Chapter 442 No injustice

At noon the next day, eunuch Haitao walked straight into Kunning Palace.All the eunuchs and palace maids on duty knew him, and no one stopped him.

As early as when Zhu Gaochi became the prince's son, Haitao was at the prince's house.He could neither be a remnant of Jianwen nor could he defect to Gao Xu or Gao Sui.Therefore, Haitao is now the eunuch trusted by the emperor and the queen.

When Zhang saw him coming in, he first asked Zhu Zhanji about his study in the back hall of Wenhua Palace.Soon she asked all the servants around her to retreat.

Haitao only talked about the serious matter at this time, and he whispered: Empress, the palace maid who the emperor favored the new concubine is the person in Concubine Zhang's palace, named Nightingale.The emperor was happy with it and told her to accompany her day and night. When the emperor went to the Dongnuan Pavilion to review the memorial, he still asked the nightingale to follow him.In the morning, the emperor secretly summoned the lieutenant Geng Tong to discuss matters, and he held his left and right away. The servants also retreated, but the nightingale was inside the partition...

The person in Concubine Zhang’s palace?Zhang has a little impression of this name.

Haitao bent down and said, "Grandma, I have asked clearly. The Nightingale entered the palace with Concubine Zhang, who is the maid in Concubine Zhang's boudoir.

Zhang's expression gradually became solemn.After a while, she became very angry and could not hide her anger: Before the Southwest War, it was said that Xu Huizu's strategy had a great chance of winning, so why was he defeated in a mess?

Haitao bent his waist lower, and he wanted to stick his head on the floor.He obviously couldn't answer this question.

Zhang took a few deep breaths, and her chest fluctuated with anger. She squinted her eyes, her single eyelids and small eyes looked even smaller.

She changed her question: Who made the mistakes in those generals ahead?

Haitao said: When I replied to the Empress, the emperor and ministers have been talking about the war in the southwest recently. The court officials may blame Gu Yong for not defending Guizhou City on the surface; but everyone blamed Gu Yong because of Gu Yong's father Zhenyuan Hou.

In the memorial, British Duke Zhang Fu hinted that all the families of Gu Cheng, Hou Zhenyuan, were caught by the King of Han, and perhaps threatened, so he deliberately burned military rations!This made the Guizhou Army and Zhang Fu's army unable to continue to attack Kunming City.

Haitao quietly looked up at Zhang, as if he felt that the queen wanted to continue listening. Haitao continued: Jin Zhong, Minister of War, submitted a report to various wars in the southwest.

First, the Marquis of Yangwu Xue Lu led the troops in Sichuan, worried that after the two words of King Han and the Marquis of Xiping, the rebels would become more and more powerful.

Xue Lu was eager to fight and fell into the treacherous plan of the King of Han!

Xue Lu fought in Taiping Field in Chengdu Prefecture, and was unfavorable to attack the rebels of Han King. He was defeated by the rebels at dusk.

Most of the Sichuan army had old age with King Han and Qu Neng, and many surrendered, so Xue Lu lost more than 100,000 troops!

The rebels should open the door to capture Chengdu City and quickly go south to Guizhou.At this time, the court adopted the strategy of Duke of Wei. Wu Gao's army rescued Guizhou, and Gu Chengjun and Zhang Fu's army attacked Kunming.

The Jiaozhi governor's office was about to stop fighting and there was not much food in the garrison. The rebel general Ping'an colluded with the Yi people to harass the food road.Zhang Fujun was unable to arrive in Kunming City for a long time.

Wu Gao from Guizhou was deceived by the rebels' partial army in Maoyunba, worried about an ambush, so he was blocked from Maoyunba for more than half a month; the rebels of the King of Han were able to capture Guizhou City!

Then most of Gu Chengjun's military rations were burned down. Zhang Fujun was short of food, and more than 200,000 troops of the two armies could not advance or retreat under the city of Kunming.

Marquis of Zhenyuan Gu Cheng said he was ill, Zhang Fu temporarily took over military power, mobilized the entire army to retreat to Guangxi, and the morale of the Guizhou army was low, and most of the escape was halfway...

Haitao narrated for a long time, and Zhang's anger gradually faded away for a while, and then fear and fear vaguely surged into his heart.

She glanced at Haitao: When there is nothing important, you should come to Kunning Palace to walk around in the future.

Haitao bowed and said: I will obey my decree.

Zhang waved his hand and sat on the big chair and thought for a long time.

The emperor has noticed that she has interfered in the decision-making of the Southwest War?

But she did that matter very concealed and careful, and did not directly interfere with the ministers' claims, but asked Haitao to hint.

The final decision was made, which was the result of discussion between the monarch and minister of the court themselves!

Zhang thought about it before and afterwards, and always felt that the emperor could not hear the sound of the wind.But she was not sure, otherwise the emperor would have been so popular with a personal palace maid from Concubine Zhang. What was going on?

She suddenly felt that she had made a mistake.

The war ahead cannot have much to do with her, a woman, but... Wu Gao!

Zhang secretly admitted that she had an impact on Wu Gao's use.

The most serious thing is that the Zhang Fu family may have become the most profitable party.

...Two days after Geng Tong, the chief clerk, met with the emperor alone, he wrote a letter to impeach Guo Ming.Geng Tong's memorial stated that he received an anonymous secret letter, accusing Guo Ming of colluding with the enemy!

Geng Tong asked for an order to search the Guo family and investigate the case.The emperor approved the report and sent the commander of the Jinyiwei Tan Qing and the Minister of Dali Temple Xue Yan to search the Guo Mansion with Geng Tong.

When Guo Ming heard the news at home, he hurriedly walked through the middle hall.

He immediately saw a large group of people who had already entered the gate, including soldiers of the Jinyiwei wearing strong and sharp legs!

The slave at the door said panic: They broke in, but the young people couldn't stop them.

Imperial decree!A voice said.

Guo Ming quickly knelt down in the yard.

The criminal department clerk Geng Tong walked up to the upper position and took nothing. He shouted in public: Recently, someone secretly sued Guo Ming for a letter to the enemy. I asked for an order to search Guo’s mansion to argue the truth. The emperor has an order and will be approved!

I received the order to thank me... Guo Ming stood up.His face turned red. Who is my enemy?This is a false accusation!I am wronged, please see the emperor.

Geng Tong: If you are wronged or wronged, let the soldiers of the Jinyiwei search and the truth will be revealed.

Guo Ming was the son of Wu Dinghou, the founding elder, and he also had a marriage with the royal family.A person with his status and status was actually searched for his residence?This matter itself is an insult!And it means that he may be finished!

He was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He turned to see the Dali Temple Minister Xue Yan. He was like a drowning man grabbing a straw. Guo Ming rushed over immediately!

In the last few months of the Jingnan Campaign, Guo Ming surrendered to the Yàn army early, which was the way Xue Yan led.

Guo Ming's daughter married the King of Han and was also a match made by Xue Yan.

The two have a close relationship!

Unexpectedly, Guo Ming was immediately stopped by the officers and soldiers of the Jinyiwei. He said anxiously: Xue Siqing, you are saying something for the Guo family!

Xue Yan's expression on his face was very awkward. He avoided his face and said, "We are all ministers of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Loyalty is more important than anything else..."

The commander of the Jinyiwei, Tan Qing, waved his hand decisively and said coldly: Search!

A large group of armored soldiers rushed in from all directions.After a while, the soldiers turned the whole mansion upside down. The family and slaves in the mansion were in chaos, and the screams of women came from time to time.

Not long after, a general came out with a box. He presented it to Tan Qing and said: Report to General Tan, the young men found a secret lattice in a study room and found this thing.

Guo Ming's face was ashes. His study did have a secret lattice, but there were only a few valuable jewelry and jade ware hidden inside.

Those treasures are now unknown, but the officers and soldiers of the Jinyiwei took out such a broken wooden box?

Guo Ming had never seen the wooden box in front of him... but he finally didn't shout.

When he saw this thing that did not belong to him, he already understood it a little.

Swish!Tan Qing pulled out his waist knife, placed the box on the ground, and cut it on the locked wooden box with one knife, but only cut one gap.

Tan Qing continued to chop a few times, then took it to his knee and broke it into two pieces, and many open letters fell out of it.

Tan Qing picked up a letter, took it out for a while, then handed it to Xue Yan, and asked: Who is Lu Zhang?

Xue Yan said: This official remembers that it seems to be a military general in the Guizhou Dusi; his clan brother Lu Bing was the commander of the Guizhou vanguard and surrendered to the rebels in the mutiny in Yunnan!

Tan Qing held the letter in his hand and said: Guo Ming, what else do you have to say?

Guo Ming closed his eyes and said: What's the point of not giving up a crime?

Tan Qing ordered: He was tied up and sent to the Northern Fushi Office’s Imperial Prison!

...Three judicial tortures Guo Ming wrote the file a few days later.It turned out that Guo Mingxin had been in contact with his sn in law Zhu Gaoxu!

Lu Zhang, a thousand households of Bijiewei in Guizhou, worked in Liaodong during the Hongwu period and had a good relationship with Guo Ming, who was an official in the Liao Palace at that time.

Later, Lu Zhang was transferred to Bijiewei, the capital of Guizhou, and Guo Ming sent secret envoys to contact Lu Zhang many times.

When the rebels besieged Guizhou City, Lu Zhang led his troops to guard the Xicheng, but deliberately let the rebels go up to the city, causing Guizhou City to be in crisis and eventually fell.

When the emperor heard the news, he was furious and issued an order to imprison Guo Ming in the imperial prison and beheaded after the autumn.The entire Guo family was exiled to Liaodong.

When Zhu Gaochi was the crown prince, Concubine Guo was the concubine of Guo Ming. She was always locked up in Chunhe Palace. No one dared to mention it, nor did she have the title of emperor.

Now Concubine Guo finally got a home justified: she lived in a calm little yard behind Rouyi Hall.

The yard is located in the northeast corner of the palace. It turns out that Emperor Jianwen's empress Ma Enhui lived in it.Now Ma Enhui has gone to Fengyang and Guo Yan has moved there.

Zhu Gaochi didn't think Guo Ming was wronged at all, because his daughter Guo Yan has not been able to escape the suspicion of murdering Emperor Taizong!

In the East Warm Pavilion of the Ganqing Palace, Zhu Gaochi had only one servant around him today, and he became Haitao again.When the East Palace was in a drastic change, Haitao was also one of the insiders, and there was no need to hide those old things from this eunuch.

The minister who secretly summoned him to meet was Yuan Gong.

Zhu Gaochi waved his hand and called Yuan Gong to approach and said in a deep voice: Guo Ming has entered the imperial prison of the Northern Fushi.Take this opportunity to go to the imperial prison and try to ask him to tell the truth.Is the snake gallbladder medicinal wine he sent to the palace last year made of the silver ring snake?Does Guo Ming have any silver ring snakes in private?

Yuan Gong bent down and said in a deep voice: The emperor clearly understands that this time, it is to investigate the murder of Emperor Taizong, and the court must not change its words.Otherwise, wouldn’t it be acknowledging to the world that the court and the palace told lies?

I know.Zhu Gaochi said coldly, but the death of the late emperor is unclear, and I still want to find out the truth.

Yuan Gong worshipped: I will obey the order.