The System Forces Me to Be the Emperor

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, incense was wafting, but the atmosphere was a little depressing.

Following Ye Xiu's revelation of Bai Huhou's collusion with Zhao Kuangming, the sixth prince of the Zhao Kingdom, and the collusion with the enemy and betrayal of the country, the hall became very quiet and completely silent.

After Xiahuang repeated it, he sat up straight and knocked on the table, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Ye Aiqing, you just said that the witnesses and criminal evidence brought back by Marquis Chang Sheng have been interrogated?" Xia Huang asked.

Ye Xiu said, "Yes, Your Majesty, it has been interrogated by Guo Shilang."

Guo Ziyi said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I asked three witnesses. These three people are the confidantes of Zhao Kuangming, the sixth prince of the Zhao Kingdom, and the other is the guard who sat down by Bai Huhou. The collusion confessed, and at the same time, the physical evidence also included the autographed letters between Zhao Kuangming and Zhou Shufeng! Weichen has confirmed that it is indeed Zhou Shufeng’s autograph."

Guo Ziyi paused, giving Emperor Xia time to think, and then said: "Your Majesty, fortunately, Chang Shenghou found out in time. According to the content of the secret letter between the two, Zhao Kuangming has already obtained from Zhou Shufeng The military information deployed in the formation, once Zhao Guo's army sneaks in, it will inevitably cause unimaginable disasters to Changsheng Hou's army! There will be heavy casualties!"

After finishing speaking, Guo Ziyi presented the confession and physical evidence, and Hai Dafu took them and presented them to Emperor Xia.

Emperor Xia glanced at the confession, and focused on the information in the secret letter about Chang Sheng Hou's formation. Just as Guo Ziyi said, once Zhao Guo's soldiers seized weak positions to attack, the defense line formed by Chang Sheng Hou would soon be broken. cause very large losses.

Huo Xingye took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, the White Tiger Marquis Zhou Shufeng was so delighted with his meritorious deeds. In order to obtain military merits, he even colluded with foreign enemies and put Xia Guo's safety at risk. His crimes are too bad to be recorded. It is chilling! Zhou Shufeng has disregarded the holy grace and the law of the country, please Your Majesty! Decide!"

Ye Xiu didn't continue to add insult to injury, so he just said, "Your Majesty, please decide!"

The three bowed their hands at the same time, quietly waiting for His Majesty's decision.

Emperor Xia didn't speak, and his face was expressionless.

Xiao Rui sat there honestly, watching the play quietly, and he couldn't speak.

Xiao Rui's declaration of war against Queen Zhou Xiangyun was not aimless. Since Xiao Rui left Xiangzhou and let go of Zhao Kuangming, the sixth prince of Zhao Kingdom, Guo Jia began to plan actions.

It is not difficult to bring down Duke Xi, who is an official, but the Zhou clan behind him is deeply rooted and involves too many civil and military officials, so it is difficult to uproot him unless he is convicted of a serious crime!

Among the major crimes, rebellion and collusion with foreign thieves have been the major crimes of ransacking the family and exterminating the clan since ancient times. How could Guo Jia give up?

Now that Zhao Kuangming, the sixth prince of Zhao Kingdom, was controlled by the Three Corpse Brain Pill, it became impossible for him to personally collude with Bai Huhou. Bai Huhou is a man of great success. He was not capable of being ranked among the twelve great military marquises, but relying on someone in the court, he forcibly gained his reputation.

And the soldiers value military merit the most, and the Lord is all based on military merit. If he doesn't have this military merit but gets this reputation, one can imagine how many people would not accept him! So Zhou Shufeng wanted to make contributions even more urgently.

Guo Jia took advantage of his shortcomings of being very happy and eager to make contributions, so that Zhao Kuangming sent his confidants to communicate with him, and pretended to cooperate with him, which would give him the marching trajectory of Zhao Guo's soldiers and horses, and Zhao Kuangming's advantage was to use his hands to get rid of the support Prince's general.

Bai Huhou Zhou Shufeng is not completely a fool, but he tried a few times, and after successfully ambushing Zhao Jun, he immediately believed in Zhao Kuangming, and began to have a taste of cooperation, and correspondingly, there was a correspondence. Zhou Shufeng could not have written by himself at first. The letters were naturally borrowed from other people, but Zhou Kuangming deliberately created twists and turns, causing Zhou Shufeng to disbelieve the people around him, and gradually lured him into the bait. In the end, he stumbled and began to write letters to contact Zhao Kuangming himself, thus falling into the trap of Guo Jia. in the trap.

In order to get him hooked, Zhao Kuangming betrayed a lot of information, doing mental calculations but not intentional, how could Zhou Shufeng not be tricked?

Once Zhou Shufeng fell into the trap, would it be easy to frame him with more evidence of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country?

Moreover, Zhao Kuangming had tried the power of the Three Corpse Brain God Pill. In order to survive, he naturally obeyed Guo Jia's arrangement. No one is not afraid of death, let alone the eminent Prince Zhao, so in order to survive, he must listen to Guo Jia's words .

In this way, Guo Jia was thousands of miles away, but he used the spear falcon to send messages and planned this series of schemes.

As for Marquis Changsheng, he naturally didn't know the inside story, and Guo Jia cleverly used him to expose this matter, which was more convincing.

After a while, Emperor Xia's eyes suddenly shifted to Xiao Rui, and asked with a smile: "King Xian, why don't you tell me your opinion?"

Xiao Rui panicked and said: "Your minister is working in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, how dare you criticize important state affairs, discuss military lords, my minister dare not!"

Xia Huangdao: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for monitoring all officials. Although Lord Bai is a third-rank military lord, he is also a military commander. Naturally, he can be investigated! Besides, I asked you to tell me, why don't you dare?"

"Will the minister just say a few words?" Xiao Rui asked cautiously.

Emperor Xia smiled and said, "Don't stand still, sit down and listen to King Xian's words."

Ye Xiu, Guo Ziyi and Huo Xingye sat down.

Xiao Rui pretended to think, and then said: "Father, I feel that although the evidence is solid now, Bai Huhou is suspected of colluding with foreign enemies and betraying the country for glory, but in order to be cautious and not to wrong a loyal general, I think it is better Recall Bai Huhou, let him return to Beijing to report on his duties, and then confront him face to face. I still feel that Bai Huhou doesn't look like someone who colluded with foreign thieves!"

"Oh? With such solid evidence, you still think that Bai Huhou was wronged?" Emperor Xia asked in surprise.

Xiao Rui explained: "Father, look, Bai Huhou has received his father's holy grace, and he is already one of the twelve military marquises. My sister is the empress of the current dynasty, and my nephew is the son of the king of Chu. With such a prominent status, how could it be possible to collude with foreign thieves? It stands to reason that it cannot be justified."

Ye Xiu and Huo Xingye on the opposite side exchanged veiled eyes, sighing in their hearts how vicious the King Xian is!

It seems to be defending Bai Huhou, but it is flattering! Hold high, fall badly.

Emperor Xia also nodded, and said appreciatively: "Yes, with such a prominent network of contacts, why do you still collude with the enemy and betray the country? It's because I didn't reward enough. Does he want to be ranked first like a champion? Or is there another reason? ?”

After a pause, Emperor Xia asked, "Do you think the King of Chu and Lord Xi knew about it?"

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the four people exchanged tacitly.

Ye Xiu glanced at Xiao Rui and the others, and then lowered his eyes, looking at the stone slabs of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, as if he was studying the structure of the slabs, and was preparing to become a construction engineer after he retired.

Guo Ziyi's gaze was looking straight, and became distracted and unfocused. He was just the left servant of the Ministry of War, and when he first arrived in Kyoto, it was naturally not his turn to speak.

On the contrary, it was Huo Xingye and Xiao Rui who met their eyes, had a good exchange, and then hurriedly staggered away.

Huo Xingye clasped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, as the saying goes, you will not accept military orders abroad. His Highness the King of Chu and Duke Xi are not aware of Bai Huhou's various activities! If you know, you must stop him! He won't make a big mistake. of!"

Xiao Rui also said: "Yes, I feel the same way. After all, colluding with foreign thieves and betraying the country for glory is a serious crime against the nine clans. Once implicated, the entire Zhou family will not be able to escape the blame!"

Emperor Xia looked at the two of them, smiled, and said: "In this case, it is like what King Xian said, Hai Dafu, drafted an order for the cabinet, and urgently summoned Baihu to wait for Zhou Shufeng to return to Beijing to report on his duties. , order him not to delay, and return quickly!"

"Yes!" Hai Dafu immediately accepted the order.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Xia said again: "Today's matter must not be leaked to the outside world. After Bai Huhou returns to Beijing, he will make a decision."

"Yes!" The four of Xiao Rui got up and took orders.

Seeing that the development of the situation was all moving towards the plan, Xiao Rui sneered in his heart, and then, it was up to the King of Chu to perform.

Soon, the cabinet prepared an imperial decree and sent it to the Ministry of War. Huo Xingye immediately dispatched postmen to convey the decree to Bai Huhou in a hurry.

At the same time, King Chu and Duke Xi also heard the will. They were very surprised, wondering why His Majesty suddenly summoned Bai Huhou back to Beijing. But neither of them thought of the bad.

Two days later, Wei Wuxian finally let go and was willing to be a witness to identify King Xian's true identity.

At the same time, Xiao Rui spread the news that His Majesty intends to let him serve as an envoy to entertain the Qi State Mission, the purpose of which is to let the King of Chu hear the news.

King Chu was overjoyed when he heard this, and he said to Xi Guo: "Grandfather, the envoy of the Qi State Mission is Ye Wendao, King of Qi State, who is the uncle of King Xian! Let’s expose King Xian’s true identity!”

"That's right! It's a rare opportunity! Lin Yifeng, Minister of Honglu Temple, is King Jin's uncle, Yiheng, you can cooperate with King Jin, and it happens that Lin Yiheng brings up the topic. I believe King Jin doesn't want to see King Xian become stronger day by day Go!" Duke Xi also smiled.

Perhaps in their eyes, Xiao Rui will go out to compete for the crown prince's right. After all, a prince with the blood of an enemy country, with impure blood, how can he inherit the throne?

At the same time, in Prince Jing's mansion.

Since the Duke of Sui collapsed and the Li family in Yangzhou who supported him fell apart, many officials changed their course to support other princes. If he hadn't got a marriage contract with the granddaughter of the scholar Shang Jin, there would probably be even fewer civil and military officials who supported him. So Xiao Jing was full of hatred, especially towards Chu King Xiao Yiheng! After all, he was the one who caused him to be in such a situation.

But these two days, he smiled, with a malicious smile on his face.

Because he learned from Wei Dabao that the son born to Du Xueqin, the side concubine of King Chu, is not the blood of King Chu! The Imperial Physician and Mrs. Wen have been brought under control and locked up in Dongchang Prison, and the two have already confessed and been lenient, and the evidence has been handed over to Xiao Jing!

At this time, when Xiao Jing was sleeping, he could wake up with a smile of excitement.

What kind of revenge is there to have a son even if you are not yourself but also vicious?

What Xiao Jing is short of now is how to expose this matter.

And Xiao Rui has already prepared the opportunity for him!

Everything is ready, don't owe Dongfeng!