The next day.

Outside the gate of the palace, hundreds of soldiers from Zhongdu Guantuli armed with swords, swords, bows and crossbows surrounded the entire palace, as if not a single fly would fly out.

Xiao Jue stood under the steps of the palace, looked playfully, and looked in the direction of the gate coldly.

The Wang family has controlled the Daning government for so many years, and recently they have repeatedly designed to frame Seventh Brother. It is time to settle the old hatred and the new hatred.

The entire Wang family felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Although many family members stood at the door with weapons in their hands, they still couldn't help feeling terrified when they looked at the wolves and tigers outside the gate.

Although the power of the Wang family in the court has plummeted since the patriarch Wang Chong was forced to resign, the Wang family of Langya is still one of the most powerful families in the world. First time.

All of a sudden, many nearby people stopped to watch, whispering, pointing, and discussing, wondering what happened to the Wang family, and they were besieged by the officials and apprentices of the Central Capital.

At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly said loudly, could it be related to the murder case in Zhuangyuanju yesterday?

Everyone listened to it, and all of them were imaginative. After all, everyone had heard about the grievances between the prince Xiao Jie and the Wang family. If it was said who did not want the prince Xiao Jie to become emperor, the Wang family would definitely bear the brunt.

Some even thought that no matter how impatiently Prince Xiao Jie wanted to ascend the throne, he would not fall into the trap of others. Could it be that someone framed Rui Zhao's incident to slander his reputation, ruin his image in the hearts of the world, and cause The subjects of the world were dissatisfied with him, thus preventing him from ascending the throne as emperor.

At this moment, there was a commotion inside the gate, and the servants automatically dispersed to both sides, and then the master Wang Chong walked out from the gate, looking at the officials and apprentices of Zhongdu holding a sword outside the gate, and then at Xiao Jue with a playful face, He couldn't help snorting coldly: "His Royal Highness King Wu is so majestic. Although the old man is white now, I don't know which national law our royal family has violated. I am sorry to ask your Sili Xiaowei's mansion to send so many people to besiege our palace. "

Xiao Jue didn't speak, just waved his hand, and two Zhongdu officials and apprentices immediately escorted a person forward, and the sharp-eyed person recognized that this person was the one who blatantly killed people in the name of Xiao Jie in Zhuangyuanju yesterday Warrior.

Xiao Jue didn't look at Wang Chong either, but just looked at the shivering warrior kneeling on the ground, and asked calmly, "Tell me everything you know honestly, and you can save your life."

The warrior glanced at Xiao Jue with a fearful look, then looked at Wang Chong, gritted his teeth suddenly, and said loudly to Xiao Jue: "His Royal Highness, the Wang family ordered me to do it. They gave me 100 taels of gold, if I want to kill a person who speaks ill of the prince in public, and then report the name of the prince, the people in the government dare not do anything to me."

As soon as these words came out, the onlookers were in an uproar, and many of them nodded inwardly, their guess was really good, after all, the Wang family most wanted to prevent the crown prince Xiao Jie from ascending the throne.

"It's a bunch of nonsense!" Seeing the reaction of the onlookers, Wang Chong couldn't help being furious, pointing at the warriors on the ground and yelling, "My Wang family has always been strict in family style, and the children of the Wang family never dare to violate the laws of the country. ...Since you said that our royal family ordered you to kill, you have evidence."

In fact, Wang Chong knew very well that he just sent people to smear Xiao Jie everywhere in Luoyang City with the help of Ruizhao, because he was sure that Xiao Jie would not dare to do anything to these Confucian scholars even if he knew that he did it, after all, once they were killed These Confucian scholars, on the contrary, will only confirm that they have ghosts in their hearts.

It's just that Wang Chong didn't expect that Xiao Jie was far more ruthless than he imagined. He actually asked someone to kill one of the Confucian scholars in public, and finally poured the murderous sewage on their Wang family, which made him unable to argue.

Although he also knew that Xiao Jie did not have enough evidence to accuse the Wang family of murder, but he saw the reaction of the people watching and knew that Xiao Jie's goal had been achieved, and many people had begun to suspect that the Wang family was manipulating everything behind the scenes.

Sure enough, seeing Wang Chong getting angry, Xiao Jue remained calm, just smiled and said: "Patriarch Wang, don't get angry, I have no other intentions, but since this person has testified against the Wang family, our Sili Xiaowei's mansion will naturally bring someone If the Wang family did not do this, I will return the Wang family's innocence."

Wang Chongqiang suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a cold voice: "Since His Royal Highness King Wu has finished the confrontation, please take people away as soon as possible, and don't surround our palace, so as not to affect the century-old reputation of our Langya Wang family."

Xiao Jue shook his head, and said with a half-smile: "Patriarch Wang, please be safe and don't be impatient. Besides confronting me in person today, I also want to ask the Wang family to cooperate. Don't make things difficult for us, Sili Xiaowei's mansion."

Wang Chong looked at the playful Xiao Jue, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, but he still pretended to be calm, and said coldly: "I don't know what His Royal Highness Wu wants our Wang family to cooperate with."

Xiao Jue's complexion changed suddenly, and he said coldly: "I hope your Wang family can hand over Wang Wei, the traitor who slandered His Highness the Crown Prince."

The onlookers were once again in an uproar, wondering if they had heard something wrong.

After all, who doesn't know Wang Wei, he is a great Confucian in the world, how could he be involved in this matter.

Wang Chong also couldn't believe his ears. Before he came out to meet Xiao Jue, he thought of [-] ways the other party could deal with the Wang family, and even thought that Xiao Jue would take him away in public to humiliate the Wang family.

But he really didn't expect that Xiao Jue would actually come to arrest his younger brother Wang Wei. You must know that he is a famous scholar in the world, and many officials in the court are his students. Even the emperor once called him to give lectures in the palace...

"Absurd, my younger brother Wang Wei is a master of a generation. No one in the world knows his talent and character. If he slanders the crown prince, how can anyone believe it!" Wang Chong was really angry, his eyes were terribly gloomy.

He has been a prime minister for many years, and he has accumulated an aura of calmness and self-prestige. Now that he is angry, the majesty exuding from his whole body makes people dare not look directly at him.

But Xiao Jue didn't avoid his gaze at all, just took out a piece of paper and a book from his bosom, and asked with a sneer: "Patriarch Wang might as well take a look at these two things, you will naturally understand whether I have wronged Wang Wei or not?" .”

Wang Chong snatched the paper and books from Xiao Jue's hands, and just glanced at them, feeling that the world was spinning and he was almost unsteady.

On the paper are written six seal characters of "Xiao Jiedang is the Son of Heaven", and the book is "Qin Zhuan Kao" written by his younger brother Wang Wei.

Back then he wondered who was responsible for the stone stele in Nanshi, and wondered if Xiao Huang's people were secretly cooperating with their Wang family to further tarnish Xiao Jie's reputation...

But now, he finally understood that it was Xiao Jie who was calling for the thief to catch the thief, and his purpose was to put the blame on Wang Wei, who was proficient in Qin Zhuan in the Wang family.

Although he has already figured everything out, Wang Chong can only continue to say stubbornly: "I am saying once again, my brother is a great Confucian in the world, and he will never do such a dirty thing. You can't suspect him of slandering the prince with just a piece of paper."

The smile on Xiao Jue's face became colder: "Our evidence is more than just this piece of paper. I have already sent someone to verify it. The giant tortoise, the silk book and the jade jade are also written in Wang Wei's handwriting."

Wang Chong was bleeding with hatred in his heart at this moment, how could he not understand that Xiao Jie must have dropped those three things, with the purpose of completely planting the blame on Wang Wei.

Xiao Jue couldn't control that much, he looked at Wang Chong and said coldly: "Patriarch Wang, if you insist on not handing over Wang Wei, don't blame us for forcibly breaking into your mansion, it will be bad if you hurt your peace." Already!"

"No need, I'll go with you."

Wang Wei, dressed in a Confucian shirt, walked out of the palace slowly.

Seeing this, Wang Chong couldn't help being taken aback: "Third brother, you..."

Wang Wei shook his head: "Brother, I am the one they want to arrest, and they cannot implicate the entire Wang family because of me."

After saying that, Wang Wei looked at Xiao Jue: "His Royal Highness, I will go with you, please don't embarrass the rest of the Wang family."

Xiao Jue nodded. He also respected Wang Wei's knowledge, because he didn't make things difficult for him, but ordered someone to take Wang Wei into a carriage, and then the team drove away...

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