Qingliu's impeachment of Hou Xiaokang soon became known to the government and the opposition.

Emperor Xiaode was naturally furious and said that he would investigate the matter thoroughly.

For so many years, Qingliu has always wanted to win a position, and kept impeaching those powerful ministers, after all, the speaker is not guilty, and once he succeeds, he will become famous in one fell swoop.

But it's usually a petty fight.

In order to appease the ministers, His Majesty has always appeased the exploits of the four kings and eight dukes, and has never had such a thunderous anger.

But now, with the establishment of his foundation, the attitude of the Son of Heaven has become stronger and stronger.

Up to now, seeing the Son of Heaven's statement, who cares about the truth? All those who are qualified to speak are all in the ascendant, some say that Hou Xiaokang supports the army and harbors evil intentions, and some say that Hou Xiaokang is greedy and cruel, and that he is extravagant in money...... All kinds of dirty water, true or false, are splashed on it, anyway, everyone knows that now they need something that is unfavorable to Hou Xiaokang, who cares if it is true or false?

The Son of Heaven sent a messenger to Heiliao to find out the various crimes mentioned in the impeachment, and the matter came to this point, and everyone could expect the result.

But everyone still looked down on Emperor Xiaode's wrist.

It turned out that the area of Heiliao was vast and sparsely populated, but the land was fertile, and the imperial court had always encouraged the people in the interior to go to Heiliao, calling it "breaking through the eastern part of the country".

After a long time, the nine provinces of Heiliao had a population of tens of millions.

As a result, there was a sufficient reserve of soldiers and horses.

Because in the Heiliao area, there are three main military objectives.

One is to resist Eros to the north.

The second is to prevent the Goryeo Kingdom in the south.

The last one was to suppress several large tribes such as the Horqin tribe, the Wanyan tribe, the Yehnara tribe, and the Hesheri tribe that had plagued China.

Therefore, as soon as Emperor Xiaode came to power, he divided three generals into three generals, in charge of military objectives in three directions.

The grandson of the Duke of Xiuguo, the hereditary first-class viscount Hou Xiaokang, was the governor of Heiliao.

After years of operation, the three generals have gained a firm foothold, so Governor Hou can only be impeached one after another.

But among the border passes, the first to move was not Heiliao, but Suiyuan.

At the end of March this year, Ma Chaoxing, the envoy of Suiyuan Festival, was awarded the title of Earl of Dingyuan because of his contribution to the suppression of the Chahar rebellion last year, and he was given an idle post as a senator in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the capital, so that he could enter Beijing to be raised.

This Ma Chaoxing hugged the thigh of the Xiuguo Mansion back then, and rose step by step, with this position.

If the emperor wants to cut off the power of Xiu Guogong, he naturally wants to clean up his wings.

So this Ma Chaoxing bore the brunt of it.

But the official document of the imperial court is also reasonable, even if he Ma Chaoxing is unwilling, he can't say anything.

Because if he dares to disagree, several Jiedu envoys stationed in Yanjing and Baotou will have objections to him.

Because those few festival envoys were all drawn by Emperor Xiaode.

So everyone was surprised to find that unconsciously, Emperor Xiaode had completed the control of most of the key positions in the country.

What's even more terrifying is that this was done in just four years.

Of course, Lin Zhao can only watch this kind of thing coldly.

With his current status and power in Da Zhou, he is not capable of participating in it at all.

But after all, he is also a person who has been an emperor, and he knows that Emperor Xiaode will not kill Hou Xiaokang with a stick.

After all, the four kings and eight princes have big roots and deep roots, and if they don't clean their wings thoroughly, they can't be easily suppressed at all.

Therefore, this hereditary first-class viscount only lost his military power in the end, landed safely, and returned to the capital to enjoy wealth and prosperity.

Lin Zhao naturally didn't care about this, he just paid attention to his work.

Although there are only a few hundred people patrolling the streets of Nancheng now, when they see soldiers wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives walking back and forth on the streets, the people in the criminal extermination department will always have scruples and dare not do anything, and the law and order everywhere has been much better.

Originally, such trivial matters in the streets and alleys were all taken care of by the servants of Shuntian Mansion, and Jin Yiwei was so dedicated to doing errands, they were a lot more idle.

There is nothing to do on the street, but since April, there has been no leisure on the side of Shuntianfu, from the palace of Sun Shaozong downward, to the clerks who are not compiling below, catching heads and catching fast, and the most ordinary errand soldiers, no one has been idle because there are few cases outside.

This Sun Shaozong was introduced to Lin Zhao by Jia Lian.

Although he is a civilian official, he comes from a military family, and his brother Sun Shaozu is the commander of the patrol battalion in the capital.

This Sun Shaozong is tall and strong, and at first glance he is a general and a warrior, and in fact, he is indeed gifted with divine power and can carry the crown.

However, he was actually a bearskin fox heart, and he did not take the military general route, but took the civilian route, and went all the way to the position of the Shuntian Mansion - the proper second person of the Shuntian Mansion.

This Sun Shaozong defected to Lin Zhao, and Pei Lun had the same thoughts, that is, they both saw that Lin Zhao had a great future, so they wanted to come over and hug their thighs as soon as possible.

After Lin Zhao and Sun Shaozong drank a few times, they reported to the emperor, arranged for someone to write an official document, signed a seal, and personally brought it to Shuntian Mansion and handed it over to Sun Shaozong in person.

The two muttered for a long time in the duty room, and after Lin Zhao left, Sun Zhaozong called a meeting of all the officials of Shuntian Mansion to investigate the cases over the years.

He wants to count the big and small cases that occur every year, reported by the people, and the cases related to theft and deception.

Shuncheonfu, like other government offices, procrastinates in doing things, and doing official affairs is not as energetic as doing private affairs.

Therefore, this matter was proposed by Sun Shaozong in the name of the public, but he gave away a lot of gold and silver in the name of a private person, and no matter how secretly everyone complained, it was not easy to get by. I had to go all out.

Sun Fucheng himself is a very skillful person, not to mention that there is a big man in Jinyi behind him, he wants to clean up these things, everyone naturally understands the meaning behind it, plus there is gold and silver in hand, so he naturally does not dare to slack off.

So soon, the records of criminal cases such as theft, robbery, abduction, and setting up a bureau to cheat in the capital every year were sorted out and sent to Lin Zhao.

I don't know if it's not clear, but when I count it, even Lin Zhao was startled.

In the past few years, all these criminal cases in the capital have been combined, involving millions of taels of gold and silver, and tens of thousands of people have been victimized.

Lin Zhao didn't dare to slack off, and immediately went to see the emperor.

Emperor Xiaode was also taken aback: "It is said that at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first good place, there are so many things that are abducted and deceived in this pit and set up a situation to harm people." Isn't it even more that the people have reported to the officials, plus those who have not reported to the officials? Could it be that my Great Zhou Capital is so restless?"

For a moment, he walked back and forth in the Wenhua Hall with his hands behind his back, and finally stopped, and said in a deep voice: "Lin Zhao, I have ordered you to be fully responsible for this matter, and you must clean up the capital! Crack down on crime strictly and severely! I want to change the capital to a bright and prosperous place!"

Hearing the emperor's statement, Lin Zhao immediately knew that Emperor Xiaode was ambitious, and immediately arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, this 'strike hard', the minister will definitely go all out!"

In the middle of May, the brocade-clothed guards of the Patrol Division read aloud in the streets and alleys, where the flow of people gathered, these soldiers were different from before, although the weather was hot, but they were neatly dressed in armor, and the knives were placed on their waists, one of them began to recite the official documents, and one stood solemnly aside.

In addition, the officials of the Shuntian Mansion and the commanders of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division were also standing on the side, obviously the three of them jointly stood together.

“...... Stealing, snatching, street fighting, gathering crowds to make trouble, and other illegal things shall be punished severely, and it should not be said that it is unforeseeable......"