Liu Kang was aggressive at first, but he was ridiculed by Yang Tinghe and his back, and he fell behind in private morality. At this time, seeing that Shao Yuanjie was forced back by Yang Tinghe, he was annoyed in his heart, and said: "Lord Yang, you instigated Sang Liangtian to rebel, you can't escape this charge?"

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

Liu Kang sneered: "Lord Yang is a treacherous and slippery, so he naturally refuses to stand in front of such a big thing. Zhao Zhen, the squire of the military department, is in the rebel camp at the moment and is the mastermind of the rebels. He is a lackey of your Lord Yang, who has been running around all these years and has made great efforts, the old man is right. ”

Yang Tinghe said: "Lord Liu, you are wrong, you are all wrong. Zhao Zhen was born in Zhengde's four-year jinshi, and the chief examiner was you, Lord Liu. If I remember correctly, at the 'Taibai Building' thank-you banquet, twenty-one people bowed to Lord Liu, and among them was Zhao Zhenba? Since then, the sea has been up and down, and Lord Liu has always been very supportive of Zhao Zhen. These officials have archives, Lord Liu, you can't rely on it. So......"

When Yang Tinghe said this, he groaned slightly, and said with a slight smile: "Lord Liu also knows that the relationship with Zhao Zhen cannot be relied upon, because half a year ago, an inexplicable fire suddenly broke out in the archive library of the Ministry of Officials, and the three shelves of the 'Zhao' character department were burned clean, and Zhao Zhen's resume could not be queried. Lord Liu, are you very proud?"

Liu Kang snorted and said, "The fire in the official department is not a big deal. It is the Taihe Hall in the palace, which has been burned three times since the time when Chengzu moved the capital. You can't say that the Taihe Hall was also set on fire by the old man. ”

Yang Tinghe said with a smile: "The fire in the Taihe Hall was not set by you, the Wuying Hall has been on fire once, and I am afraid that it has something to do with you, Lord Liu." ”

Liu Kang's face changed greatly, he stood up suddenly, pointed at Yang Tinghe and said: "You are just a Beijing official who is a Zhishi, and the emperor reprimanded you for not discussing the government in vain." But you are disgruntled, and you buy officials and officials to read their files privately, which is an unforgivable sin. Yang Tinghe, are you guilty?"

Yang Tinghe still looked calm, and said to Liu Kang: "At this time, you are talking to me about the law of the country? The old man reasoned with you, you talked to the old man about etiquette, the old man talked to you about etiquette, you talked to the old man about the Ming Law, the old man told you about the Ming Law, and you reasoned with the old man. Lord Liu, you really took advantage of the world, do you want to give us colleagues a way to live?"

Liu Kang said sharply: "It's you yourself who want to go to a dead end, you have to blame others!"

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

Liu Kang was panting, not as light as when he talked to Li Qiufeng just now. Murong Danyan whispered to Li Qiufeng: "This surname Yang is so powerful, a mouth is sharper than your knife." ”

Li Qiufeng saw Liu Kang and Yang Tinghe arguing with each other, and he was full of emotion. In terms of martial arts, I am afraid that with a little finger, he can knock these two white-haired old men to the ground. But when it comes to the affairs of the court and the reasoning of things, it is not worthy to lift shoes for these two old men. He listened to the two of them fighting in a daze, and for a while, he was out of the world, and he didn't even hear Murong Danyan talking to him.

I only heard Liu Kang say: "Lord Yang, the emperor can ascend to the throne today, and you have made great efforts." If you hadn't been in the middle of the dispatch at that time, the first emperor would not have been rescued when Nanjing fell into the water, and the current emperor would not have waited outside the capital for a long time and finally seized the opportunity. It's just that you are too keen on power, and after the new monarch ascended the throne, you regarded yourself as a patriarch, dictating everything, monopolizing the court, and becoming a powerful minister of the Ming Dynasty. Today, you are gifted and intelligent, and you are a saint who is once in 500 years, how can I tolerate you pointing fingers? It's just that I now remember that you are an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and you have not been exterminated by the family, but you have just been dismissed from your position as a cabinet scholar and let you go home to retire, which is already a great kindness. But you only want to regain power, and you don't hesitate to risk the condemnation of the world to recruit troops everywhere. The old man was aware of your plot a few years ago, but he thought that you were confused for a while, and he did not participate in the emperor's performance. I can't imagine that you will intensify your efforts and openly raise troops to rebel, which is really mad and arrogant!"

Liu Kang's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, his mouth was dry, and after he finished speaking, he picked up the teacup and took a sip, and was about to say more, but he saw Yang Tinghe smile slightly, and said to Liu Kang: "Lord Liu's words are hearty, so happy, the old man is ashamed." I just don't know why God made a fool of yourself and put such a human skin on your hungry wolf!"

Yang Tinghe originally spoke politely, but he didn't expect to suddenly change his tone and scold. Liu Kang was furious and was about to open his mouth to refute, but he heard Yang Tinghe continue: "Liu Kang, things have come to this point, let's not hide it." The dispute between you and me is not about who sits on the throne, but about the major affairs of the country. You Liu Kang was the head of the six civil officials back then, and after becoming a cabinet scholar, everything was based on civil officials, and the benefits were shared and the benefits were equal. Which official of the six ministries and above has not bought land in Jiangnan, and which one is not a big landowner who has more than 1,000 hectares of fertile land? Lord Liu, you own no less than 5,000 hectares of fertile land in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo, Quanzhou, and other places. Some unscrupulous gentry put their land and property on your Liu family's account to avoid paying taxes. Several of your clansmen even threatened and lured those small people who had a few acres of thin fields, and forcibly seized their fields into the hands of your Liu family. As a result, you civil officials have been fattened, but the country has lost a lot of money, and the small people of Shengdou have to sell their land to you big landlords, and become tenants of your civil official families who eat people and do not spit out bones. In the thirteenth year of Zhengde, when the first emperor went out to travel, two county officials under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou government risked their lives to show these drawbacks to the first emperor, and the first emperor knew about it, Long Yan was furious, and ordered Jinyiwei and Dongchang to scout and ride out, and actually found out that the court officials were not official and not greedy, and your Liu Lord's land property ranked in the top three in the Jinyi Wei's secret play to the emperor. Isn't this the old man slandering you?"

Liu Kang's face was cloudy by Yang Tinghe's words, and he had to use a sneer to hide his uneasiness. Yang Tinghe continued: "It's just that of course there are also your Liu Kang's eyes and ears in the palace, and they know about the secret performance of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, so you and the six Shangshu urgently discussed, and let the officials in Beijing go to the book to participate in Jinyiwei's 'arbitrary perversion of the law, private torture hall, fabrication of charges, and stabbing of ministers'." It's just that you, Liu Kang, have been hiding behind your back and letting these people take the lead. You shameless civil servants are corrupt and corrupt, bullying and suppressing the upper and lower levels, so that the first emperor has no credibility in the imperial court, and has to rely on Jinyiwei and Dongchang to find out the news, and it is precisely because of this that the rebellion of Jiang Bin and Qian Ning was caused!"

Liu Kang sneered and said: "Lord Yang, you have picked yourself really clean! Isn't your Lord Yang still having little land? When Jiang Bin and Qian Ning were in power, how could you, Lord Yang, ever say fair words? If you are really clean, how could you murder the first emperor?"

Yang Tinghe said: "Not bad. It was precisely because Jiang Bin and Qian Ning brought disaster to the court that the old man had the idea of letting King Xingxian inherit the unification. To this day, the old man does not regret participating in this matter. Liu Kang, do you think the old man did something wrong about this?"

Liu Kang sneered: "You murdered the emperor, this is a big crime, don't you still admit your mistake?"

Yang Tinghe looked at Liu Kang and suddenly laughed. Liu Kang looked at Yang Tinghe, his heart was stunned, he didn't know what he was having, he turned his head to look at Shao Yuanjie, but saw him helpless, shook his head at himself, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "Did I say the wrong thing?"

Yang Tinghe suppressed his laughter and said to Liu Kang: "Lord Liu, I advise you, you must not report this crime of the old man to the emperor, otherwise I am afraid that you will be very bad." ”

Liu Kang sneered: "Joke! You have committed such a big crime, do you still want the old man to cover it up for you?"

Yang Tinghe said with a smile: "Lord Liu, I said back then that you were born as a small official, and you have a lot of conspiracies, but you don't know how to improvise. You might as well think about it, the old man did participate in the plot to kill the first emperor, but who did the old man benefit from doing this? Who succeeded to the unification in the end? Haha, you say that I am a rebel, but the prince who later ascended the throne is not a fellow party who rebelled against me? Do you still want to arrest this fellow party?"

(End of chapter)