Chapter 21: Favoritism
If you have a calculating heart, then you must do it without leaving a handle, and now you are being confronted in court, what's the use of shouting injustice?! The emperor looked at Fu Zhong with disappointment in his eyes.
Looking at the aggressive Yan Heng in a blink of an eye, the emperor pinched his eyebrows tiredly, and after a while, he raised his head and asked Fu Zhong: "Except for shouting grievances, Fu Qing has nothing else to say?" ”
The forehead attached to the cold floor tiles was raised, and the curled eyes looked at the emperor, Fu Zhong said: "Weichen has!" ”
The emperor raised his hand and motioned for him.
Fu Zhong turned to look at Yan Heng and asked in a cold voice: "Yan Dudu insists that this matter is my mastermind, then I want to ask Yan Dudu, what do I want to do with all my troubles?" ”
"Do you just want to delay your return to Beijing? What's in it for me? ”
"Isn't this exactly what I want to ask Fu Shoufu?" Yan Heng looked back at him and said with doubts: "Fu Shoufu racked his brains to do this, what is he trying to do?" ”
"I'm straight, and I don't like to do things, you can have some fun if you want to do anything, so nine twists and eighteen turns, I really can't guess!"
Hearing this, Fu Zhong's slanted afterglow was full of coldness and ridicule, and he sneered: "Yan Dudu is too arrogant!" ”
Yan Heng smiled: "Not as good as Fu Shoufu." ”
The taste of mockery can be clearly perceived in the light tone.
Fu Zhong snorted coldly, retracted his gaze, and waved his hand: "Ask the emperor to call the shots for Weichen!" ”
Seeing this, the emperor's eyebrows moved slightly.
He moved, leaned forward, and pressed one elbow against the table, his posture a little more soothing than he had just been.
Puzzled: "What does Fu Shoufu want me to do?" ”
"Governor Yan colluded with Mazhi County, Daguan Town, and made a plan to frame Weichen." Fu Zhong's expression was solemn, and he said in a calm tone: "I ask the emperor to return justice and innocence to the ministers!" ”
"Oh?" The emperor's expression was a little meaningful, and his eyes were dark and cold.
"Weichen also feels suspicious about this matter." A voice sounded on the left, attracting everyone's sideways.
Yu Zhihang, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, came out of the ranks, waved his hands and said: "Weichen has the courage to say a few words, and I hope that the emperor will allow it." ”
The emperor looked at Yu Zhihang and said lightly: "If Yu Shilang has anything to say, just say it." ”
Xie Huai frowned.
What's going on with this emperor? Shouldn't Ma Sheng be carefully examined at this time?
How did you repeatedly give Fu Dang the opportunity to quibble?
He looked at Yan Heng with some concern.
How could Yan Heng not see the emperor's partiality?
It's just that his ironclad evidence is not as unshakable as a mountain.
Although Ma Sheng received a letterhead signed by Fu Zhong, who can prove that this letter is Fu Zhong's handwritten letter?
He knew Fu Zhong's handwriting, and the letter was not written by his own hand.
Besides, who can prove that this matter was really arranged by Fu Zhong?
Ma Shengke has never seen anyone from the Fu Party!
Between them, Fu Zhong only unilaterally assigned a task, and Ma Sheng never even replied to the letter.
Therefore, just relying on Ma Sheng's one-sided words and a few letters that could not find the real writer, it is not possible to convict this first-class shoufu.
Watching the emperor's speech, he is planning to be a peacemaker.
This result was expected by Yan Heng, after all, the emperor only valued power the most.
He will not tolerate anyone to shake the stability of his country!
It's just that he didn't expect that in this situation, the first person to speak for Fu Zhong was Yu Zhihang? Yan Heng looked at Fu Yanming, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.
Fu Yanming stood quietly among the civil officials, his expression was cold and cold, he pursed his lips tightly and did not mean to make a sound, as if he didn't care about Fu Zhong's life and death.
What is the estrangement between the father and son?
However, what kind of fragrance did this timid and profitable Yu Zhihang smell again? is so reckless as a pawn!
In the interval of thinking, I listened to Yu Zhihang and said: "This person's evidence and physical evidence are all brought back from Daguan Town by Yan Dudu, how can I ensure that it is true or false?" ”
"Fu Shoufu is in the palace now, it is better to proofread the handwriting, so the lie will be self-defeating!"
When Xie Huaiyan heard this, he was about to speak, when he heard the emperor say: "Go get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." ”
Huang Zhong hurriedly responded, turned around and went to prepare.
Soon, a eunuch walked in with a small table.
There are pen, ink, paper, and inkstones on the small table.
Seeing this, Fu Zhong stood up, pinched his pen and wrote a few big words on the paper.
Huang Zhong presented it to the emperor's imperial case.
The emperor corrected and corrected the folds all day long, how could he not know Fu Zhong's handwriting?
You don't need to compare to know the result.
He raised his hand.
Huang Zhong bowed his head and came to Yan Heng with a letterhead and Fu Zhong's words.
Yan Heng glanced at it and said, "Looking at this handwriting, Fu Shoufu is really wronged." ”
"However, Ma Zhixian's words are convincing, but the last general is also convinced."
"Now that the last general has no rules, why don't you ask the third division to start and investigate in detail?"
When the emperor heard this, he slapped the table and said angrily: "Your personal grievances are still full of turmoil in the city, do you know about it?" ”
As he spoke, he seemed to be furious, and suddenly stood up and stepped down from the dragon chair and came to the hall.
walked two or three times in front of Fu Zhong and Yan Heng, sneered and raised his hand to point at them: "What a great minister of literature, and a good general of martial arts." ”
"For the sake of the miasma of the government and the opposition for a little personal grudge, where do you put me? Where to put the great yong! ”
In front of hundreds of civil and military officials, these words are not serious.
Fu Zhong's head was lowered, and he looked very ashamed.
Yan Heng lowered his eyes and looked at the dragon boots in his sight.
The emperor blocked the rest of his words with this attitude.
If he mentions it again, it means that there is no emperor in his eyes.
The breath in Yan Heng's chest slowly dissipated, and then a chill appeared.
Seeing that both of them looked like they were wrong, the emperor's face finally looked better, and said, "Fu Zhong and Yan Heng, each of them will be grounded for one month and fined for three years." ”
"Ma Sheng intends to frame Shangguan, immediately remove from his official position, and demote Lingnan for three years!"
Xie Huai and Yan Heng walked down the long steps outside the Qinzheng Hall side by side, he turned his head to look at Yan Heng, and said worriedly: "Are you okay?" ”
Yan Heng shook his head and said, "I'll send someone to send some silver to your camp later, and you can add it to the pension for the families of those fourteen." ”
Xie Huai knew that if he didn't let him do something, he would definitely not let go.
Then he said: "You are a marquis, you can't be too stingy with your shot." ”
Yan Heng pulled the corners of his lips without a smile when he heard this.
Xie Huai saw him like this, and sighed softly: "The three divisions are afraid, it is not difficult to find out the ins and outs, but the emperor insisted on giving such a result in the palace." ”
"It's clear that it's biased in favor of black ink."
Saying that he remembered something, he said in a deep voice: "It's also your fault!" ”
"What's wrong with me?" Yan Heng was puzzled.
"How can you say the matter of Raozhou so directly in the palace?" Xie Huai bumped his shoulder, and said in a helpless voice: "Even if you want to say it, it's safer in private." ”
Yan Heng said: "If this is not the case, how can the emperor make fun of all the people? ”
Xie Huai understood his intentions at this time, and he didn't know whether to be angry or happy for a while.
"You've done a good thing!"
"But have you ever thought that if you force the emperor to make a decision so much, can he feel comfortable? Isn't it biased towards black ink when things happen! ”
Speaking of black ink, Xie Huai had something to say again: "Also, you are too calm!" ”
"If the matter of black ink is secretly investigated, and when the conclusive evidence is in hand, even if the king of heaven is here, it will not be saved!"
"You're good, so you'll be exposed!"
"You think I didn't check?" Yan Heng looked at him and said, "It's really tripped up by the mountain bandits when you return to Beijing so late?" ”
Xie Huai was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "Didn't find it?" ”
Yan Heng shook his head obscurely.
Xie Huai was bored for a while, and sighed: "Also, if you are caught so easily, black ink will not be black ink." ”
Here, the emperor angrily turned the letterhead on the imperial case into a ball and smashed it Fu Zhong's face.
Slap the table and shouted in a deep voice: "There will be a next time, I will be punished for two crimes and punish you!" ”
The route of Yan Heng's march was planned by him and Fu Zhong together, except for the autumn equinox when he went out of Beijing with the holy decree, there was no third person in this hall who knew!
Since hearing Yan Heng say that Ma Sheng was waiting in advance, the emperor knew that the matter of Daguan Town was definitely from Fu Zhong's hands!
He can tolerate them playing tricks in the ring, but he will never tolerate them playing with him like a fool!
Not to mention being used!
For so many years, Fu Zhong has never seen the emperor look like this.
Dengshi was so frightened that he was drenched in a cold sweat, and he said yes again and again.