Ma Yuanzhen was able to ascend the throne by supporting Xuanzong and being the number one minister of the previous dynasty, and he also climbed up on the bones of the great eunuchs of the Wuzong Dynasty.

So the first thing he suspected was the middle-level eunuchs of the forbidden army.

The eunuchs in the forbidden army basically controlled the army in the form of supervising the army.

Their supreme control is reflected in the right to recommend the appointment and dismissal of military commanders, which is also an important reason why those officers who command the army have to rely on eunuchs to supervise the army.

There are very few eunuch generals like Yang Huaixin who have the ability to directly command battles. At the beginning, Yang Xuanyuan wanted to put Yang Huaixin and Yang Fuguang in Yulinwei, and he agreed with the mentality of watching jokes.

Gu Er took a list and handed it to Ma Yuanzhen: "This is the list of positions that can be replaced, and some of our people will be withdrawn to defend, so as to strengthen the military control force in the capital." ”

"How long has Wang Jian been in Anhuamen? Swap him to the palace forbidden, close to us, and inconspicuous. ”

"Yes. It couldn't be more suitable to replace Yang Huaixin. Yang Huaixin didn't die last time, I always feel that there is something strange in it, inside and out, Yang Shu's envoy should have bought a lot of people. ”

Ma Yuanzhen was noncommittal. Yang Xuanyuan and him, one is in charge of the army and the other is in charge, although they will compete for favor, but they are more foil than hostile.

Some time ago, he lost most of his family wealth, and in order to make up for the loss, during this time he began to open the door to those who sought officials, and basically did not refuse to come. Especially for some low-grade and oily and watery fat, Ma Yuanzhen eats more ruthlessly.

In addition to the appointment of variegated officials below the sixth grade, he was also involved in the shade of the door above the fifth grade. The appointment of officials above the fifth rank requires the great cooperation of the Privy Council.

Yang Xuanyuan has never felt sorry for himself in this regard.

Zhu Shijiu hurriedly walked in, hugged his fist at Ma Yuanzhen and said: "General, in addition to the two chamberlains, there is also a person who has touched this bucket of water, a person who has touched this bucket of water, two people who carry a bucket, and three people, but it is not our chamberlain from another province. ”

"Who?"

"It's Deputy Envoy Li of Sinong Temple, and the two heads of the ice-carrying office. The ice in the bucket was taken from their ice wells, and it was not impossible to poison the ice. ”

Gu Er said with a smile: "But we can't prove that the water is really poisonous, what if Xiaoqing is slow poison and is fed poison in Chang'an Palace, and we will have a seizure?" ”

"This ...... Indeed, if you go directly to Sinong Temple, there is no evidence, just suspicion. ”

Ma Yuanzhen got up from his new screen chair:

"Suspicion is enough, we can't let this kind of behavior expand, it's robbery, poisoning, and arson, which doesn't take General Ben seriously. You can't find any of it, so what's the use of you? ”

"Set fire...... I asked everyone who was there, and they all proved to each other. I don't know if it was the arsonist who ran out of the crooked-necked tree in the back wall. Gu Er explained.

"Then you won't cut down the tree?!"

Starting from the investigation of the two lines of Xiaoqing and the bucket of water, no one expected that Ma Yuanzhen, who seemed to be silent, would act so quickly once he started.

First of all, the concubine in the main hall of Chang'an Palace, on the grounds of cleaning up the palace, as soon as the palace door was closed, Zhao Heyi took more than a dozen attendants to check the east and west side halls.

The one who lives in the east side hall is the Chen family, she was only sent to the palace this year, her skin is white and beautiful, and she is nearly twenty years younger than the concubine, and the saint is in the ice palace to escape the summer, for seven consecutive days, it is the Chen family's attendant.

Living in the west side hall are the Deng family and their daughter Princess Guangde. The Deng family has been bullied by Concubine Yuan openly and secretly for a long time, and her health has been poor, and it is difficult to be in autumn and summer, so she will fall ill again.

But Zhao Heyi doesn't care if the Deng family is sick or not, the palace door is closed, and there are guards again, even if Princess Guangde wants to go to the saint, there is nothing she can do.

Ma Yuanzhen wanted to check Xiaoqing, and the west side hall was the first to suffer.

"Zhao Heyi, this is the West Side Palace, don't you come nonsense!" Li Shuang'er helped Deng Shi, who struggled to sit up from the bed, and gritted her teeth and said.

Zhao Heyi deliberately made an underwhelming expression: "I want to come nonsense, you come to beat me!" Come on, search for me, don't let go of any bottles and cans! ”

The chamberlains scattered and began to rummage through the cabinets with impunity.

"Which room does Xiaoqing live in?"

The inner attendant of the west side hall hurriedly took Zhao Heyi over.

"Shuang'er, they are prepared, don't you fight with them...... cough, cough, cough ......" Deng didn't finish his sentence, and coughed violently.

"Mother, don't speak, I'll let them get the medicine. Orchid! Orchid! ”

"Princess, don't call it, the orchids and peach blossoms are all detained in the yard and can't come." The chamberlain in charge of looking at them said.

Shuang'er was shocked: This is not a check against the ban, it is Ma Yuanzhen who is here to settle the accounts, and the orchids and a few of them have followed themselves to other provinces yesterday, I'm afraid none of them can escape!

She helped her mother to lie down, stood up and said, "A-Niang, there is no one outside, Shuang'er will help you get the medicine." ”

Deng Shi was originally dazed, but when he heard Shuang'er say that he was going out, he stretched out his hand to grab her:

"Frost, don't go out! My mother just took medicine, and my mother knows that you are going to save them, don't go! Don't go ......."

"Auntie! Are they left to their own devices? Shuang'er was a little anxious, and the cries of the palace maids outside pierced her heart, especially the crying was sandwiched with their crying for help called "princess, princess".

"Either way, they're all slaves who grew up with me, and I can't sit idly by!"

Shuang'er broke away from her mother's hand and was about to rush out with her skirt. Zhao Heyi had already walked in with someone, and he proudly threw a cloth bag on the table in the outer hall, and said to Li Shuang'er:

"Look, your maidservant dares to hide the forbidden things in the harem, as the master, you are afraid that you will not be able to escape the blame!"

Li Shuang'er opened the bag, and a smell of medicine came to her nose: "This ...... What is this! It's not ours! After all, she is young, and she has never seen any other medicine except for the medicine her mother takes.

"What's that? Arsenic doesn't know, Musk always knows, right? Concubine Yuan has been favored for many years, but she failed to give birth to a son and a half daughter, you live together in Chang'an Palace, and you are most suspected of doing tricks. Killed the concubine and made it impossible to get pregnant, and the Deng family in the west side hall has not been favored by the saint for many years, and has become a demon because of hatred......"

"Nonsense!"

As soon as Li Shuang'er's words fell, she heard a "bang" behind her, and when she looked back, her mother barely supported her to walk to the middle door, and when she heard Zhao Heyi's words, her legs were weak, she fell down, and her head knocked on the foot of the door frame.

"Mother! Mother! Wake up! Zhao Heyi, I don't care what you find, call the imperial doctor! ”

"Imperial Doctor? The Imperial Doctor will come. Zhao Heyi walked out without smiling: "Go, put away the evidence, let's go to the East Side Palace." ”

The Chen family in the East Side Hall only found out that she was two months pregnant a few days earlier, and all the people in their East Side Hall who knew about it were tight-lipped.

When Zhao Heyi broke in, she thought that the pregnancy was exposed, and involuntarily covered her belly. The aunt beside Chen hurriedly stood in front of her and said:

"Manager Zhao, this is the concubine's residence, and it is not in accordance with the rules for you to break in like this."

"Rules? Concubine Yuan is the rules of Chang'an Palace, I just came to see if the East Side Hall violated the rules of Concubine Yuan! Search for me! ”

Of course, Zhao Heyi would not leave a way back for himself, and he did not move in the inner hall where the concubines lived in the two side halls, and all he searched was the residence of the palace maid.

As concocted, most of the palace maids and chamberlains in the two side halls were taken away and sent to the Yeting Palace overnight.