Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 399 tit for tat
Today is the Xiaochaohui, which is also held in Ziwei Hall. The participants are basically chief officials and deputies from various departments such as provinces, ministries, temples, divisions, and admonishment platforms. There are about 300 people.

Fan Ning came a little late. Not long after he arrived at the square, the bell for the court meeting rang, and the officials all walked into the hall. Li Weizhen squeezed in front of Fan Ning and whispered: "The poem written by Ouyang Xiu The original manuscript was obtained, and Zhu Caimei's statement was also available, she proved that Ouyang Xiu wrote this poem to him."

"Does the surrounding environment match the meaning of the word?"

"It fits perfectly. There is a west building in the inner courtyard of Dongmen Jiaofang, and there is a pond below it. Even the steward inside has proved that Ouyang Xiu often lingered here in the past two years."

After a pause, Li Weizhen said again: "There is another key point, that Zhu Caimei's real name is Zhu Yannv, and Caimei is her prostitute name."

"Good!" Fan Ning praised with a thumbs up: "The investigation is very thorough."

The two walked into the main hall and stood in the seats on the left side of the remonstrance court. Several prime ministers had seats in the upper court, but their ordinary ministers did not. Zhang Sheng from the right remonstrance court stood opposite them. Fan Ning had seen this person yesterday. , but neither of them greeted each other, and their attitude was very cold.

Zhang Sheng's rank and position are exactly the same as Fan Ning's. Although he does not have a title, title is not important in the ranking of civil servants in the court, but because Zhang Sheng's qualifications are much deeper than Fan Ning's, it is generally considered that Zhang Sheng is inferior to Fan Ning.

However, this situation is also temporary. Generally, after ten years of experience as an official, no one will underestimate Fan Ning's qualifications. Just like there is a big gap between 20 and 70 years old, but there is no difference between 60 and [-] years old. The gap is the same.

Once Fan Ning has more than ten years of qualifications, Zhang Sheng, who is not from a major, really can't compare with him given his qualifications of No.

At this time, Fan Ning found that Zhang Sheng was holding a memorial in his hand, and he asked Li Weizhen in a low voice, "Is there any suggestion from the Right Admonition Court today?"

Generally, the left and right counselors will sit down every two or three days to exchange cases in each other's hands to prevent the two sides from duplicating cases.

"I haven't communicated in the past two days. I should sit down with Jia Jiansi and have a talk this afternoon."

Fan Ning saw the official behind Zhang Sheng, Right Adviser Jia Yin, who was also whispering something to Zhang Sheng, looking this way from time to time.

Fan Ning had an intuition in his heart. He vaguely realized that the memorial in Zhang Sheng's hand might be related to Ouyang Xiu's case. He started investigating Ouyang Xiu's case yesterday. Will the other party respond?
At this time, an official shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor is here!"

The hall suddenly fell silent, and saw sixteen guards with swords opening the way in front, and eight court ladies holding palace fans in the back, surrounded by the emperor Zhao Zhen, entered the hall from the side.

Zhao Zhen walked to the dragon couch, and all the officials bowed and saluted together, "See Your Majesty!"

"Every dear one, you are free from courtesy!"

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and sat down on the dragon couch. There are usually fixed topics in the daily court meeting, which will be sent to the officials participating in the meeting the day before, but there are also unexpected topics, no matter which kind of topic is decided on the spot. , The role of the court meeting is to allow everyone to fully participate in the discussion.

The real decision-making place is in the Zhizheng Hall, where the Prime Minister discusses matters and makes decisions, and implements them after being reported to the emperor for approval.

Of course, there are also government affairs that are discussed by the emperor after the prime ministers make decisions. In this case, the emperor is generally not satisfied with the decisions made by the prime ministers.

Zhao Zhen asked Wen Yanbo: "Did the Zhizheng Hall make a decision on the resettlement of the refugees yesterday?"

Wen Yanbo leaned forward and said: "His Majesty, the Zhizheng Hall has decided to resettle 15 refugees from West Hebei Road in the seven states of Jianghuai. The specific plan is being drawn up and will be reported to His Majesty within three days."

Zhao Zhen nodded, and asked again: "The Zhizheng Hall has decided to resettle the 15 refugees from West Hebei Road in the seven states of Jianghuai. Do other court officials have different opinions?"

Now that the Zhizhengtang has put forward a formal resolution, any objection is a challenge to the power of the prime minister. This may happen when the struggle between the monarch and the prime minister is fierce, but at least not now. Zhao Zhen just asked casually and did not I really want to oppose Zhizhengtang's resolution.

There was silence in the court hall, and no minister responded. Zhao Zhen nodded, "This proposal is over, do you have any other proposals?"

There is no fixed motion today, just to confirm the results of yesterday's motion. According to the usual practice, if there is no provisional motion, the court will be dispersed.

At this time, Fan Ning quickly glanced at Zhang Sheng, and sure enough, Zhang Sheng stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I have something to play!"

The appearance of Doctor You Jianyi meant that another official was about to be impeached, and there was a slight commotion in the court hall, which then quieted down randomly.

Zhao Zhen asked: "What is Zhang Aiqing going to play?"

Zhang Sheng took a few steps forward and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Ouyang Xiu's morals are corrupt, he is incompatible with laws and ethics, and has seriously damaged the reputation of the court and the dignity of the emperor. I request Your Majesty to decree that Ouyang Xiu be removed from all official positions and exiled to Lingnan to think about his mistakes!"

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the hall, and the Jianyuan finally took action against Ouyang Xiu.

At this time, Han Qi was dissatisfied and said: "Zhang Zhiyuan, isn't it too childish to judge the minister's moral corruption just by relying on a poem?"

Zhang Sheng said in a calm manner: "We have asked Mrs. Ouyang about this matter, and she thinks that Xue Yushi is prudent and will not make false accusations against others at will."

Xue Zongru is the younger brother of Ouyang Xiu's wife, Xue Shi. Of course, she would not say that her brother was falsely accusing her husband, but she also did not admit that her husband had an affair with his daughter-in-law.

It's just that Zhang Sheng cut off the second half of the sentence and only used the first half.

What he meant was that even Mrs. Ouyang believed that Xue Zongru was not making a false accusation, so it was a fact that Ouyang Xiu had an affair with his daughter-in-law.

This is a typical rendering technique. Although there is no conclusive evidence, as long as Mrs. Ouyang's attitude is highlighted, it will give people the feeling that Mrs. Ouyang admits that her husband and daughter-in-law are having an affair.

Han Qi couldn't find a suitable answer for a while, so he quickly glanced at Fan Ning. Although Fan Ning was not ready yet, he had to play at this time.

Just when Zhao Zhen was hesitant to say anything, Fan Ning stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I also have my own performance!"

There was no sound in the hall for a moment, it was very interesting, doctor Zuo Jianyi also stood up, what would he say?
Both civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty knew that the left and right remonstrance courts had always been at odds with each other, and that the left and right remonstrance courts had always been at odds with each other. Zuo remonstrated with doctors and officials, and they would never support Zhang Sheng.

Among the hundreds of officials, Jia Changchao's eyes narrowed. He didn't know Fan Ning very well. He really didn't expect Fan Ning to stand up at this time, which surprised him very much.

But Zhang Yaozuo's face turned black, as expected, Fan Ning stood up after Han Qi questioned, this is the rhythm of fighting Zhang Sheng.

Just as Zhang Yaozuo was about to speak up to object, Fan Ning's performance was not in accordance with the rules. He should wait for Zhang Sheng to finish speaking before he can come out.

At this moment, Zhao Zhen said, "Fan Zhiyuan, please tell me!"

Fan Ning said loudly: "I also want to impeach Yushi Xue Zongru for slandering Minister Ouyang Xiu, which has caused extremely bad influence on Ouyang Xiu and the court. I want him to be imprisoned and punished!"

Fan Ning's words also caused an uproar among civil and military officials. Two advising doctors actually had opposite opinions on the same matter, quite tit-for-tat. This kind of thing has not happened for many years.

Zhang Yaozuo was furious and said viciously: "Fan Zhiyuan, since you want to impeach Xue Zongru, why didn't you have a written impeachment report? Will the current court just talk about it?"

Zhang Yaozuo couldn't talk about Fan Ning's content, so he made a fuss about Fan Ning's lack of a written report and his violation of the rules.

However, Han Qi interjected: "Zhang Guozhang's remark is inappropriate. The court meeting did not require the ministers to submit written reports, especially for temporary performances, most of them are supplementary reports after the fact. Last time Zhang Guozhang played the matter of Kunzhou, Isn't there also no written memorial?"

Slapping him hard, Zhang Yaozuo was speechless for a moment, he snorted hard, and stopped talking with a livid face.

Fan Ning continued: "Your Majesty, I have already begun to investigate the case of slandering Ouyang Xiu. This case is very simple, so simple that I only took one day to find out the truth."

Zhang Sheng said angrily: "Doctor Fan, Mrs. Ouyang has admitted that Xue Zongru is not slandering, what else can you say?"

Fan Ning said coldly: "I want to remind Zhang Zhiyuan that the investigation of the remonstrance court has principles, and the testimony of close relatives cannot be used as the basis for handling the case. Xue Zongru is Mrs. Ouyang's younger brother. Can she say that her own brother is slandering Ouyang Xiu?"

"you--"

Zhang Sheng was suddenly overwhelmed. Others did not know this principle of handling cases, but Fan Ning knew it very well.

Fan Ning ignored him, and continued: "Your Majesty, ministers, Xue Zongru used a poem to slander Ouyang Xiu and his daughter-in-law for having an affair, but I want to tell everyone that there is no two-story building in Ouyang Xiu's mansion, and there is no pond. Ouyang Xiu doesn't have any other house, the house he rented five years ago did have a small building and a pond, but Wu Chunyan only married into Ouyang's house three years ago, where is the scenery depicted in the poem?"

There were whispers in the hall, Fan Ning's evidence hit the nail on the head, this is the biggest doubt, since there is no house and pond in Ouyang Xiu's mansion, then the obscenity that Xue Zongru accused may not be about his daughter-in-law Wu Chunyan .

At this time, Jia Changchao winked at Liu Qin, a direct scholar, and asked him to come forward to refute Fan Ning's one-sided statement.

At this time, Jia Changchao would definitely not go into battle shirtless like Zhang Yaozuo, he would always hide behind the scenes.

(End of this chapter)