Fang Xuan and the bachelors who were originally busy collecting and sorting out various news, reports, data, insider information, etc. from the Southeast were collectively stunned.
They had rarely seen His Highness the Crown Prince so angry and arrogant.
The hearts of several maesters jumped into their throats.
Including Fang Xuan, Fang Xuanling himself was the same. When he suddenly saw His Highness the Crown Prince looking so angry, he thought he had done something hugely wrong.
Xiao Yi raised the memorial in his hand and said in a deep voice: "I gave you a month to check a county. I even drew a form and decided on the options. How did you write the result?"
"Approximately, probably, rumors... a city with a business tax of less than 3,000 guan a year doesn't even know who the richest family in the city is?"
"How did you check this month?"
Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, and then realized what His Highness the Crown Prince meant. He was so flustered that he quickly bowed and said, "So that Your Highness will know that I am looking for someone to inquire after I arrive at the place..."
In fact, he was not responsible for this matter. The tax inspection and inspection of wealthy households were carried out by more than a dozen bachelors who followed him, and they were also intentionally asked to go to the local area to see the lives of ordinary people.
And he is the censor Zhongcheng, leading the supervisory censor to investigate local officials.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's southern tour must be an undercurrent, and there is also an intention to alert the enemy. People who usually keep a low profile and keep a low profile, and cannot see their background, will more or less show their flaws at this time.
Xiao Yi asked: "Who did you ask someone to ask? Why did you ask like this?"
Fang Xuanling said: "Of course he is a local scholar..."
Xiao Yi looked around at the bachelors standing here, took out a piece of paper from the back of the memorial, pinched the piece of paper, and then asked: "Let's not talk about the family property, but you can't ask, why is there something at the end of this document? There is a clip saying that a certain person in Xuzhou is lawless and oppresses the people... Did you go to Xuzhou alone?"
"I'm ashamed." Fang Xuanling bowed.
By this time, the academicians all understood that the person His Royal Highness was questioning was not Yushi Zhongcheng, but them.
But they are also bachelors and students, so naturally they are not qualified enough.
His Highness the Crown Prince could only question the person with the highest official position who was accompanying him, namely the Prime Minister Xuanling.
Of course, after more than a year of running-in between the monarch and his ministers, when His Highness the Crown Prince took out the paper and started to question, Fang Xuanling understood, so he calmly acted out such a scene with His Highness the Crown Prince. A knock on the mountain shakes the tiger.
Immediately, a bachelor came out, bowed and saluted, and said hesitantly: "Back, back to Your Highness, this memorial was written by a certain person. The reason why the note was left was because some people in Xuzhou found a certain person. Cry….”
Xiao Yi immediately said: "He found you and cried that so-and-so was lawless. Do you believe it?"
"Do you know his true identity and where he lives? How many people are there in his family? What are their names? What is the story of his injustice? Is there any physical evidence?"
"Not to mention, you can investigate this so-and-so's home. How many people are there in his family? What are their names and identities? Have they really done those things?"
"You just believe it?"
"You also left a note on the memorial?"
"Did you know that because of this piece of paper, this so-and-so might be beheaded in public, or have his home confiscated and exiled?"
"Because of this piece of paper, a dozen or even dozens of people may be wronged and wronged?!"
The Grand Bachelor lowered his body even lower after being questioned, his face turned red and white, and he was speechless.
Xiao Yi turned his head and looked around. The smile and anger on his face were gone for a moment, but he was expressionless and asked coldly: "Who else has their identity exposed?"
There were actually seven or eight bachelors who took a step forward, bowed and saluted, and asked for forgiveness.
Xiao Yi felt like he was holding a breath in his heart, almost suffocating him to death.
"I want you to take a look at how many bridges there are in Hangzhou, how well the official roads are built, and whether it is convenient for people to travel. A few bridges are just a few bridges. Data must speak for itself. This is what I have emphasized in the capital. Look at you, what do you write about 'a small bridge diagonally crosses seven or eight places'?"
"Why is it written below, 'Students parked in the West Lake at night looking for someone to live in. They walked to the east embankment of the broken bridge, climbed onto the bridge and looked at the lake. Although it was not as bright as the twenty-fourth bridge on a moonlit night, it still had a different feeling.' You go Several bridges, but also thinking about the twenty-four bridges in Yangzhou on a moonlit night, who do you want to play the flute for you?"
"I want you to understand the sentiments of the people, or do you want to travel around?"
"If you like traveling so much, then don't study in the Imperial College or Hongwen Hall from now on, and go directly to travel around the country and write your poems, okay?!"
There was silence in the temporary government meeting hall outside the palace.
The bachelors finally saw what it meant to be angry and lay down millions of corpses in the prince's body.
They always feel as if there is a knife hanging on their necks, and this knife is very likely to be chopped off.
terrible.
"That's all!" Xiao Yi was so angry that he didn't bother to care.
"I have thought about this situation before. You still only read some sages' books, and you act like you are a scholar, so you are superior. No one has ever asked the farmer, and no one has sat in the farmer's home to take a look. What kind of life do these lowest level Daqian people live!"
"Gu Ye has never had high expectations for you, and I also know that if you are asked to investigate secretly, you won't actually gain much."
Xiao Yi looked at Fang Xuan and said: "The supervisory censor has done a pretty good job and is commendable, but we must remain vigilant at all times to prevent problems among internal staff."
Fang Xuan quickly replied: "Here."
Xiao Yi softened his tone a little more and said to more than a dozen bachelors: "Gu has always emphasized the new learning. In fact, the new learning and Confucianism are not in conflict. After all, they all need to distinguish right from wrong. You can't just study, and you can't Study hard."
"A thousand students will read the Analects and there will be ten thousand annotations."
"You also need to have a clear concept in your mind, and think about what is right and what is wrong."
"Sense of shame and then courage."
"I hope you can remember your mistake this time and remember the ridiculous and generous things you have done."
"From now on, we will really work for the benefit of the people!"
More than a dozen bachelors quickly bowed and saluted.
"Here."
In fact, this situation occurred before arriving at Jinling City.
One by one, let them understand the sentiments of the people.
However, they directly relied on their status as temporary inspectors to travel around and experience the comfort of power brought by their status.
No one can truly understand the sentiments of the people.
This is also the reason why Xiao Yi is very angry.
If there is one, it can be comforted, and it also shows that there is no problem with the teachings of the Imperial College and Hongwen Hall.
Now it seems that their implementation of the new learning is actually very backward. It is very likely that they did not dare to refute him, the prince of the prison country, and were afraid of the prestige of the prince of the prison country, so they agreed verbally. In fact, they still stick to the rules and only respect Confucianism.
When Xiao Yi thought of this, he could only raise his head and sigh, then turned around and went back, leaving the entire courtyard uneasy.
Their uneasiness is more about their uneasiness about their future career, and they do not understand the essence of the matter at all.
If they could understand at this time, they would not do such a thing this time.
Including Fang Xuan himself, looking at his hands behind his back, he seemed to be a little unmotivated, and there was also a back view of His Highness the Crown Prince walking alone in a dark alley, which was a little complicated for a while.
The actions of more than a dozen academicians are indeed very disappointing, but this is also human nature. They spend all day studying in the Imperial College and Hongwen Hall, and they are all scholars themselves, not to mention that they are all They have fine clothes and fine food, but they don’t worry about the cost of food and clothing.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince may have understood this truth from the beginning, but he still used these bachelors.
Of course, it may be that there is still some hope, and I want to see a few people perform up to standard.
As a result, every one of them is pedantic, ignorant of flexibility, and pretentious.
One can imagine.
What will it be like for these scholars to take part in the imperial examination and become officials of the imperial court in the future?
Fang Xuanling sighed when he thought of this.
"well……."
