Chapter 143 – You’re making trouble outside the garden, I’m laughing inside the garden
It’s raining again in Suzhou, and I’ve heard that it’s raining even harder in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The court officials are all focused on the section of the riverbank that’s riddled with holes in Shazhou, and even though Fan Xian is in Suzhou, he can’t help but keep his eyes on the area. Yang Wanli has long been to the river governor’s office inauguration, the inner treasury silver has arrived, the treasury allocated money also to the river transportation silver, never like this year this is sufficient, just this year to repair the river started too late, I do not know whether it can withstand the summer floods.
The rain fell heavily, the first to Jiangnan’s summer immediately be drenched out, leaving a cold and clear remnants of spring. For the people of Jiangnan, these rains only added to their deep depression and grief, but not many people would think of those upstream of the river who had no house to live in and no clothes to wear last year’s victims.
Because Elder Taijun Ming’s funeral was about to take place.
Fan Xian indifferently watched all of this, not reacting at all. After Deng Ziyue, the subordinates of the Governor’s Office, the Supervisory Yuan, and the Inner Treasury and Transit Department all advised him that it would be best to light some incense at the funeral hall, and that the Lord of the Imperial Household would show a gesture of respect for the imperial court by the people of the Kingdom of Qing and should not continue to make a scene.
However, Fan Xian refused this proposal with an iron fist, because in his opinion, it was just the funeral of an old man who had died, what was the matter? It was just one death, and if things didn’t go well at the upper reaches of the Great River, there was no telling how many people would have to die.
In response to this gesture of Lord Qin’s, all the officials were sighing and thinking that could it be that Lord Qin did not sense the undercurrents surging in the civil society?
At the end of the month. Mingyuan a mournful sound, there is a white cloth hanging high, open hearth, it is the period of seven days to stop the coffin.
Seven days after the moratorium period, is the time of mourning, according to the funeral rules of the Qing Dynasty, seven days later, the news of the funeral will be widely spread to friends and relatives and even enemies …… regardless of the feud between the two sides before life, but the rules of mourning can not be exempted. The original intention of this ceremony refers to a death of enmity, often the enemies of life, will learn about the funeral, personally go to the mourning hall condolences, such as is the end of the life of the right and wrong, and from now on the yin and yang are separated, the two are not related.
Has been staying in suzhou city waiting for the Mingyuan mourning dignitaries, have received the white post from the Mingyuan, began to have to clean up the clothes expression, to the Mingyuan and go.
All eyes are fixed on Hua Yuan, because according to the rules as well as the status of the old lady Ming, the white invitation of mourning should also be sent to Hua Yuan, to the hands of the Lord Qinzhi. As for what Lord Qinzhi was going to do, it would depend on how to deal with this white invitation.
Who did not expect, when the Ming garden will be sent to the white invitation to the Chinese garden, the Chinese garden just politely received into the Ming three masters, drink a cup of tea, and then sent the Ming three masters out, the white invitation is actually confiscated!
The third master of the Ming Dynasty went berserk on the spot outside of the Hua Yuan, cursing with obscenities and spitting hard on the stone steps in front of the Hua Yuan.
Immediately a subordinate came out to use water to rinse the spit clean.
Everything in the world are lifted but a word of reason, and in the hearts of ordinary people, the dead is great, is the universal reason, the Lord so do not give face to the dead, so that all the people have felt a trace of consternation and all kinds of anger.
And even more so that everyone unexpected and angry, Ming Lao Taijun spirit hall is not open, the Supervisory Board once again, will be that in the Ming Garden in the lead against the search of the Ming six masters arrested, with the name of the investigation of the East Barbarians spies, so that not only the Suzhou House, even the Governor’s Office is not good enough to say anything. And after the inspector general’s office secretly arrested Ming six masters, immediately sent to the Shazhou Marine Division custody, did not hand over to the local.
I don’t know if there is anyone to lead the way, anyway, from the next day onwards, there began to be a constant gathering of people in front of the Hua Yuan, cursing loudly and shouting those uninformed slogans, such as severely punishing the real culprits, releasing the innocent and so on.
And more headache is that the students of Jiangnan also joined the ranks of the young students, young students have a lot of blood, and the recent actions of Lord Fan, so that these students often have a sense of disillusionment of the idol, but also angry, loud clamor, denounced.
Huayuan was as calm as usual, but the Jiangnan Road Governor’s Office was afraid of civil unrest, deployed a team of soldiers to guard in front of Huayuan, and drove those excited and angry students to the end of the street.
In the afternoon, Governor Xue Qing, under heavy escort, with great difficulty, passed through the excited crowd and entered the Garden.
In his study, he and Fan Xian argued for half a day, with neither one being able to convince the other, and finally Xue Qing had no choice but to ask, “If you provoke the people to surround the garden and not leave, how will the court’s face survive?”
Fan Xian said indifferently, “The siege of the prince is a misdemeanor, if you don’t move your troops, I’m going to move my troops.”
Xue Qing was stunned, then he remembered that there was still a third prince living in the Ming Garden, if he allowed the citizens of Suzhou to besiege the Huayuan Garden, and the news was sent back to Kyoto, he would not have to be the governor himself, and those leading scholars would only have to lose a few of their lives as well. And he as the governor of Jiangnan, is absolutely not dare to let their jurisdiction within the territory, there are such terrible things, after a little pondering, sincerely asked: “What to do?”
With Governor Xue Qing’s old-fashioned skill, it was a small matter to clean up some of the students whose minds had been swept away by fervor, but the key was that he understood that this matter was obviously an atmosphere that Fan Xian had intentionally created, and as soon as it became clear what Fan Xian’s true intentions were, there was no need for him to intervene hard and plunge himself into this messy sludge.
Fan Xian glanced at him and said, “They’re all hot blooded young men, and I don’t want to make things difficult for them …… It’s just that it’s been raining for a while, and the nights are freezing hard, and the hot blood will get cold, so they’ll naturally disperse.”
Xue Qing frowned slightly, “If they don’t disperse?”
Fan Xian laughed coldly, “Righteous indignation cannot be a meal, and if they don’t disperse by nightfall, then it means that certain people surrounding the garden are not doing so out of righteous indignation, but have other purposes.”
Those hidden in the shadows, the purpose they want to achieve is very simple, not to say provoking a civil unrest, just make the people’s reaction a little bigger, let things spread back to Kyoto, His Majesty must always have a reaction.
Xue Qing pondered slightly and immediately understood Fan Xian’s meaning, saying, “Should the Governor’s Office take action in this matter?”
Fan Xian shook his head, “It’s a matter of bad reputation, I’ll just take care of it myself……. Adult, just keep an eye on Hua Yuan, after all, Third Highness’s safety is the top priority.”
Xue Qing understood, and a trace of dissimilarity and vibration could not help but arise in his heart. If in accordance with the common sense of the officialdom, suppressing the civil unrest, always have to do it together with everyone above, and Fan Xian puts out this pair of lone Geng stubborn and stubborn appearance, but also really let their own pressure is a lot less.
After the discussion, Xue Qing took his leave.
Fan Xian sat alone in his study, and then couldn’t help but smile to himself. Hai Tang has been gone for many days, but has not yet come back, can not catch that Mr. Zhou, this some Mingyuan change is to lose one-third of the interests. As for those angry citizens of Suzhou, Fan Xian simply do not care …… have Ming Qingda on the other side of the general leader, things certainly will not exceed the critical line of radicalization. The problem is, it is obvious that behind this mass movement, there are a lot of hidden people’s shadows.
Without the instigation of others, how can the small citizens of Daqing, who are used to being afraid and cowardly, have the guts to come to the residence of the imperial envoy to raise their voices?
Fan Xian was fully prepared for this matter, and now that he had gotten Xue Qing’s reply, his heart was more at peace.
As expected, the crowd outside gradually dispersed as the day drew to a close, leaving only those students wearing square scarves and displaying the color of righteousness, as well as some unidentified citizens mixing with them. With the military force of the Governor’s Office watching over them, these people could only chant the classics at the end of the street, angrily pointing out that Mr. Qin killed people and harmed the people of Jiangnan.
I don’t know who started it, the crowd gradually got excited, and pushed towards the Hua Yuan side, the soldiers of the Governor’s Office didn’t dare to hit hard for a while, and slowly retreated backward.
As they got closer and closer to Hua Yuan, the crowd stopped, and there was a lot of noise, and all kinds of unpleasant words were cursed out, but the students were not all stupid, and they knew that the curses were all about how the Supervisory Yuan was doing, but not about Fan Xian’s ancestor.
Everyone knows that Fan Xian’s ancestor is the ancestor of His Majesty the Emperor, so it’s okay to scold the Supervisory Yuan, which is hated by all the literati in the world, but to scold His Majesty’s ancestor? Everyone just wanted to take revenge for the wrongly killed Ming Lao Taijun, but they didn’t want to take their own lives to fill in the blanks.
Hua Yuan is still quiet, vaguely visible inside the lights flicker, there is the sound of silk bamboo through the rain.
Viceroy’s soldiers are on standby, hand lit torches, illuminated outside the Huayuan a bright.
Rain like a line, has long been wet still remain outside the Huayuan those students on the body, they look at each other, wipe clean the face of the rain, some can not believe their own ears, Suzhou City has been like this, these people have been like this, the Lord of Qin actually still have the leisure to …… like that!
They are drenched in the rain, but Lord Qinzai is listening to the theater, the students inexplicably angry, only because of fatigue and a little rest of the voice of anger and high sound.
Just in this piece of angry scolding, a person wearing a gray single coat in the crowd, eyeballs bone rolled a few times, from the pocket to take out a thing, they threw into the Garden of China!
The thing fell into the garden, only issued a muffled sound, did not happen what explosion or other loud sounds.
Instead, a thunderous scolding came out from the garden: “Who the hell is throwing a bag of dog’s blood!”
Throwing dog’s blood, this is the most insulting kind of trick, although some children’s childishness, but thrown into the Chin’s seat Hua Yuan, this thing can be a big deal.
The students also froze up, cursing sound a little break, thinking this is which fellow students, have such great courage?
Just at the time of thought, Hua Yuan swish swish swish flashed above three black shadows, it is the Supervisory Yuan three six sword hand, coldly watching the garden outside the street under those who make trouble.
The crowd was quiet for no reason, and suddenly someone shouted out, “The Supervisory Yuan is going to kill people! Let …… us!”
A shadow killed into the crowd, inciting voices came to an abrupt end, as if a duck was strangled by someone who held the throat of fate.
The crowd was startled and parted from it, only to see a big man in cloth, holding the throat of a gray-clothed man in his hand, coldly walking out.
The big man in cloth was none other than Tiger Guard leader Gao Da, who had been staring at the inciter outside on Fan Xian’s orders, and with his skills, it was natural for him to step in and take the man. He threw the gray-clothed man to the ground and stomped on top of the man’s chest, only to hear a shattering sound of the man’s sternum.
Seeing this tragic scene, the students’ blood rushed to their heads and surrounded Gao Da in the center, shouting, “Murder! The Supervisory Yuan is killing people!”
This scene put around the governor generals bluffed a jump, will horse a urge will be forced up, at any time is a momentum to move troops to suppress.
Gouda coldly picked up the gray man, shaking like a sack, clanking, the man did not know how many things fell off.
“First, he’s not dead.”
Answering Gouda’s remark was the sound of the gray-clad man groaning, and the students settled down a little.
Gouda coldly said, “Secondly, you are here to seek justice, this person is here to induce Lord Chinchilla to kill you, there is a difference, so treat it differently …… This is the original words of the Lord.”
The students only then woke up, to the ground to look at, can not help but be shocked, only to see that the gray man fell on the ground more than just a bag of dog’s blood, there are also kindling and lamp oil and so on, the people only then understand, if you allow this person to be sandwiched between the crowd to make bad things, and really burned down the Huayuan, the Huayuan living in the Prince and the Lord of the Qinzhi, these people of their own absolutely have to be the court in the name of the thugs to be killed on the spot.
“Your Excellency’s original words two.” Gouda said coldly.
The crowd was intimidated by his aura and all listened honestly.
“When there is injustice in your chest, you should voice it out. This is the endowment of a young man, I do not blame you and the others.”
Gao Da continued to state Fan Xian’s words, “But to be instigated and provoked by others without knowing the truth, how foolish is that? If you want to express your grievances, you should find the right way to do so, but to clamor like a shrew in the marketplace is a shameful shame.”
The students listened to these words and were greatly unconvinced. There was a leader of the students out loud: “The Supervisory Board is unfair, forcing the death of people. I have also reported the case to the Suzhou Prefecture, but the officials protect each other, and the Suzhou Prefecture is afraid of the power of the Supervisory Board, do not dare to accept the paper. Dare I ask Mr. Qin, what other ways can I let the students to relieve their grievances?”
Gouda coldly looked at the man: “adults say: both have the courage to gather outside the garden, can have the courage to enter the garden deliberations?”
The students will be uproarious, some say not allowed to enter, some say must enter, a diversity of opinions, and finally all eyes converge on the previous head of the student, this student is the Jiangnan Road White Deer College students, surnamed Fang Tingshi, from a poor background, but very insightful, has always won the admiration of his peers, hidden for the leader of the students.
Fang Tingshi a little deliberation, will teeth bite, from the pocket to take out these days to collect the blood of ten thousand people book, hold to the top of the head, said: “The students would like to enter the garden and adults to argue.”
Gouda gave him an expressionless look, and carrying the gray-clothed man, he headed into the garden. Fang Tingshi felt slightly uneasy and summoned up the courage to walk in, while dissuading his fellow students from requesting to enter together.
Fan Xian sat on the eunuch’s chair with his eyes half-closed, enjoying Si Si’s gentle massage behind him, his fingers tapping on the tabletop in time with the song of the Qing Qu master in the pavilion in the garden.
At his lower hand, Fang Tingshi, who was so bold that he dared to enter the garden single-handedly to seek justice from Lord Qin, was flipping through something, his face green for a while, his lips trembling slightly, as if he was shocked by what was written on it.
Fan Xian slowly opened his eyes and said, “This is a court secret, only there are many inconvenient to get Suzhou House as evidence, many are already dead without evidence, many involve nobles in the court, this official can not be used to squarely poke the front of the Ming Garden …… However, since you have the guts to pull together a vote of Students to seek justice, think is not stupid, see so many things, Mingyuan matter exactly how, you yourself should have an independent judgment.”
Fang Tingshi hand holding, is the Supervisory Yuan this half a year to the Ming Garden covert investigation of the proceeds, including the pirates on the East China Sea island, Ming Lanshi concubine’s strange death, Xia Qufei and the Ming family’s story, the Ming family to the Dongyi City smuggling, four Gu Jian Yin legacy of masters into Jiangnan assassinate Fan Xian …… a stroke, the record is clear, although, as Fan Xian said Although, as Fan Xian said, these records, because of the lack of circumstantial evidence, can not be presented to the court as evidence, but Fang Tingshi heart is clear, what is written here must be true.
His hands were trembling as he held the case file and said, “But …… it shouldn’t be like this. Ming Lao Taijun embraced Jiangnan, I don’t know how many poor students have been subsidized, the student’s family has been poor since childhood, if it is not Ming Yuan giving rice every month for me to study, how can I possibly enter the White Deer College.”
His eyes slightly red, angrily looked at Fan Xian and said, “Lord Qin, students dare to enter the garden today, then did not store the idea of getting out alive, students simply do not believe in what is written here, the Supervisory Yuan is most capable of shady people to sin ……”
Fan Xian looked at him coldly, not answering at all.
Fang Tingshi himself couldn’t go on.
“Since I took over the Procuratorate, when else have I woven incriminating evidence to shade people into framing things?” Fan Xian sneered, “As for you, as a student, you should have the ability to make independent judgments. Not by what people say, not by what you see, just look at the situation over the years and your own brain.”
“Of course, you guys don’t have brains in the first place.” Fan Xian rebuked bitterly, “If you guys had brains, you wouldn’t have been persuaded and instigated by others to come to the Siege of Hua Yuan. Where is this place? This is the imperial regiment, this is the palace of the prince, this official will have no problem beheading 300 of you, and in the end, it will be you who will die, and this official’s reputation will be lost, and it will be good for those shady and lawless lawless merchants.”
He was so angry that he pointed at Fang Tingshi’s nose and cursed, “All a bunch of fools, I don’t know where all the books have been read for so many years.”
The fury was disguised, for Fan Xian knew that these students ate this up the most.
As expected, Fang Tingshi mumbled, “Lord Qin’s lesson is ……,” he thought to himself, not only did Lord Qin not take action to suppress the students, but instead invited himself into the palace, his heart is really sincere and clear, and opened his mouth to smile bitterly and said, “Your honor is open-minded.” Adults open-minded.”
Fan Xian closed his eyes and shook his head, “My bosom can’t be said to be open-minded, just that you all are still young, I’m not willing to use those means …… to be able to tolerate you today.”
He suddenly opened his eyes and said, “You should know, which four people are the four sons of my Fan Gate.”
The Four Sons of Fan Gate, Hou Jichang, Cheng Jialin, Shi Hanyanli, and Yang Wanli, were all known to be Fan Xian’s protégés after the Chun Exam case that year, when they jumped up.
Fang Tingshi nodded.
Fan Xian smiled, ”These four students of mine are all older than me, but they all call this official a teacher. When it comes to Ji Chang, he also caused trouble in Jiangnan, just like you did today.”
Fang Tingshi was slightly stunned.
Fan Xian finally said, “It’s not because I cherish talent, but perhaps it’s because I’m looking at you, and I’m a bit nostalgic for the old days.”
After Fang Tingshi withdrew, Si Si frowned and said, “Young master, these people are too ungrateful, why are you still ……”
“Still so polite?” Fan Xian shook his head and said, “It’s true that reputation isn’t important, but students still have to be considerate in this regard, in the future, after these people are successful in the exams, they are all going to join the court as officials, I don’t think about it for myself, I also have to think about it for your highness.”
Si Si added, “This matter will be settled.”
A gentle smile spread across Fan Xian’s lips, “If Fang Tingshi was able to persuade the students to return, it shows that he is capable, so of course he should be cultivated in the future. As for those ghosts …… mixed in the crowd I’m waiting for them.”
Ming Qingda’s side has long been sent a message over, the internal Mingyuan has actually been suppressed more or less, the problem is that, at present, the rumors in the city of Suzhou is a momentary inconvenience to suppress, especially these rowdy crowds, there are certainly people who have the intention of provoking.
“Don’t use the sword.” Fan Xian turned to Gao Da and confided, “The wooden sticks that I asked you to prepare the other day are better, and with regards to suppressing this sort of thing, it’s important to beat them painfully but not bleed.”
What event, with the word bloodshed added in front of it, was always a bit troublesome.
Fang Tingshi out of the garden, and the students came together in a place to say for a long time, but unfortunately in the end was not able to persuade all the people, but was suspected by some students that he is not afraid of the power of the imperial court how to how, and some of the crowd in the words of the yin and yang provoked, Fang Tingshi after the great anger and shame, for a time, actually don’t know how to do, had to take with their own friendship with their classmates first evacuated the Mingyuan.
Surrounded in the Mingyuan outside the expression of anger of the masses, only half of the remaining, the Governor’s Office of the generals have the previous dog blood bag before the incident, it is strictly guarded.
I do not know how long, suddenly hit the Huayuan rushed out of a large group of people, holding a wooden stick, they are to those who surrounded and not go to the students to hit, a time, screaming, stick and meat sound loud.
Although the Supervisory Yuan crowd did not hit hard, the students did not suffer serious injuries, but every day immersed in the scriptures of the students, where to experience this kind of stick education, crying and shouting, will be driven away by the stick, before the Garden of China, immediately returned to the calm.
Only the rain slowly drifted down.
Viceroy general soldiers stared dumbfounded at this scene, thinking that the Lord Qinzhi is really cruel and merciless.
No one noticed that along with the dispersed students fleeing in all directions, there were also some sneaky figures, and after these figures, there were some secret agents of the Supervisory Office who were made up to look like scholars or citizens, running in fear on one side and staring cautiously on the other.
Fan Xian stepped on a ladder and held the Third Prince’s hand as he climbed up the wall of the Hua Yuan, looking at this scene, he couldn’t help but smile and said, “According to the standard pattern, today we should have some gangsters, disguised as benevolent men and women who are loyal to the king and love the people, come and beat up these students.”
The Third Prince said curiously, “Sir, then why didn’t you do that today?”
Fan Xian laughed and scolded, “To use someone from the Jiangnan Water Village? Now that everyone knows that Xia Qufei is one of ours, why bother with that extra pink face.”