Han Qi stood at the front, Wang Anshi ranked second, and Zhang Bin stood at the back of the train.

The envoy of the pavilion was a strange-looking old eunuch, and his praise in a strange tone rang out, and the tall red temple door was pushed open from the inside with a roar.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of the chime bell sounded, and hundreds of civil and military officials lined up and walked into the Wende Palace.

Zhang Bin followed the steps of the officials in front of him and slowly walked into the main hall, and immediately felt that there were two knife-like gazes on his left and right.

Zhang Bin's heart was slightly cold, and out of the corner of his eye, he immediately noticed that there were two imperial historians standing on both sides of the palace door, staring at him sharply, looking at him from head to toe.

Zhang Bin knew that these two were picketing and grooming, and it should not be just for him, every official who entered the hall, even including the prime minister, was regarded as a prey by them, because in this case, the greater the grade of the officials they pickled and found out that they were wrong, the more they could show that they were upright and responsible, and the picketed officials would never retaliate against them under normal circumstances.

The usual small court meeting is okay, such as such a big court meeting attended by hundreds of officials, the Song Dynasty paid special attention to etiquette, which can be seen from the fact that the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji walked to the imperial couch with a strange step of the Son of Heaven, and sat upright on the imperial couch without moving the slightest.

Zhao Ji has long been accustomed to sitting still in front of the ministers, but the emperor has been in office for a long time, and he has also summed up some ways to relax his body, such as the invisible legs and toes of the ministers can keep moving around, and then drive the upper body to shake slightly.

After being the emperor for a few years, Zhao Ji also knew several important ministers in the court very well, for example, when he saw Sima Guang's iron-like face, he felt a headache, because in the past, as long as Sima Guang had such a face, he would inevitably speak at the court, speak sharply, and be well prepared.

Of course, he knew that Sima Guang's target today was Zhang Bin, and he was also troubled by the rumors spread inside and outside the capital, but he never believed that Zhang Bin would be the murderer who killed Ma Binrui and destroyed Ma Binrui's full door.

Zhao Ji had already thought about it, if Sima Guang was entangled endlessly today, he would call back with the sentence "The case is unknown".

It's a big deal that Zhang Bin's great achievements this time will not be rewarded first, and he can be regarded as a concession, and if you don't do it, Sima Guang loses the bet, and he will keep it once when he hands in his resignation.

No matter how anxious Sima Guang is to start performing, he must wait for this whole set of seemingly solemn but actually boring processes to end before he can start.

Because this is the etiquette rule set during the Taizong period, it has lasted for hundreds of years.

In Zhang Bin's view, these cumbersome etiquette processes are simply taking off their pants and farting, which seriously affects the efficiency of doing things.

Of course, rituals have the necessity and function of rituals, which will make some things look solemn, and they are indeed needed on some important occasions, which will exist in later generations, which Zhang Bin can also understand.

But this big court meeting will be held every week, to put it bluntly, it is just a meeting, just talk about things and say nothing.

Now, a large group of monarchs and ministers who dominate the Great Song Dynasty are standing here, putting aside the important documents sent from all the states of the world and not dealing with them, and standing here like fools listening to the praises.

Zhang Bin even thought that it was because he had heard too many of these hymns, so the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers felt good about themselves, and they couldn't see that the giant ship of the Great Song Dynasty had been damaged, and the course had been seriously wrong, and if it continued, it would definitely go to the abyss.

Finally waiting for the etiquette procedure to be completed, Sima Guang, a scholar of Longtu Pavilion University, couldn't wait to stride out, standing only seven or eight steps away from Zhao Ji, and Wang Anshi and Han Qi at the front were already standing on the same line, and then started his performance.

There was no other sound in the huge hall, Zhao Ji looked at Sima Guang with a cold expression, Han Qi's eyes narrowed slightly, glanced at Sima Guang, and continued to close his eyes with an inexplicable expression. Wang Anshi glanced at Sima Guang, there was some happiness in the depths of his eyes, and there was also a trace of pity, but it was more complicated.

"Your Majesty, the minister lost the bet with the Confucian Lin Lang Zhang Bin, and the minister also wrote his resignation, but before the minister withdrew from the court, he wanted to impeach Zhang Bin for not learning and not knowing, and he was lucky to get the merit, and His Majesty rewarded his merits and appointed important tasks, but he didn't know how to repay His Majesty's deep kindness, but he relied on His Majesty's favor and acted arrogantly, despised my Great Song Dynasty law, sent evil servants to kill the court officials who had a holiday with them, and destroyed his full door, which was a great crime, and he should behead his head to thank the dead!"

Sima Guang was full of anger, his expression was solemn, and his face was distressed.

"Good acting skills, this old thief's acting skills have far surpassed the top old actors such as Chen Daoming in later generations!" Zhang Bin sighed secretly in his heart, when people who don't know look at this bureaucrat's performance at this time, they will only think that he is a loyal minister of the Central Government who upholds justice and breaks his heart for the country and the people.

"The minister seconded the proposal, Zhang Bin must be severely punished." An official about forty years old stood up and said righteously.

This person is an official of the Third Division, in charge of the country's money and grain accounting, but in the past few days he has been hurt by Zhang Bin, not only failed to get involved in the grain transshipment and sale bidding of more than 500,000 yuan, the most important thing is that Wu Chong, the third division, has been in the third division to implement Zhang Bin's new bookkeeping and registration method, he has studied it for a few days, and he can't find a corruption loophole for a while, or it is quite troublesome to want to be corrupt, so he hates Zhang Bin to death.

"The minister thinks that Sima Daxue is reasonable, Zhang Bin acted arrogantly, killed the court officials, and destroyed his family, which is already a heinous crime, and it is also a crime of bullying the king, and he must be beheaded to set an example." Another official stepped forward and said.

"The minister also seconded the proposal, Zhang Bin must be executed!"

"The minister seconded the proposal, Zhang Bin should be put on death row and beheaded at a later date."

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For a time, the court was indignant, more than a dozen officials stood up, and people from all six ministries and departments of the three provinces stood up, but except for Sima Guang himself, there were no more senior officials above the third grade.

At this time, all the officials who stood up condemned Zhang Bin, and at the same time, they all said that not killing Zhang Bin was not enough to make the people angry, not killing was not enough to comfort the people, and not killing was not enough to serve the king......

The reason why he didn't say that he was in prison, but that he had to be killed, although it was related to the fact that this matter was indeed very serious, it was also related to the fact that Zhang Bin was not from a Jinshi background.

In this process, Sima Guang stood up again and emphasized the misery of Ma Binrui's family being killed, in fact, he had already made arrangements, if the Son of Heaven did not punish Zhang Bin today, a group of people would continue to go to the yamen of the criminal department and even kneel outside the palace gate to shout grievances.

Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dan, Zeng Bu, and Xue Xiang, the four important figures of the New Party, have been looking at them coldly, and most of their eyes have been on Zhang Bin during this period.

But Zhang Bin stared at the back of the head of the official in front of him in a daze, looking like he was wandering, as if he was not impeached by a dozen officials in the hall, and it was not him who wanted to be killed.

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