Chapter 20: Making a scene at the Ministry of Justice

Fan Xian took a deep breath, letting the overbearing true qi in his body flow slowly, the clothes on his body fluttered slowly, and the piece of Empress-given Ruyi accessory tied around his waist swayed. He coldly glanced at the thirteen Yamen servants who were pressing up around him, knowing that today’s matter had deviated greatly from his own plan, and since the other party dared not to give face to the prime minister and his father, and really moved his stick to beat people, it must be more than just a simple matter of using torture!

He gently took two steps forward, kicked away the burning stick that was broken in two under his feet, and coldly looked at the two adults in the hall, knowing that he had made the biggest mistake of all, that is, he had forgotten about the crazy woman who was far away in Xinyang fiefdom. I just don’t know Han Zhiwei is involved, whether the crown prince is annoyed at what he did, or the empress knows something very terrible.

It had been a long time since the Ox Street Murder Incident, and in the minds of the people of Kyoto, Fan Xian was just a civil official with amazing poetic talent, and seemed to have forgotten that he was a martial arts expert in his own right.

The crowd was shocked, only to hear the sound of a waist knife being unsheathed, the sound was chilling, countless sharp blades were pointed at Fan Xian who was standing proudly in the hall.

The thirteen magistracies of the Ministry of Justice used special torture sticks, and ordinary seventh-grade masters could only howl in agony under these sticks. But who knew that the overbearing true qi in Fan Xian’s body was so fierce that he actually took the two sticks without dodging or avoiding them, and instead shattered the sticks from them!

This scene scared all the Ministry of Justice officials, only then remembered, in front of this seemingly weak beautiful civil official, back then was once the North Qi eight products Cheng giant tree disemboweled the strong man.

A dozen or so belt swords were already sheathed, spreading a chilling light above the chilly Ministry of Justice lobby, surrounding Fan Xian in the center. Fan Xian took two steps forward, and the dozen or so waist knives retreated two steps in fear.

Fan Xian frowned at Han Zhiwei and Guo Lian in the hall and softly said, “Have you considered the consequences of your recklessness?”

Han Zhiwei and Guo Lun’s hearts chilled, feeling that although the words of this beautiful descendant under the hall were bland, they were in fact incomparably chilling. Although Chancellor Lin Ruofu’s popularity in the court had greatly diminished because of Wu Bo’an’s incident, he was still the head of the hundred officials in Qing. Together with that Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who grew up with His Majesty, Han Zhiwei suddenly regretted that he shouldn’t have done what that nobleman told him to do.

Guo Lian, because he was annoyed at Guo Youzhi’s downfall, plus relying on the eldest princess behind him, knew that since things had already begun, it was naturally impossible for them to end peacefully, and gritted his teeth and droned, “What consequences can there be for this official asking about the case by decree?”

Han Zhiwei thought that things have come to this point, there is no more room for remorse, will be heart a cross, said coldly: “good, small Fan adults, if you are willing to admit that involves the chunwen exam malpractice, naturally do not need to be tortured; if you refuse to admit, according to the Qing law, the Ministry of nature can be tortured.”

Fan Xian pursed some thin lips, seemingly smiling at him: “Fifteen major crimes, fifteen major crimes ……” He shook his head, sighed and said, “In the future, there will be an opportunity to have to change the Qing law is. ”

Who can change the law? Of course only the emperor, fortunately, his words are extremely light, or else fall in the ears of others, just with this sentence, can also be his Fan family full of people.

Han Zhiwei frowned and said, “Take down this offending official!” As soon as the words fell, thirteen government officials surrounded Fan Xian with their swords, and two of them were already about to rest on Fan Xian’s neck, forcing him to give in.

Fan Xian let out a cold snort, and his hands, which had always been shrunken in his sleeves, gently but incredibly quickly stretched out as if they had been flicked out, turning into two streaks of light smoke, hitting the wrists of these two close officials, and then closing his fists back up incredibly quickly, gently pushing on their chests and stomachs.

This series of movements was too fast, so fast that no one could see it clearly at all. A few moments later, only to hear two clicks, two puffs, and two muffled grunts of pain!

The click was the wrist of those two officials broke, the sound of poof was those two waist knives were shaken by the true qi, slanting upwards, deeply inserted into the two corners of the Ministry of Punishment’s righteousness plaque, these two knives inserted above the red sun, it was like the sun gave birth to the devil’s two horns to come!

And the two officials were pushed gently by Fan Xian between their chests and stomachs, and the whole person flew backward miserably, falling on two chairs, smashing them to pieces, and letting out two muffled grunts.

The crowd was afraid and shocked, unable to imagine that Fan Xian’s strength was so strong, and subconsciously took half a step back.

Guo Lian was not in a hurry, smiling as he looked at Fan Xian under the hall, and said softly, “Assaulting an official in the hall is an additional offense.”

Han Zhiwei understood what he meant, whether or not he could be tortured was a small matter, as long as he could put the charge on Fan Xian, the more Fan Xian refused to tie his hands and resisted more fiercely, the better it would be.

Guo Lian looked at Fan Xian and said with a smile, ”Little Lord Fan is better off being honest, knowing that Your Excellency is both a scholar and a warrior, and that it’s not difficult to escape from this Ministry of Punishment lobby. But …… could it be that you want to fall into a rebellion, the charge of being without a ruler and without a father?” His fingers gently knocked on the case board, very satisfied with the current situation, and said softly, “If little Lord Fan resists at this time, he is having an unruly heart, if he doesn’t, he will obediently be tortured.”

He finally added, “If little Lord Fan wants to kill out of the Ministry of Punishment, please make yourself at home, but it is just a bit of a pity …… Pity ah, a generation of poetic immortals, the idol in the hearts of the scholars, but because of such a big crime, it is necessary to provoke the whole family to be uneasy, and the reputation is smeared on the ground.”

Fan Xian serenely looked at him, suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Little master, in fact, was scared big.”

This is talking about the experience of enjoying corpses every day when he was a child, he thought of the few words of Guo Imperial Magistrate just now, and really had a few moments of Stephen Chow’s style in Nine Pins Sesame Officers, and the cold light in his eyes blossomed into convergence, knowing that it was impossible for him to kill his way out of the Ministry of Penalty, but he also refused to be tortured, and so only dragged on, and dragged on until those behind himself reacted, and said coldly, “Killing your way out of the Ministry of Penalty is a big crime naturally, and also well, I’m just going to It’s also good to accompany the two adults here for a chat.”

After saying this, he went to the side and sat on a chair, his eyes slightly drooped, and said softly, “If you want to use torture, I will naturally resist. If you don’t use torture, I also don’t mind sitting here for a bit longer, two adults, when the trial is over, please inform my subordinate, so I can go home and drink congee.”

“What a bold delusional person!” Han Zhiwei drank: “Give this official take down!”

This was already the third time he had drunk from today’s trial. Without a trace of expression on his face, Fan Xian gently slapped the coffee table beside him, the overbearing true qi on his palm releasing as gently as a cloud, instantly shattering the wooden coffee table into countless pieces!

Then he raised his eyes to look at the surrounding officials, and being swept away by this gentle gaze, thinking of the terrifying strength shown by this little Lord Fan, none of the officials of the thirteen magistracies, who were normally not afraid of ghosts and gods, dared to take a step forward!

Since the founding of the country, there has never been such an absurd scene in the hall of the Ministry of Justice today, not like something that could happen in reality, but like an unintelligible drama that Fan Xian occasionally glanced at in his previous life – the prisoner being interrogated was sitting on the master’s chair in a calm manner, and the officials and policemen around him didn’t dare to come forward, and the prisoner was still refusing to kill the Ministry of Justice, but others couldn’t do anything about him. There was nothing anyone could do about it.

In Fan Xian’s life, the chair under his buttocks would always indicate his attitude at certain wonderful moments – either in anger or ready to fight back. When he was in Tanyu, at the age of twelve, he had once stepped on a small bench and punched the second housekeeper full of peach blossoms. On the day he first entered Kyoto, he had sat in the eunuch’s chair under the side door, forcibly suppressing the irritation in his heart and preparing to meet the Second Aunt’s gentle sword of words.

Today, above the hall of the Ministry of Justice, he was still sitting in the eunuch’s chair, looking at the two senior officials who wanted to educate themselves with sticks with a calm face, and projecting in his heart, who else was behind the scenes besides the Eldest Princess.

In the Ministry of Justice once again in a stalemate and confrontation, looking at Fan Xian who was surrounded by thirteen yamen armed with swords in the center, Guo imperial historian was not in a hurry, he knew that today, the Minister of the Ministry of the household, Fan Jian, and the Chancellor, Lin Ruofu, were both stalled by another matter, and there was plenty of time to wait for Yang Wanli’s cadre of witnesses to enter the hall, and he smiled as he said:

“Tomorrow I will report today’s matter to his majesty, let’s see if you can still rely on your father’s power to be so arrogant, don’t think that I can’t incriminate you, in a while when Yang Wanli’s group of witnesses arrive, Han Shangshu will still have to take you, if you still dare to resist at that time, I’ll not blame the three divisions for requesting a decree to punish you for the crime of treason.”

Fan Xian said softly, “Lord Guo, today, since both sides have already torn their cheeks, then I also made it clear that if Yang Wanli and the others have any problems, you will prepare for the aftermath.”

This is a naked threat, since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, Fan Xian is the first person who dares to threaten the Minister of Justice and the Imperial Historian of the Capital Inspection Yuan in the hall of the Ministry of Justice, relying on the fifth-grade official body!

Feeling the murderous intent in Fan Xian’s light words, Han Zhiwei’s heart chilled for no reason, the corners of his eyes jumped twice, and he said in a chilling voice: “Fan Xian, you must know that you are an official of the imperial court, not a strong man who uses his sword to establish his authority.

Fan Xian said softly, “The Ministry of Criminal Affairs is presuming to bend over backwards, and the hallowed Imperial Historian is resentful of Minister Guo’s removal from his post due to a malpractice case and is presuming to retaliate, so I don’t know what kind of officials you guys have in store for yourselves. Tomorrow this official will be today’s matter to do a large fugue, the four seas to go, or teach the people know today’s Qing Guo, officials are how the face, or teach the insight of the Holy Spirit, today’s court, these subjects in the end in the listen to who.”

“Whatever you say.” Guo Lian knows that with Fan Xian’s reputation now, it is not impossible to make this matter, said quietly: “Little Lord Fan knows the details of the case, why didn’t he report to his superiors and investigate and deal with it through the court, but he acted through the Supervisory Yuan? In short, contempt of the court this pile crime, you are sitting down, I would like to see how Fan Shangshu to the court tomorrow to account for this matter!”

These words were aggressive, and a hint of killing intent suddenly flashed across Fan Xian’s clear face as he stood up and stared coldly at the two senior officials on the stage. The officials around them tensed up, aiming their sharp blades at Fan Xian’s vitals.

At the very moment when the crisis was imminent, Yan Ruohai’s cold voice came from outside the Ministry of Punishment, “When does the Supervisory Yuan need to give the first and last word to the Imperial Historical Office when it is receiving orders?”

Fan Xian smiled and sighed as he shook his head, somewhat regretting that the people in the courtyard had arrived a bit early.