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Chapter 302 Being Strong Is a Helpless Choice
The gate of the death row prison in Wannian County was closed tightly. When Di Renjie entered the prison, there were bursts of shrill screams coming from far away.

Di Renjie quickly closed the door, and immediately, the screams were locked in this deep underground prison.

Yan Jiu soaked the whip in salt water for a while, then threw it on the ground, some of the salt water fell on the stove, and immediately left a streak of white spots.

Immediately, the whip crossed a semicircle in the air, and landed precisely on the back of a prisoner. The sound of the whip penetrating into the flesh was dull, only breaking the skin, but the prisoner screamed out loud.

Di Renjie flipped through the interrogation records, turning a deaf ear to the prisoners' screams.

This guy was the one who threw the meat buns bought in Jinchangfang on the ground, and he didn't deserve sympathy at all.

When the prisoner was whipped by Yan Jiu's whip and was in a trance, Di Renjie got up and grabbed the prisoner's hair and said, "What is the process of making gunpowder?"

The prisoner half opened his mouth and said, "Little..."

Before the prisoner could finish speaking, Di Renjie said again: "Well, yes, there is saltpeter, let's continue, what else?"

When the prisoner met the official in front of him, he said that he was right, so he hurriedly begged for mercy, "Stay..."

Di Renjie smiled and said: "Yes, yes, there is saltpeter, there is sulfur, what else, tell me quickly."

After speaking twice and being interrupted twice, the prisoner hurriedly said, "Please forgive me."

Di Renjie was extremely annoyed, he casually grabbed a piece of carbon and stuffed it into the prisoner's mouth, and said to Yan Jiu: "Go ahead, beat him until he tells everything he knows."

Yan Jiu wiped the sweat off his forehead, took out a hot iron from the stove, and pressed it on the prisoner's ass without thinking.

With a puff of green smoke rising, the prisoner's screams crowned the entire prison.

The same thing happened to several other important criminals. Di Renjie was going to spend six days to let these criminals piece together the complete gunpowder formula.

Everyone only knows a part, but once everyone's confessions are integrated, a rough process of making gunpowder will be obtained.

Just like the guy next door who was beaten in a hurry, seeing an egg with a bite on the jailer's table, he didn't even know why, so he called out the word "egg".

After the jailer of Dali Temple recorded the word "egg", he ate the remaining half of the egg.

In fact, even the jailer himself didn't know what the word egg meant to the gunpowder artisans of the Wuyan Academy.

Naturally, gunpowder cannot be mixed with water, but the gunpowder can be wrapped with egg white, and then sieved into small balls. As long as it is dried in the shade, it will become granular gunpowder.

As for how to make these people who know nothing about gunpowder give a complete confession of a complete set of gunpowder production process that belongs to the top secret of the Tang Dynasty, Di Renjie has [-] methods, that is to say, Di Renjie has [-] ways to distinguish the true and false confessions of criminals. method.

Especially after playing psychological games with Yunchu for several years, Di Renjie's grasp of human nature has reached a peak in Datang except that he has no way to deal with Yunchu.

Yuanwailang from the Ministry of Punishment came to monitor the formula of gunpowder. As long as he got a little information, he would quickly turn it into a top-secret document and send it to the Martial Arts Institute. During this process, he would always be accompanied by two eunuchs. Uiro didn't even know.

Every time the test is successful, the member of the criminal department, Wailang, will personally strike in front of the two eunuchs, and kill the prisoner who confessed the secret recipe!
So much so that later, this member of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Wailang, was so red-eyed that he saw everyone thinking that the other party might know the secret of gunpowder, and wanted to kill everyone he saw.

When the Martial Arts Academy finally produced the same granular black powder that was seized in Dali Temple last time, Di Renjie sorted out the documents, and in front of Dali Temple Sizhi, Yushitai Yushi, and Criminal Ministry member Wailang He pulled the fainted Qiu Shenji's hand over his face, smeared a little ink pad, and pressed his fingerprints on the document, which was made in triplicate.

Handed them to the three people respectively: "Our work is done, and the rest is up to the superiors."

Among the three of them, Gentle, who has always been an invisible person, sighed and said: "I don't believe that Qiu Xinggong can escape from being involved in this matter."

Si Zhi of Dali Temple sneered and said, "I killed three hundred elites, Zan Xiruo, the son of Tubo Prime Minister Lu Dongzan, with one drum. I don't believe that this trash named Qiu Shenji did it."

The mentally deranged member of the criminal department, Uiro, smiled like an owl.

"Kill, kill, gunpowder is an important weapon of the country, how can it fall into private hands, but anyone who knows the secret of gunpowder should be barbarian! Hahaha."

When Di Renjie left, only Qiu Shenji was left in Wannian County's death row. After Dali Sizhi left the prison, Wannian County's death row became empty again.

Yan Jiu stroked the various instruments of torture that had made great contributions before, feeling a little lost, stretched out his tongue to lick the leather whip that had been soaked in human blood, and muttered frantically to himself, and finally, with all his strength, pointed at the locked whip The prison door yelled, "Come again——"

Di Renjie returned to Jinchangfang alone.

This time, he didn't use the bamboo chips Yunchu gave him, but bought a handful of bamboo chips with his own money.

When I came to the stall selling steamed buns, I smiled and handed a handful of bamboo chips to the cook and said, "Here are three drawers of steamed stuffed buns. They should be of good quality. They are pure meat buns with meatballs inside."

The cook smiled and took the bamboo chips, and said to Di Renjie, "Di Langjun, the buns should be filled with fatter stuffing, the one with a bit of oil is the best.

My husband bought three drawers of fatty buns just now, saying that he was going to pay homage to someone.How about you also come with three drawers of this kind of buns? "

Di Renjie nodded and said, "When it comes to food, your husband is a professional. Just as you said, give me three drawers of meat buns with one bite and one soaked in oil."

The cook immediately took out a lot of white and fat meat buns from the steaming steamer. After the buns dried for a while and the steam disappeared, they neatly stacked them in a huge bamboo food box.

He also thoughtfully sprinkled some white sesame seeds on the steamed stuffed bun, garnished with some minced green garlic, and handed it to Di Renjie.

Di Renjie left Jinchangfang on horseback with a food box, walked along Zhuque Street to the gate of the imperial city, turned left and walked to the end of the imperial city, then turned right and came to Xiudefang.

Xiude Square is said to cultivate virtue, but it is the most unscrupulous market in Chang'an. In other words, it is because human trafficking is too immoral that it needs to cultivate virtue.

Although the people's market in Xiudefang is not as lively as the west market, it definitely surpasses the east market under Yunchu's jurisdiction.

Because the goods here are people, the goods in the west market are piled up like mountains, and the goods in the east market are exquisite, only here is overcrowded.

Passing by the Kunlun slave area, there are standing or squatting, or lying there are some strong or black, or brown, or not so black and not so brown people, some too strong Kunlun slaves are even smeared with oil, in the sun Skin glows.

Di Renjie just took a look, and then walked forward. In his eyes, these Kunlun slaves are all goods in themselves, which is not surprising.

Ren Yazi likes to put Kunlun slaves at the forefront, which can attract more people into the market.

Going forward is the self-selling area. Most of the people sold are women, most of them are older, and there are also young ones, but they are not good-looking.

There are also some men who have obviously been injured here. They are slaves themselves, but they just made mistakes and were sold by their masters.

The situation here is not easy to judge. It is not necessarily a bad thing for some women to be sold. It is not necessarily a bad thing for family members who can sell their own family members for money.

The place selling Silla maidservants in front is very lively. On the stage, there are always Silla maidservants writhing and walking on it. Di Renjie took a second look and found that there were actually not many Silla maidservants among them, and there should be more. They were from Goguryeo and Baekje, and there seemed to be a few Japanese women with black teeth mixed in between.

After passing the place where Silla maidservants were sold, the front became quiet, because the people responsible for selling people here were all officials.

Selling boys, girls, and children is the authority of the government. If ordinary people want to sell their children, they must first sell them to the officials, and then the officials will choose suitable people to sell these boys, girls, and children at a higher price.

This was originally a good governance, but then it went astray during the implementation process and turned into a profiteering business.

However, the government is also very strict in investigation. If it is found that people who have connections with the government here dare to buy and sell boys, girls and children who have no real foundation, they will commit a serious crime.

That's why there are so many beggars on the streets, their parents didn't sell them, they just couldn't protect them anymore.

These children who have no ability to make a living come to the market, hoping to be spotted and bought by others, so that they can have a shelter from the wind and rain.

Di Renjie soon saw Yunchu wearing a linen shirt, sitting among a bunch of dirty children, eating steamed buns with them.

Not far from where he was sitting, there was a lone meat bun, and the land in that area was darker than the rest of the place, and there were many flies around it. On that snow-white meat bun, It was also covered with flies and looked black.

Di Renjie put the horse in storage, and came to Yunchu with the food box and said, "Not enough, I have some more here."

Yun Chu looked at the children who surrounded him again and said, "No matter how much it is, it's not enough."

Di Renjie opened the food box, took out a steamed bun and put it next to the fly-covered steamed stuffed bun, and distributed the remaining steamed stuffed buns to the children who looked thinner. The child was snatched away and sat on the ground crying loudly.

It's a pity that he doesn't have the protection of his father, brother and mother, no matter how heartbreakingly he cries, no one will pay attention to him.

Yun Chu stuffed the steamed stuffed bun that he had bitten into the mouth of the child who was crying the most, and said to Di Renjie, "This child just left his parents."

Di Renjie also stuffed the steamed stuffed bun in his hand to a thin girl and asked, "How do you know?"

Yun Chu said with a smile: "Children who have been away from their parents for a long time never cry, even if they die, because they know that no one cares why he cries."

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