Han Yu held no official position, and he was not a commoner, so he called himself a criminal.
When he said these words, it also meant that the Jixian Han family was completely finished, and dozens of people in the family would become sinners.
Not to mention other things, just the crime of embezzling military rations could get him killed hundreds of times, not to mention other crimes such as annexation and occupation of fertile farmland.
He hates it.
The person I hate the most is Song Chi.
It turned out that I had underestimated him from the beginning. He was able to find so much evidence of his crimes. He had forgotten many things, but Song Chi had found them all out.
He also deliberately let them intercept false charges to make them relax their vigilance, but in fact the real charges had already been sent to the capital.
The attack from top to bottom caught everyone off guard.
The most clever thing was that when the court launched the attack, it did not target them, but directly targeted the Prime Minister Song Shiwen, saying that Song Shiwen was the mastermind behind the scenes.
This will alert the Prime Minister, and he will have to sacrifice the rook to save the king, make them scapegoats, and end all this quickly to avoid being implicated.
That's why it happened so quickly, leaving them unprepared.
Song Chi!
Han Yu murmured the name in his heart. If he had known this would happen, he should have killed him long ago.
After Han Yu confessed his guilt, Zhou Zhengan, who was beside him, collapsed to the ground. Of course, he had received a message in advance, and Xu Zhoumu had also met with him alone before that.
"As a prefect, you can't even handle a young boy. You are unworthy of your position and deserve death."
They all said the same thing.
The county magistrate was already a local emperor, and Zhou Zhengan, who had a strong backer, had the final say in Ning'an Prefecture. However, he couldn't even suppress Feng Yuan, the county magistrate, and allowed Song Chi to find so much evidence of his crimes, which showed his incompetence.
In Song Shiwen's view, such people are pure waste.
Death is the end.
"Speak!" Xu Zhoumu shouted. As a superior, he had to show his attitude. Seeing Zhou Zhengan like this, he was furious.
The officialdom is a casino, and everyone is like a gambler.
Since you are on this side, you will inevitably be implicated when this side falls.
If you are caught, you have lost. You should admit your loss honestly. But Zhou Zhengan is so cowardly.
"This humble official... deserves death."
Zhou Zhengan finally uttered a complete sentence, and the many people behind him, including the prime minister, knelt on the ground one after another.
It’s over!
When one person falls, a hundred people suffer.
Feng Yuan was watching from the side. He was the apparent initiator of this "masterpiece" and a meritorious official of the Qingliu Party. He had achieved such "merits" in just over two months since he took office in Ji County.
But only he himself knew that the real culprit was a young man.
However, he was also willing to take on this "merit". The position of Prime Minister Song Shiwen was still unshakable. Even after such a big incident, His Majesty still asked Song Shiwen to give an explanation without hesitation.
This is already a great trust.
The more attention you pay, the more people will hate you.
It may even be abandoned.
In short, this is definitely not a good thing, so Feng Yuan accepted the credit and stood in front of Song Chi. He was still young and inexperienced, so he needed to be well protected.
Feng Yuan only told his teacher the inside story of the whole process. He would not keep any secrets from his teacher. He also stated in the letter that the name Song Chi must not be "exposed".
But the teacher spread the news.
Tang Shun, the Censor of the Censorate, is my teacher's man. He has met me before and we had a private meeting.
It was Tang Shun who lifted the lid. He was not afraid of the powerful in the court, and spoke out directly with determination, even if it meant banging his head against the pillar. He became famous and became a model for censors.
But he is Lu Taiyuan's man.
His display of fearlessness of power was just a performance.
Only then did Feng Yuan realize that Tang Shun was his junior fellow apprentice, and that he was not the only student of his teacher, or that the teacher's plan was not something he could guess.
Who would have thought that an editor who had worked in the Hanlin Academy for seven years would be the student of the Second Assistant, and who would have thought that an unknown Censor in the Censorate was also his student.
Since we are brothers, there is no need to be shy when speaking.
"The teacher thinks highly of Song Chi, so he spread his name. How can he grow without going through hardships?" Tang Shun said it as a matter of course, but it made Feng Yuan extremely angry.
"But he will die!"
Feng Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "If he gets noticed by those people in the capital, he will be in endless trouble. Right now, he is in Jiangzhou preparing to take the college entrance examination. The place is full of people from the Literary Party..."
He took a deep breath.
"Not to mention the Prime Minister's targeting, this incident directly affects His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's appointment as the Youzhou Pacification Commissioner. He will become a thorn in His Royal Highness's side. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants his life, even the teacher can't save him. You are not protecting him, you are harming him!"
"Brother, are you being too extreme?"
Tang Shun said in a low voice, "Teacher naturally has his own considerations, and you are not allowed to question him."
"This isn't questioning, this isn't understanding!"
Feng Yuan slammed the table and stood up. He had just arrived in Ji County and was having a hard time. He didn't care what Song Chi's purpose was, but it was indeed with Song Chi's help that he was able to gain a foothold and achieve such "achievements".
Without Song Chi, he would have either lost his life or been thrown into jail.
It won't be a good result anyway.
Because Song Chi defied fate and eliminated the local powerful people who were in cahoots with the corrupt. His original intention was not to fight for party, but for the people.
In fact, he is ready to "show his strength". When local powerful people fall, no one can stop him from doing good things for the people.
Serve the people and benefit the people.
This is his way of being an official.
Many people outside thought that he was Song Chi's teacher, but in fact he was not. To some extent, Song Chi was also his teacher. The two were both teachers and friends, and they have been together till now.
But now it was he who had betrayed Song Chi and put him in danger.
"Song Chi is just an insignificant person. You don't need to care too much about him. My teacher asked me to tell you a few words. You must follow them."
"negligible?"
Feng Yuan took a deep breath. He was shocked by Tang Shun's nonchalant tone.
"Isn't it? A genius who grows up is a genius, and a genius who dies young doesn't even deserve the title of waste." Tang Shun said as a matter of course.
Feng Yuan suppressed his anger.
"How can you say such things? If it weren't for Song Chi, how could you have the reputation you have today? You would still be that unknown little censor. How could you have the prestige you have now?"
"This has nothing to do with Song Chi."
Tang Shun said calmly, "The person I should thank is you, not him. Without you, no matter what he found out, it would be useless and he wouldn't be able to come before the teacher."
"I..." Feng Yuan felt that the two of them were not on the same page.
"Brother, you are now the magistrate of a county, not an editor of the Hanlin Academy. You can't be so arrogant as a scholar."
Tang Shun walked up to Feng Yuan and tried to comfort him, "The most important thing right now is what the teacher told us to do."
He paused, "Teacher asked me to find a way to collect as much of the embezzled money and land from the Han family as possible..."
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