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Things have come to this point, and many people already have some understanding in their hearts, this is a trap, a trap that tempts people to be fooled, and the target is naturally one of Sun Xuan and Ma Wensheng, or both.

Jiao Fang frowned and said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you can't make a conclusion because of a number on the back and forth record, maybe it's the carelessness of the scribe who recorded it when it was written." ”

Song Nan said: "Lord Jiao, this matter is easy to confirm, and the scribe in Lord Ma's public house will be known for the first trial." ”

Zhengde raised his hand and said, "Pass." ”

After a while, the scribe who was responsible for registering the official documents in the Ma Wen Shengshang Book Mansion was brought to the hall, and the scribe stared at the record book a few times, knelt down and kowtowed: "The villain has not changed, the villain has never changed the handwriting in the record book, the villain has been on an errand in the official department for more than ten years, and the account books are refreshing and clean like water. ”

Song Nan said: "You can think clearly, this is in front of the emperor, if you dare to commit perjury, your whole family will be implicated." ”

The scribe kowtowed like pounding garlic and said, "How dare the villain, the villain has a few heads." ”

After the scribe took it down, there was silence in the hall, everyone was waiting for Song Nan to give further answers, Liu Jin's face was gloomy, Jiao Fang's face was ugly, and Cui Xiu was panicked.

"Cui Xiu, did you change this trace?" Zhengde asked.

Cui Xiu lay on the ground and kowtowed again and again: "It's not a minister, how can a minister have such a big courage, the minister thinks that someone must be framing and planting, please let the emperor know." ”

Zhengde glared and said: "There are people everywhere who frame you and you, how many people do you Cui Xiu have a grudge with?" You are solely responsible for this selection resume, and you don't know that the date of submission has been changed? ”

Cui Xiu was speechless, and Liu Jin hurriedly whispered: "Your Majesty, I don't know who made the trouble this time, or listen to what Song Nan found out, and I can't conclude that Cui Xiu did it." ”

Zhengde nodded and said, "Song Nan, go on, there are still a lot of questions waiting for you to answer me." ”

Song Nan arched his hand and said: "Obey the order, the question of the dossier should start from the person who submitted it, and it is also a mystery who wrote the fake dossier. ”

"Oh? Are you surprised? Let's hear about it. Zhengde twisted his body, his buttocks were a little numb, but his spirit was very excited, as Song Nan sorted out the case step by step, wrapped in a strict truth that was about to be presented, just like the big drama was about to reach the climax, how could it not be expected.

Song Nan bent down and began to tinker in the wooden box again, took out a piece of paper, spread the fake file on the ground again, and arched his hand: "The minister asks the emperor to appoint a few adults with profound calligraphy attainments to accompany the minister to appreciate the two handwritings and see the differences." ”

Zhengde pointed and pointed: "Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Jiao Fang, Zeng Jian, aren't you all calligraphers, help Song Nan to take a look." ”

Several of the people who were named are the cabinet bigwigs and the calligraphy masters among the civil officials, and they have come out one after another, and Wang Duo, the old editor of the Hanlin Academy, also stepped forward to participate in the appreciation, Wang Duo is recognized as a master of calligraphy, and he also has a set of research on handwriting, and he has no opportunity to show it on weekdays, so he can't miss it today.

Zhengde also left the seat and went down to the front of the steps, and a few old ministers gathered together in the two words to join in the fun, everyone frowned and smacked their lips to look at it, two words one is Xu Liang's confession, one is a fake file, the font is completely different, although Xu Liang's words are not famous, but also written quite skeleton, after all, it is more than ten years of hard work in the cold window, the first thing is to write a good word.

Jiao Fang shook his head and said, "Forgive me for being stupid, I can't see any clues, Lord Song is not entertaining us." ”

Li Dongyang also twisted his beard and said, "The minister can't see anything unusual." ”

Zhengde's eyes were even darker, he couldn't see anything, and turned his head and asked Song Nan, "What do you want us to discover?" ”

As soon as Song Nan was about to speak, he heard Wang Duo suddenly say: "Sure enough, sure enough, there are traces to follow." ”

Zhengde hurriedly asked, "What did Wang Xiu see?" ”

Wang Duo arched his hand and said: "Lao Chen has been immersed in calligraphy for decades, although he does not dare to compare with everyone in ancient and modern times, but he also knows that a person writes and has a person's habit, and people say that words are like their own people, no matter how deliberately they deliberately cover up, the habit of writing will inevitably be naturally revealed; Your Majesty, please see, there have been a total of eighteen 'zhi' characters on these two characters, often the more complicated the structure of the words are easier to disguise, few strokes, simple structure of the words but extremely difficult to hide, although the best to change, but at least ten of these eighteen words can be seen to be written by the same person. ”

Everyone hurriedly moved along Wang Duo's hand, and listened to Wang Duo's chatter: "Everyone, please see, there are five 'zhi' words on this confession, these five words are basically the same, at a glance it is written by the same person, the point is heavy and light, and finally this pen is thick and bald, I conclude that this person is a young person who copied the face of the body, so I learned the movement of the face of the body." ”

Zeng Jian said: "Lord Wang, so what? ”

Wang Duo said: "Look at the words on this file, there are thirteen words, but all of them are different, this is strange, the words on this file should be written by one person, why are the same words different?" Apparently deliberate; But this difference is superficial, but the loose inclination on the structure is not the same, but the strength of the pen is the same, the point is heavy and light, the thick and bald tail, the shape is scattered but the spirit remains the same, the old man bets that this is still the body; Backed by the ups and downs of several other identical characters, the old man can almost conclude that these two characters were written by one person. ”

"Huh?" Everyone obviously didn't expect that these two very different characters were written by the same person, and they were all surprised.

"Wang Bianxiu, you are taking this for granted, based on this, you can conclude that it is from one person?" Jiao Fang shook his head and said.

"When it comes to assisting the emperor in dealing with military and political affairs, the old man thinks that he is not as good as you, but when it comes to calligraphy, I am afraid that you are not as good as the old man." Wang Duo was quite complacent.

Everyone is speechless, Wang Duo is recognized as a master of calligraphy, and anyone who wants to question his professional level will definitely be ridiculed by others; However, such a conclusion is still not convincing.

Zhengde also said: "I don't think I can jump to conclusions, although I am not good at calligraphy, but this is related to this case, and I can't rely on speculation or speculation." ”

Wang Duo was dissatisfied in his heart, shaking his head and saying nothing; Suddenly, Yang Tinghe, who had been staring at the two characters, suddenly said: "What Wang Bianxiu said is right, these two characters were written by one person, and the habit can never be changed." ”

"Oh?" Everyone turned to Yang Tinghe, but saw Yang Tinghe stretch out his slender index finger and point to a word: "You look at the word 'ran' in this Ranze, what clues can you see?" ”

Li Dongyang twisted his beard and said: "It seems to have been written a little less." However, the word goes from four points, and this word has only three points. ”

Only then did everyone realize that this character turned out to be a typo, but some of the calligraphy is passed by generations, or even omitted, which is not a fallacy of heavy dà. Yang Tinghe moved his finger to another character and said, "Look at this character." ”

Everyone looked at it, although the structure of the word in front of them was different, thin, hard, fat, and greasy, but the similarity was that there was a missing point at the bottom, which was not a clerical error, it was obviously caused by getting used to the writing of this word.

"There are two more, too." Yang Tinghe pointed out the other two words respectively, but they were all missing without exception, so everyone had no doubts.

Song Nan clapped his hands lightly and said: "Lord Yang's sharp eyes, Wang Bian Xiu's deep attainments, to be honest, I stared at it for a few hours before I discovered the mystery, and a few of them came to a conclusion in an instant, and I admired it very much." ”

Zhengde said: "You have long found out that it was written by one person? ”

Song Nan said: "I naturally have no right to speak in the font, what Wang Bianxiu said is like falling into the clouds and fog for me, I also saw the same typo on these two words as Bachelor Yang, the minister thought at the time, if it is common to say that it is common to write a wrong word, but it is wrong in the same word, and every word is wrong, it can only be said that it is natural to become habitual; So the minister became suspicious of Xu Liang. ”

"It is simply absurd to infer that Xu Liang forged the dossier based on this, Xu Liang is not an official of the Ministry of Officials, how can he have the conditions for forgery." Jiao Fang flicked his sleeves.

Song Nan smiled and said: "That's right, this is not enough to conclude that Xu Liang is the one who forged the file, because he does not have this condition, and if he forges it, he can't hand it over to Ma Shangshu's public house to impersonate, I naturally can't conclude that it is Xu Liang, but I ordered the release of Xu Liang and Qian Shushi and others, and let out the wind, saying that this matter has nothing to do with them, but I sent someone to keep an eye on them, and finally found out." ”

Song Nan bent down and took out dozens of crumpled pieces of paper from the box, and said with a stack of several large papers: "Yesterday, Qian Kang, the scribe of the Ministry of Officials, and Xu Liang secretly met, and I confirmed my judgment that Xu Liang and some people in the Ministry of Officials colluded together to set a trap, so I took people to search their homes at night, and finally found important evidence. ”

Song Nan distributed the paper in his hand to several bigwigs in front of him and said: "You are all officials of the imperial court, and you should have an understanding of the size and color of the paper used by the various yamen stipulated by the imperial court. Second, the Ministry of Officials is a second-grade yamen, according to the regulations, the paper used in the first- and second-grade yamen is divided into three grades, two feet wide and five stored, and the length is three feet four feet or five feet, and the color should also be blue, red, yellow, white, and black pure color, and the internal culture of the Ministry of the Yamen is unified with blue three-foot paper; There are also records of the receipt and registration of paper within the yamen. ”

Song Nan flipped out another account book, turned to a page from it and said: "This is the record of the receipt of paper, pen, ink and paper in the treasury of the Ministry of Officials, on the thirteenth day of the first month of the first year of Zhengde, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials Qian Kang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials, Cui Xiu, received a pair of pen and ink, and fifty pieces of third-class cyan paper, which are clearly written, but we did not find the place of this pen and ink and paper in Qian Kang's clerk's room; On the contrary, I found these brushes and inks and some cyan paperwork in Xu Liang's house. ”

Song Nan took out a pair of pen and ink and put it on the ground and said: "It can be described as painstaking, the pen, ink and paper are all used by the officials, so naturally they can be fake and real; Look at these scrapped papers, Xu Liang spent a lot of effort when he forged them, wrote more than a dozen but were not satisfied, my people from the paper basket in his study, one of the garbage at the door will be found one by one, some have been torn, last night I pieced together the restoration, you see, this is the ironclad evidence that Xu Liang forged the official document. ”

Song Nan handed the restored more than a dozen cyan third-class documents to Zhengde and several bigwigs in the cabinet, the words on it were almost the same as the words in the dossier, some wrote one or two sentences, and some wrote a few lines, probably because they were dissatisfied and invalidated.

The remaining blank paper was found in Qian Kang's house, and it can be concluded that Xu Liang and Qian Kang colluded to forge a file to lure Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu into a trap to trap Sun Xuan, so as to falsely accuse Sun Xuan of framing officials and achieving the purpose of framing Sun Zhenfu; As for the impeachment of Ma Shangshu, I will not comment on this, I think Ma Shangshu is implicated, not the main purpose. ”

At this point, no one has any objections, Song Nan's evidence is conclusive and powerful, there is no refutation at all, and the case is already settled.

"What a bold man, a little scribe dares to do such a nonsense, and if someone takes it, he must not be spared." Liu Jin shouted with a blushing face.

Song Nan said with a smile: "Gonggong Liu's anger can be understood, but this matter is probably not something that a small official can't do, Cui Xiu, the right attendant of the ministry, may not be able to escape the involvement, the scribe Qian Kang has confessed to being instructed by Cui Xiu, I don't know who else is involved in it besides Cui Xiu, please allow the emperor to allow Weichen to take Cui Xiu and take him to Beizhen Fusi for trial, and the minister will completely end the case." ”

Zhengde said: "Quasi-play, take Cui Xiu." ”

Hearing this, the Jinyi Wei Dahan generals on both sides of the throne stepped forward and took off Cui Xiu, who had already been dissipated, from his official uniform and hat.

Liu Jin glanced at Shi Wenyi's envoy, and Shi Wenyi, who was unknown, suddenly said abruptly: "Escort Cui Xiu to the Yamen of Fusi in Beizhen, strictly guard him, Xu Liang, Qiankang and others, and wait for Song Zhenfu's interrogation." ”

Song Nan hurriedly said: "Commander Shi, don't bother, the subordinate will be escorted back by himself after the dispersal of the court." ”

Shi Wenyi said: "Lord Song broke this big case for me Jinyiwei to correct the name of this case, or there is a serious hidden situation, and this command should pay attention to it." ”

Zhengde smiled and said: "What a Song Nan, really a talent, when I first mentioned you as the Fusi of Beizhen, many people were still muttering in my ears that you are young and may not be competent, look, Song Nan can't beat anyone who can do it?" ”

Song Nan smiled and thanked him, but for some reason, he felt very unstable in his heart.