Ming Dynasty: Ask Zhu Yuanzhang to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 163 The Death of Qin King Zhu Chong!

The middle-aged shopkeeper was certainly not a local, but a member of the Intelligence Department under Yao Guangxiao.

It was only through special training that I learned to speak the local dialect of Xi'an.

But there was something different after all, and the old man was able to recognize the accent.

The middle-aged shopkeeper traveled thousands of miles from Jinling City to Xi'an.

There is only one purpose for coming here, and that is to kill King Qin Zhu Chong.

Zhu Yunhuan had already received the order from Old Zhu.

However, the specific implementation cannot rely on official power.

The task naturally fell on Yao Guangxiao.

After all, the Eavesdropping Department and the newly established Intelligence Bureau under Yao Guangxiao both bear the responsibilities of secret agents.

They are definitely the only ones who can carry out this kind of assassination mission.

This is not a simple matter.

Not only is the task difficult, but the time is also tight.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants it to be as fast as possible.

It just so happened that the Investigation Department had already been training personnel and was preparing to come to Xi'an to set up a branch.

The assassination mission fell on the head of the middle-aged shopkeeper.

Yao Guangxiao promised him that as long as the assassination was successful, he would be promoted to an important position in the Intelligence Bureau in the future.

The Intelligence Bureau has just been established and is in urgent need of personnel.

If anything unexpected happens, the family will receive a generous pension.

The middle-aged shopkeeper came from a poor family. Although he had studied for a few years before, he had not achieved much.

Later, he studied medicine from a doctor in a clinic in the city, but didn't make much money.

It was not until he joined the Investigation Department that his life gradually improved.

The family also benefited from this and lived a good life.

The Investigation Department never treats its own people unfairly.

The rewards given to them are very generous.

But the middle-aged shopkeeper was not willing to be a small pawn in the spy department all his life.

Wealth and wealth are found in danger.

He accepted the order without hesitation and rushed thousands of miles to Xi'an.

Before leaving, Yao Guangxiao had already told the middle-aged shopkeeper what to do.

According to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's idea, let the eunuchs or palace maids in the palace poison the King of Qin!
At first, he thought it was a fantasy.

However, the other party was the crown prince, so he didn't dare to refute.

But when he arrived in Xi'an and inquired about the internal situation of the Prince of Qin's Palace, he gradually felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was truly a man of great foresight.

The King of Qin was not only cruel and ruthless to outsiders, but also to the palace maids and eunuchs who served him.

There are probably quite a few people around him who hate him to the core.

It might not be impossible to incite those people to kill the King of Qin.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was thousands of miles away, but he knew everything about the Qin Palace and had already made a plan. This shows how terrifying he is!
He is just like the legendary Zhuge Kongming who was able to predict the future.

The middle-aged shopkeeper didn't believe that there were such people in the world.

But thinking about the various inventions made by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the poems he wrote, the reforms he carried out, and the arrangements he made for his visit to Xi'an, he had to believe it!
This is what a so-called god is!
Although the strategy has been decided, we can only wait for the right time to figure out how to do it.

The middle-aged shopkeeper closed the door, walked to the charcoal fire and sat down, his face calm.

He picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms at random.

It is said that this book was written by Luo Guanzhong and its original name was "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invited Luo Guanzhong to work at the Daming Daily, where he wrote the opening words "The Rolling Yangtze River Flows East" for the book and renamed it "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

Afterwards, the contents of Romance of the Three Kingdoms were serialized and published in the Ming Daily, attracting many people.

The middle-aged shopkeeper liked Romance of the Three Kingdoms very much. He was not satisfied with just reading it once in the newspaper, so he went out to buy the first volume.

When you have nothing to do, take it out and have a look.

The content of this book is not complete, because only the content currently serialized in the newspaper is printed. There will be a second part, a third part...

As he was watching, the door of the drugstore was suddenly pushed open, and the cold wind whistled in.

The middle-aged shopkeeper turned around and saw that the visitors were three old ladies over fifty years old.

He stood up and went to meet him.

"What do you want?"

The old woman leading the group asked, "Do you have any medicine for frostbite?"

She held out her hand.

The middle-aged shopkeeper then noticed that the old woman's hands were red and swollen from the cold, like swollen buns.

"Why are you so frozen?" The middle-aged shopkeeper quickly fetched some warm water and said, "Soak in warm water quickly."

The three old women put their hands in the water.

If this degree of frostbite is not treated quickly, both hands may be disabled.

After the three people's hands recovered, the middle-aged shopkeeper used towels to apply hot compresses on them.

"Fortunately, you came in time. If you were any later, I'm afraid the hands of the three of you would have to be amputated."

Hearing his words, the three old ladies showed a trace of fear on their faces.

The middle-aged shopkeeper was dispensing medicine while saying, "It's so cold, and it's not the time to go out to plant crops. How come your hands are frozen like this?"

"We're making a snowman," an old woman whispered.

The middle-aged shopkeeper shook his head repeatedly: "It's so cold, why build a snowman?"

"But please don't go there again."

"This is no joke."

"If you don't pay attention to keeping warm, your hands will really be useless!"

The three old ladies looked at each other, and their expressions became complicated.

As he was talking, the middle-aged shopkeeper had already packed the medicine and bundled it into three packages.

"These medicines, boil them and drink them after you go back."

"Keep warm and don't let your hands get cold."

The three old ladies all nodded slightly, and one of them said, "We also need some medicine to treat whip injuries."

As she spoke, she rolled up her sleeves a little, revealing bloody marks on her arms from being whipped, with the flesh inside torn apart, looking horrible.

"There is still a lot on my body, all over my body," the old woman added.

Men and women should not touch each other, so of course she couldn't lift her clothes to show the other person.

"What's going on?" the middle-aged shopkeeper asked, "Who on earth is so vicious that he beat you to such a state?"

"Boss, don't ask any more questions. Just prescribe some medicine for us." Another old woman interjected.

The middle-aged shopkeeper sighed: "It's not that I'm meddling in other people's business."

"But you were beaten all over, and you were chilled by the wind and cold."

"I have to take a good rest for a while."

"It's not just taking medicine that will work."

"Otherwise, I'm worried that you won't survive this winter."

After he said that, he went to get the medicine without caring how ugly the three old ladies' faces were.

While taking the medicine, he said to himself, "If anyone harms me to the point where you are, I will kill him."

"Killing people is actually very simple. Just one dose of medicine can poison them to death."

"I'm going to die anyway, so I can drag someone down with me before I die."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the three old women all changed slightly.

The eyes of one of the old ladies suddenly flashed with brilliance.

She glanced at her two companions and saw determination in each other's eyes.

The old woman stepped forward and said, "Boss, there are rats in our house recently."

"After you get the wound medicine, get another dose of rat medicine."

"It needs to be a strong drug that can kill the rat instantly."

The middle-aged shopkeeper slowed down his movements, turned around and said with a smile: "Then you are lucky."

"It just so happens that my store just received a batch of drugs. They are extremely toxic. Not to mention a mouse, even a cow would be dead if it took a few bites."

Three-drug.

In this era, every pharmacy sells poison.

Because many poisons can also treat specific diseases.

The middle-aged shopkeeper quickly packed all the medicines.

"Be careful to separate them. Don't mix them up." He handed the medicine to the three old women: "This little rat poison is enough to kill ten old oxen."

"But if you want the mice to eat it, I'm afraid you need to add more honey."

"Otherwise, I'm afraid the mice won't eat it."

The three of them paid the money and quickly left the pharmacy and entered the Qin Palace opposite.

The middle-aged shopkeeper half-opened the door and watched the backs of the three old women through the crack until they disappeared into the Qin Palace.

A smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. "It seems that this matter has been completed 80%. It is much simpler than I expected."

He muttered to himself and closed the door.

……

"Do we really want to drug the King of Qin?" One of the three old ladies walking together in the King of Qin's mansion said in a very low voice with a trembling voice.

"If we kill him, we will surely die. But if we don't kill him, do we think we can survive this winter?" the old woman who was buying medicine asked back.

"Fight him!" another old woman cried softly, "My daughter has been tortured to death by him, and now I will soon die too."

"Our family is finished, why should we be afraid of what he might do?"

"I am willing to sacrifice my life to bring down the emperor."

"We can't survive anyway, so we'll just die together."

The old woman who spoke first said, "I'm not afraid of death. I've already been living a life worse than death."

"I saw in a play that those nobles all have destiny, and ordinary people can't kill them."

"I'm worried that we've been working for nothing."

The old woman who was buying medicine said, "What's sung in the opera is all nonsense, don't believe it."

"Didn't you hear what the owner of the pharmacy said? This little bit of poison is enough to kill ten old oxen."

"I just don't believe that I can't poison the King of Qin to death alone."

They talked as they walked forward and soon arrived at the kitchen of Prince Qin's mansion.

"Why did it take you so long to get some medicine?" The cook in charge of the kitchen scolded them as soon as he saw them, "Be quicker."

"Your Highness Prince Qin is almost done with his snacks."

"We need to hurry up and make it and send it up."

"If you are late and His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin cannot have his snacks, you will be blamed and you won't have to treat your frozen hands. You will all be executed."

The three of them went out to get medicine, and naturally asked for leave from the chef.

Otherwise, you can't leave the palace.

Therefore, the chef knew about how they prepared the medicine.

However, in the opinion of the chef, the three men were severely whipped by the King of Qin today because they did not build the snowman well.

Although he was not made into an ice sculpture, his hands were frozen and his body was covered with wounds. I'm afraid he won't be able to survive for a few more days.

It would be useless to get medicine to treat the injury now.

What's more, the King of Qin wants them to continue making snowmen tomorrow!
He has already been frostbitten, and if he continues to suffer from the cold, he will be disabled if not dead.

Now it's just a matter of squeezing out the last bit of value from these three of them.

Let them do more work for the Prince Qin's Palace before they die.

After all, no new people had come into the kitchen for a while.

Upon hearing this, the three old ladies immediately went to make snacks.

One person took the opportunity to stand in front of the chef, seemingly unintentionally blocking the chef's view.

The other person quickly dissolved the poison and put it into the bowl.

Another person put the poison in the bowl into the dessert as if it were filling, just like making ordinary desserts.

In order to cover up the smell of poison, she followed the middle-aged shopkeeper's instructions and added a little more honey.

This is something that is already present in snacks.

She put in a lot more than usual.

In this way, the King of Qin only tasted sweetness in his mouth and could not taste any other flavor, so he spit it out on the spot.

All three of them were very nervous and their bodies were shaking.

Fortunately, the officer thought that they only acted like this because they were injured.

……

As the sky gradually darkened, Zhu Chong was still enjoying himself in the bedroom.

Sing and dance with the beautiful girls.

for a long time.

He finally got tired of dancing and sat down in front of the dragon bed.

Three beautiful maids hurried forward.

One was on his left, one on his right, and one was behind him massaging his back and shoulders.

A beautiful maid picked up the snacks that had just been brought to the table and put them into Zhu Chong's mouth with her delicate hands.

Zhu Chong was a little hungry, so he ate the snack in one gulp and suddenly yelled, "Asshole, why did you put so much honey in it?"

"It is too sweet!"

"Who made today's snack?"

"Give this king twenty lashes of the cane!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly covered his heart, shouted "Ah", then opened his mouth wide and rolled on the ground in pain.

The people around were all horrified and shouted again and again: "Your Highness, Prince Qin, Your Highness, Prince Qin!"

Zhu Chong's face was distorted. He wanted to speak, but he felt as if a knife was cutting his throat, making him unable to make a sound.

Veins popped out on Zhu Chong's face, and his eyeballs bulged out as if they were about to pop out. He pointed at the snacks he had just eaten, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, nothing came out.

White foam came out of Zhu Chong's mouth, and then his head tilted and his body fell down.

When he was dying, his eyes were still wide open.

The face is hideous and terrifying.

Zhu Chong died with his eyes open.

He could not believe that he, the King of Qin, could be so cowardly and die so easily.

"His Royal Highness King Qin!"

"His Royal Highness King Qin!"

"Call the doctor!"

"His Royal Highness King Qin!"

The palace maids and eunuchs shouted in panic.

But the King of Qin, who had fallen to the ground, did not move at all.

Amidst the screams, a eunuch put his hand to the nose of the King of Qin, only to find that the King of Qin, Zhu Chong, was already dead.

"His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin has passed away!"

……

Outside the Qin Palace, in the pharmacy.

The middle-aged shopkeeper was warming himself by the fire while leaning against the window, observing what was happening in the Qin Palace opposite.

Before I knew it, it was sunset.

Because it was snowing heavily, we couldn't see the sun and could only see the sky gradually getting darker.

Sudden.

The side door next to the main gate of the Prince of Qin's Palace opened, and several figures in mourning walked out, leading horses.

As soon as they left the palace, they immediately mounted their horses.

Regardless of the cold weather and the darkening sky, they spurred their horses and galloped away into the distance.

"Done!" The middle-aged shopkeeper clapped his hands and stood up suddenly.

Judging from their attire and actions, they must have been rushing to various government offices to report the death of the King of Qin.

The middle-aged shopkeeper let out a long sigh.

I originally thought that this task would be extremely difficult.

After all, this was a plot to murder a vassal king!

As an outsider, he had no idea how to get close.

How easy is it to kill it?

But I didn't expect that everything would go so smoothly.

However, to be honest, this is all thanks to the planning of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

If the Crown Prince had not already thought of a solution, he would probably still not know how to start.

Your Highness the Crown Prince is truly a god.

The middle-aged shopkeeper secretly admired in his heart.

Then he packed his bag, brought in a few jars of wine, and poured them around the room.

The King of Qin was poisoned to death, and the government will definitely conduct a strict investigation afterwards.

As a medicine seller, he cannot escape responsibility.

Must leave as soon as possible.

In the dim light, the middle-aged shopkeeper walked outside and led out the horse.

Then he blew up the fire stick and threw it into the pharmacy.

The middle-aged shopkeeper got on his horse and left Xi'an overnight.

Behind him, there was a blazing fire burning in the snowy night!
……

(End of this chapter)