Inspector Zhu You took a long breath of air, and then stabilized his emotions and said, "Did you know if the prison was trapped?" Why didn't Wang Dehua report on this? ”

Wang Chengen does have some contradictions with Wang Dehua on weekdays, but at this moment he knows that it is not the time to fall into the well. Chongzhen, who has always been more at ease with the people around him, if he finds that even the old people like Wang Dehua have betrayed him, he doesn't want to know what happened to Wang Dehua, but I'm afraid that the old people around the emperor will be wary of the emperor in the future.

Wang Chengen didn't want the emperor to change his mind because of this incident, so he tried his best to explain to Wang Dehua: "Since the palace has reduced its manpower, and His Majesty has refused to recruit new people, there are less than 3,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and one-third of them have been sent abroad.

There are 238 registered personnel in the metropolitan governor, nearly half of whom have been dispatched to the workshops and mines of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to supervise, and the other half are mainly focused on the verification of the funds of various departments in the palace, the verification of the treasury revenue and expenditure of the household department, and the supervision of customs. With the current manpower of the metropolitan governor, it is indeed impossible to monitor what is happening inside the entire Miyagi.

Your Majesty knows that although Wang Dehua is good at taking power, he is loyal to His Majesty, and he will never collude with outsiders to murder His Royal Highness. ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't say anything, but just walked in front of Lu Qi. Looking at the emperor's feet stopped in front of him, Lu Qi, who lowered his head, suddenly said: "So far, the Social Investigation Bureau has not found that the matter of Yongning Palace is related to the royal capital governor. ”

Only then did Zhu Youzhen ask out loud: "Where is this bastard now?" Will he wait until something happens to me before he rolls over? ”

Wang Chengen breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "Wang Dehua is kneeling outside the hall, waiting for His Majesty to fall. ”

Zhu Youzhen walked back and forth in front of the two of them for a few steps, and then said hatefully: "I won't see him, let him take the Metropolitan Governor, the Social Investigation Bureau and the Jinyi Guard to take down all the people in Yongning Palace, and then ask separately, and the palace will also search carefully, I want to know what they did to Cizhao."

Lu Qi, you go to assist Wang Dehua with errands, and in addition, in the past few days, place Concubine Li in Yonghe Palace, and let Concubine Xuan take good care of her for a few days, don't let her know about this matter before it is revealed. ”

Lu Qi hurriedly agreed, and when he was about to go out to convey Chongzhen's will, Zhu Youzhen stopped him again and said: "Tell Wang Dehua that before the matter is clarified, if a person dies in Yongning Palace, he won't have to come to see me again; If the affairs of Yongning Palace leaked out half a word, he would not have to do it. ”

After listening to Lu Qi's footsteps and disappearing outside the door, Zhu Youzhen instructed Wang Chengen: "Go and talk to the cabinet, saying that I contracted a wind disease after returning to the palace yesterday and needs to rest in bed.

In addition, I went to inform the Marquis of Zhongzhen, the Marquis of Fengcheng, Lu Xiangsheng, Lian Shanxiang, Tian Ergeng, and Yu Zhigao to come to see me, and told Wu Youxing from the Tai Hospital to enter the palace to see me..."

Under Chongzhen's series of instructions, Wang Chengen silently remembered it in his heart, and hurriedly exited the room to inform him. After washing, Chongzhen asked Lin Xianger to take the baby to the study, maybe it was a change of environment that made the baby fresh, and the number of times he cried today was less and shorter.

Zhu Youzhen asked Lin Xiang'er to take care of the baby in the study, and he met with several military ministers he summoned outside, and after meeting these military ministers one by one, Zhu Youzhen explained their new tasks.

The Marquis of Loyalty was sent to sit in the camp on the northern outskirts of the city, and to guard the victory gate and the Anding gate; Yu Zhigao took over the defense of the General Staff of Wuyingdian and the inner city; Lian Shanxiang still guards the imperial city and the palace city, but today there is no warrant issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the palace city is only allowed to enter but not leave; Lu Xiangsheng was sent to the Fengtai camp to monitor the army; The Marquis of Fengcheng and Tian Ergeng assisted Yu Zhigao in handling the defense of the inner city.

Although everyone who was summoned by the emperor was a little dazed, not knowing what the emperor had given them for the order, everyone was a little nervous, guessing that something was going to happen in the capital. After receiving the order, they each rushed to their posts, not daring to linger in the palace for long.

After sending these military ministers and mastering the armed forces inside and outside the capital, Zhu Youzhen was relieved. Now no matter what the forces behind the Yongning Palace incident want to do, he will have nothing to worry about. Someone actually stretched out his hand to the palace and pointed the line index to the Zhou family and the British Mansion, which is obviously not something that ordinary people can do.

Zhu Youzhen almost didn't think about who was standing behind this incident, so he prepared for the worst first. For him, who has been on the battlefield twice, he now believes very much in the saying that in the face of absolute power, all intrigues and tricks are just a joke.

In order to get himself out of the troubled waters of Yongning Palace, Wang Dehua can be said to be very hard. He personally went to Jinyiwei to select those innocent and unvalued Xiaoqi and school captains, as for the social investigation office, Lu Qi personally led the team, and the two first coaxed Concubine Li out, saying that there were some unclean things in Yongning Palace that needed to be done, and coaxed Tian Xiuying to Yonghe Palace to live temporarily.

After Tian Xiuying left with her personal maid Xuemei, Wang Dehua commanded the guards to enter the Yongning Palace, detained the thirty or forty Yongning Palace people who were about to move, detained them for interrogation, and raided the Yongning Palace.

Wang Dehua, who led people into Yongning Palace to investigate, actually kept beating the drum in his heart, not worried about what he would find, but worried that he would not find anything. In that case, it can only mean that someone already knows about the East Window incident and destroyed the evidence. Without evidence, it would be difficult to say what you want to ask based on confessions.

has already left a bad impression on the emperor, and as a result, he can't even do his errands, Wang Dehua is really worried about what kind of punishment he will receive. He was preparing for the worst when he immediately heard someone shouting, "Found it, father-in-law, the villain has found something suspicious." ”

Wang Dehuahuo, who was sitting in the courtyard, got up and looked, and saw a guard happily running out of the wing room with a piece of goods.

At noon on the third day of Chongzhen's return to Beijing, Wang Chengen took Wang Dehua and Lu Qi to pay the order to the emperor. Chongzhen, who was holding Zhu Cizhao, shook his head at the three of them, handed the sleeping child in his hand to Lin Xiang'er, and asked her to carry her to the inner room, before he lowered his voice and said to the three of them: "Zhao'er just fell asleep, I don't want to wake him up." Okay, let's all stand up and tell me what you've found in the past two days. ”

Wang Chengen and Lu Qi both took a step out of the way, giving Wang Dehua a chance to report on their performance, and without thanking the two colleagues, Wang Dehua couldn't wait to report his findings to the emperor and the results of the interrogation of the palace people.

Zhu Youzhen opened the two wooden boxes handed over by Wang Dehua and found that there was a demon mask inside, one was more delicate and the other was rough, and there were many black hairs on the sides of the masks.

He took it out of the wooden box, and Wang Dehua suddenly screamed "oops". Zhu Youzhen didn't pay attention to him, he hung it on his hand and looked at it for a while, and suddenly felt that the beautifully made mask was indeed a little terrifying.

Zhu Youzhen frowned and asked, "Are the grandmothers hiding these two masks in a gang?" ”

Wang Dehua's face was a little stiff and said: "No, one is related to the Zhou Emperor, and the other is related to the British Mansion." For example, the mask that His Majesty is holding in his left hand is just a major road commodity at the temple fair in the north, using animal skins and wool, and it was sold for one or two coins of silver. But Your Majesty's right hand is very particular..."

Looking at Wang Dehua's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but stare at him and said, "Why are you spitting and spitting, is there anything you can't say?" ”

Wang Dehua said hesitantly: "The mask of Your Majesty's right hand is made by the natives in the deep mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou, and it is said that these natives will kill the lone traveler in the mountains, and then peel off the skin and hair of the deceased to make a ghost mask, and then the sorcerer in the clan will do the practice of collecting the traveler's resentment in the evil ghost mask, so as to curse the enemy."

More than ten years ago, a merchant brought a demon mask from the south and gave it to his sister, the stepfamily of a wealthy merchant in the capital, to curse the eldest son left behind by the wealthy merchant's main family. Later, he was found and sued to the government, and Jin Yiwei personally questioned people and destroyed the ghost mask.

Among the Jinyi guards transferred by the minister, someone happened to hear about this case, and the minister transferred the file of the Jinyi guard and found that this was indeed the case. The mask depicted on the dossier bears a striking resemblance to this one. ”

Zhu Youzhen immediately threw the mask in his hand into the wooden box, thinking of the feeling of being crooked on his hand just now, he couldn't help frowning and instructed Wang Chengen: "Go and fetch me a basin of water, I have to wash my hands." These two boxes were sent to the Buddhist temple for excess, burned in front of the Buddha and then found a place to bury them. ”

Wang Dehua immediately replied: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youzhen leaned back, away from the two wooden boxes, before he said: "So, after two groups of people heard about this case, they found someone to curse Zhao'er, and they used the same way. It's just that it was instructed by Emperor Zhou, and the other is related to the British government, and they don't know each other? Do you think that's really the case? ”

When it came to the British Mansion and the Queen's house, Wang Chengen and the three of them struggled very much in their hearts, and then said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, the ministers don't believe in such a coincidence, but now the clues all point to the Zhou Emperor and the British Mansion. ”

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a long time, and then said slowly: "The people outside the palace will not move for the time being, but they must strengthen the monitoring of the Zhou Emperor's Mansion and the British Mansion.

Except for the people involved, let the people from Yongning Palace go back for the time being, but continue to keep an eye on them and tell them not to talk nonsense. The Governor of Shangshan has conducted a loyalty test above, but I would like to know what they are colluding with outsiders for..."