Vol 2 Chapter 272 (1/2)

Chapter 272: Confrontation in front of the Palace

The Qing Kingdo for Fan Xian to conored the issue and hopefully have the matter fade fro further about it, it would be reflective of other e others forget about a certain subject entirely

The E, however The man in question had showed no care at all thus far His attitude was one of innocence He pretended he did nothing wrong and appeared to merely allow others at the palace to clean up this mess What he did not knoas that Fan Xian harbored unruly thoughts In his heart, Fan Xian was telling himself, ”You are the Emperor You are supposed to protect me And now, because of these small matters, I must throay ainst Xinyang and get rid of the eldest princess, are you just going to throw er so that I may die a slow and torturous death?”

If it was just soainst theeuess the Emperor’s heart As a chancellor, one would always have to take advantage of the Eht that chancellor dead, nothing could be done to avert such a fate

But Fan Xian himself knew that he was no ordinary chancellor, and even the Euess that this he knew Therefore, this entire ordeal was quite aht to find out how far the Emperor would bend for him

It was now seven days since the allegations against Fan Xian becae outside the palace Upon getting out, the Qinian Unit encircled Fan Xian and escorted hiht in pride so that others could see clearly who this person was His face was expressionless

The officers that had gathered at the gates of the palace all knew that this person was a popular guy That is not to uards out in the open This was Fan Xian

Today was the day where a courtwas to be convened The Emperor had issued a command for Fan Xian to appear and listen Every officer knehat the subject of their discussion was to be on this day, and they

were each excited about it A few good friends of the Fan family had also come, and Fan Xian spoke with the him that the weather was cold, they vacated and moved to a more private corner of the palace whenever they did so

At this time, on both sides of the plaza, there were six officers clad in red uniforms Fan Xian’s men, ere clothed in black, stood in direct opposition of these officers, staring them in the eyes Fan Xian took no notice

The officers in red belonged to the Iainst Fan Xian He looked at them coldly and with a lowered voice, said, ”All of you look like pigs; how can you expect to look like clean officers?”

Deng Ziyue walked beside Fan Xian and said, ”The First Bureau has been investigating the These Imperial Censorate officers all hail from poor families, and one’s reputation is what they each value the most This is why people decide to lean on theift of biscuits, they would do so with great caution and trepidation Everything they do is done with the utmost care”

Fan Xian frowned and replied, ”If the officers aren’t corrupt, then the world is co to an end!”

Deng Ziyue gave a wry sht that Fan Xian’s response was a little ridiculous

The Imperial Censorate officers looked coldly at Fan Xian without any essence of fear Fan Xian knew that his opponents weren’t afraid of hiht, ”If the officers are no longer corrupt, then what is the point of hiring a Commissioner for the Overwatch Council? They are politicians that fight exclusively ords It is not as if I could assassinate theo about my day” No matter as to happen in the court, the very least that Fan Xian suspected would occur was that he may be exiled back to Danzhou

Fan Xian understood that the rarest thing one would likely find in this world was a clean officer He also believed in the First Bureau's ability to investigate If their search had been thorough, then the men before him truly were clean Fan Xian also understood that the worst enemy an officer could be confronted as a collective of truly clean officers Thinking of this, he began ad and beautiful mother-in-law, for she could actually coainst hi

While Fan Xian was lost in thought, he had no idea that each

each of the officers were looking at him in return

What Fan Xian had done this ence, and merely pretend to be a corrupt officer that was as sinister as he was e ?” They were not afraid of the Eainst his cherished Fan Xian, for they still believed him to be a fair and true lord But even if this was not to be, the officers were doing their duty and had no fear of death

But the officers in the Imperial Censorate were said to have had an unfortunate past few days First, it was because the caovernnees As polite as others were to their requests, whenever an officer heard the petition that they were to sign was against Fan Xian, few dared to go along with them Secondly, they requested to the scribes that they produce a few articles attacking Fan Xian, but they refused Again, this was entirely because the crux of the matter was Fan Xian hihtly humorous, for they had publicly criticized many other officers in the past

And that which made the Imperial Censorate’s officers fue The officer that went to visit the college to lecture and tell the students about the ”badto believe as being said of Fan Xian, as the scholar of the generation, Zhuang Mohan's soon-to-be successor, son of the Finance Minister, and all-around idol of every young student That’s not to irl's dreah to be bribed for such a small amount of coin

”13,400 tael? That's it?”

The Imperial Censorate had stu they did yielded the results they desired

At this ti a little harsher It made the officers that were outside the palace shi+ver in the cold Their faces changed as they looked into the sky, noticing the presence of rain clouds for above once more They each ran under the small eave that extended beyond the palace’s door frame The Royal Guard did not dare jeopardize the health of those old et soaked in the rain, and so they did not stop them