Chapter 217: The Day of the Knife Dies in the World

The serving man ambled fearfully and told the whole story.

It turns out that just this morning, the righteousness of the Board of porridge after only half an hour, the victims of large-scale vomiting, diarrhea and even fever and convulsions, individual symptoms of serious coma near death. YiShanBureau is led by the Prince of the Ministry of the household and the Division of the military, in order to relief temporarily established, the Prince heard about this matter, immediately went out of the Palace to the scene.

Hundreds of victims fell ill, and the physicians did not have enough manpower to treat them, so the scene was filled with cries and groans. When the Prince arrived with his guards, someone called out, “He is the Prime Minister of Disaster Relief,” and the victims rushed forward, pulling on the horses and begging him for help.

The guards of the Eastern Palace, fearing that the Prince would be injured in the chaos, accidentally injured several people when they stopped the quarantine, so the victims became even more agitated. The victims of several other settlements also rushed over to make their claims, and the Crown Prince was surrounded by the panicked and angry crowd, like being caught in a boiling soup.

One of the guards hurriedly rushed back to the palace to report, the duty of the service to know the urgency of the situation, had no choice but to enter the temple to report, rushing the emperor’s congratulatory gift.

Emperor Jinglong rose, pondered for a moment, and slowly sat back in the dragon chair, frowned and showed his displeasure, said: “The crown prince is no longer a child, if even this thing can not be done, what else can be expected of him?”

It looked like he didn’t want to be bothered with this and see how the Crown Prince would set things right.

The civil and military officials looked at each other, whispering with many complicated colors. Yang Ting, a cabinet minister, took the lead and urged the emperor to take the safety of the crown prince as the most important thing and send troops to pacify the rebellious people. The emperor was silent.

Seeing this, several courtiers came out to extol the Emperor’s sharpening and testing of the Crown Prince as a move to cut jade, which was very wise, and in turn advised Yang Ting not to delay His Highness the Crown Prince’s training due to women’s benevolence.

Yang Ting countered that the jade must also use the appropriate tools, to control the force, otherwise it is broken jade, insisted that the emperor decree.

Emperor Jinglong coldly said, “Wanshou Halloween, universal celebration of the hundred officials to offer gifts, the crown prince offered me a birthday gift is a civil disorder, how, but also I personally lead the troops to go to receive it?”

Yang Ting was rhetorically left speechless, and could only thank the Emperor for the Crown Prince in his capacity as the Crown Prince’s Crown Prince, while once again pleading with the Emperor to take the love between father and son seriously.

The courtiers said that the crown prince acted recklessly and inspired the people to change; some said that the crown prince was quick-witted and believed that he could handle it well; some said that the incident happened strangely, and that some people among the victims had taken the opportunity to create chaos, and that troops had to be sent to suppress it; and some said that the people were sick after the disaster and that, as if adding insult to injury, it was necessary to urgently enlist a doctor to go to the doctor’s office to treat the people…….

Su Yan silently watched, realizing that no matter what the respective opinions of the ministers were, they were vaguely divided into two factions from their positions.

Speaking of the Prince in the past because of playfulness and anorexia, not less scolded by the civil officials and officials, but in the past that situation, and now show the seed is different – especially in the weekdays with the Wei family close to the officials, now even more from the Emperor’s performance in the moment to draw strength as if, one by one in the words, the Prince’s attitude rather than “admonition” rather than “attack and attack”. The attitude towards the Crown Prince is not so much one of “admonishing” as one of “attacking”.

In the end, it was because of ill health, early return to the Wen Yuan Pavilion to rest the first minister Li Xianfeng heard of the news rushed, in the great hall directly asked the emperor: “In case His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a failure, His Majesty after the head of the gas, can be regretted?”

Jinglong emperor Fang face changed slightly loose mouth, sent jinyiwei went to save the scene, but also named Su Yan: “you are both the white paper workshop explosion case task force responsible for the subsequent settlement of the victims should also pay more attention, with jinyiwei go to see what the situation is, and then report back to me.”

Su Yan had wanted to find an opportunity to slip away to see the crown prince, this oracle was just what he wanted, and immediately led the order to leave the Fengtian Palace.

Out of the noon gate, he also car also do not sit, fast horse speeding to the righteousness and goodness bureau.

Goodwill Bureau is located in the west of the city, adjacent to a few victims resettlement points. Su Yan rushed to see a crowd of people in the yard, there are standing and sitting, there are lying on the ground, everywhere is the pain moaning and sobbing, outside the yard is also surrounded by a lot of people outside the three layers.

The prince was surrounded in the center of the crowd, facing a few kneeling officials to say something, a vermilion-colored woven gold cloud dragon hikisar extra eye-catching.

Su Yan saw that there were many people at the scene, but it was not so chaotic as to be unmanageable, the situation seemed to be under control, and he could not help but sigh with relief, and rowed into the crowd.

“Young Master!” He called loudly through the wall of people.

Zhu Hailin turned back at the sound of his voice, as if his entire face lit up when he saw him clearly, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but lift up, saying should be: “Qinghe! Come over, come to my side, be careful of squeezing.”

The guards made a passage, Su Yan walked over, first surveyed the crown prince: “Little master is fine.” He also asked, “The news reached Fengtian Palace, the emperor ordered me to come to check the situation, and the brocade guards will arrive later. What exactly is going on?”

“You ask him!” Zhu Helin raised his leg and kicked the man kneeling in front of him, sending him tumbling backwards. Su Yan saw that the man was dressed as a miscellaneous zuo official, his face was covered in sweat and tears, his face turned white from fear, after being kicked he hurriedly knelt back down, shivering like sifting chaff, and his words couldn’t be spoken. Behind him were two minor officials, also panicked.

The surrounding victims shouted angrily, “Kill him! Kill this dog official!”

“Who would have thought that Gaijin would escape death in a big explosion, but not the corrupt officials who malfeasance!”

“These people deserve death by a thousand cuts, Your Highness the Crown Prince must do right by our people!”

Zhu Hailin nodded toward the people and turned to Su Yan, explaining, “I suspected that the problem was in the congee and had the physician test it, but no poison was detected.”

Su Yan knows that the so-called drug testing in this era can only detect arsenic and other sulfur-containing, other toxins basically can not be detected.

Sure enough, Zhu He Lin said: “So I went to the warehouse to check the grain storage, found that all the moldy rice, blackened and stinking, take alum water Amoy a little, it is cooked into the miscellaneous grain porridge to disaster relief. The victims eat this kind of thing, not sick! I have checked, the Ministry of households under the disaster relief rice is not a problem, to the righteousness of the Bureau of good will become moldy, in the middle of the rice will be sold, and then to the second best.”

As he said, his face was full of anger, even Su Yan also felt righteous indignation: it seems that this kind of behavior of making national wealth, regardless of ancient and modern times, there have been in all dynasties.

“This person is only a miscellaneous officer, not so big ability and courage alone to do this matter, there must be behind the back of the messenger. I just interrogated him for a long time, he was crying and shaking, just refused to give an account, it seems that not to give some powerful is not possible.”

As he spoke, a team of brocade guards rushed to the scene and surrounded the entire courtyard. Seeing this, Zhu Hailin had a change of heart and said to those few officials from the Goodwill Bureau, “If you don’t tell the truth again, I’ll send you to the Northern Zhenfu Division, so that you can have a taste of the Imperial Prison’s great punishment!”

The official looked like he was shocked to the core, and suddenly stopped shaking and raised his face to look at the Crown Prince.

His face was pale, lining his eyes extremely black, and there was an unspeakable deep meaning in his gaze, looking at Su Yan’s heart. In this split second, that person suddenly kowtowed heavily towards the Crown Prince and got up violently.

The guards thought that he was going to storm out and hurriedly formed a circle to protect the crown prince, but they did not expect him to dash out in a diagonal direction and jump into a water well in the courtyard without hesitation.

“…… threw himself into a well!” The crowd exploded in a cry of alarm.

Su Yan called out, “Quick! Quickly save the people!”

The guards reacted, two of them good water, immediately looking for a thick hemp rope tied to the waist, hanging down into the well to save people, touch and touch did not touch.

“I’m afraid that man doesn’t know how to swim at all and sank. I’ll dive down and look again.” The two guards alternately dived down to the bottom of the well to look for the person.

After a long time, one of the guards floated up, wiped his *** face, and cried out, “Master, I didn’t touch anyone, but I touched something odd, should I pull it up and look at it?”

Zhu Hailin peered into the well, “What’s that weird thing?”

“I’m not sure, it feels like a pillar, upright, half buried in the mud.”

“Pillar?” Zhu Helin turned his head to look at Su Yan, who returned a puzzled look. Then the crown prince ordered, “Then pull it up and take a look.”

The guards dived down again, tied the thick hemp rope tightly to the thing, and a team of people outside the well pulled hard, and after a lot of effort, finally pulled the thing out of the water and dragged it out of the well a little bit.

It turned out to be a one-man-high, soup-basin-thick stone pillar, and I don’t know how long it had been at the bottom of the well, but the surface was covered with limescale, and there were messy dents on it that were vaguely discernible.

As the guards continued to fish for the man, the Prince circled around the strange stone pillar that had fallen across the ground to study it, feeling more and more that the indentations spoke for themselves, and instructed his men, “Use a knife to scrape the dirt off of it.”

In a short while, the scale and algae were scraped away, and the engravings on the stone pillars were revealed, like a few ancient handwriting.

Zhu Hailin had the columns erected, connecting the words east by west, and read, “What does it mean that the day of the sword dies in the world ……?”

This strange incident, Su Yan always feel that the flavor is not right, there is a kind of déjà vu sense of routine. He was still searching for this feeling, and the people around him were talking and discussing:

“What day is the ‘Day of the Knife’? Is that in the day’s stem?”

“What ‘death to the world’ sounds unlucky.”

“Where the hell do you guys think this pillar came from? This well has been used for decades, I think, but I never knew it was buried underneath.”

“Who knows, maybe it’s God’s plan.”

Su Yan winced, knowing what this feeling was – the usual prophecies used by professional rebel clerics, one way being nursery rhymes, the other way being relying on foreign objects.

The group discussion had a breakthrough point, an East Palace guard had a bright idea and called out, “‘Knife mouth day’ together, is not a ‘Zhao’ word? ‘Zhaowei world’, doesn’t this mean that the person surnamed Zhaow will be the one to perish the great–“

He was suddenly silenced.

Zhu Hailin frowned and glared at him, “What do you mean? You tell me clearly!”

The guard shook his head in death, not daring to say another word.

Some people in the public pondered, “This soldier moncler outlet online is quite reasonable …… In addition to the surname Zhao, it may also be the name with ‘Zhao’ …… “

Name with “Zhao” in it? Zhu Hailin didn’t know what came to his mind, and his face changed.

“What is Little Master thinking about?” Su Yan asked him.

Zhu Hailin shook his head, ordered the guards to pull a piece of cloth to wrap the stone column tied up, put on the carriage to bring back to the palace.

The body of the official was recovered from the bottom of the well. The dead man would not testify, and the petty officials underneath did not know anything about it, so the culprits who sold the rice as substandard could only be investigated again. The most important thing is to save the sick people.

Fortunately, there were a large number of Jin Yi Guards, who went in batches to invite doctors, buy herbs, and set up cauldrons to boil the medicine. Licorice antidote soup was distributed in bowls, and most of the poisoned victims’ conditions were under control, and their symptoms began to diminish, so their lives were not in jeopardy.

Zhu Hailin sighed with relief and tried his best to pacify the people, saying that he would let the Ministry of Revenue re-send a batch of new rice over and promised to investigate the matter thoroughly and bring all the culprits, including the officials, to justice, before leaving the Bureau of Justice and Goodwill amidst the grateful voices of the victims.

Su Yan and the Crown Prince rode their horses side by side, pondering the whole way.

It was Zhu Hailin’s turn to ask him, “What are you thinking?”

Su Yan shook his head, “I can’t say for the time being, it’s always not a good premonition. Today this matter is very strange, I’m only afraid that not only is there something in the matter, but there is also a bureau in the bureau.”

Zhu Hailin said: ”Little master also feel wrong. Not to mention the rice relief, let’s talk about this inexplicable stone pillar, and the even more inexplicable handwriting on it, ‘The day of the sword dies in the world.’…… ‘Zhaocheng dies in the world’, do you know who I thought of? Lao Er, Zhu He Zhao.”

Su Yan suddenly strangled his horse and looked at Zhu Hailin with an expression that was hard to describe.

Zhu Hailin was flustered by his look and asked, “What’s wrong? I indeed couldn’t help but make such an association.”

Su Yan’s lips opened and closed a few times, and finally whispered, “Young master, listen to my advice. Destroy this pillar, turn around and never mention this, especially in front of the Imperial Master.”

Zhu Helin froze and asked, “Why? Besides, everyone in the room saw this, a thousand people have a thousand mouths, if I don’t say it, won’t others say it?”

“…… It’s not a crime, little master, really.” Su Yan gripped his arm hard, “I’ll say a heartfelt word, this is not a poison against poison, but a deadly faint trick! If you had asked my opinion beforehand, I would have been firmly against it. This kind of tactic can manage for a moment, but not for a lifetime; it can hide from the world, but not from the Emperor.”

Zhu Hailin finally came back to his senses and was furious: “You think I engineered this?”

Without waiting for Su Yan to react, he was so angry that he smacked the horse’s buttocks hard with a whip and raised the dust.

Su Yan ate a nose, covered his face with his sleeve and muttered, “Xiao Zhu doesn’t look like someone who would do this kind of bureau, could it really not be him? Then who is it ……”