In front of the Zhaoyang hall, more than 80 civil servants still knelt down.
Their bodies were covered with snowflakes and almost turned into snowmen.
Among them, two people with relatively weak physique could not bear it at this time, so they fainted directly in the snow.
The bodyguard immediately ran into Zhaoyang hall and reported the matter to the emperor.
Sima wearily said faintly, "let the imperial doctor come and show them."
"Here."
Soon, Doctor Zhang rushed over with Shixi. After their treatment, the two civil servants woke up one after another.
In order to prevent another person from fainting, Doctor Zhang and Shixi did not leave. They found a place to avoid the wind and snow and stood.
There are earthworms in Zhaoyang hall. It's very warm. It's very different from the ice and snow outside.
Sima fan asked people to move the memorial here.
He read a Book of memorials for local approval. It seems that he did not pay attention to the kneeling requests of the group of civil servants outside.
Xu Yizhi sat in his chair. He coughed twice from time to time, looking very weak.
Ning Wang was tired of standing and shamelessly asked for a chair to sit down.
Fu Qi is actually tired, but he is a young man with the lowest seniority and status here. He is really embarrassed to ask for a chair, so he can only stand all the time.
They were all called by the emperor, but the Emperor didn't say anything at this time, so that everyone couldn't understand what the emperor was thinking.
Sima fan finished reviewing all the memorials in front of him.
He put down his pen and said, "when is it?"
Xie Miao replied, "it's almost noon."
"It's almost time for lunch. Why hasn't Jiang Shuan come back?"
"Why don't I have someone rush?"
Before Sima fan answered, a little yellow gate ran in and said, "Your Majesty, Ambassador Jiang Jiedu asked for an audience. He is waiting outside the hall."
Sima Yan sat up and said, "let him in."
Everyone in the hall looked at the door.
Under their gaze, Jiang Shuan crossed the threshold with a wooden box and strode into the Zhaoyang hall.
"I'll see your majesty!"
Xu Yizhi coughed twice. His voice was very hoarse because of his illness: "you finally came. In order to wait for you, we have been waiting here all morning. Even the emperor is waiting for you. Your face is really big."
Jiang Shuan smiled: "it's my honor."
"You really can climb along the pole. If you give you some color, you can open a dyeing workshop."
"Let's just open the dyeing workshop. I'm not interested in dyeing cloth. The reason why I'm late today is to do something," said Jiang Shuan, opening the wooden box in his hand. "Please see, these are my trophies today."
Sima fan and Xu Yizhi, relying on their identity, didn't move. King Ning didn't have this scruples. He directly got up and went to Jiang Shuan's face and leaned over to have a look.
"Your box is full of letters."
Jiang Shuan said: "these are not ordinary letters. They are letters I found from various households. They record a lot of interesting things."
"Can I have a look?"
"Please, Lord."
Ning Wang was also lucky. As soon as he grabbed it, he caught a letter written by Xu Yizhi.
In his letter, Xu Yizhi told his students to kill Luzhou assassins as soon as possible, so as not to expose their greed for Luzhou disaster funds.
After reading the contents of the letter, Ning Wang couldn't help looking at Xu Yizhi in amazement.
Xu Yizhi instinctively noticed something bad. He frowned and asked, "why does the LORD look at me like this?"
Rather king did not answer, but directly sent the letter to the emperor.
Sima fan picked up the letter paper.
After reading the contents of the letter, he also looked at Xu Yizhi.
"Duke Xu, you killed the assassin of Luzhou?"
Xu Yizhi's face changed slightly. The matter was done very secretly. How could the emperor know?
He turned his eyes to the letter in the emperor's hand.
The letter must have leaked the secret!
Xu Yi knew that he was an old fox who had been in officialdom for decades. He quickly stabilized his mind and calmly responded: "Your Majesty is joking. Luzhou assassin was killed by mountain bandits on the way back to Bianjing. What does it matter to me?"
Sima fan didn't say anything and directly asked Xie Miao to take the letter to Xu Yizhi.
Looking at the thin letter paper sent to him, Xu Yizhi felt his throat dry and his cough became worse and worse.
After a while, he held out his trembling right hand and took the letter.
When he saw what was written in the letter, there was only one thought in his mind——
finished!
Things are exposed!
He wrote the letter himself.
As a famous calligrapher in southern Chu, his handwriting is familiar to everyone and can be recognized without careful discrimination.
He couldn't help denying it.
He originally thought that such a crucial secret letter, after receiving the letter, the other party would burn the letter at the first time to avoid leaving clues, but he didn't expect the other party to leave the letter.
Now this letter is still in the hands of the emperor!
Xu Yizhi couldn't find any reason even if he wanted to distinguish.
Jiang Shuan said, "I still have many letters here, most of which are related to Duke Xu. Would you like to have a look at them one by one?"
Xu Yizhi's face was very bad.
"Where did you get these letters?"
"I have just told you that I found these letters from other people's homes," said Jiang Shuan, pointing back with the thumb of his right hand. "I searched all the kneeling officials outside the door, and none of them fell."
Xu Yizhi clenched his teeth and asked, "you're just a three-level minister. What qualifications do you have to search the house of the imperial court officials?"
Sima wearily said, "I asked him to search."
Xu Yizhi Huoran turned to look at him: "why did your majesty do such a thing?"
"Because I want to clean up the portal."
Xu Yizhi laughed angrily when he heard this: "there are more than 80 civil servants kneeling outside. They are all senior officials above the fourth grade in Beijing. They are in charge of many people. Do you want them to clean them all at once? Are you not afraid to shake the foundation of Southern Chu? "
The reason why he has the confidence to sit here and force the emperor to release people is because he is sure that the emperor dare not act rashly.
All civil and military officials in the imperial court perform their respective duties. It's nothing to dismiss a few people occasionally. Anyway, there are many talents in southern Chu, and new people can be found to replace them soon. But if all the officials above the fourth grade in Beijing are cleaned up at one go, it will lead to the shutdown of all departments of the imperial court and complete paralysis. Over time, it is easy to cause great chaos.
Sima Fan said calmly, "the foundation of Southern Chu is the dawn people, not you moths. Jiang Shuan, go and catch all those people outside, lock them in Dali temple and torture them severely. I want to see how many dirty things you hide from me!"
"Here!"
Uncle Jiang placed the wooden box and walked out of the Zhaoyang hall with great strides.
Xu Yizhi stood up and shouted hoarsely, "stop!"
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