Chapter 622: Like an Earthquake
The desire to survive is probably one of the strongest instincts in the world.
Xiao Jien thinks that Wang Gou'er wants to kill Zhu Di for enough reasons; Wang Gou'er was happy to watch Zhu Di die! However, after Xiao Jien planned it, Wang Gou'er actually retreated, and he was reluctant to do it!
Therefore, the implementation of the plan has been delayed for a long time.
At that time, Xiao Jien had already received news from the Wang family, and Jin Yiwei had decided to continue to investigate the people related to Wang Gen! In time, the Xiao family will be involved!
The situation is very urgent, and if it continues to delay, Xiao Jien may be wanted first, and revenge will be even more difficult. Xiao Jien had to use Wang Yin to threaten Miaojin again; At the same time, hurry up from Wang Gou'er and continue to think of a way as soon as possible.
Xiao Jien thought about Wang Gou'er's situation very clearly from beginning to end. He thinks that Wang Gou'er's biggest concern about this plan is: Wang Gou'er will definitely die after the assassination!
Wang Gou'er is a eunuch, homeless, roomless, and unconcerned; The only nostalgia for this person is nothing more than his own life.
So Xiao Jien took the initiative to propose: he didn't want to see Wang Gou'er lose his life in this incident; Because he also needs Wang Gou'er to continue to stay in the palace and help (excuse) in some follow-up "big things".
The new plan must take into account Wang Gou'er's life, which is more difficult; But Xiao Jien found a way, or at least it seemed good.
…… Until the fifth year of Yongle, Wang Gou'er has been by Zhu Di's side for about 20 years! This eunuch has a deep understanding of the affairs of King Yan's mansion and the palace.
Xiao Jien also understood some contradictions in the palace through Wang Gou'er's news.
First, Zhu Di and the crown prince Zhu Gaochi have a mustard. Donggong was restricted from earning money, in order to lose weight for Gao Chi; Zhu Gaochi's favorite palace maid was hanged by the eunuch dog (not the king dog). Gao Chi resented his father, and there were signs of everything.
Second, the contradiction between the crown princess of the East Palace and Concubine Guo is very deep. It is said that it has reached the point of murdering the royal bloodline!
Xiao Jien set the place where he planned to assassinate Zhu Di in the East Palace, so that he could marry Zhu Gaochi or his wife and concubine. And the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji was very favored by Zhu Di and lived in the palace north of the East Palace; Zhu Di occasionally went to the East Palace to see his grandson.
Soon something happened that made Xiao Jien's plan more specific and detailed.
…… Shi Zhu Di's henchmen and eunuchs planted eyes and ears in the East Palace to monitor the actions of the East Palace. (Therefore, Zhu Gaochi fell in love with a palace maid the night before, and Zhu Di found out the next day; and instructed the eunuch to hang the palace maid to punish Gao Chi for being late for hunting in Xiaohong Mountain. )
Wang Gou'er also heard some secret affairs of the East Palace.
First, the second concubine Guo blamed the crown princess Zhang for her first miscarriage and being besieged by bees and falling into the water. Guo also found a palace maid as a witness and confronted the prince! The contradiction between the two noblewomen was completely intensified.
Second, Guo's second son, Zhu Zhankai, suffered from pediatric convulsions and could not be cured for a long time.
After Xiao Jien collected this news, he planned to blame Concubine Guo for the crime of killing the monarch!
Xiao Jien first disguised himself as a priest and ran to Guo Ming's mansion, saying that Guo Ming's descendants had a catastrophe recently. Guo Ming was skeptical at first, and Xiao Jien asked him if he had a grandson, or a grandson who had not been saved and had died young?
Guo Ming immediately believed eight points, because Concubine Guo's first child was stillborn. Guo Ming also took the initiative to say that one of his grandchildren suffered from pediatric convulsions, which could not be cured for a long time, which made him very worried.
Xiao Jien took the opportunity to offer the silver krait to soak in wine, so as to create the fact that there was a silver krait in the Guo Mansion.
Thinking that Guo Ming also consulted Lang Zhong later, but the silver snake soaking wine can indeed cure children's convulsions, Guo Ming dispelled the last concern. He sent the silver krait wine into the East Palace to treat Zhu Zhankai.
…… At the same time, Xiao Jien was already sending silver snake venom to the palace.
Of course, poisoning with a live snake is not possible!
First of all, entering and exiting the palace gate will be searched, and it is difficult to transport it into the palace. Secondly, the snake will hardly bite unless someone provokes it; How could the Emperor run to provoke the krait himself? Even if the krait snake is found in the palace, it must be called to the eunuch to deal with it, and the origin of the krait will be searched vigorously!
However, it is not a big problem for the live snake to be sent into the capital city.
When there was no martial law in ordinary Beijing, the search for entering and leaving the city gate was not strict; As long as you give enough money to pass the door, the soldiers just check it casually. After all, there were too many people entering and leaving the city gates, and if everyone was carefully searched, they would have to be blocked far away. Generally, it is Wu who judges himself and thinks that there are suspicious people, so he pulls out and searches carefully.
At that time, the live snakes that Xiao Jien bought from various remote places had been transported into the Jingshi Mansion and hoarded a lot of live snakes.
He took the snake venom temporarily, took it out and put it in a small porcelain bottle, then buried it in the ice cubes of the ice cellar and covered it with a quilt for preservation. With such preservation, snake venom can last for half a month!
When Wang Gou'er went out of the palace to procure, he would bring some ice cubes and buy fresh meat for the imperial kitchen, such as killed fish. Xiao Jien put the snake venom in the cleaned fish bubble and stuffed ice cubes in the belly of the fish; Fresh snake venom every 10 days!
The eunuchs at the palace gate would still search Wang Gou'er's belongings, but Wang Gou'er was a close confidant of the emperor's great eunuch. Unless the eunuch guarding the door really found out the real evidence, he didn't dare to embarrass Wang Gou'er.
The venom of the silver krait snake cannot be detected just by looking with the eyes and smelling with the nose. Even if someone tastes it, there is no problem. This poison method was used twice in a row, and nothing happened!
…… According to the plan in advance, after Wang Gou'er took the snake venom into the palace, he first put it in a small porcelain bottle, sealed it with ice cubes and jar bedding.
Wang Gou'er prepared a rusty iron needle and gently inserted it into the inside of the wooden stopper of the porcelain bottle; After the wooden stopper is covered, the iron needle can be soaked in the snake venom for the rest of its life. Rust is very juice-absorbing, and the purpose of using rusty iron needles is to absorb more venom when soaking snake venom, so as to ensure that one hit will be hit!
At that time, Wang Gou'er had to wait for the opportunity, waiting for Zhu Di to go to the East Palace; He wanted to try to follow Zhu Di to the East Palace and attack in the East Palace.
The eunuch Wang Gou'er had to go to the East Palace on his own to find an opportunity. For example, he walked into the room, pretended to wipe the chair, and quickly inserted the poison needle into the wooden crack of the chair, so that Zhu Di stabbed his buttocks when he sat down!
Or it is expected that Zhu Di will enter a certain room, and find the right time to insert a poisonous needle in the threshold first, and prick his foot! Because the emperor pays attention to his appearance when he walks, he almost always walks in the middle; They don't put their feet on the threshold, but they usually step into the threshold and can roughly find the right place.
In short, Wang Gouer has to adapt to the situation by himself and judge the specific timing of the attack.
As long as Zhu Di is pricked by a rusty needle soaked in highly poisonous, with Xiao Jien's understanding of the venom of the silver krait, it is basically incurable!
Once the matter was completed, Wang Gou'er planted the matter on Concubine Guo's head; Concubine Guo's motive was to kill Zhu Zhanji for revenge, and killed Zhu Di by mistake...... In addition, there is indeed a silver snake in Guo Ming's mansion, and he once sent soaking wine into the palace, Concubine Guo is easy to be suspicious.
Even Wang Gou'er was suspected. Xiao Jien told him: There is also a traitorous spy in the palace, and that person will take advantage of the chaos to rescue Wang Gou'er and escape; After Wang Gou'er runs out of the palace, he will get a sum of money, and he will find a place to hide incognito.
There is another treacherous affair, which is pure deception. Xiao Jien just wanted to appease Wang Gou'er's heart, avoid his worries, and make him more bold to do that thing!
Of course, Xiao Jien had no one else available in the palace, otherwise why would he rack his brains and only try to get from Wang Gou'er and Miaojin?
…… Sure enough, Wang Gou'er just wants to have a way to live after finishing his work. This plan gave Wang Gou'er a chance to get away with it, and Zhu Di died in less than a month!
Within half a month, Zhu Di may have been to the East Palace more than once; Wang Gou'er finally found an opportunity to start at a certain time. How exactly did it, Xiao Jien lost contact with Wang Gou'er, and there was no way to know.
Zhu Di's death brought about the violent turmoil of the Ming Dynasty!
The flames of war have once again descended, and millions of people have resumed fighting on the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Xiao Jien didn't expect these things, and he didn't have to think about such consequences before.
After the world experienced a "battle of appeasement", the world fell into war again, and people seem to be a little more accustomed to it. But this war was still unexpected.
Maybe war always comes so suddenly! It's like an earthquake coming, and it doesn't give people any time to prepare.
After another two years, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, was more capable of fighting than his father, and marched into Beijing in a shorter time!
Xiao Jien found that the two brothers were bent on fighting for the throne, and they didn't seem to care too much about how Zhu Di died; And two years later, a lot of things have become a thing of the past.
Zhu Di's generation of powerful emperors paid for their lives, Ji Gang was exterminated, and Chen Ying was killed. Xiao Jien got his revenge, so he let go of the grievances of the Jingshi, and returned to his hometown to do business and live with a nervous mood.
Xiao Jien can't go back to his previous peaceful life, it's just a day at a time.
Wang Gou'er is a hidden danger, once he confesses to Xiao Jien, everything will be revealed! However, Xiao Jien was no longer available at this time, and there was no way to kill another felony in the imperial city; I can only hope that Wang Gou'er can be more interesting and understand that if he provokes a big crime, he will die even worse!
Xiao Jien also persuaded the Xiao family brothers to return to their hometown and give up their careers, and glory and wealth are useless to the Xiao family. But his nephew Xiao Wencai was admitted to the juren at a young age, and their family never let go of fame and fortune; Xiao Jien has nothing to do about it.
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In the wing room in the backyard of the pharmacy, Xiao Jien happily told Zhang Sheng, the commander of Jinyiwei, about the past over the years. Zhang Sheng barely spoke, busy writing records; For a long time, Xiao Jien narrated as if talking to himself.
Xiao Jien finally finished speaking, and Zhang Sheng also exhaled a long breath.
In fact, in the whole incident, there is a key place: a person like Wang Gou'er is needed who can not only win the trust of the emperor, but also have the heart to kill the emperor; Otherwise, it would be impossible to kill the king.
The emperor holds great power, under the heavy protection and service of countless people; The only person who can threaten the emperor is the most trusted person around him! Stab in the back!
Zhang Sheng got too much at once and seemed to ignore this. He didn't continue to ask Xiao Jien and Wang Gou'er what was going on.
So Xiao Jien didn't bother to take the initiative to talk about it.