the prisoner just waited for Qiuhou to open the sword.
The Ministry of Criminal Affairs has the right to decide the life and death of the common folks, but after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs did not actually have much real power at one time, and as long as it has a rank of seven or more officials, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs does not have the right to determine the case, only the right to execute punishment. The life and death of officials after committing crimes can only be determined by the emperor.
However, today's Criminal Ministry is no longer comparable to the former Criminal Ministry.
At dawn, a carriage appeared from the streets of Suzaku Street. Behind the carriage was pulling a cart. A drum was mounted on the cart, which was fastened to the cart with a rope. It was very firm.
The steed not only pulls the cart, but also rides a person on the horse, so they walk very slowly.
When passing by the gate of the Ministry of War, the guard who had just been on duty recognized that the young man on horseback was the young man who came to the Ministry of War to look for Han Yunong two days ago.
The carriage pulling the drum, such a strange behavior, can be said to be unheard of in Zhuque Street. The guards of the government offices on both sides of Zhuque Street opened their eyes wide, thinking they were dazzled.
Of course Qin Xiao is riding on horseback.
The carriage walked on Zhuque Street, and went directly outside the official office full of yin bird temperament of the Ministry of Justice. Qin Xiao raised his head and looked at the three words "torture deployment" at the door of the official office. He already remembered Gu Baiyi's treatment of this official office last night. The owner's evaluation.
"That's a lunatic." Gu Baiyi said: "For him, the greatest joy is to see others suffer inhuman torture in front of him. He is obsessed with blood, just like a wild beast. ."
Qin Xiao remembered very clearly. When referring to the court officer of the Criminal Department, Gu Baiyi, who was indifferent in joy and anger, showed extremely obvious disgust between his brows.
Gu Baiyi was very clear about the life of Lu Junzhong, the Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry, and told Qin Xiao in detail that Qin Xiao was already quite clear about the highest official in charge of the imperial criminal names.
Lu Junzhong was originally called Lu Zhi. He joined the Criminal Department in his early twenties. After more than ten years in the Criminal Department, he only became a commander of the Criminal Department. It can be said that promotion is extremely slow in the Office of the Criminal Department.
According to most accounts, Lu Junzhong looks ugly, with pointed ears, thin body, and a very uncomfortable yin all over the body
Depressed breath.
As an official in Datang, appearance is also very important sometimes. Like Lu Junzhong, it’s not good looking, even ordinary people can’t match it. Even more, the temperament is quite weird, so in the eyes of colleagues of the Criminal Ministry It was extremely unpopular, and several officials from the Xing Department were quite disgusted with the ugly-looking Lu Junzhong. One of them, Zhang Shun, even ordered Lu Junzhong not to appear in front of him.
Even the hall officials are disgusted. Naturally, Lu Junzhong is not looked down upon by the criminal department. Lu Junzhong has also become an alternative to the criminal department and is deeply excluded.
If this continues, Lu Junzhong will at most mix up with the chief of the Ministry of Justice, and he will spend his whole life as he returns home.
However, the enthronement of the Holy Queen gave Lu Junzhong a great opportunity for a long time to jump up.
Before the Saint Empress ascended the throne, Emperor Dezong issued an edict and enacted Saint Empress Xiahou as the Crown Prince.
University scholar Zhao Yankuo and more than 20 important court officials wrote to persuade Emperor Dezong to take his order, but did not reverse the situation. After Emperor Dezong died, Saint Queen Xiahou ascended the throne in July that year and became a saint. , The date is Tianchang.
The first thing Xiahou did after ascending to the throne was to clean up a group of courtiers Zhao Yankuo who had written to oppose his succession.
However, Zhao Yankuo is not only incorruptible, but also not low in prestige. He is also more than 20 other officials, many of whom are also honest and loyal. To eliminate such a group of people, it is natural not to kill or kill. It is necessary to produce conclusive evidence.
The saint sent a thorough investigation of Zhao Yankuo's group to the Criminal Department, secretly instructing the Criminal Department to find the criminal evidence of these officials as soon as possible, but the Criminal Department has not made any progress.
After all, before the Queen’s accession to the throne, the actual power of the Criminal Department was not heavy, and officials of Grade 7 or above did not have the right to judge the case. The high-ranking officials of the DPRK can only be tried by the Dali Temple. After the case is confirmed, it is submitted to the emperor. After the emperor Zhu's approval, Dali Temple threw the criminals to the Criminal Ministry, and the Criminal Ministry executed the punishment.
The new emperor ascended the throne and did not hand over the task of interrogating Zhao Yankuo and others to Dali Temple, but to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, because among the officials who filed the letter at that time, there was also a senior official from Dali Temple.
After the Criminal Ministry was founded, has there ever been a trial of such a group of loyal ministers in the Central Government, and suddenly panicked.
The most important thing is that most of the officials such as Zhao Yankuo have clear names and high prestige. The Ministry of Justice is worried that if these people are really convicted, they will be spurned by the government and the opposition.
So many officials of the Criminal Ministry do not want to get this hot potato.
At this moment, Lu Junzhong took the initiative to ask for it, and the criminal department officer was worried that there was no one, so he threw the task of finding evidence to Lu Junzhong.
Lu Junzhong had power in his hands, and immediately arrested two of the officials who submitted the letter. At first they were not arrested for treason. These two officials were caught by Lu Junzhong for some disgraceful things in the early years. After being jailed, it took only a day to admit to forming a party and confessing to other people.
Lu Junzhong quickly arrested the officials who confessed to prison. As more and more officials were arrested, so did the confession. In less than half a month, Zhao Yankuo was also arrested for treason. In prison, Lu Junzhong held the confessions of many officials, and he just got a book of crimes with Zhao Yan's **** fingerprints.
In half a month, nearly 100 officials were implicated. Twenty-four officials including Zhao Yankuo were sentenced to capital punishment. Other officials were either imprisoned or exiled. With the assistance of Lu Junzhong, Xiahou quickly Many officials who opposed his enthronement were cleaned up.
Lu Junzhong was directly promoted to the post of the Xing Ministry.
In the next few years, Lu Junzhong enlisted many cruel characters to enter the Criminal Ministry and became his assistants, setting off a bigger storm.
Within three years of the new emperor’s accession to the throne, Lu Junzhong had three major cases involving hundreds of officials. With the saint’s acquiescence, countless officials were convicted by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and then decapitated and exiled. Quickly replaced by officials loyal to the saint.
Not only that, but Lu Junzhong finally extended his **** hand to the Li family. Many royal family members died or were exiled, and ended up miserably.
However, for every convicted person, Lu Junzhong holds in his hand their own confession statement.
So people gradually learned that Master Lu secretly made various cruel instruments of torture, known as the sixteenth department of the torture department. In other words, there are sixteen torture rooms within the department of punishment. There is a cruel punishment in the room.
But often the prisoners have already confessed before entering the sixteenth door. Only those hard bones can enjoy the sixteenth door treatment. However, no matter how hard the bones are, entering the sixteenth door will not withstand the three types of punishments. Can't bear it.
When you enter the prison of the Criminal Ministry, regardless of your status, regardless of the severity of the crime, there is only one status, and that is the prisoner.
To treat the prisoner, first pour vinegar into the nose, let the prisoner soak in excrement and urine, without water and food, and then put the torture instrument in front of the prisoner. Seeing the prisoner with the torture instrument, they were scared to death. Many people even themselves Frame yourself, don't want to go through torture, and settle the case early.
When it was the most horrible, some people just heard that someone from the Criminal Department had come to the door, and immediately judged themselves and would rather die than enter the Criminal Department.
After Lu Junzhong was promoted to Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry, he was awe-inspiring, thinking that Zhang Shun, who had served as a minister in the Criminal Ministry, wanted to be prestigious in front of this old boss. After leaving a post, he wanted to visit his house, but when he arrived, The old church official Zhang Shun has committed suicide by taking poison.
For this criminal department chief, if a case does not kill hundreds of people, then he can't stand his hard work, so as long as Lu Junzhong personally intervenes in the case, it will inevitably end in blood.
There were countless officials who died in the hands of Lu Junzhong. When he was the most powerful, the nobles, princes and nobles were like cats and dogs in front of Lu Junzhong.
Because of this, there are countless enemies of Lu Junzhong in the DPRK, and all forces are eager to smash Lu Junzhong's body into pieces. It is like snow flakes to participate in Lu Junzhong anonymously.
However, Lu Junzhong is so arrogant, of course, because he has the means, and the more important reason is that there is a saint behind him, and the snow-like impeachment book did not shake him at all, and he was given the name Junzhong by the saint.
For Lu Junzhong, he is very clear that his patron is the saint. He can ignore anyone's opinion, but he is as loyal to the saint like a dog.
The Dali Temple has long been suppressed by the Ministry of Justice. The Dali Temple, which has been riding on the Ministry of Justice since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, has been reduced in size and has become a Qingshui Yamen, as long as it is favored by Lu Junzhong. Dali Temple gave in to his case, not daring to contaminate it.
Lu Junzhong made his fortune by creating torture. Every time he was in prison, he would bring great gains. However, as the saint was firmly seated on the throne, the court no longer heard voices against the emperor, and the saint did not I don't want the court to be in turmoil all the time, so in recent years, under the suggestion of the saint, Lu Junzhong has restrained a lot, restrained his bloodthirsty and twisted nature, and did not make too many waves.
But just like a dog can’t change the habit of eating shit, the criminal ministry’s pair of sinister eyes looked around, and no one knew the day when this ugly and sinister criminal ministry officer would give birth again.
Also, Lu Junzhong, who has changed his fascination, has also received an appropriate nickname.
Blood Hades!