Fei stepped onto the square, looked carefully, and found that most of the people gathered in the square were dressed in ragged clothes, yellow and thin, and they were all civilians from Chambord City. These people gathered here for some reason, and saw Fei and others from a distance Arrived, cheered, hula la all kneeling on the ground.
"Look, His Majesty Alexander is really here..."
"Your Majesty, you must uphold justice for us!"
"We're going to accuse the Iron Prison officials of over-arresting innocent people..."
"Your Majesty Alexander, my son was arrested and imprisoned in the Iron Prison because he offended the son of the former Herald Bazel, Gejir. Your Majesty, please uphold justice..."
The civilians knelt on the ground and shouted loudly, looking sad.
Fei turned to look at Brook, who shook his head quickly and said, "Your Majesty, I didn't inform these poor people to gather here, nor did I say that you would come to the dungeon this afternoon, it's strange, this...how about I let them leave immediately ?”
Fei smiled and shook his head and said: "It's okay, didn't I come here today to rectify the Iron Prison Water Prison? This is just right, and I can know what happened in the Iron Prison Water Prison. Tables and chairs, let the warden Oleg move out all the files, and I will organize the prison in front of all my subjects."
Brook nodded and left.
Soon, the crowd in the small square was separated by soldiers, a small umbrella shed was set up, stone tables and chairs were brought up, and a large number of animal skins and silk cloth quilts with the words "Iron Prison Water Prison 10 Years in Judgment and Trial Process" were written. They were moved up and piled up next to the umbrella shed like a hill. Some animal skins may have been put aside for a long time, and they were even moldy, with small black spots, and a musty smell hit the face.
"Great and noble His Majesty Alexander, these are all the dossiers of the last ten years. I have had them all moved here without any omission. Dare to have the slightest negligence..."
[Sycophant] Oleg stood humbly beside Fei with a flattering smile, and the delicate white bird feather fan in his hand fanned the cool breeze for Fei very diligently.
Sun Fei nodded slightly.
Oleg immediately looked like a fighting cock who was approved and encouraged by his master. He happily came outside the umbrella shed and said loudly: "The great King Alexander came to the Iron Prison today to expose and correct the careerist Bazel who committed crimes against Chambord. Let’s rejoice, justice and light have come to the iron prison. Who of you has been persecuted and unfairly treated by that damned careerist Bazel, you can safely and boldly submit a complaint to the great King Alexander, I Wang Yingming is just, just and selfless, kind and caring for the people... He will definitely give a just answer to all innocent people."
Oleg used at least a dozen or more gorgeous modifiers to praise Fei, and after he finished speaking, he asked the soldiers to maintain order, carefully separated the canopy from the crowd, and set up a small exit , And then let those civilians go to the umbrella shed one by one to complain about their grievances.
Fei Fei nodded secretly.
Although this Oleg is timid, afraid of death and greedy for money, and he is a super sycophant, he also has his own strengths. Compared with an officer like Brooke, he is more careful, and he can handle such a situation very well. , Such a person, if he uses it well, can be regarded as a good assistant.
"Respected His Majesty Alexander, please clear up my grievances..."
An old man in ragged clothes was the first to go forward and kneel on the ground. His son had served as a servant in the house of the former herald Bazel, but he accidentally broke a dead fat pig Gjill's dog. He was asked for 10 gold coins for rough dog food in a wooden basin, and because the old man had no money to pay, his son was imprisoned in an iron prison for more than three months, and his life and death were unknown.
Soon a jailer sent up the file about the old man's son. Fei looked at it briefly, and found that the record on it was basically consistent with what the old man said. Ten gold coins were distributed among the property of the mansion as compensation. The old man's son had suffered a lot of abuse in the prison, but he was still healthy. The two cried and hugged each other, kneeling down to thank Fei for his justice and kindness...
Seeing this scene, the surrounding civilians became excited.
People kept coming to the umbrella shed to complain, most of them were small things, but because Bazel and some nobles in the city were involved, civilians were abused by power, sent to the Iron Prison, and tortured...
In just half an hour, Fei had released more than 40 people from the Iron Prison. All the poor who suffered wronged not only regained their freedom, but also received a certain amount of gold coins as compensation. One gold coin is equivalent to about one year for a poor family. The income, everyone was grateful to Dade immediately, knelt on the ground and shouted long live the king...
Fei happily passed the addiction of being a judge.
However, as the trial progressed, many people in the crowd came to the square with the mentality of watching the excitement. When they saw such a scene, they couldn't help standing up and complaining about their grievances. Some people were blackmailed by the nobles and went bankrupt. Becoming a beggar, someone was robbed by a big businessman of a family heirloom, and someone's young daughter was robbed into a noble mansion and disappeared...
For a while, the crowd in the square was excited, and the scene even got a little out of control.
Seeing that the situation was not right, and hearing the news that there were more and more people coming, Fei immediately stopped the pretentious public trial with sweat on his brow, and ordered a special person to record all the accusations and sort them out. After it's done, it will be handed over to Best, the new herald. I believe that my father-in-law will be able to handle it well.
Fei himself swept through all the dossiers on the ground. Basically, it was not a difficult case, and the sentence was very easy. After more than two hours, he was imprisoned in the iron prison and water prison. Sixty to seventy percent of the cells have been released. In fact, in a remote town like Chambord, the folk customs are simple, and there are basically no earth-shattering crimes. Most of them are nobles and powerful businessmen oppressing the poor, or Disputes between urban residents and neighbors are basically not difficult for Fei who has traveled here, as long as he has a little grasp of the four words 'people's hearts are fair'.
After dealing with these matters, all the poor people knelt on the ground and kowtowed excitedly, cheering "Long live the king!"
Amidst the farewell sound of "Long live His Majesty Alexander", Fei, Brooke, Oleg and others entered the black stone castle of the Iron Prison Water Prison.
After entering the stone castle, Fei finally realized that the name of this prison is really worthy of the name, because the stone castle exposed on the square is just a living place for the guards, and the real prison cells are all in the prison. Under the ground, a deep tunnel was dug out of this rocky mountain by a person who led directly to the ground.
The corridor is about three meters high and two meters wide, and it goes down step by step along the stone steps.
The light soon went dark, and after walking about three or four hundred meters underground, the tunnel finally became gentler, and instead of leading to the ground, it was dug out in parallel. On the stone walls on both sides of the corridor, many stone lattices of different sizes were artificially cut out, and a charcoal brazier was placed on it. The fire light was indeterminate, and the entire passage was illuminated in darkness and deep, filled with a palpitating atmosphere.
Sun Fei became more and more frightened as he walked.
Because he suddenly discovered that the mountainside of the entire stone mountain seemed to be completely hollowed out. The entire prison did not use a single brick or tile. The whole was dug out from the inside of the stone mountain, like an underground labyrinth. , After walking for more than a thousand meters and passing through more than 20 iron gates, the sound of gurgling water came to my ears, and the corridor gradually became wider. There were many excavated stone houses on both sides, with steel fences Sealed, these stone houses are covered with damp grass, simple stone beds and chairs, which are used to hold prisoners.
However, because Fei gave amnesty to the prisoners, rectified the prison, and released many innocent civilians who were imprisoned, most of the stone houses were empty at this time. There are only a few stone houses where there are still some prisoners who have not been wronged but have committed crimes such as theft and fighting. When they saw Fei and others coming, some of them looked dumb, some rushed to the iron fence and shouted for injustice, and some contemptuously Laughing provocatively...
Going deeper, the corridor becomes wider and wider, almost like a hall.
The sound of gurgling water became more and more obvious.
Finally, after advancing for more than 500 meters, an underground underground river appeared on the side of the corridor. The icy cold water was rushing. Some stone houses were directly dug on the stone wall of the river. The river flooded the ground. In order to avoid being soaked by water, this is the so-called 'water prison'.
Fei was completely shocked at this time.
The scale of this iron prison and water prison far exceeded his previous imagination. Even with the modern construction methods of the 21st century in the previous life, it would probably take more than ten or twenty years to dig out such a huge maze in the belly of the stone mountain. Over the years, countless financial, human and material resources have been exhausted... It is so shocking, it is hard to imagine, who exactly dug such a huge grotto
As if seeing Fei's doubts, the warden Oleg followed behind him, and introduced with a flattering smile: "Your Majesty, the city of Chambord did not actually build this prison... According to the records of the royal family, it was More than a hundred years ago, a commoner who went hunting in the mountains accidentally discovered this underground labyrinth. After the royal family knew about it, they immediately ordered it to be blocked. For more than sixty years, no prisoner has ever been able to escape from here. It is said that your father, the old King Alexander, once imprisoned a very terrible master here, but that master died. able to escape from prison…”
I see.
Listening to the introduction of the warden Oleg, Fei suddenly realized and nodded secretly.
This kind of statement makes sense. Such a huge underground grotto cannot be excavated by the current national strength of Chambord City. It is also impossible to excavate such a huge underground grotto that is a bit scary.
"Then do you know who dug this grotto?"
Sun Fei asked.
"No one can explain this clearly. There are no clues left in the grotto. Except for these simple stone houses and corridors, there are not even some murals or statues left. I found any text or other supplies in it, it seems that it was dug by someone, and then abandoned for some mysterious reason, some people once suspected that this is a masterpiece of God!"
Oleg said quickly.
"God's masterpiece?"
"Yes, except for the supreme and omnipotent God, it is very difficult for human beings to dig such a huge underground labyrinth out of the hard rock at the belly of the stone mountain...Of course, some people say that this grotto may be created by the cave dwarves, but even The dwarves have disappeared for four or five hundred years... "
Just as Oleg was talking, Fei's eyes suddenly lit up, and his field of vision suddenly widened. He saw a hall with an inner space perhaps hundreds of meters high suddenly appearing in front of him, densely packed with braziers all over the stone walls of the hall. And the sky above, looking up, it looks like the stars in the sky are constantly shining in the dark night sky, which is beautiful.
Layers of stairs were dug out of the stone wall of the hall, winding upwards, the stone wall more than 100 meters high was divided into ten whole floors, and densely packed stone houses were dug on each floor, which gave Fei the feeling like It was during the transition of time and space that I suddenly came to the inside of a 100-meter skyscraper in my previous life, which was extremely shocking.
No words can describe the shock in Fei's heart at this time.
"Your Majesty, this is where some major criminals are held. The bodies of the black-clothed mage and the silver-masked man you brought back before are all held here. The former captain of the king's guard, Peter Cech, who you are going to interrogate this time because of his body Charged with treason, he is also being held here."
Oleg introduced carefully.
Fei Fei nodded and said, "Well, very good, Oleg, you send someone to follow Master Brook to tell Cech to bring him here, I want to see him."
Oleg hurriedly called two jailers over, gave some instructions, and led Brook up the steps on the stone wall, and soon disappeared into the corridor on the stone wall. Cech is a repeat offender and was imprisoned on the seventh floor, which will take some time.
Fei took the opportunity to carefully examine the layout of the entire super hall. The more he looked at it, the more frightened he became. Even he himself attributed such a building to a miracle. Adding up the high caves, they can't compare to such a labyrinth in terms of scale.
Suddenly, Fei's sight fell on a black steel gate more than 20 meters high on the distant stone wall. This gate was engraved with mysterious patterns, which looked a little familiar.
"What is that gate for?"
Sun Fei asked.