Chapter 18: Anzhi

In the whole of Kyoto, the earliest person to learn of the Duzha Academy’s collective impeachment of Fan Xian, the red man of the dynasty, was no one other than Fan Xian himself. When His Majesty didn’t see those zhangzhi, Fan Xian knew that he was already standing on top of the storm.

Mu Tie sat in the chair opposite Fan Xian in a regular manner and said, “It was the left imperial inspector Lai Mingcheng of the Duzha Academy who took the lead last night, and it was only today that it was sent to the division because of the confirmation procedures that had to be followed down there.”

The first division of the Supervisory Yuan was responsible for secretly monitoring the movements of the hundred officials, and if the imperial historians’ joint petition was such a big commotion, and if the officials of the first division couldn’t detect it right away, Fan Xian was afraid that he would be so angry that he’d start a second rectification program. He nodded, flicking the paper in his hand, and asked curiously, “Are these the only charges?”

Mu Tie realized that Lord Titus seemed a bit unconcerned, and couldn’t help but frown and say, “My lord, it should not be underestimated, after all ……”

He stopped his mouth without saying more, and Fan Xian raised his head to look at him, a hint of teasing in his gaze, and said, “Is it that you feel that this official can indeed afford these charges?”

It was clearly written on the Imperial Historian’s report that Fan Xian, in the short span of one month at the helm of one place, had accepted how many silver taels from how many people, while at the same time privately releasing how many suspects, as well as condoning his men’s violence on the streets. The latter thing was only related to the face of the court, while the first two things were real crimes, and those silver bills that were handed to Fan Xian through Liu’s family were always traceable, while those officials who had been caught by one of the Supervisory Courts and then let go could not be hidden from the world either.

These charges were enough to cause any official to step down.

Fan Xian rubbed his brow, today busy day, the result of the night again encountered such a big thing, his heart is really a little annoyed: “Our Daqing dynasty of imperial censor court imperial historian, two duck’s lips, a sheep’s heart, eating soft rice goods, when did it become so defiant of the power of the nobility? Or does it mean that this official is not powerful enough nowadays? Status is not honorable enough?”

Mu Tie couldn’t help but laugh as he listened, because the Supervisory Yuan has always despised the Metropolitan Police Office, but he stifled his laughter, thinking that the last two rhetorical questions of Lord Tiji were somewhat knowing, and that nowadays, in Kyoto, the world knows that little Lord Fan has high power and noble status.

This is in fact Fan Xian very do not understand a point, those are the Imperial Court of the Royal Historian why have the guts to offend themselves for no reason, their own means these days has been more gentle, I think did not touch these people’s face, and their own these days of the Holy Spirit’s favor is gradually growing, these people are not afraid of letting the Holy Spirit is not happy?

Mu Tie looked at his face, knew what he was guessing, and explained: ”Sir, this is the practice of the Duzha Academy, they have always acted against the Supervisory Yuan, Qingliao gave them this power, and His Majesty has been suppressing the Supervisory Yuan’s secret tactics, so every other day, those poor scholarly men will always pick on our courtyard, just…” .” he frowned tightly, “I can’t imagine that they would actually have the guts to directly target Your Excellency, and that the charges laid would be so heavy.”

Fan Xian reached into his teacup and dipped a few drops of the cold remnants of the tea, applying it delicately to his brow and rubbing it, the clarity calming him slightly.

The Duzha Academy was a very special organization. In the former dynasty, the Capital Surveyor’s Office was the highest monitoring, impeachment and recommendation organ in the court, with the chief being the left and right imperial officers, and the deputy imperial officers and legitimate imperial officers underneath, and according to the local jurisdictions, there were separate inspector-generals to inspect the states and counties, and specialize in the inspection and impeachment of the officials.

In the Zhuang Mo Han everyone repair of the “Officials Note”, once wrote that year, Wei’s Academy: “all the Royal Historian job special impeachment of the Department of Justice, to identify the wrongdoing, supervise the road, for the Son of Heaven’s ears and eyes of the Department of discipline. Where the ministers of treachery, villainy, party, for the power to mess up the government, impeachment. Where the hundred officials are indecent, greedy and bad official discipline, impeachment. Where the academic is not correct, the petition statement changes into a constitution, and the person who wants to enter the use, impeachment. In the event of a pilgrimage, inspection, with the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice Division of the virtuous or not to depose. The big prison of heavy prisoners will be bowed in the foreign court, together with the Ministry of Justice, the Dali judiciary leveled. Its edicts inland, pat field, each specializing in its edicts to act. Thirteen ways to supervise the royal historian, the main inspection and correction of internal and external departments of the official evil, or show chapter face impeachment, or seal chapter impeachment …… and the General Procuratorate total constitutional program.”

Qing Guo’s Compassionate Yuan is far from the scenery of the previous dynasty, the withdrawal of the supervision of the imperial censor to inspect the county’s duties, the right to review the case moved to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Da Lisi, and like the supervision of the counties, the dark supervisory officials and so on, most of the power was transferred to the supervision of the court of the establishment of the hand of Chen Pingping, and now it is just for the ears of the emperor of the discipline of the Department, empty left a mouth, but no real power.

What kind of person is an official? Is a man. What do men like most? In addition to the beauty is power, so that today’s imperial inspectorate, for robbing most of their own power of the Supervisory Yuan – this monstrous behemoth, there is always a trace of envy and hatred, perhaps these readers still miss the glory of the long ago history of the Academy, they rely on their own privilege of speech crime, from time to time on the chapter impeachment! The officials of the Supervisory Yuan.

However, with Chen Laolime’s seemingly poisonous eyes watching, these imperial historians had been at peace for a long time. Why would these Imperial Historians suddenly turn on them? Fan Xian pondered somewhat carefully.

The fact that the Supervisory Yuan was the only one in the supervisory organization did not mean that the Capital Surveyor’s Office had lost its influence on the government. The so-called “many mouths make gold, three people make a tiger”, and even the Grand Princess was forced out of the palace by Fan Xian’s several thousand pieces of “speech paper”, so it was conceivable that words were enough to kill an official. Most of the royal historians in the Academy come from poor families, and they are very popular with the scholars. In the past, when the royal historians wrote to the court, they would always attract the world’s scribes to respond to them, and a round of verbal attacks would always be investigated by the court, and even if they did not find out the result in the end, it would be impossible for the official who was covered in sewage to stand squarely on top of the court again.

Fan Xian let out a cold smile, and his brain realized the problem, it seems that the wind has already been revealed when the Supervisory Yuan secretly investigated Xin Yang and the Second Highness’ problem. He remembers clearly, in the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, the former left imperial inspector who was ordered by the Princess to break his own legs, but the Princess raised a little white boy, and that he is secretly investigating the great talent He Zongwei, is now also in the inspectorate.

Not long ago, the secret message sent to the palace has already had an echo, Fan Xian glanced at the box wrapped in a golden silk handkerchief, shook his head, lifted it up and saw that there was only a piece of white paper inside, and two words were written on the white paper.

“An Zhi”.

Fan Xian surname Fan name leisure …… word An Zhi!

Nowadays, he is naturally able to think that this word should still be taken by His Majesty the Emperor himself for himself back then, and he can’t help but frown, not clear on what His Holiness actually means. In the time on the secret message, he knew that the emperor will definitely be his own play of the internal treasury deficit thing temporarily suppressed, just suddenly more than the Imperial Palace of Impeachment of the Imperial Palace of Impeachment, so that he would be wrong, thought the emperor is to let himself will also bear down this breath.

“Can’t settle.” Fan Xian shook his head and said to Mu Tie, “Check those imperial historians who pretend to be clean and honest, since they played me for being corrupt and perverting the law, then naturally they have to come and …… not be polite.”

Mu Tie was a bit surprised and responded, “President Chen once commanded that for the Duzhaoyuan’s zhangzhang, it is like listening to a dog barking, don’t pay attention to him …… because the palace is unwilling for the Supervisory Yuan to investigate the Duzhaoyuan, lest it doesn’t look good on the face, and in order to open up a wide range of speech paths, his majesty hasn’t been able to give the Supervisory Yuan the power to apprehend the speech officials. ”

Fan Xian pooh-poohed: “This time more than just screaming, are already open-mouthed ready to bite me, but also care about what the face of the court. I let you go to check, find out the problem to nature will not own out, of course, is thrown to the Da Lisi and the Ministry of Justice to go, even if His Majesty pressed not subject to …… this court a place outside that wall is for what purpose?”

Mu Tie heart extremely happy, the people of the Supervisory Yuan has long been waiting for this day, the spirit of a hundred times to lead the order out of the house, since go to arrange for secret agents to begin to detect the Imperial House of those who should not be lawful things.

On the second day, Fan Xian played mahjong at home for a day, enjoying the rain for a day, and didn’t take the impeachment of the imperial secretaries seriously, but Wan Er Ruo Ruo, who knew the news from his mouth, was a bit anxious, because everyone knows the importance of the official’s reputation.

Until the news of the royal historian’s impeachment of Fan Xian has spread throughout the whole Kyoto, the middle secretary has also sent a copy of the impeachment to the Fan Mansion, Fan Xian pretends to be aware of this matter, full of shock and anger, but still sleeps very well at night.

Early in the morning of the third day, Fan Xian left his residence. According to the rules, the officials impeached by the imperial historians must first put down the work at hand, and go to the fold to defend themselves, but he didn’t follow the rules to do things, instead, he went to the Xinfeng Pavilion, leading a family of big and small to the delicious and incomparable receiving hall baozi to launch a wave of attack.

This matter has caused a furor in the city of Kyoto, who also do not know that he is the red man of the dynasty, will choose what kind of means to counterattack, because the imperial historian collective petition is obviously prepared, the impeachment of the charge of biting the dead, and even this month in and out of a place in the official are clearly checked.

But no one could have expected that Fan Tisi had not launched an attack on the imperial historians, but was instead launching an attack on the meatbags.

On the fourth day, after several days of rain finally stopped, Fan Xian led his family to the countryside to enjoy the chrysanthemums, before the world, to use their fingers to play with the first blossoming of a small daisy profanity.

According to reason, at this time, the middle secretary should take out his majesty’s decree, check, or not check? To ask, or not to ask? Whether it is ready to wake up this year’s small Fan too fast, or to reprimand some nosy imperial historians, His Majesty must have an attitude ah! During the court meeting, Minister Yan Xingshu finally couldn’t hold back his curiosity and cautiously asked, but he didn’t realize that His Majesty just gave a hmmm from his nose and didn’t react at all.

The scene is so awkward stalemate, the imperial censor’s face of justice and solemnity also gradually turned into embarrassment, planning to write a joint petition again, and is ready to pull the same year in the court of civil officials team, at the same time will be the students of the Imperial College will also be mobilized.