Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Case of the Spring Devil II (Part 2)
Although Shen Ning said that she didn't care about the source of the rumors, she still sent the grasshopper to keep an eye on the Jiang family, and at the same time asked the grasshopper in the palace to pay close attention to what was going on in the Chunxi Palace—she was sure that since Shangguan Changzhi had set up this bureau, there would be a backhand! It's just that I don't know where this game is going to end?
In the previous life, these things did not happen, and it was impossible to give early warnings and react accurately. (Eight ^ zero ^ book ^ house There are a lot of romances, mushroom coolers, hurry up! Therefore, Shen Ning's mood was extremely solemn, and now he could only analyze it according to the news from the grasshopper and Ruliu, and Qiu Ge and the others, intending to deduce the context and direction of the matter.
The momentum of the rumors has not weakened at all, and the people of Jingzhao have completely believed that Jiang Xuan revealed these spring test questions to Xu and Tang, and also accepted heavy bribes from the two, so these two people will definitely be famous on the spring list!
The rumors were like a flood and a fire, sweeping the public opinion of the entire Jingzhao, and the Second Prince's Mansion couldn't think of an effective way to deal with the rumors at all. This situation is very similar to the rumors of the assassination of Cining Palace at the beginning, but Shangguan Chengyou feels that this crisis is much more serious than the last time. More importantly, it involves the bureaucratic pattern of Daeyong's future, can it be so easily quelled?
It is said that Wei Jindu and Jiang left the Tribute Courtyard, and immediately the officials of the Ministry of Rites reported to them what happened outside the Tribute Courtyard! As soon as they heard the news, the faces of the two of them turned dark, and they both thought in their hearts: This is a big matter!
When it comes to spring, every minute is a matter of people's heads falling to the ground! What's more, this rumor has been burning the prairie fiercely, and they have lost the best opportunity to deal with it. So what should I do?
Wei Jindu was so anxious that his mouth was bubbling up, and he asked Jiang Xuan many times if there was anything wrong, and Jiang Xuan swore by the sky and denied it.
"What kind of humble person is it, Lord Shangshu, you also know! It is impossible to do such a thing! It must have been framed by someone else! I don't know anything about Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai at all! ”
"Prepare to defend yourself. If you continue to follow this posture, I am afraid that some court officials will impeach you. It's better to prepare early. It's hard to say. Wei Jindu frowned, his tone helpless.
Something happened to Jiang Xuan. Although it may not necessarily affect him as the main exam, the Ministry of Rites will definitely be greatly affected. Besides. I don't know how to end the matter of Chunqiu. Originally, he planned to wait for the emperor to set the top ten rankings, and then he could fill in the list and announce it, and this spring festival could be spent safely, but now everything is messed up, and Wei Jindu is worried.
He still had a little worry about not speaking out, this time the rumors. Will it evolve into a case of injustice, just like the sixteenth year of Changtai? If this is the case, then how will the actions of the world be affected? Wei Jindu didn't dare to think about it anymore.
Just when Jiang Xuan and the Second Prince's Mansion were anxious, with the different reactions of the court officials to the rumors. and the actions made in response to these reactions made the imperial court also turbulent, and also made the rumors of the spring festival even more out of control, and the trend of things was completely beyond the scope of everyone's expectations.
On the third day of the first month of March, Jingzhao Baiguan was in the early dynasty. Of course, Wei Jindu and Jiang Xuan and others are all in the court. The official Lang Zhonghua Yingzhuo wrote to impeach Jiang Xuan, the deputy chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites, and impeached him for privately leaking the Spring Quiz test questions to Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai, the sons of Jiangnan, and impeached him for accepting heavy bribes from Xu and Tang, and poked out the rumors directly in the court!
Hua Yingzhuo's impeachment is an indication of an attitude. That is, he thinks that the leak of Jiang Xuan's secrets spread in Jingzhao before is true! Not only that, Hua Yingzhuo's impeachment was written, and the spearhead was directly aimed at the second prince, thinking that "Jiang Xuanlang is afraid that he will not have the courage to do so, or at the behest of others, he will make trouble in the spring in order to reap the benefits of fishing......"
As a result, the so-called Spring Leak topic, which was originally just a "rumor" and just a "rumor", was transferred from the folk discussion to the court book! This aroused the suspicion and attack of the officials of the imperial court, involved the forces of various factions in the imperial court, fought and wrestled with each other, and in the end, it caused a Chunfu fraud case that shocked the government and the opposition!
Jiang Xuan is a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, who can instruct him? The biggest possibility is the second prince! Disrupting the Spring Festival, advancing the city's favor, and obtaining heavy money, are these benefits really the Second Prince's Mansion to go? This is what the officials who support Hua Yingzhuo have in mind.
But there is no need for the second prince to do this, he is a famous family, and his mother and wife are all powerful, why take such a risk?! Spring is about the world, about the future of the great eternity, if the second prince really does this, it is too rash and incredible, how is it possible? It doesn't look like things are going to be that simple. This is the idea of some calm officials.
Hua Yingzhuo's impeachment was like a big stone, stirring up a splash in the court. For a while, the court officials were silent, and many officials looked solemn, they all remembered the unjust case of Changtai's sixteenth year, is this another unjust case? Your Majesty, do you want to use bloody purges to quell this rumor?
They all lowered their heads, not daring to look at the emperor sitting in the Xuanzheng Palace.
Hearing Hua Yingzhuo's impeachment, Emperor Changtai was furious and ordered Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai to be imprisoned!
Emperor Changtai hated cheating and officials privately in his life, and he was ruthless in dealing with it, and it could even be said to be cruel! So in the sixteenth year of Changtai, in his anger, he used thunderous means to deal with the matter of Chunqiu. Although the Chunqiu incident that year was called an unjust case by officials, Emperor Changtai thought that they were not wronged at all! If you dare to use Chunfu as a trick, you will have to bear the serious consequences of being exposed!
It's only been about 20 years now, and something happened to Chunqiu again, and these people are not afraid of death? Wasn't that shock enough? It seems that the people of the world seem to have forgotten what it means for the Son of Heaven to be angry! - This is the most angry thing for Emperor Changtai!
Not long after, Jiang Xuan went on a self-defense excerpt, saying that he didn't know Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai, so he didn't know what Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai's height and appearance were; He also elaborated on the strict procedures for marking the papers; show that there is no possibility for you to leak the question, and there is no reason to leak the question; Regarding the matter of pointing to the second prince's instructions, he thought it was an offensive remark, and thought that it was someone who took a fancy to the relationship between the second prince and him that deliberately set up this bureau!
In the end, the excerpt said: "This kind of sinister intention to slander the emperor's descendants to divide the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Family can be punished!" The rumors were turned in a different direction and pointed to the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Family, which made Emperor Changtai silent!
Emperor Changtai looked at Jiang Xuan's self-defense excerpt. There was no saying who was right and who was wrong, and there was no clear decree, and everyone felt that the atmosphere of officialdom was oppressive and dull.
Soon. Wei Jindu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Qi Jin Cheng of the Ministry of Rites, Langzhong, Jin Cheng and others: After joint deliberation by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, it was agreed in order to calm down the rumors. In order to find out the truth, it was decided to review the files that Jiang Xuan had read, and asked Emperor Changtai for permission!
Such a request, Emperor Changtai naturally allowed it, and ordered Wei Jindu and Gong Ruxi to meet more than ten examiners in the Five Classics and the Four Books to review the papers read by Jiang Xuan, and then record the situation!
Wei Jindu and others reviewed the papers Jiang Xuan read one by one. There are indeed volumes of Xu and Tang, and if you carefully check the four books and five classics that the two answered, they are not badly written! Especially Tang Anhuai, there is a degree of citation. Cut to a simple point, it can be regarded as excellent.
It is normal for these two people to be in the top two hundred, and there is no cheating at all. Therefore, the Ministry of Rites ruled that "it is merit to read the files before and after and to take them and check the two people's files without trial", and reported the results to Emperor Changtai.
Meantime. Xu Shijin pleaded in the prison of Dali Temple, since Chen came to Jingzhao, although he lived in the same inn with Tang Anhuai, he did not have much contact, and it was impossible for him to bribe Jiang Xuan together! Xu Shijin said that he didn't know Jiang Xuan at all, but he knew Hua Yingzhuo. also had a disagreement with him, and the confession directly called Hua Yingzhuo "selfish accusations", thinking that Hua Yingzhuo created this so-called rumor of leaking the topic in order to take revenge on him.
As soon as Xu Shijin's pleadings came out, the officials were confused, how could they bring out the gap between Hua Yingzhuo and Xu Shijin? Many officials remember that Hua Yingzhuo is also from Jiangyin and is also from Jiangnan, is what Xu Shijin said true? If it is true, then Hua Yingzhuo's previous impeachment is very problematic!
A minister dares to refer to the prince with the intention of separating the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Family, it can't be instructed by other princes, right?! In this way, this spring leak problem is actually the result of the struggle between the princes? The faces of the officials changed in shock, and they didn't dare to think about it any deeper, so they waited for Emperor Changtai's ruling.
So Hua Yingzhuo went to prison, and Xu and Tang were still in prison and had not yet been released. Originally, the officials thought that the matter should come to an end here, but they didn't expect that Hua Yingzhuo was only in prison for the second day, and it turned over again.
The next day, this year's Chunqiu and the examiner Hubu Langzhong Zhang Duan wrote a letter to impeach Jiang Xuan, pointing out that Jiang Xuan must have committed fraud when he was appointed as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites! Because he found that the six people who were suspicious in the two spring festivals were all indirectly or directly related to Jiang Xuan, including Jiang Xuan's nephew, Bo Weitong, the current head of the Second Prince's Mansion. Therefore, he asked Emperor Changtai to release Hua Yingzhuo and arrest Jiang Xuan to set the record straight!
Zhang Duan's book made things turn back to square one, or did Jiang Xuan leak the question and cheat, go around and around, and once again encircle Jiang Xuan and the Second Prince's Mansion.
Because of Zhang Duan's impeachment, Jiang Xuan had to defend himself again. In just a few days, Jiang Xuan was impeached twice, and for a while, the minds of all officials seemed to be stirred, and things seemed to be even more confusing. There are officials who support Jiang Xuan, and there are officials who think that Hua Yingzhuo is right, and they insist on their own words, and there is an uproar in the court.
Shen Zejing watched the officials of the two sides arguing with red faces, and sighed in his heart. Sure enough, this matter is like a snowball, and the more troublesome it gets.
He looked at Ye Zhengchun and Jiang Chenghai's expressions again, and it was not much better, Hua Yingzhuo and Zhang Duan were from the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households, now it was okay, it was originally just a matter of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Historical Tower, but now the people of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households and the Dali Temple have a share! Fortunately, the people in the Ministry of Industry were not involved, otherwise Shen Huashan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry who was in front of the stage, would not know what to do.
After retiring from the dynasty, Ye Zhengchun called Shen Zejing to go over, and what he discussed was the matter of Hua and Jiang, and Shen Jinghua was present. Because of Shen Yuhong's marriage, the relationship between Shen Jinghua and Shen Zejing is very good, Ye Zhengchun wants to hear his opinion on Hua Yingzhuo - he and Hua Yingzhuo are both officials and serve in the same place, and their understanding of Hua should be clearer than Ye Zhengchun and Shen Zejing.
Shen Jinghua and Hua Yingzhuo have been together for a short time, Hua Yingzhuo served in Jiannan Province before, and after he was transferred to the ministry, Shen Jinghua had little contact with him and couldn't say anything. Shen Jinghua only felt that this person was smiling on weekdays and was a good person to get along with, but he didn't know that he still had such guts. - Shen Zejing also agrees with this.
"Not long after Hua Yingzhuo came to the ministry, he made such a fuss, and it is estimated that Wen Qizhang hates him to death! Just took office, and he was covered with such a! Ye Zhengchun's tone was not gloating, but he just said straightforwardly, it is estimated that Wen Qizhang is jumping in a hurry, originally the Spring Ceremony Department of the Spring Festival was about him!
"There must be some big man behind Hua Yingzhuo who is supporting, otherwise he doesn't have that guts! If someone in the family participates in this spring festival, there is no need to worry, this time will definitely not be the same as the sixteenth year. Didn't you see that Wei Jingyao and Shen Ke both looked old?! Ye Zhengchun knew what Shen Zejing was worried about, so he comforted him like this.
Baidu search or,,Faster update Wei Jingyao and Shen Ke are the old foxes among the old foxes who have revealed the wind to observe the emperor's thoughts, and no one is more accurate than these two people! If there is really a big event, their expressions are calm now, it seems that the emperor intends to understand this matter to the minimum, how can there be another unjust case? So he told Shen Zejing not to worry too much, it was most correct to be silent during this time!