With Zhu Youxiao's order, the two large baskets of gift orders were burned in front of the mourning civil and military ministers in the courtyard of the Qianqing Palace, and turned into ashes in the thick flames and disappeared. Ethereal. 『⒉

The burning of the gift list quickly spread all over the capital, so that a big stone hanging in the hearts of those panicked gift-giving officials in the capital finally fell to the ground, and there was no need to worry about being implicated by Li Kezhuo.

As Emperor Taichang's assistant minister, Li Hongyu is naturally also Emperor Taichang's funeral minister, but because he wants to investigate Li Kezhuo's case, he does not have to stay on duty all night like Emperor Wanli when he died, and he will not be detained in the imperial city.

According to Empress Li's will, Li Hongyu sat in Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi to try Li Kezhuo's case, Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi finally showed its fangs again after many years of silence, and regained its vitality with Li Kezhuo's case.

Historically, Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division is not long-lasting, up and down in the game of monarchy and vassals, whenever the monarchy and the vassals are in a fierce game is the time for it to be in the limelight, and the eunuchs, relying on the monarchy to suppress the civil and military officials of the imperial court.

Li Hongyu believes that there is no such thing as a perfect thing in this world, not to mention that the production method of Li Kezhuo's "elixir" is not accessible to ordinary people, so he will definitely leave clues for him to trace.

So he started with the subordinates of Li Kezhuo's family to investigate, wanting to find out Li Kezhuo's recent abnormal behavior, judging from the fact that Li Kezhuo offered the "elixir" to Emperor Taichang and did not give it to Emperor Wanli, Li Kezhuo is likely to be temporary, so he will definitely be able to find some valuable clues.

As early as the time of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the predecessor of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfusi, Jinyiwei Zhenfusi, handled the Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case, implicating thousands of people, including hundreds of people including Xungui were beheaded.

By the time Emperor Yongle arrived, countless courtiers loyal to Emperor Jianwen had died in Jinyiwei's edict, and his torture was the worst in the world.

Therefore, under the severe torture of the prison guards of Jinyi Wei to extract confessions, Li Kezhuo's subordinates did not dare to conceal the slightest thing, and confessed everything they knew, including the information about the utility room that Li Hongyu was most interested in.

According to the confession of the Li family, he once saw Li Kezhuo alone in the utility room at night, because Li Kezhuo forbade his subordinates to approach the small courtyard where the utility room was located, so he didn't know what Li Kezhuo was doing.

In addition, the maid of the Li family said that Li Kezhuo had brought back two large bags of things before offering the "elixir", but he didn't know what was inside, and he never saw Li Kezhuo take it out later.

"Lord Liu, this official wants to find some pharmaceutical utensils, it is likely to be hidden somewhere in the Li family, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find it!"

After listening to the confession of the Li family, Li Hongyu brought Liu Han to give an order, and based on the various clues obtained before, he could conclude that Li Kezhuo had a set of tools for refining pills, and there was a good chance that Li Kezhuo would hide them for future needs, so it was very likely to find this set of tools.

"Master Li, when will Li Kezhuo be arraigned?"

After Liu Han instructed his subordinates to go to Li's house to find the tools for refining pills according to Li Hongyu's instructions, he asked tentatively, since Li Kezhuo was arrested and sent to prison, he had never been in court.

This situation is extremely abnormal, and usually a rebellious criminal like Li Kezhuo will inevitably be tortured after entering the Imperial Prison, and his mouth will be pried open by torture.

"Don't rush yet." Li Hongyu waved his hand when he heard this, and replied a little inscrutablely, "Now the time has not come, and when the time is ripe, the official will hold a court to interrogate him." ”

In Li Hongyu's view, the "elixir" case is related to the life and death of Li Kezhuo and his family, so Li Kezhuo would rather die than confess the truth, otherwise no one can save him from this great crime of murdering the king.

The relevant historical materials undoubtedly prove that Li Kezhuo did not truthfully confess in the red pill case, because the historical materials do not record the ingredients of the red pill taken by Emperor Taichang, and Li Kezhuo was only matched.

If Li Kezhuo announced that the "elixir" was refined by himself, not an "elixir", then he would have committed the crime of killing the monarch, and there was no possibility of survival.

Therefore, instead of wasting his mind on Li Kezhuo, it is better to focus on finding clues, as long as he can find evidence of Li Kezhuo's crime of refining the elixir, then Li Kezhuo will be indefensible.

At the same time, Li Hongyu is also fighting psychological warfare with Li Kezhuo, and if Li Kezhuo is not interrogated, it will make Li Kezhuo feel worried, and then produce greater psychological pressure.

Li Hongyu was investigating Li Kezhuo's case, and the various factions in the capital were not idle, as the saying goes, once a son of heaven and a courtier, although Emperor Taichang valued the Donglin Party, but Zhu Youxiao's teaching master not only had the Donglin Party but also the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang.

This means that the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, which were very badly suppressed when Emperor Taichang was in power, now have a chance to fight back, and Zhu Youxiao will definitely not support the Donglin Party like Emperor Taichang.

In fact, since Zhu Youxiao was only sixteen years old, according to the Ming Dynasty's custom, the Son of Heaven would usually be assisted by the Queen Mother before he became a politician at the age of twenty, deciding major affairs of the country.

As for the auxiliaries of Tuogu, their duties did not conflict with those of the Queen Mother, and they were somewhat similar to the cabinet, which wrote down opinions on the handling of those recitals, and then handed them over to the Empress Dowager for decision.

In other words, the ministers have the right to make suggestions, and the decision-making power lies with the Queen Mother.

The most famous Empress Dowager in the history of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the curtain to listen to the government, was born in the body of the Wanli Emperor, because the Wanli Emperor was young, so the Wanli Emperor's mother, the Empress Dowager Li, listened to the government and made decisions on major events in the court.

Therefore, before Zhu Youxiao was twenty years old, Empress Li should listen to the government, after all, the emperors of all dynasties would not hand over the decision-making power to the courtiers, which is related to the foundation of imperial power.

In the Ming Dynasty, due to the weak power of foreign relatives, coupled with the fact that both the official group and the Xungui group were disgusted with the foreign relatives group, the Ming Dynasty would not have the phenomenon of the queen mother controlling the government, and once the emperor was in power, he retreated into the background.

Therefore, the various factions in the capital stepped up their contact and stammering with Empress Li, who would have thought that Empress Li, who was still in the cold a few months ago, would now become the hottest figure in the Ming Dynasty.

This change also made it a little difficult for Empress Li to adapt for a while, but she is a smart woman, otherwise how could she get the exclusive favor of Emperor Taichang in the harem?

Faced with the situation in the court, Empress Li quickly adjusted her mentality and handled the affairs of the harem and the court in an orderly manner.

Externally, Empress Li began to get close to the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, although she had never participated in political affairs, but in the harem for more than ten years, she also knew that Emperor Wanli controlled the hands of his subordinates, and believed that the balance of factional forces in the court was far better than that of the Donglin Party.

Internally, Empress Li promoted Wei Zhongxian, a close attendant beside Zhu Youxiao, to the eunuch of the celebrant Xi Bingbi in the name of Zhu Youxiao, and the commander of Dongchang.

Sooner or later, Zhu Youxiao will have to be in charge of the government, so Wei Zhongxian will be in charge of the ceremonial supervisor sooner or later, and it is logical for him to serve as the eunuch of Xi Bingbi and the head of Dongchang, and the emperors of all dynasties will do this.

In this way, Wei Zhongxian also jumped from an unknown person among the eunuchs to one of the three major eunuchs in the inner court.

The three eunuchs of the inner court refer to the three most powerful eunuchs in the inner court, namely the eunuch of the celebrant Zhangyin, the eunuch of the celebrant Xi Bingbi and the governor of Dongchang, and the eunuch of the imperial horse.

Obviously, the eunuch with the palm seal is naturally respected in the inner court, and the eunuch with the palm seal is in charge of the emperor's seal, and is responsible for the seal handed to the cabinet member, and if he feels that the seal is not suitable, he will refuse to use the seal to send it back.

The eunuch Xi Bingbi is second only to the eunuch of the palm seal in the inner court, for no other reason, he is in charge of the intelligence agency directly under the Ming Dynasty - Dongchang, and many times he coerces the Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division.

As for why the power of the eunuch overshadowed the rest of the eunuchs, it was because the eunuch he was in charge of was directly responsible for the armies of the dragon guards and the tiger guards in the pro-guard, and participated in the management of the pro-army.

This makes the Imperial Horse Eunuch have a special status in the 24 Yamen of the Inner Court, and is regarded as the military yamen in the Inner Court, and also enables the Imperial Horse Eunuch to stand with the Celebrant Eunuch Zhangyin Eunuch and the Celebrant Eunuch Xi Bingbi Eunuch.

The reason why there is such a position setting in the inner court is naturally that the emperor restricts the inner court, so that the three eunuchs perform their duties and restrain each other, so as to avoid the situation of one person dominating.

While investigating Li Kezhuo's case, Li Hongyu secretly observed the changes in the situation in the capital, and thanks to the support of Empress Li, the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang could finally breathe a sigh of relief from the strong offensive of the Donglin Party.

In order to get more clues, Li Hongyu asked people to post a notice of a heavy reward, and anyone who provided clues about Li Kezhuo's production of the "elixir" would be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver.

Soon, under the temptation of a heavy reward, the people of Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi got a valuable clue, a small Taoist priest in a Taoist temple outside the city reported that a wandering monk who was on the Taoist temple was drunk after Li Kezhuo first presented the "elixir" to Emperor Taichang, and inadvertently said that he would also make the "elixir", and he did better than Li Kezhuo.

The little Taoist priest thought it was a drunken talk and didn't take it to heart, and later after Li Kezhuo was raided by the people of Jinyi Weibei Town, the wandering priest suddenly left in a hurry.

It wasn't until the government posted a notice of a large reward that the little Taoist priest realized that there was something wrong with the wandering monk, but he was not sure, so he hesitated and went to the government to report the case.

Li Hongyu immediately passed the wanted warrant issued by the criminal department, wanted the wandering monk in Beizhili and the surrounding state capitals, and at the same time sent someone to the Taoist temple to check the details of the wandering monk, this is the most valuable clue he has obtained so far, so he naturally wants to follow the vine to find out.

Facts have proved that Empress Li is still very far-sighted, and it is an extremely correct decision to choose Li Hongyu to investigate Li Kezhuo's case.

After all, Li Hongyu promised Emperor Wanli that he would be loyal to Zhu Changluo and Zhu Youxiao, so he naturally wanted to find out the cause of Zhu Changluo's violent death, which could be regarded as fulfilling the friendship of the monarch and the minister.

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