In the Song Dynasty, there was no law or order.

The chaos in Laoya Lane lasted for more than an hour, and Li Dewen was dragged out like a dead dog.

Also coming out with him were hundreds of thousands of dollars plundered from home, a large amount of gold and silver jewelry, and several young girls of twelve or thirteen years old.

The most important reason why he chose to operate on Li Dewen first was that he was not cautious.

There is actually no shortage of women in Bianliang officials. Whether they want to marry or go out for prostitution, they have plenty of ways to do it. There is no need to imprison some women in particular, as this in itself is prone to big problems.

But since there was human trafficking in ancient times, there were naturally various demands.

For example, some officials have special hobbies. They don't like brothel girls to be tasted by thousands of people, but prefer young yellow-flower girls. That's not something ordinary people can get.

Therefore, using underground evil forces has become one of the methods commonly used by these powerful people.

In the first year of Jingyou's reign, Fan Zhongyan was transferred to Kaifeng Mansion. At that time, many families of abducted girls came to report the case. Fan Zhongyan secretly investigated and discovered the problem of Guifan Tower, but he was faced with difficulties in continuing to delve deeper.

Later, he eliminated some cancers in Kaifeng Prefecture and had some capable people under his command. Only then did he slowly investigate that the incident was related to Kaifeng Prefecture officials such as Han Yuan, Liu Yuanzhi, Ma Yi, and Gao Dingyi.

It's just that although he had the power to know the Kaifeng Mansion at that time, he was a wandering official. The county magistrate was not as good as the current one. Even if some cancers were eliminated, there were still many people below who were working in secret. It was almost impossible to take down the mastermind behind the scenes, so he could only do it secretly. The investigation cannot give the people a bright and sunny day.

Now that Zhao Jun has used the sword of the Imperial City Division, Fan Zhongyan gave Zhao Jun all the things he investigated. Zhao Jun had these things as a basis for confidence, plus the mutual confirmation from the investigations by the spies under the Imperial City Division, It was determined that there were many women hiding in Li Dewen's home.

If you catch a thief and take away the stolen goods, the money is nothing. In the Song Dynasty, there had never been any crime of unexplaining the origin of huge amounts of property, but these women were almost certain to kill Li Dewen. As long as they had their confessions and their families could sue, Li Dewen would not be killed.

At this moment, Zhao Jun was still sitting on the second floor of the restaurant, eating and drinking calmly.

The dishes were cold. Song Cai and the others didn't bother to use their chopsticks. They all looked outside in shock. It wasn't until the people from the Imperial City Department escorted dozens of people from Li's house away that they came back to their senses and sat down. Return to your seat.

"Brothers, why don't you eat? I've almost finished eating."

Zhao Jun wiped his mouth and said with a smile.

One of them shook his head and said: "The Imperial City Division is too arrogant and domineering. The judicial officer of Kaifeng Mansion joined the army and was captured by them like this?"

"And they dare to use forbidden army crossbows to kill people in the street. It's terrible. I'm afraid the entire morning will be in turmoil tomorrow, and countless officials will go to Zazi to impeach Zhao Jun."

"I heard that Li Dewen has always oppressed good people. When people complain to him, he has to pay for it. His official reputation among the people is not very good. It is not a bad thing if the Imperial City Secretary arrests him. Why do the ministers of the government and the opposition insist on it? Stand up for him?"

"Haha, you don't know this, right? Li Dewen's ancestors served as military envoys, so he was able to serve as a minister. He has a cousin who is now a magistrate in other places. He also served as an admonishment officer in the past. He has many friends in the admonition courtyard. Hello, it must be a follower like clouds."

"Then isn't this Zhao Jun going to be miserable?"

"I guess so."

Several people were talking about it. Seeing that Zhao Jun was silent, Song Cai asked curiously: "Brother Hanlong, I see you are protected by the imperial army. Could it be that you are from a certain government office? Do you know something?"

Everyone also looked over.

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "I know something. This Li Dewen not only accepts bribes, but also supports thugs to do evil. There are Wuyou Cave, Ghost Fan Tower and the like under Bianliang. You should have heard of it."

"well."

Hearing this sentence, one of them sighed and said: "I have a relative who is just a poor man doing small business on the street. One time, his young son went out with him on the street. Suddenly, he disappeared and everyone around him heard that It was said that he was abducted by a woman and taken to Wuyou Cave. From then on, he never saw anyone or his body. "

"Wuyoudong and Guifanlou have to pay an unknown amount of money to Kaifeng Mansion every year, and Li Dewen is one of the participants. Moreover, he is fond of girls aged twelve or thirteen, and often makes people from Wuyoudong and Guifanlou People kidnapped girls for his own pleasure.”

After Zhao Jun finished speaking, he looked around at the crowd and said, "You guys say, should such a person die?"

After listening to this, several scholars were greatly shocked. Although Song Cai was relatively unskilled, he was quite righteous. After hearing this, he became angry and said, "I just said that Wuyou Cave and Guifan Tower have remained standing all these years. It turns out that there are officials behind them." Support me, this Li Dewen is really unworthy of death!"

"It's a pity. Then Zhao Jun is still too reckless. It would be better if he collects evidence and reports it. Now if he does it directly and kills people in the street, the husband of the whole court will probably go crazy."

Some people sighed and shook their heads.

They are local candidates from Bianliang. They are able to study and come from a decent family. They are not second generation rich but they are from well-off families, so they naturally know some inside information.

The Forbidden Army sounds majestic, but when walking on the street, you may be spat at and scolded for being a traitor to the army. In fact, their status is very low.

Although Zhao Zhen gave the Imperial City Secretary the power of life and death, the Imperial City Imperial Guard, who once had a low status, suddenly rose up and killed people in Kaifeng Mansion on the street. The princes of the whole dynasty would never let it go, and there must be something wrong. action.

This is not to protect Li Dewen, but to suppress the Forbidden Army. After all, he dares to kill people today. Who knows whether he will dare to rebel tomorrow?

"Then tell me, what should Zhao Jun do now?"

Zhao Jun asked with a smile.

"this"

Everyone looked at each other. At most they knew the inside story, but how could they know how the people above them fought?

An older scholar asked, "Does Brother Hanlong know about it?"

"Um."

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded: "Because this matter will cause a big fuss, in order to stop Youyou from talking, Zhao Jun must act vigorously and resolutely, immediately find out all the evidence, present the facts, and stop the mouths of all the princes in the court."

"This is indeed a good idea, but if they hide it so deeply, can they find evidence of guilt?"

Song Cai asked.

Zhao Jun stood up and said with a smile: "I can find it."

Found it long ago.

Although Fan Zhongyan gave himself only the tip of the iceberg that he had uncovered during the year and a half he had been in charge of Kaifeng Mansion, he had retained a lot of personal and material evidence.

Zhao Jun's delay in taking action now is just to clean up the family.

"Chiji!"

Commander Wang, who was in charge of leading the team, went upstairs, raised his hands to Zhao Jun and said, "Li Dewen's house has been ransacked."

"Um."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "Go and meet him."

With that said, Song Cai and others looked at each other in shock, and left Qingfeng Tower, leaving only a mess of people behind them.

Zhi. Zhisi?

Song Cai and others looked at each other, and all of them shrank their necks.

Good guy.

Zhao Hanlong, who is a close brother to me and a good brother to me, is the Chief Secretary of the Imperial City Division?

After leaving Qingfeng Tower, Zhao Jun went to the Imperial City Division without stopping.

At this time, the Imperial City Division had arrested many people. During this period, the Kaifeng Mansion became indifferent. The disputes on the street were basically handled by the Imperial City Imperial Guards. Many cases went to the Donghua Gate to complain.

Kaifeng Governor Dingdu was deceived by the people below, thinking that the Imperial City Division had taken away their power to handle the case. He had been making noises with Zhao Zhen all day long these days, making the city now full of smoke.

Zhao Zhen also sent people to ask Zhao Jun several times, but Zhao Jun dismissed them all because the time had not come. He left Gongyuan today to eliminate the cancer in Kaifeng.

About an hour later, Zhao Jun saw Li Dewen in the Sijun torture room in front of the palace behind Si Chengtian Gate in the imperial city.

The torture room was very dark. This was a military torture room that Zhao Jun borrowed through the Cao family. There were various torture instruments in it. Since the Imperial City Division had no interrogation rights, there were naturally no torture experts, but there were people who could not stop him.

At this moment, Cao Xiu was standing aside, and next to him there was a young man who looked exactly like him, looking at Zhao Jun.

This person is Cao Ren, Cao Xiu's younger brother.

Cao Ren served in the Dianqian Division and was in charge of the government office of the Dianqian Division. Among the 800,000 Imperial Guards in Bianliang, people who broke the law and made troubles were often brought here for punishment. Naturally, he had people under his command who were punished.

Zhao Jun looked at Li Dewen. Li Dewen was tied to a torture device, with a bruised nose and a swollen face. Apparently, when the Imperial City Secretary broke into his house before, there was a conflict between the two parties when he stopped him.

"Are you Zhao Jun?"

Li Dewen was beaten so dizzy before that he slowly recovered. He raised his head and saw Zhao Jun, and immediately guessed his identity.

Zhao Jun threw a piece of information on the table next to him and said with a smile: "Li Dewen, please explain yourself."

"Pooh!"

Li Dewen spat at him, but fortunately Zhao Jun was far away and easily avoided.

"It doesn't matter if you don't explain."

Zhao Jun looked at the information on the table and said: "In the first year of Tianxi, you became a family official and became an official in the government. Once while drinking, you beat someone to death in the street. Later, you were suppressed by your father. In the third year of Tianxi, you helped Your friend settled a matter and gave you 500 guan, which you later used to blackmail him, totaling 4000 to 5000 guan. In the first year of Qianxing, you became a military inspector and met Wu. People from Youdong, from now on they will help you catch young women for your entertainment."

As Zhao Jun told what Li Dewen had done one by one, his expression became extremely ugly.

The information records more than 20 cases of Li Dewen, large and small. He was not careful in his actions, and many things can be found. Although not all of them, most of them can be found.

Moreover, when Fan Zhongyan initially investigated, he found many witnesses and physical evidence. For example, Li Dewen's friend was almost bankrupted after being blackmailed. Even if his previous crimes were exposed, he was willing to go to jail instead of being blackmailed by him.

Among them, the crime of accepting bribes is the lowest crime, and there is also the crime of murder, injuring people in Bianliang by riding horses, forcing people's families to die through loan sharking, embezzling public funds from Kaifeng Prefecture, colluding with Wuyoudong and Guifanlou to collect women for his pleasure, Open gambling rooms to extort money from the people, and help some rich and powerful people to settle cases, leaving the victims with nowhere to redress their grievances.

The content is so full of bad things that it is difficult to write down.

Li Dewen listened to Zhao Jun read everything out, and interrupted with a loud roar: "What's the use of saying this? Do you have any evidence? Don't think that after my father is dead, I have no one in the court. If you dare to arrest me, tomorrow I will go to court." The civil and military officials in the hall will definitely let you die without a burial place."

"hehe."

Zhao Jun sneered: "You should think about yourself first. Who did you bribe? Who are your protectors? Recruit them all to avoid suffering."

"hehe."

Li Dewen also sneered in return.

He is arrogant and domineering, but he is not a fool.

How is it possible to provide a protective umbrella?

However, when Zhao Jun saw his look, he suddenly laughed: "Do you think someone can save you, you know? You think you can survive because you think some rules can be applied to me, thinking that I I can be constrained by these rules, but you don't know that I don't like this feeling of being constrained, so I don't have any worries when doing things. What if the princes of the dynasty impeach me? Is there any way? I have all the evidence of the crimes of Liu Zhiyuan, Ma Yi, Gao Dingyi and others in Kaifeng Prefecture, but I didn’t take action immediately. Do you know why? "

"Why?"

Li Dewen asked subconsciously.

"Because there are a lot of moths in the Imperial City Division, I deliberately put down the news just to get rid of these moths, so you are just my way of cleaning up the Imperial City Division. You think our Imperial City Division doesn't dare to take people casually, but you don't I know not to mention taking people, even if I kill you, it doesn’t matter.”

Zhao Jun smiled and said: "As long as I get all your criminal evidence and put the facts in front of those people, I can slap them in the face. Come on, cut off one of his fingers, he won't Just cut slowly."

"you dare!"

Li Dewen's eyes were filled with tears.

The execution officers in the military execution room brought by Cao Ren around him all looked at each other in shock.

Although they are responsible for punishing the forbidden soldiers who break the law, how can they cut off someone's fingers when they come up? In the past, weren't they all beaten with military sticks and the like?

"No one is going?"

Zhao Jun turned back coldly and glanced at everyone. Li Dewen, let alone chopping off his fingers, had committed murder, arson, corruption, perversion of law, and abduction and trafficking of women over the years. It would have been enough for him to be executed without mercy.

"Chisi."

Later, Li Bin and others who were usually in charge of official documents in the Imperial City Office were also present. Among them, Zhou Wenyan hesitated and said: "If there is no conclusive evidence, I am afraid that such punishment will be carried out."

"There is a lot of evidence that Li Dewen was careless in his actions. The victim's family just had no way to accuse him. It's not that they didn't want to accuse him. Now I have given them a way. There must be more witnesses and physical evidence."

Zhao Jun smiled and patted Zhou Wenyan on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, you may not be able to save your fingers later. Come on, arrest Li Bin, Zhou Wenyan, and Yu Ji."

"Chiji!"

The three of them were stunned. Before they could react, they were held down by Di Qing and others around them.

Then the commander Wang Ze came forward and escorted the three of them away.

Wang He and Chen Zhong were left looking at each other, both secretly frightened, guessing that Zhi Si might be serious about it.

"ah!"

At this moment, Liu Qing, a member of the five-person team, had already taken the torture instrument from the table, pressed Li Dewen's finger and cut it off.

The screams spread throughout the entire prison room in front of the palace, almost scaring the prisoners in the surrounding cells to the point of peeing.

Zhao Jun said indifferently: "Li Dewen, no one can protect you. You are dead, but what you have done is not too much to have two sons. If you want to leave a seed, or want someone to accompany you on the road to hell, you can kill your accomplices." It’s all been explained. Don’t try to hide it, I know much better than you do.”

After saying that, he didn't bother to talk to this person anymore, turned around and left.

Now that we are officially starting to take action, we must solve the problem quickly. First deal with the borers inside the Imperial City Division, and then take action against the remaining people.

At that time, there were more than 70 officials involved in the Zhao Jian case. Song Zhenzong was furious and dealt with many of them.

But that's not enough.

Zhao Jun planned to use this time to poke holes in Bianliang, and seek justice for the people of Bianliang who had been tortured by them over the years.