Yang Jixun looked up and saw a handsome man with a cut-off gauze hat and a dark scarlet court dress walking out. This man was about thirty years old, with clear eyebrows and a plump face like jade. The neatly trimmed beard under his chin gives him a mature charm with a bit of life experience. But the arrogance between his brows made him pale a lot.
This man gave Yang Ji the impression that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who he was. He raised his hand and asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm a humble servant, Shaoqing Liu Shu." The handsome man's face instantly turned the color of pig's liver, and he looked at Yang Ji with eyes filled with hatred.
Liu Shunai was the eldest son of Yang Jian's favored minister Liu Ji. He was from a famous family in Hedong. He was intelligent and talented. He was worshiped as the Minister of Zhongshu. More than ten years ago, he almost became the consort of the Sui Dynasty. At that time, the young Princess Lanling was a widow at home. Yang Jian originally planned to marry Xiao Kui's fifth son, Xiao Wan's younger brother, Xiao Jue, so they negotiated the marriage between the two families. When discussing marriage, however, Xiao Kui passed away at this time. According to etiquette, Xiao Jue had to observe mourning for three years. As a result, Princess Lanling's remarriage was shelved.
After Yang Jian completed his great cause of unifying the world, he looked back and found that Princess Lanling was already eighteen years old and the marriage could no longer be delayed. However, there was another candidate for the consort at this time, Liu Shu. Yang Jian was in a dilemma and summoned a famous fortune teller. Wei Ding gave a fortune-telling to the candidate prince consort, and Wei Ding said: "Xiao Jue has signs of becoming a prince, but he does not have the appearance of a noble wife; Liu Shu has a distinguished face, but cannot keep wealth."
Yang Jian heard that everyone had their own shortcomings and wanted to marry his daughter to Liu Shu, who he preferred. Princess Lanling was in the back hall at that time. She wanted to see the candidates for the consort, but she was a little embarrassed, so she took Yang Ji with her. Yang Ji then said to his cousin: "Liu Shu will definitely die miserably in the future. If the fifth sister marries Liu Shu, she will have to remain a widow again." Princess Lanling, who had violated the taboo, spoke out without hesitation. After stopping his father, Yang Jian saw that his daughter was resolute, so he had no choice but to abide by the previous engagement and marry her off to Xiao Jue.
Liu Shu learned from Yang Yong the reason why Princess Lanling did not want to marry him. At first, he felt that he was missing an ancestor, and was vaguely grateful to Yang Ji; but soon, this gratitude turned into resentment.
Because of her beautiful appearance and noble manners, Princess Lanling was not arrogant and domineering, but gentle and gentle. When her reputation as a modest, courteous and virtuous woman spread, the glorious Sui Emperor doted on her daughter even more. As a result of Princess Lanling being favored by the emperor, her husband Xiao Jue was promoted to a higher rank and became a minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
And Liu Shu had gone through countless connections, spent countless money, and made many promises, but he was still just a servant Shaoqing in charge of horses. What's more terrible is that he had actively advised Yang Yong in the past and relied on his talents many times to help Yang Yong. Guang creates trouble. Once Yang Guang takes power, his status will definitely fall instead of rising.
Liu Shu, who had an unbalanced mentality, began to feel that if Yang Ji hadn't caused trouble in the first place, the beautiful, noble, gentle and gentle princess would be his, and everything about Xiao Jue would also be his. How big the gap was between him and Xiao Jue now, he hated Yang Ji ten thousand times. Now that he had a glimpse of the opportunity, he hurriedly jumped out to trip up Yang Ji.
"It turns out to be Liu Da Toad, no wonder he looks so familiar." Upon hearing his self-introduction, Yang Ji immediately remembered it, smiled and held his hands in his hands: "Brother Toad, we haven't seen you for many years, how are you?"
"..." Liu Shu was so angry that he had no temper at all. He found that Yang Ji had a venomous mouth and specialized in attacking people's pain points. He Ruobi was like this, and so was he.
Yang Guang, who was above, felt extremely happy and felt like he was vomiting bad breath. But he also saw that his fighting skills were a bit immature; he should go straight to the point at this time to avoid Liu Shu's fatal question. If Liu Shu turned around and counterattacked, he would be in trouble. He immediately stood up and bowed his hand to Yang Jian, then turned to face Yang Ji, pretending to be dissatisfied and said: "My father is busy with government affairs and has many things to do. Every moment is extremely precious. You can't escape from hurting He Ruohuailiang even if you ramble on. Facts. Let’s get straight to the point, why would you hurt someone on the street?”
"The prince's words make sense!" Yang Jian twirled his beard, nodded, and asked Yang Ji, "Why did you hurt people?"
"Saint, it's not that I want to hurt anyone, it's actually He Ruohuailiang who wanted to kill me first." Yang Ji said with cupped hands: "On that day, I went to Furong Pond with Prince Dao to attend Brother Teng's birthday party. When passing by Furong Bridge, He Ruohuailiang brought A group of big men called rangers, who are actually assassins, ambushed on the bridge, preparing to assassinate our brothers. I am the majestic Sui Wei King and the brother of the Tao King, how can I be greedy for life and fear death? In order to maintain the majesty of the royal family and the safety of the king's brother , so the guards rose up to resist. However, I still kept in mind the laws of the Sui Dynasty and the teachings of the emperor's aunt. I only subdued the assassins headed by He Ruohuailiang and did not kill anyone. However, He Ruogong relied on his prominent family background and the grace of a saint to ignore the national law and chased him. Furonglou killed me. If it weren't for the protection of Brother Cai and King Teng, I'm afraid what you see today is my body. Now He Ruogong is calling for a thief, and in turn is framed by me. It's really ridiculous. Please be aware of everything and enforce the law impartially. Don't do it for nothing. He Ruogong is of noble status and forgives his sins."
He Ruobi was so furious that he ignored the "sad cry" of his little daughter-in-law and said loudly: "That's nonsense. My son just intercepted you at Furong Bridge. Why did he want to kill you and the Taoist King? I'm at Furong Tower. It’s just a fair duel with you.”
"You are a world-famous warrior, but you asked a half-year-old child to duel him who has not yet grown up and lacks strength. Isn't this the best proof that you want to kill me? The so-called 'fair' duel is just to find someone to kill me. It's just a legitimate reason. Fortunately, the two king brothers protected me at that time. Otherwise, I would have been cut in half by your sword." Yang Ji bowed to Yang Jian and said, "Many important ministers attended the birthday party of Brother Teng Wang that day. They can all come forward and testify.”
The two have fought until this point, and the context is already very clear. No matter who was present that day or who was not present, everyone knew that the cause was He Ruohuailiang. If he had not boldly intercepted the two princes, there would have been no follow-up.
Perhaps his intention was not to kill people, and Yang Ji went too far by turning him into a eunuch; but from a legal perspective, intercepting the royal family was a taboo, even if Yang Ji had someone kill him, it would not be an exaggeration.
Seeing He Ruobi's attempt to defend himself, Yang Ji quickly added: "If the He Ruo family and his son who openly assassinated the prince were safe and sound, wouldn't tens of millions of people in the world follow suit? If someone takes the He Ruo family and his son as an example and assassinates me, maybe We won’t have such good luck. After killing us princes, who will be next? Maybe the King of Jin, who is the grandson of the emperor, or the prince. In the end, he might dare to assassinate the saint openly. "
After hearing these words, Yang Jian's expression changed, and his attitude in his heart also changed drastically.
It is true that He Ruobi was a meritorious official, but he had never treated him badly, and when he committed crimes, he repeatedly forgave and protected him. But their father and son have evolved to the point where they openly showed their swords to the Sui Prince. If they still ignore the blame, wouldn't they encourage lawless people to assassinate the king?
This wind must not last long!
"He Ruo's father and his son even dared to show their swords to the Prince of the Sui Dynasty. You can tell by their attitude when facing ordinary people and ordinary officials." Yang Guang came with an assist and handed over a thick folding book: "In order to prove it. I guess that I have brought some files from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple to look at; these are all cases related to the He Ruo clan, please ask my father to take a look."
Before that, Yang Guang saw He Ruobi making enemies everywhere and accusing him in an endless stream. He thought he was imitating Yang Su and desecrating himself and wanted to be a lonely minister. And when he used his power to supervise the prince and read some files, he discovered that He Ruobi was really dirty.
Especially Wudu County Duke He Ruolong and Wanrong County Duke He Ruodong, these two are He Ruobi's elder brother and younger brother respectively. The reason why he became the county Duke is all because of He Ruobi's contribution to killing Chen Zhi. He has no talent at all, but he inherited the knowledge that He Ruobi didn't understand. The tradition of being a good man, retribution, and domineering; when he was the governor, using his power to make money was secondary. The key was that whenever they liked someone's property, they would buy it at a low price. Of course, the other person was not willing, so their brothers indulged The family soldiers acted as bandits and exterminated all those who refused, and then used the power of the governor to take those properties and houses as their own. Some upright officials and local gentry wanted to go to Beijing to complain, but they also exterminated their families. As for He Ruobi's eldest son, He Ruohuaikuo, as the general manager of Shazhou, it was natural for him to withhold military pay, take pensions, and drink soldiers' blood. As long as he liked the wives and daughters of any general, that general would die in the so-called suppression of bandits.
Although the cases of family extermination and death of soldiers written in the file are true, and the "bandits" were also annihilated afterwards, one or two incidents can still be said to be accidents or coincidences, but if dozens or hundreds of incidents are related to the He Ruo family , the properties and houses of hundreds of families that were wiped out ended up in He Ruo's family, which is very unusual.
The excerpt he submitted was just an excerpt of the cases in the file, and he did not attach his own speculation. But with so many cases gathered together, his father would definitely be able to figure out the clues.
