Emperor Qing was actually waiting for Fan Xian's self-defense. He planned to fool around a few times, just to get this matter over with. Any emperor in a prosperous age is actually very good at this kind of "harmony". ability.
But I didn't expect Fan Xian to ignore it all the time, play around with a clear conscience, and throw this question back, thinking very sinister in his heart - didn't he want to bite himself? You, the emperor, always have to escort me. If it’s just such a trivial matter now, you will be ashamed yourself. In the future, Xinyang will really be moved. After cleaning up the eldest princess, you must not leave me. Did the queen mother eat it as a side dish
If it was an ordinary favored minister, civil servant, he would definitely not have such sternness and arrogance as Fan Xian. The so-called sacred heart is unpredictable, and the power of heaven is impermanent. As a courtier, if you are proud of being favored, who knows that one day the emperor will remember that you are riding in his carriage, and he will kill you with a single knife, and you have nothing to say.
But Fan Xian knew that he was not an ordinary courtier, but the emperor didn't know that he knew, so this was a bit of fun, he was testing how far the emperor could do for himself.
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On the seventh day after Yushi collectively wrote the letter, Fan Xian came outside the palace gate in a carriage. When he got out of the carriage, the officials from the Qi Nian team all surrounded him in the middle, wearing black and gray clothes, indifferent His complexion and tall and straight body all showed his identity.
The officials gathered at the gate of the palace watched this scene, and naturally knew that this was the person that the officials often discussed after dinner. Not to mention the fact that Fan Xian was the member of the Overwatch Council when it came to putting spies in the open to protect him. First person.
Today is the time for the court meeting, and His Majesty specially summoned Fan Xian to the palace to listen. All the officials knew what they were going to talk about today, so they couldn't help but get excited. Some civil servants who were close friends with the Fan family came over to exchange a few words with Fan Xian, and hid beside the palace gate on the pretext of the colder weather.
At this time, there were only five or six officials in crimson official uniforms on both sides of the royal road in the square. They stood facing each other with Fan Xian and his group of Overwatch Council officials in black official uniforms, but their eyes seemed to penetrate each other's teams. Shooting towards the distant city, turning a blind eye.
Those officials in crimson official uniforms were the censors who wrote to impeach Fan Xian from the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Fan Xian looked at them coldly, lowered his voice and said, "They all look like pigs, but they are still honest officials?"
Deng Ziyue whispered next to him: "I checked one place for a few days, but I really didn't find anything. My lord, most of these procuratorate censors come from poor families and have the most reputation. This is the only place they can rely on. Even the concierge You have to be careful when you receive a gift cake, it is indeed extremely difficult to find out."
Fan Xian frowned and sighed, "The world is in trouble if officials are not greedy."
Deng Ziyue smiled wryly, thinking that the "witty words" of Mr. Tisi were really absurd.
The censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate looked at Fan Xian coldly, without any trace of fear in their eyes. Fan Xian knew that the other party was really not afraid of him, so he thought with a wry smile, if the officials stopped being greedy, what use would he be as the commissioner of the Overwatch Council? The other party is a speech officer, so it is impossible for him to send a few subordinates to assassinate him. In that case, no matter what the emperor does, he can only drive himself back to Danzhou.
Fan Xian understands that the most rare thing in this world is honest officials, and he also believes in the investigative ability of the first place, the few in front of him must be the real honest officials. But he understands better that the scariest thing in this world is when the upright officials swarm up and become your enemies! ——Thinking of this, he couldn't help admiring his young and beautiful mother-in-law for being able to manipulate these honest and honest officials. She really has two skills.
When Fan Xian was sighing here, he didn't know that the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate on the opposite side were also sighing secretly in their hearts when they looked at this lord commissioner.
It is clear that Fan Xian's actions for more than a month have all shown his essence hidden under the face of a poet. He is a corrupt official, and he is also the budding of a powerful minister with long sleeves. People like himself have enough evidence, but why does Your Majesty Haven't spoken yet? They were not worried that His Majesty would punish them severely for protecting Fan Xian. On the one hand, they believed that His Majesty was a wise lord. On the other hand, what did the Censor do? It is to bear morality on iron shoulders, and express remonstrance on iron bones, even if you die, so what? Just ask the bones to leave a lingering fragrance!
But the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are really not doing well these days. First of all, the collusion in the court has no effect. Life and death refused to write a joint letter with them. Secondly, the public opinion among civil scholars has not been mobilized. Those talented scholars who have criticized the government in the market in the past, when they heard that they were going to impeach Fan Xian, they shook their heads again and again, not believing it at all.
And what made the censors angry the most was the attitude of those young people in the Taixue. The previous censor who went to the Taixue to mobilize students was finally kicked out-no one believed it at all, the dignified poet, Zhuang Mohan's designated successor, the son of the Hubu Shangshu family, the idol of a generation of young scholars, and the dream lover of countless boudoir girls, he will not be so good as to covet such a small amount of money!
"Thirteen thousand four hundred taels, just a little silver?"
Perhaps the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are really poor and used to it, so this is the last thing they can't figure out.
At this time, suddenly a gust of morning wind blew past, refreshing the spirits of the guards outside the palace, and then their complexions changed, watching the cloud of rain clouds drifting towards the sky in the morning light, and hid in the cave of the palace gate . The guards of the Imperial Army and the Xiao Huangmen didn't dare to let these powerful and powerful elders get drenched in the rain, so they didn't stop them.
In autumn, the face of Kyoto often changes. After the wind, there is rain. An autumn rain floats down solemnly, from subtle to dripping. In just a few breaths, the large bluestone flats between the imperial palaces are suddenly wet, showing A thick jet black came.
At this time, outside the palace gate, only Fan Xian and his party and the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate stood there. The rain poured on them, but they didn't react at all. Fan Xian squinted his eyes, looked at the other party, and suddenly said, "Lai Yushi, go hide from the rain."
He greeted Lai Mingcheng, a high-ranking official of Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Lai Yushi gave him a cold look and said, "Master Fan is drenched in the rain. Do you think you can wash away your sins?" ?”
Lai Yushi cupped his hands and said: "Today's face-to-face, I will definitely impeach Mr. Fan to the end!"
Fan Xian raised his brows slightly, thinking that this censor was also in the dark, smiled, and cupped his hands and replied, "Really? I just don't know if there are clan relatives who pervert the law, does Lord Lai have the same heroic spirit as today?" .”
Zuodu Yushi was so angry that he didn't want to talk, he flicked his sleeves and walked towards the palace gate, but the few Yushi behind him were kneeling in the rain!
"Playing the trick of kneeling at the gate of the palace?" Fan Xian was pitiful and funny to these people, and sighed: "In life, I just invite you for a name. I really don't know what the court uses for raising you people."
Several censors kneeling in the rain stared back angrily!
Fan Xian turned a blind eye to it, lifted the rain hat behind him to cover his head, and said with a slight smile, "I am black, no matter how you wash it, you will still be black. Although my lords are red, once you are washed by the rain, you will be black again." But it's dark."
The rain slid off the Overwatch Council official uniform on his body, the lotus clothes were smooth and impermeable, and the black was still that gloomy black.
After the official uniforms of several censors were wet by the heavy rain, the color gradually became heavier, and gradually approached black.
The censors looked down at their clothes, let the rain hit their faces, but stubbornly remained silent.
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After all the major government affairs were discussed, His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have seen Lai Mingcheng, the censor of Zuodu, and Fan Xian, the Commissioner of the Overwatch Council, and his brows were frowned in annoyance. Said: "In front of all the officials in the court, let's talk about it."
Zuodu Yushi took the official uniform and said in a loud voice: "What I said is already in the memorial, please Your Majesty quickly investigate this case, so as to clean up the court and complain to the common people!"
The emperor turned his head to look at Fan Xian: "Why haven't you handed over your self-defense paper to Zhongshu?"
Fan Xian bowed respectfully and said, "I didn't write any notes."
The emperor scolded angrily: "How arrogant! The censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate impeaches hundreds of officials. You are the first person who is arrogant and ignorant like you! Don't think that your family has been loyal for generations. You have made great contributions to the country and the world this year. If you are famous, I am reluctant to punish you!"
Fan Xian knew that the emperor was angry because he kept silent all the time, and because he threw the topic to him, so he pleaded guilty: "I really don't know how to write a defense note... I am guilty."
His Majesty turned pale, and said: "Since you first entered the officialdom and Fan Jian was busy with official duties, that old Chen Pingping would not teach you this, so I spared you. Today I will announce you to enter the palace, so I will listen to you." How do you defend yourself, how do you explain to the civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty?"
Fan Xian showed a look of embarrassment, and he hesitated for a while before saying: "I... really don't know how to defend myself."
His Majesty's face suddenly became gloomy, and he said word by word: "Then you have confessed?"
Fan Xian raised his head abruptly, with bitterness on his face, and said, "Long live, I don't plead guilty! The reason why I don't defend myself is because the facts involved by the Metropolitan Procuratorate are absurd and unreasonable. I don’t know who is involved in the so-called bribery and violation of the law, so I don’t know where to start.”