Wu Hanjiang said: "It is the duty of the censor to report on things when hearing rumors. If there are any inappropriate things, it is inevitable. If the censor is not allowed to make any mistakes, then just shut us up."
Fang Yun sneered, "After the reform of the Supervisory Council, it has been clearly stipulated that the censors should report on facts. Reporting on rumors only refers to the censors who had no real power in ancient times. In the past hundred years, the Supervisory Councils of various countries have held great power and are no longer pure censors. Why should Minister Wu pretend to be confused? Now the Supervisory Council can investigate officials and arrest officials. If it only stays at the stage of reporting on rumors, what is there to investigate? Why not just arrest people directly! You, the Left Vice Minister of the Supervisory Council, don’t even know the basic regulations of the Supervisory Council. How did you become the Left Vice Minister? How do you perform your duties on weekdays? There was a problem in the remote Dingfu, and I, the Left Prime Minister, took the responsibility. As the Left Vice Minister of the Supervisory Council, you slandered and framed me with your bare hands, and then tried to walk away? Who gave you the power? Who made you so shameless? Since you dared to report today, you must bear the responsibility!"
After hearing Fang Yun's words, many imperial censors who originally supported Wu Hanjiang also quietly changed their attitudes.
The censors back then had no real power, so they could report anything they heard. However, the censors now have great power. After receiving news, they will not report it immediately, but will conduct an investigation and only report it after obtaining sufficient evidence. If the situation is urgent, they can even directly cooperate with relevant government agencies to carry out arrests.
If the Supervisory Yuan continues to report everything it hears as it did in the past, and directly reports anyone it hears without asking any questions, it would be a step backwards.
Wu Hanjiang was both ashamed and annoyed. In his decades of serving as an official, he had never been criticized like this in the court.
He could no longer bear it and said, "Lord Zuo Xiang, as long as you dare to take the blame for the rebellion in Dingfu, then I dare to take the responsibility of impeaching you."
Fang Yun snorted coldly and said, "Very good, you said it yourself! What makes me most disappointed is not your frame-up, but the fact that the spies in the demon world took advantage of the human race's reform period to cause chaos, but you caused internal strife for your own selfish interests. This makes me disappointed!"
Everyone was stunned. The point of this sentence was not the disappointment, but Fang Yun's characterization of the chaos in Dingfu.
Wu Hanjiang's face changed drastically.
Assistant Prime Minister Yang Xuwen hurriedly asked, "Saint Fang Xu, have you checked the matter of Dingfu?"
Fang Yun said firmly: "While the Criminal Palace, the Industrial Palace and the Agricultural Palace were working together to reform, the Ding Prefecture colluded with each other to fight against the three palaces and the court, and even secretly sent people to set fire to the city and massacre the people. No one except the spies from the demon world could do such an outrageous thing!"
The officials looked at Fang Yun and felt a chill on their backs.
Especially those officials who impeached Fang Yun. They had already gathered their strength to launch the attack today, but they never expected that Fang Yun would take the lead and characterize the incident as a rebellion by the demon world.
Everyone present knew who was behind the rebellion in Dingfu, but no one could say it in public. However, Fang Yun actually put the blame directly on the demon world, which made the situation a hundred times more serious than before.
Obviously, if the demon world is responsible, Fang Yun will not bear any responsibility, but it is hard to say about Wu Hanjiang.
Sheng Boyuan asked tentatively: "Since Fang Xusheng said that it was a spy from the demon world who caused the rebellion, do you have any evidence?"
Fang Yun said: "One of the criminal justice officers was burned to death. Who else could be so cruel except for the demon world spy? Who else could have attacked the criminal justice officers except for the demon world spy?"
The entire Golden Palace was in complete silence.
Countless thoughts flashed through the officials' minds.
Some people suspected that this was a self-torture trick by the Criminal Hall. However, if it was found out that the Criminal Hall sent its own people to their deaths, the Dongsheng Pavilion would never let it go. It would certainly punish the Criminal Hall severely and use this as an excuse to interrupt the reform of the Criminal Hall. The possibility of this happening is very small.
Then, the most likely scenario is that ordinary people in the Xingdian were accidentally killed in the fire, and the Xingdian and Fang Yun took the opportunity to launch an attack.
The nature of the people being burned to death in the Punishment Hall was far more serious than burning hundreds of people to death.
To put it mildly, it is a contempt for the authority of the Punishment Hall. To put it more seriously, it is tantamount to burning down the Holy Temple!
All the officials present knew that the rebellion in Dingfu was definitely the work of major forces led by the Kingdom of Qing. If there was no one who burned the Death Penalty Hall, they would have a way to evade it no matter how they investigated. At most, they would find a scapegoat and kill him, thus cutting off all clues.
However, now that the people from the Criminal Hall are dead, once the Criminal Hall believes that this was the work of spies from the demon world, the nature of the internal conflict among the ten countries will turn into an enemy conflict. Once it is confirmed, not to mention the great Confucian scholars and the rulers of a country, even a semi-saint family will pay a huge price.
All the officials knew that the Criminal Court had found a handle and an excuse to force the major forces led by Qing Kingdom to back down. If the major forces continued to obstruct, the Criminal Court would definitely find out the mastermind at any cost.
Everyone couldn't help but think of the time a few days ago when Fang Yun used the death of an ordinary old man to force the replacement of the head of the Chen Sheng family. Now people from the Punishment Hall have died, hundreds of people have died. What is there that Fang Yun dare not do
However, even if the Criminal Court and Fang Yun determined that the demon world was causing trouble for the human race, things would not go so smoothly, because the matter had to be jointly decided by the Four Saints Pavilion. If nothing unexpected happened, the existing evidence would not be sufficient to prove that it was the demon world that was responsible.
But this is not the point. The point is, since the Four Saints Pavilion believes that it was not done by the demon world, they must find out who is behind it!
It just so happens that the second war of the Two Worlds Mountain is happening right now. What will happen if the Four Saints Pavilion announces that it is the human race that is harming itself
Therefore, if things really get to the end, it is possible that it is really caused by spies from the demon world.
Even if the case has been concluded, the Four Saints Pavilion must try every means to keep the matter low-key and force the Three Palaces to negotiate with the Qing Kingdom and other forces.
In this matter, the Three Palaces and Fang Yun have all three elements of reason and righteousness. If the forces of Qing Kingdom and others do not pay a price, they will never be able to get away with it unscathed.
Furthermore, if forces such as Qing Kingdom resolutely refuse to compromise, it will not only cause civil strife in the Holy Academy, but may even lead to the split of the Four Sacred Pavilions.
After all, the East Saint Pavilion will definitely favor Qing Kingdom, and the other three Saint Pavilions will never allow the East Saint Pavilion to protect Qing Kingdom.
Everyone then understood why Fang Yun had been handling various matters according to the normal procedures yesterday, and did not look like the sky was falling. It turned out that he had already made a decision with the Criminal Hall.
Fang Yun said slowly: "The officials of Ding Prefecture just resigned, and that night, spies from the demon world caused trouble for the human race. It is very suspicious. The Criminal Palace has joined forces with the War Palace to launch a large-scale manhunt in Ding Prefecture to arrest all the officials who resigned in Ding Prefecture."
The officials gasped.
Wu Hanjiang looked pale.
The War Hall has always been external and not internal. Now that the Punishment Hall has dispatched the War Hall, the development of the matter has nothing to do with any of the officials present. It is the business of the gods.
The Four Saints Pavilion has not made a final judgment, and the War Hall has been dispatched based on the one-sided statement of the Criminal Hall. Although it is only assisting in the investigation and arresting rather than killing, it also shows that the War Hall is biased towards Fang Yun and the Third Hall in this matter.
The reason is very simple. The War Hall's energy is now mostly focused on the Two Worlds Mountain. Their people fought to the death to protect the Shengyuan Continent. The demon world did not attack, and the human race instead harmed their own people. With the temperament of the hot-tempered military scholars in the War Hall, it was already enough for them to restrain themselves by not rushing up to Qing Jun and giving him a few slaps.
What's more, the three halls include the Works Hall, and the Works Hall is supplying a large number of war machines to the War Hall. The War Hall must consider the attitude of the Works Hall.