"Xie Jin is appointed as the counselor of Guangxi's political secretary," Zhang Zhaohua sighed: "You look at the notes he wrote, not mentioning the situation of the people in Guangxi, but also pleading that he is not guilty, who will say that he is smart in the future, I will definitely laugh at him for being blind." ”

Xie Jin was banished from Wenyuan Pavilion, he seemed to understand a little bit that his compilation of "Yongle Emperor" was different from the emperor's thinking, but he still did not deeply understand who he had offended and whose eyes he had obstructed - of course the crime of his expulsion would not be the separation of the royal flesh and blood, but the "unfair reading of the papers" during the court examination that year.

He was very unconvinced by this crime, and when he arrived in Guangxi, it was said that he complained a lot before and after people, so Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, joined him in a book, and this Li Zhigang was one of the people who were ordered by the emperor to solve Jinzang's refusal, which shows the way of being an official, behind the people who have to work together in the same dynasty, or not too open-mouthed.

She and Gao Chi sat down and didn't say a word, when they suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside, and a frightened voice came: "Zhuwang Pavilion - something happened!"

Gao Chi and Zhang Zhaohua both stood up and said in surprise: "What's the matter?"

Things were quite terrifying, when they arrived, they saw Wei holding the already exhausted Ping Ge'er crying heavily, Ping Ge'er was lying on his back on the ground, his hands were clenched tightly, his blue and purple face was hideous and terrifying, and he was no longer breathing.

Not only Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Chi were so frightened that they were paralyzed, but even when the emperor saw this scene, he couldn't help but stumble two steps: "Erlang, Erlang, what's wrong!"

The imperial doctor concluded at a glance that he had been poisoned by arsenic, and when the poison entered the abdomen, the medicine stone could not be saved, and the severe pain would make people convuls, showing a very tragic death phenomenon - Zhang Zhaohua looked at the corpse on the ground that was almost crushed by Webster, and only felt that his brain had lost the ability to direct his own actions, and his ears were thundering one after another.

Gao Xue stood there motionless, as if it had taken root, as if the ground was about to crack at his feet.

"Arsenic—" The Emperor roared with red eyes, "Where did the arsenic come from? Who poisoned it?

Wei's face also showed the same blue and purple as Brother Ping'er, she grabbed Brother Ping'er and didn't let go, dragging Brother Ping'er to kowtow to the emperor: "Father, father, you save him! He doesn't like you, but he is also your own grandson!"

Several eunuchs came up to restrain her, and then the envoys and judges of the Tai Hospital began to check the residue at the corner of Ping'er's mouth—they laboriously broke open Ping'er's stiff mandible, and pulled out the food residue powder from it, confirming that it was osmanthus cake, because the aroma of osmanthus was unique.

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but be stunned, osmanthus cake, she had eaten it in the morning, and even ate it with Wei's and Xu's, the two of them left the palace more than an hour ago.

"Osmanthus cake, there!" There was indeed a plate of osmanthus cake on the plate, and this cake was eaten by someone, and there were only three pieces left out of the five pieces.

Zhang Zhaohua's neck was stiff and her eyes were straight, because this osmanthus cake and the plate were taken away from her Chunhe Palace, and the picture of the three friends of the old man on the plate was painted by her own hands when she was burning it in the internal official supervision.

She remembered, the three of them finished eating the osmanthus cake, and Webster thought it was delicious and took some away-

The people from the Tai Hospital gathered around and carefully investigated: "Arsenic has fallen in this pastry." ”

"Where did this osmanthus cake come from?" said the emperor: "Bring all the people from the dining hall here! I will interrogate them myself!"

This thing is naturally not made by Dianshan, Zhang Zhaohua's heart beat hard, and his lips trembled, "It's me, I gave it to her - but this arsenic, I don't know!"

The emperor also refused to believe that Zhang Zhaohua could make arsenic in a grand manner, and the nurse and nanny who took care of Brother Ping'er knocked their heads on the ground: "The slave has always been by the emperor's grandson's side, and he left once in the middle because he wanted to relieve his hands, and it was the golden flower next to the princess who served the emperor's grandson to eat the osmanthus cake." ”

Jinhua had already hanged herself, and the autopsy showed that she hanged herself half an hour ago, after watching Brother Ping eat osmanthus cake.

"Check!" the emperor ordered, and the internal officials quickly began to search. Jin Hua's room was quite clean, almost nothing, and after a moment, the emperor asked these people to stop again, he felt that when it came to the means of investigation, he still had to trust Jin Yiwei.

When Zhang Zhaohua heard Ji Gang's name, she couldn't help but sweat behind her ears - she wanted to say that Jin Yiwei couldn't participate in the case of the inner court, but she obviously couldn't speak at this time, when she hadn't cleared her suspicion.

Ji Gang, although Zhang Zhaohua's brain is completely stagnant now, she knows that the arrival of this person is quite unfavorable to her and to the East Palace-there is a suspicion between them. It is entirely possible for Ji Gang to declare a personal vendetta, but of course he wants to do something, and he will definitely not let people see it.

Ji Gang came in a hurry, he accepted the emperor's appointment, and this shocking case was put into his hands. Zhang Zhaohua also saw the whole picture of Ji Gang for the first time, and occasionally wiped his face once or twice before, but he didn't look at it very closely, this time she saw it clearly, to be honest, Ji Gang is also an extremely heroic person, but when he faced his pair of eagle-like eyes, it made people feel that small hairs stood up from behind.

When she looked over, Ji Gang also looked over, and there was a hint of sharpness in his eyes, but he disappeared suddenly.

"Your Majesty," Ji Gang showed a slightly embarrassed look: "This case, this case has a lot to stake, I'm afraid it will be implicated, and the minister doesn't dare-"

"Why don't you dare?" said the emperor, "It is my imperial grandson who was poisoned today, is it my turn tomorrow?"

He was suddenly stunned for a moment, and exhaled briefly and spasmodically, because he realized that what Ji Gang said was not the implication he thought, how many cases Ji Gang had handled of Jianwen's widows, implicated tens of thousands of people, and he didn't hear him say a word about implication, so this implication refers to the situation he least wants to imagine.

"I give you power," Emperor Yongle said in a deep and unpredictable voice, "You can search anyone, as long as it is related to the case, there are suspects, you can search." ”

When Ji Gang got this sentence, he received the order, and his men quickly came over and surrounded the Zhuwang Pavilion. The front of the palace was full of heavily armed guards, watching the wind and grass around them. All the people and vehicles that approached the palace were closely checked, and there were other vassal kings living in the palace, and the capital and the outside world were under high tension because of this incident.