The emperor was surprised when he heard this:
"Poison? Who would poison him? But how many days does he want to take a rest?"
Dr. Liu: "This poison is a chronic poison. Although the toxicity is not violent, it will slowly eat away at people's lives. Symptoms will only appear after seven days, and the poison will spread throughout the internal organs after one month. There is no cure for the symptoms. And the symptoms It's just collapse, which often doesn't attract attention, and there are no obvious symptoms of poisoning, so it kills people invisible."
Emperor: "It's such a sinister poison..."
Doctor Liu: "Looking at his pulse, General Jin has been poisoned for more than ten days. He must have been plotted against him."
The emperor pondered: "In ten days..."
Zheng Cheng stepped forward and said softly:
"Your Majesty, General Jin was in Jizhou ten days ago."
Dr. Liu: "General Jin's deputy general said that most of the soldiers who followed General Jin out of the capital had the same symptoms as General Jin. In order not to cause panic, the minister only said that they were acclimatized and did not mention that it was poison. ."
When the emperor heard this, his face was filled with confusion, anger and surprise:
"Have all the Chenghu troops who went to Jizhou been poisoned by this poison?"
Doctor Liu: "Yes, most of them have this symptom. Whether they are poisoned like General Jin, I can't be sure yet without consulting the doctor."
"Take someone to the City Guards for consultation as soon as possible. After the diagnosis is confirmed, come and give me a reply."
Seeing that Dr. Liu was ordered to leave, the emperor thought for a moment and then ordered Zheng Cheng:
"You go to the Imperial Guard to find Zhang Cheng and see if the people he took to Jizhou to escort the property have such symptoms? If so, ask Yan Zongqi to ask the Xue family if they had done anything in the treasure house, or if they had any such symptoms. Some kind of mechanism was put in place."
Zheng Cheng went away for half an hour and reported when he came back:
More than half of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard who went to Jizhou to escort property were suffering from exhaustion. These people had all transported property.
In the evening, Yan Zongqi, the commander of the Imperial Guard, who was interrogating the Xue family, and Liu Yuyi, the doctor after the consultation, came to reply:
Dr. Liu: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have examined the soldiers who were in a state of collapse and found that the poison suffered by General Jin Wei was the same."
Yan Zongqi: "We asked Dr. Liu to check. As expected, poisonous powder was found on the property brought back from Jizhou. General Jin and Deputy Commander Zhang must have been contaminated with the poison from the property. "
The emperor's face was dark and unclear: "What do the Xue family say?"
Yan Zongqi delivered the confession from Xuejiakou:
"The Xue family built Zhuangzi in Jizhou and hired craftsmen who were proficient in secret passages in secret chambers at a high price. After the secret passage was built, in order to prevent the secret passage from being leaked, they killed those craftsmen and the servants under Zhuangzi's care. According to the report The Xue family admitted that they had not tampered with the treasure house."
Seeing the emperor checking the confession, Yan Zongqi continued:
"Wei Chen guessed that it was the mechanism that the craftsman left behind privately in order to collect the reward. However, before he could say anything about receiving the reward, the Xue family silenced him. When the property was moved this time, there were many people, and the trigger was accidentally triggered. Only if you use this mechanism will you be poisoned."
The emperor put down the confession and his eyes turned gloomy:
"If that's the case, the stolen treasures should also be contaminated with poisonous powder..."
Yan Zongqi thought deeply: "It is also possible, but I don't know whether General Jin accidentally touched this mechanism or a thief. If General Jin accidentally touched it, I'm afraid he may not be able to find it."
The emperor thought deeply for a moment, then spoke again with bright eyes:
"Except for the four people in the house, no fifth person is allowed to know about this. Anyone who violates this will be guilty of confiscating the family and exterminating the family."
(End of chapter)
