"Your Highness! What happened..."
On a bustling street outside the imperial palace, all kinds of dignitaries crowded into a teahouse. Prince Duan sat in a wing room on the second floor and looked at the imperial palace. , The forbidden army has tripled!"
"It couldn't be Zhao Yunxuan who did the assassination, he is the only outsider in the palace..."
An official looked at him nervously, Prince Duan spit out the tea he just drank, and said in shock: "I can't, what kind of assassination is he doing so well? It’s just what you can do, can’t it be…”
"Someone rebelled, put the blame on him..."
The other party stomped their feet vigorously, and all civil and military expressions in the room changed. Prince Duan threw the tea bowl and jumped up, and said with a pale face: "Oops! The prince will not rebel, the martial law in the palace must be a big deal, Zhao Yunxuan is Best excuse ever!"
"Don't worry, Your Highness! The crown prince has also come out, alone..."
"one person?"
Prince Duan hurriedly leaned on the window to watch, and the prince came out alone with disheveled hair, without even a guard or eunuch by his side, and even turned around to curse while walking, as if he had been kicked out of the palace.
"It's over! Zhao Yunxuan really assassinated..."
Prince Duan hurriedly ran downstairs. When he came to the street, the prince had just sat down by the tea stand. When he saw them coming, he raised his hands and shouted: "Don't ask me, I don't know anything. According to the emperor's order, let me sit in the palace guards!"
"Brother! Don't be a fool..."
Prince Duan sat over and offered a cigarette, and asked, "The sudden martial law in broad daylight, did someone assassinate the emperor?"
"What the hell can I tell you? I won't let my hair be combed..."
The prince lit a cigarette angrily, and said: "Something must have happened. All the courtiers in the palace were called out to light their guns. Even my East Palace was taken away. The commander's face was very ugly. He didn't know anything." Ken told me, if I hadn't seen you sitting here, I would have thought you were rebelling!"
"you… "
Prince Duan said angrily: "How could I rebel, you can't talk nonsense like that, Zhao Yunxuan, have you seen that?"
"Damn it, I was framed by the imperial guards..."
The prince took a few puffs of stuffy smoke, frowned, and said, "It's definitely not an assassination. The imperial guards were also confused. They only knew that everyone was gathered outside the nave. Seeing Zhao Yunxuan sitting on the steps smoking, your daughter and Seventeen stood behind him!"
"Seventeen stands behind him? I see..."
Prince Duan slapped his thigh abruptly, and said solemnly: "The corpse poison must have been leaked or stolen. The emperor left him to investigate the corpse poison. The purpose of gathering everyone is to get rid of it. See if there are any people in the palace!"
"But what did you throw me out for..."
The prince looked at him in astonishment, and Prince Duan squinted his eyes and said: "My lord! Your wife and children are all inside. Why do you want to drive you out? Lao Jiu advises you not to go anywhere today, just stay here honestly." Let's drink tea here!"
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"I'm going! There are more people than people going to the market..."
Zhao Guanren sat on the white stone steps outside the middle hall. There were eight or nine thousand eunuchs and maids in total, plus the concubines of the emperor and the prince, and the descendants of the royal family, big and small. It has already exceeded ten thousand.
"Hey! Get up, you are the only one sitting besides the emperor..."
The little princess kicked him secretly, Zhao Guanren looked back, Emperor Shun Yao asked someone to move a chair and sit outside the palace gate, the concubines of high status stood in a long row behind him, the empress also stood there and dared not Fluttering, but frowning tightly.
"I don't get up, I don't know how long I will be busy..."
Zhao Guanren leaned against the guardrail and refused to get up. At this time, he finally saw the second great master in the palace besides Jin Wuming, and one of the staunch supporters of the princelings, the imperial cook—Qianye Xuan!
That's right!
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Qian Yexuan, one of the great masters, is a cook. It is said that he has been an imperial cook since the grandfather of Emperor Shun Yao. No one knows his real age. Anyway, he looks like a man in his fifties, with a He was dressed in a clean red official robe, with a thin body and a clean beard without a single beard.
"Quickly give the Grand Master a seat..."
Emperor Shun Yao straightened up and raised his hand. It could be seen that he respected Qianye Xuan very much. Qianye Xuan also bowed politely and thanked him. He sat in a pile of royal chefs and did not speak. There was no emotion on his face. .
"Your Majesty! No need to count..."
Zhao Guanren got up and walked to Emperor Shunyao, bent down and said: "There are a lot of people who are empty-paid. There are one hundred and eighty-nine eunuchs missing, and two hundred and thirty-six palace maids. We don't have any of your concubines." Count, but Weichen reckons... I'm afraid it's not enough!"
"You bastard! It's on my head to eat nothing..."
Emperor Shun Yao slapped the armrest of the seat with one palm, and burst into a rage. The concubines fell to their knees in fright, and the black slaves also knelt down, and the old eunuch's face was worse than that of a dead mother. Ugly, obviously knowing about the empty pay.
"Wait a moment!"
The empress raised her head in shock and said, "The guards haven't even finished counting, how do you know how many people are missing?"
"Reporting to the queen! My minister asked them to line up front and back, multiply the two rows horizontally and vertically to get the number..."
Zhao Guanren clasped his hands and said, "It's just that it's not convenient to count the number of ministers in the harem. Please ask the empress to send someone to take out the roster and count. The corpse in the imperial garden is very likely to belong to a certain concubine. If the situation is true, it will be a big trouble!"
"Get off all of you, if I have fewer concubines, you don't want to be a queen..."
Emperor Shun Yao was so angry that he swears again, the empress didn't even dare to say a fart, she hurriedly led the concubines to run down the steps, and Emperor Shun Yao was like a beast in a cage, with red eyes and troops on the high platform Up and down pacing.
"emperor!"
Jin Wuming finally counted the number of people, and it was indeed the same as Zhao Guanren's number, but he also handed over a list, where any missing people were clearly written.
"Those who are on empty pay are all dragged out and chopped up..."
Emperor Shun Yao threw the list back abruptly, Zhao Guanren copied it, and said, "Your Majesty! If you kill someone, you will die without proof. There must be many people who were deceived by your subordinates like Mr. Tian. You can't let a sinner go, but you can't kill innocent people either!"
"Have you made it clear..."
Emperor Shun Yao pointed at the empress furiously, and the empress hurriedly ran up and knelt down, and said: "The concubine inspects the harem every day, there is no shortage of concubines in the harem, and there are also a lot of slaves in the harem, that is, there are five less in the East Palace." people!"
"Crown princess!"
Emperor Shun Yao had completely disregarded his face, and shouted: "You don't want to face yourself, don't blame me for not giving you face today, you get out of here, if you don't know, I'll cut off your head!"
"emperor!"
A chubby princess ran out rolling and crawling, knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "The lord, the prince has heavy hands, and he accidentally killed a few servants who caused trouble, and the daughter-in-law was dragged out and buried. But the servants of the Eastern Palace cannot enter the Imperial Garden, and the deceased is not from the Eastern Palace!"
"You bastards..."
Emperor Shun Yao gritted his teeth and scolded: "If I don't investigate today, I'm afraid you will hide it until I enter the imperial mausoleum, and you don't want to be a princess. Come on! Put her in the cold palace and wait for her punishment!"
"Your Majesty! It's none of your business, it's none of your business..."
The Crown Princess knocked the floor tiles loudly, but the four female guards immediately carried her away, and Princess Yaoyue stood below without even daring to lift her head, but the little princess gloated, taking advantage of the emperor's inattention. , and gave Zhao Guanren a wink.
"I'm so pissed off, I'm so pissed off..."
Emperor Shun Yao walked back and forth several times, pointed at Zhao Guanren and said, "Zhao Yunxuan! You go and investigate, I must find out today, what is the woman who died in the imperial garden?"
Whoever it is, all the monsters and monsters in the harem have been found out, and all of you will accompany him there! "
"Lucky everyone! Yamen who have read the list can go..."
Zhao Guanren held up a map of the Forbidden Palace, and shouted: "Si Li Jian, Yu Ma Jian, Si Shi Jian, Shang Bao Jian, Jingong Jian, Yin Shou Jian, Du Zhi Jian, Yu Kitchen, Xi Xin Si, Tai Hospital, The Bell and Drum Division and the Huntang Division can leave the entire outer eight bureaus, and the female officials and six officials are all left behind!"
"Slaves leave!"
A large number of people retreated hastily as if they had been pardoned, but the faces of those who stayed behind were all pale, and there were thousands of concubines and royal children, all of whom were kneeling in panic. It is estimated that everyone's buttocks were not clean.
"This is the first time for a lower official to enter the palace. If there is a mistake in the title, I hope you will forgive me..."
Zhao Guanren cupped his hands towards the bottom, and said: "Please, ladies, princes and grandchildren, go back to your respective palaces, order your slaves and maidservants and don't go out for the time being, if there is an emergency, you can send a eunuch to pass it on, everyone in the East Palace, please move to the Zangshu Pavilion to rest !"
"The concubine resigns!"
The concubines walked away again, and basically only the harem servants were left. Dozens of gardeners and flower slaves were all tied up. It was hard to control the rootless people, and half of them were scared to pee Pants.
"Your Majesty! I'm starting to investigate now..."
Zhao Guanren turned around and bowed, and Emperor Shun Yao waved his hands tiredly: "Go! No matter who is involved, I must investigate and find out the truth. If you dare to cover up, you will definitely be executed!"
"The minister obeys the order!"
Zhao Guanren took a booklet and walked down the steps, and came to the gardeners to ask questions, but they didn't expect that there would be corpses in the imperial garden, and they didn't spend their pay, and no one was missing.
Zhao Guanren frowned and said, "Planning the hole will definitely kill the flowers and plants. How can someone turn over the ground and not know?"
"My lord! Ladies love to play in the imperial garden, where flowers and plants are often trampled to death..."
The gardener cried and said: "Especially around the rockery, a lot of peek-a-boo will be trampled to death, and there are court ladies and eunuchs who are lazy and pee there as soon as they take off their pants. Besides, we are all on duty. Be suspicious!"
"Put it on, I'll find you if I need anything..."
Zhao Guanren got up and went to the court ladies. The dozens of court ladies were neither humble nor overbearing.
"Great Commander!"
Zhao Guanren quickly ran into the middle hall, Emperor Shun Yao was already sitting in the hall drinking tea, Jin Wuming stood beside him, his face sinking like water, and asked, "How?"
"Female officials Liushang colluded together to confess, and the confession was verbatim..."
Zhao Guanren said helplessly: "These maids are all veterans, and there is no flaw in the confession. I will put them back later. Please find a few skilled female guards and sneak over to stare at them to see if anyone is there. Destroy the evidence!"
"Don't be too busy..."
Emperor Shun Yao asked in a deep voice: "I just suddenly realized a problem. Normal people should never bury their corpses in the imperial garden. It is easy for people to find them, but the rockery where the corpses are found is very particular. What might you see?" Mystery?"
"Mystery?"
Zhao Guanren quickly took out the floor plan of the imperial palace. In fact, he didn't see anything, but he could get a general idea, and pretended to be shocked and shouted: "The eye of the formation! The eye of the big feng shui formation, someone is deliberately destroying the feng shui of the harem. Once the formation is broken, it will be..."
"What? But it's okay to say..."
Emperor Shun Yao lowered his teacup and stared at it. Zhao Guanren bent over in fear and said, "Your Majesty, don't blame me. It's no wonder that the yin energy in the imperial garden is condensed. It turns out that someone used vicious tricks to defeat the feng shui of the harem. If this feng shui is defeated, it will be...extinct." ! Cut off children and grandchildren!"
"Hiss~"
Jin Wuming gasped, and Emperor Shun Yao crushed the tea bowl with a "click" and said angrily, "I know that corpses don't appear on the formation for no reason, and it's because of the vicious trick of promiscuity." Hurry up and find out, if you can't find out, don't even think about eating!"