Li Yu and Princess Zhenming turned pale.

It's not that the generals of the Praetorian Guard are incompetent, and the officials and seniors crush people to death, not only in the Ming Dynasty, in China, in North Korea, but all over the world, I'm afraid it's all like this.

Zhao Qi's prestige can completely suppress the people of the military, including the Praetorian Guard. Because the Praetorian Guard in Seoul is under the direct jurisdiction of Zhao Qi, if even the top boss dares to speak up, this Praetorian Guard general is not a question of loyalty or bravery, but a dumbfounded.

Princess Zhenming also had the same thoughts as Li Liang, secretly anxious, but she was helpless, she couldn't talk nonsense at all, she couldn't stop it, she insisted on blocking it, provoking the situation to deteriorate, Wei Bao's tiger and wolf-like subordinates might kill Li Liang immediately! In that case, North Korea will immediately fall into a situation from which it will never recover.

Without a king, there will immediately be dozens, even hundreds, of royal children vying for the throne, and then Korea will immediately be in chaos, and it will not be possible to stop this chaos for a long time.

The general of the Praetorian Guard asked for permission to let him go, and when the people below saw that the general had ordered him to let go, he naturally wouldn't say anything.

Twenty female agents of the Action Corps of the General Administration of Statistics and Li Sanggong, a female officer in the palace of Li Liang, entered the Joseon palace, and Zhao Qi immediately ordered to send someone to restrain all the Korean soldiers to return to the camp. Except for the Joseon royal palace and the walls of Seoul, the city gates, not a single Korean soldier was allowed to appear anywhere else.

These are all things within Zhao Qi's authority, and he doesn't even have to go through Li Liang to order them directly.

Now Lin Wenbiao, Wu Xuexia and Wang Qiuya are just waiting, and they can only wait.

If you can get the incriminating oath of the two classes of ministers who oppose Wei Bao and plot to assassinate Wei Bao, everything will be easy to do, if you can't get that oath, and now the movement is so big, the two classes of ministers who oppose Wei Bao will immediately know, and when the time comes, things will immediately develop in the direction of no end.

After all, if there is no evidence of guilt, these two classes of ministers in North Korea who oppose Wei Bao will definitely not give up! We absolutely cannot tolerate Wei Bao's reckless behavior in North Korea.

At the same time, they are also afraid that Wei Bao's people will find the oath, and they will definitely try to destroy the oath immediately, and strictly pursue Wei Bao.

When the time comes, the Korean royal army and the Cheonjiho army will go to war again.

The Bao army is now waging a war behind enemy lines in Nurhachi's territory, and has already been overwhelmed by the fortifications set up on the frontal battlefield of Lianshan Pass, and if a fire breaks out in the backyard of North Korea, President Wei will inevitably collapse.

Lin Wenbiao, Wu Xuexia and Wang Qiuya naturally understood this, the three of them were calm on the surface, but the palms of their hands were full of sweat, as if they had just washed their hands, and their bodies were also very hot.

The winter in North Korea is very cold, and it is a bitter cold place like the Northeast, and in ancient times, it was a place where prisoners were distributed, but even so, they couldn't help the three of them from being hot and dry at this time, and their backs were numb for a while.

Twenty female agents of the Action Corps of the General Administration of Statistics took the female official of the palace of Yi Liang into the Joseon Palace, and traveled all the way unhindered, because Li Shanggong took the gold medal given by Li Liang, which was very powerful in the Joseon royal palace.

Although in this short period of time, twenty female agents of the Operations Corps of the General Bureau of Statistics have the power equivalent of royal power and can interrogate anyone, but the time is urgent, and there is only a general direction, knowing the approximate scope of the oath hiding of the two classes of ministers who oppose Wei Bao, and it is difficult to find without accurate information.

The leader of the 20 female agents of the Action Corps of the General Administration of Statistics is called Zhan Ping, who is slightly chubby and a shrewd and capable woman.

She is not a native of Weijiazhuang, but fled from Liaodong to Weijiazhuang, and in less than a year, she can be promoted from an ordinary agent all the way to the General Administration of Statistics, which is already a difficult thing, and now she is now the captain of the action team of the General Administration of Statistics.

Zhan Ping believes that at least more than 10% of the people in this palace know about the oath.

Because, people at the level of stewards must know that people at the level of stewards can account for almost one-tenth, such as this Li Shanggong next to her, as a female official next to Li Liang, her status in the Korean palace is at least the top three, it is impossible not to know.

So, Zhan Ping definitely started from Li Shanggong.

Zhan Ping said to Li Shanggong, the female official in Li Liang's palace: "Say, where are those oaths, we can find them if you don't say it, but if you don't say it, after we find the oath ourselves, you people who don't report it will die a miserable death." ”

What Zhan Ping didn't expect was that Li Shanggong, who looked very gentle, cautious, and timid on the outside, was unusually calm at this time.

Li Shanggong raised his chin slightly, looked at Zhan Ping expressionlessly, and then paused for a while before saying, "I'm sorry, I don't understand anything." ”

"Won't you say, you're not afraid of death?" Zhan Ping was also expressionless, but secretly felt that things were tricky.

If there is enough time, if this is the interrogation room of the Statistics Bureau, Zhan Ping will be completely sure, but unfortunately, this is the palace of the Joseon Dynasty, the territory of the other party, and the time is also seriously limited, she believes that Li Shanggong also understands this truth.

Therefore, the right time and place are not on your side, and this is the most difficult aspect.

"Gather all the people in Li Kun's dormitory and interrogate them separately! Someone else must know about it besides this woman! Zhan Ping didn't have time to waste, and immediately said to the female agents under him.

The female agents here are all female agents of the Action Corps of the General Administration of Statistics, all of them have received strict training, and have experience in performing tasks, and may carry out arrests, assassinations, and these physical actions will be a little worse than those of male agents, but the execution of interrogations is no worse than that of men, and even sometimes, women's thinking is more delicate and they can find out their weaknesses.

Li Shanggong listened to Zhan Ping's order, his facial muscles twitched, and he was still able to stay calm, but the chill in his eyes was even worse.

Soon, Zhan Ping got clues from a Shang Gong surnamed Zheng.

In the general palace, there is at most one Shang Palace, but Li Liang is the king of North Korea and has a noble status, and in addition to Li Shang Palace, Li Liang's palace also has a Zheng Shang Palace equivalent to a deputy.

Zheng Shanggong explained that she didn't know about the oath, but Li Shanggong must know everything about His Royal Highness, and she also explained the location of the meeting of the two ministers in the palace a few days ago.

Although this clue is not very clear, after judging that Zheng Shanggong did not lie, Zhan Ping decided to re-interrogate Li Shanggong with the only little achievement.

Zhan Ping began to re-examine how many people in the Joseon royal palace knew the secret of the oath, and she felt that there should be less than one percent, because if people of the level of Zheng Shanggong did not know, only a very few, and only a handful of palace leaders in the Joseon royal palace knew that Li Shanggong must be one of them.

"We already know where the Oath is hidden! This is your last chance. There is a Shang Gong who has already confessed everything, and she said that the oath is in charge of your care, and it is up to you now. Zhan Ping said.

"I know it's said, she doesn't know anything, and she has a grudge against me and deliberately framed me." Li Shanggong said.

"Who is she?" Zhan Ping asked.

"In such a short period of time, you can only ask people in His Highness's palace, if my guess is right, it was Zheng Shanggong who told you." Li Shanggong said.

"Why did she frame you?" Zhan Ping asked.

"It's simple, she doesn't want to die, she's afraid! I'm afraid you're going to kill her. Whoever you interrogate now will be pushed on me. Who made me the female official in charge of all affairs by His Highness's side. Li Shanggong said indifferently. It's as if he's talking about someone else's business, not about his own life or death.

In Zhan Ping's view, Li Shanggong is more like a professional agent than many trained middle and senior agents of the General Statistics Administration, which makes Zhan Ping's heart sink.

Time is passing by little by little.

"It seems that you are not going to say it, I can tell you that we already know the entire plan to assassinate the president of our family, and we now control Li Kun, you know all this! Based on Li Kun's own accusations alone, none of those who conspired to frame the president of our family should even think of running! If you refuse to say, we will kill you now, and then I will go out and tell my lord about it, and I will not find the oath!" Zhan Ping threatened, planning to break the net.

Li Shanggong was still expressionless: "This is your business, you don't have to tell me!" If you could do this, I believe you would have done it a long time ago, and if you can't find any physical evidence to testify against the two ministers, you will kill people indiscriminately, and the entire people of North Korea will fight you to the death! However, I can tell you that if anyone knows what you need, that person must be Zheng Shanggong! She is very trusted by His Royal Highness, and she has been promoted from a palace maid to a Shanggong in less than a year by His Royal Highness's side, think about it yourself. ”

Zhan Ping frowned, Zheng Shanggong testified against Li Shanggong, and now Li Shanggong testified against Zheng Shanggong, whose words are credible?

"Keep her and Zheng Shanggong in solitary confinement." Zhan Ping said to his subordinates.

Immediately, two female agents agreed and escorted Li Shanggong away.

"Captain, it looks like we have to be executed! Punish both Li Shanggong and Zheng Shanggong? Surely one of the two of them knew the whereabouts of the oath. A female agent suggested to Zhan Ping.

"Time is running out! If one of the two of them knew, with their city, even if they were executed, they would never be able to pry their mouths open within an hour or two. Zhan Ping said.

"So what should I do now?"

"Go and search the homes of the two of them, they are all controlled by us unprepared! People can lie, but their dwellings can't lie, including Li Kun's entire dormitory! Zhan Ping ordered: "Also, interrogate other palace maids and eunuchs, mainly around the interpersonal relationship between Li Shanggong and Zheng Shanggong in the Joseon royal palace, and who they usually come into contact with." ”

"Yes!" Several female agents agreed.

But they are not too optimistic about Zhan Ping's order, because Li Liang's bedroom is not small, and it is difficult to check it in a short time, especially if the oath is such a secret thing, who knows where it is hidden? That's even harder to find.

Moreover, if things were not in Li Yu's dormitory, and the scope was expanded to the entire Seoul royal palace in North Korea, it would probably not be found for ten or eight years, or even a lifetime.

Zhan Ping's main search was the residence of Li Shanggong and Zheng Shanggong.

Search for Li Liang's dormitory, and let the other female agents do it.

Although Li Shanggong and Zheng Shanggong have very high positions, their residences are not big, just two not very large rooms, not far away.

Zhan Ping soon found a set of eunuch clothes in the bedroom of Zheng Shang Palace, washed them and folded them neatly, which made Zhan Ping feel rewarded, and like the Ming court, the palace maids and eunuchs of the Joseon Palace could not communicate casually.

Of course, there are things about palace maids and eunuchs eating each other in the Ming court, and there are also things in the Korean palace.

Eating refers to the relationship between the palace maid and the palace maid, or between the palace maid and the eunuch, as a "husband and wife", and eating together. This is a phenomenon caused by palace maids and eunuchs being confined in the court for a long time, unable to live a normal family life, and resentful and boring.

From the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, historical books and notes are endless.

The eunuch has no wife and children, and the palace maid has no husband, so the two form a temporary partner to comfort the loneliness of the deep palace.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was quite common for eunuchs and palace maids to marry each other because of mutual comfort, and even a palace maid who had been in the palace for a long time without eating each other would be teased by her companions as discarded.

Once the eunuch and the palace maid are in love, there are also enthusiastic and willing matchmakers.

The reason for this is that the low-level eunuchs in the palace are unable to marry wives and concubines, and the palace maids rarely have the opportunity to be fortunate by the emperor, so the eunuchs and palace maids only seek comfort by themselves.

The partnership between the eunuchs and the palace maids in the Ming Dynasty was also known as a vegetable household.

There should be a difference between a vegetable household and a pair of foods. The food can be between eunuchs, court maids, or between people of the same sex, and most of them are temporary; And it can be called a vegetable household is to live together, like a husband and wife, with considerable stability.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang hated this kind of behavior between eunuchs and palace maids and strictly banned it, and punished the eunuchs who married wives and started a family with very cruel skinning.

However, since Yongle, the status of eunuchs has risen, and this ban has disappeared. History: The palace people have no children, and they each choose the inner supervisor as their spouse, which is called a vegetable household. Their possessions are connected like a family, and they love each other like husband and wife. Even if there are concubines below, there are also quite a few, although the Son of Heaven is not forbidden, and his eunuchs are not suspicious.

Roughly similar historical sources can also be found in the wild history. According to the "Wanli Ye Ed.", at first, because the eunuch on duty had more contact with the palace maid, he gradually developed feelings. Based on this, eunuchs often took the initiative to purchase clothing, food, jewelry and daily necessities for the palace maids to express their admiration.

Caihu was openly allowed in the palace of the Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor and empress would sometimes ask the eunuch who was Rucaihu? The eunuch only answered truthfully.

North Korea follows the example of the Ming Dynasty everywhere, and actually learns from the point of eating.

After the eunuch and the palace maid became vegetable households, they sang and returned, like husband and wife. Although the eunuch is hardworking and resentful to the palace maid he loves, he is driven by it, and the palace maid will also feel sorry for the eunuch and not let him do too much work, but support other eunuchs to do it.

Some eunuchs in the palace who were low-status, ugly-looking, and older knew that they could not be favored by the palace maids, so they were willing to be the servants of the vegetable households, cooking, carrying, and washing for them, and the palace maids paid them a certain amount of silver taels every month.

In this case, some eunuchs who are good at cooking become the object of pursuit, and they get more rewards, and they can earn four or five taels of silver a month at most.

Dressed in dusty and oil-stained clothes and carrying baskets of vegetables, these eunuchs went in and out of the court to buy the necessary sundries.

Of course, if the palace maid of the opposite food has a high status, the eunuch can also do some high-level work - such as taking care of such important things as the secret oath of the two classes of ministers who conspire to assassinate the Taifu.

Zhan Ping immediately took her clothes and asked a palace maid who had broken down emotionally and would answer anything.

"Do you know whose clothes belong to it? This dress was found in the bedroom of Zheng Shang Palace. Zhan Ping asked.

The palace maid didn't think about it and said, "That must be Zheng Yingda." ”

"Who is Jung Young-dae? What is the relationship with Zheng Shanggong? Zhan Ping asked.

"Zheng Yingda is Zheng Shanggong's opponent, the two were originally fellow villagers, Zheng Shanggong was reused by His Royal Highness with his appearance, Zheng Yingda climbed Zheng Shanggong." The palace maid replied.

"You and my people are going to find this Zheng Yingda now!" Zhan Ping seemed to have found a breakthrough in things all of a sudden, and her eyes lit up.

The palace maid shook her head and said, "I don't know where Zheng Yingda is, he was originally in His Highness's palace, but I haven't seen him for three or four days, and I haven't heard of being transferred to other palaces." The maid replied.

When Zhan Ping heard this, she was even more convinced that she had found a clue, she originally put the main object on Li Shanggong, but now, she felt that Zheng Shanggong was even more suspicious.

The quality of an agent is that he will not be easily deceived by appearance, and the more sincere and intimate Zheng Shanggong is, the more suspicious he is in Zhan Ping's opinion.

"Then Li Shanggong, did she have a match?" Zhan Ping asked again.

The palace maid shook her head and said: "No, there must be no, Li Shanggong's temperament is upright, he usually doesn't smile, and he doesn't talk to anyone much, however, His Royal Highness trusts her very much, when she was in Guanghaijun, she was the Shang Palace in the palace, and after His Royal Highness took charge, most of the Shang Palace was cleared, and only she stayed." ”

Zhan Ping didn't want to listen to the palace maid say some unimportant clues, nodded, asked the palace maid to take him down, and then said to a female agent beside him: "Make every effort to find Zheng Yingda's whereabouts!" ”

"Yes, Captain." Agent stands upright.

Finding Zheng Yingda's whereabouts is much more difficult than Zhan Ping imagined.

She and the personal female agent quickly found Zheng Yingda's bedroom, but there was nothing special to discover, and no one knew Zheng Yingda's whereabouts, this Zheng Yingda, in the past four days, it seemed that the world had suddenly evaporated, and some people even felt that Zheng Yingda might have been secretly killed, after all, the death of several palace maids and eunuchs in the palace is a common thing, and there is no difference between the death of a few mice, the death of a few cats and dogs.

"Captain, look." The female agent showed Zhan Ping a set of clothes, and there were several gold ingots wrapped in the clothes, each of which was yellow and cancan, each weighing at least one catty!

"Captain, where can an ordinary eunuch have so much gold? Even if it is that Zheng Shang Palace, no matter how much he gets Li Liang's favor, he is only the head of the palace maid, not the palace concubine, even if it is the palace concubine, there may not be so much gold! The female agent said.

Zhan Ping nodded: "It's really weird." ”

However, Zhan Ping did not pay attention to the gold, but picked up a bunch of keys from the side of several large gold ingots: "This Zheng Yingda is not a chief eunuch, but just eating against Zheng Shanggong, why are there so many keys?" ”

In the royal palace of Seoul, such as the residence of the palace maid and the eunuch, there is no need for a key, and where the key is used, unless it needs to be locked, it is forbidden for people to enter and leave the palace.

The female agent shook her head, indicating that she could not answer Zhan Ping's question.

"Let's go! Go and interrogate that Zheng Shanggong again! Zhan Ping reluctantly made a decision, if she had enough time, she would formulate an interrogation plan and then go to Zheng Shanggong, but it was too late now.

"Do you know where these keys are used? Do you know where Jung Young-dae went? Zhan Ping asked Zheng Shanggong.

"I don't know, don't doubt Zheng Yingda, he is just an ordinary eunuch. If there really is such an important oath as the joint murder of Lord Taifu by two classes of ministers, I don't even know, how can Zheng Yingda know? If you know, it can only be Li Shanggong, it must be Li Shanggong who deliberately framed me and Zheng Yingda, you must not listen to her. Zheng Shanggong cried.

"Don't cry!" Zhan Ping suppressed her anger, and when she saw the other party crying, she felt that there was something wrong with this Zheng Shanggong.

"You haven't seen Zheng Yingda in a few days?" Zhan Ping asked.

"It's been a few days, and I can't remember the exact number of days." Zheng Shanggong shook his head while crying, looking demented, pitiful, and a little unbearable to watch.

"Li Shanggong said that the oath was taken care of by Zheng Yingda! Now that all the evidence points to you, are you still quibbling? If it's too late for you to turn back! Otherwise, when the time comes, not only will you and Zheng Yingda's lives not be saved, but all those who have a relationship with you will also be subject to joint sitting. Zhan Ping threatened.

"I said it all, Li Shanggong deliberately framed me, jealous of His Highness's kindness to me, jealous of my quick promotion, I just took the initiative to provide you with information, I am meritorious, you still doubt me?" Zheng Shanggong said very aggrievedly.

Zhan Ping shook the key in her hand, "Then how do you explain these?" What does an ordinary eunuch do with so many keys? You won't say where these keys are used. ”

"I really don't know, I really don't know!" Zheng Shanggong only knew how to cry, looking like he was about to be driven crazy.

If it weren't for Zhan Ping's training, he was much more iron-hearted than ordinary people, otherwise he would not have been able to bear to be tried again.

However, the investigation is once again deadlocked.

At the same time, a group of two-shift ministers in Gu Hong's mansion already knew that Wei Bao's people had made a move, and Li Liang had been controlled by Wei Bao's people.

When Zhan Ping was nervously investigating the oath in the palace, Li Liang was controlled by Lin Wenbiao's people at the door of the Joseon Palace.

Zhao Guiren's father, Zhao Qi, a training general in Gyeonggi Province, had already issued an order to the entire Seoul to prohibit the soldiers from going out except for the royal palace and city defenses, and to block the gates of the eight gates.

This series of actions is too big, and it is impossible for Gu Hong and others not to get the news.

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