The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

"Master Ge," Zhang Fan walked to Ge Shouli's side, and said, "Can you show me that letter?" What Zhang Fan said was the letter that Ge Shouli was holding in his hand now, as evidence. The existing letters, but originally, Feng Bao took them out to be circulated by everyone, and the Empress Dowager Li's mother and son frowned deeply after reading them, but they didn't have much hesitation, and Zhang Juzheng did the same.

However, after reaching Ge Shouli's hands, he held the letter in his hand and looked at it again and again. While frowning, he seemed to have forgotten that there were other people around him, and he had no intention of passing on the letter at all. , Zhang Fan had to remind him.

Zhang Fan's voice brought Ge Shouli back to his senses. He raised his head to look at Zhang Fan and then at the letter in his hand. The expression on his face became more and more serious, but he still handed the letter to Zhang Fan. Where.

Zhang Fan took it over and took a look, and immediately saw some tricks. The key is not the content written on the letter. In fact, what evidence Feng Bao will produce to prove this move. Zhang Fan has long thought of it. Naturally, it was within the scope of his thinking, and Zhang Fan didn't even need to read it, he could guess what was written on the letter.

It's just that the letter Feng Bao took out obviously put a lot of effort into it. It was indeed stated in the letter that the eight people should follow them to the capital, and then take the opportunity to make trouble and cause the common people to make trouble. The bigger the better, of course, the letter will naturally not state why these people are asked to do this, so that a discerning person will know at a glance that this letter is definitely not true, it is forged for the purpose of framing.

However, in fact, it is not easy to forge such a letter. If it is aimed at those ordinary people, or someone with a low official position, this trick is very useful, but Zhang Siwei is not ordinary, and now this thing is done But it was too big, even if Liang Chao failed to complete the task assigned by Zhang Fan and Feng Bao's people took Zhang Siwei into custody, he would naturally be taken back to the capital for interrogation.

And at that time, it wasn't Feng Bao who had the final say, and it was impossible for Zhang Siwei to be handed over to Dongchang for trial, and it would inevitably be a joint trial of the three divisions. As long as the support is taken out, the problem will be revealed immediately.

Although the letter did not say why he did this, the tone was definitely Zhang Siwei himself, and even at the end of the letter, there was a rock mark, Zhang Siwei's word Ziwei, good Fengpan, this is clear It is his mark.

But the problem is not here. The problem is that if this is the case, this letter cannot be used as evidence, because it is not Zhang Siwei's handwriting at all. In this era, as a scholar, one must not only be able to recite poetry , what is more important is to have a beautiful handwriting to make face.

There is no shortcut to practicing calligraphy, and the most common method used by people is to copy posts, just like Zhang Fan, who likes Lin Mifu's calligraphy, but Zhang Fan is not the only one who likes Mi Fu's calligraphy in this world, but who? I saw that all these people wrote exactly the same.

Words, in the final analysis, still vary from person to person. If a thousand people write the same character, there will be a thousand styles. Zhang Siwei's characters are not secret, he has also written many things , There are also many people in the court who know his characters.

However, even if Feng Bao had Zhang Siwei's handwriting in his hand, it would be difficult to copy it so lifelike, let alone use it for counterfeiting. If the painting is counterfeited, it can be made exactly the same. Only this copybook, there is no way to do it, let alone Don't say, Zhang Siwei didn't write these words, Feng Bao wanted to put these words together.

To write this kind of letter, running script is naturally the first choice. It is impossible to use regular script, one stroke at a time, and it is impossible to use cursive script. No one else knows the writing, but running script is also the most difficult to imitate and fake. After all, running script writing When I'm hungry, the strokes are smooth, although not arbitrary, but also with a very strong personal style.

If we confront Zhang Siwei in court at that time, as soon as this letter is taken out, it will be exposed. Feng Bao can't bring Zhang Siwei down, and he will be ridiculed by the world.

However, this is the problem that Zhang Fan sees. There are indeed traces of imitating Zhang Siwei's pen on this letter, but the traces are not obvious. However, these are not the point. The point is that this The letter was not written by Zhang Siwei at all.

As for the reason why Feng Bao dared to show it, I am afraid that not many people know about it, but it is precisely here that Zhang Fan knows, because there are many letters in Jinyiwei that are similar to this one, which is a letter written with his left hand.

If you write with your right hand, the strokes will vary from person to person, with a strong personal style that cannot be imitated by others, but if you use your left hand, even if you are born left-handed, you will practice calligraphy with your left hand when you are born. They are all the same, almost exactly the same.

"Ge Aiqing." Apparently, not only Zhang Fan, but even Empress Dowager Li saw that something was wrong with Ge Shouli, and asked, "What's the matter? Is there something wrong?"

"Return to the Queen Mother," Ge Shouli said, "Weichen just read this letter, not to mention what was written in the letter, but it doesn't look like Mr. Zhang wrote it, but then Words are so weird, "

"Feng Bao, what's going on?" Queen Mother Li is also a well-educated person, but she has no research on calligraphy. In fact, everyone present, including Zhu Yijun, is familiar with calligraphy The person who studied it, but since Feng Bao took out this letter, she naturally wanted to ask Feng Bao.

"Master Zhang," Feng Bao didn't immediately answer Queen Mother Li's words, but looked at Zhang Fan with a smile, and said, "Master Zhang has also read this letter, and thinks how should the queen mother answer the question asked by you?"

Empress Dowager Li did not blame Feng Bao for this, but looked at Zhang Fan strangely. Obviously, she was also very interested in this.

"Queen Mother, this..." Zhang Fan paused, but he saw that almost all the people present were looking at him, but Feng Bao looked triumphant, while other people, including Zhang who had read the letter, were looking at him. Inside, they all looked curious.

"This letter, I'm not sure whether Master Zhang wrote it," Zhang Fan said, "but I dare not deny it either."

"What does this mean?" Obviously, Ge Shouli, who was very concerned about this matter, immediately asked after hearing Zhang Fan's words, "The strokes of this font... Zhang Siwei is now in his [-]s, and this stroke has long been formed , how could it be changed at will, "

"Because..." Zhang Fan paused and said, "This letter is not written with the right hand, but with the left hand."

"What?" Hearing Zhang Fan's words, Ge Shouli was taken aback, snatched the letter from Zhang Fan's hand, and read it carefully.

Zhang Fan was not surprised, and said to the Queen Mother Li who still didn't understand: "The Queen Mother, my ministers, everyone including Mrs. Zhang, Mr. Ge, and Eunuch Feng, usually practice calligraphy with their right hands mostly, and the right hand Writing, the style is too heavy, it is almost impossible to imitate, but the left hand is different, no matter whether you are born with a left hand or you need to use it temporarily, the characters you write are almost the same, it is difficult to tell whether it is written by yourself. You will see such a letter, so I saw it when I looked at it just now, the two adults didn't see it, but it is understandable, it is not a big deal, "

"So that's how it is." After listening to Zhang Fan's explanation, Empress Dowager Li nodded and said, "No wonder, people in this world who can write with their left hand are probably not born with it, but also want to write things that others will not know about." up,"

After Ge Shouli read the letter for a long time, he raised his head again, but this time, there was a lot of light in his expression.

"Queen Mother, just as Master Zhang said, this letter was indeed written with his left hand. Because Wei Chen doesn't use his left hand to practice calligraphy on weekdays, so I didn't notice it just now. After Master Zhang pointed out, I found out," Ge Shouli said here, The topic changed and became tougher, "However, based on this letter alone, it is impossible to conclude that this was written by Zhang Siwei. Perhaps, it was deliberately forged by someone in order to blame Zhang Siwei. Not sure." Speaking of this, Ge Shouli glanced at Feng Bao.

And Feng Bao obviously also saw Ge Shouli's gaze, but he didn't care at all, not even the smile on his face diminished a bit.

"This..." Empress Dowager Li said after hearing what he said, "What Ge Aiqing said is true. Just based on this letter that anyone can write with his left hand, it is difficult to determine whether it was written by Zhang Siwei himself. ,"

"By the way, Eunuch, Zhang Fan wants to ask something," Zhang Fan suddenly said to Feng Bao.

"Master Zhang has something to ask, but it's okay to say it," Feng Bao nodded, and said, "If our family knows, we can answer it ourselves."

"That day, when these eight people were just caught," Zhang Fan said, "That day, they were interrogated in my Jinyiwei's yamen, and my father-in-law was also present at that time, so do you still remember?"

"Of course I remember this, how could our family forget it," Feng Bao nodded.

"I must still remember," Zhang Fan said, "When those people found out that it was Zhang Siwei who recruited them, I asked them for a letter, but they said it had been burned, but why now, my father-in-law can If you can get this letter, where did this letter come from?"

Faced with Zhang Fan's questioning tone, Feng Bao was not nervous, and even his expression did not change.

However, after hearing Zhang Fan's words, the other people present all showed a look of surprise,