Yang Fan and Zhang Shize had already arrived at the lake and looked at these lunatic-like prisoners flopping in the water.
Zhang Shize couldn't help but said: "Don't you want to select some of them and give them to Yan Yingyuan to manage? Let them escort the master back to the snow area. Why bring them here." 33
Ordinarily, when the master returns to the snowy area, Yang Fan will send a ship to see him off.
Because taking the water route is the safest and most comfortable route.
Yang Fan's steamship is a shallow-water heavy gunboat with a very low draft. You can go all the way upstream from Linhe City, directly along the Yellow River to Qinghai, and then turn into the Huangshui River, a tributary in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, to reach Xining.
When you arrive in Xining, you can switch to the yak team and go directly to the snow-covered holy city.
There is an ancient road here called the Tang-Tibo Ancient Road.
Wouldn't it be more convenient for these people to start from Linhe? Now that I have come here, I have to go back again.
Zhang Shize didn't know what Yang Fan was doing.
Yang Fan smiled and said, "I just deliberately tormented them."
Zhang Shize was speechless. He is deeply aware of Yang Fan's evil deeds.
However, Yang Fan usually doesn't do such boring things.
Is it a joke to let more than 3,000 people die of thirst? What's the point of bothering them like this?
Yang Fan said: "These people are all tyrannical people from the five northern provinces. These people are all desperadoes, and there are 20,000 people on death row among them. They are not afraid of death. They cannot be suppressed by beheading."
Zhang Shize said: "Are you using the method of boiling an eagle to boil them? Let them walk, tired, thirsty and desperate, and then let them survive the disaster."
Yang Fan said: "These people have never experienced the desert in their lives. People will only cherish life when they feel that they are about to die in the desert and survive the desperate situation. As long as they are greedy for life, they will obey our management."
Zhang Shize also had to admit that what Yang Fan said made sense.
Juyan City is fifty kilometers north of Heishui City. The two cities are at odds with each other.
If you defend this place, you will control the water source and oasis.
If Mongolia, the desert, cannot control this place, it will not be able to survive in the desert of more than 2,000 kilometers.
In the desert water is life. Therefore, guard this door. Together with Jiayuguan in the south, transportation between the Western Region and the mainland is blocked.
Both cities were built along the Heihe River. Three hundred kilometers south along the Heihe River is Jiuquan City and Jiayuguan.
These two cities are surrounded by desert, desert and next door. This is the only large oasis.
Yang Fan plans to build castles and reclaim wasteland along the Black River and on both sides of the river. Arrange these people here to guard the border. As long as there is always water in the Heihe River, both sides of the 700-mile riverbank from Jiuquan to Juyanhai can be turned into agricultural oasis zones.
The next day, Heishui City Yamen lobby. Yang Fan, Zhang Shize and others began to interrogate these prisoners and understand the situation one by one.
Yang Fan only looked after death row prisoners and left other relatively minor criminals alone, leaving it to the lower-level officials to deal with them.
When the results came in, Yang Fan was very surprised.
Less than a quarter of these people are actual criminals. These are the criminals. They robbed homes and homes, blocked roads and cut paths, committed various crimes and took lives.
Others are mostly unjust, false and wrongly convicted. Most of them were arrested because they could not pay taxes or evaded labor. There are many reasons for being in a cell, including all kinds of weird things.
Even Zhang Shize was shocked. The judicial system of the Ming Dynasty was so dark. How dare the officials below act so boldly. The common people are so miserable.
They have no way to appeal, and no one actually hears the case. All cases are decided based on status and power.
At this time, there was an unlucky man kneeling in the hall who refused to sell his land to the Juren Master and was falsely accused of colluding with the bandits, and his family was ruined. What’s even more surprising is that there is another person accused of writing a counter-proposal, but this person is illiterate and cannot read at all.
There are many others who are accused of being gangsters, but they are actually a thin and sick man. They cannot fight with others and kill without any calculation. It said that during his escape, many officials who were chasing him were killed.
It was obvious that the case could not be solved, so it was closed haphazardly and some unlucky guy was found to make up for it.
The worst thing is that the family receives money to take the blame for the children of rich families and officials.
Zhang Shize told Yang Fan that in Ming Dynasty, this was a serious business.
If the children of rich families and officials commit crimes, they will naturally not confess their crimes and face the law. Their usual operation is to find a family that cannot survive and ask them to find someone to take the blame.
They give a certain reward. This kind of business is called slaughtering white goose.
The person who took the blame had not committed any crime and was innocent, but he willingly confessed his crime because of the large sum of money offered by his family.
They look like white ducks waiting to be killed, so this kind of crime is called "killing white ducks".
The most bizarre thing is that a man who was sentenced to death ten years ago is still alive and was sent here. How this works makes Yang Fan confused.
After Yang Fan asked, he found out that the old officials in the Ministry of Punishment were so naughty.
He is the only child in the family. Because when he was happy, he accidentally strangled the brothel's number one to death and was sentenced to beheaded.
The brothel's background is also very good. He killed someone's money tree, so naturally he can't be spared. There is no way to kill a white goose. People are watching.
The old officials of the Ministry of Punishment actually came up with a crooked idea. They actually asked family members to secretly bribe people from the Yunnan Division to implicate some unsolved cases on this person, saying that he still had cases in Yunnan.
In this way, executions cannot be carried out and new crimes must be verified.
Based on the efficiency of the court at this time, the Ministry of Justice in the capital is now delaying for half a year, and then it takes a year for official documents to travel from the capital to Yunnan. After Yunnan accepted it, it still needed to be verified, which took another half a year. The official documents were found to be unsubstantiated, and it took another year to return to the capital.
However, other prisoners came forward to report to the Ministry of Punishments. The trial was held again in Beijing. Then he sent another message to Yunnan.
Yunnan insisted that the case had been thoroughly investigated and it would not be accepted and the official document was dismissed, which took another year or two. The Ministry of Punishment discovered new evidence and sent it to Yunnan again.
Endless tossing. This criminal has been in prison for ten years and is still living well in the Ministry of Punishment Prison.
It was such a difficult matter, and they actually delayed it.
His father was a porcelain merchant and very rich. In the past ten years, I kept sending maids to the prison. Actually, three sons were born. This time, I actually caught up with the good news of serving in the army.
Looking at Mr. Cheng, he was standing there with a graceful and arrogant look. Yang Fan was convinced.
"We don't raise useless people in the army. If you have any skills, tell them immediately. If they are useless, they will be dragged out and chopped. This will avoid wasting rice." Yang Fan knocked on the table depressedly and said.
Mr. Cheng thought for a while and said with some anxiety: "I followed my father all over the world and became familiar with the languages of various countries. I can interpret for the army."
Yang Fan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked, "Do you understand the Tubo language?"
"Most languages spoken in the Little Renxue area can be communicated with those of Mongolia and the Western Regions."
Yang Fan nodded and said: "Okay, you don't need to behead your head. I will go to the snow camp to report tomorrow and be an interpreter first."
Mr. Cheng excitedly raised his hands and said, "I will definitely handle my uncle's errands properly."
Some people died, but not completely...
