Emperor Zhengde was a little more diligent than before after his southern tour of Beijing, at least he was not late for work every morning, although he listened to Yang Tinghe's suggestion and rejected most of Wang Shouren's requests, but he opened up to Duan Fei and transferred him to Nanjing, where he was appointed as the right man of the Imperial Procuratorate.

Duan Fei's promotion seemed to be logical in the eyes of the officials in Nanchang, but in fact this appointment was passed after a fierce court storm, and the result of the storm was that the cabinet scholars Liang Chu and Mao Ji were involved in the case of King Ning.

Liang Chu and Mao Ji are Yang Tinghe's people, and Yang Yiqing is Yang Tinghe's mortal enemy, the purpose of Zhengde to restrain Yang Tinghe is obvious, Fei Hong is also an old fritter, with a keen sense of political smell, good at seeing the wind and making the rudder, more brave and good at fighting than Yang Yiqing, on the day he entered the cabinet, he wrote a letter to expose Yang Tinghe and King Ning's close relationship, and accepted countless bribes from King Ning, please check and revoke.

Although Yang Tinghe felt that the general trend had gone, it was not easy for him to become the first assistant, and the ambition in his heart had not yet been realized, so how could he leave the court so gloomy? He fought back to defend himself, and the hundred officials were also divided into two factions to attack each other, and there was no spare time to manage the appointment of a mere fourth-grade official, seeing that Yang Tinghe no longer objected, Zhengde was a little regretful, and he knew that he would not back down, and he simply inserted Duan Fei into the criminal department to be a man, I don't know what kind of expression that kid would have when he went up to worship and see him......

Although the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate is not as powerful as the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is also very exercised, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is in charge of everything, admonishing the emperor, speaking left and right, impeaching, picketing hundreds of divisions, hundreds of officials, patrolling, and governing according to local officials. All the yamen at all levels, from the central to the local, from the emperor to the hundred officials, from the major state affairs to social life, are all within the scope of supervision and speech of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Although the emperors may not listen to them, they at least opened up the way of speech, which is also a great progress in history.

For Duan Fei, this is a big progress, he has only been appointed as the fifth rank according to the judge for less than two months, and he has to be promoted to the fourth rank of the right envoy, it can be seen that he is a saint, and Yingtian's Metropolitan Procuratorate is the directly subordinate supervision organ in charge of this group of officials in Jiangxi, so after the news spread, the officials at all levels who came to visit almost stepped on the threshold of Duan Fei's new house.

Duan Fei, who directly sent real money or jewelry, refused to accept it, and many officials touched their noses, and later learned that Master Duan's family was solid through side knocks, how could they fancy the little money they sent? Lord Duan likes all kinds of strange things, so everyone racked their brains to buy those rare things to give gifts, but unfortunately Lord Duan's eyes can't be deceived, those that are too valuable still don't accept them, but they are quite interested in the strange tricks and tricks from the West, but unfortunately they don't have time to go to the coast to collect.

When Duan Fei set off, not only did he come to see him off, but most of the civil and military officials in Nanchang City also came, as well as countless ordinary people, who held the umbrella of the people and rushed to see them off, and Lu Ruonan, a talented person, bought a new pair of boots and sent them over, replacing Duan Fei's old boots, saying that they were to be enshrined as heirlooms.

After Duan Fei came to Yingtian, he was very busy, meeting with the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, accepting the reference of the supervising imperial historians under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the group of officials he knew last time in Yingtianfu also rushed to congratulate him, but Yingtian Governor's Mansion, Tongzhi, and Tongju were all gone, only the official Ning Zhuqi came.

Duan Fei greeted him, and when he asked the prefect Ma Wentao and the others, Ning Zhuqi smiled bitterly and whispered, "Don't ask again, adults, they ...... It's no longer in Yingtian, the world is unpredictable......"

Seeing his expression, Duan Fei suddenly understood, Wang Shouren sent him a secret letter in Beijing, talking about related matters, there was gossip that Zhengde got a list of officials who colluded with King Ning, and slowly began a purge with deep planning, first using Qian Ning to destroy Jiang Bin, and then using the hands of civil officials to clean up Qian Ning, and then promoting the original dismissed officials, dividing the camp of the civilian family, and gradually removing the original group of people, the means are very old-fashioned.

During this period of time, the court changed people up and down, up and down, and those officials who had just come to power were also happy to do it, and they would kick out the people below with a small stubble and replace them with their own people, and they should be the land where King Ning rebelled, and they must have received a lot of benefits from King Ning, but I am afraid that it is not just as simple as losing office, so Ning Zhuqi will be so taboo.

There have also been a group of people in the Imperial Procuratorate, since Zhu Yuanzhang has been aggressively engaged in the expansion of the imperial examination, the Ming Dynasty has never lacked alternate officials, and Duan Fei's arrival is not so dazzling, but he was personally transferred to the Imperial Procuratorate by the emperor, and there are so many legendary stories behind him, everyone is a little in awe of him.

Duan Fei returned to his hometown and used his mansion again, this time no one dared to say half a word of, and it took two days to familiarize himself with official business, and Duan Fei worked hard again.

The work of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is very complicated, but the main work is not to participate in judicial activities, but: to supervise the political gains and losses of the imperial court, and to rectify the discipline; Participate in the deliberations of major political affairs; Hearing major cases in conjunction with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple; Officials who are not as good as ceremonies on occasions such as sacrifices, court meetings, and sutra feasts; The Ministry of Officials, together with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, examines the results of the major plans, the Jingcha, and the governors and governors of the provinces.

Although everyone is in awe of Duan Fei's background backstage, but in fact, they despise him in their hearts for not having a 'diploma', and they don't let him participate in other work.

Duan Fei was very interested in the case file, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not always eat rice, Duan Fei looked through dozens of old cases for several days, and did not find any obvious omissions, it seems that Yang Naiwu and Xiao Cabbage are not as many as imagined.

On this day, when Duan Fei was boring looking through the old case, Shi Bin walked in excitedly and said, "Brother Fei, have you heard?" On August 15, a flower party will be held on the Qinhuai River, and I heard that the famous Qinglou Chu Pavilion in the south of the Yangtze River is ready to send the most popular top brand to participate in the competition, and it must be very lively at that time, let's go and see it together. ”

"Well, there's nothing to do anyway." Duan Fei said without raising his head.

"I heard...... The young girl will also appear......" Shi Bin said shyly, and peeked at Su Rong, who was sitting on the side and sorting out the file for Duan Fei, Duan Fei suddenly heard the familiar name, and couldn't help but raise his head, stunned, and said in disappointment: "Is she going to fight for the name of that Oiran too?" ”

Shi Bin was about to answer him, but Su Rong said without raising her head: "Qingqing girl did not sign up for the competition, but the organizer specially invited her to be a judge, and finally performed in the finale, if she signed up for the competition, I am afraid that there will not be so many Qinglou willing to sign up for her own girl." ”

"Why?" Duan Fei regretted it before he could say anything, Su Rong really raised his head and said as if he was an idiot: "Stupid, everyone knows where else else will Miss Ruoqingqing have a chance to participate in the competition?" It's better to hide ugliness than to hide it. ”

"It's better to hide ugliness than to hide it?" Duan Fei smiled as he recalled, that's how he replied to Fluttershy, the young girl's personal maid.

"Alas, it looks like someone is going to have another flood soon." Su Rong held her chin with one hand and said innocently looking somewhere.

Duan Fei was about to save face, Guo Wei walked in quickly, and said: "Brother Fei, the Ministry of Officials has sent someone to report that tomorrow will be in the Criminal Department Public Hall together with Dali Temple and our Metropolitan Procuratorate for the final public trial of Zhou An's murder of brother, and the left and right imperial envoys have decided to appoint Brother Fei, and the case file has been sent to the door." ”

"Okay, tell them to bring in the case files." Duan Fei said.

The two miscellaneous servants brought in a stack of case files, and Duan Fei was speechless: "Is the case complicated?" Why are there so many case files? ”

No one could answer his question, Su Rong came over and flipped through it, and said: "This Zhou An has repeatedly retracted his confession, and he has been on the cross street twice, no wonder there are so many case files, this is an old case that has dragged on for three years, Zhou An was sentenced to hang for the first time, and then he was sentenced to beheading, this time...... I'm afraid I'm going to become Ling Chi, under normal circumstances, the murderer wouldn't be so stupid, right? ”

"Well, this case has a problem, and I won't look at other cases for the time being." Duan Fei took the earliest case file from Su Rong and read it carefully.