"Your Majesty, I am innocent! I really don't know what happened. I just came in to change the Fifth Prince's dressing."
Physician Li knelt on the ground, crying his heart out.
"Investigate! I am sitting right here today. No one will leave the Prince's residence until this matter is thoroughly investigated." Emperor Yuanwu's eyes trembled with anger.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone in the room was so frightened that they knelt down on the ground.
Emperor Wu of Yuan was in charge.
Complex things seem to have become simple.
After checking them one by one.
Soon, the scent of cinnamon was detected on the sleeve of Physician Wang's sleeve, and after careful examination...
In the gap of the cuff, I found a tiny bit of cinnamon residue.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent! I really did not intend to harm the Fifth Prince."
"This must have gotten on me by accident when I was cleaning the medicine cabinet a few days ago."
"A few days ago?"
Emperor Yuanwu scoffed coldly.
"The weather has been so hot and humid lately. Do you really wear the same clothes all day without changing them?"
"Your Majesty, I truly did not lie. I have been on duty these past few days and have not returned to my residence or changed my clothes. These cinnamon sticks must have been left behind that day. Your Majesty, please investigate thoroughly."
“Indeed, a thorough investigation is necessary.” Emperor Yuanwu nodded in approval: “Bring this Imperial Physician Wang to the Censorate and interrogate him properly.”
"yes!"
Wu Jixiang leaned close to Emperor Yuanwu and whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear, "This Physician Wang entered the Imperial Medical Academy through the recommendation of Physician Li. Everyone in the Imperial Medical Academy knows that Physician Wang is Physician Li's apprentice."
So there was another layer of relationship.
Emperor Yuanwu had almost made up his mind.
"Send this Imperial Physician Li to the Department of Criminal Justice as well. I will give you three days to find out the truth about the plot to murder the Fifth Prince."
"yes!"
It is said to be three days.
It didn't even take half a day.
Physician Wang then confessed in detail all the things he had done with Physician Li in the palace over the years, including conspiring with the Empress to harm the princes and some concubines.
"Your Majesty, there is something that I believe is quite serious, and I must report it to you truthfully." Wu Jixiang knelt solemnly before Emperor Yuanwu.
"What is it?" Emperor Yuanwu paused in his work of reviewing memorials.
"It's about Consort Zhen."
"Previously, Consort Zhen's health had been poor, and it was Physician Li who tampered with Consort Zhen's medicine."
"It's only because your decision to have Consort Shu manage the six palaces and Consort Zhen assist her has angered Her Majesty the Empress..."
Speaking of which...
Wu Jixiang raised his eyes and glanced at Emperor Yuanwu.
"The Empress!?"
Wu Jixiang dared not conceal the truth: "Your Majesty, please calm down. It was the Empress. Over the years, the Empress has harmed many concubines and princes in the palace, as well as those children who could not be saved. Even the Second Prince was related to the Empress. Your Majesty, these are the statements of Imperial Physician Wang. Please take a look."
Emperor Yuanwu held the thick stack of confessions, his fingertips trembling.
Although he disliked the empress, Emperor Yuanwu had never treated him poorly over the years.
They even let her raise the eldest prince.
No matter which prince ascends the throne in the future, she will always be the Empress Dowager.
What else could she possibly be dissatisfied with?
Why be so vicious!
"The Empress Dowager has arrived!"
"Long live the Empress Dowager!"
Just as Emperor Yuanwu picked up his pen to write the imperial edict to depose the empress, he heard the voice of the eunuch at the door announcing the news.
"Your Majesty, you've come at the perfect time. I had something I wanted to ask you..."
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