Chapter 25: Did you accept the Kaiyuan Tongbao coins from the King of Wei?

In his rage, Li Chengqian paid no attention to Li Xiang at all. He was still transforming into a desk cleaning master, cursing at the censors loudly.

"They have only learned to eat and fatten up in the Censorate! They go to the Saint to make trouble! They oppose me in the court! They hold me back everywhere!"

He cursed hysterically, and his angry voice echoed throughout the hall.

Li Xiang looked at his father in surprise. This rhyme is pretty good...

Li Chengqian from the Tang Dynasty gang aka Gao Ming, right?

"I'm just spending some money to repair the East Palace, but look at them, they're rushing towards me like hungry wolves seeing blood, wishing to tear me to pieces!"

"Aye!"

Li Xiang immediately stepped forward and came in front of Li Chengqian.

"It's the elephant..."

Li Chengqian picked up the wine on the table and took a sip.

"What's wrong, Aye?" Li Xiang asked with concern.

"What else could it be? We were besieged by several imperial censors at the court meeting today." Li Chengqian smiled coldly and threw the cup to the ground fiercely. "I think they are the King of Wei's men. If not, why didn't they come out to make trouble when Your Majesty rewarded the King of Wei with money and property?"

"Father, of course this is the second... the King of Wei's people." Li Xiang didn't understand for a while. Fortunately, Li Chengqian didn't notice it. He continued, "But as for the impeachment, let them do it. Why do you have to get so angry about it? You know, anger hurts your body. If you get hurt by anger, won't it make the King of Wei happy?"

"Do you know how much money your grandfather gave to the King of Wei?"

Without waiting for Li Xiang to speak, Li Chengqian turned to him frantically and stretched out his hand to make a five.

"Fifty thousand strings of cash... fifty thousand strings of cash!"

His voice was very soft at first, but he roared out the second sentence.

He continued to roar like a madman, "So much money! Even the carriage can't hold it! You still want to persuade me to calm down! I just used 30,000 strings of cash to build the East Palace, but his people keep accusing me! Yu Zhining and Zhang Xuansu are two pigs and dogs who scold me for my extravagance every day!"

"I spent 30,000 strings of cash! He spent 50,000 strings of cash! Am I more extravagant than him?"

"If you hadn't sent Zhang Sizheng and Hegan Chengji to find Sun Simiao, I would have let them slaughter these pigs and dogs!"

Damn it...

I can’t catch my breath!
At the same time, Li Xiang was also thankful in his heart that he had the foresight to send these two death squad leaders away, so that Li Chengqian had no one to use for the time being.

Otherwise, he'd have to be given a big job.

Li Xiang felt his blood pressure was a little high. After a while, he finally recovered and pressed Li Chengqian's arm to persuade him, "Father, didn't Grand Tutor Wei and Doctor Chu also submit memorials to the King of Wei?"

"What's the point of reporting this? Can reporting this suppress the ambition of the King of Wei?"

Li Chengqian spat in the direction of Prince Wei's palace.

Li Xiang took a deep breath.

My own father, my own father...

If something happens to him, he won't be able to recover...

In order to persuade Li Chengqian, he planned to find another way.

"Aye, this is exactly the viciousness of the King of Wei!"

"Oh? Tell me quickly, son!"

Upon hearing King Wei's "evil plan", Li Chengqian's attention was immediately attracted.

"What you are worried about is that the King of Wei is in favor, while you are gradually falling out of favor. You should know this, and the King of Wei naturally knows it as well." Li Xiang was interrupted by Li Chengqian who raised his head halfway through his words.

"Of course I know!"

You know eggplant...

But he couldn't say that, so Li Xiang could only agree with him and said, "Aye is smart, of course he knows this, but this is also the viciousness of the King of Wei's vicious plan!"

"Now that we are in the Ming Dynasty, living in the East Palace and under the watchful eyes of all the officials, we are walking on thin ice. The King of Wei keeps sending dogs to bite Aye, just to make Aye angry, and in anger, do things that he would never do rationally, so that Aye will lose favor with His Majesty and lose popularity in front of all the officials!"

At this point, Li Xiang threw himself into Li Chengqian's arms and sobbed, "If my father had not been careful and had fallen into the evil scheme of the King of Wei, my father and I would have died without a burial place!"

After hearing this, Li Chengqian suddenly felt enlightened.

If Li Xiang had told him not to be angry, he would not have accepted his advice. But as soon as Li Xiang said that this was the King of Wei's evil plan, Li Chengqian's intelligence took over again.

"If it weren't for Xiang'er's reminder, I would have been in great trouble!"

Thinking of this, Li Chengqian suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Li Xiang also understood that the IQ switch of this father was the King of Wei.

Oh, even though you are a hot-tempered person, you still drank my foot washing water!

He calmed down and said, "I also suggest that Aye be more careful. If any officials from the Eastern Palace come to persuade Aye to do something like assassinating the King of Wei or assassinating court officials, then Aye should be careful. Did they accept the 500,000 Kaiyuan Tongbao coins from the King of Wei?"

Five hundred thousand Kaiyuan Tongbao coins is not a small amount, that's five hundred strings of cash!
Of course, saying 500 strings of cash is not as impactful as saying 500,000.

"Why do you say that?" Li Chengqian turned his head and asked in confusion.

"Father, think about what you wanted to do in your rage just now?" Li Xiang looked at Li Chengqian with burning eyes.

"Assassination...hiss!" Li Chengqian only said two words and then took a breath.

Seeing Li Chengqian's reaction, Li Xiang continued, "Father, why don't you think about it from another angle? Who would want you to do this?"

His tone was so persuasive that the more Li Chengqian thought about it, the more he felt apprehensive.

"If Xiang'er hadn't reminded me, I'm afraid that Aye would have been misled by the villain!"

"Father, it's just that the person involved is confused, while the bystander can see clearly." Li Xiang continued to CPU Li Chengqian: "You think, in this palace, I am the only one who is wholeheartedly devoted to you..."

Li Chengqian naturally agreed with this statement, because it was also the truth from Li Xiang.

"But... those imperial censors will definitely not give up." Li Chengqian sighed: "Today they ask this, tomorrow they ask that. I don't want to lose face in the court again..."

"What's the difficulty?" Li Xiang laughed.

"Xiang'er really has a solution?" Li Chengqian's eyes lit up. He was just complaining, but he didn't expect his son to really have a solution.

"If you run into this situation again, Aye, you should deal with the censors like this." Li Xiang looked confident and began to teach Li Chengqian how to escape the self-proof trap: "If you have nothing to say, then say you have nothing to say. It's best to have something to say and say it. No matter what they ask, don't worry about the question, just express your opinion."

"If they bring up the issue again, just say 'that's not the problem' or 'I think the real problem is . . . ' and then give your opinion on the issue. Wouldn't that solve the problem? It doesn't seem like there's nothing to say, but it also leaves them with nothing to say."

The more Li Chengqian listened, the brighter his eyes became!
"Okay!" Li Chengqian slapped his thigh and said, "I will handle this in the next court meeting!"

Li Xiang immediately bared his teeth.

"What's the matter, Elephant?"

Li Chengqian saw Li Xiang's expression and asked with concern.

Li Xiang took a deep breath and said with a smile: "Aye, you took a picture of my legs..."

(End of this chapter)