701 Jingdous Man Of Leisure (1/2)

Many people believed that one reaped what one sowed and that being coht and proper After Fan Xian ca Kingdoreat deal of happiness for the people Although he was not a very virtuous person, he had, involuntarily or purposely, planted many seeds of happiness Unfortunately, in the autu calendar, none of those seeds bloomed

All of his positions had been stripped All of his powers had been taken back All the people he cared about had been turned into hostages He became a commoner, a wealthy fan of leisure who could only listen toaround Baoyue Brothel

No one protested his injustice No one begged mercy for him from the Emperor All the officials and people only calive a favor without expectations of return, did Fan Xian had such a spirit? No one knew In the people's eyes, Sir Fan junior… No, the Duke had played the role of a wealthy man of leisure perfectly since the autu around Baoyue Brothel In the manor, he played with the children, chatted with the women, and read the new books published by Danbo Bookstore

The Danbo medical shop across from the bookstore was still open The doctors of the Imperial Academy of Medicine treated the people in Fan Ruoruo's place Perhaps this was a request the icy wo lady of the Fan family stayed deep in the Palace Fan Xian had no way to enter the Palace to visit her He could only turn around his initial thought and ask his wife to enter the Palace many times to visit her

A month quietly passed by The Fan dou people Fan Xian was so silently he almost disappeared from people's discussions

There was one place that could not forget Fan Xian, which was the Ih the Emperor's edict had taken all of Fan Xian's positions, it had thrown hie After 20 days, perhaps because life as a wealthy , Fan Xian finally pulled hian to teach classes at the Ie, lined by ancient trees, was as quiet as usual The news of Fan Xian coized the students Hundreds of people could often be seen gathered on the exin Pond, intently listening to his lectures

Fan Xian's habit was to teach from the stone steps in front of the pond Since too many students cae could not eestion and situate his classrooht that perhaps Fan Xian wanted to use the

The contents of the lectures were actually simple They were reat Northern Qi scholar Zhuang Mohan After reat support froe of books Fan Xian was relatively familiar with these voluht when talking about the parables in the was unique Aled for a few teachers to speak frankly in front of Qingxin Pond At the end, he would he take the stage personally and debate with the students below the steps As for the contents of the debates, as they were somewhat disrespectful, they did not spread outside of the Ih Fan Xian wasn't anybody anye and in the hearts of these young students, he reure with at least so autuht in the midst of autumn Fan Xian lazily ended a day of classes and was too lazy to acknowledge the verbal attacks of the red-faced, bull-necked students who refused to give up Clapping his hands, he walked off the stone steps and said, ”I told you all earlier, when it comes to the classics, I can onlyin-depth about it, I can't ic of there needing to be a good reason for war, how can there be such a thing as a righteous battle in the world? It is nothing but an excuse”

”The Qing Kingdom's powerful leaders point their swords at the world to save the people from dire straits…” the student said, unconvinced With a dozen of his classmates, they chased after Fan Xian

The day's topic was about the establishe, the two sides were analyzing the problehteousness of battle This just happened to be a problem Fan Xian could not explain clearly and one that he didn't think many people in the world could explain clearly

Fan Xian entered the carriage and left the Iry students behind hidou It then escaped the liveliness within the Ie's quietness and returned to the peaceful autumn scenery He unconsciously pulled open the curtains and looked at the scene outside with a slimmer of worry between his brows

He had been a wealthy man of leisure, but this was just a superficial shoas putting on for the court and Palace to see Fan Xian's heart was filled with a fire completely at odds with his calm and happy exterior However, he suppressed this fire well

It was a forced suppression because he still did not see any opportunity to take advantage of After he returned to Jingdou, Fan Xian had returned to the Overwatch Council again Particularly after he sent the dou, it had even become difficult to make contact with the First Bureau This did not ence He knew very well that in just a yun's valiant assistance, successfully suppressed most of the restless forces within the Overwatch Council The work of changing out people was also proceeding methodically It was just aout

The news frons of all of this were the source of Fan Xian's worries He found that he had still underestiht and control of imperial authority in a feudalistic society Even the Overwatch Council, which Chen Pingping and he had worked hard to run for decades, was leaning toward surrender under the force of Imperial authority

Fan Xian furrowed his brows When it came to the problem between him and the Emperor, it seemed to be about the Overwatch Council, palace treasury, and Jingdou In reality, it was about the world Not one of the Qing court officials or wise coyun, knew this So, they did not understand why the E all of his official positions and power yet allowing hidou and still keep the power he held in secret

Fan Xian's condition was neither life nor death Only he and the Emperor knew the reasons for this condition

If he was just dealing with Fan Xian alone, the Emperor was far more powerful than him Without any effort, he would be able to throw Fan Xian into the dust and then step on hidou, and even outside the borders of the Qing Kingdoly powerful to the point that even the Emperor's self-confidence and pride could not underestimate it

Thus, the Edou Then, he slowly and steadily chiseled away at Fan Xian's influence outside of Jingdou At the same time, he had to sever the unseen hands Fan Xian stretched outside of the country's borders

This was a process of using quantitative change to effect qualitative change Without first reducing Fan Xian's influence to a level of risk the Qing court could endure, the Emperor would not actually kill hi into chaos was not so the Emperor wanted to see

But, if the Emperor could perfectly control these problems, then what did Fan Xian's life and death e caot down fro with his hands behind his back He headed straight for the courtyard beside the lake He didn't even glance at the hu Fan Xian was an Ascetic Monk No one knehio near women Fan Xian had entered Baoyue Brothel, so they could not follow hi off the surface of the lake, Fan Xian entered the little courtyard left just for hi and beautiful owner of the brothel, he ss are there today?”

shi+ Qing'er covered herpoetry anys for you to listen to?”

It had been 'er did not seeed at all Fan Xian looked at her with narrowed eyes, s

There was actually no need for spies of the internal court to watch hidou knew Sir Fan junior had already becoreatest joy was coirls in Baoyue Brothel

Fan Xian could actually live up to the title of being a wealthy h he had no positions and power, he still had old and silver was hidden in the Fan manor On the surface, the Baoyue Brothel of the Fansed up rowth of the Qing Kingdouidance Under the rules and regulations Fan Xian set up single-handedly, Baoyue Brothel was already operating all under heaven It would not be an exaggeration to say that he had unified the brothel business

The owner of Baoyue Brothel in na into Dongyi They had already stretched their hands into Northern Qi's Shangjing Everything was going smoothly They ell-known people everywhere Of course, everyone knew Fan Xian stood behind thee froirls His eyes were closed, but his mind spun quickly Baoyue Brothel was a business The court could not do too much to it The Palace also did not want to make Fan Xian completely lose face Thus, they left one corner of joy for Fan Xian What comforted him the most was the people in this time still underestience work A business Fan Sizhe and the Third Prince had lawlessly and carelessly created had now become one of Fan Xian's trump cards

”What excuse did the court use to rehtly shuttered eyes after the courtyard had fallen silent As Fan Xian's direct subordinate and an official of the court, Su Wenmao could not be absent from his post without leave and could only watch and wait for the court to act Not long ago, an edict was sent directly to the three large workshops in North Min Su Wenht back to the capital This had been a secretive matter Because of Baoyue Brothel's existence, Fan Xian knewbeen ry, He just wondered worriedly if the person the Qinian Unit had sent to North Min had explained everything clearly to Su Wenmao He trusted in Su Wenmao, an open-natured second sidekick would not stupidly oppose the court directly He orried that tih people in the palace treasury

The palace treasury was Fan Xian's second root The palace treasury transport company had already been fully taken back by the Emperor Fan Xian would not allow this root to be completely severed by the Palace If it had to be severed, it would be done by Fan Xian This strike would hurt the Qing court to the uarded Ten Fayi and the palace treasury crafting process that the three large workshops and Palace each had a copy of, as well as the one in his brain A smile rose to the corners of his lips The hand in his sleeve slowly squeezed into a fist

Over in Xiliang Road, Deng Zi Yue had successfully escaped the court's net No one knehere he was hiding Since there hadn't been news of Deng Zi Yue's death in the intelligence reports, Fan Xian felt comforted However, the members of the Fourth Bureau there were now in the situation of being a dragon without a head No one knew if they could stand against the pressure fro's orders had been to go to the grasslands to find that person and then return to contact their allies in Dingzhou and Qingzhou Fan Xian hoped that everything would happen in tizhou,” shi+ Qing'er said with her eyes lowered

Fan Xian was silent He had truly not expected the Emperor's reaction to be so quick He had even sent the Cozhou to hold the fort Although Li Hongcheng had led the arzhou for a number of years, his foundations were still shallow Furtherzhou Arht not be able to hold his own and could only be forced back to Jingdou

If he wanted to have Hongcheng stay in Dingzhou and control theriot before anything else happened

Fan Xian pulled his brows together tightly and realized that everything had long left this control He could only hope the first group of people sent to the grasslands would be able to quickly contact Hu Ge and have the Hu people on the grasslands act against heaven's natural order and send an attack at the beginning of winter

Everything was too chaotic and lanced at shi+ Qing'er helplessly and asked, ”How is the investigation into the Ministry of Work's corruption case going?”

”Sir Yang…” shi+ Qing'er glanced at him worriedly ”They settled the case yesterday Today at noon, the Supreh she had been the Second Prince's person in the past, under Fan Xian's intier had other loyalties Further man in front of her was sodou She wanted to beco Wen but did not want to beco Thus, as she watched Sir Fan junior's people be bloodily torn out one by one, she could not help but feel horror and fear

Fan Xian glanced at the light on the surface of the lake and was silent for a o pick hi Wanli, the vice director of the Ministry of Work's river company had only needed 10 days fro handed from the Ministry of Justice to the Supre history Those who didn't know any better overn calendar

Those of the officialdoh and feel chilled They all knehat kind of person Yang Wanli was He was a capable and honest official who had endured on the riverbanks of the Great River for two years

Yang Wanli was one of Fan Xian's four students When Sir Fan junior had secretly pulled together silver that year, it had poured like water through the river transport yah his hands If he really was corrupt, then it would not be the few thousand liang silver that riting on the charges of the crio of such a fat piece of meat and instead take the brines from the Ministry of Works?

Furthermore, every official knew that the Fan family was very strict in front of the E aside the salary of the Overwatch Council, which wasjust of the three dom, each year they received support fro Everyone knew Fan manor was the fore Wanli be corrupt?