Zhu Hao and Gongsun Ce looked at each other, and no one said anything for a long time, this fire case was really full of twists and turns. In the end, Zhu Hao recovered from this slightly disappointed mood and instructed the attendants: "Go and bring that treasurer official to this prince!" This prince will be interrogated personally! ”

The chamberlain was ordered to bring the treasurer over, Zhu Hao looked at the treasurer who was already dead at the moment, and snorted coldly: "Why is there a barrel of kerosene missing in the treasurer's warehouse, what is going on?" You still don't want to recruit this prince from the truth? ”

The treasurer said tremblingly, "This ...... This, slave...... The minions don't know! ”

Zhu Hao was furious when he heard this: "Fart! You're a treasurer, and there's a barrel of kerosene missing from this treasurer! You say you don't know? You see that this prince is young and easy to bully, right? This prince can't cure you, right? ”

The treasurer and official hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed like garlic and said: "The five princes are angry, this, eh, slave, slave really, it's really not clear!" ”

Zhu Hao laughed angrily and said: "You don't know, okay, since you don't know, it's not difficult for this prince to be for you, someone will send this treasurer to Jinyiwei, and let Jinyiwei interrogate him strictly, and this prince won't believe him and won't say it!" ”

Originally, the treasurer official heard Zhu Hao say that it was not difficult for him, and he breathed a little sigh of relief in his heart, but when he heard the second half of Zhu Hao's words, this treasurer official was like a pile of mud, slumped on the ground, and the violent shaking of his body was obviously a manifestation of extreme fear.

This brocade guard was set up by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and its functions include supervision, arrest, torture, and sentencing. Jinyiwei was the first spy agency of the Ming Dynasty at that time. What makes people frightened is its torture methods, which is known as a mouth that no brocade guard in the world can't open.

There is a popular saying among the people: "I'd rather go to the Yama Palace than to go to the Jinyi Guard!" The clear meaning of the words is that the Jinyi Guard is more terrible than the Yama Palace, and there is also a layer of implication that going to the Jinyi Guard to die will become a good wish. From this, it can be seen that the horror of Jinyiwei, and in the edict of Jinyiwei, it is definitely a place where the gods will tremble and be frightened when they go.

Jinyiwei is famous for his murder, how can the treasurer not be afraid, at this moment he is already frightened, and he can no longer say anything.

Seeing this, Zhu Hao thought about stimulating the treasurer and official again, thinking like this, Zhu Hao said to himself: "If you say it now, this prince can see your honesty and let it fall lightly, if you go to Jinyiwei, you can't help but say it!" And you should know that the palace fire was caused by kerosene, right? So if it is confirmed that the kerosene lost in your warehouse was used to set fire, then not only will you die, but I am afraid that your nine clans will not be able to protect it! ”

Although this treasurer is a eunuch with no wife and children, he also has parents and brothers, and he also attaches great importance to this precious family affection, and Zhu Hao's words completely made this treasurer give up all resistance.

I saw that this treasurer official used all his strength on the ground to get up and said, "The five princes spare their lives!" The minions told the five princes truthfully, and asked the five princes not to send the minions to the Jinyi Guard! As long as the five princes promise the minion, the minion will tell the five princes everything they know now! ”

As soon as Zhu Hao heard that there was a door, he waved his hand to let go of the two chamberlains who had already grabbed this treasurer and were about to send him to Jinyiwei, and let go of this treasurer. At the same time, he said with a cold face: "At this time, you still have to negotiate conditions with this prince!" It's better to recruit it truthfully! ”

The treasurer was obviously frightened by the three words of Jinyiwei, and did not answer directly, but still spoke again and emphasized: "The slave implores the fifth prince to agree to the slave!" ”

Zhu Hao saw that this treasurer was so stubborn and didn't want to waste precious time investigating the case, so he nodded and said, "Okay!" This prince will promise you that if you confess truthfully, this prince will never send you to Jinyiwei! Tell us everything you know! ”

The treasurer and official kowtowed in thanks, and then said: "The kerosene lost in this treasurer is indeed related to the minions, the minions originally wanted to secretly sell a can of kerosene and give the minions some praise for the pension money in the future, and they didn't want the palace to catch fire because of kerosene, but this fire really has nothing to do with the minions, and the cans of kerosene that the treasurer has less are indeed stolen out and sold by the minions themselves!" ”

Zhu Hao snorted coldly when he heard this, and shouted angrily: "What a dog slave who guards and steals himself, someone will send him to Jinyi Wei for strict interrogation!" ”

When the treasurer heard this, he quickly knelt on the ground and said, "Don't! The slave told everything he knew, the fifth prince, you promised the slave, as long as the slave told the truth, you wouldn't send the slave to Jinyiwei! Five princes, you can't be untrustworthy! ”

Zhu Hao smiled slightly when he heard this: "What you said is not wrong, this prince did promise you, but what this prince promised is that if you tell the truth, this prince will not send you to Jinyiwei, but...... Now this prince suspects that you are not telling the truth! So...... This prince did not break his promise! ”

As he spoke, he motioned for two chamberlains holding the treasurer to take the treasurer away, and the treasurer before taking it away was still stumbling and shouting: "The slave is wronged, the slave is telling the truth, the slave is telling the truth......

Seeing this, Zhu Hao sighed secretly in his heart: "I also know that you are telling the truth, but what is the use of a person like you who guards and steals himself?" Today, even if I remove a rat in the palace for my father! I'm sorry, I did break my word......"

I thought I could dig up some clues from the mouth of this treasurer, but I got nothing. With such a big fanfare and effort, the treasurer only caught a moth in the palace, and it was really a bit more than worth the loss. Zhu Hao's treatment of that treasurer official like this also has more or less anger in it.

After this toss, the time was not early, the sky was already dark, Zhu Hao sighed that the day was gone, there were only two days left, and he was still at a loss at the moment, which made Zhu Hao a little irritable.

At the beginning of the Chinese lanterns in the palace, an old eunuch hurriedly came to the treasurer, and saw Zhu Hao and his party who had just sent away the corrupt treasurer, so he came up and said hello: "The old slave Kunning Palace deacon Liu He sees the five princes, and wishes the five princes good health!" ”

Zhu Hao was upset at the moment, and he didn't listen carefully to what the old eunuch said, so he waved his hand directly and said, "No need to be polite!" Get up! ”

After finishing speaking, Zhu Hao reacted, what? The old eunuch just now said that he was the deacon of Kunning Palace? How could the people of Kunning Palace possibly visit him? Those people are either the queen's henchmen, who don't want to see themselves like the queen, or they have all witnessed the scene of letting the queen be a monkey, and they must be laughing at themselves in their hearts. Either of these two people is unlikely to visit him, right?

Zhu Hao, who was puzzled, turned his head and carefully looked at the old eunuch who greeted him just now, he didn't know it, but Zhu Hao was even more surprised when he saw it, this was the old eunuch who reported to his father that day that the palace was on fire. Zhu Hao remembered that he had just arrived that day and wanted to have a good relationship, so he said a few words for the old eunuch, and the old eunuch looked at him gratefully before leaving.

What surprised Zhu Hao was not the intersection between him and the old eunuch, but that there must be tens of thousands of people in this huge palace, not to mention that in just a few days, he and this old eunuch could meet again, and it was really fateful.

Just when Zhu Hao sighed that his fate with the old eunuch was, he suddenly remembered something, and said secretly: "No! It's so late that this old eunuch is no longer on duty in Kunning Palace, what is he doing when he goes to the treasurer? Could it be that this old eunuch has anything to do with the fire case? ”

Zhu Hao's heart was full of questions, and he didn't hide it and asked directly: "Deacon Liu, you are not on duty in Kunning Palace so late, what are you doing here as a treasurer?" ”

Hearing this, Liu He hurriedly bowed down and said: "Back to Your Highness, the old slave is the deacon in charge of the lamp in Kunning Palace, and when he was in charge of the lamp in the palace today, there was black smoke rising from one of the lamps. This made the old slave puzzled, because the kerosene in this palace is specially processed, and there will be a faint fragrance of osmanthus when burning, and the old slave has been holding the lamp for more than 20 years, and this has never happened, so I came to the treasurer to ask what the reason is! I didn't want the treasurer to be arrested by His Royal Highness because of corruption and bending the law, and the old slave heard that His Highness was here, so he wanted to give His Highness a salute, so he went back to duty! ”

After Zhu Hao listened to Liu He's words, something seemed to flash in his mind, but he didn't catch it, and he didn't think about it again, but instead thought that this old eunuch Liu He was still on duty, thinking about the old witch's usual behavior, he must be extremely harsh on the people under him, and he didn't want this old eunuch Liu He to be found out by the old witch because he had delayed time by talking a few words to him. Thinking like this, Zhu Hao spoke: "Deacon Liu is still on duty, it is not good for you to stay here for too long, you better go back to duty quickly!" ”

Liu He should be, and turned to leave. After Liu He left, Zhu Hao and Gongsun Ce also returned to their own dormitory, just arrived at the dormitory, a little eunuch came by order, Zhu Hao did not embarrass the little eunuch and let him in directly, and then asked: "Is there anything the emperor has to tell you so late?" ”

The little eunuch said respectfully: "Tomorrow is the time for the imperial dining room to go out of the palace to buy vegetables, Your Majesty asked the servants to come over and ask His Highness what he wants to eat, so that the people in the imperial dining room can buy more!" ”

Listening to the words of the little eunuch, Zhu Hao's mind flashed again, this time he grabbed this fleeting aura, and asked with some excitement: "Are you saying that a large number of vegetables will be transported into the palace tomorrow?" This prince asks you, do you know how often vegetables are bought in this palace? ”

The little eunuch obviously didn't understand why Zhu Hao asked him such a question, but he didn't dare to disobey Zhu Hao, so he replied truthfully: "This is not good, you need to see the surplus of vegetables in the palace!" It usually doesn't take more than seven days! ”