The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

Chapter 176: Debate over the Imperial Way and the Cultural Society

Although Han Anbang was a little narrow-minded and liked to do ruthless things, the important position of the warden was in the hands of Jia Yucun. It was more appropriate for him to give the position of the warden to Sun Shaozong’s people. He was still able to understand it clearly.

Therefore, the appreciation of Jia Yucun and Zhou Da was basically guaranteed.

The only thing that Sun Shaozong didn't trust was that if he got rich, he would amass wealth like his predecessor. So when he returned to the Criminal Department, he specifically called him over to frighten him.

Zhou Da heard that the "promotion to the Prison Department" had been settled. He was pleased. Not to mention he pointed his nose up and cursed, it was fine even though he was threatened with a few words.

So he made a good promise in front of Sun Shaozong and then walked out of the hall happily.

"Brother Zhou, stop!"

Just as he came down the steps, a man came up behind him.

Zhou Da looked back and saw that it was Cheng Rixing who had called him. He bowed and said, "Private Advisor Cheng, what do you want to tell me?"

Cheng Rixing smiled and said, "I just want to ask, what are the arrangements for the vacancy of the Clerks and Ministers?"

The officials and envoys were all subordinate officials under the jurisdiction of the Prison Department. They were commonly known as prison leaders. This time, the fall of the prison leader was a nested case. Naturally, several prison leaders were also taken down.

"Well..."

Zhou Da knew that he had something to say. He then asked carefully, "The Assistant Magistrate didn’t mention anything, could Private Advisor Cheng have any good candidates to recommend?"

"Although it is not ”virtuous”."

Cheng Rixing smiled and said, "I really have a suitable candidate here. It's the drunken vagary boxer, Ni’er, from Yunshui Lane. He is relative to the Master, and he also has a lot of methods for doing things. If you ask him to punish those slippery jailers, wouldn't it save you a lot of trouble?"

Zhou Da also knew about the drunken vagary boxer, Ni’er.

Although he has a relative relationship with the Sun family, people like Ni’er couldn't get in front of Sun Shaozong and Sun Shaozu, but he has been very close to Cheng Rixing in recent days. It was very important to help Cheng Rixing with some ”private affairs.”

However, what Rixing said was true. One of the Sun family's relatives was here to handle the difficult matters in front of him, he must be able to save a lot of energy in the Prison Department.

It was just that…

Zhou Da said, "Private Advisor Cheng, Your Majesty has just told me that the lower officials should not be guilty of corruption. After all, Ni’er was born in the market, and if he became greedy..."

Cheng Rixing waved his hand and said, "You can rest assured. I'm just trying to protect his future. If he is really a loser, just take him to the sword. He is not a decent relative of Master anyway!"

With this, Zhou Da has no choice but to invite Cheng Rixing to drink at his house for a few days.

However, after Cheng Rixing saw Zhou Da in the wing room, he went straight back to the hall room and reported the conversation they had just earlier.

After hearing this, Sun Shaozong nodded and said, "Old Zhou is a little short-sighted. Recently, he has been involved in more than half of his family's wealth. No one is watching. I'm really worried."

"In fact, Master doesn't need to worry too much." Cheng Rixing smiled, "That recommendation was written by Minister Liu, what does it have to do with you?"

Sun Shaozong gouged out his eyes without saying anything, and Cheng Rixing suddenly felt that he had lost his voice and closed his mouth in embarrassment.

The work in the afternoon was not good enough.

After the Yamen were dispersed, Sun Shaozong came home and listened to Zhao Zhongji's report as soon as he entered the house. He said that after the young men had participated in some "cultural meetings" in the morning, they seemed to have a lot of anger and even ate less lunch than usual.

"All of them didn’t eat much?"

"Well, it's mainly the two Young Masters. I can't tell anything about Master Yu."

Was it the time of the cultural meetings where he lost face in front of others?

It was reasonable to say that the style of writing in Jiangnan was flourishing, not to mention the local successful candidates of the Imperial Examination in the Capital were not their opponents, at least they would not be inferior.

Did they meet some experts?

With this in mind, Sun Shaozong showed some interest and went to the small courtyard where the three people lived.

Just after passing through the doorway, Sun Chengtao in the hall shouted angrily, "They all said that it was the best place under the feet of the Emperor, but I didn't expect that there were such shameless villains!"

Sun Shaozong then raised his voice and asked, "I don't know which shameless villain has offended you so much that you can't even eat?"

Hearing his voice, the three people in the room rushed out.

Sun Chengye still wanted to cover up a few words, but Sun Chengtao has already told his experience in the morning like a bamboo tube pouring tofu.

It turned out that two students of Sun Shaozong came yesterday to invite three of them to participate in the "Jade Pavilion Poetry Club." All three of them felt that this was a good opportunity to exchange ideas with local scholars, and they gladly went there.

Who knew that Sun Hanlin appeared at the meeting? Everyone was flattering him, showing off, and targeting three of them everywhere.

"My third brother and I are not as skilled as others, and we can't say anything!"

Sun Chengtao angrily said, "But Tingyi's poems are obviously superior to those of Sun Hanlin in terms of style, but they are worthless! I was angry and retorted a few words, and he made a few sarcasms at me!"

Sun Hanlin?

Unexpectedly, this guy lost his face in front of himself and found trouble with several "younger generations".

Sun Shaozong sneered and said to Yu Qian, "Let me have a look at the poems Sun Hanlin and you have written."

Yu Qian smiled unconcernedly, "Poems are just like a little Taoist, and it's not enough to be happy about winning or worried about losing. It's Li Jingbin and Wang Zhefei who, knowing that Uncle and Sun Hanlin are not friendly, still encourage us to participate in the cultural conference of the Jade Pavilion..."

Sun Chengtao was stunned beside him. Apparently, he hadn't thought of this before. He hesitated and said, "Brother Li and Brother Wang may not... may not have some evil intentions? Besides, we have no evidence."

Evidence?

What evidence was needed for such a thing as "betraying and shaming the teacher"? Just a little possibility was enough!

However, Sun Shaozong was too lazy to talk about these two inferior people and urged Yu Qian again to transcribe all of those poems.

Based on Sun Shaozong's ancient literature, it really was difficult to distinguish the difference between these poems. Besides, even if he were a martial artist, those scholars would not recognize him, even if they could comment on him.

Fortunately, he asked Yu Qian to write it down, but it wasn’t for himself.

After drying the ink on it, he rolled it up and put it in his sleeve pocket. Sun Shaozong said, "In a few days, I will let people show these poems to Lord Wang, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. If they are suspected of relying on power to suppress talents…”

Speaking of this, he sneered several times, "That Sun Hanlin, I'm afraid he will have no face to stay in the Imperial Academy."

Since Sun Hanlin used his power to suppress Yu Qian, it was no wonder that Sun Shaozong brought out the great god, Minister Wang, and crushed him mercilessly.

Of course, the premise was that Yu Qian's poems were better than Sun Hanlin's.