I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 390 Who dares to poison my Jieyu! ?Who dares to poison Emperor Xiaozhao! ? (Please subscribe)

"Huh? What is Zhang Qing guilty of?" Liu He asked.

"My sister-in-law, Anjun, is ill, and she is very ill... Your Majesty, it was the minister who was negligent... and failed to take good care of her..." Zhang Anshi said intermittently.

"The granddaughter Wen Yan mentioned in Cai Qing's memorial is also ill. Is there an epidemic in Chang'an City recently?" Liu He asked doubtfully.

"Wei Chen has not heard of it, nor has he received a memorial from the third auxiliary officer, and my sister's illness is not similar to the epidemics I have seen..."

"Can the imperial doctor take a look?" Liu He asked.

"Since the beginning of autumn, my sister-in-law has been weak and sick. The imperial doctor came to see her and prescribed many decoctions to treat her. Her condition has been good and bad, but in the past two days, she has become more and more broken..." Zhang Anshi spoke softer and softer, as if In fear.

Zhang Anshi should indeed be afraid, because Zhang Anjun is not only his sister, but also the emperor's Jieyu.

If you don't take good care of yourself, you will be held responsible.

Liu He naturally would not punish Zhang Anshi for this matter, but he felt something was fishy.

Because Cai Yi's granddaughter Cai Wenyan's condition seems to be exactly the same as Zhang Anjun's.

Liu He suddenly thought of a possibility. He should put aside other things today.

"Zhang Qing is standing alone, let's go in first." After Liu He said that, he immediately walked quickly into the hall.

"Wei!" Zhang Anshi and others didn't know why the emperor was suddenly anxious, so they followed him into the palace.

After everyone sat down, Liu He did not say anything. Instead, he looked under the case and found Cai Yi's memorial yesterday, which wrote about Cai Wenyan's illness.

"Fan Ke!" Liu He said.

"Wei Chen is here!" Fan Ke replied.

"Grind and write!" Liu He said.

"Wei!" Fan Ke was used to ghostwriting for the emperor. He jogged all the way to a small table in front of the emperor and quickly laid out his pen and ink.

"Zhang Qing, tell us the causes, consequences and symptoms of Wenjun's illness. Fan Ke will write it down and make sure it is not omitted."

Several courtiers still didn't know why the emperor did this, but they still didn't dare to ask and could only wait quietly.

Is it possible that the emperor still knows medical skills?
Zhang Anshi spoke slowly, while Fan Ke also remembered.

Not long after, Zhang Anshi finished speaking, and Liu He also finished listening: He was surprised to find that the symptoms of the diseases suffered by Zhang Anjun and Cai Wenyan were exactly the same!
This is too much of a coincidence, right?

Liu He did not dare to make a hasty judgment, so he wanted to read what Fan Ke recorded again to see if there were any discrepancies between the two.

"Fan Ke, give me what you wrote down!" Liu He asked, staring at Cai Yi's memorial.

Liu He waited for a moment, but Fan Ke made no move.

"Fan Ke!" Liu He shouted angrily.

But after a while, Fan Ke still didn't present anything.

Liu He, who was a little unhappy, raised his head and looked in the direction of Fan Ke, wanting to see why he was stalling like this.

However, Liu He saw Fan Ke holding a pen and paper with a look of horror on his face: his eyes were wide open and his mouth could not be closed, as if he had been greatly frightened.

"Fan Ke, why are you so panicked!?" Liu He asked.

"There is something wrong with this disease!" Fan Ke stammered.

Today, Fan Ke is Liu He's personal attendant, and he drafts almost all the edicts issued by Liu He.

Moreover, whether it was a large or small court meeting or discussing government affairs with trusted courtiers, Fan Ke was almost always present.

This reflects Liu He's great trust in him. Everyone knows that this little internal official has as bright a future as Han De.

The 15-year-old Fan Ke lives up to the divine grace and has always been careful and has never done anything beyond the rules.

Regardless of whether he was in the front hall or the greenhouse hall, Fan Ke was as quiet as a clay puppet most of the time: he would not interrupt the emperor and the important ministers in the government as he did today.

Liu He looked at Fan Ke, and Zhang Anshi and others also looked at Fan Ke, very confused.

"Fan Ke, I forgive you. Please tell me, what's the problem with Jie Yu's disease?" Liu He softened his voice to avoid scaring Fan Ke.

"Your Majesty, I have seen this, this disease before..." Fan Ke said with a trembling voice.

"Did you see it in the memorial of Cai Yi, the imperial censor?" Liu He then asked.

"Reporting to Your Majesty... I have not read the imperial censor's memorial..."

"Where have you seen that before? Tell me quickly. Don't be too pretentious!" Liu He urged anxiously.

Fan Ke was born thin and small, and his eyes were already big, but now they were even wider due to nervousness. He looked like a muntjac frightened by a hunter, unsteady.

He looked down at the words he had written with his own hands again, as if he was still recalling them.

Liu He knew that the other person must be very sensitive to what he was thinking, so he did not rush him anymore, but waited quietly with Zhang Anshi and others.

After about half an hour, Fan Ke finally seemed to have figured it out. He gritted his teeth and said something that was enough to turn the greenhouse into an ice cellar.

"Jieyu's illness in this picture... seems to be exactly the same as Emperor Xiaozhao's illness!"

Including Liu He, the emperor, everyone present felt as if they had fallen into a well in the twelfth lunar month, feeling chilly all over their bodies.

"How dare you, Fan Ke! How can you speak arbitrarily about the great emperor? Do you want your life?" Bingji suddenly pointed at Fan Ke and asked.

Fan Ke was so shocked that Bingji asked such a question. He even dropped the pen and paper in his hand to the ground. He stood up and knelt down in front of the emperor with a "pop".

"Your Majesty, forgive me! What Wei Chen just said is indeed the truth. Before Emperor Xiaozhao's visit, Wei Chen was always at his side. Wei Chen remembers this illness clearly!"

"Weichen, Weichen is willing to swear on his own life and the life of Weichen's aunt, if there is even half a lie, I will be willing to accept the punishment of an inch without any complaints!"

Fan Ke's sincere and determined attitude did not seem to be fake. Bingji did not embarrass him anymore, but looked at the emperor and nodded.

In a desperate situation, what you say should be taken seriously, and Fan Ke has no reason to lie.

Zhang Anshi and others fell silent, not daring to speak. They knew what it would mean if what Fan Ke said was true.

"Fan Ke, I believe what you said. Please tell me again, what symptoms did Emperor Xiaozhao have before his death?"

"At the beginning, Emperor Xiaozhao only had cough, sputum, and chest pain, which was no different from ordinary wind and cold."

"After more than a month, Emperor Xiaozhao's breathing became uneven, his skin became cyanotic, and he was often thirsty."

"In the last few days, I kept coughing up blood, vomiting, and my mouth was covered with sores!"

“In the days leading up to the big trip, I kept asking for water, as if I couldn’t get enough!”…

Liu He kept looking down at Cai Yi's memorial in his hand. Cai Wenyan had already begun to pant and become cyanotic.

He recalled what Zhang Anshi had just said about Zhang Anjun's illness. Zhang Anjun even started to cough up blood.

While Zhang Anshi, Bingji and others were still confused, Liu He had already figured out many things in his mind.

After entering the palace for several months, this was the first time Liu He heard someone mention Emperor Xiaozhao's great success to him.

These "diseases" of Emperor Xiaozhao were all too familiar to Liu He: if he had known about them earlier, he would have become suspicious earlier.

It was because I had neglected this matter and was deceived by the history books I had read.

Many emperors who sat on the imperial couch in later generations contracted this "disease" and died.

For example, let's say the penultimate emperor of the Qing Dynasty, or a very short emperor further west in the Western Regions...

This is not a serious disease or epidemic. It is clearly poisoning - chronic mercury poisoning!

Mercury is what Chinese people call mercury. It is a heavy metal that can slowly poison people to death.

Compared with other poisons that appeared in later generations, it is too easy to obtain mercury.

As long as you put the common cinnabar in an urn and heat it, you can scrape mercury beads on the wall of the urn, collect them and store them in a bamboo tube, where they can be stored for a long time.

According to legend, in the tomb of Qin Shihuang, there are rivers and lakes made of mercury!

At this time, many people knew that mercury was harmful, but not many people knew that mercury could cause slow death.

And there are probably even fewer people who dare to use such insidious methods to harm others.

When these four words were mentioned, poisoning and harming people, a person's name immediately appeared in Liu He's mind.

He sneered in his heart, feeling even more disgusted with the Huo family.

Dogs can't change from eating feces, Huo Xian can't change from poisoning!

"Emperor Xiaozhao didn't die of illness, he was poisoned..."

As soon as Liu He said these words, the faces of Zhang Anshi and others were filled with horror.

They are such smart people, they immediately string together many fragments in their minds.

If Emperor Xiao Zhao was poisoned to death, Cai Wenyan and Zhang Anjun who were poisoned by the same poison were most likely poisoned by the same person.

On the other hand, the person who poisoned Cai Wenyan and Zhang Anjun was probably the same person who poisoned Emperor Xiaozhao.

In the past few months, who is most likely to poison Cai Wenyan and Zhang Anjun?The answer is already obvious.

But Zhang Anshi and the others did not dare to say a word. They just looked at the emperor quietly: This answer can only be said by the emperor.

What puzzled them was that the emperor, who was obviously furious, did not immediately express his opinion on the matter, but silently took out a memorial from his arms.

"Fan Ke, you go down first and go to the Young Mansion to find Emperor Xiaozhao's medical records. Go and come back quickly. Don't mention it to others."

"promise!"

"Ask the badgers outside the door to go with you. Everyone in the Imperial Medical Office will not be allowed to leave the office immediately."

"No!" Fan Ke naturally accepted the order and left.

Liu He then handed the memorial in his hand to Zhang Anshi and others.

"This is the memorial that Huo Guang gave me today. Dear ladies, please take a look at it first."

"No!" Zhang Anshi and others could see that the emperor's eyes were filled with murderous intent, and they did not dare to say another word. They immediately took Huo Guang's memorial and read it carefully.

The memorial was very long, but it did not take much time to read. After half a quarter of an hour, several people had read it.

"Wang Ji, has Huo Yu been escorted back to Chang'an?" Liu He asked in a cold voice.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Huo Yu and the rest of the rebel commanders have been escorted back to Chang'an this morning," Wang Ji said.

"Where to be held?"

"Huo Yu was imprisoned in the imperial prison, and the rest were imprisoned in the prisons of various counties in Sanfu."

Nowadays, prisons of all sizes in Chang'an City are overcrowded and must be cleared.

After listening, Liu He nodded and told Zhang Anshi and others the purpose of calling them here today.

"I have called you here today because I want to discuss it with you and put an end to Huo Guang and the Huo family."

"Now that Fan Mingyou is dead, Tian Guangming is also dead. The key to convicting Huo Guang is Huo Yu... Although Huo Yu killed Fan Mingyou, he must be the core of this conspiracy."

"But you have already read Huo Guang's memorial. This gate is not so easy to pry open. I would like to ask all of you dear..."

"Huo Yu killed the Fan thief and his subordinates in front of the formation. Huo Guang had served as an assistant to the government for more than ten years. Huo Qubing, the first general of the Hussars, sealed Lang Juxu's Yuyin. I gave him the iron certificate of the alchemy book with my temporary rights..."

"Add all these together, can Huo Guang be killed? Can the Huo family be destroyed?"

"And we must kill them without any hidden dangers, and kill them completely!"

The people present, except Wang Ji, Bing Ji and Huo Guang, who had no clear quarrel with each other, all had grudges against Huo Guang.

Now the emperor asked them for their opinions, but they couldn't give an answer for the moment.

From an emotional point of view, they naturally want to kill all the Huo family...

However, judging from the "chips" listed by the emperor just now, some are difficult to kill.

They also understood that the emperor was not asking them whether Huo should be killed, but how.

Zhang Anshi and others looked at each other in confusion, and were momentarily stunned by the question.

Only the fat Huang Ba was eager to answer this question.

"Well, Huang Qing, you are a Tingwei, and you are most familiar with the laws of the Han Dynasty. I want to hear your opinion."

"Wei!" Huang Ba was overjoyed to be selected as general, and he couldn't wait to say what he had been thinking about, "Huo Guang and Huo Yu, it's easy to kill them, or it's easy to kill them, or it's hard to kill them."

"What Huang Qing said is interesting, please continue."

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