In the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan beat Li Shimin at the beginning

Chapter 145 Methods of Dealing with Prisoners

The court meeting has not yet started, and everyone has to wait outside the door.

Li Ke also asked Li Yi to hold a lantern and came here with him.

Then, just as Li Ke stood still, Zhang Liang, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, came over.

"His Royal Highness Shu, thank you for doing us a great favor yesterday. Thank you!"

Li Ke smiled and said: "It's okay, it should be, Master Zhang doesn't have to be like this."

"Thank you for sure. But..."

As Zhang Liang spoke, he hesitated to speak.

Li Ke frowned and asked, "What's the matter? Mr. Zhang, please speak up if you have something to say."

Zhang Liang sighed and said, "His Royal Highness, you put all these more than 1000 Tubo people in my criminal prison, and filled our criminal prison to the brim.

This, these Tibetans are not easy to control!In the prison, they were commanded and made trouble there all day long.

Your Highness the King of Shu, are you thinking of a way to solve this problem? "

Yes, these Tubo people are all soldiers, and they are under unified command. It is really not something the prison of the Ministry of punishment can bear when they make a fuss.

Just like yesterday, when Lu Dong praised a word, everyone shouted to see Li Ke.

They were still restrained at that time, because Li Ke was still outside the door, and there were a group of Tang soldiers who made them afraid.

When Li Ke wasn't there, they yelled and quarreled together. Who could stand it?
Li Ke frowned, and said: "Your Ministry of Punishment usually takes care of people, isn't it very good?"

Zhang Liang said: "His Royal Highness, this is different. These people are all foreign guests. The most important thing is that there are more than 1000 people, which is already a lot of overcrowding. If it goes on for a long time, it will not work."

"Fart foreign guests? Zhang Shangshu, how did I find out that you look like Wang Gui? Let me tell you very clearly that they are not foreign guests but prisoners, do you understand?"

Zhang Liang said helplessly: "I'd better ask His Majesty's opinion later! The prison of the Ministry of Punishment is full of about 700 people.

Now you suddenly stuffed me with more than 1000.Including the original prisoners, there are already close to 1500 people.well……"

Li Ke frowned deeply.

These guys are making a fuss, and he has a way to deal with them, which is easy to solve.

As long as they make trouble and pull Lu Dongzan out to fix it, everything will be fine.

However, this number of people is too many, too crowded.This is indeed a big problem.

Cells are overcrowded and problems can arise.For example, it is possible to get sick, or even plague or something.

Sure enough, the court meeting began.

Zhang Liang immediately stood up, raised this issue with Li Shimin, and suggested that these people be diverted to other yamen cells.

For example, Chang'an County Government or Wannian County Government, or the prison cells of Dali Temple and Yushitai Yamen.

It is worth mentioning here that Chang'an City is divided into two parts that are symmetrical from east to west, with Wannian County in the east and Chang'an County in the west.

Therefore, there are two county offices in Chang'an County and Wannian County in Chang'an City.

When the county magistrates of Chang'an County and Wannian County heard this, they immediately stood up and said that the cells of their county government are small and crude, and they are not capable of holding these prisoners.

These two county magistrates are telling the truth. The county government's yamen cell can hold a hundred or so people in the sky.How many people can be stuffed into their cell?
Wei Zheng also came out and said that the cells of their Yushitai yamen also did not have the ability to hold these prisoners.

That's right, the cells of these yamen are very small, that is, about 100 people.

The prison cells in the Yamen of Dali Temple are larger.

However, Sun Fujia, Minister of Dali Temple, also came out and said that their cells were already overcrowded and no more people could be added to them.

It means that it might be okay if you let a hundred or dozens of people come here, but if you let hundreds of people come here at once, who can bear it?

In fact, there are five major prisons in Chang'an City: Dali Prison, Yushitai Prison, Xingbu Prison, Neishi Prison, and Tufang Prison.

But no matter which prison, they are unwilling to want this group of people.

Every prison performs its own duties.Tufang is undoubtedly the largest, but only those who have been sentenced can live in it, which is similar to our current prisons.

How can I charge you people who have not been sentenced?
Every department has a reason for not accepting these people!
Zhang Liang stood there, very embarrassed.

Li Shimin, who was sitting in a high position, was also very embarrassed.

About this, we have to talk about it.

Penalties in the Tang Dynasty were roughly divided into these five types, namely caning, stick, imprisonment, exile, and death.

The so-called flogging is whipping with wooden sticks; stick is similar to flogging but with wooden sticks;

Here we focus on the flow.

Flow is exile.

In many of our film and television works, we often see that so-and-so commits a crime, is exiled to the border, and never returns to Beijing.

Since it is an exile, it is naturally impossible to exile you to a civilized and prosperous place, so the place of exile is generally a remote frontier with few people.

In the Tang Dynasty, after the prisoners arrived in exile, they were not allowed to travel far away at will, and their daily life and work were the same as ordinary people without restrictions.

After the sentence expires, they can return to their hometown.If an official serves a sentence, after the sentence expires, not only can he return to his hometown, but he can also be reinstated as an official.

To put it bluntly, it is to let you suffer some hardships, let you know that you are wrong, and then let you come back.

This criminal law does not look very good, it seems very light.In fact, it is not light. For example, if you are exiled for [-] miles, you have to walk [-] miles. Many people died on the way.

Also, it is not easy for a person to survive being thrown into that place.

Generally, those sentenced to this punishment are mostly officials.We won't go into details here.

What we want to say is that whether you die or die, the purpose is to empty the cell.

These Tubo soldiers were different.They can neither be exiled nor killed, so who wants to put them in their cell to take up space?

There is no sentence, and they cannot be locked up in the apprentice workshop.

How to deal with this?
The eyes of Li Shimin and many officials fell on Li Ke.

You caused the matter, you have arrested so many people, how do you deal with it now?

If there is no way to deal with it, this is really a troublesome matter.

Li Ke felt the eyes of everyone, stood up helplessly, and said to Li Shimin, "Father, before going to the palace just now, Master Zhang told me about this matter.

I thought about it, and I think we should come up with a new plan for dealing with prisoners. "

Li Shimin and everyone's eyes lit up immediately.

The plan to deal with prisoners has always been a problem that has plagued them.

If the prisoners are not exiled or killed, they will be locked in cells and provided with food every day.

In this way, no matter how you look at it, it is a blood loss!

If Li Ke can come up with a way to deal with these prisoners, it will be done once and for all!
Therefore, these people are looking forward to Li Ke can come up with a good plan.

(Everyone must have thought it was labor reform, but it was not. What was that?)
(End of this chapter)