Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 400 The New Official's First Battle

Liu Qin coughed, went out to the emperor Zhao Zhen and bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I have some questions, can I ask Doctor Fan?"

Zhao Zhen nodded expressionlessly, "Quick!"

Liu Qin immediately turned around and asked Fan Ning, "Xue Zongru accused Ouyang Xiu of having an affair with his daughter-in-law, but it was not confirmed that it was in his own mansion. If it was elsewhere, the meaning of the words may not be inconsistent. How do you explain this?"

Fan Ning said coldly: "The premise of Xueshi Liu's statement is that he believed that Ouyang Xiu had an affair with his daughter-in-law. So what evidence does Xueshi Liu have to draw this conclusion first? How can Xue Zongru say that it is in another place? What evidence does he have? Do you want to bring Xue Zongru here so I can question him?"

Xue Zongru is a seventh-rank official, and he is not qualified to participate in the Xiaochaohui. Fan Ning directly pointed the finger at Xue Zongru, so should he be recruited?

Liu Qin quickly glanced at Jia Changchao, seeing him shaking his head to him, Xue Zongru couldn't be found for this matter, Liu Qin said with a dry smile: "Everyone has their own position, everyone thinks that Ouyang Xiu has an affair with his daughter-in-law, I naturally It is also based on this premise, but Dr. Fan denied it outright. I wonder if Dr. Fan has found any direct evidence to prove that the poem has nothing to do with Wu Chunyan?"

Liu Qin's words are a bit embarrassing. Since he supports Xue Zongru's accusation, he should be the one to prove that this poem has something to do with Wu Chunyan, but now he wants Fan Ning to prove that this poem has nothing to do with Wu Chunyan.

It's like a sheep, you insist on calling it a pig, but you can't prove that it is a pig, but you insist on others to prove that it is not a pig. To put it bluntly, it is making trouble for no reason.

In fact, everyone understands that there are no small buildings or ponds in Ouyang Xiu's mansion. This is the biggest evidence that Ouyang Xiu has been slandered by rumors in all likelihood.

No one noticed that the emperor Zhao Zhen's face had gradually turned livid.

Fan Ning straightened his back and sneered, "I'm afraid I've disappointed Xueshi Liu. I really found the original manuscript of this song, and I also found the woman corresponding to this song."

Fan Ning's words caused an uproar in the hall, Zhang Yaozuo became a little anxious, and asked loudly, "Doctor Fan, who is this person?"

Fan Ning ignored him, bowed to Zhao Zhen and said, "Your Majesty, I must protect the witnesses. I will submit a complete report to Your Majesty this morning."

Zhao Zhen nodded, "Then I will wait for your report. If Xue Zongru is indeed a false accusation, I will punish him severely!"

After finishing speaking, he ignored Zhang Sheng, got up and said, "Sanchao!"

Zhang Sheng was stunned, his impeachment was only halfway through, and the emperor announced the disbandment of the court, and he couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

.........

Liu Qin quickly caught up with Jia Changchao and followed behind him. He asked in a low voice, "Mr. Jia, what should we do?"

"What should I do?" Jia Changchao gave him a cold look.

"I'm afraid that Xue Zongru's fate will be worse this time!"

"What does his bad luck have to do with me?"

Jia Changchao gave Liu Qin a dissatisfied look, turned around and walked away.

Looking at the back of Jia Changchao walking away, Liu Qin couldn't help sighing in his heart, Jia Xianggong refused to admit it, what should we do?
He was not worried about Xue Zongru, but worried about himself. He jumped out at the court meeting in the morning. He was obviously Xue Zongru's accomplice. Once Xue Zongru was questioned, could he escape the relationship?
Liu Qin was very anxious, but there was nothing he could do...

When Zhang Yaozuo returned to the official room, he smashed a cup, a bunch of useless bastards!

He gritted his teeth with hatred. He hated Jia Changchao for procrastinating and delaying the best opportunity, and also hated Zhang Sheng who made hasty preparations and was overthrown by someone's one-day investigation. Could it be that Zhang Sheng was just talking nonsense and didn't investigate at all?

At this time, Zhang Sheng came to his official room in a hurry. As soon as he entered the room, Zhang Yaozuo roared: "How do you explain it to me?"

Zhang Sheng was sweating profusely, and said hastily: "This incident really cannot be blamed on the humble official. I didn't expect him to find the evidence in one day, and I also hoped to impeach Ouyang Xiu earlier, but..."

"Is it my responsibility?"

"I don't dare to be humble. Jia Changchao is indeed responsible for this matter. He shouldn't delay for too long."

Zhang Sheng shifted the responsibility to Jia Changchao, Zhang Yaozuo gave him a hard look, and said: "You have to do two things now, first, you have to confirm whether Fan Ning has found conclusive evidence, and second, once Fan Ning is found Ning has found conclusive evidence, so this matter has nothing to do with us, understand?"

"Humble job understands!"

Zhang Sheng saluted and left in a hurry.

Zhang Yaozuo's mood became very bad, he sat on the chair and stared out of the window, muttering to himself: "Could it be that this little brat has become so powerful?"

Fan Ning finished the draft of the report yesterday, and he spent another half an hour writing a new report. He put the evidence he found in a paper bag, and left the Court of Admonitions and hurried to the palace.

He waited for a while outside the imperial study of Ziwei Palace, when an eunuch came running over and said, "Fan Zhiyuan, His Majesty calls you to have an audience."

Fan Ning walked quickly into the imperial study room, and an eunuch followed behind him holding the documents for him.

In the imperial study room, Zhao Zhen was drinking tea while sitting in front of the imperial case, Fan Ning bowed and saluted, "I see your majesty!"

Zhao Zhen nodded in approval and said, "Aiqing performed well in the court meeting today. She is a qualified admonisher. She is not afraid of offending others. She dares to express her different opinions clearly, and she is reasonable and restrained. I am very satisfied!"

"Weichen only wants to do things well, and doesn't care too much about other people's feelings."

"This is the key. I have said long ago that if you are afraid of offending others, you cannot be a good official. Okay! Let me read your report."

Fan Ning handed over the report, and the eunuch also handed over the paper bag full of documents. Zhao Zhen looked at the paper bag and asked, "What's inside?"

"It's all kinds of evidence collected by Weichen, including Xue Zongru's seven times of slander and rumors against Ouyang Xiu in the past five years, this time is the eighth time."

Zhao Zhen's face became very ugly. He saw a sketch from the document and asked, "What does this picture mean?"

"Your Majesty, this picture is a sketch of the South Campus of Dongmen Jiaofang, which is completely in line with the surrounding environment of Ouyang Xiu's poem. Ouyang Xiu himself explained that the poem was inspired here."

"What about the swallow in the word?" Zhao Zhen asked again, the swallow was the key to the case, and Wu Chunyan was suspected because of her nickname.

"The swallow in the poem is Zhu Caimei, an official prostitute. Her real name is Zhu Yan. Ouyang Xiu likes her very much. He wrote that poem to Zhu Caimei. I got the confession and the original manuscript of this poem from Zhu Caimei!"

"asshole!"

Zhao Zhen slapped the table heavily angrily, and told the left and right: "Quickly go and summon Wen Xianggong, Fu Xianggong and Han Xianggong to see me!"

The eunuch rushed to summon the three prime ministers, Zhao Zhen's mood became very bad, he stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back and said nothing, while Fan Ning stood aside with his hands down, not daring to disturb the emperor's meditation.

After a long time, Zhao Zhen said slowly: "It's so easy to ruin a person's reputation, just make up a story, and a dignified literary leader can be ruined just like that."

Fan Ning said in a deep voice: "Weichen believes that the key is that the price of breaking the law is too low. If you slander a person, you have to pay a heavy price. There won't be so many people who wantonly make up things, and there won't be "Tabolo" Spreading rumors at will, Xue Zongru is a censor, but he spreads rumors and slanders at will, and his virtue is completely unworthy to be a censor, so who recommended him as a censor? Should he also bear the responsibility of recommending?"

Zhao Zhen nodded, "You are quite right. If this incident is not severely punished, there will be more Ouyang Xiu incidents."

At this time, the eunuch reported at the door, "Your Majesty, the three gentlemen are here!"

"Show them in!"

Zhao Zhen returned to his seat and sat down. After a while, three gentlemen came in and bowed together.

Zhao Zhen waved his hand, "Fan Zhiyuan's report has come out, take a look for yourself!"

Wen Yanbo took the report and read it carefully, and Fan Ning recounted the situation just reported. Fu Bi picked up the original manuscript of the poem that Ouyang Xiu gave to Zhu Caimei and looked at it. It was obviously a few years old, and it was not a newly written poem. And the logic of the report is very clear, then this matter is very obvious, it is indeed Xue Zongru who fabricated the facts to frame Ouyang Xiu.

Zhao Zhen asked again: "Who recommended Xue Zongru as the censor?"

Fu Bi thought for a while and said, "It seems to be jointly recommended by Liu Yun, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Liu Qin, a direct scholar."

Zhao Zhen nodded, and asked the three of them: "The truth of the matter has come to light, what do the three ministers think should be done?"

Han Qi bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that the nature of this matter is bad and the consequences are extremely serious, and it has greatly hurt innocent ministers. If this situation is not stopped severely, more ministers will suffer misfortune in the future. In order to clean up the court, my minister I believe that those who spread rumors and slander should be severely punished, and those responsible should be severely punished."

Fu Bi also expressed his opinion: "My minister agrees with Han Xianggong's suggestion and supports severe punishment!"

"What about Mr. Wen?"

Wen Yanbo also nodded, "This incident is really bad, and we need to learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones."

Wen Yanbo's tone was light. In fact, his position was relatively neutral. He believed that Xue Zongru might have this misunderstanding in order to protect the interests of his sister. Xue Zongru interceded.

Zhao Zhen said coldly: "Since the three county officials agree, let me pass on my will. Xue Zongru wantonly slanders the minister. The nature is bad and the consequences are serious. He will be dismissed from all official positions and handed over to Dali Temple for questioning!"

After a pause, Zhao Zhen said again: "Liu Yun, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, and Liu Qin, a direct scholar, recommended an unethical person as the imperial censor. They have dereliction of duty. They will be dismissed from their current positions. Liu Yun will be demoted to Sima of Xuzhou, and Liu Qin will be demoted. As the county lieutenant of Xuancheng, anyone who wantonly slanders and frames ministers in the future will be punished with serious crimes!"

(End of this chapter)