Chapter 957 Written by Lu Gong

Seeing Li Ding come in, Shu Dan said: "It's just the right time for me to be a senior. How about you come and comment on this poem?"

How could Li Ding still be in such a mood? He took out Su Shi's confession from his sleeve and handed it to He Zhengchen: "Jun Biao, please make up for the pages that you took out this morning."

He Zhengchen took the confession: "But why?"

Li Ding ignored him and looked directly at Shu Dan: "Why did Su Song's confession recorded in the morning come before your Majesty?"

Shu Yu was confused: "What do you mean by this? Su You came to the Yamen in the morning. You asked us to suspend the interview and discuss countermeasures together. After that, you handed it over to you for filing. Now you come to ask me?"

Li Ding sneered: "Did you know? Because the confessions about Su Song at the Censorship Station and Dali Temple were inconsistent, Your Majesty almost asked the Censorate Doctor to interrogate us?!"

"If I hadn't thought quickly and pointed out that several pages had been removed from the confession in Dali Temple and the meaning of the text had been tampered with, we would have been the unlucky ones!"

"Now the people at Dali Temple don't know how to hold grudges against me. I just ask you, how did that imperial record arrive?!"

Shu Dan stood up angrily: "You suspect that I did it?!"

He Zhengchen quickly stood up and said, "Senior, don't be anxious. I believe you, don't be angry. Let's explain clearly what is going on."

"You should stop pretending to be a good person!" Li Ding glared at He Zhengchen: "I was almost killed by your bad idea! The Prime Minister of Dali Temple acted like you did, and now he has been dismissed from his post. He has punished himself and is finished!"

Now it was He Zhengchen's turn to cry out that he was wronged. The three of them argued for a long time. Finally, when they saw that it was nothing, they went through today's events again and called the secretary on duty to inquire strictly, and finally figured out what was going on.

It turned out that when the three of them discussed countermeasures in the morning, Shu Yu left notes on several cases.

Since he told the interviewer that the interview was over for the day before leaving, the secretary concluded according to the normal procedure. After Li Ding reviewed it, he sent it to the filing room for filing.

It happened that the archives were preparing the documents to be sent to the palace every month. Seeing that the file shelf was empty, the secretary put the records in the usual place where the files were usually stored.

Today was the busiest day at the stall. When I came back after finishing my work, I saw that Wenming had left a copy on the shelf, so he quickly put this record among the documents entering the palace.

As for why this confession was picked out and placed on Zhao Xu's desk after entering the palace, it is unknown.

When Li Ding asked what was going on here, and then explained what happened when he met with Your Majesty today, all three of them were sweating in their vests.

There's something weird about this thing, how could it be such a coincidence?

Everyone is right, but...why did things go so wrong?

Li Ding wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "The interview between Su Song and Su Shi cannot be carried out as originally planned. Jia Zhongmin's fate is a lesson for others."

He Zhengchen said: "If this is the case, it will be really difficult to handle. If Su Song is bitten to death and does not admit guilt, there is nothing anyone can do."

Shu Dan said: "Fortunately, Su Shi has recognized it, at least we have won one."

Li Ding thought for a while: "Then we will focus on attacking Su Shi and Su You. I don't believe there is any infringement in his dealings with Su Shi!"

At this moment, a chuckle sounded from the door: "You three, the only thing to record words is white paper and plain silk. Look what I found?"

The three of them looked towards the door together, and it was Zhang Hong who was holding a simple purple clay pot in his hand.

Zhang Hong, whose real name was Zhang Hu, became a Jinshi in the same year as Su Shi and worked together in Fengxiang for two years. Their relationship was once very good.

Later, when Zhang Hong came to Beijing, he expressed his pride in front of him in the same year. Su Shi wrote an article called "Jia Shuo" and gave it to him as a preface.

The article is very well written. It starts with planting crops and compares the farming environment, farming methods and harvest results of the poor and the rich, paving the way for the following scholarship;

The following article focuses on explaining the connection between studying and growing crops, and then reveals the main theme of the article: planting crops must wait until they are mature before they can be harvested; the same is true for learning, which requires extensive knowledge and apprehension, and accumulation and accumulation.

Finally, the article said that he had a younger brother in the capital, and if Zhang Hong saw him after coming to the capital, he would tell him what he meant.

This is because Su Shi felt that the culture of eagerness for quick success, shallowness and frivolity was growing among the scholar-bureaucrats at that time, so he wrote this short article, hoping to encourage it.

Although the article was good, the tone was that of an elder brother lecturing his younger brother, which gave Zhang Hong a scoop of cold water when he was in high spirits at the time.

Zhang Hong was not broad-minded and thought that Su Shi was deliberately mocking him. On the surface, he claimed to have been taught, but in private he was gnashing his teeth. Whenever he had the opportunity, he would immediately retaliate crazily.

So Su Shi's bad mouth was his fault all his life.

Li Ding took the purple clay pot over and was surprised and delighted when he saw it: "This is..."

Zhang Hong said proudly: "This is the teapot that Su You gave to Su Shi. I found it in Su Shi's luggage. With this, we can impeach Su You together!"

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In the palace, Lu Gongzhu was chatting with Zhao Xu.

After learning about Chen Shiru's fate, Lu Gongzhu also sighed: "A family of scholar-bureaucrats owes their ancestors the favor of the world, but they don't know the way, don't practice etiquette, don't advance in industry, don't have good virtues and abilities, and can't bring together such a large business and population. It's not as good as before."

Even if there are three small households in Bianjing, they have to sell pots of pulp all year round."

This statement has a somewhat desolate meaning, but it is quite reasonable.

In fact, he was also tactfully admonishing Zhao Xu.

This is the characteristic of Lu Gongzhu. His words are always persuasive, and Zhao Xu can always listen to them.

Zhao Xu said: "Li Ding reminded me today that it is known that Jia Zhongmin of Dali Temple has committed adultery and has wronged Duke Lu before."

Lu Gongzhu didn't take it seriously: "I am already suspected of doing something to invite you. The Yushitai and Dali Temple opened a case for investigation. It is the system that should be in place."

"However, our ancestors set up a system with checks and balances, and the common people are politically clear. However, where are the checks and balances of the Legal Department and the Taiwan Admonition?"

"If we don't solve it through institutional checks and balances, if we can have people like Jia Zhong today, we may not be able to have Zhang Tang, Zhidu, Zhou Xing, and Lai Junchen tomorrow."

"Su Song's virtue is well known to both the government and the public. In the first month of the ninth year of Xining, there was a disaster in Suzhou and Hangzhou. When selecting the local governor, His Majesty said that he was kind and would be able to bring peace to the Wu people and ordered him to know Hangzhou."

"Further back, Su Song was demoted for refusing to follow Li Ding's edict. Your Majesty took pity on his external and internal strength and decided to use him again. I remember that your Majesty once said at that time: 'I am fully aware of Zirong's virtues.'

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"But half a year ago, Shu Yu impeached Su Song for minor crimes, demoted him to secretary-supervisor, and left Haozhou."

"Compared to his fault, the punishment is not light, but Shu Quan went so far as to falsely accuse Su Song of accepting the invitation. Your Majesty, is there really nothing in Yushitai's determination to follow the holy will and to achieve good fortune?"

Su Song was dismissed from Haozhou because of a bizarre lawsuit.

Zong Fan, a monk at the Daishoguno Temple in Tokyo, accused his master, the abbot of the temple, Dao Long, for secretly paying the porridge money from the temple to Sun Chun, an official.

A letter of complaint was sent to the governor of Kaifeng. After Su Song investigated the case, he found that it was Daolong who had borrowed money from Sun Chun. When Sun Chun was asking for debt, Daolong was short of money, so he used the porridge money from the temple to offset the debt.

Sun Chun was accused and immediately returned the money to Daolong, and the two agreed on another repayment period.

It's a joke that Daolong is short of money, but the great monk likes to manage money, so he deposited all his money in Huangsong Bank for a fixed period, and there are still a few days until maturity. After all, he can't bear the interest.

Therefore, Su Song believed that this was just a trivial matter. It was right for Sun Chun to ask for debts, and the money for the temple was raised from the private sector and controlled by the abbot, which was actually right. Moreover, the consequences of this matter were not serious. Sun Chun also corrected it.

In a timely manner, it cannot be handled as an official bullying others.

Therefore, it was judged that his disciple Zong Fan was causing trouble without doing anything and disturbing the public morals, so he was punished with a stick.

According to common sense, the matter passed away, but I didn't expect that trouble would arise again soon after.

A city god soldier in Kaifeng Prefecture actually accused Su Song of favoring Sun Chun.

The City God's Soldiers are the small soldiers who guard the City God's Temple. It is simply unbelievable that a small City God's Soldier dares to sue the governor of Kaifeng.

But this complaint was not only appealed, but also successful, and it was also directly brought to the Yushitai!
Chapter completed!