After returning from the Chongde Palace, Zhao Jun returned to the Imperial City Division.

It was already afternoon, and it was getting dark.

The weather at the end of August was sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and Zhao Jun had already changed into a light long shirt.

Entering the government office, he had just walked to the courtyard of the front hall, and Wang He, who had raised the imperial city division, greeted him, and bowed to Zhao Jun and said, "Zhisi." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "How many people have been arrested?" ”

Wang He said: "Four hundred and sixty-seven people. ”

"That's it?"

Zhao Jun frowned.

The Imperial City Division first arrested people from the traffickers and thugs in Sanssouci Cave, and there were more than 100 in total.

Then there is Li Dewen and the Sanssouci Cave branch outside Biandi, there should be more than a hundred.

And today's action ended most of Kaifeng Mansion and arrested more than 100 officials, it stands to reason that there are other people who are scattered outside, and their homes should be raided, it is impossible to just order people like this.

Wang He smiled bitterly: "Many commanders and envoys went to those officials' homes to raid their homes, and there are too many family members of those people, such as Na Ma Yi, there are more than 20 wives and concubines alone, and hundreds of slaves in the house, all of them are arrested and I am afraid that the military torture room will not be enough." ”

"Uh."

Zhao Jun thought about it too.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang killed tens of thousands of people as soon as he opened the knife, and they were all exterminating the nine clans, so they were widely implicated.

But Zhao Jun is different from Zhu Yuanzhang after all, he is not so heartbroken as to the point of Zhulian Nine Clans, not to mention that there are actually many innocent victims in it who are forced to be wives and concubines.

Some even simply robbed the women of the strong families, or bought them from places such as Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Building, and helped them escape from the clutches of the devil.

People are pitiful enough, and it is even more outrageous to kill them.

Therefore, Zhao Jun's style of acting must be to kill the first evildoer, and then try them according to the size of the crime they committed, and deal with the rest of the accomplices and thugs.

This process is bound to last a long time.

Now the Imperial City Division is also understaffed, and a large number of Imperial City Division moths have been dealt with before, the expulsion of those who have been expelled, the prisoners who have been imprisoned in the military torture room, plus the prisoners arrested by the Imperial City Division in maintaining law and order on the streets in recent times, as well as some underworld forces and gangs that have been swept away, and now there are no less than 1,000 people in the entire military torture room.

Although a lot of insiders were cleaned up, so that the Imperial City Division could pay a lot less wages, and it didn't cost much for these more than 1,000 people to give them some prison food, but they couldn't always borrow the cell of the former division of the palace.

So there are several questions in front of Zhao Jun at present.

First, it is necessary to continue to recruit manpower, expand the scale of the Imperial City Division, and prevent a shortage of manpower.

The second is to continue to dig deep into the evidence of the crime and find the protective umbrella behind it.

Third, we must find the source of funds for the Imperial City Division, and we can't think about letting Zhao Zhen pay for it.

The fourth is to expand the buildings of the Imperial City Division.

Continuing to stay in the urn city outside the palace and borrowing the cell of the former division of the palace is obviously not a long-term solution.

"How's the raid going?"

Zhao Jun asked.

"I'm still copying it."

Speaking of this, Wang He came to his senses and said: "At present, at least 200,000 yuan of money has been copied from Liu Yuanzhi's house alone, and the rest of the jewelry is countless. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded.

This amount of money was not surprising to him.

Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Building spend more than three or four hundred thousand yuan every year on Kaifeng Mansion.

Although so many people share, people like Liu Yuanzhi will definitely get more.

Moreover, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were originally high, and Liu Yuanzhi was promoted from the sixth grade, and he still had an income of one or two thousand a year.

In addition, it is normal to operate in Kaifeng Mansion for so many years, forcibly seize and rob, and open casinos, brothels, shops, etc., and have a lot of money.

If nothing else, just this time there are so many officials in Kaifeng Mansion, if you deal with the black-hearted officials below, there are more than 1,000 people, and I am afraid that there will be no problem in getting one or two million.

And that's not even counting the big tigers that may be fought in the future.

If the Han family and the Ma family, the two prime minister-level families, are put to an end, plus the rest of the officials implicated in the DPRK and China, I am afraid that it is possible to have two or three million guan.

"Take me inside."

Zhao Jun said.

"Yes."

Wang He answered, and took him all the way to the direction of the front division of the palace.

Passing through the layers of heavily guarded offices, all the way to the Imperial City Division, here is separated by a wall is the school field of the front of the palace, and the military torture room is located in the northeast of the school field, not far from the back office of the Imperial City Division.

In the past, the Imperial City Division and the Imperial Front Division belonged to two independent departments, although the Imperial City Division Forbidden Army nominally belonged to the Imperial Front Division, but in fact it was not under the control of the Imperial City Division.

So it turned out that the two departments were separated by a wall.

But now, relying on the relationship between Cao Xiu and Cao Ren, in order to facilitate the acceptance of criminals, Cao Xiu discussed with Cao Ren, opened the wall, repaired a door, and came out, so that there was no need to go around the Zuoyintai Gate to come to the front of the palace.

At this moment, a group of Praetorian Guards in front of the temple are bowing.

There were 800,000 forbidden troops in Bianliang, most of whom were stationed in the forbidden army garrison outside Bianliang City, and some of the forbidden troops were stationed at the border.

This part of the forbidden army stationed at the border is called the "food ban army", and it was originally sent out of the cantonment area in turn under the name of cantonment, stationing, and food.

During the reign of Song Zhenzong, Shaanxi, Hebei and other places set up permanent forbidden troops, and no longer returned to the Beijing division, but became a local army.

Therefore, in fact, the forbidden army in Bianliang is not as many as 800,000, and tens of thousands of forbidden troops are probably stationed in the imperial city and the outer Wengcheng.

These soldiers are not managed by generals, and they are all controlled by junior officers like Cao Ren, so that there will not be a situation where a general is in charge of an army of more than tens of thousands.

Cao Renzheng and another colleague of the palace front division gambled to make money, gambling on dice, and betting on the soldiers of their two teams.

Just as he was shouting, suddenly the soldiers of Cao Ren's team kicked a beautiful upside-down golden hook into the goal, and suddenly burst into shocking cheers.

"Give money and money, you can't run."

"Yanai is so powerful, your Keju team is worthy of its name, and you have served it."

"That's necessary, our team is invincible all over Bianliang."

"It seems that I won't be able to play with Yanai next time."

The losing side gives money in a hurry.

Although the Cao family is in decline, after all, they are also the number one nobles in the generals, and with the support of Queen Cao, ordinary nobles are really inferior to them.

Soon Cao Ren accepted the money, and when he was happy, he caught a glimpse of Zhao Jun coming from the Imperial City Bureau, so he hurriedly got up and said, "You guys play first, I have something to do." ”

As he spoke, he trotted over.

Zhao Jun also noticed Cao Ren coming, so he stood in place and waited for him.

"Chiji."

After Cao Ren came over, he bowed respectfully.

His eldest brother Cao Xiu was respectful to Zhao Jun, and he had also revealed Zhao Jun's background to him, knowing that the officials respected Zhao Jun very much, so he naturally did not dare to be presumptuous.

Zhao Jun asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cao Ren smiled bitterly: "It's not a matter of the military torture room. ”

"What happened to the military torture cell? Is there not enough prison cells? ”

Zhao Jun looked in the direction of the cell in the northeast, the military torture room of the front division of the palace was actually not that big, but because it was for the army, it was more than enough to lock up a few hundred people.

Cao Ren shook his head and said: "It's not a problem that there are fewer cells, the Han family and the Ma family have jointly sent someone to find my father, and they hope that my eldest brother can release him, or let our palace boss not lend the cell to you." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "What did Father Ling say?" ”

Cao Ren was puzzled: "My father also feels tricky, we people are noble in the eyes of outsiders, but in fact they are nothing in the eyes of others. My father wanted to talk to Chiji to see if he could have a charter. ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "It's okay, if nothing happens, the Han family and the Ma family can't run, you don't have to worry about them." I know that those officials in the court will impeach you, but you don't have to be afraid, I will carry it if something happens, if the official comes to you, you tell me, I will beat him. ”

"Oh."

Cao Ren nodded when he heard this, but suddenly he was in a trance, thinking that he had heard it wrong, he hesitated slightly, and then asked tentatively, "What will Zhiji go?" ”

"Will hit him."

Zhao Jun repeated it again.

This thing is not used to pretend, but the people in the worry-free cave are indeed angry with him.

If Zhao Zhen came to stop him, then it would be really no wonder that he beat the emperor three times, and then everyone broke up.

Cao Ren really heard this sentence this time, only to feel a chill rising behind him, and couldn't help but gasp.

I seem to have heard something terrible.

Someone in the entire Great Song Dynasty dared to beat the official family?

Queen Guo slapped the official family back then, what happened in the end?

If this word spreads and is known, Zhao Jun is afraid that ten heads will not be enough to cut off.

The problem is that people dare to say it in front of themselves, either they are really confident, or they are sick in the brain.

But it seems that Zhao Jun is not a fool, so it can only be the former.

This seems even more incredible.

No wonder his brother once warned himself that Zhao Jun's background is all over the world.

This is all over the world.

I'm afraid that the resurrection of the first emperor is nothing more than that.

Cao Yi froze for a moment.

Zhao Jun smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Your Cao family is very good, and the matter of the military torture room has been bothering you, I will find some ways to make money in the future, if your Cao family is interested, you can also join us." ”

After saying that, he turned his head and left.

Only Cao Ren was left messy in the wind, not knowing what he was thinking.

After Zhao Jun turned his head, he still kept a smile in the last second, and his face turned dark after turning around.

The Han family and the Ma family are moving fast enough.

As soon as those people were arrested at noon, they went to threaten the Cao family in the afternoon.

It is estimated that his identity has also been checked, but he can't find anything, and it's not good to find himself directly, so he went to find the Cao family.

I'm afraid that tomorrow morning, there will be another big trouble between the Imperial Observatory and the Imperial Academy.

But these have nothing to do with me for the time being.

The incriminating evidence given by Fan Zhongyan was basically those people in Kaifeng Mansion, and he only told Zhao Jun who was standing behind them, but he didn't catch those people taking bribes as a protective umbrella.

So now you can't move the Ma family and the Han family, but it won't be long before the two prime ministers' families of the Han family and the Ma family can't run away as long as the mouths of the people in Kaifeng Mansion are pried open.

Soon arrived at the military torture room, and as soon as he entered the door, Gu Maozhi rushed out with someone and almost hit Zhao Jun.

Seeing him in a hurry, Zhao Jun asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Chiji!"

Gu Maozhi hurriedly saluted and said: "The matter of the sect girl is already clear, and the lowly position is about to report to the governor." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun was surprised: "Liao Yu recruited so quickly? ”

Gu Maozhi said with a smile: "It was his subordinates who made a move, and he pulled out a nail, and he confessed it all." The man was imprisoned in the Liangzhenni Temple, watched by two old women. ”

"Well, you immediately take people to surround the Liangzheni Temple, and dig three feet into the ground to find people!"

Zhao Jun commanded.

"Yes."

Gu Mao knew what to do.

Zhao Jun continued to walk into the cell.

The cells are heavily guarded, and they have all been taken over by the Imperial City Division's forbidden army.

There are three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, each gate has guards, and the patrol soldiers patrol 24 hours a day in three shifts.

The more Zhao Jun walked inside, the screams of each of them began one after another, and when they arrived at the inner torture room, they saw Chen Zhong, the chief of the Imperial City, coming out of it, still holding stacks of papers in his hands.

"Chiji."

Chen Zhong bowed.

Zhao Jun asked, "Who is this torture?" ”

"A judicial officer from Kaifeng Mansion is called Zhan Wu."

"Recruited?"

"It's all recruited, and it's much more complete than the incriminating evidence given by the Zhiji."

"Well, send it back to the treasurer for safekeeping."

"By the way, Zhiji, what is Liao Yu's name, he has been clamoring to see you."

"Where is he?"

"I'll take Chiji there."

Chen Zhong led the way diligently.

Now Zhao Jun has confirmed the authority of the Imperial City Division.

After all, one Wang Shilong, as well as three civil officials of the Imperial City Division, and six commanders and envoys all let him be handed off, among which in addition to Wang Shilong, the other nine are all imprisoned here because of foreign enemies.

Chen Zhong went to see Li Bin and others before, and was whipped bloody, not only did all the proceeds from the sale of news confiscate, but they also had to be sentenced to exile, which was really miserable.

Zhao Jun nodded after listening to Chen Zhong's words, and then stood at the door of the torture room and glanced inside.

I saw that Zhan Wu in the torture room was hand-chained to a wooden pillar, his body was covered in bruises, and he was covered in blood, completely missing the appearance of joining the army with a high level of justice.

Zhao Jun didn't sympathize with this kind of person at all, because Fan Zhongyan gave him all the evidence of the other party's crimes, and any one of them was heinous.

For example, a relative of this judicial soldier opened a restaurant, and in order to crack down on his relative's rivals, he sent someone to detain the restaurant owner on trumped-up charges for two and a half years.

In the end, the family of the restaurant owner sold everything that should have been sold, and handed over the money to him before releasing the man.

There are also bribes from Sanssouci Cave and Guifan Building, delaying the case of those who sue the stolen children in the government, and shielding Sanssouci Cave, Guifan Lou and other gangsters.

There are even a few concubines in the family who are beautiful and beautiful on the street, and they are robbed by various means.

It can be said that in the eyes of the people at the bottom, this judicial soldier and the rest of his colleagues in Kaifeng Mansion are like a mountain pressing on the heads of those victimized people, making them bankrupt and even ruined, full of despair.

And now, these people will face despair.

Just like they do with the people at the bottom.

Zhao Jun followed Chen Zhong all the way to the depths of the cell.

After walking about fifty or sixty cells, he came to the door of a cell.

At this moment, there was a bloody man lying on the straw in the cell.

Liao Yu's ten fingers were cut off, his teeth were stripped off, and he was covered in blood.

Chen Zhong walked to the door and said, "Liao Yu, the prefect is here." ”

Liao Yu heard the voice, raised his head with difficulty, and then crawled to the door with his hands and feet, and looked up at Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun condescended and looked at him through the prison door.

Who would have thought that in less than twenty days, the last time we met on Nantang Street, it has become like this?

Liao Yu saw this opponent who didn't play according to the routine, and reluctantly smiled miserably: "Zhao Jun? ”

The teeth are gone, and the speech is leaky, making the voice a little slurred.

Zhao Jun looked at him coldly and said, "I heard that you have something to look for me?" ”

"I just want to know, where did I lose?"

Liao Yu asked.

He prides himself on being a smart man, and the methods he uses are also tactics that ordinary people can hardly handle.

Why can Zhao Jun not play his cards according to the routine, completely ignore his conspiracy and tricks, and ignore any officialdom rules, and arrest people in the court?

"First of all, you're a beast, and it's my job to catch you."

Zhao Jun looked down at him and said softly: "Secondly, you are still a thing that is inferior to a beast, and in the face of absolute power, any conspiracy is useless. Finally, and most importantly, pay attention in the next life and do less bad things. ”

"Oh."

He paused slightly, and said: "You may not have the next life, even if there is an underworld in this world, you should be a beast in the next life, and you may not even be able to be a beast." ”

Liao Yu is not only the umbrella behind Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower, but also opens gambling houses and dental shops, and many women in the city are missing, which are abducted and sold by his men to become prostitutes. In addition, he also obstructed the people from reporting the crime, and indulged his subordinates to bully, beat and even kill the people.

How many wives and wives of the people of Bianliang have been harmed under his hands, and he is considered to be promoted if he is heinous.

Next.

I guess I can't even be a brute.

(End of chapter)