"After three days, Mr. Lu, Minister of the Ministry of War, will publicly interrogate these arrested people at Andingmen. If you have any questions, you can go and watch."
Seeing the people all around talking about it, the leader of the Jinyiwei flag shouted loudly.
Although I knew that they were arrested because they were traitors, there was an order from above not to disclose the criminal's charges during the arrest.
The little flag owner could only shout accordingly.
"By the way, you guys just armed themselves to block our law enforcement. Although you consciously gave up, you had to punish them. No one hit the 20 big boards to enforce the law.
And Mother Zhang, you deliberately obstructed law enforcement and even slandered us. Please come with us now. The specific punishment depends on how Mr. Lu will deal with it?
According to reports from the people, Baixiang Tower is involved in human trafficking and is now being sealed!"
Even a grown man like me has a temper. Since you are so uncooperative, I won't give you face either.
There are ten brothels, and in nine and a half of them, the girls in them are not voluntarily sent to be prostitutes.
After all, in the current environment, all the people look down on those brothel women. No matter how beautiful and rich they are, if they are liked by literati, they are just a bitch in the eyes of the people.
Under this social background, a woman from a good family would naturally not agree to become a prostitute.
Except for a small number of former prostitutes who were the female relatives of criminals, most of them were obtained by brothels through dishonorable means.
A considerable part of it was obtained through human traffickers.
Especially after Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he abolished the practice of exiling criminals' families to brothels. Coupled with the drastic changes in the court, unrest was avoided and people's lives improved. This resulted in the interruption of many brothels' regular channels for obtaining girls. -
After all, everyone is concerned about face. Who would want to let his girl do hookups without seeing anyone unless forced by life?
In this way, when there is demand, human traffickers naturally dare to take risks.
In addition, Zhu Youjian started the large-scale immigration, which virtually facilitated the operations of human traffickers.
This can be said to be an open secret in the industry, but the interests are closely linked, so naturally no one will make a fuss about it.
No one would leak such a brain-destroying thing.
This Xiaoqi had no idea how big of a case he would be implicated in after his act of revenge!
As Jin Yiwei left, the lively crowd suddenly dispersed.
No one noticed that a man with a scar had a sullen face and left like an ordinary person as if nothing had happened.
This scarred man is the human trafficker who provides female slaves to Baixianglou.
The scar on his face was caused by a fight when he was a child, and he has been discriminated against because of this scar.
As an adult, it was because of this scar that I couldn't find a wife or a good job.
Coupled with the fact that the Ming Dynasty was corrupt and the place was dark, he eventually embarked on the path of committing crime under the leadership of others.
After Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he vigorously rectified the officialdom and the army, and officials restrained themselves.
Coupled with the fact that His Majesty publicly promoted the deeds of soldiers, the image of soldiers has been enhanced.
The scars on his face turned into his protective color.
Although he does not have a veteran's card, many people will regard him as a retired soldier when they see the scars on his face.
The change in the people's eyes could not help but make him bolder instead of correcting his evil ways.
When he saw that those brothels were about to be closed due to His Majesty's reforms, he turned his attention to the children among the immigrants.
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This time I came to Baixianglou to sell the newly abducted little girls to Zhang’s mother.
After seeing Jin Yiwei, he did not run away immediately, but chose to watch like ordinary people.
When he heard that Baixianglou was suspected of human trafficking, he was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, but he held his ground and waited until the crowd dispersed before leaving together.
He carefully and cautiously made sure no one was following him along the way before he returned to the small yard he rented.
"The court discovered the deal between Baixianglou and us." Scarface whispered to his accomplices after closing the door.
"What, what should we do? Let's leave quickly." Partner A said tremblingly.
Throughout the ages, human traffickers have been hated with a passion.
In almost every dynasty, human traffickers were punished by death. Ming Dynasty is certainly no exception.
In the past, the emperor was a caged bird and didn't know what was going on. But after the new emperor came to the throne, he reorganized the royal guards, and the emperor's spy suddenly came back.
After the imperial court drove the slaves to the Korean Peninsula, they directly used the army to clear out bandits and human traffickers in other places.
Except for those who committed the most heinous crimes, most of the bandits who were caught were serving three to five years of hard labor.
The traffickers who were caught were all, without exception, cut to pieces.
Whoever dares to plead for mercy will have their home ransacked and thrown into jail. The worst case is beheading at the Meridian Gate.
The huge punishment made the traffickers disappear for a while, but the money and silk moved people's hearts. After a few years, the blood of former criminals can no longer serve as a warning to these people.
But this does not mean that everyone is not afraid.
After all, unless the current emperor dies, there will never be a way out for human traffickers.
"No, I heard that someone went to Tianlao yesterday to rob the prison. Now everything around the capital is blocked. Even the people outside the city who come to sell vegetables are not allowed to come in and out at will, let alone us five brothers." Scarface said.
I originally thought that once I got to the capital and sold the person, I could get the money and live happily, but I didn't expect that such a big thing would happen. Let alone being happy now, I might have to move my head.
"Then what should we do? Why don't we leave these children alone?" said accomplice B, wiping his neck.
"No, human trafficking is just to punish us, but if the trafficked person dies or becomes disabled because of us, the court will punish the entire clan." Scarface said.
"This doesn't work, what should we do? If someone robs the prison, the court will definitely conduct a city-wide search. Once the search reaches here, we will definitely not die easily."
"How about we surrender? His Majesty once said that those who confess will be treated with leniency and those who resist will be treated with severity. The court has always treated those who surrendered leniently."
"If we confess, although we may be imprisoned until death, it is still better than being cut to pieces with a thousand cuts." Ding, an accomplice, said coldly.
"Surfer yourself to yourself, you don't know who is behind the people! You don't know that the world is as dark as crows, and the officials are protecting each other! You still surrendered, can you believe that you were slapped as soon as you arrived at the Yamen?" said accomplice B.
"No, if we surrender, we still have a chance. I remember that Xiaoqi in Jinyi said that there will be a public trial at Andingmen in three days. There will be a lot of people watching by then. If we surrender at that time,... ..”
