Chapter 98 – Old Master

That master chief knelt on the ground, his face red and white, hearing the word Ye family, he remembered the true identity of the person in front of him, that trace of memory that had been hidden for many years slowly rose up, making him ashamed, shameful, angry and fearful. Shame is better understood, after all, back then he was just a little beggar by the road, able to mix to such a point now, all because of the Ye family, and back then the Ye family Miss is how to educate themselves these people?

As for the anger and fear, it is from his natural reaction, a sense of shame and anger after being stripped naked, and the thought that Lord Qin is the descendant of the Ye family, I am afraid that what he knows in his head, the other party must also know, then how can he still use those things to threaten the other party? The other party had cut Master Xiao with a knife, could he not cut himself?

“The court has treated you well.” Fan Xian looked at him and said, word by word, “Not to mention you three principals, even the average treasurer’s annual salary is even more than that of a third-ranked official in Kyoto, so what is there for you to be dissatisfied with!”

A hint of coldness flashed in his eyes, “Could it be that you think that the inner treasury’s output is all dependent on your heads, and that this 20 million taels of silver per year has flashed your eyes, making you feel resentful and feel that you should earn more?”

This said to the heart of the treasurer, the inner treasury is extremely rich in one year, sold to the world countries, for the Qing Dynasty has brought huge profits, although the treasurer’s treatment is already very high, but compared with the huge amount of silver, their hearts are still a little uncomfortable, always feel that they are the people for the imperial court to earn silver, should be divided into more is that this is the private corruption, oppression of the people of the action.

At this time, when he heard Mr. Qin’s words, although the treasurers did not dare to talk back, their eyes showed the meaning that this was the case.

Fan Xian laughed coldly, mercilessly tore away their skin, faintly mocked: “But the question is …… what you rely on, is it really what’s in your head?”

There was silence in the room, everyone including the officials recognized this fact until Fan Xian said, “Don’t forget, before the Ye family came into existence, what did you know? That the technology mastered in your heads fell from the sky? Was it taught by the temple?”

Fan Xian scolded, “All of you, remember this clearly! This is what the Ye family taught you! Without the Ye Family’s Miss Ye, you’d all be useless and continue to plow the fields and beg! What was the Ye family’s reason for building these large workshops back then, I see that you have all forgotten! In front of this official, you still want to use the things that the Ye family taught you to threaten this official, do you want to be ashamed? Do you know shame?”

The officials behind him looked at each other in dismay, although the court has long been not pursued by the Ye family things, the little Lord Fan’s life is also gradually known to the world, but so openly and honestly Ye family Ye family said, the end of the …… some taboo it.

Fan Xian at this time but do not care so much, on the one hand is angry, on the other hand is to take this opportunity, for their own name. In this world, no matter what you do, all pay attention to the name, the so-called teacher out of the name. And Fan Xian today scolded the treasurer, knife beheading people, regardless of the level of interest, first on the moral level has taken the flag, using the Ye family’s craft, threatening the descendants of the Ye family, this is not ungrateful is what?

That B Square’s head master finally softened, kneeling on the ground and wailing, “Lord, I know I’m wrong, please give me a chance to use the skills I learned back then to contribute to the court.”

Though this master-at-arms wailed in pain, the sharp-eyed Fan Xian did not find any tear marks on his face, instead, his lips were pursed tightly, and he could not help but sneer, knowing that the other party still thought that he would not continue to kill people, and thought that the things in his head were still useful.

Fan Xian gently high-fived, the applause will fall, four half a hundred or so old people, by the Supervisory Yuan officials arching into the workshop, these old people is not the other person, is from the Central Plains area through the Tanyuzhou transfer back to the Qingyu Hall bosses!

The officials of the Supervisory Yuan set up four chairs, and Fan Xian rose, expressionless but deliberately respectful, and invited the four treasurers to sit down.

The officials and treasury workers were confused, thinking who on earth were these old men who seemed to be blown down by the wind, and how did they qualify to sit side by side with Lord Qin Yu Tang? That deputy ambassador, Richard Ma, didn’t say anything, but he was also muttering in his heart, thinking to himself that even this official was standing behind Lord Qinzhi, so these commoners had a lot of nerve.

Fan Xian slid his fingers over the lotus garment on his body, dipped it into some cold rainwater, applied it to his brow and rubbed it slowly, asking, “Do you still recognize who these four people are?”

Ye family capitulation has been nearly twenty years in the past, the workers in the inner treasury workshop has long been not the same batch back then, even those treasurers have not seen the towering twenty-three big bosses of the Ye family back then, so they did not recognize who these four are, even though there are the old people back then, but they are too far away to recognize them.

On the contrary, that kneeling on the ground of the B Square master, with a hesitant gaze in the face of these four people slowly swept, and lowered his head to think for half a day, suddenly seems to think of a certain thing, was actually horrified legs are soft, this is a kneeling posture, suddenly sat down on his buttocks in the muddy water!

Twenty years have not seen, back then as a small helper of the Ye family, he also spent a long time, only to think up in front of sitting in front of what exactly are some people – Ye family old boss!

Master B Fang’s body trembled, and only then did he realize why Fan Xian was so emboldened, why he would force his treasurers to rebel, and why he didn’t care about what he remembered in his own head – he had actually brought the old treasurers who were under house arrest in Kyoto to the inner treasury with him!

What kind of people are the old treasurers? They were the first batch of students of Miss Ye’s family back then, the masters of all the master’s helpers in Ye’s family later on, and even the grandmasters of these Inner Treasury treasurers nowadays! There are such a group of old guys around, of course, the Lord of the Qinzhi does not care about the problem of the loss of craftsmanship, much less worry about the quality of what the inner treasury production, to be honest, this inner treasury back in the day is the hand of these old shopkeepers to build up, how could there be no way to take care of it?

Thinking through this point, that master was full of despair, but in his heart there was a trace of hope, he grinned, struggled on the ground and crawled to Fan Xian, wailing and saying, “Master, your old man begged for mercy on behalf of my disciple!”

The crowd was stunned, Fan Xian was also slightly stunned, of course he knew that this person was not pleading to himself, following the gaze of that master, he realized that he was looking at Seven Leaves, and couldn’t help but incline his head in curiosity and ask, “Seven Leaves, is that your disciple from back then?”

Seven Leaf sank his face, staring at that master chief’s face, and said in a hoarse, resentful voice, “Learned from me for a few days.”

Fan Xian smiled slightly, understanding Seven Leaf’s feelings, after the Ye family collapsed, twenty-three old masters were captured by the imperial court from all over the world and placed under house arrest in Kyoto, while some of their disciples resisted and died, while others lingered on, of course, these were people’s own choices when a great disaster struck them, and there was no one to blame for them, but someone like the Master of the Ethereal Place who had climbed to a high position must have behaved very badly back then.

Hearing Master B shouting out the word master, Master C who had been silent at the side was like being struck by lightning, the whole person froze on the side, looking at the four old men sitting beside the Qinzhi, completely unable to believe his ears.

And those treasury in the Ye family’s remaining people, confirmed the identity of these four people, horrified, and some still have old thoughts of the people have stood out, and shocked and joyful and fearful kneeling in front of the four old masters.

“Fourth Master.”

“Twelfth Uncle, I’m Pillar.”

“Meet the old treasurer’s, I was an odd-jobbing fellow at the Chuzhou branch back then.”

Although there were still most of the treasurers who couldn’t climb into any relationship with these four old shopkeepers, the Inner Treasury Recognition Conference was already in full swing.

Fan Xian sank his face down and said in a cold voice, “Come back later to recognize your relatives.” Although his expression was unhappy, his heart was settled, with those thirteen inner traitor vice masters, these old treasurers’ residual power was still there, and his own remodeling plan for the inner treasury should go on relatively smoothly.

Twenty years later to meet again, the atmosphere in the workshop suddenly became a little sad, but this sadness is just right to dilute the previous tension, the only thing is that the officials of the Transit Division of the heart is a little uncomfortable, and more than some of the Xinyang side of the characters secretly sneer, this scene in front of you if the transmission of the Kyoto, his majesty on the FanTiDi will be afraid to have some comments.

B Square master lowered his head and knelt on the ground, heart also slightly comforted, thinking that look at this appearance, at most some punishment, stay will be their own desperation to admit their faults, the Lord look at the old Ye family’s sake, I guess it will not be overly difficult for themselves.

He slanted his eyes glanced at the far side of the furnace mouth Xiao master’s corpse, the heart of the fear, fortunately, Xiao Jing grabbed the first head, he had some sympathy for that guy, and the old Ye family has nothing to do with the people, in the Lord of the Qinzhi under the death of the dry indeed.

Out of everyone’s expectation, after Fan Xian repelled those treasurers, a light smile floated on his face and said, “Pull this man down and behead him.”

“Yes, my lord.”

Master B Fang raised his head and glanced around with confused eyes, not understanding for a moment who else was to be beheaded. Shouldn’t things just end like this?

It wasn’t until he was dragged up by the officials of the Supervisory Yuan that he realized that the Qin Emperor was going to kill him! He wanted to open his mouth to cry out for justice, but was blocked by a ball of dirt!

Watching the officials of the Supervisory Board dragging the paralyzed master out of the workshop, and looking at the water stains on the ground, the workshop, whether it was an official or a citizen, or a shopkeeper or a treasurer, all fell silent and looked at the Lord Qinzhi sitting in the middle.

Fan Xian looked as if he couldn’t feel these countless gazes at all, his head slightly lowered.

Outside the workshop, there was a muffled sound of an iron weapon chopping into a flesh neck, and a muffled grunt.

There was a clamor within the workshop, and it immediately fell into a deathly silence again, all knowing that the B Workshop Master had simply died.

Without being silent for long, the master of workshop C, whose hands were tied behind his back, laughed mockingly, his face glowing with despair, and walked consciously to Fan Xian’s front.

He thought to himself that he was no longer fortunate, since the Lord of the Imperial Police was using the name of suppressing labor unrest, he would naturally not be foolish enough to open the courtroom to hear the case, and did not need any evidence at all, and would have to kill himself on the spot to set up an example, in order to let the four old bosses back then to regain control of the inner treasury’s technicians – two of the three major workshops’ masters had already died, and he was naturally the third one. He himself was naturally the third.

Fan Xian glanced at him, frowning slightly.

The Master of the C Square looked at him, and after gritting his teeth for a long time, he suddenly said, “I have my own way of taking my own life, and I don’t blame you for digging this pit for me to jump into, but before I die, I beg you to allow me to ask something.”

Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and said, “Ask.”

Master C Fang, however, stopped looking at him and tilted his head to look at the Ye family’s twelve bosses beside him, his lips trembling for half a day before he said in a trembling voice, “Twelfth uncle, how is my master …… his old man doing in the capital? Apprentice brother is unfilial, these years no filial piety.”

“You are?” Twelfth Leaf blinked his somewhat cloudy eyes and looked at this mastermind and asked suspiciously.

Seven Leaf sighed and said from the side, “Thirteen’s eldest disciple, you were on the best terms with Twelve back then, so he came to ask you.”

Twelfth Leaf was shocked and said, “Hu Jinlin? You’re still alive? All thought you died back then.” This old shopkeeper suddenly thought that surrounded by all the court officials, this is a little wrong, hurriedly stopped his mouth.

Hu Jinlin’s face was full of shame, bowed his head and refused to speak.

Twelve leaves sighed: “Miss said back then, living is better than dying, these old bones of ours are lingering, and how can we have the nerve to blame you …… It s just that you asked thirteen …… alas.” The shopkeeper shook his head and said, “Some years ago, it has gone, into the capital twenty three people, now there are fifteen left.”

Hu Jinlin heard that his mentor had gone, completely forgetting that he was also going to die soon, his face was greatly saddened. Fan Xian was listening quietly at the side, his heart also had some strange emotions, the Ye family’s old man was gradually being blown away by the rain, when he first entered Kyoto that year, there were still seventeen of the twenty-three shopkeepers left, and in less than two years’ time, two more had died.

He looked at the goods and materials piled up around this workshop, steeped a little lost in thought, thinking that time flows like water like this, when will he be able to reestablish the name of the Ye family, when will he be able to let those who deserve to die die, and let those who deserve to live live again in the hearts of the people of the Kingdom of Qing?

It was only a short time before he had come to his senses, looking at the Master of C Square in front of him, he said mockingly, “Although I don’t know if you’re acting, or if you really still have old feelings, but I never intended to kill you in the first place, so don’t think that you can survive because of my soft heart.”

“Huh?” Hu Jinlin, who thought that he would surely die, did not have the slightest thought of getting away with it after the tragic deaths of his two officiating partners, and suddenly heard these words, and was instead shocked and at a loss for words.

Fan Xian said expressionlessly, “Those who are guilty will be beheaded, those who are guilty of small crimes will be redeemed, this official is not here to end old grudges.”