At the beginning of the first lunar month of the second year of Hongxi (the seventh year of Yongle), many government agencies in the capital suspended their offices.
There is no news about the rebels of the Han King. Some ministers in the court estimated that the rebels would threaten the capital in three months; others estimated that they would be more than two months.
The Minister of War Ru Ying and others even said exaggeratedly: The rebels will come to Zhili in half a month!
The important officials in the court were very anxious at this time, but because there was no imperial edict or mansion report, some yamen rested according to the rules.Anyway, most officials can't help at this time.
But the Dali Temple Minister was not idle. Compared with the big things he did, the New Year's Day was nothing.
He really wanted to find out such a serious mystery and what the truth was!
The emperor also received a report from Xue Yan's efforts. The emperor was very satisfied with Xue Yan's great rewards and urged Xue Yan many times to find out the truth without any worries!
Xue Yan walked along the brick pavement towards Chunhemen.The snow in the twelfth lunar month has not fallen, but the snow on the ground has not completely melted, and people are making a quarrel sound when walking on it.
Inside Chunhe Gate is the Chunhe Hall where the East Palace is located.
It turned out that the owner here was the current Ming emperor and had moved away from here long ago; just after the Chinese New Year, the eunuchs and palace maids were not busy sweeping snow, and a little white snow was stuck on the embroidered hem of Xue Yan's red robe.
There are almost no foreign ministers who come to Chunhe Hall, and even the original East Palace officials and the place where the crown prince meets the crown prince is in Wenhua Hall in the south.
Of course Xue Yan is an exception. The emperor has issued several imperial edicts recently, allowing Xue Yan to go anywhere and meet anyone!
Xue Yan walked to Chunhe's door, turned around and looked at the eunuch Haitao and the commander of the Jinyiwei Tan Qing, bowed and said: The emperor has an order, so I went in.Have the palace servants avoided it?
Haitao clasped his fists and said: Xue Siqing just worry.
The real time for the death of the late emperor was not the day when the imperial court mourned, but the previous two days.Among them, Xue Yan has been confirmed by the inside story and the process: Sheng Shang, Hai Tao, and Tan Qing.
There are far more than these people who know about it; there are Empress Zhang, Yuan Gong, Guo Zi, the dead Jin Zhong, and the former official of the Eastern Palace.
However, Xue Yan felt that the person who had a motive for regicide might have a great background, so he only asked three necessary people; he had not disturbed the others yet.
The group entered Chunhe Gate, but Xue Yan did not go to the place where the crime occurred; but first went to Chunhe Palace, the place where he often stayed when he was the crown prince.
Xue Yan walked into the main hall of Chunhe Hall, paced in the hall for a while, and then his eyes stopped on the big chair directly north, behind a desk.
By looking at the location, you will know that the chair should be the place where the former crown prince often sat.
Xue Yan walked to the chair, thought for a while, moved away the chair, and moved another Taishi chair over.He sat down by himself.
Haitao and Tan Qing both stood silently on one side, not stopping Xue Yan, and the two of them didn't say anything.
Xue Yan has heard a little about what life did the emperor live before ascending the throne.
The discipline of the late emperor was indeed very strict; for a while, today he even reached the embarrassing situation of borrowing debts everywhere.
Xue Yan sat in this position and felt that the Chunhe Palace gave people a very deep and quiet feeling.He imagined the feeling of a trembling prince sitting here day after day, but not at ease.
Most of the time, the crown prince does not handle state affairs and government affairs, and it takes so long; the key is that the crown prince thinks that the time will be longer in the future... What will the crown prince think in such an environment and state of mind?
When speculating on the motives of all parties, Xue Yan secretly felt that the suspicion of today was also quite large!No wonder the King of Han raised an army to rebel and blamed the death of the late emperor directly on the head of the Eastern Palace.
The person who can get the greatest benefit from the death of the late emperor is precisely today!The reason for the emperor's death and the prince succeeded to the throne is that simple.
Of course, these are just Xue Yan's secret speculations.According to common sense, the emperor (Zhu Gaochi) was already the crown prince at that time, so there should be no need to take the risk of doing such a great rebellious thing that is difficult to tolerate.
The most unreasonable thing is: if the lord killing was done by the current emperor, then the emperor ordered Xue Yan to investigate the case completely unreasonable...
Judging from the results, the King of Han also has some suspicion; because the biggest beneficiary at the moment has become the King of Han.
However, the risk and cost of the Han King was very high when he wanted to raise an army, and it would be difficult to predict today's results.
So Xue Yan did not exclude the King of Han, but felt that it might be relatively small.
In addition, Xue Yan also quietly suspected Queen Zhang!
Even some of the former officials of the East Palace were suspected. The motive was that the prince made a mistake and the officials of the East Palace were repeatedly unlucky and even lost their lives!
Xue Yan had worked as an official in criminal law since the Hongwu period and had seen many strange cases. There was nothing impossible in the world.
In addition to these people, Xue Yan also believes that at least two other people have motivations.
First, Concubine Guo, who is currently locked up in Chunhe Palace.This is also the person that the emperor and his confidant ministers most doubted!
Xue Yan now understands why Concubine Guo was detained and the people from the Guo family were sent to the imperial prison.
According to the emperor, Concubine Guo and Empress Zhang competed for favor and had a deep grudge; Concubine Guo's first child had miscarriage, and he once accused the queen of doing it.
Concubine Guo’s motive is that hatred blinds his heart, out of revenge, or wants his mother to be noble by her son, and defeat the current Empress Zhang... Therefore, she wants to kill the current eldest prince Zhu Zhanji, but unexpectedly kills the late emperor!
Now in Xue Yan's opinion, if Concubine Guo really did this, she would of course be very stupid!However, these women, even the royal concubines, may not have much experience.
Second, the rest of the Jianwen Party.After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he liquidated many civil and military officials of the Jianwen Dynasty, which was a bloody feud with the Jianwen monarch and ministers!Among them, there are inevitably fish that miss the net, penetrate the palace and seek opportunities to take revenge!
But this kind of person has not been exposed yet, which makes people have no clue.
...Xue Yan pondered for a while in the main hall of Chunhe Palace, and then left the main hall; he asked Haitao to lead the way, and finally went to the place where the crime occurred.
This is his experience in judging cases for many years: first determine the cause of death of the victim; then clear the victim's various connections and speculate that the person who has the motive for committing the crime; at the same time, carefully investigate the place and process of the case, and judge those who have the chance to commit the crime.
It took too long after the death of the late emperor, and the final result of the death cannot be done; the most critical person, on the day of the incident, the two medical officials who personally took the pulse of the late emperor were silenced in the midst of the changes in the ascension of the late emperor!
Haitao and others all said that the medical officer was executed because he was ineffective in treating the former emperor and deserved to be killed.But Xue Yan could guess what was going on in his heart, but it was just inconvenient to say it out loud.
At present, we can only temporarily presume that the cause of the death of the late emperor was that he was stabbed by a poisonous needle stained with the silver ring snake.
Because when the person who knew the inside story relayed the diagnosis of the two medical officials, the statement was consistent and had a high credibility; and other than that, Xue Yan did not have any way to prove the cause of death.
...The place is next to a pool in Chunhe Palace.When Xue Yan came to the shore, he saw some willow trees planted by the pond, but only bare branches were left at this time; the surface of the pond was frozen and had not melted yet.
Xue Yan walked a few steps and saw a broken brick and stone place by the pond. He pointed at it and said: So it was broken?At that time, the eldest prince (Zhu Zhanji) and the eunuch Wang Gouer dug the dredge here?
Haitao nodded and said: That's right.
When the incident happened, Eunuch Hai was present in person?Xue Yan asked.
Haitao made a memory and pondered for a moment: When the servants came, the late emperor had been here for a while.At that time, the late emperor had just decided to come to the East Palace, but no one was asked to inform him. After the late emperor arrived at the East Palace, the emperor (Gao Chi) rushed over, and the servants and others ran there again...
Xue Yan buried his head and asked again: Did Eunuch Hai see it with his own eyes when the eunuch Wang Gouer went to dig the dredge?Where are the others standing?
Haitao took a strong breath and frowned, "That was the summer of the previous year, our family... the late emperor should be in this position; the emperor (Zhu Gaochi) and his servants were in the north, because the emperor rushed over from the north.It should be true!
Xue Yan nodded and asked Haitao to stand at the approximate position of the late emperor, and also asked Tan Qing to stand at a little north.
Then Xue Yan walked down the collapsed gap and found a brick and stone near the ice surface. He stood there and found that it was just the only place where he could squat down and reached the waterside.
Then Xue Yan squatted on the stone, reached out to touch the ice surface, took out a piece of paper from his arms, and then stuffed it into his arms again.
After doing some trivial actions, Xue Yan returned to the shore and asked: Do you know what I did just now?
Haitao and Tan Qing both shook their heads and looked at Xue Yan with confusion.
Xue Yan said calmly: I took a jade pendant from my arms... He observed the expressions of the two, looking without doubt.
Eunuch Hai, are you sure that the late emperor and the others are all where you stand?Xue Yan asked.
Haitao frowned and said: The days are too long, but our family thinks it is correct.
Xue Yan thought for a while: Is anyone relying on the Chishui station?
Haitao shook his head without hesitation and said: Our family can be sure, no!At that time, the late emperor and the emperor were both by the pond. We are slaves, so we should not be extremely careful at this time?Beware of someone accidentally falling into the water!
At this time, Tan Qing asked: Xue Siqing thinks that Wang Gou'er was tampering with the dredging?
This is possible.Xue Yan said that the release of poison needles must be a premeditated arrangement, and someone must do this.But it may not be Wang Gonglu 2, or it may be someone else put it in advance.Didn’t you say that the eldest prince often played here for fun at that time?
Tan Qing and Haitao both nodded in agreement.
Concubine Guo is in Chunhe Palace?Can this official meet her?Xue Yan asked.
Haitao said: Our family will take Xue Siqing over there.
So the group of three left the pool. Xue Yan walked for a while and looked back at the scene beside the pool again.
There is no news about the rebels of the Han King. Some ministers in the court estimated that the rebels would threaten the capital in three months; others estimated that they would be more than two months.
The Minister of War Ru Ying and others even said exaggeratedly: The rebels will come to Zhili in half a month!
The important officials in the court were very anxious at this time, but because there was no imperial edict or mansion report, some yamen rested according to the rules.Anyway, most officials can't help at this time.
But the Dali Temple Minister was not idle. Compared with the big things he did, the New Year's Day was nothing.
He really wanted to find out such a serious mystery and what the truth was!
The emperor also received a report from Xue Yan's efforts. The emperor was very satisfied with Xue Yan's great rewards and urged Xue Yan many times to find out the truth without any worries!
Xue Yan walked along the brick pavement towards Chunhemen.The snow in the twelfth lunar month has not fallen, but the snow on the ground has not completely melted, and people are making a quarrel sound when walking on it.
Inside Chunhe Gate is the Chunhe Hall where the East Palace is located.
It turned out that the owner here was the current Ming emperor and had moved away from here long ago; just after the Chinese New Year, the eunuchs and palace maids were not busy sweeping snow, and a little white snow was stuck on the embroidered hem of Xue Yan's red robe.
There are almost no foreign ministers who come to Chunhe Hall, and even the original East Palace officials and the place where the crown prince meets the crown prince is in Wenhua Hall in the south.
Of course Xue Yan is an exception. The emperor has issued several imperial edicts recently, allowing Xue Yan to go anywhere and meet anyone!
Xue Yan walked to Chunhe's door, turned around and looked at the eunuch Haitao and the commander of the Jinyiwei Tan Qing, bowed and said: The emperor has an order, so I went in.Have the palace servants avoided it?
Haitao clasped his fists and said: Xue Siqing just worry.
The real time for the death of the late emperor was not the day when the imperial court mourned, but the previous two days.Among them, Xue Yan has been confirmed by the inside story and the process: Sheng Shang, Hai Tao, and Tan Qing.
There are far more than these people who know about it; there are Empress Zhang, Yuan Gong, Guo Zi, the dead Jin Zhong, and the former official of the Eastern Palace.
However, Xue Yan felt that the person who had a motive for regicide might have a great background, so he only asked three necessary people; he had not disturbed the others yet.
The group entered Chunhe Gate, but Xue Yan did not go to the place where the crime occurred; but first went to Chunhe Palace, the place where he often stayed when he was the crown prince.
Xue Yan walked into the main hall of Chunhe Hall, paced in the hall for a while, and then his eyes stopped on the big chair directly north, behind a desk.
By looking at the location, you will know that the chair should be the place where the former crown prince often sat.
Xue Yan walked to the chair, thought for a while, moved away the chair, and moved another Taishi chair over.He sat down by himself.
Haitao and Tan Qing both stood silently on one side, not stopping Xue Yan, and the two of them didn't say anything.
Xue Yan has heard a little about what life did the emperor live before ascending the throne.
The discipline of the late emperor was indeed very strict; for a while, today he even reached the embarrassing situation of borrowing debts everywhere.
Xue Yan sat in this position and felt that the Chunhe Palace gave people a very deep and quiet feeling.He imagined the feeling of a trembling prince sitting here day after day, but not at ease.
Most of the time, the crown prince does not handle state affairs and government affairs, and it takes so long; the key is that the crown prince thinks that the time will be longer in the future... What will the crown prince think in such an environment and state of mind?
When speculating on the motives of all parties, Xue Yan secretly felt that the suspicion of today was also quite large!No wonder the King of Han raised an army to rebel and blamed the death of the late emperor directly on the head of the Eastern Palace.
The person who can get the greatest benefit from the death of the late emperor is precisely today!The reason for the emperor's death and the prince succeeded to the throne is that simple.
Of course, these are just Xue Yan's secret speculations.According to common sense, the emperor (Zhu Gaochi) was already the crown prince at that time, so there should be no need to take the risk of doing such a great rebellious thing that is difficult to tolerate.
The most unreasonable thing is: if the lord killing was done by the current emperor, then the emperor ordered Xue Yan to investigate the case completely unreasonable...
Judging from the results, the King of Han also has some suspicion; because the biggest beneficiary at the moment has become the King of Han.
However, the risk and cost of the Han King was very high when he wanted to raise an army, and it would be difficult to predict today's results.
So Xue Yan did not exclude the King of Han, but felt that it might be relatively small.
In addition, Xue Yan also quietly suspected Queen Zhang!
Even some of the former officials of the East Palace were suspected. The motive was that the prince made a mistake and the officials of the East Palace were repeatedly unlucky and even lost their lives!
Xue Yan had worked as an official in criminal law since the Hongwu period and had seen many strange cases. There was nothing impossible in the world.
In addition to these people, Xue Yan also believes that at least two other people have motivations.
First, Concubine Guo, who is currently locked up in Chunhe Palace.This is also the person that the emperor and his confidant ministers most doubted!
Xue Yan now understands why Concubine Guo was detained and the people from the Guo family were sent to the imperial prison.
According to the emperor, Concubine Guo and Empress Zhang competed for favor and had a deep grudge; Concubine Guo's first child had miscarriage, and he once accused the queen of doing it.
Concubine Guo’s motive is that hatred blinds his heart, out of revenge, or wants his mother to be noble by her son, and defeat the current Empress Zhang... Therefore, she wants to kill the current eldest prince Zhu Zhanji, but unexpectedly kills the late emperor!
Now in Xue Yan's opinion, if Concubine Guo really did this, she would of course be very stupid!However, these women, even the royal concubines, may not have much experience.
Second, the rest of the Jianwen Party.After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he liquidated many civil and military officials of the Jianwen Dynasty, which was a bloody feud with the Jianwen monarch and ministers!Among them, there are inevitably fish that miss the net, penetrate the palace and seek opportunities to take revenge!
But this kind of person has not been exposed yet, which makes people have no clue.
...Xue Yan pondered for a while in the main hall of Chunhe Palace, and then left the main hall; he asked Haitao to lead the way, and finally went to the place where the crime occurred.
This is his experience in judging cases for many years: first determine the cause of death of the victim; then clear the victim's various connections and speculate that the person who has the motive for committing the crime; at the same time, carefully investigate the place and process of the case, and judge those who have the chance to commit the crime.
It took too long after the death of the late emperor, and the final result of the death cannot be done; the most critical person, on the day of the incident, the two medical officials who personally took the pulse of the late emperor were silenced in the midst of the changes in the ascension of the late emperor!
Haitao and others all said that the medical officer was executed because he was ineffective in treating the former emperor and deserved to be killed.But Xue Yan could guess what was going on in his heart, but it was just inconvenient to say it out loud.
At present, we can only temporarily presume that the cause of the death of the late emperor was that he was stabbed by a poisonous needle stained with the silver ring snake.
Because when the person who knew the inside story relayed the diagnosis of the two medical officials, the statement was consistent and had a high credibility; and other than that, Xue Yan did not have any way to prove the cause of death.
...The place is next to a pool in Chunhe Palace.When Xue Yan came to the shore, he saw some willow trees planted by the pond, but only bare branches were left at this time; the surface of the pond was frozen and had not melted yet.
Xue Yan walked a few steps and saw a broken brick and stone place by the pond. He pointed at it and said: So it was broken?At that time, the eldest prince (Zhu Zhanji) and the eunuch Wang Gouer dug the dredge here?
Haitao nodded and said: That's right.
When the incident happened, Eunuch Hai was present in person?Xue Yan asked.
Haitao made a memory and pondered for a moment: When the servants came, the late emperor had been here for a while.At that time, the late emperor had just decided to come to the East Palace, but no one was asked to inform him. After the late emperor arrived at the East Palace, the emperor (Gao Chi) rushed over, and the servants and others ran there again...
Xue Yan buried his head and asked again: Did Eunuch Hai see it with his own eyes when the eunuch Wang Gouer went to dig the dredge?Where are the others standing?
Haitao took a strong breath and frowned, "That was the summer of the previous year, our family... the late emperor should be in this position; the emperor (Zhu Gaochi) and his servants were in the north, because the emperor rushed over from the north.It should be true!
Xue Yan nodded and asked Haitao to stand at the approximate position of the late emperor, and also asked Tan Qing to stand at a little north.
Then Xue Yan walked down the collapsed gap and found a brick and stone near the ice surface. He stood there and found that it was just the only place where he could squat down and reached the waterside.
Then Xue Yan squatted on the stone, reached out to touch the ice surface, took out a piece of paper from his arms, and then stuffed it into his arms again.
After doing some trivial actions, Xue Yan returned to the shore and asked: Do you know what I did just now?
Haitao and Tan Qing both shook their heads and looked at Xue Yan with confusion.
Xue Yan said calmly: I took a jade pendant from my arms... He observed the expressions of the two, looking without doubt.
Eunuch Hai, are you sure that the late emperor and the others are all where you stand?Xue Yan asked.
Haitao frowned and said: The days are too long, but our family thinks it is correct.
Xue Yan thought for a while: Is anyone relying on the Chishui station?
Haitao shook his head without hesitation and said: Our family can be sure, no!At that time, the late emperor and the emperor were both by the pond. We are slaves, so we should not be extremely careful at this time?Beware of someone accidentally falling into the water!
At this time, Tan Qing asked: Xue Siqing thinks that Wang Gou'er was tampering with the dredging?
This is possible.Xue Yan said that the release of poison needles must be a premeditated arrangement, and someone must do this.But it may not be Wang Gonglu 2, or it may be someone else put it in advance.Didn’t you say that the eldest prince often played here for fun at that time?
Tan Qing and Haitao both nodded in agreement.
Concubine Guo is in Chunhe Palace?Can this official meet her?Xue Yan asked.
Haitao said: Our family will take Xue Siqing over there.
So the group of three left the pool. Xue Yan walked for a while and looked back at the scene beside the pool again.
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