Chapter 311
Xu Mian was startled by a scream, walked out of Chen Ji's room and followed the sound to find the tide, and the bloody scene of the good guy rushed into view, and he couldn't help but tear tears of sympathy for the victim.
"Yo, is this a lynching?" Xu Mian walked up to the front and looked at him with admiration, and his mocking tone overshadowed the condensed atmosphere.
"My master is kind, and those who are about to die should be allowed to suffer from broken hands and legs." Hong Ming's smile was reduced slightly, and his gaze turned on Murong Xuan and the two of them intentionally or unintentionally, and he immediately withdrew it, not knowing the master's kindness, whether the two of them knew it or not.
"Tsk, this miserable situation is enough to be unforgettable for a while." Xu Mian has no parental heart as a doctor.
"Take it down and hang it in one breath." Xichao ordered his guards to drag people down.
"A notice was posted that the offending officials would be beheaded after three days." Xi Chao raised his eyes to look at Murong Xuan and the others, who were slightly frightened, "Go and draw up a notice, explain what happened in detail, and take the king's jade order to supervise and behead in three days." ”
"I'm afraid this is inappropriate, the offender doesn't need to be escorted back to Beijing to be interrogated by the Criminal Department before being convicted?" Gu Sicong became more and more unable to see through the mind of the Wing King, is it really good to cross the court of the criminal department?
"You don't know this, the Wing King, as the Emperor of the Imperial Mission, can exercise the right to cut first and then play." Xu Mian explained the confusion of Gu Sicong, who was confused, "Now that the prisoner has been dealt with, there is a little benefit to avoid the accident of escaping responsibility or killing people and then marrying the blame." ”
Gu Sicong immediately understood, and thanked Xu Mian who solved his doubts with a little shyness, even the imperial doctor knew more than himself, and he was really incompetent.
Murong Xuan did have another thought in his heart. I knew that the Winged King had the power of life and death, and it was easy to kill a person as easy to find an excuse, and it depended on the Winged King's chest not having the heart to find an excuse to block the mouths of hundreds of officials in the court. It is no wonder that the Wing King said that the position of power determines a qiē.
"The prince is not going to supervise the beheading?" Gu Sicong asked carefully, if the real person in power does not appear, he and Murong Xuan will count which onion, in case the people are suspicious and cause an incident, the two of them really can't control it, such a difficult task is really unbearable, although it can be seen that the wicked person has been brought to justice, and he has a little pleasure after revenge in his heart. But I really can't take it.
"What are you afraid of, the Winged King asked you not only to behead you, but also to establish authority for you. Missed this opportunity, and the matter of measuring the field production was accurate and went wrong. "Nerds don't open their minds, they always act rigidly and rigidly, they are bound by the rules, what are they waiting for if they don't suffer, Xu Mian looks disgusted with rotten wood that can't be carved.
Gu Sicong's face was slightly red, and he couldn't say a word. It's too simple to think for yourself. Don't blame others for looking down on it.
After asking, it seemed to be in the way, Murong Xuan motioned with his eyes to leave and go to work, didn't the wing king say that he wanted to write a notice, and his right hand was injured and he could only write it by Gu Sicong.
Gu Sicong followed Murong Xuan with interest, and Hongming stepped forward to lead the way and led the two into the study, where there was pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.
Gu Sicong, who had studied the ink, glanced at Murong Xuan, and the two of them in the room were still calm and could not calm down for a long time before writing and inking.
Just as Gu Sicong put pen to paper, Murong Xuan spoke: "Try to use straightforward words, and use less rhetoric to write concisely." ”
"Why?" Gu Sicong stopped writing and looked at Murong Xuan, his eyes were quite inexplicable.
"The Winged King doesn't like to talk at length and be gorgeous. The notice is to show the people too much rhetoric and the people can't understand it, and the news may deviate from the facts. After Murong Xuan calmed down, he thought carefully about the Wing King's methods, although they were cruel and unreasonable. But he was really relieved, and he could be regarded as avenging Chen Ji who was asleep.
"Okay." Gu Sicong also felt that Murong Xuan's words were reasonable, and the son from the family knew more things than himself.
After a while, he put down his pen and wrote a large sheet, Gu Sicong read it again from beginning to end to make sure that there was no leakage, and dried the ink and showed it to Murong Xuan, "Is this okay?" "I've never written an albino article, and I'm a little uncertain in my heart.
Murong Xuan nodded after reading it through, "Yes, I'll take it later." Fang Xiang and the others had a bad retribution, and their hanging hearts finally had a difference.
"Winged King seems to have arrested someone else?" Gu Sicong remembered what King Yi said, but he was afraid that he would catch the wrong person without interrogation, wouldn't it be bad.
"I'm afraid that none of the officials here have been spared." With the standard of the Wing King, Murong Xuan dared to guarantee that the good days of the officials here had come to an end.
Gu Sicong frowned and said suspiciously: "Some people have nothing to do with this matter, doesn't it matter if they are caught?" "That's an innocent, the Winged King won't go on a killing spree, right?
"The actions of the Wing King are not all for us, there are others, there are a few officials here who are really honest and honest for the people, and the Wing King, as a Qin Messenger, has the responsibility of supervision, and it is normal to deal with corrupt officials and corrupt officials." Murong Xuan guessed that he probably said a few words with Gu Sicong.
"I see." Gu Sicong suddenly opened his mouth, thanked him embarrassedly, and ignored the point again.
Murong Xuan smiled at Gu Sicong, who was a little shy, it was really rare to see his face blush, and his mood suddenly improved a lot, and he didn't want to say something he knew about King Yi's presence in the court.
"Let's go." Murong Xuan beckoned Gu Sicong to take the written notice to see the Wing King.
"Written?" Xu Mian reached out and took a look and nodded, "Easy to understand." "Give the notice to Hongming, Hongming is responsible for this.
"How is Imperial Doctor Xu's leg Chen Ji?" Murong Xuan was very worried about the people who had not woken up yet.
"It'll be fine, I'll wake up soon, I'll be bored and take a look." Xu Mian gave the exact answer and sent the two away, looking listless and unsightly.
After the two left, Xu Mian suddenly asked, "Where will the vacant official positions be transferred and filled?" "Although the official position is not big, it is indeed the parent official of one party, and this time you have to pick it well.
"There are few officials in the DPRK who are willing to be transferred, and I don't want to use these people anymore. Xi Chao looked at the birds and flowers in the courtyard, thought about it for a while, and had a plan.
"Do you want the people to choose or recommend themselves, as if they were in the Acropolis?" Xu Mian couldn't help but boldly assume that the Wing King seemed to like to use this method to reduce the people's resistance to the new officials.
"If you haven't gone through the imperial examination to gain fame, even if you want to sit in a small official position, you can't sit on it." Xi Chao knows the rules of officialdom to look at qualifications.
"It's not impossible to rely on recommendations alone." Xi Chao raised his eyebrows slightly, and the corners showed a little disdain. "I don't want to be relied on as something to cling to, because human ambition is immeasurable, and the courtiers won't allow me to expand my network. The power was enough to terrify the courtiers. ”
"What I'm saying is, who let you hold the military power and take charge of the household and labor departments, and there are too many people who want to pull you off the horse, how can you establish your own connections." Xu Mian saw the reality clearly and thought that it was not easy for the Wing King to rely on calculations for everything.
"With all that said, you haven't said the point yet." Xu Mian still remembers his question, and if he can't get an answer, he feels uncomfortable scratching his heart and liver.
"I haven't thought about it yet." Xi Chao replied lazily, "Let's see how the court solves it." At the moment, it is troublesome to dispose of the hands-on batch, and those who do not do it or watch the fire from the other side are also troublesome. ”
"Won't it?" Xu Mian didn't believe it, the Wing King was never a person who couldn't make up his mind. Why did you suddenly change your sex today?
"Do you want those people of insight to take a temporary place, or Murong Xuan's three?" Xu Mian put forward his own thoughts, "Anyway, they are going to stay here for three years, why not take over the mess caused by them." So as to exercise the ability of the three. ”
"The three of them come from different backgrounds. Even if the courtiers knew that it was nothing more than the word temporary, it was not considered to be out of line until a new official was appointed. What Xu Mian said was justified and unambiguous.
"Not bad, either." Xi Chao nodded in agreement, "Look at the attitude of the DPRK and China, and it will be decided according to the situation." ”
In the streets and alleys of the city, many people gathered to watch, talking about the contents of the notice with surprised expressions, clapping their hands and applauding, and the corrupt officials were brought to justice, and they no longer had to live in fear.
Regarding the murder of the student, the people listened to the story from the storyteller's mouth, and there was not much surprise. It's about that I feel that half of the official master is too different from the actual life, and I can't empathize. Most of them sighed, and the two sentences did not set off too much storm.
Except for students who are still in the middle of their studies and are bound to gain fame, there are those who are filled with righteous indignation, and there are those who think calmly, and the chaos of officialdom is once again unforgettable, and the illusions of the past are broken, and they feel that everything will be fine if they enter the officialdom, and they have never thought that there will be ruthless killings, and the dark side will only think more about it, but no one has the fear of retreating, and no matter how difficult it is, they have to try to go on.
Above the court, he suddenly asked about the status of the candidates who received errands from all over the country, and the courtiers did not feel surprised, it was normal for the emperor to care, and it was strange to ignore them.
Mu Jinming observed the courtier's expression, things unfolded little by little, and the courtier's calm face suddenly became extremely stunned, although it was only for a moment, but the expression of individual courtiers was already in his eyes.
There are not a few courtiers who are worried, as a father and there is a dirt between colleagues, it is strange not to be anxious, although the matter is just a case and it is difficult to ensure that there is no crooked person, the courtiers implore the emperor to strictly investigate, Gongsheng is the cornerstone of the court in the future, and such inhuman things as being designed to be erased by colleagues must be stopped.
The culprit of this matter is in the cabinet of only five courtiers, everyone understands that most of the candidates who are on the list after the palace examination will enter the Hanlin Academy to take up their posts, and there is an old saying in officialdom that non-jinshi will not enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin will not enter the cabinet, and there are so many positions in the cabinet, even if there are not many positions to play, in order to fight for opportunities, it is not obvious that various means are frequently used.
In the end, in the absence of absolute empirical evidence, Mu Jinming still ordered a thorough investigation of the remaining four members of the cabinet under the pretext of Fang Xiang.
Something like this happened just to give Mu Jinming an excuse to clean up the cabinet, the cabinet is no longer necessary, there is no other use except for dealing with the classification and folding, the power of the cabinet has been gradually hollowed out when the war started, and there is no need to keep lengthy personnel.
Even if you can't find out how much useful evidence is behind the manipulation, you can start from somewhere else, how can the official not be contaminated with anything that violates the law, and even if you can't remove people from the position of the court and cabinet, you can't keep it, so it's enough.
Chen Ji overcame all difficulties to overcome the fear and helplessness brought about by reality, opened his eyes and looked at the new environment in front of him, as if he was in a dream, he couldn't feel physical pain, and he was so strange.
Seeing Murong Xuan and Gu Sicong who were alive and well, the empty brain was able to operate, the pupils had focus, their lips squirmed and wanted to say something but couldn't make a sound, and their faces were flushed with anxiety.
"Don't open your mouth yet, listen to us." Murong Xuan stopped Chen Ji from talking impatiently, and waited for Chen Ji to calm down after drinking tea and talk about what happened during this period.
"It's over. Everyone is safe, you have to take care of your injuries, Dr. Xu said that your leg is saved, relax and believe that you have no problem. Gu Sicong comforted Chen Ji, who had suffered greatly.
"You'll stand up." Murong Xuan gave encouragement, "The three of us brothers and sisters will work together in the future. At least three years to cheer up. ”
Chen Ji nodded, his heart was very light, the wicked people who persecuted them had been duly punished. The resentment in my heart has disappeared, and the most important thing now is to heal my wounds and get back on my feet.
Xu Mian came over to change the medicine in the evening, and Murong Xuan and the two were also there, and after checking the pulse, they checked the injury and gave a positive answer, and the inflammation had disappeared a lot. If you recuperate properly, you will soon recover, and the medicine in the palace is not ordinary.
The task they took over couldn't stop, and Murong Xuan and Gu Sicong, who had rested for two days, couldn't always rely on doing nothing in the house. I took out more energy than before to deal with the remaining problems, and it became a common thing to go out early and stay late.
The Xi Dynasty did not send a personal guard to follow it, blocking the possibility of borrowing its own power, and there was no trouble with the secret guard. What happened before was already a sensation. There is no one who doesn't think about it for a long time and hits the tip of the knife, and it is much smoother to do things than before, this is their business, and the Xi Dynasty has no right to interfere.
Murong Xuan, who came back at night, did not leave Chen Ji, who was sick in bed, to deal with official business alone or the two discussed, the two agreed not to regard Chen Ji as a weak person who needed protection, and to say everything they did every night to listen to Chen Ji, the three of them took ideas together, sometimes there were disputes when they disagreed, but in the end, there was still laughter and it was very harmonious.
Chen Ji's heart gradually opened up. Sometimes to make a harmless joke, the three of them get along as if they were brothers in the family.
Xi Chao never came to visit Chen Ji, who was seriously injured. In her eyes, it is completely unnecessary, she doesn't want to give Chen Ji a wrong message, and she doesn't want to destroy the relationship between the three of them, it is sooner or later that something happens if there is an estrangement, time will be the best witness, and how far the three of them can go depends on their own efforts.
I lived here for half a month, the imperial court's order was not issued, and if it was really as the Xi Dynasty said, no official recommended himself to take over here, and the court is now in a panic stage, three of the cabinet officials participated in the behind-the-scenes planning of the assassination of Gongsheng, and two counties had the same thing, fortunately it was stopped in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, thanks to the determination of the Wing King, who immediately made preparations after the first incident to avoid another bloody disaster.
Murong Rui, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has been tossing and turning for the past few days, worrying that something will happen to his son, and he has sent someone to go, and he received a letter from his son two days ago, and his heart was finally swallowed back into his stomach, and the courtiers who were connected with the same illness set out to deal with the bastards in the cabinet whose heads were kicked by donkeys.
Cleaning up the cabinet with the effective assistance of the angry courtiers, without Mu Jinming opening his mouth, things were done extremely beautifully, and the cabinet personnel were dismissed, except for Luo Changhe, the cabinet envoy, who was popular and did not participate in it and was not involved, everyone else had several charges, resulting in the existence of the cabinet in name only, Mu Jinming should be asked by the courtiers to decide the case according to the law, and did not take the opportunity to cancel the cabinet. The Cabinet, which has lost most of its power, will no longer be a constraint on imperial power.
After staying long enough, Xi Chao thought it was time to set off, and called Murong Xuan and the three of them to meet him, Chen Ji was already able to walk a few steps on crutches after careful recuperation, which was a good phenomenon.
The Xi Dynasty exempted the three of them from kneeling, and gave a straight to the point, although there are not many large and small officials in the city, there are four large and small officials, and the rest of the small official positions that are not very important have been put on the top, and the rest are directly thrown to Murong Xuan and the three of them, of course, they are also temporary.
The three of them were shocked and really frightened, not only did they think it was a good thing that a pie fell from the sky, but they felt that it was a hot potato, and they really didn't dare to take it.
Xi Chao saw the expressions of the three people in his eyes, and there was no extra affection under the unwavering faces, explaining the current situation in the DPRK and China, no one was willing to come to the post, and the vacant seats could not be vacant, so they had to find someone to replace them temporarily, and the three of them became the best candidates, and shirking could not change the existing decision.
The Xi Dynasty has the power to appoint and dismiss officials, of course, it is not very commonly used, and today it is only responsible for informing the obligation, and there is no power to give the three people the power to repent.
The three people who were driven to the shelves looked at each other and were speechless, the method of the Wing King was too simple and rude, and they were stingy with time to react, and the three people who got the official position for no reason couldn't be happy.
"The affairs in the city are not complicated, and you have to learn everything from scratch when you enter the officialdom. The slightly raised tone expressed Xiàn Xi's dissatisfaction with the attitude of the three people.
"Of course not." Murong Xuan observed his words and saw that the evidence of the Wing King was slightly raised, and immediately spoke up, annoying the moody Wing King, he was not sure what crime he was going to suffer, and he took it obediently, and there was not much harm to himself, he was just surprised.
"This king will leave in three days, and within three days someone will be responsible for guiding you in your work, and remember it with your heart." What Xi Chao can do has been exhausted, and the rest depends on the comprehension ability of the three of them, and it is indispensable to climb and roll in the officialdom, and it is impossible to take shortcuts.
"Thank you, Lord Wang." Murong Xuan took the lead and bowed to the Wing King, fortunately, he didn't go into battle with a dark look in his eyes, he should be content.
"Go ahead, someone will go later." The Xi Dynasty sent three people and began to consider the route of travel, the courtier already knew that he was here, and the original plan was to be changed, she didn't like the word "waiting for the rabbit", and she hated the word "waiting for the rabbit" to be used on herself, and she would not be as she wished for the local officials who got the news.
Three days to sort out the Yamen file and memorize the process of things is also a big errand, the people who came to teach only said twice, which invisibly increased the difficulty of memorization, and the three of them had to hold on, fortunately, there were not too many affairs, otherwise they would really have to taste the taste of the head hanging beam and thorn again.
Before leaving, the Xi Dynasty left a letter of appointment with his own seal on it, in case the unsightly people in the city provoked unnecessary trouble.
Before Xu Mian left, he left some commonly used medicines for the injured people of Chen Jige Murong Xuan in case of emergency, and the mention of being forcibly plugged was his own, and he was a little embarrassed in his heart, so he sent some medicine to apologize.
Xi Chao looked straight at it and found that Xu Mian still had such an interesting side, so he took advantage of this to make a joke, and the group got into the carriage and officially set off. (To be continued......)