When the secret wall in the study was found, Pan Ruzhen's face, who was already angry, suddenly turned pale. Nothing else in the secret wall was important, but those books that were fatal, once they fell into the hands of the court, it would mean that not only would he be finished, but a large number of people would also be involved.

"call!"

When Li Yan put down the account book in his hand and breathed a long sigh. With these books and letters, the risk of this action could finally be minimized. Even if someone in the court impeached Yang Feng and had these things in hand, their actions had a reason.

He turned his head and said to the guard behind him: "Put it all and submit it to the Duke immediately. Remember to send enough people to escort them. There must be no mistakes in these things, do you understand?"

Li Yan's personal guard also knew the importance of these things and nodded heavily: "I understand, if something is wrong, the villain brings up to see you!"

"Okay, go!"

After watching the guards away, Li Yan walked to Pan Ruzhen, who was pale and squatted down, stared at his eyes and said slowly: "Governor Pan, what else do you have to say this time?"

Pan Ruzhen, who had a pale face, suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahaha... I should be so lucky. Since you have found something, what else can I say? Isn't it just a death? I'm fifty-seven years old this year, and I haven't enjoyed any blessings for most of my life, and even if I die now, I won't lose money.

But you should remind Yang Feng that if he really makes trouble to the point where he is enemies of the world, isn’t he afraid of ending up in a dead place without a burial in the future?”

"This won't be a long time worrying about you."

After seeing that Pan Ruzhen was exposed, he had no regrets at all, and Li Yan's sense of his feelings became worse and worse.

"If we scholars do not even have the minimum concept of good and evil, right and wrong, then how different is such a person and a beast? Besides, Lord Pan, you, as a second-rank official of the court, have read the books of sages, but you are willing to be the minions of those merchants. This is simply a disgrace to the identity of a scholar and a waste of the emperor's trust."

Pan Ruzhen looked at him deeply: "Li Yan, don't scold me so righteously. You will know when you reach my age. There are many things in the officialdom that you can't help but sometimes it's not impossible if you don't want to do it."

"Nothing nonsense." Li Yan scolded: "This is just your excuse. If you don't talk about others, the prince is the best example. Do you think he has colluded with those gentry and wealthy businessmen?"

"Yang Feng?"

Pan Ruzhen snorted softly, "This boy is indeed an alien, but look at him, people like him who have sinned all the gentry in the world will not have a good end."

"Absurd!" Li Yan suddenly angrily rebuked: "Where is righteousness, no one cares about power, no one cares about its profits, and the whole country does not change its opinion. He values ​​righteousness and does not scatter. This is the courage of a gentleman. Lord Pan, have you read books in your dog's stomach for so many years?"

Seeing Li Yan glaring at him, Pan Ruzhen suddenly felt guilty, closed his eyes but never said anything again...

Two hours later in Jiangning Army Camp

Li Yan, who breathed a long sigh, put down the account book and sighed: "This Pan Ruzhen looks clean and honest. He never thought that he had greedy so much money over the years. If he hadn't had the account book in hand, he would have beaten the officials to death. A governor had greedy more than 300,000 taels of silver in three years, and those antiques, calligraphy and paintings were not included. Wouldn't he be afraid of the story of the matter?"

Yang Feng shook his head: "What's this? As the saying goes, the courageous ones starve to death. Pan Ruzhen only greed for these money for three years. There are more people who are more weird and greedy than this."

Li Yan's eyes suddenly became dim. He looked into the distance and asked weakly after a long time: "Dude, does this Ming Dynasty still have hope?"

When Yang Feng heard this, he knew that because Li Yan searched the house and arrested people these days, he saw too many corrupt officials and felt a little confused. If he did not enlighten him in time, he would either change his mind and become degenerate and become corrupt officials, or he would resign from his official position and go home in disheartened manner.

Both of these results were not what Yang Feng wanted. He thought about it, walked to Li Yan, habitually took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him: "Come on, light it."

Although he had only been joining the Jiangning Army for more than a month, Li Yan also began to learn to smoke under the guidance of his ears and eyes, so he naturally took the cigarette handed over by Yang Feng and stuffed it into his mouth.

"bite!"

The unique crisp sound of the Zhibao lighter sounded, accompanied by a cluster of flames, and the cigarette was lit.

Li Yan took a deep breath, and a unique mellow smell of tobacco entered his lungs. After turning around, he sprayed it out of his mouth.

After the two of them took a few puffs of cigarettes, Yang Feng asked with a smile: "Why, are you feeling very discouraged? Seeing so many corrupt officials, I feel that the Ming Dynasty is helpless, and I will play sooner or later?"

"It's true." Li Yan smiled bitterly: "These officials in the world have arrested so many people. The more silver they have been seized, the more disheartened the officials are. The officials don't understand. Can't they survive without corruption? After these people become officials, their salaries are low, but the gray income they receive on weekdays is enough to make them live a richer life. Why are they still trying so hard to be corrupt?"

"This is nothing difficult to understand. Human hearts are greedy and are also human nature. It is not something that can be erased by reading a few more years."

Yang Feng asked suddenly.

"Li Yan, you are a familiar person with history books. Let me tell you, counting the thousands of years of history in China, are there any corrupt dynasties?"

"Well..."

Li Yan hesitated for a moment. From the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Han, Tang, Yuan and Song dynasties, it seems that no dynasty is not corrupt.

"No?"

Yang Feng asked again, "After the founding emperor of this dynasty set the torture of greed for fifty taels of silver and skinned it for grass, can those officials stop being greedy?"

Li Yan shook his head again. When Comrade Zhu was in power, he was killed so hard that there were still people corruption. There were still people who were corrupt one after another, but there were much fewer greedy officials than now.
Chapter completed!