Li Shimin waved his hand and asked the two men to go down.
"Wang De..."
When the eunuch chief heard Li Shimin's call, he hurried in from outside. Just now, this guy ran as far as he could to save his own life.
"After the cleaning of the Qinzheng Hall today, all eunuchs and palace maids who participated in the cleaning will be beaten to death."
After hearing Li Shimin's order, Wang De looked at him in confusion. He knew there were many of his disciples among them. If he killed them all, he would have fewer people to manage in the palace. Could it be that something had gone wrong with his assignment? Was the emperor trying to clip his wings?
"Go quickly."
Li Shimin saw Wang De's eyes and immediately added another sentence, and Wang De then breathed a sigh of relief.
It should have nothing to do with me. If it had something to do with me, I probably wouldn't let myself do this. Maybe I would die together with these people. After all, I had too much contact with them in normal times. Two of my three disciples were working in the Qinzheng Hall, but what was the reason for killing them all?
There are thousands of eunuchs in the palace, and Wang De cannot know every one of them, but he knows his two apprentices very well. These two have followed him since they were young and have never done anything excessive. In the palace, if it were not for Wang De's protection, these two apprentices would have been harmed countless times. Who did they offend?
"Master, please save us! We haven't done anything wrong. We work diligently every day. What's going on?"
Half an hour later, the thirteen eunuchs and six palace maids were tied up. According to Wang De's order, the imperial guards tied them up. If these two people were not Wang De's apprentices, they probably wouldn't even have the chance to speak, and they would all be forced to drink poison soon.
"Don't ask why, and don't tell me what happened today. The emperor wants your lives, and no one can save you. I will send someone to deliver the money you saved in the palace to your family. As a master, this is all I can do. When you drink later, remember to take a big sip. Walk faster to save yourself the pain."
After Wang De finished speaking, he waved his hand and pulled the two apprentices away. Although he felt a little bit reluctant in his heart, he could not be cruel in the palace. The emperor had already wanted to kill these people. Although you were the chief eunuch, you could not save their lives.
Wang De did not give the two men a chance to speak. He did not want to know what had happened this afternoon. If he knew, the emperor might kill him tomorrow. So in front of so many imperial guards, Wang De directly told the two men to shut up.
The life of a eunuch is nothing. Killing a dozen eunuchs in the palace is like swatting a few flies. But these imperial guards are different. They are either heroes on the battlefield or descendants of dignitaries. They cannot be killed casually. This is why Wang De did this in front of them.
Wang De's two apprentices were dragged away directly. Their fate was relatively good. They were forced to drink two large bowls of poison and gradually lost consciousness. If it were someone else, it would be impossible to give you any poison. The emperor meant to beat you to death with a big stick, so they could only be put into a sack and beaten to death with a stick. That kind of pain is no joke.
The smell of urine...
The smell of urine next to the throne.
The young eunuch finally remembered that he had smelled urine next to the emperor's throne. All the eunuchs had been castrated, so it was inevitable that urine would stick to their bodies when they urinated. However, the eunuchs serving the emperor would be checked several times. If there was any smell on your body, don't even think about going in to serve.
If it wasn't the eunuch who did it, could it be the emperor?
No wonder we were killed. If this news gets out, I’m afraid there will be countless people speculating about it.
These young eunuchs were not on duty in the palace in the afternoon. Another group of people were on duty. They just went in to clean, so it was natural for them to associate the smell of urine with the emperor.
If Wang De had asked more questions, he would have known why these people died. The emperor couldn't possibly urinate in the Golden Palace, but Li Xiang had been next to the throne today, so the urine smell must have come from him...
Li Xiang had just returned to the East Palace and was thinking over everything. He thought peeing next to the emperor's throne was a stroke of genius. "I was so scared I peed my pants. Couldn't this be true?" You know, I've been on the battlefield before, and I'd never faced Tuyuhun cavalry like this. But facing Cheng Yaojin's axe scared me to piss myself.
Li Xiang knew that the emperor's people would definitely find out about this, and the emperor would definitely consider this matter. By then, even if the emperor still had many doubts in his mind, he would no longer suspect Li Xiang.
After a while, Qian Ping ran in from outside.
"What happened? You look so flustered."
Li Xiang had a very exciting day today, so he didn't want anything else to happen late at night. He just wanted to have a good sleep. Although there were some things in his plan during the day, if he took a wrong step, Li Shimin might find out, and many things would be difficult to deal with afterwards.
"Your Highness, has something serious happened in the palace? I don't know why, but all the eunuchs and palace maids who went to the Qinzheng Palace to clean up this afternoon have just been tied up. It seems that the emperor personally ordered them to be killed. Among them were two apprentices of Eunuch Wang De."
Qian Ping lowered his voice. It was normal for two eunuchs to die in the palace, but more than a dozen people died at once, and all of them were from the Qinzheng Hall. These were people close to the emperor and were considered talented among the eunuchs, so their deaths were definitely big news.
"What did you say? They're all dead?"
Li Xiang was listening absent-mindedly in the previous second, and was shocked by the news in the next second. More than a dozen people died just because of his pee. Li Xiang felt really unbearable in his heart.
To put it bluntly, he didn't understand this era. Although no one saw the emperor's eldest grandson urinating in the hall, if these young eunuchs spread the news, it would be easy for people to guess that Li Shimin did this for Li Xiang...