Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

"I'm afraid that Chu Zhaoyi won't give up and will keep trying to get us to identify Concubine Sun. It's so annoying. What if the higher-ups find out that she's been pestering us and investigate, we'll be finished. Also, what if one of us is dying and agrees to Chu Zhaoyi's words and does something like this in order to leave more money for the family before we die?" someone else said worriedly.

You know, although the eunuchs have no wives and children, some families will adopt them as offspring, so they will work hard to make money for their children. Once someone is dying, he may take this kind of order.

The chief eunuch heard that the man's worries were justified, so he chopped the air with his hand and said, "Why don't we take the initiative and deal with this woman first, so that we don't have to worry about these things anymore."

The chief eunuch was not unfamiliar with this, as they had dealt with some concubines they disliked before.

There were so many unlucky concubines in the palace, and they didn't need to do it themselves. They just had to send some of the concubines' handles to their enemies, and their enemies would help them and kill the concubine they hated.

Moreover, the chief eunuch was not afraid that discussing this matter with everyone might leak out.

They all collect money together and have a common interest. They already have leverage over each other, so they can discuss some secret matters together without worrying about anyone leaking the information.

After the chief eunuch said this, everyone else agreed, and immediately drew up a detailed plan to deal with Chu Zhaoyi.

This Chu Zhaoyi thought she was very powerful as a Zhaoyi, she even dared to come to them and asked them to testify against Sun Linlang, without thinking about how she would be treated by others for doing such a thing of cutting off other people's financial resources. She has been in the palace for several years and should have some brains, but she would do such a stupid thing. Didn't she think that others would tolerate her if she cut off other people's financial resources in this way?

After listening to everyone's discussion, a eunuch said, "She probably thinks that what she asked us to do is very secretive, and that our people can't communicate with each other. Since we can't communicate with each other, if any of us is instigated by her to testify against Empress Sun, we will at most refuse, and won't do anything to her. After all, if we are alone, we can't deal with her. In that case, even if we find that the matter she mentioned is harmful to us, we won't do anything. How could she know that we would actually communicate with each other?"

The chief eunuch heard it, nodded, and said, "That should be the reason. Otherwise, I don't believe that she, an old lady who has made it to the position of Zhaoyi, would be so stupid."

What these eunuchs said was almost correct, and this was also the answer Linlang got from Chu Zhaoyi. She did think that these people would not communicate such secrets, so she felt confident in bribing them. However, she didn't expect that these eunuchs would exchange information with each other, leading to them discovering that she was going to cut off everyone's financial resources, which angered those eunuchs.

Just as Linlang thought, Chu Zhaoyi did not bribe the female officials around the empress dowager to let those female officials testify against Linlang, because once the female officials around the empress dowager were really persuaded by her and said that the empress dowager promoted people because these female officials were paid to do so, it would be a slap in the face of the empress dowager. In the end, the empress dowager would definitely be fine as she was the empress dowager, but those female officials would be punished because of this, and the empress dowager would not look good. Although she did not do anything to the empress dowager on the surface, it would also annoy the empress dowager, and the empress dowager would definitely make things difficult for her in the future. So how could she dare to bribe the female officials around the empress dowager to let them stand up and testify that Linlang had given them money.

That is to say, she dared to do this because she saw that there was no person like the Queen Mother standing behind the eunuchs who fetched the cards and exposed what they did. Then all the eunuchs who fetched the cards would be put in jail, and it would not have any impact on her.

Yes, Chu Zhaoyi was not stupid. She also knew that if anyone was willing to testify against Linlang, it would surely implicate all the other eunuchs who had been chosen as eunuchs, and they would all be in trouble. But she was not afraid of offending all the eunuchs who had been chosen as eunuchs, because by then all of them would be in trouble, and the emperor would definitely kill them, and there would be a new group of eunuchs who would be chosen as eunuchs. In this way, even if she offended the previous group of eunuchs who had been chosen as eunuchs, so what? They were all dead, and they could not do anything to her.

That was why she dared to find those eunuchs and testify against Linlang, because she was not afraid that the matter would be exposed in the end, and the eunuchs would take revenge on her after seeing that she had caused them trouble. But she did not expect that the eunuchs would share this matter with each other, so Chu Zhaoyi was in trouble.

When the eunuchs saw that Chu Zhaoyi wanted to kill them, everyone became angry and began to act according to the arrangements of the leading eunuch.

These eunuchs acted very quickly. Not long after, Chu Zhaoyi fell ill, probably because of someone poisoned her.

The eunuchs who were in charge of checking the concubines told the concubines what they had learned about the people that Chu Zhaoyi had harmed.

Of course, some of them may not be true, but what does it matter? As long as there is the rumor, it can be talked about. As for whether it is true or not, it is up to the concubines who hear the news to investigate it themselves.

Someone even passed on the news that Chu Zhaoyi wanted to harm Linlang to Linlang. Obviously, they also hoped that Linlang would take action against Chu Zhaoyi.

So after all this activity, Chu Zhaoyi fell ill not long after. It was unknown who had done it.

Moreover, Chu Zhaoyi's illness was not something Linlang pretended to have. She was really ill. Linlang investigated and found that Chu Zhaoyi was poisoned by a chronic poison. The fact that she was in a state of illness showed that the poison was very deep and had manifested itself. In this case, it was almost impossible to cure her with the technology of this era.

Chu Zhaoyi felt unwell for no apparent reason and naturally knew that someone was trying to harm her, so she went to see the imperial physician. However, the physician was unable to find out what was wrong. There was no other way. In that era, there was no equipment for blood testing, so how could one know what kind of poison the other person had been infected with?

The imperial physician couldn't find out the source of the poison, so naturally he couldn't cure it, so Chu Zhaoyi could only watch herself die.

Chu Zhaoyi saw that she was about to die and naturally did not want to die like this, so she immediately reported it to the emperor, thinking that even if she died, she had to find out who had poisoned her, and they could both die together, which would be worthwhile.

She was no longer in the mood to continue looking for eunuchs to harm Linlang. After all, she had wanted to harm Linlang before, just thinking that she would be able to take the throne when Concubine Li fell out of favor and not let Linlang become her competitor.

Now that she is almost dead, why should she fight for favor? Naturally, finding the murderer is the most important thing.

Needless to say, when the emperor heard that Chu Zhaoyi was poisoned, he was naturally furious. It was not because he doted on Chu Zhaoyi. After all, if he really doted on her, Chu Zhaoyi would still have to worry about Linlang taking the throne and becoming a competitor with her. The emperor was furious because he thought that the person who could use this unknown poison to harm Chu Zhaoyi might also harm him in the future. Isn't this scary? So the emperor immediately ordered to find the person who poisoned her. (End of this chapter)