Chapter 17: The Palace Sonnet Shocks the Storm

“Don’t think I’m a saint.” Fan Xian shook his head and said, “In the final analysis, this official is also thinking for himself. Taking over the inner treasury next year? That would be cutting off the Xinyang side’s finances, and what would she take to support the prince? Can she allow that to happen? The accounts of the inner treasury are naturally tidy, but what about the deficit in the dark underbelly? Do you want this official to take it on and then turn white with worry?”

“Her people eat the leftovers of the feast, this official is not willing to hold this broken food dish!”

“The inner treasury is a mountain of gold, but also a basin of sewage …… The Princess has the Empress Dowager’s favor, and me? As a foreign minister to take charge of the inner treasury, this is a matter of sin.” He said bitterly, “I do suspect that His Majesty is not prepared to let me go as the eldest princess’s scapegoat? In the future, when the internal treasury is investigated, I will not be able to explain with my eight hundred mouths. Not bad, I’m not willing to do that, so I’m going to grab my mother-in-law’s foot washing and pour it on herself!”

If Chen Pingping or Fan Jian heard him speak at this time, and saw his expression at this time, they would definitely give a thumbs up, secretly praising this son for his young age, but his acting skills have already reached the realm of pure perfection, foreign minister? Outside your big head ghost!

But Yan Bingyun where to know this behind the scenes of the shocking secret, listening to Fan Xian self-admitted selfishness, but deep inside is more sense of admiration, think this has been looking at the small Fan adults, but is a …… straight minister! He frowned and suggested, “Why didn’t your lordship at first firmly reject the palace’s offer, the inner treasury is indeed …… too hot.”

Fan Xian smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, “You don’t believe me when I say this, but I …… still really want to do something for the people of this world.”

Yan Bingyun’s appearance was still icy cold, but the temperature of that heart seemed to be warming up a bit as he stood up and saluted Fan Xian, then began to use a steady voice and began to give advice from the perspective of a subordinate, “Moving the inner treasury at this time is a very unconscionable thing to do.”

Fan Xian looked at him quietly.

Yan Bingyun didn’t seem to feel Fan Xian’s somewhat aggressive gaze, “Because even if this matter were to be stirred up …… looking at your lordship’s plans these days, he might even, with the audacity of heaven, ask Shi Hanyanli to write an official document that would be sprawled out and pasted on the wall next to the Da Lisi, so that the world would all know how much the Princess and the officials in the capital have gotten from the inner treasury ……”

Fan Xian smiled to himself. He still did have this plan, anyway, he was bold and had a hard backstage – this backstage was not the emperor, it was that uncle.

“…… It’s no use either.” Yan Bingyun said with a straight face, “At least it’s useless for this year’s disaster victims, it’s simply impossible for the outflow of treasury silver from the inner treasury to be recovered in just one month’s time, not to mention whether or not his majesty can make up his mind to offend most of the officials – just to say that there are more officials to be relegated to, and the operation of the imperial court will be a problems-the matter of disaster relief cannot be delayed.”

Fan Xian fell into deep thought and asked, “Then according to your opinion?”

“For the time being, we’ll keep this case under wraps……. Lord Shangshu has been in charge of the treasury for a long time, and must have his own methods, so I don’t think we’ll miss the disaster in the south.” Yan Bingyun said quietly, “It will also take some time to prepare for the things that His Excellency has arranged in Northern Qi. Waiting until after winterization, the courtyard and Wang Qinian echo north and south, first pulling out the Cui clan, cutting off the Xinyang side of the road to share the wealth, and then borrowing the opportunity of the Lord of the Tishek’s new control of the inner treasury, checking the accounts and investigating the case, and thundering.”

“That’s the way to hold your weight.” Fan Xian frowned, “I’m just worried that Wang Qinian’s time in Shangjing is too short to fully grasp the power of the north, and pulling Cui’s plucking ground is not clean.”

After a slight beat, Yan Bingyun simply responded, “My humble servant …… can contribute.”

Fan Xian looked at him, his face unchanged, but his heart was a burst of dark joy, “You are now a great celebrity in Northern Qi …… how can you possibly go back to the north again?”

Yan Bingyun responded, “Those sons and daughters under me don’t need me to keep an eye on them to do things.”

“I’ll try to get more and more power, and then use that power to do something I’m willing to do, and I’ll need a lot of people’s help in the process.” Fan Xian looked him in the eye and said in a very low voice, “I would love to be like I was in Shangjing, and for you to work well with me …… Of course, it’s not just this time as well as the one next spring.”

Yan Bingyun understood what he meant and did not remain silent for too long, bowing his head, clasping his fists, saluting, and leaving.

The young handsome man of the Supervisory Academy is not the kind of character who drags his feet, just the little Yan Gongzi, after expressing enough trust in the little Lord Fan, still turned back in the moment before he stepped out of the study and asked in doubt, “Lord Tiji, you have been clothed in brocade since you were a young boy, why do you …… have such a high regard for the suffering people of the world? valued?”

Fan Xian scratched his head and replied, “Maybe it’s because I …… was used to doing good deeds a long time ago.”

“Good tolerant little Yan Gongzi, actually hasn’t asked Miss Shen how she is now.”

He looked out the window at the half cut shrubs under the setting sun, his face expressionless, but in his heart, he secretly sighed, the officialdom is really every step of the way, and even in the Fan residence where he lives, there is still such an accomplished scout!

Although Fan Xian in the Ministry of Justice after the formal display of the identity of the Supervisory Committee of the Ministry of Justice, a Fan House in the secret agent was very interested in the identity of the retreat, but the courtyard is still not quiet, if you do not have the fifth uncle, I am afraid that simply can not be noticed that planting the flowers of the woman.

As he himself said, Fan Xian was not a saint, nor was he a good person in the pure sense of the word, nor was he Thunderbolt – the simplest reason for dealing with the Eldest Princess, and even that Second Highness who didn’t know the depths of the situation, was because he and the Xinyang side, had long since already had an unresolvable knot of grievances.

And the root cause of this knot – the inner treasury, is Fan Xian reborn after the most unlikely to give up things. The inner treasury is the Ye family, and the meanings it carries cannot be guarded by Fan Xian. No matter who tries to get in the way, Fan Xian will mercilessly kick it away.

–How should a person’s life be spent?

How should Fan Xian spend his life? Love for oneself, love for one’s wife, love for one’s family, love for the world, love for my love, and love for the love of others. This is not the cultivation of the TV station of great love, but purely the idea from the heart – muddling around, bullying men and women, is a life; honestly, submissive and unprotected is a life; leading the army to war, killing people like hell, and unifying the world is also a life.

Fan Xian is an ordinary male animal who covets pleasure and power and loves beautiful women, but his experience in two lives enables him to grasp what he wants more accurately, so he thinks that dashing, being ruthless when he should be ruthless, being soft when he should be soft, being close to more beauties, earning more money, and seeing more scenery in this beautiful world, this is a glorious and splendid life.

Under the premise of first guaranteeing life as well as material life, he didn’t mind beautifying his spiritual world a little. But in order for the world to be beautiful, the first thing that must be done is to make the people who live in this world smile, so Fan Xian, the “poor minister of power,” would inevitably be a bit tired at the beginning.

If he still maintains the clear and stern state of mind of that Tanyu Junior, perhaps he will become much freer and happier. Nothing about the inner treasury and the people of the world would have given him any extra thoughts, but that hint of extra curiosity in the spring of the fourth year of Gyeongli – curiosity about his fiancée – had led him to fall in love, to fall in love, to fall in love with his family. Deeper and deeper into it, no longer able to be free in the world Abaragu – this fact tells us, as a man, married too early, always a very stupid thing.

In the afternoon of that day, Fan Xian, the Supervisory Authority’s chief inspector, and Yan Bingyun, the Supervisory Authority’s alternate head of the four quarters, engaged in a conversation about the inner treasury, the Second Highness, and people’s livelihoods in the Fan Mansion. The content of this conversation was soon sent to the imperial palace’s imperial study and Chen Pingping’s desk respectively through the most secretive channel in Qing.

Chen Pingping’s reaction was very simple, he directly wrote a warrant to temporarily delegate his authority over the entire institution to Fan Xian, which meant that until Chen Pingping retracted this order, Fan Xian could rightfully mobilize all the forces of this huge and terrifying institution, the Supervisory Yuan.

Inside the Imperial Study Room, His Majesty, the supreme Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing, looked at the report on his desk and only nodded gently.

In His Majesty’s heart, he was pleased with what Fan Xian had done these days. Since the officials and citizens of this world considered the Supervisory Yuan to be one of their dogs, that dog must have the courage and ruthlessness to bite people, yet not bite everyone. Letting Fan Xian be the one to lead the dog was to see just how capable he was.

After that conversation with Chen Pingping nine months ago, although the emperor didn’t say anything, he also acquiesced to the fact that Fan Xian had taken over the Supervisory Yuan, and that in the future, he would always have to let that child know his true origin – being the bloodline of the Son of Heaven, but never being able to sit in the dragon chair due to his origin – and think that that child would also be very happy with that. -I think that child will also be very satisfied with this arrangement.

Of course, this Emperor’s Majesty appreciated that conversation between Fan Xian and Yan Bingyun this afternoon even more, and the kind of sentiment that flowed out of the conversation was really like that woman back in the …… Emperor’s thin face flashed with a gratifying smile. Although that little guy’s words were a bit disrespectful to himself, one could catch the loyalty to himself under those words.

He glanced at the eunuch in front of him and said with a smile, “Hong Si Itch, what do you think of this …… Fan Xian?”

Eunuch Hong slightly stooped, not a single emotional fluctuation on his pale face, “Overly hypocritical.”

The Emperor frowned and did not say anything, but in his heart, he was thinking about the possibility that Fan Xian was acting for himself, but I heard that Old Five had been in the south, and no one in the capital should be able to notice his arrangement.

“Your Majesty, what should be done?” What Elder Eunuch Hong asked was naturally the matter of the Second Highness and the Eldest Princess.

The Emperor shook his head indifferently, “The play hasn’t even started yet, how can it be stopped so quickly?”

His Majesty of the Qing Kingdom has also been suffering from the emptiness of the treasury, although he has always been skeptical about the Xinyang side, but he has not caught any solid evidence, and because of the Empress Dowager’s health, the Emperor, who has always emphasized on loyalty and filial piety, is not likely to ferociously go and open up everything under the curtain, after all, Li Yunrui has done more good to the Qing Kingdom than he has done bad, after all, the second son is his own son.

Until today, he truly believed in Chen Pingping’s words, there are some things that young people, although they may appear to be a bit reckless, will also show enough ability and vigor. Not to mention Fan Xian, that young official called Yan Bingyun, it seems that he himself was not given enough attention at first.

The palace maids lit the candlesticks and retreated, the imperial study room was quiet. The emperor quietly waited for Fan Xian’s report, if Fan Xian really guessed his own mind, and willing to follow his own arrangement to be a lonely minister, then at the latest this night, he should find out the information, sent to his desk.

And if Fan Xian really complied with Yan Bingyun’s wishes and suppressed this matter …… the emperor frowned, even if Fan Xian was considering it from the stability of the court, it was still a deception that being the son of heaven could not allow.

With a creak, the door to the imperial study opened, and a eunuch walked in holding two boxes of zhangzhi. The emperor had always been diligent, and it had become a rule in the palace to continue reviewing the zhangzhi until late at night.

The emperor’s face was unchanged, but in his heart he was waiting for something, and only when he saw that secret box at the bottom did the corners of his lips reveal a gentle smile.

He opened the special line of secret preaching box of the Supervisory Academy and began to carefully watch the first sangha, secret preaching, written by Fan Xian since he entered the officialdom.

After a long time, he put this zhangzhang onto the candle flame and burned it, coughed gently twice, lifted the Zhu pen, wrote down two words on a piece of white paper, and sealed it back into the secret preaching box.

In fact, in his heart, this zhangzhi that might change the fate of many people was nothing at all, on the way to the peak of power step by step, this Emperor Majesty had already seen through many things, different from what many forces including Fan Xian secretly guessed, he didn’t care at all about what his son and sister below him would do to make a fuss, because no one could truly understand, this Emperor’s ambitions and self-confidence.

However, the emperor was very satisfied with Fan Xian’s performance, as he was clear that Fan Xian was not standing in the position of the Eastern Palace to strike the second prince.

So when the comfort-minded emperor began to review the later sangs, incomparable anger and disdain suddenly appeared on his thin face.

The Imperial Historian of the Metropolitan Inspectorate collectively impeached Fan Xian, the head of the Supervisory Court’s Tisan and one of its heads, for his self-serving behavior, accepting bribes, and his arrogance and perversion of the law!

A sheet of zhangzhi was like a pair of provocative gazes staring at His Majesty’s gloomy face.