Chapter 227

Qinwei Qixiao ordered food in the shop opposite, Song Nan hastily ate something, then closed his eyes and recuperated in the public house, when the sky was dark, Sun Xuan came to the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen with four entourages in civilian clothes.

Wan Zhi and Wang Yong seemed to be very familiar with the four entourages, needless to say, those four people were also once figures in the Thirteen Taibao of Beizhen Fusi.

Song Nan also changed into civilian clothes with his subordinates, and went to Anfufang in Xicheng under the cover of night, and after traveling for nearly half an hour, he arrived outside the mansion of Ma Wensheng, the head of the eastern official department of Anfufang.

Sun Xuan stepped forward and knocked on the door and handed over the door sticker, the doorman went in to report, and came out after a while and replied: "The master is asleep, Lord Sun will come back tomorrow." ”

Sun Xuan was still waiting to explain, Song Nan waved his hand, Wan Zhi and Wang Yong rushed forward to open the door crack, and the two doormen exclaimed, "What are you doing?" Do? In broad daylight, this is the mansion of Shangshu. ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "If you are offended, you will personally apologize to Ma Shangshu later." He turned his head to Sun Xuan, who was stunned, and said, "Still stunned, go in." ”

Sun Xuan smacked his lips and said, "This ...... How can you ask for help. ”

Song Nan sneered: "If you can't see people, you can't ask for it." ”

Sun Xuan was helpless and followed Song Nan into the gate, and the two flag schools stayed at the door to guard to prevent the servants of the Ma family from going out to sue the official; Ma Wensheng's mansion is not big, the front, middle and back three courtyards, there are more than 20 people living in the Ma family, the noise of the owl in front of it soon spread to the backyard, and several servants and servants rushed into the front yard with a guy, standing on the steps of the front hall and glaring angrily.

Song Nan arched his hand and said loudly: "Lord Shangshu, Jinyi Wei Nanbei Zhenfu Si Zhenfu envoy Sun Xuan and Song Nan came to visit, just because the matter is urgent, please forgive me for the offense." ”

There was a coughing sound in the hall, and under the dim lantern illumination, a small man holding an old man with an old dragon bell appeared in front of the hall door, the old man had an angry face, coughing and panting, raised his hand and pointed to the dozen people under the stairs and said angrily: "What a bold man, Jinyiwei is really rampant, and even the old man's mansion is also breaking in, has the old man committed a serious crime?" If you don't give an explanation, tomorrow the old man will definitely take this matter to the emperor. ”

Sun Xuan hurriedly saluted and said: "Lord Shangshu is angry, but he is actually forced to do so. ”

Ma Wensheng said angrily: "Don't come to this set, I, Ma Wensheng, don't have a lot of oil and water with you, and I never have a relationship, what are you doing in my mansion?" Get out! ”

Sun Xuan frowned and looked at Song Nan, Song Nan smiled and said: "Master Ma, dissipate your anger, it's not right for us to break through, when we finish talking about things, Master Ma will fall in love with the music tomorrow, or ask the emperor to punish me, it's all easy to say, but please listen to us explain our intentions first." ”

Ma Wensheng said coldly: "The old man doesn't listen to your verbosity, your Jinyi guards are not good to my officials, and now the scandal is known all over the court, what else do you say?" ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Master Ma, it's a business for me to come here today, don't be confused." ”

Ma Wensheng was stunned, and said with a smile: "What a big breath, I know you, you are a little Beizhen Fusi Zhenfu actually spoke like this to the second-grade members of my court, dare to ask who you are relying on?" The old man is a lot older, and arrogant people are really rare. ”

Song Nan sneered: "I haven't seen you, I have seen and understood, I am relying on the emperor's power, the emperor instructed me to investigate the case of fraud in the examination and selection of the Ministry of Officials, you are the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, I don't come to you to ask who to find?" ”

Ma Wensheng said angrily: "It is official time in the yamen during the day, but at this moment it is outside of official business, what are you doing when you come to the old man's house in the middle of the night?" ”

Song Nan said: "You have a distinction between official business and leisure time, but I don't have this to say, and I wait for the night to come to give you old face, and I am afraid that your Ma Shangshu's face will have nowhere to go." ”

Ma Wensheng laughed angrily and said: "What a big joke, you Jinyi Wei Yamen framed my officials, but now you are giving us face." ”

Song Nan shouted: "It's not so funny, Lord Ma, the lower officials have sufficient evidence to prove that your Lord Ma is not qualified for the post of secretary of the ministry, if you don't want me to remind you in private, then we will argue in front of the emperor in the hall tomorrow." ”

Everyone including Ma Wensheng and Sun Xuan was stunned, Song Nan actually pointed the finger at Ma Wensheng, bluntly saying that Ma Wensheng was incompetent for the position of secretary of the ministry, and incompetence was also a kind of dereliction of duty, which was directly pointed at Ma Wensheng's dereliction of duty.

Marven trembled with anger, pointed at Song Nan's nose and scolded: "Ignorant and arrogant child, don't think that you can do anything wrong with the support of the inner court, sooner or later the emperor will understand the intentions of such a courtier as you." ”

Song Nan sneered, until now he is still classified as Liu Jin's henchmen, the eyes of these literati can be regarded as very blind, and the stubbornness and preconceptions of the literati can be regarded as insightful.

"Master Ma, what kind of person am I Song Nan don't talk about, you are the secretary of the ministry, but you turn a blind eye to the undercurrent in the ministry, it is said that Master Ma is eighty years old, and it is time to go home to care for the elderly at such an old age, why do you prefer not to go to the stack, making the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials smoky and miasma, and being used by others but not knowing it? Master Ma, tomorrow morning, you might as well resign yourself. ”

"Shut up!" Ma Wensheng almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, this kid's mouth is too cheap, as a veteran of the Three Dynasties, Ma Wensheng thinks that the older he gets, the more virtuous he is, but in this kid's mouth, he has become a dumb person with a corpse vegetarian meal, although he is old, but his temper is very violent, Ma Wensheng roared angrily and stepped forward with a cane to beat Song Nan.

Song Nan said: "The gentleman doesn't move his mouth, Master Ma is going to be a villain." ”

Ma Wensheng was furious, pointed at Song Nan's nose and said: "If you don't make it clear today, and return the old man's innocent reputation, the old man will fight for your life, no matter who is behind you, tomorrow morning will either you die or I will live." ”

Song Nan laughed and said: "Sure enough, I am old and Mijian has a hot temper, but I am not yet twenty years old, I don't want to live to the death with you, you have lived enough, I have not lived enough." Master Ma, I don't know why, you will never bow your head if you don't give you evidence today, let's go into the hall to talk, and I can show the evidence to make you convinced. ”

Ma Wensheng said angrily: "Okay, I want to see what tricks you have caught the old man." After that, he stomped his feet and turned around and walked into the hall, and the little guy followed closely to help, but was pushed far away by Ma Wensheng's raised arms.

Song Nan squeezed his eyes at Sun Xuan, and Sun Xuan sighed secretly: "In order to sit down and talk to Ma Wensheng in detail, this method you use is not very good, Ma Wensheng is afraid that he hates us to death, how can the words go on later?" ”

After thinking about it, Song Nan had already stepped up the steps, Sun Xuan had no choice but to frown and follow, and when he entered the hall, Ma Wensheng stood with his cane, neither looking at the seat nor calling people to serve tea, completely rejecting people thousands of miles away.

Song Nan smiled and said, "Master Ma has lost his demeanor. ”

"I, Ma Wensheng, can never talk about demeanor with traitors, what are you talking about? Where is your so-called evidence? Why don't you show it to the old man? ”

Song Nan didn't want to go around with him, so he took out a cowhide file and threw it on the table and said, "Lord Ma will see for yourself." ”

Ma Wensheng snorted, reached out and took the file and looked at the seal, which was covered with the fire paint seal of the upper and lower lines of the official yamen that he was familiar with, so he opened the seal and took out a stack of papers, only looked at it a few times, then turned his head and sneered: "The old man is foolish, I don't know why you came here with this official examination resume file?" This is what Sun Xuan took from the old man, this is the evidence of your so-called incompetence of the old man? ”

Sun Xuan was full of anticipation and turned cold, what kind of ghost did Song Nan do, these files were originally physical evidence handed over to Beizhen Fusi, and it was he who brought someone to get it from Ma Wensheng, and now the above evaluation has been denied by Cui Xiu and others, what does this mean?

Song Nan smiled and said, "Master Ma, isn't this enough? Are the circles and comments on this dossier your handwriting? ”

Ma Wensheng sneered: "So what? The old man circles the candidates according to the resume evaluation, this is the old man's right and responsibility, is there anything wrong? ”

Song Nan smiled: "You can look carefully, this is very important." ”

Ma Wensheng looked at it carefully and said: "Yes, it is indeed the old man's circle, what are you going to do." ”

Song Nan said: "Okay, since it has been confirmed, then the matter will be easy to do; I would like to ask Mr. Ma, what is the procedure for submitting this assessment file? ”

Ma Wensheng snorted coldly: "The officials who fill the vacancies are circled by the officials who are selected by the Ministry of Officials, and then they are inspected and reported separately, and after being written by the scribes of the Ministry of Officials, they will be handed over to the officials in charge of this matter and submitted to the old man to decide the final candidate." ”

Song Nan said: "That is to say, this dossier actually only passed through the hands of three people, and the scribe wrote it and then went to Cui Xiu's hands, and then to your Ma Daren's desk, right?" ”

Ma Wensheng said: "That's the case, Song Zhenfu asked in such detail, could it be that he intended to come to my ministry as an official?" But it's a pity that my ministry doesn't want people who fail in the imperial examination. ”

Song Nan retorted: "That's not it, I'm ashamed to be in the company of a group of sour and rotten people, and in my opinion, the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials is just an old fool with a group of spineless things who eat inside and out." ”

Ma Wensheng was about to get angry again, Song Nan waved his hand and said, "Master Ma, this file is fake, can you see it?" ”

Ma Wensheng was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "Fake? Hugh had to be unbelievable, and the old man had reviewed it on it. ”

Song Nan sneered: "If you don't say that you are an old fool, you don't know whether the file submitted is true or false, so you just review it indiscriminately, aren't you old and confused?" ”

Ma Wensheng said angrily: "It's nonsense, how can the official documents of my ministry be faked? ”

Song Nan said: "Cui Xiu and the scribe Zhao of your ministry have already denied that the handwriting on this file was written by them, and after verification, the handwriting on this file is not their handwriting, you can't even recognize the handwriting of your scribes, aren't you confused?" ”

Ma Wensheng was stunned and said, "Handwriting? This one...... How could the old man pay attention to their handwriting? ”

Song Nan shook his head and sighed: "It's extremely confused, someone faked a resume file and submitted it, but you are ignorant and being played with by others, what is this not dereliction of duty?" Master Ma, do you admit that your old eyes are dizzy? ”

Ma Wensheng was stunned for a while, moved to sit on the chair and shook his head: "Impossible, forging official documents is a felony, who has such courage?" This qiē is all your guess, you are telling the truth. ”

Song Nan sneered: "Zhao Shuzhi and Cui Xiu, I Beizhen Fusi Yamen have already been released, because after comparing the handwriting, the handwriting on this file is not written by the two, some people say that this is the hands and feet of the Fusi Yamen of Jinyi Weinan Town, and they want to bite Sun Xuansun Zhenfu, in my opinion, this is precisely because someone in your official department and yamen deliberately set a trap for Lord Sun to drill into." ”

Marven Sheng's sweat has come down, and no matter who did it, if this dossier is indeed fake, there must be a conspiracy behind it, and he is so old and dizzy that he actually made a review on the fake dossier, this oolong alone is enough to impeach himself for being 'old and deaf' and incompetent.