When the secret grid in the study was found, Pan Ruzhen, who was still angry, turned pale all of a sudden, it doesn't matter if there are other things in these dark grids, but those account books are terrible things, once they fall into the hands of the imperial court, it means that not only will they be finished, but also a large number of people will be involved.

"Whew!"

When Li Yan put down the ledger in his hand and let out a long breath, with these ledgers and those letters, the risk of this operation can finally be minimized, even if someone in the imperial court impeached Yang Feng, with these things in hand, their actions have a reason.

He turned his head to the guards behind him and said, "You pack all these things and present them to Grandpa Guo immediately, remember to send enough people to escort them, these things must not be missed, understand?" ”

Li Yan's personal guards also knew the importance of these things, and nodded heavily: "Understand, if something is missing, the villain will come to see it!" ”

"Okay, there you go!"

After seeing off the guards, Li Yan walked to the side and squatted down with a pale face, stared at his eyes and said slowly: "Governor Pan, what else do you have to say this time?" ”

Pan Ruzhen, who was pale, suddenly laughed: "Hahaha...... Since the thing has been found by you, what else does the old man have to say, isn't it just death? The old man is fifty and seven this year, and he has not enjoyed any blessings in most of his life, even if he dies now, he will not lose anything.

But you should remind Yang Feng that if he really wants to make trouble to the point that the whole world is the enemy, isn't he afraid of ending up with no place to die in the future? ”

"You don't have to worry about it."

Seeing that Pan Ruzhen didn't have a trace of remorse after being exposed, Li Yan's feelings for him became more and more bad.

"If our generation of scholars does not even have the most basic concept of right and wrong, such a person is no different from a beast. Besides, Lord Pan, as a second-class member of the imperial court, you have read the books of sages and sages, but you are willing to be the minions of those merchants, which is simply an insult to the identity of a scholar and a waste of the emperor's trust. ”

Pan Ruzhen looked at him deeply: "Li Yan, don't reprimand the old man so righteously. When you reach the age of the old man, you will know that there are many things in officialdom that you can't help yourself, and sometimes it's not that you can't do it if you don't want to. ”

"Nonsense." Li Yan reprimanded: "This is just your excuse, don't talk about others, Grandpa Guo is the best example, when did you think he colluded with those gentry and rich businessmen?" ”

"Yang Feng?"

Pan Ruzhen snorted lightly, "This son is indeed an anomaly, but look at it, a person like him who has sinned against all the gentry in the world will not end well." ”

"Ridiculous!" Li Yan suddenly reprimanded angrily: "Where righteousness lies, it is not inclined to power, it is not to take its interests, the whole country does not change its eyes, and it is the courage of a gentleman to uphold righteousness without being resolute." Master Pan, have you read all the books in the dog's stomach for so many years? ”

Seeing Li Yan's angry eyes glaring at him, Pan Ruzhen suddenly felt a sense of weakness, closed his eyes but didn't say anything anymore......

Two hours later, in the Jiangning Army camp

Li Yan, who let out a long breath, put down the account book and said with emotion: "This Pan Ruzhen looks like he has a clean sleeve, he never thought that he had been greedy for so much silver over the years, if he didn't have the account book in hand, he wouldn't have thought of killing the lower officials, a governor has been greedy for more than 300,000 taels of silver in three years, and those antique calligraphy and paintings are not counted, isn't he afraid of the East Window incident?" ”

Yang Feng shook his head: "What is this, as the so-called starvation of the bold and the cowardly, Pan Ruzhen has only been greedy for this silver for three years, which can only be regarded as average." There are more weird and greedy people than this. ”

Li Yan's eyes suddenly became dim, he looked into the distance, and asked a little weakly after a long time: "Grandpa Guo, is there any hope for this Ming Dynasty?" ”

As soon as Yang Feng heard it, he knew that because Li Yan had been raiding homes and arresting people these days, he had seen too many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he was a little confused.

And these two results were not what Yang Feng wanted, he thought about it, walked to Li Yan's side, habitually took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him: "Come, light it." ”

Although he had only joined the Jiangning Army for more than a month, Li Yan also began to learn to smoke under the influence of his ears and eyes, so he naturally took the cigarette handed by Yang Feng and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Ding!"

The characteristic crisp sound of the Zhibao lighter sounded, accompanied by a cluster of flames lit and the cigarette was lit.

Li Yan took a deep breath, and a mellow taste of tobacco entered his lungs, and after a circle, it squirted out of his mouth.

After the two smoked a few puffs, Yang Feng asked with a smile: "Why, do you feel very discouraged, seeing so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, you feel that Da Ming is hopeless, and sooner or later you have to play?" ”

"That's true." Li Yan smiled bitterly: "These days, the officials in the world have arrested so many people, and the more silver taels are confiscated, the more disheartened the lower officials are." The lower officials don't understand, can't they live if they are not corrupt, after these people become officials, although they are low, but the gray income they receive on weekdays is enough for them to live a relatively rich life, why are they still so desperately corrupt? ”

"There's nothing difficult to understand, it's human nature to be greedy, and it's also human nature, not that you can erase it by reading a few more years."

Yang Feng asked suddenly.

"Li Yan, you are also a person who is familiar with history books, you can tell me, looking through the thousands of years of history of my China, is there a dynasty without corruption?"

"Well...... this"

Li Yan hesitated, starting from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and then to the Han, Tang, Yuan, and Song dynasties, it seems that there is no dynasty that is not corrupt.

"Didn't you?"

Yang Feng asked again, "After the founding ancestor of this dynasty set the torture of being greedy for fifty taels of silver, he would be able to stop those officials from being greedy?" ”

Li Yan shook his head again, when Comrade Lao Zhu was in power, he was killed like a lot of people, and there were still people who were corrupt one after another, but there were many fewer officials who were greedy for ink now.

"It can be seen that what Gou Zi said about the evil of people's hearts is indeed reasonable." Yang Feng continued: "The reason why today's Ming Dynasty has become like this is actually the lack of an effective supervision agency, plus the emperors of this dynasty themselves are not angry, and they are fooled by those sub-civil officials so that they don't know what their surnames are, and they waste martial arts at their own expense. ”

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