Fenghou

Chapter 78 Counterattack
Fan Zongyin let out a long sigh, "I am also a majestic Prime Minister, if it wasn't for the bad breath in my heart, I wouldn't demean myself and have a hard time with a little general. Seeing him, I thought of the humiliation of the imperial court." , if I don’t give him a hard meal, I’m going to have a demon in my heart.”

"Fan Xianggong actually vented all his dissatisfaction with Zhang Jun on him!"

"maybe!

"However, it's really inappropriate to use the military camp to make things difficult for Chen Qing this time. It's not that he shouldn't make things difficult for him, but that this method is easy to cause trouble. In the end, the Ministry of War will take the responsibility, which will have a great impact on the reputation of Mr. Xianggong. I'm afraid there will be no such thing in the future." People dare to do things for the husband."

Fan Zongyin said impatiently: "I know, I have already sent someone to tell Wang Hao to find a scapegoat, and say that the Ministry of War officials made a mistake this time."

"It's better to make mistakes on others a few times, so it won't be so conspicuous."

"It makes sense! I'll ask Wang Hao to arrange it later."

"Also, Fan Xianggong should pay attention to Qin Hui."

"Hmph! That ungrateful and shameless person, thanks to me I have been speaking well for him in front of the officials." When Qin Hui was mentioned, Fan Zongyin couldn't help gnashing his teeth.

Han Qi shook her head and said, "When I said pay attention, I didn't mean that he made trouble in the court. I meant that he might have participated in the impeachment of Chen Qing."

Fan Zongyin was startled, "Why do you say that?"

"After the Chaotang incident, I specially went to investigate Wang Huan. I always felt that this supervisory censor was very strange. He looked like my husband's dog leg, but in fact he had nothing to do with him. He even hated Chen even more than he did. Qing, it's not like a normal supervisory censor investigating, Fan Xianggong guesses, what did I find?"

"I can't guess, you just say it!"

"This Wang Huan is actually Qin Hui's wife and nephew."

"what!"

Fan Zongyin's eyes widened. Wang Huan, who was trampled so hard by Qin Hui, was Qin Hui's wife and nephew?
"Could it be that this Wang Huan was arranged by Qin Hui to investigate Chen Qing?"

"I think so. Originally, it wasn't Wang Huan who went to investigate, but he went instead temporarily. At first, I thought it was Fan Xianggong who greeted Shen Wanqiu."

Fan Zongyin shook his head quickly, "I didn't say hello."

"That's right, it can only be Qin Hui's arrangement!"

Fan Zongyin asked suspiciously: "If it was arranged by Qin Hui, what is his motive?"

"There are many motives. For example, he also wants to bring down Zhang Jun, so he helps Xianggong. For example, Jin Guo may have some requirements."

"Impossible! What does it have to do with Jin Guo?"

"Fan Xianggong, don't forget, Wanyan Loushi died at the hands of Chen Qing, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin offered a reward of [-] guan for his head, and Qin Hui came back from the Kingdom of Jin again."

Fan Zongyin stopped talking, and he suddenly realized that his consideration of the problem was too shallow.

"Actually, there is another possibility." Han Qi said calmly.

"what?"

"Chen Qing went there as a martial arts student to carry out this mission to suppress bandits. I specifically looked at the list of martial arts, and I found that Qin Hui's other wife and nephew, Wang Bo, was also studying martial arts. Before the entrance exam, Chen Qing was the first First place, Wang Bo second place, could it be due to some kind of competition."

Fan Zongyin shook his head, "Qin Hui is a majestic prime minister, so he won't waste his time and effort on this kind of petty competition between martial arts students."

"That's the problem. Qin Hui didn't bother at all. It was Fan Xianggong who was paying attention to this matter. He said hello to a supervisory censor, and then he borrowed a knife to kill someone."

Fan Zongyin was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. Han Qi's cocoon-like analysis made him realize his stupidity.

Now he finds that Qin Hui is a real poisonous snake, lurking beside him, he has already bitten himself hard in the court, and he doesn't know when he will open his fangs to himself.

"Then what should I do? Do you have any suggestions, sir?"

"My suggestion is that no matter how much Xianggong hates Chen Qing, don't show up in person. You can use Wang Bo instead! Create opportunities for him to bite Chen Qing, and they will hurt both. Isn't that what Xianggong said? expected?"

Fan Zongyin nodded, this suggestion is indeed brilliant.

The oolong incident of the Ministry of War can never be left alone. Chen Qing has never been a person who swallows his anger.

Early the next morning, Chen Qing found Han Shizhong and begged him to make decisions for himself.

After listening to Chen Qing's statement, Han Shizhong immediately realized that there was a problem. Arranging the barracks was just a trivial matter. This kind of internal document did not need the approval of the Prime Minister.

Han Shizhong thought for a while and said, "I'm just the head of the local army, and I can't interfere in the internal affairs of the court. But since envoy Zhang Xuanfu entrusted you to me, I can't ignore you. How about this! I'll take you to see Lu Xianggong, You can complain to him and ask him to do justice."

Chen Qing also knew Han Shizhong's difficulties. Although he was very famous and valued by the emperor, he was still a local warlord, similar to Wu Jie and Wang Yan, and his status was much lower than that of Zhang Jun. It was impossible for Zhang Jun to fight against Xiangguo like that. The fact that he could bring himself to see Lu Yihao was already the biggest resource he had.

"Han Dutong's help will be greatly appreciated!"

Han Shizhong patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "Come with me!"

The two came to Lu Yihao's official room, and Chen Qing was waiting outside. After a while, a servant came out and said, "General Chen, Mr. Lu invites you in!"

Chen Qing followed the tea boy into the official room, and saw the smiling right minister Lu Yihao talking happily with Han Shizhong. Seeing Chen Qing coming in, Han Shizhong got up and smiled and said, "Then I will go first, please help Lu Xianggong." Settle this matter and don't let last night's misunderstanding happen again."

"Hehe! Let Han Du take charge! The truth will be dealt with fairly."

Han Shizhong nodded to Chen Qing, and left first. Han Shizhong just introduced Lu Yihao for Chen Qing, but he couldn't participate in this matter, so he had to leave first.

Chen Qing knelt down on one knee and saluted, "The last general, Chen Qing, will meet Lu Xianggong!"

Lu Yihao smiled slightly: "Han Dutong told me that there were some disputes last night, you might as well tell me what happened in detail first."

Chen Qing took out a report with the approval document from the Ministry of War as evidence. This is also Cao De's righteousness. Last night he got Chen Qing's help and camped overnight. In return, Cao De gave Chen Qing the approval document from the Ministry of War. To him, the approval from the Ministry of War was a waste of paper for the Privy Council to go through the formalities. As for whether Fan Zongyin would be offended by this, he, a son of an official from a meritorious family like him, didn't care much.

"This is a report written overnight by the humble official. The cause and effect are all in the report. Please read it, Mr. Lu!"

After Lu Yihao received the report, he was really surprised. The reports of the generals were basically written by their staff. It is rare to see a young general like Chen Qing who writes the report himself.

In fact, what Chen Qing learned later is still different from the Song Dynasty. The fonts are different. In order to adapt to the characters and writing habits of the Song Dynasty, he put in a lot of effort. He spent a winter in Linyou County. Two things he did were Practicing calligraphy and sword practice.

In particular, vulgar characters have existed since ancient times. With the changes in printing techniques in the Song Dynasty, a large number of popular books such as novels came out, more and more common people could read, and the promotion of vulgar characters in the Song Dynasty was far better than that of the previous dynasty.

The vulgar characters are similar to the simplified characters of later generations. For example, Guo is written as Guo, Liu is written as Liu, and Shou is written as Shou. Therefore, it is not surprising that Chen Qing accidentally wrote a few simplified characters. Everyone naturally regards it as a vulgar character.

"You wrote this yourself?" Lu Yihao asked in surprise as he flipped through the report.

"The young general has little knowledge, please don't make fun of me!"

Lu Yihao nodded approvingly, "The calligraphy is not bad, it can be seen that he has worked hard for several years."

"Writing is a door hammer", this is the idea of ​​Chen Qing's father. Since Chen Qing was three years old, he asked a calligraphy teacher to teach Chen Qing how to write. Chen Qing has been insisting on it for more than ten years. Good writing.

Perhaps because of his good calligraphy, Lu Yihao carefully read Chen Qing's report.

He frowned, "Did you have a conflict with General Cao last night?"

"Last night, a conflict almost broke out due to a misunderstanding. Later, the misunderstanding was cleared up. I asked General Cao's army to rest in the camp. Out of gratitude, General Cao handed over the approval letter from the Ministry of War to him."

Lu Yihao looked at the approval document from the Ministry of War again. It had the seal of Wang Hao, the minister of the Ministry of War, and even the instructions from the Prime Minister Fan Zongyin.

Lu Yihao sneered, how could he not understand, this Fan Zongyin is too narrow-minded, he was slapped in the face in the court, and it is really embarrassing to wear small shoes for others in this way!

It doesn't matter if you wear small shoes, but the level of wearing small shoes is not flattering, it is too low-level, and even signing your name on the document is an insult to the status of the prime minister.

In fact, this is why Lu Yihao can't get used to Fan Zongyin. He is too young, too arrogant, and a bit unscrupulous. Maybe signing the letter is also a sign of his arrogance!

Lu Yihao felt that it was necessary to beat Fan Zongyin with this matter, don't be too arrogant, and at the same time give Zhang Jun a favor, I didn't stand idly by when your subordinates were bullied.

"Where's the approval letter from the Privy Council for your barracks?"

Chen Qing quickly took out the approval document and presented it to Lu Yihao, "Please read it!"

Lu Yihao looked at the approval document, and the chain of evidence was complete. He smiled slightly and said, "It just so happens that the official called me in the afternoon, and you have lunch with me, and then I go to see the official in the afternoon, and you wait here, maybe the official will summon you."

"Thank you Lu Xianggong for your kindness!"

"It's not about love, it's just about upholding justice, otherwise Lao Zhang will come to demolish my house next time he comes to Beijing!"

Lu Yihao has passed the necessary information to Chen Qing. On the scene, he is upholding justice, but in fact I am giving Zhang Jun a favor.

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(End of this chapter)