The Imperial Study.

Qian Dafu nervously sent the telegram to Xiao Ming.

"Your Majesty, this matter is a big problem, Fei Tong actually injured people with a knife, and now the person we arranged is being treated in the hospital, life and death are unknown."

"What! Simple and daring! Xiao Ming got up from his chair angrily, this teenager was arranged by him, in order to make a big deal about this matter so that he would have an excuse to deal with a group of people who let the education system rot.

But he didn't expect such an accident, Fei Tong was so bold that he dared to kill people in the academy.

Qian Dafu comforted: "The emperor doesn't have to worry too much, the old slave has already made the decision to let Huang Lao go to the rescue in person, and this young man is from the training camp of the secret guard, and his physical fitness is better than ordinary people, at least when the old slave gets the news, this young man is still worry-free." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief, "So I can rest assured, by the way, what is the movement of the Fei family now." ”

"Fei Tong's father, Fei Yu, has sent people around to suppress this matter, and at the same time, Fei Tong's grandfather also went to find Fei Ge Lao."

Xiao Ming nodded slightly, "Continue to pretend that you don't know anything, and secretly let the secret guards collect evidence, but I want to see how many people want to hide from me, and how many people want to help the evil." ”

Qian Dafu shook his head lightly, and he said: "Your Majesty, there are too many unfair things in this world, trivial matters, all kinds of things, if the emperor spends his energy on this, the major affairs of the country will be delayed. ”

"A national event? This is a major national event, for me, they are indeed one of the thousands of people in China, but for these students in the academy is everything, if you can't kill these people, the children of the poor will have no way out in the future, and the most important thing is that I want to use this incident to let the people of the world understand that there is no distinction between high and low in the face of national law. ”

Qian Dafu saw that Xiao Ming was a little angry, and immediately shrank his head, not daring to mention it again.

Xiao Ming understood that Qian Dafu was worried that he was too tired, after all, the empire was so large, there were so many people, and there would be illegal things in every place, and it was impossible for him to ask about these things one by one, and because of this, he needed officials large and small to govern for himself.

However, some officials are incompetent, and let these things go, or even help and abet on them, so that civil conflicts will accumulate, and competent officials will act in accordance with his decrees, so that the local government under their jurisdiction can be harmonious.

Over the years, he has focused on fending off foreign enemies and the development of industry and commerce, and these small and trivial matters have rarely been addressed.

The most important thing is that the Manchu civil and military rarely reported these things to him, after all, in their eyes, this is just a small matter of small things.

For this reason, he seems to have become a canary in a cage, relying only on officials to deliver information, and sometimes being kept in the dark and unaware.

Thinking of this, he sighed slightly, "Since Fan Zeng returned to his hometown, this newspaper seems to have changed its taste, except for singing praises of virtue, this folk suffering is rarely published, but it is really good news and not bad news." ”

"Yes, this Fan Zeng is a hard bone, when he was there, the newspaper often published illegal things among the people, which had a very deterrent effect on the powerful and officials, and now the newspaper is still a newspaper, but it seems to be a little different." Qian Dafu felt a little sorry.

Xiao Ming smiled bitterly, in the past, when government affairs were informal, he personally managed the newspaper, but with the improvement of the government affairs system, the newspaper was handed over to the established Information Department under the jurisdiction.

"Since that's the case, let's take advantage of this matter to deal with it together." Xiao Ming said coldly, "Let Li San send a group of secret guards to keep an eye on this matter, including the Supervision Yuan, I will see what the current officialdom has become like if it is rotten." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." In response, Qian Dafu turned around and left.

Public Information Division.

Li Ran welcomed Fei Yu's housekeeper into the newspaper office with a flattering smile, and sat down in his office, Li Ran asked, "What kind of wind made Steward Zhang personally visit the Information Department?" ”

Zhang Zhi said with a faint smile: "I came here this time to ask Director Li for an extremely important matter. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Zhi took out a stack of banknotes from his arms and put them in front of Li Ran, all of which were banknotes with a denomination of one thousand gold dragons.

Li Ran was shocked in his heart, this stack of banknotes was at least 100 pieces, and the total amount was 100,000 gold dragons, which was a huge amount of money.

"What's the matter with Steward Zhang? I'll help if I can. Li Ran left himself room to shirk, in his opinion, the matter that required the Fei family to take 100,000 gold dragons to settle must be a great deal.

"Actually, it's nothing, my son-in-law stabbed the student in a fit of anger because of a conflict with a poor student at school, my lord is worried that this matter will damage the reputation of the Fei family if it is published in the newspaper, so I hope Director Li can inform the newspaper below and let them ignore this matter." Zhang Zhi said lightly.

Li Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and he said: "I see, it's easy to say, it's easy to say, I'll just ask the newspaper offices below to ignore this matter, as for these dragon coins, please ask Steward Zhang to take them back, as long as Fei Ge Lao remembers that Li has a meritorious service in this matter." ”

"This is not good, the master ordered, this money must be accepted, as for the deployment of Director Li, the master will also help with the activities."

Li Ran was overjoyed when he heard this, this news department was really a clear water yamen for him, and it was thankless, and he had long wanted to leave here.

"Thank you, thank you, and please rest assured, Steward Zhang, I will send someone to send news to the newspapers now."

Zhang Zhi nodded with satisfaction.

Fiji.

Fiji's face was very ugly, and sitting in front of him were his younger brother Pei Pei and his nephew Fei Yu, who had just told him what Fei Tong had done at school.

"Have you already sent people around?" Fiji snapped.

Fei Yu nodded, "Uncle, in order not to damage the reputation of the Fei family, my nephew has already prepared in advance, please don't worry." ”

Fiji was about to spit out a mouthful of blood, he was obviously questioning, but Fei Yu thought he was asking him to arrange in advance.

Taking a deep breath, Fiji said: "You haven't thought about this matter a little strange, Fei Tong has always had a bad reputation in school, why would a poor child take the initiative to provoke him?" ”

"It stands to reason that this is the case, but it is said that this student has just transferred from another province and may not know about it." Fei Pei said.

Fiji frowned, "Then this is even more strange, all the newcomers, who is not a man with his tail between his legs, not to mention that this person is still a poor person, in my opinion, this matter is wrong, I am afraid that someone deliberately designed a trap for Fei Tong to drill." ”