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

As early as when Zhu Gaochi was the prince of King Yan, Haitao was in the prince's mansion. He could not be Jianwen Yu, nor could he defect to Gao Xu or Gao Sui. Therefore, now Haitao is the most trusted eunuch of the emperor and empress.

When Zhang saw him come in, he first asked a few words about Zhu Zhanji's study in the apse of Wenhua Palace. Soon she let the slaves and maids around her retreat.

Haitao only got down to business at this time, and he said in a low voice: "Queen Mother, the palace maid who is the emperor's new favorite, is a person in Zhang Guifei's palace, named Nightingale. The emperor was pleased, and ordered her to accompany him day and night, and when the emperor went to the East Warm Pavilion to review the chapter, he still asked the nightingale to serve. In the morning, the emperor secretly summoned the section official Geng Tong to discuss the matter, and retreated left and right, and the slaves and maids also retreated, except for the nightingale in the door......

"The people in Concubine Zhang's palace?" Zhang had a bit of an impression of the name.

Haitao bent down and said: "Niangniang, the slave asked clearly, the nightingale entered the palace with Zhang Guifei, and she was the maid in Zhang Guifei's boudoir." ”

Zhang's expression gradually became solemn. After a while, she became very angry, and her face was full of anger: "Before the Southwest War, it was said that Xu Huizu's strategy had a good chance of winning, why would he be defeated?" ”

Haitao's waist bent even lower, and he wanted to clubbed his head to the floor. He was clearly unable to answer the question.

Zhang took a few deep breaths, her chest heaved with anger, and she narrowed her eyes, and her single eyelid eyes appeared smaller. She asked in a different way: "The generals in front, who made a mistake?" ”

Haitao said: "Back to the queen's mother, recently the emperor and ministers have often talked about the war in the southwest, and the courtiers may blame Gu Yong for not holding Guizhou City; But everyone blamed Gu Yong, but it was actually because of Gu Yong's father's affairs in the distant marquis.

The British Gong Zhang Fu hinted in the recital that all the family members of Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, were arrested by the King of Han, and perhaps they were threatened, so they deliberately burned the military rations! As a result, the Guizhou army and Zhang Fujun could no longer continue to attack Kunming City. ”

Haitao quietly glanced up at Zhang, as if he felt that the queen still wanted to continue listening, so Haitao continued: "Jin Zhong, the secretary of the military department, played the various wars in the southwest.

First of all, Xue Lu, the Marquis of Yangwu, commanded the troops in Sichuan, worried that after the two sentences of the Han King and the Marquis of Xiping would meet, the rebel army would become more numerous. Xue Lu was anxious to fight and fell for the trick of the King of Han! Xue Lu fought in the Taiping Field of Chengdu Mansion, and attacked the rebels of the Han Dynasty on an unfavorable basis, and was counterattacked by the rebels at dusk and was defeated. The Sichuan army had a lot of old ties with King Han and Qu Neng, and there were many people who surrendered, and Xue Lu lost more than 100,000 soldiers because of this!

The rebels should open the door and seize the city of Chengdu and quickly move south to Guizhou. At this time, the imperial court adopted the strategy of Wei Guogong, Wu Gaojun rescued Guizhou, and Gu Chengjun and Zhang Fujun attacked Kunming.

The Jiaozhi political envoy was in turmoil, and there was not much grain, and the rebel generals colluded with the Yi people to attack the grain road. Zhang Fujun was unable to arrive in Kunming City for a long time.

Wu Gao of Guizhou, who was deceived by the rebels in Maoyunba, feared that there would be ambushes, so he did not move forward and was blocked in Maoyunba for more than half a month; The Han rebels were able to capture the city of Guizhou! Then most of Gu Chengjun's military rations were burned, Zhang Fujun was already short of food, and more than 200,000 people of the two armies could not advance or retreat under the city of Kunming.

Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, said that he was ill, Zhang Fu temporarily took over the military power, mobilized the whole army to retreat from Guangxi, and the Guizhou army was demoralized, and fled most of the ......"

Haitao recounted for a while, and Zhang's anger gradually subsided after a while, and then fear and fear vaguely surged into his heart. She glanced at Haitao: "When there is nothing important, you will not come to Kunning Palace in the future." ”

Haitao bowed and said, "The slave and maid obey the decree. ”

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

The Holy Lord has already noticed that she has interfered in the decision-making of the Great War in the Southwest? But she did it very secretly and carefully, and did not directly interfere with the ministers' opinions, but only asked Haitao to hint at it. In the end, the decision was made as a result of the deliberations of the monarchs and ministers of the imperial court themselves!

After thinking about it, Zhang always felt that it was impossible for the saint to hear the wind. But she wasn't sure, otherwise Sheng Shang would be so favored by one of Zhang Guifei's personal palace maids, what was going on?

She suddenly felt that she was self-defeating. The war ahead can't have much to do with her as a woman, but...... Wu Gao! Zhang secretly admitted that she had an influence on Wu Gao's activation. The most serious thing is that I am afraid that Zhang Fujia has become the most profitable party.

…… Two days after the Criminal Division gave Geng Tong a separate audience with the saint, he wrote a letter to impeach Guo Ming. Geng Tong's recital said that he received an anonymous secret letter accusing Guo Ming of collaborating with the enemy!

Geng Tong requested a search of Guo's mansion to verify the case. The saint played a quasi-play, and sent Jinyi Wei to command Tan Qing and Xue Yan, the secretary of Dali Temple, to search Guo Mansion with Geng Tong.

Guo Ming heard the news at home, and hurriedly walked through the middle hall. He immediately saw a large group of people, who had already broken through the gate, including the soldiers in brocade clothes, who were stubborn and stubborn! The servant at the door said in a panic, "They broke in, and the little ones couldn't stop them." ”

"Holy Decree!" A voice said.

Guo Ming hurriedly knelt down in the courtyard. The Criminal Department gave Geng Tong a position above in the matter, but he didn't take anything, and said loudly in public: "Recently, someone secretly accused Guo Ming of collaborating with the enemy, and the minister asked for an order to search Guo's mansion to defend the truth and falsehood. There is a decree in the holy, quasi-play! ”

"Minister's decree is grateful......" Guo Ming stood up. His face turned red, "Who is the old man collaborating with?" This is a false accusation! The old man has been wronged, please come to see the saint. ”

Geng Daodao: "Wronged or not, let the soldiers of Jinyiwei search it once, and the truth will be revealed." ”

Guo Ming is the son of the founding father of Wudinghou, and has a marriage with the royal family. A person of his status was actually searched for his mansion? This in itself is an insult! And it means that he may be finished!

He was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and turned his head to see Xue Yan of Dali Temple, like a drowning man grabbing a straw, Guo Ming immediately rushed over! In the last few months of the Battle of Jingyan, Guo Ming privately surrendered to the Yan army early, which was the way led by Xue Yan. Guo Ming's daughter married the King of Han and was also Xue Yanzuo's matchmaker. The two have a great relationship!

Unexpectedly, Guo Ming was immediately stopped by the officers and soldiers of the Jinyi Guard, and he hurriedly said: "Xue Siqing, you are saying something for the Guo family!" ”

The expression on Xue Yan's face was very embarrassed, and he avoided his face and said, "We are all ministers of the Great Son of Heaven, and loyalty to the Holy Lord is more important than anything else......

Jin Yiwei commanded Tan Qing to wave his hand decisively, and said coldly: "Search!" ”

A large group of armored soldiers rushed in all directions. In a short time, the soldiers turned the entire mansion upside down, and the family and servants in the mansion were in chaos, and from time to time the screams of women could be heard.

It didn't take long for a military general to come out with a box in his hand, and he presented it to Tan Qing and said, "General Tan, the little ones found a secret grid in a study and found this thing." ”

Guo Ming's face was like ashes, and his study did have a dark grid, but there were only a few valuable jewels and jade hidden in it.

I don't know where those treasures are now, but the officers and soldiers of the Jinyi Guard came out with such a broken wooden box? Guo Ming had never seen this wooden box in front of him...... But he finally didn't shout. When he saw this thing that didn't belong to him, he already understood a little in his heart.

"Huh!" Tan Qing pulled out his waist knife, put the box on the ground, and slashed at the locked wooden box, but only cut a gap. Tan Qing continued to slash a few times, and then took it to his knee and broke it into two pieces, and many opened letters fell out of it with a "bang".

Tan Qing picked up one, took it out and looked at it for a while, then handed it to Xue Yan and asked, "Who is Lu Zhang?" ”

Xue Yan said: "This official remembers, it seems to be a military general of the Guizhou Metropolitan Division; His brother Lu Bing, who was the commander of the avant-garde in Guizhou, surrendered to the rebels in the Yunnan Mutiny! ”

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

Guo Ming closed his eyes and said, "There is no excuse for the crime you want to add." ”

Tan Qing ordered: "Tie it up, send it to Beizhen Fusi Prison!" ”

…… Three judicial tortures of Guo Ming, a few days later wrote the file. It turned out that Guo Mingxin had been in contact with his son-in-law Zhu Gaoxu and had been in contact with the traitorous king!

Lu Zhang, a thousand households in Bijiewei, Guizhou, served in Liaodong during the Hongwu period, and became friends with Guo Ming, who was an official in the Liao Wangfu 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 the city of Guizhou, Lu Zhang led the troops to defend the west city, but deliberately let the rebels go to the city, causing the city of Guizhou to be in danger and finally fall.

The emperor was furious when he heard the news, and ordered Guo Ming to be imprisoned and beheaded after the autumn. Exiled the entire Guo family to Liaodong.

When Zhu Gaochi was the crown prince, Concubine Guo was Guo Ming's concubine, she has been locked up in the Chunhe Palace, no one dares to mention it, and she does not have the title of emperor. Now Concubine Guo finally has a home: she lives in a calm small courtyard behind the Rouyi Palace.

The courtyard is located in the northeast corner of the palace, and it turned out that Ma Enhui, the empress of Emperor Jianwen, lived. Now Ma Enhui has gone to Fengyang, and Guo Yan has moved there.

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

In the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, there was only one slave and maid by Zhu Gaochi's side today, and he became Haitao again. When the East Palace changed drastically, Haitao was also one of the people in the know, and there was no need to hide those old things from this eunuch.

The minister who secretly summoned the audience was Yuan Hui.

Zhu Gaochi beckoned Yuan Hui to come closer, and said in a deep voice: "Guo Ming has entered the Fusi Prison in Beizhen." Take advantage of this opportunity to go to the edict and try to get him to tell the truth. The snake gall medicine wine he sent to the palace last year was made by a silver krait? Does Guo Ming have a private collection of silver snakes? ”

Yuan Heng bent down and said in a deep voice: "Holy Mingjian, this is to verify the murder of Taizong, and the imperial court must not change its words. Otherwise, wouldn't it be admitted to the world that the court and the palace had told a lie? ”

"I know." Zhu Gaochi said coldly, "But the death of the first emperor is not clear, and I still have to find out the truth." ”

Yuan Heng bowed and said: "The minister obeys the order." ”