Today's Qing Kingdom is known as a prosperous age, with ten consecutive years of good weather, and people's prosperity and peace of mind. There are many titles of the so-called No. The corrupt officialdom, the first treacherous prime minister of all time.
This treacherous prime minister is Lin Ruofu, the prime minister. Lin Ruofu was born in a poor family and was not a son of a wealthy family. He passed the imperial examination and entered the officialdom. He started as a judge in Suzhou, and was immediately transferred to the middle of the capital as the head of Zhan Shifu, and then to the rank of the twelve guards in Nanya, and then to the old capital. The procuratorate served as the palm seal to Shizhong, and he was also a bachelor of the Imperial Academy. In the last New Deal, he was transferred to six departments to be in charge of specific affairs. The prime minister above.
People carefully observed the official positions held by the prime minister, only to find that he had served in civil and military positions, served as a secretary of civil servants, and served as a supervisor. Passed, and his official position is always walking slowly but firmly.
It was rumored that Lin Ruofu had no reliance in the inner palace, nor did he have any intertwined background relationships, but he was able to rise and fall in the complicated officialdom of the Qing Kingdom, and never fell down. This surprised many people.
This prime minister is clear on the surface, but sinister and vicious on the inside, he has accepted countless bribes. In addition, he offended many people in the game between the civil service system and the princes and nobles, so he has an image of being unfriendly to the powerful and unloved by the common people.
It's just that his decades of hard work have already sprouted countless branches in Qing's civil service system, and the big tree has never fallen down. There are often censors who impeach the prime minister, but there has been no evidence, so they have to give up. The Qingming people in the capital hated him to the bone and wished to eat his flesh raw, but in the official face, no one dared to tease him face to face.
In the entire Qing Kingdom, except for His Majesty the Emperor, who can demand the life and power of the prime minister, no one else can. This is the consensus of all officials. In the entire Qing Kingdom, except for the head of the Overwatch Council who could spit on the prime minister face to face, no one else had the guts to do so. This was the unanimous opinion of all the nobles.
However, Mr. Dean still paid the price of three years' salary for spitting on the Prime Minister in the street. This punishment was personally imposed by His Majesty.
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When it was discovered that His Majesty's trust in the prime minister had never weakened, those officials and scholars who claimed to be clear began to despair. At this moment, no one expected that the news that Prime Minister Lin Ruofu had an illegitimate daughter was published in the newspaper!
For any noble family, it is normal for the head of the family to marry several concubines. What if there is only one woman in your backyard? Sorry, really embarrassed to go to the party. But the etiquette of blood is the most important thing in the world. Although everyone knows that the prime minister is cunning and cruel, but after all, he has always pretended to be a clean person, and he has an illegitimate daughter outside. This is a lack of virtue. And that daughter was already in her teens, yet she hadn't been brought back to the mansion, and letting her live alone outside, as a father, it was proof that he had no benevolence.
Because the news was released from the imperial palace, it caused a small earthquake in the official circles of Kyoto. People speculated whether it was because His Majesty the emperor was tired of watching the prime minister and was planning to replace him. Taiwanese doctors collectively wrote a letter.
To everyone's surprise, His Majesty the Emperor personally stepped forward to suppress this matter. Things gradually calmed down, but the prime minister's illegitimate daughter became the center of everyone's attention.
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Fan Xian smiled wryly, never would have thought that the woman he was about to marry would have such a background, and be so similar to his own background. At this moment, the commotion outside became louder, the brother and sister knew that the man had returned home, they looked at each other and said nothing more. Fan Xian just used his eyes to ask his sister to take him out for a stroll when she was free, Fan Ruoruo nodded slightly.
The candles were lit, but the sky outside was not completely dark, so the candles looked very dim.
There is a table of sumptuous dishes in the hall, and there are five people sitting there, and many maids and servants beside them are serving. Fan Xian noticed that Mrs. Liu did not serve the head of the family for dinner like other aunts, but sat next to the middle-aged man with a calm demeanor.
That middle-aged man is his father? Thinking of this, Fan Xian involuntarily frowned slightly, and there were beautiful little creases between his brows.
Si Nanbo had a solemn face, regular facial features, and a four-inch beard that people liked most at the time. He looked serious and serious.
After eating quietly, Si Nanbo walked in front, followed by Fan Xian, all the way to the study.
This was the first time Fan Xian was alone with this "father". He smiled and was not very excited, because deep down in his heart, he had never really regarded the other party as his own flesh and blood.
Si Nanbo looked at the young man in front of him, looked at the handsome face of the young man, thoughtful, and then sighed softly after a long while: "It really looks like your mother."
Fan Xian didn't say anything to each other, because he hadn't seen what his mother looked like. But for the father in front of him, he had countless questions in his heart, but he knew that it was not his turn to ask the first question.
"How have you been in Danzhou these years?" Si Nanbo looked at him, his brows and eyes seemed a little tired, but he still couldn't hide the traces of his handsomeness in the prime of his life.
"It's okay."
"On the way here, I believe that with your personality, you should have found out the reason why I was so anxious to let you enter Beijing from Fujiko Jing."
"yes."
"Do you feel wronged?"
"No." Fan Xian replied with a smile: "I just came to Kyoto by hitchhiking, and I didn't say that I must marry that Miss Lin."
As soon as these words were uttered, the study suddenly fell into a deathly silence. After a while, Sinan Bo said coldly: "Do you know what it means to marry the other party?"
"It means that in addition to the unfailing holy family, the Fan Mansion can also embrace a thigh that is too thick to be thick in the court?"
Fan Xian replied sarcastically, originally he didn't have any feelings for the middle-aged man in front of him, logically speaking, he should be able to maintain the calmness of a bystander - but when he thought that the other party was his father after all, he actually put his children's marriage on the table. As a political marriage, even though he clearly accepts it, it doesn't mean that he is not angry—it's just that this kind of anger has been well concealed by him in the past few days.