"This is a problem!" Li Guodong said, "Immediately find out what characteristics people have had in the past few days have been with this man."

"Nei Yi will send someone to find out now!" said the secret spy.

A group of Jinyiwei went to the street outside and found the man's shop. After smashing the door, Jinyiwei rushed into the store, rummaged through the cabinets, and found various fake road guides in the box. There were all over the country, with fake official seals on it, which looked the same as the real one.

"Smash open this box!" Zhang Shuheng pointed at the locked box.

The Jinyiwei swung the hammer and smashed the lock. He opened the box and saw that it was full of waist cards!

Li Guodong picked up a copper waist card and saw that it was a fake Jinyiwei waist card. Even Li Guodong couldn't tell the truth! It was Zhang Shuheng who came over and pointed to the pattern on it and said: "The difference between real and fake is mainly on the pattern. There is a small pattern here. If you don't look carefully, you can't tell it. Only Jinyiwei's own people can tell it."

Because fake waist cards are easy to be seen by professionals, in ancient times, they used other methods to enter the palace, rather than using fake waist cards to enter the palace. Because they entered the palace with fake waist cards, they were discovered at the door. Such a hard-working assassination plan was ruined before it even reached the door, so using fake waist cards was not worth the cost.

But what if you are holding a real waist card and letting someone with the fake waist card imitate it? Then you can do it the same as the real one.

The Jinyiwei asked about the surrounding shops, but after checking, he found nothing. After all, there were too many people entering and leaving this fake ID store and could not find anything.

"The treacherous assassination of Your Majesty must have been planning this matter for a long time. It is estimated that the person who made fake waist cards had prepared half a year ago. How can the neighbors remember that after so long?" Li Guodong analyzed.

Zhang Shuheng said: "This matter is probably not that simple. A small eunuch was killed and someone else was going to create fake waist cards. It must be related to this little eunuch. The little eunuch's waist card is the waist card of the Qianqing Palace, and it can enter the side of His Majesty. It should be that this little eunuch was bribed and imitated his waist card for others, and then the assassination entered the palace."

At this moment, the Jinyiwei came to report: "Zhang Dusi, Zhang Dusi, something big is wrong. A minor official from the Imperial Hospital committed suicide in the prison of imperial prison!"

Zhang Shuheng was furious: "What are you doing for? He actually let the suspect commit suicide in the imperial prison?"

Then Li Guodong and Zhang Shuheng rushed back to the imperial prison with a group of Jinyiwei and saw the suspect's body. Jinyiwei had already examined the corpse and reported to Zhang Shuheng: "Zhang Dusi, this suspect committed suicide by taking poison."

"I committed suicide by taking poison?" Zhang Shuhengda was shocked. "If he was the murderer, why did we not commit suicide when we arrested him in the imperial prison, but died at this time? Where did his poison come from?"

"It must be that the Jinyiwei has a traitor!" Li Guodong said, "Zhang Dusi, how could your Jinyiwei get involved in the traitor?"

It is obvious that Li Guodong was very angry about this matter. Since Chongzhen went south, the Jinyiwei has been secretly controlled by Li Guodong. In fact, it is Li Guodong's special intelligence agency. If such a department is involved in a traitor, it will be full of troubles.

"I am guilty of being accused of being accused of being humble!" Zhang Shuheng apologized. After saying that, he turned around and shouted: "Investigate immediately! The traitor must be arrested!"

"It probably was too late. Since that person could do such a thing, he must be a dead soldier! When we found out, we got a corpse, otherwise he would commit suicide when we caught him." Li Guodong said.

The clues that were finally found were cut off, which further demonstrated how strict the organization that assassinated Chongzhen was! This organization was so powerful that people could get involved in the Jinyiwei and colluded with eunuchs and minor officials in the Imperial Hospital. It must have something to do with some ministers in the court, and perhaps also with the Qing Dynasty in the north.

Just when the investigation progress was confused, someone came to report and found an important clue.

The fake certificate dealer who was killed was named Liu Wugen. After a strict inspection by an Jinyiwei, he found clues left by Liu Wugen before his death. So Jinyiwei dug up the wall and found a mezzanine inside. He found an iron box inside which had a waist-brand mold!

"Check the mold immediately and see who is the waist card!" Zhang Shuheng was overjoyed when he discovered this clue.

Li Guodong sighed and said with emotion: "It seems that Liu Wugen is also a smart person. He knows that it is definitely not easy to create fake waist cards in and out of the palace, so he left behind the mold just in case."

Jinyiwei compared the mold and waist label and found that the waist label that the mold could make was not the waist label of the eunuch of the Qianqing Palace, but the waist label of the Tai Hospital.

"That means that the little eunuch had brought items from the palace with plague. The little official in the Imperial Hospital was the insider in the palace, and introduced outsiders to poison His Majesty's medicine!" Zhang Shuheng said.

After a strict search by the Jinyiwei, the little eunuch who was silenced was found, of course, the body. After an autopsy, it was found that the little eunuch had been infected with a plague before his death. This confirmed that the little eunuch was the one who brought the plague into the palace.

"What a strict plan!" Li Guodong sighed, "Someone is responsible for getting your Majesty into the disease, and someone is given poison to your Majesty's medicine. If this perfect plan is implemented, no matter how good your Majesty is, he will not be able to hold on!"

There are already some clues in the case, but at this time Wang Chengen came to Li Guodong: "Duke Chu, the emperor has woken up. He knows that you have returned to Beijing, so let our family invite you to the palace to meet the saint! Come with our family quickly. If you go late, you may never see the emperor again!"

Li Guodong knew that Wang Chengen was not saying alarmist, Chongzhen suddenly woke up, probably in a flash of hope! When Emperor Chongzhen was dying, Li Guodong had to meet him, and let him know the last love between the king and the ministers, and give him the last journey.

Wang Chengen took Li Guodong and rode a fast horse to the palace gate. After entering the palace, the two almost ran all the way to Qianqing Palace.

There were many people waiting outside the Qianqing Palace for a long time. From the cabinet to the chief officials of the six ministries and nine ministers, they all arrived. Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi and others were guarding outside the Qianqing Palace. Walking into the Qianqing Palace, Zhang Yan, Zhou Hou, Princess Kunxing, Concubine Yuan, Princess Zhaoren and others were waiting in the palace. Chongzhen closed his eyes half-closed and did not talk to them. It seemed that he had his last breath to talk to Li Guodong.

"Your Majesty!" As soon as he saw Chongzhen on his sickbed, Li Guodong knelt in front of the sickbed. Although his tears were a bit of a show, he was still a little sincere to Chongzhen. Since the four years since Chongzhen went south, Chongzhen has given Li Guodong the greatest support. Whether it is killing profiteers, improving industry and commerce, collecting business taxes, fighting against nobles, confiscating property, or fighting local tyrants to share land, and transforming military households, Chongzhen firmly supported Li Guodong.

I thought Chongzhen would have a few more days to die, but after the factory guards found the murderer and carried out a major purge in the court, he successfully pushed Princess Kunxing to the position of governor. Unexpectedly, Chongzhen turned back so quickly. Before the murderer had caught him, he would face great resistance to let the princess become governor.

"Li Aiqing, get up quickly," Chongzhen gently patted his sickbed, "Sit down next to me, I have something to ask you."

Li Guodong stood up and sat on the sickbed.

Chongzhen waved to Zhang Yan and others: "You go out first, I will say a few words to the Duke of Chu, the monarch and ministers."

When Zhang Yan and others went out, Chongzhen asked, "Li Qing, I heard that you want to establish Kunxing as the governor?"

"Your Majesty, your three princes are still there, how can you let outsiders ascend the throne to the emperor?"

Chongzhen said angrily: "Don't think I don't know about you and Kunxing! If Kunxing is the governor of the country, how is it different from being a governor of the country?"

Li Guodong replied: "Your Majesty, the princess is a woman. She is just a temporary surrogate. When I avenge your majesty, I will attack the Central Plains in the north and welcome the three princes back. This world will naturally belong to your descendants."

Chongzhen shook his head: "No! I do not agree with Kunxing as the governor of the country! I have left a will to order the emperor's sister-in-law and the Zhou Hou to temporarily manage the government affairs as the Empress Dowager..."
Chapter completed!