A knife in love

Chapter 169

Liu Kang was aggressive at the beginning, but Yang Tinghe retorted and fell behind in terms of personal morality.At this moment, seeing Shao Yuanjie being forced back by Yang Tinghe, he was annoyed, and said: "Master Yang, you can't escape the charge of inciting Sang Liangtian to rebel, right?"

Yang Tinghe laughed, and said, "Lord Liu, don't slander people innocently. What evidence do you have that I incited Sang Liangtian to rebel?"

Liu Kang sneered and said: "Master Yang is a treacherous and cunning person, so naturally he refuses to stand in front of such a big event. Zhao Zhen, the servant of the Ministry of War, is currently in the rebel camp and is the mastermind of the rebel army. He is your master Yang's lackey. , running around all these years and exerting great efforts, the old man is right."

Yang Tinghe said: "Master Liu, you are wrong, you are all wrong. Zhao Zhen was born as a Jinshi in the fourth year of Zhengde, and the chief examiner was you, Mr. Liu. If I remember correctly, at the "Taibailou" teacher appreciation banquet, the 21st candidate Mr. Liu bowed down to Mr. Liu, so Zhao Zhen was one of them? Afterwards, Zhao Zhen first worked in the Ministry of Officials, which was also handled by Mr. Liu himself. Since then, Mr. Liu has been supporting and supporting Zhao Zhen. They are all archived, Mr. Liu, you can’t let them go. So..."

When Yang Tinghe said this, he pondered for a while, and smiled slightly: "Master Liu also knows that the relationship with Zhao Zhen is irresistible, so half a year ago, there was an inexplicable fire in the archives of the Ministry of Officials. The three shelves of Zhao's character department were completely burned, so Zhao Zhen's resume cannot be checked. Master Liu, are you very proud?"

Liu Kang snorted, and said: "The fire in the bureaucracy is not a big deal. Even the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the imperial palace has been burned three times since Chengzu moved the capital. You can't say that the Hall of Supreme Harmony is also an old man. Just set it on fire."

Yang Tinghe said with a smile: "You didn't set the fire in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The Hall of Martial Heroes was on fire once. I'm afraid it has something to do with you, Mr. Liu."

Liu Kang's complexion changed drastically, he stood up abruptly, pointed at Yang Tinghe and said, "You are just an official in the capital, and the emperor reprimanded you not to discuss government affairs indiscriminately. But you are dissatisfied, bribe officials of the official department, read official files privately, This is an unforgivable crime. Yang Tinghe, are you guilty?"

Yang Tinghe still had a peaceful face, and said to Liu Kang: "At this time, you are telling me the laws of the country? I am telling you the truth, you are talking about etiquette, I am talking about etiquette, you are talking about the law of the Ming Dynasty, old man Talk to you about the law of the Ming Dynasty, and you reason with the old man. Master Liu, you really have taken advantage of the world, do you want to give our colleagues a way to survive?"

Liu Kang said sharply: "You are the ones who are going to die, so don't blame others!"

Yang Tinghe said: "You have taken up all the ways of life and forced us to go to death. You still don't want us to blame you, can't you let us blame the emperor?"

Liu Kang gasped for breath, not as lightly as when he talked with Li Qiufeng just now.Murong Danyan whispered to Li Qiufeng: "This Yang is so powerful, his mouth is sharper than your knife."

Seeing Liu Kang and Yang Tinghe fighting each other, Li Qiufeng was deeply moved.In terms of martial arts, he might be able to knock these two white-haired old men to the ground with just one little finger.But when it comes to the important affairs of the court and the way things are done, I am not worthy to lift the shoes of these two old men.He listened to the two fighting in the ring in a daze, and for a moment his mind wandered away, and he didn't hear Murong Danyan talking to him.

I only heard Liu Kang say: "Master Yang, you have contributed a lot to the current emperor's ascension to the throne of God. If you hadn't been in the middle to dispatch at that time, the late emperor would not have no one to rescue him when he fell into the water in Nanjing, and the current emperor would not have waited a long time ago." Outside the capital, you finally got the upper hand. It's just that you are too keen on power. After the new king ascended the throne, you regarded yourself as a veteran, dictating everything, and monopolizing the court. You have become a powerful official of the Ming Dynasty. You are a sage king whom you have seen once in 500 years, how can you tolerate your dictating? It’s just that you are a veteran of the three dynasties today, and you have not ransacked your family and exterminated your family. It’s just that your position as a cabinet scholar has been dismissed. Let you go home for the elderly. Great kindness. But you only want to regain power, and you don’t hesitate to risk the displeasure of the world by recruiting soldiers everywhere. I have been aware of your plot a few years ago, but I just thought you were confused for a while, so you didn’t participate in the emperor Zou. Unexpectedly, you will intensify your efforts and openly raise your troops to rebel. You are truly insane and extremely arrogant!"

What Liu Kang said was righteous and awe-inspiring, and his mouth was dry. After finishing speaking, he picked up his teacup and took a sip. He was about to say more when Yang Tinghe smiled slightly and said to Liu Kang: "Master Liu's words are so hearty. Happy, the old man is ashamed of himself. I just don’t know why the gods are so confused and put such a human skin on you, a hungry wolf!”

Yang Tinghe was originally speaking politely, but he suddenly changed his tone and started to curse.Liu Kang was furious, and was about to refute, but he heard Yang Tinghe continue: "Liu Kang, the matter has reached this point, let's stop hiding it. The dispute between you and me is not about who sits on the throne, but about who sits on the throne. This is a big deal. You, Liu Kang, were the head of the six civil servants back then. After you became a cabinet scholar, you put the civil servants first in everything, and shared the benefits. Which one of the officials above the six ministers did not buy land in Jiangnan , which one is not a big landlord with more than 13 hectares of fertile land? Mr. Liu, you own no less than [-] hectares of fertile land in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo, Quanzhou and other places. Some unruly gentry have put the land on your Liu family's account , in order to evade taxes. Several of your clansmen even threatened and lured those small people with a few acres of Susukida, and forcibly took their fields into the hands of your Liu family. As a result, you civil servants were fattened, but the country Without a large amount of old Fu, Shengdou Xiaomin had to sell the land to you big landlords, and became tenants of you cannibalistic civil servant families. In the [-]th year of Zhengde, when the first emperor traveled in micro-service, the government of Hangzhou Two county magistrates risked their lives to explain these disadvantages to the late emperor. Only then did the late emperor find out about it. Longyan was furious and ordered Jin Yiwei and Dongchang to scout out everywhere. They actually found out that the court officials were not corrupt. Tian Chan, ranked among the top three in the imperial memorials to the emperor. These are not the old man slandering you, are they?"

Liu Kang's face was clouded by Yang Tinghe's words, so he had to sneer to cover up his uneasiness.Yang Tinghe went on to say: "It's just that you, Liu Kang, have eyes and ears in the palace. You know about the secret performance of Jinyiwei and Dongchang. You and the six ministers urgently discussed and asked officials in Beijing to participate in the Jinyiwei's abuse of power, perversion of the law, and private punishment. It's just that you, Liu Kang, have been hiding behind and let these people take the lead. You shameless civil servants are corrupt and bully the top and the bottom, making the late emperor untrustworthy in the court. Relying on Jinyiwei and Dongchang to find out the news, it is precisely because of this that Jiang Bin and Qian Ning's chaos has been caused!"

Liu Kang sneered and said: "Master Yang, you picked yourself really clean! Don't you, Mr. Yang, still have less property? When Jiang Bin and Qian Ning were in power, how did you, Mr. Yang, ever say anything fair? If you really did So clean, how could you murder the late emperor?"

Yang Tinghe said: "That's right. It was because Jiang Bin and Qian Ning made trouble for the imperial court that this old man came up with the idea of ​​letting King Xingxian inherit the Datong. To this day, this old man does not regret participating in this matter back then. Liu Kang, what do you think?" Did this old man do something wrong?"

Liu Kang sneered and said, "You murdered the emperor. This is a huge crime. Don't you still admit your mistake?"

Yang Tinghe looked at Liu Kang and suddenly laughed.Looking at Yang Tinghe, Liu Kang was stunned. He didn't know what he was planning. He turned his head and glanced at Shao Yuanjie, but saw that he looked helpless and shook his head at him. He couldn't help but think to himself: "Did I say Did you say something wrong?"

Yang Tinghe stopped his laughter and said to Liu Kang: "Master Liu, I advise you that you must not report this crime to the emperor, otherwise you will be in serious trouble."

Liu Kang sneered and said, "Joke! You committed such a serious crime, do you still want this old man to cover it up for you?"

Yang Tinghe said with a smile: "Master Liu, I said back then that you were born as a small official with a lot of schemes and scheming, but you didn't know how to adapt to changes. You might as well think about it, the old man was indeed involved in the plot to murder the late emperor, but the old man By doing this, who will benefit? Who will succeed in the end? Haha, you say that I am a rebel, so the prince who later ascended the throne is not my accomplice to the rebellion? Are you still Is it impossible to catch this accomplice?"

(End of this chapter)