The poisoning left a shadow in Zhang Zhaohua's heart for a long time, she didn't think that the death of a Jin family was the end, and it could never be the end, especially after she checked the accounts of the palace eunuch, she felt even more.

The supervisor of the palace is in charge of the sprinkling and sweeping of the halls and corridors, and Ji Gang said when he traced the source of arsenic that arsenic was used in the palace in addition to the prince's medicinal bath, that is, when the palace supervisor was in charge of driving away insects and rats.

It's just that the palace supervisor on duty didn't go to the hospital to get arsenic in the two months before the crime- Zhang Zhaohua looked through their catalogue and found that every spring and summer, almost every ten days or so, it is necessary to kill the pests and rats, because the Nanjing Imperial Palace is backed by the rich mountain of the Purple Mountain, but due to the limitations of the site, the inner court part is built on the filled Yanque Lake, although the foundation is strengthened by driving into the wooden pile, laying the bottom with huge stones, and ramming the lime triple soil, but after a long time, there is still the problem of foundation sinking, the palace is easy to form waterlogging, and the drainage is not easy, so there are many insects and rats, especially some idle palaces in the harem, which often need to kill insects。

But this spring, there were two months, there was no insecticide, there was no explanation, and the palace people couldn't go to the Tai Hospital to get the insecticide by themselves, so they could only endure it. This made Zhang Zhaohua feel unreasonable, and this was completely consciously avoiding arsenic, because all pesticides have arsenic in them.

The palace supervisor on duty is not within the scope of suspicion, and only the East Palace can be suspected.

Zhang Zhaohua closed his eyes and closed his eyes.

At the turn of the spring and summer of the seventh year of Yongle, the Korean tribute girl came from afar and filled the court.

There are a total of five show girls, the daughter of the Korean worker Cao Dian Shuquan, the daughter of Yin Ren Tiannian, the left secretary of Renning Mansion, the daughter of Li Wenming, the judge of Gong'an Mansion, the daughter of Lu Guizhen, the protector of the army, and the daughter of Cui Defei, the deputy secretary of the Chinese army-After these five ladies entered the palace, the Quan family was canonized as a virtuous concubine, the Ren family was a concubine Shun, the Li family was Zhaoyi, the Lu family was Jieyu, and the Cui family was a beauty.

The Quan family was quite favored by the emperor, so much so that Zhang Zhaohua saw the things in Wang Jingfei's palace, and they were even slightly inferior. Of course, the Quan family is really beautiful, originally Zhang Zhaohua thought that there were no beauties in North Korea, at most they were fair-skinned and docile. However, the Quan family is indeed outstanding, and even stands with Kang Huan, like a double bi.

As soon as the Korean show girl came, she was in a high position, which was not what Zhang Zhaohua wanted to see, especially two petty thefts in the palace soon, although the things lost were not valuable, but they all pointed to the tribute girls of North Korea, because there were dozens of women, they were selected to be singing daughters, serving women and handmaidens, these people entered the court, and soon showed a shallow appearance, after all, they were foreign vassal girls, they like to fight for the wind and be jealous, not to mention, but also greedy for money.

"Niangniang," Zhang Zhaohua and Concubine Wang Jingfei sat opposite each other, she pointed to the book sent by the internal official supervisor, and couldn't help but say: "In less than a month, I have asked the internal official and supervisor to meditate four times on furniture, the first time I asked for red sourwood, the second time it was boxwood, and then I asked if there was rosewood——"

Concubine Wang Jingfei smiled, "It's okay to pity them for coming far away, far away from their parents and relatives." ”

"Alas, there is still a theft of the treasury," Zhang Zhaohua shook his head and said: "Stealing the warehouse, Mama Li, I haven't encountered such a thing for more than ten years." ”

The two sighed, and Zhang Zhaohua asked again: "I always have to visit them, I don't know how they speak Chinese?"

"I can understand everything, but it's hard to say," Wang Jingfei said: "I also know some words, but the palace people under my command are not too restrained, and they are all based on their own pleasures." ”

Zhang Zhaohua lowered his head and flipped through the book, and when he saw a line of words, he couldn't help but pause slightly.

However, at this time, there was an uproar outside the palace, and soon the female official came in and replied: "Niangniang, the crown princess Niangniang, Mama Gongzheng arrested two palace people and begged for severe punishment." ”

The two palace people were caught and pressed to the ground, and the reason was very simple, this one was the palace person in the Quan family's palace, and the other was Lu Jieyu's palace person, and the two of them had a quarrel because of the unequal distribution of things in each palace.

However, the reason why Mama Gongzheng arrested them and punished them was that the two of them also mentioned the right to manage the harem - the palace people of the concubine said that their master was favored by the emperor, and after succeeding the queen, he would definitely manage the harem;

These two are not Koreans, but the good sons of the good families who were selected to serve when the Liaodong Metropolitan Division escorted the Korean tribute girls into Beijing and filled them into the harem. Sure enough, he hasn't undergone a little training, how could the palace people who have been selected by the palace master division say such a thing?

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help sneering: "Drag it to the middle of the road, slap fifty, flog eighty, move to Anle Hall, and don't take medicine." ”

It was just a small thing, but it made Zhang Zhaohua uncomfortable for a day. Now in the harem, the three concubines all have titles, but Concubine Jing is just older, she was titled early, and she has been taking care of the harem for two years. Now that the Korean tribute girl is here, the emperor obviously favors the Quan family, so that Wang Jingfei does not dare to pick up her edge, and all the harem degrees are biased towards the Quan family, which naturally makes the palace see it.

Concubine Wang Jing also had doubts about whether she could continue to manage the harem, so she didn't dare to ask Mama Gong Zheng to train this batch of North Korean maids, Zhang Zhaohua didn't have a good impression of the North Korean concubines, she hoped that Concubine Wang Jing could take the throne.

"Niangniang," Zhang Zhaohua pointed to a line of words in the book book, and said, "This Li Zhaoyi wants the sour branch wood fine interstitial screen, can't you give it." ”

Not long after Zhang Zhaohua walked out of Yongning Palace, the emperor walked over.

"Emperor," Concubine Wang Jing greeted her: "You didn't say a word, there is a secret in this way." ”

There is a sandwich road in Yongning Palace, and I don't know what the people who built it at the beginning thought, but there is a sandwich road horizontally, and there is always wind in the sandwich road. The emperor usually didn't feel inconvenient, so he waved his hand today: "After listening to the sutra for a day and reading the well-proofed "Yongle Canon", my brain was dizzy, and I wanted to let the cold wind blow." ”

As he spoke, he also saw the booklet on the desk, took it and flipped through it, "What kind of account is this?"

"That is, the furniture made by the internal officials and supervisors," Wang Jingfei said: "These are for several sisters in Yichun Palace and Xianfu Palace, and yesterday Concubine Shun's sister asked me first, and even asked the number clearly." ”

The emperor said casually: "It is indeed not easy for you to take care of the harem. ”

"In the past, it was the old man of the Sixth Bureau and the First Division who helped him, so he barely showed his ugly appearance," Wang Jingfei said with a smile: "Being in charge of the Six Palaces is majestic, but it is actually tedious and a headache." Although the sixth palace is special everywhere, to put it bluntly, it is a big family, and what is busy every day is firewood, rice, oil and salt. The concubine has long been looking forward to some newcomers who can share the burden for the concubine, and the concubine is also overwhelmed by the labor of this case. ”

The emperor smiled and suddenly asked, "How did you arrange these pieces of furniture for the palaces?"

"It's all reported from various palaces to see what is missing, and it's generally in the treasury. That is, it is not a satisfactory thing in terms of style and workmanship," Wang Jingfei also gossiped: "For example, if you want a pestle, there are always more people in hardwood rattan drawers than in round pestles." ”

The emperor looked at the account book, and Concubine Wang Jingfei gave Li Zhaoyi a batch of things - two pairs of boxwood with three drawer tables, two pairs of sour branch wood fine interstitial screens, red carved lacquer table lamp, a set of colorful December flower cups, cloisonné enamel amphora live ring bottles, three blue and white fisherman's house music square stick mallet bottles, cloisonné enamel with bats rectangular hand stove, a pair of enamel hook lotus bucket flower pots, two incense burners, a pair of incense balls, a gauze tent, and a brocade tent.

"Why did you cross out the sour branch and wood interstitial?" the emperor asked.