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Chapter 15 The Interlude of Black and White

Fan Xianling captured Dai Zhen in one place because the eunuch leader was behind the other party.

Officials in Kyoto found that even Eunuch Dai was impressed by the determination of the Supervision Bureau, Fan Tishi's methods, and work in the same department were carried out in an orderly manner in Kyoto. In accordance with the rules of previous years, they broke into the door in the dark night and quietly invited the officials back to the hospital.

The sudden purge brought a cool wind to Kyoto. The officials in the capital thought that this talented man would cause a storm in Beijing like the case in spring. But gradually people found that this was not the case. The officials investigated and dealt with in this storm were relatively low in terms of rank, and there were no important figures from various factions, and there were no major cases that were involved.

The elders in the court and the subordinates of the princes, for Fan Xian's face and the master Dai's previous experience, did not react fiercely. Over time, they found that this storm did not involve the key points of the officialdom, but just some fragmentary knocks and beats. The officials' hearts that were somewhat raised were also put back in their stomachs. It was speculated that Fan Xian was just a new official taking office and using these three fires to establish his authority.

Although the fire is not big, there are always people who are worried about being affected. So recently these days, Liu has become the busiest person in the Fan Mansion. The hands that used to like to hand over a silver note without any fireworks were now beginning to check incense and pity, and she naturally transferred all of these silver notes to Fan Xian. Fan Xian picked up most of them and sent the rest to Yan Mansion.

From ancient times to the present, from Fan Shen's world to Fan Xian's world, money has always been the supreme weapon to soothe people's hearts and soothe people's hearts.

Therefore, the staff of the Supervision Bureau became much more motivated, and the officials of various factions who had successfully contacted the fingers of the Lady of Shangshu were also relieved - those who gave money and collected money comforted themselves.

Affairs has already started to be on track, so Fan Xian did not go to Xinfeng Pavilion today, but sat in his study and looked at the case school in his hand. The case school was summarized by Mu Tie. Although his writing style is not exquisite, it is better to be organized.

After paying a large fine, the nephew of Eunuch Dai finally returned from the Supervisory Office by chance. He took advantage of the loopholes of Qinglu and did not move to the Ministry of Justice or Dali Temple. But the little official in the Vegetable Inspection Department naturally couldn't be treated as the other small cases. The other minor cases were also handled relatively mildly.

In theory, since the Supervision Bureau investigated the case of the Vegetables Department, I was afraid that the man Dai Zhen would not only lose his black hat and could not even save his head. However, Fan Xian admired Dai's knowledge and tactfulness, which helped him reduce some trouble in the future. Moreover, Ye Ling'er silently went to the palace to speak for him, but passed on a pleading statement from Concubine Shu - this kind of favor is naturally to be sold.

Shi Chanli looked at his young "school master" opposite the desk, feeling a little restless. After the Spring Examination, his three friends, Hou Jichang, Yang Wanli, and Cheng Xilin, had been released as officials. According to letters, they were doing well in all counties and roads. Prime Minister Lin had been in the court for many years, and in various counties and roads. Naturally, they were full of relationships. These people now look at Fan Xian, and naturally they should take care of Fan Xian's three "proud disciples".

Among the four, he was the only one who was unknown on the list, so he naturally could not immediately embark on the career path and show his skills. Before Fan Xianlin went to Northern Qi, he left him a letter, asking him to wait for him to come back. Unexpectedly, after Lord Fan came back, he immediately took over the affairs of the Supervision Bureau. Shi Chanli really didn't know what he could do to the sect master. Thinking that his friends had become a pastor of the country, he could only sit in the study to copy some case studies. Even though he was extremely sparse in his temperament, he couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Fan Xian raised his head, looked at him, and said with a smile: "Do you feel too bored?"

Shi Chanli smiled bitterly and said, "The teacher is a few years younger than me, and he can be so calm in the complicated official documents. It seems that students also need to sharpen their temperament."

Fan Xian smiled and thought that if it were Hou Jichang here, he would definitely stand up and talk back and forth. If it were Yang Wanli, he might have been unable to help but question in his heart and began to question why he had committed a recurrence in his private release. Only Shi Chanli was not anxious or bored, but he would not have bored words. It seemed that he had decided to let him stay by his side.

"Don't call me a teacher." He said, "I would rather call me an adult, because it's not that the official taste is too strong, but it really feels a bit ridiculous."

Shi Chanli was stunned. In fact, things like the candidates are younger than the examiner, which are very common in this world, and he himself doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

Fan Xian handed over the Case Sect on the table and asked, "What do you think?"

Shi Chanli didn't know if the adults were competing for him. He just had memorized these official documents well over the past two days. He shook his head and said sincerely: "The student really doesn't understand what the teacher... the adults' move is. If he really wants to fight a tiger, he wouldn't always stare at these rats."

Fan Xian smiled and said, "Just find something for the cats in one place to do, and be familiar with them. When you really do big things in the future, you won't be too panicked."

Shi Chanli pretended not to hear the word "big thing" and sincerely asked: "Sir, as an official in the court, he naturally had to share his worries for the emperor and do things for the court. However, seeing that the adults came to act these days, although they were small and enlarged, they still offended some people."

"Occuring people is a must-have characteristic of the Supervision Bureau." Fan Xian explained: "You also know that the Supervision Bureau is Your Majesty's private institution, not a public instrument in the true sense, but a private instrument of the Emperor. We only have one object of loyalty, so whether from the perspective of the palace or the perspective of the Supervision Bureau itself, we must be a role of offending people... And one is deep in the capital, tripped by the prosperity of the Kyoto, and completely lost the original intention of Your Majesty at the time. It is not strong enough or vicious enough. Your Majesty asked me to take care of one place, so naturally I want to go back to the initial role of the dare to offend people."

Shi Chanli could no longer pretend. The sect master had already said so thoroughly to him, and could only honestly reply: "Your Majesty wants to be an adult... to be an isolated minister."

Fan Xian nodded: "I am not biased and unconventional. Your Majesty wants me to be the second Chen Pingping, but..." He changed his words and said with a sarcastic expression: "I have visited the dean's mansion. The mansion is luxurious and overwhelming, but the loneliness that is engraved into my bones is really not my favorite."

Shi Chan immediately understood what he meant and said sadly: "But if the lord is silenced and the lord's eyes are like torches, he will naturally see clearly, which is probably not good for the lord's future."

Fan Xian smiled and said nothing, thinking that the emperor would not have thoughts that under normal circumstances, he would not have thoughts that were more toxic than tigers.

Shi Chanli also understood that he had said too much. He changed the topic and said: "A place where the case is now investigated, although it has returned to the past tradition and started to arrest people at night, the adults have been unwilling to cover up the news. Anyone who inquired about it will report it to the truth... The students really don't agree."

Fan Xian asked interestedly: "Why?"

After a little consideration, Shi Chanli said: "The Supervisory Office is His Majesty's spy agency. The reason why it can shock all officials is, in addition to the privileges set by Qinglu, is more important because of its mystery and darkness. People are ignorant. The more they don't understand, the more they will feel scared. Now the adults are deliberately putting their actions on the table, which is afraid that they will weaken this feeling. The court and the people are looking down on the Supervisory Office."

Fan Xian admitted that what he said made sense, but said: "I know you do not agree with certain terms in a new regulation, such as posting messages, and I also admit that if the Supervision Bureau has always maintained the image of a man-eating demon in the dark, it will be very convenient for us to act."

Shi Chanli was surprised that his sect master would agree with his own opinion, thinking to himself, was it because you were unwilling to accept that the world regarded yourself as a ghost? Want to change your image?

Fan Xian's next words immediately overturned his imagination: "I don't care how the world views the Supervision Bureau... but you have to be clear that I am only in charge of one place, not the entire courtyard. One place in Kyoto, except for the spies tied to the prince's mansion. Everything is impossible to hide. There are so many officials in Kyoto as there are no dogs and carp, and there are thousands of connections between the people... Since there is no way to maintain the mystery of a place, I might as well make it clear and maybe it will be more shocking."

He then said seriously: "But I only ask for the results of the investigation to be bright, and I do not ask for the same in the process. I can accept any dark means in the middle... You should be clear. I don't want to be a saint."

Shi Chanli nodded, feeling extremely comforted. It seemed that his sect master was indeed a person who dared to expose the shortcomings of the officialdom and was only reserved for the time being.

Fan Xian looked at him, not knowing what the other party thought of him, and said, "From today on any case investigated and handled, after the case is settled and sent to the Dali Temple or the Ministry of Justice, you must write a charter, explain the origin of the case carefully, and then announce it. I have already chosen the location of the announcement, and it is on the wall between one and Dali Temple."

Shi Chanli said in a daze: "This...this...this is not in accordance with the rules. It is not the Ministry of Justice issued a document for arrest, nor is it the court issued a term. The Supervision Bureau... also wants to issue an announcement?!"

Fan Xian said angrily: "It's not the Supervision Bureau, it's a place! Didn't you say it's brighter before? Are you going to let me write a novel and sell it everywhere?"

Shi Chanli immediately responded happily: "This is the best way to resolve the people's confusion, and to keep a little bit of a feeling of being away from a stranger... And adults open a bookstore, which is the most convenient way to do it."

Fan Xian breathed in anger and stood up and walked out. Shi Chanli followed him carefully and finally couldn't help asking: "Teacher, is the student starting to work in the Supervision Office?"

Fan Xian sighed, knowing that scholars around the world were still unwilling to enter the shameless secret service agency after all, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are my personal secretary. I will tell my father that I will temporarily hang it in the Ministry of Revenue. I will discuss it later. Don't worry, no one will point at your back and say that you are the evil dog of the Supervision Bureau."

Walking in the amazing garden of the back house of Fan Mansion, Fan Xian frowned, "Use dark means to achieve a bright result?" He believed that he was not the saint who was wronged. Although he was willing to do something for the people of Qing Kingdom, slightly curb the corrupt atmosphere in the officialdom, and at least ensure that the embankment of the river in the south would not collapse so rapidly, the rectification of the same place was more from his selfishness.

Although he is known as a poet and now has a new generation of literati leaders secretly praised him, he has conflicted with the filth that has accumulated for twenty years in the Supervision Bureau, which will always damage his reputation. So he wants to make a brighter place. Because a good reputation will do him a great favor in the future.

Thinking of the words about dark light, I couldn't help but think of the words he said when chatting with Haitang in Northern Qi, "The night gave me black eyes... but I want to roll my eyes at the world." He couldn't help but worry about the situation in the north, and wonder if Haitang could arrange the matter he told - Uncle Wu Zhu was still missing, and Ku He had no news of going back to Beijing.

In the garden in the distance, there were a few girls talking. Today it was a sunny day. The grasshoppers in the autumn were jumping around in the grass. The cicadas on the tree were also shouting desperately while the cicadas were born, covering up the voices of the women. Dabao caught ants in the courtyard wall. Fan Sizhe did not go to clan school, but was not at home.

Fan Xian squinted his eyes and found that Ye Ling'er was here again today. He couldn't help but complain in his heart. This girl felt that she had helped Fan Xian a lot. She came to the mansion to play these days recently, so she was not polite. When he found that Ye Ling'er was sitting next to him, she felt even more distressed. The twelve-year-old girl turned into a thirteen-year-old... but she was still a little girl, and Fan Xian didn't want to be stared at by the little girl's admiration.

In recent days, he has rejected Li Hongcheng's banquet several times, but Yan Bingyun has not found out yet. He has to hide first. Today he has to hide from Roujia, the little Luo Li who secretly admires him. After the true energy in his body was moved, Xiao Fan's body lightened, and he used the light body skill he had learned under the shadow of the stick. The yellow grass flew past and quietly jumped out of the mansion.

When he arrived at the house where Wang Qinian spent 120 taels of silver to buy a house in Fukao Road, Kyoto, Fan Xian sat in the innermost room and stretched comfortably. This was his most secret nest. Except for Qinian's group and Chen Pingping, even the people in the family didn't know that he often handled official and private affairs here.

Deng Ziyue solemnly placed the two bamboo tubes on the table and then stepped out. He knew that he was not as trusted as Wang Qinian, so he consciously left the house.

The colors of the bamboo tubes are very similar. Perhaps they are all produced at the foot of Yanshan Mountain beside Shangjing. The fire paint used at the seal is also very similar and is very complete. It should have not been moved. It is just a secret sign on the bamboo joints that allow the inspectors who are responsible for conveying information to know. These two extremely secret letters belong to two independent routes in the northern system.

Fan Xian picked up the bamboo tube and first of all, he carefully confirmed that no one had opened it. Wang Qinian's calligraphy, which was quite Pan Ling's charm, was indeed not easy to pretend. Then he opened the bamboo tube with confidence and took out the two letters inside.

One letter was sent by Lili Si and another letter was sent by Haitang. In order to facilitate contact with Haitang, Fan Xian set up a communication line for her.

Si Lili did not send any information worthy of attention. Although she had converted to Tianyidao according to Fan Xian and Haitangdi's plan, her efforts to enter the palace had not yet achieved results. In the capital, the heavy family was destroyed and the people were killed. Apart from the heavy blow to the power of the Later Party, it did not cause much response. Uesugi Tu was also banned at home. However, the end of the letter said that the Northern Qi national teacher Ku He had returned to Shangjing and had been in seclusion. Although no one dared to doubt anything, Si Lili firmly believed that the peerless strong man must have been injured.

Fan Xian smiled. There were only two or three great masters in the world who could fight Ku He, the human-eating monster.

In Haitang's letter, he didn't even mention the word "the great master" - he had a relationship with Haitang, so naturally it was not worth saying anything she could say, but she was just concerned about whether the auspicious matter was arranged properly.

After thinking about it, he began to write a reply letter, urging Haitang to fulfill the agreement at that time. This matter was just a matter of doing it for Haitang, but it had extremely important significance to Fan Xian. In his reply to Si Lili, he just copied a small poem by Li Qingzhao to express his consolation and did not say much.

In fact, what Fan Xian thought the most about the marriage between Ruruo and Li Hongcheng was the issue of the marriage between Ruruo and Li Hongcheng. This matter did not depend on the character of the prince or whether there was any conflict between the political stances of the two sides. For Fan Xian, the most critical point is only one point.

Do your sister like it?

Ruoruo has already expressed his attitude and doesn't like it - although Fan Xian is a little confused about the adolescent girls like all his brothers, thinking, may you not get married? But more of it is a desire for protection from the bottom of his bones. Since his sister doesn't like it, he will start to break the marriage. This is a very simple truth.

This is not a trivial matter, and it can even be said to be the most troublesome thing Fan Xian encountered after coming to Kyoto from Danzhou. The emperor pointed out that marriage was a match, and there was no reason to hinder the pace of this marriage.

So there is only two aspects: First, focus on the second prince, be prepared to destroy the other party and drag down Li Hongcheng, and ask for a break-up at that time, maybe it will work. Second, start from Ruruo, give a temptation of profit that even the emperor cannot ignore, and temporarily keep Ruruo away from Kyoto.

The previous technique is not sure how much noise it will cause, but the latter technique is too vague and even Fan Xian himself has no confidence.

"A general of humanity can achieve success and has thousands of bones. Do you want to get married and get rid of thousands of bones?"
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