"This is clearly a bully!!"

The voice coming from the main hall of the Imperial Observatory was extremely gloomy, like the sky outside the window.

More than one Taiwanese official threw the demeanor of the scholar doctor behind his head, and gritted his teeth at the Kaifeng Mansion.

Originally, there was a third of the imperial history in Taizhong, and he was going to take advantage of the tragedy after the Keju ball game, so that he would rectify the atmosphere in the capital, and by the way, the guy who easily got out of Wutai's mouth several times three times was also pulled down.

But Kaifeng Mansion simply pushed a scapegoat out, and put the blame on the dead Nam Shun Marquis Li Gande. The thick stack of confession transcripts on the table, together with the transcripts of the recitals, were all ridiculed in black and white in the eyes of the imperial historians.

When has the Imperial Observatory been underestimated to such a point! Yushitai has already set his sights on it, and he still dares to do anything in such a big case? This is too much deception.

More than a dozen imperial historians were angry one by one, and only Li Ding, who was at the top of the place, sat upright and did not say a word. He, the Imperial History Zhongcheng, has never spoken, looking at the people under his hands as if they were cats whose tails were stepped on while eating, and sighed in his heart, the members of the Imperial History Observatory are really not as good as a crab. Even if you come out on the charge of bullying the king, who can you scare?

Bullying the monarch has always been just shouting out to scary, and it is terrible when he is convicted, but as an official in the court, no one has done it less, who will honestly say anything to the emperor?

"Of the twenty-one major guilds, thirteen guilds or guilds have raised teams. There are also many officials in Kaifeng Prefecture who use the two events as a source of income. With such a strong force, as long as you want to find, you can find a thousand witnesses to find evidence for this case. ”

The more Li Ding learned more about the strength of the two head offices, the more he realized the thorniness of this case.

Witnesses must not be detained in Taiwan for interrogation. Isn't that a joke?

The candidates chosen by Kaifeng Mansion are indeed overwhelming.

Who made Li Qiande a subordinate, and his army once invaded China, this sin will never be washed away by the former king of Jiaozhi. Now that the crime falls on him, then in the next few decades, there will be no chance to turn over, not to mention that this time even the bitter master is gone. Who would argue for such a person?

"Even the Son of Heaven wants to make big things small, and small things into small things." Li Ding said that he had seen Zhao Ji several times in the past few days, and he had some understanding of the attitude of the Son of Heaven, "Li Qiande is dead, and it is impossible for him to come back to life for himself." Dead people don't speak. ”

Li Ding's words revealed a bit of the emperor's attitude towards the case, but no one paid attention to him. The imperial histories below whispered to each other, discussing ways to break the game.

Li Ding frowned and listened for a while, and the impatience in his expression became stronger and stronger......

Yu Shi Zhongcheng has been doing it for a long time, and it is almost time to leave office according to the old practice. It's just that he is far from being favored by Cai Qu on the side of the Son of Heaven, and he doesn't have to expect to be promoted to the East Mansion or the West Mansion, and his voice in Taichung is getting weaker and weaker day by day. The imperial history is only responsible to the Son of Heaven, even if the lowest level of supervision of the imperial history is in line, the prime minister can be impeached, and there is no need to look at the head of the imperial history. What's more, Li Ding's reputation has never been good, and in the imperial history that prides itself on being clear, he can't convince the public at all. In the past two years, he has long been accustomed to the situation where no one pays attention to what he says.

However, this time the situation is special, the more they cover up the core, the more it means that they have a plan in this matter. The Son of Heaven has many eyes and ears, and he will not fail to see this. Losing the trust of the Son of Heaven would be a disaster for the imperial historians.

Just as he wanted to do his duty as a royal historian for the last time, Zhang Shangying, who was rarely late, finally arrived at the venue, but the expression on his face was ten times more gloomy than that of several imperial historians in the meeting.

"What's going on?" Li Ding asked.

Zhang Shangying didn't say much, and directly opened the folded page in his hand and handed it to Li Ding's hand.

The rough and thin paper, as well as the untidy text on the paper, make it clear at a glance that this is a very common tabloid in the market today.

Zhang Shangying wanted people to see the content on the front page, Li Ding glanced at it twice, and handed it over to the people below with a blank face. A tabloid newspaper just turned around in the hands of the imperial historians, and then turned back to Zhang Shangying. And the atmosphere in the hall, in the process of the tabloid transmission, became as obscure as Zhang Shangying's expression.

Yin Owl's eyes swept left and right, and Zhang Shangying said viciously: "Do you see it, this is pressing step by step, and the crime must be completely on the body of Nan Shunhou!" ”

The officials in the imperial history of Taizhong have seen a lot of such tabloids, and Li Ding has not seen many people in Wutaizhong holding a thin piece of paper and studying it carefully in private. Among them are not only officials, but also officials.

Since Qiyun Headquarters began to release the "Keju Express" a few years ago, which publishes the results of the ball game, there have been more and more tabloids of all kinds in the capital. Many tabloids are published on them with advertisements for some merchants' signs, piecing together a few absurd ancient and modern stories, plus a few fragments of Buddhist scriptures and Taoist collections, and then mixed with recent news, perfunctory.

The tabloids are all in simple plain characters, and they are also printed in crooked movable type. After reading it, it can be used to make wraps, and it is common to see people in the butcher shop holding tabloids instead of lotus leaves to wrap the meat they bought and leave.

It may be a little worse in other places, but in the capital, the style of writing is gathered, and more than half of the men among the millions of soldiers and civilians can read and hyphenate, and thirty percent of the women have learned the "Female Rules", "Female Precepts", and "Female Analects" in their childhood, although the vast majority of people - it can even be said that nine out of ten of them - are not profoundly learned, but only recognize three or five hundred words, and memorize the "Analects" and "Thousand Character Essays", but they can't even write serious family letters, but they can understand the articles in the tabloids, and even estimate and guess, there will be no problem. And if you read a lot of tabloids, your ability to read can also grow.

Hundreds of thousands of literate people have made these tabloids live a good life in Beijing, and even the paper-making workshops around the capital have become more and more day by day. Over the years, if it weren't for the tabloids that had not become rumors, they would have been banned by the imperial court a long time ago.

But the wide circulation of tabloids is also quite frightening. Among the many tabloids popular in the capital, Keju Express has the highest circulation, and it is said that this three-day tabloid sells 20,000 copies per issue. When such a tabloid newspaper based purely on the league newspaper publishes the news of a verdict on the front page, the storm that can be caused in the capital can be imagined. Even if Li Ding only reads this "Keju Express", he knows what kind of situation the Nam Shun Hou Mansion will be in the current situation.

Qiyun Headquarters wants to create a fait accompli in the minds of the people in the capital before the results come out.

But it's not that simple. The resulting turmoil will only intensify, and at the end of the day, it will form a storm that the Imperial Historical Observatory cannot reverse.

It's a question of whose voice is bigger, and it's a question of who can speak for more people.

Just as the identity of the perpetrator was identified as Nam Soon Hou Lee Gan Teok, the nature of the whole thing changed when the Keju Express began to publish news of the trial in the newspaper.

If things continue to develop, it will no longer be these clear words and officials who will lead public opinion and even the morale of Shilin.

In the past, many important ministers were defeated in the speech of Qingliu who controlled Shilin, and controlled Shilin, which was to make the world's speech only say what they wanted people to hear. But once this knife is snatched away by outsiders, then the status of Qingliu and Shilin will also plummet.

"Do you want to just send someone to seal the Qiyun Society? …… The fact that the court has not yet decided on the case is also qualified to say it!? One of the imperial historians suggested.

Li Ding took the newspaper from Zhang Shangying's hand, read the news on the front page carefully from beginning to end, and shook his head helplessly. The newspaper report did not leave a single flaw.

The express did not mention the word conviction at all, but only said that the Kaifeng Mansion had a preliminary trial yesterday, and the results had been reported to the imperial court for review. The distorted exaggerated component is not visible at all. At first glance, it was a fair and impartial report, and it didn't even make a big fuss because of Li Qiande's identity - in Li Ding's eyes, this is a very clever approach, rather than instilling it, it is better to let him think for himself, so that the conclusions drawn will be deeply rooted and unshakable by others. And Qiyun Head Office, of course, will also have a more authoritative weight in people's minds

Not to mention anything else, behind this express is the Qiyun headquarters, and behind the Qiyun headquarters, there are hundreds of imperial relatives and wealthy businessmen, and the power behind this is shocking. If there is not enough evidence, the Qiyun Headquarters will be sealed, which is equivalent to giving many wealthy families behind the Qiyun Headquarters a solid handle. When the time comes, in the Imperial History Tower, everything that is proposed and implemented must be pinched in the palm of the hand.

Since they dare to openly announce the facts of the case, they must be ready to deal with everything. From the perspective of the Son of Heaven, he would not mind having one more channel to understand the livelihood of the people, and the attack of the Imperial Historical Observatory would only be thrown aside by the emperor without care.

Li Ding pondered for a while, and finally nodded to a clerk, "Go to the Nam Soon Marquis Mansion and see what is happening." ”

"Just going to see?" Zhang Shangying asked dissatisfiedly. At this time, concrete action is needed.

"I can only go and see first, where else can I do something?" Li Ding asked rhetorically, leaving Zhang Shangying and other Taiwan officials speechless. In front of everyone's eyes, how many pairs of eyes stared, and Yu Shitai didn't dare to be powerful.

"It can't just be over!" One of the imperial historians shouted.

"It won't end there." Li Ding gave a very positive answer. He didn't want to see the power of the Imperial Observatory weakened in his own hands, "The days are still very long!" ”