roccoschili Chapter 440 The Fate of the Royal Family
Chapter 440 The Fate of the Royal Family
How to deal with the Wang family was indeed a headache for Xiao Jie.
In the eyes of many people, Qin Wang Xiao Huang launched an army to rebel, and besides the imperial court, the Wang family suffered the worst.
In their view, Xiao Huang's sudden leap from a downcast prince who was neither favored nor powerful to a powerful frontier official in Daning could not have been done without the strong support of the Wang family. Being stabbed in the back by Xiao Huang, not only killed his father-in-law Wang Cheng and took away the military power of the Liangzhou army, but also rebelled and implicated the Wang family.
But only Xiao Jie knew that it was precisely Xiao Huang who saved the fate of the entire Wang family.
Because in the original book, Xiao Ji only imprisoned Wang Chong alone, and then sent people to secretly monitor the entire Wang family, and had not yet made up his mind to uproot the entire Langya Wang family.
However, Xiao Huang hated the Wang family deeply, and took advantage of the information gap between Luoyang and Liangzhou to deliberately tell Wang Cheng through Li Jin and Xu Guang, who had already rebelled, that the imperial court had executed the whole family of the Wang family, which caused Wang Cheng to be furious. He rose up in anger, and was finally beheaded by Li Jin and Xu Guang before the battle...
Because of Wang Cheng's rebellion, in the end Xiao Ji ransacked the entire Wang clan and wiped out the nine clans. ", causing Xiao Ji and the queen mother to think that Xiao Jie was also involved, and finally demoted Xiao Jie to a commoner, and made the first public display, becoming the first prince to be beheaded publicly since the founding of Daning...
But now, the situation of offense and defense is different, Xiao Huang is the one who started the rebellion, Wang Cheng also died under Xiao Huang's hands, and even the military power of the Liangzhou Army was taken away by Xiao Huang. As the victim of Xiao Huang's rebellion, he really has no reason to deal with the Wang family.
Although Wang Wei, an important member of the Wang family, is still imprisoned by Xiao Jue in the prison of Sili Xiaowei's mansion, but the crime of framing the prince alone cannot kill the entire Wang family, and Wang Wei's status in the hearts of the world is not ordinary. Indeed, he did not participate in the falsification of Ruizhao. Xiao Jie put him in prison only to make Wang Cheng afraid, not really intending to use Wang Wei to bring down the Wang family.
Xiao Jie could repeatedly offend his father in order to keep Wang Guifei, but he has no feelings for the Wang family, and he has always wanted to get rid of the entire Wang family, so as to prevent them from going against him again in the future.It's just that things have developed to this point, and he has no better excuse to further deal with the Wang family.
A few days ago, even Su Yao's grandfather Su Hong came to persuade him in a subtle way, thinking that the Wang family is Xiao Jie's matriarchal family after all in terms of blood relationship. If Xiao Jie kills them all, it may not only affect Xiao Jie's life Reputation and image will also affect Xiao Jie's reputation in history books in the future.
Xiao Jie knew that these words were not only the thoughts of Su Hong alone, but also the thoughts of many aristocratic families. Most of these aristocratic families were connected with each other. They have always supported each other, otherwise Xiao Ji would not have faced such a lot of resistance when he wanted to kill a Zhongshu Ling Zhou Jun who exercised power and harmed the people.
This is the status quo of clan politics, and it cannot be reversed overnight.
Coming out of Changning Palace, Xiao Jie did not immediately return to his East Palace, but instead walked aimlessly on the street alone. His bodyguard Pang Hu could see that he had something on his mind, so he just followed him closely without saying a word Excuse me, for fear of disturbing his thoughts.
After repeated appeasement by the government, the situation in Luoyang City has stabilized, and the people have resumed their normal life. The city has also restored the previous order, and it is full of excitement and hustle and bustle.
Xiao Jie entered the palace in a hurry today, and there was no time to change into the python robe, so the people on the street didn't know that the person in front of them was Daning's crown prince, but seeing Xiao Jie's luxurious clothes, followed by a hulking guard, they could not guess his identity. It's not easy, so no one dares to bother.
Xiao Jie walked very slowly, and he couldn't help recalling what his father said to him in the imperial study. In Xiao Ji's words, the Wang family left him to deal with it, and he would never intervene.
Xiao Jie knew that this was another test of his father, so he wanted to see if he had the courage and determination to be a prince.
While walking, Xiao Jie was meditating, when suddenly he felt that the corner of his clothes was being gently pulled from behind, he couldn't help turning around to look, but saw Pang Hu pouted in front of him, and said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness, if you go further, you will be the palace. gone."
As soon as Xiao Jie raised his head, he found that the gate of the palace was not far in front of him, he couldn't help shaking his head and smiling, maybe it was because he was thinking, otherwise, why would he come to the gate of the palace by accident?
At this time, of course Xiao Jie was not in the mood to visit the Wang family, and turned around and wanted to leave with Pang Hu.
But at this moment, a person walked out of the palace. He saw a familiar figure from the back of the person outside the gate. When he took a closer look, he almost couldn't believe his eyes. He rushed up and shouted repeatedly: "Your Highness! Yes! Are you? Your Highness!"
Xiao Jie turned around and saw that the person who came was Wang Wei's second son, Wang Pu, who was officially a doctor of the Five Classics of the Imperial Academy, and was still his uncle in terms of seniority.
Since Wang Chong resigned from the position, the status of the Wang family in the court has plummeted since then. Many Wang family children have been dismissed by the court for various reasons, but Wang Pu has won the hearts of students because of his profound knowledge, so the court did not touch him. The post of Doctor of Pentateuch.
In Xiao Jie's view, if there were good people in the Wang family, there would probably be only father and son Wang Wei and Wang Pu left. There is no ill feeling.
Seeing that Wang Pu took the initiative to greet him, Xiao Jie naturally would not turn his face coldly, and smiled politely: "Long time no see, Dr. Wang."
Wang Pu rushed in front of Xiao Jie, his face was very excited: "His Royal Highness, did you hear that the Patriarch is seriously ill and came to visit him?"
Xiao Jie couldn't help being slightly startled when he heard the words, he really didn't know about Wang Chong's serious illness.
But he didn't show the slightest strangeness on his face, he just asked calmly: "How is your Patriarch doing now?"
Wang Pu's expression was gloomy: "A few days ago, when I heard the news of my cousin's tragic death in Liangzhou, the head of the family immediately vomited blood, saying that he killed his cousin and the Wang family, and has been bedridden since then. He also refused to take medicine, the doctor said...the doctor said it might be just a day or two."
Xiao Jie can understand why Wang Chong is like this. After all, it was his intention to abandon himself to support Xiao Huang at the beginning. Now his son Wang Cheng died in the hands of Xiao Huang who he single-handedly supported, and it also affected the Wang family. Wang Chong was so sad It is reasonable to add up, in the final analysis, all of this is nothing but his and the Wang family's own fault.
However, when he heard that Wang Chong was about to run out of fuel, Xiao Jie couldn't help but feel a slight movement in his heart, and then said to Wang Pu: "In that case, take me to see your Patriarch."
Wang Pu was overjoyed immediately, and immediately led Xiao Jie to the palace.
Pang Hu couldn't help scratching his head from behind, looking at Xiao Jie's back with some puzzlement.
Didn't you just turn your head and leave when you saw the Wangfu?Why now, when I hear that Wang Chong is dying of serious illness, I have to go in to see him.
Alas, isn't His Highness still too kind?
Although he was very confused, but because of his duty as a personal guard, Pang Hu followed Xiao Jie every step of the way and entered the palace.