Chapter 1326: Overstepping authority!

Although Wang Xuecheng had tried his best to integrate into the Ye family and clothe himself with the cloak of a royal relative, unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, he was rejected by Ye Tie, Ye Dong, Ye Kui, Ye Cheng, and the previous Ye family members Ye Baode, Ye Hongsheng, etc.

These people only give half of their respect to Wang Xuecheng's son-in-law. They even think that Wang Xuecheng, the son-in-law of the Ye family, is also a member of the Ye family. They simply sneer at his ideas and show disdain!
In their eyes, Wang Xuecheng is just a dog of Ye Mingsheng, and they are Ye Mingsheng's brothers and clansmen. So even if they don't say it on the surface, they still laugh and joke with Wang Xuecheng, but they don't respect Wang Xuecheng in private.

Wang Xuecheng was still very naive at the beginning. He thought that he could impress the other party with his sincerity and influence Ye Tie, Ye Dong and others with his sincerity in exchange for sincerity.

For this reason, when Wang Xuecheng was the deputy director of the Coordination Office, he had to clean up the messes for these people and do some post-processing work!

But he soon discovered that his efforts were not rewarded as they should be! Instead, they were taken for granted!
What he wanted was to exchange sincerity for sincerity, but that was just his wishful thinking!
When Wang Xuecheng and Huo San were fighting in the Coordination Office, Wang Xuecheng wanted to count on Ye Tie, Ye Cheng, Ye Kui and other people who had a say in front of Ye Mingsheng to say a few good words for him and help him gain the upper hand in the fight with Huo San!
However, these people turned a blind eye to Wang Xuecheng's request, which led to Wang Xuecheng leaving the Coordination Office!
After this incident, Wang Xuecheng was completely disappointed with the Ye family. He knew that even if he cut his head, he would not be able to squeeze in and would not be treated as one of their own.

Until now Wang Xuecheng still remembers the careless and nonchalant expressions of Ye Tie and Ye Cheng at that time·················
Since then, Wang Xuecheng has completely faced up to the reality. Although limited by the reality, he has not completely parted ways with these Ye family members on the surface, but he no longer tries to please others with his warm face as before.

In his heart, he also secretly hated Ye Tie, Ye Cheng, Ye Dong and others, and hoped very much that these bastards would get into trouble so that he could get rid of the hatred in his heart!
But after all, the world of Daqian belongs to the Ye family, so even though Wang Xuecheng has always hoped that Ye Tie, Ye Dong and others would get into trouble, these people are still living a prosperous and comfortable life.

Even though Ye Tie suffered a setback last time because of Ye Baode's incident, in the end he was only demoted by Ye Mingsheng to be the governor of Liaoyang.

So Wang Xuecheng originally thought that he would not see the day when the Ye family would encounter misfortune. However, this incident with Liu Xinjie made Wang Xuecheng see a glimmer of hope for victory.

Although Wang Xuecheng is still unclear whether Chu Zhiyi's accusation against Ye Dong is true, based on his understanding of Chu Zhiyi, he feels that since Chu Zhiyi dares to bring people to Ye Dong's house, he must have some confidence!
And if that is the case, Wang Xuecheng feels that Ye Dong’s life might be in danger!
After all, although Your Majesty is not a cruel person and still remembers the old times, sending someone to murder the censor has such a bad impact!

Once the evidence is conclusive, it will shock the government and the public, and killing will not be enough to appease the public anger!

Thinking of this, the gloating smile on Wang Xuecheng's face became even more intense. Back then, Ye Dong was the most arrogant to him, and now you, a loser, have finally been caught...

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Late at night, in a small courtyard in the palace
Ye Mingsheng sat alone in a bathtub. Although soaking in the hot water made him feel very comfortable, Ye Mingsheng still looked tired.

Ye Mingsheng had been busy since the morning of Si hour today. He first read the memorial sent by Qi Dechao from Guanzhong, and then learned some military affairs from Zhao Han. At noon, Ye Mingsheng also held a meeting with cabinet members on several current matters of the court.

Because time was tight and it was almost noon, Ye Mingsheng invited these people to have a simple meal in the palace, and then everyone continued their conversation after the meal.

According to the original plan, all cabinet members were supposed to attend the cabinet meeting at noon today, including Cui Shao, Gu Sansi, Li Jian, Chen Fu, and Chu Zhiyi.

However, just yesterday Chu Zhiyi specifically asked for permission from Ye Mingsheng not to attend the meeting as he had important things to do.

Because this meeting is a cabinet meeting, in the current meeting level of the Daqian court, it is second only to the Zhongyong Hall meeting that all military officials must attend. Therefore, although the items on the meeting agenda have little to do with Chu Zhiyi, the Left Censor-in-Chief, Chu Zhiyi also needs to participate.

So when Ye Mingsheng heard that Chu Zhiyi did not want to attend the meeting, he did not approve it directly, but asked Chu Zhiyi why he did not want to attend the meeting·················

When facing Ye Mingsheng's question, Chu Zhiyi asked His Majesty to forgive him for keeping it secret for the time being, as he had something very important to do!

Seeing that Chu Zhiyi kept the secret from him, the emperor, Ye Mingsheng was puzzled but also a little interested!
Out of trust in the Left Censor-in-Chief whom he appointed, Ye Mingsheng chose to believe Chu Zhiyi, so he approved Chu Zhiyi's request and allowed Chu Zhiyi not to attend today's cabinet meeting. He asked Chu Zhiyi to ask the Imperial Guards for a meeting minutes after the meeting to learn about the content of the cabinet meeting.

Facing Chu Zhiyi's concealment, although Ye Mingsheng did not ask the truth, he had an answer in his heart! Previously, Ye Mingsheng handed the case of Liu Xinjie's assassination to the Coordination Office for handling, but as the investigation of the Coordination Office deepened, Chu Zhiyi suddenly ran out and told Ye Mingsheng that Liu Xinjie's assassination case was involved in the military TF case that they were investigating at the Procuratorate, so Chu Zhiyi requested that the two cases be handled together.

For this purpose, Chu Zhiyi also took out a stack of files to prove that Liu Xinjie was murdered because he was investigating the TF case in the army. Seeing that the evidence he listed was detailed and reliable, Ye Mingsheng agreed to Chu Zhiyi's request and planned to let the Censorate and the Coordination Office jointly investigate the case.

However, Chu Zhiyi was opposed to Ye Mingsheng's order. Chu Zhiyi believed that everything had a first come first served basis!

Although Ye Mingsheng handed the case of Liu Xinjie's assassination to the Coordination Office for investigation, since this is the same case as the TF case in the military, and Ye Mingsheng had handed this case over to their respective Procuratorates for investigation long before, then this case should be fully investigated by their respective Procuratorates...

Although Chu Zhiyi said something about first come, first served, Ye Mingsheng knew very well that first come, first served was just an excuse by Chu Zhiyi. The reason why Chu Zhiyi wanted to lead the Censorate to conduct a separate investigation was that Chu Zhiyi did not trust the Coordination Office!

It just so happened that the attitude of the Coordination Office was rather ambiguous. They said that they would listen to His Majesty's arrangements. If His Majesty asked them to continue investigating, they would continue investigating as ordered. If His Majesty gave the case to the Censorate, they would have no objection!
After understanding the attitudes of both parties, Ye Mingsheng took the opportunity to hand the case over to the Censorate and let Chu Zhiyi be fully responsible for the investigation!
So even though Chu Zhiyi did not tell Ye Mingsheng yesterday why he specifically wanted to not attend the cabinet meeting of the Daqian court, Ye Mingsheng speculated that he did not attend because of this case!
Yesterday, Ye Mingsheng was still looking forward to Chu Zhiyi giving him a surprise and catching the termite hiding in J.

And today, Chu Zhiyi really gave himself a big "surprise!"

When Ye Mingsheng finished the cabinet meeting which lasted for an hour and a half and was about to take a break, he heard Ye Cheng reporting to him that Chu Zhiyi led the patrol battalion to confront a group of Ye clan members in Ye Dong’s mansion. To be honest, Ye Mingsheng was a little confused and thought that Ye Cheng was talking nonsense. After confirming that the matter was true, Ye Mingsheng was extremely furious...

Over the years under his rule, differences and contradictions have always existed within Daqian, and Ye Mingsheng has never been shy about this. Ye Mingsheng knows that in such a large court, with tens of millions of people and tens of thousands of government officials, all kinds of people have their own interests, and it is very normal and inevitable to have conflicts and disagreements!
Ye Mingsheng's consistent attitude towards this is to uphold the spirit of seeking common ground while reserving differences and unity under the premise of the law, to resolve conflicts when there are conflicts, to resolve differences when there are differences, not to allow conflicts and differences to escalate, and to resolve all of this within the law!
Therefore, although there were internal struggles within Daqian in the past, under the requirements and intimidation of Ye Mingsheng, everyone still maintained a certain decency on the surface and did not fight to the point of being invincible. Everything was hidden underwater!
This time, the incident between Chu Zhiyi and Ye Dong completely broke this ZZ tradition!

This kind of situation where colleagues were at loggerheads and on the verge of a fight was the first time in Ye Mingsheng's memory!
Before today, Ye Mingsheng had never imagined that such a situation would occur under his rule one day!
Ye Mingsheng has been in the business for so many years, he knows very well that once some political traditions are broken, it will be like opening Pandora's box, the consequences will be very serious...

So as soon as he learned the news, Ye Mingsheng asked Ye Cheng to take the Royal Guard Battalion to control all the people involved in the incident, and then asked Ye Cheng to bring Chu Zhiyi and Ye Dong to meet him!

Ye Mingsheng wants to investigate personally what happened that led to a fight among his own people!
Under Ye Mingsheng's order, Chu Zhiyi and Ye Dong were brought in front of Ye Mingsheng, and both of them made their own statements.

The first one was Chu Zhiyi. He said that the reason why he did not attend the cabinet meeting today was because the investigation into the TF case in the military had reached the most critical moment!
He also successfully obtained evidence and learned that the murderer behind the case was Ye Dong. When Ye Dong was in charge of the defense of the Great Zhou Palace in Luoan, he neglected his duties, embezzled money, and took many rare treasures from the Great Zhou Palace and secretly hid them.

After the news of this matter leaked out, for his own safety, he sent people to kill Liu Xinjie, the censor of the Censorate who was investigating the case!
Facing Chu Zhiyi's accusation, Ye Dong admitted that he had indeed hidden many things from the Great Zhou Palace. He knelt in front of Ye Mingsheng and cried bitterly, explaining that he had been blinded by greed and had done such a thing.

Although he admitted to secretly taking things from the Great Zhou Palace, Ye Dong flatly denied Chu Zhiyi's accusation that he had murdered Liu Xinjie!
Ye Dong said that this was done by his subordinate Zhao Bao and he was completely unaware of it. Chu Zhiyi produced evidence that Ye Dong threatened Liu Xinjie's son and tried to bribe Liu Xinjie. Ye Dong argued that he just wanted to scare Liu Xinjie and he really had no idea that Zhao Bao had killed Liu Xinjie!

He never gave orders or hinted to Zhao Bao to kill Liu Xinjie···············
Chu Zhiyi thought that Ye Dong's defense was pure sophistry. As the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate of the Daqian court, he requested Ye Mingsheng to dismiss Ye Dong from his post, confiscate his property, and sentence him to death to serve as a warning to others!
Ye Dong said that he had made a big mistake by secretly taking away the artifacts from the Great Zhou Palace, but he really did not kill Liu Xinjie. Please ask Ye Mingsheng to judge for yourself!

While Ye Mingsheng was interrogating Chu Zhiyi and Ye Dong, undercurrents were surging within the court. Youyan Governor Zhang Zhiwen, Youyan Censor Zhuang Shanhe, and Yijing Prefect Liu Ning jointly impeached Chu Zhiyi for exceeding his authority and mobilizing the patrol battalion without permission.

After learning about the impeachment of Zhang Zhiwen, Zhuang Shanhe and Liu Ning, Chu Zhiyi, the Left Censor-in-Chief, pleaded guilty. He had indeed exceeded his authority and did not follow the normal procedure to consult Ye Mingsheng and then arrest people after receiving Ye Mingsheng's order. Instead, he took the patrol battalion directly to Ye Dong's mansion.

Chu Zhiyi pleaded guilty to his mistakes and asked Ye Mingsheng to punish him!
At this time, the Imperial Guards received another memorial impeaching Chu Zhiyi, and what was surprising was that these memorials actually came from the Censorate led by Chu Zhiyi!

Seventeen censors jointly impeached Chu Zhiyi for breaking the law as the Left Censor-in-Chief and privately mobilizing troops to attack the residences of nobles. Chu Zhiyi must be severely punished!
Ye Mingsheng was a little surprised when he saw that someone in the Censorate also impeached Chu Zhiyi. He did not expect that Chu Zhiyi would have a fire in his backyard. At the same time, he quickly realized who was behind all these things. Who had such great political power that he was impeached by three important officials, Zhang Zhiwen, Zhuang Shanhe, and Liu Ning, and also had seventeen censors jointly impeach him...