Chapter 2322

After dinner, Li Xie walked slowly in the palace garden with his hands behind his back. There was no one around, and it seemed quite deserted.

Qian Tiandun had already left the palace at this time, leaving a company of troops to serve as guards here. Although there were not many troops, they were only used to frighten the thieves who might be lurking in the dark in the city. One company was enough to defeat them.

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The chamberlains, maids, and guards who were originally in the palace have all been ordered by Qian Tiandun to be placed under house arrest at a settlement outside the city in order to conduct subsequent investigations into what happened in the palace during the coup. Of course, there is another very important reason.

, Qian Tiandun believed that these people were unreliable, and for the sake of Li Xie's personal safety, it was better to replace them all. Even the cooks who cooked had been replaced by people from the Haihan Army.

Therefore, except for the few personal guards that Li Zhi brought with him when he entered the palace, there is no one in the palace to take care of his daily life. However, Li Zhi obviously does not care about these small things now. He will soon ascend the throne and he will need to spend more time.

Time to consider how you will deal with the current situation and how to govern the country.

With Haihan's support behind him, Li Zhi no longer worried about his personal safety at this time. He knew that from the moment Haihan's army successfully entered the city, it already meant that the rebellious parties in the city had chosen to compromise. At this time

If they take any further action that is detrimental to themselves, it will be tantamount to seeking death. Therefore, Li Zhi can also focus his energy on the numerous information received after entering the city today to see if he can analyze some useful information from it.

valuable information.

Although Li Zhi did not believe what Kim Sang-hyun described as Qian Tiandun, he could also realize that there were indeed many details in Kim Sang-hyun's words that could not withstand scrutiny. For example, since the coup was carried out by his opponent Cui Mingji

Initiated, and Cui Mingji didn’t even spare the king, why did he let Kim Sang-hun, his old enemy, survive and give him a chance to make a comeback? If Cui Ming-gil only had this level, how could he compete with Kim Sang-hun in the officialdom?

In half a lifetime, I'm afraid the grass on the grave will be three feet high.

As for Cui Mingji's secret collusion with the Manchus, Kim Sang-hyun has not produced any strong personal or material evidence to support his statement, and the credibility is really limited. Li Zhen can't think of a very important person like Cui Mingji.

, there is no need to collude with foreign enemies to rebel. If he wanted to become king, but he obviously had a month to do it after he succeeded, but nothing happened during that period.

There is of course only one answer to why Kim Sang-hyun had these inaccurate descriptions, but Li Zhi still did not want to think about it in this direction. After all, before he went abroad, Kim Sang-hyun was the minister who gave him the most support.

The "Princeling" logo was plastered on his forehead. It was really difficult for Li Zhi to accept that such an important court official who once stood behind him was also involved in this coup.

However, considering Kim Sang-heon's influence in the DPRK, it is inconvenient for Li Zhen to take any coercive measures against him, otherwise many official agencies may quickly fall into a state of shutdown. In order for the country to continue to operate normally, Li Zhen can only

Pretend to be deaf and dumb for now and wait for Haihan to make further conclusions on the investigation of this coup.

Fortunately, this time the Haihan people took the initiative to take over all the dirty work that Li Zhi could not speak out, saving him a lot of trouble. For example, if there are still people in the court who oppose his ascension to the throne at this time, then the Haihan people should

He will find any crime to pull him down and deal with it. Haihan will take the initiative to clear out anyone who blocks his path. Perhaps at this moment, Qian Tiandun is directing a secret arrest mission somewhere in the city.

Take those ministers who are unwilling to be loyal to you and put them in jail.

However, the guess made by Li Zhi was not accurate. Qian Tiandun was busy in the city at this time, but he was not directing the arrest mission. He now wanted to check several very important exhibits to deduce what happened in the city during this period.

Is what happened consistent with what Kim Sang-heon said?

To be precise, Qian Tiandun is going to conduct an autopsy now, and there are more than one corpses, a total of three corpses.

Qian Tiandun believes that the deaths of the assassinated King Li Zhu, his assassins, and Cui Mingji who committed suicide by taking poison are some important doubts in the series of chaos in Seoul, and the real cause of their deaths may be revealed.

Provide more clues for subsequent investigations.

Qian Tiandun specially brought two senior military doctors to serve as temporary assistants. This is not too difficult for military doctors. They deal with various traumas caused by fighting all year round, and deal with injuries caused by various weapons.

The injuries are all very familiar. The only one who is more troublesome is probably Cui Mingji. At present, North Korea does not have any technology to detect deadly poisons, so it can only be inferred whether he died of poisoning based on the general appearance.

With Li Zhi's identity, it was naturally inconvenient for him to inspect these special exhibits in person, so Qian Tiandun did not arrange for Li Zhi to participate in this matter.

According to Kim Sang-hyun, the bodies of King Li Ju and the assassins were quietly transported out of the city after the accident and buried in the mountains to the north of the city. After today's conversation at Qinzheng Palace, Kim Sang-hyun responded to Qian Tiandun's request

, immediately sent people to the burial site to dig out the two coffins, and quietly transported them back to the city. As for Cui Mingji, he had just died, and the body had not yet been processed. In order to facilitate the autopsy, Kim Sangxian also sent people to transport it from Cui Mansion.

Come out and put them together with the other two corpses for easy inspection.

Qian Tiandun walked into the house that had been taken over by the Haihan Army. Kim Sang-hyun was waiting inside. After briefly introducing the situation, Qian Tiandun led the military doctor into the house to examine the three corpses placed in the coffins.

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No less than thirty lamps were lit in the room, but the visibility was still not ideal and it looked a bit shadowy. The lids of the three coffins had been opened, and the air was filled with the smell of decay. According to the time mentioned by Jin Sangxian, the king

The body of the assassin had been buried underground for a month. It was in a state of severe decomposition and the smell was naturally very unpleasant.

Although Qian Tiandun covered his mouth and nose with cotton cloth before coming in, he still couldn't isolate the putrid smell that made people dizzy. If it were someone else, he might have turned around and left, but Qian Tiandun knew that this matter was related to the ****, so

Still, he mustered up the energy to walk to the coffin and poke his head around to observe the condition of the corpse.

The first thing Qian Tiandun saw was the body of King Li Zhu. According to the account given by Jin Sangxian, King Li Zhu was suddenly broken into and assassinated by an assassin disguised as a chamberlain in the royal study. The weapon used was a dagger.

.The dagger that killed King Li Zhu and the assassin himself is also one of the most important evidences in this incident.

The corpse in the coffin has been severely decomposed, and the original facial features on the face are almost unrecognizable. Qian Tiandun can only judge from his height, which is almost the same as that of King Li Zhu. The corpse is wearing a yellow robe, so it cannot be seen.

Regarding the specific injury status, Qian Tiandun did not intend to touch the body with his own hands, so this dirty work could only be completed by two military doctors later.

Qian Tiandun was about to walk away when he suddenly noticed another detail on the corpse. He stopped and looked at it carefully before walking to the second coffin.

Compared with the large coffin made of fine wood where King Li Zhu lay, the quality of the thin-skinned coffin where the second corpse lay was indeed too perfunctory. If this corpse had not been kept as evidence, I am afraid that

The officials wouldn't even provide him with a coffin. They would just wrap him up in a rotten bamboo mat and throw it into a mass grave outside the city.

The assassin's body was also severely decomposed, but there was still a very deep sharp cut on the neck. It seemed that this was what Kim Sang-heon said. The assassin chose to commit suicide because there was no hope of escape. As for the other

Whether he is a spy sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty remains to be tested later.

Qian Tiandun just looked at it briefly and walked to the third coffin. He didn't interact with Cui Mingji directly many times, but he recognized at a glance that the person lying in the coffin was indeed Cui Mingji. It was just Cui Mingji's.

As a layman, Qian Tiandun really couldn't tell what the cause of death was, and whether he really committed suicide by taking poison.

"The next work will be your hard work!" After Qian Tiandun took a quick look at the three corpses, he asked the two military doctors he brought to take over the autopsy work.

This place to temporarily park the coffin was chosen by Kim Sang-hyun. He had already asked his servants to boil hot water. When Qian Tiandun came out, he quickly had hot water brought to him for him to wash his hands and face. His attitude was very attentive.

"Let's talk somewhere else." Qian Tiandun simply cleaned the exposed parts of his body and then motioned to Kim Sang-hyun to find a place convenient for conversation.

Jin Sangxian took Qian Tiandun to the third courtyard of the house. There was a simply furnished study room. Although there seemed to be a trace of corruption in the air, it was already better than the air in the previous courtyard.

The quality is much better.

"Where are the assassin's weapons?" After Qian Tiandun sat down, he asked the question he was concerned about straight to the point.

Kim Sang-hyun seemed to have been prepared for this, and immediately had the evidence brought in.

This is a dagger only half a foot long, without a sheath, with a simple shape, a straight copper handle, and an anti-slip pattern engraved on the handle. It can be seen that the material on the blade has faint rust, and the blade body has very traces of hand-making.

Obviously, it is just an extremely ordinary self-defense weapon.

But Qian Tiandun had seen similar weapons. After last year's anti-Qing war, Haihan seized a large number of weapons and equipment while chasing the Qing army, including portable daggers of this shape.

Sure enough, Kim Sang-hyun said from the side: "It was found that this kind of dagger is a standard weapon issued by the Qing army to the forward battalion, so we think this assassin should be a spy sent by the Manchu Qing."

Qian Tiandun mused: "A lot of these daggers were seized during the battle with the Qing army last year. There are at least 180 daggers in stock at the Datong River base alone. If this piece of evidence alone can be used to identify the assassin,

Identity, that’s a bit too hasty, right?”

Jin Shangxian said: "We also found a large amount of property in this person's residence that is inconsistent with his income level. We have reason to suspect that it was a reward for his assassination mission. Among them were gold coins minted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. This gold coin is said to be Huang Taiji

Tokens specially used to reward warriors are not circulated in the market at all, and it should not appear among the assassins' items by chance."

Looking at the gold coins presented by Jin Shangxian, Qian Tiandun was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that the other party could actually produce other evidence. It seemed that he was well prepared to set up this trap. However, whether the gold coins were authentic or not, Qian Tiandun didn't expect that the other party could produce other evidence.

Dun had no way to confirm it at the moment. He would have to send it back to the Military Intelligence Bureau for identification.

The main purpose of Qian Tiandun's autopsy was to find loopholes in these corpses that could overturn Kim Sang-hyun's statement, so as to find out the true situation that happened in Seoul in the past month. But from the current point of view, Kim Sang-hyun

Although the story told is full of loopholes, a lot of preparation work has been done around this story. If Qian Tiandun had not suspected from the beginning that there was something wrong with Jin Shangxian's statement, he might have been fooled by this evidence.

Qian Tiandun said: "How did this assassin enter the palace and how did he maintain contact with the Manchus? Has Mr. Jin found out?"

Jin Sangxian smiled bitterly and said: "I am just the chief minister responsible for supervising the officials of the DPRK and China. I am not an expert in investigating cases, so this case has been handed over to the Yijin government for investigation. If there are any clues in the future, I will definitely report it to General Qian."

The Yijin Mansion is a special agency under the Bingcao Yamen. It combines the functions of prosecution, investigation, detention and trial, and its most important function is to investigate cases related to national rebellion. It specializes in skills, and the Yijin Mansion only targets the king.

He is responsible and his authority for action is quite high. Investigating such cases is indeed more efficient than ordinary government detectives.

Qian Tiandun paused and continued to ask: "When Cui Mingji committed suicide by taking poison, was Mr. Jin also at the scene?"

Jin Sangxian shook his head and said: "I am only a civil servant. When we besieged Cui Mansion, I could not go to the front line to fight. I did not enter Cui Mansion until the battle was over. By that time, Cui Mingji had already committed suicide."

Qian Tiandun said: "Cui Mingji is already a highly respected minister. Even if he joins the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it will be difficult for him to move up. What does Mr. Jin think is his motive for rebellion?"

Cui Mingji's motivation for rebellion has always been one of the doubtful points in this incident. His cooperation with the Manchus did not seem to have any special benefits for him personally.

But Kim Sang-hyun seems to have been prepared for this problem: "I think his main purpose is to push the second prince to the throne, but the king obviously prefers the crown prince, and he is the only chance for the second prince to take over the throne.

, which is to cook the raw rice into cooked rice while the prince is studying abroad. This assassin has been able to lurk in the palace as a servant for a long time, and I suspect that Cui Mingji may also be providing convenience."

Jin Sangxian's words were half true and half false. Even though Qian Tiandun listened very carefully, it was difficult to fully confirm which information in his words was true and which information was false.
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