691 Washing Ones Hands Of An Official (1/2)
Fan Xian washed his hands seriously It took three basins of clear water before the fresh blood ashed off his hands The servants poured the bloody water onto the roots of the trees by the stone lions outside the front doors of the Fan manor No one knew if it would raise some kind of evil spirit The clothes on his body were still covered with bloodstains He took the The sleeves of the robe fluttered slightly in the evening air
This dramatic scene was perforxiu, a leading official of the Ministry of Justice, and an internal court eunuch sent by the Palace all ca the news and saw all of it
Fan Xian's hands left outside the sleeves were shaking slightly He had burned through too ht of sleep could recover Additionally, under the cover of darkness, he had used the sword in his hand to kill all the people outside theit under surveillance like an evil dehtly pale
His handsoround and stench of blood all around,
He was the Director of the Overwatch Council and a killing machine of the darkness the Overwatch Council had raised for 20 years Usually, people were fooled by his identity, noble title, powerful position, and glory They did not realize that Fan Xian'speople
He had not killed all the spies the Palace had sent to watch the Fan manor Those that had escaped before Fan Xian could act and those who had revealed their identities had only been knocked out As for those particularly far away from the Fan manor, within the boundary of streets and alleys, the spies disguised as various cootiate or surrender before they beca spirit on the blade of the sword in his hand
After waking fro coldness of the snowy mountain, Fan Xian had taken countermeasures at the first opportunity Such a counterattack could not help but seem overly bloody and unreasonable
Fan Xian was not a bloodthirsty person He knew the spies outside Fan manor had been sent by the Emperor and important officials in court Those people did not know of Fan Xian's present state of uard However, he had no choice but to kill the his eyes was that the Emperor would weaken his power Furthermore, the Emperor would strictly control contact between him and the Overwatch Council subordinates loyal to hiyun, with the help of the Royal Palace and suppression through ed to take control of the square and sinister building in na had died wretchedly in front of the Royal Palace, the sinister Council only had one htest connection to the Overwatch Council, then even the Emperor would not be able to stop Fan Xian successfully obtaining the power of the Overwatch Council
At least for now, the Emperor would not allow Fan Xian to obtain the Overwatch Council's help again Ye Zhong had led troops to ”invite” Fan Xian back to the capital With so many spies hidden outside the manor, it was clear the Emperor wanted to put Fan Xian teive the Eements Once Fan Xian lost contact with the Overwatch Council for too long, the court would gradually take apart the personnel structure within the Overwatch Council and clear out officials loyal to Chen Pingping and Fan Xian They would then desperately fill it with spies, just like how the Imperial Censorate filled the Overwatch Council with spies two years ago
Before the Overwatch Council left his control, Fan Xian had to, voluntarily, tidily, and readily, have the subordinates loyal to him return to the darkness and calain All of this relied on hi contact with the most loyal Qinian Unit
The spies outside Fanout this dangerous task while being followed Under the Emperor's authority and suppression, the only way to find a flaw in the surveillance outside Fan h the terror of blood and death There was no other way
The news that a First Bureau crow had risked death to come into the rasping the sword
Four Overwatch Council officials had already been hanged in the prison, but they weren't the heads of the eight bureaus It looked like Yan Bingyun was still desperately protecting the Overwatch Council's survival, but he still could not save those officials
The four officials were those who had tried to forcefully rescue the Director when he had been sent into the Overwatch Council's prison The Emperor would not allow officials who disobeyed him to exist So, they had died, cleanly and tidily
For Fan Xian, this was a dangerous signal that the Ee the Overwatch Council So, he also had to take action He had not used any of his inconsiderable powers or available subordinates He personally stepped over the tall threshold of the Fan manor and pulled out the icy sword froht and killed 14 people
The lantern in front of the Fan h All the torches were lit on Chang Street in the south of the city Everything was illuht A few officials watched the bloody corpses being carried out from the streets and alleys all around They met each other's eyes with cold hearts and pale faces, unsure of what to say They had always known that Sir Fan junior was a powerful character who did not act according to coic They still could not understand why he would risk the E thrown into prison to kill so many people in front of sopiled into carriages were capable spies the Palace and their own yaet had been this little duke in Fan ry, but was the follow-up strategy of this kind of violent killing?
Each of the ya out spies to find out the inforence they needed No one kne many spies they had in each nobledou The Overwatch Council was an even older hand at doing such things According to the rumors, the First Bureau was at the level where they could place a spy in the manor of each official in the capital above the sixth-level
Concerning the dou officialdom The officials were all used to it Even if an official one day discovered that there were spies froh soe events, he could only pretend to not know If he really could not go on pretending, he could only look after theive the other party verbal reminders, and politely send them out of their manor and back to their yamen
The officials knew these spies represented the Eht that there would be an official like Sir Fan junior ould coldly and arrogantly kill all of these spies
The vice director of the Ministry of Justice glanced at the uncoxiu and said in a low voice, ”Sir Sun, you'll have to ask the little duke about hoe should report back on thispeople in the streets had already broken one of the Qing law's capital offenses Even though Fan Xian was now of noble rank and within the boundaries of the Eight Deliberations, which enabled him to avoid the death penalty, he could not escape punishment Furthermore, the people he had killed today were all secret subordinates of the court
However, Fan Xian washed his hands under the bright light of the lanterns and changed his bloodied clothing in front of the officials with a cold and cal the officials present, only the xiu, should bethis matter Furthermore, the crowd all knew that the Sun o, the little duke had battled it out with Scholar He of the Hall of Governxiu's career prospects It had ended with Scholar He in the dirt, so the gazes of all the officials landed on Sun Jingxiu's face
Sun Jingxiu's heart was bitter like he had eaten ephedra He knehat his colleagues were fearful of In recent days, things had not been easy for him The Overwatch Council had run into major trouble, old Director Chen had been sentenced to death by a thousand cuts, and he had personally seen Sir Fan junior ride alone into the execution field He had broken out in cold sweat from the fear He didn't knohat role Sir Fan junior would play in court in the future Would he pass into oblivion or be severely punished by the Edou would not be ood end Thus, he had spent the entire day in the Jingdou Govern in fear for the Emperor's orders to remove him from his position Unexpectedly, the Emperor's order had not arrived His support, Sir Fan junior, had done another universally shocking and treasonous thing
He made his way over to the front door of the Fan htly bent He bowed deeply and fors
Fan Xian was sitting tiredly on the long bench He had thrown the Wei Eround by his feet He was not surprised to see Sun Jingxiu approach him He replied with a cold expression
The other officials were too scared to move forward and did not knohat the two of thedou came down from the stone steps, the vice director of the Ministry of Justice furrowed his brows and said, ”What did the duke say? Killing people in the street is not aTemple, it still needs an explanation”
The vice director did not have the courage to order the 13 yamens of the Ministry of Justice to send people into the Fanlaere strict These officials had seen all this and could not pretend they had not seen anything
No one knehat Fan Xian had said to Sun Jingxiu, but the Jingdou Magistrate no longer wore an expression of fear With a caldou has not been peaceful The Overwatch Council has found that there are people co into the capital to kidnap children As you know, the Fanchildren, so Sir Fan junior is nervous Thus, he had walked around the various streets and alleys by thethat they were not trustworthy people, he asked them a few questions Unexpectedly, these bastards dared to take out weapons to attack the duke Of course, the duke would not treat these scoundrels kindly”
With these words, the officials in the center sucked in a cold breath They had seen shameless and ruthless nobles, but they had never seen such a shameless and ruthless noble Fourteen lives taken just like that And, he had forced the suspicion of kidnappers onto them If it was self-defense, it was understandable To say that the Duke of Fan manor had ridden out alone to inquire as to the whereabouts of the kidnappers and had ended up being pursued by 14 people, no matter how often it was said, no one would believe it
”Naturally, I do not believe it, but I also don't have any evidence Of course, we can also invite the duke back to the ya But, it's already late, and I axiu's back suddenly straightened Looking at his colleagues around him, he said coldly, ”You all have this authority in your ya to take over this case, help yourself… However, I want to remind everyone that most of the people who died were from the Palace The Palace has not spoken, so it is best to not act rashly”
This was the most useless sentence ever Everyone kneho had died outside the Fan manor This had always been a matter between the Eiven soe, they would not interfere However, Fan Xian had been too excessive The matter was about to reach the Palace If they did not have some reaction before that, who knehat the Palace would think of thexiu left with the bailiffs of the Jingdou Govern to deal with the matter anymore In his simple conversation with Fan Xian, his h it had been a difficult pill to s, at least the duke had said that as long as he did not die, nothing would happen to the Sunelse to co the people of the Jingdou Government leave the front doors of the Fan lanced coldly at the officials below the stone steps From beside his foot, he lifted the sword of the Wei Emperor that everyone saw as a treasure As if he had picked up a wet ainst the head of the stone lion
Such an action was veryfor his dignity or life, yet it was Sir Fan junior who had perfored the expressions on the officials' faces
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After entering the irl came forward to hand hihtly As he pulled his robe shut, he walked toward the rear residence of the manor and ask casually, ”Is the water boiled with bulrush roots ready? If so, send it over quickly”
The serving girl ment She then went to the little kitchen to keep an eye on it Fan Xian walked alone to the rear residence and sat down on the side of the bed To his wife, Lin Wan'er, beside the table, he quietly said, ”Killed 14, 28 may come to on the orders of the Palace and various yamens, why…” A reluctance appeared on Lin Wan'er face ”Besides, even if you are unhappy and want to avenge the Overwatch Council subordinates who died in prison, there is no need to vent out your anger on them”