Hearing this, Shen Yanzhi raised a brow slightly and looked at Chen Tong. "I was unaware that handling criminal cases had somehow fallen under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Criminal Administration?"
As the Minister of Punishments, Shen Yanzhi oversaw four subordinate departments: the Bureau of Criminal Administration, the Bureau of Merit Evaluation, the Bureau of Operations, and the Bureau of Operations and Passages, which were responsible for criminal law and prison administration. Chen Rong's Bureau of Criminal Administration was specifically tasked with managing captured offenders and extracting confessions from them.
Shen Yanzhi had no idea how Chen Rong had caught wind of this matter, suddenly coming to report that he intended to go to Jingzhao Prefecture to take people into custody.
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