Not only the emperor realized it, but everyone was the same.

Zhou Ming's responsibilities were not satisfied with many ministers.

But this is also a position that has been held since the Taizu period, and the emperors later only continued to use it.

It is a means for the emperor to protect himself at the most critical moment.

In other words, it is also a way for the emperor to avoid being deceived by his subordinates.

That's why Zhou Ming mastered the secret spies and force at the same time.

Because of the importance of this position, emperors of all generations chose the confidants among their confidants.

Zhou Ming is also like this.

He has followed the emperor since he entered the palace at the age of thirteen. So far, it has been more than thirty-six years, even longer than Zhao Shou. Zhao Shou followed the emperor in the year when Emperor Jinghe took over as emperor.

Unexpectedly, there were problems with such confidants and direct descendants, which was really shocking.

"Go and call the people from the Jianghu led by Zhou Ming to the Xiuyiwei camp and take care of it." Emperor Jing He ordered Zhao Shou and the Yulin Guard General Jiang Shaoji next to him.

"yes!"

Jiang Shaoji immediately ordered his subordinates to go and greet the people living in the imperial city with the people sent by Zhao Shou.

"Have Mingqi and Mingguan both arrived in the palace?" the emperor asked again.

"It's already here."

Zhao Shou nodded and said, "King De is in Jingfu Palace, and King Ning is in Chonghua Palace."

Gyeongbokgung Palace is on the east side and Chonghua Palace is on the west side. Neither of these two brothers can meet at all.

This is also a way to prevent them from colluding with each other.

But it can't be said at this time.

Emperor Jing He nodded, not mentioning this matter, but began to ask the Prime Minister and the ministers to peel off the thread and analyze the situation based on the information.

First, the guards in the bedroom of Empress Li and the Ming Dynasty came to report the clues found.

They are not fools.

After an inch by inch, not only were the two palace maids and eunuchs who were caring for the princes missing, but also found a broken small poison bottle in a ditch in the two palaces, and a complete small poison bottle in the soil buried under a tree.

The two bottles are almost exactly the same.

The imperial doctor and Miao Xiuxiu took it over and tested it, injected a little water into the intact bottle, and then fed it to a dog to drink.

The dog started to twitch after a while, then foamed at the mouth, and then vomited blood.

Less than a quarter of an hour, the dog lost its breath.

The death lies exactly the same as the two princes.

Now I understood how these thieves came to murder the two princes.

What we need now is to find the two missing palace maids and eunuchs.

Although everyone understands that even Zhou Ming has encountered an unexpected situation, these two people must have been silenced.

But if people can be found, even if they are just corpses, there should be some clues.

For example, who they have come into contact with and who they have a good relationship with before are the keys to solving cases.

According to the clues provided by the two imperial concubines, the palace painter soon drew the sketch, Yes, the sketch advocated by Liu Mingqi can be at least 70% or 80% similar, and then quickly copied and drew more pictures and gave them to Qianniu Guards to inquire and search.

The palace is very big, with more than 3,000 rooms in total, so there is not a half day, and there is no end to check it out in one day.

Then the team who dumped kitchen waste there reported that at noon this afternoon, a small eunuch suddenly disappeared when transporting kitchen waste out of the city and could not find it no matter how hard it was to search.

When the kitchen waste disposal team returned to the palace, the imperial kitchen reported that it had been two hours.

Now the embroidered yarn guard is looking for clues and trying to find this little eunuch.

Even if he is not the one who directly participated in this poisoning case, he must have a huge suspicion, and he is likely to be an insider.

The news from Emperor Jing He was that this little eunuch was a little elusive on weekdays. Everyone knew him, but sometimes he couldn't see him.

I have an impression of him, but no one has any friendship with him.

There are actually many such eunuchs in the palace, but when they hear it, everyone feels strange and feels that there must be a big secret on him.

At this moment, the captain who went out to put down the group of people in the martial arts world brought back a middle-aged man who looked very thin.

"His Majesty!"

The captain reported: "This man said he had Zhou Ming's secret memorial and he would hand it over to His Majesty!"

Emperor Jing He was excited: "Zhou Ming?"

"Yes!"

The lieutenant said: "When Bei Zhi and others invited them into the Yulin Guard camp, they already felt something was wrong. The man came over and asked Bei Zhi if Zhou Ming was dead... Bei Zhi asked him what he meant, and he said, if this is true, please bring him to meet His Majesty. He has Zhou Ming's secret memorial to you."

"good!"

Emperor Jing He said expectantly: "Then bring him here."

"yes!"

The captain immediately brought the middle-aged man over.

The middle-aged man's hands were tied up and his feet were shackles.

Actually, this was not needed, but because he was coming to see the emperor, the captain explained it to him in advance, and he was a bachelor and agreed readily.

Then Jiang Hu stood in front of the emperor and blocked the two of them.

Emperor Jinghe didn't think so much. He asked anxiously: "Who are you? Zhou Ming has any secret memorials to you and ask you to me?"

The middle-aged man bowed down and said tremblingly: "The youngest name is Bao Yulin. He is a secret spy under the command of General Zhou. He is responsible for exploring various news in the capital...

The incident was three days ago, Governor Zhou suddenly gave Xiao a secret letter, saying that if he had any accidents, he asked Xiao to hand over the letter to His Majesty...

Today, the Yulin Guard suddenly surrounded our palace and asked us to go to the Yulin Guard camp. The young man discovered something was wrong, so he risked his life to hand over the secret letter to His Majesty!"

"Um……"

Before Jinghe's imperial capital could speak, Ge Songdao next to him interrupted, "Bao Yulin, do you say this letter was given to you by Zhou Ming, what evidence is there?"

Bao Yulin shook his head: "There is no evidence for the small one."

Ge Songdao continued to ask: "There is no evidence? Then why do you guarantee that the contents here were written by Zhou Ming?"

Bao Yulin continued to shake his head, "The little one can't guarantee it... But the sentence that Governor Zhou still explained to the little one is that this secret letter must be interpreted using the No. 3 thing in the palace."

Ge Songdao turned to look at the emperor.

The emperor didn't understand either, so he looked at Zhao Shou.

Zhao Shou is the chief eunuch, and he should know everything in the palace.

Zhao Shou hesitated for a moment, then thought for a moment, and said: "There is a rule in the palace for the secret memorials of these eunuchs, that is, in order to avoid others knowing the content, they can write it with a password, and this password is ten books... Only by getting the correct book can every word in it be restored."

Jing Hedi asked quickly: "Then do you know what these ten books are?"

"Old I know." Zhao Shouhe said first, "I, Zhou Ming, and Qian Xianrui know these ten books. There are also information about these books, which are also archived in the secret room left to you by the late emperor. The late emperor should have mentioned it to you before."

"I forgot." Jing Hedi waved his hand, "Come on, then you can take this secret letter, translate it, and see what it says!"

"yes!"

Zhao Shou walked forward and stretched out his hand to Bao Yulin.

Bao Yulin smiled bitterly and raised his right foot, "Don't bother this big brother, secretly write in the mezzanine of my right shoe."

The captain next to him immediately took off his shoes and took out a letter wrapped in kraft paper from it.

Zhao Shou took the letter and turned around and wanted to leave.

But Liu Renhuai said, "Wait a minute."

Zhao Shou stopped and looked at Liu Renhuai in confusion.

Liu Renhuai said: "Jiang Hu, go and copy this secret letter first, and then give the copied one to General Manager Zhao, and hand over the original to me."

Zhao Shou smiled bitterly, but said nothing and handed the letter to Jiang Hu.

Emperor Jing He was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Liu Renhuai meant.

He tugged his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He watched Jiang Hu copy the letter next to him, and then handed the copy and the original to Zhao Shou and Liu Renhuai respectively.

Zhao Shou did not look angry at all, and took the two eunuchs and turned to the other direction.

Cao Yi showed off with a slight look, and Jiang Hu immediately instructed several Qianniuwei to follow him.

At this point, no one in the palace, except for the emperor and the empress dowager, could not believe it.

After Zhao Shou left, Bao Yulin was also taken down and the eunuchs were driven aside to stay.

Emperor Jing He suddenly sighed: "Why is this the reason? Have I really become a lonely man?"

"Your Majesty, don't think too much. Most people in the palace still respect you very much. Because you treat them very well, not everyone is a traitor." Zhong Chang comforted him: "It's just that this is an extraordinary period. Such a vicious and sensational thing happened in the palace. You must not take it lightly at all... After the incident, if General Manager Zhao is not suspicious, Weichen will apologize to him."
To be continued...