Chapter 199: The rightful King of Wei
Inside the Fengtian Temple, it was unusually quiet.
The unrelated palace maids and eunuchs have been removed a long time ago, and those present are all important people.
In the face of the emperor's questioning, King Wei also wanted to pretend to be unaware of it.
"You say!" Xiao Ping said coldly.
"Why don't you dare to speak, dare to do it?"
King Wei shuddered, he felt the wrath of the Son of Heaven, the panic brought by that majesty was really ordinary Nanbi.
"Erchen doesn't know where to start, Erchen has wronged his father!"
King Wei naturally would not admit it.
Whether it is colluding with courtiers, buying people's hearts, or colluding with businessmen to smuggle crimes, the common people are ...... None of this is a good thing.
Once he sits down, he is naturally an immoral person, and he is not worthy of the virtues of the prince.
For a prince, if the crown prince is not established, then he must have a virtuous appearance, even if it is pretended.
"Wronged?"
Xiao Pingsi pointed to the confession on the imperial case: "The long history of your mansion, but it has been recruited, do you really want me to send troops to copy your palace, and you will confess only when you get the evidence?" β
Hearing this, King Wei shuddered again.
When things came to this point, he naturally knew that it would be difficult to escape, but luck made him reluctant to admit it at the first time.
But if you don't admit it, something will really happen, and your majesty has not done anything like copying the prince's mansion.
Xiao Luoye and King Qi are very experienced in this.
"Father, father......" King Wei looked up, his face panicked.
Xiao Pingsi said: "You have been hiding deeply over the years, I have noticed King Qin, guarded against Xiao Luoye, and by the way, I also kept an eye on King Qi...... But I only ignored you, I didn't expect you, a wolf with ambition, to do such nonsense! β
King Wei swallowed his saliva: "Father, the son has nothing to ...... Big mistake......"
He said: "Compared with the King of Qin, the sons and daughters have not disturbed the court and usurped the dictatorship, but they are only familiar with the courtiers. β
"Compared with Xiao Luoye, Erchen did not make friends with military attachΓ©s with real power, and he did not have the heart to make trouble."
"And the king of Qi is vicious, excluding dissidents by unscrupulous means, and his ministers have not followed suit......"
King Wei was aggrieved: "My father is responsible, and my son shouldn't have forcibly defended, but my son really can't understand why his father is so angry?" β
He felt wronged, and indeed seemed to be very wronged.
Because compared with several other princes who had accidents, King Wei felt that he had not overdone it.
"Huh?" The people present who heard King Wei's words were suddenly a little surprised.
Doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with it?
As a prince, if you are a little ambitious, you will also make friends with courtiers. And if you want to have a career, you have to have money to do something, and it makes sense to make friends with some businessmen.
Sounds like that's right.
"Yoh?"
When Xiao Pingsi heard this, he laughed angrily: "You can compare, compared with your brothers, you really seem to be very responsible." β
"But that's all you do?"
As he spoke, Xiao Pingsi patted the confession on the royal case.
"I'm embarrassed to say all these things that your long history has explained, but you have done it all, and you still pick and choose to explain, thinking that you can fool the past?"
King Wei shrunk his neck.
He hadn't seen that confession, and of course he didn't know what Changshi confessed, so he had to pick some irrelevant confessions first.
Glancing at the palace chief Shi who was also kneeling behind him, King Wei glared at him.
You turtle son, what have you explained?!
"Bump!"
Xiao Pingsi slapped the case and scolded: "Do you still want to confess in front of me?" β
"Say! Explain it to me clearly, but if there is one less crime in the confession, I will immediately issue an order to deprive you of the position of prince, remove you from the royal family tree, and demote you back to Wei to be a commoner! β
"Your Majesty think twice!" Hearing this, Wang Feng immediately soothed the emperor's heart.
Zhuge Qingshan also Mo Yuan also said in unison: "Your Majesty is angry." β
It is extremely rare for a prince to be expelled.
There had been before, but it was a rebellion by the prince, and the emperor couldn't bear to kill him, so he demoted him to a commoner.
In addition, there has never been a second case in the history of Xia Kingdom.
The few people present knew His Majesty very well and knew that he would never easily move such a big liver fire.
I immediately understood in my heart that I was afraid that what this King Wei had done would be more excessive than the previous princes who had fallen off the horse.
couldn't help but be a little interested, Zhuge Qingshan was also a little interested, after all, he hadn't read the confession that Xie Qi gave to His Majesty.
His Royal Highness King Wei, what have you done...... Zhuge Qingshan looked deeply at King Wei.
King Wei, kneeling in the middle of the main hall, was even more panicked.
Hearing His Majesty's words, he still didn't understand, Changshi's thing, I was afraid that he had already explained it clearly.
Otherwise, His Majesty would not have been so angry that he threatened to degrade himself to the status of a commoner.
Immediately, there was no luck, he slammed his head on the ground and cried: "Father forgives ...... sins"
Seeing that King Wei finally confessed, Xiao Pingsi calmed down a little bit of anger, and said in a suppressed voice: "Say, in addition to forming a party for personal gain and colluding with businessmen, what else have you done?" β
King Wei lowered his head, not daring to look at his father on the dragon chair, buried his head and opened his mouth, telling his crimes one by one.
From the moment he opened his mouth to the time he finished speaking, the sound of gasping cold air in the Fengtian Hall came and went.
Because of some of the things King Wei said, even Zhuge Qingshan couldn't remember how many years ago the last case was.
"Huh...... You're being honest. β
After listening, Xiao Pingsi said coldly: "Fish and flesh people, rob people's daughters, buy internal prisons, monitor the harem, block disaster relief, raise food prices, meddle in the cabinet, filter the ......"
"You really have the ability to raise your person to the position of a cabinet scholar, I really underestimate you...... Among the princes, you have such a ability! β
"When I was a prince, I couldn't do this."
Xiao Pingsi's praise was a serious compliment, but King Wei failed to make good use of this ability.
Li Xiuxian ...... "Zhuge Qingshan was also very surprised.
When he heard King Wei say that he had also installed someone in the cabinet, and this person was Li Xiuxian, Zhuge Qingshan was really frightened.
Because in the cabinet, in addition to him, the first assistant, the most famous is Li Xiuxian, a cabinet scholar.
It can be called the second-in-command.
With such a person in the cabinet, it is no wonder that the emperor and himself did not know about the things that King Wei did.
Whoever dares to make an excerpt will be immediately pressed by Li Xiuxian, and then the person who wrote the excerpt will die. In the long run, naturally no one dares to say that King Wei is not good at all.
So much so that even his first assistant thought that King Wei really didn't do anything, so he was so innocent all along.
Not to mention Your Majesty, he has no way of knowing these inside stories.
"My cabinet, you actually control most of it, and you have seen all the folds that the cabinet can let me see, you have seen it for me first, it's really hard!"
"Even an old minister like Xia Song, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has long been on your side...... Hehe, if I hadn't personally mastered the forbidden army, I'm afraid you would have driven me off the dragon chair, right? β
"The son has no such intention, father!" King Wei was stunned, there was murderous aura hidden in these words!
Disrupting the dynasty and controlling the military power, this is already the integration of civil and military, and it is almost justified!
Xiao Pingsi's most annoyed thing is this, he has been deceived by his son for so long.
If it weren't for Mo Yuan, the world's number one master, who was personally in charge of the forbidden army, King Wei really couldn't put a powerful person in, so this dragon chair would really have to be sat by another person.
And the forbidden army is the most important force in the capital!
The person who controls the forbidden army can overthrow the world at any time, so any generation of emperors will never allow any unclear position in the forbidden army.
"Your Majesty, the forbidden army will never be at the mercy of anyone!" Seeing this, Mo Yuan assured.
Xiao Pingsi nodded, the ones he trusted most were Mo Yuan and Wang Feng, as well as Zhuge Qingshan, the first assistant of the cabinet.
Today, these three people are here, and he also wants the three of them to be more vigilant, lest King Wei's affairs be a double success.
"Father, the son has never thought of it like this!" King Wei kowtowed again and again, and his forehead had already been broken.
But no one felt sorry for him, and everyone present was afraid.
"No wonder ......"
Suddenly, Zhuge Qingshan thought of something: "Xia Shangshu's previous incident against the young master can be explained when I think about it." β
Wang Feng nodded slightly.
Xiao Pingsi also said: "Li Xiuxian was worried that the young master would take his position in the future, so he thought about cleaning up the young master first, but he didn't expect that he didn't even study the law clearly, so he rashly shot at the young master. β
"Xia Song, and this Xia Song, has been pretending to be an idle cloud and wild crane, but unexpectedly, he has already bet on the prince!"
Speaking of this, Xiao Pingsi gritted his teeth.
For the emperor, the most unforgivable thing is that the military attachΓ© with real power under his command is implicated in the prince who is competing for the crown.
And Xia Song was not just implicated, but had long been deeply involved, according to the confession of the governor of the Wei Palace, the benefits conveyed by the King of Wei to Xia Song exceeded his ten lifetimes!