The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 422
Jiao Fang's answer was very rigorous, and logically speaking, there was nothing wrong with it.

But this answer made the emperor very unhappy.

Emperor Zhengde raised his eyebrows and said, "Jiao Qing means that this memorial was made by Du Yushi to frame the cabinet ministers?"

Emperor Zhengde threw a memorial to Jiao Fang, who was so frightened that he hurried forward to catch it.

"I don't mean that, I mean that the fire in Wenyuan Pavilion may be the unintentional fault of a small official."

Jiao Fang secretly groaned in her heart, but she had no choice but to talk back.

Emperor Zhengde glanced at the cabinet ministers again, and said in a deep voice, "Sir, please say a few words."

Xie Shen, who had been silent all this time, took a step forward, and said suddenly: "Your Majesty, I think it is reasonable for Lord Jiao to say that the fire in Wenyuan Pavilion was caused by man-made disasters. But the person who set the fire was either a clerk, or Lord Jiao Fangjiao!"

Emperor Zhengde was dumbfounded.

He was silent for a long time before he asked, "Sir, are you joking? Was it Jiao Qing who set the fire?"

Emperor Zhengde also believed that the fire in Wenyuan Pavilion was mostly related to Jiao Fang, but he only considered it from the perspective of a strange omen from heaven and the loss of morality of the cabinet ministers.

However, Emperor Zhengde never thought that Jiao Fang would go to set fire.

Is this a big joke?
Xie Shen shook his head, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, I am not joking. I have sufficient evidence to prove that the person who set fire to Wenyuan Pavilion was Lord Jiao Fangjiao."

After finishing speaking, he cupped his hands at the emperor and said, "Eunuch Gu can testify. Your Majesty will ask Eunuch Gu to find out."

Emperor Zhengde nodded slightly, and immediately ordered people to pass on Gu Dayong.

Not long after, the eunuch Gu Dayong, the admiral of Xichang, came here in a hurry.

After meeting with the emperor, Emperor Zhengde asked him about the fire in Wenyuan Pavilion.

Gu Dayong submitted a thick stack of documents to the emperor, which recorded in detail the details of the cabinet minister Jiao Fang and the emperor's favorite minister Jiang Bin colluding with each other, intending to frame Li Dongyang, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Xie Shen, a scholar of Dongge University.

The emperor was extremely furious, and immediately questioned whether Jiao Fang and Jiang Bingu Dayong's statements were true.

Xie Shen's hand is really beautiful.

He had long suspected that there was an inner ghost in the cabinet, so he asked Gu Dayong to use the relationship with Xichang to investigate.I don't know if I don't check it, and I'm shocked when I check it.The inner ghost is none other than Jiao Fang, a good old man who looks honest and honest, harmless to humans and animals.

Jiao Fang's presence in the cabinet was so low that Xie Shen never considered him.

But precisely because of this, Jiao Fang has every motivation to do this.

Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Xie Shen, it was like three big mountains pressing Jiao Fang out of breath.

If Li Dongyang and Xie Qian were older and Jiao Fang could survive, Xie Shen would completely crush Jiao Fang to death.

As long as Xie Shen is around, it is impossible for Jiao Fang to be a leader in the cabinet, let alone serve as the chief assistant.

Most civil servants have strong political ambitions, especially those who are close to the peak of power like Jiao Fang.

Although they are both cabinet ministers, the gap between the chief assistant and the group assistants can be described as worlds apart.No one is willing to be small for others, or for a person who is more than 20 years younger than himself.

Jiao Fang not only had the motive, but also the strength to commit the crime.

Wenyuan Pavilion is located behind the Wenhua Hall in the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City. Although it is not in the inner palace, it is also a forbidden area.Ordinary foreign ministers can't get close to this place at all.Those who can walk around Wenyuan Pavilion are either internal eunuchs or scribes.

But it is impossible for the eunuchs and scribes to avoid everyone's eyes and ears, because they have their own jobs, and it is too ostentatious to enter Wenyuan Pavilion.

After all, the main function of Wenyuan Pavilion is to collect books, and theoretically speaking, only the emperor can read the books in it.

Of course, there are some exceptions, that is, cabinet ministers.

Cabinet ministers can enter and leave Wenyuan Pavilion without restriction, and no one will doubt cabinet officials.

Jiao Fang could sneak into Wenyuan Pavilion without anyone noticing, and set fire to this majestic building without attracting any attention.

Even if he is discovered, he can easily deal with it, and no one will suspect that the cabinet ministers are plotting wrongdoing.

Of course, all this cannot escape the eyes and ears of Xichang Fanzi.

After Liu Jin was demoted to Nanjing, the East Factory fell into a slump, and the West Factory lost its suppression and quickly replaced the East Factory, becoming the No. [-] secret service agency in the capital.

Under the leadership of Chang Gong Gu Dayong, the Xichang spies spread eyeliner widely in the capital, and the officials' every move is under their control.

This time, Xie Shen took the initiative to find Gu Dayong and asked him to help him investigate Jiao Fang. For Gu Dayong, it was just a matter of flicking his fingers.

What surprised Xie Shen even more was that the person who cooperated with Jiao Fang was Jiang Bin.

With such a string, all the points of doubts were solved.

One of Jiao Fang and Jiang Bin needs to be in the top position, and the other needs to get rid of the control of Li Dongyang and Xie Shen. Naturally, they hit it off.

Once the Wenyuan Pavilion is on fire, Jiang Bin can instruct the censor to use a vision from the sky to make a big fuss about the cabinet's immorality.As a close minister of the emperor, it is very easy to influence the judgment of Emperor Zhengde.

As long as the Emperor Zhengde believed that the cabinet ministers were unethical, he would naturally consider Li Dongyang and Xie Qian first. After all, their status was there, and Jiao Fang was just a soy saucer, and his sense of existence was too low.

It's a pity that Jiang Bin underestimated Xie Shen's ability, and he was able to work together with the admiral of Xichang, found clues, and followed the clues to dig out his relationship with Jiao Fang.

If he had known that Xie Shen was so difficult to provoke, he would not have taken it lightly.

But it's too late to say anything now, Gu Dayong has obviously set up eyeliner outside his mansion, and his every move is seen by Xichang fanzi!
What he has to do right now is how to protect himself. As for Jiao Fang, a useless drag, Jiang Bin naturally can't control it!
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged. I am utterly loyal to Your Majesty, and never colluded with Mr. Jiao to trap some elders."

Jiang Bin fell to his knees with a plop, crying while hugging Emperor Zhengde's thigh.

There was a hint of contempt in Xie Shen's eyes.This Jiang Bin is really thick-skinned, even in the face of solid evidence, he can still deny it.

He wanted to see how Jiang Bin could turn black into white.

Emperor Zhengde just felt upset.

The thick stack of documents given by Gu Dayong is enough to prove that Jiang Bin and Jiao Fang colluded and set fire to Wenyuan Pavilion.

And now he has the cheek to disregard himself, which makes Emperor Zhengde very disappointed.

But Zhengde does not intend to give up on Jiang Bin.He demoted Liu Jin and Qian Ning one after another. If he demoted Jiang Bin at this time, he would really be alone.

The emperor didn't want to be ruled by his courtiers, so he naturally had to have confidants.Although Jiang Bin was more cautious, he was still very loyal to the emperor himself.In the final analysis, Jiang Bin took the initiative to protect himself, hoping to end the situation of being suppressed by several cabinet scholars.

(End of this chapter)