Chapter five hundred and eighty nine everything is in control
Now that the matter has been brought up, we have to make it clear. If we don't make it clear, we will really take the blame. After word spread, others may really think that Fang Yingwu was bold enough to embezzle the emperor's money.
At the risk of being disrespectful, Fang Yingwu took over the conversation and shouted: "Your Majesty! There is always a fixed amount of money from the palace to buy things in the market. For example, if you give 10,000 silver, it will be 10,000."
When this money leaves the treasury, it will not belong to Your Majesty. It will either fall into the hands of the purchasing eunuchs or the merchants. I only help the merchants gain a few more points, and only reduce the purchasing eunuchs’ financial opportunities. How can I call it that?
Embezzling internal funds?
As for the silver that the shopkeepers donated to the county government out of gratitude, it was indeed tens of thousands of taels accumulated in three years, but I didn't keep a single tael, and all of it was used to build Ciren Temple, Master Xingxian can prove it!
In fact, it was because there was not enough money to build Ciren Temple and I didn’t want to exploit and disturb the people, so I had to resort to this strategy to make money, which only made the father-in-law in charge of purchasing in the palace dissatisfied!”
This explanation is so perfect that even the emperor has nothing to say. Ciren Temple was originally built by the emperor under an edict for Master Xingxian, the younger brother of the Queen Mother, and Wanping County is responsible for it.
If the money for the construction was insufficient, Fang Yingwu, the county magistrate at the time, plundered tens of thousands of taels of silver from the pockets of the eunuchs in the palace to finance the construction. It seemed to be an act of justice. What was a bad thing if the emperor's slaves donated some money to the emperor to build the temple?
It was Fang Yingwu's skill to scrape money from eunuchs' bodies and use it for royal affairs.
From the emperor's point of view, this internal money was just misappropriated from the internal prison to Ciren Temple, and there was no loss. The emperor even had to be grateful to Fang Yingwu, who helped recover tens of thousands of taels of internal money.
On to more important business.
However, after Liang Fang stood next to the emperor and listened, she finally felt that something was very wrong, because Fang Yingwu's response was so perfect... It was as if everything was preset.
What's even worse is that originally, he threw out the dirty information in order to make the emperor feel bad about Fang Yingwu, but now it seems that it has backfired! It seems that he is using the method of promoting desire first to suppress it to praise Fang Yingwu!
Yes, Eunuch Liang was confused at this moment. He had a vague illusion, as if he and Fang Yingwu had already agreed on their lines. Whenever he asked a tricky question, Fang Yingwu could calmly come up with a perfect answer.
It’s almost the same as having practiced beforehand.
But Eunuch Liang can be sure that he has never had any communication with Fang Yingwu beforehand, which is absolutely impossible. His idea was to catch Fang Yingwu by surprise. How could he possibly communicate this with Fang Yingwu?
What's the problem? Could it be that the news was leaked from him, so that Fang Yingwu knew in advance that he would use black materials to attack, so he was prepared in advance?
Thinking of this, Eunuch Liang immediately rejected the idea. Even he himself had just obtained the black material last night and had no time to leak it.
So the most likely possibility is that Fang Yingwu already knew about it before Shi Chun, the commander of Jinyiwei, presented him with Fang Yingwu's black materials overnight, and the problem lies with Shi Chun!
Eunuch Liang didn't express his thoughts, and when he saw the emperor acquiescing to his response, Fang Yingwu felt a stone fall in his heart. Now the situation was determined, at least he would not lose in today's showdown with Liang Fang.
These black materials were not so much reported to Liang Fang by Shi Chun, the commander of Jin Yiwei, but rather were deliberately leaked to Liang Fang by Fang Yingwu through Shi Chun's mouth.
Yesterday in the town hall, Shi Chun was frightened, and Fang Yingwu had the idea to expose his "shortcomings" and instigated Shi Chun to report to Liang Fang that "Fang Yingwu publicly discussed and promoted the emperor's shortcomings" and "disguised evil".
Take away tens of thousands of taels of money" and other dirty materials.
Although Mr. Shi knew there might be a trap and didn't quite understand Fang Yingwu's intentions, he still chose to follow Fang Yingwu's wishes and report it to Eunuch Liang. By doing this, he could at least get Dongchang to never pursue him again.
promise, and was able to fool Eunuch Liang first.
For Shi Chun, even if it is proved that there is a problem in the end, he can argue that he did not verify it clearly, and he can barely explain it to Eunuch Liang. To say the least, it is not necessarily impossible to live without Liang Fang.
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As for why Fang Yingwu asked Shi Chun to report his dirty information to Liang Fang, it wasn't because Fang Yingwu was being mean, there were other reasons.
Yesterday, Fang Yingwu could tell that Liang Fang would definitely find ways to frame him in the upcoming face-to-face meeting. But Fang Yingwu didn't know exactly how Liang Fang would do it. This is an uncertain factor. If you know yourself, you don't know the enemy.
Fang Yingwu wanted to be on guard but had no way of starting.
Therefore, Fang Yingwu thought about it again and again, instead of letting Liang Fang do what he wanted, which would make him unable to defend himself, it would be better for him to design the plot and induce Liang Fang to act according to his own preset routine, so that he could still do it with ease.
Today's idea was realized quite well. As expected, Eunuch Liang used the two pieces of black material as a means to squeeze out the bottom of the box... Is he now at his wits' end? Fang Yingwu was completely relieved at this point, and that's what it's all about.
It's all under control.
Liang Fang stared blankly for a moment and said nothing, and immediately moved to attack and defend. At this time, Fang Yingwu also adapted to the environment and found that the emperor did not pay special attention to the order of hierarchy in private, and there would be no consequences for speaking a few words boldly.
So Fang Yingwu opened his mouth and asked Liang Fang: "Eunuch Liang knows very well about my affairs, but I have never had any contact with Eunuch Liang. I wonder how Eunuch Liang learned about it?"
"It was reported by Jin Yiwei Shi Chun!" Liang Fang replied forcefully with a strong look on her face.
Fang Yingwu was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to expose Liang Fang and Jinyiwei Commander Shi Chun's collusion as a crime, but unexpectedly Liang Fang actually admitted it on her own.
Afterwards, Fang Yingwu quickly looked at the emperor, but saw that the emperor was sitting on the throne indifferently, and did not care about what Liang Fang said.
Fang Yingwu was speechless and couldn't help but complain a few more words in his heart: This emperor doesn't know whether he should be said to be generous or ignorant. He is too indulgent to the people around him. Almost all of them are stupid kings in various storytelling books.
This model, art really comes from life!
If it were any of the former emperors, if they heard that the closest eunuchs in charge were colluding with important figures in the royal guards outside the palace, they would definitely be furious, and they would be punished for growing vegetables in the Xiaoling Mausoleum, or even be punished with death!
Liang Fang looked at Fang Yingwu proudly. A minister outside the palace was fighting with a favored eunuch in the palace. As long as the eunuch's favor was still there, the minister might be able to gain an advantage, but it would be even more difficult to win.
This is the reason why in the struggle between ministers and eunuchs, ministers were often demoted and exiled one after another, but eunuchs could often remain standing unless the emperor changed or the emperor changed his mind.