Chapter 288 Sun Yu's Sudden Death

When the attention of the front and back palaces was all focused on the smallpox, Uncle Zhaowu entered the imperial capital in a hurry.

The old man Gu personally led people to meet his long-lost son at the Chuihua Gate of the uncle's mansion. After exchanging pleasantries, he sat down inside to talk. The old man made the decision and quickly dismissed the women and children, leaving only the adult men in charge.

"Is the smallpox serious in the imperial confinement?" Seeing the door closed, Gu Fangshu didn't say anything, and asked straightforwardly, "I see that the road in the imperial capital has been depressed a lot, my child?"

"It's a lot of depression. After all, in order to protect Li Shu, His Majesty made up his mind to seal off the palace city to prevent the spread of the disease." Old Master Gu said with a complicated expression, "People outside, apart from being grateful for the great kindness of the emperor, is it possible that they can continue Unscrupulous eating, drinking and having fun? It's not that there are no such inappropriate people, but they were taken down by the Imperial City Secretary with excuses two days ago."

"The Secretary of the Imperial City is crazy now, as if he used to arrest people, but now everyone in every household is in danger, and they dare not neglect and overstep." Gu Fangshu's second brother interjected, "I am afraid that they will be locked up and imprisoned for crimes."

This is not surprising, smallpox was mixed into the imperial city, and it still appeared in the birthday gift of the noble concubine to the loving mother, the empress dowager!

If this matter is not implemented, it is the imperial concubine or some high-ranking person who bears the brunt of it, the Imperial City Secretary and the imperial guards who guard the palace are not doing their job well...

That's all for the imperial guards, Jiang Lan, the newly appointed commander of the imperial army, after all, is an old man who has accompanied Chunjia for many years, and came out from Fuyang County together.

And just took over the imperial army, the emperor will probably not deal with it severely.

But Sun Yu of the Imperial City Division is hard to say. Although he was also brought up by the emperor, he is considered one of his own. After all, unlike Jiang Lan, he has the experience of sharing joys and sorrows with the emperor, and has a deep bond.

The most important thing is that he was almost replaced by Chunjia last time because of his poor performance, and now he is coming again. It can be said that unless there are special reasons, Sun Yu will basically be demoted.

With such a bleak future, how can we not seize the time when the emperor has not freed up his hands to deal with him, and try our best to show off, in exchange for the emperor's heart softening, maybe he will give up lightly?

Gu Fangshu nodded slightly, and asked about the mother and son of the queen in the palace.

Old Mrs. Gu's expression was gloomy: "The empress is okay, she is your first daughter, she has been well-educated, and her body is also good. Even the third prince and tenth prince have already bloomed... these two days are going to be very dangerous. It's hard to say if you can't make it through. Although there is still a twelve princes raised in the side hall of the Taichu Palace, how old are the twelve princes? Looking at the imperial heirs under the imperial confinement, there is no one whose fate is more ill-fated than the three sons-in-law. If the tenth prince also loses this time, I really don’t know if the twelfth prince will be alone in the future?”

"The most terrible thing is that this time, some things were discussed in private, but they suspected what our family did... It was to ensure the position of the twelfth prince as the heir apparent!"

The old man thinks that people who say that are either stupid or bad.

If Gu Zhen is a capable empress who likes a noble concubine, then there is nothing to say. The Gu family is not a good person either. Between the tenth prince and the twelve princes, the twelfth prince who has his own blood must be preferred. of.

The issue is……

Gu Zhen can't do it!

Not only is Gu Zhen not good enough, but the entire Gu family does not have any particularly powerful girls who can take up the post.

Although the Gu family has no successors, the new generation of children is not particularly outstanding, but the older generation is still there. Mrs. Gu is not stupid. Anyway, the two princes are not born of Gu Zhen, even if the twelve princes are born of Gu's daughters Well, the blood relationship between Gu Liman and the main sect is actually relatively distant. In this case, what is the rush to kill the Tenth Prince?

It's serious to raise the two princes first, okay?

Even if he favors the Twelfth Prince in his heart, at least the Twelfth Prince will show enough to compete for the crown prince when he grows up, and it's not too late to attack the Tenth Prince at this time!

The old man is now in a bad mood: "At first, I thought about entering the palace immediately to ask His Majesty to defend myself, but now His Majesty has closed the palace gate...it is hard to say. I can only go to the palace gate every day to say hello and pray for the peace and prosperity of the royal family."

It wasn't just old man Gu who did this, many subjects did the same.

Some people come from the bottom of their hearts, especially people who don’t know anything and are guided by public opinion. They really think that Chunjia is a sage monarch born in the world. His benevolence and kindness are incredible...

Others were specially made for the emperor to see.

Because of these people, some courtiers were more casual at first, but after watching for two days, they bit the bullet and joined in.

The main reason is that the emperor will not remember the people who went to pay his respects, but he will remember the people who will not go... Although the emperor himself will not show up on the city wall at all, he can't stand the presence of many guards. Who knows if there is any record for the emperor? isn't it?

"This matter is not urgent." Uncle Zhao Wu said calmly, "Your Majesty is shrewd, and it is not easy to be deceived. But my child is strange, who is so bold to spread smallpox into the palace... Does the Imperial City Secretary still have no explanation?"

"Then Sun Yu is simply a waste." Old Master Gu sneered, and said, "You can tell from the fact that the Imperial City Secretary has cleaned the streets every day for the past two days and found nothing. He must know nothing!"

In fact, what the old man said wronged Sun Yu. In fact, although Sun Yu failed to detect the clues in advance, he did find out some clues afterwards.

But he dared not say it.

Because of these clues, it pointed to someone he couldn't afford to provoke!

"Damn it, what should I do now?" Sun Yu locked himself in the room alone, pacing back and forth anxiously, thinking about countermeasures.

Although the emperor didn't urge him these two days, it was because he had to deal with the memorials brought in through complicated procedures, and he had to pay attention to the concubines and heirs of the harem. He was so busy that he couldn't take care of him.

Once Chunjia took a breath of relief, she also knew that the Tian family had suffered such a big loss, might they let it go? !

Sun Yu is very desperate right now, he would rather not know anything and find out nothing, and then be demoted by the emperor.

Even if he is found to be incompetent and has no bright future in the future, at least he won't lose his life...

but now……

Sun Yu thought over and over again, but still couldn't find a proper way. He was hesitating, but a servant from outside came to report: "My lord, there is a distinguished guest coming to see you!"

"An honored guest?" Sun Yu was startled, stood still, and asked in a deep voice through the door, "What kind of honored guest?"

The servant hesitated for a while, then whispered: "It looks like he came from the army..."

In the military?

Of course Sun Yu knew about the news that Uncle Zhao Wu had just entered Beijing, so it's hard to say that the visitor had something to do with the Dingbei Army?

Or, simply a member of Uncle Zhaowu?

After all, Zhonggong was the first to bear the brunt of the smallpox incident...

Sun Yu thought about it, and finally said: "Please invite the distinguished guests to the flower hall to serve tea, and I will go after the meeting!"

... Half a day later, a shocking news quickly spread throughout the imperial capital: Sun Yu, the Imperial City envoy, died suddenly in the mansion!

According to the narration of his close personal commander, after Sun Yu personally received a guest who came to the door, he shut himself in the study to deal with some paperwork, and then he did not see anyone until dinner time. When he went to inquire, he found that the person had already fallen. On the case, there is no breath.

After examination, the cause of death was poisoning.

At the same time, the long follower also found that the entire study room had been searched, and some things were missing.

But because Sun Yu was always allowed to go in and out of this study alone, the cleaning was done without any help, even if it was close to his heart and soul, at most he stood outside and looked in a few times, and he didn't know the specific details, so he didn't know what was missing. I was able to find that things had been turned over, or because Chang Sui found that the arrangement of some things was quite different from Sun Yu's usual habits.

This incident directly attracted Chunjia's attention from the harem.

The left and right didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or to be more worried, but the emperor didn't get angry after hearing the ins and outs. Instead, he asked about Sun Yu's various movements before his death without stopping.

Knowing that he has been very anxious and irritable recently, and often wandering in the locked room alone, he said lightly: "Yaomo knows something he thinks he shouldn't know, so it's embarrassing."

It was Sun Yu's former deputy who came to report, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

After all, as the emperor's eyes and ears, the Imperial City Secretary, logically speaking, there is nothing that cannot be said to the emperor.

Sun Yu did this, that is to say, the person is already dead. If he is still alive, he will not be wronged if he is dragged out and chopped up.

"I know it all. It's an extraordinary time, and I don't have time to worry about it. In this case, you will take the place of Sun Yu temporarily and continue to investigate." The emperor didn't get angry at all, and calmly dismissed the deputy, and went sideways to serve the tea next to him. , the fingertips trembled slightly.

It was because he realized that even if Sun Yu died, the information he had found should have been taken away, but simply because he had clues but did not dare to report them, he knew that most of them had something to do with the imperial concubine or the Queen Mother Yuan.

If it weren't for someone as close as the emperor, Sun Yu wouldn't have been timid, hesitant, and hesitant.

There is no news that makes the emperor feel more chilling and unbelievable than this.

It's not that he doesn't know that the imperial concubine and the Empress Dowager Yuan are not good friends, but this time... one is not good, and he may be infected with smallpox! ! !

The most important reason why the emperor dared to stay in the palace was that no one had passed on it so far in the previous dynasties, and he thought that he was in good health, so he was unlikely to be recruited.

If there was an example of this in the previous dynasty, he would definitely arrange for someone to fight and also take himself away!

After all, his well-being is the guarantee of prosperity and wealth for the empress dowager and concubines.

If he makes a mistake, who of these people he cares about will end well?

Especially the imperial concubine!

"...It's unlikely to be the noble concubine." The emperor was overwhelmed, but after thinking for a while, he felt, "The noble concubine is smart, even if I secretly resent that I refuse to make her the queen, and refuse to make the fifteenth crown prince, but the fifteenth How old is she? She should still have the idea of ​​slowly grinding with me, it's impossible to go astray like this now."

If King Jin is now fifteen years old and ready to become a feudal vassal, it is still possible for Yun Fenghuang to do something like this.

Before that, she had no reason to do so.

After all, now that the empress is here and the son-in-law is here, the emperor has a good or bad idea. Besides the middle palace being cheaper, who else can be cheaper?

Without Chunjia, Yun Fenghuang and Xie's can beat Gu's? impossible.

Although the Gu family has declined, it is not as good as before, and there are no successors... This is all relative to a famous family.

As for the Xie family, Gu's decline has just begun, let alone, as long as there are no prodigal sons, normally speaking, they will decline for three generations, and Xie's may not be taken seriously.

The power and ability of a long-standing family is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

But if it wasn't for the imperial concubine...

Chunjia leaned back on the chair weakly, and smiled wryly.

Most likely, only Queen Mother Yuan.