Chapter 55: The Tantalizing Duke

Once the decree was issued, the ministers were in an uproar, although the heads of the ministries didn’t change their positions, but there were more young officials around them, which couldn’t help but make the ministers feel a hint of trepidation, who knows when His Majesty will bring those young officials up to take the top of these old guys like themselves.

Shu Daoshi frowned out of the column, argued with His Majesty for a few words, that such a wide range of officials appointed, did not go through the court, did not let the Ministry of Appointment and Supervisory Yuan to review beforehand, it is really a bit too hasty. However, the emperor’s determination today, even his face is not even given, lightly refuted back, this first decree will become the nail in the coffin.

Blood change, has become inevitable, Qin Heng was transferred to the Privy Council, rank seems to have increased, in fact, it is away from the Kyoto guard vital place, he was a bit stunned, but also had to go out to thank you.

In addition, like the former Privy Council deputy envoy Qu Xiangdong stream of bigwigs, but also have no choice but to accept the proposal, his majesty is not in-depth investigation of the valley snipers, or the military will certainly have to pay more price.

Only the military generals looked at Fan Xian’s eyes, looking more and more angry.

Everyone knows clearly, in the civil and military departments, his majesty adjusted the Privy Council and the Kyoto guard, in order to support Fan Xian, for Fan Xian valley sniping things out of anger, as for after the court will be some other what follow up, will have to wait, just the military’s days will not be too good.

In the civil officials, the number of officials who were replaced was the largest, basically belonging to the officials close to the second prince’s line, especially horrifying is, look at the appearance, last night was caught by Fan Xian’s thirty-two officials, it seems that there is no opportunity to come out again ……

Fan Xian listened carefully to the decree. This decree was obviously prepared by the emperor yesterday night, after listening for a long time, he was a bit surprised that he didn’t hear the name of Yan Bingyun, but on second thought, it was also right, even if the emperor wanted to reuse Yan Bingyun, he couldn’t possibly transfer him to other ministries and government offices, not to mention that this was a violation of the Qing Law and the rules and regulations of the Supervisory Yuan, at least if the emperor wanted to use Yan Bingyun, he always had to give some face to Chen Pingping.

As for the possibility of promoting Mr. Xiao Yan to a higher position, if Mr. Xiao Yan was promoted again, he would have to take over Fan Xian’s position as the Tisi-Fan Xian shook his head, secretly saying that unless the Emperor was prepared to single-handedly take the Supervisory Yuan down, how could he have done such a thing.

However, Fan Xian was surprised to hear Cheng Jialin’s name!

He inclined his head slightly, resisting the urge to look at the middle-aged man in the dragon chair, and great oddities welled up in his heart. Jia Lin was his own disciple, now far away in a foreign land as an official, how did he fall into the emperor’s eyes? And is …… into the Ministry of mandarins? That they have been unable to intervene in the Department of Yamen …… at once rose two levels, this promotion speed is too fast.

When the court officials heard Cheng Jialin’s name, they were also a bit appalled, as we all know, this person is one of the four sons of the Fan family, and he has been in the service for only two years, so how can he be transferred back to the important place in Kyoto? The people all cast glances at Fan Xian, with some fear in their gazes.

Fan Xian was a bit uncomfortable in his heart. The emperor gave this favor is too big, according to that guy’s habit, after giving a sweet date, there will be a stick, but I don’t know where this stick will fall.

“…… Shen Chongwen has been transferred to the Metropolitan Police College to pen the imperial historian, so that the left imperial historian He Zongwei concurrently look at the matters of the Supervisory Yuan, to assist Fan Xian to act, responsible to the inner court.”

The stick came really fast!

Fan Xian raised his head haughtily, his eyes flashing with two lines of ghostly light as he glanced at the young man who had stepped out to thank him for his favor. The left imperial inspector joins the House of Government? Although the Supervisory Yuan has been nominally subject to the supervision of the inner court, but the royal family of Qing has always strictly prohibited eunuchs in power, coupled with Chen Pingping is too powerful, so the Supervisory Yuan is like an independent kingdom.

But …… let the left imperial historian to keep an eye on the supervision courtyard, at the same time to the inner court report, this is to let the supervision courtyard directly in the palace under the watchful eye.

Fan Xian’s back was a little cold, the fingers of his right hand trembled a little, he knew that because of his own identity, the emperor certainly couldn’t trust himself as much as he trusted Chen Pingping, but he didn’t expect that the emperor would be so ruthless, and be the first to give himself a headband and zap his own head in pain before things were far from over!

What kind of person is He Zongwei? He Zongwei is a Kyoto scholar with his own disciple Hou Jichang, one of his sister Ruo Ruo’s suitors, first under the Crown Prince, and then to the Princess, but now he has become a disciple of the Son of Heaven, not by the imperial examination directly into the dynasty to serve as a royal inspector, because of the merits of the left imperial inspector, responsible for the investigation of the Ministry of the household ……

Not counting Fan Xian, He Zongwei is definitely the most popular figure in the court of Qing Dynasty in these two years.

And it was such a person, whom Fan Xian was extremely disgusted by, who was going to be the eyes of the Emperor watching over the Supervisory Court, and Fan Xian became angry, unusually angry, for no apparent reason.

“Your Majesty!”

Fan Xian stepped out and stood beside He Zongwei, saying in a deep voice to the man in the dragon chair, “I have an objection!”

He Zongwei mildly glanced at Fan Xian beside him, and although he felt immense anger from the depths of his heart whenever he thought of the beating he received from the other party on the Fan Mansion, he still concealed it extremely well, with a hint of dissent and admiration showing in his eyes at just the right time, as if to make his emotions known to the ministers in the hall – he admired the fact that young Lord Fan dared to to contradict His Holiness to his face.

The hall was already in an uproar, the emperor had orders, the ministers were subject to them, except for old men like Shu Wu who dared to contradict the emperor to his face, no one had ever dared to directly express their objections and grievances on the appointment of officials.

The emperor frowned and said, “What objections do you have?”

Fan Xian raised his head and said expressionlessly, “The Supervisory Academy doesn’t need an imperial historian to tell it what to do.”

“Bold!” The emperor slapped the dragon chair and said angrily, “Law enforcement is at the side, the imperial historian is at the back, the clear law of the land, my will has already been decided, how can I allow this little guy of yours to talk too much.”

Fan Xian heart anger, know that he can not retreat today, or this supervision courtyard really want to lose in their own hands, how to that woman and Chen garden in the old cripple to account.

He will body has been, directly said: “Dare to ask your majesty, this supervisory court is responsible for monitoring the officials, by the internal court supervisory court, this suddenly more a royal historian, if this royal historian is corrupt and perverted the law, the court to check, or not? To check, how to check?”

The ministers were in an uproar, the emperor instead laughed coldly and said, “In vain, you are smart for a lifetime, but you are here to forcefully pretend to be confused, retreat back.”

He Zongwei also pretended to persuade a few sentences beside Fan Xian, but Fan Xian was too lazy to look at him, and did not go back, his eyes rolled a few times, and suddenly said in a loud voice: “I oppose!”

This motherfucker is a little out of bounds, the emperor decided what things, where can you allow a subject to oppose, this is not in the public court above the lawsuit, Fan Xian you are not Song Shiren, the emperor is not a small governor adults.

The emperor was angry, his beard shook under his jaw, and he condescendingly pointed at Fan Xian’s nose and scolded, “I’d like to see, how can you object?”

Fan Xian crossed his heart and said, “Naturally, I don’t dare to resist the decree, but I’m just a supervisory authority, and the dean of the court is still in the Chen Garden, so what about this? According to reason, is not the turn of the minister to discuss, just today on the temple of the Supervisory Yuan to me as the head, I am to receive a problem, do not receive also have a problem, look and see …… minister …… have to resign from this Supervisory Yuan mentioning, your majesty directly send a decree to the Supervisory Yuan, so the best. ”

Resignation of the Supervisory Yuan?

Resignation?

The ministers were in an uproar, simply did not understand how today’s great court meeting would evolve into today’s situation, originally thought it was His Majesty borrowed the hand of the Supervisory Yuan to clean up the court, how did it end up bullying little Lord Fan again? However, this little Lord Fan really deserves to be a generation of poetry fairy, the arrogance in his bones is really not something that the general world can compare to, and he even …… dared …… to use his resignation as a threat to not take the decree at the big court meeting!

Such a big courage, since the founding of Qing Dynasty, these ministers have not seen, a time on the temple discussion, cast to the center of the standing Fan Xian’s eyes in the original outside the fear of the police, can not help but more than a few silk absurdity and admiration.

Shu Daoshi and Hu Daoshi couldn’t stand it anymore, they came out one after another, one pretending to be in black face, one pretending to be in red face, Shu Wu scolded Fan Xian, saying that he didn’t know his duty as a minister, talking nonsense, Hu Daoshi was comforting Fan Xian with a harmonious voice, explaining the decree for his majesty in detail.

Anyway, Fan Xian just stood upright, refusing to accept the decree or do anything about it.

The scene looked like a kindergarten student who had less fruit on his lunch tray and was being coaxed by two teachers.

Shu Hu two university students then turned to the emperor on behalf of Fan Xian, said how the young Lord Fan clouds, they guessed that the emperor rare in the court meeting met such a big nail, I’m afraid that has been about to go crazy.

Above the dragon chair, the emperor laughed in anger, and with a cold light in his eyes, he coldly said, “Fan Xian, are you trying to threaten me with resignation?”

“I don’t dare.”

“Good good good.” The emperor said three good words in a row, and said quietly, “You rely on the fact that I love you, so you think that I don’t dare to chastise you …… If you want to resign, I will ……”

The emperor’s words have not finished, Fan Xian has been moved to thank the grace: “Thank you, Your Majesty, I would like to go back to the Imperial College to teach.”

The emperor was choking unkindly on his extremely fast response to this coming, and said angrily, “I prefer not to let you resign!”

The hall fell into a momentary silence after the shock, no one expected to see such a wonderful scene in the great court today, everyone knew in their hearts that His Majesty’s favor towards Fan Xian had not been cut at all, and that he would not be punished in any substantial way, but they just didn’t know how to break this deadlock.

The ministers even didn’t understand why Fan Xian would be so angry and impulsive about the imperial historian of the Metropolitan Police Office asking the Supervisory Yuan about the matter, if it was to keep the Supervisory Yuan’s power, with his Fan Xian’s tactics, he would have plenty of ways to do it later, not to mention that there was still a senior ancestor of the Supervisory Yuan who had not been able to make an appearance.

Obviously, the emperor wasn’t sure exactly what was on Fan Xian’s mind either, as he frowned and said to Fan Xian, “Roll over here for me!”

Fan Xian didn’t roll over, and ran his ass over and got under the dragon chair, his face full of stubbornness and ruthlessness.

The emperor lowered his voice and asked, “Are you taking the decree or not?”

“No.”

The emperor frowned and said, “Why?”

Fan Xian said bluntly, “I don’t like He Zongwei.”

The emperor was furious and said, “Last night, you already made the court lose face, do you want to make me lose face today? Back off!”

Fan Xian sighed and retreated.

Eunuch Yao was beside him with a bitter face, holding his duster and holding back his laughter, it was very difficult.

Fan Xian retreated back into the hall, the eyes of the ministers on both sides looked at him more and more oddly, at the great dynasty, actually whispering with his majesty, this favor …… is really …… ahem.

The emperor simply no longer give Fan Xian any chance to speak, also do not care whether he receives the decree, directly to Yao eunuch nodded. Eunuch Yao immediately shouted in a duck’s voice that was different from Dai Gong Gong Yu’s flirty accent, “Fan Xian, the Plenipotentiary Commissioner of the Jiangnan Road, come forward to listen to the decree.”

Fan Xian froze, lifted his front flap, and knelt down.

The decree slowly and Road, did not mention the imperial historian into the Supervisory Yuan matter, but will Fan Xian this year in Jiangnan did a list of things, especially on the focus on the internal treasury transit division, praised Fan Xian for the treasury to do the contribution, with a mention of Fan Xian to assist the Xue Qing Governor Qing Jiangnan officials, and pulling some not.

The emperor opened his mouth in the center and said, “I think that Fan Xian should be rewarded for his loyalty to the country.”

The ministers were silent, although they didn’t like Fan Xian to be rewarded again, but the more than 10 million taels of silver that were transported back to Kyoto from the inner treasury were real goods, such a large amount of real credit, which was really comparable to the military’s merit, and if it wasn’t heavily rewarded, the court really didn’t know how to explain to the world.

Xue Qing came out at this time, and added to Fan Xian’s affairs in Jiangnan, full of praise. Grand Maester Hu stepped forward, also believing that a heavy reward should be offered to young Lord Fan.

And Shu Wu the old man eyes turned a few circles, and looked at Fan Xian a glance, finally could not help but to come out and said: “Your Majesty …… half a year ago, the door under the Chinese book had a discussion, to small Lord Fan’s reputation and academic achievements, is really enough to enter the door under the Chinese book of the deliberations, just the Supervisory Yuan officer has always been prohibited from re-appointment of the imperial officials, the imperial court Chen regulations in the front, but previously small Fan Ta-Jen had the intention to resign from the Supervisory Yuan mentioning …….”

The emperor coughed twice.

Hu Daoshi also couldn’t help but look at Shu Wu with odd eyes, thinking that this old man is really persistent, knowing clearly that His Majesty can’t possibly allow Fan Xian to join the cabinet, much less let Fan Xian leave the Supervisory Yuan, yet he still stored the same idea that the two thought of half a year ago.

But Shu Wu had already opened his mouth, so he had no choice but to express the same wish, and was willing to sponsor Fan Xian to join the cabinet.

Fan Xian heard about this in the past from the hospital newspaper, but today saw with their own eyes, can not help but be a little surprised, thinking that they are only twenty years old, but to enter the cabinet, which is also too ridiculous.

As expected, the emperor still did not allow, just let Eunuch Yao will be awarded the decree. After listening to the decree, Fan Xian was stunned in place, and only after a long time did he want to get up to thank the emperor, thinking that it was indeed absurd for him to be a university scholar, but the reward given by the emperor was also absurd enough.

Tanyu Gong!

The hall was filled with cries of astonishment and admiration. Fan Xian stayed on his feet, thinking to himself how he was suddenly made a duke. Wasn’t this even higher than the old man’s title? The Emperor’s stick had come down hard, but the sweet dates he had given were not small either! Just one step away from being a prince, an incomparably honorable title – he inclined his head to look at the embarrassed He Zongwei, wondering if he could just beat this man for fun in the future.