Chapter 380: Collusion
After King Cheng received the emperor's edict, he was extremely resistant in his heart.
He didn't want to go into the palace to see the emperor, but now he was just a courtier, and he couldn't disobey the emperor's will......
However, he was worried that the emperor might have other conspiracies when he announced his entry this time, so before entering the palace, he made some special arrangements.
After King Cheng went to the imperial study, he found that not only Wang Gongzi was kneeling in front of the emperor, but even Xiao Hanyin, who had been missing for most of the month, was among them.
He has been missing for so long, King Cheng thought that he was too lucky to come back, but he stood in front of him alive, and a glimmer of light flashed in King Cheng's eyes.
This time, the emperor asked him to come, obviously it was a Hongmen banquet, and he was afraid that it would be impossible for him to leave......
"I announced that you came here this time to ask you something!" The emperor saw through the vigilance in his heart.
"Your Majesty asks, the minister must know everything and say everything!" King Cheng's eyes darkened.
He knew that it would definitely be no good for the emperor to come over with him, but since they were all here, he could only deal with it calmly.
Whoever made the other party the emperor was the emperor, and he was just a king with a different surname.
"Come on, bring the father and son of the Wang family up!" The emperor waved his hand.
"Yes!" The confidant eunuch beside him, after hearing his order, immediately walked out and ordered someone to bring in the father and son of the Wang family who had been waiting outside the study.
When King Cheng heard the word Wang, his eyes quickly crossed a fierce color.
He thought that the emperor did not dispose of their father and son, but wanted to make an example of the chickens and monkeys, so that those officials who secretly befriended him would be restrained, but he didn't expect that he would still want to try to use their father and son to calculate himself.
However, although the Wang family has cooperated with him, very few people know about their relationship.
If the emperor had obtained evidence, he would have been punished before.
Now, he brought the Wang family father and son over, probably just to ask some clues from his mouth.
The person who King Cheng is most worried about at the moment is not the father and son of the Wang family, but Xiao Hanyin, who fled back to the imperial city.
He didn't know how many secrets Xiao Hanyin had heard that day, and he had been restless about it all these days.
Xiao Hanyin's existence threatens his life at any time, and King Cheng wants to get rid of him more than the Wang family's father and son.
However, Xiao Hanyin and Liu Qingshao are not ordinary people, and they have avoided him several times.
This time, his subordinates almost caught Xiao Hanyin, but in the end, he escaped.
He has outstanding martial arts, and he is very calm and self-controlled, rarely showing flaws, his only weakness and backlash is his wife, but Liu Qingshao is also a difficult character to deal with.
Although she is just a woman, there are many masters around her, and she is very cautious when she goes out on weekdays, Cheng Wang has tried several methods, but he can't successfully catch Liu Qingshao, and he only did it when Xiao Hanyin was away.
Now, Xiao Hanyin is back, Liu Qingshao has his support, and the husband and wife are not short of property and power, and it is really difficult to be ruthless......
"The father and son of the Wang family accuse you of forming a party for personal gain, colluding with dissidents and attempting rebellion!" The emperor looked at Cheng Wangdao.
"The minister's loyalty to the court can be revealed, how can he plot against him!" King Cheng was dyed with a trace of anger in his heart, but his face was very calm.
At this time, whenever he shows the slightest hint of annoyance, he will let others make a fuss in secret.
"Your Majesty, King Cheng is lying, he secretly has a lot of private soldiers, and he doesn't dare to let people know, and the grass people only learned about it after they inadvertently heard some news in his mansion!" Wang Gongzi directly refuted his lies.
He was bent on seeking the throne, so how could he not prepare in advance......
King Cheng has no military power in his hands, and the emperor has always distrusted him, and if he wants to have a place in the imperial city, he must rely on his own means.
In fact, before King Cheng came back, he had business dealings with the Wang family.
However, at that time, they were bent on climbing the high branches, and they trampled on the soles of their feet the Helian family that had suppressed them, and they didn't think too much about it.
When King Cheng came back to find their father and son in private, they realized that the other party had already had other ideas.
At that time, the father and son of the Wang family privately disagreed with this matter.
Today's saint can be regarded as a wise monarch, although he is suspicious by nature, but Jiangshan Sheji has always been stable under his governance.
The people are still able to feed themselves, so in their hearts, they don't want anyone to worry about the position that does not belong to him.
However, at that time, they were already involved with King Cheng, and it was impossible to get out of the way.
"Presumptuous, how can such a rebellious thing be said indiscriminately!" King Cheng glanced at the other party with dark eyes.
He didn't know if the Wang family really had his own handle in his hands, but now he could only deny it.
As for the father and son of the Wang family, when this matter is over, they must have no place to be buried.
"Your Majesty, what the grass people said is true, and King Cheng has had a heart of disobedience very early!" Wang Gongzi knew very well in his heart that whether he could survive or not was all in the emperor's thoughts.
Previously, the emperor made an excuse at random, so he copied the Wang family, and at the same time secretly imprisoned their father and son in a black prison.
The people who guarded them during this period were all the emperor's henchmen, and the father and son, who had been pampered since childhood, tried the taste of not being able to survive but not to die. 12
Their previous lives were so smooth that they didn't expect the change to come so quickly.
"Presumptuous, I am the king with a different surname who was personally appointed by the first emperor, and I am hereditary, I am already above 10,000 people under one person, what is there to be dissatisfied!" King Cheng insisted that it was the father and son of the Wang family who were framing him, "Please ask Your Majesty to make the decision for the minister, after the minister returned to the imperial city, he has always adhered to his duty and has never done anything unfavorable to the court!" ”
King Cheng cleverly avoided the rebellion.
He knew that the reason why the father and son of the Wang family testified against themselves was completely at the behest of the emperor.
"Your Majesty, King Cheng raised soldiers privately in the house in the suburbs, and Wechen saw it with his own eyes, so King Cheng deliberately sent someone to hunt down and kill Wechen!" In fact, Xiao Hanyin didn't see it, but it was very likely that the secret room was an underground passage.
King Cheng took advantage of that tunnel to secretly raise a lot of killers and dead soldiers outside, which their husband and wife knew from the Wang family.
After learning this news, Xiao Hanyin proposed to use the Wang family's father and son to force King Cheng to mess up.
"Lord Xiao, you said that I kept soldiers in captivity, do you have any evidence?" King Cheng's eyes lit up.
He thought that Xiao Hanyin hadn't heard anything, but he didn't expect him to know the secret of his house.
failed to kill Xiao Hanyin this time, it was indeed his mistake.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so passive.
However, for now, he can only deny it to the end.
"Wechen is the proof!" Xiao Han glanced at the other party indifferently and said.
"We have always been at odds, this is a fact that everyone knows, you are clearly deliberately framed in front of the emperor!" Cheng Wang argued with reason.
"King Cheng, those things you did in private, Xia Guan once heard you mention it to your personal entourage!" Xiao Hanyin continued to press step by step.
"Please Your Majesty, Xiao Hanyin and the Wang family's father and son teamed up to frame Yu Chen, everything they said was false!" King Cheng immediately retorted.
"That's enough, don't talk about it!" The emperor rubbed his eyebrows with a headache and said, "I have heard what you said, and you want to sue the king, but there is other evidence!" ”
"The Wang family and King Cheng have always been close, the words of their father and son must be true, and Weichen can also testify!" Xiao Han glanced at King Cheng with a faint smile, and he looked like he was holding the chance to win, which made his face sink immediately.
"Your Majesty, they deliberately colluded to frame the ministers, don't believe what they say!" King Cheng was anxious, but there was no discoloration on his face.
"If Weichen has half a lie, let King Cheng dispose of it!" Although he deliberately added fuel and vinegar in this matter.
However, the truth of the matter is roughly the same as what he said, and he is not deceiving and expiring the emperor.
The emperor interrogated the father and son of the Wang family, they didn't know much, and they had already been recruited under the punishment of not being able to endure the punishment.
At that time, the emperor originally planned to send their father and son to the bitter cold land of the frontier, so that they could slowly experience the feeling that life was worse than death in the future.
Now, he had completely changed his mind, and instead of torturing them, he would do the best of it.
The father and son of the Wang family failed to come up with evidence, and King Cheng was too cautious, and he didn't trust anyone at all except his henchmen.
Even the father and son of the Wang family, who secretly gave him a lot of property, are the same.
King Cheng denied their accusations, because he knew very well in his heart that Xiao Hanyin and the Wang family's father and son had no other useful evidence at all except that they could testify themselves.
However, he thought about everything, but he didn't expect that this was a game set up by the emperor and Xiao Hanyin, and it was for him......
"There is insufficient evidence for this matter, and you are not allowed to mention it again in the future!" The emperor glanced at King Cheng and said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for administering justice to your ministers!" He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, it is a fact that you once competed with me for the throne, and Xiao Hanyin and the Wang family's father and son both urged at the same time, I have lost trust in you!" According to the plan discussed with Xiao Hanyin before, the emperor directly stated that he did not like him.
Both of them knew this matter in their hearts, and since this was the case, there was no need for him to pretend.
He simply revealed everything and saw how the king would respond.
"What does Your Majesty want Weichen to do?" He looked slightly stunned.
King Cheng really didn't expect that the emperor would bluntly say his distrust of himself.
"There is no place for you in the imperial city, if you have nothing to do, take your wife and children back to Jiangnan!" The emperor sighed.
He didn't leave a way out for King Cheng at all.
Today, the Imperial City is still his place, and he has the final say in everything.
If King Cheng wants to stay, he must pass this hurdle......
"Your Majesty, in the years that the minister has left the imperial city, he has missed this very much, so he decided to move back with his wife and children, and the minister's loyalty to the emperor can be seen by the sun and the moon!" King Cheng immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Please take back your majesty's life!" ”
He had gone back to the Imperial City with great difficulty, and now that he had not had time to do anything, he wanted to send him away, how could it be so easy.
Jiangshan Sheji was originally his, if he hadn't given up directly due to various reasons, he would be the one sitting on the dragon chair today.
King Cheng was about to hate Xiao Hanyin and the Wang family's father and son to death, if they hadn't come out to stir up the situation, things wouldn't have turned out like this at all.
It's a pity that the emperor has already spoken, even if he doesn't want to in his heart, he can only kneel and beg the emperor not to force him to leave.