The clatter of the carriage's hoofs faded away.
Many officials who stayed in place are still talking about the matter. They want to know why Xu Shoufu was injured? Is it said that someone deliberately persecuted Xu Shoufu?
It was noisy outside the hall, but it was surprisingly quiet inside.
Sima Yan sat in his chair and didn't speak for a long time.
Anyone with a clear eye can see that he is in a bad mood at this time.
He thought he could take this opportunity to make Xu Yizhi suffer, but he didn't expect Xu Yizhi to be so cruel to himself. He said he would hit his head, leaving no spare force, forcing him to make concessions.
He wants to be a wise king, but he doesn't want to be a faint king who forces loyal officials and good generals to death in the eyes of outsiders.
He can only release Xu Yizhi temporarily.
In this game between monarchs and ministers, it seems that he has the upper hand, but in the end, Xu Yizhi won.
Sima fan was silent for a long time before he spoke.
"Gu Jiangshi, where did you get this letter?"
Jiang Wei didn't speak, but his eyes had looked at Xie Zijun.
Sima was disgusted. He asked, "Xie Zijun, the person you want to keep is Xu Yizhi?"
Xie Zijun knelt on the ground and didn't speak.
Sima fan asked, "in addition to Xu Yizhi, who else are involved in this case?"
Xie Zijun still didn't answer.
Sima fan changed his way of inquiry: "how many of the 98 officials outside the temple are innocent? If you don't speak, you acquiesce in their innocence. "
Xie Zijun looked up at the emperor and said slowly, "if I say all those officials are involved, what does your majesty want to do with them?"
"Naturally, it is handled in accordance with the law."
"That's 98 officials. If all the officials are dismissed and investigated at one go, it means that the operation of the Imperial College and the Imperial Academy will be paralyzed directly, and it will not work normally for a long time."
"So what? Since they have violated the national law, they must be dealt with in accordance with the national law. As you just said, the imperial court is a big tree and officials are branches and leaves. If the branches and leaves are sick, they should be cut off as soon as possible. If you let it go, it will only spread the disease to other branches and leaves, leading to the tree's disease becoming more and more serious. "
Xie Zijun laughed when he heard this: "it is a blessing of Southern Chu for your majesty to have such consciousness. I don't know whether all the 98 officials outside are innocent. I only know that many of them are accomplices."
Sima fan got this reply and nodded slightly: "I'll let people continue to check."
He handed over all the 98 officials outside the hall to the royal guards, and made it clear: "this case has the full power of Gu Zhenfu."
Gu Fei replied, "here!"
Nearby Murong suddenly looked very bad.
The emperor would rather hand over the case to this fledgling boy than to him. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid the boy will replace him one day.
The sudden sense of crisis made Murong Hu very anxious.
He can't wait to die. He has to find a way to take Gu Fei away.
……
The 98 officials were escorted to Fu Si in Beizhen.
They originally thought that as long as they kept their mouth shut and the emperor had no evidence, they would not do anything to them. After all, they had a large number of people. If they really wanted to solve them all, it would be tantamount to stopping the two departments of the Imperial Academy and the Imperial College at the same time.
But who knew that the emperor was so decisive that he sent all 98 officials to the Fu division in North Town and handed them over to the Royal Guards for interrogation.
Everyone in Bianjing knows how ruthless the royal guards are. Within a day after they entered the Fusi in the North Town, these officials cried and shouted and explained everything.
Gu Fei sent the thick confession into the palace and was sent to the emperor.
Sima fan looked at the confession in front of him one by one.
More than half of the 98 officials are willing to work for Xu Yizhi. Although the other half do not have too many interests involved with Xu Yizhi, they are very afraid of Xu Yizhi's power. Even if they know that Xu Yizhi has secretly operated and changed the test papers, they dare not make a public statement, and they have to help hide the truth together.
Even though Sima fan had long been prepared, he was still angry when he really saw so many people hooked up with Xu Yizhi.
He slapped the stack of Confessions on the book case with a bang.
The maids and attendants in the hall knelt down one after another, and the atmosphere dared not breathe.
After a while, Sima was tired of gradually getting angry from his anger, and his eyes were swept from these maid attendants. He knew that among them, Xu knew the eyeliner.
At that time, Gu Zheng taught him the way to be a king. He once warned him that those who are a king must be high above everything else and must not be able to figure it out. No matter how happy or angry they are, they should hide and never let the officials find out what you are thinking in your heart.
He must be calm now and let others not see his true thoughts.
Sima fan breathed out slowly and said faintly, "get up."
Then they dared to stand up, but they all dared not look up.
Sima fan called eunuch BingBi and gave three orders in one breath.
"Xie Zijun didn't hesitate to steal other people's articles in order to gain fame. He committed the great crime of bullying the king and was sentenced to death. Three months later, he pushed down the gate at noon and beheaded in public as an example!"
"Although Wei Chen is young, he is talented and intelligent. He is a plastic talent. In time, he will become a great weapon! I promoted him to be the editor of the Imperial Academy. The prince is still young, but he is surrounded by such young and promising talents. I ordered Wei Chen to accompany the prince and often accompany the prince in the future. I hope you can encourage each other with the prince. "
"The Imperial College colluded with 99 officials in the Imperial Academy, conspired to cheat the superior and deceive the inferior, and his crime can be punished! For the sake of Xia Siye's voluntary surrender and disclosure of the truth, he is allowed to plead guilty, demote the official level and punish his salary for half a year. All the other 98 criminal officials were removed from their official posts and assigned to the border to act as military slaves. If they are pardoned, they will not be pardoned! "
The three decrees were successively sent out of the palace and sent to different places.
At the same time, some people laugh and some cry.
Tang had not seen his son for two days in succession. He was so worried that he sent someone to the Imperial Academy to inquire. When he asked, he knew that his son had been sentenced to death!
The bad news made Tang Shi feel as if she had been struck by thunder. Her eyes darkened and she fainted on the spot.
When she woke up, the first thing was to ask her father-in-law, Xie Zijun's grandfather, to protect Xie Zijun's life.
However, this time, no matter she cried or begged, her father-in-law refused to agree to help again. He even asked someone to drive her out of the house and ordered her not to mess around again, otherwise she would not be allowed to live in Xie's house again.
Unwilling to give up, Tang knelt at his father-in-law's noon door and kowtowed constantly, begging him to save Xie Zijun.
But even if she broke her head, she still couldn't make her father-in-law change his mind.
At last she fainted again because she was out of strength.
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