Chapter 103 Ridiculousness

In fact, every person, at certain times, will look back on his life, retrace his past and look forward to the future, which is the so-called yesterday, today and tomorrow. Only in general, this kind of work is often started when people are already tired of life, or when they have already reached a certain goal they have set for themselves. The most common model, naturally, is an old man fishing beside the Wei Shui while sighing tersely that life is like the flowing water under his feet going east and not returning.

Fan Xian is not a bitter lotus, he does not have a fishing hobby, his age is also still small, just his life is more than everyone else in this world to repeat once, carefully calculated, he should be a thirty-something years old, about to know the fate of the middle-aged man is, but just but forced to stay in a beautiful fragrant skin bag – forced the word is a bit of a pretense that For the time being – but he does do a little reflecting.

Not hugging a pretty girl and lamenting that he didn’t work for the good and just cause of mankind back then, but looking for clarity in the midst of a kind of chaos, trying to once again find his firm and clear goals, because now he was, somewhat confused.

After rebirth, he has always been a person with a firm goal, on top of the cliff, once to the five bamboo uncle to three representations as the basis, sent three big wishes, to this day, the three big wishes basically has been realized, just not good sex like Fan Xian person rarely, he is always beside the woman is not more.

The root of the three great wishes is naturally to live, in order to this goal he has been working hard, in tough, in cold blood. And the hidden skill or the attached attribute of the Three Great Wishes was naturally the ideal of life that he had told Fan Shangshu about – a powerhouse.

Nowadays, in Qing Kingdom, in the world, Fan Xian truly deserves the word power minister. Walking around, no one is not respected, no one is not afraid, but really once so, will know the fate of the young man is still confused, this is really the life he wants?

He was walking alone on the road leading from Hua Yuan to Jiangnan Governor’s Office, his head lowered, sympathizing like a philosopher, but behind him were a few tiger guards, and on both sides of the street there were many secret agents of the Supervisory Yuan secretly protecting him.

“Little Lord Fan.”

“Young Lord.”

“Lord Qinzhi.”

“Lord Tiji.”

A series of epithets flavored with enthusiasm, flattery, and slight fear rang out from beside him, and Fan Xian was startled, looking up in dismay to find that he had already walked into the Jiangnan Governor’s Mansion. The officials of the Jiangnan Road were lined up on both sides, looking at themselves with “pulsating love”, indescribably hot and gentle. The entire government office seemed to have suddenly gained countless steeds that had eaten bad grass with his arrival, and the sound of farts thundered.

Fan Xian subconsciously scratched his head, not caring that this action was slightly out of official authority, and laughed self-deprecatingly, driving away all those metaphysical things that had previously surrounded his mind. Yes, life does need goals, but it’s probably a little too early for you to start questioning life. Newton did not become a real clergyman until old age, Ai classmates for the rest of their lives and the Great Unification of the teeth, but these two bulls after all is considered to be washed out after the return to the simple, and what is their own things?

One is a commoner after all, one must admit that one is still enjoying these vanities, power, money and fame among the benefits they bring after all.

Fan Xian greeted the officials amiably on the one hand, and headed towards the study of the Governor’s Mansion on the other, thinking to himself that he was not the same as Ye Qingmei, and that it would be better not to sprinkle the light of idealism on his body.

In this world, no, in all worlds, idealists were lonely and isolated, all prone to dying horizontally, and Fan Xian was unlikely to accept either of those two.

It was better to be a powerhouse honestly, he thought in his heart as such.

However, when he walked to Xue Qing’s study and lowered his head to chat with Xue Qing for a long time, he began to laugh at himself again inwardly. Is it possible to be a minister of power just because you want to be one? That depends on whether His Majesty allows you to do it or not, a dim-witted and incompetent emperor might be overridden by a powerful minister, but how could a figure like the emperor’s old man give himself this kind of opportunity, how could he still be so naive and cute when he had lived for more than thirty years?

He stretched a lazy waist, narrowed his eyes and looked at the eunuch’s chair Xue Qing, closed his eyes and rested his soul, in the heart of the dark scolded two sentences, opened his mouth and said: ”Checking the accounts of this kind of thing to let the Ministry of households to do on the line, this internal treasury has always been the Supervisory Yuan in charge of the …… how to suddenly let the Ducha Yuan to come together a hand? A few months ago, those imperial historians are not all in prison, all inspectorates where to so many manpower to check the account? Even if the manpower is enough, but those who only know how to gnaw on the scriptures, looking at the numbers on the account is afraid that they will faint in the past. Xue adults, this matter you have to be on the fold …… Jiangnan good end, and then come some people, really some want to not taste.”

Xue Qing laughed, in the heart also secretly scolded two sentences, thinking that the Ministry of households is your old man opened, the Supervisory Yuan is your management, the inner treasury is that you sit under the buttocks, this is still checking a fart? Kyoto on this matter has long had the opinion, at this time under the door in the new idea, is not afraid of your kid to the inner library of things all steal out to sell.

But Fan Xian in Jiangnan one and a half years, and Xue Qing with excellent, between the two have a tacit understanding, Xue Qing also do not know how much oil and water from him, this can not be said to understand, after thinking about it, said: “come to check is not not impossible, but you and the metropolitan inspectorate have a grudge in the body, let them come to check, who knows if they will not personal vendetta.”

These words could only ever be spoken privately by these high officials.

“Can’t you stop them again? Are that old man Shu Wu and Grand Maester Hu idle?” Anyway, there are no outsiders in the study, Fan Xian annoyed said, but he understands in his heart, nominally it is the letter sent by the door under the middle secretary, in fact, it is the emperor’s old man’s meaning, the inner treasury inspector general’s office of the piece to let their own one-handed pinch, in the end, it is not a proper method, in the Kyoto inspector general’s office of the sand mixed with a handful of HeZongWei brand, but was pingpings pressure dare not gasp for air, it is to the JiangNan to be mixed up.

Fan Xian is wary of whether the emperor did not believe his own explanation about the Merchants Bank, or on the relationship between himself and the Northern Qi people on the alert. As for the smuggling matter, he does not care much, the eldest princess are gone for more than ten years, he only earns a year of oil and water, backhandedly sent so many snowflake silver to the national treasury, the emperor’s old man would not be so petty.

Looking at Fan Xian’s somewhat unhappy face, Xue Qing laughed twice and comforted: “It’s still not for the people in the court to see, what are you worried about? Even if you send a third division led by an imperial inspector to investigate, with a flip of your hand, who can find out anything? Don’t forget, you’re also a bit of an imperial official.”

Xue Qing flipped his hand over, taking advantage of the situation to grip the cup of tea on the table and take a sip.

Fan Xian stared at his steady hand, and a thought flashed through his mind. Xue Qing knew something about the smuggling, but did not know the inner workings of it, which was why he seemed so calm. If he were to realize that he was secretly damaging Qing Guo’s interests, I’m only afraid that this old boy would be so shocked that he would drop this cup of tea to the ground.

He was about to pour some more oil and add more fire when he unexpectedly saw that Xue Qing had changed his face to an extremely serious one after putting the teacup down.

The official circle interaction, especially like Xue Qing this kind of soil emperor and Fan Xian this kind of emperor status person, basically put some important things in the heckling said, lest let each other feel that there are too many diaphragms, tend to cold bad momentum, so like at this time Xue Qing so serious face, Fan Xian is still the first time to see it, can’t help but wrinkle his brows.

After Xue Qing was silent for a long time, he slowly opened his mouth and said, “The things in Kyoto, Little Fan, you are naturally clearer than me, I don’t know what kind of view you have?”

Opinion? Bullshit opinion, I don’t have any opinion on such a big matter. Fan Xian closed his mouth, didn’t say a word, just looked at Xue Qing’s beard under his jaw with a smile on his face, as if he was extremely appreciative, anyway, under the sky, except for those few great masters plus the emperor’s old man, he wasn’t afraid of anyone, so he naturally dared to put on this clay molded appearance.

Xue Qing coughed twice, looking at Fan Xian’s appearance, knowing that his question was too level-less, and that the other party’s scoundrel was even more level-less than his own, he laughed self-deprecatingly, and after a few moments of deliberation, he said directly, “Let’s say it plainly, his majesty …… is going to abolish the Crown Prince.”

Fan Xian was stunned, as if he hadn’t heard the words clearly, and after a moment he came back to his senses and stood up violently, staring into Xue Qing’s eyes for a long time without speaking.

His heart was indeed shocked, shocked not at the abolition of the Crown Prince itself, nor at the fact that Xue Qing had discussed it with himself, but at the fact that since Xue Qing dared to say it to his face, it must not be that he had guessed it out, but rather that the Emperor in the palace had already given his diehard loyalists the wind of the news, and at the same time began to blow the wind around through him.

Could it be that public opinion was about to begin?

Xue Qing’s fingertips gently knocked on the desktop, looked at him and said with a smile, ”Why is little Lord Fan so surprised? Wasn’t this matter not expected by you?” He suddenly sighed, a hint of pity flashed between his brows as he slowly said, “Actually, I’m not afraid to let you know, I’ve already submitted a folded letter to persuade his majesty to give up this idea, but it just didn’t work.”

“You’re asking me to submit a report as well?” Fan Xian looked at him.

Xue Qing said with a slight sneer, “It’s clear to everyone what kind of relationship you have with the Crown Prince, and I’m not so foolish as to do so.”

After a moment’s pause, he said softly, “His Majesty’s mind is made up, and those of us who are ministers have to do things according to the rules ……” Said here, Xue Qing paused for a moment, seeming to be very puzzled in his heart as well, clearly the crown prince has grown gradually over the past two years and is quite sincere, and has improved a great deal in all aspects. Why did His Majesty suddenly abolish the Crown Prince, but he vaguely guessed that there must be a problem within the royal family, and in front of Fan Xian, the bastard son of the royal family, he would not declare his doubts to his mouth.

Fan Xian thought for a while and then asked, “How many people know about this matter?”

“In the area of Jiangnan, it’s definitely just you and I who know about it.” Xue Qing said, “But I believe that all seven governors have already received His Majesty’s secret decree, so it’s up to everyone to decide when to go on.”

Fan Xian heart sneer, the emperor is also really ruthless, even ruthless some confused, the crown prince a year of excellent performance, this time far to Nanzhao not only did not make any mistakes, but also won the court up and down the praise, I think the emperor wants to abolish the crown prince, to find an excuse is too difficult to find …… even used the tactics of the local surrounded by the central government.

Just seven road governor although speak extremely powerful, but after all is a vassal, who dares to lead the head to do this thing? Even if it is ordered by His Majesty’s secret decree, but the seven governors are not stupid, and they must not believe that they will have any good end in the future if they get involved in the battle for the throne.

Xue Qing seemed to have read the thoughts in his mind and slowly said, “This governor, I think, must be the first official to write a letter to advise His Majesty to abolish the throne.”

Fan Xian was stunned and quietly looked into Xue Qing’s eyes, he knew that this person was a die-hard loyalist to the Emperor, but he did not expect the other party to be die-hard loyal to such an extent.

“What about the reason?” He frowned and reminded the other party.

Xue Qing smiled faintly and looked at Fan Xian, “This is the reason I invited your honor here today …… His Majesty’s meaning is clear, the eight offices should move.”

Fan Xian had sat back in his chair by now, slightly inclining his head out of focus. To abolish the Crown Prince, naturally, the eight departments of the Supervisory Yuan should be used to hit the head, that year, after all, the Crown Prince had quite a few not-so-good-looking handles falling into the hands of the inner court and the Supervisory Yuan, plus the Jiangnan Ming family lawsuit about the battle over the natural inheritance rights of the first-born son, and this matter, no matter which way one looks at it – the Emperor is going to abolish the Crown Prince, and he himself should be the one to be the horse’s foot soldier.

His face is very calm, can not see the inner turmoil, said after a long time, “The place is the place, Kyoto is Kyoto, if only these actions …… in the dynasty will be extremely backfired, the door under the Chinese book of those a few university scholars will not look at the crown prince without fault to be abolished.”

What he said is the truth, the civilian ministers are bent on for the celebration of the country, seeking is smooth, for the emperor this seemingly absurd initiative, of course, will vigorously oppose, only to be afraid of the court hall above do not know how many staff sounds to ring again.

“In particular, the Supervisory Court cannot step forward.” Fan Xian lowered his head and said, “It’s not convenient for me to come forward, the Supervisory Yuan is a secret service organization, the Crown Prince and I have always been at odds with each other, and some of the words coming out of my mouth …… will only backfire.”

“Your words make sense, I will report to His Majesty.” Xue Qing thought for a moment before saying, “There is something His Majesty asked me to inform you of, in a few days His Majesty will be going to the Heavenly Sacrifice.”

Fan Xian felt surprised again today and frowned for a long time before slowly tasting the flavor, although Qing Guo could not flourish in the way of ghosts and gods, unlike Northern Qi’s Heavenly Dao which was so deeply rooted in people’s hearts, it still had immense reverence for the imaginary temples of the gods, and if the emperor’s old man could really pull off some kind of heavenly apocalypse ……

The public opinion of the crown prince in the front, seven road governor petition in the back, and then for some ministers out to accuse the crown prince of misconduct, unbearable to succeed the country, and finally the emperor left and right in a difficult situation, personally went to the temple to sacrifice to the heavens, the order of the heavens, the abolition of the Crown Prince.

Well, good absurd play, good boring trick.

Fan Xian shook his head and asked, “When?”

“A month from now.”