Zhao Jun personally sat in the Imperial City Office to interrogate the captured prisoners.
It's a long process.
In addition to interrogating the criminals, they also had to go into the city to look for victims and find more witnesses and evidence.
Fortunately, Fan Zhongyan helped him solve many problems. Old Fan had already collected a lot of evidence, otherwise Zhao Jun would not have been able to arrest so many people at once.
Afterwards, Zhao Jun sent people to post notices in the city, announcing the crimes committed by those people in Kaifeng Prefecture one by one to the public, and encouraging the people to bravely expose them and find more victims.
For a time, the people in Bianliang City were outraged, and Kaifeng Prefecture suddenly became a rat that everyone wanted to kill. Not only was its dignity destroyed, but its former prestige was almost completely gone.
At the next morning court session, the Censorate and the Court of Remonstration indeed clamored for impeachment, but Cao Xiu brought Ping'er to the court session and recounted the evil deeds done by those people in Kaifeng Prefecture in front of everyone, which immediately silenced them.
There were still many upright censors and censors in the Censorate and the Court of Remonstration. When they saw this scene, they were furious. A group of people led by Fu Bi, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and others launched fire and impeached Kaifeng Prefecture. Zhao Zhen took advantage of the situation and dismissed Ding Du, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, and replaced him with Fan Zhongyan.
With Lao Fan's cooperation, the process of arresting the important criminals continued to go smoothly. Previously, Zhao Jun had only arrested officials above the Kaifeng Prefecture. There were too many yamen runners below them, and a large number of them had slipped through the net. But now, all of them were arrested by Lao Fan and put on self-trial.
The result was that in just a few days, the cancer that had plagued the people of Bianliang was wiped out.
Fan Zhongyan also took on the task of rebuilding Kaifeng Prefecture. He transferred a group of young and promising officials from other places and recruited many new yamen runners to rebuild Kaifeng Prefecture.
The Imperial City Bureau also recruited a large number of victims' families who had hatred towards Wuyou Cave, Guifan Tower and a large number of gangs in Bianliang, expanded the scale of the Imperial City Bureau, and the number of inspectors increased rapidly to more than 3,000.
at the same time.
Old Caomen Street, the residence of Han Zong, the judge of the Ministry of Revenue of the Three Departments.
Compared to those small fry that Zhao Jun was too lazy to interrogate personally, the Han family is the real big tiger.
Although the small fish and shrimps are already a powerful force for the people of Bianliang and make them feel hopeless, the Han family and the Ma family behind the scenes are even more terrifying.
Because the current patriarch of the Han family, Han Yi, is the co-director of the Privy Council and is the deputy prime minister.
Moreover, in history, in the fourth year of Jingyou, that is, in 1037 AD, he was promoted to the position of Canzhi Zhengshi, becoming the deputy prime minister, which was a high and powerful position.
Han Yi and Chen Yaozuo were corrupt and committed corruption. It wasn't until the fifth year of Jingyou (1038 AD) that Han Qi found evidence of their crimes and brought them down.
Although Han Yi is not yet the Vice Prime Minister at this moment, he is also very powerful in the court and is one of the most powerful officials besides the three prime ministers, three vice ministers, the prime minister and the minister of strategy.
Han Zong is Han Yi's second son. He served as the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture during the Tiansheng period. The power of the Han family in Kaifeng Prefecture developed under Han Zong.
After Han Zong left, he was taken over by Han Yuan. Han Yuan was impeached by Fan Zhongyan and replaced by Han's son-in-law Gao Dingyi.
It can be said that the historical records of the Han family's strict family tradition are actually completely different.
Han Yi was corrupt and broke the law knowingly, and was impeached and dismissed by Han Qi.
The eldest son, Han Gang, was in charge of the Gwanghwa Army. He abused the soldiers, ate the empty salaries and sucked the blood of the soldiers, which caused the Gwanghwa Army to rebellion.
The second son, Han Zong, has absolute power in Kaifeng Prefecture.
The sixth son, Han Zhen, was cruel and inhumane. He was demoted for his crimes because his subordinate, while drunk, accidentally broke into his backyard and took a look at his concubine. He ordered him to be beaten to death.
The family has a good reputation in "History of Song Dynasty", but a few words also hint that the Han family is corrupt and abuses power.
At this moment, in Han Zong’s residence.
In addition to Han Zong himself, there were also Ma Yuan, the Supervisory Censor of the Censorate, and Ma Zhongfu, the Judge of the Three Departments of Revenue.
The three of them sat in the hall, and each of them looked unhappy.
Although the Ma family had declined slightly due to the death of their father Ma Liang a few years ago, they still had marriages with several prime ministers' families. Furthermore, Ma Liang had many students and former officials, and Ma Yuan and Ma Zhongfu held important positions, so their influence was still considerable.
But unexpectedly, a man named Zhao Jun, who was in charge of the Imperial City Office, suddenly appeared out of nowhere and bewitched the government, giving the Imperial City Office the power to arrest and try people, and they were arrested. This was a real slap in their faces.
So the three of them got together to discuss countermeasures.
"We've made a request to the Cao family, but Cao Xiu seems to be a stubborn person and hasn't released the person yet."
"This is a very difficult matter. Zhao Jun was too ruthless. He publicly announced their evidence of guilt and even subtly pointed the finger at us. Yesterday, the Censorate was still impeaching Zhao Jun, but today they've changed their tune."
"Are we just going to watch helplessly as our people are captured by the Imperial City Bureau? I've asked someone to inquire about it, and they're living in very poor conditions in there. Not only are they being tortured, but they're also being abused."
"That guy named Zhao Jun is so despicable. I don't know where he came from."
The three were very dissatisfied.
No matter what the Ma Yigao Ding and others are, they are still their people. The Imperial City Bureau arrested them without even a single warning, which is really disrespectful to the Han and Ma families.
"The most important thing right now isn't rescuing people. Don't you understand the current direction of the wind?"
Han Zong saw that the two Ma brothers were unaware of the impending disaster and frowned, saying, "The Imperial City Division has taken ruthless action this time, and the emperor has ordered a thorough investigation. Even my father is reluctant to interfere in this matter. Aren't you afraid that they will blame you?"
Ma Yuan was puzzled and asked, "Why? You mean Zhao Jun still dares to attack us?"
"That's hard to say."
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