Shi Jin listened on the side, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart-

Adults are still too kind.

Seeing Liu San's embarrassed face, Dong Ce asked, "What's the matter, Brother Liu has some difficulties?" ”

Liu San pondered for a moment and said, "Don't hide it from your lordship, your lordship is also a person in the officialdom, and you should know a little bit about the things in this yamen." At this age, in the darker, more ruthless and more vicious place in the prison, regardless of whether you are guilty or not, if you enter the prison, you are not a person. Every month, they are beaten to death and thrown out, at least four or five. Who cares? So it wasn't a big deal to get a few people out. But this recidivism is easy to move! This is especially true for those death row inmates who have already been sentenced, and it is not easy to make mistakes. ”

He paused, and then said: "These death row prisoners, after their heads are beheaded, the magistrates of the county will personally inspect them." ”

Dong Ce didn't know that there were these twists and turns in it, thought about it, and said: "The official wants these people, but he doesn't want them to live, what if he waits for some time, the official will get their heads back?" ”

Liu San's eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and nodded: "This is feasible, after all, as long as they die, it will be done." But when will the adults get their heads back? ”

Dong Ce asked, "When is the closest death row prisoner to be executed now?" ”

"After a month!"

"Well, that's after January! ~One~Ben~Read~Small~Say~" Dong Ce high-fived: "When the time comes, ten heads, one is not less!" ”

Liu San said with a smile: "What the adults say, the villain is naturally trustworthy." ”

Next, it's time to negotiate the price.

The final price was ten taels of silver for a death row prisoner, and Dong Ce had to pay a total of one hundred taels.

To be honest, this price is not expensive, after all, it is definitely not an easy task to get so many living people out of the prison, and you have to take care of everyone up and down. As long as there is a slight mistake for people to poke out, it will be a disaster.

"Tomorrow Lao Zhao will be on duty, let him find an excuse to send the prisoners out, well, it's a big deal, Lao Tzu will invite them to eat and drink, but what excuse you have to think about. When there were only two people left in the prison, they took out the dogs, stuffed them into the car, and went out through the side door. The coachman's place, the door's place, also has to come to a sum. In this case, it will take three or five people to make it. ”

Liu San already has a score in his heart, and he has given a lot of discounts in Dong Ce's face.

After the two negotiated the price, they talked for a while about other trivial matters.

By the time the negotiations were settled, an hour had passed.

Liu San hurriedly said goodbye and went back to prepare, Dong Ce was very polite and personally delivered to the door of the box.

When Liu San went downstairs, Shi Jin glanced at Dong Ce, but after all, he couldn't hold back, and sighed: "My lord, this hundred taels of silver was smashed into it like this." ”

He is a very principled person, and he has always tried his best to support and silently obey Dong Ce, but this time, it seems that he is indeed too distressed, and he disagrees with Dong Ce's approach, so he said it.

"The big husband has something to do and something not to do." Dong Ce waved his hand and said lightly: "I know that you are calculating for money, but you also have to remember that there are some things that cannot be bought with money!" This is our bottom line! ”

Speaking of which, his face was already solemn.

Shi Jin nodded silently: "The subordinates know." ”

Dong Ce knew that he might not be able to convince him so easily, Shi Jin was not the same as others, the city government was deep, and he had his own ideas.

He changed the subject and said, "By the way, how did you know that pockmark?" ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Shi Jin's mouth: "My subordinates often came to Yanghe City a few years ago, and I still remember the first time I came, two thieves actually aimed at me, and the theft failed, and I caught it in the alley and smashed my fingers, and I wanted to steal again in this life." But I didn't think that the two thieves actually found someone, it was this pockmark, and a few people were brought. ”

"The subordinates unloaded all those people, and Zhang Mazi didn't say a word......

Dong Ce laughed: "The wicked still need the wicked to grind." ”

……

Many people think that it is very easy for the feudal dynasty to take care of people's lives, and they say that whoever they kill will be killed, this kind of thinking is right to say that it is not right, and it is not right to say that it is not right.

On the bright side, every Chinese feudal dynasty is a society governed by the rule of law, take the Ming Dynasty as an example, the Ming Dynasty law is at least nominally, at least in name, it is binding on the old scholars of the cabinet, the master of ceremonies and supervisors, and the head of the grass people. It is really binding on the people, but it is binding on the officials and gentry, it is pitiful, let alone for those big officials.

It's the same with killing.

According to the provisions of the Ming Law, unless he is killed immediately for committing rebellion or other acts, other serious crimes, even if he kills someone, cannot be immediately sentenced to death and then executed. Generally, they are executed after the autumn, and before the execution, they must be reviewed, and the only person who has the right to review is the emperor. After the emperor's approval of the pen, he can be killed.

And sometimes the emperor is in a good mood, or if he encounters something big, such as the emperor dies and the new emperor ascends the throne, etc., he will give amnesty to the world, so the criminals will be acquitted.

On the surface, this is the case, but in private, it is not the case at all.

The local officials of the Ming Dynasty, the wealthy gentry, wanted to kill a person, it was too easy.

Looking for a crime and being caught in the yamen, and as soon as you enter the yamen, you want to rub the circle and pinch it flat, is it not a matter of people's words? Not to mention guilty, even if you are not guilty, you can be tossed to death in three or two days.

For example, torture.

Although the Ming Dynasty stipulated that "detailed reasoning must be made in accordance with the law, and no illegal suffering should be obtained", at the same time, it also allowed the death penalty, robbery, and felons to be "tortured and interrogated", and "the rest were only punished with whipping". In practice, however, it was up to the magistrates to decide whether or not they were tortured, and they were usually very enthusiastic about it.

In particular, the spy organizations of the two factories and one guard used in the trial of the case were even more vicious, including weapons, shackles, sticks, filth, and clamping sticks, which can be said to be equipped with all five poisons. In addition to the above-mentioned torture tools, these local evil officials used various torture tools to extract confessions, such as bamboo sticks, bone grinding nails, swallow flies, and inch by inch. Therefore, often the confession is not forced, but the person is tortured to death. On the basis of these confessions, many of which were false, trials resulted in a large number of unjust, false and wrongful convictions, and then many more people were implicated in capital crimes.

This situation was so terrible -- "dozens or even hundreds, the remains of which were piled up in prison and bloodied" -- so much so that in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Xiaozong, he was convicted of torture to death. It worked for a while, but by now, the binding force is almost gone.

Another example is the brawl in prison.

Cell bosses and prison tyrants existed in any era, and prisoners had to eat a dismount before entering the prison, which was not a later thing, but had a long history. It's okay to just go in and be beaten, and some of them are ways to toss Xinding. Like one of the most representative, this method has been around since the Han Dynasty. There is a name, called Yan'er Fei. Shove a piece of wood or straw into a crack in the roof of the cell, and then throw the new prisoner up and let him pick up the piece of paper with his mouth, and even if he could take it down, he would fall half to death at once. If you can't hold it, after coming a few times, some people can fall to death.

I don't know how many are similar to this.

And it is not uncommon for a quarrel and then a conflict to occur in prison because of a trivial matter, and then a brawl to death.

There are a lot of dead people.

Since the lives of unconvicted and convicted criminals are so worthless, Dong Ce can get more than a dozen prisoners through operation, which is a smooth thing.

What Dong Ce wants are all prisoners sentenced to death for a long time, and they are people who have been found guilty and will inevitably die. Most of these people are Jiangyang thieves or bloody hands, and they can be regarded as innocent, and Dong Ce has no psychological burden to kill them.

He would have had a better choice - for example, Shi Jinti's suggestion to directly arrest some homeless people, anyway, these homeless people will starve to death sooner or later, and now that they are dead, it is a relief, and it is not more comfortable than starving to death.

But Dong Ce has some limits in his heart after all.

He can't do such things.

Next, Dong Ce and the three of them stayed in Yanghe City for three more days.

Dong Ce didn't come out of the inn every day, and this time he brought out a lot of books, all of which were books such as Qi Jiguang's "Actual Record of Military Training" and "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", as well as books on the art of war or military equipment such as "Wubei Zhi" and "Artifact Spectrum". He didn't read these books very carefully, but he just walked them roughly and didn't read them deeply.

There is no sentence to read in the books of this era, and it is indeed very difficult to read.

I have always been busy with my feet not touching the ground, but this time I have a rare time to use it.

And Zhou Zhong and Shi Jin were sent out by him and asked them to do one thing - collect money.

The quality is not inferior to that of official coinage, and it is even slightly better, thick and coarse, but the text is brief, and one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for fifteen to two thousand private coins.

Charge as much as you want.

……

Three days later.

The night was deep, and the cold wind howled by, bringing a chill.

At this time, the northland is already very cold winter, the withered grass is slight, and the ground is frozen hard.

Dong Ce and the three of them led the horses and hid in a leeward place, waiting for themselves.

Today is the time to deliver the goods that Liu San has agreed upon.

This is two miles away from the southwest gate of Yanghe City, which has left the prosperous area outside Yanghe City, from here, the lights are dense, prosperous and floating, but in the howling cold wind, it seems so far away. After a while, a string of light suddenly appeared from the direction of the south gate, and then, that string of light came towards this place. If you look closely, it is a group of people coming with torches.

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