I am the king of the dead

Even if a son is born of a concubine, he still calls himself a mother, but a nephew is not.

"How is Prince Ji's son now?" The Queen Mother Sun didn't let the female officer go on, but asked another matter.

An eunuch said in a low voice: "Back to the Queen Mother, Prince Ji's mansion has been repaired, Princess Ji and Prince Ji's son have moved in, Xing'an Dadang has been busy, selected a lot of people, and gave a hundred to the school lieutenant, specially guarding them." Palace."

"You tell Xing'an that there must be no mistakes."

The eunuch bowed his head and said, "I take orders."

Xing'an attached great importance to Prince Ji's Mansion, he gave a hundred school lieutenants, and also dispatched extravagant officials and eunuchs, firstly for surveillance and secondly for safety.

Now those children in Prince Ji's Mansion, especially the eldest son Zhu Jianshen, are a card in the hands of His Majesty to control the Empress Dowager.

How many children of Ji Wang Zhu Qizhen lived in Ji Wang's mansion?

There are four in total.

Zhu Jianshen was three years old, Zhu Jianlin was two years old, Zhu Jianshi was ten months old, and Zhu Jianchun was three months old.

These four children are young now, and the oldest Zhu Jianshen is only three years old. Zhu Qiyu put them all in the Prince Ji's mansion. They are indeed under surveillance, so why not protect them?

Xing'an is inspecting the warehouse of the gunpowder factory at Wanggong Factory. Xing'an will never forget what His Majesty told you. He also talked with Xu Siqi, the president of Shijing Factory, about the charcoal furnace and Jingtai steel furnace. , to prevent His Majesty from asking, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him to ask three questions?

As His Majesty's Da Dang, he cannot be said to be omniscient and omnipotent, and he has to cover everything.

Wang Gongchang's progress is very good, with a smile on his face.

As soon as Xing'an walked out of Wang Gong's factory, he saw a eunuch running over desperately, and said out of breath, "Something happened to Prince Ji's mansion!"

"What happened?" Xing'an asked with a frown.

The eunuch panted and said: "The... the extravagant officials sent by the ancestors were poisoned to death!"

"The extravagant member is poisoned to death." Xing'an's originally cheerful face suddenly turned fierce, and he asked: "The extravagant official has a generous burial, immediately seal the entire Prince Ji's mansion, and make sure to catch the real culprit!"

Chaotang is like the current Wang Gong factory, a little spark, and it ignites with a bang!

Since His Majesty took the throne, he has been reluctant to see the faction.

Why did His Majesty enter the palace to offer congratulatory gifts?I just don't want to push Queen Mother Sun to the opposite side, form a clique, and start a tit-for-tat confrontation with His Majesty!

This will be a great harm to His Majesty's New Deal and to His Majesty's great cause of the Northern Expedition.

Your Majesty would rather suffer some grievances than to crush the Oirat people to ashes. Now that the Prince Ji's mansion has just been moved, something like this happened!

Fortunately, Xing'an made the arrangement in advance, otherwise, if he poisoned a child from Prince Ji's mansion, Xing'an would not be able to explain to His Majesty, nor to Daming.

The eunuch finally recovered his breath and said: "I've caught it, tied it up very firmly, with a sock stuffed in my mouth, it's impossible to kill myself by biting my tongue."

Xing'an attached great importance to Prince Ji's Mansion, and his arrangements worked, although there was still something about poisoning.

Earlier, Xing'an reported to His Majesty to clean up a group of cooks who were empty-paid in Taichang Temple, which really offended the cooks.

Xing'an rushed to Prince Ji's Mansion in a hurry, Lu Zhong had already arrived at Prince Ji's Mansion, and the interrogation began in the courtyard of Prince Ji's Mansion.

The interrogation method used by Lu Zhong is a torture called waterboarding.

He tied the three prisoners to a bench, one of them raised his feet, his head was up and down, and he covered the faces of the prisoners with a square scarf, and then poured water on it, and the victim would be continuously suffocated status.

According to Lu Zhong's past experience, under this method, [-]% of the people will receive him directly.

Xing'an once asked curiously, what about the remaining [-]%?

Lu Zhong said that the remaining [-] percent were scared to death.

Lu Zhong must settle this case as quickly as possible in front of the concubine and side concubine of Prince Ji's mansion.

"Cool officials! Cool officials! Uuuh..." The three prisoners immediately fell into a state of sustainable suffocation.

Lu Zhong kept his face cold all the time, and said, "Stop, get the towel."

"Cruel official! You will die! If you waterboard me now, you will die by waterboarding in the future!" A prisoner roared angrily even though he was dying.

"I'm the cruel official!"

"It's His Majesty's decision to drown me, hack me to death, or send me to the imperial hospital. What about you, are you still refusing to confess?" Lu Zhong raised his hand again.

How powerful is waterboarding?

In just a few breaths, these three people were feces and urine, and the whole person was as limp as cooked noodles, slumped on the bench, their faces were pale, and their eyes were empty.

If this happens again, among the three criminals, some of them must be unable to bear it and will die.

Qian covered her face, feeling sick for a while, but Ji Wang Beishou, she has to be in charge of the Ji Wang Mansion, and a mother is tough, she can only bear the discomfort and hold on.

"I'll confess." Seeing Xing'an's raised hand, a chef wailed, knelt on the ground, and said tremblingly.

Chapter 162 Seven feet will eventually repay the king with death

Pao Ding was tied up on the strip and was dying, and confessed that a Youdu Yushi from the Metropolitan Procuratorate came, named Wang Wen.

Who is Wang Wen?

Naturally, it was not Wang Wen, the eunuch who had already been skinned and stripped by the Ming emperor, but Wang Wen, the censor of the right capital.

In the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ming Dynasty, there were two imperial censors on the left and right. Although they were on the same level on the surface, they were both of the second grade, but they were respected by the left. thing.

Chen Yi ran to Zhang Qiu and Xu Youzhen to form a team, and Wang Wen became the speaker of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Wang Wen and Yu Qian have an old relationship, not old grudges, but sympathy for each other...

They all belong to the kind of people who are not willing to present birthday gifts to the emperor and the queen mother, so they were awarded Jinshi during the Yongle period, and then they have been patrolling the local area.

Like Yu Qian, he is the kind of person who sticks his neck out to do things.

Zhu Qiyu reprimanded the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Wang Wen, in the name of uprightness, gradually became a leader in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Huo Xuan, Minister of Dali Temple, and Xia Heng, Chancellor of Shuntian Mansion, also rushed to Prince Ji's Mansion.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, Jinyiwei, Shuntianfu Yamen, and the Ministry of Punishment rushed to Jiwangfu in just a few moments.

Lu Zhong's methods of handling the case were swift and resolute. The three chefs saw one person speak, and the other two began to confess.

However, Lu Zhong did not immediately write a confession.

Instead, let the Criminal Ministry and Shuntian Mansion take away a criminal, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple took away a criminal, and he himself committed a criminal, tried separately, and after comparing the three confessions, he was arrested immediately.

Soon, the three-point confession was on everyone's desk.

"Whose family is this man named Wang Liang? Wang Liang appointed these three chefs to bring medicine into Prince Ji's Mansion." Wang Wen frowned and asked.

The case is very clear, it was appointed by someone from Wang Liang.

When Lu Zhong confessed to the criminal, he had already gone to arrest someone. This person was not a beggar with beggar status, or a robber without a record, but a well-established person.

Lu Zhong's Tiqi came back soon, but what he brought back was a corpse, which had been hanging from the beam for more than an hour, that is to say, when the chef poisoned him, Wang Liang had already hanged himself from the beam.

The case ends here.

Concubine Ji Qian looked at the face of Wang Liang's corpse, her complexion changed a few times, and finally said: "Can I have a look at this case file?"

Wang Wen handed over the crime in his hand and the household registration of the criminal to Princess Ji.

They don't know who Wang Liang is, but Qian's knows it all.

"To disturb the princess, the ministers must do their best to supervise the matter thoroughly. He is dead, it doesn't matter, his family is still alive." When Lu Zhong saw Wang Liang's body, the corners of his mouth twitched.

Did Wang Liang think that this death would be the end of everything?

Daming's Jinyiwei, Daming's Beizhen Fusi, even the dead would chop off their heads!

In front of the Qintian Supervisor, Peng Deqing is dying in prison, so he will have his head removed too!

What is a cruel official?

Even if you die, it doesn't matter, I will always clean up your house inside and out, even the little girl raised in your brothel will not be spared.

This indicates that the chef is dead, it doesn't matter, Lu Zhong is the golden knife in the hands of His Majesty, and everyone will see his ability to handle cases.

Qian's complexion was uncertain, she took a deep breath and said: "Commander Lu has worked hard, please report to His Majesty, I want to go to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to see the Empress Dowager, please allow me to."

Xing'an immediately dispatched a young eunuch to ask His Majesty who was teaching in the lecture hall.

Not long after, the little eunuch came back and said loudly, "Your Majesty said yes."

"Let's all go away, and we'll all wait for His Majesty's holy order." Qian Shi said when she was sitting in the sedan chair, she sat up straight, put down the door curtain of the sedan chair, and walked towards the palace.

Xing'an and Lu Zhong led people to clean up the messy people in the courtyard of King Ji's mansion, those who should be detained, those who should be beheaded, and beheaded after waiting for additions, and those who should be exiled should also be arranged for a place.

This time Qiongzhou is not going to work, and the Yongning Temple at the mouth of Heilongjiang, the capital of Nuergan, is not bad.

Qian came to the palace worried.

Empress Dowager Sun looked at the people in the left and right palaces. They were all the emperor's people. She already knew what happened in the Prince Ji's mansion.

"You all go down, I have something to say to Princess Ji." Empress Dowager Sun waved her hand, and all the officials left in response.

This is the reason why Empress Dowager Sun has not quarreled with Zhu Qiyu until now, although the concubine emperor is very strict and quite defensive.

But she is the empress dowager after all, she can do whatever she wants, as long as she doesn't go against the emperor.

Qian reported the matter to Queen Mother Sun in detail.

Mrs. Sun's expression changed from behind, and she was relieved when she heard that the children were fine and that the extraordinaire had died.

Mrs. Qian was a little restless, and said absently: "The extraordinaire has been sent to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion. After the autopsy, he will be buried generously and his family will be compensated."

"The left and right are just eunuchs." Empress Dowager Sun didn't care much, she was just an eunuch, nothing more than a minion.

Mrs. Qian hesitated again and again, then suddenly raised her head and said: "Queen Mother, why did you kill all the children in Jiwang's Mansion!"

Empress Dowager Sun stared at Qian Shi dumbfounded, and pointed at herself in disbelief.

She slammed the table and stood up, and said furiously: "Bold! You are talking nonsense! Why did I want to kill you, Ji Wangfu's child!"

Qian was frightened by this reprimand, but still said angrily: "The man named Wang Liang, Lu Zhong, Xing'an, Wang Wen, Xia Heng, Xue Xuan, they don't know."

"Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Metropolitan Procuratorate, Shuntian Mansion, Criminal Ministry, Dali Temple, I don't know whose family it is, but my daughter-in-law knows it all!"

"This Wang Liang is Wang Zhen's adopted son and lackey! He was recommended by the Huichang uncle's mansion!"

Qian's memory is very good. When she was in charge of the Central Palace, she knew how many disciples and grandchildren Wang Zhen had, both inside and outside the palace, and she had met a few of them.

Others don't know Wang Liang's roots, but Qian knows it all.

"Nonsense!" Queen Mother Sun waved her hand and said angrily, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"How could Uncle Sun Zhong of Huichang harm so many children in Prince Ji's Mansion!" The Empress Dowager Sun still couldn't believe it.

But Qian, who has always been submissive and reasonable, only knows that the crying Qian, who is so bold to face doubts, is convinced that he will speak.

"Mother, how dare you bring Changbo here and confront him face to face!" Qian Shi was also impatient and stood up. She continued with a somewhat ferocious face, "If a daughter-in-law framed her mother, she would naturally be unfilial. After returning home, she would naturally give mother A confession!"

"But if Uncle Huichang really does this, so what!"

"Crazy! You are crazy!" Empress Dowager Sun shouted and said: "Come here, please return Princess Ji to the mansion!"

The eunuchs outside the palace heard the quarrel, but entered the palace anyway.

Qian's complexion changed a few times, but she still bowed her head and said, "The concubine will leave."

Qian flicked his sleeves and left.

After the Empress Dowager Sun's complexion changed a few times, she said loudly: "Come here, go ask Your Majesty, I want to see my father, see if Your Majesty agrees!"

An eunuch trembled suddenly, bowed his head and said, "I take orders."

The eunuch hurried to the lecture hall.

In the lecture hall at this time, Zhu Qiyu had already finished class.

Today, the commanders are talking about how to carry out work based on the masses, such as finding the lairs of bandits, such as organizing farming and forced harvesting, such as strengthening the walls and clearing the fields in the war zone, and how to withdraw into the city in an orderly manner, etc.

Zhu Qiyu sat in front of the long table on the second floor of the main building.

Yu Qian, Wang Zhi, Jin Lian, Shi Pu, Wang Wen and other courtiers sat on the left side, and Shi Heng, Lu Zhong, Liu An, Sun Tong, Fan Guang, Yang Jun and other generals sat on the right side.

Xing'an took Li Yongchang to stand around.

Zhu Qiyu's face sank like water, and he didn't say a word. The whole second floor was extremely quiet.

After hearing what happened today, the courtiers came to the martial arts hall by appointment. The poisoning of Prince Ji's mansion was unusual. They must know His Majesty's plan as soon as possible before doing anything.

Who put this poison in the end?

Has His Majesty already impatiently attacked the orphans and widows?