Xiao Jie suddenly came out to speak, and the civil and military officials in the palace who had been whispering to each other fell silent in an instant, and looked at Xiao Jie in puzzlement, wondering why Xiao Jie would jump out at this time.

Wang Chong and other royal party officials were a little nervous. After all, the Wang family had just sent a signal to the world. From now on, the Wang family would no longer support their grandson Xiao Jie, but their grandson-in-law Xiao Huang. Could it be that Xiao Jie wanted to make trouble out of revenge at this time?

"What did the emperor play?"

Xiao Ji still had a calm expression on his face and a flat tone, completely unable to distinguish between joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.

"Father, my subjects think what Lord Chen, Lord Yin, Lord Du and Lord Qiao said is very true." Xiao Jie set the tone for himself with the first sentence, he believed in Wang Cheng and supported the Wang Party.

A stone fell from Wang Chong's heart in an instant, and the officials of the royal party also secretly heaved a sigh of relief. It seems that His Royal Highness Qi still cared about his nephew's affection. Not only did he not make trouble at the critical moment, but he chose to defend his uncle.

Only Xiao Huang frowned slightly, telling him intuitively that Xiao Jie must not be helping Wang Cheng.

He is really a good grandson of the Wang family!

Xiao Ji was very angry in his heart, but there was no expression on his face, he just said lightly: "Really?"

Xiao Jie seemed completely unaware that he had annoyed his father, and continued to talk freely: "Wang Da Dudu is my uncle, and I believe that he will not do such a rebellious thing. Besides, my uncle has been sitting in the cool Zhou has made great contributions to the imperial court for many years, and the emperor found uncle guilty based on one-sided words, so wouldn't it make hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the border feel cold?"

Like a repeater, Xiao Jie repeated the words of Wang Dang and the others.

The members of the royal party were very excited, and they all echoed: "What His Royal Highness Qi Wang said is very true."

Seeing his son helping Wang Cheng in this way, Xiao Ji was even more annoyed. Just as he wanted Xiao Jie to back down, Xiao Jie suddenly raised his voice:

"However, since He Yushi is so sure, it must be true that Liangzhou has smuggled salt and iron to the barbarians, and it is definitely not just catching wind and shadows. But the Wang family is well-known to the world, and my uncle absolutely despises such small profits. According to Erchen, It must be that the generals below did what they did without telling Uncle, and I beg you to thoroughly investigate this matter and give Uncle justice."

Many officials of the royal party did not react, and continued to echo habitually: "I implore your majesty to thoroughly investigate this matter, and return the king's innocence."

Xiao Jie was waiting for this sentence.

Xiao Huang's complexion changed instantly, no good, he was tricked.

Originally, the focus of the question was whether there was such a thing as smuggling salt and iron, but now under Xiao Jie's guidance, the focus has become who is smuggling salt and iron to the barbarians.

Xiao Ji glanced strangely, and asked in a flat tone: "Then according to the emperor's opinion, how should we thoroughly investigate this matter?"

Xiao Jie smiled slightly: "Naturally, all the generals involved in He Yushi's memorial will be recalled to the capital, and the three divisions of the Ministry of Punishment, Yushitai and Dali Temple will interrogate and find out the truth of this matter."

The officials of the Royal Party were stunned for an instant.

Is it because I don't understand or the situation is changing too fast.

Isn't Xiao Jie trying to plead for mercy for his uncle Wang Cheng? Why did he want to thoroughly investigate Wang Cheng's generals in a blink of an eye?

But they really couldn't refute Xiao Jie, after all, they demanded a thorough investigation of the matter in the name of returning Wang Cheng's innocence.

If they deny that there is something wrong with the generals below, they are admitting that the problem lies with Wang Cheng.

If the fact that they insisted on smuggling salt and iron to the barbarians is nothing, why worry about the court's thorough investigation?

But if the court is allowed to pursue those generals, it is inevitable that they will pull out the carrots and bring out the mud, and finally implicate the matter on Wang Cheng.

Officials of the royal party found that they had fallen into a dead end, no matter how they went, it would be a dead end.

Wang Chong was bleeding with hatred in his heart, he watched Xiao Jie grow up, and he never imagined that Xiao Jie has become so deep in the city now, that even his own uncle was plotted against.

Wang Chong cast his eyes on Xiao Huang, after all he knew his brother Mo Ruo, he wanted to see if Xiao Huang could think of a good way to deal with Xiao Jie.

In fact, it was Wang Chong's intention for Xiao Huang to come to court today, the purpose was to let him integrate into the royal party as soon as possible, but he didn't expect that Wang Cheng was impeached and the whole royal party was in chaos, so Xiao Huang saw it as a joke.

Xiao Huang also noticed Wang Chong's gaze, but he could only secretly shake his head at Wang Chong, expressing that the current situation is unfavorable, and he can only take a long-term view.

Wang Chong also had some regrets in his heart. He knew that Xiao Jie was so scheming, so he shouldn't hastily abandon Xiao Jie to support Xiao Huang. It is obvious that Xiao Jie is much more difficult to deal with than Xiao Huang, but he forcibly pushed him to the opposite side of the Wang family. .

Xiao Huang was also very disturbed in his heart, he just thought that the court might use the generals below as a breakthrough to investigate this matter, he was still thinking about how to plug these loopholes, but he didn't want Xiao Jie to bring it up first.It caught him off guard, as if he had completely predicted what he was thinking.

No matter what, Wang Cheng must not have any accidents, otherwise his son-in-law will definitely be implicated.

Xiao Huang was also very dissatisfied in his heart, he originally wanted to use the power of the Wang family to cultivate and develop his own power secretly, but he did not expect that the Wang family was so useless, even such a deadly thing as smuggling salt and iron to barbarians could be so easily rejected. People found out that they were forced into a dead end by Xiao Jie casually.

Seeing Xiao Jie's prepared appearance now, Xiao Huang even suspected that everything was set up by Xiao Jie, first he made a clean break with the Wang family, and then found someone to come forward and report on Wang Cheng.

If Xiao Jie knew what Xiao Huang was thinking at this moment, he would definitely feel that he was more wronged than Dou E.

In fact, the tactic he is using now is exactly the tactic used by Xiao Huang to deal with Wang Cheng in the original book. Using Wang Cheng's generals as a breakthrough point, he verified the problem of Wang Cheng's smuggling of salt and iron to the Hu people in Mobei, and at the same time divided The relationship between Wang Cheng and other generals was aroused, and mutual suspicion between them was aroused. In the end, Wang Cheng rebelled and his generals turned against each other.

It's just that the feng shui has taken turns, and now Xiao Huang is on the side of the pig teammate, so don't blame the villain Xiao Jie for walking the way of the protagonist, leaving the protagonist with nowhere to go.

"What do you think about King Qi's proposal?"

Xiao Ji glanced at the officials in the palace and asked calmly.

All the members of the royal party lowered their heads, and no one dared to respond.

It was really difficult for them to respond. If they agreed with Xiao Jie's proposal, they were worried that they would eventually find out what's wrong with Wang Cheng through the generals involved.But if he opposed Xiao Jie's proposal, it would undoubtedly be admitting that Wang Cheng had a problem.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I think what His Royal Highness King Qi said is true, and the generals involved should be called back to Beijing, and the three divisions will investigate the matter and find out."

It was rare for He Yi to get the hang of it. He realized that calling Wang Cheng back to the capital was not realistic, and he also agreed to start the investigation from Wang Cheng's generals.

Xiao Ji nodded slightly: "In this case, according to King Qi's words, the generals involved will be summoned back to Beijing, and the Ministry of Punishment, Yushitai, and Dali Temple will conduct a joint trial to thoroughly investigate this matter. It is necessary to find out the truth. It's just..."

Xiao Ji paused for a moment, and his eyes fell on Xiao Jie: "The Ministry of Punishment, Yushitai, and Dali Temple are not under the jurisdiction of each other, and a presiding judge is needed to preside over this matter. Since King Qi proposed the joint trial of the three divisions, King Qi will do it." Take charge of this."

"My son leads the order!"

Xiao Jie knelt down to receive the decree, not surprised in his heart, after all, Xiao Huang was appointed as the presiding judge by his father because of proposing this trick in the original book, and finally suppressed Wang Cheng severely.

Cui Shi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, Shen Liang, the official censor, and Zhou Mu, Minister of Dali Temple, also knelt down to receive the order.

"I'm tired too, let's go."

The matter of the joint trial of the three divisions has been decided, and Xiao Ji directly announced the disbandment of the dynasty.

"Congratulations to the emperor!"

All the ministers bowed down to the mountain.

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