Today is the small court meeting, and the small court meeting is also held in the Ziwei Palace, and the participants are basically the chief officials and deputy positions of the provinces, ministries, temples, divisions, and other departments, and there are about two or three hundred people.

Fan Ning came a little late, not long after he arrived in the square, the bell of the court meeting rang, and the officials walked towards the main hall one after another, Li Weizhen squeezed in front of Fan Ning and said in a low voice: "The original manuscript of Ouyang Xiu's poem has been obtained, and Zhu Caimei's confession has also been obtained, and she proves that this poem was written by Ouyang Xiu to him." ”

"Does the surroundings match the meaning of the word?"

"It's completely in line, there is a west building in the inner courtyard of the East Gate Sect, and there is a pond below, and even the steward inside proves that Ouyang Xiu often lingered here in the past two years."

After a pause, Li Weizhen said again: "There is another key point, that Zhu Caimei's real name is Zhu Yannu, and Caimei is her prostitute name." ”

"Good!" Fanning gave a thumbs up and said, "Well investigated. ”

The two walked into the main hall and stood in the seat of the Imperial Court on the left, several Xiangguo had seats in the court, but their ordinary ministers did not, and Zhang Sheng of the right Imperial Court stood opposite them, Fan Ning saw this person yesterday, but neither of them greeted each other, and their attitude was very cold.

Zhang Sheng's rank and position are exactly the same as Fan Ning's, although he does not have a knighthood, but in the ranking of civil officials in the imperial court, the title is not important, but because Zhang Sheng's qualifications are much deeper than Fan Ning's, it is generally considered that Zhang Gao Fan is low.

However, this situation is also temporary, generally after ten years of official experience, no one will underestimate Fanning's qualifications, just like the gap between twenty and ten years old is very large, but there is no gap between seventy and sixty years old.

Once Fan Ning has more than ten years of qualifications, with his qualifications of being the first in the children's department and the fourth in the Jinshi department, Zhang Sheng, who is not from a professional class, really can't be compared with him.

At this time, Fan Ning found that Zhang Sheng was holding a copy of the recital in his hand, and he asked Li Weizhen in a low voice, "Do you have any advice from the Right Court today?" ”

Generally, the left and right counsellors will sit down every two or three days to exchange the cases in each other's hands to prevent the two sides from handling cases repeatedly.

"There has been no communication in the past two days, so I should sit down with Jia Jisi this afternoon to talk."

Fan Ning saw the official behind Zhang Sheng, Jia Yin, who was also whispering something to Zhang Sheng, and his eyes looked over here from time to time.

Fan Ning had an intuition in his heart, he vaguely realized that the twists and turns in Zhang Sheng's hand were very likely to be related to Ouyang Xiu's case, and he started investigating Ouyang Xiu's case yesterday, would the other party have a rebound?

At this time, an official shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived!" ”

The hall suddenly fell silent, and I saw sixteen guards with knives opening the way in front, and eight palace maids holding palace fans in their hands, hugging Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven, entered the hall from the side.

Zhao Zhen walked to the dragon couch, and the hundred officials bowed down together, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Everyone, Aiqing is free of courtesy!"

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and sat down on the dragon couch, there will generally be a fixed topic for the daily court meeting, which will be sent to the participating officials the day before, but there are also unexpected issues, no matter which topic will not be decided on the spot, the role of the court meeting is to fully participate in the discussion.

The real place of decision-making is in the Zhizheng Hall, where the decision is made by the Prime Minister and implemented after being approved by the Son of Heaven.

Of course, there are also government affairs after the Xiangguo make a decision, and the Son of Heaven will take it out for the hundred officials to discuss, which is generally that the Son of Heaven is not very satisfied with the decision made by the Xiangguo.

Zhao Zhen asked Wen Yanbo: "Yesterday, the resettlement of displaced people, did the Zhizheng Hall have a decision?" ”

Wen Yanbo bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the Zhizheng Hall has decided to resettle 150,000 displaced people from Hebei West Road in the seven prefectures of Jianghuai, and the specific plan is being drawn up and submitted to Your Majesty within three days." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, and asked again: "The Zhizheng Hall has decided to settle the 150,000 displaced people from Hebei West Road in the seven prefectures of Jianghuai, do other court officials have different opinions?" ”

Now that the prefect has put forward a formal resolution, any further opposition is a challenge to the prime minister's power, and this kind of thing may happen when the struggle between the monarch and the prime minister is fierce, but at least not now, Zhao Zhen just asked casually, and did not really want to oppose the resolution of the prefect.

There was silence in the court, and there was no response from the minister, Zhao Zhen nodded, "Even if this bill is over, do you have any other bills?" ”

There is no fixed bill today, but the result of yesterday's bill is confirmed, and according to the usual practice, if there is no temporary bill, the court will be dispersed.

At this time, Fan Ning quickly glanced at Zhang Sheng, and sure enough, Zhang Sheng stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan to play!" ”

The right counselor came forward, which meant that another official was about to be impeached, and there was a slight commotion in the court, which was random and quiet.

Zhao Zhen asked, "What does Zhang Aiqing have to play?" ”

Zhang Sheng took a few steps forward and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, Ouyang Xiu's morals are corrupt, and he is not tolerated by law and ethics, which seriously damages the reputation of the court and damages the prestige of the Son of Heaven. ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall was in an uproar, and the Imperial Court finally attacked Ouyang Xiu.

At this time, Han Qi was dissatisfied: "Zhang Zhiyuan, isn't it too child's play to determine that the minister is morally corrupt just by virtue of one poem?" ”

Zhang Sheng said unhurriedly: "Qi Xianggong Han, we also asked Mrs. Ouyang about this matter, she thinks that Xue Yushi is stable and will not slander others at will. ”

Xue Zongru is the younger brother of Ouyang Xiu's wife Xue, of course she will not say that her own brother is falsely accusing her husband, but she also does not admit that her husband and daughter-in-law are having an affair.

It's just that Zhang Sheng cut out the second half of the sentence and only used the first half of the sentence.

What he meant was that even Mrs. Ouyang thought that Xue Zongru was not falsely accused, so it was a fact that Ouyang Xiu had an affair with his daughter-in-law.

This is a typical rendering technique, although there is no conclusive evidence, but as long as Mrs. Ouyang's attitude is strong, it will give people the feeling that Mrs. Ouyang admits that her husband and daughter-in-law are having an affair.

Han Qi couldn't find a suitable word for a while, he quickly glanced at Fan Ning, although Fan Ning was not ready, but at this time he had to play.

Just when Zhao Zhen was hesitant, Fan Ning stood up and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen also has this music!" ”

There was silence in the hall for a moment, it was very interesting, and the doctor also stood up, what would he say?

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew that the left and right courts had always been at odds, and they had always been singing against each other.

In the team of hundred officials, Jia Changchao's eyes narrowed, he didn't know much about Fan Ning, he really didn't expect Fan Ning to stand up at this time, which surprised him very much.

However, Zhang Yaozuo's face darkened, and as expected, Fan Ning stood up after Han Qi's questioning, this is the rhythm of fighting with Zhang Sheng in the ring.

Zhang Yaozuo was just about to open his mouth to object, Fan Ning's performance was not in accordance with the rules, and he should wait for Zhang Sheng to finish speaking, and he could not come out of the ranks.

At this moment, Zhao Zhen spoke, "Fan Zhiyuan, please speak!" ”

Fan Ning said loudly: "Weichen also wants to impeach Yu Shi Xue Zongru for slandering the minister Ouyang Xiu, which has caused an extremely bad impact on Ouyang Xiu and the imperial court, and the minister asks that he be sent to prison for punishment!" ”

Fanning's words also caused an uproar among the civil and military officials, and the two counselors actually had opposite opinions on the same matter, which was quite a tit-for-tat meaning, and this kind of thing had not appeared for many years.

Zhang Yaozuo was furious and said viciously: "Fan Zhiyuan, since you want to impeach Xue Zongru, why is there no written impeachment report, will the court be a place of open mouth?" ”

Zhang Yaozuo couldn't say anything about Fanning's content, so he made a fuss about Fanning's lack of written report and non-compliance.

Han Qi said: "Zhang Guozhang's words are inappropriate, the court meeting did not require the minister to take a written report, especially when the temporary performance, most of them were to submit the report afterwards. ”

slapped hard, Zhang Yaozuo was speechless for a moment, he snorted fiercely, and Tie Qing stopped talking.

Fan Ning continued: "Your Majesty, Wechen has already started to investigate the case of slandering Ouyang Xiu, this case is very simple, so simple that Wechen only took one day to find out the truth. ”

Zhang Sheng said angrily: "Doctor Fan, Mrs. Ouyang has already admitted that Xue Zongru is not slanderous, what else do you have to say?" ”

Fan Ning said coldly: "I want to remind Zhang Zhiyuan that the investigation of the Yuan is principled, and the testimony of the closest relatives cannot be used as the basis for handling the case, Xue Zongru is the younger brother of Mrs. Ouyang, can she say that her own brother is slandering Ouyang Xiu?" ”

"You-"

Zhang Sheng was suddenly resisted, others didn't know this principle of handling the case, but Fan Ning knew it very well.

Fan Ning ignored him and continued: "Your Majesty, ministers, Xue Zongru used a poem to slander Ouyang Xiu and his daughter-in-law for fornication, but I want to tell you that there is no two-story small building in Ouyang Xiu's mansion at all, there is no pond, and Ouyang Xiu does not have any other houses, and there are indeed small buildings and ponds in the house he rented five years ago, but Wu Chunyan only married into the Ouyang family three years ago, where is the scenery depicted in the words?" ”

A whisper suddenly sounded in the hall, Fan Ning's evidence hit the point, this is the biggest suspicion, since there is no house and pond in Ouyang Xiu's mansion, then the glamorous words that Xue Zongru accused are probably not talking about his daughter-in-law Wu Chunyan.

At this time, Jia Changchao gave Liu Qin, a straight bachelor, a look and asked him to come forward to refute Fan Ning's one-sided words.

At this time, Jia Changchao will never be like Zhang Yaozuo, he goes into battle shirtless, and he will always hide behind the scenes.