The Golden Age

Biquge www.xbiquge.cc, the fastest update of the latest chapters of Sun Moon Fenghua!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 in Zhuque Street.

The Criminal Department is also on Suzaku Avenue, not too far from the Ministry of War. After all, the entire Suzaku Avenue is not too long, but compared to the Fengshui of the Ministry of War, the Criminal Ministry 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.

The Criminal Ministry is different from other yamen.

The whole 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 exudes a gloomy atmosphere. This kind of atmosphere seems to be Emanated from every brick on the high wall of the Criminal Department.

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 Xing Department and the coffin.

The Kyoto Prefecture is responsible for the public security in Kyoto, and the Ministry of Penalty 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 Ministry of Penalty.

In the eighteen states of Datang, as long as 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 has reviewed the case, it is determined that there are no omissions in the case. Just waiting for Qiuhou to open the knife and ask to cut.

The Criminal Department has the right to decide the life and death of the common folks, but after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Criminal Department actually did not have much real power at one time, and as long as the official status of the seventh rank or above, the Criminal Department has no right to determine the case, only the right to execute the sentence, after the official commits the crime The life and death of a man 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 Avenue. A cart was pulled behind the 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 it walks 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 had come 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 that they were dazzled.

Of course it was Qin Xiao who was riding on horseback.

The carriage walked on Zhuque Street, and went directly outside the official office full of yin and predatory temperament of the Ministry of Justice. Qin Xiao raised his head and looked at the three words "sentence deployment" at the door of the official office. He already remembered Gu Baiyi's evaluation of the owner of the official office last night. .

"That's a lunatic." Gu Baiyi said: "For him, the greatest joy is to see other people suffer inhuman torture in front of him. He is obsessed with blood, just like a wild beast.

Qin Xiao remembered very clearly that when he mentioned the court officer of the Criminal Department, Gu Baiyi, who was inextricably happy 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, but Qin Xiao was also 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 very ugly, with pointed ears, thin body, and an extremely uncomfortable yin all over his body.

Depressed breath.

As an official in Datang, appearance is also very important sometimes. Like Lu Junzhong, he can’t talk about being dignified, even ordinary people can’t match it. Even more, his temperament is quite eccentric, so he is extremely uncomfortable in the eyes of colleagues of the Criminal Ministry. Welcome, and several officials of the Xing Department were quite disgusted with the ugly Lu Junzhong. One of them, Zhang Shun, even ordered Lu Junzhong not to appear in front of him.

Even the hall officials were disgusted, and the Ministry of Justice naturally looked down upon Lu Junzhong. Lu Junzhong also became an alternative to the Ministry of Justice and was deeply excluded.

If it continues like this, Lu Junzhong will at most mix up with the chief of the Ministry of Justice, and he will spend his whole life when he returns to his hometown.

But the enthronement of the Holy Queen gave Lu Junzhong a great opportunity to jump up.

Before the Saint Empress ascended the throne, Emperor Dezong issued an edict and appointed Saint Empress Xiahou as the prince.

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 to the throne in July of that year and became a saint. For Tianchang.

After Xiahou became the throne, the first thing he did was to clean up the courtiers of 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 honest and loyal. To eliminate such a group of people, it is natural not to kill or kill, and it is necessary to produce conclusive evidence.

The saint sent a thorough investigation of Zhao Yankuo's group to the Criminal Ministry, and secretly ordered the Criminal Ministry to find evidence of these officials as soon as possible, but the Criminal Ministry has not made any progress.

After all, before the Holy Queen was enthroned, the actual power of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs was not heavy, and officials above the seventh rank did not have the right to judge the case. The high-ranking officials in the DPRK can only be tried by the Dali Temple. After the case is finalized, it is submitted to the emperor. , Dali Temple then threw the offender to the Criminal Department, and the Criminal Department executed the penalty.

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 Criminal Ministry, 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 DPRK, and suddenly panicked.

The most important thing is that most officials such as Zhao Yankuo are well-known and highly prestigious. The Ministry of Justice is worried that if these people are really convicted, they will be spurned by the government and the opposition.

Therefore, many officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice do not want to get this hot potato.

At this moment, Lu Junzhong took the initiative to ask for help, and the criminal department chief was worried that there was no one, so he threw the work of finding the criminal evidence to Lu Junzhong.

With power in his hands, Lu Junzhong immediately arrested two of the officials who submitted the letter. They were not arrested for treason at first. Lu Junzhong caught some disgraceful things in the hands of these two officials in the early years and was put in prison. In just one day, he admitted to forming a party and conspiring with others and confessed to others.

Lu Junzhong quickly arrested and imprisoned the officials who confessed. As more and more officials were arrested, so did the confessions. In less than half a month, Zhao Yankuo was also arrested and imprisoned for treason. Holding the confessions of many officials in his hand, Lu Junzhong just got a book of crimes with Zhao Yankuo's bloody fingerprints.

Within 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 cleaned up in less than a month. Many officials opposed to their enthronement.

Lu Junzhong was therefore directly promoted to the post of Minister of Criminal Justice.

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 acquiescence of the saint, countless officials were convicted by the Ministry of Penalty, and then decapitated and exiled. The vacant official positions were quickly loyal. Replaced by officials of the saint.

Not only that, Lu Junzhong finally extended his bloody hand to the Li family, and many royal family members died or were exiled, and ended up miserably.

But for every convicted person, Lu Junzhong holds in his hand the guilt book of their own confession.

So people gradually learned that this Master Lu secretly made various cruel instruments of torture, known as the sixteenth department of the torture department. In other words, within the department of punishment, there are sixteen torture rooms. In each room, There is a cruel punishment.

But often before entering the sixteenth door, the prisoner has already confessed to a decision. Only those hard bones can enjoy the sixteenth door treatment, but no matter how hard the bones are, entering the sixteenth door can not withstand the three types of punishments, and often they can’t stand it. .

Entering the prison of the Criminal Ministry, regardless of 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 or food, and then place the torture instrument in front of the prisoner. Seeing the prisoner with the torture instrument, they are scared to death. Many people even frame themselves. Don't want to go through torture, and settle the case early.

In the most horrible times, 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. He thought of Zhang Shun, who had served as a hall officer of the Criminal Department. He wanted to be a prestige in front of this old boss. After leaving a post, he wanted to visit his house. But when he arrived, the old hall official Zhang Shun has taken poison and killed himself.

For this criminal department official, if a case does not kill hundreds of people, then he really can’t stand his hard work, so as long as it is a case that Lu Junzhong personally intervenes, 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 the 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 the support of the saint behind him. The snow flakes of impeachment could 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 Criminal Ministry. The Dali Temple, which has been riding on the Criminal Ministry since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, has repeatedly reduced its establishment. Now it has actually become a Qingshui Yamen. As long as Lu Junzhong is looking at the case, Dali Temple gave in and dared not contaminate it.

Lu Junzhong made his fortune by creating prisons. Every time he was in prison, he would bring great gains. However, as the saint firmly secured the throne, the imperial court could no longer hear the voice of opposition to the emperor, and the saint did not want the imperial court. Tang has been in turmoil, 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 department’s squalid eyes looked around, and no one knew the day when this ugly and sinister criminal minister would give birth again.

And Lu Junzhong, who was so fascinating, also got an appropriate nickname.

Blood Hades!