Empress Dowager Zhou is indeed dying.

Reef couldn't remember exactly when she died. When he was first reborn, he thought she was dead, but later he realized from the words of the people around him that he seemed to be misremembering.

At this time in his previous life, he was still suffering in the Hu people's horse farm, and when he escaped, he kept burying his head in hard labor, just thinking about earning money to go back to his hometown. For the news in the capital, he had no way to inquire, and he didn't have the heart to inquire. He later made a secret agent for Jinyiwei and began to be ordered to monitor the imperial relatives and powerful officials in the capital, so he slowly learned what happened in his early years.

Empress Dowager Zhou passed away, it should have been in the past few years. Because her old man died, the emperor didn't need to worry about her feelings anymore, so when Sun Ge Lao and the Marquis of Yingchuan joined forces to "take revenge" on Zhou Dalang, the eldest son of the Duke of Zhenguo, he did not hesitate to follow their wishes, and he didn't even have the patience to send someone to find out the truth about the death of the Marquis of Yingchuan.

Since Zhou Dalang was dismissed, in the next few years, the children of the Zhou family have had accidents one after another, ranging from demotion to office, serious injuries and deaths, and some people have become disabled. Even if there are still children of the Zhou family who keep their military positions and continue to guard the borders, the momentum of the Zhou family is not as good as before, and they all rely on the old marshal of the town to support the overall situation. When the old marshal Zhou also died, no one in the Zhou family could take over the power of the border army. Mrs. Zhou simply moved back to the capital with the members and juniors who had no official positions in the family, and the low dispatch days also saved her children and grandchildren from continuing to be calculated by the ministers, and they couldn't even save their lives.

She really wasn't thinking too much. When Marshal Zhou just died, one of his nephews was denounced by someone for "raising his own respect". On the surface, this nephew's crime is only to connive at a group of sand thieves and horse bandits to cause trouble to the border people, and he did not seriously exterminate them, in fact, the group of sand thieves and horse bandits are Hu people, and Uncle Wang is also involved behind them. If Sun Ge Lao took advantage of this to chase and fight, this nephew would be accused of "collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country" at any time, and then implicate the entire Zhou family.

How the Zhou family coped with it, the reef is not clear. A few years later, he became a secret agent of Jinyiwei, and only then did he hear some inside information from the familiar God Whip Zhang San

Divine whip Zhang San, who was sent to the frontier to secretly investigate the case, has traced that the gang of sand thieves has something to do with Uncle Wang of the Hu people, but he couldn't go any further, so he was called back to the capital, and then this task was over. It didn't take long for Mrs. Zhou to move back to the capital with her family. The emperor was kind to them, and arranged for two grandchildren of the Zhou family to join the forbidden army as guards, and he would give things to Mrs. Zhou during the New Year's holidays.

Divine whip Zhang San has always been obsessed with this matter, not because he was forcibly suspended because he failed to find out the truth, but because he felt that some things here were too coincidental. Jin Yiwei has never interfered in the affairs of the border gates, why is there such an investigation task all of a sudden? It was he, an unofficial and unemployed secret agent, who took over the task? Once on the frontier, all the evidence came to him easily, and it didn't take much effort at all...... He always felt that there was someone behind this who was manipulating everything, and he suspected that that person was Sun Ge Lao......

Divine whip Zhang San's hometown is actually in the border town, and he has always respected Marshal Zhou's family very much in his heart. He has been afraid afterwards, if it weren't for Jinyiwei suddenly stopping the investigation mission, would he have become a tool for some powerful ministers to frame Zhongliang?

Because of this incident, the divine whip Zhang San has always looked at the Sun family unpleasantly. Later, when Tao Yue took charge of Jinyiwei, he was always very active in fighting for the task of spying on the Sun family, vowing to find out the evidence of Sun Gelao's crimes and bring him to justice......

Haijiao recalled the experience of his previous life, and he chattered a little, but Haitang still found information worthy of attention from his chatter in time: "My brother said before that Elder Sun Ge was once in charge of Jinyiwei, when did that start?" Before the death of Marshal Zhou? What year was it? If the Jinyi Guards were very powerful, would they find out the whereabouts of their cousin and tell Sun Ge Lao to know? ”

Haijiao stopped chattering and thought about it seriously: "Jinyiwei has always been in the hands of the emperor himself, and it was only after the emperor became seriously ill that he was taken over by the cabinet and asked Sun Ge Lao to hold it in his hand. But that should be years away, and the emperor's health is okay now. He paused, "But ...... One of Sun Gelao's cousins worked in Jinyiwei for a few years, and was later transferred to the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses. This person has a ruthless temperament, loves to calculate people the most, and has helped Sun Ge Lao eliminate dissidents. Calculate the time...... He was transferred out of Jinyiwei before and after the Zhou family returned to Beijing. As soon as he arrived at the Wucheng Terracotta Division, he had a conflict with a grandson of the Zhou family and almost abolished him. The emperor ordered the grandchildren of the Zhou family to join the forbidden army, and the matter was over. ”

It was also because of this incident that Zhang San became more and more convinced that the black hand behind the planning of the Yangkou case was Sun Gelao.

As for whether Jin Yiwei will find out Xie Wenzai's whereabouts...... Haijiao thinks it is impossible: "Jinyiwei is busy with affairs on weekdays, and the case in Beijing alone may not be investigated, who would worry about a former official who has been exiled for many years and has been pardoned not long ago?" If the cousin returned to the capital and made friends with the powerful ministers, they might pay more attention. But my cousin doesn't plan to go back at all, so they won't care! ”

Haitang was relieved at this time, and asked again: "Why did Jinyiwei suddenly stop the investigation of the divine whip Zhang San?" Did they also find out that someone was behind this? ”

Haijiao shook his head: "I don't know about this. Divine whip Zhang San only said that it was an order from above. Who knows who this 'boss' is? Anyway, Zhongliang was never falsely accused, and the Zhou family could live peacefully after returning to Beijing, so he did not pursue it. ”

In fact, there is no way to pursue it. Sun Ge Lao is powerful, his cousin is ruthless, Zhang San doesn't want to die, no matter how big the resentment in his heart is, he can coax it first, and wait until the new monarch succeeds to the throne, Tao Ge Lao rises, and then take advantage of the situation to retaliate back.

Haitang silently wrote down the information implied in these old melons in his previous life, and then said: "According to my brother's statement, you were trapped in the racecourse for three years, and after escaping back, you did chores for the caravan in Suzhou for half a year, and then you collected the travel expenses to go to Ganzhou." And Zhou Dalang's dismissal was a period of time before you arrived in Ganzhou. The Queen Mother died, and before that. So, the Queen Mother should have died in the next two years? How did she die? ”

Haijiao thought for a moment: "I really don't remember the specific time. It's been many years since I entered Beijing, and the Queen Mother has been dead for a long time, and no one has talked about it for a long time, and I can't ask anyone about this, but I vaguely remember that she died very suddenly. Although he was sick for a long time, he died very suddenly. When she died, the emperor was not in the palace, and hurried back to do the funeral in the middle of the tour. Later, when the Sun family was convicted, Empress Dowager Xu ...... is the biological mother of Xinjun, and now she is still a virtuous concubine, she accused Sun Guifei of murdering the queen mother. It's just that there is no evidence, the Zhou family has lost power again, and Sun Guifei has also died well, so this matter is over. ”

Of course, there is no reason for it. Concubine Xian has always been low-key and reasonable, and she will not accuse Sun Guifei for no reason. She was originally a palace person next to the Queen Mother, and she became a concubine with the support of the Queen Mother, and gave birth to the Eighth Prince. She would say this, it must be that Sun Guifei had something inappropriate about her words and deeds before and after the death of the Queen Mother. At that time, Sun Guifei was in charge of the harem, and many secrets were only known to people in the harem.

It's just that...... Sun Guifei has a bad relationship with the Empress Dowager Zhou, and she has been at peace for more than 30 years, how could she suddenly poison the Empress Dowager Zhou?

The reef felt that the water was a bit deep.

Haitang raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and asked another question that she thought was very important: "Why didn't the Empress Dowager Zhou let the emperor posthumously crown Concubine Tao Hui?" Does she have any grudges against Concubine Tao Hui? ”