Yang Lian's words made Zou Yuanbiao's face look ugly again. This matter might be troublesome.

"Your Majesty first asked Gao Panlong about this matter. Obviously Gao Panlong's answer could not satisfy His Majesty, so His Majesty turned to you. Your answer satisfied His Majesty, so His Majesty also followed your suggestion and was willing to hand over the case to you.

Chief Judge."

When Zou Yuanbiao said this, he sighed helplessly: "But I'm afraid this matter won't be easy to handle!"

Looking at Zou Yuanbiao, Yang Lian's heart suddenly sank to the bottom: "Then how do you think this matter should be handled?"

Zou Yuanbiao raised his head and looked at Yang Lian. This was the second time today that Yang Lian asked himself. Was he asking himself to take a stand? If he didn't take a stand, wouldn't it mean that he had no stand? Because not taking a stand was sometimes an attitude.

From a personal perspective, he is Yang Lian's boss, the Censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Yang Lian is his subordinate, the Censor of Zuo Qiandu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. His Majesty handed over the case to Yang Lian, which means that he is handing over the case to Yang Lian.

Let the matter be heard by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. I should give sufficient support to my subordinates and at the same time express my attitude to His Majesty. That is the attitude of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

From a personal perspective, Yang Lian is a rising star of the Donglin Party, and as a veteran of the Donglin Party, he should look after and support him.

Regardless of whether he works for public or private purposes, he should indeed support him.

But it would be nice if this thing were so simple.

Others don't know about Xiong Tingbi, and whether Zou Yuanbiao knows it, on the one hand, it is indeed the Donglin Party who colluded with Li Ruzhen of Liaodong, and on the other hand, the Donglin Party is wiping out Fang Congzhe's remnants, that is, the remaining forces of the Qi, Zhejiang and Chu Party.

The Donglin Party is too deeply involved here, and once things are revealed, countless people will be left with nothing to live with.

Yang Lian looked at Zou Yuanbiao and saw that he was silent, and his heart instantly sank to the bottom.

When the imperial court denounced Xiong Tingbi, Xiong Tingbi asked Shangshu to send someone to investigate. Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, Zhang Xiude and others continued to discuss Xiong Tingbi's fault. Xiong Tingbi asked three of them to come and verify the matter. Yang Lian firmly opposed this matter.

At that time, Yang Lian felt that something was going on here, but he only knew that someone was squeezing out Xiong Tingbi, but he did not expect that there was also collusion with Li Ruzhen.

If you think about it carefully, the Metropolitan Procuratorate was in full force at that time. Is there no trace of Zou Yuanbiao in it?

Yang Lian indeed looks down on Xiong Tingbi, but that doesn't mean he can tolerate malicious frame-ups.

At this time, Yang Lian felt that the sage in front of him was a bit strange. That was not what they said when he was giving lectures at Donglin Academy.

Yang Lian doesn't think it's wrong for the Donglin Party to appoint its own people. After all, the Donglin Party is all gentlemen and capable people.

But now it seems that there are many things that I don't know.

Yang Lian stared at Zou Yuanbiao closely, wanting to see what he was going to say.

After being silent for a long time, Zou Yuanbiao slowly said: "Wen Ru, this matter should be discussed in the long run!"

As he spoke, Zou Yuanbiao looked at Yang Lian and said: "Although Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, Zhang Xiude and others accepted bribes and had bad moral conduct, it is appropriate to impeach Xiong Tingbi. Xiong Tingbi is a violent and perverse person, which is really a great harm to the country."

"Now that His Majesty has resurrected Xiong Tingbi, and Wei Zhongxian has introduced the Demonic Way into the palace, these people are already showing signs of forming a clique for selfish purposes."

"If this case involves more people at this time, how can the loyal and upright people in the world deal with themselves? Are we complicit with the eunuchs?"

Yang Lian immediately realized that Zou Yuanbiao's words were gradually getting worse. Just now, Xiong Tingbi and Wei Zhongxian were showing signs of forming a party for personal gain, but now they have become an eunuch.

The first part is conjecture, and the second part is characterization. From conjecture to characterization, Zou Yuanbiao only used one sentence.

Yang Lian also hates Wei Zhongxian and Xiong Tingbi, but a gentleman should act with dignity. How can I stop being virtuous just because the other person's virtue is lacking? Is this what a gentleman does? This is the behavior of a villain!

"This case is easy to resolve. Since Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, and Zhang Xiude have confessed, we can just let them plead guilty and be imprisoned." Zou Yuanbiao continued: "Li Ruzhen sat back and watched the fall of Tieling in Liaodong. This is the first crime; colluding with the imperial envoy

Trapping a border general is the second crime, punishable by imprisonment and death. As for Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, and Zhang Xiude..."

"Accepting bribes is a sign of bad moral conduct, so it's just a matter of dismissal or reduction of position." After saying that, Zou Yuanbiao looked at Yang Lian again: "What do Wen Ru think?"

Yang Lian looked at Zou Yuanbiao. He didn't expect that Zou Yuanbiao, whom he admired, would actually say such a thing. Is this human language?

Li Ruzhen talks about death. Once Li Ruzhen dies, it will be over. You have always done better. You are not even as good as Gao Panlong. Gao Panlong still wanted to save Li Ruzhen's life, but when he came to you, he just let Li Ruzhen die?

Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, and Zhang Xiude had bad moral conduct, so they were dismissed directly? And then they disappeared? Wei and Zhang were never mentioned for their use? Is this the end of it?

For some reason, Yang Lian thought of the young emperor sitting on the dragon throne, and of the late emperor's entrustment to him. Yang Lian said, "My lord, I thought this matter should be thoroughly investigated and severely punished. The courtiers colluded with the generals.

, This is a big taboo. Moreover, these people are censors, who are the eyes and ears of the emperor, and are official officials. As a result, they accepted bribes and maliciously framed them. If they are not severely punished, they will not be able to quell the public's anger."

"Besides, Your Majesty asked me to conduct a thorough investigation. I feel that if I don't conduct a thorough investigation, I will be betraying your majesty's great trust, as well as the late emperor's trust."

After hearing Yang Lian's words, Zou Yuanbiao's face turned ugly for a moment, but he still said seriously: "Wen Ru, don't think this way about this matter. A gentleman should abide by righteousness. In the present moment, everything else is trivial. Now Wei Zhongxian wants to

By using this matter to frame the courtiers and implicate innocent people, we cannot help Zhou to commit evil or act as an aide to the tiger. The top priority is to bring down Wei Zhongxian, a powerful eunuch."

"I urge Your Majesty to return to the teachings of saints and not to deceive Shengcong. In comparison, Feng Sanyuan, Wei Yingjia, and Zhang Xiude are nothing more than trivial matters."

Yang Lian looked at Zou Yuanbiao and fell into deep thought. Is it a crime to help Zhou? To be a helper to a tiger?

He knew that he had no way to convince the person in front of him. At this moment, Yang Lian suddenly felt that this person was a bit strange, so strange that he didn't even recognize him.

The way he acted like this reminded him of Xu Jie, who did this to defeat Yan Song.

He flattered Yan Song and gave his granddaughter to Yan Shifan as a concubine. He and Yan Shifan became in-laws, directly one generation shorter than Yan Song. In his hometown, he owned 240,000 acres of land.

How come the gentleman Donglin in front of me has become like Xu Jie?

Yang Lian didn't understand. He felt a little confused. He quickly stood up and said, "Sir, I need to think about this."
Chapter completed!