Chapter 39: Leaflets Like Snow

Fan Xian smiled slightly, if the Eldest Princess who lived in the palace was liaising with Northern Qi and the Emperor who had countless secret spies under his command had no knowledge of it at all, this would definitely not make sense, sighing, he said, “So I don’t understand why he’s still letting the Eldest Princess live in the palace instead of going to the fiefdom.”

“The Eldest Princess is the Empress Dowager’s favorite youngest daughter, his sister, and he doesn’t need to be afraid of anything.”

“How do you predict the emperor will react after this.” Fan Xian trusted Five Bamboo’s analytical skills.

“Immediately send out the Supervisory Court to eliminate the effects you single-handedly caused, reward the eldest princess greatly to prove the unity of the imperial family, and when things quiet down find a suitable opportunity to let the eldest princess return to her own fiefdom, Xinyang.” Five Bamboo said indifferently, “When rewarding the Eldest Princess, you should incidentally reward County Princess Chen, and at the same time promote you.”

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, knowing that he was stating a possible fact, but it always sounded a bit like a cold joke.

“Why didn’t the emperor think of using a simple technique like mine to force the eldest princess out of the palace, if according to what you said, he would have already known about the eldest princess’s collusion with Northern Qi.”

“First, your method is perverse. Secondly, he doesn’t need to force his own sister out of the palace, he likes to wait for those potentially under the surface to float up and then kill them all in one fell swoop, he’s very accustomed to doing this kind of thing.”

Fan Xian could hear that Five Bamboo had great faith in that emperor’s abilities, and his frown tightened. Although imperial families were all ruthless bastards, when comparing the two, that emperor, whom he had met twice, was obviously a bit more gentle with himself than the eldest princess, so Fan Xian subconsciously began to worry about that pile of plots that could possibly take place only a few years later.

“Then we’re easing the situation in the palace by pulling this stunt? The eldest princess should still have partners in the palace.”

“I’ll check.” Five Bamboo said indifferently.

Fan Xian thought about it for a while, but decided to go ahead with the plan and smiled bitterly, “I must find a way to keep the Eldest Princess away from the palace for a while. Otherwise, before His Majesty the Emperor has a chance to wipe out the other side, I myself will have to become a dead soul under the other side first. His Majesty the Emperor has the guts to wait and the strength to wait for the other side to unleash first, we don’t.”

A power that dared to collude with a foreign country, if it fell into some kind of frenzy to deal with Fan Xian, Fan Xian would only have the chance to run away after Five Bamboo’s ass, and although traveling around the world was something Fan Xian wished to do, at the moment, this kind of price was something he was not willing to pay.

“I’m going.”

“Go.” Fan Xian gave a wave of his right arm, feeling that he did have the air of a young student leader.

He had seen many anti-Japanese war movies in his previous life, and felt that at this moment, Qingguo in the darkness of the night looked like Beiping under Japanese occupation, and that himself and Wuzhu were those students who were brave enough to fight against the invaders, and were carefully distributing leaflets in the night, calling on the people of Qingguo to rise up against those shameless rulers.

He smiled as he lay back down on the bed, the box under the bed just resting there, he wasn’t worried at all, after all the memories of this aspect of the Five Bamboos were lost, he was the only one in the world who would open the box.

After sleeping, he had a sweet dream, the early fall of Kyoto fell a heavy snow, the eldest princess timidly on the carriage sadly looked back at the imperial city, and then left the world of his own life.

September early fall in Kyoto, really a big snow, white flyers like snowflakes in the sky, sprinkled everywhere in Kyoto, especially near the Imperial College and Wen Yuan Pavilion, but also to pick up the endless. At that time the day light, the morning students and the people pick up this strange pieces of paper, a look, shocked.

This is the first time that a leaflet war has occurred in the land of Qing.

But Fan Xian still overestimated the fervor of the people of Qing, and underestimated the ability of the Supervisory Yuan and the six government offices to manipulate the situation. Within two hours, all the leaflets in the whole of Kyoto had been collected inside the square government office on the banks of Tianhe Road.

Not a single person dared to withhold the flyers, although the people rarely dealt with the Supervisory Court, but deterred by the fierce reputation of this court, no one was willing to gamble with their own lives.

The response of the Taishu Zheng was also very fast, on the same day, he asked for a decree to start the examination of the fall school in advance.

All kinds of measures were issued continuously within half a day, and finally succeeded in controlling the situation. But rumors such things do not need wings will fly, do not need air to breathe, has long been spread throughout the streets of Kyoto, people often look at each other when they go out, that eyes no longer express: “Have you eaten?” The eyes no longer express: “Have you eaten?” but say …… “Have you looked?”

The reputation of the Eldest Princess has never been very good in Kyoto of Qing Kingdom, after all, a person in her thirties and still unmarried, this thing in itself is already quite strange.

So the allegations on the flyers about the Princess being an adulterer, although the people might not always believe them, they still thought that they were empty and might not be without cause. The logic of those neighborhood aunts-in-law is even simpler: if she is so old and still not married, she must not be a good woman.

Qing’s royal family for the first time to face this situation, can not help but be a little nervous, although the Inspectorate measures are effective, but the palace is still on edge, palace maids and eunuchs walking voice are deliberately put down a little bit, I heard that his majesty in the imperial study in a big temper, and the empress dowager old man went to a trip to the Guangxin Palace, a few slaps sound after the first princess cried for a long time.

There was a quiet and awkward silence in the room of the Inspectorate. The heads of the eight divisions were all looking at the upper head party, Chen Pingping was sitting in a wheelchair, ruffling his hand through the beard that didn’t have a few under his collar, looking at the leaflet, laughing strangely.

Lord Chen could laugh, but the following chiefs did not dare to laugh, who all knew what was written on that flyer.

“Tell me, how much of what is written on this paper is true or false?” Chen Pingping finally suppressed the pleasure in her heart and looked at her subordinates.

The first to bear the brunt was naturally the head of the eight divisions, all the written output of this Kyoto, now comes under his control with the relevant duties of the education institute, today there was such a big event in Kyoto, he had long been scared, so he was not as good as answering the question of the dean of the house, and snatched the first to report, “The paper is the paper of the Xishan paper workshop, there comes under the inner treasury. The ink is from Wan Song Tang, that family doesn’t have much of a background.”

Chen Pingping frowned, looked at him twice, and rebuked, “I only asked you about the authenticity, I didn’t ask you who wrote it.”

The head of the eighth office wiped the sweat on his forehead and replied with a small intention, “Slandering the princess, talking about state affairs and stirring up right and wrong, naturally none of it is true.”

Chen Pingping smiled, only this smile was a bit chilly, the window was still stalled by the black cloth, so the part where his wheelchair was appeared to be a bit cold: “Are they all false?”

Above the flyer, it says that the eldest princess made a secret agreement with Northern Qi to send the head of Qing’s secret spies in Northern Qi, Yan Bingyun, to the other side with both hands. The head of the four quarters, Yan Ruohai, frowned, “In the matter of Yan Bingyun, it must have been someone in the court who leaked the news, and the rank must be extremely high. But if it is said to be the Eldest Princess, the subordinates are really puzzled as to what benefit this has for her.”

“This leaflet says that some nights, Zhuang Mo Han and the Eldest Princess had a private meeting in Guangxin Palace.” Chen Pingping said as if she had no intention of doing so.

Yan Ruohai interjected and shook his head, “Everyone Zhuang was invited by the Empress Dowager to live in the palace, this matter cannot be taken as evidence.”

Chen Pingping looked at him admiringly and said, “Bingyun was imprisoned in the North, you can still analyze it calmly, not bad.” He suddenly sank his voice and said, “But …… if there is an object that should be suspected, it should be suspected, don’t forget that this house is only loyal to His Majesty and the royal family, but not to another single person in the royal family.”

His eyes calmly looked at a person sitting at the very back. That person was Zhu Ge, the head of one of the Supervisory Court’s divisions, specializing in keeping an eye on the officials within the court, and was the most powerful person in the Supervisory Court’s eight divisions.

Zhu Ge nodded his head and frowned, “Those who know about the matter of Yan Bingyun, including me and the head of Yan, there are only five people in total, if the Eldest Princess has something to do with this matter, then where did she get the information from?”

Chen Pingping still looked at him quietly, and it was only gradually that the rest of the seven senior officials in the room felt the somewhat bizarre atmosphere condense.

After a long period of silence, Zhu Ge remained calm, occasionally frowning, seemingly pondering where the Rapunzel had gotten the information from if what was written on this paper was true. But the head of the eight divisions sitting next to him could clearly see a drop of sweat, rolling out from his hair temples.

Chen Pingping still looked at him calmly.

Zhu Ge frowned and suddenly spoke, “My lord, why do you suspect me?”

Finally waiting for him to speak, Chen Pingping slowly closed her eyes and said faintly, “Because you are stupid.”

“Why can’t it be Yan Ruohai? Examples of selling one’s son for honor are not uncommon in this world.” Zhu Ge knew from the day he knew that Yan Bingyun had been captured, he knew that something was definitely going to happen to him, and with a bitter smile, he looked at Yan Ruohai.

“You are the head of one place, and Fei Jie is getting old, if I step back, you should logically be the one to take over this compound.” Chen Pingping closed her eyes and said calmly, “Unfortunately, you know that I have other arrangements, so you are not willing to do so. The other party promises you the power of the Supervisory Yuan in the future …… According to His Majesty’s intention, this interesting matter can still be watched for some time, but it did not occur to me that this paper snowflake in the morning today has lifted all the things in advance.”

Chen Pingping faintly said, “So this House had to deal with it in advance.”

“Thank you, Your Excellency, for your fulfillment.” Zhu Ge knew that if His Majesty personally handled this matter, he would definitely be greeted with an even more tragic outcome. His throat rumbled twice, and he heaved his breath with some difficulty.