The greatest resistance to reform cos from the aristocratic families!
The calamity of the aristocratic families, its poison has lasted for a century or more.
In my lifeti, I shall scrape the bones and cleanse the poison for the Da Lan Dynasty!"
Hu Tingzhong silently looked at this text.
When he first read it, he didn't pay it much mind.
It's not that he doubted his ntor's resolve and skills, but because his ntor himself ca from an aristocratic family.
If the greatest support is the aristocratic families, then how should one overthrow them?
A mont later, Hu Tingzhong quickly flipped to the last page of the book. There was a line of small text, added later:
"The court and the aristocratic families are already closely tied. To cure a severe illness, strong dicine is needed. But can a person deeply afflicted withstand strong dicine?
Without extraordinary talent, it's insufficient to achieve anything.
Though I am not diocre, unfortunately, I also lack extraordinary talent...
I've done my best in this life."
Hu Tingzhong held the book, his hands trembling slightly.
When the matter concerning Ye Qin first happened, he had already sensed sothing was amiss.
The violations committed by the Ten Gate Valves in the past were as nurous as cattle hair; most wouldn't really hurt the Ten Gate Valves even if exposed.
The only real threat to the Ten Gate Valves would be if so key figures got implicated.
But how could such secrets be easily leaked and handed over as evidence?
If the Ten Gate Valves were really that inept, how could they have lasted so many years?
Even assuming Ye Ze'an was remarkably skilled and really caught a crucial piece of evidence against one or two Gate Valves, it wouldn't matter much.
But how could he possibly grasp evidence against every single family?
Hu Tingzhong thought of only one possibility—
Ye Ze'an himself was involved in those secret matters!
Only by personally entering the fray could this Grand Secretary have drawn other Gate Valves into the fold.
And it wouldn't arouse any suspicion—
Which official doesn't seek benefits for their own family?
How could there be anyone in the court who could remain unstained?
In retrospect, so many Gate Valves went to great lengths, using years of hidden forces and networks to intercept Ye Qin, was it really just over a kidnapping?
Perhaps soone had already picked up on the clues and was warning and stopping Ye Ze'an through such ans!
With the organized power of various Gate Valves, without the strength of a Great Grandmaster, it wouldn't be enough to safely bring Ye Qin back to Lanling City.
And among those who had the strength of a Great Grandmaster, who would dare get involved?
Who would dare stand in opposition to so many Gate Valves?
But in the end, Ye Ze'an still managed to do it.
In Hu Tingzhong's heart, he had always considered his ntor a Saint!
But today, Ye Qin publicly accused Ye Ze'an, and the allegations had spread through the Cabinet—
Corrupting the nation and oppressing the people! Misusing power and destabilizing governance!
Embezzling and perverting justice! Callously disregarding human life!
....
If each case were true, then what kind of Saint could Ye Ze'an really be?
The stains of blood on his hands could never be washed clean!
The number of innocents who died in vain because of him over the years is simply countless!
Ye Ze'an is indeed, as Ye Qin said, a person of great treachery and evil!
"I've done my best in this life..."
Hu Tingzhong repeatedly looked at this phrase, unconsciously already in tears, his tears soaking the pages.
"ntor, how did it co to this, how did it co to this!"
The sound of an extrely sorrowful cry echoed through the hall.
Suddenly, there was movent outside the hall.
Hu Tingzhong quickly wiped his face and turned to look.
He saw a man and a woman led by the old butler entering the reception hall.
Hu Tingzhong stood up and greeted the two:
"Young Master Ye, Miss Ye."
The two were Ye Ze'an's eldest daughter and youngest son.
Ye Yuxi, Ye Jingyan.
Ye Ze'an had two sons and one daughter.
His younger son Ye Jingyan had so talent in martial arts, capable of accommodating an implant, but his current realm was only the Qi Change Middle Stage, like his elder sister and brother, none had entered the court as officials.
As Ye family descendants, with a father whose influence extended throughout the court, they lived 'pitifully' compared to other idle children.
Similarly, with cultivation at the Qi Change Middle Stage, Prince Qing's only son had just entered the Western Garrison Army under the operations of Yan Family's patriarch, Yan Weifeng, becoming a hundred-man commander.
As the Da Lan Dynasty's fifth Great Imperial Camp Army, and undoubtedly bound for future expeditions to the Western Continent, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say a local position capable of leading three thousand troops could exchange for the Western Garrison Army's commander position!
In contrast, Ye Jingyan, the son of the Grand Secretary, spent his years mingling in the World, being a joke behind his back in Lanling City.
"I dare not take it, t Mr. Hu!"
Ye Yuxi and Ye Jingyan appeared very restrained when they saw Hu Tingzhong offer greetings, hurriedly returning the courtesy.
Hu Tingzhong sighed, once the two would greet him warmly, calling him Brother Hu.
Later, his official rank grew higher and the relationship between him and the two grew estranged.
"Have you co to visit the ntor?"
Hu Tingzhong asked.
Ye Yuxi and Ye Jingyan sat separately at the seats furthest from him.
"Yes, we... wanted to see father."
"Hmm, the ntor has gone to rest, I plan to wait here until he wakes."
"Mr. Hu."
"This is ho, you should call Brother Hu."
"Yes, Brother Hu... we heard soone publicly accused father today, is it... indeed serious?"
Ye Yuxi asked anxiously.
Hu Tingzhong looked at their expressions, his heart aching further.
Ye Ze'an not only refused to arrange futures for his children, but even forbade them from entering the official scene.
"Without the talent, don't embarrass !"
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