"Liaodong, ride on horseback, dong that dong, there's a stinky wild boar coming up ahead."

"It's a stinky wild boar. It's ugly, but it's really vicious and unreasonable."

"You're being unreasonable and rushing around recklessly. A big black bear is flying behind you."

"Big black bear, you're so brave! You defeated the wild boar, what a great achievement!"

At some point, a children's song called "Flying Bear" became popular in the palace, sung among the servants and palace maids. At first, Zhu Youxiao didn't care much, because there were already many children's songs in the palace.

Once, when he was about to go to the Imperial Household Department, he heard two little palace maids singing this nursery rhyme. He listened attentively for a while and realized that the nursery rhyme was about Xiong Tingbi's trip to Liaodong.

"You," Zhu Youxiao walked down from the palace corridor, "where did you hear this nursery rhyme?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" The two little palace maids were having fun when they suddenly saw the emperor appear. They turned pale, their calves trembled, and they knelt on the ground with a thud.

"I don't blame you. Go ahead." Zhu Youxiao smiled faintly.

The two young maids lay on the ground trembling with fear, and did not speak for a long time. But Chen Hong became anxious and said quickly: "The emperor is asking questions!"

One of the braver palace maids knelt down and took two steps forward, kowtowed and said, "This servant also heard it. Everyone in the palace knows it."

"Everyone knows it, everyone knows it..." Zhu Youxiao pondered these words carefully. He looked at Chen Hong and said calmly, "You know it too."

Oh my goodness! Chen Hong was so annoyed with this palace maid that she sold him out with just one sentence!

"Your Majesty, I have heard a little about it, but I am stupid and cannot understand it." Chen Hong said respectfully, bowing.

"Go and find out where this nursery rhyme came from." Zhu Youxiao left after leaving these words.

Chen Hong was stunned. Where else could this story have come from? Didn't the Emperor make it up himself? But since the Emperor asked him to check, he didn't dare not to.

When Zhu Youxiao returned to the Qianqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian had already been waiting for the emperor at the door of the carpenter's studio for a long time.

He paced back and forth at the door, the whisk in his hand swaying back and forth, shaking his head and sighing from time to time, "What should I do..."

It seemed that Wei Zhongxian was troubled by something. He was always smart and didn't even notice that the emperor had returned.

"What's the matter and what should we do?" Zhu Youxiao said suddenly, standing behind Wei Zhongxian.

Old Wei was so frightened that he almost jumped up. After he came to his senses, he quickly turned around and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know how to start."

"If you have something to say, just say it." Zhu Youxiao opened the door of the studio and strode over the threshold and walked in.

"Old servant..." Wei Zhongxian followed in like a lackey and said hesitantly, "This old servant recently heard a nursery rhyme..."

"Flying Bear?" Zhu Youxiao picked up a piece of wood on the table and tapped it lightly with his fingers.

"Your Majesty, that's right. This nursery rhyme has been widely circulated in the palace. I heard that it was brought into the palace by the people outside the palace... and some adults heard that the emperor was deceived by evil means..." As Wei Zhongxian spoke, his voice became softer and softer, and he crouched lower and lower.

He was afraid that the emperor would blame him, after all, it was he who found the Taoist priest.

"Go and call Chen Hong in." Zhu Youxiao picked up the carving knife expressionlessly and began to scratch on the log, as if he had not heard Wei Zhongxian's words.

Wei Zhongxian was stunned, not quite understanding what the emperor wanted to do, but he still responded respectfully and slowly retreated.

Zhu Youxiao paced back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, thinking about what to do.

At the same time, after Chen Hong came in, he saw that the emperor was thinking, so he knelt silently three meters away. He even thought about how to face the emperor's rage.

After a long pause, Zhu Youxiao slowly said, "Chen Hong, I have a task for you. I will give you three days to lead your men to clean up the palace."

After a brief pause, Zhu Youxiao continued, "You know what should and shouldn't be kept in the palace. Go and do it!"

"I obey your order." Chen Hong was not blamed, but was entrusted with an important task. It goes without saying how excited he was.

The last time the emperor asked me to convey the emperor's decree, if I can do it well this time, I will definitely be valued.

After seeing Chen Hong leave, Zhu Youxiao said to Wang An, who was serving beside him, "Eunuch Wang, you are an old man who served the late emperor, and also the eunuch closest to me. There are many people in the palace who are interested in this. Chen Hong is young and does things without thinking. You should take care of these things. If there is any disturbance, just report it to me. Don't be afraid. I still trust you."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I know what to do." Wang An naturally understood what the emperor meant. After bowing, he replied respectfully.

The emperor asked him to keep an eye on Chen Hong and not let him take advantage of this incident to do anything wrong, and also to make sure he did his job well.

The eunuchs in the palace were very familiar with this kind of thing. An old eunuch like him had many channels of information in the palace.

"Go out! No one is allowed to come in without my permission." Zhu Youxiao gave the final order.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang An slowly retreated.

Three days passed, and at this time, Zhu Youxiao was sitting on the huge dragon throne in the Qianqing Palace.

During these three days, a lot of things happened. Two people were placed under house arrest by the emperor, and countless people were killed. The subtle fragrance of plum blossoms in the air of the Forbidden City was now replaced by the smell of blood.

The two people under house arrest were Li Xianshi (Li Kangfei of Emperor Taichang) and Zheng Taifei (Zheng Guifei of Emperor Wanli). Zheng Guifei had a very famous son, Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu, the father of the later Southern Ming Hongguang Emperor.

There was a reason why Zhu Youxiao placed these two people under house arrest, and that was because they were two restless women.

Concubine Li was relatively okay, she just wanted to seize power; Concubine Zheng's purpose was not so simple, not only did she want her son to become emperor, she was also involved in the Red Pill Case.

His cheap father died after being emperor for only one month, and it was very likely that Concubine Zheng was involved in the matter.

On July 21, the 48th year of the Wanli reign, Emperor Wanli died of illness. His adoptive father succeeded him and changed the reign title to Taichang, making him known in history as Emperor Taichang.

On the first day of August, at the coronation ceremony, my stepfather walked and walked in a normal manner, with no signs of illness.

Later, my stepfather's night with eight women was related to Concubine Zheng, and those women were sent by her.

As a result, my father became weak overnight, and the eunuch who treated him was the eunuch Cui Wensheng, the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department and the head of the Imperial Pharmacy. He gave my father rhubarb.

After eating it, my cheap dad had diarrhea and went to the toilet thirty or forty times overnight.

Not to mention a very weak person, even a strong man cannot withstand such diarrhea.

Zhu Youxiao absolutely did not believe that there was no conspiracy here.