Zhao Fujin, the Emperor who brought disaster to the country

Chapter 15 Out of the water
"No, you definitely still have a master!" Zhao Fujin thought for a while, stretched out his finger and pointed: "Maybe there is more than one."

"I've always been curious, why was it that even though everyone else was fine during the Hundred Days Banquet, I drank too much at a party with Emperor Huifu, and then summoned Dr. Zhong who was responsible for killing people?"

"I drank the medicine he used at home. What kind of medicine it was, the registration record of the Food and Drug Administration was very formal, and there was nothing suspicious about it. Even though he prepared a suicide note, the case could not be finalized. The aunt was so troubled. It’s all in vain, and the search is fruitless.”

"But none of them noticed that the incident happened that night when I surrendered. You called the palace guards to keep an eye on me, but you took away the incense that had been burning in the palace all night."

"What kind of incense is that? Is it the incense that killed Emperor Huifu?" Zhao Fujin pointed to the thin smoke burning in the room and asked: "Emperor Huifu was young, so she would go to bed after she fell asleep. I didn't wake up. As for me, my luck was much better. I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. In desperation, you urged me repeatedly, and you even felt impatient. "

"Is it because you are afraid that I will smell something different in the fragrance, which will cause your plan to fail?" Zhao Fujin stretched out his finger and tapped the sweat beads on Qiongzhi's forehead: "However, there is one thing that I can't figure out. Since you wanted me dead, why didn’t you wait a few more moments before going out to call for someone when you found me dead?”

"Well, maybe you thought that the moment you wasted time could kill me?" Zhao Fujin asked and answered himself. Every time he asked a question, he lowered his head and looked straight at Qiongzhi. She was forced to the ground.

Her face was pale and she was sweating. She lay on the ground and trembled slightly: "Emperor Ji, I don't understand, what are you talking about?"

"Don't you understand? Why did you sneak into the palace yesterday morning to pour out the ashes from the incense burner?" Zhao Fujin reached out and took out a purse from his sleeve: "Look, is the ashes in there scented?" Ash?"

That night, after the man in black escaped, Zhao Fujin smelled the sweet fragrance in the palace. She didn't take it seriously at the time, but when Hua Yufang led someone in, her head began to feel dizzy again.

Hua Yufang searched for evidence in the palace, freed Bai Ling, picked up the ecstasy cigarette tube outside the door, and left.

After they left, Zhao Fujin carefully observed the palace door. She found that there was no gap when the palace door was closed tightly, and that the doors and windows in the palace were not damaged anywhere.

If the man in black wanted to enter Qionghua Pavilion without disturbing others, he would have to order the incense in advance and put it into the room.

Since the doors and windows are intact, it means that the Ecstasy incense paper tube left at the door is confusing people's sight.

Why confuse the view?

Zhao Fujin thought for a long time without understanding, and then saw Qiongzhi sneaking in to collect the incense ashes.

If there was a traitor, that would make sense.

But why did Qiongzhi want to be a traitor and harm himself?
Doesn't she know that if something happens to the person they are waiting for, they and those waiting around them will not be able to escape the involvement?
For example, for Emperor Huifu, the two eldest girls around her were buried by Concubine Cui, and the rest were sent to the dirtiest and most tiring place as palace envoys.

As the maids of the palace, they followed the Emperor Ji and lived a more delicate life than ordinary ladies. If they were sent to a dirty place, it would probably be worse than death.

Therefore, there must be a very important reason for Qiongzhi's desperate behavior.

If she hadn't mentioned Queen Yuanyou, the struggle between the old and new parties, and the relationship between the Cai family and Queen Yuanyou, Zhao Fujin would still not be able to understand this.

"Qiongzhi, Queen Yuanyou, no, what did the Meng family tell you after she was deposed?" Zhao Fujin put his hand on the handle of the armchair and leaned forward: "Did she want you to destroy my marriage with the Cai family? If so, If not, will you kill me?"

"No, this has nothing to do with the eldest lady!" Qiongzhi shook her head and denied desperately: "The eldest lady has been demoted to the Yaohua Palace, how can she command the slaves!"

"Look, you addressed the deposed queen with such respect as soon as you opened your mouth. How could she not have the ability?" Zhao Fujin said: "She has no ability, but the Empress Dowager Gao and the Empress Dowager Xiang do! Meng didn't even have to show her face. , I can send you Yuanyou old people to sacrifice your lives for them."

"..."

Only then did Qiongzhi realize that what she said in desperation had been caught by Zhao Fujin.

She hesitated for a moment, sat up straight, and lowered her voice and said, "That's it. As long as I don't admit it, Di Ji will have no evidence to accuse the eldest empress."

"Why do I want to accuse the Meng family?" Zhao Fujin waved his hand in a funny way: "That's it, that's all, what's the point of me arguing with you about this? You just step back."

Qiongzhi didn't expect that Zhao Fujin would not deal with her, and was a little stunned for a moment. She didn't come back to her senses until she was pulled out of the pavilion by Qiong Ye and Qiong Yu.After Zhao Fujin waited for her to leave, he called Xiangzhi and asked her to check the connection between Cai Wei and the Meng family to confirm whether Cai Wei was a supporter of the old party.

Xiangzhi was also a know-it-all. It took him only half a day to find out the relationship between Cai Chi's mother's family:

Cai Chi's mother's surname was Liu Ming Shuying, and his maternal grandfather was Liu Zhi. During Zhezong's reign, he was highly regarded by the Empress Dowager Gao and was the leader of Yuanyou's old party.

At the peak of his power, it was the Empress Dowager Gao who was in charge of the government. When he was in court, he often turned his back on Zhezong and was hated by Zhezong.

After the death of the Empress Dowager Gao and Zhe Zong's pro-government, the Liu family was liquidated and the whole family, old and young, except for the women and children, were exiled to Lingnan.

Mrs. Liu was a married woman and was spared from liquidation. However, because her husband Cai Jing was afraid of being implicated, she was put into a carriage overnight and sent to Fujian.

At that time, Mrs. Liu was pregnant, and the journey was bumpy. In addition, people from the north moved southward, and the humidity and heat added to her body. She had difficulty reaching her ancestral home, but she was already suffering from a stubborn illness.

There is no one, no medicine, and you can't go in and out at will. If you are sick, you can only hold on for dear life.

Fortunately, Liu's brother Liu Ji learned that his sister was seriously ill in Lingnan, so he asked his wife's cousin Xu to take care of her.

The Xu family was gentle and kind, and begged the Caijing people to no avail.

But she has a teenage daughter, Xu Taoniang, who is extremely fierce.

Without saying a word, she took her cousin Liu Jin and a tenant farmer from Yizhuangzi, armed with sticks, shovels, shovels and other objects, and smashed them directly into the Cai family's ancestral home, and then snatched the pregnant Liu family back to the Xu family. Zhuangzi.

The son Liu gave birth to was Cai Chi. From his birth until he was recalled to the capital by Cai Jing at the age of ten, he stayed in Zhuangzi of the Xu family in Fujian and was protected by Xu Taoniang and his cousin Liu Jin.

Xu Taoniang's family was engaged in business. After the Liu family lost power, Liu Jin was taken under the care of the Xu family. They grew up together with their cousins, and they were quite fond of concubines.

In particular, Xu Taoniang's grandmother died and her father did not return from the sea. It is said that something happened.

The Xu family members bullied the family because they had no children, and wanted to share the property in Xu's father's name.

Xu Taoniang didn't want to, so she took it upon herself to record Liu Jin in her name and claimed that he was her son-in-law.

Naturally, the Xu family refused to comply, so some scheming people set a trap. When Liu Jin went out to study, forged old party documents were placed in the guest room, using this to falsely accuse him of "living with Liu Zhi and his likes in a vain attempt to subvert." affairs of state".

At that time, Cai Jing was in power and was trying his best to investigate Yuanyou's old party. Liu Jinzheng was in the limelight and was directly sentenced to exile.

In order to save Liu Jin, Xu Taoniang went to the capital to seek help from Cai Chi. Cai Chi knelt outside the door of Cai Jing's study for five days before Cai Jing agreed to the idea of ​​​​removing Liu Jin.

However, by this time Liu Jin had died on the road to exile.

It has been more than four years since Tao Niang gave birth to Liu Jin's posthumous son, named Liu Ting, and was placed by Cai Chi in a jewelry shop named under his mother's name.

Therefore, Meng Jiangying, who grew up in Beijing, was not Cai Chi's childhood sweetheart.

Qiongzhi said that to ruin Zhao Fujin's marriage proposal with the Cai family.

And why was Emperor Huifu included in their calculations and lost her life?
She is young and has not proposed marriage to anyone important. Her mother Cui is also a big-breasted and brainless loser. What should she be tabooed by the Yuanyou old party led by Meng?

(End of this chapter)