"Your Majesty! You have also seen that Lin Fan has no respect for the king and does not take you seriously. He has not come to the court this morning!"
Li Guozhen said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty! This Lin Fan has just become the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and yet he has done such a treasonous and unethical thing. Moreover, he has not come to the morning court. He should be killed!"
Wei Zhide also said.
"Ahem! Your Majesty, Commander Lin may have been busy with official duties, so he didn't arrive!"
Wang Chengen saw this and said hurriedly.
Chongzhen glanced at Li Guozhen and others indifferently, and said, "Why, just allow you people to be busy with official duties, and the Jin Yiwei will have nothing to do?"
…
All the officials were silent, and no one dared to answer Chongzhen's question. However, if Lin Fan does not come to court, it will be very detrimental to him if things continue to develop!
"Wang Chengen, go and call Lin Fan!"
Chongzhen said coldly.
Wang Chengen accepted the order and hurried to the Yamen of Jinyiwei Baihu Division. When he found Lin Fan, he was fast asleep on the bed.
As a rich second generation in the 21st century, not to mention it was four or five o'clock in the morning, he had not opened his eyes before ten o'clock in the morning.
Wang Chengen spent a lot of effort to call Lin Fan up. Lin Fan put on his clothes in a daze and followed Wang Chengen.
It wasn't until he arrived at the palace that Lin Fan regained consciousness and realized his situation. He was afraid that he would have to fight with the officials next.
Arriving at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Lin Fan saw the scene of hundreds of officials attending court for the first time. He couldn't help but glance around curiously. All the officials had cold expressions on their faces.
Lin Fan walked to the middle, knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, Lin Fan, I have met your Majesty. Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"
Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "Lin Fan, the officials said that you went to Chen Ge's hometown yesterday. Afterwards, Chen Ge's family died tragically. Have you investigated this matter clearly?"
Chongzhen did not say that Lin Fan killed the old Chen Ge family, but said that after he went there, the old Chen Ge family died tragically. As long as Lin Fan was clever and bit him to death and said that he was not the one who did it, then he could put this matter to rest.
If we find a way out, the worst thing we can do is give Chen Yan a grand burial.
"Your Majesty, you already know this. There is no need to praise me, and there is no need for officials to thank me."
Lin Fan said with a smile.
kindness!
The officials' eyes suddenly widened, and Bachelor Fan Jingwen said angrily: "Your Majesty, this boy is evil-hearted! If we don't kill him, the people will not be angry!"
"Your Majesty, this man killed Chen Yan's family, but here he brazenly said that Your Majesty did not need to praise him, as if he had done a good deed and deserved to be killed!"
"Your Majesty, what are you waiting for for such a rebellious person? Just kill him!"
Faced with what the officials said, Chongzhen was speechless. Why does this child's mind go up and down? I tried my best to excuse you, but you still jumped into it.
"You! Did you really kill Chen Ge's family?"
Chongzhen asked.
"Kill him! I received a secret report that Chen Yan had embezzled two hundred thousand taels of money from the imperial court. At that time, I was shocked!"
"You know, the imperial treasury is empty, and His Majesty can't even get out a thousand taels. Chen Yan actually embezzled so much money, so I came to ask for it!"
"Not only did Chen Yan refuse to give it, he also sent his retainers to kill the Jin Yiwei. We Jin Yiwei represent His Majesty's face and cannot be violated, so I gave the order to kill Chen Yan and his family!"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
But he was muttering in his heart: "Hey, I told you it was two hundred thousand taels. You can never imagine that I found more than three million taels of silver from Chen Yan's house yesterday!"
"This money is enough for me to raise an army of 200,000, hehe! Then I can tell a story about killing white snakes, red snakes, and black snakes, and I can become the king!"
Thinking in his heart, Chongzhen heard all this, and his mouth suddenly opened wide. Chen Yan's family actually had three million taels of silver!
this!
If Lin Fan hadn't heard this from his heart, he wouldn't have believed it even if he were beaten to death. However, it was too unethical for this kid to put all three million taels of silver into his own pocket.
No, I have to find a way to make him spit it out, but I can't expose the fact that I can hear his voice.
"You! You are framing me!"
"That's right, Mr. Chen Ge is an upright man and a model for all officials. How could he have so much money!"
"Your Majesty! I heard that Lin Fan's family is rich and he has recently been selling his family's belongings. These two hundred thousand taels of silver must be his, not Mr. Chen Ge's!"
When the officials heard this, they quickly helped Chen Yan deny it.
At the same time, they were also puzzled. As Chen Yan was the elder of the court, it stands to reason that the amount of money he received was not only 1 million but also 800,000. How could Lin Fan find 200,000 taels?
"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, it is empty talk. The ministers have framed me in this way. Do you have any evidence?"
"Would any of you be stupid enough to use two hundred thousand taels of silver to frame an official?
None of you can, let alone me. Besides, you said that my family is rich, but you should show me the evidence and tell me how much property I have in my name!"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
"Damn it! I don't even know how much property I have. During this period of time, I emptied my property and I don't know how to sell it. If you can help me find the property in my name, I would like to thank you for eight generations of ancestors!
"
Lin Fan muttered in his heart.
Chongzhen suddenly had a black thread in his head. All you have spent for so many years is my money. The money I have raised for you is enough to support 10,000 elite soldiers. How can you have any property?
All the officials were choked by Lin Fan's words and were speechless. They had only heard that Lin Fan's family had a lot of property, but they had never heard that any shops or properties in the city belonged to him.
"Ahem! My dear friends, do any of you know how much property Lin Fan's family has?
How much silver can it be worth?"
Chongzhen asked.
"Your Majesty, this..."
Baiguan didn't know how to answer.
Lin Fan said: "Look, you yourself don't know how much property I have, but you just say that these two hundred thousand taels of silver are mine. Isn't this a false accusation against me?"
Lin Fan said this, but he was complaining in his heart: "Damn it! These ministers don't know how much property I have, how can I sell it?
If it really doesn’t work, let the people from Baihu Division go check it out. It’s really embarrassing to think about it..."
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Emperor Chongzhen was even more speechless. If this guy sends people from Baihu Division to check how many properties he has under his name, and finds that he has none, will the investigation be blamed on him?
Just when Chongzhen was worried about this, Wei Zhide said solemnly: "Your Majesty, even if Chen Yan deserves to die, he is still the chief minister of the current cabinet!"
"Without His Majesty's decree, without the documents from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, he dared to arrest people directly and kill them all. This! This method is too cruel!"
"If we don't kill such a person, how can we convince the public! All our officials will be in panic all day long, and we might not be able to see His Majesty one day!"