Do you know: I am the crown prince

Chapter 434: Southern Imperial City Division
The Imperial City Administration was located in the north of the imperial city. After it was established by Emperor Taizong, it was obstructed by ministers and did not become an institution to supervise the world. It could only supervise Kaifeng Prefecture.

But even so, it was once glorious for a while.

Since the death of Taizu, subsequent emperors did not attach much importance to the Imperial City Administration. Otherwise, because it was established by Taizu, it would have been abolished long ago.

Therefore, the Imperial City Bureau gradually declined.

When the Imperial City Administration was established, there was one chief and one deputy envoy, and under them was the commander-in-chief.

In addition, there is a force of several thousand elite soldiers, and a large number of officials, spies, and inspectors.

According to the template when the Imperial City Bureau was established, it is actually very similar to the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

In other words, the establishment of the Jinyiwei was based on the original Imperial City Bureau.

The Imperial City Department, like the Embroidered Uniform Guard, was also responsible for protecting the emperor, and therefore had thousands of elite soldiers.

The role of these soldiers is to protect the emperor and escort him when he travels.

The clerks were responsible for paperwork and compiling intelligence.

The differences between secret agents and investigators are easy to understand. The former is a hidden agent, and although the latter also investigates in secret, they have formal and verifiable identities, which can be considered to be in the open.

According to the original idea, there would be one commander of the Imperial City Administration in each state, who would be responsible for supervising that state.

Later, after encountering opposition from civil officials, only a few commanders were appointed.

When Zhao Xing ascended the throne, the Imperial City Administration had only one chief envoy and two commanders.

After Yin Hanzhang led the secret guards to join the Imperial City Division, he took over as the chief envoy of the Imperial City Division and began to reorganize the Imperial City Division's system.

The Imperial City Office, which was originally deserted and had only a few people, suddenly became a bit crowded.

In the Imperial City, in Yin Hanzhang’s official residence.

Yin Hanzhang was sitting behind his desk, looking at the intelligence summarized below and selecting some important and valuable ones to report to Zhao Xing.

At this time, the attendant walked in and saluted, "Sir, Commander Luo wants to see you!"

"Let him in!" Yin Hanzhang said, putting down the information in his hand.

After he rebuilt the system of the Imperial City Administration, he did not set up a commander in each state to be responsible for supervising the states.

After all, he doesn't have that many capable people at his disposal now.

We can only set up a commander in each route to be responsible for supervising each route.

Although these people were responsible for monitoring various routes, they were not in the routes but in Bian Jing.

They were responsible for remote control command. Whenever Zhao Xing issued any order, Yin Hanzhang would summon the commanders under him to pass it on. The specific arrangements would be left to these people.

Commander Luo was in charge of the Huainan East Road in Jiangnan.

Soon, Commander Luo came in. He was in his thirties and not very good-looking. After entering the public room, he bowed and said, "Greetings, Your Excellency, the Chief Envoy!"

"What are you doing here?" Yin Hanzhang asked.

"My Lord has previously instructed me to investigate the beauty pageant to see if anyone tampered with it. According to my subordinates' investigation, there were several unsuccessful beauties in Jiangning Prefecture who appeared in a villa owned by the grandson of the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture," Commander Luo said.

"Are you sure that those concubines were eliminated due to normal reasons?" Yin Hanzhang asked.

If she fails in the election normally, it’s not a big deal. After all, if she fails in the election, it’s her freedom to get married or become someone’s concubine.

But it would be a different story if one could have been selected but was deliberately eliminated by someone.

The selected concubine may very likely be the emperor's woman.

Doing this is tantamount to seizing the emperor's woman, and it is not excessive to kill all nine generations of his clan.

"This has not been clarified yet, but those women are very beautiful and are the ones with the highest chances of being selected," said Commander Luo.

"I understand. You can leave now. We need to investigate this matter carefully!" Yin Hanzhang ordered.

"Yes!" Commander Luo responded and retreated.

Yin Hanzhang pondered for a while, picked up the few pieces of information he had previously selected, and walked out.

After arriving at the palace and being informed, he was taken to the Longtu Pavilion.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!" Yin Hanzhang bowed and saluted. "What is it?" Zhao Xing asked, yawning.

After meeting his father and the queen that day, Zhao Xing has been very relaxed these days.

He would accompany the pregnant concubines during the day and the non-pregnant ones at night.

In order to ensure that everyone benefits, sometimes several people work together.

Even though Zhao Xing has a good physical condition and has been exercising all the time, he still feels a little tired after doing so every day.

"Your Majesty, this is relatively important information received from various sources." Yin Hanzhang bowed.

Sanshui stepped forward, took it and handed it to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing took it and took a look, and found that they were all cases of officials taking bribes and committing crimes.

"After the Lantern Festival, hand it over to the Censorate." Zhao Xing said.

Although he had his own informants, he could not directly use these as evidence to order the arrest of people. He usually handed them over to the Censorate for impeachment, and then ordered people to arrest and investigate.

"Yes!" Sanshui replied.

"Is there anything else?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Your Majesty, I was asked to investigate the selection of concubines, and there are some results," said Yin Hanzhang.

"explain?"

Zhao Xing sat up straight after hearing this.

Yin Hanzhang told Zhao Xing what Commander Luo had reported.

Zhao Xing looked grim after hearing this and said, "It's been so long, and you've only found this little bit of uncertain information?"

"Your Majesty, calm down!"

Yin Hanzhang bowed quickly and said, "There are many criteria for judging a talent show, not just appearance, so it's hard to tell if there are any problems."

"What I want is the result, not your complaints!"

Zhao Xing naturally knew that there were many criteria for judging, and one couldn't just look at appearance.

Although family background is the least important factor in a talent show, a clean background is a must.

In addition, aspects such as manners must also be considered.

Precisely because there are no fixed standards, the possibility of someone tampering is very high.

Yin Hanzhang was sweating profusely when he heard this, and said, "I will step up the investigation when I return!"

"I am a little disappointed in you."

Zhao Xing said calmly, "I heard that someone secretly found evidence of officials' corruption and abuse of power, but instead of reporting it, he used the evidence to ask for benefits from the officials. After receiving the benefits, he covered up for the officials? Is this true?"

"Your Majesty, I have never heard of this matter. When I return, I will order someone to screen all the secret agents of the Imperial City Bureau."

Yin Hanzhang was very flustered at this time. He had indeed never heard of such a thing.

But he couldn't guarantee that there wasn't any.

Zhao Xing knew everything without him knowing. Could it be that Zhao Xing had arranged people to monitor the Imperial City Bureau?
"No need!" Zhao Xing waved his hand and said, "I have made some mistakes before. The Imperial City Department supervises the whole world. Who will supervise the Imperial City Department? I plan to set up the original Imperial City Department as the Northern Imperial City Department and then establish a Southern Imperial City Department. The two are not subordinate to each other, and the responsibility of the Southern Imperial City Department is to supervise the Northern Imperial City Department and put an end to this phenomenon."

What Zhao Xing just said was complete nonsense.

He thought of a joke he saw in later generations, which said that the Jinyiwei would not harm honest officials.

Even though the Jinyiwei became corrupt later on, they rarely framed truly honest officials.

The honest officials mentioned here are not loyal ministers. Honest and loyal are two different things.

When the Jinyiwei arrested someone, they would search the property first and then pocket the money.

There is no benefit in arresting those honest officials, so the Jinyiwei are too lazy to take action against them.

(End of this chapter)