After Zhao Zhen thoroughly investigated Kaifeng Mansion and withdrew the preferential treatment given to corrupt officials since the first emperor Song Zhenzong, the news quickly spread throughout Bianliang.

In the streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants, there are discussions everywhere, expressing their praise for the wisdom of the Son of Heaven.

The people of Bianliang have been suffering for a long time.

In history, it took them twenty years to wait for a Bao Zheng, but now there is a Zhao Jun, and it is true that he has taken 20 years less detours.

After Fan Zhongyan returned to Kaifeng Mansion, he immediately rectified the rule of officials, and investigated what should be investigated and punished according to the will.

Without Zhao Zhen's protection, and without the high-ranking officials and magnates behind him as backers, Fan Zhongyan quickly took control of the entire situation and cooperated with the Imperial City Division to arrest a large number of lower-level officials and officials of Kaifeng Mansion.

The Imperial City Division was originally also a behemoth, with more than 5,000 people, of which 3,000 were Praetorian Guard soldiers and more than 2,000 were spies, and seven or eight hundred were cleaned up one after another.

Kaifeng Prefecture is also quite large, with thousands of people, and their level of corruption is even worse, at least two-thirds of them have been corrupted, and the few remaining people are still the team left behind by Fan Zhongyan a few months ago.

Relying on these teams, Fan Zhongyan and Zhao Jun cleaned up their respective subordinates. As a result, there are quite a few people in the Imperial City Division and Kaifeng Mansion who are short of manpower, and there is a serious shortage of officials and servants below.

Now the Kaifeng Mansion and the palace prison are almost overcrowded.

However, it is a good thing to clean up these filths, Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division are now much more efficient, and the security in various parts of Bianliang City has also been significantly improved, and even the Sanssouci Cave and the Ghost Fan Tower are shrunk underground and dare not come out.

On the morning of September 5, Zhao Jun set off for Kaifeng Mansion to talk to Fan Zhongyan about something.

Unlike the last time when thousands of soldiers were brought in a mighty way, this time it was Di Qing and a few people and more than a hundred secret spies around him who protected him, and he still walked, which made Zhao Jun hate that he didn't have time to learn to ride a horse.

West Point Tower Street is still as lively as ever, the difference is that the order on the street is much better, and people can walk through the street, and everywhere they can exclaim.

"Look, it's Zhao Zhisi, the Imperial City Division."

"This is that Zhao Zhisi? I'm so young, I didn't expect to be so talented. ”

"I heard that he is related to the clan, and he is a clan talent specially selected by His Majesty, and he was promoted in order to rectify the increasingly degenerate Kaifeng Mansion."

"The Zhisi is so handsome, and the slave family is willing to marry the Zhisi."

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Zhao Jun ignored the bustle on the street, the Imperial City Division became famous for sweeping away Kaifeng Mansion, and now not to mention those Xiaoxiao, even the sons and daughters of those high-ranking officials and nobles in Bianliang, when they saw him in the Gaomen Ya, they also retreated and hid far away.

In fact, Bianliang really didn't have any trouble at will, at least Zhao Jun hadn't met him for so many days. The two of the Ma family and Han Zong of the Han family can also be regarded as Yanei, but they have all been cleaned up.

Because the notoriety of the Yanai mainly comes from "Water Margin" and Yuan miscellaneous dramas, in the real history of the Song Dynasty, the scholar class attaches great importance to the character of the descendants, and there are not so many "evil" Yanei in life, especially in the Renzong Dynasty, the family rules of those scholars are quite strict.

For example, Fan Zhongyan has "Yizhuang Rules", Sima Guang has "Family Fan", Bao Zheng has "Family Motto", Huang Tingjian has "Family Ring", Yuan Cai has "Yuan's Shifan" and so on. Unless those people in the government have their hands and eyes in the sky enough to revise the history books, there are indeed few records in the official history of the Yanai's rampant and domineering deeds and evil deeds.

Soon Zhao Jun went all the way to the Kaifeng Mansion, and when the officials at the gate of the Yamen saw him, they were first shocked, and then a government official hurriedly came up and showed a flattering smile and said: "The villain sees the Zhisi." ”

"Well, I'm looking for Xiwen Gong."

Zhao Jun nodded.

Now the officials of Kaifeng Mansion are all left over from the original catastrophe, basically all of them are the team when Fan Zhongyan left Kaifeng Mansion, relying on this group of people, Lao Fan should be able to rebuild Kaifeng Mansion soon.

The official of the government noddled and stretched out his hand and said: "Please know the department, Fu Yin will handle the case in the main hall, and the villain will go to Tongyu first." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Jun stepped in.

The guards behind him followed.

The people of Kaifeng Mansion dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so they could only let them in.

Fortunately, Kaifeng Mansion is big enough, but it can't accommodate so many people.

Under the guidance of the official affairs of the government, Zhao Jun first came to the east hall on the right side of the main hall and waited.

Not long after, Fan Zhongyan entered the hall with a tired face, did not speak to Zhao Jun, and sat directly on the chair, his body as if he had been hollowed out.

"Old Fan, you can't do it with this body. Do you want my Liuwei Dihuang Pill, if it is kidney yang deficiency, I still have Jinkui Kidney Qi Pill. ”

Zhao Jun made a joke when he saw him.

Fan Zhong glanced at him and said, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

Zhao Jun said: "Now that the Imperial City Division and Kaifeng Mansion are short of manpower, I plan to recruit some people, what about you?" ”

"Hmm."

Fan Zhongyan nodded and said, "I also plan to recruit some people." ”

"I'm afraid that the Imperial City Division and Kaifeng Mansion will recruit people on a large scale, and people from Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower may mix in and act as undercover agents to find out the news."

Zhao Jun said.

Fan Zhongyan sighed: "Yes, this time the manpower gap is indeed too big, at least thousands of people must be recruited, although if you want to enter the public gate, you will inevitably find out your identity, but for those people, it is not difficult to forge your identity." ”

In those days, there was no nationwide networked household registration system, and it was too easy to forge a foreign identity in Bianliang. What's more, even if all the locals of Bianliang are recruited, it doesn't mean that there are no ghosts inside.

Sanssouci Cave and Guifan Tower, as well as a large number of Bianliang underground gangsters, have intricate relationships among the locals, and many of the citizens of Bianliang are ostensibly ordinary people, so maybe they may be their people.

Now the Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division are only clearing the internal tumors, and if they want to wipe out the tumors below, they must increase their manpower, otherwise it is impossible to attack them at all.

But as long as those people are not stupid, they will definitely take this opportunity to send people to infiltrate Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division, if there is an internal response, I am afraid it will be difficult to eliminate them.

"Moreover, a large number of underworld forces such as Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower are entrenched underground, even if they recruit enough manpower, it may not be easy to defeat them, maybe we can only think of other ways."

Zhao Jun said with a deep groan.

"Is there anything you can do?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

Zhao Jun said: "I have been thinking hard these days, and I have thought of some ways, but if I want to completely eradicate it, I still need the right time, place and people. ”

"You say."

Fan Zhongyan sat up straight.

Zhao Jun said: "This person is to mobilize the masses, and these people are difficult to clean up because they are entrenched in the people. If we can win the hearts of the people and have the government to support the people, I believe that most of the people who are bullied by them are willing to contribute to the government and provide us with news. ”

Fan Zhongyan pondered: "You mean to post a notice?" ”

"Hmm."

"I'm afraid it's hard."

"Why?"

Zhao Jun was puzzled.

Fan Zhongyan said: "People are afraid of things, and for most people, it is common sense to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The government doesn't do anything to people who haven't sinned, but those people are different. What if I go to sue the government during the day and get retaliated against at night? So I don't think it's going to be very effective. ”

"Hmm"

Zhao Jun thought for a moment, and said with a smile: "There is a way." ”

"Oh?"

Fan Zhongyan said: "Let's hear it. ”

Zhao Jun smiled evilly and said: "During the day, we will put up notices, and at night we will have people tear these notices down, and then we will distribute notices throughout the city, threatening them with the mouths of Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower, saying that if anyone dares to provide their information to the government, they will immediately send someone to retaliate." ”

Fan Zhongyan frowned and said, "Aren't the people even more afraid to report to the official?" ”

"It was definitely like that at first."

Zhao Jun said: "You only need to do it a few more times, and threaten with the oral kisses of the Sanssouci Cave and the Ghost Fan Building." After that, from the prison cell in front of the palace, those people in the Sanssouci Cave and the Ghost Fan Tower were beheaded in public and displayed to the public, and more publicized that the government would protect the people. It is better to tighten the ban on the whole city, and every street must be patrolled by soldiers at all times to give the people a sense of security. ”

"I don't know what it can do."

"We can't solve them by our strength alone, we have to rely on the people. But if the contradiction cannot be resolved alone, then the contradiction will be exacerbated. ”

"Exacerbate the conflict?"

Fan Zhongyan had heard of explanations such as contradictions from Zhao Jun before, but he really didn't know much about this thing.

"Yes."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "The threat of Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower will pick the bottom line of the people of Bianliang again and again. Let the people of Bianliang be in a state of panic, which will make the people feel that only the days without those underground underworld forces are good days. At this time, if the government executes their people in public, it will make the people feel that the government and the Imperial City Division will become their backers. ”

"I see."

Fan Zhongyan was able to get through at one point, and immediately said excitedly: "When the time comes, the people of Bianliang will definitely actively provide news in order to destroy those people. ”

"Exactly."

Zhao Jun laughed, Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division, directed and acted by themselves, will only completely break the hands and feet of Sanssouci Cave and Ghost Fan Tower on the ground, and the forces hidden in the people will also be uprooted.

"But at most, it's going to make the rats disappear from the ground, and what if they all hide underground?"

Fan Zhongyan was still worried.

Zhao Jun's method is indeed feasible, but the Sanssouci Cave and the Ghost Fan Tower, as well as the base camps of many underworld forces, are all hidden in the depths of Bianliang's dozens of square kilometers underground.

There are many pipelines there, dark and intricate, and even the Great Song Imperial Palace does not have a map below.

Because the underground water system of Bianliang had been built as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was only a large-scale expansion and repair work in the Song Dynasty.

Not even to mention the Great Song Palace, maybe even the gutter rats that inhabit it don't know the complete road, at least Zhao Jun tortured those people from the underworld forces, they only know the terrain of the branch they are in, and they don't know the complete terrain at all.

"yes."

Zhao Jun sighed and said: "So the location is actually not on our side, but we can only try to fight for it, do you know why I haven't taken action to clean up those gangs on the ground?" ”

"Why?"

Fan Zhongyan was also a little puzzled.

In addition to the Sanssouci Cave and the Ghost Fan Tower, there are actually many gangs on the ground of Bianliang.

These people formed associations in groups of three or five, more than a dozen people set up clubs, and some even took the township party as the call, and dozens or hundreds of people ran rampant and domineering. There are also communities composed of foreigners, huddling together in a foreign country to keep warm.

It stands to reason that these people are also the targets of Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division, but these days, the Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division have only swept away the officialdom and some underworld forces, and have not carried out a city-wide crackdown on the gangsters.

I heard Zhao Jun say: "I have sent people to win over some gangs that have a good style on weekdays, many of them are just township party groups to prevent being bullied, and they were still law-abiding in the past, so I don't plan to kill them, when the time comes, we can launch a severe crackdown in the whole city and force a large number of gang members to the ground, and these people will become our internal response." ”

"Oh?"

Fan Zhongyan was overjoyed and said: "Is there still this way? ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded: "They will send people to lurk in Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial City Division, can't we send people down?" I believe that many gangs in the city are in collusion with those people below, and even many gangs are gangs of those people below. ”

Fan Zhongyan thought for a while and said, "If this is the case, we should be able to find out the details below, and maybe we can really send someone to clean up the cancer that has been entrenched in Bianliang for nearly a hundred years." ”

Zhao Jun's face was not very happy, but said: "Don't be too happy, according to the people we caught in the Sanssouci Cave and the Ghost Fan Tower, the following is more complicated than we imagined, not only the Worry-free Cave and the Ghost Fan Tower, but the rest of the forces are afraid that there are dozens of large and small forces, and there are tens of thousands of people, most of whom are victims. ”

"Hours?"

Fan Zhongyan asked tentatively.

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun responded and said: "If you want to completely eradicate this tumor, you can only wait for Bianliang to rise again." ”

Fan Zhongyan said: "There are often floods in Bianliang, and it is easy to rise the water, but even if the bottom is flooded, we will be flooded above, so how can we have the extra strength to clear the ground?" ”

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "With the combination of geography and people, we can master most of the passages in and out below, control these passages, and once the time comes, just come out and catch one by one?" And doesn't the government have a ship? ”

Fan Zhongyan suddenly came to his senses, and said thoughtfully: "I know, in the past, I couldn't use the time of heaven to exterminate those people, because they could escape to the earth when the flood came. With their forces entrenched on the ground, and Kaifeng Mansion has their internal responses, they can naturally avoid being tracked. But now that there is no Kaifeng Mansion and the forces on the ground have been cleared, they have no place to survive outside! ”

"Exactly."

Zhao Jun said: "If you want to deal with these people, it is not realistic to rely solely on strong attacks, and you still have to outwit them. ”

Fan Zhongyan said in surprise: "I didn't expect you to be much smarter now, at least smarter than when I first met." ”

Zhao Jun also rolled his eyes at Fan Zhongyan and said, "I've always been very smart, okay." And this is actually learning from the experience of my predecessors, and it is not my own way. ”

Stimulating contradictions was learned by watching a movie before, isn't Huang Shilang in it just like the evil forces entrenched under the feet of the people of Bianliang?

Sending undercover agents also learned from a movie, I didn't have a choice before, now I just want to be a good person.

As for waiting for the flood.

It was he who remembered that he used to study history and watch the kind of tunnels dug in siege warfare, and the tunnels were often flooded.

And Bianliang itself has such a situation, every time the Yellow River floods, it will bring a flood to Bianliang, so it is better to take advantage of this time to strike hard below.

"Alright."

After Zhao Jun talked to Fan Zhongyan about these things, he got up and said: "Then I'll go back and prepare first, I'm still recruiting people, and I'll post notices everywhere in two days, ready to do it below." ”

"Hmm."

Fan Zhongyan nodded and said, "Then I'll do a good job of announcing in advance." ”

"Gone."

Zhao Jun waved his hand and left Kaifeng Mansion.

(End of chapter)