Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Hefu.

"My lord, okay, Ji Xiaolan's scandal is spreading all over the capital, causing a sensation in the capital. I have received news that more than a dozen censors will jointly join him." Fukang'an smiled and congratulated He Shen, "Now he can Have a good drink."

"Okay." He Shen smiled and clapped his hands, "Ji Xiaolan has always been regarded as the leader of Qingliu, and everyone expects it. Now they are turning against each other! Good, good! Without Qingliu's support, I see how he will fight with me in the future !"

"My lord, do you think we need to add another firewood?" Fu Kang'an said with a smile again.

"Hey, no need, haste makes waste." He Shen waved his hand and said, "With the participation of these censors, it is enough for Ji Xiaolan to drink a pot."

Qianlong's character was self-willed and suspicious. Too many people playing Ji Xiaolan together will make him suspicious.

Fukang'an nodded.

...

Taishan Palace.

Qianlong was looking through the memorials sent by the ministers.

"Well, Ji Xiaolan abducted a married woman, and forced her to divorce her with three ancient paintings... This is a bit interesting." After reading the imperial censor's memorial, he nodded with a smile.

"Shunxi, does Ji Xiaolan have a memorial?" He asked again.

"Master Ji didn't have a memorial, but only sent the book he wrote." Shun Xi hurriedly reported.

"I said that the novels he has written in the past few days are so affectionate, so he wrote them out of emotion." Qianlong laughed.

It is not a bad thing in Qianlong's view that Ji Xiaolan caused such a big scandal and provoked more than a dozen censors to participate in the concert.

Because Ji Xiaolan has always had the reputation of being the most talented person in the world, and he is honest and upright, with a stern face, and often speaks outright words, which has made him, the emperor, unable to step down many times.

As He Shen said, honest officials are respected, and honest officials are also feared. As an emperor, he actually doesn't like courtiers who are not manipulated. This is also the reason why the upright officials of the past dynasties were basically not reused.

For example, Zhao Guanghan in the Western Han Dynasty, one of the top ten upright officials in history, was an upright official without fear of power, but he ended up being cut in half;

Now, Ji Xiaolan has such a scandal, in Qianlong's view, it is a good opportunity to subdue him.

"Okay, let Ji Xiaolan make a statement to defend himself, and see what's going on." Qianlong then ordered.

"Yes, long live." Shun Xi nodded.

Qianlong then took out the "Story of the Stone" sent by Xiang Nan and looked through it.

The "Story of the Stone" sent by Xiang Nan, in his opinion, is really well written. The characters are vivid, emotional and reasonable, every word is pearls, and there is no idle writing. It is worthy of being a book of great talents.

He has been fascinated by reading these few days, waiting for Xiang Nan to send new books every day.

In fact, it's not just him, the Queen Mother is also obsessed with this "Story of the Stone" now, reading it every day without putting it down. Even though she was too dazzled, she still asked the maid to help her read, which can be said to be quite obsessed.

It's just that Xiang Nan's writing is really too slow, and it took two days to deliver a manuscript of more than 10,000 words, which is really not enough to read.

This is Qianlong's greatest resentment!

...

Xiang Nan soon found out that he was co-signed by the censor to participate in the performance, and when he was repairing books in the Siku library, the attitude of those colleagues towards him also changed subtly. They all looked at him with contempt, puzzlement, alienation, indifferent.

Xiang Nan didn't care about this.

The so-called kindness comes from above. It was never these colleagues who decided his fate, but the emperor on the dragon chair.

And the emperor can even forgive Heshen's corruption, so what is his nominal scandal?

So he didn't care about the opinions of these colleagues and those boring people outside.

They can say whatever they like, and they can look at it however they like. One life is only a hundred years, such a short time, I am not enough for myself, how can I control others.

"My lord Ji, the emperor saw that the imperial censor participated in your essay, so I want you to write an essay to defend yourself." The blue bodyguard in front of the emperor came to Ji's mansion to declare, "Also, Mr. Ji, the emperor asked me to ask, your Can "Story of the Stone" be written quickly, the emperor will wait and see."

"I obey the order." Xiang Nan answered.

"Mr. Ji, the emperor already knows about this, or I'd better leave." Xiang Yun said in horror.

"Xiang Yun, if you leave now, you seem guilty and want to cover it up, as if we really did something that shouldn't be done." Xiang Nan stopped, "In this way, I can't explain it even more clearly."

"Besides, the emperor allowed me to defend myself, which shows that he is not angry." He explained, "Besides, there are many officials in my Qing Dynasty who marry wives and concubines, even if they are women from brothels, they are not angry." rare.

I, Ji Xiaolan, am alone, so what if I marry a wife and take concubines? The emperor will not blame me for this. What's more, when I was studying in the Siku library a few years ago, the emperor was afraid that I would be lonely, so he specially sent two court ladies to accompany me.

So you don't have to be afraid, things are not as scary as you think. "

"Sir, is that really the case?" Xiang Yun doubtfully asked.

"Don't worry." Xiang Nan said with a smile, and then he wrote a self-defense note, but the manuscript was only given a stack of blank paper.

...

"My lord, the emperor didn't reprimand Ji Xiaolan, but just asked him to defend himself, what should we do?" After Fu Kang'an heard the order, he immediately ran to He Fudao.

From his point of view, Xiang Nan's incident of such a big decency case is full of storms and public opinion. How could the emperor dismiss him from his post and ask him for a crime of [immorality].

But now he was only asked to defend himself, obviously intending to indulge him.

"Brother, don't worry." He Shen waved his hands and said, "Ji Xiaolan is known as a talented scholar, and the emperor also knows that he is a scholar. If you want to destroy him just by relying on a case of weathering, how can it be so easy?" thing?"

"Then we have worked hard for a long time, what is it for?" Fukang'an asked puzzled.

The reason why Xiang Nan's scandal spread so quickly, it spread all over Yanjing City in a few days, and it made the streets and alleys hear about it. They put in a lot of effort and spent a lot of money.

If Xiang Nan can't be dealt with like this, Fu Kang'an will be really depressed.

"The Fenghua case is just an introduction." He Shen said with a slight smile, "Ji Xiaolan's biggest problem is taking in the woman who was involved in the anti-book "Dream of Red Mansions"——Xiang Yun! She also intends to hide the truth from the emperor.

Brother, please see, this is Ji Xiaolan's self-defense. He was inside, without mentioning Xiangyun's real identity. "

In order to keep his position as the chief assistant of the military aircraft, He Shen paid a lot of money to buy the eunuch in front of Qianlong. The ministers got the papers, and in many cases, He Shen knew about it before the emperor read it.

Xiang Nan's self-defense notebook was copied by the eunuch and sent back to Taishan Palace.

"Oh, this is the crime of deceiving the emperor." After reading the excerpt, Fukang'an saw that Xiang Nan had concealed Xiangyun's identity, so he laughed and said, "My lord, I will go to the thatched cottage now and give Xiangyun to Xiangyun." Get it out."

"Yeah." He Shen nodded with a smile.

Thanks to the book friend Qijie Weiwei, thank you!