Chapter 351: Zhang Cheng's Despair
With the words of the Empress Dowager Li, the atmosphere in the hall slowly became stagnant, and all the people present were well-thought-out, even if they heard the sound of the Empress Dowager Li!
Zhu Yijun's heart was even more sudden, his expression suddenly became a little uneasy, and a terrible guess slowly floated in his mind......
Empress Dowager Li glanced at Zhu Yijun, her eyes narrowed slightly, and said. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Some people may think that an old woman of the mourning family can't afford to toss without moving, so she dares to do such a thing under the nose of the mourning family, but the mourning family is entrusted by the emperor, how can they let such a demon concubine and bring disaster to the country!"
"This ...... Queen Mother, ...... you are"
Zhu Yijun's face suddenly changed greatly, and he said hurriedly.
"Chen Ju, bring people up!"
Empress Dowager Li's expression became colder and colder, and she said.
"Obey the order!"
Chen Ju said yes, and retreated, but in a moment, he returned with a group of palace maids, these palace maids and attendants were all dressed in the most ordinary clothes in the palace, and there was nothing special about them, if there was anything noteworthy, it was that their bodies were dirty, and their faces were dead silent.
"Who are these people?"
Zhu Yijun narrowed his eyes, pointed to the people below with a little doubt, and asked.
"Back to Your Majesty, these people were caught by the minister in the Shujing Palace, when he received a message from Liang Yong, he took people to Kunning Palace to put out the fire, when he passed through the Shujing Palace, he found that these people were coming from the direction of Kunning Palace, and the minister wanted to recruit them to fight the fire together, but they panicked when they met the minister, and the minister ordered someone to detain them under suspicion, and it turned out that they were all carrying fire folds on their bodies, and there were traces of carrying firewood and grass on their bodies......"
Chen Ju arched his hand and said in a deep voice.
The faces of the ministers below suddenly changed, and Wang Xijue stepped forward and asked with a gloomy face.
"What does Grandpa Chen mean is that this fire was intentional?"
Zhu Yijun also stayed on Chen Ju's face, and the big hand hidden in the sleeve robe had turned white because of the clenching.
"For now, yes!"
Chen Ju pondered for a moment and said cautiously.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, originally the minister just thought that these people were a little suspicious, but then after the minister and Luo Commander jointly extinguished the fire, they found that there were traces of unburned firewood and grass around Kunning Palace, especially next to the queen's bedroom, and then the ministers found some of the same firewood and grass in the Shujing Hall where these people were hiding......"
"The same firewood and grass?"
Zhu Yijun frowned and asked.
"Yes, the same firewood and grass, Your Majesty, after the simultaneous verification of the minister and Luo's commander, these firewood and grass around Kunning Palace are not ordinary firewood and grass, although they look the same, but these firewood and grass are soaked in fierce fire oil in advance, it is precisely because of this that the fire is spreading together continuously, and it is difficult to extinguish, and now Kunning Palace, Jiaotai Palace, and Qianqing Palace are all burned, all because of this fierce fire oil, and the firewood and grass found in Shujing Palace are also soaked in fierce fire oil......"
"What? Fierce fire oil? Isn't that a forbidden item in the military? How can it appear in the palace! ”
Wang Xijue stepped forward and asked with a frown.
"Yuanfu, this is forgiven for not knowing our family, but although this fierce fire oil is forbidden in the army, it is not without ...... in this palace."
Chen Ju arched his hand, but raised his eyebrows.
And Zhang Cheng on the side instantly turned pale.
"In the palace? War Bureau?! ”
Zhenji, who had been silent on the side, thought for a moment and said in shock.
Chen Ju nodded and said.
"Yes, among the prisons in the inner palace, the War Bureau is in charge of making weapons, and there are indeed a lot of fierce fire oil ......"
Now everyone's eyes are nailed to the same person at the same time!
Zhang Cheng!
As the eunuch in charge of the seal, he is also in charge of several important yamen among the twenty-four yamen in the inner palace, and the War Bureau is one of them!
The emperor also clenched his fists, looked at Zhang Cheng with unkind eyes, and his tone could almost freeze out ice slag.
"Zhang Cheng!"
"Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with the slave maid, Your Majesty! The slave and maid have served you for so many years, how dare you give birth to such thoughts, not to mention that when the fire was in the time, the slave and the maid were also in the Qianqing Palace, Your Majesty, you have to believe in the slave and the maid, the slave and the maid will never dare to harm Your Majesty! ”
At this moment, Zhang Cheng couldn't hold back any longer, threw himself at Zhu Yijun's feet, and said crying.
Unexpectedly, before the emperor could speak, he heard a voice in the hall that suddenly dawned on him.
"By the way, this king remembered, when the case was tried in the Criminal Department this afternoon, Zhang Zhangyin repeatedly wanted to end the trial as soon as possible and return to the palace as soon as possible, but now that I think about it, I am afraid that my mind is not pure......"
When Zhu Changluo mentioned this, Zhen Zhenji and the others also suddenly remembered, as if when the case was being tried at that time, Zhang Cheng did shirk it again and again, and his expression was full of impatience, he didn't feel anything originally, but now it is indeed strange to connect with the fire in the palace.
As soon as he thought of this, Zhen Zhenji and the others looked at Zhang Cheng with a little bit of unkindness.
It was Zhang Cheng, who was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly became extremely hideous, and he pounced on Zhu Changluo and said.
"You're right? You are the one who framed our family! It's all your conspiracy......"
"Nonsense! This king is far away outside the palace, where did he get the ability to set fire to the palace! What's more, the queen is the mother of this king, and she treats this king like her own son, and this king will only harm her when he loses his heart and goes crazy! ”
Zhu Changluo took two steps back and said with a sneer.
"This king sees that you are embarrassed and angry when you see that the matter is revealed, and you start to bite like a mad dog!"
"No...... No...... No...... Your Majesty, don't believe him, it's all a conspiracy of King Shou...... By the way, he already knew...... He already knew that there would be a fire in the palace today, so he kept dragging me back and didn't let me go back to the palace......"
Zhang Cheng looked crazy, threw himself at Zhu Yijun's feet again, and said incoherently.
"Hmph, are you admitting that you are in such a hurry to enter the palace today, do you want to set it on fire?"
Zhen Zhenji stepped forward and asked in a cold voice.
"No...... It's not ......"
Zhang Cheng realized that his words were wrong, and his face turned pale.
Chen Ju gave up again.
"Your Majesty, the minister just ordered the Queen Mother to transfer the accounts of the Salary Division in and out of the past three months, and found that in the past few days, the Salary Division has suddenly increased the amount of firewood and grass in the warehouse, and the minister went to the Treasury of the Salary Department to inspect and found that a lot of firewood and grass had disappeared from the accounts!"
"The minister urgently tried the head of the Salary Division, and he has confessed that it was Zhang Cheng's order that he increased the amount of firewood and grass in the Salary Division, and it was under Zhang Cheng's hint that part of the firewood and grass was intercepted and sent to the Shujing Palace......
As soon as these two sentences came out, Zhang Cheng's face suddenly turned extremely pale, and the bones all over his body seemed to be sucked out, and he collapsed to the ground weakly, with only two words swirling in his mind......
Finished!