Everyone present was stunned, and Tao Dingnian shouted: "No! Shen Ming, you must not make a mistake!"
"Master Shen, you have to think about your descendants!" Wen Gu's voice was full of viciousness.
"Master Shen, don't cut off your own path!"
Dozens of officials tried to persuade him, as they knew all too well the consequences of letting Shen Ming go to the Northwest Army.
Ao Huang couldn't help but glance at Fang Yun, thinking that scholars were indeed full of bad intentions. If Shen Ming was simply killed, the impact on the Left Prime Minister would be minimal. However, letting people from the Left Prime Minister's camp go to the Northwest Army to atone their sins was tantamount to giving the Left Prime Minister a big slap in the face in front of all the officials of Jing State.
Fang Yun looked at Shen Ming with a slight smile on his lips, but Shen Ming only saw coldness and a pressure as heavy as Mount Tai on his face.
"Please forgive me, sir. I admit my defeat!"
Shen Ming finally couldn't hold on any longer, the determination in his heart collapsed, and he fell to his knees.
Click… Click…
Then, a sharper sound was heard, and everyone heard the sound of Wen Dan's sword being shattered.
"Puff..." Shen Ming vomited blood mist and fainted on the spot.
No one came to help.
Many officials sighed. If a young scholar’s literary courage was shattered, he could become like an ordinary person after a few years of rest. But Shen Ming’s literary courage was shattered now, and he would not live more than three years.
Fang Yun ignored Shen Ming who was lying on the ground and pronounced the verdict, including dismissal from office, confiscation of property, parading through the streets and exile. However, he did not pronounce the verdict on Shen Ming's family. He sentenced Shen Ming today to spread the news. Tomorrow, naturally, a large number of victims would sue Shen Ming's family. A more comprehensive verdict would be made then.
The Shen Ming family must be eradicated completely. There must not be any chance for the Shen family to rise in Ning'an County.
After sentencing Shen Ming, Fang Yun suddenly looked at the officials outside the main hall with a serious expression, and said: "The net of heaven is vast and wide, and nothing can escape it. Shen Ming was caught today, and you should be vigilant. Don't continue to imitate him. I said that day: Heaven's law is cyclical, and retribution will not be missed. If these two are missing, there will naturally be two others to make up for it. Today is a warning. Everyone, please leave."
It was already noon, and after Fang Yun finished speaking, he stood up and walked towards the back yamen.
All the officials were stunned because they had never heard of Fang Yun's two words before, but they soon thought of the clerk Qi Yi who falsely passed Fang Yun's order to let Yang Yuhuan enter the Academy of Literature early, almost killing Yang Yuhuan, and was finally executed. However, Qi Yi's two sons escaped because they were sent to Qing State, and guessed that Fang Yun said these words afterwards.
However, Fang Yun said this on the day when the left prime minister's grandson died, which had extraordinary significance.
Many officials looked at each other, then discussed in a low voice, and finally came to the conclusion that Fang Yun was just venting his anger and there could be no other reason.
After leaving the main hall, Ao Huang followed behind with a smile. He asked in a low voice: "Tell me the truth, Shen Ming's niece Lanxiang poisoned Liu Mingzhi's wife, did you use any means to do it?"
"It has nothing to do with me." Fang Yun said frankly.
Ao Huang frowned and said, "You actually said so. It has nothing to do with you. But, you said that day that the law of nature is cyclical and retribution will come, and there will be two others to make up for it. Obviously you are referring to this pair of twins! The spy trained by the Left Prime Minister wanted to harm Yang Yuhuan, and the two sons of the spy should have died but didn't. Now the two legitimate grandsons of the Left Prime Minister are dead. Isn't it fulfilled?" Wucuo Novel Network does not skip words.
"It's just a coincidence." Fang Yun responded with a smile, as if he didn't take it seriously at all.
"No! This is just the first coincidence! The second coincidence is that today is not a big day, but you decided to hold the Medical and Literary Conference today, and deliberately let people from the Agricultural Palace come today. It is very likely that you knew that the grandson of the Left Prime Minister would die today, and then you would capture Shen Ming and completely control Ning'an County!"
Fang Yun smiled slightly and did not answer.
Ao Huang kept pestering Fang Yun, but Fang Yun refused to say anything.
Fang Yun naturally couldn't say that when he first met Shen Ming in Ning'an County, he remembered what happened in the Book Mountain Illusion. In the Book Mountain Illusion, the murder of the left prime minister's grandson was a major event, and Fang Yun remembered it clearly.
After coming down from the Book Mountain, Fang Yun had figured out that the content of the illusion he had encountered as soon as he reached the Book Mountain was deduced with the help of the Book of Changes based on the events that had happened in Jing State, as well as the temperament, habits, and preferences of each character.
After taking over Ning'an, Fang Yun carefully verified and found that as long as he did not change things or people, the final development of things would be similar to Shushan's, including the conflict between Lanxiang and Liu Mingzhi's wife. The timing was exactly the same, so he was sure that Lanxiang would still poison Liu Shan's unborn grandson on March 19th.
It was also because of this that Fang Yun chose to hold a medical literary conference on this day. Once he got the exact news that Lan Xiang had taken action, he would take action against Shen Ming!
Moreover, the events learned in the Book Mountain Fantasy are not just these!
A chief clerk is just the clarion call for a counterattack!
After lunch, Fang Yun returned to his study and began to write quickly.
"Recently, this officer received an anonymous report. Because it involves serious matters, in order to protect the anonymous person, this officer decided to destroy the original anonymous letter..."
"… The report involves a large number of officials from Mizhou and the Yingyang Army, which may affect the war between the human race and the barbarians. I am deeply afraid that there may be spies among them, so I ask the Criminal Court to participate in the investigation…"
"In the 196th year of the new calendar, Yan Chongyuan, the third-rank governor of Mizhou and a Hanlin scholar, colluded with the rebellious scholar Feng Chengjue in order to obtain the ten-year longevity fruit, and provided a large amount of intelligence, which led to the defeat of the Dingyuan Army. It took several years for them to recover. In the 197th year of the new calendar, with his tacit consent, his son secretly acquired the Beiyu Trading Company. A month later, the state army changed its equipment, and the Beiyu Trading Company took over the weapons worth 200,000 taels. After that, this batch of weapons was replaced within a year on the grounds of war damage and was never used. Later, it was learned that the cost of this batch of weapons was no more than 30,000..."
"Hong Ming, a third-rank official and Hanlin, was the prefect of Qingwu Prefecture when his son killed the three people who first discovered the gold mine. However, they were discovered. Hong Ming was worried that it would affect his career, so he secretly hired bandits to massacre a total of 15 people from three households, and killed all the bandits himself..."
"In the 194th year of the new calendar, the Yingyang Army's third-rank Xihe general, Jinshi Shi Yushu, killed innocent people to take credit for his achievements, slandered a group of barbarians who had defected to them as spies, and killed them all, which led to the barbarian Black Water Tribe sneaking into the border between Wu and Jing countries, causing heavy losses..."
"In the 193rd year of the new calendar, the fourth-rank military officer and Jinshi Zhai Feng withheld intelligence and delayed its release for his own selfish desires, leading to the annihilation of the 3,000-man Yingyang Army..."
Fang Yun kept writing and finally finalized the draft, which involved two Hanlin scholars, twelve Jinshi scholars, and seven Juren scholars, all of whom were officials holding important positions in Mizhou or Yingyang Army. They were all men of the Left Prime Minister Liu Shan!
Once verified, these people will all be dismissed from their posts, or at least imprisoned. In the worst cases, they will most likely be sentenced to death and forced to create cultural relics before their death to preserve their descendants.
After Fang Yun finished writing, he read the letter of complaint again and signed his name at the end.
Fang Yun.
Before writing this letter of complaint, Fang Yun had already thought about it, it would be almost impossible for the Holy Academy to track down this virtual saint like him. If they actually traced him, it could be said that he had gained some memories for some reason after being named a virtual saint. After all, when a scholar is canonized as a saint, the memories that were erased by the mountain of books will reappear.
Anyway, so far, he is the only virtual saint who was canonized while still alive, so it is not completely impossible for him to recover some of Shushan's memories. (To be continued...)