Chapter 524: The Fear of the Heavenly Officials
No one knelt down, and the old minister seemed to "take over", but in fact, no one did the courtesy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Chao Chong's words seem to be respectful, but the word "Emperor Han" is said in a weird way, and I don't know what it means. Han Feng knew that this was the real test for himself, he turned over and dismounted, and was about to take a step forward, when an old man behind Chao Chong who looked almost old suddenly grabbed half a step and shouted with all his strength: "Slow!"
If no one made trouble, Han Feng would feel strange. This old man's official position is second only to Chao Chong, and judging by his dress and age, the only person who can match him in the court is Ling Deqing, a university scholar. For such old "seniors", Han Feng felt quite tricky. This is a veritable DPRK-China man, with high morality, and he can't beat, hard, or scold, so he can only try his best to convince people with reason.
Chao Chong and other officials hid the schadenfreude in their hearts. They had seen Yuan's strange methods, and they also knew that Zhan Mingyou had died very strangely, and they even knew that although the young man in front of them was alone, it was enough to kill them on the spot, and it was effortless. However, even so, they were not afraid, but only gloated - this inexplicable confidence came from the greater power behind the imperial power. The mysterious family, the source of power that most people in the world recognize - money.
The opinions of these mortals made these bribed officials separate themselves from Zhan Dai long ago, and in their eyes, Han Feng in front of them was just the spokesperson of the Tan clan's new change, nothing more than the most powerful tiger under the beast tamer. Therefore, this schadenfreude has both the "disaster" of "luck" Han Feng and the "disaster" of "happiness" just like Ling Deqing.
With Liu Quan's analysis in front and the original "reminder" in the back, Han Feng naturally understood the sneakiness in the hearts of everyone present. His eyes swept over the faces of these people one by one, and he saw that in the middle of the left side of the group, one person had a fearful face, slightly different from the people around him. That person seemed to be an excellent actor, trying to suppress this inner fear, if it weren't for Han Feng's experience of breaking barriers, his awareness was far more sensitive than ordinary people, under this glance, I am afraid it would be difficult to detect.
Han Feng looked at the man's uniform and realized that he should be a heavenly official.
At the time of the first emperor - now that Zhan Mingyou is dead, perhaps Zhan Yanyu was renamed the former emperor - at that time, the status of the heavenly officials in the Zhan Dynasty was very peaceful, so that the dignitaries and dignitaries of the imperial capital were proud to know a little about the stars, especially when the three major disasters came to the world, and then the war broke out, the limelight of the heavenly officials was unmatched for a while, and everyone looked forward to reading a little from the obscure words of the heavenly officials, so that they could be one step ahead of others and see in advance where the dawn of tomorrow was.
However, when the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it loses. After the status of the heavenly officials reached its peak, it went downhill in a blink of an eye - the so-called climbing high and falling heavy, the scenery was like a meteor, fleeting. After Zhan Mingyou came to power, he tried his best to suppress the heavenly officials, calling it a fallacy to confuse the public. At the same time, as the power of the Tan family gradually surfaced, people also understood that the mysterious celestial phenomenon never represented a prophecy, it was also a fact in progress, and it was always the people themselves who really influenced and determined the future.
Therefore, when the Great Yan Star overpowered the Ziwei Star, no one was interested in paying attention to Zhan Mingyou's life or death anymore - in people's hearts, the young emperor who was high above was no different from a dead man. And Zhan Mingyou's various plans with Yuan in the imperial city are tantamount to a small fish dying and struggling in a dry ditch without being able to jump out, which is meaningless.
In such a context, the status of heavenly officials naturally plummeted. When the established facts happened, everyone's attention was in front of them, and no one cared about the so-called astrological phenomena - especially after such a fantastic change, the heavenly official was finally reduced to a marginal person among the officials - and only in this way did the abnormality of the heavenly official make Han Feng pay more attention.
This heavenly official is unusual. In Han Feng's eyes, most of these officials must be on the side of the Tan family, so they, like Chao Chong, have a contemptuous attitude towards themselves. The few who did not join the Tan clan were either elders like Ling Deqing, who were pretentious and unwilling to be indecent, or those who were so powerful that the Tan clan disdained to be complicit, but the heavenly officials should not be among the two. Then the source of his fear is that he really understands the situation, whether it is what the celestial phenomena really reveal to him, or his own unique insight, he understands that the emperor of the Western Dynasty in front of him is not a puppet manipulated by the Tan family. This person holds the real power of life and death, which cannot be questioned or ridiculed.
However, the unusualness of the heavenly officials did not affect the current situation after all. Han Feng calmly looked at the old man who stopped him from going, although Bai Tong was gone, but over the years, he had learned a lot of old things from Bai Tong. He smiled and said, "What questions does Senior Scholar Ling have? If I remember correctly, my lord's father was once a member of the Second Prince's staff, right?"
The "second prince" in his mouth is naturally not Zhan Mingyou's "brother", but the disastrous loser in the battle for succession a hundred years ago, and the royal rebel who has been recorded in history. At that time, the second prince had a lot of staff, in addition to Han Feng's titular great-grandfather Dazai Han Zhongjie and Liu Quan's great-grandfather Dasitu, there were also many officials of all sizes. The officials who supported the second prince were more or less benevolent to the half-yi girl, and Su Ri was also upright and upright, so when judging the case, the emperor at that time felt a headache in the face of the dense roster.
Speaking of which, most of these people are the pillars of the imperial court, and if they are all disposed of according to the law, I am afraid that the entire center of the imperial court will be temporarily paralyzed. Fortunately, the military strength is still stable - this is also the most important reason why the second prince did not succeed, and it is also the last breath of confidence of the emperor. In order to win the hearts of the people and seek stability, looking at a large number of civil officials involved, the acting emperor finally chose to deal with it lightly. In addition to condemning the main culprit, the second prince, to death, only Dazai, who was closest to the imperial family, and the great Situ, who was in charge of the country's money, food, and materials, were exiled. The rest of the accomplices, the heavier ones were degraded and never hired, and the lighter ones were only fined for three months, like Ling Deqing's father, and other officials, only reprimanded a few words, and punished him for thinking about it behind closed doors and concentrating on compiling books, and even his son's future career was not half implicated. Judging from this point alone, although this acting emperor is stubbornly prejudiced in the matter of the half-Yi girl, and he is willing to be the puppet of the Tan family, he is not a useless person who is useless.
After all, the battle for the heir is an old case more than 100 years ago, although everyone present knows Han Feng's life experience, but because of the rescue of the years, coupled with the fact that the court did not mention this matter after the incident, most people have little impression of the bloody case.
Scholar Ling was quite embarrassed by Han Feng's question. He boasted that he had been upright all his life, and he was still old when the events of that year happened, and it was impossible for him to participate in it, and all he saw after that was his father's depression and discouragement, so in his heart, he had already laid the foundation of loyalty to the monarch and the right path for the country. In his memory, his father rarely talked to him about the reason for the incident, let alone the second prince, and the few times he rarely talked about the second prince as a person, it was also a rare sentence or two of vague mantras when he was drunk, so emotionally, Ling Deqing sympathized with his father, but rationally, it was difficult for him to understand and agree with his father's choice. At this moment, listening to Han Feng talk about the old things, he only felt that his old face was slapped hard, and he was in hot pain. What Han Feng said was actually a brand that he couldn't avoid, a scar that he didn't want people to uncover, and he was embarrassed and angry.