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

An older candidate asked, "Could it be that Brother Hanlong knows?"

"Um."

Zhao Jun smiled and nodded. "Because this matter will cause a big uproar, in order to silence the public, Zhao Jun must act decisively and immediately uncover all the evidence, present the facts, and silence the officials in the court."

"This is indeed a good idea, but they are hiding so deeply, can we find evidence of their crime?"

Song Cai asked.

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

Found it a long time ago.

Although what Fan Zhongyan gave him was only the tip of the iceberg of what he had found out during his one and a half years as the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, he still kept a lot of evidence, both witnesses and physical evidence.

The reason why Zhao Jun is not taking action now is just to clean up his mess.

"Chi Si!"

Commander Wang, who was in charge of the team, came upstairs and bowed to Zhao Jun, saying, "Li Dewen's house has been raided."

"Um."

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

Having said this, he left Qingfeng Tower in the shocked eyes of Song Cai and others, leaving everyone in a mess behind.

Know. Know the department?

Song Cai and the others looked at each other and shrank their necks.

Good job.

Is Zhao Hanlong, who keeps calling me "brother" and "dear brother", the director of the Imperial City Bureau?

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

At this time, the Imperial City Bureau had already arrested many people. During this period, Kaifeng Prefecture became indifferent and the disputes on the streets were basically handled by the Imperial City Bureau’s imperial guards. In many cases, people even went to the Donghua Gate to appeal for justice.

Ding Du, the prefect of Kaifeng, was fooled by his subordinates and thought that the Imperial City Bureau had taken away their power to handle cases. He has been quarreling with Zhao Zhen all day long in recent days, making the city a mess.

Zhao Zhen also sent people to ask Zhao Jun several times, but Zhao Jun dismissed them all on the grounds that the time had not come. Today, when he left the Imperial Examination Hall, it was time to eradicate the cancer in Kaifeng.

About an hour later, Zhao Jun met Li Dewen in the military torture room of the Palace Front Department behind Chengtian Gate of the Imperial City Department.

The torture room was very dark. It was a military torture room that Zhao Jun borrowed through the Cao family's connections. There were various torture instruments inside. Since the Imperial City Division had no power of interrogation, there were naturally no experts in torture. But he had people.

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

This person was Cao Xiu's younger brother Cao Ren.

Cao Ren worked in the Palace Front Division and was in charge of the Palace Front Division's office. Those who broke the law and caused trouble among the 800,000 imperial guards in Bianliang were often brought here for punishment, so naturally he had people under his command who could use torture.

Zhao Jun looked at Li Dewen, who was tied to the torture device with a bruised face and nose. It was obvious that when the Imperial City Bureau broke into his house before, he had a conflict with them when he tried to stop them.

"Are you Zhao Jun?"

Li Dewen had been beaten dizzy before, but he slowly recovered. He looked up and saw Zhao Jun, and immediately guessed his identity.

Zhao Jun threw a document in his hand on the table next to him and said with a smile: "Li Dewen, explain it yourself."

"Pooh!"

Li Dewen spat at him, but fortunately Zhao Jun was a little far away and easily dodged it.

"It's okay if you don't explain."

Zhao Jun looked at the documents on the table and said, "In the first year of Tianxi, you were granted a family patronage and became a government official. Once, while drunk, you beat someone to death in the street, and your father later suppressed you. In the third year of Tianxi, you helped your friend settle a case, and he gave you 500 strings of cash. Later, you used this to extort money from him, totaling 4,000 to 5,000 strings of cash. In the first year of Ganxing, you became a military patrol officer and met the people of Wuyou Cave. From then on, they helped you capture young women for your pleasure."

As Zhao Jun recounted everything Li Dewen had done, his expression became extremely ugly.

The files recorded more than 20 cases, big and small, involving Li Dewen. He was not careful in his work, and a lot of things could be found, although not all of them, but most of them.

Moreover, when Fan Zhongyan was investigating, he found a lot of witnesses and evidence. For example, Li Dewen's friend was blackmailed to the point of bankruptcy. Even if his previous crimes were exposed, he would rather go to jail than be blackmailed by him.

Among them, the crime of accepting bribes was the lowest level of his fault, and there was also the crime of murder. He had injured people in Bianliang on his horse, lent money at high interest rates and forced the people to lose their families, embezzled public funds from Kaifeng Prefecture, colluded with Wuyou Cave and Guifanlou to collect women for his pleasure, opened a gambling house to extort money from the people, and helped some wealthy and powerful people settle cases, leaving the victims with nowhere to seek justice.

The content is full of bad deeds that are difficult to list in detail.

Li Dewen listened to Zhao Jun read out everything and interrupted him with a loud roar: "What's the point of saying this? Do you have evidence of guilt? Don't think that I have no one in the court now that my father is dead. If you dare to arrest me, the entire court will surely kill you without a burial place tomorrow."

"hehe."

Zhao Jun sneered, "You should think about yourself first. Who did you bribe? Who protected you? Tell me everything, or you'll be punished."

"hehe."

Li Dewen also responded with a sneer.

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

How is it possible to give out the umbrella of protection?

However, Zhao Jun suddenly laughed when he saw his expression. "You think someone can save you, you know? You think you can survive because you think some rules can be applied to me, and that I can be bound by these rules. But you don't know that I don't like this feeling of being constrained, so I don't have any concerns about doing things. Even if the whole court impeaches me, what can they do to me? I have the evidence of the crimes of Liu Zhiyuan, Ma Yi, Gao Dingyi and others in Kaifeng Prefecture in my hands, but I didn't act immediately. Do you know why?"

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