Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 87 The culprit
Shangguan Haitang left the Forbidden City. She changed into a scholar's costume, and planned to return to the No. [-] village in the world to persuade them to submit to the Ming emperor.

Looking back at the Forbidden City with its red walls and yellow tiles, she was filled with melancholy.

In fact, in her mind, things in the palace are far more exciting than things outside in the rivers and lakes.

More importantly, today's son is a beautiful man, such a good man, which girl does not have a spring?

She turned around and left the Forbidden City. She wanted to try her best to convince the people in the No. [-] village in the world, otherwise, the Zhuangzi she had painstakingly managed would cease to exist.

This incident soon reached the Queen Mother's ears.

A little eunuch sneaked up to the Empress Dowager and whispered something in her ear.

A look of surprise soon appeared on the Queen Mother's face.

"Shangguan Haitang? Doesn't she know her identity? She left the palace? Why did she leave the palace?"

"This, the old slave really doesn't know."

"If she wants to become a concubine, she can't leave the palace. Otherwise, she will violate the biggest taboo in the palace. To put it bluntly, if this Shangguan Haitang is pregnant with a royal heir, how can she explain clearly?"

"This green hat, the emperor can't afford it."

"If so, then she only has"

The queen mother sighed heavily, her worry was not unreasonable.

There is one more thing that the queen mother is also deeply disturbed about, that is, is Shangguan Haitang someone who is so brave that Zhu ignores the person arranged by the emperor's side?
"Don't tell anyone about this matter, and the Ai family will deal with it themselves."

"According to the order!"

"Let's drive to Chuxiu Palace, the Ai family is going to arrange some nuns for Zhao'er, and let him continue flipping cards tonight."

"According to the order!"

The eunuch hurriedly bowed to finish his answer, and quickly left the Compassion Palace.

Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Zhu Houzhao continued to read the memorial.

For several days, there was good news and bad news.

"Your Majesty, Master Yu asked to see him, and said that it was an important matter to report to His Majesty."

"Let him in!"

"According to the order!"

The little eunuch trotted out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and told Yu Huatian who was waiting outside to enter the hall.

"Chen Yuhuatian, I respectfully invite Shengan!"

"Get up and talk!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"I have always asked that you are known for being capable in handling things, why? This time I asked you to do a small matter, but you have been doing it for me for so long?"

Yu Huatian frowned slightly, and said with a half-smile: "Return to Your Majesty, this matter has indeed made me embarrassed for a long time, but fortunately, I have thoroughly investigated the root cause of this matter, and relieved Your Majesty of a worry." Big trouble."

"Well, yes, what I want is your words."

"Tell me, who is poisoning the vegetables? What's his purpose?"

Yuhuatian was dressed in pure white clothes, looking like snow lotus flowers on the top of the mountain, spotless, his haughty eyes and temperament were impeccable.

However, when facing the imperial power, he had to bow his head. He also understood in his heart that everything he had was given by the emperor. If one day, the emperor was unhappy, it would only be a matter of words.

Before Zhu Houzhao gave him the secret investigation of who assassinated him, Yuhuatian handled it very neatly, and gave Zhu Houzhao the result in less than three to five days.But this time, he really encountered a lot of trouble.

Because this person who put him in a stumbling block cannot be underestimated.

Zhu Houzhao also knows that the situation he is facing now is very embarrassing. To put it bluntly, although he is in power, he is still a teenager after all.

After making such a big reform in the imperial court, it was still rejected and run on by some civil officials.

It has to be said that the team left by Emperor Hongzhi was too strong, and sometimes he couldn't handle it at all.

Although he always felt that there was a force following him against him, he really couldn't find out where that force was.

The poisoning incident in the imperial dining room made Zhu Houzhao heartbroken. He vaguely felt that the orphan and widow mother would be murdered like this at some point.

If this was the case, he would really feel sorry for the ancestors under the Nine Springs.

"Your Majesty, I have already identified the murderer who murdered the empress, but, can't I say it now?"

Zhu Houzhao looked around and asked them all to withdraw. The fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better.

Although there are eunuchs and court ladies standing around him, it is not guaranteed that anyone will leak the news, and things will be difficult to handle at that time.

"Okay, now you can say, who wants to put me to death?"

"Your Majesty, I have found out that it is Shou Ning Bo Zhang Heling, Master Zhang."

"What? Nonsense!"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he jumped up against the case.This kind of thing, other people can do it, how can my own uncle do it?

However, after thinking about it, it makes sense.

Before, her mother repeatedly created conditions for him to get along with his cousin Zhang Xuan. At first Zhu Houzhao thought it was nothing, but as time passed, he always felt that there was something wrong.

Although his cousin is naive and romantic, she is related to him by blood after all. It seems that his mother took great pains to produce two queens for her Zhang family.

"Your Majesty, I'm really not talking nonsense. When I was walking around in the market, I once met a fortune teller. He was blind and made a living by telling fortunes to others."

"Suddenly one day, the blind man was brought into Shou Ningbo's residence. Somehow, the blind man was able to see when he came out."

"It's strange to say that Qi Chuchen felt that something was wrong. It turned out that when the blind man saw money, his eyes naturally saw it."

"It is said that the purpose of entering the mansion is to show Miss Zhang's family. It is said that the lady does not have the queen's life. If you want to become a queen, you have to get rid of the concubine who is favored by His Majesty in the palace. Only then will you have a chance."

"At that time, His Majesty was favoring the current Empress Zhaoyi, so the whole story of the poisoning incident in the imperial dining room was revealed."

After Zhu Houzhao heard this, he felt that his blood pressure was a bit high. Why is the human heart so dark when the sky is bright and bright?

The Zhang family, haven't I given them much?
Why is this still the case?

Zhu Houzhao felt that his father said the most words during his lifetime, no one could believe it, only himself, it seems that being an emperor has been a lonely thing since ancient times.

My own uncle, for the sake of power and status, actually secretly doing things like snakes and scorpions.

At that time, many people were wronged. Zhu Houzhao knew that none of the people who entered the East and West Factory could come out alive. Those who died wronged, could their innocent souls bypass him?

"It's so unreasonable? They are bullying me when I am young!" Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists tightly and gritted his steel teeth.

He did not expect that his cousin, who grew up as a childhood sweetheart, lived in such a family.When he was a child, he heard that his cousin was often beaten, and such a family could not educate many talents.

"I know, let me be alone for a while. Only you and I know about this matter, and no third person is allowed to know about it."

"I will remember your Majesty's instruction, I will leave!"

Yu Huatian tactfully withdrew from the Hall of Mental Cultivation. This time, he lived up to Zhu Houzhao's high expectations.
(End of this chapter)