In charge

Empress Ning Zhen issued an order, and a thorough investigation of all the eunuchs in the entire palace began.Si Ping and Yue Yingxi took people to investigate in person, and they really couldn't take advantage of any loopholes.

In less than half a day, a young eunuch who was in charge of cleaning was pulled out from the imperial dining room, and he looked five points like the dead eunuch.

Fushou, the head of the imperial dining room, was called together, "Your Majesty, this is Xiao Anzi's brother named Xiao Xizi. He said that his mother was sick and wanted to see his brother, so he came to work for a few days. The slave thought it was because of his mother." People don't care."

"Do you know where the imperial dining room is?" Shu Yunci asked slowly.

Fushou's ability to become the chief manager shows that he is capable. When he heard this, he knelt on the ground with a "plop" in fright, "I know. It's my negligence. Please punish me!" Then you will definitely be questioned.

The imperial dining room is the place where the emperor cooks, the most important thing, a negligence may give someone the opportunity to poison the food.

Shu Yunci glanced at the silk vase, "There are rules in the palace, what crime should Fushou be, you can deal with it, Si Ving."

The silk bottle went down with Fushou.Shu Yunci's eyes fell on Xiao Xizi who was kneeling below.She took out a file from her hand, which was about the situation of Xiao Anzi's family just sent over.

"Little Anzi doesn't have a brother at all, who are you?"

Xiao Xizi was not very old, she looked less than 20 years old, she was trembling with fright at this moment, she didn't look up, she just lay on the ground and kept crying.

"I came to ask you a question to give you a chance to save yourself. If you give up, there will be someone here who can make you tell the truth." Shu Yunci stopped looking at him and continued to immerse herself in reviewing the memorial.

Jiang Fengmin at the side couldn't bear it long ago, and came over to mention Xiao Xizi, "If you want to survive, speak quickly, don't waste your majesty's time."

Xiao Xizi's whole body trembled, her lips trembled too, but she still didn't say a word.

"The people behind him are threatening the lives of his whole family, he dare not say it." Shu Yunci didn't look up, and a sneer came from the pile of memorials, "He thought I couldn't find out who he was, so he didn't dare to kill his whole family Woolen cloth."

Jiang Fengmin's hands tightened, and Xiao Xizi felt it was difficult to breathe. "Have you heard what His Majesty said? If you don't speak, none of your family members will survive. If you tell the truth, maybe your family still has a way to survive. You should know who is in charge of this hidden country, right?"

Xiao Xizi's eyes began to flicker, obviously thinking about it.Shu Yunci waved his hand, "Throw it to Yingxi, remove his two ribs first, and continue to remove them if you don't say anything. Anyway, there are a lot of ribs, so throw them back to Fushou for making soup."

Jiang Fengmin felt a heavy hand, and Xiao Xizi was so frightened that he passed out. "Is it so frightening?" Jiang Fengmin frowned.

Shu Yunci continued to wave his hands, so Jiang Fengmin had no choice but to carry someone to the execution department.As soon as he opened the door of the imperial study, he saw Wen Wuying floating over in white.Xiao Xizi, who had been relieved by the fresh air, fainted again when she saw this scene.

"What's wrong with this man?" Wen Wuying landed on the ground, seeing that the man was unconscious, he asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"It's okay." Jiang Fengmin carried the person and left.The people in the palace were already used to Wen Wuying floating around, they would faint when they saw this, how dare they come to the palace to make trouble with such little guts?

Wen Wuying entered the imperial study, "Your Majesty, I just discovered this by accident." She reached out and put something on the desk.

Shu Yunci stopped the vermilion pen and looked at a slender tube sealed with wax on the desk. "Where did you find out?"

"Someone put this thing in the empty kettle outside, and I picked it up out of curiosity." Wen Wuying remained gentle and gentle, but during this period of time, she became familiar with the people in the palace, and her naughty character in her bones also revealed a little.This is when she saw someone throw something and she picked it up.

Shu Yunci thought for a while, and called a little maid who was guarding the door, "Go and call Feng Min back."

Just as Jiang Fengmin threw the person to Yue Yingxi, and conveyed Shu Yunci's intention of tearing apart the ribs and making soup, Yue Yingxi knew that this was a joke of Her Majesty the Empress.

But she was good at asking for confessions, so Jiang Fengmin was relieved.

Just as Jiang Fengmin was about to chat with Yue Yingxi, the little maid came over to deliver a message.Jiang Fengmin went to the room immediately, and disappeared after a while.The little palace maid was still circling in circles, Yue Yingxi patted her, "I've already gone back, you should hurry back and return to your life."

The little maid thanked Yue Yingxi and turned back to Xihua Palace.Yue Yingxi shook her head while thinking of Shu Yunci's words, it's actually a good idea to tear apart the ribs.

Jiang Fengmin returned to the imperial study, and Shu Yunci asked her to take the wax tube to the Sheng Mansion and give it to Xuecan to have a look.Jiang Fengmin was about to put the wax tube into his arms, but Shu Yunci gave him a stare, and she didn't dare to make a move.

"Don't let the wax melt!" Shu Yun said kindly.

Jiang Fengmin immediately grasped the spirit, held the wax tube and ran away.

Shengfu.

The blood silkworm just came out of the special pharmacy after selecting the herbs, when he saw Jiang Fengmin jumping off the roof.She raised her eyebrows, "General, this is the Duke's Mansion after all, you must show some necessary respect, right?"

Jiang Fengmin was triumphant, "I came here by imperial decree this time." She handed the wax tube in her hand to the blood silkworm, "Yun Ci said to let you have a look."

It is no stranger to this wax tube blood silkworm.This kind of thing is generally used to hold poisonous poison powder or poisonous living things.

She took Jiang Fengmin and turned back to the medicine room.It was the first time for Jiang Fengmin to enter here, and the smell of traditional Chinese medicine made her want to sneeze.

Blood Silkworm said coldly: "If you want to sneeze, please go out and sneeze. There are extremely precious medicinal materials here, which cannot be damaged."

Jiang Fengmin hastily covered his nose and mouth, and followed the blood silkworm to continue walking in.The space inside is not too big, there are rows of medicine cabinets on the surrounding walls, and the tools for grinding medicinal materials are placed on the table in the middle.

After the blood silkworm came in, he put the wax tube into a porcelain container, lit a candle and carefully roasted the wax.As soon as the wax shell melted, a liquid flowed out of the thin tube inside.

The liquid was transparent, like water, without any pungent smell, which made Jiang Fengmin who was beside him secretly startled.Colorless and odorless poisons are the hardest to find.

The blood silkworm's expression remained unchanged, she took some medicinal powder and sprinkled it on the liquid little by little, after tinkering with it for a while, she breathed a sigh of relief, "It's He Wushuang."

"What?" Jiang Fengmin had never heard of it.

"A kind of poison that can make people lose their sanity. If your majesty takes this poison, you will lose your sanity within three days. You will be irritable and irritable. With your majesty's temper and martial arts, you are probably the only one who can survive in the whole palace." It's gone." Xue Cang felt scared after thinking about it.

Jiang Fengmin shook his head, "I won't leave her, so I won't survive."

Blood silkworms despise, what kind of affection is showing at this time?

Jiang Fengmin brought the news back to the palace. On the one hand, Shu Yunci asked the palace to investigate, and on the other hand, she took Jiang Fengmin to Shangde Palace.

Emperor Yuanming had aged a lot, but he was still in good spirits. Apart from being a little deaf, he was quite strong.As soon as he saw Shu Yunci coming in person, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Shu Yunci told Emperor Yuanming everything that happened in the palace.Emperor Yuanming closed his eyes wearily, and opened them after a while, "You are the emperor, you can do whatever you want."

Shu Yunci got up, "Father, don't worry, I won't kill them all."

The seventh and eighth princes were taken back to the palace and placed under house arrest in two palaces respectively. Anyway, there are many empty palaces in the palace.

There are no servants around the two of them, and the daily meals are given according to the treatment given to concubines in the cold palace.The two have been pampered and pampered for so many years, how could they suffer such hardship?Crying for grievances all day long, but no one responded.

After being locked up for a few days, a eunuch came to deliver food and water. Through the crack of the door, the two princes saw a eunuch holding a wax-sealed thin tube and stuffing it into a kettle, and the eighth prince refused to drink the water that was poured out. .

After hearing the eunuch's description, Shu Yunci immediately decreed that the seventh prince should be crowned King An, and he would immediately become a vassal.The Eighth Prince was granted the title of King Rong and continued to be under house arrest.

Wang An has been under house arrest for a few days, and now his mind is clear, and he finally knows how many bowls of dry rice he has eaten.

I went to say goodbye to my parents, and set off for the feudal land the next day.

On the other hand, the Eighth Prince Rongwang was not so lucky.He was locked up all day long, but the problem was that no one cared about him at all, he was neither arrested nor interrogated, which made King Rong fearful all day long and lived in fear.He had a bad life, but Shu Yunci used his banner to deal with those courtiers who colluded with him.

The air in the hall was extremely tense.Shu Yunci remained calm, and all the officials were silent.Prime Minister Wu Shangjie stood at the top of the civil servants, and the grand speeches had long since ceased to go to court.

"Prince Rong was taken into the palace by me, so you don't need to probe in many ways. It won't be long before everything will be known." Shu Yunci's words gave the ministers room to imagine.

The ministers who have already stood on King Rong's side are secretly speculating on the holy will, thinking that King An has gone to the fiefdom, which means that he has withdrawn from the battle for the reserve position, and King Rong is always in the palace. treatment?Some people are secretly celebrating, while others still feel that the holy will is unpredictable, and they dare not relax until everything is settled.

At this moment, Shu Yunci already had a list in his hands, all the ministers who took refuge in King Rong. "It's actually less than I expected." She shook the list in her hand with a sneer on her face.

"In the past ten years, the ministers who have been able to work under you have all had brains. If you hadn't revealed your intention to abdicate, I think there would be even fewer people standing in line." Jiang Fengmin analyzed.

After ten years of purges, those ministers who were sitting on vegetarian diets had been purged long ago. Nowadays, ministers with positions in the court, no matter what their intentions are, are indeed able to do things.Shu Yunci selects people on their merits, and as for virtue, she thinks she can control it.

Now that the new monarch is going to be changed, her second elder brother is kind-hearted, so he must change a group of pillars who are loyal to the monarch and the country.These people act in a stable manner, and it's not suitable for her to use them. It's just right for her second brother to use them.

If you want to replace this group of people, there must be someone who has to step back to make room. The matter of King Rong happened to clear up a group of people, and the rest will be cleaned up slowly.

While Shu Yunci was busy dealing with the government affairs, Hua Yihong, who had been traveling all over the place, appeared in disorder. As soon as she arrived, she lived in Yue Yingxi's mansion without notice. Although Yue Yingxi kept pushing people out, I am still very happy.

Of course, Yue Yingxi was not the only one who was happy with Hua Yihong's arrival.The day after Shu Yunci got the news, he sent the two of them to Qingguo to find Yun Zuimo.