After returning from Chongde Hall, Zhao Jun returned to the Imperial City Office.
It was already afternoon and the sky was getting dark.
The weather at the end of August was sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and Zhao Jun had already changed into a light and thin long gown.
After entering the government office and walking into the front hall, Wang He, the Imperial City Supervisor, came to greet him. He bowed to Zhao Jun and said, "Supervisor."
"Um."
Zhao Jun nodded and said, "How many people have been arrested?"
Wang He said, "Four hundred and sixty-seven people."
"That's all?"
Zhao Jun frowned.
The Imperial City Bureau started arresting people from the group of human traffickers and thugs in Wuyou Cave, a total of more than a hundred people.
Next are Li Dewen and the Wuyoudong branch outside Bian Dike, which should have more than a hundred members.
Today's operation seized most of Kaifeng Prefecture and arrested more than a hundred officials. Logically, there are still others on duty outside, and their homes should have been raided as well. It is impossible that there are only so many people.
Wang He smiled bitterly and said, "Many commanders went to the homes of those officials to confiscate their property. They have too many family members. For example, Ma Yi has over twenty wives and concubines, and hundreds of servants. If they were all captured, I'm afraid the military torture chamber wouldn't be big enough to hold them all."
"Forehead."
Zhao Jun thought so too.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang killed tens of thousands of people at once, which meant the extermination of nine generations of a family, so it involved a wide range of people.
But Zhao Jun was different from Zhu Yuanzhang after all. He was not so cruel as to punish nine generations of the family. Moreover, there were actually many innocent victims who were forced to become wives or concubines.
Some even simply raped decent women, or bought them from places like Wuyou Cave and Guifan Tower, under the pretext of helping them escape from their clutches.
They are already pitiful enough, and killing them is even more outrageous.
Therefore, Zhao Jun's style of action must be to kill the main culprit, then judge them according to the severity of the crimes they committed, and deal with the remaining accomplices and thugs.
This process will inevitably take a long time.
There is a shortage of staff within the Imperial City Division now. A large number of corrupt officials within the Imperial City Division have been dealt with before. Some were fired, some were detained in the military torture chamber. In addition, there are criminals that the Imperial City Division has arrested for maintaining public order on the streets in recent times, as well as some evil forces and gang members that have been cleared out. There are probably no less than a thousand people in the entire military torture chamber now.
Although a lot of internal staff had been cleared out, allowing the Imperial City Division to pay less wages, and it wouldn't cost much to feed these more than a thousand people with prison food, they couldn't keep borrowing cells from the Palace Front Division.
So there are several problems facing Zhao Jun at present.
First, we have to continue recruiting personnel to expand the scale of the Imperial City Bureau to prevent staff shortages.
The second is to continue to dig deeper into the criminal evidence and find the umbrella behind it.
Third, we must find the source of funding for the Imperial City Administration and cannot expect Zhao Zhen to pay for it.
The fourth is to expand the Imperial City Administration buildings.
Continuing to stay in this city wall outside the palace and borrowing a cell from the Palace Front Department is obviously not a long-term solution.
"How's the house search going?"
Zhao Jun asked.
"Still copying."
Wang He perked up at the mention of this and said, "So far, at least 200,000 strings of cash have been seized from Liu Yuanzhi's house alone, and countless other jewels and ornaments."
"Um."
Zhao Jun nodded.
He was not surprised by such a large sum of money.
Wuyou Cave and Guifan Tower spent more than three hundred thousand or four hundred thousand strings of cash every year to manage the Kaifeng government.
Although there are so many people sharing it, people like Liu Yuanzhi will definitely get more.
Moreover, the salaries of officials in the Song Dynasty were already high. Liu Yuanzhi was a sixth-rank official, and his annual income was still one or two thousand strings of cash.
In addition, after operating in Kaifeng Prefecture for so many years, plundering and opening casinos, brothels, shops, etc., it is normal for him to be extremely wealthy.
If nothing unexpected happens, with so many officials from Kaifeng Prefecture arrested this time, and if the corrupt yamen runners below are dealt with, there will be more than a thousand people in total, and I'm afraid it will be no problem to get one or two million strings of cash.
This does not include the big tigers that may be taken down in the future.
If the Han and Ma families, two prime minister-level families, were wiped out, plus the rest of the officials implicated in the court, the potential loss could be two or three million strings of cash.
"Take me in and have a look."
Zhao Jun said.
"yes."
Wang He responded and took him all the way to the Dianqian Division.
Passing through layers of heavily guarded government offices, we arrived at the rear office of the Imperial City Division. Just across the wall from here was the parade ground of the Palace Front Division. The military punishment room was located in the northeast of the parade ground, not far from the rear office of the Imperial City Division.
In the past, the Imperial City Division and the Palace Front Division were two independent departments. Although the Imperial City Division's imperial guards nominally belonged to the Palace Front Division, they were not actually under the jurisdiction of the Palace Front Division.
So originally the two departments were separated by a wall.
But now, relying on the relationship between Cao Xiu and Cao Ren, in order to facilitate the reception of criminals, Cao Xiu discussed with Cao Ren and decided to break through the wall and build a door, so that they no longer had to take the long way around Zuo Yintai Gate to come to Dianqiansi.
At this moment, a group of imperial guards were playing Cuju on the training ground in front of the palace.
There were 800,000 imperial guards in Bianliang, most of whom were stationed in the imperial guard garrison outside the city of Bianliang, and some were stationed on the border.
This part of the imperial guards stationed on the border was called the "forbidden guards for food supply". Originally, they were stationed in other places in rotation under the three names of garrisoning, anchoring and getting food supply.
During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, permanent imperial troops were stationed in Shaanxi, Hebei and other places, and they no longer returned to the capital, becoming local armies.
Therefore, in reality, the number of imperial guards in Bianliang was not as large as 800,000. There were probably tens of thousands of imperial guards stationed in the imperial city and the outer city walls.
These soldiers were not managed by a general, but were all under the command of junior officers like Cao Ren, so that there would not be a situation where a general was in charge of an army of more than tens of thousands of people.
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