On the southeast side of Xuanshi Hall is the residence of Fu'an, the eunuch in charge of Weiyang Palace.
At this time, many guards have arrived.
"Meet Your Majesty!"
Seeing Liu Chan coming, all the guards immediately saluted.
"Where's Fu'an?"
Liu Chan asked and walked straight into the inner room. The two widowers and several officials from the Weiyang Palace all bowed respectfully to Liu Chan when they saw him coming in.
Liu Chan ignored them because he had already seen Fu'an's body.
"How did he die?" Liu Chan asked casually.
A widower saluted Liu Chan and said: "Your Majesty, after careful inspection by the ministers, the chief steward should have died of poisoning."
"Poisoned?" Liu Chan was stunned.
Things have become complicated. Two days ago, Fu'an was ordered to investigate the leak of gunpowder, but now Fu'an died of poisoning.
If someone didn't do this intentionally, then it would really be a ghost.
This is the Weiyang Palace of the Han Dynasty.
The daily residence of the emperor.
How brave do you have to be to dare to poison the emperor's personal eunuch in Weiyang Palace?
Liu Chan didn't even need to think about it, he also knew why Fu'an died.
Gunpowder leaks.
Some people don’t want Fu’an to find out who leaked the gunpowder.
Everyone in the room was a little panicked at this moment, because Fu'an was the emperor's chamberlain and the personal eunuch who stayed with the emperor in Chengdu.
If anyone dares to kill Fu'an, I'm afraid the emperor will kill him now.
I'm afraid that Weiyang Palace will be in chaos.
"Preach the message!"
Liu Chan glanced at Fu'an, then turned around and ordered: "Arrest the eunuchs above the consul level of the Gunpowder Bureau immediately. No one can be spared. Arrest them all and kill them all at noon tomorrow."
"No!"
Several guards on the side immediately agreed and quickly left the room.
Everyone guessed correctly.
The emperor is going to kill someone.
Gunpowder Bureau——
This may not be clear to people outside the Weiyang Palace, but people in the Weiyang Palace are very aware that this is an organization under the Craftsmanship Division and was established by Liu Chan ten years ago.
After more than ten years of development, there are more than 300 eunuchs working in the Gunpowder Bureau. They are all responsible for helping Liu Chan develop gunpowder, some are responsible for refining saltpeter, and some are responsible for refining sulfur.
But most of them only know about the development of one of them, because the workshops are separate and not in the same place, and they are not allowed to meet each other. If they dare to meet in private, they will be killed without mercy.
As for the consul eunuchs, there are more than twenty people.
In fact, most of these twenty people don't know the ratio of gunpowder. It's just that they are responsible for supervising the manufacturing of gunpowder and usually come into contact with several people from Fu'an.
Someone killed Fu'an.
The purpose is naturally to prevent Fu'an from finding out who leaked the secret.
Of course——
If Fu'an died, Liu Chan, as the emperor, would definitely send someone immediately to investigate who killed Fu'an. Such a large-scale investigation might implicate many people.
Maybe there will really be a horrific bloody storm in Weiyang Palace.
If this is the case, who would most like to see this happen?
Cao Wei——
That's right, it's Cao Wei.
Liu Chan has been thinking about it for the past two days. If he were Cao Fang and developed gunpowder now, what would he most want to do?
Needless to say, it must be mass-produced immediately, and at the same time vigorously research and develop gunpowder-related weapons, because only with such weapons, the Han Dynasty will not dare to easily use troops against Cao Wei.
However, this takes time.
Now someone is poisoning Fu'an.
In addition to not wanting Fu'an to find out who leaked the secret, the purpose was to cause chaos in the Weiyang Palace and panic among the people in the Weiyang Palace, so that Liu Chan would not have time to send troops to attack Wei.
There's big trouble in the palace.
Which emperor dares to launch military operations against the enemy country at this time, is he not afraid that his own backyard will be the first to catch fire before the enemy country is conquered?
Therefore, when he learned that Fu'an was poisoned, Liu Chan made his decision.
To kill the top brass of the Gunpowder Bureau, there is no need to investigate who killed Fu'an.
Because there is no need.
The person who poisoned must be related to the leak of gunpowder, and is most likely Cao Wei's spies, but most of them are not in Weiyang Palace.
Their purpose is to disrupt Weiyang Palace.
Don’t check!
My Weiyang Palace will not be in chaos.
At the same time, it also gave Liu Chan a reason to kill the senior officials of the Gunpowder Bureau. This can be regarded as a way to make up for the situation.
The gunpowder leak must have come from a few senior eunuchs.
This is what Liu Chan has determined in the past two days.
The prince and the prime minister will definitely not leak the secret, and the concubine Cao Ling has determined that she has nothing to do with this matter after several tests and secret investigations.
The only people who might leak the secret are a few senior eunuchs.
Even if a leaker is identified and killed, will this ensure that there will be no more leakers in the future?
Impossible!
History has proven that these eunuchs are the least trustworthy.
Liu Chan also regretted that he should not have let Fu'an and the others know the formula in the first place. It was indeed hidden from Fu'an and the others at the beginning.
But as time went by, Fu'an and the others avoided it every time they tested the preparation.
Liu Chan felt that after so long, they might investigate secretly out of curiosity, which would be counterproductive. After all, they are all people close to the emperor.
So in the end, we simply set up a gunpowder bureau, and then found a few trustworthy eunuchs to serve as chief eunuchs, and they would prepare the gunpowder.
Found now.
The original decision was wrong.
No matter how trustworthy the eunuch is, he is still a eunuch.
Kill——
There are more than twenty eunuchs above the consul level. Killing them all may reduce the number of people who know the formula.
Noon the next day.
More than 20 eunuchs above the consul level were executed.
Li Quan, Deng Yu and others all cried out that they were wronged, but Liu Chan, who was looking at them from a distance, just sighed, it's only my fault that I let you know too much.
"Chen'er!" Liu Chan turned around and said to Prince Liu Chen: "Father, I will leave the development and preparation of gunpowder to you..." After speaking, he paused and said: "Gunpowder is a matter for me, a big man.
You must remember the safety of the company and choose carefully the candidates for development."
"I obey your order!" Liu Chen bowed and responded.
As a human being, you must die. Even the most powerful emperor will die sooner or later.
The future of the big man belongs to young people.
Liu Chan felt that such matters as the development and preparation of gunpowder could be left to his son. After all, he was the future emperor of the Han Dynasty.
After dealing with the preparation of gunpowder, Liu Chan was free.
There was no bloody storm in Weiyang Palace.
It took more than twenty people to resolve this crisis.
One month later——
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang rushed back to Chang'an from Wuchang.
Half a month ago, he received a handwritten letter from Liu Chan, informing Zhuge Liang that the gunpowder had been leaked and that Cao Wei had developed gunpowder.
Zhuge Liang was a little worried, and immediately handed over the military and political affairs of Soochow to Qin King Liu Tan, and he traveled straight to Chang'an at night and starry.
Inside the Xuanshi Hall.
After a few brief greetings with Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, Liu Chan said directly: "I want to send troops to attack Wei, but I don't know what my father's wishes are."
"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Zhuge Liang saluted, then gently shook his feather fan, looking very calm.