Chapter 237 Catch them all!

Author: Potato Sweet Potato Pie

Chapter 237 Catch them all!

After returning to Kunning Palace, Emperor Hongzhi's heart still felt like a big stone was stuck in his throat, making it difficult for him to breathe.

The Ming Dynasty was really a troubled dynasty. From the day it was founded, there was no peace.

Earthquakes, droughts, floods, locust plagues, the list goes on and on. Since Zhu Youtang came to the throne, it seems that natural disasters of various sizes have occurred in every region of the country.

So much so that his expression changed when he talked about natural disasters. This earthquake occurred last year. It was not large in scale, but it also caused thousands of casualties. It also happened two years ago, and it was slightly larger in scale, with the number of casualties.

Ten thousand.

Every landslide will trigger a series of subsequent disasters, floods, food disasters, and if it catches up with the summer, there will be plagues.

Along with natural disasters come man-made disasters.

This kind of disaster has happened several times during the years he has been in power. Each time, he is frightened and keeps him awake all night.

And the earth collapse that Xia Yuan mentioned yesterday shook thousands of miles and affected several provinces. Just thinking about it made Emperor Hongzhi's hands and feet feel cold and his face turned pale.

He took a deep breath, suppressed these worries, and began to deal with the memorials piled on the imperial case.

As soon as he opened the memorial, a chamberlain eunuch came in. He looked around and didn't see Xiao Jing. He immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, Eunuch Xiao from Dongchang is outside the palace asking for an audience."

As Eunuch Bingbi, the Superintendent of Ceremonies, and the Governor of Dongchang, Xiao Jing is the real Eunuch Xiao. Others call him just Eunuch Xiao, and his godson is also named Xiao. To facilitate the distinction, he added Dongchang.

this prefix.

All the maids and eunuchs in the palace were called this. Emperor Hongzhi also knew who he was talking about and said without raising his head: "Let him come in."

Soon, Eunuch Xiao from Dongchang came in, still looking like a bored man. Even when he saw the emperor, he showed no expression. He knelt down and kowtowed with a dull look on his face, paid homage, and spoke without emotion.

"Slave Xiao Yan has met the emperor and wishes him to pay his respects."

The surname is Xiao, a famous saying, and the full name is Xiao Yan. Xiao Jing hopes that his son can talk more. As a eunuch, he can speak eloquently and his little mouth is usually the most effective if it is covered with honey, so he gave him this

a name.

But things in this world are often so unreasonable, and things always backfire.

"Get up, why did you enter the palace this time? But the investigation has found some clues?"

"yes."

Xiao Yan just said yes, stood up immediately, took out a wax-soaked secret letter from his arms, and then walked over and presented it to the emperor.

The content of this letter is a secret report from the factory guard.

After opening the secret report and unfolding the letters, Emperor Hongzhi read the contents line by line. Soon, his whole person became murderous.

After learning that the prince had become a master last year, he specially ordered someone to investigate Xia Yuan, including his parents' death, who his ancestors were, what his reputation was in the village, and the matter of his marriage fraud, as well as his marriage fraud.

The lady took the opportunity to check it out.

After all, the matter involved the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, so it was natural to get to the bottom of it.

Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi knew as early as last year that his wife was the adopted daughter of the Zhao family. She was not a biological child. She was brought by her mother to flee from famine, and finally married into the Zhao family as a concubine.

This matter is not difficult to find out, just ask anyone.

But there was no detailed investigation, just in passing. The main investigation was on the Xia family, and the secret report in hand recorded everything about Zhao Yuerong.

In other words, everything that can be found.

After these years of circumstances, can we investigate the clues hidden in her life experience and her so-called mother?

[The humble and other people visited and reported. They inquired in many places, either accompanying the salesmen or traveling merchants. Whenever they spoke to the people in Zhao Village and asked about the Zhao family’s adopted daughter, they were often startled, or...

There may be a smile or a look of pity, but most of the words are sighs and sighs.

The adopted daughter of the Zhao family had many unsatisfactory experiences with the Zhao family. She was often called a bitch in front of others. Because she cheated on her relatives, the Xia and Zhao families cut off contact, so that they could not get the honor of a son-in-law. People in Zhao Village talked about

In view of these, I feel quite pity for the Zhao family.]

Little bitch. These three words were too harsh. Zhu Youtang was so angry that he couldn't control himself. He laughed in anger, and the hand holding the secret report was trembling.

Okay, very good. My daughter, the princess of the Ming Dynasty, has been unhappy in the Zhao family these years, but she is actually called a little bitch by others, and she is often called a little bitch in front of others.

She is a little bitch, so I

It was as if some thought crossed his mind, but as soon as it flashed across his mind, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly seemed to be out of control, and his whole body started to tremble slightly.

At this moment, a childhood memory that had been buried deep in his heart for many years, that he least wanted to mention and was most afraid of remembering, was brought out.

"I never expected that the people in this palace would dare to bully heaven and even harbor a little bitch like you."

This sentence seemed to be lingering in my ears again.

The woman's face seemed to appear in front of her eyes again, and she just came closer, her face filled with hatred but suppressed by it, and there was a coldness in the corners of her mouth and half-closed eyes.

The voice was very soft, but the chill that stood out became more and more obvious.

The face was over fifty years old, and in order to hide his age, his face was covered with thick powder.

The forehead, bridge of nose, and chin are also treated with the three white techniques.

This face looked even more ferocious and terrifying in the slightly dim Anxi Palace. Zhu Youtang was only seven years old at the time. That was the first time he saw this woman who enjoyed great fame in the palace - Concubine Wan Gui.

It was such a scene, such a face, such a terrifying face when we met for the first time.

Seven-year-old Zhu Youtang was so frightened that he cried loudly and wet his pants at the same time.

From then on, the scene of that day became the nightmare of his life, the source of nightmare material, the shadow of his childhood, and the most humiliating and shameful thing in his life.

It was the thing he wanted to forget most in his life, and it was also the thing he had already forgotten.

But now that I saw the words "little bitch", this incident came to mind again. Emperor Hongzhi's body was trembling. He, the supreme emperor, seemed to have returned to the past and changed back to the seven-year-old.

years old children.

Hesitation, humiliation, fear, and fear were buzzing in his head, and the woman's voice was all in his ears: "I never expected that the people in this palace would dare to deceive the heavens, and even harbor a little bitch like you.

kind."

"I never expected this person in the palace."

"I never expected this."

"I."

He kept repeating it, as if there was an echo, and the old woman in front of him seemed to be smiling.

"Go away!" Zhu Youtang finally roared, then stood up suddenly with red eyes, pushed all the memorials on the imperial case to the ground, his body kept shaking, his face turned from green to white, and he roared with murderous intent.

road:

"Catch, seize this Zhao family, send Dongchang, send Jin Yiwei, arrest all the Zhao family!"

The eunuchs standing in the palace were so frightened that they had never seen Emperor Hongzhi burst into such a shocking rage and thunderous power. They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Xiao Yan didn't seem to be affected at all, his face still had the dull look on his face. After hearing the words, he just responded, then turned around and walked out of the palace door.

Only the hands folded in the cuffs were shaking uncontrollably, and the calves kept shaking.
Chapter completed!