Chapter 254

If there were any more.

The court would not only not provide supplies and military expenses.

But would also be impeached.

Therefore.

In the short term.

The number of soldiers Jia Hui controlled on the surface.

Would reach as high as 15,000!

This was already a very huge force.

Occupying about one-twentieth of the scale of the entire capital's military force!

And this ratio might be even higher.

Because the Great Gan had passed a hundred years.

The situation of eating empty pay in the army had become increasingly serious, starting to enter the same process as other dynasties.

The front-line army was a bit better.

The actual force might be 70% of the book value.

In the capital and the central provinces.

This number only had 40% left.

In the Jiangnan region.

It was even only 10%.

Wang Ziteng's Jingying had about 170,000 soldiers on the surface.

But whether there were one hundred thousand specifically was a question mark!

Of course.

Besides the Jingying, there were other city defense troops, including the Imperial Guard Dragon Guard, Imperial City Guard, etc.

The court claimed that the entire capital area had a total of more than 700,000 soldiers.

However, the fact was.

Adding them all up, including those inside the Imperial Palace.

There should be about 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers.

And how many of them could actually fight.

There was a huge question mark!

In fact, the soldiers who could fight.

Jia Hui suspected it might be halved again, not even half.

This was still an optimistic estimate.

But because the City Guard was still not taken seriously by most people.

So it would not attract too much attention.

Back to Zhao Paner and their side.

Zhao Paner and Gao Hui.

And the arrested Brother Ouyang Xu, Du Changfeng, and Uncle De were all brought to the main hall.

At this moment, Eastern City Commander Song Xian and Western City Commander Hou Cheng were both outside, going to gather the hearts of the army.

The two were not there.

Central City Commander Zang Ba was there with Chen Gong and Jiang Ji.

Jiang Ji was counting the recovered lost supplies.

So Chen Gong brought Zang Ba and Merit Cao Hongli, Justice Cao Zongbao.

And the just-released Clerk He He, Official Gong Wan, Scribe Kong Luotian, and others, gathered in the main hall.

The head seat was vacant.

Chen Gong, sitting in the lower seat, had a calm and solemn expression.

Just now, a subordinate had run over in advance.

Explaining the situation to him.

He asked again on the surface what happened.

Zhao Paner told the whole story exactly as it happened.

And Gao Hui also testified.

Chen Gong nodded, then looked at the three Brother Ouyang Xu: "What is your defense?"

"Official, I am wronged; it was this woman who was unreasonable, so I was like that; she deserves it."

Uncle De gritted his teeth and said.

Brother Ouyang Xu and Du Changfeng also pushed the blame onto Zhao Paner.

Zhao Paner was angry.

Fortunately.

This was Jia Hui's territory.

The result was already determined.

Chen Gong asked Justice Cao Zongbao coldly: "These three people, even in the public hall, still dare to frame people; Justice Cao, how do you think they should be punished?"

"You have no right to punish us; even if we are wrong, it should be judged by the Jingzhao Mayor; what right does your mere City Guard have."

Justice Cao Zongbao answered, Du Changfeng said angrily.

At this moment, they had already seen.

This place had already been controlled by Jia Hui!

Therefore, they could only escape from here.

They would rather go to the Jingzhao Prefecture to accept the trial.

Justice Cao Zongbao had already heard the meaning from Chen Gong's tone.

And Zhao Paner was the Commissioner's person.

He naturally knew which side to stand on, so he immediately snorted coldly and responded: "The City Guard has the responsibility of urban security. All cases of thieves, robbers, murder, and looting, as well as capturing runaway soldiers, runaway craftsmen, and runaway laborers, are within the scope of the Five City Guard's responsibilities; in addition, some street fights, obscenity, gambling, and splashing and snatching people are also within its management scope."

"You condone evil and direct people to commit violence, which is within our scope of punishment!"

This was the special feature of the City Guard.

There were too many miscellaneous permissions.

Basically, there were many places that overlapped with the Jingzhao Prefecture.

One could always find a place to talk about things.

Justice Cao Zongbao therefore sneered and punished: "Actually daring to roar in the public hall!"

"Come, immediately give them fifty killing-prestige sticks first!"

Before a prisoner is put into prison, they are often beaten with sticks first to make them submit, called "killing-prestige sticks."

This was to take the opportunity to clean them up before the punishment!

"You dare, I have a scholarly title, I am a court-appointed scholar."

Du Changfeng emphasized in shock and anger.

It was no wonder he was like this.

The imperial examination was divided into five levels: child examination, academy examination, township examination, meeting examination, and palace examination.

Scholars were very precious.

Because on average, only about 130 people were admitted each year.

Divided by province, there were only a few people.

Such people in ancient times belonged to the proud sons of heaven, and ordinary commoners could not come into contact with them at all.

And they had many privileges.

For example, starting from a scholar, they could be exempted from corvee labor for two people in the household.

At the same time, they could keep slaves, although most families in the folk violated the regulations.