Liu Qin coughed, bowed to Zhao Zhen, the Son of Heaven, and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen has a few questions, can you ask Doctor Fan?" ”

Zhao Zhen's face was expressionless and nodded, "Quasi-play!" ”

Liu Qin immediately turned around and asked Fan Ning: "Xue Zongru accused Ouyang Xiu of having an affair with his daughter-in-law, but he was not sure that it was in his own mansion, if it was elsewhere, the meaning of the word may not be inconsistent, how can I explain this?" ”

Fan Ning said coldly: "The premise of Bachelor Liu's saying this sentence is to determine that Ouyang Xiu and his daughter-in-law are having an affair, so what evidence does Bachelor Liu have to make this conclusion first?" Why did Xue Zongru say that he was somewhere else, and what evidence did he have? Do you want to bring Xue Zongru here, and I'll question him? ”

Xue Zongru is a seventh-grade official and is not qualified to participate in the small court meeting, Fan Ning directly pointed the finger at Xue Zongru, so do you want to find him?

Liu Qin quickly glanced at Jia Changchao, and saw that he shook his head at himself, this matter can't find Xue Zongru, Liu Qin laughed dryly and said: "Everyone has their own position, everyone thinks that Ouyang Xiu and his daughter-in-law are having an affair, I naturally start from this premise, but Doctor Fan denied it, I wonder if Doctor Fan has found any direct evidence?" Prove that the song has nothing to do with Wu Chunyan? ”

Liu Qin's words are a bit disgraceful, since he supports Xue Zongru's accusation, it should be him to prove that this poem is related to Wu Chunyan, but now he wants Fan Ning to prove that this poem has nothing to do with Wu Chunyan.

It's like a sheep, you have to say it's a pig, but you can't prove that it's a pig, but you have to ask someone else to prove that it's not a pig, to put it bluntly, it's vexatious.

In fact, everyone understands that there are no small buildings and ponds in Ouyang Xiu's mansion, this is the biggest evidence, Ouyang Xiu is rumored and slandered nine times out of ten.

No one noticed that the face of Zhao Zhen, the Son of Heaven, had gradually turned blue.

Fan Ning straightened his waist and sneered: "I'm afraid I'm disappointed Bachelor Liu, I really found the original manuscript of this song, and also found the woman corresponding to this song." ”

Fan Ning's words caused an uproar in the hall, Zhang Yaozuo was a little anxious, and asked loudly: "Doctor Fan, may I ask who this person is?" ”

Fan Ning ignored him, bowed down to Zhao Zhen and said, "Your Majesty, the minister must protect the witnesses, and Weichen will submit a complete report to His Majesty this morning." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, "Then I am waiting for your report, if Xue Zongru is indeed falsely accused, I will be severely punished!" ”

After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Zhang Sheng, got up and said, "Scatter the dynasty!" ”

Zhang Sheng was stunned, his impeachment was only halfway through, and the Son of Heaven announced the dissolution of the dynasty, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

………

Liu Qin quickly caught up with Jia Changchao, followed behind Jia Changchao, and asked in a low voice, "Jia Gong, what should we do?" ”

"What to do?" Jia Changchao gave him a cold look.

"I'm afraid that this time Xue Zongru will be more auspicious!"

"What does it have to do with me that he is so lucky?"

Jia Changchao glared at Liu Qin dissatisfied, turned around and walked away.

Liu Qin looked at Jia Changchao's back as he walked away, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Jia Xianggong didn't admit it, what should I do?

He is not worried about Xue Zongru, but worried about himself, he jumped out of the court meeting in the morning, obviously Xue Zongru is a fellow party, once Xue Zongru is asked, can he escape the relationship?

Liu Qin was anxious, but helpless......

When Zhang Yaozuo returned to the official room, he smashed a cup, a group of useless bastards!

He gritted his teeth with hatred, hating Jia Changchao for delaying time and delaying the best opportunity, and hating Zhang Sheng for being in a hurry to prepare and being overturned by someone's one-day investigation, could it be that Zhang Sheng really opened his mouth and never investigated at all?

At this time, Zhang Sheng hurriedly came to his official room, and as soon as he entered the room, Zhang Yaozuo roared angrily: "How do you explain it to me?"

Zhang Sheng was sweating profusely, and hurriedly said: "This matter really can't be blamed for being humble, I didn't expect him to find evidence in one day, and I also hoped to impeach Ouyang Xiu as soon as possible, but ......"

"Is it my responsibility?"

"Don't dare to be humble, Jia Changchao is indeed responsible for this matter, he shouldn't delay it for too long."

Zhang Sheng put the responsibility on Jia Changchao, Zhang Yaozuo glared at him fiercely, and said: "You have to do two things now, first, you have to confirm whether Fan Ning has found conclusive evidence, and second, once you find out that Fan Ning has found conclusive evidence, this matter has nothing to do with us, understand?" ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Zhang Sheng bowed and left in a hurry.

Zhang Yaozuo's mood became very bad, he sat on the chair and stared out the window, muttering to himself: "Could it be that this little kid has become so powerful?" ”

........

Yesterday Fanning had finished the draft of the report, and it took him another half an hour to write a new report, put the evidence he had found in a paper bag, and left the court and hurried to the palace.

He waited for a moment outside the imperial study of Ziwei Palace, and a eunuch ran over and said, "Fan Zhiyuan, Your Majesty has summoned you to meet you." ”

Fan Ning walked quickly into the imperial study, and a eunuch helped him hold the paperwork and followed him.

In the imperial study, Zhao Zhen was sitting in front of the imperial case drinking tea, and Fan Ning bowed down to salute, "Weichen see Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and said approvingly: "Today, Aiqing performed well in the court meeting, he is a qualified counselor, he is not afraid of offending people, he dares to express his different opinions clearly, and he is reasonable and responsible, I am deeply satisfied!" ”

"Wechen just wants to do things well, and doesn't pay too much attention to other people's feelings."

"This is the key, I have long said that I can't be a good official if I am afraid of offending people, okay! Let me see your report. ”

Fan Ning handed over the report, and the eunuch also handed over the paper bag full of documents, Zhao Zhen looked at the paper bag and asked, "What's inside?" ”

"It's all kinds of evidence collected by Wei Chen, including the seven slanders and rumors that Xue Zongru has slandered and spread rumors against Ouyang Xiu in the past five years, and this is the eighth."

Zhao Zhen's face became very ugly, he saw a sketch from the paperwork, and asked, "What does this picture mean?" ”

"Your Majesty, this picture is a sketch of the South Courtyard of the East Gate Sect, which is completely in line with the surrounding environment of Ouyang Xiu's poem, Ouyang Xiu explained it himself, and that poem was inspired here."

"What about the swallow in the word?" Zhao Zhen asked again, Yanzi is the key to this case, and Wu Chunyan is suspected because of his nickname Yanzi.

"The swallow in the words is the official prostitute Zhu Caimei, her real name is Zhu Yan, Ouyang Xiu likes her very much, that poem is what he wrote to Zhu Caimei, and he got the confession and the original manuscript of this poem from Zhu Caimei!"

"Bastard!"

Zhao Zhen was so angry that he slapped the table heavily, and ordered left and right: "Quickly go and summon Xianggong Wen, Xianggong Fu and Xianggong Han to see me!" ”

The eunuch quickly went to summon the three prime ministers, Zhao Zhen's mood became very bad, standing in front of the window with his hands in his hands and silent, while Fan Ning stood aside with his hands down, not daring to disturb the contemplation of the Son of Heaven.

After a long time, Zhao Zhen said slowly: "It's so easy to ruin a person's reputation, it's enough to make up a story, and the dignified leader of the literary world is ruined like this." ”

Fan Ning said in a deep voice: "Weichen believes that the key is that the price of breaking the law is too low, if you slander a person and have to pay a heavy price, there will not be so many people who make up nonsense unscrupulously, and there will be no "tabloid" to spread rumors as they want, Xue Zongru is the imperial history, but he spreads rumors and slanders at will, and his virtue is not worthy of being the imperial history at all, so who recommended him as the imperial history?" Should I also bear the responsibility of referral? ”

Zhao Zhen nodded, "You're right, if this matter is not severely punished, there will be more Ouyang Xiu incidents." ”

At this time, the eunuch reported at the door, "Your Majesty, the three prime ministers are here!" ”

"Announce them in!"

Zhao Zhen returned to his seat and sat down, and after a while, the three ministers walked in and bowed together.

Zhao Zhen waved his hand, "Fan Zhiyuan's report has come out, you can take a look for yourself!" ”

Wen Yanbo took the report and looked at it carefully, Fan Ning retold the situation just now, Fu Bi picked up the original manuscript of the words that Ouyang Xiu gave to Zhu Caimei and looked at it, it was obviously a few years, it was not a new word, the logic of human evidence, physical evidence and the report was very clear, then this matter was obvious, it was indeed Xue Zongru who fabricated facts to frame Ouyang Xiu.

Zhao Zhen asked again: "Who recommended Xue Zongru as the imperial history?" ”

Fu Bi thought for a while and said, "It seems that it was jointly recommended by Liu Yun, the left attendant of the ministry, and Liu Qin, a straight bachelor." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded and asked the three of them: "The truth of the matter has been revealed, what should the three ministers do if they think this matter?" ”

Han Qi bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Wechen thinks that this matter is of a bad nature, the consequences are extremely serious, and it has greatly hurt innocent ministers, if you don't put a brake on this trend, more ministers will suffer misfortune in the future. ”

Fu Bi also said: "Weichen agrees with Han Xianggong's suggestion and supports severe punishment!" ”

"What about Wen Xianggong?"

Wen Yanbo also nodded, "This matter is indeed very bad, and it needs to be punished." ”

Wen Yanbo's tone was lighter, in fact, his position was relatively neutral, he thought that Xue Zongru might have had this misunderstanding in order to protect his sister's interests, but he also admitted that the nature of this matter was very serious, so he did not plan to intercede for Xue Zongru.

Zhao Zhen said coldly: "Since the three county officials have the same opinion, then spread my will, Xue Zongru wantonly slandered the minister, the nature is bad, the consequences are serious, he will be removed from all official positions, and handed over to Dali Temple for accountability!" ”

After a pause, Zhao Zhen said again: "Liu Yun, the left attendant of the ministry, and Liu Qin, a straight scholar, recommended the unethical person as the imperial history, and there is a dereliction of the current position, and the two are removed from their existing official positions, Liu Yun is demoted to Xuzhou Sima, and Liu Qin is demoted to Xuancheng County Lieutenant, and if someone wantonly slanders and frames the minister in the future, he will definitely be in a serious crime!" ”