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Chapter 44 Secret Discussion

When he heard that Chongzhen was assassinated, all the big men rushed to the palace to ask for a meeting, but were blocked by Wei Zhongxian, who had a gloomy face. He declared that Emperor Chongzhen was furious and did not see anyone.

After many court officials dispersed, a group of bigwigs from the Donglin Party gathered at the home of Zhou Yanru, the assistant minister of the cabinet.

However, the faces of many Donglin Party bosses are not very good-looking.

Zhou Yanru and Taoism: "Everyone, who arranged that Wang Sheng? How dare you assassinate in public?"

The others looked at each other, and only Hou Xun, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, said: "The emperor is cruel and not worthy of being a ancestral temple. It is inevitable that there will be loyal ministers and righteous men assassinate Qin out of righteous indignation."

Zhou Yanru slapped the table and said angrily: "Confused! Stupid! Now that man has fallen into the hands of the factory guards and tortures him. If he crawls and bites randomly, what should he do?!"

Hou Xun said indifferently: "The Master Ge was too careful. Wang Sheng was originally a rich child in Jiangnan, and his parents were both destroyed by Wei Yan. He escaped a disaster because he was studying in the Imperial College. Now he is alone and wants to assassinate Wei Yan at the opportunity, but unexpectedly, he was stimulated today and actually assassinated as his son."

When Zhou Yanru heard this, his expression was slower, and he said, "Imperial Doctor on duty today is Chen Renzhong and Chen. I will send someone to the Imperial Hospital later and send the calligraphy and painting of Chen Xiang, the former Song Chen Yizhong, whom I have collected."

Everyone had a plan to discuss it again, and stopped staying and dispersed.

Chongzhen in the harem looked at the many women in front of him and felt a headache.

The Empress of Emperor Tianqi, Zhang Yan, pointed at Wei Zhongxian and Fang Zhenghua and said, "Good you two slaves! You actually put the emperor in danger! Fortunately, there is nothing serious, otherwise the Ai family will strip you of your good skin!" Wei Zhongxian and Fang Zhenghua were so scared that they knelt down and apologized.

Chongzhen's Empress Zhou, also had a pretty face, and was obviously very scared. Although the emperor gave his elder brother to death, he deserved it, and he never hated the emperor. Now that the emperor was assassinated, he scared the Queen Zhou to death.

But after seeing Concubine Yuan and Concubine Tian, ​​when they saw that they were crying like a rain of pear blossoms, Wuming became angry and shouted angrily: "Enough! What are you crying? If you are safe today, put your tears away for me!"

Chongzhen was just worried that Wang Chengen came in and reported that the imperial physician Chen Renzhong had arrived. After Chongzhen waited for Empress Zhang and Empress Zhou and others to retreat, he hurriedly announced that he would come in.

The imperial doctor checked the wound and took his pulse again, then said, "I'll tell Your Majesty that it's fortunate that the knife is not poisonous, and Your Majesty can dodge it in time, but there's nothing serious. I'll prescribe a few doses of medicines for internal and external application later, and it'll probably be cured in a few days."

Chongzhen said "Yes" and said, "That's what I want to do, I'm sorry."

Not long after the imperial doctor left, the decocted medicine was delivered.

Chongzhen didn't take it either, but ordered people to take a dog raised in the palace and pour the medicine on it.

After a while, the dog was not abnormal, but he looked very excited and kept trying to play with the little eunuch holding it next to him.

Chongzhen secretly said that he was suspicious and was about to take medicine, but he didn't expect Wei Zhongxian to stop him.

Wei Zhongxian first sent someone to get the prescription prescribed by Chen Renzhong, but when he got it, he found that he could not recognize three words. He simply handed it to Wang Chengen and said, "Let's take a look at this prescription."

Wang Chengen also secretly blamed Wei Zhongxian for making a fuss. He took the prescription and read it, and replied: "Eunuch Wei has been worried too much. This prescription is full of golden flower and medicines that promote wound healing."

Wei Zhongxian said, "Yes, that's why this medicine is problematic!" He shook his head and then said, "I hope it's because I'm thinking too much."

Having said that, everyone around him did not dare to neglect. Cao Huachun immediately ordered someone to take down the eunuch who was decocting the medicine and brought back all the unfinished medicine.

The little eunuch knelt down and asked An, and then knelt on the ground and waited for a question.

Wei Zhongxian said: "Our family asked you, did you decoct this medicine yourself?"

The little eunuch didn't know what was going on, but instinctively felt something was wrong, so he quickly replied: "Reply to Jiu... and the words of Eunuch Wei, this medicine was decocted by Dr. Chen himself. Dr. Chen said he was worried, because he was afraid that I would not be able to decoct well with clumsyness, so he decocted the medicine himself before leaving."

Wei Zhongxian said: "Since you are decorating medicine in the palace, you must know the medicinal properties?"

The little eunuch replied: "I only know a little bit, and I usually take medicines ordered by the imperial physicians."

Wei Zhongxian took away the medicine bowl and handed it to the eunuch and said, "Can you smell it? How is the difference between the medicine here and the Chinese medicinal materials in this prescription?"

The little eunuch became more and more nervous, knowing that there was a big problem, and the more he took the medicine, the more he thought about it, the more he became more and more afraid.

He took the medicine bowl, sniffed it carefully for a while, and licked a little bit of the medicine with his tongue, and then he said: "It's different. But there's one more medicine."

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly asked, "What's the extra one? I'll think about it carefully. If the answer is wrong, be careful about your skin!"

The little eunuch was even more scared. The more he was afraid, the more he couldn't think of it. A cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Suddenly, he felt a sense of inspiration: "It's Chuanwu! This thing is mostly used for pain relief, but taking it more will cause harm."

Wei Zhongxian then said, "Forget it, you go down. Don't talk nonsense after you go back."

After the little eunuch went out, Wei Zhongxian said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I just saw that dog looked wrong, so I was worried that the medicine was inappropriate. Now it seems that the Imperial Hospital can't trust it." Then he said to Cao Huachun, who came back with the little eunuch, "Shut up that little eunuch. If you don't take good care of the emperor, put the emperor in danger, he deserves to die!"

Although Chongzhen didn't know how much Chuanwu did, he had an inexplicable medicinal herb. There must be something strange about it. He didn't care about the life and death of a little eunuch and asked, "What's wrong?"

Wei Zhongxian said: "When I go back to the emperor, I have heard that if you take this substance in small amounts, you will feel excited and your mouth will be numb. If you have too much, you will be extremely poisonous.

If the Emperor had not reminded me today, this matter would have almost made these killings succeed. It seems that the Emperor had indeed expected that the matter of the former emperor was not that simple. The Emperor was wise."

Chongzhen was about to speak, but Tian Ergeng rushed over.

After Tian Ergeng bowed to the side, Chongzhen asked, "Then the prison student has already been recruited?"

Tian Ergeng said: "When you go back to your Majesty, Wang Sheng is a tough guy. I have used many methods and I have not been able to take out any useful things."

Chongzhen said: "There is no need to be torture. Tell Xu Xianchun that he would just use a lamp to shine the prison student and not let him sleep. He ordered people to ask him questions repeatedly for twelve hours, and sooner or later he would ask him.
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