Chapter 448: Into the Cold Palace
When Qin Dong arrived, it was still too late, and many imperial doctors and Charlie Cao had no way to save Qin Yong, at this time, Sula was crying on Qin Dong's corpse, and in the entire palace, the eunuchs and palace maids knelt on the ground.
"Your Majesty, the ministers are incompetent, and they have not been able to save His Royal Highness the Prince Yong, please punish His Majesty!" Charlie Cao and a group of imperial doctors saluted Qin Dong in panic.
Qin Dongtie's face was blue, and he walked to the front of the collapse and looked at Qin Yong's body, his face and lips were blue, and even a little black, and there were still black blood stains at the corners of his mouth, Qin Dong gasped and was furious: "What the hell is going on?" How did Prince Yong die, Charlie Cao, you come! ”
Charlie Cao was yelled at by Qin Dong's body trembled, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, depending on the situation, His Royal Highness the Prince Yong was poisoned and poisoned to death, the person who poisoned him is very powerful, this poison is timed, and it can completely kill people in just half an hour, although the ministers came as quickly as possible after His Royal Highness was poisoned, but the ministers still have no way to detoxify His Royal Highness the Prince Yong, and until now the ministers still don't know what kind of poison His Royal Highness is in the use of the prince."
"Yes, yes!" Qin Dong laughed angrily, and then thundered and furious: "There are so many imperial doctors in the huge palace, and no one can detoxify Prince Yong and save his life, and you maids and eunuchs, what are you doing, so many people can't look down on a child, and let him be poisoned, what's the use of me keeping you?" Come on, drag all these people out and cut them down! ”
With Qin Dong's order, the guards outside rushed in one by one, and the eunuchs and palace maids in the hall were so frightened that they cried one by one. Some were even paralyzed directly on the ground by fright.
"Your Majesty spares your life!"
"Your Majesty, it's not our fault!"
Those imperial doctors were also so frightened that they were urinating, and the entire hall suddenly burst into tears. Some people were so frightened that they were incontinent, and for a time the temple was stinking.
"Charlie Cao, you come with me!" Qin Dong didn't care about it, and after giving the order, he turned around and left, leaving a whole room of people kowtowing and begging for mercy, Sula had no movement at all at this time, and she didn't cry or make trouble. Just sat next to Qin Yong's corpse in a daze, as if the whole person was demented.
When he arrived at the Qinzheng Palace, Qin Dong ordered to send the eunuch Xuan Liu San and Qi Muge to meet him. While waiting for Liu San and Qi Muge, Qin Dong stared at Charlie Cao, Charlie Cao's body trembled uncontrollably, and finally he couldn't withstand the pressure. Saluted: "Your Majesty." It's all the ministers who are incompetent, and they can't save His Royal Highness the Prince Yong, please surrender your majesty! ”
Qin Dong got down from His Majesty Dan and walked up to Charlie Cao and said: "Half an hour of rescue time, I don't believe that you have no way to relieve the symptoms of poisoning, there is no one else here except me, you tell me honestly, did you deliberately not save it, huh?" ”
Charlie Cao was sweating in fright. He knelt on the ground with a puff and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, the minister will never dare to see death and not save it." The minister is not so bold as to dare to careless of human life, please Your Majesty Xià Mingjian! ”
Qin Dong sneered, "Charlie Cao, do you think I will believe your words?" Although you are a Chinese medicine practitioner, I know that you have studied this Western medicine very well over the years, don't think that I don't understand anything, if it is a powerful poison, the poisoned person will die in a very short time, but the poison in Yong'er has half an hour from the onset to death, in such a long time, do you think I will believe that you have no way to prevent the symptoms of poisoning from getting worse? ”
Charlie Cao's face turned pale, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister has tried many methods, but none of them have been able to prevent the symptoms from aggravating, the minister has really tried his best, if you don't believe it, you can ask all the imperial doctors who participated in the diagnosis, and each of them knows the whole process of treatment!" ”
Qin Dong said coldly: "You know that I have ordered the heads of those quacks to be cut off, but now you let me find them for questioning, you want to die without proof, right?" ”
"No, no, your majesty, the minister is old, and his memory is a little bad, and he forgot for a while that his majesty had already ordered those imperial doctors to be killed just now, if his majesty thought that the minister deliberately did not save His Royal Highness the Prince Yong, then please ask your majesty to kill the minister too."
Qin Dong stared at Charlie Cao word by word and said, "Do you think I am reluctant to kill you?" ”
Charlie Cao prostrate on the ground and said: "His Majesty is the lord of the world, rich all over the world, hundreds of millions of subjects, many ministers are not many, and there are many young ministers, the ministers are nothing, His Majesty can kill him at any time, but the minister thinks that a wise monarch should be sensible, and should control his own feelings, not let his feelings control himself, you must know that any decision of His Majesty can have a far-reaching impact on the future of the empire!" The minister doesn't know who poisoned His Royal Highness Prince Yong, but in the minister's opinion, the death of Prince Yong, this matter is actually not a good thing for His Majesty, the empire, and the subjects of the empire, except for a few people, the fact that Prince Yong is not His Majesty's own blood is not known to the outside world, that is to say, almost all subjects think that Prince Yong is the eldest son of His Majesty, and in their hearts they all think that Prince Yong is the best successor to the throne, but in fact, Will His Majesty pass the throne of Emperor to him? Will the ministers who know the inside story agree that His Royal Highness Prince Yong will inherit the throne? Once something happens to His Majesty, what kind of situation will the imperial court fall into? It's only been a few years since the empire was founded, and now it's about to fall into the internal friction of the dragons? Has Majesty thought about this? Although the minister did not participate in the investigation of several murders that occurred in the palace recently, the minister dared to use the head of the item to guarantee that this series of murders must be related to the throne of Sula, and now that Prince Yong is dead, it is equivalent to the desire of Princess Sulla to let her son inherit the throne."
Qin Dong was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know what he was thinking, and waved his hand after a long time; "Stand down!"
Charlie Cao escaped death, and hurriedly saluted Qin Dong and left in a hurry, he was afraid that Qin Dong would regret it, and his little life would not be guaranteed.
Not long after Charlie Cao left, Liu San and Qi Muge rushed to the Qinzheng Palace, "See Your Majesty!" ”
Qin Dong said: "Prince Yong died, he was poisoned, do you know? ”
Liu San and Qi Muge glanced at each other, "The ministers heard about it just now." Please also mourn on the Majesty's Day! ”
Qin Dong said: "Qi Muge, take your people to the West Palace and see what they can find." I give you three days, and I must find out, who poisoned Prince Yong, why did the murderer do this, and the recent series of murders, can the case be closed? Has the mastermind behind the scenes been found? Three days later, I hope to know the results! ”
"Yes. 陛xià! He bowed and stepped back.
After Qi Muge walked away, Qin Dong shouted: "Liu San! ”
Liu San bent down and said, "The minister is here!" ”
"What do you think of Yong'er's death?"
Liu San shook his head and said, "Your Majesty." Don't embarrass me, human life is at stake, and the minister doesn't dare to speculate! Only when the investigation is clear will we know who did it."
Qin Dong sighed and changed the subject: "Forget it." Don't talk about it. Last time, I put you in charge of sabotaging the marriage between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Vandal Kingdom, and how did you prepare to stop Leo I's attempt to control the Western Roman Empire through the trio of Oudosia mother and daughter?
Liu San said: "Your Majesty, the manpower aspect has been prepared, the personnel team that destroyed the marriage between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Vandal Kingdom has set off, I want to solve this matter first, Leo I wants to control the matter of the Western Roman Empire, he should not have time to implement it, and we have no way to start here, but the personnel are ready." As soon as Leo I activates it, our side will immediately send someone over to sabotage it! ”
Qin Dong pondered for a while and asked, "Destroy the marriage between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Vandal Kingdom." I don't care, I think you already have a countermeasure, what I want to ask is, what are you going to do to stop Leo I from taking control of the Western Roman Empire? ”
Liu San saluted and said: "Your Majesty, if Leo I wants to control the Western Roman Empire through Guò Eudosita's mother and daughter, he must marry another princess, Platicia, to his cronies, and then reach a certain secret agreement with the Roman side, and then send Princess Platisia's husband to the Western Roman Empire to take over the throne, if he can control the Western Roman Empire, the minister thinks that Platicia is the key to the whole thing, if he sends someone to assassinate her, then Leo I will have no bargaining chips, Empress Litchenica only had two daughters, and if we had sent someone to assassinate Platicia, Leo I would never have been able to marry Odosia to his cronies, would he? Or just marry Empress Litchenica to his cronies? Only the husbands of the two sisters have the right to inherit."
Qin Dong shook his head and said: "This is not good, will Leo I marry Eudocia to his cronies to control the Western Roman Empire, I don't know, it depends on the result of you sending someone to prevent the marriage between the two countries this time, if Eudocia dies, of course Leo I can't marry a dead princess to his cronies, but what if Eudocia doesn't die?" Do you think Geseric will go to war with both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires at the same time? I thought that Gaiseric would endure it, and the end result would be that the Eastern Roman Empire and the Vandal kingdom would continue to live in peace, and Eudosia would return to Ankara, and Leo I would be able to remarry his cronies and take control of Western Rome. He has two choices, choose one of those two sisters at random, you send someone to kill one and the other, of course, if Eudosia dies, then he has only one choice, of course it is much easier to assassinate outside, if you want to assassinate a princess in Ankara, I'm afraid it's not so easy, right? So when it comes to assassination, I think it's better not to do it well, and think of other ways!
Liu San saluted: "The minister understands, since this is the case, then let Eudosia die on the way to Carthage, as for her sister Platisia, since there is no need to assassinate her, then wait for Leo I to send someone to Western Rome to intercept that person halfway, so as not to let Leo's conspiracy succeed." ”
The next day, Qi Muge came to report to Qin Dong: "Your Majesty, it has been found out, my subordinates extracted a part of the blood from the corpse of Prince Yong for poison testing, and found that this poison is exactly the same as a poison we found in Ildik's room, and according to the time of Prince Yong's poisoning, the person who poisoned should be Ildik, according to our speculation, she knew that Queen Sula might kill her, so she took the first step to poison Prince Yong, in order to protect herself, But she didn't expect her to threaten Princess Sula, and Princess Sula took the lead in killing her, and after her death, the poison in Prince Yong attacked the next day! ”
Qin Dong frowned and said, "How do you know that it was Sula who killed Ildick?" ”
"Your Majesty, the arrested deputy steward of the West Palace, Eunuch Chaning, couldn't stand the punishment this morning, and confessed, he proved that the series of murders that have happened in the palace these days were all instigated by Princess Sula behind her back!"
Qin Dong's face turned blue after hearing this, and he immediately said, "Come on, give me ......."
Before he finished speaking, there was a panicked cry from Hadlin, the head of the inner chamberlain: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good, Princess Sulla is crazy!" ”
Qin Dong stood up suddenly: "What did you say?" ”
"Imperial Concubine Sura is crazy, your majesty, go and take a look, she is holding a knife and slashing people everywhere, and several maids and eunuchs have already been cut!"
After Qin Dong arrived with someone, he found that Sura had completely looked like a crazy woman at this time, with words in her mouth, her eyes were blank, she had lost her previous look, and her spirit seemed to have completely disappeared from her.
Observing Sura for a long time, Qin Dong sighed: "Come on, take her down to take a bath, change her into clean clothes, let her live in the Plum Blossom Palace from today onwards, send someone to watch over her all day, you can't let her go out without my will, and you can't let anyone go in to see her!" ”
This will is tantamount to putting Sura into the cold palace, the real house arrest, according to Qin Dong's previous intention, was to kill Sula directly, if it wasn't for her, how could so many things happen in the palace? It's not an exaggeration to kill her, it's not enough to consider that she is already crazy at this time, and it is completely meaningless and unnecessary to kill her again, so she was beaten into the cold palace. (To be continued......)