Chapter 279.

This Choi Young-ho was already starting to confess.

It was at this time that Zhang Anshi even wanted to take someone.

This caused Zhu Di’s heart, which had just hung down, to lift up again.

His eyes were like knives, skimming over the crowd, but he didn’t show his face.

Yiluoha in the face of the emperor, where dare to slow down, panicked: “Wei Guo Gong, to take who?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Concubine Jin ……”

Zhang Anshi took a step towards Consort Jin who had been leaning on Zhu Di.

Jin Fei looked puzzled, seemed to be nervous because of the strange man s approach, her pretty face swept over the color of nervousness, said, “Wei Guo Gong …… do not know what is the meaning of this?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Jin Niangiang …… is only afraid …… that she will have to aggrieve you for a while.”

Like a frightened bunny, Consort Jin looked at Zhu Di in panic, and her eyes then turned slightly red, “Your Majesty ……”

Seeing this, Consort Liu on the side said, “Your Majesty, just now or in the name of catching the rebellious party, took a slave girl. Now it’s good, even the concubines also started to take, your majesty …… concubines serve your majesty with all their heart, your majesty …… you have to do it for us.”

Saying that, he subconsciously went to tug on Zhu’s sleeve.

Zhu Di’s face, however, was hard to see.

His tiger eyes gazed fiercely at Consort Jin before his gaze fell back on Consort Liu.

Yiluoha was even more jaw-dropped, he never thought that the matter would involve Concubine Liu, therefore, just now, he was still looking like he swore to assist Zhang Anshi, but now, a dozen eunuchs were looking at him, and he didn’t say a word.

Zhu Di said in a deep voice, “What’s going on?”

Zhang Anshi coughed.

When that Yi Wang Zhu heard this, he instantly understood and actually rushed forward at once, separating Consort Jin from the rest of the district.

Zhang Anshi glanced appreciatively at Zhu, Zhu, this guy, understood him.

Only then did Zhang Anshi say, “Your Majesty, I have some certainty that this person is Princess Jin.”

Zhu frowned, “Why?”

Zhang Anshi said: ”In fact, I guessed her at …… the beginning, just her identity is sensitive, so …… before there is no definite evidence, I dare not do it rashly, I had to think of a way, first clear her peripheral personnel, which is also This is why, I first went to find Cui Yinghao in the Du Zhi Supervision. But who expected, Cui Yinghao happened to be in the Liu Fei, and Jin Fei is also here, the minister this side took Cui Yinghao, is tantamount to hitting the grass to scare the snake, I am worried that, if continue to delay, this Jin Fei to take advantage of the opportunity to destroy the evidence, so …… this is the boldness of the moment to point out.”

Zhu Di frowned as he thoughtfully glanced at the terrified Concubine Jin, who was nothing more than a weak woman in his eyes, and in no way could he make a connection between her and the bandits of the White Lotus Sect.

Finally, he reluctantly nodded, “How sure are you?”

“Eighty percent.” Zhang Anshi said with certainty.

Eighty percent is no longer considered small.

It’s just that Zhu only felt curious at this point.

“I remember that you said that the matter involved a eunuch.”

“Your Majesty, what I did suspect at first was the eunuchs.” Zhang Anshi continued, “So after entering the palace, I also started from here.”

“But why are you suspicious of her.” Zhu pointed at Consort Jin.

This, after all, involves Zhu Di’s woman, had to be careful, if it is wrong, once from the palace out of what, disgraceful is also Zhu Di.

Although Zhu was in debt, and had long since been turned by some to circulate the legend of running around naked and eating X outside, a woman was a matter of decency to a man, whether he cared for it or not.

Zhang Anshi took a deep breath, he also knew that getting it wrong this time was different from getting it wrong at other times.

If you get it wrong this time, you’ll have to eat your own words.

On the other hand, on that side, the Golden Concubine did not defend herself, but her eyes were pouring with tears, sobbing and wiping her tears, as if she had been wronged by the heavens.

She forced herself not to argue anything to Zhu.

Only then did Zhang Anshi say, “At first, I also felt that in all likelihood, it was the eunuchs who had colluded with the White Lotus sect, but later, when I learned about the actual situation within the palace, I felt that the direction was wrong.”

“Wrong direction?” Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi thoughtfully.

Zhang Anshi said, “But anyone who believes in these things often has to have a private space ……”

“Private space?”

“You need to read the scriptures, you need to ‘cultivate’, and as far as I know, the vast majority of eunuchs in the palace do not have such conditions, and not only that, but most of the eunuchs work together in groups, so if one person is associated with the White Lotus Sect, it’s unlikely that the others wouldn’t have realized it, especially after the imperial court’s crackdown on the White Lotus Sect. There were no eunuchs who reported this matter to Eunuch Yiluoha.”

Zhu said, “Is that so?”

Zhang Anshi himself is happy, Your Majesty you yourself are in the palace, is the master of the eunuchs, do not know …… the conditions of survival of these people who serve you.

Zhang Anshi learned from Yiluoha that eunuchs mostly ate and slept together, and that lower-ranking eunuchs often slept in bunk beds, with a dozen or so people crammed together.

It is only the higher level eunuchs that may be able to squeeze two or three people into a room.

Only at the pinnacle of eunuchs, at a level similar to that of Yishoukha, were they eligible to live in a house by themselves.

This is so because the scale of the palace is indeed large, but in fact, when the original creation of this place, the housing for eunuchs is not much, not to mention that from the Hongwu to Yongle, the number of eunuchs has increased by a lot, but the living is still so big.

For the vast majority of eunuchs, they do not have any personal space to speak of.

This was also the reason why Zhang Anshi slowly realized that the likelihood of eunuchs in the Forbidden City, who wanted to practice White Lotus Sect and still remain unnoticed, was pitifully small.

Zhu half-heartedly said, “Just because of this?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Of course it is not just this, this is just …… changing my mind. In my mind, perhaps there will be people who will come into contact with the White Lotus Sect, because this White Lotus Sect will be willing to befriend them and even give them favors because of who they are, and such eunuchs, I believe there are.”

Zhang Anshi fixed his mind, then said: “This is like, many local officials, receiving benefits from others, this may just be greedy instincts, but if the other party tells you, you take my benefits, you have to follow me to plot against me, this …… will never be possible. Eunuchs are also the same, to provide convenience to the White Lotus Sect can be, take their benefits will also certainly have, but because of this, dare for them to risk shattering the body of ten thousand pieces, this possibility, it is minimal.”

Zhu nodded, “You’re right.”

That Golden Concubine was still on the sidelines, wiping her tears.

Zhu could not help but glance at her, still feeling that such a weak woman could not imagine her colluding with the White Lotus Sect.

Zhang Anshi continued, “This is something that we are clear about, the eunuchs are also aware of, and the White Lotus bandits, obviously, are also clear about it. Since they intend to move in the palace, they know that absolutely can not count on these eunuchs in the palace. And what kind of person …… can not care, so desperate? Then there is only one possibility, this person …… he really believes in the White Lotus religion, this is devout, even if he lost his life, also in the. ”

Zhu Di immediately thought of those collapsing congregations outside the hall not long ago because of Father Buddha’s original form, even Zhu Di felt a chill down his back when he thought of this scene.

Zhu said, “What does this mean?”

“This brings us back to the original question, can an extremely pious person, one who can give up his life for something, hide his preferences? Or …… can he keep himself from reciting the White Lotus Sutra and worshiping the many statues of that White Lotus Sect from time to time?”

Zhu suddenly cleared his mind.

After a pause, Zhang Anshi continued, “This is human nature, if a person is filled with this, it is impossible for him to be completely indifferent to it. He will definitely find ways to secretly ‘cultivate’, and will try every means possible to chant the sutras daily. Since he believes in this thing and finds it useful, it is impossible for him to restrain himself.”

“And here, another problem, ninety-nine percent of the eunuchs, they don’t have the private space and time to be alone, even if they secretly recite sutras and secretly worship the Buddha of the White Lotus Sect, they are bound to be detected, and it’s impossible that there won’t be any news coming out of the palace.”

Zhu Di said, “What about the eunuchs beyond the ninety-nine percent?”

Zhang Anshi smiled bitterly and said, “These people, I have already carried out the exclusion, there are eunuchs such as Yilungha, and Zheng He, they have been excluded.”

Zhu Di carried his hands behind his back and paced back and forth as his face began to look grave.

It’s not the eunuchs, then …… it’s what comes next that makes it so fine.

Because there are only two kinds of people in the Great House, one is a nobleman and the other is a slave girl.

“So you think that the problem lies with the concubines?” Zhu Di gazed at Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi said, “Yes, the problem may be on this, so I dare, check the concubines …….”

Zhu’s face rose.

That Concubine Liu, originally looked at Zhang Anshi with cold eyes, but now, seems to also feel some fear up, at this time no longer dare to talk more.

Only Princess Kim, still choking, wiped her tears.

Zhang Anshi said, “To be able to believe in the White Lotus Sect and still remain unnoticed means that she has time to be completely alone, and for years and years, without having to labor. Following this clue, I began to investigate and learned that in His Majesty’s palace, there are forty-nine true concubines.”

Concubines are also different, in the palace can really be called on the consort, in fact, not many, folk always exaggeratedly say what the harem beautiful three thousand people, which is actually more than the number of courtesans, but the courtesans and concubines, in fact, is a world of difference.

Zhang Anshi continued: “Among these forty-nine concubines, I asked some more, of which there are more than thirty can be excluded, the remaining …… will then be compared one by one. To know, the consort deep in the palace, can actually believe in the White Lotus religion, but also can accept the instructions from the White Lotus religion, and let the White Lotus people convinced that she must be loyal and reliable, this shows that this concubine side, there must be a reliable person, for her to convey the news to the outside world.”

Zhang Anshi said, “I followed this clue and learned which eunuchs the concubines have around them on weekdays, and the nobles in this palace always have preferences, and the eunuchs love to throw themselves at them, and because of this, there are differences in how the concubines and eunuchs go about their business.”

“But the general concubines, if you think a eunuch is good and delicate, if you think that the use of smooth hands, more and also lost Ha Gong Gong will say hello, the Secretarial Supervision side is of course know how to, naturally, will be the eunuch will be arranged to the concubine’s bedchamber to serve.”

“Only the minister in the golden concubine here, but found a strange thing. Jin Fei has been to that Cui Yinghao good, not to say praise, but on weekdays, if it is to give the lackeys reward, all have his share. And Cui Yinghao, will often go to the golden concubine’s bedchamber there to ask for peace, as a matter of fact, Cui Yinghao in the director is only responsible for running errands, if it can be transferred to the side of the golden concubine’s service, may not not be a beautiful thing. However, Concubine Kim has never mentioned this, and apart from being close to him, she still seems to be willing to keep him in the Capital Prison.”

At these words, Zhu Di frowned, although he did not care too much about the matter between concubines and eunuchs, but now, but also gradually back to the taste.

Zhang Anshi at this time, however, looked toward Yizhuoha and said with a smile, “Eunuch Yizhuoha, let me ask you if Cui Yinghao is better than the Du Zhi Supervisor when he went to work in Consort Jin’s chambers?”

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Zhang Anshi then said: “Then you say, this strange is not strange? This Cui Yinghao is not easy to climb the Jin Fei this big tree, but it is partial to …… Jin Fei from time to time called him to speak in front of him, but decided not to imply to the Secretary of Ceremonies, so that Cui Yinghao to move a position. Is this a frequent occurrence in the palace?”

Also lost ha said, “Not too common, even if you can not go to the bedchamber to serve, but if you say hello, change a fatter errand is also good, unless …… this eunuch did not get the preferences of the nobleman.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Then isn’t there another possibility that Princess Jin needs him to stay in the Du Zhi Prison and be in charge of the delivery of letters?”

Hearing this, Yiluoha gave Zhang Anshi a meaningful look.

He didn’t dare to say this, if he agreed to this, it would be like he also thought that there was something wrong with Princess Jin.

No matter how high and powerful Yiluoha is, she is still a slave girl in the palace, while Consort Jin, even if she is no longer favored by His Majesty, is still a nobleman.

Yildirha would not dare to do anything unauthorized.

Zhang Anshi did not continue to make things difficult also lost ha, then looked to Zhu Di said: “Your Majesty, this is why I dare to say that this matter, I have eighty percent certainty of the reason, would have ……… given me some more time, I can also search out more evidence, but …… now time is too late, so …… I have the courage to plead with your majesty, immediately give the order, search this golden concubine’s bedchamber …… perhaps you can know the answer. ”

Zhu Di heard, face pulled down the face, no longer hesitate, immediately said, “Come to the people …… to me to go to search a search ……”

Yishakha was ordered to do so, and only then did he begin to move with the eunuchs.

At that moment, however, a voice said, “There is no need to search.”

The one who spoke was actually Consort Jin.

Concubine Jin had never voiced her grievances, even though she had made a lot of aggrieved looks and was very soft. But now, she was acting harder than the majority of men.

She said word for word, “Your Majesty, in my concubine’s place, there are indeed many Buddhist scriptures, as well as some Buddhist statues.”

“It’s from the White Lotus Sect?” Zhu shouted angrily.

Concubine Jin, however, said, “Your Majesty will offend Heaven by making things so difficult for the White Lotus Sect.”

At these words, Zhu Di’s chest rose and fell, obviously furious.

He was actually a little speechless at the thought of having such a person on his pillow.

Zhang Anshi said beside him, “Your Majesty, I will retire.”

Yi Wang Zhu was listening with great interest, and when he saw Zhang Anshi trying to slip away, he busily said, “Don’t be in a hurry, this is just the beginning.”

Zhu Di glanced at Zhang Anshi at this moment and said, “The lieutenants who came with him, withdraw, Zhang Anshi and Yi Wang Zhu stay.”

The lieutenants saluted and withdrew.

Zhu Di’s face was ironic, his face was cloudy as he coldly said, “Zhang Anshi, you interrogate.”

Zhang Anshi bitterly smiled, this is not a good idea to ask ah, with the toes can think of, the more you ask, the more things you should not know.

But at this time, he couldn’t say no, so he had to harden his head, “Your Highness the Golden Concubine ……”

Zhu said disgruntledly, “Call Jin.”

Zhang Anshi had to say, “Jin, when did you come into contact with the White Lotus Sect?”

While Concubine Jin glanced at Zhang Anshi, she was extraordinarily calm, and one could even say that she appeared confident.

She said, “When I was in Beipingfu. At that time, when His Majesty Jing was in trouble, there were all southern troops outside the city, attacking the city day and night …… Many people were afraid, and at that time, they would often do pujas in the royal residence to bless His Majesty to return safely.”

Zhang Anshi said, “A monk who performs pujas has access to the ladies of the Beiping King’s House?”

“It’s the female nun.”

Zhang Anshi said, “And then you believed it?”

Jin Fei said, “This is the right way, since I learned this, people also steamed, from a small showgirl, to the present day, I am daily happy ……”

Zhang Anshi said, “What family do you have outside the palace?”

Princess Kim said, “I am a showgirl of the Joseon Kingdom.”

Zhang Anshi nodded, “You are relying on Cui Yinghao to liaise with the White Lotus Sect?”

Concubine Kim glanced at Choi Young-ho in the distance and nodded, “There are many things I don’t understand that I need him to inquire about.”

Zhang Anshi said, “What orders did they convey to you, out there?”

At this time, Princess Kim was silent.

Zhang Anshi raised his eyebrows, “You refuse to say?”

The Golden Concubine said, “I will not offend the heavens, much less betray Father Buddha.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Do you think you can muddle through?”

“Even if we have to suffer, it’s just a test from Father Buddha.” The Golden Concubine was unusually calm: “What is there to care about this mere physical body? You mortals, precisely too much importance is attached to these, so this is also afraid, that is also afraid, but to me …… this is all a passing thing.”

Chu: “……”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your so-called Buddhist father has been taken.”

Concubine Jin smiled sweetly, “It won’t be, you guys don’t have to say much.”

Zhang Anshi said, “This Father Buddha, is now imprisoned in the Imperial Prison; if you want to see him, you can go and see his ugly state now.”

The Golden Concubine still looked confident as she said, “This is just a trick for you to pass off fish eyes as pearls; anyone can be identified by you as the Buddha’s father.”

Zhang Anshi said, “He has many other party members who have also fallen into the net, and I’m only afraid that among them there is that nun you had in the Beiping King’s mansion at the beginning.”

The Golden Concubine was so calm that it was scary: “Even so, that was just a trial for Father Buddha. You can’t kill him, you cut off his head, he will go back to the sky, Buddha father and mother is to save the living, can’t see us mortals suffer, only down to the mortal world. If the world did not allow them, they would still be free in heaven.”

Chu: “……”

Feeling that he could not hold back some of his fire, Zhang Anshi angrily said, “How do you know that they are the Immortals?”

Princess Kim asked rhetorically, “Then how do you know they aren’t?”

This time, even Zhang Anshi felt clueless.

Concubine Jin said, “If you want to take it out on me, I will be happy to do so, or if His Majesty takes pity on me and wants to give me a pain in the ass, I will never hold any grudges, and will naturally be willing to die with a smile on my face. Even if you want to teach me to suffer, to suffer a lot of pain, that’s no problem, I do not blame you guys, and I do not regret it.”

Zhu Di endured so much, has been very difficult, at this time obviously can no longer bear to go on, angrily: “also lost ha, also lost ha ……”

Yizhuoha was also anxious and immediately said, “Escort them down, escort them down.”

Dozens of eunuchs, immediately dragged the Golden Concubine and left.

Zhu was so angry that his face turned black and said, “What kind of bird scriptures are these, what a stupid woman.”

Zhang Anshi sighed and said, “Your Majesty, I do feel that I can’t ask anything categorically here at this Jin’s place.”

Zhu Di coldly smiled and gave Yiluoha a meaningful look.

Yiluoha nodded knowingly and said, “The slave girl knows.”

Only then did Zhu Di look at Zhang Anshi again and said, “But …… what exactly did they hit?”

Zhang Anshi was calm and said, “Don’t be anxious, Your Majesty, there’s still a Choi Young-ho.”

Zhu Di snorted coldly and then said, “Strip this slave girl of her tendons, I want him to open his mouth for me.”

That Choi Young-ho, was directly dragged to a side hall.

By this time, Zhang Anshi was not polite.

In front of the Golden Concubine, Zhang Anshi but held a bellyful of gas, he originally thought, he has some epilepsy, but after seeing this Golden Concubine, only to know the world really crazy.

Yizhuoha specially come to do help, who knows this Yizhuoha under the head of the eunuchs, on the subject of torture, can be more professional than the jinyiwei actually.

Only a moment’s work, this Cui Yinghao has been in pain, he wailed, because of the pain, and trembling voice said: “Recruitment, slave girl all recite …… slave girl all recite …… anything.”

Said, he kowtowed like garlic, but the side said: “slave girl does not believe in the White Lotus religion, but along with Jin’s together with the North Korean country dispatched, as a tribute. Slave girl and Jin, were sent to the Beiping Wangfu, thought, this life, probably so. But since then, Jin’s more and more soaring, her status in the palace rose, that the North Korean state …… naturally with honor.”

He glanced at Zhang Anshi, and then said, “Therefore, after the tribute envoy of the Joseon country came to the capital, he specially said that Jin’s family, has been treated well in the Joseon country, and her father and brother, have all become officials. Also taught the slave girl, also to serve Kim well in the palace, also said …… also said …… that my brothers and parents in the country, naturally will also be taken care of.”

“After that, Jin always teach slave girl to do things, slave girl naturally know, he in the palace, and in his hometown, all need to rely on Jin, therefore, has been doing their best. He often taught me to go to the capital outside to run errands, every time, all teach me to bring all kinds of scriptures and some letters in and out, outside to slave girl scriptures of people, often also to slave girl generous, at every turn will reward slave girl many silver.”

“The slave girl from now on does her work, more vigorously ……”

Zhang Anshi paused for a moment, and thinking of something, he suddenly looked at him fixedly and said, “Some days ago, did you also send something?”

“Sent.” Choi Young-ho hurriedly said, “Sent a package.”

Zhang Anshi’s eyes widened slightly as he said, “How big a package?”

Choi Young Ho tried to try to make a comparison, but Jang An Se said, “Men, fetch packages of different sizes so that he can identify them. On top of that, teach someone to search Princess Kim’s residence for such a bundle.”

Choi Young-ho, however, said with great certainty, “The package must not be there.”

“Why?” Zhang Anshi said as he stepped forward.

Cui Yinghao said, “Consort Jin has always been very careful, even if something was sent from outside, he would always instruct his slave girl to throw it into the Imperial City Lake afterward. And every time the slave girl helped him throw it, she found that what was there had actually been burned almost to the ground.”

Zhang Anshi narrowed his eyes and made no more noise.

In a few moments, the eunuch fetched a dozen packages, large and small.

Choi Young-ho looked at the different bundles and pointed violently at a watermelon-sized bundle and said, “That bundle is this big.”

Zhang Anshi continued to press, “What other characteristics are there?”

Cui Yinghao seriously thought about it and said, “Inside seems to be what altar jar, the other, slave girl …… also dare not look, they will be on the outside of the package, paste a talisman, this talisman can only be torn down by the Golden Concubine, if it is sent to her hands, it will have been torn open, she will know that the slave girl peeped at the slave girl, where the slave girl I dare not.”

Zhang Anshi turned back to look at Yilungha and said, “In these days, has Jin traveled around the inner palace? Is there any record of traveling?”

After a moment’s thought, Yiluoha said, “There really is.”

At that moment, he ordered the eunuch to fetch it.

Yiluoha said, “The palace is not like any other place, every move in this palace has to be recorded.”

“I heard that His Majesty went to the consort’s place to sleep and that a few times, there are records of that as well, is that right?” Zhang Anshi curiously said.

Yilungha coughed and crossed her orchid fingers, pointing at Zhang Anshi, “You are so annoying, Duke Wei.”

Behind him, Yi Wang Zhu, however, suddenly said, “This I know, I know, ask me, ask me ……”

Zhang Anshi, however, got serious and ignored Zhu.

Chu was greatly frustrated.

Soon a book was fetched.

Zhang Anshi lowered his head, looked at the book, and read it carefully before his face suddenly became even more grave.

He frowned and said, “I get it, I finally get it, into the motherfucking Li Xi Zhou, this bastard son of a bitch shall not die!”

After saying this, Zhang Anshi’s expression became more and more gloomy, and he fiercely looked at Cui Yinghao and said, “Do you know that right now …… you are not only finished yourself, but also your father and brother in the Joseon Dynasty country will also be killed along with you! Colorless dog thing.”

When Cui Yinghao heard this, he immediately shivered and was busy saying in horror, “Slave servant …… slave servant ten thousand deaths, slave servant ten thousand deaths ah …… “