Seeing this, Qi Jingtong wanted to persuade him, but Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and persuaded him, and only ordered: "Enjinyiweibei Town Fushi, how are you taking over now?"

"Your Majesty, you have taken over it. Several people who secretly communicate with court officials and internal officials, or corrupt officials, have all dismissed them. I will ask Your Majesty to deal with it!" Qi Jingtong replied.

"The Jinyiwei is the personal army of my guards. I cannot tolerate any betrayal against me and all of them will be shot! Leave his head in the main hall of the Fusi Department in the North Town, soaking it with glass and Formalin, so that everyone in the Jinyiwei will know the consequences of betraying me!"

Zhu Houzhao ordered that to make the Jinyiwei the last line of defense for the imperial administration and the maintenance of judicial justice, he must have the most stringent requirements for the loyalty of the Jinyiwei, so that the Jinyiwei can be more stringent to the criminals.

"Abide by the order!"

Qi Jingtong received Zhu Houzhao's will and cleaned the internal internal security department of Jinyiweibei.

Zhu Houzhao was therefore officially prepared to start attacking the bureaucratic group of the entire empire.

First of all, Zhang Zhong.

certainly.

Zhang Zhong didn't know that his own deadline had arrived.

On this day, Zhang Zhong brought Huiqing to meet Zhu Houzhao.

When Zhu Houzhao saw Hui Qing's appearance with a long-lived face, she seemed to be a long-lived person, so she asked, "How old is the immortal?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, I am a man from the 13th year of Hongwu!" Hui Qing replied.

"It seems that he has lived forty-three years old! He is really long-lived!" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, and then asked again: "I dare to ask how the immortal man can live such a long life!"

"I'm going to go back to Your Majesty, it's because I take a life pill every day! Today, I'm especially offering one to Your Majesty. If you take it, you can increase your life by ten years." As the immortal said, he took out a small box wrapped in brown silk cloth.

Zhu Houzhao asked the Neihuan to take it over and took out the Shouning Pill from Neihuan's hand. Zhu Houzhao just smiled secretly and ordered: "The immortal man took this pill first and took a look!"

Seeing this, Huiqing had to agree.

Zhu Houzhao then asked someone to give Huiqing a glass of water and let Huiqing swallow it.

Huiqing thanked her, so she swallowed the pill and water, but soon she fell to the ground and twitched.

Zhu Houzhao's face turned cold and she asked Zhang Zhong: "What's going on?"

Zhang Zhong was also very panicked and hurriedly crawled on the ground: "Your Majesty forgive me, I don't know!"

After suspected that Zhang Zhong was in charge of the West Factory and deliberately concealed it from him, Zhu Houzhao had a reason to get rid of Zhang Zhong. However, he knew that it would be difficult for an old fox like Zhang Zhong to catch him directly. Since that is the case, it would be better to wait for himself to find an opportunity to create a case.

It is obviously an opportunity for Zhang Zhong to use the opportunity to offer the Yellow and White Technique to gain further trust. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao pretended to be interested in his longevity at the beginning and announced that he could meet this person who could refine alchemy, and then took the opportunity to direct such a play.

The poison in this immortal man was thallium, which was a by-product of the Ming Academy of Sciences when refining zinc, and was obtained by reducing dilute sulfuric acid and sulfur dioxide.

Because of this, the immortal man couldn't die for a moment, and he only breathed rapidly and said nonsense: "How could this be possible? The pill I refined, except for adding amusing medicine and a small amount of lead and mercury according to Eunuch Zhang's wishes, shouldn't be poisoned at once. Why is this happening, why is this happening!"

Zhu Houzhao looked at the mentally ill man and couldn't help but complain: "Dare to play with me! I'm really looking for death!"

However, after hearing some of the immortal words, Zhu Houzhao looked at Zhang Zhong again:

"The Ming Academy of Sciences has long proved that lead and mercury is a highly toxic substance. You Zhang Zhong really dares to murder me! Qi Jingtong, put him in the imperial prison and interrogate him strictly!" Zhu Houzhao ordered.

at this time.

Zhang Zhong had already fallen to the ground. It was true that he wanted to refine some elixirs containing a small amount of lead and mercury for the emperor, but he just wanted to make the emperor suffer from chronic poisoning. However, he did not expect that he had brought this immortal man today and had been poisoned to such an extent after taking one. He even directly told the matter between himself and him.

Zhang Zhong could only beg for a moment: "Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, please spare me!"

Zhu Houzhao was too lazy to deal with him anymore.

Ju Gu Dayong laughed secretly from the side and said to himself: "It is only this kind of slut who followed His Majesty for a while that he thought His Majesty was so easy to deceive. He actually wanted to use the elixir of immortality to deceive His Majesty. Don't you know that the holy learning spread by His Majesty has already annotated the various elements contained in your elixirs, so how could you fool them!"

...

After Zhang Zhong was sent to the imperial prison, he soon confessed his purpose of knocking out elixirs for Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was not polite, and directly issued an order to execute Zhang Zhonglingchi. At the same time, he issued an order to abolish the Western Factory and replace the supervision of the Western Factory with the Jinyiwei. This means that the Jinyiwei can directly report to the Emperor Zhu Houzhao in the future, regardless of the level.

Zhu Houzhao didn't believe that the bureaucratic group could bribe all the Jinyiwei.

Zhang Zhong was taken to the execution ground, and he didn't expect that he would come to this point. He now regretted that he was smart at the beginning and thought that he had already known the current emperor Zhu Houzhao very well, so that he could fool the emperor. But he did not expect that the emperor had never believed in him from beginning to end. Moreover, although he was cautious in trying to get nothing to be found by the emperor, he did not expect that the emperor would be so sinister that he would take the opportunity to poison the Taoist to death and frame him when he was leading the Taoist priest to present elixirs!

For Zhu Houzhao, Zhang Zhong's removal was just the beginning of his purging of the court.

Now, the Western Factory has been banned, and the Jinyiwei, who is responsible for internal intelligence detection, can report to him directly, without anyone intercepting him, and Zhu Houzhao has also added countless pairs of eyes to monitor the entire empire.

The incident of Wang Shouren's secret memorial on adulteration of Xuanhua gunpowder and Xiong Jia's secret memorial on the case of the inspector's crimes also gave Zhu Houzhao a clearer understanding.

...

For civil officials such as the cabinet chief Wang Qiong, the death of Zhang Zhong also made them feel a dangerous approach.

"Although Your Majesty abolished the West Factory, many civil servants below thought that Your Majesty wanted to govern inaction and gradually hand over the world to the literati and officials to govern, those who understand a little bit can know that Your Majesty just wanted to take on the job of the West Factory Admiral and turn a West Factory into countless Jinyiwei, and from then on, both internal and external ministers will be under his surveillance!"

Wang Qiong sighed helplessly at this time.

"As the chief minister said, it's a pity that although Eunuch Zhang was guilty of offering elixirs to murder Your Majesty, he was considered lenient and unfair when he was in charge of the Western Factory. Now, Your Majesty let Qi Jingtong, a military officer who only travels to the battlefield, take charge of the Jinyiwei. Obviously, although there is no trouble, people like Qi Jingtong are probably more likely to be controlled by Your Majesty. At that time, the Jinyiwei will completely become a knife in His Majesty's hand, and chop wherever he wants!" Yang Yiqing also sighed.

"Then you say, where will His Majesty cut down next?"

As soon as Wang Qiong finished asking, he said in unison with Yang Yiqing; "Cabinet!"

Before Wang Qiong and Yang Yiqing continued to discuss, a person suddenly appeared in front of the two. The man was wearing the special official uniform of the East Factory Inspection Department and said only: "We are from the East Factory Inspection Department. The Jinyiwei found some evidence of the Prime Minister's crimes. Please ask the Prime Minister to follow us and explain the problem!"

Wang Qiong had lived in the entire petrochemical industry. He never expected that one day he would be invited by the Dongchang Inspectorate to explain the problem.
Chapter completed!