Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 718
The atmosphere in the Nuan Pavilion was a bit gloomy. After a while, Zhu Qiyu finally broke free from his emotions, sighed, and said.

"Thank you, concubine mother. Sometimes I don't care about the affairs of the harem, but fortunately, the queen and concubine are good-natured. If concubine mother is willing to mention them, it will be their blessing."

Since ancient times, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been difficult, especially in the Tian family.

Even in the royal family, it is extremely extravagant to want to have the simple feelings of ordinary people's homes. However, even if that simple plainness cannot be achieved, Zhu Qiyu does not want Wu, Wang, and Hang to have any grudges.

Since Mrs. Wu said that she would no longer care about Mrs. Wang and Ms. Hang's affairs, she would no longer target and plot against them. Of course, Zhu Qiyu believed this.

However, he also didn't want Wu to go to the other extreme and make them become alienated and indifferent.

Hearing this, Wu Shi smiled and said.

"Don't worry, Ai's family won't let you go. You've been out in the court with open guns and dark arrows. How has this palace ever been peaceful? Forget it, usually Ai's family doesn't want to talk to you about these things. Don't worry about it. It's okay for you to talk."

As she spoke, a gleam of sharpness flashed in Wu's eyes, she raised her hand and ordered the surrounding servants to step back, and then nodded to Qingzhu, who immediately turned with a serious face, turned around and took out a locked box, and then held it up. Put it down in front of Zhu Qiyu.

Afterwards, she came to Wu's side, took a small key that Wu had found out from nowhere, did not touch the box, but put the key next to the box, and then withdrew.

This move made Zhu Qiyu feel a little surprised. You must know that although Qingzhu is only a maidservant, she is an old man who has accompanied Wu for many years. To put it bluntly, Qingzhu spent more time with Wu than Zhu Qiyu's son. Much more.

There shouldn't be any secrets in the entire Jingyang Palace, and Qingzhu can't touch it, but Qingzhu's actions are clearly saying that she has no authority to open this box.

Glancing at Mrs. Wu, Zhu Qiyu picked up the key, opened the box, and found a thick stack of documents inside.

After a quick glance, these seemed to be some records, and when he picked them up and looked at them carefully, Zhu Qiyu's expression immediately sank.

"These bastards!"

There are not many things written in this box, but everything recorded in it is shocking.

"In April of the first year of Jingtai, saffron was found in the anti-fetal medicine in Kunning Palace, and it was discovered before leaving the small kitchen. The person who poisoned it was found to be a member of the palace. When the medicine was put into the pot, the person hanged himself."

"In the fifth month of the first year of Jingtai, there was a palace official pouring water on the road in the residence of Concubine Guo."

"In June of the first year of Jingtai, there was a sneaky person in the Changchun Palace, who claimed that the Empress Dowager called the eldest prince to see him. Because she had no edict, she was blocked by the palace man's open channel, and the person who sent the letter disappeared inexplicably. Found in a dry well."

"In September of the first year of Jingtai, Princess Gu'an was traveling. She met a small blue snake with thin scales. The princess reached out to touch it, but was stopped by the accompanying guards. After being identified by a medical woman, the snake was named Zhuyeqing, and it was highly poisonous."

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The earliest record is from September of the 14th year of Zhengtong, and the latest is about two months ago, around the Chinese New Year.

Some of these things are serious, some are inconspicuous, but, without exception, the means are extremely vicious, and the people who handle the affairs are the most ordinary, the most humble and inconspicuous little palace people.

More importantly, as long as something is done, no matter whether it is completed or not, the person doing it will die or disappear immediately, and no one will be given any chance to investigate further.

After Zhu Qiyu finished reading it, his hands trembled a little. He didn't dare to think about the consequences of even one thing recorded in it if it really happened.

"Mother, who did this?"

Some of these things are deliberate at first glance, and some are "coincidences". However, since they are recorded, it can only show that there must be someone behind them.

Mrs. Wu was calm, and waved her hand lightly to signal, so Qingzhu stepped forward and put the corresponding documents into the box, locked it again, and put it back to the original place.

Afterwards, Wu Shifang sighed and said.

"If you can't find out, the people who do it are all little-known people. There are thousands of people in the imperial city. How can you check them one by one? The horse feeders, the cooks, and the workers. , as long as you want to do it, as long as you are willing to wait, there will always be opportunities.”

"So this kind of thing can only be prevented, don't think that it can be prevented. As for who did it behind it, it is nothing more than those individuals, maybe it is the Palace of Compassion, maybe it is the family outside, maybe it is Nangong, or maybe it is No one can say for sure about the concubines of the Supreme Emperor."

"However, you don't have to worry too much. There are many methods in the palace, but fortunately, when you ascended the throne, most of them have been cleared. Now at least Kunning Palace, Changchun Palace, and Jingyang Palace still have several other important things. Every place in this place is a reliable person personally selected by the Ai family."

"Be careful on weekdays, nothing will happen."

After saying these words, Zhu Qiyu gradually calmed down. In fact, he was concerned about chaos, but he could indeed understand the truth.

There are too many people of all kinds in the imperial city, it is impossible to find out the details of each one, but...

"Why didn't my concubine tell me about these things before?"

"What's the use of telling you? Tell you to kill a lot? Kill a group of palace people, and then change to a group of people who look innocent, but don't know how many secret agents are hidden?"

Wu Shi glanced at him, but her words were not polite at all.

Zhu Qiyu tilted his head, wanted to refute but had nothing to say, indeed, for this kind of thing, he had no good solution except to change all the palace staff on a large scale.

But after all, the imperial city is too big. If you even check all the kitchen helpers, clothes washers, and vegetable washers, then you really don't want to do anything else.

Besides, these low-level palace people are very mobile. After entering the palace, they may have done things in many places. Even if they check, they may not find anything.

Even if a newcomer comes in, with such a large number of substitutions, there is no guarantee that there will be no one with a different heart.

"Your two daughters-in-law, it's not that the Ai family wants to say that they are not good. Although one is dignified and dignified, it is more than enough to manage the palace, but not enough to govern the harem. The other... is not as good as the previous one. The reason why the Ai family arranged these people in the palace , but also watching the troubles in this palace for you."

"You are already worried enough to deal with the court situation every day. There are so many things happening in the harem every day. Some things are big and some things are small. Even until the results of the investigation are found, no one knows the size of the things."

"Take sister Hui's time as an example. She has a wild temper. She likes to run into the flower forest. She also encounters squirrels, cats and dogs on weekdays. Is that little green snake a palace official? I didn’t pay attention when cleaning it up, or someone put it on purpose, so I can’t find it out at all.”

"There's no conclusive evidence for these things, and you know you can't find anything, so why bother you?"

What Zhu Qiyu said was a little short-tempered, because it was also the truth. In this life, he was already familiar with the road, and he also strengthened the cabinet's proposals to delegate government affairs as much as possible.

But even so, there are still a lot of affairs in the court, and he is still busy without touching the ground, and often sleeps directly in the Qianqing Palace. It is really incapable to allocate energy to take care of these matters in the harem.

So, he recalled his past life again, as Wu said, maybe it's better now, after all, he had already screened many people in the inner palace when he ascended the throne.

But in his previous life, he was genuine, and he devoted all his attention to government affairs. Many of the staff in the inner palace, he directly used the people left by Zhu Qizhen, and only promoted Yi in a few key places. The old man of the palace.

In this situation now, there will be so many methods, one can imagine how many dirty things happened in the previous life.

Thinking about it again, at that time Ji Ge'er's health was getting worse, Wang's relationship with him was getting worse, and Xinna's concubine's stomach had not moved for a long time. If he had paid attention to all these things in his previous life, There are actually many strange things.

More importantly, the current Wu family obviously has much stronger control over the inner palace because they have promoted a large number of their own people.

But in the previous life, because he didn't think about it at all, even if Wu Shi wanted to, he was powerless to take care of these things.

Thinking about it, Zhu Qiyu suddenly remembered that in the previous life, Wu Shi had actually told him overtly and secretly that he could not trust the slaves in the palace too much, but at that time he always felt that they were just slaves and could not make any troubles, but result……

Seeing Zhu Qiyu's appearance, Wu Shi sighed and said.

"I'm telling you this, I don't want you to worry for nothing. After these incidents happened, the Ai family has staffed all over the place, and around the children, there are many thoughtful old people who are always looking after them. Come on, nothing will happen."

"I'm telling you now, I want you to know that the Ai family in the harem will take care of them. The Ai family can clearly distinguish which are big and which are small."

These words naturally dispelled Zhu Qiyu's worries, telling him that although Mrs. Wu often reprimands Mrs. Wang and pinches Mrs. Hang and others, Mrs. Wu will still protect them when they are outside the world.

In other words, their relationship is not as bad as Zhu Qiyu imagined.

"It's all my son's fault. It's because my son didn't do well, which made your life in the harem so difficult. Mother and concubine have worked hard!"

Although Mrs. Wu said she couldn't find out, Zhu Qiyu knew very well that the person behind it was most likely from the Palace of Compassion.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have taken the prince over early, and would always find someone to follow her. People always like to judge others by themselves, and if they use their own means, they are always afraid of being dealt with by the same means. This is human nature.

From this point of view, Zhu Qiyu actually brought these disasters.

In fact, as long as he has the same heart as Zhu Qizhen in his previous life, let Shu Liang take the forbidden army to seal the Ci Ning Palace and Nan Palace, and find two eunuchs to go in and strangle the people inside, naturally everything will stop. Solve the problem at the source.

However, once this is done, it will be a bloody massacre no less than Jing Nan.

Except for the two most important figures, Empress Dowager Sun and Zhu Qizhen, in order to prevent the restoration, the princes and princesses of Zhu Qizhen's line can't stay, and all of them will "suddenly fall ill and die".

If we want to completely eradicate the disaster and eliminate all sense of existence in Zhu Qizhen, then even Empress Qian and Zhu Qizhen's concubines will be "buried" along with it.

Zhu Qiyu didn't think he was an overly kind person, but even if he didn't mention other consequences, he couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.

Whether it's cowardice or benevolence, Zhu Qiyu thinks it's not worth letting so many people go to be buried with Zhu Qizhen alone.

What's more, once this is done, the turmoil it will bring to the court, the impact on the inheritance of etiquette and law, and the possible turmoil in the country are all unbearable prices for him.

For the absolute safety of one's own person, doing such a thing is not what an emperor should do, so Zhu Qiyu chose a more gentle and aboveboard method to solve Zhu Qizhen's problem.

However, since you want to occupy a word of reason, you are dancing with shackles, and it is rare to do whatever you want.

In the outer court, no matter how calculated and offended he was, Zhu Qiyu could treat him calmly, but when he saw these intrigues and schemes in the inner palace, he couldn't help feeling deeply guilty.

"You did the right thing!"

Wu Shi naturally felt this emotion, but she shook her head, put down the Buddhist beads in her hand, sat up straight, folded her hands, and said solemnly and seriously.

"As an emperor, it is the right thing to give up your family to care for everyone, and to pay attention to the community instead of personal relationships. In the future, you will be a better emperor than your father."

"I still remember when the news of the civil engineering defeat came. When you woke up, you entered the palace and said that you wanted to fight for the throne. At that time, mother made up her mind. Whether it is right or wrong, you and I will share life and death with our mother and son."

"Aijia believes that although Yunniang and Hang's don't know so many things, if they knew, they would make the same decision. So, do what you think should be done."

Zhu Qiyu raised his head and looked at Wu's solemn expression. After a while, he finally let out a breath and said.

"Thank you mother!"

The warm sun outside the window shines on the couch, and through the emerald beads on the table, it reflects a magnificent light. On the treetops, there are birds chirping, and the breeze blows, everything looks quiet and leisurely.

In fact, Zhu Qiyu came to Jingyang Palace today to help his elder brother, but he never thought about solving the long-standing grievance between mother and child.

At this moment, Zhu Qiyu suddenly didn't want to ask Brother Ji again, because just now, he wanted to understand something.

Since Mrs. Wu was able to stay in the harem all the time and silently block so many open and dark arrows, one can also understand the painstaking efforts of what he did.

Then, she will definitely not have any wrong thoughts about her grandson.

However, he didn't ask any questions, but Wu took the initiative to speak and said.

"The Ai family already knows about the matter in the imperial garden."

"During these days, Brother Ji was in Jingyang Palace, and the Ai family did teach him some things. Now that you are here, it seems that you feel that what the Ai family has done is not proper enough?"

Hearing this, Zhu Qiyu couldn't help laughing bitterly. Obviously, although he didn't continue to pursue the bottom line, Wu didn't want to be wronged.

However, since Huatou was brought up, it's good to talk about it, so Zhu Qiyu considered the words, and after a while, Fang said.

"It's his blessing that the concubine mother is willing to teach this child herself, but every time he sees him so sensible, my son always feels that since he is a child, he should be as lively and lively as Sister Hui."

"Brother Ji... After all, he's still too young, so it's okay to be sensible later!"

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