229. Letter from the Heavenly Official, Ordered to Take Charge of the Court (Part 1) (Page 1/2)

"Have you heard? Kaifeng County Magistrate Zhang Sai led his men to break down the gate of Yuelu Academy and capture Cui Xian!"

"What?!"

"The old mountain chief's body is still warm, and Zhang Sai dares to—"

"The Zheng family has spoken. Cui Xian will surely die!"

same day.

The news that Zhang Sai led his men to break through the gate of Yuelu Mountain quickly spread in the Kaifeng officialdom, causing shock and uproar.

The encirclement and suppression of Cui Xian has escalated again.

From the riots of intellectuals to the intervention of government officials.

The nature has changed!

For a time, everyone in Kaifeng's officialdom felt insecure.

Countless pairs of eyes were secretly staring at Yuelu Academy, and they admired the Kaifeng County Magistrate from the bottom of their hearts: Brother, you are really stubborn.

You dare to break down the gate of Yuelu Academy!

Even if we are going to die tomorrow, we dare not be so reckless today.

In response, the Kaifeng County Magistrate said in tears: If I wasn’t reckless, I would die today!

After the riot of the literati in Kaifeng, the prefect and the magistrate of Kaifeng County keenly sensed that something was wrong and quickly fled on the pretext of illness.

The Kaifeng prefect was still a prefect after all, and he had strong connections, so he managed to escape.

County Magistrate Zhang Sai failed to escape and was firmly controlled by the Zheng family.

So, today there was this great show where he led people to break through the Yuelu Mountain Gate.

Um... no, it's a bad play!

After breaking into the academy, Zhang Sai wanted to trick the students into "rebelling against the academy" and then arrest Cui Xian.

But now, the plan has been discovered by Cui Xian.

The students did not run away.

what to do?

In front of the mountain gate covered with sawdust.

There are white flags flying all around.

County Magistrate Zhang Sai faced off against hundreds of Yuelu students and Cui Xian.

The students looked very frightened.

In fact, County Magistrate Zhang, who broke into the house with murderous intent, was even more panicked than them at this moment.

Because the attack missed, the momentum was lost.

He couldn't possibly chop off the Prime Minister's disciple in public, could he?

Even a family as arrogant as the Zheng family has to find a reason to frame someone and then arrest them!

now.

Cui Xian stood in front of the students, facing the cold steel knife.

The officers, who originally had murderous looks on their faces, turned around and looked at Magistrate Zhang with an embarrassed expression: Sir, what should we do next?

How would I know what to do?

I am best at corruption and bribery. This kind of brain-intensive work is really not my strong point.

But there is no other way. It has come to this point, so I can only go ahead with it.

Forcefully accuse him of a crime and arrest him first!

Zhang Sai sneered and scolded, "Dean? Cui Xian, you are just a commoner, spreading rumors and misleading the people, shaking the country, and you still dare to call yourself the dean? According to the Daliang Law..."

However.

Before Zhang Sai could finish his words.

Cui Xian interrupted with a cold face and said directly, "Are you Zhang Sai, the magistrate of Kaifeng County?"

Zhang Sai was stunned for a moment, then shouted angrily, "How dare you call me by my first name—"

"Zhang Sai."

Cui Xian scoffed rudely and interrupted him again: "Your position may be low, but your temper is not small. I called you by your name, and what are you going to do? Kill me?"

It was quiet all around.

The originally panicked Yuelu students, Pei Jian, Zhuang Jin and others were stunned.

Even Old Cui, Cui Boshan and others who heard the noise and ran out with pale faces were dumbfounded.

What's going on?

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, County Magistrate Zhang's face turned red.

Cui Xian looked at the officer in front of him who was pointing a steel knife at him.

The officer was silent for a moment, put down the knife with a strong desire to survive, and forced a flattering smile towards Cui Xian.

The people in the yamen are all smart. Before going out to work, they had already found out Cui Xian's identity.

Who dares to kill him?

"Just now you burst in, threatening my students with a knife. I was quoting from the Spring and Autumn Annals and Mencius to reason with you because the students were in a state of panic and needed to be comforted."

"It's not that I like to reason."

Cui Xian looked at Zhang Sai, his voice filled with murderous intent: "I just said, you dare to use a knife on young students, you are not worthy of being an official."

"You've broken into my mountain gate and bullied my students, Zhang Sai. I'll strip you of your official robes!"

Wow!

When this bold statement was made, countless people were stunned.

The Yuelu students were completely confused.

No, the other party has already come in!

A disaster is about to happen!

The fear on everyone's faces hasn't subsided yet!

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Why did our headmaster suddenly become so powerful?

Among the bewildered students, the pale-faced Pei Jian was the first to come to his senses. He calmly patted the shoulders of the students beside him and said, "Don't panic. This time, we have the advantage."

Zhuang Jin also came back to his senses and nodded tremblingly: "That's right, it's not a big problem."

Students: “…?”

Really?

Isn’t this a big problem?

I have little education, so don’t lie to me!

Zhang Sai was indeed afraid of Cui Xian, but how could he, as a county magistrate, be willing to be humiliated in public like this?

So he said sternly: "Well, in that case, don't blame me for not--"

Cui Xian twitched the corner of his mouth: "Don't you feel anything is wrong?"

Could you please - stop - interrupting me all the time!

Can you!

Will you die if you let people finish their words?

Zhang Sai was devastated.

"Ever since that ridiculous literati rebellion in Kaifeng, those pedantic old scholars have smashed up my house and workshop. Everyone outside is laughing at me, Cui Xian, and I am doomed."

"So what? What kind of illusion did this give you? Did you think that a mere county magistrate like you dared to act so unruly over me?"

Cui Xian, standing before hundreds of students, raised his chin, his entire demeanor radiating. "Or rather, looking at the officialdom in Kaifeng, and even in Henan, which official, big or small, has stood up to embarrass me?"

"Not a single one."

"Zhang Sai, you are the first one."

Zhang Sai's heart sank when he heard this.

Is that the first one I want to do?

Yeah?!

The damn Zheng family forced me to be the first to do this, what can I do!

Even if Zhang Sai was stupid at this moment, he should have understood that Cui Xian was confident and there would be reinforcements!

We can’t waste any more time, arrest him!

Therefore, County Magistrate Zhang took a deep breath and said, "Come here, capture him!"

The atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Cui Xian, dressed in mourning clothes, stood there calmly. "How do you think you can break through the gate of Yuelu Mountain? With just your official robes as a county magistrate?"

"What I mean is that I have remained silent since the old headmaster passed away, which gave you the opportunity to jump here."

"Originally, I wanted to stay quietly behind closed doors and mourn for the old headmaster for fifteen days to comfort his deceased soul. But today, the mountain gate was breached, and the academy was humiliated—"

Having said that, Cui Xian flicked his sleeves and said, "Come here, capture him!"

Wh-what?

Almost as soon as Cui Xian finished speaking.

Dozens of people armed with steel knives rushed in from outside the Yuelu Mountain Gate, and smashed down the dozens of runners brought by County Magistrate Zhang with the backs of their knives.

“Kneel down!”

"Drop the knife!"

"Those who disobey will be killed!"

The officers of Kaifeng County Government were stunned and frightened so much that they dropped their swords and surrendered.

Then, an even more shocking scene occurred.

Magistrate Zhang, who had just shouted 'Catch him!', was violently kicked to the ground and yelled, "Zhang Sai, do you admit your guilt?!"

The sound was so loud that it hurt the eardrums.

The situation reversed in two levels in a short period of time.

Zhang Sai and dozens of officers knelt on the ground.

Cui Xian was left standing there, the mountain wind blew in from the gate, making his robe flutter and his posture straight as pine or bamboo.

The Cui family, Pei Jian and Zhuang Jin's gang, and hundreds of Yuelu students stared blankly at his back, their hearts beating wildly.

The student who was protected by Cui Xian and nearly got stabbed by a knife murmured excitedly, "So handsome, so handsome."

Cui Xian was indeed stunned.

He looked at the familiar middle-aged official who rushed in with his men, was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself: Why is it you?

Zhang Sai, who was kicked to the ground, was trembling with fear and said subconsciously: "I know my crime, I know my crime, I know my crime! May I ask your superior's name?"

"Nanyang County Magistrate Ye Huaifeng!"

"Your subordinate greets Master Ye... Hmm?"

Zhang Sai was stunned.

who?

County magistrate?

Nanyang County Magistrate?

What?!

Just now, Cui Xian's shout of "get it" was so impressive.

This "Shangguan" rushed in with dozens of people and kicked Zhang Sai to the ground.

The person who came was a county magistrate?

Zhang Sai's plea for mercy was stuck in his throat. He reacted and quickly got up from the ground. He looked at the county magistrate who dared to kick him down and shouted angrily:

"How dare you! You are the county magistrate, and I am also the county magistrate. How dare you kick me?!"