Chapter 40 Arithmetic
Chen Pingping looked at him without a trace of pity, “You have followed me for twelve years, before you die, I’ll give you the chance to say your last words.”
The face of the head of one place blanched slightly, then returned to a calm smile, looking at the adult who had promoted himself from an ordinary clerk to the number three person in the Supervisory Academy, he said sincerely, “Don’t trust women, they are all crazy and are not naturally suited for the business of politics.”
After saying this, he backhandedly slapped his palm on his own heavenly cap, and with a khala sound, his body instantly softened and slumped on top of the wooden table, no more breath.
This was his sincere words, even if the nightly conversation between the eldest princess and Zhuang Mo Han had not been heard by Fan Xian who had deliberately poked around, but looking at Chen Pingping’s expression, he also knew that the eldest princess had long been the object of the courtyard’s key observation, and when the eldest princess frantically betrayed the Yan Bingyun the moment, the one place leader, Zhu Ge, was doomed to death.
The body was dragged out, and there were naturally relevant regulations to deal with the subsequent affairs. Chen Pingping glanced at the paper in front of him again and shook his head, “Continue analyzing, who was so crazy to set everything off.”
He could be ancient well, but the other seven organizers saw a colleague who had worked together for more than ten years end up in such a fiasco, they couldn’t help but still have some feelings, and only after a few moments did they come back to their senses, and responded, “It was only the day before yesterday that the Dongyi City’s mission left at last, and today there is this matter, and I don’t think it can’t be dissociated from the Dongyi City.”
“Not bad, according to the results of the palace’s investigation, no matter what, the assassin who entered the palace at night on the night that His Majesty feasted the ambassadors of the two countries was definitely related to Dongyi City.”
“It was also on that night that the assassin appeared at Guangxin Palace and killed one of the Eldest Princess’s palace maids, and it was probably at that time that he overheard the conversation between the Eldest Princess and Zhuang Mo Han.”
“The reason why Dongyi City is letting the wind out now is because it hopes that the court will be in turmoil for a while, after all, this time, between the two states, they didn’t reach a truly effective agreement like Beiqi, so Dongyi City is very afraid that the court will send out troops.”
“And once this matter is revealed, under the shock of His Majesty, the agreement with Northern Qi will only be torn up. With the war between the two countries resuming, Dongyi City, which has always been caught in the middle, would be most happy to see such a situation.”
“Whether it is from the motive or the final effect, Dongyi City is the one most likely to make a move, and also the one that might gain the most benefit from this matter.”
“The only question is that the West Mountain Paper Workshop only lost the paper last night. How could Dongyi City be able to write so many copies of it in one night, knowing that most of their potential manpower in the capital is being watched by us, and those who are not under our control shouldn’t be that many.” Yan Ruohai analyzed, “To make this thing overnight, at least forty well-trained manpower is needed.”
Chen Pingping listened to her subordinates’ methodical analysis, smiled faintly and did not say anything, the room was quiet for a while.
After an interval, someone suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “Then the agreement for the replacement?”
“Continue.” Chen Pingping said indifferently.
“In order to capture Sean, His Excellency destroyed a pair of legs, but now because of the Elder Princess’ gentle selling, Sean is to be released back, my subordinate is not willing to do so.”
“Unwilling? What method do you have to change Yan Bingyun back alive?” Chen Pingping said with a cold smile, “Swapping is a must, we will send Xiao En alive to the hands of the Northern Qi people, but we can only let him take a look at the Northern Qi Shangjing sky.”
The crowd knew that the dean already had a plan and nodded slightly, these people were not willing to return Sean to Northern Qi with both hands no matter what, that old guy was the head of Northern Wei’s secret spies back then, and he didn’t know how many of Qing’s scouts he had killed, and with the information in his head until today, he thought that it would also pose a great threat to the state of Qing. If it wasn’t for the fact that the person captured by Northern Qi was the son of the four Yan Ruohai, these cold-hearted leaders of the secret spies of the Qing Kingdom would have definitely written a letter to the dean to persuade His Majesty to let that unfortunate person captured by Northern Qi to sacrifice himself for the country and forget about it.
Yan Ruohai also knew this, so deep down in his heart, he was immensely grateful to the abbot-sama, and suddenly opened his mouth and said, “Then where is the eldest princess?”
“We are loyal to His Majesty, we don’t know what His Majesty hasn’t given the word to do, we don’t do it.” Chen Pingping finally made her decision.
“Should we capture the mission from Dongyi City and bring it back?”
“Capture it back for what? Acknowledging the disgrace of the imperial court? Let the eight offices do this matter, just say that the remaining members of the Southern Ancient Yue are not willing to be overthrown by the state and spread rumors in the capital, they have all been captured, grab a few from the jail and go to the market entrance to kill them, remember to let all the people of Kyoto come to see the fun before killing them.” Chen Pingping said lightly.
The subordinates led the order and went, disinfecting the disinfecting, spreading rumors spreading rumors, arresting the arresting. Only Yan Ruohai dragged himself to the end, he looked at Lord Dean and calmly said, “There is no poison in this world that can keep Sean alive all the way and then die in front of the Beiqi monarchs and ministers.”
Chen Pingping said, “What do you mean?”
Yan Ruohai frowned a bit, “I know my son, he wouldn’t agree with His Majesty’s approach either, I think he would be happy to exchange Xiao En for a life.”
Chen Pingping looked at him coldly, “In this matter, you have to avoid suspicion and stay out of the discussion, as for what to do, it is my business. Not bad, it is true that there is no poison in this world that can be magical to that extent, even if Elder Fei is in Kyoto right now, he can’t do it. However, Sean must die, and Yan Bingyun must return.”
He smiled and said, “Don’t forget, four and a half years ago, it was me who kicked your son to the north.”
Yan Ruohai was still about to say something, but was stopped by Chen Pingping’s cold wave of her hand, and said indifferently, “I was going to wait for Bingyun to come back, and then let him take over Zhu Ge’s seat. Zhu Ge could have lived for a few more days, but once these pieces of paper flew everywhere today, Kyoto was abuzz with discussion, I always have to give you an explanation.”
Chen Pingping sighed, “Things hidden in the shadows are suddenly known by the whole of Kyoto all of a sudden, such an absurd yet effective tactic will probably also force His Majesty to give an account to the ministers who know about it.”
Chen Pingping coughed twice before saying, “You should be well aware that there is now a Tishi in the courtyard, I also told you last time that I was going to let him go to Northern Qi.”
Yan Ruohai frowned, “It’s dangerous.” He understood that Lord Dean, was going to give the task of killing Sean to that Tiji.
“If you don’t ponder, you won’t become a weapon.” Chen Pingping’s eyes looked a little tired, “If he succeeds, I hope that sometime in the future, you will be able to help him take care of this courtyard properly.”
Yan Ruohai finally understood, his heart was slightly shocked, he did not dare to say more, kneeling in front of Chen Pingping’s wheelchair, he nodded heavily.
“Who actually did this?” Chen Pingping pushed her wheelchair to the window, her withered fingers slowly lifting a corner of the black cloth, probing like a child to look out the window. The autumn rain that had stretched on for several days had stopped long before yesterday, and it was again a bright sunny day outside, with the palace in the distance glittering with golden light again.
He half leaned on the wheelchair, borrowing the light coming through the corner of the black cloth, looking at the piece of paper in his hand, couldn’t help but shake his head, “It’s fine to say that she colluded with Northern Qi, why also say that she raised three thousand faces and lusted after the palace curtains?” These issues involving the reputation of the royal family were naturally inconvenient to discuss during the previous meeting.
Chen Pingping looked at the words on the paper that were as neat as matchsticks and laughed: “What a nonsense stage, this word is also too ugly …… However, the handwriting penmanship is really like that idiot from Dongyi City.”
“Dongyi City ah Dongyi City, is it really you guys?” He said to himself in his heart as a smile surfaced on his face, “Back then, the Four Gu Swords was just a demented child, not this kind of crazy person. Against the eldest princess that crazy girl, this method is quite useful, no matter what jade porcelain, broken shelves in a stack, who can not be distinguished. But you have messed up his majesty’s statute, his majesty will not be happy.”
Regardless of whether it was the calculating Chen Pingping or the sinister and crazy Elder Princess, neither of them could imagine that such a big thing was actually messed up by that pair of masters and servants.
Fan Xian calmly and even somewhat indifferently watched the aftermath of this matter, and the pornographic literature he dictated really seemed to be an unbearable weight in this kingdom. Regardless of what the emperor really thought deep down, and not caring about how much Rapunzel’s true strength would be harmed as a result, what he wanted had finally happened.
Very quietly, the Rapunzel moved away from the palace and returned to her own fiefdom, Xinyang. As for what other conflicts and tug-of-war there were within the royal family over this matter, it was not within Fan Xian’s consideration.
As Five Bamboos had calculated at first, His Majesty had indeed rewarded the Princess profusely before she left the capital, and Fan Xian had also received many favors, although on the surface it did not matter, it seemed that His Majesty had only praised him for fighting for the face of his country’s dynasty.
When the decree came down, Fan Xian immediately changed from the eighth grade Conciliatory Lang to the fifth grade Imperial College Bongzheng.
In the flower hall, Fan Xian held the decree, scratched his head, and asked his father, “What does the Bongzheng of the Imperial College do?”
“Teaching the students of the Imperial College.” Fan Jian also felt that this decree was too inexplicable and shook his head, “You didn’t even take the official imperial examination, so how did you get into the Imperial College as a bongzheng.”
“Is it that you don’t need to take the imperial examinations next year?” Fan Xian asked with a smile.
“Yes.” Fan Jian seemed to be a bit disinterested, and faintly said, “It’s not the right way to go through the imperial examinations, and it looks extremely smooth at the moment, but there will always be some obstacles in his career path in the future.” But he thought, he asked, is not the Fan family peace, this beautiful young man in front of him can comfortably finish this life?
This was also the man’s idea, otherwise he wouldn’t have named the child Fan Xian, the word An Zhi.
Fan Xian heard that he didn’t need to take the imperial examinations, he was already overjoyed, and returned to his study with a smile on his face, only to see that Fan Si Zhe had already waited in his room, grinding his ink while looking at himself.
“Doing what?”
“Inscription.”
“What kind of inscription?”
“Half Leisurely Zhai Poetry Collection.”