After a while, Ma Yun walked out of the palace and said to Ji Gang: "I have already explained to the emperor, and the emperor let the lord in." ”

When Ji Gang entered the hall, he didn't see Ma Yun shaking his head slightly, but he didn't stay for a while, and left quickly, but his steps were much easier - he saw that the emperor was not sitting on the throne, but lying on his back in the east room, with a thick cashmere blanket on his knees.

Rheumatism made the emperor's mood impermanent, Ji Gang had gloated about the prince before, and now it was his turn to face the emperor's temper carefully, but the emperor seemed to be unusually kind to him this time: "Ji Gang, Ma Yun just said that you can investigate this case, is it true?"

Ji Gang bowed down and said: "Gonggong Ma has been promoted, but the minister just happened to have a clue and mentioned him." ”

"What clue," said the Emperor, "you can tell me." ”

Ji Gang said: "The Korean envoy is a guest in Beijing, and there is a person named Lu Qizheng among them, who is Lu Guizhen's younger brother, that is, Lu Jieyu's uncle in the palace. ”

"Sure enough, when it comes to handling cases, you Jinyiwei is invincible," the emperor sighed, seemingly a little puzzled: "It's just how did you find out about Lu Qizheng's body?"

"It's really a coincidence," Ji Gang said unhurriedly: "The minister coordinated with the soldiers and horses to command the arrest of the thieves, but the thieves went straight into the North Korean embassy, so the minister found the forbidden object in Lu Qizheng's room. ”

"So that's the case," the emperor nodded, and said: "This matter of Lu Jieyu causing trouble in the palace really makes me ashamed, so I didn't order you to handle the case, this poisoning case is enough to humiliate me once, and twice, that is, I am not strict in governance." I asked Ma Yun and Haitong to clear the palace, did the movement be a little louder and alarm you, otherwise how did you know?"

Ji Gangwan didn't expect that this case was not a case of defiling the harem at all, but actually a case of poisoning! This was the news he obtained, and what was found from Lu Qizheng's residence also confirmed the news -- but why was it a poisoning case? It was Lu Jieyu who poisoned her, and who did she kill when she poisoned her?

The argument that Ji Gang had prepared before was completely useless all of a sudden, and he originally planned to say that it was Lu Qizheng who confessed to Lu Jieyu - but now this statement is completely untenable, and his forehead sweats all of a sudden.

The emperor didn't seem to ask him again, but said: "This case, just cover it up in the palace, spread it to the outside, and then spread it to North Korea, so that people can see my harem, it's a mess, isn't this a slap in the face? You Ji Gang have this filial piety, I know, I also tell you, it's not that I don't believe you, my hardships are clear, if you understand, just send Lu Qizheng to Ma Yun." ”

Ji Gang seemed to leave unreliably, and the medicine bowl in the emperor's hand was knocked on the mahogany table, making a dull and alarming sound.

A strong witness soon appeared in this case, this person was the daughter of a North Korean businessman surnamed Lü, so she was called Lü Jia, she was a businessman, and when she was drafted in North Korea, she chose a daughter in the city and the civil and military classes of various provinces, prefectures, prefectures, counties, and counties, as well as the military and civilian homes, and waited for her to be contributed. And from the business and lowly status, some people were selected to serve these show girls, because the North Korean hierarchy is much stricter than China's, if the Chinese lowly people are lucky, they can get rid of the lowly status, and even if the North Korean lowiah is lucky, they can't get rid of the lowly status, and the gap between the first level is huge, and the hierarchy is strict - this is why Lu Jieyu is born in two classes of nobles, and she can make fun of the civilian status of the Kwon family, even if the position of the Kwon family is much higher than her.

This Lu Jia originally served Lu Jieyu, but once the emperor was fortunate to her, so according to her, she was subjected to a lot of trouble by Lu Jieyu, so she begged Wang Guifei to change her to a palace to live in, and ran to Li Zhaoyi, Li Zhaoyi is also a North Korean, and it is said that they can get along well.

This Lu Jia was actually skipped in this case, because everyone actually forgot that she had lived in Lu Jieyu's palace-

And Lu Jia confessed herself, saying that when she was in Lu Jieyu's palace, she once heard Lu Jieyu instruct the eunuch Jin De in her palace to go outside the palace to buy arsenic and give it to the Quan family in the tea soup, which was a matter of January of the seventh year of Yongle.

From the time I bought arsenic to the death of Concubine Quan now, it should be recognized as a chronic poisoning case, but how exactly was it poisoned?

Lu Jia said that the eunuch Jin De next to Lu Jieyu and the eunuch Jin Liang next to Concubine Quan are a pair of brothers, both from Goryeo, and before they were castrated, they used to be slaves in Lu Jieyu's maiden family, that is, the family of the protector Lu Guizhen, Lu Guizhen sent his daughter to Daming, afraid that there would be no one to serve around, so he gave this pair of brothers to Lu Jieyu, but when they arrived in the court of Daming, they were dispersed, and Jin Liang was sent to serve Concubine Quan.

But Jin Liang has been listening to Lu Jieyu's words, including taking arsenic from his younger brother and placing it in Quan's tea soup.

At the same time, she pointed out the residence of the silversmith who had been buying arsenic from Jinde, in the deepest courtyard of Luoguxiang in Dong'anmen - and the people who sent it out found that there was indeed a silversmith who did sell arsenic.

When this evidence comes out, it seems that the case can be closed - but what makes Ma Yun distressed is that the eunuchs Jin Liang and Jin De have always refused to admit that they bought arsenic, even if they were beaten to the point that they were almost inhuman. And Lu Jieyu even denied that she poisoned and killed Quan, and after listening to Lu Jia's testimony, she scolded her for framing herself.

Ma Yun felt that no matter whether they recruited or not, the truth had been revealed, but he hated that he was far worse than Jinyiwei in terms of torture, and he couldn't pry open their mouths - and another Haitong, who was investigating the case, seemed to be quite suspicious.

"What," Ma Yun saw that he was still staring at a stack of confessions, so he said, "Still have questions?"

"Too much," Hai Tong said, his eyes deep, "too much." ”

"Tell me," Ma Yun said with a funny smile: "Where are the doubts? Are there human witnesses, are there physical evidence, are there motives, are there any time?

These four corners are all the guidelines for Jinyiwei's case-handling, but since Mao Xiao, these things have long ceased to exist.

Hai Tong said: "Then let me ask you, when these imperial doctors who treated Concubine Quan were first imprisoned, a month ago, they knew that they were going to die, why didn't any one report that Quan died of poisoning? Why did they wait until this case broke out to say all kinds of doubts about Concubine Quan's death, and then overturned all the medical cases written by themselves?"

"Why did you and I interrogate Concubine Quan and Lu Jieyu's palace people, and tortured countless times, but no one knew where the silversmith was," Haitong continued to ask: "There are a few people who can't stand the torture, and they randomly point out the place, which is not the place where the silversmith is at all." Jin De, who was identified by Lu Jia, a palace person, denied that he had ever bought arsenic from beginning to end?"

"The third is the most important point I want to say," Haitong said: "Lu Jieyu is proud of her good background, and she has a lot of ridicule of Concubine Quan, and the palace people under her often ridicule the palace people of the Quan family, I read these confessions, and their scolding is very exciting, and they are all unscrupulous——"