Chapter 49: Prison Punishment (4)
The prison room was a little safe, the situation was controlled, and someone reported that Gu Wuchen had been moved from the boat to the prison hall, and Lin Jian took Changsun Geng and others to the front yard to see Gu Wuchen. Out of the second wall, Changsun Geng saw that the others were pulling back, he walked to Lin Bin's side and whispered: "Lord Lin, the problem of the prison in the city is more serious, and I know a little about ......it."
Lin Jian stopped and looked at the eldest grandson.
Changsun Geng is a Xiucai who has been famous in Chongguan for 2 years, he is only thirty-one years old this year, he is as tall and short as himself, his body is thin, and he has been on official business in the high wall that does not shine much sunlight for a long time, his face is slightly pale, and Lin Jian doesn't know how to explain to Changsun Geng.
Gu Wuchen went to Jiangning to have a heavy responsibility, and he was entrusted by the Chu Party to go to Jiangdong to control the situation, and he definitely did not want to come to Jiangning to serve as an honest official who can go down in history. If it weren't for Gu Wuchen's intention to reopen the prison city, and the need to completely control and transform the Jiangdao prison, he would never support such a big move here to clear the prison.
There are many evil deeds in the city prison, Lin Jian has already heard a lot from Zhang Yubo and Zhao Shuhan, and even many evil deeds have occurred in the sky, but the chain of interests involved in the city prison is too many and too complicated, and even the yamen directly take the escort suspects to make transactions with the city prison. Let's just say that on the side of Jiangdao Prison, Gu Wuchen's intention is only to arrest Ge Zuxin, the former prison and the officials, as for other issues that Ge Zuxin confessed, Gu Wuchen may leave a record in private to blackmail some people, but this time he will not take it out to expand the involvement.
If you want to talk about crimes, almost half of the officials in Jiangning City know that Yin Wang Xueshan of Jiangning Mansion has a hobby, that is, he likes to try female criminals in the direction of adultery. Others may not know what Wang Xueshan is for, but Zhang Yubo explained the mystery to Lin Jian after a drink: according to the laws of Dayue, a woman commits adultery, and she is punished in front of the court.
To put it bluntly, Yin Wang Xueshan of Jiangning Mansion likes to watch the officials rip off the female prisoner's pants and beat the snow-white ass with rattan, so he did everything possible to sentence the female prisoner to adultery.
In order to satisfy Wang Xueshan's hobby, there are not ten female prisoners who die of humiliation and hitting the pillar in the hall of Jiangning Mansion every year.
"In this Jiangning City, if the officials in the city want to say that they are all dragged out to cut off their heads, there must be wronged, if they are picked up and beheaded at intervals, there will definitely be a lot of people who slip through the net...... Do you know whose hands did your petition to the Jiangning Mansion denounce the former prisoner of Jiangdao Prison and the officials who forced the prisoners to be prostitutes? Lin Jian stood under the old plum tree and looked at Changsun Geng, in the Jiangdong officialdom, although Changsun Geng is a small official, but he is an "alternative", he doesn't want Changsun Geng to run into blood everywhere again, sighed and said, "When Ge Zuxin was arrested, Yang Dianwei found your own named pleadings from his bag, and during the torture, Ge Zuxin said that you wrote a good hand, so he kept your pleadings and brought them back to the countryside......"
"......" Eldest Sun Geng was stunned there, speechless, where did he think that it would be such a great irony, rushing to love Ge Zu to tolerate him to this day, or to appreciate his good handwriting? In the end, this world is turbid, black and white, I am afraid that Ge Zu does not regard the persecution of prisoners as prostitutes in his faith as much of a evil act! Lin Tie's words are also very clear, the rule of the officials is already a mess, maybe one person's blood can turn the tide, Lin Tie does not support him to poke the bigger problem in front of Gu Wuchen, it is useless to stab, Gu Wuchen is just the deputy envoy of the fourth grade.
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The husband walked outside the courtyard, and it was already midnight, and the interrogation in the cell was still going on.
As for what other secrets can be pulled out from the mouths of Zhou Shide, Jiang Jin, Cao Xian and others, Lin Jian is not interested. People know how to be careful, and Lin Jian did not let Changsun Geng and others participate in the torture, and lent the place out, and Yang Pu and Ma Chao were responsible for it.
The front yard of the prison hall was brightly lit, and Lin Jian and Gu Wuchen sat opposite each other in front of the desk, with a candlestick on the bookcase, drinking tea and talking. The spring was cold, and the branches and leaves of the plum trees in the courtyard rustled in the wind, and just sitting in the room, I couldn't feel that I was in a heavily guarded high wall.
In the main hall, except for Gu Wuchen and Lin Lian, only Yang Shishou sat at the table at the door.
Gu Wuchen was not in a hurry to leave Prison Island and return to the city that night, Lin Jian talked with him about many ideas such as treating prisoners with prisoners, dividing crimes and using prisoners. These ideas are all prison management experiences that have not yet been summed up, and Lin Jian did not completely copy them from memory, but put forward some suggestions for improving prison management that adapt to the situation.
With Zhao Shuhan co-authoring "The Book of Prisons" as the foundation, Lin Bin's proposal for prison management improvement is more authoritative, otherwise in this officialdom atmosphere where everything is about seniority, other people's inconsequential sentences of "no hair on the mouth" can easily wipe out many of his efforts.
If Lin Jian wants to do anything on this prison island, he must also obtain Gu Wuchen's support, first of all, he must gain Gu Wuchen's trust, but no matter how much Gu Wuchen trusts him, he can't ignore the rules of officialdom, otherwise Gu Wuchen will definitely prefer Yang Pu or Ma Chao to manage this Jiangdao prison instead of him.
A "Prison Book" really laid some foundations for Lin Jian that could replace his qualifications.
"When the weather warms up, I will send the prisoners to open up a vegetable garden and a livestock pen on the periphery of the high wall." There were still a large number of empty cells in the prison cell at this time, and I thought of taking a prison cell to try out the workshop, buying some looms, and working for the female prisoners, and the prison clothes could be cut in the prison, and I could also make some craftsmen's shops, and I could do the work of wood and iron, all within the high walls. Careful control, no need to worry about escaping from prison. I plan that within this year, except for the rice and grain, which need to be collected from the Xuanfu Mission, all other materials will be self-sufficient as much as possible, and the prison repairs and other public works can also be done by the prisoners. In addition to the money saved, it can be used to improve the livelihood of the officials, and if it is needed according to the needs of the inspectorate, it can also be allocated one or two...... If there is still a surplus of manpower in the prison, the goods from the prison island can be sold to the city. I thought about the raw materials for production, at this time, Jiyun Society will supply them in advance, and the products that will come out of his day will be handed over to Jiyun Society to offset the previous paragraph, as long as the prison island is under control and rectification, I don't think Lord Jia will have any opinions. ”
Gu Wuchen nodded while listening, he was not a person who was rigid in the law, and he was clear enough about reality.
Forcing female prisoners to go to the official kiln brothel village to be prostitutes is not a big deal in this dynasty, and it is a common practice for the big prison servants in the city to make prisoners work as hard labor in official and private workshops, and every time they have to repair the city wall, build official offices and other large-scale constructions, the prisoners in the prison are the objects of the wanton servitude, Lin Jian wants to set up a workshop on the prison island, but he only takes a slight step forward on these foundations, Gu Wuchen has nothing that he can't accept.
In the future, it will be necessary to implement the prison city on a large scale, and the scale of imprisonment will reach thousands or even tens of thousands, and in addition to the supervision of the prison city, the supply of the prison city will become the biggest problem.
Prison food, prison clothes, prison room repairs, prison guards, food and silver, torture equipment, medicine, and many other items of money, plus deductions in each link, the amount of silver evenly distributed to each prisoner's head is almost at the level of ten taels of silver per prisoner, and even if the prison city reaches the scale of 2,000 people in prison in the future, it will cost 20,000 yuan of silver every year.
According to the power of the inspectorate, he has a lot of power, but he can't control the silver, and the silver that can be freely spent every year is only 30,000 or 40,000 taels of silver. This is not as good as the Admiral's Mansion, and even less as the Xuanfu Envoy who is directly in charge of money and food, in the future, others will oppose the proposal of the prison city, and just take a sentence of "solve it by yourself" can completely block Gu Wuchen's retreat.
Although the prison officials in the city get more than 20,000 taels of silver every year by exploiting prisoners, Gu Wuchen can't be angry and let the people spit out this silver money and use it in the prison city, right?
If Lin Lian couldn't make these suggestions, Gu Wuchen would feel that he was unusable, in addition to his fame, this was precisely where Lin Lian was far stronger than Yang Pu, Ma Chao, Yang Shi and others.
Of course, at this time, the Jiyun Society will supply the production raw materials to the Prison Island, and in the future, the products produced by the Prison Island will be handed over to the Jiyun Society for unified sales, and the Jiyun Society will naturally be able to make profits from it, Gu Wuchen is very clear about this, in his opinion, Lin Jian is a little selfish after all, this is good, people who are completely selfless are the most difficult to control. Besides, his Gu family also has to take a thousand taels of silver from Jiyun Society every year, and of course this thousand taels of silver will not be born out of thin air.
"Okay, you have the audacity to act on Prison Island, as long as I am in Jiangning for a day, you will be in charge of this Prison Island......" Gu Wuchen held the table with his hand, and after listening to Lin Lian's words, he really felt that there was nothing good to tell him on Prison Island anymore. If you want to be thoughtful, Lin Jian is more thoughtful than he thinks, and he is still a little lost in his heart. If you want to talk about books, there are not a few people in Jiangning City who are better than Lin Tie; If you want to talk about the learning of the world, Gu Wuchen really hasn't seen a better young man than Lin Lian. Before Lin Tie took the "Prison Book", Gu Wuchen somewhat felt that Lin Tie was using Zhao Shuhan as a step, but now in his heart, Zhao Shuhan has the knowledge to help the world, and there is still a little gap compared to Lin Tie.
"I still have a reluctant ......," Lin Jian said.
"You say." Gu Wuchen said.
"Prison management, prison and defense labor, among which the responsibility of supervision and defense is particularly heavy, Lin Jian dare not or forget. At present, the prison guards are really unusable, more people will cost silver, and less people will be insufficient, only the way of the fine soldiers is feasible, but the prison is heavy, and the matter of the fine soldiers, I have to ask the adults to send someone to help me......"
"Oh......" Gu Wuchen was slightly stunned, pondered for a moment, pointed to Yang Shi who was sitting at the table at the door, and asked Lin Lian, "Is Yang Shi feasible?" ”
Yang Shi sat on the side and heard him talking about him, and hurriedly walked over.
"Brother Yang doesn't feel wronged." Lin Lian looked up at Yang Shi, speaking of which Yang Shi's father Yang Pu had a better impression of himself, and some things happened in Shiliang County that made Yang Shi have always had a problem with him, but Lin Lian knew that he was not qualified to choose people.
Generally speaking, the prison guards will be used for a long time, but the prison guards are still military in nature, and they are even nominally under the dual jurisdiction of the Military Preparation Division of the Inspectorate Division and the Soldiers and Horses Division of Jiangning Prefecture, and it is difficult for Lin Jian to completely control them.
Besides, there is no unreserved trust in the world, rather than sending other military attaches who don't know the root of the matter to the Inspectorate Department, it is better to let Gu Wuchen directly install another cronie. Lin Jian also made it clear that he wanted to practice the way of elite soldiers on Prison Island, and the number of troops that he could directly control according to the Inspector Division was very limited, and the number of three or five hundred elite divisions seemed to be small, and Gu Wuchen might not want to directly control his own hands.
"Yang Shi, what do you think?" Gu Wuchen also looked up at Lin Bin.
"Do as your lord commands." Yang Shi said.
Although there will be more benefits by Gu Wuchen's side, he doesn't really want to be greedy for those benefits, and with his father calling Gu Wuchen, what benefits are indispensable to his family, he wants to do something more, not just follow Gu Wuchen in front of and behind him.
"Okay, tomorrow your father will go back with me, you will stay directly, and I will make up the order after I go back," Gu Wuchen decided, but he was also afraid that Yang Shi would be young and vigorous and compete with Lin Jian on Prison Island, at least at this time, he completely trusted Lin Lian, and also believed that Lin Lian was far more able to preside over the overall situation of Prison Island than Yang Shi, and he also bluntly warned Yang Shi at the moment, saying, "But you must know that although Lin Lian is only one year older than you, his knowledge and ability are much stronger than you, you have to learn from him well, don't learn from Hei Yuan's hard temper." If Lin Jian thinks you're not suitable, I'll transfer you back to the city at any time......"
"Yang Shi remembered." Yang Shi nodded and said. Even if he has a bad impression of Lin Bin, Yang Shi at least knows that although Lin Tie is young, he is a person who is qualified to sit and talk with Gu Wuchen in Ji Shicai, and when he sat down in the middle of the night, he listened to Lin Tie talking there endlessly, Gu Wuchen nodded again and again, on the prison island, who is the master and who is the auxiliary, he still knows this bit of proportion.
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