"There are only a few thousand scholars from the capital region coming to Bianliang to take the exam. It wouldn't cause much trouble. How can these people maintain order? I'm afraid they'll arbitrarily arrest people and cause widespread miscarriages of justice."

As everyone was talking, a scholar suddenly caught sight of a young man sitting on a chair next to him, surrounded by servants. Judging from his attire, he also looked like a scholar coming to take the exam.

Because the guards around Zhao Jun were all armed with swords, it was easy to associate him with a certain yamen official. With the intention of making friends with the powerful, one of them stood up and walked over to Zhao Jun, bowing and saying, "Brother, are you here to take the exam as well?"

"I guess so."

Zhao Jun smiled and said nothing.

He came today to see the actions of the Imperial City Bureau. It would be wrong for him to do nothing right after taking office, so he planned to take the initiative to find out the traitor and challenge the authority of Kaifeng Prefecture.

When Fan Zhongyan was in Kaifeng Prefecture, the people under him were relatively restrained. He even drove away many evil people like Han Yuan and replaced them with a few upright people.

As a result, just a few months later, the Kaifeng government office became dark and corrupt again. The newly appointed Kaifeng prefect Zhang Yi was transferred after only one month in office. The next person to take office was Ding Du, a philologist. Although he was an honest and upright official, to put it bluntly, he was a rigid old Confucian who was easily deceived by his subordinates.

Therefore, under his confused governance, the officials under Kaifeng Prefecture continued to manipulate the government, especially the system of the prefectural office. At that time, if you wanted to go to Kaifeng Prefecture to file a complaint, you had to register and queue up at the gate of the prefectural office. Even after registration, the court could not be opened immediately, but had to wait for notification.

Basically, if you don't pay the officials in charge of the court, you will never see a trial. And if it involves the Kaifeng government's abuse of power for personal gain or implicates people related to them, you will never see the court in your lifetime.

Therefore, under such circumstances, while the common people were still registering and queuing outside when they encountered unjust cases, the Kaifeng prefect in the government office still thought that the world was peaceful and he read books, drank wine, and had fun every day, feeling very comfortable.

"Brother, why don't you come sit with us?"

The scholar invited.

Zhao Jun shook his head: "Please sit down. I have something to do later."

"Then I won't bother you anymore."

The scholar left tactfully, but before leaving, he said, "The Imperial City Bureau has been conducting inspections everywhere recently. Brother, you should be careful with them."

"Um."

Zhao Jun was at a loss for words and nodded in agreement.

After a while, a man came up the stairs quickly and whispered something in Zhao Jun's ear. Zhao Jun nodded and left.

Watching him leave, the scholars over there couldn't help but say enviously, "I wonder which family he belongs to."

"These yamen are not people we can make friends with. You are really brave. Fortunately, that person seems to have a good temper. If we meet some yamen with bad tempers, we will definitely get beaten if we go over to them rashly."

"So that's how it is. Thank you, Brother Li, for clearing up my confusion. It seems that we should stay away from these yamen in the future."

The people behind were whispering.

Zhao Jun could no longer hear what they were saying at this time, so he went downstairs and went straight to Nantang Street.

There was some chaos in Nantang Street at that time. The soldiers of the Imperial City Division encountered an incident on the street. An old woman was sewing for people on the street for a living. Suddenly, she saw a woman on the street. She screamed that it was her daughter-in-law, and went up to pull her.

As a result, two strong men followed the woman and beat the old woman, alerting the soldiers of the Imperial City Division, who went up to arrest them. Unexpectedly, the Kaifeng Prefecture yamen officers also came over, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

When Zhao Jun came over, he saw that two teams of soldiers from the Imperial City Division had already arrived, and the yamen runners from Kaifeng Prefecture also called their friends and blew their whistles, and twenty or thirty of them came.

The middle of the street has been cleared, with countless heads popping out from the buildings on both sides. There are crowds of people watching the fun, and most of the vendors have already left.

The soldiers had taken control of the old woman, the young woman, and two strong men, and the Kaifeng Prefecture's yamen runners were ordering them to hand over the people.

"What's going on?"

At this moment, several sedan chair bearers arrived at the scene carrying a sedan chair. A middle-aged man in green official uniform got out and watched everything majestically.

Seeing the officials arrive, the soldiers of the Imperial City Bureau looked at each other with some fear.

After all, they were of low status before, unlike the inspectors, clerks, heads of brothels, and yamen runners of Kaifeng Prefecture, who had the support of civil officials, so they did not dare to act rashly.

Soon, a yamen runner told the man what had happened, and the official shouted, "Since there's a case, it should be handled by the Kaifeng Prefecture. Who do you think you are, the Imperial City Bureau? Get out of here!"

"Who are you telling to get out?"

Zhao Jun stepped out from the crowd and looked at the man coldly.

He knows.

The information shows that this person's name is Liao Yu, and he is a judicial officer of Kaifeng Prefecture, a seventh-rank official, and has done many corrupt and unjust things.

Liao Yu narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhao Jun. After looking him up and down, he scolded him, "Who are you? The government is investigating a case. All outsiders must leave."

"My name is Zhao Jun, and I'm currently in charge of the Imperial City Division. From today on, any case Kaifeng Prefecture can't handle will be handled by the Imperial City Division, and any person Kaifeng Prefecture can't arrest will be arrested by the Imperial City Division. Do you have any other questions?"

Zhao Jun glanced across and suddenly noticed a familiar face in the crowd. He was furious at the time. That person was the square-faced yamen runner who had let the human traffickers go.

Liao Yu frowned.

Unlike ordinary people, they have more channels to become officials and naturally more sources of information.

They naturally knew something about what had happened in the Imperial City Bureau in the past few days.

Today, the government has greatly increased the authority of the Imperial City Administration. Rumor has it that the government can no longer tolerate the chaos in Bianliang City, so it has decided to take action to clean up the mess.

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