The so-called "swearing without exposing your shortcomings" and "beating without slapping people in the face" is not just a slap in the face. Liu Hongji's words with guns and sticks are more than just a slap in the face in person.

Zhang Liang suddenly roared, rushed forward like crazy, and said furiously: "Are you a man, die for me."

Liu Hongji also roared and roared: "I have disliked you for a long time. If you don't beat your shit today, you will be able to clean it."

They are all military generals, and they are very irritable. They are almost fighting when they are disagreeing.

Fortunately, the onlookers would not stand by.

But seeing Xu Shiji and Qin Qiong each stretched out their hands, clamping Liu Hongji's arms on the left and right, Lao Cheng and others on the other side also rushed to take action, and three or four dukes grabbed Zhang Liang tightly.

Prince Li Xiaogong of Hejian scolded him loudly and cursed him angrily: "Who dares to provoke him again? Don't blame me for not giving face."

Li Xiaogong had a very high status in the army and could barely suppress two dukes.

The dukes took the opportunity to persuade them, dragged them into the Tai Chi Hall, stood according to their positions, and waited for the morning court to begin.

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He didn't know much, but when he heard footsteps behind the palace, he walked in with a priest shouting "Your Majesty is in the court."

The emperor walked straight to the dragon throne and sat down. His eyes first swept the faces of the ministers, then he spoke leisurely and said lightly: "A eunuch just now told me that the two dukes were preparing to fight in front of the palace. I felt very admirable after hearing this. I wonder which two heroes were so brave? Come on, stand up and let me take a good look at what kind of heroes they are..."

This is a calm and gentle statement, but the words in the words are not light. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty calls others a hero, which is obviously not a praise, but a rising in his heart.

The civil and military officials in the court were silent, one or two pretended to be fine, some looked up at the top of their heads, as if they were studying the patterns on the roof, and some were staring at the ground, as if they were thinking about the patterns of bricks and stones.

Li Shimin's eyes slowly swept over and said lightly: "Did no one stand up?"

A bang!

The emperor suddenly slapped the dragon throne heavily and shouted angrily: "Aren't you very brave? Why are you a turtle shrunk? I'll call you three times..."

Before the emperor finished speaking, Liu Hongji suddenly stood up from the court and shouted: "Your Majesty, it's me, Old Liu. When I was at the entrance of the Tai Chi Hall, it was my Liu Hongji who mocked Zhang Liang, which caused a dispute. I asked Your Majesty to punish him. The only thing is that Old Liu is bad, this matter has nothing to do with that guy Zhang Liang."

Zhang Liang suddenly stood up and glared at Liu Hongji and said, "Who wants you to pretend to be a good person? I will take the blame by myself."

As he said that, he bowed to Li Shimin and shouted: "Your Majesty, I was the minister who roared in front of the palace just now."

Li Shimin's eyes flew over the two ministers and snorted coldly: "A grand founding duke, like a child, is making noise in front of the palace. Do you feel embarrassed? Do you want their own face?"

As he spoke, he looked at Liu Hongji and scolded him: "Especially you, how many times have I scolded you? He never speaks through his brain. Do you know how many people you have offended?"

Then he looked at Zhang Liang and scolded, "You are also going to fight with people at any time. To put it nicely, it is called Wu Yong, but to put it bluntly, it is a bad temper. Do you really think you can fight? Do you need to let Qin Qiong fight with you?"

The emperor said this without any hesitation. Both Dukes cursed each other. They obviously did not want to pursue the situation, otherwise they would never use this kind of method of mixing with each other.

But Liu Hongji suddenly stubbornly said loudly: "Your Majesty, I have been talking this time. It's not to beg for you. Old Liu did it on purpose. I just can't stand Zhang Liang's behavior, so I laughed at him. If Your Majesty wants to punish him, Old Liu will never beg for mercy, but there is a matter that I have to explain clearly. I mocked Zhang Liang for his good intentions. This is called good intentions, but it is a strategy I have been thinking about for a long time..."

Ha ha ha ha!

The ministers in the palace burst into laughter.

Li Shimin obviously couldn't hold back his smile, and his face showed an interesting look, and he couldn't help laughing: "Who doesn't know that you, Liu Hongji, are a mess? Apart from being able to charge in the battle, when did you have any brains? Now you tell me, are you doing good intentions to Zhang Liang?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Liu Hongji seemed unable to hear Li Shimin's joke, and he raised his head and replied loudly: "I am just using good intentions."

Li Shimin became even more interested and couldn't help but look forward, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll listen carefully. If you do what you are right, I will give you some benefits. Tell me, why did you mock Zhang Liang?"

Liu Hongji bowed his hands and said without hesitation: "In order to wake him up, let him wake up in time to understand where he was wrong."

The ministers in the palace laughed again, and some people joked: "The world has indeed changed. Even people like Duke Kui can wake others up."

Liu Hongji turned around and spitted, cursing: "Why can't our old Liu go to alert others? Why do you speak like eating feces?"

Li Shimin slapped the dragon throne heavily and scolded: "Don't scold people, tell your own affairs well. I'm very curious now. What do you want Zhang Liang to wake up?"

Liu Hongji did not dare to talk back to the emperor, but had no choice but to look at the minister who had just teased him fiercely.

The guy then withdrew his gaze, bowed to Li Shimin, and said, "Your Majesty, I want Zhang Liang to wake up something. You should not be too soft-hearted when you encounter big things. You should make your own decisions, especially when it comes to the future of the family. Never listen to those adopted sons' nonsense. This will kill Zhang Liang, and maybe one day it will cause a huge disaster..."

Huh?

The civil and military officials in the palace subconsciously made a sound.

Someone looked at Liu Hongji from a distance and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that Duke Kui had a time to have extraordinary knowledge."

Obviously, many ministers in the court saw that it was inappropriate about Zhang Liang's adoption of his adopted son.

But Liu Hongji looked at Zhang Liang, and his tone became sad for some reason. He turned to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, you should still remember that when I was in Tiance Mansion, my relationship with Lao Liu and Zhang Liang was the most strong. It was because of the relationship that I didn't want to see something happen to him..."

Li Shimin looked at Liu Hongji deeply, nodded slowly and said, "If you continue speaking, I will listen carefully."

After the emperor finished speaking, he glanced at Zhang Liang and said, "You listen carefully, Liu Hongji is indeed for your own good."

Zhang Liang spoke to argue, and then suddenly stopped when he spoke.

But Liu Hongji said loudly: "Zhang Liang is good at everything, but he has a bad habit of taking adopted sons. It would be fine if he took one or two, but he took five hundred people as soon as he took them. Good guys, they all called their adoptive fathers, wandering around every day, and keeping their mouths closed. They were all filial to the children. In fact, filial piety is nothing. They are all filial to the grave and burning leaves to fool the ghosts..."

Zhang Liang finally couldn't help but speak and roared, "Liu Hongji, you fart."

"Shut up!"

Liu Hongji also roared angrily, looking at Zhang Liang fiercely and said, "You are uncomfortable if you say a few words, right? Do you know that if this continues, there will be even more uncomfortable? Just the five hundred goods you collected will kill you one day."

Zhang Liang's chest was undulating and his face turned pale: "They are all my bloody children."

Liu Hongji blurted out and asked sternly: "If even the adopted son is called bone blood, then what is your biological bone blood?"

Zhang Liang was immediately stunned.

Liu Hongji asked again and said, "You obviously have a biological son, and that child should be the legitimate branch of the Zhang family. But look at what you do, do you know what your biological son is like when you are bullied by 500 adopted sons?"

Zhang Liang was stunned again, and it took him a long time to subconsciously speak: "You can't be bullied? His five hundred brothers love him very much..."

Liu Hongji suddenly became furious and shouted: "Don't you bet your mother, just say that, I'll beat you to death. My sister was so blind at the beginning. How could she marry such a mess like you?"

At this time, Li Shimin suddenly slapped the dragon throne and scolded: "Liu Hongji, pay attention to your tone of speaking. I know you are angry and I know that you feel sorry for the descendants left by your deceased sister. But if you talk about things, the court is not the place where you scold people. I just thought that the miscellaneous words were just a moment of tongue and no example, otherwise I would not blame me for punishing them."

Liu Hongji took a deep breath.

Li Shimin glanced at Zhang Liang and suddenly said slowly: "Actually, I have heard about this. I have long thought about finding an opportunity to wake you up. Zhang Liang, I ask you, do you think that five hundred adopted sons are extremely filial, and everyone considers you as your adopted father with great sincerity?"

Zhang Liang subconsciously wanted to nod, but suddenly felt a sudden sensation in his heart. He looked up at Li Shimin who seemed to be smiling and bowed and said, "I originally thought so, but I found that everyone seemed to know some inside information, but I don't know. Please help Your Majesty solve the problem."

Li Shimin nodded and said leisurely: "It seems that you are hopeless."

After the emperor finished speaking, he did not intend to answer his doubts. Instead, he looked at Liu Hongji, and then slowly said: "There is something you may not know. In fact, Liu Hongji asked me for help half a year ago!" :(/

"Half a year ago? Ask you for help?" Zhang Liang was obviously stunned.

Li Shimin nodded and said, "He wants to ask me to personally issue an order to force you to claim 20,000 acres of land reclamation in Youzhou. But because of the well-known reason, it was not convenient for me to issue such an order at that time. Once this is done, it will be equivalent to turning the cotton industry into compulsory, which will disrupt Gu Tianya's layout and arouse everyone's rebellion."

The emperor said, looking at Zhang Liang and said lightly: "My brother-in-law once emphasized to me several times that the cotton industry must not force everyone to participate. It must make people willingly. The more they are forced, the less people dare not participate."

Zhang Liang nodded subconsciously and said bitterly: "Yes, no one was forced at the beginning. It was precisely because he was not forced that many people claimed a large share of land reclamation..."

He said as he stopped for a while, and his face turned even bitter, "I am the only one thousand acres."

Li Shimin slowly let out a breath, as if he was a little unbearable, and said warmly: "Tell me, why did you make such a decision at that time?"

This seems to be an inquiry, but it is actually a wake-up call.

Sure enough, Zhang Liang's body shook, and suddenly a sudden look of enlightenment appeared on his face. He subconsciously said: "It was because I heard the words of my adopted sons that I was not thinking of investing money in Youzhou... The adopted sons advised me that the cotton industry was Gu Tianya's conspiracy, and the purpose was to let everyone pay for money to help him develop Youzhou. Our Zhang family must not fall into Gu Tianya's trick."

Li Shimin sighed and looked at Zhang Liang meaningfully and said, "What a 'our Zhang family'. Your adopted sons are really good at speaking. It sounds like a illusion of loyalty to your family. But Zhang Liang, have you ever thought that they are not your blood at all..."

At this time, Liu Hongji suddenly spoke and snorted coldly: "The reason they stopped you from investing money in Youzhou is because they have long been coveting the Zhang family's family business. If you invested money in Youzhou, how could they enjoy wealth?"

Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, and then retorted: "No, this statement doesn't make sense at all. If they covet the Zhang family's industry, shouldn't they hope that the bigger the family business, the better? Then we should instigate me to claim the share of land reclamation, instead of all persuading me not to invest money in Youzhou..."

Liu Hongji snorted again and said, "If you invest your wealth in Youzhou, how can they enjoy the rich and elegant food?"

Zhang Liang blurted out and said: "When the cotton industry has profits, can we enjoy wealth more?"

At this time, some civil officials couldn't stand it, but saw Fang Xuanling standing up and said, "This is because they don't have the future of the Zhang family in their hearts. They only care about the current family business that needs to be controlled. If you invest money, you will make a profit. What should you do if you lose money if you lose money? Wouldn't your adopted sons have no wealth to enjoy?"

Changsun Wuji also stood up and said in a leisurely tone: "Even if they can make a lot of money, they are unwilling to bet because they do not regard themselves as the Zhang family. Since they are not the Zhang family, why should they bet for the Zhang family? Just divide the wealth and honor in front of them. What does it have to do with them if the Zhang family takes off or loses in the future?"

Zhang Liang stood there on the spot.

I just felt a bang in my mind.

Li Shimin sighed and said with a disbelief: "There is another thing that I want to tell you. When Liu Hongji came to ask me for help, he told me that someone in your family advised you to invest money in Youzhou. That was your legitimate son Zhang Yan, right? That child once advised you to claim the share of 30,000 acres of land reclamation, right?"

Zhang Liang subconsciously looked up.

Liu Hongji suddenly interrupted and snorted coldly: "But soon you discovered that Yan'er no longer advised you to invest money, and even stopped appearing in front of you for a while. Your adopted sons told you that Yan'er ran away from home and stayed at his uncle's house and refused to come back..."

Zhang Liang nodded subconsciously again and murmured: "I was very angry at that time. I thought Jane was very ignorant, and I also complained about you, Liu Hongji. I have never been to your house in the past six months."

Liu Hongji suddenly roared and roared, "But do you know that Yan's son was forced away by your adopted sons. In order to prevent Yan from urging you to invest money, those dogs use various methods to bully him and torture him every day. But you, the person who is your own father, have never realized that his son has suffered so much."

Liu Hongji's face was already ashen, and his roar was filled with his entire court hall. He said angrily: "Yan was almost assassinated by those dogs. He had no choice but to hide in my uncle's house... Even so, the child still has no resentment towards you. Do you know what the first thing he did when he came to my house? He knelt on the ground and cried and begged me to help the Zhang family buy the share of land reclamation."

The emperor slowly said: "This is his family who truly cares about the future of the Zhang family."
Chapter completed!