Chapter 230

Zhengde is quite interesting, this case has been mentioned over and over again, he is already very bored, but now it is very interesting, first the Nanzhen Fusi Investigation Department, and then the Ministry of Officials accused Sun Xuan of framing, at this time Song Nan suddenly had an unbelievable reversal, ups and downs up and down is similar to watching a play.

"Song Nan, I'm almost confused by you, what's going on? It's not going to be done quickly. ”

Song Nan smiled and said: "Your Majesty, this case seems complicated, but it is actually very simple, and the context is very clear. ”

Liu Jin said coldly: "Song Nan, as the Fusi of Beizhen, you must be cautious in investigating the case, but you can't talk about it; In front of the emperor's throne, in front of all the adults, you are not allowed to talk nonsense on this Fengtian Palace. ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Father-in-law Liu, I don't need you to remind me; The cause of the whole thing is nothing more than Xu Liang's suspicion that the process of by-election of officials is greasy, Xu Liang went to Chongjiaofang Jinyi Wei Qianhu to reveal the news that he suspected that the officials were making a fuss on their resumes, and deliberately wrote the resumes of other alternate officials with unbearable words, thus losing the qualifications to fill the vacancies. ”

Jiao Fang said: "But this file is a fake file, how can a fake file that Jin Yiwei got out of nowhere can be used as evidence?" With all due respect, the old man has also heard of Jinyiwei's methods of handling cases, and he often does whatever it takes to achieve results. ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "Lord Jiao, it's better to say that I, Jinyiwei, am good at fabricating evidence and framing others, so why bother to beat around the bush." ”

Jiao Fang snorted and said, "Whether this is the case or not, everyone knows." ”

Song Nan said: "Let's put down the file first, whether it's true or not, who is this Xu Liang?" Who can sue me, by the way, Cui Shilang has evaluated this person, and he must know the details of this person. ”

Cui Xiu said expressionlessly: "Xu Liang is a person who has been in Hongzhi for three years, has served as a county magistrate in Hanshan County, and is now an alternate official of the Ministry of Officials. ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "However, Xu Liang and the Ministry of Officials should have nothing to do with each other and have no connection, let alone a position in the Ministry of Officials, right?" ”

Cui Xiu said: "The official has made it very clear. ”

Song Nan said: "Very good, that is, Xu Liang and the officials do not flood the river water, and when he reported it, it was only because he was suspicious." At this point, I think you should think of such a question, how did Xu Liang have the courage to report the officials of the ministry? According to what he said, it was out of suspicion, but as an alternate official of the imperial court, although he had no official position, he was still led by a lot of people from the imperial court, and his life was worry-free; If you are not completely sure, is it reasonable to go to the stubble of the officials just based on suspicion? For all of you, would you do that? ”

The officials frowned and thought about it, if they wanted to express their views in public, they would naturally pat their chests and say something that was not afraid of power and sought fairness, but if they wanted to seriously rely on their suspicions and report without the slightest evidence, most of them shook their heads silently in their hearts.

"Not everyone is as the Song Lord thinks, the officials of the Ming Dynasty seek to be clear and clear, and the righteous heart of the court should not be underestimated." Jiao Fang said lightly.

Song Nan said with a smile: "Master Jiao said well, maybe Xu Liang is this kind of person, let's regard him as a dereliction of duty that we can't look down on the officials of the ministry, and do it in order to uphold justice, he is a person with courage and backbone, but this can be said to be one of the doubts in this case." The next facts were Xu Liangyan, Sun Zhenfu got this official resume file from Ma Shangshu's hand is indeed as Xu Liang said, so far it could have been deeply investigated whether the person in charge of this official resume was suspected of dereliction of duty, but unexpectedly, Cui Shilang and a cadre of scribes said that this file was fake, and the problem was complicated here. ”

Cui Xiu shouted: "This dossier is originally fake, didn't Lord Song also check the handwriting?" Although some people deliberately imitate the penmanship of the scribes of the ministry, the fake is the fake, and the horse's feet are exposed when checked, and no one in my ministry has ever submitted this resume. ”

Song Nan said: "Then where did this resume file come from? ”

Cui Xiu said: "Then I have to ask Master Sun, why did he use a fake file to accuse us of dereliction of duty?" What is this not a false accusation? ”

Song Nan smiled: "You mean to say that Sun Xuan forged a fake dossier, right?" ”

Cui Xiu said proudly: "This is what you, Lord Song, should have found out, but you came to ask me." ”

Song Nan said: "Okay, even if Sun Zhenfu forged this fake dossier, then the contradictions in it are also asked to explain my doubts, and Lord Jiao impeached Ma Shangshu for not knowing the authenticity of the dossier and being generous, that is, what Lord Jiao meant was that this dossier was already fake when it was in the hands of Ma Shangshu, so Sun Zhenfu obtained this dossier must also be fake, how could Sun Zhenfu say that it was forged?" ”

Jiao Fang was dumbfounded, he didn't figure out this kind of time sequence and logical error, and he was too anxious to pull Ma Wensheng into the water, but he made such a loophole.

Song Nan returned to the column and carried the wooden box, found the fake file from the inside, and gestured around: "This so-called fake file has a circle evaluation of Ma Shangshu on it, which also means that the authenticity of the file has nothing to do with Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu, whether it is true or not, it was handed over to Sun Zhenfu by Ma Shangshu himself, do you agree with this?" ”

The ministers nodded buzzingly, there is no doubt about this, Ma Wensheng is in the front, Sun Xuan is behind, if it is fake, it is naturally fake in Ma Wensheng's hands, and it has nothing to do with Sun Xuan.

Song Nan brought the dossier to Ma Wensheng and said softly: "Ma Shangshu, the comments and circles on this are your own handwriting?" ”

Ma Wensheng felt that he had been sold by Song Nan, and he was annoyed in his heart, but in front of everyone, he couldn't deny his handwriting, and nodded: "It's indeed the old man's words." ”

Song Nan snapped the dossier and put it away, and said to Zhengde: "Your Majesty, at this point, the case of Cui Xiu, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, and others suing Sun Xuan, the secretary of Nanzhen, for fabricating evidence to frame the officials of the Ministry of Officials can be regarded as broken, it is obvious that Sun Zhenfu has nothing inappropriate, the problem lies in the Ministry of Officials, and the evidence provided by the Ministry of Officials has misled Sun Zhenfu in handling the case. ”

Zhengde nodded and said, "I see, but I still think there are still many things that I haven't figured out." ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "The emperor is right, there are still many doubts; First, whether the dossier is true or not; Second, if it is false, who wrote it, and for what purpose? Third, why Ma Shangshu deliberately confuses the truth with the false, which is the key to the truth of this case. ”

Zhengde said: "Don't you have a conclusion?" ”

Song Nan said: "That's natural, how can the ministers not find out the things that the emperor has explained; First of all, the authenticity of this file has been determined, and according to the verification of handwriting, it is true that the handwriting of the scribe of the ministry and other relevant officials is not used, that is to say, the official of the ministry who is responsible for filling in the vacancies of the official has never written this file, and someone has forged this file and submitted it to the desk of Ma Shangshu; In fact, Ma Shangshu was already aware of this fake file after receiving it, and Ma Shangshu suspected that someone in the ministry was causing trouble, and the Nanzhen Fusi suddenly intervened in the matter, so Ma Shangshu chose to wait and see what happened, so as not to startle the snake; When the case was transferred to my Beizhen Fusi, Ma Shangshu made an appointment to meet with the minister and told all his suspicions, which the minister could prove for Ma Shangshu. ”

The ministers were in an uproar again, and what surprised them was not that Ma Wensheng could distinguish the authenticity of the dossier, but that Ma Wensheng would actually meet Song Nan and seek cooperation with Song Nan, which many people said they couldn't believe; After the impeachment of the Eight Tigers, all the civil officials in the outer court also hated Song Nan, and when they talked about Song Nan on weekdays, they were all scolded, and Ma Wensheng scolded the most, how could he seek cooperation with Song Nan.

As if in order to solve everyone's questions, Song Nan specially asked Ma Wensheng: "Ma Shangshu, what I said is the truth?" In the private room of Liujia Restaurant that day, did you inform me about it? In front of the emperor and all the ministers, I want you to say this in person. ”

Ma Wensheng didn't know that Song Nan was fishing for himself, although he didn't have a good impression of Song Nan, but this was his chance to get rid of the impeachment of his stupid and old age, so he couldn't do it.

"Your Majesty, there is indeed such a thing, Lord Song asked the old man to keep it secret and pretend not to know, so as not to startle the snake, so the old minister was ambiguous when the emperor asked him just now, and he wanted to cooperate with Lord Song to find out about the case. Please also ask the emperor to forgive the sin. Ma Wensheng is colorful.

Zhengde waved his hand and said to Song Nan: "Go on, and then what?" ”

Song Nan said: "Your Majesty, if there is a fake file, there must be a real file, and the true and false files will never appear on Ma Shangshu's desk at the same time, and the minister deduces that when the file in Ma Shangshu's hand is proved to be fake, the real file will appear, and only in this way can it be proved that Ma Shangshu's stupid and old man's behavior, so with the permission of Ma Shangshu, the minister took people to the Yamen of the Ministry of Officials to look for it, and sure enough, he found this real file on Ma Shangshu's desk. ”

Song Nan bent down and took out a dossier from the wooden box, raised it, handed it to Cui Xiu and said, "Cui Shilang, is this true?" ”

Although Cui Xiu was full of suspicion, he opened it and looked at it a few times and nodded: "That's right, it is the official examination resume I handled, which was written by one of my scribes, and I checked and submitted it to Ma Shangshu." ”

Song Nan said: "Okay, can Cui Shilang remember when this dossier was submitted?" ”

Cui Xiu said: "The sixteenth day of the first month." ”

Song Nan nodded and smiled: "Good memory, I have here the official documents of the scribes in the Ma Shangshu Mansion to register the accounts, the emperor, please see the date of acceptance of this official document, and see what is famous in it." Song Nan bent down and took out the official document record book in the wooden box like a treasure chest, and handed it over.

Zhengde spread the record book on the dragon case and looked at it for a long time and frowned: "It does say that it is the eighteenth day of the first month, what's wrong?" ”

Song Nan said: "The emperor will see if the word 'six' is a little strange." ”

Zhengde frowned and looked at it for a long time and said, "It's really a little strange, why do these six characters look so awkward." ”

Song Nan said: "The emperor might as well invite others to take a look." ”

Zhengde glanced down and pointed to a person: "Master Yang, you are full of poetry and books, and you are also quite accomplished in calligraphy, help me see where the 'six' character is strange?" ”

Yang Tinghe, who was slender and personable, came out of the queue, took the record book handed over by the chamberlain, glanced at it a few times, and said: "Your Majesty, the word 'six' seems to have been changed, and the upper part is much higher than the other handwriting, which seems to have been changed from the 'eight' character with the dotted horizontal pen added above." ”

Zhengde patted his leg and said: "Sure enough, I think it's strange, you really seem to have changed from 'eight' to 'six' when you say this." ”

Song Nan smiled and took the registration book in Yang Tinghe's hand and said, "Thank you, Lord Yang." ”

Yang Tinghe replied: "It's a matter of effort." ”

Song Nan said: "Your Majesty, someone deliberately changed the submission date of this true file three days later, which is to cover it, and the sixteenth day of the first lunar month is the time when the fake file is submitted to Ma Shangshu, Ma Shangshu is diligent in his official work, and he made a circle on the same day; What does this true dossier mean by changing it to 16 days? ”

Zhengde blinked and said: "The person who submitted the report deliberately let Ma Wensheng see the fake file first, and then make up the real file, so as to confirm the responsibility of Ma Shangshu's authenticity and falsehood, or deliberately let Sun Xuan get fake evidence, and then after the real file is supplemented, it can be said that Sun Xuan forged it." ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "The emperor's wisdom is unmatched in ancient and modern times. ”