Chapter 171: Poisoned Milk Incident
Wanyan Honglie identified Wanyan Hongxi as the murderer of the prince, but Wanyan Hongxi would not admit it.
Not only did he not admit it, he even slandered Wanyan Honglie in front of the emperor, saying that Wanyan Honglie was the real murderer of the prince.
This kind of thing relies on evidence. You can't just kill the two heirs to the throne just because of suspicion, right?
You must know that there is a large number of noble forces behind these two people. Without any solid evidence, no one can move, not even the emperor!
What's more, Wanyan Honglie is still directing the war against the Song Dynasty, and Wanyan Hongxi has just taken away the power to govern the Mongolian tribes from Wanyan Honglie. No matter which one of them is punished, it will cause turmoil in the world!
Therefore, the prerequisite for moving them must be solid evidence.
The problem is there is no evidence.
How did the prince die? The prince died of poisoning, and the person who poisoned him was the prince's wet nurse.
In fact, the prince's wet nurse was also a victim, and she was the first victim - she was poisoned first, and then the milk became poisonous.
This is the earliest poisonous milk incident in China. Different from the popular term poisonous milk on the modern Internet in later generations, this is the real poisonous milk.
The prince ate poisoned milk and died almost at the same time as his wet nurse!
Now it has been found out that the poison the nanny was poisoned by was the strange poison of the Xiaoyao sect, Sanxiao Xiaoyao Powder. Because both the nanny and the prince had weird smiles on their faces before they died.
The question is who gave these three smiles to the prince's nanny! There is no way to find out.
If we only talk about suspicion, then except for the prince's biological parents, that is, the emperor and Concubine Li Yuan, everyone else in the palace is suspected.
You can't kill all the concubines, maids, and eunuchs in the palace, right?
As the victim, Concubine Li Yuan could only arrest the cooks in the imperial kitchen and the palace maids and eunuchs around the wet nurse and torture them, but most of them were beaten to death without knowing it.
Even if there were a few people who couldn't hold on, the "poisoning" process they gave was completely inconsistent with the truth, and it was obvious that they were beaten into submission.
Faced with such a result, how to determine who is the culprit behind the scenes?
Therefore, this case can only be shelved as an unsolved case.
In the three months after this case occurred, Wanyan Hongxi and Wanyan Honglie inevitably endured the suspicion and anger from Concubine Li Yuan.
If it were Concubine Li Yuan who was in charge, then she would really kill the two major suspects without mercy.
Therefore, Wanyan Honglie knew that he did not do this, and he still needed to work hard to prove his innocence. In the past three months, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources just to find the source of the poison.
Who is the last inheritor of Sanxiao Xiaoyaosan? According to a martial arts figure who knows the story, it is Ding Chunqiu, the old weirdo from Xingxiu.
But Ding Chunqiu was imprisoned in the Shaolin Temple a hundred years ago. Even if he later escaped from the Shaolin Temple, could he survive to this day a hundred years later?
Therefore, Ding Chunqiu is definitely not the last descendant of Sanxiao Xiaoyao Powder. In other words, Ding Chunqiu must have a disciple or descendant who inherited the strange poison of Sanxiao Xiaoyao Powder.
Wanyan Honglie really wants to find this person, but he has not been able to find him so far.
The prince's death was only one of the incidents that troubled Wanyan Honglie. There was also a second incident that distracted his energy, and that was Xin Qiji's assassination list.
According to the intelligence sent by Wang Jiong and Shi Miyuan, Xin Qiji asked Chen Xuanfeng and Cheng Jiang to assassinate three people, one was Wanyan Gang, the second was Wang Weihan, and the third was Wanyan Honglie himself.
Chapter completed!