Chapter 41: Execution
The makeup powder box used by Jinhua is not a thing from Qingyuan Yinlou, but a counterfeit on the market, which is something that a palace maid can afford.
The person behind the scenes wanted to identify the prince, but he probably didn't think about using a makeup powder box. It was Ji Gang's own strategy to turn the counterfeit makeup powder box into a real makeup powder box, but this strategy was obviously a mistake - because Qingyuan Yinlou had a unique system.
Zhang Zhaohua took the things in his hands, and he probably knew Ji Gang's calculations, and he made perjury, but this perjury seems to be able to be exposed, because Zhang Sheng's silver building must be able to find out who bought the things, that is to say, Ji Gang finally has a handle in Zhang Zhaohua's hands.
Zhang Zhaohua returned to the Chunhe Palace, and she first asked Sheng Yin: "Lord Sheng, why did you look strange when you tested for drugs before?"
Sheng Yin said: "Niangniang, the minister suspects that this arsenic did not flow from the Tai Hospital. ”
Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi were taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Why?"
"The minister was born from his mother's womb," Sheng Yin said, "I am allergic to bronze." No matter what is made of copper, as long as the minister touches it, he will have a rash all over his body. And this time the minister examined the arsenic, and he also had the same rash. ”
"What do you mean?" Zhang Zhaohua wondered.
"The minister suspects that this arsenic," Sheng Yin said, "there is some slight copper powder." Because the number is too small, the minister only has a rash on his fingers, but it is true. ”
Arsenic does not contain copper, the only possibility is that when refining arsenic, it is contaminated with copper.
"Where will copper be used?" Zhang Zhaohua meditated: "Copper is a forbidden thing, and it is impossible for anyone to dare to cast things in private. ”
Because copper can be minted for money, copper has always been forbidden and only owned by the state, so Zhang Zhaohua speculated that this place where arsenic is refined should be next to a state-owned metal smelter.
"The Baoquan Bureau mints money," Zhang Zhaohua said: "The Central Ordnance Bureau needs copper to cast firearms. ”
Zhang Zhaohua immediately sent a letter to Xie Chuan and asked him to investigate and secretly visit these two places, but she did not tell the emperor about this matter, because once Ji Gang sent someone to go, the behind-the-scenes commanders should be quickly alarmed, and nothing could be found.
At this time, Ji Gang pursed his lips in Beizhen Fusi, because he found that this well-designed bureau had to be interrupted by him.
If, if he hadn't been clever enough to replace that fake box with the real thing, the current situation should not be like this, and he could even be said to be done.
He thought that the crown princess not only understood his calculations, but had even grasped his handle - even if he burned down the Qingyuan Silver Tower in Beijing and the Silver Tower in Suzhou, it would be useless.
"Dudu," Wang Qian walked over excitedly: "The people from the East Palace have brought it, and we can be punished." ”
"Let's eat and drink well," Ji Gang swept the paperweight in his hand to the ground in frustration: "Send it back to the East Palace in two days." ”
A few henchmen couldn't help but be taken aback, "Dudu, what about the follow-up plan-"
Their plan is naturally on these princes' personal palace people, they have already prepared confessions, and even the inner line in the palace is ready, ready to be launched at any time - a prince who privately sets up the god of Jianwen and privately worships Jianwen, even if it is the emperor's own son, he will not be tolerated by the emperor.
Perhaps the evidence of poisoning the second emperor's grandson is conclusive and placed in front of the emperor, and the emperor will not abolish the crown prince, but if the Jianwen spiritual seat is privately set up, it is impossible for the emperor not to be angered, which is the reverse scale of the dragon.
Ji Gang had to revoke this ultimate plan, he raised his hand and twisted the flickering candlelight: "We can't always be people's lackeys, why can this master watch us fight in front." If he gets it well, he benefits, but if he doesn't, it's always our bad luck, which is not good. ”
Soon Xie Chuan's investigation had results, he was in the Ordnance Bureau, and found that someone used containers to boil and buy and sell arsenic, and this person was also more cautious in selling arsenic, he made a hole in the wall, he could see others, but others could not see him - according to his confession, there were not many people who came to him to buy arsenic, but they were all black households, that is, people who belonged to the homeless people in the capital, and these people could not buy arsenic in the pharmacy.
Sheng Yin tried the latest arsenic boiled by this person again, and there was obviously another layer of rash on his hand, and this time Zhang Zhaohua was almost sure - so Xie Chuan reported the situation to the emperor.
The emperor also attached great importance to this situation, and he ordered the East Palace, as well as all the family members of the King of Han and King Zhao, as well as the palace officials, to stand in front of this person and let him identify them one by one.
This man named Wang Cheng stared at the past with wide eyes, but kept shaking his head.
"Everyone is here," Ji Gang said, "Isn't there still anyone who hasn't arrived?" Or is it that Lord Xie has obtained false information at all?"
Xie Chuan didn't say anything, and it was true that as Ji Gang said, all the people on the register stood here, and there was no omission, but Wang Cheng still didn't find out this person.
"What about the nurse Yang?" the emperor spoke.
Yang was brought up, her spirit was very bad, she looked like she had been tortured, Wang Cheng stood in front of her and looked at it for a long time, and finally shook his head.
The reason why Wang Cheng watched it for a long time was because according to him, the person who came to buy arsenic was also an old woman, about the same age as Yang, and her hair was a little gray.
When Zhang Zhaohua heard such a message, he suddenly had a guess in his heart. She said, "There's still one person who hasn't shown up!"
The person Zhang Zhaohua said was the nursing mother Jin, and when the Jin family was brought up, Wang Cheng only glanced at her and shouted: "It's her! Yes, she's right! She was afraid that people would recognize her, and she wrapped her head around her, saying that she had leprosy!"
Although the Jin family has always denied it, but it is useless, the shackles of Jinyiwei immediately shackled her, and at the same time was taken away by the second concubine of the Han Dynasty, Li, and soon the interrogation results came out, it was indeed the two who conspired to bring arsenic into the palace of the kings, and Jin Hua was a person from Xishan Manor, she was manipulated by Jin, and put the arsenic into the osmanthus cake.
All the Jin family's calculations are ruthless and vicious, she poisoned the eldest son of the Han King, and the Li family's An Ge'er has a chance to ascend to the throne. At the same time, he also planted the nurse Yang, and he could get rid of this competitor together, no matter how he looked at it, he would make a hundred times more profit, and it could almost be said that she could not be found.
After the resignation, the Jin family was sentenced to death, and the ashes were burned after the inch; Li Xiangyun died, and the bones were burned, leaving only a piece of clothing and a crown, and placed it in the Heavenly Realm Temple, and when An Ge'er grew up, there was a place to worship.
Li Xiangyun was executed by Gao Xu's own hands, and it is said that Brother An cried very much that night, and howled all night, but this could not arouse any mercy from Zhang Zhaohua, and the Jin family and the Li family were indeed innocent. Only Gao Chi was seriously ill and lingered on the sickbed for nearly two months.