At the beginning of the lawsuit, both the officials inside the court and the people outside the court had many personal emotions. They lined up early in the morning, but as the lawsuit progressed, things inside and outside the court gradually became quiet.
Everyone was already immersed in the play and thinking, including Sima Guang who was testifying. Before he went on stage, he kept reminding himself to remain objective, but after a few questions, his answers were completely subjective.
He felt ashamed of himself.
But there was no way, he didn't find an objective answer, so he could only answer subjectively.
Therefore, Xu Zhiqian believed that Sima Guang's answer was biased towards the other side.
But Zhang Fei knew that it was not easy for the old man to answer such sharp questions in such a short time. It was already quite good that he could answer like this.
However, Fan Chunren thought that he was clearly at a disadvantage in the first round, and Su Che had played an indispensable role in this. After he sat down, he said to Su Che in dissatisfaction: "Su Ziyu, if you interrupt me again, I will ask for someone else to assist me."
Su Che nodded and said, "Please don't blame me, Mr. Fan. I promise I will never do this again."
Because he knew that his brother would most likely not be in any danger now.
Seeing that Fan Chunren was still glaring at him angrily, he said again: "Fan Sijian, what are you dissatisfied with me? After the lawsuit is over, Su Che will still be punished by you. Now we still have to focus on the lawsuit."
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Yes! We can’t have internal strife now. Fan Chunren took a deep breath.
Su Che whispered beside him: "Master Wang is our best target for attack."
Fan Chunren nodded, stood up and said, "Your Excellency the Chief Judge, I would like to summon Wang Anshi, the Scholar, to come to the court to testify."
Sima Guang in the witness stand breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly realized that his back was soaked. This chair was really uncomfortable to sit on! He supported his knees with both hands and slowly stood up, looking exhausted.
Zhang Fei saw this and exchanged a glance with Xu Zhiqian, and both of them smiled secretly with their heads down.
Sima Guang caught a glimpse of the young couple giggling, and felt embarrassed and angry. He thought about settling the score with the boy after the lawsuit was over. But when he turned around, he found Wang Anshi walking towards him in a swagger, so he quickly calmed himself down so as not to be discovered by him.
Wang Anshi had already noticed it, and came up to him, laughing secretly, "How is it? Does it feel bad?"
Sima Guang's mouth twitched, and he whispered, "Good luck to you."
Having said that, he ran away.
Wang Anshi looked disdainful and thought to himself, the reason why I don't like to testify is that I think it's too boring. I'm not like you, who was sweating profusely when asked questions and almost couldn't answer them.
Da Ma Jin Dao sat down in the witness stand and said, "Come on, shoot me."
Originally he felt that sitting here was boring, as he was just a prop in someone else's performance. He, Wang Anshi, had never been a supporting actor. But after Sima Guang sat here like this, he suddenly felt that being a witness was quite interesting.
There are still challenges, and he likes that.
Fan Chunren saw this and smiled. He asked casually, "Mr. Wang and Mr. Sima seem to be quite good."
Wang Anshi was slightly stunned, and said proudly: "It's OK."
Sima Guang rolled his eyes and said, "Who can be with you?"
Fan Chunren asked again, "Is it still okay? I heard that Wang Xueshi once worked with Sima Xueshi under Prime Minister Bao, and then they worked together in the Hanlin Academy. Logically speaking, their relationship should be good."
"I object."
Zhang Fei stood up immediately and said, "This case should not involve the relationship between the witnesses."
Fan Chunren immediately said, "Chief Judge, this case has a lot to do with the relationship between Scholar Wang and Scholar Sima. I will prove this point later."
Zhao Yan hesitated for a moment and said to Fan Chunren, "Go ahead and ask."
Zhang Fei sat down helplessly.
Su Che tilted his head to glance at Zhang Fei and whispered, "He is reminding Master Wang."
Fan Chunren said confidently: "I know, but it's useless."
Then he looked at Wang Anshi and said, "Please answer my question, Mr. Wang."
Wang Anshi was startled and thought to himself, this is a close call, I almost let my guard down and fell for this little censor's trick. He thought for a moment and said, "You can say it's not bad."
Fan Chunren asked, "From the tone of Master Wang, it seems that we are not very close, right?"
Wang Anshi suddenly seemed a little hesitant. If he was asked to objectively evaluate his friendship with Sima Guang, he really didn't know how to do it. He tilted his head and glanced at Sima Guang.
Sima Guang immediately turned his face away arrogantly and said, "We are just casual acquaintances, don't try to get close to us."
Zhang Fei looked at them with a mixture of laughter and tears, muttering, "Damn it, I'm not here to ship CP."
Xu Zhiqian asked curiously: "What is CP?"
Zhang Fei was startled, and quietly held her hand, "Just like us two."
Xu Zhiqian was so scared that she retracted her hand, blushing and said angrily: "You are courting death! This is in court."
Zhang Fei muttered, "Is this exciting?"
"Um?"
"Ahem, nothing, nothing."
Wang Anshi, on the other side, saw Sima Guang being so arrogant and said immediately: "It's really not good enough."
Fan Chunren smiled and said, "We have worked together for many years, but our relationship is not that good. Is it because of our incompatible personalities?"
"I object."
Zhang Fei said excitedly: "This is a lawsuit, not a blind date. How can you even bring up your incompatibility of personalities? This is ridiculous."
Blind date?
Wang Anshi and Sima Guang?
Many people couldn't help laughing out loud.
Zhao Yan also felt that this question was a bit outrageous and looked at Fan Chunren with dissatisfaction.
Fan Chunren insisted, "Mr. Wang and Mr. Sima are very important to this case. And I remember that when Zhang San was helping Cao Dongdong with the lawsuit, he also asked a lot of similar questions."
Cao Dongdong, who was squeezed at the door, excitedly grabbed his two good friends Ma Xiaoyi and Fu Shichun, "Did you hear that? I was mentioned again, I was mentioned again."
Fu Shichun was confused and didn't know what to be happy about.
Ma Xiaoyi was full of envy, wondering if he should also secretly marry someone else so that he could ask his third brother to defend him. This way, he could also go to court and be mentioned all the time.
Since there are no very detailed written regulations for this new type of interrogation method, Zhang Fei’s previous lawsuit serves as a reference.
Zhao Yan nodded, indicating that he could continue asking this question.
Zhang Fei sat down and complained, "Damn, when did I become the rule?"
Compared with IQ, EQ is indeed a shortcoming of Wang Anshi. He didn't know how to speak nicely and said, "Maybe it's not very suitable."
Fan Chunren asked again: "Besides this, is there any other reason, for example, Wang Xueshi is jealous of Sima Xueshi's talent?"
Wang Anshi immediately became angry and asked, "Would I be jealous of his talent?"
Sima Guang was also very unhappy when he heard his tone.
Zhang Fei sighed: "I thought he was the most reliable witness, but it turns out that he is the most unreliable."
Xu Zhiqian also began to become nervous.
Then Fan Chunren continued to ask, "Really? As far as I know, before this, Mr. Wang had never published his own articles in the official newspaper. Am I wrong?"
Wang Anshi nodded.
Fan Chunren added: "Not long ago, Scholar Sima published his article in the tabloid of the genuine bookstore, and it caused widespread heated discussion. Within two days, Scholar Wang immediately published an article in the official newspaper.
It is hard not to speculate that Wang Xueshi was jealous of Sima Xueshi's article, which was so popular that he wrote an article to compare with it.
Wang Anshi said with disdain: "If we talk about writing, why should I be jealous of him?"
Fan Chunren asked, "Why is that? As far as I know, the court bulletin that published Wang Xueshi's article was not reviewed by the Secretariat or the Privy Council, but was directly ordered to be released by the emperor. Is this just a coincidence?"
Everyone present stared at Wang Anshi.
That look seemed to be saying, how dare you, Wang Jiefu, say this is a coincidence?
Wang Anshi was too embarrassed to say that this was a coincidence, and said, "That's not the case. It's just that I don't agree with some of the ideas in Sima Junshi's article."
Fan Chunren smiled and nodded: "I know this too. In terms of political ideas, there are some contradictions between Wang Xueshi and Sima Xueshi, and you have argued about this in many meetings. Therefore, Wang Xueshi was dissatisfied with some of the ideas in Sima Xueshi's article, so he published the article to promote his own political ideas."
Wang Anshi nodded.
Fan Chunren asked again: "What was the result?"
Wang Anshi was stunned. "What's the result?"
Fan Chunren asked, "After Mr. Wang published his article, did it cause widespread heated discussion?"
Wang Anshi blushed a little and said, "No."
"hehe!"
There were some scattered laughter coming from the surroundings.
"quiet!"
This time, Zhao Yan did not hesitate and immediately slammed the gavel.
It suddenly became quiet.
Fan Chunren said: "It's not even as much attention as the article by Madam Xu."
"I object."
Zhang Fei was furious and said, "Fan Sijian, what do you mean by 'not even as good as'? Is Madam Xu's writing bad? Why don't you come up with a standard?"
Fan Chunren was stunned and said depressedly: "Sorry, I take back the question."
"That's outrageous."
Zhang Fei glared at him angrily, then sat down.
Xu Zhiqian's face turned red as blood, and she said, "What are you doing? My writing is not as good as Uncle Wang's."
Zhang Fei said: "I am just looking for an opportunity to interrupt him. Don't you see that this situation is very unfavorable to Master Wang?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "You can't use me then."
Zhang Fei said: "I don't want to either, but the previous interruptions were ineffective."
It’s no wonder that this interruption really disrupted Fan Chunren’s thoughts.
But this time, the person sitting next to Fan Chunren was the quick-witted Su Che. He quickly wrote a small note and moved it in front of Fan Chunren.
Fan Chunren glanced at it and said to Wang Anshi, "Mr. Wang, if I say that your article did not attract as much attention as the articles by Mr. Sima and Ms. Xu, do you agree?"
Wang Anshi took a deep breath and said, "I agree."
Fan Chunren said, "It's not as good as the article that Han Xianggong published in the Mingshi Newspaper later."
Wang Anshi nodded.
Fan Chunren said, "Just now, Wang Xueshi also admitted that there was a dispute between Wang Xueshi and Sima Xueshi, but judging from the attention paid to the article, Sima Xueshi's ideas were obviously more popular. As far as I know, the government has already entrusted Wang Xueshi with reforming the law. It can be seen that Wang Xueshi was afraid that Sima Xueshi's article would affect his reform or affect the government's trust in him, so he ordered the closure of the Mingshi newspaper in the official bookstore."
"Asshole."
"I object."
Wang Anshi and Zhang Fei said almost in unison.
Fan Chunren said firmly: "I have evidence to prove it."
As he said this, he looked directly at Zhang Fei, "Zhang San, as far as I know, before the closure, your genuine bookstore published the next edition of the Mingshi Newspaper, which was written by Sima Xueshi. Am I wrong?"
Not many people knew about this, and everyone looked at Zhang Fei.
After hesitating for a while, Zhang Fei nodded.
Fan Chunren asked: "Where is that article now?"
Zhang Fei said: "Burned."
There was an uproar.
This is too despicable. You can't win the competition with your writing, so you resort to this kind of means.
This is the behavior that literati hate the most.
You can use any means to benefit yourself, but the article is sacred. This is no different from cheating in a scientific examination.
Lu Huiqing's face was ashen. "It's over! It's over! It's all over!"
This time things really got serious.
"I'm done asking questions."
Fan Chunren sat down.
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