Chapter 137: Spewing blood

Chapter 137: Slander

"I thought you were a gentleman and happily handed these two innocent girls over to you. But you, Ye Xuan, turned out to be a pervert. How can I be worthy of my dead father?"

Watching Chang Sheng's exaggerated performance, even bringing up his father, Chang Yuchun, the King of Kaiping, who had been dead for many years, Ye Xuan came to his senses.

This guy Chang Sheng deliberately distorted the facts and tried to frame me!
After seeing through Chang Sheng's intention, Ye Xuan was no longer excited. He sneered twice and said slowly, "Come on, Old Chang, do you want to cheat me of my ten thousand taels of silver?"

Chang Sheng was immediately excited when he heard this: "Hey, hey, hey, I am the son of the King of Kaiping after all. How could I sacrifice the reputation of my two sisters for a mere 10,000 taels of silver!"

Ye Xuan immediately sneered and said, "Come on, then why don't you give me the ten thousand taels you owe me!"

Chang Sheng, who was blushing and angry just a second ago, immediately said in a flattering manner: "I don't mind you often discussing poetry with my two sisters in the middle of the night, but you still care about this little money?"

"We are almost a family anyway. If I return the money to you, you will have to give it to me again. It will be so troublesome to carry it here and there!"

Ye Xuan rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Let's not talk about whether I will marry your sister or not. Even if I do, I will only marry one. How can I have five thousand taels? You should give it to me first!"

Hearing this, Chang Sheng acted as if he was filled with deep resentment, slammed the table and stood up!
Chang Yuchun is a rare famous general, and his sons are naturally big and strong with great skills. When they stand up, they are quite imposing.

Ye Xuan almost thought that Chang Sheng was showing his true colors and wanted to force him to marry him in order to get his money.

However, Chang Sheng just said with hope on his face: "Brother Ye, I have never asked anyone for help since I was a child. Now I just want to ask you for one thing!"

Seeing that Chang Sheng looked serious and didn't seem to be up to anything, Ye Xuan nodded and said, "Tell me about it first. If you can do it, I'll consider it."

Chang Sheng grabbed Ye Xuan's shoulder solemnly and said, "Brother Ye, this matter is a piece of cake for you. I would like you to marry both of my sisters!"

"Old Chang, this matter is not over yet, right?" Ye Xuan jumped far away and said angrily: "Besides letting me marry your sister, you have nothing else to say?"

"Didn't we agree to marry one? Why did you decide to marry two?" Ye Xuan said, "Ugh!" and said, "You almost led me astray. I don't want any of them!"

"You can cheat me of my body, but you can't cheat me of my money!"

Chang Sheng clapped his hands in annoyance and said bitterly, "Brother Ye, do you think I want to do this? It's all because of that old bastard Li Shanchang!"

Hearing the three words "Li Shanchang", Ye Xuan immediately became alert and couldn't help asking, "Li Shanchang, what does it have to do with him?"

Chang Sheng let out a long sigh and then began to tell the story.

It turned out that the Duke of Korea, Li Shanchang, had three sons, and the eldest son, Emperor Li Qi, had intended to marry the eldest daughter to him.
The second son Li Fang and the third son Li Mao also reached the age of marriage, so Li Shanchang began to think about finding wives for his two sons.

There are many well-matched men in the court, both civil and military officials, and even the daughters of dukes are a few suitable.

But for some reason, Li Shanchang fell in love with Chang Yuchun's two daughters, the fifth sister Chang Ruyun and the sixth sister Chang Ruyue.

So, yesterday, a matchmaker was sent to propose marriage with great fanfare.

Actually, although Chang Yuchun was the Prince of Kaiping, and his title was higher than Li Shanchang, it was a posthumous title after all, and its value was far less than that of a title conferred when he was alive. Moreover, after Chang Yuchun's death, the Chang family had a Duke of Zheng, Chang Mao, who was able to carry the banner, while Chang Sheng and his brother Chang Sen were both idlers.

This resulted in the famous lineage of King Kaiping becoming the least influential among the six founding dukes.

Li Shanchang was praised as the person who made the greatest contribution to the founding of the Ming Dynasty after Chang Yuchun, and was the top civil official.

If the two families could really become relatives, it would be a good thing.

After hearing the whole story, Ye Xuan curled his lips and said, "Isn't this good? A rich family against a rich family. From now on, your two families will have greater power in the court. Who else dares to provoke you?"

However, Chang Sheng's face straightened and he said, "My father is the number one military commander in the Ming Dynasty. If my two sisters were to marry Li Shanchang's two sons, how would outsiders view our Chang family?"

At first, Chang Sheng's words seemed irrelevant, but after thinking about it carefully, Ye Xuan figured out the connection.

In history, Li Shanchang and Chang Yuchun, one was the top civil official and the other was the top military general.

Although there was no obvious conflict or contradiction between the two, the relationship between civil officials and military generals was inherently unharmonious.

Since ancient times, either you look down on me or I look down on you.

When Zhu Yuanzhang first started to conquer the world, naturally, military generals were given more attention.

However, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the country was stable and Zhu Yuanzhang needed more civil servants to help him manage the country.

The situation naturally turned upside down, and friction was inevitable as the civil and military officials competed for their own interests.

This has led to a delicate situation between civil officials and military generals.

However, the civil officials were more valued by Zhu Yuanzhang, and compared with the military generals, the civil officials had the upper hand with Li Shanchang.

Although Chang Yuchun was dead, he was still brought up by the military generals and established as a spiritual leader to compete with the group of civil officials.

"In other words, you are afraid that after you marry your two sisters to the Li family, you will..." Ye Xuan paused and corrected: "Your elder brother Chang Mao will be looked down upon by other generals?"

Chang Sheng slapped his thigh and praised with a big grin: "Brother Ye is indeed a talented man, he really understands everything at once!"

"It's mainly my eldest brother. How can he lead the army and be despised by his colleagues? If he really marries his two sisters to Li Shanchang's two sons, who will listen to him in the army in the future?"

Perhaps because he was afraid that Ye Xuan would think that the two brothers of the Chang family would trade their sisters' happiness for their own reputation and future, Chang Sheng said seriously: "If my two sisters are willing, then my three brothers have nothing to say, even if our comrades say a few words from time to time."

"But before you came back, I asked my two sisters. Who knew that when they heard that they were going to marry Li Fang and Li Mao, they immediately threatened to hang themselves, saying that they would never marry anyone except Brother Ye in this life. What should I do?"

Ye Xuan pulled the corner of his mouth, indicating that he had completely understood. He sneered and squinted at Chang Sheng and said, "So you want to avoid offending both sides, and use a small Jinyiwei like me to take the blame?"

(End of this chapter)