"No matter what time, etiquette cannot be abolished! Besides, everyone knows that you, the Invincible General, have been wronged. Therefore, no matter what the emperor says, in my heart, you will always be the loyal and invincible general!" Meng Tang said respectfully.
"If Lord Meng says so, you have done me a favor, and I should kneel to you!" Upon hearing this, Yuwen Yuer pretended to kowtow to Meng Tang.
"I dare not, I dare not! Great General Wudi, you are really embarrassing me! You are an official of super rank! I am just a small third-rank civil servant! This is against etiquette!" Meng Tang knelt lower immediately after hearing the words!
The two of them were so polite to each other that it seemed as if they were about to bow their heads to the ground.
This shit can even be rolled up!
"What are you doing...?" Jiang Fan looked at the two people who were being so polite as if they were asking for New Year's money, and couldn't help but interrupt them and asked about their relationship.
Yuwen Yuer explained, "Lord Meng and I are old friends, both remnants of the previous dynasty."
"It's just that I'm a military commander, and he's a civil servant, a third-rank official, the Minister of Rites."
"Come to think of it, we've never crossed paths before, never even met. After all, I've always been on the frontier and rarely returned to the capital. But ever since I got into trouble and was arrested, this Lord Meng was the first to speak up and plead for me! But no matter how many memorials he wrote and submitted to the emperor saying I was wronged, they fell on deaf ears. The incompetent emperor refused to approve them at all."
"That tyrant even went so far as to arrest those who pleaded for me, claiming they were my accomplices in the rebellion, and he either killed them or arrested them!"
"It's just because Lord Meng is a civil servant and we don't have much interaction, so he has been spared for the time being."
"In this situation, any normal person would choose to protect themselves and bury their head in the dirt like an ostrich. After all, everyone can see that the tyrant is determined to kill me, and no one can save me! I'm lucky enough to be able to protect myself."
"But Lord Meng refused to give up! He actually chose to carry the coffin into the palace and banged his head against a pillar of the Hall of Supreme Harmony! He was ready to die!"
"In the end, it was all for naught! Our tyrant emperor, once he's made up his mind about something, the death of ten, even a hundred, let alone one, minister wouldn't change his mind! He'd just applaud, secretly delighted at watching another spectacular suicide show!"
"Anyway, as a king, he has the power of life and death, and he's used to it. In his eyes, the death of a person is no different from the death of an ant."
"Lord Meng was lucky enough not to die on the spot, but he also angered the tyrant emperor and, like me, was banished to the eighteenth level of hell."
"However, because of his uprightness, his inheritance coincided with that of Judge Wei Zheng. Therefore, he inherited Wei Zheng's legacy and became the master of the twelfth floor. Finally, he no longer has to endure hardship."
"Over the years, we've been in contact quite a bit thanks to the inherited treasures, but this is the first time we've met in person."
Yuwen Yuer explained the relationship between the two in a few words.
But Meng Tang, standing by, said with a serious face, "General Wudi, you can't say that about Your Majesty! Your Majesty did not do some things well, but that was simply due to being deceived by villains, not Your Majesty's true intentions! As ministers, we should give more advice and shouldn't slander Your Majesty! After all, even if Your Majesty is wrong, it's the ministers' fault! It's us, the ministers, who failed to advise Your Majesty well! It has nothing to do with Your Majesty!"
"Master Meng, you're good in every way except that you're too pedantic! You can't wake up a person who's pretending to be asleep, let alone an incompetent and tyrannical ruler!"
"This kind of waste is simply a hopeless person! No matter how much we persuade him, he just thinks we are just cuckolds! It is said that when the capital was breached, he shouted that all the ministers had misled me and all of them should be killed! Haha! It was obviously he who misled us, but he did not repent even when he was about to die! He thinks it is all our fault, which is really ridiculous! I just hate that I can't get out, otherwise I would have skinned him alive and crushed his bones to ashes!" Yuwen Yu'er said viciously.
Meng Tang was silent for a while after hearing this, and obviously felt that Yuwen Yuer's words made some sense.
However, he had been brainwashed by the idea of loyalty to the emperor for hundreds of years, and after a while, he regained his stubborn mind and replied again: "General Wudi, this is absurd..."
Before he could finish, Yuwen Yuer felt extremely annoyed. The two of them had been discussing similar issues for hundreds of years, and neither could convince the other.
So, Yuwen Yu'er didn't want to waste any more time talking and interrupted him directly, saying, "Alright, I'm not here to debate with you. I have something to do on the seventeenth floor. Lord Meng, please give me some convenience and mobilize your Book of Kindness to open the entrance to the next floor so I can go there."
"I'm sorry, General Wudi! I can agree to your other requests, but not this one!" Meng Tang shook his head and refused outright.
"When Judge Wei Zheng passed on his legacy to me, he said that unless I encountered someone I couldn't defeat, I must never open the entrance to the next level without permission and disrupt the rules of the Eighteen Hells! It's my duty, and I can't disobey! General Wudi should also know that I'm a person who sticks to the rules. No matter who I am, I must follow the rules! The law is unforgiving! I'm so sorry!"
"That means if I defeat you, I can allow you to open the passage and enter the next level, right?" Jiang Fan asked.
"That's right!" Meng Tang nodded.
"You should have said it earlier, instead of going around in circles. You honest officials, your character is indeed impeccable, but you're too stubborn in everything you do. No wonder you can't defeat those corrupt officials. Remember, if you want to defeat those corrupt officials, it's useless to just be honest and upright! You must be even more cunning than the corrupt officials! If the corrupt officials have ten tricks, you must have a hundred tricks! Only then can you avoid the swords and arrows!"
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