But it is better to rely on yourself than on others.
It was already good enough to force Zhao Zhen to give the Imperial City Bureau the power to arrest and interrogate. This matter would probably cause an uproar in the court within two days, and memorials of opposition would fly onto the emperor's desk like snowflakes.
The fact that he could approve 100,000 strings of cash for himself, coupled with the pressure from the court, was basically his limit.
After all, the literati of the Song Dynasty were not the literati of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor of the Song Dynasty was not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Taking the power of arrest and interrogation from the literati of the Song Dynasty was no different from snatching food from a tiger's mouth.
Therefore, Zhao Jun did not blame Zhao Zhen.
In other words, I just want to express my feeling that if I had traveled back to the early Ming Dynasty and met Zhu Di and his son, I would have become the imperial teacher and reached the peak of my life. Why would I have had to quarrel with Zhao Zhen for power and fight for power with those insects in the court?
"Then we won't build a new government office. We'll do it when we have more money."
Zhao Jun asked, "Does the Imperial City have its own prison? Or a place to hold prisoners?"
Cao Xiu thought for a moment and said, "The only option is to borrow the military prison room of the Palace Guards. The Palace Guards are in charge of the Imperial Guards. If a soldier of the Imperial Guards breaks the law, it's not under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, but will be dealt with by the Three Yamen of the Imperial Guards. They have their own cells."
"Can you borrow it?"
"It should be possible. My second brother Cao Ren is now the left guard of the Palace Front Department. Just ask him to say hello. The torture chamber is right behind our Imperial City Department."
"That's great! I'll have Di Qing bring the people here from the Yulong Camp. They're very important. They might be the means for me to destroy Wuyou Cave in the future. I'll detain them in batches, interrogate them separately, and force them to draw a diagram of Wuyou Cave's internal structure."
Zhao Jun was very happy to hear Cao Xiu's words.
The Cao family is good. As the most famous military family in the Song Dynasty, a group of noble children in the family occupy various government offices. It is easy to get things done when there are people in the government office.
In fact, although Cao Xiu's brother was only a left-hand guard, the three heads of the Palace Front Commander, the Guard Cavalry Commander, and the Guard Infantry Commander were only nominal heads with no real power and could not mobilize the army.
Therefore, the actual power was in the hands of lower-level officials, which led to Cao Ren, a small left-hand guard of the Palace Front Division, being able to use the Palace Front Division's torture chamber. This can be regarded as a result of the extreme decentralization of the Song Dynasty.
But there is a problem.
There seems to be something wrong with the naming of the Cao family. The eldest son is called Cao Xiu and the second son is called Cao Ren?
Cao Xiu and Cao Ren?
Will there be Cao Hong, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang and the like?
Zhao Jun couldn't help but make an association.
"yes."
After hearing what Zhao Jun said, Cao Xiu nodded to show that he understood.
Afterwards, Zhao Jun gave instructions for some other matters.
He then said, "During this period of time, I plan to carry out internal rectification. What I need is a group of elite soldiers, not a bunch of good-for-nothings."
Cao Xiu scratched his head and said, "How does the Ministry of Internal Affairs plan to rectify this? There are indeed many problems within the Imperial City Ministry. Even I, the Imperial City Envoy, have been kept in the dark about many things. From what I know alone, many people will have to be dismissed."
"Those who need to be dismissed must be dismissed. The Imperial City Office must never become a place where filth and corruption are hidden. These black sheep must be eliminated."
Zhao Jun waved his hand and said, "Even if what I ordered today is an internal self-inspection, it is also to test the loyalty of these people. First, use your confidants to investigate their actions. If there are any unusual movements, report to me at any time."
"yes."
Cao Xiu responded and left.
Zhao Jun watched him leave, then stroked his forehead and thought.
He has arranged some things and asked his subordinates to do them.
One is to test their abilities, and the other is to uncover the bad apples within the Imperial City Bureau.
Because he also heard from Cao Xiu that the Imperial City Bureau, due to its special nature of being in charge of investigations, was able to obtain a lot of negative information about officials and powerful people.
Although the emperors of the Song Dynasty were very protective of the evil deeds of officials and dignitaries, the scholar-official class also wanted to maintain a good reputation. If the negative information about them was exposed among the people and in the officialdom, they would often be attacked by the censors and the remonstrators.
For example, let’s take Sun Mian again. In the first year of Jingyou, that is, two years ago, he was transferred from the Central Censorate to serve as an official in other places. When he arrived at the local level, he quickly became corrupt. When he was the magistrate of Chuzhou, Hangzhou and other places, he did nothing and no one knew about it.
More than ten years later, during the Huangyou period, Sun Mian, who had been promoted to the pacification commissioner of Hunan and Jiangxi routes and concurrently the pacification commissioner of Guangnan East and West routes, was transferred to the central government and became the deputy privy councilor because he assisted Di Qing in suppressing the Nong Zhigao Rebellion.
After he was transferred back to the central government, the negative things he had done in the past were soon exposed, and he was attacked madly by the Censorate and the Censorate.
In the end, this high-ranking court official, whose crimes would have been enough to kill him in any dynasty, was investigated by Song Renzong Zhao Zhen and was demoted to the powerless deputy governor of Ningguo Army.
Although it is not known whether there was any political struggle involved, it indirectly reflects that the scholar-official class in the Song Dynasty had to at least maintain the image of honest officials on the surface.
Therefore, once the Imperial City Bureau obtained evidence of the crimes of these corrupt officials, these people had no choice but to pay money to buy it from the Imperial City Bureau in order to prevent the black material from spreading and being besieged by the Censors and the Remonstrants, which led to corruption within the Imperial City Bureau.
The evidence and materials on the crimes of officials and dignitaries stored in the Imperial City Bureau are basically incomplete, and most of them have been sold by that group of people.
If Lao Cao hadn't been so capable and told him the inside story, he would probably still be kept in the dark.
Therefore, this time is the time to deal with these parasites within the Imperial City Bureau.
After arranging things, it was already afternoon and time for Lu Yijian and the others to go to class.
At this time, Zhao Zhen had not yet ordered the expansion of the powers of the Imperial City Administration. They still came to class as usual, and the one who came today was Lu Yijian.
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