A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 262 The Prisoner
The fun will always go away.

After the Shangyuan Festival, the governors, governors, and sages who entered the capital from all over the country also returned one after another, and Wu Huaiyu and other eight governors and governors who were responsible for the difficult task also took office.

Before leaving Beijing, the emperor specially summoned Huaiyu and the others to discuss the plan to cut Liang. After the court discussion, the emperor gave them a banquet to see them off.

"I wish you success!"

"Hey!"

After the banquet was over, Huaiyu went directly to the Yamen of Yongzhou with the order he had just obtained from the emperor.

Yang Gongren, the shepherd of Yongzhou, has never been to this yamen since he took office. He only receives salary and does not work.

Huaiyu directly met Wen Yanbo, the governor of Yongzhou, who was also the Minister of the Procuratorate and the official uncle of Wannian County Wei Wenfu.

Wen Yanbo's age is about the same as that of the samurai Yu. This Taiyuan Wen family lived in Saibei for a year after he was defeated and captured in the Hedong army. However, this man is said to be very loyal and his bones are very hard. After Xieli captured him, he forced him to question whether it was true in the Tang Dynasty. , Wen Yanbo didn't say a word.

After a few greetings at the meeting, Huaiyu handed over a secret decree.

After reading it, Wen Yanbo frowned, a little confused, "Marquis Wu wants to take all the prisoners from the Yamen of Yongzhou?"

"Yes."

"May I ask what the prisoners are going to do?"

"The secret decree clearly states that these people will be sent to Yanzhou, and they will reclaim the land and guard the frontier."

"In Yongzhou Prison, there are prisoners of all crimes, big and small, but there are not many who are enough to be exiled into the army."

"This is a special order. I will take away all prisoners in prison, regardless of their crimes."

"Isn't that appropriate?"

"The will of the saint!"

Facing this unreasonable decree, but it was still a secret decree, Wen Yanbo hesitated for a while, and finally decided to follow the decree.

There are not many prisoners in Yongzhou Prison. In June last year, Gao Shilian, who was then the governor of Yongzhou, released the prisoners and armed them to participate in the Xuanwu Gate Change and attack the Fanglin Gate. Afterwards, many prisoners were pardoned. Those who have made meritorious service and won official honors.

Of course, as the capital, there will never be a shortage of prisoners in the prison.

When it was time to mention someone, Huaiyu chatted with Wen Yanbo for a while.Wen Yanbo, Wen's clan of Hedong Taiyuan, and Wu Huaiyu are also of the Wu clan of Hedong Taiyuan. They are both from the hometown of Taiyuan, Taiyuan. One is Qi County, Taiyuan, and the other is Wenshui, Taiyuan. They are not far from each other.

Wen Yanbo also took over from the samurai Xun's squad during this administration.

Huaiyu chatted with Wen Yanbo about his past experience. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Wen Yanbo was enlisted as Sima by Luo Yi, who ruled Youzhou separately. He was recruited into the court and served as Zhongshu Sheren and Zhongshu Shilang.

Then as the commander of the marching army, he was defeated and captured in Hedong. He let go of sheep for a year, and came back to serve as the governor of Yongzhou.

Huaiyu talked about the past with him, mainly because he wanted to hear about Li Yi's old department and talk about Li Yi.

Wen's evaluation of Li Yi is that he is brave and capable of fighting, good at cavalry, good at using horses, and superb in riding and shooting, but Li Yi is headstrong and unkind.

Although Ci doesn't command soldiers, being able to be criticized for being unkind by an old subordinate shows that Li Yi does have a personality problem.Li Yi is still the king of the county and Kaifu Yitong's third secretary. Wen Neng said that he is not benevolent, which is enough to show that this person may actually be very cruel, and his inhumanity is already a way of saving face.

Huaiyu got a useful message from his words, that is, Li Yi was indeed brave, but because of his cruelty and harsh treatment, he was unpopular.

Wen Yanbo, Xue Wanche and many others were once under Li Yi's command in Youzhou, and now they all held important positions in the court, but none of them had a good relationship with Li Yi, and they didn't even contact him anymore.

Wen Yanbo's words were inside and out, revealing that sooner or later something would happen to Li Yi, especially his wife, Mrs. Meng, and his son, who were even more likely to cause trouble.

"I met with my nephew Wannian County Captain Wen before. He was young and promising, and he lamented that it was difficult to become a county captain in Fujing. He wanted to find a foreign job.

Among the state soldiers in a certain Yanzhou, there is still a shortage of soldiers. I wonder if Duke Wen would like to let Brother Wen follow me to Yanzhou? "

Huaiyu took the initiative to ask Wen Fu to serve as a soldier in the Yanzhou Army.

This soldier Cao Canjun is at the eighth rank, while Wen Fu's current Wannian county lieutenant is at the eighth rank, which is equivalent to being promoted by two ranks.

There are two counties in Chang'an Wannian in Chang'an City, and each county has six county captains, and Wen Fu is only the thief-catching captain in charge of law and order in these six county captains, with a lowly position and a light position.

Go to Yanzhou to be a soldier among the state soldiers. Although it is a frontier, he has the opportunity to make meritorious service and his duties are more important.

This is Wu Huaiyu's favor to Wen Yanbo.

Wen naturally knew it very well, and after a little thought, he accepted the favor.

"If Marquis Wu doesn't dislike his young Meng Lang, and is willing to support him, it's his good fortune."

When leaving, Huaiyu took away more than a hundred prisoners, and Wen Yanbo personally sent him to the gate of the yamen. Wu Huaiyu successfully gained the favor of the Wen family in Taiyuan.

The three heroes of the Wen family are more fierce than the three phoenixes in the east of the river. Although Xiao Wen died young, Wen Yanhong is now the Duke of the State and Minister of Rites, and has won the emperor's trust.Wen Yanbo's official career was a little setback because of being captured, but he was able to become the Minister of the Ministry of Officials immediately, which shows that he was affirmed by the new emperor.

Moreover, Huaiyu remembers that this was the first prime minister of Zhenguan in history, and he had a higher official career than the current Minister of Rites, Wen Yanhong.

"Wen Fu will be entrusted to Marquis Wu."

"They're all fellow villagers in Taiyuan, Hedong, so there's no need to say such outlandish things."

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Chen Sheng, Chen Xing, Xu Jizu, and Xu Siye were ordered to lead a team of soldiers from the Weibei camp. They took over the more than 100 prisoners from the prison guards in Yongzhou and escorted them out of the city.

"What did Erlang do with all these prisoners?"

"There are also men, women and children."

Several people are a little puzzled.

Huaiyu just smiled, escorting people out of the city to the Weibei camp, Su Lie and the others were also very surprised.

But Huaiyu not only brought more than a hundred prisoners from the Yamen of Yongzhou, he also brought prisoners from the Yamen of Chang'an and Wannian counties, as well as prisoners from Dali Temple Prison and the Prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

There are many prisons in Chang'an.

Except for the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Dali Temple, Yongzhou, Chang'an, and Wannian, there are prisons.

In addition, Yushitai, Xiaowei, and Wuhouwei also have prisons. Although there are no formal prisons, each prison has always held its own prisoners.

There is also Dongxitufang in Chang'an City, where prisoners who have been sentenced to prison and forced labor are held. There are many prisoners in labor reform, and they are all transferred here by Wu Huaiyu.

In a few days, the prisons in the capital were almost emptied by Huaiyu, leaving only a handful of those who committed heinous crimes in Dali Temple, who were still left there waiting to be executed after the fall.

These people can't be saved.

More than 1000 prisoners of various colors were brought to the Weibei military camp. Among them, the most serious crimes were death row prisoners, and there were also exiles who were waiting for a long time. Now also brought together.

Seeing so many prisoners, even men and women, Niu Jianwu and other officers were surprised.

"Do you really want to take these people to Yanzhou to guard the fields?"

Huaiyu always said this to these inquiries.

But actually, not quite.

In the barracks tent, Huaiyu called Chen Sheng.

This is the first subordinate of the Shuofang Bureau of the Six Gates selected by Wu Huaiyu.

"Head of the Criminal and Constitution Department of the Prosecutor's Criminal Department?"

Facing this appointment, Chen Sheng was somewhat puzzled, "Does the Ministry of Punishment have such a division?"

Huaiyu didn't hide anything from him either, and simply talked about the secret agency of the Criminal Justice Department and their secret mission, without revealing too much information of course.

"Intelligence, surveillance?" Chen Sheng was even more puzzled, "That sounds like an errand for the Ministry of War."

The staff of the Ministry of War are in charge of maps, city gods, towns, forts, battlements, and the distances and distances of conquests and defenses. They are also in charge of military intelligence.

The responsibilities of the criminal and constitutional division and the official party division do not have much overlap. One focuses on military intelligence, while the other is mainly surveillance and reconnaissance. The collection of military intelligence is just incidental.

"Our main duty is to monitor and inspect whether there is any rebellion."

"We are the Fifth Department of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. We are ordered to handle cases and act in secret. The emperor of Zhili can arrest, torture and execute those rebels who conspire to rebel, as well as local bandits and horse bandits without going through ordinary judicial organs and procedures. ·······"

The emperor granted the order to investigate and secretly torture.

Chen Sheng couldn't help being surprised.

This secret yamen is a bit ruthless.

"What do you need me to do?"

What Huaiyu likes is Chen Sheng's experience of traveling around the capital with the second son of Li and making friends everywhere, and he is also more capable, strong in martial arts, and has a strategy.

"Assist me."

Huaiyu handed Chen Sheng a sign with an eagle on the front and a dog on the back.

"From now on, you are the head of the Shuofang Bureau of the Criminal Constitution Department, codenamed Feiyu,"

Chen Sheng was originally the vice-president of the Hundred Cavalry Team, and he was assigned from the ninth rank. Now Huaiyu gave him the chief job, and he is from the eighth rank, which is equivalent to being promoted to four ranks.But this is a secret job, on the surface Chen Sheng is still the deputy of the team.

The first task Huaiyu assigned to Chen Sheng was to screen and select some of the more than 1000 prisoners.

"Choose some capable people to recruit into our Shuofang Bureau, this will be our first batch of eyeliners,"

Those who kill and set fire can be arranged to be assassins and spies, women can be arranged to be eyeliners, and in the future they will be placed next to officials and generals as servants and servants.

It is imperative to use these prisoners, otherwise I really don't know where to start.

Next, Huaiyu naturally didn't intend to rely solely on these prisoners, any kind of heroes, market thugs, reckless bandits, anyone who can be recruited can be recruited.

Even traffickers and lowly laborers in business and industry can develop.

Huaiyu's request to Chen Sheng is to pick out some downlines that can develop as soon as possible.

"On the way north, you should first pick some people and give them simple secret training, and then arrange to serve as servants next to our officials and generals who are going north, so you can practice your skills first."

Chen Sheng nodded, "Arrange everything?"

"Since it's practice, let's all keep an eye on it,"

It is also a normal operation to arrange those prisoners who are obviously going to Yanzhou to serve as soldiers on the border, and arrange them to serve as entourages to the officers and generals on the way.

"Has Li Erlang returned to Beijing yet?" Huaiyu asked about Li Deju, the second son of Li Jing. Before that, Li Jing said that he would send people to Louguan to capture him and send him to Yanzhou in Huaiyu's army. No one was seen.

"Duke Yongkang has made up his mind this time, and Erlang probably won't be able to escape," Chen Sheng said.

Huaiyu thought for a while, "If Second Young Master Li comes, do you think he is willing to be dragged into the criminal justice department?"

(End of this chapter)