newbobooks Chapter 410 Confess everything
Chapter 410 Confess everything
Fu Zhiyi smiled bitterly, knowing that he could not escape this disaster.
He also picked up the tea, took a sip, and then spoke: "This matter has to start with Princess Deqing..."
Then he told the story.
It turned out that on that day, Princess Deqing had someone send a batch of drugged beef, which was brought into the mansion through the hands of the third master Fu Heyin.
Fortunately, the troops were discovered by Nanny Ye.
Afterwards, didn’t Lu Zhenzhen bring the dried meat into the palace and present it to Concubine Xiao and the Fourth Princess?
The emperor happened to see it and gave half of the dried meat to himself.
Lu Zhenzhen left the palace and deliberately spread the news so that Princess Deqing's people could hear it.
After hearing this, Princess Deqing immediately realized that it was probably Lu Zhenzhen who sent the drugged beef to the emperor.
She had already left the palace, but immediately turned back to ask for an audience with the emperor.
He asked about the dried meat and Lu Zhenzhen in a roundabout way.
The emperor became suspicious and gave Princess Deqing a vague and perfunctory response.
As soon as Princess Deqing left the palace, the emperor summoned the imperial physician to inspect the batch of beef jerky.
Turns out there's nothing wrong with beef jerky.
Since there is nothing wrong with the beef jerky, why does Princess Deqing care so much about it?
The emperor, who was born in the center of a vortex of power and conspiracy, was a suspicious person and immediately ordered an investigation.
No matter how powerful Princess Deqing is, when the king of a country really wants to get to the bottom of something, he will definitely get to the bottom of it thoroughly.
Therefore, the fact that Princess Deqing sent the drugged beef jerky to the Marquis' Mansion through the third master clearly appeared on the emperor's desk.
Even the person who handled it is clear.
It was also known that Lu Zhenzhen and Fu Zhiyi discovered the problem with the beef and kept this batch of beef separately to fool the spies of Princess Deqing.
Then Fu Zhiyi bought good beef from other channels, made beef jerky and sent it to the palace.
It was probably from that time that Fu Zhiyi came into the emperor's sight.
Not to mention that it was discovered that the so-called handing over of power and the personnel and connections under Princess Deqing was purely a smokescreen.
The pawns thrown out by Grand Princess Deqing were all useless, and occasionally there were a few people who seemed to be favored by Grand Princess Deqing and were used to confuse the emperor.
In fact, the Grand Princess Deqing had already established contact with the Third Prince, in an attempt to help him ascend to the throne, and the Grand Princess Deqing's family was once again trying to follow the emperor.
Moreover, after misunderstanding that the emperor, Concubine Xiao and the fourth princess had all eaten the drugged beef jerky, she was not afraid but confessed her mistake to the emperor.
On the contrary, after knowing that Lu Zhenzhen had given the beef jerky house to the imperial kitchen, Princess Deqing and the third prince mobilized their own people and sent beef to the imperial kitchen through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, all of which were laced with the drug "Jinghun".
Moreover, during those days, the beef sent by the imperial kitchen to the emperor, Concubine Xiao, and the fourth princess contained the substance of shock.
If the emperor knew all this, could he still tolerate it?
However, Princess Deqing has had considerable influence in recent years, and it is not yet possible to fully understand her connections in the former court and the harem.
For fear of alerting the enemy, he simply suppressed it.
The harem asked Concubine Xiao to sort things out slowly, and released a large number of elderly eunuchs and palace maids under the pretext of praying for the empress dowager.
As for the previous dynasty, the emperor naturally had his considerations.
He didn't dare to easily assign people to investigate and handle these matters. After all, Princess Deqing's family had been entrenched in the court for many years, and no one knew who else was her people.
The only person who is certain not to be from the line of Princess Deqing is naturally Fu Zhiyi.
Therefore, after Fu Zhiyi won the third place in the imperial examination, he was appointed as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy and became a close minister to the emperor.
After being examined openly and secretly by the emperor, the emperor gave Fu Zhiyi a task, and for this task, the emperor and his ministers cooperated to perform a play.
He deliberately let people see that Fu Zhiyi made a mistake, lost the emperor's favor, and was demoted to serve as an official in another place.
Two days before he was sent to serve as an official, the court learned that there were rampant bandits in the Canggou area, and it was said that officials from nearby prefectures and counties and local garrisons were also involved.
The emperor was furious and decided to suppress the bandits.
They are also afraid of alerting the enemy and failing to completely eliminate the bandit problem, which will reappear after a long time.
So Fu Zhiyi and his team were asked to attract some merchant ships to attract the attention of the pirates.
He specially dispatched a group of imperial guards to disguise themselves and follow behind on a cargo ship. After the pirates were lured out, they were all captured in one fell swoop.
After the Canggou bandits are wiped out this time, a part of the imperial guards will stay behind to garrison for a period of time to prevent the bandits from reviving and retaliating against the passing ships and the people in the city.
The remaining imperial guards will follow them south to South Vietnam.
Fu Zhiyi didn't intend to tell the latter part because he was afraid that Lu Zhenzhen would worry and get scared.
But after experiencing the incident of suppressing the water bandits in Canggou, Fu Zhiyi realized that Lu Zhenzhen was terrifyingly sharp and quite foresighted at certain times.
For example, during this bandit suppression campaign, if Lu Zhenzhen hadn't warned them in advance, most of the imperial guards would have fallen into the hands of those seemingly harmless women, children and the elderly.
And that deputy commander of the guards is His Majesty's confidant. If anything happens to him, I am afraid I will not be able to escape the blame.
Now that the bandits have been successfully eliminated, and he has also saved the life of Deputy Commander Wei, with this, after arriving in Nanyue, cooperation between him and the imperial guards will probably be much smoother.
All of this is a chain reaction caused by Lu Zhenzhen.
Therefore, he didn't want to hide these things anymore, and he also wanted to see if Lu Zhenzhen would have any opinions or suggestions. He didn't sneer at them before, but this time he would record them one by one and would not forget a single word.
After hearing what Fu Zhiyi said, Lu Zhenzhen's guesses and the dots in her mind finally connected.
I couldn't help but curse in my heart: This person who is scheming for power really has a dirty heart.
To be honest, Fu Zhiyi was also implicated by her.
However, this is also an opportunity for Fu Zhiyi. If he can seize it, his future will be truly limitless.
And Fu Zhiyi seized this opportunity.
The bandit suppression in Canggou was the beginning of Fu Zhiyi showing his abilities, and it was probably also a test from the emperor.
Test Fu Zhiyi's ability to see if he can subdue these imperial guards and use them for his own purposes.
Now it seems that with Fu Zhiyi's previous reminder and the life-saving grace, the deputy commander of the guards seems to have already taken care of it.
This level of test has been passed.
As for what awaited them in South Vietnam, Lu Zhenzhen did not ask.
The real headache was: "How many people should we take to South Vietnam? Can we still avoid exposing our tracks?"
Fu Zhiyi nodded: "We must take at least 300 people to South Vietnam, and we must not reveal our whereabouts."
"Those imperial guards are still in Canggou. We have to find a way to bring them here without being noticed."