Yun Nuluo smiled and said, "Chief Quan, please wait a moment."
He then said to Zong Ruoan, "Young Master Zong, please bear with our Chief. It's all my fault. I usually take care of these things. I forgot to bring a can of coffee for the Chief."
Quan Yuxun smiled and said, "It's not Yunluo's fault. Who would have known that our pampered young master could actually drink this kind of coffee?"
Yun Nuluo covered her mouth and laughed happily.
After she left, Quan Yuxun stopped smiling and calmly asked Zong Ruoan, "Why didn't you go home for the New Year? Did you run into any trouble?"
Zong Ruoan said lazily, "No, I'm just... a little tired. I want to find a place where no one knows me and rest for a few days."
Quan Yuxun looked at him and said implicitly, "...Is it because of the Fan family's matter?"
Zong Ruoan sighed, placed his coffee cup on the low mahogany coffee table in front of him, and said, "Since you asked, I'll be honest. Yes, it's because of the Fan family's matter."
He sat up straight, looked at Quan Yuxun's face, and asked seriously, "Yuxun, tell me honestly, do you think the Special Security Bureau, or His Majesty, is handling this matter in the right way?"
Quan Yuxun looked at him silently, with no intention of answering.
Zong Ruoan added, "Of course I know the Fan family is too powerful to be eliminated, and I also know Fan Chengcai is a worthless person! I've wanted to kill him for a long time! But I can't just beat him to death just because I want to. He's also a citizen of the Beichen Empire, and he should be judged and punished by law!"
"As for Patriarch Fan and Young Master Fan, if they are guilty, they should be tried and sentenced by the court, rather than having their titles stripped away by a simple decree from His Majesty!"
Quan Yuxun then said, "Ruoan, if you talk to me about the law, I can say that according to the constitution and the law, the emperor does have absolute power over titles below the four dukes."
"The handwritten order produced by Special Security Bureau Inspector Huo Yushen is absolutely legal."
Zong Ruoan closed his eyes and said, "I just don't quite understand this point."
"It's legal, but is it right? Yu Xun, you are the chief legal advisor of the Senate and a top lawyer. Isn't what we nobles have been doing for so many years to limit the imperial power? Why can't you support me?"
Quan Yuxun said calmly, "I can support you in other matters. But this matter, absolutely not."
"Why?"
"You know why."
"…Because of your cousin?"
"What else could it be?" Quan Yuxun said calmly, playing with the jade-colored coffee cup. "No one can bully my daughter and get away with it."
"Ruoan, I understand your respect for the law, your defense of our nobility, and your vigilance against and restrictions on imperial power. However, we are also human beings, with our own families, relatives, and friends. As long as it does not violate the spirit of the law, I will definitely put my family, relatives, and friends first, and I believe you will do the same."
Zong Ruoan said seriously, "I'm different. I only care about legal justice."
Quan Yuxun smiled and said, "Really? Then why do you have to pick on Fan Chengcai? Did he offend you? Or did he bully your daughter?"
Zong Ruoan was speechless.
He kept staring at Fan Chengcai, mainly because Fan Chengcai tried to kill Xia Chujian, because he saw with his own eyes how badly Fan Chengcai beat Xia Chujian, and because Xia Chujian was someone he knew and was his friend.
From this perspective, he is not as fair as he thinks.
Zong Ruoan was slightly startled.
Quan Yuxun smiled faintly and didn't press further, saying, "Ever since the establishment of the constitutional monarchy, the Senate has been extremely wary of the expansion of imperial power. However, the absolute authority of the emperor over the nobility dates back to the time of the constitutional monarchy. It was the result of a compromise between all parties after a chaotic war that resulted in the deaths of millions of people. If you want to abolish this provision, are you prepared for the deaths of millions, or even tens of millions more?"
Zong Ruoan: “…”
He stretched his legs, leaned on the armrest of the sofa, propped up his head with his hands, and said unwillingly: "...So I'm trying to stop a chariot with my bare hands?"
"It's not like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, it's just that the time is not ripe yet." Quan Yuxun's voice was light, and his gentle baritone carried a soothing and slow tone.
"Don't worry too much about a baron's affiliation. There shouldn't be any noble territories stationed on Guiyuan Star."
“Take advantage of this opportunity to deprive Fan of his title, and then confer new baronial titles on other planets, and you can perfectly complete your harem.”
"To be honest, even we in the Senate are happy to see this happen."
"You don't know how powerful that Fan family senator was in the Senate back then... It wasn't until we dealt with the Fan family that his remaining power finally died down and joined his faction."
"Although I'm not very familiar with Inspector Huo, I have to admit that he won beautifully this time."
Zong Ruoan remained silent for a long moment before he said, "Looking at it this way, my immediate superior does see things more clearly than I do. He knows exactly what the Emperor is thinking... The Emperor needed a knife, and he handed it to him."
Quan Yuxun laughed. "Of course. How else could he, with no background at all, rise to the rank of marshal in just ten years and single-handedly control the Special Security Bureau, which is directly under the Emperor? Do you think military merit is all that's needed to control the Special Security Bureau?"
"You're also the director of the Special Security Bureau, second only to the Chief. In your opinion, has Inspector Huo done anything illegal or inappropriate?"
Zong Ruoan tilted his head to think about it, then shook his head and said, "Really not. Even a demanding person like me can't think of anything he has done that is illegal or against the rules."
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