Yan Cigui.

Grandma Wang was in charge and didn't know much about the affairs of the chamberlains, so she simply asked Eunuch Yu to come in and answer questions.

"The younger one can't answer, but the younger one can ask his godfather."

If you are smaller than your father-in-law, you will naturally be better than your father-in-law.

Lin Yunyan told Xu Jian that people in the palace love to recognize relatives, and it was true.

The father-in-law had always been the chief steward of the middle palace and was highly trusted by the empress.

Until the bad news came from Dingguo Temple, the empress lost her footing in a daze and almost fell down the steps. Eunuch Yu pushed anxiously, preventing the empress from falling. Instead, she rolled over. Her life was safe, but her legs and feet were not in good condition.

Afterwards, the matter was handed over to the father-in-law Yu, and the father-in-law Yu left the palace to take care of his old age.

The empress gave me a large amount of money, and for many years, my father-in-law was allowed to visit me during the holidays.

"When Mother Ma comes back from the Imperial Pharmacy, you follow Yun Yan out of the palace to inquire about this matter," the Queen Mother said, "Before that, you go to Eunuch Cao in person and tell you about that little mouse. Tell him and let him check it out."

If you are smaller than your father-in-law, you should come down.

This matter is settled.

While waiting for the news, Lin Yunyan talked with the Queen Mother.

The Empress Dowager leaned on the pillow, although there was a tired look on her brows, her eyes were still firm: "It's not that the Ai family believes in King Jin, but it's just that King Jin behaves more appropriately than the one in Yongji Palace.

The late emperor punished them and demoted Li Mi to a common people. He mainly punished them and killed the chickens to scare the monkeys.

But Li Jun was imprisoned, although there was a reason for Li Jun's aggressiveness, but more importantly, Li Jun didn't care when he went crazy.

The Holy Emperor was a kind-hearted man and his younger brother. The late emperor was worried that he would not be able to suppress Li Jun, so he sent him to Yongji Palace.

He did not touch the other sons, but he was reluctant to part with them and his heart softened. No matter how much there is no family affection in the Tian family, it is the son against me and the brother against his brother. There are still fewer fathers who kill their sons. The late emperor was especially soft-hearted before his death. .

Secondly, the overall situation has been decided. Except for Li Jun's unpredictable temper, everyone else has also stopped.

The pace is so extreme that it looks decisive, but in fact it can make people panic. "

Lin Yunyan understood what the Queen Mother meant.

The prince is fighting for power. The prince is both the flag and the target. But it is not only the flag that is involved, but also the people waving the flag, beating the drum and shouting, and the family of noble officials with hairpins.

If you move the flag, can you move others?

After a series of pulling out, are there enough suitable candidates to replace them?

It is said that there are three fires when a new official takes office, and a new emperor ascends the throne. If the three fires are not burned well, it is easy to burn yourself.

What's more, in addition to the intrigues in the Jinluan Palace, the world was also facing banditry and famine at that time. The people suffered from natural disasters in the previous few years and could not withstand more turmoil.

This was also the reason why the late emperor sought stability before his death, and the empress dowager recommended him as the emperor and supported him in maintaining stability.

"This moment, that moment," Lin Yunyan said, "At the beginning, we chose a smooth transition based on pros and cons, and only dealt with Li Mi, who was the most vicious in grabbing credit, and Li Jun, who was unpredictable.

Judging from the achievements of the past ten years since the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, the choice made back then was the right one.

If those people with impure minds put aside their old grievances, be idle if they want, and contribute to the court if they want, then there will be no problem if they continue on this path.

It's just that some people have been hiding it for more than ten years and are still unwilling to give up.

What do you think Wang Liuliu, Dao Heng, and the few servants around His Highness who were caught by Eunuch Cao want to do?

Isn't it because His Majesty only has an older son like His Highness, and he is very partial to it. As long as He is taught badly and raised to waste, the remaining Highnesses can be rounded and flattened by him?

If I were him, I would continue to lurk.

When you are in poor health and can no longer defend the Holy One, or even the Holy One is in poor health, you will use some means to kill some loyal courtiers.

That's right, if Wang Wang hadn't been caught for six years, the British princes would still be making noises in the Jinluan Palace. How many loyal ministers can they cooperate with each other to throw dirty water?

When all the powerful ministers can no longer resist, kick the useless Highness away and replace him with a younger one who will serve as regent for a few years.

Fortunately, his wish did not come true. The British Duke died, and the Holy Father at least chopped off one of his arms.

This man's fox tail is exposed. If he can find it completely, he still has to pursue the victory.

After all, it's not the past. The people live and work in peace and contentment. Even if the courtiers have some small thoughts, they are only following a few young highnesses. They are also anxious when Cheng Yaojin is killed out of nowhere. "

That presumption was not alarmist talk by Lin Yunyan.

That was a fate she had experienced once.

Relying on Li Mi's two boxes of gold bricks, An Yi Bo's Mansion, Ding Bei Hou Mansion, and Cheng Yi Bo Mansion were successively confiscated, and then the Fu Guogong Mansion was confiscated.

After Lin Yunyan and Xu Jian were forced to leave the capital, several other nobles fell in the capital.

Li Shao looked at the smooth flow and killed wherever he pointed, but he could foresee the final result.

The Empress Dowager felt sad after hearing this.

Struggles for power and profit will lead to bloodshed. She is not an innocent old lady, she has seen a lot of things.

But having seen and experienced it does not mean that she likes it or that she is willing to do it.

What she likes is peace in the world, peace in the country and peace in the people.

"What Yun Yan said is true," the Empress Dowager sighed, "one moment, another moment. If you are still thinking about that chair and haven't been able to think about it for more than ten years, then there is no need to think about it."

There is only one way to die.

Of course you have to keep an eye on Li Jun, as long as you don't go crazy and come outside Yongji Palace.

And the other "real murderer"...

"Since you have checked, check carefully. If it is not Prince Jin, you cannot slander him. If it is really him..." The Queen Mother pursed her lips.

In front of Lin Yunyan, the Queen Mother did not say harsh words, but she made a decision in her heart.

She won't let go of the real culprit.

On the other side, in the imperial pharmacy, the supervising eunuch Fang Gonggong asked Mother Ma to lend her a moment to speak.

"We have been friends for a long time," he said in a low voice, "Be clear with me, and you won't get involved with His Highness again this time, right?"

Mother Ma laughed and said, "If you are somewhere, I will come and get some medicinal materials, and then go through the old files of the princess's previous medicines. It has nothing to do with other people."

Eunuch Fang didn't say he believed it or didn't believe it. He thought about it and took the people to the warehouse himself.

After dismissing the little eunuch guarding the door, he opened the door, moved a handful of tuna and sat outside to guard it, without following him in or asking any questions.

Mother Ma thanked her.

Those who have a place in the palace are all human beings.

The shelf was high and there were many files. Mother Ma first found the one belonging to Concubine Dong, and carefully read her three-month records from the time she fell ill to the time she died. Then she went to find the one belonging to Zhang Xuanshi. share.

However, several shelves were turned back and forth, but nothing was found.

There was no other way, so Mother Ma had no choice but to call Eunuch Fang in.

"Why can't I find the old records of the medicine used by the late emperor's concubines in his early years?"

Eunuch Fang looked at her with a grimace.

Mother Ma smiled sarcastically: "Since we are old friends, this is convenient..."

Eunuch Fang was helpless. Then I thought about it, it was probably the Empress Dowager who wanted to see the late emperor's early years. After all, the princess was only this age, and she didn't recognize anyone except a few who are still alive today.

Since the Empress Dowager wanted it, how could he refuse?

"Just tell me, who are you looking for?" Eunuch Fang asked.

"Zhang Xuanshi." Mother Ma said.

"Who?" Eunuch Fang didn't think of it for a moment, "A chosen servant, especially one who has never even met the imperial doctor a few times."

"Prince Jin's biological mother gave birth to a prince safely, how could she not leave a record?" said Mother Ma.

Eunuch Fang took the correct number, glanced at the shelf, and said, "She left very early, right? It's been so many years. She has already packed it up and moved it elsewhere. She will definitely not be found on the shelf."

Mother Ma asked: "Where did it move? This matter is important and cannot be made public..."

"You also know that in the 26th year of Taixing, our imperial pharmacy moved once," Fang Gong said. "Those ancient old stalls were packed together at that time. They seemed to be placed in the warehouse opposite, right? There are so many things in there. It’s not like these shelves are all piled up together. If you ask me to look for them and it doesn’t alert people, that’s really not okay.”

Mother Ma also knew this and had no choice but to give up.

"Have you finished reading what you just read? Do you want me to get you a pen and paper?" After asking, Eunuch Fang added, "Don't worry, I'm tight-lipped. There's no way I can meddle in the affairs of Cining Palace."

Mother Ma thanked her.

For Eunuch Fang's convenience, she copied down all the pages about Concubine Dong.

Back at Cining Palace, Eunuch Yu was back.

It's the same situation at Eunuch Cao's place.

Chen sesame is rotting millet. What happened decades ago, he had to go through the old files to find out which eunuchs were in Bihua Palace back then and who the little mouse was.

Mother Ma reported: "It's probably impossible to dig out Zhang Xuanshi's old files. The slaves copied Concubine Dong's files and brought them back.

Judging from the development of the disease, it does seem that he was poisoned, but the medicine used is very different from that of His Highness Prince Ding.

This makes sense, after all, men and women are different and their ages are different.

Concubine Dong was no longer young at that time, and she had many old ailments. She was also sad because of the death of the late emperor, so the imperial doctor had to take care of those things as well. "

The Queen Mother asked: "In other words, there is no way to draw conclusions from this old file to prove that Concubine Dong died of poisoning, right?"

"Yes," Mama Ma regretted, "it's really easy to confuse just looking at the symptoms."

After hearing this, the Queen Mother suddenly patted Lin Yunyan's hand: "Don't be anxious."

Lin Yunyan turned to look at her.

She was actually not in a hurry. After checking for so long, her mentality had long been tempered.

It's just that the empress will be afraid that she will be impatient and that she will not be stable. The empress has always cared about her.

"I know," Lin Yunyan said, "If this disease was so easy to diagnose, Prince Ding would not have been misdiagnosed back then."

That poison is overbearing, just like a disease that comes like a mountain.

With the subsequent medication, he became increasingly frail and seriously ill, without being noticed.

If they hadn't gotten clues from Zhu Chan's mother, they wouldn't even have discovered the truth about King Ding's death.

The reason why Zhu Xiang's mother was able to hang her life for so many years was not, to put it bluntly, not because of the good use of the subsequent medicine, but because Zhu Cheng felt guilty when he administered the poison and his hands shook, so he changed the dosage of the medicine.

If Concubine Dong was also poisoned, as long as the dosage of the medicine was sufficient, she would "died of grief and followed the late emperor after three months", which seems reasonable and reasonable. The prescriptions for treatment during the period were nothing more than a means of hanging her life.

"It was Imperial Physician Mao who prescribed the prescription for Wang's death," said Mother Ma. "According to what Wang said in the sixth year of his life, Imperial Physician Mao must have seen the poison but did not dare to say anything about it, so he prescribed the prescription to commit suicide."

Yu Gonggong said: "I was ordered to go to the hometown of Imperial Physician Mao in Lingnan to find out that his old man had died of illness. The poisonous prescription deduced from the death-defying prescription given by An Yuan was also brought there, and it is almost inseparable. .”

Lin Yunyan asked: "It was previously thought that Wang Liuliu, who came from Lingnan, brought this poisonous recipe to his master, and harmed His Royal Highness Prince Ding.

Putting aside Concubine Dong, if Zhang Xuanshi also died from this poisonous recipe, then Wang Sixian was not the instigator.

Who else in the palace was from Lingnan at that time? "

Grandma Wang took a breath of cold air when she heard this.

The Queen Mother glanced at her in surprise: "Who are you thinking of?"

Aunt Wang said: "If I remember correctly, there was a nanny next to Concubine Dong who was from Lingnan. Concubine Dong's grandfather was the chief envoy of the Chief Secretary of the Two Lakes before he retired, but before that, he also served as a political officer in Lingnan. That grandma and her family are the servants I bought during my tenure."

Lin Yunyan thought quickly and answered: "I just guessed.

Concubine Dong raised King Jin, but King Jin also missed his biological mother very much when he was young. Concubine Dong did not object or even approved on the surface, but in fact she was afraid that her adopted son would not be well-raised, so she poisoned Zhang Xuanshi.

Because she was unaware of the situation, no one ever doubted her, and her mother-son relationship with Queen Jin was also very harmonious.

Until the battle for the throne, in order to kill the king, Xu Shiwang contributed the recipe for six years, and Xu Shifei Dong came up with it. In short, they succeeded.

But King Jin found clues in it and secretly suspected Concubine Dong.

When the throne fell and he no longer needed the support of Concubine Dong and the Dong family, he took advantage of the death of the late emperor to attack Concubine Dong.

The recipe used by Concubine Dong to hang herself was very different from that of Prince Ding. In addition to her different physical condition, she also wanted to avoid being noticed by Concubine Dong, an insider, that she had been poisoned.

However, the imperial doctor who treated Concubine Dong did not know the inside story of the poisonous prescription and treated her as an ordinary illness. The bad thing about the poisonous prescription was that even the prescription for life-threatening illness used some conventional medicinal materials, which are common to nourish the body.

King Jin didn't need to hang Concubine Dong's life, he almost let her die. "

Grandma Ma nodded repeatedly when she heard this.

Based on the whole story, the princess's guess makes sense.

“There is a lack of evidence,” the Empress Dowager said. “No matter how logical the theory is, there is still a lack of evidence.

Although the case is not handled in the yamen, every item must be clear and well-founded, but after all, it is a matter of seeking power and profit and murdering human lives, which is not a trivial matter.

Whether Concubine Dong harmed Zhang Xuan's servant, or King Jin harmed Concubine Dong, or he is still trying to seize the throne, at least it must be proven, otherwise it cannot be covered casually on people's heads.

Yun Yan, the Aijia still say the same thing, we have to check it out accurately.

Previously, I had no place to start, and I was running around in circles with no progress. Now at least I have an idea, so I can continue to check it out.

Passing geese leave traces. As long as something happened, there will always be traces. "

"I understand," Lin Yunyan nodded, "Eunuch Yu and I will visit Eunuch Yu later to hear what clues he has."

The Empress Dowager held Lin Yunyan's face in her hands, pursed her lips and smiled: "Yunyan has grown up, such a big thing should be done in an orderly manner."

Lin Yunyan blinked her eyelashes and smiled back.

She had to take advantage of the fact that the empress could still be her reinforcements and eliminate all her worries.

Otherwise, in a few years, the empress dowager would leave her, and I would not be able to close my eyes watching her struggle.

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