Reincarnation of the powerful minister

The servant bowed down tremblingly, and told the things one by one.

It turned out that just this morning, less than half an hour after the porridge was given out by the Yishan Bureau, the victims experienced extensive vomiting, diarrhea, and even fever and convulsions. Individuals with severe symptoms were comatose and dying.The Yishan Bureau was set up temporarily by the Crown Prince in charge of the Household Department and the Bingma Division for disaster relief. After the Crown Prince heard about this, he immediately left the palace and went to the scene.

There were hundreds of victims who fell ill, and the doctors did not have enough manpower to treat them. The scene was full of crying and moaning.When the prince arrived with a team of guards, someone called out, "He is the prime minister for disaster relief," and the victims rushed forward one after another, climbing on their horses and begging him for help.

The guards of the Eastern Palace were afraid of hurting the prince in the chaos, and accidentally injured a few people during the isolation, so the victims became more emotional.The victims in several other resettlement sites also rushed over to ask for an explanation. The prince was surrounded by panicked and angry crowds, like a boiling soup.

One of the guards hurried back to the palace to report. The servant on duty knew that the situation was urgent, so he had no choice but to enter the palace to report, which violated the emperor's birthday celebration.

Emperor Jinglong suddenly got up, thought for a moment, then slowly sat back on the dragon chair, frowned with displeasure, and said: "The prince is no longer a child, if you can't even do this well, what can you expect from him? "

It seems that he doesn't want to care about this matter anymore, let's see how the prince settles it.

Civil and military officials looked at each other, whispering with many complex expressions.Cabinet minister Yang Ting took the lead to stand up and persuade the emperor to put the prince's safety first and send troops to appease the rioters.The emperor should not be silent.

Seeing this scene, several courtiers came out and praised the emperor's honing and testing of the crown prince as an act of cutting jade, which was very wise, and in turn advised Yang Ting not to delay the crown prince's experience because of the benevolence of a woman.

Yang Ting retorted that he had to use corresponding tools to carve jade, and he had to control the force well, otherwise it would be broken jade, so he insisted on asking the emperor to make an order.

Emperor Jinglong said coldly: "Longevity Festival, the whole world celebrates the gift of all officials, but the birthday gift presented to me by the crown prince is a civil disturbance. Why, do you want me to lead the army to receive it?"

Yang Ting was left speechless by the rhetorical questions, and could only apologize to the emperor for the prince in his capacity as the prince's Taifu, and at the same time begged the emperor to pay attention to the relationship between father and son.

The courtiers talked to each other, some said that the prince’s actions were reckless and provoked civil uprisings; It is said that the common people get sick after disasters, and doctors must be recruited to treat them as soon as the snow gets worse...

Su Yan watched silently, and found that no matter what the opinions of the ministers were, they were faintly divided into two factions.

Speaking of which, the prince used to be scolded by civil servants and speech officials for being playful and tired of studying, but the situation in the past is different from what is showing now—especially the one who is close to the Wei family on weekdays. Those officials now seem to have drawn strength from the emperor's current performance. There is something in each of their words, and their attitude towards the prince is not so much "admonishment" as "attack".

In the end, Li Chengfeng, the chief assistant who returned to Wenyuan Pavilion early to rest because of physical discomfort, rushed over after hearing the news, and asked the emperor directly in the main hall: "In case His Royal Highness makes a mistake, will His Majesty regret it after he gets angry?"

Emperor Jinglong let go with a slight change in expression just now, and sent Jin Yiwei to rescue the scene, and named Su Yan: "Since you are the person in charge of the task force for the Baizhifang bombing, you should pay more attention to the follow-up resettlement of the victims. Go with Jin Yiwei." Let’s see what’s going on, and report back to me.”

Su Yan originally wanted to find an opportunity to sneak away to see the prince, but this oral order hit his heart, and he immediately took orders and left Fengtian Hall.

After leaving the Meridian Gate, he stopped taking the car and galloped to the Yishan Bureau.

The Yishan Bureau is located in the west of the city, adjacent to several resettlement sites for the victims.When Su Yan arrived, he saw a huge crowd in the courtyard, some were standing, some were sitting, some were lying on the ground, there were painful groans and sobs everywhere, and there were many people surrounded by three layers inside and outside the courtyard.

Surrounded in the middle of the crowd, the crown prince was talking to several kneeling officials, and his suit of vermilion woven gold Yunlong Yisa was particularly eye-catching.

Su Yan saw that there were many people at the scene, but the chaos was not out of control. The situation seemed to be under control, so he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief and pushed everyone in.

"Master!" He called out loudly through the human wall.

Zhu Helin turned his head when he heard the sound, and when he saw him clearly, his whole face seemed to light up, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raised, and he responded: "Qinghe! Come here, come to my side, be careful not to squeeze."

The guards made way for a passage, Su Yan walked over, and looked at the prince first: "It's good that the young master is fine." Then he asked, "The news reached Fengtian Palace, the emperor ordered me to check the situation, and Jin Yiwei will be there later. what happened?"

"Ask him!" Zhu Helin raised his leg and kicked the man kneeling in front of him, kicking him backwards.Su Yan saw that the man was dressed as a miscellaneous official, his face was covered with sweat and tears, and his face turned pale with fear. After being kicked, he hurriedly knelt back, trembling like chaff, and couldn't speak clearly.Behind him were two small officials who were also panic-stricken.

The victims around screamed angrily: "Kill him! Kill this dog official!"

"Who would have thought that my husband narrowly escaped death in the big bang, but he could not escape the corrupt officials who dereliction of duty!"

"These people should be hacked into pieces, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must decide for me and the common people!"

Zhu Helin nodded to the people, then turned to Su Yan, and explained: "I suspect that the problem is in the porridge. I asked the doctor to test it, but no poison was found."

Su Yan knew that the so-called drug testing in this era can only detect sulfur-containing substances such as arsenic, and basically cannot detect other toxins.

Sure enough, Zhu Helin said again: "So I went to the warehouse to check the stored grain, and found that it was all moldy old rice, which was black and smelly. I washed it with alum water and cooked it into miscellaneous grain porridge for disaster relief. Stuff, it’s no wonder that you don’t get sick! I’ve checked, and the relief rice distributed by the household department is fine, but it’s moldy when it reaches the Yishan Bureau.

While he was talking, his face was full of anger, and even Su Yan felt righteous indignation: It seems that this kind of behavior of exposing the country to wealth has happened in all dynasties, regardless of ancient or modern times.

"This person is just a miscellaneous officer. He doesn't have the ability and courage to do this alone. There must be an instigator behind him. I just interrogated him for a long time, sir. He was crying and shaking, but he refused to explain. It seems It won’t work if you don’t give it some strength.”

While speaking, the Jinyiwei team rushed to the scene and surrounded the entire courtyard.Seeing Zhu Helin, he changed his mind, and said to those officials who were in good faith: "If you don't tell the truth, I will send you to the Fusi of Beizhen, so that you can taste the great punishment in prison!"

The official seemed to be horrified to the extreme, and suddenly stopped shaking, and raised his face to look at the prince.

His complexion was pale, his eyeballs were extremely black, and there was an unspeakable deep meaning in his eyes, which made Su Yan feel terrified.At this moment, the man suddenly kowtowed heavily to the prince and stood up abruptly.

The guards thought that he was going to get into trouble, and hurriedly formed a circle to protect the prince, but unexpectedly he rushed out from the sideways and jumped into a well in the courtyard without hesitation.

"...It's thrown into the well!" A cry of exclamation broke out from the crowd.

Su Yan shouted: "Quick! Save people!"

The guards realized that two of them were good at water, immediately found a thick hemp rope and tied it around their waists, and hung them down to the well to save people, but they didn't feel it.

"I'm afraid that man can't swim at all, so he sank. I'll dive down and look for him." The two guards alternately dived down to the bottom of the well to find someone.

After a long while, one of the guards came up, wiped his wet face, and shouted loudly: "Young master, I didn't touch anyone, but I touched something weird. Do you want to pull it up and have a look?"

Zhu Helin leaned towards the mouth of the well: "What strange thing?"

"I don't know, it feels like a pillar standing upright and half buried in the mud."

"Pillar?" Zhu Helin turned to look at Su Yan, who returned a puzzled look.So the prince ordered, "Then pull it up and have a look."

The guards dived down again, and tied the thick hemp rope tightly to the thing. A group of people outside the well pulled it hard. After a lot of effort, they finally pulled the thing out of the water, and dragged it out of the well head little by little.

It turned out to be a stone pillar as tall as a person and as thick as a soup basin. It had been at the bottom of the well for an unknown amount of time, and the surface was covered with scale, with messy dents vaguely seen on it.

The guards continued to search for people. The prince circled around the strange stone pillar lying on the ground and studied it. He felt more and more that the dent had something to say, and ordered his subordinates: "Scrape off the dirt on it with a knife."

After a while, the scale and algae were scraped away in sevens and eights, and the scratches on the stone pillars were revealed, like a few ancient writings.

Zhu Helin asked people to set up a pillar, connected the characters one by one, and read: "The world will perish on the edge of the knife... What do you mean?"

Su Yan always felt that this strange incident with side effects was not right, and he had a sense of déjà vu.He was still looking for this feeling, and the people around him started discussing:

"Which day is 'Knife Edge Day'? Is it in the daily stems and branches?"

"What's 'death to the world' sounds unlucky."

"How on earth did you say this pillar came from? This well has been used for decades, but I never knew there was such a thing buried under it."

"Who knows, maybe it was arranged by God."

Su Yan shuddered, knowing what this feeling was - the prophecy used by professional rebel magic sticks, one way is nursery rhymes, and the other way is relying on foreign objects.

There was a breakthrough in the discussion of brainstorming and teamwork. One of the Eastern Palace guards had an idea and shouted: "When 'Knife Edge Day' is combined, isn't it the word 'Zhao'?" It's the death-"

He fell silent.

Zhu Helin frowned and stared at him: "What do you mean? Tell me clearly!"

The guard shook his head desperately, not daring to say another word.

Some of the people thought about it: "This soldier's statement is quite reasonable... Except for the surname Zhao, it may also be the one with 'Zhao' in the name..."

"Zhao" in the name?Zhu Helin didn't know what to think of, his expression changed.

"What is young master thinking?" Su Yan asked him.

Zhu Helin shook his head again and again, and ordered the guards to pull a piece of cloth to wrap up the stone pillar, put it on the carriage and take it back to the palace.

The official's body was pulled from the bottom of the well.The dead can't testify, and the petty officials at the bottom kept asking three questions, and the gangsters who resold the relief rice by passing it off as good ones had to investigate again.The most urgent task is to treat the sick victims.

Fortunately, Jinyiwei has a large number of people, and they go to invite doctors, buy medicinal materials, and set up a cauldron to boil medicine in batches.Bowls of licorice detoxification soup were distributed, and the condition of most poisoned victims was under control, the symptoms began to alleviate, and their lives were no longer affected.

Zhu Helin breathed a sigh of relief, and tried his best to appease the hearts of the people, saying that he would ask the Ministry of Households to send a new batch of rice back, and promised to investigate the matter thoroughly and bring all criminals, including officials, to justice. He left the Yishan Bureau in a voice.

Su Yan and the crown prince rode side by side, meditating all the way.

Now it was Zhu Helin's turn to ask him: "What are you thinking?"

Su Yan shook his head: "I can't tell for the time being. It's not a good premonition. Today's incident is very strange. I'm afraid it's not just that there's something wrong with it, but also that there's something wrong with it."

Zhu Helin said: "I also feel that something is wrong. Not to mention the rice relief, but this inexplicable stone pillar, and the even more inexplicable writing on it, 'The world will perish with a knife edge'...'Death to the world', you know I thought of it Who? Second child, Zhu Hezhao."

Su Yan reined in his horse suddenly and looked at Zhu Helin with an indescribable expression.

Zhu Helin panicked when he saw him, and asked, "What's wrong? I really can't help but think so."

Su Yan's lips moved a few times, and finally he said in a low voice: "Master, please listen to my advice. Destroy this pillar, and don't mention it later, especially in front of the emperor."

Zhu Helin was stunned for a moment, and asked back: "Why? Besides, everyone present saw this matter, and thousands of people talked about it. If I don't say it, others won't say it?"

"...It's not worth it, young master, really." Su Yan held his arm firmly, "I'll say something from the bottom of my heart, this is not fighting poison with fire, but a deadly trick! If you ask my opinion in advance, I will resolutely oppose it. This kind of method can be used for a while, but not for a lifetime; it can be deceived by the world, but not by the emperor."

Zhu Helin finally came to his senses and was furious: "You think I designed this?"

Before Su Yan could react, he was so angry that he slapped the horse's butt with a whip, and left in the dust.

Su Yan ate his nose, covered his face with his sleeves, and muttered to himself: "Xiao Zhu doesn't seem like someone who can do this kind of trick. Could it be him? Then who is it..."