Chapter 334: The Love of Parents
The next morning.
The "Shenxiansan Special Rectification" meeting convened and hosted by the Ministry of Justice was successfully held in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice with the full cooperation of invited officials from various departments.
The first session of the meeting was naturally to praise Guangde.
Probably because people from the Ministry of Public Security were present, representatives from various government offices appeared extremely enthusiastic in this session, posing in various kneeling and licking postures, almost licking the horse until it was swollen.
However, Sun Shaozong keenly discovered that the clerk sent by the Ministry of Public Security only touched the brush once from beginning to end. He was obviously pretending and did not record these eulogies - as a practitioner of the official media, this guy's ideological awareness is a bit low!
After the eulogies, it’s finally time to argue…ah, it’s time to discuss the main topic.
The recipe for making the Immortal Powder has now spread everywhere. If one wants to cure the disease from the source, several common medicinal ingredients must be listed as contraband - but this option was strongly opposed by the Imperial Medical Bureau, so it was aborted before the feasibility could be discussed.
Since the source cannot be cut off, we can only find ways to prevent and control it among the drug users.
However, on the specific prevention and control policies and allocation of responsibilities, Xu Liang, the left vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Sun Shaozong had a "cordial exchange" for a long time but failed to reach a consensus.
Initially, Xu Liang acted like a superior and tried to forcibly shift the blame to the Criminal Law Department, which would then only be responsible for supervision and inspection - to put it bluntly, it was a typical case of wanting credit without the hassle.
After several unsuccessful appeals, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to take out two "petitions" and fight back against this guy.
As a former criminal police captain, he was well aware of the harmful effects of drugs. Therefore, after the Shenxian Powder first showed its evil in the first month of this year, Sun Shaozong wrote to the Ministry of Justice twice, requesting that "Shenxian Powder" be listed as a banned drug and that its buying and selling be expressly prohibited.
However, these two petitions were blatantly ignored by the middle-level officials of the Ministry of Justice. Some people even concluded that Sun Shaozong intended to retaliate and persecute scholars and intellectuals.
After all, this magical powder first became popular at literary gatherings, and some people were really excited about it and wrote some good poems - how could a mere military man be qualified to question such a good thing that can inspire literary inspiration?
Now that the situation has reversed with the order of Emperor Guangde, these two rejected petitions naturally became Sun Shaozong's bargaining chips.
Of course, if Xu Liang had not been too strong and wanted to use his power to overwhelm others, he might not have played these two cards - after all, the Ministry of Justice is also one of the dual supervisory departments of the Criminal Law Department, and who would be willing to go against their superiors for no reason?
As soon as these two cards were played, the situation became awkward.
When nothing goes wrong, the people below take it seriously while the people above ignore it; now that something goes wrong, they ask the people below to take the lead and take the blame...
If it were somewhere else, the subordinates would have no place to complain, but doing so under the feet of the emperor was obviously inappropriate - especially since Sun Shaozong was now very powerful. Even within the Ministry of Justice, there were quite a few technical officials who admired him very much. If a fuss really broke out, Xu Liang might not be able to gain any advantage.
However, no matter how awkward the situation was, the things the emperor had instructed them to do had to be resolved.
After a "warm and friendly" exchange, the two sides finally reached the following consensus:
Sure enough, the Ministry of Rites should be held jointly responsible for this blame!
Scholars with great learning gathered together to take drugs and even ran naked in the street. Isn't this a problem with ethics? !
Besides, punishing scholars and juren really requires the support of the Ministry of Rites - according to the rules, unless they have committed serious criminal offenses, their titles must be revoked before local officials can make a judgment.
The provincial education commissioner of the capital has always been concurrently held by officials from the Ministry of Rites.
As a result , the meeting, which was originally scheduled to end within one day, was delayed until the next afternoon.
Leaving aside the verbal battles that took place during this period, during the fixed segment of praising and eulogizing, Sun Shaozong keenly discovered that whenever the Minister of Rites Zhang Qiu spoke, the clerks of the Ministry of Public Administration would begin writing furiously.
It seems that it is not that people lack ideological awareness, but that the level of the officials attending the meeting yesterday was too low, and the flattery failed to reach the highest level and breadth.
The book does not elaborate.
By the time he returned to his residence with a thick stack of meeting minutes, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.
As usual, Sun Shaozong used a lantern in the yard to dispel the "evil spirit" on his body, and then quietly entered the inner room. Who knew that when he went in, he saw two people lying side by side on the bed - and looking more closely, it turned out that it was Xiangling who was also on the bed.
"Shh~be quiet, don't wake her up. "
Ruan Rong was not asleep yet. When she heard a slight noise, she raised her hand and gestured for silence.
Sun Shaozong tiptoed to the bedside, looked at Xiangling's eyes with tears in them, and couldn't help but frowned and said, "What's wrong? In our deep inner courtyard, is there anyone who dares to bully her?"
"What is the master thinking of?"
Ruan Rong rolled her eyes at him and stretched out her snow-white arms. Sun Shaozong immediately understood what she meant, walked forward and gently pulled her up, then put a pillow and mattress behind her back.
Then he also leaned on the end of the bed in a 69 position, covering his legs with the quilt, and then he heard Ruan Rong continue: "I only found out today after meeting him that the eldest son of the Third Young Master is actually a rabbit mouth - Xiangling started to complain when she came back, and I coaxed her to sleep for a long time just now."
Rabbit mouth?
Sun Chengye's son was born with cleft lip? !
Sun Shaozong was also surprised when he heard this, because he had never heard of this matter before.
Then he hurriedly asked, "How did sister-in-law handle it? Did she make any mistakes?"
If there hadn't been this accident, he wouldn't have worried about Jia Yingchun being at a loss, but now...
“I was a little flustered at first.”
Ruan Rong shook her head and said, "But the eldest wife is kind-hearted after all. I helped to smooth things over, and she took the opportunity to give the child a gift and took good care of him. It seems that the Third Young Madam was quite grateful."
"That's good."
Sun Shaozong breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't feel relaxed in his heart.
If it were in later times, congenital cleft lip could be repaired through surgery, but now it is a "stigma" that one has to bear for the rest of his life, especially on the most conspicuous facial features.
One of the basic requirements for the imperial examination is "regular facial features". Although it is not necessary to be extremely handsome, things like hare lips will definitely be excluded.
For the Jinling Sun family, who pride themselves on passing down poetry and literature from generation to generation, this one thing alone is enough to make people sigh with regret.
Now that I think about it, Sun Chengye wanted to move to the capital city probably because of this child - regardless of whether the attention was out of good intentions or bad intentions, it was a heavy burden for Sun Chengye and his wife.
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong instructed: "Tomorrow morning, remember to prepare the gift for me - yes, add a small dagger, which is the one that my eldest brother left for Yi'er to use during the one-year-old celebration."
