The matter of the Criminal Department was immediately spread all over Kyoto, and people expected that the three giants of the Supervision Yuan, the Prime Minister and Fan Shangshu did not immediately launch a big counterattack against the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was beyond the expectations of all officials.

And during the palace test, Emperor Qingguo finally expressed his attitude lightly, several people that Fan Xian fancied were selected into the second class, as for the champion list of the eyes of the flower, it is not surprising that it is attributed to the heads of some scholars who have been famous for a long time, and Fan Xian knows that the names of these three have also appeared on those notes, and they have also done tricks when they were famous.

The emperor's majesty's statement on the fraud case in the field is more obvious, and it lies in the specific situation of the palace examination at that time. At the time of the banquet, the hundred officials were very surprised to find that Taixue Wupin Fengzheng Fan Xian was sitting in the front row with some twisting and anxiety, sitting under the hands of the prince and the second prince, smiling slightly, it seemed that he had not drunk alcohol today, so he was not as wild as the night of the three hundred poems, and he was a little uncomfortable with the feeling of being told by everyone.

After Fan Xian made a big fuss about the Criminal Department, the hundred officials in Beijing already knew his true identity, and they also knew that the Supervision Yuan used the topic to play, relying on the extrajudicial privilege of Fan Xian's Supervision Yuan, and stripped off all the faces of Han Zhiwei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Guo Zheng, the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and I heard that there was also a lot of disturbance in the palace that night.

The Inspectorate of the Supervision Yuan, this is a very yīn sensible position, and it has always been difficult for the officials to associate Fan Xian, who holds countless secret agents and secretly cāo officials with the horn of life and death, but in any case, when the officials look at Fan Xian again, they no longer just see him as a civil servant, a powerful son with a big background behind him, but for the first time, they really feel Fan Xian's strength.

After the palace examination, the case of the Chris Kechang was still under the supervision of the Supervision Yuan, and it was tried slowly but firmly, while the Fan Tisi was quiet—those who knew the inside guessed that Fan Xian was preparing to count the envoys.

............ On the third day of the first month of March, the palace test ended, the banquet ended, the flower arrangement ended, Yang Wanli, Hou Jichang, Cheng Jialin plus a Shi Lili, these four scholars who suddenly fell from heaven and fortune, finally took a vacancy, and sat in a carriage with some anxiety and came to the gate of Fan's Mansion on Chengnan Street.

Yang Wanli looked up at the broad face of Fan Mansion, and glanced at the vicious stone lion squatting at the door with some nervousness, and said, "A little nervous." ”

Hou Jichang is often the calmest person among the four, but the first time he came to such a noble mansion, he was also a little nervous, and said with a forced smile: "Lord Xiao Fan has seen everything, not to mention the young and promising, and the conversation is also a very interesting character, not as hateful as the officials next to the court, what are you nervous about." ”

Cheng Jialin didn't know what to say, a few days ago he was in trouble with the Criminal Department and the Supervision Yuan, the four of them logically speaking, in terms of human words, everyone has already classified them under Fan Xian's door, the palace test has passed, and they should come to the house to worship anyway. Speaking of going back to the Tongfu Inn, these four Xiucai suddenly discovered that the most terrifying supervision institute in Qingguo actually fought for themselves and the servants of the Thirteen Yamen, and they were almost scared to death.

Shi Xianli is the most gentle and free-spirited, this time he didn't hit anyway, so he was much more relaxed than the three friends next to him, pointed at them and smiled: "I see that you are indeed quite nervous, but it is probably not the nervousness of visiting the door master, but the discovery that Lord Xiao Fan suddenly changed and became the Lord of the Supervision Yuan, which is a little faintly afraid." Brothers, what I'm talking about is right?"

Yang Wanli glanced at the stone lion again, and said with a wry smile: "No one expected that within two days, Shixian Fan Xian suddenly became one of the most powerful officials in the Supervision Yuan. It's not that you don't know what a terrible place the Supervision Yuan is, these officials in the DPRK and China have always been afraid of three points, and Xiao Fan has entered the Supervision Yuan, which has a really bad reputation. ”

"Ignorant of the prejudices of the laity. Shi Yili said with a smile: "Then in the Tongfu Inn, you also once said that the Supervision Yuan is extremely beneficial in supervising the governance of officials. He turned to Hou Jichang, who was a little disappreciative, and said: "After Guo Shangshu was imprisoned, you also raised a glass to the Supervision Yuan. Now that you find out that the door master is a high-ranking official of the Supervision Yuan, you want to stay away from him like a layman?"

Yang Wanli sighed and said: "This time the chūn fraud case, everyone in the world knows that it is Xiao Fan's first work, and later I really understood that he has been working for the Supervision Yuan. Lord Xiao Fan's move not only created the future of the three of us, but more importantly, it also found a slightly fairer path for the scholars in this world, everyone is grateful, even after knowing that he is the commander of the Supervision Yuan, no scholar dares to disrespect him a little. As for you and me, not to mention it, let's not talk about it, even if Lord Xiao Fan has been staying in the Supervision Institute in the future, we still have to follow it, Brother Shi doesn't need to talk about this, I have already made up my mind. ”

Hou Jichang smiled slightly: "That's exactly the reason. It's just a pity, but all the spy leaders who serve in the Supervision Yuan, according to the rules of the imperial court, can no longer enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, and it is a pity that Lord Xiao Fan is talented. ”

At this time, Cheng Jialin had the opportunity to interject: "Lord Xiao Fan still has that identity, and he can't show his career in the first place, and I heard that he will be in charge of the imperial treasury in the coming year, so it's not a pity to be able to serve in the Supervision Yuan." ”

Everyone understood that he was talking about Fan Xian's identity as the "county lord concubine", and when they thought that they and several other people, who were extremely young and extremely young, would have so many identities, everyone also felt wonderful. The four of them discussed in a low voice at the door of Fan's Mansion for a long time, and finally dispelled some of the nervousness in their hearts, walked towards Fan's Mansion, and handed over the famous thorn that had been prepared for a long time.

The gatekeeper of the Fan Mansion had long paid attention to these four talent-looking characters, and took a look at the famous thorn with a suspicious face, but found that it was the four people who had been rumored in Beijing for a long time recently. Everyone in Fan's Mansion knew that the eldest young master of his family had accepted four new students, and it turned out to be the four in front of him, so he hurriedly respectfully invited the entrance room and waited for tea.

The four of them knew that this was the rule of the Gaomen clan, but whenever a guest came to the door, they had to drink tea in the gatehouse first. Unexpectedly, after a while, the porter replied with a face full of embarrassment: "The young master is out today, but he is not in the mansion, the four adults, do you leave a message, or choose to come again?"

The four of them couldn't help but be a little disappointed, but they relaxed again for no reason in their hearts. At this time, an official sedan chair stopped next to the side door, the porter hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and a middle-aged official with a solemn face came down from the sedan chair, his eyes were soft and deep, and when he walked through the gatehouse, he stopped and glanced at the four scholars.

The porter saw that the master had stopped, and was about to step forward to introduce, when he saw the master wave his hand, turned his head to face the four of them, and asked in a harmonious voice: "Who of you is Yang Wanli? Who is Shi Yanli? Who is Hou Jichang? Who is Cheng Jialin?"

Hou Jichang was shocked, thinking that this adult actually knew the identities of the four of them without asking, and he didn't just ask the name of one person, but he didn't miss anything, thinking that he didn't want to let himself have a sense of favoritism, such a clear-minded character, I didn't want to know, it must be the father of Lord Xiao Fan, so I hurriedly bowed down: "Hou Jichang, who was born late, meet Lord Shangshu." ”

The three next to him only woke up at this time, and knew that the high-ranking official in front of him was the father of Lord Xiao Fan, so they also hurriedly saluted.

Sinanbo Fan Jian smiled slightly, glanced at Hou Jichang, and said with a little approval: "It seems that Fan Xian's vision is really good." Then he said: "He is not at home, if you don't think the old man is verbose, accompany the official into the house to gossip a few words." ”

This is the father of the sect master, how should he shout it? Although the four scholars will all be the emerging forces in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, how dare they say much in the face of this old fox Shangshu, and honestly follow the adult into the mansion.

―――――――――――――――――――――――― the ugliest building on Tianhe Road was still silent in the chūn light, and there were no petals in the famous falling flowers on both sides of the road, because it was early in chūn, and the flowers were not yet fully blooming, so he was reluctant to throw his clothes into the water to make a view.

The people of Kyoto still follow the old rules, walking far away from the Supervision Yuan, and the stone monument in front of the gate of the courtyard quietly looks at those people, as if to say, the courtyard is to protect you, why are you so afraid? Don't ask why the people are afraid of the Supervision Yuan, just like Yang Wanli's four scholars, people's fear of the secret secret service is always for no reason, because the yamen seems to have no light, it seems to have only secrets and darkness.

In the square room of the Supervision Yuan, the seven leaders were sitting at the long table calmly, they knew that today's meeting was very special, so they looked at the crippled dean at the end of the long table with a little doubt. After Zhu Ge, the leader of one place, committed suicide in this room, there has been no leader in one place, and Mu Tie only temporarily led the position of Jingzhong, so there are only seven people in the eight major places today.

The door opened lightly and silently, but the seven most powerful Jiao Sè of the Qingguo secret service naturally noticed it, and subconsciously turned his head to look at the door, and even Chen Pingping at the end of the long table slowly raised her head, her eyes calm and focused.

An old man with slightly brown eyes and tousled hair walked in.

Everyone was a little surprised, but they saw Fei Jie turn around and said softly: "The ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, come in, what are you rubbing?"

The young man behind him flashed out with some embarrassment. The young man had a delicate face, was amiable to see, with a slightly shy smile on his face, and bowed to the leaders of the Supervision Institute at the table, and said softly with some embarrassment: "Hello everyone, everyone, I am Fan Xian." ”