Transmigrated into the book to become the villain prince, the son of the plane to destroy

Changning Palace, Qinzheng Palace.

"Long live, long live, my emperor."

All civil and military officials bowed down together, and the mountain shouted long live.

"Everyone loves to be flat."

Xiao Ji's face is full of happiness now, and the sadness of the previous days has long been swept away. The discerning officials knew that there must be something good to announce at the court meeting today.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

All the officials worshiped again, then got up, left Wen and right Wu divided into two shifts.

The emperor pays attention to not showing his emotions and anger, but today Xiao Ji did not hide the joy on his face at all, and said with a smile: "I have a great news for you today, Lian Yi, come and read it." The memorial reported by Jingzhou Inspector Wang Dan."

Lian Yi, the internal servant, took out a memorial from his sleeve, and Lian Yi's sharp voice echoed in the entire hall.

Wang Dan’s memorial was very long. At the beginning, there was a long paragraph exaggerating the seriousness of the locust plague, the misery of the people, and the worries of the officials in Jingzhou. Then he changed the subject, relying on His Majesty’s holiness, and made seven measures to cure locusts in the world. , with the joint efforts of all their colleagues in Jingzhou, they worked together as one, and finally wiped out the locust plague completely, and returned the people of Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, and Yangzhou to a bright future.

The officials in the palace were in an uproar for a moment, and one after another came out to congratulate Xiao Ji, singing praises of Xiao Ji's merits and virtues in words, praising the sageness of the emperor, and saving the people from the fire.

It's just that many officials of the royal party lowered their heads deeply, for fear that their colleagues would see their bitter faces. The plague of locusts that were dismissed from office was eliminated immediately, so the locust plague was confirmed, but it was a warning to all officials to lose their morals. How could Prime Minister Wang return to his post? If the Royal Party did not have the support of Prime Minister Wang, would it still be the Royal Party?

Sitting high on the dragon chair, Xiao Ji had a clear view of the hall, and the reaction of the officials was that they had a panoramic view, and they already had a calculation in their hearts.

He clearly sent Qi Wang Xiao Jie as an imperial envoy to the south of the Yangtze River to fight off the locust plague, but now Wang Dan keeps silent about Xiao Jie's contribution in the memorial, and all the ministers in the palace are deliberately pretending to be stupid, really thinking that Xiao Ji is easy to fool !

"The plague of locusts is rampant and has harmed the people a lot. Now that they have been culled, it is a great joy, but there is one thing I don't know." Xiao Ji smiled, but the conversation suddenly changed, "I clearly sent Qi Wang Xiao Jie, as an imperial envoy, went to the south of the Yangtze River to fight off the locust plague, so others are in Xiangyang City, but why did Wang Qing's family never mention it in the memorial to Qi Wang?"

All the ministers in the palace were silent at once, they were able to join the Qinzheng Palace, all of them are naturally good people, they may not be surprised why Wang Dan didn't mention anything about Xiao Jie, who is an imperial envoy, in the memorial. Now the king of Qi and the royal party are in the same situation, to stand up for the king of Qi is to make trouble with the royal party, they don't have much friendship with Xiao Jie, so there is no need to offend the royal party for him.

After all, even though Wang Chong has resigned from the position of prime minister, the royal party still has a lot of followers in the court, and its power has not weakened much.

Chen Chi, a member of Zhongshushe, came out. Now that Wang Chong has resigned, he is not a high-ranking Zhongshushe, but he has naturally become the backbone of the royal party and Wang Chong's spokesperson in the court.

"Your Majesty, I have this report. I heard that His Royal Highness King Qi went to the south of the Yangtze River to control the locust plague, but he hangs out with Qingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the military camp outside Xiangyang every day, and he doesn't care about the locust plague. What's more. What's more, some people saw that His Royal Highness King Qi was flaunting around with a woman all day long..."

When Chen Chi said this, all the officials were in an uproar, and they turned their attention to Su Jing, Xiao Jie's father-in-law Yushi Zhongcheng.

Su Jing's face was livid, he naturally knew that his daughter Su Yao was pregnant, because Xiao Jie was not in Luoyang, and his wife Shen went to the Qi Palace to take care of her daughter.

But now that the concubine is pregnant, Xiao Jie is ambiguous with other women in Xiangyang. For a while, he doesn't know whether to hate Xiao Jie for being confused, or come out to defend Xiao Jie.

"Chen Qing's family is in Luoyang, so they know everything about Xiangyang City thousands of miles away." Xiao Ji's face was calm, but his words were quite playful.

Chen Chi was not in a hurry, since he dared to stand up and expose Xiao Jie's scandal, he naturally thought of his speech in advance: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have an old relationship with Li Zhen, the prefect of Nanjun. Unable to see it anymore, I sent a letter to inform the minister, and the minister was also upset, determined to expose the matter to His Majesty, so that His Majesty would not be kept in the dark."

Xiao Ji smiled coldly: "Then I really have to thank Chen Qing's family. It just so happened that King Qi also gave me a memorial. Lian Yi, please read it to all your lovers, and let them listen to it. What did you do in Jiangnan!"

Lian Yi, the internal servant at the side, took out another memorial from his sleeve, and then the whole hall echoed with Lian Yi's sharp voice again.

Compared with the lengthy memorial of Wang Dan, the governor of Jingzhou, Xiao Jie's memorial only introduced in detail how he used the method of treating locusts with pox poison to extinguish the plague of locusts.In addition, Xiao Jie also said one more thing, that is, as soon as he arrived in Xiangyang City as an imperial envoy, Wang Dan, the governor of Jingzhou, went down to Qian Ke, the county magistrate of Xiangyang. , He also learned about the locust plague in Jingzhou from Zhao Feng.

As soon as Xiao Jie's memorial was finished, all the officials were in an uproar again, with different expressions, some with emotion, some with admiration, and some with helplessness.

Chen Chi screamed in his heart that it was not good, if it was true as Xiao Jie said in the memorial, not only did he have nothing to do but he had a great contribution, and his own accusations against him would instantly turn into slander against him.

Xiao Ji got up from the dragon chair, glanced at the officials in the hall, his face was a little moved, and his high-pitched voice echoed throughout the hall: "As a prince, King Qi has a respectable status, but he cares about the suffering of the people. The locust plague, the princess was clearly pregnant, but he resolutely went to Jiangnan for the sake of the people of the world."

"Smallpox is so dangerous, but he doesn't care about his own safety, just to wipe out the locust plague with pox poison and restore the peace of the people. I am proud of having this son."

"As for what Chen Qing's family said about him and a woman ostentatiously passing through the market, I have already sent Jingzhou Qilin Guards to verify that the woman is the daughter of the Tao family and is responsible for assisting King Qi in handling and transporting more than 100 million shi of grain donated by the Tao family. .”

Xiao Ji's words were so impassioned that all the officials in the palace bowed their heads and felt ashamed to be inferior to King Qi.

But in fact, Xiao Ji was also a little emotional in his heart. He finally understood why his son was in the imperial study that day, why he refused to say the final locust control strategy no matter what.

Smallpox is something everyone hears about, and they are afraid to avoid it, but he did not hesitate to risk himself in order to extinguish the locust plague. This is so commendable.

Xiao Ji saw that all the officials in the palace bowed their heads in silence, even Chen Chi, who had just stepped forward to accuse Xiao Jie, was embarrassed and speechless, and couldn't help but secretly sneered, and then said:

"King Qi mentioned a county magistrate named Zhao Feng in the memorial, and it happened that he also had a memorial to me. Lian Yi, please read it again."

Chen Chi suddenly felt bad. Although he didn't know what Zhao Feng would say in the memorial, he was sure that Zhao Feng must have taken refuge in Xiao Jie.

According to the laws of Daning, Beijing officials of the fourth rank and above and local officials of the third rank and above are eligible to submit directly to Zhe Mianjun. Officials who are lower than the above-mentioned ranks and do not have the right to submit a memorial to the emperor can submit a memorial to the emperor through the imperial court. The Shitai or the temple supervisors of various ministries and the governors of various states played.This is why the prefect of Changsha County had to go through Wang Dan, the governor of Jingzhou, to report his victory.

Zhao Feng is just a small eighth-rank county magistrate, far from being qualified to specialize in commemorating affairs, but now that his memorials can reach heaven, there is only one possibility, and that is Xiao Jie's gang who is an imperial envoy. He submitted it to the emperor.

Although Zhao Feng was only a small county magistrate, he stayed in Xiangyang City for a long time. Presumably he knew a lot about the inside story of the Jingzhou officialdom. If he took refuge in Xiao Jie, the entire Jingzhou officialdom would be shaken.

When Chen Chi was uneasy, Lian Yi, the internal servant, had already started to read Zhao Feng's memorial in his shrill voice.

Zhao Feng's memorial was not long, but only revealed one thing, that is, when Qi Wang Xiao Jie arrived at Xiangyang Wharf, he went up to Jingzhou Inspector Wang Dan and went down to Xiangyang County Magistrate Qian Ke was not really sick, but was in Xiangyang City. Zuixianglou is having fun with prostitutes, so he has no time to go to the pier to meet King Qi...

All the officials were in an uproar again, and many officials showed indignation. In the current locust plague, Jingzhou officials are all looking for fun in the brothel. Such a scandal has never been heard in Daning for decades since the founding of the country.

This is no longer dereliction of duty, it is simply blatantly treating the life and death of the people like nothing.

Chen Chi also complained endlessly, he didn't know about this matter, and he secretly scolded Wang Dan for being extremely stupid in his heart, he knew that Wang Dan wanted to give Xiao Jie a blow when he first arrived in Xiangyang, and wanted to embarrass Xiao Jie, but the problem was that Why don't you just pretend to be sick in the mansion? Why do you organize a group of officials to go to the brothel to drink flowers and wine.

Now Zhao Feng's memorial is clearly instructed by Xiao Jie, never mentioning that Wang Dan's purpose is to embarrass Xiao Jie, who is an imperial envoy, and insists that Wang Dan and others are just looking for fun and ignore the locust plague Ask, disregarding the life and death of the people.

It is not a felony for an official to have sex with prostitutes in Daning, at most it is misconduct, but if there is a catastrophe, everything will be different.

"Chen Qing's family, Li Zhen, the prefect of Nanjun, keeps saying that King Qi is indifferent to the locust plague. Is this how he manages the locust plague himself?" Xiao Ji coldly called Chen Chi's name.

Now that things have happened, Chen Chi has no better way, and he dare not argue or refute, so he can only insist: "Your Majesty, I think there may be something strange about this matter, so I can't just listen to a county magistrate."

Xiao Ji seemed to have expected that Chen Chi would say this, snorted coldly, and said, "Of course I will order the Qilin Guards in Jingzhou to investigate this matter, and the truth will naturally come to light by then. Let's stop here for today's court meeting. towards!"

"Retreat!"

Lian Yi, the internal servant, announced the end of today's court meeting with his own sharp voice.

Chen Chi still stood there blankly, and the royal party in the palace surrounded him one after another, chattering and frowning.

They all knew in their hearts that if Wang Dan's affair with prostitutes was confirmed, it would inevitably be a major earthquake for the entire Jingzhou officialdom, and it was possible that the Wang family's power that had been rooted in Jingzhou for many years would be uprooted.

This will be another catastrophe for the royal party after Wang Chong was dismissed due to the locust plague.