Chapter 442: Murder in the Imperial Palace

The phantom in the shadows sneered: "Even so, even if you poison Qin Zheng, Qin Dong's biological eldest son, but Qin Dong has two other sons, why can't it be your son's turn to be the emperor, right?" Anyway, the other two are his own, but your son is not! ā€

Sula said fiercely: "Of course I know that Qin Zheng is only the first to be poisoned, and then I will let the relatives around Qin Dong die one by one in this palace, just like Qin Zheng died inexplicably, as if he was cursed, this time is very long, but I can't let others see the flaws, so I can't rush in time, and I will kill them one by one after I find out the identities of those ministers who know about the events of the year. As long as no one knows that my son is not Qin Dong's biological son, that is, when Qin Dong dies, then my son Qin Yong will be able to ascend to the throne of the emperor smoothly, hahahaha......".

The beautiful phantom in the shadow of the pillar looked at Sura who was almost in a state of madness, and sighed deeply in her heart: "Crazy woman, a woman who is crazier than me, it seems that I have to be cautious when dealing with such a woman, otherwise if I don't let up my heart and be killed by her, it will really capsize in the gutter!" ā€

Sula laughed maniacally for a while and then said gloomily: "After this incident, the people hiding around Martha are about to be exposed, and they can't let her speak, and they must shut her up forever before they find out about her!" ā€

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it!" The phantom vanished after saying this.

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After the poisoning case in the palace, Qin Dong felt that the palace was different from the past. In the past, he had always regarded this place as his home, and when he was tired outside, he would relax and be vigilant when he came back here, but this happened. He immediately felt the ruthlessness of the royal family, although he very much hoped that his backyard would be safe, but the facts have proved that the depths of the palace have not been a peaceful place since ancient times, and under the calm exterior, countless murderous and dirty deeds are hidden.

In Qin Dong's backyard there is Queen Martha, and in addition to Martha, there are four imperial concubines. One of them is Sula, the biological daughter of the former Xiongnu Empire's Zuo Governor Adika, and the other is Soma, the daughter of a tribal leader. It is the barbarian girl that Qin Dong met on the way to Constantinople for the first time, the third imperial concubine is Zhong Ling, the daughter of Zhonghui, the imperial historian of the Zuodu, and the fourth imperial concubine is Nicola, the princess of the Alemanni Kingdom.

Among them, Nicola has only been married to Qin Dong for a few months, and she has not yet given birth to a child for Qin Dong. And Soma and Zhong Ling both gave birth to a son for Qin Dong successively. Sula gave birth to a daughter for Qin Dong.

When the incident just happened, Qin Dong ruled out the assumption that outsiders entered the palace to poison it, the palace was heavily guarded, and ordinary people couldn't enter the palace at all, even if someone could enter, they wouldn't be able to hide for long, not to mention that it was impossible to drop a chronic onset of poison and not be found for a long time, so only the palace insiders would be left to poison.

So who actually dropped this poison? Qin Dong did not speculate on his own, nor did he suspect some people. The prince is less than seven years old, which is the age of innocence. There will be no enmity with anyone in the palace, why is this poison only him, and everyone else is fine? This also shows that this time someone specifically targeted the prince.

Huang Zizheng usually has a more lively temperament, likes to play, and is very likable, ordinary palace attendants dare not and do not need to do this kind of thing, because Huang Zizheng's current character has not offended the palace attendants and maids, if it is said that Huang Zizheng often makes unreasonable trouble, teases or maliciously insults some chamberlains and palace maids, it does not rule out those chamberlains or palace maids to kill and retaliate, but Wang Zizheng is not the kind of person who is hated.

With a stomach full of doubts in his heart, Qin Dong looked at Liu San, Qi Muge, and Bogianido who were far away, hoping that they could do their best to find out what they really wanted and find conclusive evidence.

At this time, Charlie Cao stood up and saluted and said: "Your Majesty, there has been such a strict poisoning incident in the palace, this matter must attract our attention, the minister heard that the Roman court in order to prevent the royal family members from being poisoned in terms of food, will arrange a special chamberlain to taste the food in advance, confirm that the food is not poisonous and then let the royal family eat, even the ordinary nobles also raise their own slaves as poison testers, so the minister built yƬ palace must also have such a poison test chamberlain!" ā€

Someone unscrupulously poisoned the prince, this is too terrifying, Qin Dong thought deeply when he heard this, "Yes, Cao Guoshi's Jian yƬ is very good, Hadlin, immediately let the Internal Affairs Office assign two poison testers for all members of the royal family!" ā€

Hadlin, the chief chamberlain, agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty!" ā€

Charlie Cao said: "Your Majesty, in terms of anti-poisoning, the old minister believes that many poisons can be detected with utensils, for example, a silver needle can be used to detect many highly toxic mineral poisons in nature, and the toxicity of these mineral poisons is violent, and the poisoned person will die of poison in just a cup of tea, and it is too late to treat it, so the minister Jianyi replaced all the tableware used by the nobles in the palace with silver tableware, as long as the silver utensils containing food, you can find that the food contains poisons, In addition, the chamberlains who tested the poison were accompanied by silver needles to check whether the food was poisonous."

As soon as Charlie Cao said this, Qin Dong remembered that the silver needle can indeed detect some mineral poisons, such as substances containing heavy metals such as mercury, lead, and arsenic, the most famous of which is arsenic (arsenic trioxide), put the silver needle into food containing arsenic, and the silver needle will soon turn black.

In this era, there are very few people who know that arsenic is stored and highly poisonous, and even if someone knows, they will not know why the substances contained in arsenic are so highly toxic, but some people do know that arsenic poisoning kills, this poison is undoubtedly the most toxic poison in this era, there is no one, other poisons have some rescue time after the poison of the poisoner, such as snake venom, the poison of flowers and plants, doctors know how much some methods of detoxification, and people who are poisoned by arsenic, no one will detoxify at all, As long as you take arsenic, you will be sentenced to death.

Charlie Cao is worthy of being a Taoist priest from alchemy, and he knows the power of mineral poison, and Qin Dong adopted his suggestions one by one and asked the Internal Affairs Office to handle it.

At this moment, a palace maid ran in in with a pale face and panicked, and said, "Your Majesty, the queen, it's not good, Mogia died in her room!" ā€

Qin Dong's face changed, and he turned his head to look at Martha and said, "Who is Mogia?" ā€

Martha's face also changed greatly at this time, and when she saw Qin Dong asking, she hurriedly said: "She is the palace maid next to me, one of the three palace maids who serve Qin Zheng!" ā€

Hearing this, Qin Dong already vaguely understood in his heart why this person named Mogia died at this time, he knew that if his guess was right, Mogia should have been killed, but this was just speculation, after all, there were accidents and coincidences.

Qin Dongyan stood up and said, "Hadlin, immediately send someone to protect the scene, and inform Qi Muge that they will come over to investigate immediately!" ā€

Qin Dong didn't say anything else, and he waited for the investigation to talk about it, and now it's all redundant. After Hadrin agreed, he immediately began to arrange for the chamberlain to maintain the scene of the crime, and separately notified Qi Muge and others to come over to investigate the situation.

Not long after Qi Muge and the others left, they were organizing people to prepare to enter the investigation stage, but they didn't expect that a murder had occurred at this time, and it was the palace maid next to the queen who died, which made Qi Muge and the others feel Alexander.

Qi Muge did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to find the coroner of the Sedica City Hall, and quickly ordered his subordinate criminal scene investigators to come and investigate the scene, and then a whole team was slowly assembled in the process.

For the on-site investigation technology of this era, Qin Dong really didn't dare to have confidence, whether he could find out whether the deceased committed suicide or killed him was still unknown, after all, this era did not have the advanced technology of later generations.

On this day, the whole palace was full of rumors, losing the joy of the past, up to the emperor Qin Dong's gloomy face, down to the eunuchs and palace maids were trembling, but most people just knew that the prince was sick, the emperor's face was not good, he lost his temper, and the big people were cautious one by one, lest they touch the emperor's moldy head, and the palace maids and eunuchs below were naturally having a hard time.

It wasn't until dark that Qin Dong waited until Qi Muge came to report the results of the investigation, "Your Majesty, the coroner has already inspected the scene and reached a conclusion, according to the investigation at the scene, it was learned that the deceased Mogia had a fatal wound on his chest, which was caused by a sharp knife dagger, and there were no other injuries on his body, and there were no traces of fighting and fighting at the scene, in addition, Bogianido found the residue of a drug in the mouth of the deceased, and the deceased held the handle of the dagger in both hands, judging from the last posture of the deceased, On the surface, the deceased died by suicide, but in fact, if it is judged to be suicide, there are doubts, if a person holds a dagger and stabs himself, he should generally stab himself in the abdomen, so it is reasonable, but the wound of the deceased is in the chest, and it is very awkward to hold a dagger and stab this part! Therefore, the minister suspected that this was a murder, the murderer and the deceased were very familiar, and the deceased was defenseless when the two were together, and the murderer took advantage of this to first charm the deceased with drugs, so that the deceased was killed without any resistance, and then created the illusion that the deceased committed suicide!"

After listening to Qi Muge's report, Qin Dong immediately said, "Immediately investigate all those who have dealings with Mojiya, and be careful to block the news, so as not to cause panic after the news spreads!" ā€

Only a very few people know about the poisoning of the prince and the death of the queen's personal palace maid Mojia, after all, the palace is only so big, in order to prevent the news from spreading and spreading in a large area, the internal affairs government controlled the news in a timely manner, otherwise it is easy to cause panic, after all, poisoning is not a joke, who doesn't eat and drink? Who doesn't have to breathe? (To be continued......)