Like all graduation parties, the banquet at the Flowing Pavilion was painful and happy.

The feelings of classmates for four years burst out at the time of separation, and there are many people who cry bitterly, but more of them are toasting and drinking, and then casually pulling someone to chirp and talk crookedly for a long time, eager to take out their hearts and show each other.

It is also described as a heart-to-heart affair, but that is unrealistic. At the graduation party, there are very many people, how can you just bring someone over and take care of each other? It can only be said to be a pure venting.

Shen Yun and Fang Cheng both forgot how much they had drunk. The liquor of this era has been improved by the Holy Ancestor period, and it can already be comparable to the high-grade liquor of later generations.

When he woke up the next morning, Shen Yun's head was still bursting in pain, while Fang Cheng was lying directly on the bed humming. He was the most painful, he originally had a plaster on his neck, but it was not clear when he was torn off after drinking too much, no, he woke up in the morning and cried out that it hurt.

"Damn, these people are drinking to death! Especially Lu Kewu's kid, he didn't change his face even after five big bowls. I won't drink with him anymore. ”

Shen Yun poured several bowls of water in a row and didn't get better, he lay down on the bed and pretended to be dead, humming in his mouth: "No, I'm almost dead, it's too uncomfortable!" Brother Teng Yu, prepare for the future! ”

"Get out of you, you haven't left the imperial capital, you can't die if you want to!" Fang Cheng scolded with a smile, "By the way, yesterday I watched James talk to you for a long time, what did you talk about?" ”

Shen Yun covered his head and thought about it, and said, "It's a bit messy, but it seems to have said a lot of things about Buchan." By the way, after I returned to my hometown, where did Buchan go? ”

"I said it was a school transfer, but I don't know where I went. As you know, the people they guard are secretive. However, since there was such a big mistake last time, there have been adjustments within the dark guard, and it is reasonable that Bu Chan has not been transferred. Fang Cheng struggled to sit up, rubbing his temples and continued. Don't say it. James, this kid should have moved his true feelings, the day Bu Chan left, he blocked the school gate, he had to leave with Bu Chan, and almost made a scene of blood splashing five steps, the movement was big! ”

"Oh? And what about this? I can't see it! Shen Yun also sat up.

"Well, speaking of which, it is not easy for Roman nobles like James to study in the Han Dynasty. Never mind. Not to mention them, when are we going to go? Fang Cheng had already gotten up, ready to fetch water and wash up.

Shen Yun was stunned for a while, and said, "I want to say goodbye to Ruyue, yesterday James sent the invitation to Yan Mansion, but Yan Zhun still didn't agree to Ruyue coming out." It's hateful. ”

Fang Cheng came over with two wet towels, handed one to Shen Yun, and suddenly said, "Don't just worry about Yan Ruyue, I saw Princess Duanping come last night, but when I saw you, I stayed for a while and left." Although you don't say it, I can see that the matter between you and Your Highness does not seem to be so simple...... Anyway, we're all going to leave Beijing. There are some things you should make clear. Otherwise, it's troublesome. ”

Zhou Hui came to Liucai Pavilion yesterday?

Shen Yun shook his head vigorously, still not impressed. There were a lot of people yesterday. But most of them talked to Fang Cheng and Zhuge Yun, and he Shen Yunwo was pulled by James in the corner to "take care of each other", and he drank a lot, so he really didn't have the energy to take care of anything else.

"Let's take one step at a time!" Shen Yun suddenly became extremely gloomy, and he put the towel over his face and didn't want to speak.

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Sometimes, some people, some things are destined to be fruitless. That moment of passion blooming may be the most memorable moment of life. Shen Yun is not a saint, he is just an ordinary man, he will make mistakes. Although everything that happened with Zhou Hui that night cannot be strictly defined by who is right and who is wrong, for this matter, men will always face it with the feeling of doing something wrong.

Between him and Zhou Hui, there is a queen mother, but this has become the biggest insurmountable gap between Shen Yun and Zhou Hui. What's more, the Ying Gong family is still a staunch member of the post-party. And he, Shen Yun, has been tied to the chariot of the imperial party, and the imperial capital at the end of this year may not be bloody!

If he was just a civilian, with his blood and bravery, he could pull Zhou Hui away to the end of the world, even if he was caught and killed in the end. But Shen Yun has too many worries behind him, and the kind of thing that rushes to the crown and splatters blood for five steps is really impossible to do.

I wish I could go back to the simple days......

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The follow-up events also proved Shen Yun's conjecture at this time. On the day when Shen Yun and Fang Cheng were about to leave, the first wave of wind began in the Han court. Although this wave has just begun to roll up, many people who are interested have already smelled the unusual smell.

The cause of the trend was that the Jingzhou Prefecture Mu Cui Festival had a bullet seal, impeaching the procuratorate's inspector department Langzhong An Shiji for accepting a bribe of He Liang, the county chief secretary of Ji'an County, Jiujiang County, with a bribe of 500 gold coins.

It stands to reason that this is just a small case that cannot be smaller, and if you encounter this matter, you can usually hand it over to Dali Temple and the Criminal Department of the Executive Yuan for handling. But because of the four particularities, this matter has been infinitely magnified. First, it is a seal of impeachment for an official of the procuratorate who supervises the country's hundred officials; Second, this is the first time since the Imperial Holy Ancestor Zhongxing that there has been a case of impeachment of an official of the Zhengsanpin Procuratorate; Third, the other main figure in this impeachment case is actually just a small master book of a small county town. Fourth, Jiujiang County is located under the rule of Yangzhou, and it can't fight Jingzhou at all. With such a long hand, he actually went to the boundary of Yangzhou?

It is precisely because of these particularities that this case, which was originally only a small one, was ceremoniously brought to the court for discussion.

Of course, the affairs of the Han Dynasty have never been so simple on the surface. At first glance, this is just the impeachment of the Zhengsanpin Procuratorate officials by the Zhengsipinzhou Mu, but those old fritters in the officialdom have discovered that in fact, the focus of this case should be He Liang, the chief bookkeeper of Ji'an County.

The chief bookkeeper of a county can easily bribe the courtiers of the third rank of the empire, where did he get so much money? And through what channels are bribes given? What is the purpose of bribery?

These three points are clearly written on the bullet seal of the Jingzhou Prefecture Mu Cui Festival: "...... A few years ago, the cabinet blued the "request for exemption from the tax discount of the two states of Qingdao and Xu for one year", because of the severe drought in the two states of Qingdao and Xuzhou, which occurs once in ten years, at the beginning of this year, the grain prices in Qinghai and Xu are high, and the people are difficult to sustain, and they are in hardship...... After the blue batch, Qing Xu asked Huaiyang to transfer rice and grain, and the turnover was ...... Imperial rice grain transshipment. It's all ...... by the bank Ran Ji'an is the main bookkeeper of He. In fact, in order to free up the bank, he bribed the company, and worked together to intercept and sell the disaster relief grain and rice from Huaiyang to Qingxu, seeking tens of thousands of profits. In the middle of the year, the procuratorate had a department in Huaiyang for assessment, and the inspector learned about the matter. On the night of October 5, the chief bookkeeper of Ji'an secretly visited the post house and asked to see the procuratorate's inspector Langzhong An Shiji, in order to make amends...... The Holy Ancestor once established a law, and the empire maintained a clean government with high salaries, and if he did this, anyone who coveted more than 100 gold coins would be beheaded......"

The bullet is lengthy, but anyone who has seen it will only pay attention to the above.

This case is not difficult to handle. According to the law, bribery is the same as that of a bribe-taker. Just wait for the Criminal Department to verify it clearly, report it to Dali Temple, hand it over to the cabinet for blue approval, and then submit it to His Majesty Zhu Gai, and finally behead the two. But the question is, is it really that simple? If it's so simple, why bother arguing in court?

Chinese people have the principle of "citation", since this kind of thing has happened. Of course, we have to come up with a solution that can prevent this from happening. All right. The problem is more complicated. How can we put an end to it?

At that time, some officials in the court proposed that the bank should be reorganized. Or the bank will be subsumed into the household department for the purpose of jurisdiction and supervision. Just this sentence immediately aroused fierce opposition from the courtiers of the Hou Party.

In fact, from the moment this bullet was brought to the court to argue, the Hou Party realized that this was a pit dug by the Imperial Party, and waited for them to jump down! It's just that the Hou Party didn't expect that the Imperial Party began to arrange it as early as last year. The impressive cabinet senators still remember that this "Petition for Exemption of the Taxation of the Two Prefectures of Qingdao and Xu for One Year" was handed in at the time of the assassination of the Marquis of Bohai last year, and at that time, many courtiers were arguing over Yin Shangguan Hong's "Petition for a Thorough Investigation of the Assassination of the Marquis of Bohai and the Impeachment of Yulin's Secret Guard for Exceeding His Power and Breaking the Prison", and they all ignored this small recital. But I didn't expect that this was the first chess piece laid by the imperial party, and it just came out at this time.

Of course, if it's just these, it's not terrible, the only thing that's terrible is that the bullet of the Jingzhou Prefecture Mu Cui Festival can be brought to the court to discuss it in a grand manner.

You must know that the administrative system of the Han Empire is very strict and standardized, and the general folds in other provinces are collected by the official post bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Construction, and then put into the sorting department of the Executive Yuan for unified sorting - of course, this process cannot be opened, there is a fire paint seal to inspect - and then according to the inscription on the cover of the fold, judge whether the fold is transferred to the Executive Yuan or the procuratorate. Then the Senators of each House of Ministers will look through it, and if there is a direct submission to the Cabinet, it must be submitted directly to the Cabinet Senate and wait for the Cabinet Secretary to review the proposed reply.

Because the Privy Council is involved in the military, there is another set of transmission paths, which are generally collected through the Privy Council's military departments of each legion, and then directly submitted to the Senate and staff of the Privy Council, and then submitted to the Cabinet.

Of course, in order to really put the sensitive twists and turns of the bullet in front of the big man who can manage things, the empire has also set up another set of transmission system, mainly based on the secret guard stepping on the white - this is also one of the reasons why the dark guard is widely known - every state and county, and even every county has a public point set up by the secret guard. Because impeachment only happens between officials, the common people will not know where the point is. But most of the officials above the sixth grade know about it. After the secret guard collects the bullet stamp, it will be sent to the imperial capital through the military post and finally submitted to the cabinet.

The above three channels of transmission must finally go through the cabinet - not including the secret guard's own performance - especially this kind of music that can be won at the court meeting, and it must be passed through the cabinet ministers. In other words, the impeachment of the Shosanpinro was approved by the Cabinet Minister. Further, at least one of the cabinet ministers is firmly on the side of the imperial party.

But the question arises again, who is the imperial party among the three auxiliary ministers of the cabinet? Who is the post-party?

For the sake of balance, the three Cabinet Ministers all have the power to perform independently, and their respective Ministers can issue their own Bills without the consent of the other two Ministers. Only matters that are not decided will be brought up for discussion or submitted to the emperor for adjudication. In this way, the three auxiliary ministers may be either the imperial party or the post-party.

But at the court meeting on this day, I don't know whether it was intentional or intentional, the three ministers of the cabinet did not appear, and only Dongfang Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, presided over it. And the bullet was taken out by Lang Zhong Chen Si of the Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Rites.

Everyone knows that the Ministry of Rites is actually a neutral faction in the DPRK for thousands of years. Especially this Chen Si, who is the propaganda secretary, is responsible for the publication of the Imperial Mansion Newspaper. The troubles of some imperial officials are often exposed. Both the imperial party and the post-party have been exposed, and he is a very disgusting person. Some officials who had been exposed by him even scolded him and called him a "court-stirring stick", but he was still complacent after hearing this, and even publicized it in the newspaper, which was simply unreasonable.

In the face of the impeachment proposed by such a person, no one can calmly and simply think that it was the imperial party or the queen party that launched an attack on the other party.

On the face of it. Obviously, this is a matter of interest to the Imperial Party, which can be used to complete the justifiable takeover of the Imperial Bank and take advantage of the general situation. However, many imperial party officials communicated with each other afterwards, but found that they did not know about it in advance. Then the party instinctively began to oppose it. In order to oppose it, many officials even suggested that "Jingzhou Mu framed his colleagues." The following are guilty of the crime, and the Criminal Department is asked to convict Cui Jie.

In this way, the implication is widespread, and for a time it was said that Jingzhou Mu had a problem and needed to be escorted back to the imperial capital for questioning. There are those who say that the matter still needs to be investigated, and that all the parties involved need to be deported to Beijing. There are also people who believe that the procuratorate is no longer able to fulfill its responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, and it is difficult to shirk the blame for admonishing the doctors. There are even some officials who are not afraid of making a big fuss and shouting for the trial of the three divisions - this kind of person is brain-dead. Just ignore it.

When the ministers will not appoint. Or Dongfang Di simply stood up and proposed to convene a "court meeting"! This is the solution to today's chaotic court.

The ministers of the scattered dynasty returned to their respective offices and began to prepare, connecting with each other and echoing their support. He even began to prepare for the "court meeting" and other matters. Both the imperial party and the post-party began to roll under this bullet stamp.

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"Court Council", as the name suggests, courtier meeting. The main thing is to deal with political affairs that are "of great interest." This is a way of making decisions made by the Holy Ancestor Emperor. Generally speaking, the main contents involved in the court discussion are mainly the emperor's name, sacrifices, official system, personnel and military affairs.

Of course, the most important thing is that once the ministers decide to convene a "court council", the emperor must be present. And all "important matters that cannot be commissioned" are judged by the emperor. The result of the "court discussion" is also considered to be higher than the decision approved by the cabinet. After the court decision is made, it is a matter of "referendum" by the ministers, and to oppose or violate it is to oppose the entire bureaucracy, and it will be branded with major crimes such as "monopoly", "contempt", "bullying the king", etc., and no one in the empire has dared to do this since the Holy Ancestor.

Another point is that the "court meeting" is not a court meeting, and the court meeting is generally performed by the officials in charge of each ministry on the day, or waiting for the notice in advance to come to the court meeting, etc. As long as you have a seven-rank official body and are in the imperial capital, you can come to participate, and you only need to prepare a case in the household department before the court meeting.

In the rules set by the Holy Ancestor, it is even stipulated that anyone who has the title of baron or above can participate. Of course, barons who are generally not so shameless will squeeze in to play. And there are actually many officials with official status who are reluctant to come, after all, if the matter of the court is said to be good, everyone will be happy, and if it is not good, it will be targeted by some bigwigs, and the future will be sad.

To a certain extent, this regulation reflects a certain degree of democracy, although it is only democracy within the bureaucracy, but in the feudal centralized Han Empire, such a thing was already unthinkable. It is said that when the Holy Ancestor first created this system, many officials opposed it, believing that there was no need to do such a well-known affair in the court, and there was even a dilemma that only a few courtiers participated in the previous court meeting. Later, with the expansion of the territory of the Holy Ancestor Emperor, Western culture began to be introduced to a certain extent, and the Roman senatorial system was also known to the majority of imperial officials, and it was slowly accepted.

Up to now, the "court council" system has been the preferred decision-making system in many times in the Han Empire, and officials have also actively prepared for court meetings and participated in court meetings, hoping to make a splash in court meetings and win political capital. Today's first assistant Yu Wenhu, who was just a small county of Surabaya County, entered Beijing to report on his work that year, just in time for the first emperor to hold a "court meeting" because the crown prince Liu Ju was involved in the murder case of Bohai Marquis Shen Mu. At the court meeting, Yuwen Hu's witty words were like pearls and amazing, refuting the first assistant Guan Xin of that session, and making great contributions to the later prince to get rid of the crime. After the succession to the throne, Yuwen Hu was immediately transferred to the imperial capital, starting from the household department, and became the first assistant of the cabinet in just ten years.

Since then, many officials have been fascinated by the court and want to take the opportunity to soar. But now it has been pressed by the Queen Mother before, and it has only begun to grasp power in recent years, but because of the constraints of the Imperial Bank, many things have no confidence to make decisions, and there are few court meetings, and there are some painless things to hold, and there is no chance to soar to the sky.

But this time it was different, and everyone saw that it was an opportunity. However, the choice is a bit difficult, after all, the relationship behind this is very complicated, and the water is too deep. Of course, the case of Bohai Hou Shen Mu was not shallow, didn't Yuwen Hu also come over? Wealth and danger are sought!

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Just when the imperial capital was in turmoil and turmoil, Shen Yun and Fang Cheng packed their bags and left the imperial capital, all the way south, straight in the direction of Huainan County! (To be continued.) )