Chapter 35 Stealing the dragon and turning the phoenix into the thirty-fifth

Things went very smoothly, and Zhang Juzheng convened cabinet members overnight and held an internal meeting at the cabinet level. He said that he would settle some things, and then hold a "court meeting" the next day to make a decision. He obviously knew that Gao Gong had a lot of opinions about him, as long as Gao Gong was present, Zhang Juzheng's decision would not pass smoothly. He was going to take advantage of this opportunity to drag Gao Gong and fight with Gao Gong in the cabinet duty room. Try to drag the high arch and trap the high arch in the cabinet duty room, so that the high arch can't go outside to preside over the overall situation. With Gao Gong's temper and character, he would not let outsiders know about his alliance with Empress Chen and Meng Chong. Therefore, there will be no one who can preside over the overall situation outside in his place, and there will be no one who can command the people who can move the high arch.

Zhang Cheng didn't wait for the next day, and after returning to the palace, he directly arrested the person Feng Bao who refused to speak to Li Guifei. Under Zhang Cheng's tearful statement, Li Guifei immediately understood the truth about her son Zhu Yijun's accident. When she learned that her son was not injured by herself, but was framed, Li Guifei almost broke out completely. Li Guifei was born in a small private family and wanted to live a normal married life. After entering the palace as a palace maid, she sacrificed everything for the future wealth, and it was not until the birth of the child that she had new hope. Zhu Yijun is not only her biological son, but also her future, whether she can become the queen mother in the future depends on Zhu Yijun. Zhu Yijun, who broke his leg, not only lost most of his opportunities, but also caused Li Guifei to almost lose power. No matter who dares to ruin Li Guifei's future, Li Guifei will bite him to death. Concubine Li was furious and almost lost her humanity. Fortunately, Zhang Cheng on the side had already had an idea, and while stopping Li Guifei from going crazy, he said a good way. Meng Chong is the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and the chief housekeeper of the palace, this kind of matter is handed over to Meng Chong to deal with, and the real culprit must be found within a limited time. If the real murderer is found, Li Guifei can ask the mastermind, and if she can't find the real murderer, she can take the opportunity to deal with Meng Chong. Li Guifei immediately understood what Zhang Cheng meant, and used the power in charge of the phoenix seal to directly order Meng Chong to find the real culprit within two days, otherwise Meng Chong would immediately step down and no longer have to be the eunuch of the master of ceremonies and the seal of the seal. In order to prevent Meng Chongyang from violating the law, and in order to let Meng Chong handle the case wholeheartedly, Li Guifei sent Zhang Cheng to supervise Meng Chong's investigation of the case throughout the process. If Meng Chong dares to be sloppy, Zhang Cheng has the right to directly take over the celebrant supervisor. After Meng Chong learned about it, he had to make a surprise interrogation of this so-called suspect overnight, but of course there was no result. However, Meng Chong has been targeted by Zhang Cheng, and even Zhang Cheng followed Meng Chong when he ate and slept.

The people of the East Factory seemed to have eaten gunpowder, and they went crazy and went out in an all-round way. Not only did the people from Dongchang dispatch, but also the Jinyi Guard and the forbidden army in the capital were all launched. All of them canceled their vacations and went door-to-door on the streets to find suspects. Feng Bao's information to everyone is that there is a palace maid who became pregnant after having an affair with the guards, and tried to frame Emperor Longqing. This incident has angered the royal family, so this woman and her child must be caught. Anyone who stands in the way is an enemy of the royal family, and no one can obstruct the search. Both ordinary people and officials must be investigated. Even the residences of the emperor's relatives and meritorious deeds were to be searched. All those suspected were imprisoned in the black jail of Dongchang, which was immediately overcrowded, holding many pregnant women and young women with children. In particular, women who are born as palace maids and who can enter and leave the palace will be arrested as long as they do not know their origins. It seems that just dealing with these people is enough to keep the people of Dongchang busy for a while.

The next morning, some rumors spread in the palace who did not know who. It is said that there is a secret message that someone from the East Factory inadvertently said. It is said that Dongchang accidentally caught a woman with a child. This woman not only said that she was the woman of the Longqing Emperor, but also said that her child was the blood and blood of the Longqing Emperor, the future emperor. After investigation, the people in Dongchang found that this woman was secretly sent to the palace by Meng Chong for Emperor Longqing to enjoy. Because she was pregnant, she didn't enter the palace immediately, and Emperor Longqing promised to welcome their mother and son into the palace, and let her son become the emperor in the future. This kind of news is not too much, but it is not too much, and everyone listens to it as a joke. It can be that the maid of the imperial ** palace left immediately after hearing it. Soon after, this palace maid of Empress Chen's cronies left the palace, but she didn't expect a string of "tails" to follow her.

At noon, Qin Tai learned the news as soon as possible. Tan Juan's people not only caught all the suspects, but also the women and children. This child was also poisoned, ** it was Meng Chong who went down, in order to release Queen Chen and Gao Gong to deal with Meng Chong afterwards. Everyone not only explained the whole story, but also told an amazing secret. After Qin Tai heard this, he also broke out in a cold sweat.

It turned out that in order to cater to the interest of Emperor Longqing, Meng Chong found some ** from some places. However, Emperor Longqing didn't like these folk women who had no interest, so Meng Chong had to go to ** to find some Qingqi. Unexpectedly, when I met Empress Chen's cousin in a **, Empress Chen knew Meng Chong's plan. At this time, it happened that Gao Gong wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to squeeze out Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet, so he secretly joined forces with Empress Chen. They thought of Meng Chong's relationship and used this opportunity to half-use and half-threaten Meng Chong. Empress Chen trained the girls of her own family and treated them as ordinary folk women and asked Meng Chong to give them to Emperor Longqing. The purpose was to make Empress Chen's relatives pregnant with Emperor Longqing's child, and then help Empress Chen control the harem. Drove away Li Guifei's mother and son. However, the plan did not succeed, and Emperor Longqing did not conceive the woman. After that, every once in a while, Empress Chen sent different women into the palace through Meng Chong to serve Emperor Longqing. At this time, Gao Gong left the capital for a while, which caused a woman to threaten the child in her belly afterwards, asking Empress Chen and Meng Chong to protect her and meet her demands. After Gao Gong returned, he not only immediately subdued this arrogant woman, but also laid out a plan to deal with the prince. This is why the crown prince Zhu Yijun fell and was injured, but this is not the best result that everyone wants, it is just a failed union. Although the plan failed, it also deeply hurt all the framed princes, but it also aroused the suspicion of Zhang Juzheng and others. But what everyone doesn't know is that the child this woman is pregnant with is not Emperor Longqing's, but a wild species who doesn't know what kind of man it is. In order to live a good life, this woman pretended to be the child of a nobleman. She didn't expect that this noble man was Emperor Longqing, so she had to resolutely say that this child belonged to Emperor Longqing. When the officers and soldiers and the people of Dongchang rushed in like wolves, surrounded the place, and took special care of their mother and son, she thought that the matter had been exposed, so she did not dare to tell a lie and told the truth of the matter. She doesn't want to get rich anymore, and she doesn't want to be a princess anymore, she just wants to be able to live. No matter how stupid she is, she knows what the crime and result of deceiving the emperor and confusing the royal blood are.

Qin Tai contacted Zhang Juzheng and several people, and after secretly solving the woman and the child, he found a few irrelevant people as "scapegoats". This is the end of this matter, and at the same time, it also warns the restless Empress Chen, Gao Gong and Meng Chong. This matter that almost upended the future of the Ming Dynasty was solved. Outsiders don't know that this matter has changed because of Qin Tai, and even the crown prince Zhu Yijun doesn't know the truth very well. The matter of Princess Zhu Yao'e of Shouyang, Qin Tai kept it a secret, and even Zhang Juzheng and others did not say it, of course Li Guifei and others did not know the truth about Zhu Yijun's injury because of Princess Zhu Yao'e of Shouyang. Zhu Yao'e, the princess of Shouyang, asked someone to bring a sentence to Qin Tai and his wife afterwards, and only three words were "thank you". This became a small secret that Qin Tai and his wife and Shouyang Princess Zhu Yao'e only knew, until after Qin Tai passed away, this princess sent her son to come to pay tribute to Qin Tai on her behalf, and everyone knew that the emperor's precious Shouyang Princess Zhu Yao'e originally knew Qin Tai. In fact, except for the princess herself and Qin Tai and her husband, no one knows the truth. The princess won't say it, and Qin Tai and his wife won't talk about it to anyone.