Guagua: [Be more confident. Drop the "probably."
Of course Zuo Shangtong knew about it.
The gifts he accepted only came with requests to handle trivial matters anyway, so he agreed to them.
Besides, only with a powerful family behind him could he stand more firmly at court.]
Song Yaoyao: [I understand the reasoning.
But what about Zuo Shangtong himself?]
Guagua: [Host, do you know?
As a scholar from a poor family, what did Zuo Shangtong fear most?]
Song Yaoyao thought for a moment and said:
[In this life, people fear the very circumstances they come from most.
Zuo Shangtong was a scholar from a poor family. He was penniless, so poverty must have been his greatest fear.]
Guagua: [You're right, Host.
Poverty is what Zuo Shangtong fears most.
If he's poor, he has to change his circumstances, doesn't he?
How can he change them?
Zuo Shangtong is the Deputy Minister of War. There are only a few ways to make money in that position: trafficking weapons and selling official posts.]
Song Yaoyao: [I understand.
Trafficking weapons and selling official posts are serious matters. He couldn't manage that alone. He must have accomplices, right?]
Guagua: [For them to pull this off, not a single person in the Ministry of War, from top to bottom, could have clean hands.
They've all taken benefits, more or less!]
Song Yaoyao: [Heh, the entire Ministry of War is rotten from top to bottom.
The Second Prince probably doesn't know about this yet!
Guagua, print out the evidence. I'll deliver it to the Second Prince in a moment.
We absolutely cannot leave these people in office.
This is now territory of our Heavenly Phoenix Kingdom, and we'll be manufacturing weapons here in the future.
If we don't eliminate these scourges, and our fire lances and cannons