Chapter 99 – A Grinding Stone with Autonomous Consciousness

The reason why Fan Xian did not kill Hu Jinlin is very simple, C Square has always been jointly managed by the inner treasury and the three departments of the Supervisory Yuan, specializing in the research of armaments and ships, and the three departments of the Supervisory Yuan were originally Fan Xian’s fellow disciples, and had the best understanding of the situation in C Square. Hu Jinlin, this person, is obsessed with studying the drawings left behind by the Ye family’s mistress, his character is mute and dull, although he also coveted quite a lot of silver, but like dominating the field and bullying women, such things that Fan Xian can’t tolerate are not guilty of, compared to the A and B workshop’s master of ceremonies, there is really no reason not to kill.

Of course, the most crucial reason was that Fan Xian didn’t want to kill him, which was a side effect of the fact that someone wasn’t a clear official.

The master of workshop C was escorted down, and there were still many treasurers left in the workshop, these people looked at each other, at the beginning of the strike, everyone was secretly anxious, but there are always a few bottom, the treasurers grouped together to sing against the officials of the court transfer department is not the first time, and in the past as long as their own people do not ask for too much, the matter will always be resolved peacefully—. In their view, just want to keep their own years of exploitation of harsh deductions down the silver, is really a very reasonable request.

But everyone did not expect, the new Lord Qinzai so ruthless, and in pointing out the nature of the inner treasury and invited out four old Ye family treasurer, the treasurers know, all their cards in front of this young official, has lost any effect.

At this time, the treasurers were just a bunch of chickens waiting to be slaughtered, just to see how many Fan Xian wanted to slaughter.

Not long after, with Su Wenmao’s naming and incriminating statements, three more treasurers were pulled out of the crowd. These three treasurers had done a lot of evil in their daily life, and secretly colluded with the officials of Suzhou government, and they had violated many laws of the Qing Dynasty, so killing them sixteen or seventeen times would not be too much.

Fan Xian took the dossier in Su Wenmao’s hand, glanced at a treasurer in front of him who wet his pants and couldn’t stand still, frowned and said, “Are you the one who married twelve concubines?”

That treasurer didn’t even have the strength to nod his head, terrified.

Fan Xian shook his head and sneered, “Marrying twelve rooms of concubines, that only shows that you’re rich and have extremely strong confidence in your husband and wife’s bedside manner, but nine of the twelve rooms of concubines were actually robbed by force, that’s just plain asshole, robbing people’s wives and killing their own husbands? …… Awesome awesome, you can be a little more arrogant than the most famous fop in Kyoto.”

The remaining two treasurers, although they were not guilty of this kind of pink peach thing, they also had their own reasons for deserving death.

Fan Xian waved his hand.

The officials of the Supervisory Yuan dragged these three treasurers out again, and with the sound of three knives and three screams, three lives were claimed.

The officials of the Supervisory Yuan were able to kill without changing their colors, including the soldiers at the workshop, but the officials of the Inner Treasury and Transit Department couldn’t stand it anymore, their backs were wet with fear, and some of them smelled the blood outside the workshop, and wanted to vomit.

Deputy ambassador Ma Kai is still calm, but the sweat on his face also began to drip desperately, pitifully came to Fan Xian’s ear and said: “adults, in a few days the inner treasury will be open for bidding, killing is ominous, killing is ominous ……”

There was naturally no way to save the person who had killed, but Richard Ma was afraid that Fan Xian would be so ferocious that he would continue to kill again.

Fan Xian laughed and said, “Don’t worry, Ma Taoren, six years ago, my Yue …… Rapunzel Highness personally went to the inner treasury for the last time and killed several treasurers?”

He stretched out his thumb and tail finger and said, “Six, this official is a latecomer, naturally, I will not kill more. Already killed five, that’s enough.”

Upon hearing the word enough, the crowd of officials behind him had no reason to be relieved, the treasurers in front of him were overjoyed, but no matter who they were, their legs were already a little soft from the five bloody heads. Only Su Wenmao suppressed the displeasure in his heart after a slight consternation and did not say anything.

Deputy Ambassador Ma Kai frowned, thinking that the words of the Lord Qinzhi have something to say, the Princess killed six, he only killed five …… In the future, if this matter is out of the question, the imperial historians played him to abuse the law of the dynasty, indiscriminate killing, it seems that there is a head to talk about, so it seems that this Lord Qinzhi, although not very young, the heart of the mind is meticulous cruelty, cousin Ren Shaoan Cousin Ren Shao’an had taken great pains to build a path for himself, so he couldn’t just miss it.

After thinking about this matter, for Fan Xian’s next several appointments and measures, Vice Ambassador Ma Kai answered with a straight face, without a trace of excuses and resistance, although some officials of the Inner Treasury and Transit Department were unhappy, but the Vice Ambassador and Vice Ambassador had set up a statute, so naturally they couldn’t oppose it.

In Fan Idle’s plan, the three major workshops in charge of the death of the dead, imprisoned prisoners, just to vacate the most critical three positions, by the three Ye family old shopkeepers condescending to temporarily regulate, in addition to the two days to the Supervisory Yuan to report to the colleagues of the crimes of the “treasurer of the internal traitors” to serve as a deputy, is to make up for the old shopkeepers have not been back in two decades for the treasury a little unfamiliar with the defects.

Killing in the front, Ming inserted spies in which, so arranged down, the entire treasury team even if it is stabilized, those “traitor treasurer” in the future just to prevent the following treasury heart resentment, deliberately picking their faults, do things of course to be extra careful, and the team once stood up, these vice presidents will be extra fierce, staring at the subordinate treasurer, the two opposing sides – the two opposing sides. Subordinate treasurers, the two opposites collided – those things Fan Xian did not want to see would surely be slowly less up.

“Three-day order, and half a day to go.” Fan Xian said, “Those who are not dead, spit out the silver, give me a clear account of the account, guilty of those things, write a note of their own …… Don’t look at me, I know that you can read and write, all go back to it, and some should stay in the workshop is still separated by hundreds of miles, do not hurry to go home to raise silver, and then go back to the workshop to start work, is it still ready to continue to stand here. Do you still want to stay here as a clay figure?”

The voice at the end of his words grew cold, and after saying this, he walked towards the outside of the large workshop under the fearful gazes of the treasurers.

General Ye’s soldiers gradually dispersed, the officials of the Supervisory Yuan returned to their positions, the nails planted in the workshop still don’t know who they are, the officials are whispering, don’t know what they are saying, the workers watched a big show, the treasurers became extraordinarily honest and fearful after being taught a lesson by blood and fire.

The heavy rain outside the workshop gradually stopped, a hot and lively inner bank strike, just under Fan Xian’s knife and the old face of the treasurers, this absurd and nonsense ended.

The treasurer and the officials of the withdrawal bank movement is very smooth, Fan Xian one by one after the audit, but also gently lifted the noble hand, as long as it is not hidden too much of the people, all to the other side to leave a few thin silver face, did not squeeze the crowd of family property clean. For the official just for the money, if all the scavenge clean, the inner treasury of the officials surface can not, but the heart must have a great pimple, do things naturally will be lazy beyond words.

But is so all five fingers open all the rake silver, the government office three days order still recovered a huge number of silver two, even if Fan Xian family life tired rich, this life is also considered to have seen a lot of scenes, but looked at the account of that number, still shocked backward sucked in a mouthful of cool air!

In his heart, he had some hidden regrets, this matter was so sensational that there was absolutely no way to hide it from Kyoto. Under the world’s attention, these clear back the silver in addition to pay back the workers owed over the years of wages, the rest of them have to be put into the inner treasury special account, they can not be mobilized privately.

If knew that the treasurer is the world’s most fat corrupt officials, Fan Xian may not engage in such a clearing action, but will directly let the inspectorate of the six swordsman to be a thief, in addition to land deeds and other things, the rest of the silver what are robbed to their own private hands.

He is now precisely the time when he is short of silver, if he can have this large sum of silver, he will no longer need the help of the north, avoiding some new troubles in the process, and more crucially, he can also let father-sama stay out of the matter, so that he won’t be implicated by the bidding matter in the future.

Back to Haitang. That day after the tide of work, Fan Xian returned to the mansion of the girl complained a lot of pain, righteousness, in addition to the detailed analysis of the current situation, warned the other side, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty is afraid to have known the two are now in a place, if you dare to go to the face of the tiger guards to spy on all the workshops, he was afraid that the position of the inner library can not sit for two days, and he can not stay in the inner library, you North Qi a year and have to pay out more how much silver?

Haitang was a bit innocent, thinking that she was just idle, so she wanted to go shopping, how did she get involved in some kind of plotting and scheming.

Fan Xian this person is a little suspicious, on the surface no longer mention this matter, but the heart is still a little uncomfortable.

Good within the library should be affairs gradually on track, and this process is only a few days time, can not help but say that the labor tide in the cold face of Fan Xian murderous side, deeply shocked the crowd, and the old shopkeeper’s re-appearance, Fan Xian’s clever arrangements, all played a great role.

The workers were paid again for their years of labor, and the occupied girls returned to their homes, and an atmosphere called joy rose above the entire inner treasury.

In the midst of all the joy, there were also some discordant notes mixed in. Although Fan Xian extremely delicate mind, has long guessed a number of, in advance with the power of the government, oppression of the occurrence of those bitter stories, but the people of Qing Guo’s own story, is always the parents of the extremely complex, the people look at those women do not see eye to eye, bias women followed the small treasurer used to live a happy life, a change of circumstances, but also a little bit of maladaptation.

The treasurer is not a midnight demon, so there is not much of this kind of forced to take concubines, but although things are not much, involving men and women, in the civil society has caused a very bad influence, Fan Xian distressed, but there is no good way, the clean official difficult to break the family affairs, their own coolies can not be strong where to go, had to throw it away.

However, these are only small episodes, in the big level, the new inner treasury transit division of the authority has been established, and the tens of thousands of workers in the inner treasury of the bottom of the heart, firmly molded the image of upright and honest, clean and wise. Now no longer need to eight help on the sidelines, by the name of the civil and military official voice down, Fan Xian has long been familiar with these tactics.

The inner treasury is gradually becoming calm.

Just the labor tide is over, Fan Xian’s plan is just beginning, hit the snake to scare the snake, now half of the two-headed snake has been killed by his hand, the other head under the injury, of course, should also begin to move up.

“Does Zi Yue have any new news?” Fan Xian sat in his chair, squinting at the courtyard report that had come in today, and casually asked.

Su Wenmao responded, “Not so fast, according to your orders, even if those officials on the Xinyang side hand out the news, but so back and forth, it will take at least a month.”

Fan Xian sighed, “The imperial officials in the court are also too slow.”

Su Wenmao laughed bitterly, thinking that there is no such thing in the world as Lord Tisi, waiting for the imperial inspectors of the metropolitan inspectorate to come to their own ruthless horns, that is, your background backing is strong enough to be able to sit so peacefully as a mountain.

“Can’t wait, arrest those people tomorrow.” Fan Xian said.

The object of these words, of course, is the Xinyang side to stay in the inner treasury of the close officials, these officials in the three days of the order at the beginning, will secretly provoke the treasurers of the mood, provoke the crowd against Fan Xian, and in Fan Xian after the bloody means, these officials are more like to eat the honey jujubes general rejoicing, even in the night to think of ideas to send out the medallion, no questions asked, of course, is the Princess of Kyoto’s faction of the officials to the message.

Fan Xian at first allowed the treasurers to conspire within three days, and finally formed the trend of striking and forcing the palace, in order to let the pus in the inner treasury give birth to more plumpness, and to see who was actually playing tricks, before and after the incident, the secret agents of the Supervisory Yuan were very vigilant in watching the many officials within the Transit Division, and these people had no way to escape from this net laid by Fan Xian.

“Do it.” Fan Xian said with a bitter smile, “We’re all leaving, so we can’t leave them here to eat thin rice.”

Su Wenmao responded and asked suspiciously, “Sir, why didn’t you cover up the wind a bit more tightly at the very beginning? After all, this time to make a labor wave to, the Kyoto courtroom a discussion, if Xinyang side again do something hand, adult’s day is only afraid will not …… too good.”

Fan Xian fell silent, his fingertips gently tapping on the armrests of the chair, which was a very unusual performance when he was thinking about the problem. After thinking for a while, he decided to explain more to his beloved, and raised his head to explain: “The inner treasury is divided into two pieces, the workshop here is the foundation, and the exporting merchants are the arms and legs. I want to break people’s arms and legs, naturally I need to first make the roots real, and I’ve never been used to planning a situation that takes too long, that’s why I chose to force these people in the inner treasury to pre-empt the overreaction, in this way I’ll be able to lay my hands on the heavy hitters, and also find an excuse to drive the officials on the Xinyang side out.”

Su Wenmao nodded, but thought to himself that this doesn’t explain his earlier doubts, just looked at the look of Lord Titus and knew that his lordship has his own way, so he patiently listened.

“I’m going to force the hand of the enemy in the inner vault.” Fan Xian smiled and said, “Why is the eldest princess not waiting for me to force it? With her eyes in the court and palace, how could she not know that the old treasurers followed me to Jiangnan? And she has been this thing did not tell the officials in the inner treasury, obviously does not want those officials because they know my bottom line, and do not dare to …… bravely come forward. Imagine, if anyone knows that the old shopkeeper is with us, where would this labor strike still happen.”

“Naturally it won’t happen.” Su Wenmao frowned: “If you know that your lordship is carrying the old gentlemen of Qingyu Hall by his side, those treasurers have lost all their cards, where would they dare to come forward and say something. But the question is …… why the eldest princess …… would keep this news soundly hidden, waiting for the inner treasury officials to secretly conspire, thus giving the adults a good opportunity to establish their authority? If she had given a clear explanation beforehand, the treasurers would have been much more honest, and those officials on the Xinyang side would have calmed down, not allowing us to seize the grounds.”

Fan Xian shook his head and sighed, “This Her Highness the Eldest Princess stands much higher than the average person …… Good, this time she looked as if she had given me a chance to set an example, and even allowed me to deter the inner treasury’s crowd of officials . …However, in the means to dispose of this matter, I have no choice but to make more use of the personnel and power of the old Ye family back then, I have to kill to establish authority, and the means will appear to be more violent and unscrupulous.”

He continued to explain: “The first time I entered the inner treasury, I killed five treasurers, spread to Kyoto, the court must not have any good evaluation for me, as for using the old treasurer in charge of the inner treasury, it is even more will be touching the taboo of some people in the palace. Rapunzel will cover this pot of porridge, wait for the final boiling, seemingly let me eat into my mouth, in fact, but stored is to burn my mouth of the idea.”

Su Wenmao said worriedly, “That’s true, when dealing with the labor tide, it seems that your words have touched on some taboos.”

Fan Xian smiled and said nothing.

Su Wenmao’s face was full of gravity: “When the labor tide, the killing, the old shopkeeper and these things are sent back to Kyoto, in any case, the court will reprimand you, and to the lightest extent, you will be a reckless and rash person who can’t be trusted …….”

He stopped talking, but Fan Xian smiled and said, “Unworthy? To the powerful say, can also secretly play my heart has a different intention, still remember Ye family past, how how.”

Su Wenmao froze, immediately figured out what Fan Ti Si was most jealous of in his life, and couldn’t help but suck in a breath of cool air, it was only then that he finally felt the tactics of that Elder Princess, the other party was actually doing nothing, just secretly helping Fan Xian hide the news of the old masters’ southward journey, and was able to strand his lordship on a crater that was extremely dangerous.

“Since your lordship is well aware of his plan …… in the first place, he should have lifted the old shopkeepers out within the first hour, and acted with some caution.” He bravely advised Fan Xian.

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “The Rapunzel has calculated that I must let the conflict intensify in order to collect the inner treasury as quickly as possible, and as for the fallout in the future, it’s something that I simply cannot take care of at the moment, so at this point, even if she is cold-eyed and looking on from Kyoto, I must still do it.”

He said with a cold smile, “As for the inner treasury of those beloved officials will thus be dug out by me …… I think she must also be clear, with the help of the Supervisory Yuan, these people in the future years can not play the slightest role at all, and instead will bring her some unwanted trouble, since it is already a useless person, how will she care about the Since they are already useless, why would she care if they live or die? It’s just a couple of outcasts, giving me some trouble before they die, and since it’s impossible to stop my full takeover no matter how hard I try, of course the Princess would like to see some trouble with my takeover, bringing me some hidden worries in the future.”

The so-called hidden worry in this statement was naturally the fact that the nobles in the palace’s perception of Fan Xian might have some sort of subtle change due to the matter of the inner treasury. The cold-blooded side that Fan Xian had shown in disposing of the inner treasury matter, I don’t know if it would touch the Empress Dowager’s sensitive nerves, and if it would make the Empress and the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace associate it with the Ye family of that year.

And association is something that is like a poisonous snake that devours the soul, before Fan Xian is capable enough to deal with them, perhaps they will be on guard, the Empress Dowager, the Eldest Princess and the Empress, this group of harem women’s group, the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, this pair of happy enemies, if once again, because of Fan Xian’s existence, united, if the Emperor will have some kind of suspicion of Fan Xian.

The Princess should be laughing, and Fan Xian should be crying.

And amongst the matter of the inner treasury, the so-called palimpsest in hand, the world is mine, and the Rapunzel had to accept this fact, so she was just trying to benefit from it in some way.

“What should we do next?”

Fan Xian lowered his head and said in a light and uninteresting manner, “Nothing, according to the words of the dean of the house, the eyes of the eldest princess are still limited to one palace, if this time the metropolitan inspectorate really participates in my case, she is afraid that she will only have to suffer a boring loss.”

Su Wenmao looked at him with difficulty in understanding.

Fan Xian raised his head, a confident smile floating on his face, “Since His Majesty gave me the old treasurer, it means that in a short period of time, he believes in my loyalty. I went down to Jiangnan to pick up the inner treasury, the damage is the face of the eldest princess, if the eldest princess keeps silent at this time, then it is just, if I clean up the inner treasury a little bit wrong, the court officials in Kyoto will rise up in groups, his majesty …… will inevitably be a little skeptical, as for what the problem of the old Ye family, on the contrary, it won’t have too much impact on me. ”

“I want the inner library this pot of porridge to cook quickly, the eldest princess likes me to use fierce fire, but I am …… hoping that she secretly helps me to use fierce fire.” Fan Xian said with a smile, “I acted in the inner library although wantonly, there is a big way to be suspicious, but I did not deliberately cover up, His Majesty naturally believe in my sincerity, and the Princess, although cold-eyed, but the machine minded trespassing, this is the so-called dishonesty.”

He finally explained, “Any calculation of power, to the final stage, only depends on His Majesty’s mood and affinity, and I, to His Majesty has always been a piece of honesty.”

It was not clear whether this statement was convincing Su Wenmao or deceiving himself, but in this battle, Fan Xian was clear that his son-in-law must gain the victory, and as a son himself, he must also gain the victory.

After setting up the second prince as an enemy for the crown prince, the emperor had now succeeded in setting up Fan Xian as the toughest whetstone of all.

The Rapunzel had only seen the pressure that Fan Xian’s sitting on the throne had brought to those two emperors and the Empress Dowager in the palace, but she had not seen clearly that this pressure itself was secretly cultivated by the Emperor of Qing, which – was the phrase that Fan Xian had borrowed from Chen Pingping’s mouth earlier: the Rapunzel’s vision, still had limitations.

Not historical limitations, but ass limitations, after all, she is not the king who sits on the dragon chair with his eyes on the world.