In the Imperial City Government Office, in the lobby of the government office, Zhao Jun is sitting high in the chair.
Cao Xiu sat on the other side.
On the left and right, the guards of the Imperial City Division formed an array, and the commanders Wang Ze, Wu Zhangruo, Zhong Bao, Gu Maozhi, and the guards Chen Zhong and Tidian Wang He stood respectfully aside.
Kneeling below were Li Bin, Zhou Wenyan, Yu Ji and five commanders.
Zhao Jun looked down, shook his head and said: "Three of the five chief officials of the Imperial City Division rebelled, and six of the ten commanders rebelled. Among the five thousand people, except for the Imperial Guard, which is an army and only takes orders. , there are more than 2,000 spies, and more than 600 people secretly sell information, you people are so bold."
Cao Xiu's face next to him didn't look good.
As an envoy of the Imperial City, the people below him were rotten to the core, which had a lot to do with his failure to clean up the moths in time.
But there was nothing he could do.
The Imperial City Division does not have that much authority in the first place. In the past, Wang Shilong, the deputy envoy of the Imperial City, was constrained. It would be good to have two commanders and confidants under his command. It would be good to have two to three hundred obedient inspectors. It is impossible to control the entire Imperial City Division. More than 5,000 people manage it in an orderly manner.
The faces of Li Bin, Zhou Wenyan and others below were pale. No wonder Zhao Jun, when talking to Li Dewen, said that he had already obtained the evidence of these people's crimes, and was just trying to uncover the worms in the Imperial City Division.
Unexpectedly, what Chiji asked them to investigate was originally a trap set by Chiji.
I'm afraid that every move of the people under investigation these days has been under Chiji's nose. Although they sent someone else to talk to the other party and didn't go there in person, their every move was probably seen clearly. .
This made everyone except Cao Xiu's confidants Wang Ze and Gu Maozhi secretly frightened. Wu Zhangruo, Zhong Bao, Chen Zhong, Wang He and others were even more grateful.
When they saw that Zhao Jun deposed Wang Shilong after a disagreement, they became afraid. Although they wanted to resell the information to make money, they hesitated again and again and did not dare to take action because of Zhao Jun's power.
Therefore, facing the task given by Zhao Jun, he completed it with all his heart. Although the things he checked were relatively superficial, it was already very good to be able to find these things in just more than ten days, so Zhao Jun did not Didn't blame them.
At this moment, the eight people below, who are the middle and high-level officials of the Imperial City Division, all looked ashen. Zhao Jun said coldly: "You eight bastards, I gave you a chance but it was useless. Let you go check each other's details. You However, foreign enemies should be punished for their crimes if they damage the authority of our Imperial City!"
Li Bin gritted his teeth and said: "Zhisi, the best we can do is to do things poorly. We can't find any evidence of their crimes. How can we say that we are colluding with foreign enemies and destroying the authority of the Imperial City Department? I'm afraid that someone is slandering us. Please tell me. .”
Zhao Jun smiled, threw a book off the desk, and said: "It doesn't matter if you refuse to admit guilt even when you are about to die. Take a look at these books for yourself. They all record the information about how you have recently traded with each other, the time and place. , witness, and physical evidence are all there.”
Li Bin tremblingly took the booklet, turned two pages and it was already pale and paralyzed on the ground.
The rest of the people were also frightened, and some even shouted to themselves: "Zhi Si Mingjian, someone must be framing us."
"Yes, we are loyal to Chisi and will never dare to betray him."
"Please also inform Si Mingcha."
They no longer dare to quibble, they can only say that they were framed.
However, Zhao Jun said in a deep voice: "It's okay to deny it. Those of your confidants have betrayed those who should be betrayed, and those who should be beaten have rebelled. You'd better think about how to tell the truth honestly, otherwise you will be like Li Dewen, cutting them off one by one." Come down, drag me down! The commander is here to serve you!"
The state has national laws, and families have family rules.
When the Imperial City Division was established, the regulations had already been set.
After Zhao Jun took office, he made certain changes to the regulations, and traitors will naturally be dealt with accordingly.
Soon, guards dragged the eight people down and let them cry and plead. Zhao Jun remained unmoved. The opportunity had been given to them, but they didn't cherish it, so there was nothing they could do.
After dealing with eight people, Zhao Jun looked around and said: "This time we lured the snake out of the hole and uncovered the moth inside the Imperial City Division, but there are still things to do. Where is Wu Zhangruo?"
"Chisi."
Wu Zhangruo stood up quickly.
Zhao Jun said: "Liu Cheng is a stupid pig, stupid and bad. He took money from those people and ignored my order. He personally led people to Potai Temple in order to give Kaifeng Mansion an excuse. Send someone to him." Catch it for me."
"yes."
Wu Zhangruo agreed and then took the order to leave.
Then Zhao Jun said: "There are so many moles in the Imperial City Department, and Cao Xiu cannot escape the blame. But because you are loyal, I will fine you half a year's salary. Here is the list, those who should be arrested, and those who should be dismissed To clear out, what I need is for the Imperial City Division to be unified, not for sewage to flow across the river!"
Cao Xiu came out with a bad look on his face and took the list given by Zhao Jun. He handed it over and said, "Thank you for your great kindness, Zhi Si. I will definitely do my best."
His bad expression was not because he was resentful of Zhao Jun's punishment.
But even he didn't expect that the interior of the Imperial City Division had become so rotten.
As the eyes and ears of the official family, except for his cronies and a few who could control it, most of them fell.
The key is that there are more than 2,000 spies, and more than 600 people have ideas.
If Cao Xiu's close confidants, each of whom had three or five close friends, knew that Zhao Jun was serious about coming and persuaded some of them, I'm afraid most of the Imperial City Division's spies would have been caught by their own people first.
So faced with this situation, Cao Xiu looked a little confused. After getting the list, he greeted Wang Ze and Gu Maozhi and left angrily.
The rest of Zhong Bao, Chen Zhong, Wang He and others were so frightened that they did not dare to breathe. They were glad that they were timid before and did not stand in the wrong team. Otherwise, they might have suffered the same fate as Li Bin, Zhou Wenyan, Yu Ji and others.
Zhao Jun looked around and said: "The task of the Imperial City Division is to eliminate Xiaoxiao and return Bianliang to a bright and sunny day. In the future, not only Bianliang, but also the entire Song Dynasty will have officials' eyes and ears. You should do your part first. Things will soon get back on track with the Imperial City Division."
"yes."
Everyone hurriedly accepted the offer.
Then Zhao Jun dealt with some other things before leaving.
But at this moment, Kaifeng Mansion was in chaos.
Li Dewen was suddenly arrested, and the remaining Liu Yuanzhi, Liao Yu, Zhang Pengfei, Zhan Wu and others panicked.
They never expected that Zhao Jun was so ungrateful that he would directly arrest the seventh-grade judicial officer of Kaifeng Prefecture, almost not taking Kaifeng Prefecture seriously.
Everyone quickly gathered to discuss, and then at Liao Yu's suggestion, Liu Yuanzhi immediately took the lead in finding the other two promoters, Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi.
In the back room of the right hall of Kaifeng Mansion, incense was burning in the room. Because they were afraid that they would be discovered by the inspectors of the Imperial City Department if they gathered outside, a few people hid in the hall of Kaifeng Mansion, with the doors and windows tightly closed.
Soon Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi were also invited. Since Kaifeng Mansion directly manages the entire Bianliang, the government indirectly makes money through underground evil forces, but the benefits will definitely be unevenly distributed. Therefore, the two parties have different factions. There are often disputes.
But now that the enemy was facing the enemy, Liu Yuanzhi couldn't care about anything else, so he could only invite the other two people to come together to discuss.
Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi were also worried about the affairs of the Imperial City Division these days. Zhao Jun was not only investigating people like Liu Yuanzhi, but also them and the people behind them, so he immediately agreed to Liu Yuanzhi and come over to discuss countermeasures.
Everyone sat down in the room. Liu Yuanzhi looked around and said: "You also know the situation. Li Dewen has been arrested now. Although this guy is reckless, he also knows what to say and what not to say, so for the time being we can feel at ease." But no one can guarantee whether Qi Huangcheng Division will continue to arrest people in the future, let’s think of a way.”
"Who is this Zhao Jun? He is really extremely arrogant. I have already told my brother that I will ask many of my colleagues in the Yushitai to write a letter of impeachment, and the officials must remove him. As long as this person does not have the Imperial City Secretary Aren’t you going to let us control your power when the time comes?”
"It's a joke. If this person is dismissed so easily, why should we be so worried? Do you think the official family pays attention to the comments on the Yushitai and Jianyuan these days? Obviously there is no official intention behind this, so we should think about other things. Way to do it."
"Then what do you think you can do? This man suddenly started arresting people. He almost made a hole in Bianliang's sky. However, several ministers in the court remained silent. Only Yushitai and Jianyuan wrote letters of impeachment. Even my brother thinks there is something fishy about this matter. With such power, what else can you do?"
Several people were at a loss.
Zhao Jun's actions received Zhao Zhen's tacit approval. King Lu Yijian Zeng and others only wanted him to take part in the imperial examination, but in the end they gritted their teeth and did not dare to stop him.
These people are insiders and know that there are too many shortcomings in the Song Dynasty today, so they don’t expect much. They just hope to preserve the basics of the entire officialdom. As for some corrupt officials, they should abandon them if they can. It is better than Zhao Jun really getting rid of the entire government. Good officialdom.
And since Zhao Jun had already revealed the future of the Song Dynasty, Lu Yijian and the others did not dare to take any action.
The scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty dared to deceive the emperor like this because the emperor did not directly control the military. The emperor of the Song Dynasty was different. The 800,000 forbidden troops in Bianliang were firmly in his hands.
There were civil servants in the Song Dynasty who only dared to threaten the emperor, but did not dare to actually attack the emperor. So let's not say that these people were not so crazy. There were still some upright officials among them, and even if they were crazy, they could only suppress it.
However, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and other three ministers remained silent, while the rest, Xia Song, Chen Yaozuo, Jia Changchao, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Chen Zhizhong, Liu Yuanyu, Li Shen, Wang Deyong, Han Yi, Cheng Lin and others went to the Privy Council. Senior officials from the 3 provinces, 6 ministries, trial court, and 3 departments all had different reactions.
Some people continue to write letters of impeachment, while others see that the wind is going in the wrong direction and choose to do nothing.
Among them, the most fierce ones were Yushitai and Jianyuan. Seeing that the three ministers and three ministers were not doing anything, they attacked the Imperial City Department and began to impeach the prime minister. Memorials flew to the political hall like snowflakes.
They fully validate a sentence.
If you don't attack the Imperial City Division, then we will attack you.
So Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and the others have been very busy these days. They have to deal with the crazy attacks from Yushitai and Jianyuan, and at the same time they have to suppress everything so as not to hinder Zhao Jun.
That is to say, Zhao Jun drew a lot of pie for them during the time when he was blind, and he went crazy with the CPU. If it had been anyone else, he would have been beaten down long ago.
The current situation is that Zhao Jun did not follow the so-called procedural justice of the Song Dynasty, that is, Yushitai and Jiantai failed to impeach someone for corruption, and then the emperor ordered an investigation and then deposed the official.
Instead, he took another route, collecting criminal evidence directly from the people. Once he had the criminal evidence, he went straight to arrest the person without having to go to Yushitai and Jianyuan. Such brutality frightened these officials and made them panic. .
Liu Yuanzhi saw the sadness in everyone's hearts and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, everyone. Yesterday, a clan daughter from Xuandemen was kidnapped. The clan came to Kaifeng Mansion to report to the official. We said that now all Bianliang City belongs to the emperor." The City Secretary has already put the matter on the Imperial City Secretary."
"What's the use?"
Ma Yi frowned and said: "There are hundreds of missing people in Kaifeng Mansion who are not found every year. Even if the eldest daughter disappears and the officials are furious, it will also implicate us in Kaifeng Mansion. If they have a hard time, shouldn't it be easy for us?"
The Imperial City Division only has patrols and inquiries, and with the recently acquired arrest, interrogation, and trial powers, it is only an additional power. Unlike Kaifeng Mansion, he has the unshirkable responsibility for the security of Kaifeng Mansion, that is, he is the first person responsible. Now it's Kaifeng Mansion's own inaction, and they are the ones who are going to be the ones to blame.
Liu Yuanzhi smiled and said: "The disappearance of the clan daughter is a big case. If the clan goes to the officials to make trouble, the officials will definitely order us and the Imperial City Division to solve the case within a time limit. The Imperial City Division can't find anyone. If we can find it, wouldn't it be Proves that the Imperial City Division is all a bunch of losers?"
"oh?"
Ma Yi and Gao Ding looked at each other and understood something in their hearts. They also had to sigh that Liu Yuanzhi was so courageous that even his eldest daughter dared to attack him.
"But we can't count on this. If the officials are determined to support the Imperial City Division, I'm afraid they won't be able to defeat them."
Liao Yu thought: "We must think of other ways."
"any solution?"
Zhan Wu asked.
Liao Yu thought about it and said: "This matter still needs Ding Fuyin to come forward."
"The governor has also spoken to all the ministers in the past few days, and has met with officials several times, requesting to take back the power of the Imperial City Division, but they have been rejected by the officials. What else can be done?"
Zhang Pengfei looked helpless.
The other party did not follow martial ethics and did not follow the normal procedures. They had to ask the Yushitai and Jianyuan to come forward to impeach him according to the normal procedures. As long as the officials died, they could not do anything about Zhao Jun.
But Liao Yu showed a sinister expression on his face and whispered: "The Imperial City Secretary took the Kaifeng Prefecture's judicial officer and joined the army for no reason, and shot the Kaifeng Prefecture yamen officer with a crossbow. The governor cannot sit idly by and ignore this matter. If the officials don't care, , then the governor should take care of it, don’t you think?"
"Um?"
Ma Yi became interested and asked, "What do you mean?"
"If Fu Yin brings all the officials of Kaifeng Mansion to the Imperial City Division to ask for someone, do you think the Imperial City Division will still kill people with bows and crossbows as before?"
Liao Yu looked around at the crowd and said: "If they don't dare, then let Fu Yin take the people back. The Imperial City Secretary will lose his face and prestige. This Bianliang City is still under our Kaifeng Prefecture. They dare, a fourth-grade official If he died in it, how big of a fuss would it make? Can the officials still save him?"
After finishing speaking, Liao Yu's expression was full of gloom.
Everyone present thought carefully, looked at each other, and couldn't help but look solemn.
Although this move was cruel, if they didn't want to end up like Li Dewen and be captured by the Imperial City Guards who suddenly broke in, that was all they could do.
(End of chapter)
