Li Yunxing had a calm face, "What do you want to say?" To put it bluntly, don't go around in circles with this palace. ”

Jiang Shan raised his eyes and looked at Li Yunxing for a moment before continuing: "Your Highness, as far as your subordinates know, since the flooding in Jingzhou intensified a few years ago, the imperial court has not been able to completely solve the problem. At the end of the day, it is related to Jingzhou Prefecture Musu Tianyang. ”

"Go on."

"Su Zhonglin, the father of Su Tianyang, is the brother-in-law of Liu Zhongqing, the chief of the dynasty."

"Although Su Zhonglin and his wife died of bandits a few years ago, the heirs of the Su family have always been taken care of by the Liu family, and Su Tianyang also became the governor of Jingzhou under the recommendation of Liu Zhongqing."

"Jingzhou has been flooded for many years, and every year the Wu Dynasty allocates funds to build dikes, and every year the dikes are broken by big floods."

"This flood is both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster."

After Li Yunxing listened, his eyes gradually became sharp.

It turned out that this Su Tianyang actually regarded the Jingzhou flood as his cash cow!

It costs money to build dikes, food to be distributed to the victims, and money to rebuild fertile land.

This half of the treasury is going to be emptied by him Su Tianyang! He even dared to ask for 500,000 taels of silver, did he really think that this Wu Dynasty was his Su Tianyang's cash cow?!

Li Yunxing's heart was burning with anger.

"Why doesn't Emperor Wu know about this? Is there no one in a state who dares to speak? ”

Jiang Shan paused, if it weren't for the Martial Emperor arranging for them to secretly investigate this time, I'm afraid they wouldn't have been able to get this information.

"Your Highness, there is one."

"Who?"

"The county guard of Nanyang County, Jingzhou, Yang Tinghe."

Li Yunxing tried to recall it in his mind for a long time, but he never remembered the name of Yang Tinghe.

"Why has this palace never heard his name?"

Jiang Shan paused, "Because Yang Tinghe is not treated by Liu Zhongqing." ”

The division of official positions in this Wu Dynasty is somewhat different from the historical dynasties of Li Yunxing's world.

The Zaifu of the Wu Dynasty was under one person and above ten thousand people in the court.

Not only the civil servants of the court, but also participated in political decisions on military power.

At the same time, all officials need to be selected by Zaifu and assessed from various aspects such as ability, morality, and net worth before they can finally enter the court as officials.

Not only that, Zaifu also has the right to evaluate, reward and punish hundreds of officials, which means that he can decide whether to leave or leave hundreds of officials.

If it is not recognized by Liu Jaefu, the probability of seeing the Martial Emperor is very small.

After all, the Wu Dynasty implemented a county system, and the governance of the thirteen states was already heavy. If Jaefu is a good minister, he can greatly reduce the burden on the emperor.

But Liu Zhongqing is not, with his own strength, he covers the sky with one hand in the court.

It is difficult for Yang Ting and such virtuous ministers to realize their ambitions.

"Why not?"

"Because he can't control it." Jiang Shan saw that Li Yunxing's expression had not changed much, so he continued, "Yang Tinghe is honest, his personality is too upright, and he does things at a glance. Don't take bribes, don't bribe, even if you are a small county guard for the rest of your life, you don't want to accept money from the Liu family. ”

"Then Liu Zhongqing can let him go?"

Li Yunxing knew that Liu Zhongqing was not a good person.

The more unwilling you are to cooperate with him, the more he prefers to do so, and if the inducement fails, he can coerce.

"Yang Tinghe knows that Liu Zhongqing must want to catch him, so he is still unmarried, and he has no wife and daughter, even Zai Fu can't help him."

Li Yunxing was silent.

I didn't expect there to be such a person in the world, for the scale in his heart, in order not to be caught by others, he would rather be lonely and widowed all his life than abide by the way of being an official.

And such a good person, he has never heard of it. Isn't that a tragedy? ”

There was a lot of regret in Li Yunxing's words.

It's a pity that Liu Zaifu covered the sky with one hand in the court, and no one could compete with him.

If there are a few more upright Qing officials like Yang Tinghe, why worry that the Wu Dynasty will not prosper!

"You got the news from him?"

"That's right."

At this time, Jiang Shan took out a letter from his arms.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is a petition personally written by Yang Tinghe, the county guard of Nanyang County, and I also ask His Highness to take a look."

Li Yunxing didn't answer.

You don't need to look at it, Jiangshan knows that the prince is angry.

"Why didn't such an important letter be presented in the first place?"

Jiang Shan knelt on the ground.

"The humble position is the imperial history of the supervising army, and he once obeyed the orders of His Majesty Emperor Wu. It is the duty of the humble to obtain and protect information, although Jiang Chang told me that Emperor Wu sent my three brothers to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

"But now that the Martial Emperor is in a coma, this letter is a task sent by the Martial Emperor before. Therefore, the minister has been hesitating whether to hand it over to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

This secret letter was written by Yang Tinghe with his own eyes.

There is not only the suffering of the people, but also the evidence of the state pastor's traitorous crime.

If he can't personally hand over this letter to someone who can make decisions for the people of Jingzhou, then Yang Tinghe's efforts will only be in vain again.

Even if the prince is a figure like Liu Zhongqing, he is only full of interests and power.

That Jiangshan will not hand over this letter even if it is torn, burned, or swallowed.

But the prince's words in the northwest camp, as well as the look he had just heard Yang Tinghe's encounter, let Jiangshan know that the prince would never treat Yang Tinghe harshly.

Only then did he hand over the letter with confidence, even if he knew what the consequences would be for him.

"Therefore, you are testing the palace, testing whether the palace can support the great cause of the Martial Dynasty?"

"Humble duty, dare not ......"

Jiang Shan clenched his fist and buried his head lower.

"You first use Yang Tinghe's story to test the palace, and after seeing that the palace has no hostility towards Yang Tinghe, you only take out the letter now."

"Humble position, just for this Wu Dynasty ......"

Jiang Chang on the side didn't expect that his eldest brother had never mentioned Yang Ting and Mi Xin to him.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Mingjian, my brother is loyal to His Majesty and the Prince, and he temporarily concealed the secret letter only because he didn't know His Royal Highness the Prince, so he would ......"

Before Jiang Chang finished speaking, the prince had already kicked him to the ground.

He looked up at the prince again, his eyebrows were like distant mountains, his thin lips were slightly pursed, and a pair of black gilt eyes swept inadvertently, arrogant.

There was no temperature in his eyebrows and eyes, and the prince was murderous.

"The prince of the Wu Dynasty in this palace, do you need to understand?"

Beads of sweat dripped from Jiang Shan's forehead and he clenched his back molars.

"Your Highness, please calm your anger!"

"This matter was done by a lowly person, and the younger brother did not know about it."

"What I did this time was just for peace. If the prince wants to be punished, please also punish one person who is lowly in office. ”

Li Yunxing's face was still ugly.

If even his own subordinates dare to speculate about himself, then he, the future lord of a country, is really a nest.

If the monarch and the minister can't tell the difference, how can they serve themselves.

I am afraid that Li Yunxing will ascend the throne in the future, and he will not dare to sleep peacefully every night.