In November of the eighth year of Yongle, the holy car returned from Beijing and arrived in Nanjing.

As soon as the emperor came back, he ordered the eunuch Ma Jing to patrol Gansu, Ma Qi Town, and sent Gou'er and Wang An beside Gao Chi to Tan Qing's military camp - this made Zhang Zhaohua feel bad.

Sure enough, her premonition was not wrong, and soon the emperor sent Xie Jin to prison, because some people said that Xie Jin took advantage of the emperor's absence to meet the prince privately, and no one was courteous. In fact, Xie Jin entered Beijing from Jiaozhou at that time to perform affairs, but the emperor went north, and Xie Jin met with the East Palace - the same was true of other officials from other places, but the courtiers only participated in Xie Jin, and Xie Jin was arrested and imprisoned by the emperor.

Zhang Zhaohua knew whose order it was, in fact, the official who participated in Xie Jin was Gao Xu's Tiance Guard.

After Xie Jin was imprisoned, he was soon tortured by Jinyiwei and implicated a group of people, these people were Dali Cheng Tang Zong, Zongren Mansion Experience Gao Delu, Zhongyun Li Guan, Zanshan Wang Ruyu, edited and repaired Jiang Ji, Pan Ji, Xiao Yinggao and Li Zhigang, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Among these people, there is only one Li Zhigang, Zhang Zhaohua is sure that he was pulled out by Xie Jinpan, because Li Zhigang has a long-standing grudge against him - except for Tang Zong and Gao Deluan, the others are all vassals of the East Palace.

This is the same as Tang Taizong, when he came back from Goguryeo, the first thing he did was to send him to assist Li Zhi's courtiers and kill a group of them - Li Zhi was still so loved by him.

Ji Gang's purpose is also very clear, it is the emperor's intention to arrest the subordinates of the East Palace, and what is going on with Tang Zong, it naturally has something to do with Li Zhen's case, he can't move Xue Jun - because although Xue Jun has been degraded, he has actually entered the emperor's eyes, Ji Gang still has eyes, and he knows who can move, and who he can't move for the time being. In fact, he still wanted to move Chen Ying, but the emperor seemed to have the intention of closing the case. He once tentatively mentioned Chen Ying, but the emperor gave him a meaningful look, which let him know that the emperor felt that he was not innocent after all.

Li Zhen is dead, so he really can't get rid of his sins in the emperor's heart, it seems that everyone feels that this case has something to do with him, but he knows that as long as Chen Ying is still there, he can overturn this case, but now is not the time.

With the successive imprisonment of a group of subordinates of the East Palace, Ji Gang always couldn't get the confession he wanted - what he wanted was naturally not a "no courtesy", but the evidence that these people gathered around the crown prince in another small court, but he was disappointed, the emperor seemed to just want to put these people in prison, and didn't care about their confessions.

However, this series of stormy measures has made everyone see the emperor's dissatisfaction with the crown prince, because in the past year of the East Palace's supervision, the prince has moved Chen Ying and Ji Gang, and what is the redress of the wrongs, that is, resistance to the emperor - because these cases were ordered by the emperor, and all of them were executed by the emperor's order, and now their relatives are encouraged to complain, isn't that just against the emperor?

These things, Zhang Zhaohua has already told Gao Chi before, if Gao Chi does not move Chen Ying, Zhang Zhaohua will naturally not lead the disaster to Ji Gang, just move one, but both of them are involved in a case, and Zhang Zhaohua will also suspect Gao Chi's intentions, not to mention the emperor.

It's just that the matter has been brewed, and because she and Gao Chi have a huge and irreparable difference in Li Zhen's case, Zhang Zhaohua will not say a word about all the cases after him, even including some cases of Jianwen's widows.

Zhang Zhaohua knew that this time, Gao Chi should be difficult. She knew that the emperor always had to let out this breath and teach him a lesson, but she didn't expect that the emperor would lock Gao Chi in a secluded room and only deliver one meal a day, and even after the fifth day, he ordered that no food or water should be delivered.

Zhang Zhaohua was really scared now, in fact, as early as when Gao Chi was imprisoned, several people in the cabinet, and the courtiers led by Jian Yi and Xia Yuanji in the court, all advised the emperor, some of them spoke fiercely, some secretly pleaded, and even Lu Zhen, who has always been quite sycophant, spoke for Gao Chi, but the emperor ignored all of them, did not say that these people would be punished, nor did they pay attention to their recitals, and they all stayed in the middle of the house.

Of course, the emperor's reason is that the crown prince is so fat that he can't even walk, and if he doesn't lose it, it is a question of whether he can live a long life in the future. It's naturally possible to lose weight, but it's really incredible to put people in the house and not give them food.

It didn't take long for even Xungui to start pleading, and King Han and King Zhao were naturally in front of the emperor, saying many times, but I don't know how to say it - Zhang Zhaohua knelt at the door of the Qianqing Palace every day, watching the two people go in and out, knowing that they were the initiators, but they were helpless, and even asked them to persuade the emperor again.

"Gao Xu, Gao Sui," Zhang Zhaohua knelt on the ground and was short, and could only look up at them: "What does my father think, does he really want to starve the prince to death?"

"Sister-in-law, don't worry," Gao Sui's face looked like Queen Xu, but as long as he laughed, there was a frightening evil atmosphere: "The father just wants the prince and the eldest brother to lose one weight and lose weight, and at this four-way banquet, it is not elegant for the envoys of other countries to look at, not to mention that the imperial doctor also said that the eldest brother's lack of energy is the reason for being too obese, and the father and emperor are for the sake of the eldest brother, so he asked him to eat less." ”

"He's eaten less, but he can't lose it......" Zhang Zhaohua said: "He has always been so fat, and his father has seen him for 30 years, has he lost weight overnight?"

"Why can't he lose weight," Gao Sui put away the folding fan and patted his stomach gently: "I'm not fat, my second brother is not fat, my father and queen mother are not fat, there is no fat one in our family, why is he not like ours?"

Zhang Zhaohua was so angry that her lips trembled a few times, but she still endured her anger and begged with good words: "Gao Xu, you tell your father to tell him to let your eldest brother out, punish him in other ways, you can't help but make him eat!"

Gao Xu looked at this woman who knelt from morning to night for several days, her face was pale and her lips were chapped, and his eyes seemed to show a little compassion, which made Zhang Zhaohua see it, and couldn't help but feel a little excited: "Gao Xu, even if I beg you, you persuade your father and ask him to release Gao Chi!"

However, after she said this, the little kindness in Gao Xu's eyes seemed to disappear immediately. He approached, so that Zhang Zhaohua had to raise his head even more to look up at him: "I only suffer the sin of a few days, why should my sister-in-law bother......? Soldiers?"

What does this have to do with the soldiers who have worked tirelessly to defend the borders of the country? These people have worked so hard that they can't do without eating!

Gao Chi and Gao Xu walked away, and Zhang Zhaohua was not allowed to see Gao Chi several times, nor was he summoned by the emperor, so he could only kneel in front of the Qianqing Palace day by day, waiting for the emperor's change of mind.