Chapter 197 I built a detective department that is more useful than Jinyiwei
Chapter 197: I created a detective department that is more useful than Jinyiwei
"But I know what the secret discussion between Bai Shilang and Li Shangshu is about! Xuanhuang City Secretary's secret agent has entered the palace!"
Liang Shicheng, the eunuch who was standing next to Zhao Ji, immediately shouted loudly: "Secret agent of Xuanhuang City, enter the palace."
Bai Shizhong's scalp felt numb and he was sweating profusely.
He knew that the Imperial City Department had very powerful powers. One of its powers was to imprison the palace guards, and the other was to spy on and supervise the officials.
A junior secret agent from the Imperial City Department wearing a green robe and black boots entered the hall and kowtowed to meet the saint, saying:
"Chen Zhong, the Detective Division under the Imperial City Department, came to visit the official family. Long live my emperor."
"Qing Pingshen." Zhao Ji said straight to the point to the secret agent of the Imperial City Department, [Guan Ban]:
"The spies you sent to serve as servants in Bai Shilang's house, and what they discovered about the secret talks between Li Bangyan and Bai Shizhong, tell them in front of all the civil and military officials!"
"Your Majesty, Chen Zhong, obeys the order." The secret agent took out several secret envelopes from his arms, found one with Bai Shizhong on the cover, and read:
"According to the report from the spies sent by Chen Zhong, Li Shangshu did not play chess after entering Bai Shilang's house.
While the two were drinking tea, Li Shangshu complained: "Today's royal family treats me, the Minister of Humerus, so lightly that I was injured by an imperial student. Instead of treating the imperial student who committed a serious crime, I was allowed to stay at home to recuperate and think about my mistakes behind closed doors. Is this really unreasonable?"
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At that time, Shilang Bai repeatedly echoed this and complained that the officials were treating our civil servants as kindly as in the past. Is this the behavior of a wise king and a wise ruler?..."
Bai Shizhong, the kneeling servant of Zhongshu, heard that the little guard named Chen Zhong, who was in charge of the investigation, had actually sent spies to sneak into his servant's house, and also found out that he and Li Bangyan were like this.
The treasonous talk made me shake my body a few times in fright and almost fell to the ground on the spot.
"I, Shizhong, are wronged!"
Bai Shizhong calmed down and tried his best to argue:
"This Imperial City Superintendent secretly dispatched soldiers and spies to infiltrate Wei Chen's house and fabricate crimes to slander Wei Chen.
I, Bai Shizhong, don’t know that the government of the Holy Emperors and Ming Kings has been like this since ancient times?
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However, it was Bai Shizhong that Zhao Ji wanted to deal with, so how could he listen to his excuse?
The time traveler Zhao Ji, who is a master of history, knows that Bai Shizhong, the current minister of Zhongshu, named Mengheng, was born in Shouchun, Shouzhou, and was a Jinshi. He is now in his fifties, with thin skin and tender flesh, and a chest-length beard.
Human-like and dog-like.
Bai Shizhong's literary talent is quite good, including the introduction at the beginning of his defense, all of which are based on classics. He adapted it from the story in the seventh year of Xining, when Sima Guang Shangshu opposed the Imperial City's secret agent who fabricated evidence and framed the court.
The words of Chinese officials.
The original text of Sima Guang's letter is: "Send soldiers secretly to listen to the people in the market and punish those who slander their opinions. They also publish lists of rewards and recruit people to arrest those who slander the government. I don't know the government of the holy emperors and kings since ancient times.
Is that true?"
In the Imperial City Division, Luo soldiers were placed to serve as inspectors in the capital. They were given min money every month and were rotated quarterly. The folk custom called Luo soldiers "Cha Zi".
During the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the most important duty of the Wude Division (the predecessor of the Imperial City Division) was to investigate the situation in the army and prevent conspiracies and disruptions. Its main targets were the "Suwei generals" in the front ranks of the palace and the military and political affairs of the imperial army.
However, as a time traveler, Zhao Ji will never let the Detective Department under the Imperial City Department engage in illegal operations that slander Zhongliang like before.
Whether it was shortly after Zhao Jigang crossed over, he personally went to the Imperial City Division to inspect and win people's hearts, or before he personally conquered Fangla, he focused on increasing the two major functions of the Imperial City Division.
One is to continue to play the role of the Royal City Commander and the Imperial Guard, and to protect me.
The second is to give full play to the spy supervision function of the Detective Department under the Imperial City.
Zhao Ji wants to build the Imperial City into a spy agency that is more useful than the Ming Dynasty's Imperial Guards...
Therefore, before his imperial commander personally conquered Fang La and left the capital, he secretly summoned several officials from the Detective Department under the Imperial City Department and issued a secret message to increase the secret supervision of the officials in the capital.
Those who Zhao Ji believed were traitors in the past or present, or even those who would be traitors to the Jin army and the surrender faction in the future, were all listed by Zhao Ji, so that the spies of the Imperial City Division could find ways to lurk there.
Those around him were either tempting or coercing the servants of the treacherous ministers' mansions to become insiders of the Imperial City's Detective Department...
Bai Shizhong, the assistant minister of Zhongshu, had already been listed as one of the key targets that Zhao Ji asked the detectives of the Detective Department to secretly monitor.
The reason is that the time traveler Zhao Ji knows that Bai Shizhong was one of the traitorous officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty!
When Cai Jing gained power, Bai Shizhong acted according to the will of Cai Jing and his son...
After Cai Jing fell, Bai Shizhong turned around and tried his best to attack Cai Jing's various crimes of bullying the emperor, corruption and extravagance, and tried his best to draw a clear line with Cai Jing...
In history, during the Jingkang Incident, Bai Shizhong was one of the leaders. Before the war started, he suggested to Song Qinzong that the Jin army was strong and resisted, so he should abandon the city and escape...
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There was a "pop" sound, and Zhao Ji, who was thinking about this, was furious. He slapped the dragon case and shouted:
"Bai Shizhong, can you plead guilty? Do you think you need me to get another witness from your house?"
"Huh?!" Bai Shizhong exclaimed. In fact, he still wanted to defend himself, but when Zhao Guan's family brought out the evidence collected by the detectives of the Detective Department, he had not yet thought of how to make a strong argument.
At this time, Zhao Ji would not waste any time listening to Bai Shizhong's sophistry. He immediately issued an oral order:
"In Bai Shizhong, if you deceive the emperor and ignore your superiors, you should be executed for the crime.
However, I remember that at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, there was an ancestral instruction not to kill scholar-bureaucrats and those who wrote letters to express their opinions.
Therefore, I dismissed Bai Shizhong [the assistant minister under Zhongshu's family], demoted him to Huangzhou, and served as deputy envoy of Tuanlian."
When Bai Shizhong heard that Zhao Guan's family was in the presence of so many civil and military ministers at the court meeting, he did not save any face for him, and directly demoted him to the poor place of Huangzhou as a low-ranking and powerless deputy envoy for regiment training.
I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to get a chance to stand up again in my life, let alone to be at the forefront of the court meeting...
When Bai Shizhong heard the demoted official's instructions, he took two or three breaths numbly.
Then, after he came to his senses, he straightened his clothes and retained the last dignity of a scholar in the Song Dynasty. With tears in his eyes and a trembling voice, he received the order to thank him and said:
"I obeyed the decree of Bai Shizhong and thanked the Lord for His grace..."
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Zhao Ji looked at Bai Shi who looked miserable because of the shock in his heart, and cursed in his heart:
"Bai Shizhong, don't blame me! You brought this on yourself by being a traitor."
After Zhao Ji finished demoting Bai Shizhong, he looked at Zhao Ye, the Minister of Punishment, who was kneeling in the main hall.
Next, I want to deal with Zhao Ye, who is the Minister of the Ministry of Justice...