After listening to Wang Dehua's report, Zhu Youzhen was a little incredulous, and he confirmed to Wang Dehua again: "According to the results of your interrogation, Wu is related to Emperor Zhou's relatives, and Zhao Baishu is related to the steward of the British government.

The reason why Wu and Emperor Zhou wanted to find a grandmother to enter the palace to scare Zhao'er was because I reformed the Imperial Village, reduced the manpower in the palace, and refused to knight Emperor Zhou, which made them feel very unfair, so they wanted to reform me in the name of the Empress Dowager of Xiaoding?

This Zhao Yishu was asked by the steward of the British Mansion to send the grandmother found by the British Mansion to Yongning Palace to set up a line for the British Mansion and the concubine. I don't know about scaring Zhao'er.

I said, are these bastards all impatient? They all hit the idea of my heirs. Are they telling the truth? ”

Wang Dehua's forehead was covered with sweat, but he didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe it, but then explained: "The minister has already questioned the members above the Shangshan Supervisor, and the Shangshan Supervisor is the place where the old people in the palace are used the most.

The position of Shang Shan Jian has always been a fat shortage in the palace, and most of the output of the imperial village has to be handed over to Shang Shan Jian Jian . But since His Majesty implemented the reform of the Imperial Village, the output of these Imperial Villages needs to be purchased by the Ministry of Internal Affairs with money, and the original benefits of the Shangshan Supervisor are naturally gone.

In addition, if the elderly in the palace reach the age limit, other departments will also be counted. However, if the elderly who were born in Shangshan Jian have nowhere to go after leaving the palace, most of them will be arranged to retire in a royal village near Gyeonggi. After the restructuring of Huangzhuang, this benefit will naturally be gone

Yes, these old people in the palace have a lot of resentment in their hearts. For example, Wu Guanguan is one of the old people who wants to return to the past, so he colluded with Emperor Zhou, wanting to use the rumors of the Empress Dowager Xiaoding to scare His Majesty into giving up the new policy.

As for Zhao Baishu, he hopes to use this to curry favor with the British government and Concubine Liniang, and then jump out of Shangshan Jian and change to a department with a better future. ”

Zhu Youzhen sneered a few times, and then said: "Who took the initiative to get to know whom in this Wu management and Emperor Zhou?" And who first came up with the plan to scare Zhao'er? Whose is that **? ”

Wang Dehua was a little timid, and he couldn't remember such a detailed detail for a while, but Lu Qi beside him immediately answered: "Back to Your Majesty, Wu Management and Emperor Zhou's acquaintance, it is Wu Management who took the initiative." Wu Management just wanted to use this to cling to the queen's family and find a way out for himself.

However, he did not expect that the emperor of Zhou mentioned to him the rumors of the Empress Dowager Xiaoding one day, and intended to take advantage of the fact that His Royal Highness was frightened to make His Majesty give up the restrictions on the purchase of land by his relatives and implement the decision to purchase grain and cotton from their grange.

As for the **, it was not owned by Emperor Zhou, but by the steward of the British Mansion to the grandmother who entered the palace. ”

Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while before he asked suspiciously: "Are you sure that the words of these two people are credible?" ”

Wang Dehua immediately replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the ministers have asked several times, and there are no loopholes in the answers of the two. Of course, if you want to confirm their words, it is better to ask the Zhou Emperor and the steward of the British Mansion to come back and let them confront each other. ”

Wang Dehua's proposal was not praised by Chongzhen, but was reprimanded by the emperor, "Are you dizzy?" As far as Emperor Zhou's pig brain can think, dare to come up with such an idea? It's not difficult to invite him into the palace, but you have alarmed the bastard who gave him an idea, where are you going to arrest him? ”

Wang Dehua subconsciously said: "Or, the minister will take the brocade guards to surround the palace of Emperor Zhou first, and then go to interrogate?" ”

Zhu Youzhen was even more angry, "Sent troops to surround the palace of Emperor Zhou, where do you want to put the queen?" If you surround the palace of Emperor Zhou, there will be people outside who will publicize that Emperor Zhou is looking for someone to murder the eldest prince, will I admit it or not? ”

Wang Dehua then remembered that the daughter of the emperor this week was Her Royal Highness the Queen, and she had just given birth to a prince. If there were rumors outside, it would be difficult for the queen to break away, listening to the emperor's tone, it didn't seem that he wanted to move the queen, so he immediately stopped talking.

Zhu Youzhen suppressed his emotions a little, and then asked Lu Qi: "In the past two days, you have been monitoring the palace of Emperor Zhou, have you ever seen any suspicious characters entering and leaving the mansion?" ”

Lu Qi shook his head and said: "Zhou Guozhang has rarely stayed in the mansion, and he likes to disguise himself in and out of the gambling houses in the outer city. Since His Majesty sealed the gambling houses and goulan in the inner city, the twelve gambling houses left in the outer city have become a place where dragons and snakes are mixed, and it is really difficult to see who is particularly close to the abbot. ”

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand and pressed his forehead and thought for a long time before he said: "If this is the case, then let Emperor Zhou stay here first, and first arrest the steward of the British Mansion and ask..."

Zhu Youzhen was talking when he heard the voice of the little eunuch talking outside the room. He couldn't help but pause, and a moment later, a eunuch who was serving in the Shangshufang quietly walked in and whispered a few words to Lu Qi.

Under the emperor's gaze, Lu Qi didn't dare to hide it and said: "Your Majesty, the Jinyi guard team that monitored the British Mansion reported that the steward died violently last night, and now the people of the British Mansion are buying a coffin and preparing to send it out of the city for burial." ”

After Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time, he said expressionlessly: "This person died in time." ”

At this time, several people in the Shangshu room vaguely knew that once the steward died, the British Mansion and the Yongning Palace incident would probably be inseparable.

Wang Chengen, Wang Dehua, and Lu Qi immediately expressed their loyalty to Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty, this person's death is really too strange, do you want Jinyiwei to ask someone to come over, and by the way, carefully investigate?" ”

Zhu Youzhen completely calmed down, he knocked on the armrest of the chair, and after a while he made up his mind and said: "Let Jinyiwei go out of the city with them and then do it, Wang Dehua, you let people invite Emperor Zhou's family to enter the palace, in the name of the queen, and then ask separately..."

On the evening of the same day, Zhu Youzhen, who was coaxing the baby in the Shang study, was listening to Wang Chengen read to him a letter from Zhu Yujian, the grandson of the Tang Dynasty.

The fief of the Tang King is in Nanyang, and the lineage comes from Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-third son, Zhu Huan, who was enshrined in Yongle for six years, and has been nine generations so far, and now the reigning Tang King Zhu Shuoxi.

Nanyang has fertile land, and there are many water systems in the territory, so it has not been subjected to any natural disasters since ancient times, and the scenery of the Qinling Mountains is also extremely beautiful. The Tang Domain, which was enshrined here, lived a leisurely and enjoyable life, which was about the only one in the Shu Domain, which was enshrined in Chengdu.

Because the Nanyang Basin is located at the junction of Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi provinces, so the local commerce is also very developed, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hubei merchants come one after another, all kinds of merchants, guilds are all over Nanyang City, the market: grain, cotton, raw silk, tobacco, silk, oil, fur, wood, medicinal materials, bronze, ironware, etc., can be said to be all kinds of industries.

With such a rich Tang Domain, it is natural that everyone wants to compete to be the king of Tang. The old Tang King Zhu Shuoxi doted on the concubine, and looked down on his eldest son, that is, the son Zhu Qiqi, and always wanted to abolish him and let the concubine's son inherit the throne of the Tang King.

He had secretly imprisoned Zhu Yujian's father and son in the Chengfeng Division, wanting to starve the father and son to death, and Zhu Yujian was only 12 years old when he was imprisoned. Fortunately, there were little eunuchs in the palace who sympathized with their father and son and kept bringing them food, so they survived. But the two fathers and sons have also been under house arrest in a separate courtyard in the mansion for 16 years.

When Tianqi died and Chongzhen ascended the throne, Chen Qiyu, who was the magistrate of Nanyang at the time, heard about their father and son, so he asked the king of Tang to release the father and son under the pretext that the new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world.

The old Tang King Zhu Shuoxi was already old and sick at that time, and it seemed that the two fathers and sons were about to come out soon. However, the two younger brothers of the prince Zhu Qiqi, who were unwilling to give up the succession to the throne, simply killed this calamitous brother with a poisonous dove in a party at the beginning of last year.

The old Tang King not only did not intend to avenge the prince, but was ready to canonize the son of his concubine as the son. When Chen Qiyu came to the door to mourn the prince, he warned the old Tang King that the cause of the prince's death was unknown, and he rashly changed the hereditary candidate, maybe the court would blame him in the future. This made the old Tang King change his mind and set up Zhu Yujian as the "grandson".

Zhu Yujian, who has been dependent on his father for decades, has not forgotten the hatred of poisoning his father because of this, and hates the two uncles who poisoned him, Zhu Qixuan and Zhu Qijun. It's just that he didn't inherit the throne of King Tang, so he can only endure silently.

When Chongzhen dealt with the Shaanxi clan and mercilessly punished the clan who committed the murder case, Zhu Yujian suddenly saw hope. He personally wrote a long letter to record the experience of his father and son being imprisoned for a long time and relying on each other, as well as the fact that his father was poisoned and killed by two uncles.

Zhu Yujian hopes that Chongzhen can administer justice to his father, even if he does not inherit the throne of the Tang King, he is willing.

Zhu Youzhen, who was already depressed because someone was trying to hurt his son, was also extremely moved when he heard the deep father-son relationship described by Zhu Yujian in the letter. He was even more disgusted with the vicious heart of the old Tang King and his two sons.

If he hadn't held his son in his hands, he would have taken the case. Rao is like this, he also lowered his voice and said angrily: "Tiger poison does not eat children, this old Tang King is so stupid, it is simply hateful."

Not to mention his two sons, even his own brother has to be murdered, can he still treat ordinary people without harm.

You go and draw up a will, let the prince of Fuwang go to Nanyang to find out the case, and let Chen Qiyu assist the prince of Fuwang to handle the case. In addition, check again, what is the wind review of Tang Fan's weekdays..."

Wang Chengen knew in his heart that this Tang Fan was about to end, but he was secretly relieved in his heart. Since the evil breath that the emperor held in his stomach came out of Tang Fan, then those of them who accompanied the emperor would obviously have much better days in the future.

But before Wang Chengen could speak, a eunuch waiting outside the Shangshufang came in to report that the queen had come to Qianqing Palace.