Ping An Biography

Hu Ying dressed in hemp and filial piety and followed the eunuch Haitao to Qianqing Palace. Before the late emperor's spirit, she knelt down and cried.Haitao had no choice but to wait for him.After brewing a lot of feelings in this way, driven by the cry, he forced out a few tears, and made his old eyes red, and then went to see the prince Zhu Zhanji.

Sure enough, when Zhu Zhanji saw his sad expression and red eyes, he asked first. After hearing the reason, Zhu Zhanji also sighed, but it was a kind of approval in Hu Ying's ears.

In fact, Hongxi Emperor Zhu Gaochi died, and Hu Ying couldn't find any feeling of grief at all.When Emperor Hongxi was in power, Hu Ying went directly from a key member of the Central Committee to Nanjing Guozijian Jijiu, and was completely excluded from the center. How sad is it for him?

Except for a few servants in the warm cabinet, the chief eunuch Wang Gou'er has already left.At this time, Zhu Zhanji also dismissed several servants other than Haitao, and asked about the business: "When you were in Nanjing, you once said that when Taizong died, you smelled a fragrance in the tent, and you didn't pay attention to it at that time." Talk, I suddenly remembered this and wanted to ask you what's going on."

"Yes." Hu Ying responded hastily, and then she was silent for a while before saying, "The senior official sent people to investigate the rebellious party in Yangzhou and got some clues. ), the veteran searched along the vines, and later sent people to Wushan. Due to his haste, he failed to catch any useful rebels, but found some clues, including a gray powder that looked like plant ash, but the smell of this thing was very strong. In particular, it exudes a strange and light fragrance. After that, the old minister did not get to the bottom of it, but he vaguely heard what might have happened to Taizong during the northern expedition, and hurried north to the holy... But the old minister was a step late..." He said Hu Ying choked up.

Hu Ying has been an official in the Yongle Dynasty for 20 years, and has a deep relationship with Emperor Yongle's monarchs and ministers.Zhu Zhanji said: "You continue to finish."

"At that time, the veteran asked to see Taizong for the last time, so he was allowed to enter the tent to worship the spirit. Unexpectedly, he suddenly smelled a smell in the tent..." Hu Ying's expression changed.

Zhu Zhanji also seemed to have entered the situation, and he almost understood what was going on in his heart, but he couldn't help but hurriedly asked: "What smell?"

Then Hu Ying said seriously: "It's that kind of 'grass ash' fragrance!"

"The emperor's grandfather has never been to Wushan, and none of the ministers and attendants around him have been... Only Wushan County has this kind of thing?" Zhu Zhanji said with a serious face.

Hu Ying said: "I don't dare to say absolutely whether there are such things in other places, but this is the first time I have smelled that kind of smell after living for decades."

"Do you still have the ashes?"

Hu Ying seemed to have been prepared a long time ago, perhaps it was the reason for the summons that Haitao had revealed to him when he went to deliver the decree, so she took out a small wooden box from her arms and offered it on the spot.Zhu Zhanji stared at the box on the imperial case, then reached out to pick it up and opened the lid after a while.Seeing this, Hai Tao hurriedly said: "This thing is an ominous thing, be careful, Your Highness." The implication is that it may be poisonous!

"It shouldn't be a problem. Didn't Hu Ying smell it? There must be not only one person who smelled it in the imperial grandfather's spiritual tent." After Zhu Zhanji said, he wanted to open the box to smell it.Haitao hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Let the servants come." With Zhu Zhanji's approval, Haitao carefully held the wooden box, approached Zhu Zhanji lightly, and then slapped it slightly with his hands.

Zhu Zhanji frowned: "It doesn't smell, take it closer."

Haitao stretched forward according to his words, and the movement of fanning his hands in the air became more rapid.Only then did Zhu Zhanji faintly smell a scent, which was really very faint and almost negligible; if he didn't pay special attention to it, he would definitely not be able to detect it.But when he calmed down and smelled it carefully, he found that the faint smell was very special, like a fragrance.

Zhu Zhanji's complexion suddenly became cloudy and cloudy, and he was faintly more murderous.The emperor who was born in this era should be a good man of culture and governance, and he is preparing to do so; but at the same time, he has the blood of the great ancestor Taizong in him, and he has also been greatly influenced by Taizong the day after tomorrow.So he is not a weak person in his bones.

But that doesn't have to be true either.It may be true that the thing was brought back from Wushan by Hu Ying's men, but how can it be proved that there was this smell in Taizong's spiritual tent at that time?Hu Ying was the only one who smelled this smell in the tent at the beginning, and it is impossible to determine whether it is right or wrong based on his own words.

It's just that there are some things that don't need to be proven and confirmed, just a suspicion is very useful; perhaps those suspicions that cannot be proved are more serious and will linger in people's hearts... The imperial grandfather was killed by someone! ?

Zhu Zhanji, who was covered in long sleeves, had already clenched his fists.

He turned his head and said to Haitao: "Among the concubines who were buried, there was a beauty Wang who was still alive? Find an imperial doctor to check her pulse as soon as possible, and lock her up after confirming it. Put this box of things in her room secretly."

"Slave obeys the order." Hai Tao bowed.

Zhu Zhanji thought for a while and said: "I haven't been able to verify it at this time, so don't leak it out for now, so as not to make people panic."

Haitao agreed again, and Hu Ying also bowed, "Old minister obeys the order."

Zhu Zhanji then raised his sleeve and waved it lightly, the two of them knelt down and saluted, and then retreated out of the warm pavilion.

Hai Tao hurriedly told the imperial doctor to confirm Wang Meiren's diagnosis, and as expected, the imperial doctor insisted that she was impossible to be pregnant.Haitao checked the records of the servants again. This beauty Wang should still be a virgin. If she was really pregnant, it would be more serious. She might not be the only one who died, or even dozens of people would die. Internally, how the jian people came in to make the concubine's stomach big, it is related to the country, and the problem cannot be solved without a large group of people.

The eunuch Haitao was very motivated, and he was very quick to do things, because he had already learned another level of knowledge about this matter.It was clear at a glance that Emperor Taizong Zhu Di might have been poisoned to death, and the poison was something like ashes in that box, which might look like a slow-acting poison that needed long-term exposure to be poisoned.The doubt is that at that time, Zhu Di was either a court general of the first or second rank in the official residence or a prince and military general with high prestige in the army, or a trusted servant. Who did this?

In contrast, although civil and military officials often went in and out of the emperor's central army camp, they rarely had the opportunity to do so. On the contrary, it was more convenient for those trusted servants to do this.At that time Emperor Yongle Beizheng brought the great eunuchs by his side including Wang Gou'er!Wang Gou'er was very favored at that time, and the suspicion was probably the greatest.

That's why Haitao was so busy, he thought to himself: Our family won't punish you to death!

Of course, Wang Meiren will definitely die, and the method of death has been arranged. She will die in the room for no apparent reason and without any signs.If the box of plant ashes doesn't work, Haitao can find another substitute.Of course, the matter of substitutes can be prepared in advance, and it is unnecessary at the beginning: first of all, people are curious, and Haitao is no exception. Killed; Secondly, bringing "substitutes" into the palace itself is very risky, even if Haitao's power is getting stronger and stronger, he must abide by many rules when entering and leaving the palace, and taking poison into the palace will take a lot of risk , It is very likely that stealing chickens will not lose money, and rice will play himself into it.

No one would trust Haitao to do such a vile thing, not even the eunuch who called him his ancestor's godfather. At that point, he planned to carry it out by himself.

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In fact, Wang Gouer is not a fuel-efficient lamp.Although this person has gray hair and is not young anymore, but he has fair skin and a handsome face, and his figure is relatively thin and thin. If he changes into women's clothes and dyes his hair, he might be able to pretend to be a woman; It is also as thin as a woman.

As soon as Wang Meiren was locked up, he noticed something unusual.As soon as I asked, I knew that Wang Meiren was not pregnant, so it stands to reason that she should be hanged immediately and prepared to be buried with other concubines. Why was she locked up again? Isn't it strange?

Wang Gou'er found his godson Wang Zhen to discuss the matter with him, and ordered Wang Zhen to watch the situation secretly.

His godson, Wang Zhen, stared at him for two days without much gain. The matter was very secret, except for the three people who were in the Snapper at that time, no one knew the inside story.However, Wang Zhen did not return empty-handed, and actively advised his godfather. This guy was born as a scholar, and if he had ink in his stomach, he would have the talent to be a teacher if it wasn't for bad luck.

Wang Zhen said clearly in front of the dog: "Son, I found out. Two days ago, Eunuch Hai, Hu Ying, and His Highness were talking in the warm pavilion. Shut Wang Meiren up. That is to say, if there is any mystery in this matter, there are three people involved, and Hu Ying, as a foreign minister, will not have trouble with her godfather for no reason, only Eunuch Hai..."

He looked around furiously while talking, and then he brought his mouth closer and said in a low voice: "His Highness intends to let his godfather be the seal of the supervisor of ceremonies. He is also under Godfather, but how can we have the same heart with the sons? So the son guesses that he may be playing something secretly this time, we have to be careful."

"Wang Meiren is a dying person, what can Haitao do with her?" Wang Gou'er frowned and walked a few steps, "There is also Hu Ying present, isn't it..."

Wang Gou'er suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly said in a deep voice: "I'll assign you an errand, and you must ask your people to keep an eye on Haitao's entry and exit from the palace gate, and search our house carefully every time according to the rules! Don't be afraid If you offend him, as long as our family does not collapse for a day, whoever dares to touch you will have to ask whether our family nods or not!"

"Yes, godfather. The son is still afraid of offending Haitao? As long as the godfather recognizes his son, he will be satisfied. If it weren't for you, his son might starve to death and be eaten by dogs on the street." Wang Zhen said with a dignified look.

Wang Gou'er said again: "And your fellow countryman Zhang Ning, who worked under Hu Ying before, must know a lot of things. You can ask him again when you find a chance. When Taizong passed away the year before last, he was anxious to go north to see what happened. What is it for! If he really doesn’t know, he has a good relationship with Hu Ying, and he wants to let him speak out... In addition, Haitao slandered in front of the prince and took the impeachment papers from last time to talk about the matter, you also tell Zhang Ning. Let him know the stakes, otherwise Haitao will speak ill of him in the palace, and he will be framed for nothing!"