Master Liu Er sat down and took a sip of tea and asked, "Brother, do you want me to go to Yizhou City?"
Liu Langzhong shook his head and said with a smile: "No need, Yizhou City is not close, and it will take half a month at the fastest to go back and forth, not to mention you have to check things, we just need to know what is the reason, there is no need to get evidence."
He said: "Besides, there is no need for empirical evidence for this kind of thing. Once someone recognizes something like character, it will be fine."
"What if he quibbles?"
Liu Langzhong said with a smile: "It is inevitable, but he is self-deprecating him, adults are not fools, let him believe whatever he says, and there is a censor."
He smiled indifferently and said, "That's how things are in this world. Once the grown-ups decide that his moral character is flawed, it will be difficult for him to go any further."
Master Liu Er nodded, looked at the things on the table, and said: "It's just a pity for that scholar surnamed Zhuang, I heard that he never entered the capital after he was driven out of the capital, and the examiners were all delayed. "
"It's such a big mess, it must have been a big mess among the literati back then, he couldn't produce any evidence, and even if he tried to defend himself, it would be nothing more than sophistry in the eyes of others. If that's the case, it's better to leave." Liu Langzhong frowned slightly, " But it was very strange, at that time, the two of them, one was a student of Guozijian, and the other was going to be admitted to Guozijian, there was no conflict of interest, and Chen Fulin didn't have to rely on this poem, why did he steal his poem?"
Master Liu Er shook his head and said: "I don't know, but if I ask people who have heard about it, they all say the same, so they all believe that Zhuang Xun copied Chen Fulin. After all, Chen Fulin doesn't really need this poem. But Zhuang Xun needs it very much."
Liu Langzhong pondered.
Seeing the elder brother pondering, Master Liu Er said again: "Don't worry, elder brother. Judging from the things we have found out, it is clearly Chen Fulin who is guilty, otherwise he would not have just met someone in the Zhuangyuan building and filled the city with servants." I was looking for someone who said that when I met him in Mohui Garden."
Liu Langzhong nodded, although he didn't know the reason, but he did guess the process.
He pondered and said: "I don't know why His Majesty disagreed with Chen Fulin's promotion."
Master Liu Er coughed lightly, and said in a low voice: "Brother, because I wanted to investigate Chen Fulin, I checked Mr. Zhuang along the way. Guess who is his disciple?"
Liu Langzhong raised his eyelids to look at him, and said, "Didn't you say that he accompanied his students to study in Beijing? One is in the Guozi Academy, and the other is in the Taixue."
"There is another one, but it is a female disciple."
Liu Langzhong: "Don't be too tight-lipped, just speak directly."
Master Liu Er laughed and said, "It's a little genius doctor who has been famous in the capital during this time. Coincidentally, she has been in the palace frequently during this period. I heard that she is treating the nobles in the palace, but I didn't find out who it is." My lord."
Liu Langzhong sat up straight, "Did you find out clearly?"
"I found out clearly, I followed someone to the gate of the palace at the end of the day, and watched her go in with Xiao Zheng, shopkeeper of Jishitang."
Liu Langzhong frowned, "You are too reckless to follow someone into the imperial city? Do you want to kill you?"
Master Liu Er said: "I'm not the only one following in, many people have mixed in."
Of course, not everyone can enter the imperial city, but the six departments are in the imperial city, as if they have family members who are officials in the six departments, basically everyone can enter if they come here.
Anyway, the imperial city was entered, but the palace city was not so easy to enter, so the guards guarding several gates of the imperial city were not very strict.
When Master Liu Er went in, he saw many people quietly following behind the Bai family's carriage.
Liu Langzhong couldn't help rubbing his forehead, "Are you stupid? Since you can see them, can't they not see you?"
Master Liu Er: ... At that time, I was only thinking of complacency, but I didn't expect this.
What Liu Langzhong said is right, what the Liu family can find out, of course other families can also, and some of them are even very fast.
Therefore, Wei Zhi and Yu Shitai stopped scolding the emperor, and the official department went to the Ministry of Industry. After the two sides talked about it, the official department re-wrote the promotion list and put it on. This time they gave two candidates to the emperor's election. .
Of course, the resumes and assessments of the two people were attached, as well as their superiors and colleagues' evaluation of his character and ability.
The emperor looked at it, picked up Liu Langzhong's name, and then closed the papers and put them aside. Tomorrow these papers will be reviewed by the provincial capital, and they will be handed out level by level if there is no objection.
As for Chen Fulin, because there is no empirical evidence for the time being, the bigwigs who have already guessed many things did not say a word, just pretending not to know about it, and the fact that the previous promotion did not exist.
Because for these big shots, this matter is no longer important. The most important thing is that the Empress Dowager's future is coming.
All of these big shots have to participate, so who cares about Chen Fulin
But Liu Shilang, the newly promoted Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, was concerned, knowing that this opportunity was likely to come because of Mr. Zhuang's disciples. After the papers for promotion came out, he let his brother quietly let out some rumors.
Doesn't Chen Fulin like to play tricks like this
He can give that Mr. Zhuang a hand.
Chen Fulin obviously felt the rejection of him by his colleagues, and even some friends who were close to him began to avoid him.
Although he still didn't hear any rumors, since the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry was confirmed, he was quite uneasy, and Zhou Man still ran to the palace every day.
He was a little uneasy, but no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't think of a way to deal with it.
It has been a long time since what happened back then, and it is difficult for Zhuang Xun to find evidence to prove his innocence. Similarly, it is also difficult for him to produce evidence to prove his innocence.
At the beginning, he was able to rely on the money in his hands, and Zhuang Xun couldn't justify his connections and family background, but now he can't.
Zhuang Xun is no longer the poor scholar who could only rent a room with his friends when he went to Beijing to take the exam, and could only eat steamed buns and porridge every day, and didn't know many people in the capital.
He doesn't seem to be short of money now, and there is a student in Guozixue and a student in Taixue, who can get acquainted with powerful families at any time.
There is also a disciple who can enter and leave the court.
So now in this situation, he can only not mention this matter, don't ask, don't know, in order to let the wind come quietly, and then go away quietly.
Rumors in the capital have been circulating very quickly, even the people around him, after a while, everyone will gradually forget about it.
So he only needs to suffer for a while.
Chen Fulin had always told himself this, but the sense of superiority in front of Zhuang Xun for many years still made him unable to bear the resentment in his heart, and he came to Changqing Lane unconsciously.
Man Bao went to Yin Or's house to give Yin Or an injection, and then went home with Bai Shan and the others. As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw a strange carriage not far from their house. He glanced, and then saw a man standing in the shadow of the carriage.