First Prince of Qing Dynasty

Of course, if one wants to convict Concubine De, it is impossible to rely solely on the confession left by Yi Erha.But with these, there is a clear direction of investigation.The details mentioned by Ilha, the places, people, ways, etc. that I came into contact with.As long as you have done it, there must be traces to follow.

It may be difficult to find out the hidden clues and get the answer when you don't know anything.But it is much easier to infer based on these under the premise that the details and answers are already known.

A few days later, Liang Jiugong thoroughly investigated the case of Tong Jia and Concubine De.

Leaving aside Tong Jia's side, let's just talk about Concubine De.The name of the person she sent to contact Ilha was Luo Cuiyu.On the surface, it looks like it has nothing to do with Concubine De.But Luo Cuiyu has an older sister who is married to the shopkeeper of the silk shop.And this shopkeeper is Yuchan's cousin.

Who would have thought of these twists and turns?

For such a terrible thing as the murder of Royal Grid, the confidants must be used.Even if one suspects Concubine De, it is usually someone from Chawuya's family and the slaves around Concubine De, and further investigation of the slave's family members.Who would have thought that she was the wife and sister of the servant's cousin?In particular, Luo Cuiyu doesn't seem to have any contact with Wu Ya's family, and the person she married has nothing to do with Wu Ya's family.

But she has long been De Fei's person.Even her sister's marriage was arranged by Concubine De.But Concubine De didn't show up, she just asked Yuchan to say a few words in front of her cousin when her cousin reached the age of marriage, intentionally or unintentionally, to make them fall in love.The rest is up to the cousin.So even now that the Dong Chuang incident has happened, the cousin still thinks that they chose the marriage by themselves.

Luo Cuiyu was very cautious in doing things, and did not reveal her identity in front of Ilha, she used a pseudonym, her background was also Hu Zou's, and she even disguised herself when meeting her.Even during the contact with Yi Erha, she never mentioned Concubine De, and never told Yi Erha who asked her to do this.Yi Erha only knows that someone is going to deal with Tong Jiashi and wants Little Gege to die.

In this way, even if Ilha can't stand the torture, he won't be able to confess to the mastermind behind the scenes.Even if you go to check the people who have been in contact with her, you will find that there is no such person.

But even so, in order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Concubine De still took action against Ilha.And she never thought that Yilha not only knew Luo Cuiyu, but also knew her, and left evidence before entering the palace.

Yilha is clever and follows Luo Cuiyu after every meeting.

She watched how Luo Cuiyu walked around the city, watched how Luo Cuiyu changed clothes in a deserted alley, watched Luo Cuiyu enter the house, and wrote down her address.After inquiring about the name of the mistress of the house, she found her elder sister after a little investigation, and found out that her brother-in-law's cousin was the confidant maid next to Concubine De.

Concubine De probably didn't expect that she was ruthless and had made all the preparations to ensure the possibility of her being exposed to the greatest extent, but she capsized in the gutter.

This made Yinfeng very sad.

In Shuntian Mansion, during the thorough investigation of the case in the palace, Zhuang Zhuang also made great progress.Facts have proved that Yinfeng's previous proposal is very effective.The owner of Zhuang Zhou gave a lot of things.

The Zhuang Zhuang of Zhou was an ex-official of the previous court, and was taught to restore the Han court from birth.This kind of thinking has long been buried in his blood, deep into the bone marrow.It can be said that he is loyal to the Zhu family and is the confidant of the third prince of Zhu.And this third prince Zhu is different from the many rebels who used to pretend to be just to raise a banner.He does have Zhu's blood in him.It's a pity that it's a bit far away.

The third prince of Zhu, named Zhu Ciyi.Not after Emperor Chongzhen, nor after Emperor Hongguang of Nanming.His father was an inconspicuous clan in the previous dynasty, and his relationship with Emperor Chongzhen was a bit far away, but at any rate, his ancestors were all Zhu Chongba, so he was considered to be a real bloodline of the Zhu family.However, Zhu Ciyi's background is a bit unjustifiable.

His biological mother was originally a singer, and she was favored by this humble clan several times.If all goes well, she may be brought into the mansion to become a concubine in the backyard.However, things are impermanent.Li Zicheng invaded the capital, and the pre-Ming Dynasty collapsed.The royal family fled south.

Under such circumstances, the clan couldn't protect themselves, so they couldn't take care of her, so they didn't take her with them when they fled.

Fortunately, because she didn't enter the house, she didn't register publicly, so few people knew about her.She herself was also clever, and ran to a village in the suburbs of Beijing while taking advantage of the chaos.She concealed her identity, and the owner of the Zhuangzi was kind-hearted, and only thought she was a woman from an ordinary family. Seeing that she was pregnant, he left her in the village.

She gave birth to Zhu Ciyi on Zhuangzi, and after waiting for several months, when the child was older, she said goodbye to Zhuangzi's master and said that she would go to find the child's father.She went all the way south, wanting to come to Nanming to find this clan.But it was inconvenient to bring children, and there were all kinds of turmoil in that era.For the sake of safety, she dressed up as a refugee, guarding against this and that, stopping and going at a very slow speed.

Just when he was about to reach the south of the Yangtze River, he heard that the Qing army was going south.She didn't dare to move immediately.It didn't take long for the news of Nanming's collapse.Her dream was completely shattered.

After everything calmed down, she still went to Jiangnan, inquired secretly, and found out that the clan had died.She gave up on this, and returned to her hometown to take Zhu Ciyi to live a peaceful life, as if she had never had anything to do with the old Zhu's family.After all, the imperial court has changed, so she and the child must live on.For the sake of the child, all the past must not be known to outsiders.

If she can develop according to her wishes, maybe Zhu Ciyi won't have any great prospects, but at least she can live an ordinary life.Unfortunately, things backfired.Her previous behavior of secretly inquiring was discovered by a loyal eunuch who survived and served by the clan.Knowing that the master still has a bloodline alive, the eunuch couldn't help being overjoyed, and managed to come to them to take care of the young master.

A few years later, the eunuch contacted another former minister, and gradually gathered a wave of power.Strictly speaking, Zhu Ciyi is not ranked third, he doesn't even have a ranking order.The real third prince Zhu should refer to Zhu Cijiong, the third son of Emperor Chongzhen, or Zhu Cihuan, the fifth son.It has nothing to do with Zhu Ciyi, who has a distant bloodline.

But none of these old ministers of the royal family were found, and they could only support Zhu Ciyi.If you want to make trouble, you have to choose a famous name, so you use the name of the third prince Zhu.

Although Zhu Ciyi is not outstanding in all aspects, he is passable and not stupid.Especially since he gave birth to a wonderful son.Has shown amazing talent at an early age.The old minister was ecstatic, and his support for this became more and more clear and unwavering.

This is probably the origin of the line of the third prince Zhu today.In addition, Zhou Zhuangzhu also revealed the lair of the main altar in the south of the Yangtze River, the other two strongholds, Zhu Ciyi's hiding place and the source of the drug.

Relying on the fact that people know very little about this thing nowadays, they hardly avoid it, and plant it in multiple places, in case one place is destroyed, there are several other places.Combined with the several places where they hid, it can be said that the method of "three caves for cunning rabbits and not putting eggs in one basket" has been used perfectly.

In the prison cell, Zhuang Zhuang Zhou's whole body was tied up with cloth strips, unable to move, he could only stare at Yinfeng with scarlet eyes: "You actually used drugs to interrogate me, shameless!"

Yinfeng looked back coldly: "You want to use drugs to control the court officials, so naturally we can use drugs to control you. I think you should be aware of this when you get drugs like drugs out. You guys If you use it as a sharp weapon, you need to know that a sharp weapon can kill the enemy as well as hurt yourself."

Zhou Zhuang held his mouth, his lips trembling, unable to refute.

"Afurong was made by you, and you must be very familiar with its power. Why, now that I am contaminated with this kind of thing, how does it feel to be backlashed by my own scheme?"

how?Life is better than death.Zhuang Zhuang Zhou was full of resentment and had nowhere to vent.He was not afraid of torture, not even death.Even with swords, guns and sticks, he will never say a word.But he didn't expect that his iron bones and his loyalty were all defeated by A Furong.

They fed him drugs, and when he was unconscious, they pretended to be his subordinates, his colleagues, and even his master to guide him step by step.He unknowingly said a lot of information, which is enough to destroy their business for many years.He couldn't imagine what would happen to his relatives, friends and master if these things were known to the Qing court.

He became a sinner.

These days, he wanted to die countless times.But he can't.The prince of the Qing court sent more than a dozen people to guard him outside his cell, and tied him up.He can't do anything at all.

He could only watch helplessly as he was force-fed drugs, and then he was in a daze, not knowing what was coming out of the quilt.After coming down three or four times, he learned how to behave.He began to try to resist, such as constantly moving and hurting himself to create pain for himself to maintain a little sanity; or controlling himself not to speak no matter what the situation was.

Facts have proved that although this method is stupid, it still has some effects.However, he has learned well, and the methods of the Qing court have become more sophisticated.After they saw that this method was useless, they stopped feeding him drugs.

He was lucky at first, but within two days, he started to have seizures.He was already addicted to the amount of medicine he had taken before, and he couldn't resist his body's reaction at all.

A group of people from the Qing court stood outside the prison door.They knew the result a long time ago, so they were in no hurry.They just looked at him coldly, with contempt, resentment, and sarcasm.

He thought he could get through it.He stayed up for a quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour, three quarters of an hour... He tried his best to hold on.If no one from the Qing court was present, maybe he could really survive.

But the people of the Qing court kept dangling in front of his eyes with drugs.He knew it was a temptation, but he still couldn't bear it and began to compromise.He could only cooperate to answer their questions and ask them to give him some drugs.

It's not that he doesn't know that doing so will only make him sink deeper and deeper, and make himself completely irreparable.But when it came to drug addiction, he couldn't think of so many things in his mind.If he could die, he would rather die.But he can't die.If you can't die, you can only live.But living is better than dying.

Zhuangzhu Zhou's eyes were dull, his face was gray: "Kill me. Please kill me! You know everything you want to know, I am useless to you. Kill me!"

Just now, he confessed his master's appearance again.How could he still have the face to live in this world?

Killing people.He is not afraid of death.But the Qing court made him a sinner.They didn't kill him, but killed his heart.

Zhuang Zhuang of Zhou hated the Qing court, and also hated himself.Why would he say it!Why was he captured by drugs!

Yinfeng's eyes were cold and stern: "If you are just plotting to rebel, Gu can give you a good time. But you made Aphrodisiac. You brought this kind of thing into the world, spread it to the court officials, and may even flow into the hands of ordinary people Now that you have suffered such evil consequences yourself, how could you naively think that you can escape by death?"

Of course, death is still necessary, but the method of death is not certain.

Yinfeng looked away, and walked out of the cell with the spelled portrait in his hand.

Yes.spell it out.There are very few people who have met Zhu and Wei in the Tiandihui, and now the group of people involved in Juxian Village is known only to Zhouzhuang Zhuang.If you want to know the looks of Zhu and Wei, you can't just rely on words.But it is absolutely impossible for Yinreng to give Zhou Zhuang master paper and pen.

Not to mention whether a person in the period of drug addiction can draw or not, that is, he can.In the eyes of a person who wants to die, anything can be a murder weapon.Pens are no exception.Yinfeng will not give him this chance.

Therefore, Yinreng found more than a dozen Chinese and Western painters, and drew a lot of different shapes of various parts of the facial features, and asked Zhou Zhuangzhu to choose them one by one, and then piece them together.

Passing the portrait to Tang Nineteen, Yinfeng said, "Draw more like this, and send them to the imperial envoys of various places together with the latest news from the interrogation."

After a pause, he said again: "Send them the method we used to piece together the five sense organs before. If there are rebels captured locally who know the looks of Zhu and Wei, they can use this method to spell them out, and then give them to Master Zhou. This comparison to see if it is the same."

"Yes! I understand."

While giving orders, Yinfeng walked out, passed by the prison cells along the road, and glanced over one by one. Everyone in Juxianzhuang had seen his methods these days, and they shrank back one by one, their eyes full of horror.

Yinfeng realized that it fell on Yanxi's younger brother, he paused for a moment, and doubts arose in his heart.

Yanxi's younger brother was abducted more than ten years ago, and so was Yanyan.According to the information so far, most of the girls raised in captivity in the Jiangnan yard were also trafficked.

It's all kidnapping, will it...

Yinfeng came out of the cell, still thinking, and Yinzhen called him twice before he came back to his senses.

"What is second brother thinking?"

Yinfeng told him about his concerns.

Yinzhen's brows twitched: "Second brother, do you mean that they are with the kidnapper? Or are they the kidnapper? Even the people they kidnap are selected for their life experience?"

Thinking of this possibility, Yinzhen frowned, raised his heart, and said: "It is very difficult to place manpower in the palace. The nobles in the palace have to investigate repeatedly whether to use manpower. Especially the selection of palace maids has family background requirements. It's from the Coating Flag. It's not easy for them to make a fuss about it.

"Five years ago when the sixth younger brother passed away, the palace was cleaned up, and their nails were almost completely pulled out, and Yanyan was the only one who slipped through the net. With this lesson learned, the palace is more cautious in selecting slaves and servants. They have to be more careful if they want to achieve their goals.

"But if you abduct a child born in Baoyi at an early age, and then make a scene after cultivating loyalty, let her be found by her family and return home. Then they will have the rightful qualifications to be elected as palace ladies."

Yinfeng nodded: "The adoptive daughter of Zhuang Zhuang said that there is Aunt Chun in the courtyard where they live, who teaches Manchu and the rules of the palace. If these people can master Manchu and understand the rules of the palace early, He also has a skill, and when he enters the palace, he will be favored by the nobles faster, so he can climb up the ladder."

After Yinfeng finished speaking, he called out Liu Yuanhui and Tang Jiujiu who were still staying inside to deal with the aftermath: "Go and look through the past files, check all the missing and abducted children, and focus on investigating the details of the abducted and trafficked cases and the identity of the missing children."

"Yes. I understand."

After finishing the order, Yinreng and Yinzhen went back to the palace together.

Yinreng looked at Yinzhen, hesitated for a long while, and then said, "Eunuch Liang has almost done the investigation, Khan Ama is furious, and Defei Empress will deal with it in about two days."

This treatment will definitely not be good.

"I understand." Yinzhen looked up, "Second brother, I have grown up, I am no longer a child, and I can distinguish right from wrong. If Er Niang did something wrong, she did wrong. No matter how Ama Khan handles it, it should be done." Yes. It's just..."

Yinzhen's expression darkened: "I just feel sorry for sister Yuan'er and sixth brother."

He didn't have much contact with sister Yuan'er, but he was looking forward to it.After getting along with the sixth brother for several years, it was even more difficult to accept emotionally.Originally thought it was a conspiracy by the Tiandihui.The result is all due to the harem battle.The two sides in the battle were his biological mother and adoptive mother.

Yinzhen has mixed feelings in his heart.

Yinfeng also sighed, who said otherwise.Concubine De and Tong Jiashi are fighting to the death, destroying herself is what she deserves.But what's wrong with Little Gege and Brother Six?Perhaps their biggest mistake was to share with these two girls.

After a while, Yinzhen said: "Second Brother, I want to see Er Niang."

Yinfeng was stunned for a moment, then said: "Okay."

As Yinzhen said, when he grows up, he knows how to measure and distinguish right from wrong.In the past few years, getting along with Concubine De was lukewarm, and he was no longer the child who yearned for maternal love back then.He can handle these things.

After entering the palace, the two parted ways, Yinzhen went to the House of Internal Affairs, and Yinreng went to Qianqing Palace.

When Liang Jiugong saw him, it was like seeing a savior: "His Royal Highness, you are back. The emperor hasn't had lunch at noon today, so go and persuade him."

Yinfeng understood what was going on as soon as he heard it. Kangxi was a machismo. He learned that he was played by the two concubines of Tong Jia's concubine, and he was played so hard. I had to put him in the same place before, and now I'm afraid I'm full of anger!

When Yinreng entered, he saw Kangxi's low air pressure. Everyone in the room lowered their eyebrows and lowered their breathing a little bit.Only Yinreng's expression was as usual, and as soon as he spoke, he ordered the maid to make tea, and the eunuch to make pastry and soup.

"Khan Ama, no matter what, you have to eat food. People are iron, and food is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry. It is a fool to punish yourself for other people's mistakes. Khan Ama is so wise, you can't do this Kind of stupid."

Kangxi: ... Don't think I can't hear you scolding me!

But looking at the food Yinfeng handed to him, Kangxi only stared at him, and didn't say anything to reprimand him.Thinking over Yinfeng's words carefully, isn't he angry because he punishes himself for other people's mistakes?Thinking about it this way, it's not worth it for those two women to be angry.When eating, if the body is starved to death, Baocheng will be in a hurry.

Seeing that Kangxi used pastries and soup, Yinreng laughed: "Ama Khan now knows how scary women are. You still think that women are married to you, so you can leave them aside and leave them alone if you want, and they won't tire you. Is it? You look at your harem, which is full of smoke, and then look at my backyard, which is clean and refreshing, how do you feel?"

Kangxi: ...you can blame this on yourself?

But thinking about it, there is nothing wrong with Yinfeng's words.His harem is indeed... um... smoky.

"So, don't keep thinking about giving me a side Fujin."

Kangxi stared again: "When did I give you a side Fujin?"

Yinfeng raised his eyebrows: "You didn't, but you complained to Wuku's mother. Wuku's mother just caught me and said it?"

Kangxi: ... co-author, he can't even complain?

"Khan Ama, take a look. With a lesson like yours here, how dare I? I don't want my son and daughter to be used as tools for favor and targets of revenge."

Kangxi was in a panic, very embarrassed but speechless.

"That's because Wu Ya's and Tong Jia's are not good, and not all women are like them."

Yinrong snorted: "You used to think they were good!"

Kangxi: ...

He wanted to refute, but found that Yinfeng's words made sense.My heart suddenly became more blocked.

Seeing him deflated and angry again, Yinreng quickly changed the subject and didn't bother him anymore. He talked about Zhu Zhuangzhu's matter with a correct attitude, and mentioned his guess about the targeted child trafficking by Prince Zhu and his gang.

"The fourth brother has already gone to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check the files of the palace personnel. Erchen remembers that in 22 years, sister Yuan'er died of illness, and several concubines worked together to assist the harem. The concubine De concubine decided to release a group of palace personnel. In 23 years, make up made a batch.

"In 24 years, the sixth brother died of illness, and the harem was cleaned up, implicating many people. Some of them had nothing to do with the Tiandihui and others, but because other criminal evidence was found in this big search, they were dealt with together. Therefore, in 25 years, another batch was added. With the newcomers added these two times, the harem is fully manned, and the selections that should have been made in the past few years have been avoided.

"If there were problems with the candidates in 23 years, the thorough investigation in the palace in 24 years would have found it. In 25 years, it was the time when the imperial court was vigorously attacking Tiandihui and the third prince Zhu. They could not protect themselves, and they should have no effort Put people in.

"That's why I thought that the girls trained by Jiangnan hadn't had time to act. Just like Tana, she hadn't had time to threaten the concubine. There should be no such people in the palace now, otherwise Yanyan wouldn't be looking for them. As a helper, he can only use Yanxi's younger brother to blackmail Yanxi.

"With Yanxi's personality, she might fall into the trap and won't expose Yanyan. But Yanyan only dares to ask her to do small things, such as spreading news. If she is asked to do other things, Yanxi may not dare. You can tell from Yanyan's actions after she was exposed. Yanyan wanted Yanxi to send the letter to Chengqian Palace, but Yanxi hesitated and hesitated.

"I used to help Yanyan, it was a fluke that didn't burn my eyebrows. Now that things are getting worse, Yan Xi is afraid that his younger brother will be arrested, afraid that the world will reveal his younger brother's identity and hurt his family, but he is also afraid of sending a letter at this time. People will find out that they have harmed themselves. If they have other people in the palace, Yanyan will definitely not pick Yanxi if she has other choices."

Kangxi sighed: "What you said is reasonable, but we still need to investigate. There is nothing wrong with being cautious, and you can't be careless about this matter."

"Yes. The fourth brother thinks the same way, so he went to the House of Internal Affairs as soon as he returned to the palace." Yinfeng rolled his eyes, "This time, the fourth brother helped a lot in Juxian Village. The interrogation, he is watching."

Kangxi looked up at him, and Yinreng said with a smile: "Ama Khan sees the ability of the fourth brother now? Last year I asked him to go to the special investigation department, and you still said I was messing around. I said it earlier, the fourth brother is extremely capable. , you can’t underestimate him just because he’s younger.”

Kangxi could still not know his temperament, he hehe twice: "Tell me, what's the matter? Are you still afraid that I will anger him because of his mother-in-law?"

Yinfeng shook his head: "How is that possible! Although Empress Defei is his mother-in-law, you are still his Ama! How can you blame your son? Are you such a person who can't figure it out?"

Kangxi is angry, and if he vents his anger, he won't be able to figure it out, right?

But Kangxi couldn't do anything except stare blankly.He suddenly felt that he had figured it out and was no longer angry with Concubine Tong Jiashi, but sooner or later he would be pissed off by that brat Yinfeng.

Kangxi snorted: "What's the matter, tell me or not!"

Seeing that Kangxi was about to blow his hair, Yinfeng accepted him as soon as he saw a good deal: "Fourth brother wants to see Empress Concubine De."

Yes, Yinzhen needs Kangxi's permission to see Concubine De.Because after encircling the East Five Institutes and the Chengqian Palace, the Yonghe Palace was also besieged.Without Kangxi's oral order, no one can get in.The little Gegefulana and the fourteenth elder brother Yinzhen were both moved to the courtyard of the West Fifth Institute, where they were taken care of by the servants.

Kangxi was taken aback, his brows furrowed slightly.

Yinfeng said again: "After all, it is the biological mother. Khan Ama will follow her."

Kangxi sighed: "Let him go."

Yinfeng turned his head and ordered Xiao Zhuzi to deliver the letter, but his lips curled up in his heart.

Kangxi, it's really difficult to serve.Right now, because she hates Concubine De, she can't listen to others speaking for her, and she doesn't want Yinzhen to think of her affection.But if Yinzhen really didn't care about it, when time passed and Kangxi's mind cleared up, in retrospect, I'm afraid Yinzhen would feel cold-hearted.

The birth mother is in trouble. Although the birth mother has indeed done something wrong and committed a crime, it doesn’t matter how others see it. As a son, don’t you ignore it or don’t care?

Ha ha!

Therefore, Yinzhen must make this request, and Yinzhen must also go on this trip to Yonghe Palace.