Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1680, Gang forces in Dongcheng District

Dongcheng prison yamen, this is Zhu Houzhao re-divided the capital after he became the prefect, and set up a separate prison yamen in each area, which is specially used to solve major cases, arrest bandits, and maintain local law and order.

The officials in the Prison Yamen were specially recruited by Zhu Houzhao from Jin Yiwei with a group of experts in interrogation, arrest, and case-solving, and the person in charge of the Dongcheng Prison Yamen was Baihu Cao Rui.

When Cao Rui was in Jinyiwei, he was an official of the sixth rank with a hundred households. When he came to the prison yamen, Zhu Houzhao gave him a first rank and became an official of the fifth rank, so Cao Rui was also full of energy at this moment.

Now the scale of Jinyiwei in Ming Dynasty is also getting bigger and bigger, and Jinyiwei has always recruited from noble children, but now it is changed, recruiting from outstanding retired soldiers.

The same is true of Cao Rui. He is the first generation of conscript soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. He followed Liu Jin to sweep the Western Regions and open up the river. Later, he also participated in the war against the Ottoman Empire with the Duke of Australia, and made a lot of contributions.

After retiring, he was also recruited into Jinyiwei and became one of the hundred households of Jinyiwei. Now he was dispatched to the prince's subordinates and became the prison warden of the Dongcheng Prison Yamen.

For this job, Cao Rui naturally cherishes it very much.

The crown prince is the prefect here in Shuntian Mansion, and he needs to take good care of the public security, traffic and order in Shuntian Mansion. It is an honor to be able to come and do things for the crown prince. As long as you perform well and get into the eyes of the crown prince, you are afraid that you will not have a chance to make a fortune in the future. .

For someone like Cao Rui, his life is now worry-free.

During his career in the army, he made a lot of contributions, opened up the territory and expanded the country, from a commoner to a hundred households, his name is already well known in the ten miles and eight villages of his hometown.

During this process, he has received a lot of rewards and rewards. He has land, manors and farms in the Western Regions, Hezhong, and Nanyun Provinces, and there is no shortage of silver.

The income of being a soldier and working as an errand in Jinyiwei is also quite good, and the small life can be regarded as carefree.

In addition, in the army, what is instilled is the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, loyalty to the emperor, and loyalty to Ming Dynasty.

Compared with those military households and Jinyiwei in the past, the new generation of Ming soldiers and Jinyiwei are more loyal to the emperor and Daming, and they are naturally very hardworking if they have the opportunity to do things for the emperor.

When he came to Dongcheng District, he was in charge of public security and criminal cases in Dongcheng District. Cao Rui did not act in a hurry. Instead, he followed Jin Yiwei's usual style of handling affairs and found out the situation in Dongcheng District in detail.

After a period of exploration and detailed investigation, Cao Rui also had a detailed understanding of the situation in Dongcheng District.

Dongcheng District can be regarded as the most chaotic district among all the districts in the capital city. It is basically filled with foreigners, mixed with fish and dragons, and there are many gangs.

Among them, the largest gang is the Kitchen Knife Gang formed by a group of people from Shandong. It is named after the kitchen knives they use. They mainly monopolize the profitable business of casinos, brothels, restaurants, teahouses, etc. All these transactions in Dongcheng District must be approved by them, and a monthly protection fee must be paid regularly.

There is also the Sui Bu Gang, which specializes in theft and thieves. The so-called God knows that there is more than enough damage to make up for the deficiency. This is where the name of the Sui Bu Gang comes from. Their philosophy is to use other people's things to make up for their own deficiencies. It is the way of heaven, it is the heaven and the earth that let them do this.

Because of the lack of effective management in Shuntian Mansion, there is not enough energy and time to catch these petty thefts. Even if they are caught, they will be beaten to the sky. As a punishment, in the end nothing happened.

Therefore, it has continuously fueled their arrogance. Up to now, Yanran has become a big problem here in Dongcheng District.

Even they have reached the point where they blatantly rob people's money in broad daylight, and the robbed people don't even dare to speak out, because once they offend these petty thefts, they will give away all the valuable things in your house Steal clean.

In addition to the Kitchen Knife Gang and the Damaged Gang, there are other gangs, large and small. Although they are not as arrogant and domineering as they were a few years ago, they are showing signs of resurgence. Territory and interests and so on.

It has also seriously affected the public security and order in the capital, and there is even a faint tendency to develop in other areas.

"Song Hu, the leader of the Kitchen Knife Gang, and Sun Sanshou, the leader of the Subu Gang!"

Cao Rui looked carefully at the materials of Song Hu and Sun Sanshou, and now he has clearly explored these two gangs and found a lot of evidence.

"Cao Rui~"

While Cao Rui was thinking about how to quickly clean up these gangs and attack these evil forces that caused harm, a voice sounded outside.

When Cao Rui heard this, he hurried out and immediately saw the crown prince and Liu Jin, and hurriedly saluted, "I have seen His Highness the crown prince, and Liu Gong!"

"Everyone says to call me Lord Prefect!"

Zhu Houzhao said with his hands behind his back, looking a little dissatisfied.

"Yes, Lord Prefect!"

Cao Rui also quickly corrected it.

Zhu Houzhao sat down on Cao Rui's seat carelessly, and then looked at the prison yamen in Dongcheng District in front of him. The style of the yamen was very similar to that of Jinyiwei. You could see people standing guard everywhere, and the doors of every room were half-closed. remain mysterious.

"Cao Rui, you have been here in Dongcheng District for almost half a month, why haven't you acted yet?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at Cao Rui and asked dissatisfied.

The street cleanup work in the old city area is progressing quite smoothly, but in the Dongcheng area, there has been no movement to crack down on these gangs and petty theft. This has made it impossible for Zhu Houzhao's follow-up urban construction plan to be implemented.

So this time, Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin came to Dongcheng District together.

"Your Highness~"

"Master Zhifu!"

"It's not that the lower officials didn't take action, but spent a lot of time to figure out the situation of the gangs and evil forces in Dongcheng District, investigate their main leaders, gang lairs, the scope of activities, trajectories, members, etc. , after preparing to ask the magistrate for instructions, we will wipe them all out in one fell swoop."

When Cao Rui heard it, he explained it clearly and understood why the prince came to him.

"Is the investigation clear now?"

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly satisfied.

"The officer has already investigated clearly."

"Here in Dongcheng District, there are more than a dozen major gangs, large and small, among which the most important and harmful ones are the Kitchen Knife Gang and the Damaged Bunny Gang."

"Song Hu, the leader of the Kitchen Knife Gang, has gathered a group of people from Shandong, and with a fierce force, he has monopolized the casinos, restaurants, teahouses, etc. in Dongcheng District. Anyone who wants to open these businesses here has to go through They agree, and collect protection fees on a regular basis, just like the imperial court collects taxes every month, otherwise it will not be able to continue.”

"The Supplement Gang is composed of a group of petty thieves. Because they have not been effectively attacked, their arrogance has become more and more arrogant, and they have even reached the point of robbing in broad daylight. Dongcheng District The ordinary people dare not speak out against them, because if they resist, they will not only steal all your property, but even gather and beat you."

Cao Rui also hurriedly took out the information that had been investigated clearly, and began to report his investigation to Zhu Houzhao in detail.

"How did Lin Pan, the magistrate, do anything before? He can't do anything, and he looks like he's dying of exhaustion. He's really mediocre, with no ability at all."

Zhu Houzhao carefully looked at the information Cao Rui investigated, and couldn't help but slam the table after reading it.

These so-called gangs are still very different from the former underworld forces. The former underworld forces often still have backers and backgrounds behind them.

Like the bully family in Huairou County, they are all evil forces with official background.

But these are different now. They are a group of people from the same village who came to work here in the capital. At first, they formed a group for their own benefit, and then slowly developed into a gang force, the existence of causing harm. up.

Such a gang force, in fact, as long as the government does something and upholds justice in a timely manner, naturally there is no need for them to form groups to protect their own interests, and it will not form a gang force.

Under the government's timely attack and intervention, it is difficult for them to have a living environment, especially petty theft, which is often extremely shameful, and now it has developed into a damage repair gang, which is justifiable and justifiably robs and steals other people's property to make up for their shortcomings.

Moreover, it has reached the level of stealing and robbing in broad daylight, and gathering people who retaliate and rebel, so rampant and arrogant, this is definitely due to not being hit hard.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, Liu Jin on the side also nodded to express his support. This Lin Pan is indeed a person with no ability, and he doesn't know how to become a third-rank official. He looks busy, but he is actually blind It's useless to be busy, and I haven't done a single one of the really important things.

(End of this chapter)