"I agree with Prime Minister Gao and Prime Minister Zhang!" Yang Xiu, after Gao Jun and Zhang Heng, also expressed his position, and said to the crowd chanting slogans to impeach Yang Ji: "Gentlemen, I think the same as you do about King Wei. It's illegal and against the ban. But why didn't you say the reason for King Wei's violation? Why didn't you say that King Wei captured Gao Jianwu in Yuyang Yuan Mansion?"
Yang Xiu's two crucial and sharp questions caused a deathly silence in the official office. In fact, the confessions and evidence sent by Yang Ji are very detailed and each item can withstand repeated investigations. The Yuyang family of the Yuan family took advantage of the convenient geographical advantage to do business with Goguryeo. This time, the Yuan family manipulated Youzhou officialdom and resold the grain from the warehouse to Goguryeo, which was barren and short of food, and made nearly ten times the profit from it.
This kind of behavior of the Yuan family is a major crime of corruption, treason, and capitalizing on the enemy in normal times, let alone when a war is about to break out?
If the two countries go to war, these grains will be the sharpest and most powerful weapons that Goguryeo can hold on to for a long time. In turn, it will be a disaster for the Sui Dynasty.
However, these crucial causal relationships that determine the success or failure of the war were deliberately ignored by some people, and then they used the banner of violating regulations to arrest Yang Ji.
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Yang Xiu glanced at Yuanshou, whose face was ashen, and said calmly: "I don't know whether you have ignored or forgotten, or whether you have pity and sympathy for the traitors? If you pity and sympathize with the traitors and think that traitors should not be killed, then we will do it now Go out and summon the army and the people to explain the matter, and then let everyone comment together. If they side with you and think that the traitor should not be killed and that King Wei is wrong, then I, Yang Xiu, will kill myself on the spot!"
Yuan Shou, who wanted to make a sophistry, immediately closed his mouth after hearing Yang Xiu's tough words.
If the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan knew that the Yuan family had stolen food and collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country during the war, the Yuan family would have been condemned by millions of people, let alone support them.
This was especially true for Yuan Shou, and others were even more afraid to speak. Once you say it, you will be on the same side as the traitors.
Yang Xiu then said: "You can investigate and punish King Wei, because he did violate the rules; but before that, let's investigate the matter thoroughly. Who else was involved in this traitorous crime? Who else? How many people have slipped through this trap?”
Yuan Shou stared at Yang Xiu with burning eyes and asked coldly: "King Shu, how are you doing?"
Yang Xiu said word by word: "Yang doesn't want to do anything. Since we talk about the law, we should enforce the law for the country and act in accordance with the law. We should bring those foreign traitors who eat and sell things to justice, and then punish the nine tribes in accordance with the law."
Yuan Shou was shocked and angry, and shouted indiscriminately: "King Shu, you are too arrogant. Do you dare to go against the Yuan family?"
"Who said I was going against the Yuan family?" Yang Xiu leaned forward slightly, sneered and said to Yuan Shou, who had an ugly face: "I enforce the law impartially and fight against the traitors. Why did the Yuan Taifu drag the Yuan family and the traitors to the other side?" One place? Is Yuantai Mansion so powerful that it doesn’t even want to pretend?"
In the past, Yang Xiu also had ambitions for the throne, so he created a "weak" image of a polite and polite corporal. But after Yang Jian was given a test, he completely gave up on the throne. When he was released as an official by Yang Guang, he slowly found his own way to become an official, which was to be as tough as Yang Ji.
But having said that, this mode of being an official is quite refreshing, safe and meaningful.
When he said this, everyone was shocked. Yang Ji was already a headache, but then Yang Zhiji, Yang Lun, and Yang Gongren seemed to have enlightened themselves and became extremely radical; now, another one is crazy?
Yuan Shou was so arrogant when he talked about impeaching Yang Ji just now, but now he is scared, and his body is shaking even more. After all, the Yuyang clan's crimes were proven, and Gao Jianwu was arrested by Liu Demin from the Yuan Mansion in full view of the public. In addition, he was also involved in serious crimes such as kidnapping and holding officials hostage, extorting bribes from local officials and wealthy families, and so on.
All these combined make it impossible for the Yuan family to distinguish.
In addition, the Yuan family has committed too many things this year. First, he questioned in the court that Yang Jijiu was selfish in attacking Tuyuhun and that he was supporting bandits for his own self-respect by not attacking Tuyuhun. However, he was only half finished saying this. In an hour, the news of the victory over Fuqi City was sent to the capital. When he defended himself by saying that he did not understand military affairs, Yang Guang took the opportunity to take his military post; then, his disciples became private Qian Yu's mastermind...and many, many more.
All these accumulated, the Yuan family has exhausted Yang Guang's patience and the Yuan family's reputation. And now that the emperor has these evidences, if he decides the punishments one by one, it will not be too much to punish the nine tribes. Even if the Nine Tribes are not executed, other factions will use these evidence and public opinion to force the emperor to submit when they hear the news.
"Okay, okay! Stop doing these meaningless things." Gao Jiong, as the rotating prime minister, just saw one or two knife blades swinging at Yang Ji, but he selectively ignored important and important matters, and he was extremely annoyed. ; However, he is a minister, so it is difficult for him to reveal many things. He can only emphasize over and over again that the overall situation is the most important thing, but he never thought that these people would go even further. At this time, seeing Yang Xiu suppress those people with just a few words, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "King Wei cannot and will not run away. Whether he is wrong or not, it will not be too late to judge in the future. As for traitors, the court will not let anyone go. Please stop talking about these minor things." It's over. At present, the officials of the Youzhou Prefecture and the seven counties and counties have been wiped out by King Wei. Many places are in a state of no official governance. Therefore, the top priority is to supplement the officials of the counties and counties of Youzhou in the shortest possible time. As for Other things can be put aside first.”
"If anyone ignores the importance or deliberately changes the subject, don't blame me, Gao Jiong, for turning against me."
"Yes!" Everyone responded, their minds focused on Youzhou officialdom, silently thinking about the people in their own faction.
For the children of these aristocratic families and the interest representatives of these political factions, sometimes there really is no standard concept to measure what is right and wrong. In the past, they had suffered damage to their fame, fortune, and people, so under the general trend, they all chose to attack Yang Ji. And now considering that Yang Ji's purge of Youzhou officials has created a large number of vacancies for them to fight for, I have a vague fondness for Yang Ji in my heart.
But this is an aristocratic family. Everything is based on the interests of the family. You should never expect true friendship between the aristocratic families.
Of course Yuan Shou was not among them. He had already made Yang Xiu very confused. He was afraid of being liquidated by Yang Guang. At this time, he wanted to leave the official office and find Yuan Hongsi and Yuan Wen to discuss countermeasures.
