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

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, more than 600 people, secretly selling 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 five thousand 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 who undermine the authority of our Imperial City should be punished!"

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. , personal evidence, 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 and drag me down! "

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 horizontally!"

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 associates, each of whom had three or five close friends, knew that Zhao Jun was serious about coming and persuaded some of them, most of the spies in the Imperial City Division would have been caught by their own people first.

So facing such a situation, Cao Xiu was embarrassed. 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 scared that they dared not breathe. Fortunately, they were timid before and did not stand on the wrong team, otherwise they would probably end up like Li Bin, Zhou Wenyan, Yu Ji and others.

Zhao Jun looked around and said, "The mission of the Imperial City Division is to eliminate the scoundrels and return a bright and sunny sky to Bianliang. In the future, not only Bianliang, but also the entire Song Dynasty will be full of official eyes and ears. You should do your own work first, and soon the Imperial City Division will be on the right track."

"Yes."

Everyone hurriedly bowed and agreed.

Then Zhao Jun dealt with some other things before leaving.

At this moment, Kaifeng Prefecture was in chaos.

Li Dewen was suddenly arrested, and the remaining Liu Yuanzhi, Liao Yu, Zhang Pengfei, Zhan Wu and others were panicked.

They never expected that Zhao Jun was so unethical that he arrested the seventh-rank judicial officer of Kaifeng Prefecture directly, almost without taking Kaifeng Prefecture seriously.

Everyone gathered to discuss, and then, at the suggestion of Liao Yu, Liu Yuanzhi immediately took the lead to find the other two prosecutors, Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi.

In the back room of the right hall of Kaifeng Prefecture, 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, several people hid in the hall of Kaifeng Prefecture with the doors and windows tightly closed.

Soon Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi were also invited. Since Kaifeng Prefecture directly managed the entire Bianliang, the government indirectly made money through underground evil forces, but there would definitely be times when the benefits were unevenly distributed, so the two factions were different and there were often disputes within.

But now that the enemy was at hand, Liu Yuanzhi could not care about anything else, so he could only invite the other two to come and discuss together.

Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi have also been troubled by the affairs of the Imperial City Bureau these days. Zhao Jun is not only investigating Liu Yuanzhi and others, but also them and the people behind them, so they immediately agreed to Liu Yuanzhi and came to discuss countermeasures.

Everyone sat in the house. Liu Yuanzhi looked around and said, "You all know the situation. Li Dewen is now arrested. Although this guy is reckless, he also knows what to say and what not to say. So for the time being, we can still rest assured for a few days, but no one can guarantee whether the Imperial City Bureau will continue to arrest people. Think of a solution."

"Who exactly is this Zhao Jun? He is really rampant. I have already told my brother that I will ask many colleagues in the Censorate to impeach him together and must let the government dismiss him. As long as this person loses the power of the Imperial City Bureau, he will be in charge at that time. We slaughter him?"

"What a joke! If this man can be dismissed so easily, why should we worry so much? Do you think the government cares about the petitions from the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance these days? Obviously, there may be some intentions from the government behind this. Let's think of other ways."

"Then what can we do? This man suddenly started to arrest people. The sky of Bianliang was almost poked by him, but the ministers in the court were silent. Only the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance wrote to impeach him. Even my brother thought that this matter was strange. With such power, tell me what other ways are there?"

Several people were at a loss.

Zhao Jun's actions were tacitly approved by Zhao Zhen. As long as Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others wanted him to participate in the imperial examination, they finally gritted their teeth and dared not stop him.

These people are insiders. They know that there are too many drawbacks in the Song Dynasty now, so they don't ask for much. They just hope to keep the basic foundation of the entire officialdom. As for some corrupt officials, they can be abandoned if they can be abandoned. It is better than Zhao Jun really dismissing the entire officialdom.

Moreover, since Zhao Jun had already revealed the future of the Song Dynasty, Lü Yijian and his men did not dare to make any moves.

The Ming Dynasty scholars dared to fool the emperor because the emperor did not directly hold military power. The Song Dynasty emperor was different. He firmly held the military power of the 800,000 imperial guards in Bianliang.

The civil officials of the Song Dynasty only dared to threaten the emperor, but did not dare to really attack the emperor. So let’s not say that these people are not so crazy. There are still some upright officials among them. Even if they are crazy, they can only hold back.

Lü Yijian, Wang Zeng and other three ministers and three counselors remained silent. The other senior officials of the Privy Council, the Three Provinces, the Six Ministries, the Court of Criminal Justice, and the Three Departments in the court, such as Xia Song, Chen Yaozuo, Jia Changchao, Wang Gongchen, Zhang Dexiang, Chen Zhizhong, Liu Yuanyu, Li Zi, Wang Deyong, Han Yi, Cheng Lin, etc., also had various reactions.

Some people continued to write letters to impeach, while others chose to do nothing when they saw that the wind was not right.

The most fierce among them were the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance. Seeing that the three ministers and three counselors did nothing, they attacked the Imperial City Department while impeaching the prime minister. Memorials flew to the Political Affairs Hall like snowflakes.

They fully verified a sentence.

If you don't attack the Imperial City Department, then we will attack you.

So Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian were very busy these days. On the one hand, they had to deal with the crazy attacks of the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance, and on the other hand, they had to suppress all the things and not drag Zhao Jun's feet.

That is, Zhao Jun made a lot of promises to them during the period when he was blind, and he also CPUed everyone crazily. If it were someone else, I'm afraid he would have been removed long ago.

The current situation is that Zhao Jun did not follow the so-called procedural justice of the Song Dynasty, that is, the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance impeached someone for corruption, and then the emperor ordered an investigation and then dismissed the official.

Instead, he took another path, directly collecting evidence from the people, and then arresting people directly after having evidence, without going through the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance. This arrogance and brutality frightened these officials and made them panic.

Liu Yuanzhi saw that everyone was worried, so he said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, everyone. Yesterday, a princess was kidnapped at Xuande Gate. The princess came to Kaifeng Prefecture to report to the authorities. We said that now Bianliang City is under the jurisdiction of the Imperial City Division, and we have pushed the matter to the Imperial City Division."

"What's the use?"

Ma Yi frowned and said: "There are hundreds of missing people in Kaifeng Prefecture who are not found every year. Even if a princess is missing, the government will be furious and will implicate our Kaifeng Prefecture. If they are not doing well, how can we be?"

The Imperial City Division only has patrols and inquiries, and the recent power of arrest, interrogation, and trial is just an additional power. Unlike Kaifeng Prefecture, it has an unshirkable responsibility for the public security of Kaifeng Prefecture, that is, the first person responsible. Now Kaifeng Prefecture is not doing anything, and they are the ones who are unlucky if they report it.

Liu Yuanzhi smiled and said, "The disappearance of the daughter of the clan is a big case. If the clan members go to the government to make trouble, the government will definitely order us and the Imperial City Division to solve the case within a time limit. The Imperial City Division can't find the person. If we can find her, doesn't it prove that the Imperial City Division is a bunch of good-for-nothings?"

"Oh?"

Ma Yi and Gao Dingyi looked at each other and understood a little bit in their hearts. They had to sigh that Liu Yuanzhi was really bold and dared to even take action against the daughter of the clan.

"But we can't count on these. If the government is determined to support the Imperial City Division, I'm afraid they can't be brought down."

Liao Yu thought, "We must think of other ways."

"What way?"

Zhan Wu asked.

Liao Yu thought about it and said, "This matter still needs to be handled by Ding Fuyin."

"The Fuyin has talked to you gentlemen these days and has met with the government several times to request the recovery of the power of the Imperial City Division, but the government has refused. What else can we do?"

Zhang Pengfei looked helpless.

The other party had no moral principles and did not follow the normal process. They had to follow the normal process and ask the Censorate and the Court of Remonstrance to impeach him. As long as the emperor protected him, they could do nothing to Zhao Jun.

But Liao Yu showed a sinister expression on his face, and whispered: "The Imperial City Division took the judicial officer of Kaifeng Prefecture for no reason, and shot and killed the yamen runners of Kaifeng Prefecture with a crossbow. The prefect cannot sit idly by. If the government does not care, then the prefect should take care of it. Don't you think so?"

"Hmm?"

Ma Yi became interested and asked: "What do you mean?"

"If the prefect takes all the yamen runners of Kaifeng Prefecture to the Imperial City Division to ask for people, do you think the Imperial City Division will still use crossbows to kill people like before?"

Liao Yu looked around at everyone and said: "If they dare not, then let the prefect take the people back. The Imperial City Division will lose face and prestige. This Bianliang City is still under the control of our Kaifeng Prefecture. If they dare, if a fourth-rank official dies in it, what do you think, how big a fuss will it be? The government, can you still protect him?"

After 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, it was the only thing they could do if they didn't want to follow in Li Dewen's footsteps and be captured by the Imperial City Guards who suddenly broke in.