The killing scene is finally over, and all that's left is to wipe away the blood and divide the profits. A court battle without weapons is more cruel than murder and arson at first!
Zai Chun quickly returned from the northern suburbs by airship. After getting off the airship in Jingshan, the three officials who ransacked the houses, Fu Qing, Peng Yulin, and Ma Ming, felt ashamed that they were waiting for the emperor!
"I was incompetent and failed to capture the three princes. Please convict your Majesty..."
Zai Chun said with a livid face, "Don't worry about taking the blame yourself first. First, find out the bastard in the palace who leaked the news!"
"Happy Fourth! You will take up the post of Head of the Imperial Palace from today, and I will give you the right to torture and interrogate the eunuchs and maids in the palace! Check carefully for me to find out who leaked the news last night!"
The senior's face turned red with joy. He didn't expect that he would be rewarded so quickly for his small contribution to carrying vomit to Banzai on the airship!
The Jingsi Room is nominally under the management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but in fact this institution for punishing eunuchs and maids is directly under the emperor's control!
Previously, the Jingshifang did not have a top leader, but Li Lianying and Zhou Daoying shared the power. Basically, the queens of the two palaces were in charge of their own territory!
Now that the emperor has decreed that he should be the supervisor, he will truly be the king of eunuchs and the master of palace maids!
With a bang, Da Sixi knelt on the ground and wiped his tears and said, "I thank you for your kindness, my slave! Please rest assured, master, we will find out the bastard who cheated on you!"
Zai Chun had no time to listen to his expression of loyalty. As he walked, he said to several close ministers of Fu Qing, "Follow me back to the palace! Tell me what happened last night!"
When he heard that there was fierce resistance from both Prince Gong's Mansion and Prince Chun's Mansion, Zai Chun's face became increasingly ugly!
"Okay, okay...this is evidence of crime brought to your doorstep! How dare you resist and shoot when I want to ransack your home? I'm going against it, I'm really going against it!"
"Ma Ming! You selected a thousand elites to replace all the guards and soldiers around the Hall of Supreme Harmony. There are too many bastards in the Forbidden City. I really can't believe it!"
Peng Yulin asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty! Now Prince Qing and Prince Gong are seeking political asylum in the embassy. This is the most difficult thing to handle!"
"Although it is not difficult to find Prince Chun hiding in the outer house, we are afraid that Prince Chun will commit suicide! If that happens, it will not be heard well!"
Zai Chun thought for a moment and sneered, "Let the Ministry of Rites issue letters of credence to the British Embassy and the Chinese Embassy and write a letter of protest! This is the internal affairs of our Qing Dynasty and no one is allowed to interfere!"
"Don't worry, if they want to make money from the Qing Dynasty, they will not disobey my will! They will definitely send it out today!"
"As for Yixuan, don't worry. If he had the guts to commit suicide, he would have rebelled long ago. Now that his family and children are all under my control, he will definitely show up!"
After getting off Jingshan, Xiao Sixi had already brought the royal chariot. Zai Chun got on it and the sixteen eunuchs led the emperor in a steady trot, across the long street and straight to the Shenwu Gate!
Fu Qing and others supported the imperial chariot and trotted all the way. From time to time, the monarch and his ministers even whispered a few words!
After entering the Shenwu Gate, Fu Qing said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, you should go to the inner palace and change your clothes. I will go around the west factory building and wait for the emperor in the Hall of Supreme Harmony!"
Zai Chun said nonchalantly, "Just go straight through the Imperial Garden. Why take a long detour..."
Peng Yulin and others were so frightened that they quickly waved their hands, "Your Majesty! The harem is where the Queen Mother lives. Foreign ministers dare not rush into it... Although they can enter when there is an imperial edict on weekdays, in the rush and chaos last night, the inner palace may be inconvenient! "
"If I accidentally bump into you ladies, it will really be a capital crime!"
After all, etiquette is the most important thing. Foreign ministers cannot enter the harem without a decree. And even if the emperor has a decree to allow foreign ministers to enter the inner palace, the inner palace must get the news in advance and make various preparations!
For example, if the concubine's father and brother want to see his daughter-in-law, and the emperor's grace allows it, the man cannot just go in. He must wait for the eunuchs in the inner palace to make arrangements!
Which door do you enter and exit from, where do you pass in between, where do you meet, and who is with you throughout the whole process! It all needs to be rehearsed in advance!
The harem must ensure that after the man enters, he can only see relevant women, and not any irrelevant ones!
The harem must be in a mess right now. There is no time to make arrangements in advance. If you go in and see some women with messy clothes, even palace maids!
For this kind of thing, censors are sure of it as soon as they take a look at it. Who would be uncomfortable with it?
Fu Qing and other officials walked west along the palace wall, and the imperial army also prepared horses for several adults! They went straight to the Yinghua Palace along the west factory building, and then headed south to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After passing the eighteen locust trees, they arrived at the outer hall!
Fu Qing and the others were right to be cautious. Little did they know that this caution allowed them to avoid a very tragic storm in the inner palace!
The royal chariot entered the imperial garden surrounded by eunuchs. Directly to the south was Kunning Gate, and behind the gate was Kunning Palace, the queen's bedroom. Zai Chun was going to go back to the queen's place to change clothes, freshen up, have something to eat, and then go to court!
But as soon as I entered Kunning Gate, I found that the atmosphere inside was extremely wrong. The eunuchs guarding the door were all kneeling. They were not kneeling when they saw the emperor, but they were exhausted from kneeling all the time as if they had knelt all night!
After entering the backyard of Kunning Palace, the little emperor discovered that there were more people kneeling. The palace maids and eunuchs were kneeling on the ground neatly on the left and right, and several of them had already fainted on the ground!
But no one cared about the fainted palace maids and eunuchs, as if they were dead, and no one even dragged them out!
"What's going on? If you don't serve the master, why don't you kneel here and suffer the wind?"
After Zai Chun's chariot went around the West Nuan Pavilion of Kunning Palace and arrived at the front hall, the little emperor screamed and stood up directly on the chariot!
The royal chariot was actually a sedan with its roof and fence removed. Sixteen eunuchs were carrying a wooden platform with a comfortable chair fixed on it!
It is ventilated on all sides, allowing the emperor to enjoy the scenery freely!
The little emperor suddenly stood up, and the eunuchs carrying the chariot were staggered by the inconvenience. Zai Chun leaned to one side and almost fell off!
Xiao Sixi rushed forward and supported the emperor, "Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty, please be careful..."
Zai Chun jumped down directly with his strength, and rushed up the imperial steps in three steps and two steps at a time. "What's going on? Who told me what's going on?"
How can one not be angry at the scene in front of him? Even a man would be angry. The Queen Alute in front of Zai Chun was wearing a red satin singlet, which was the pajamas from last night. She was kneeling alone at the main entrance of Kunning Palace, her whole body was cold. I was shivering and my lips were blue!
What made Zai Chun even more crazy was that there were broken porcelain pieces kneeling on Alut's knees, and the blood had dried up and turned dark red!
"What's going on? Who did this?" Zai Chun rushed over and hugged the queen. When Arut saw the emperor coming back, she smiled slightly on her pale face, "Your Majesty..."
The queen fainted before she finished speaking!
"Chuan Yuyi! Damn slaves, Chuan Yuyi! Who did this, who..." Zai Chun yelled in grief and anger!
"What are you shouting about! It's the Yi family's decree!"
The main door of Kunning Palace opened, and Cixi slowly walked out with the support of everyone!
