Chapter 0995 The prince broke into the harem, just for the willow bark?
"Mother, the officials, you two just watch the concubines being humiliated like this?"
After Fang Meiren scolded Kou Ji, she shouted at Concubine Li and Zhao Zhen without waiting for Kou Ji to speak.
According to the principles of human ethics, there is nothing wrong with a beautiful woman calling herself Yiyijun.
No matter how low her status in the palace is, she still belongs to Zhao Zhen.
It's just that as a female queen, she has no confidence when she screams, and she looks a little crazy.
Among the concubines and princes around her, some thought she was crazy.
Some people think she is dying.
Queen Mother Li's face was ugly, and her heart was full of anger. She felt that Fang Meiren, a bitch, was looking for death.
In the eyes of Empress Dowager Li, Zhao Zhen calling Kou Jiyi the Fourth Brother was a way to win over, appease, and recruit powerful ministers.
Nowadays, the beauty of Fang can easily ruin the situation that Zhao Zhen managed with great difficulty.
Empress Dowager Li was from a humble background, had no strong means, and was not good at maneuvering.
But she knew that turning foreign ministers into one of her own was a way to stabilize the court.
At that time, Taizu and Taizong used this to subdue a group of heroes under his command.
Fang Meiren yelled about the monarch and his subjects in front of Kou Ji, which seemed to be a estrangement.
Such a foolish woman, no matter whether the prince insulted her or not, she should die.
Queen Mother Li was angry in her heart, but she did not break out. Instead, she called Zhao Zhen in a cold voice.
"Your Majesty..."
Zhao Zhen had long been ready to get angry, but Empress Dowager Li didn't speak, and it was hard for him to speak. Now that Empress Dowager Li was clearly reminding him that it was time to speak, he naturally wouldn't hesitate.
Zhao Zhen stared at Fang Meiren coldly and said: "Fourth brother is my elder brother! Even if you are the king, you can't take the lead."
The beauty was shocked all over.
"Bang!"
Zhao Zhen stood up and said angrily: "Even if I don't call him brother, he is still the father-in-law of my emperor and the father of King Han.
The Queen must be treated politely when she meets her, so what qualifications do you, a lowly concubine, have to argue with her about the throne?"
The beauty stared in horror and collapsed on the ground.
Zhao Zhen glared at Fang Meiren with disgust and stopped looking at her. His eyes fell on Kou Ji, and his voice softened by three points and said: "Fourth brother, I will leave this matter to you. The person who deserves to be killed
, leave no one behind.”
Kou Ji stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Here!"
Zhao Zhen said coldly: "I will leave Chen Lin to you. Let Chen Lin do who you want to kill and who you want to arrest."
After saying this, Zhao Zhen bowed to Empress Dowager Li and respectfully invited Empress Dowager Li to return to the palace.
Queen Mother Li nodded and let Zhao Zhen support her out of the palace.
After Empress Dowager Li and Zhao Zhen left, Kou Ji bowed his hands and saluted the concubines of the Sixth Palace, "My dear ladies, I have offended you..."
Except for Empress Cao, the other concubines returned the favor one after another, claiming that they were fine.
In full view of everyone, Kou Ji walked up to Fang Meiren, squatted down, and asked straight to the point: "Why did you frame the prince?"
Fang Meiren's pupils shrank slightly, she stared at Kou Ji and gritted her teeth: "The official handed over this matter to you, and I accept it. But it was clearly the prince who humiliated me, why do you want to confuse right and wrong?
I know that you, Kou Ji, are extremely powerful, but you can't cover up the black and white in the palace."
Kou Ji smiled calmly and asked: "Even if you are humiliated, no one, including the Queen Mother, the officials, and the Queen, will be biased towards you. Do you know why?"
Fang Meiren stared at Kou Ji without saying a word.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "The Queen Mother will not let the official family have a bad reputation of parricide; the official family will not kill their own son for a beautiful woman who has nothing to do; let alone the queen.
So this matter will eventually turn into, you failed to seduce the prince, and you are trying to slander the prince.
You, your parents, brothers, sisters, and even your entire family will be beheaded in public.
Others in the clan will be sent to the border areas and will never be hired."
Fang Meiren looked at Kou Ji in disbelief and shouted hysterically: "It's obviously me who was humiliated!"
Kou Ji sighed and looked at Beauty Fang as if she were an idiot.
"We are both relatives. If your father had my status, the one who would be deposed would definitely be the crown prince... It's a pity that your father didn't...
Neither the Queen Mother nor the officials, as well as the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, wanted to see a prince in the Song Dynasty who destroyed human relations.
Because once a prince appeared in the Song Dynasty who destroyed human relations, it would be a shame to the queen mother, the official family, and the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty.
It would be easier for people to accept a bitch who doesn't behave like a woman.
Even if this matter spreads out, others will only say that your father failed to educate his daughter and the queen failed to manage the harem properly.
It will not affect the majesty of the Song Dynasty, nor will it bring shame on the faces of the Queen Mother, the officials, and the civil and military officials of the court.
Choose the lesser of two evils.
So in the end, only you and your whole family will be sacrificed."
After Kou Ji finished speaking, Beauty Fang opened her mouth and could not say a word.
"Kou Aiqing's words are a bit biased, aren't they? We in the Song Dynasty have laws and justice. There is a Dengwen Drum in front of the palace to allow the people to redress their grievances."
The speaker was Concubine Zhou Shu, a person with little presence in the palace.
But Zhao Zhen added a prince, one of the four concubines.
Among the four concubines in the palace, only the virtuous concubine Da Zhang has only one daughter. The other four are all accompanied by princes.
The reason why Dazhang was promoted to one of the four concubines was because her daughter married Kou Tianci.
The two legitimate princes born to the queen are the crown prince Zhao Run and the fourth prince Zhao Ze.
Xiao Zhang gave birth to the second prince Zhao Yong, who was promoted to a noble concubine.
The He family gave birth to the fifth prince, Zhao Nong, who was promoted to the virtuous concubine.
The Zhou family gave birth to the third prince Zhao Li, who was promoted to concubine Shu.
The other princes are young and their mother's family is not strong, so their mothers are among the nine concubines.
Although Kou Ji didn't pay much attention to the women in Zhao Zhen's harem, he did know Concubine Zhou Shu.
A woman who quietly climbed to the position of fourth concubine while everyone else was fighting to her death.
Kou Ji smiled half-heartedly and said, "Concubine Shu, are you going to help Fang Mei with a few words of defense?"
Concubine Zhou Shu said calmly: "I just feel that there is justice in this world."
Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "It's outside the palace wall, but it's hard to say inside the palace wall."
Concubine Zhang put her hands in front of her belly and laughed softly: "Of course there are some inside the palace walls."
Concubine He De said with a warm smile, "Royal people are the noblest people in the world. The place where royal people live should naturally be the cleanest place, not a place where filth and evil gather."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and looked around at Concubine Zhou Shu, Concubine He De and Concubine Zhang with a smile, and finally his eyes fell on Empress Cao.
In a simple conversation, Kou Ji has already seen something intriguing.
Concubine Zhang Guifei, Concubine He De, Concubine Zhou Shu, and even Concubine Zhang Xian, the four of them seemed to form an alliance to deal with Empress Cao together.
Queen Cao's expression was as usual, like a person who was fine, standing there with an indifferent expression.
Kou Ji looked at Concubine Zhou Shu, Concubine He De, and Concubine Zhang again with a smile on her face, and said, "Do you three want to seek justice for Beauty Fang?"
Concubine Zhang sighed and said: "After all, we are sisters who have been together for many years. How can we watch my sister live in injustice until she dies?"
Kou Ji nodded and said, "Are the three empresses planning to use this to pull the prince down, or are they going to pull the queen down as well?"
The expressions of Concubine Zhou Shu, Concubine He De and Concubine Zhang all changed.
Concubine Zhang gritted her teeth and said, "Kou Aiqing, you can't bite me at will."
Kou Ji said calmly: "The three empresses should not teach the ministers how to do things. The official family has given full power to the ministers. How I deal with it is my business.
Even if I kill a good person by mistake, I will kill him anyway.
The officials will not embarrass their ministers because of a woman and the ignorant people behind her."
Concubine Zhang gritted her teeth and wanted to scold Kou Ji, but in the end she held back.
Concubine Zhang Guifei, Concubine Zhou Shu, and Concubine He De all saluted Empress Cao.
"Sister, sister and others have no different intentions."
Empress Cao smiled calmly and said: "The three sisters are too worried. Kou Aiqing just said a joke casually, how can I take it to heart?"
"Thank you for your understanding, sister..."
"..."
After thanking each other, Concubine Zhang and the others returned to where they were standing with complicated expressions.
Some things are fine if everyone knows them privately, but the taste will be different when they are spoken out.
They just wanted to use the incident involving the beauty of the house to bring down the prince and the queen.
Not only they think so, but also other women in the palace think so.
No woman in the palace can ignore the position of prince and queen.
Everyone in the palace knew about this, but no one mentioned it on the table.
But Kou Ji, a fool, just put it on the table, embarrassing everyone.
Kou Ji was so powerful that they didn't want to offend him, so they had no choice but to swallow their anger.
If it had been anyone else, Concubine Zhang Guifei, Concubine He De, and Concubine Zhou Shu would have pounced on him and tore him alive.
Kou Ji ignored the three of them. He stared at Fang Mei, who was lying on the ground, and said coldly: "Tell me why you want to frame the prince?
If you confess, I can petition the officials to spare the lives of your family.
If you refuse to say anything, it will not end well."
Beauty Fang gritted her teeth and said with insufficient confidence: "I never framed the prince, it was the prince who flirted with me."
Kou Ji shook his sleeves and said with some disgust: "That's all, if you don't want to tell me, I won't ask anymore. As long as I have someone take down Tie Wenxiong and interrogate it, everything will be clear."
As soon as Kou Ji said these words, Fang Meiren not only did not panic, but also calmed down a lot.
Kou Ji thought for a moment and probably understood why Fang Meiren became calm after he mentioned Tiewen Xiong.
Tie Wenxiong probably committed suicide out of fear of crime.
But even though he had guessed the answer, Kou Ji still ordered the eunuch in the palace to give Chen Lin the order to send someone to capture Tiewen Xiong.
When Chen Lin sent people to capture Tiewen Xiong, Kou Ji spent time in the palace with Zhao Zhen's concubines.
It didn't take long for Chen Lin to enter the palace with the smell of blood.
"This slave has met all the empresses and the Prime Minister..."
After Chen Lin saluted, she said to Kou Ji: "All the slaves in Fangmei's palace and the slaves in the prince's palace have been killed with sticks in accordance with the official's instructions."
As soon as these words came out.
The concubines were relatively calm with the prince and princess beside them.
The concubines without the prince, princess, or daughter by their side don't look very good-looking.
Although they only killed some slaves, they were not happy at all when they thought that all the personal slaves around them would be killed by someone with just one word.
Fang Meiren gritted her teeth hard, trying to control the fear and sadness in her heart.
Kou Ji didn't pay attention to their faces. He said to Chen Lin: "Then find a place to bury it. Remember to bury it deeply..."
Chen Lin agreed and then said: "Prime Minister, when I was arresting people in Fang Meiren's palace, I found a room full of willow bark.
I don’t know what the use is.”
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and thought about it: "It is naturally impossible for the nobles in the palace to use willow bark to keep warm. The only use seems to be to boil it into soup..."
As soon as Kou Ji said these words, everyone in the palace was stunned.
Fang Meiren was even more surprised.
Chen Lin hurriedly asked: "Willow bark can also be used as medicine?"
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It can...can cure fever and relieve pain...but it is harmful to the human body..."
The reason why willow bark can treat fever and relieve pain is because willow bark contains salicylic acid, which is the active ingredient in aspirin, a miracle drug in later generations.
However, the salicylic acid content in willow bark is not high, and it is basically difficult to extract and must be chemically synthesized.
But the synthesized salicylic acid still has serious side effects and can hurt your stomach.
Its stomach-damaging effect is far greater than its curative effect.
It must be reprocessed before it can cure diseases and save lives.
Kou Ji didn't know that willow bark had such magical effects before.
When I was reading a lot of books, I saw this in the books written by the ancient Greek medical scientist Hippocrates.
Kou Ji didn't know that the salicylic acid in willow bark was one of the active ingredients in the miracle drug aspirin.
He only learned from Dashi books that willow bark soup can treat fever and relieve pain, but it has serious side effects.
Kou Ji guessed that the herb used by Fang Mei to lure Zhao Run to the bait was probably willow bark.
Although willow bark has great side effects in treating fever.
But in this era, as long as you have a fever, you can only wait to die, or wait for God to be merciful and let the fever go away.
The side effects of willow bark can only be ignored.
It's better to live in vain than to do a good thing.
Living a few more days is also a life.
No wonder Zhao Run got it so easily.
If Kou Ji had not read about the effects of willow bark from the Dashi books, and someone used this to lure him into taking the bait, he would take the bait as well.
The most lethal disease to ancient people was fever.
The plague did not kill as many people as the fever.
The plague is like a rain, it will be over after the next one.
Fever was always with the ancients.
If there is a doctor who can treat this symptom and pass on the instructions, he will definitely be regarded as a medical saint.
Kou Ji never thought of becoming a saint.
But he will definitely not miss something that can save countless lives.
Kou Ji bluntly said that willow bark can treat fever and relieve pain, which caused an uproar in the palace.
Even Queen Cao, who had been pretending to be calm, couldn't help but said: "Seriously?"
Kou Ji nodded and said: "It hurts my stomach..."
Empress Cao immediately said: "Let's consult with a doctor, add some other medicinal materials, and neutralize it. Maybe we can avoid stomach upset."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and actually felt that what Queen Cao said was reasonable.
Traditional Chinese medicine is very particular about the use of medicines.
The harmony of yin and yang and the symbiosis of the five elements are the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine.
Poisons like arsenic, in the hands of skilled doctors, can also become good medicines for treating diseases.
What's more, willow bark is not lethal enough.
"I'll find the imperial doctor later to clarify the situation together."
Kou Ji nodded thoughtfully.
Queen Cao said decisively: "It's not too late!"
"etc……"
Concubine Zhang stepped forward to stop Empress Cao who was about to leave.
Queen Cao frowned and her face turned cold.
Concubine Zhang said with a dry smile: "If willow bark can really cure fever, then it will be a good remedy. Fang Mei has made a great contribution, and it is a great contribution that can be recorded in the annals of history."
Having said this, Concubine Zhang did not continue.
But its meaning is obvious.
It was Fang Mei who discovered that willow bark can cure fever, and Fang Mei will be regarded as a person whose name will go down in history.
Such a person cannot be killed without permission.
When Queen Cao heard this, her brows furrowed even more.
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said, "I just didn't know that Fang Meiren's family member had stayed in Tiansheng Hall."
Concubine Zhang looked at Kou Ji and asked, "What does Kou Aiqing mean?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Even if willow bark can really cure fever, the credit cannot go to Fang Mei. In the land of Dashi, someone discovered this more than 1,300 years ago.
And it is clearly entered into the book.
Fang Mei is not a doctor, and there is no doctor in her family. How do you know that willow bark can cure fever?
Therefore, Fang Meiren’s method must have been learned from the Jinshi who had previously translated the Dashi books in Tiansheng Hall.”
When Fang Meiren heard this, she clenched her fists tightly.
Neither admitted nor denied.
Concubine Zhang suddenly laughed and said: "So Kou Aiqing wants to take the credit. If Kou Aiqing takes the credit for a living person's life, isn't he afraid of being criticized?"
Kou Ji said faintly: "The imperial concubine often helps the beauty with her affairs, could this matter be related to the imperial concubine?"
Concubine Zhang's face darkened, she snorted and said nothing.
Kou Ji didn't pay attention to Concubine Zhang. He told Chen Lin: "Go down and check to see which of Fang Meiren's relatives has stayed in Tiansheng Hall.
By the way, I would like to ask the people under your command why Tiewen Xiong has not been captured yet."
Chen Lin agreed and exited the dormitory.
After Chen Lin left, Empress Cao said to Kou Ji: "Kou Aiqing, I will leave it to you to deal with the matter here. If the prince really does something that makes him unable to return, you can just ask the officials to deal with it, and there is no need to report it to me.
.
I now want to go to the imperial doctor to discuss the matter of willow bark."
Kou Ji nodded and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, please..."
Queen Cao is Queen Cao, and she is very courageous in this matter.
Not only was he calm about everything, but he also showed his trust in Zhao Run.
If she didn't believe Zhao Run, she definitely wouldn't be so calm, let alone say these words.
Now, she takes saving the common people more seriously than Zhao Run, and it becomes a good story once it spreads.
No wonder Queen Cao was not afraid at all when facing the alliance between Concubine He De, Concubine Zhang Guifei and Concubine Zhou Shu.
Empress Cao knew exactly what she wanted and what could stabilize her position and that of the crown prince.
After seeing Kou Ji agreeing, Empress Cao decisively left the palace.
Concubine He De, Concubine Zhang Guifei, and Concubine Zhou Shu did not move.
Only Concubine Zhang Xian signaled to Kou Ji and said softly: "Kou Aiqing, I will also go and have a look..."
Kou Ji spread his hands and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Concubine Xian, please do so. Concubine De, Imperial Concubine, and Concubine Shu can leave if they want to."
Concubine He De, Concubine Zhang Guifei, and Concubine Zhou Shu did not move.
Only Concubine Zhang Xian left the dormitory alone.
"It's the prince I seduced!"
Just after Concubine Zhang Xian left the dormitory, Beauty Fang didn't know what happened and suddenly spoke.
Kou Ji was stunned.
Concubine He De, Concubine Zhang Guifei, and Concubine Zhou Shu were also stunned.
Then a meaningful smile appeared on Kou Ji's face. Concubine He De, Concubine Zhang Guifei, and Concubine Zhou Shu looked at Beauty Fang with expressions of hatred.
Concubine Zhang was about to speak, but Kou Ji was the first to say, "Why did you admit it all of a sudden?"
Fang Meiren did not answer Kou Ji's question, but said with a trembling voice: "You just said that as long as I confess, you will let my family go."
Kou Ji nodded and said, "I will report this matter to the officials."
After a pause, Kou Ji asked: "Did you tell the truth just to save your family?"
The beauty nodded almost without hesitation.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Then tell me why you want to seduce the prince, what is your plan, and who is behind it?"
Beauty Fang lowered her head. She no longer had the arrogance she had at the beginning. She lowered her head and said in a strange voice: "I have been in the palace for more than ten years, and I can count on one hand the number of times the officials have favored me.
I'm empty...I'm lonely...I want a man..."
Kou Ji suddenly stood up.
The other people in the hall stared at Beauty Fang in disbelief, they couldn't believe their ears.
"Crack!"
Concubine Zhang went up angrily and slapped Beauty Fang hard.
"You bitch!"
Concubine Zhang cursed loudly.
Kou Ji didn't care about the two of them at all. He almost shouted to the small yellow door at the entrance of the palace: "Go and tell Chen Lin that he has been to Tiansheng Hall and is related to Fang Meiren."
Officials, catch them all for me."
Concubine Zhang and the other concubines, who were punishing Fang Mei, looked at Kou Ji suspiciously.
Concubine He De seemed to have guessed something and sighed softly.
The beauty was lying on the ground, trembling all over and not raising her head.
After that, Kou Ji stayed in the dormitory for more than an hour.
The beautiful woman lay on the ground and did not raise her head from beginning to end.
More than an hour later.
Chen Lin hurriedly entered the dormitory.
Fang Meiren suddenly got up from the ground and rushed to the pillar beside her resolutely.
The concubines standing in front of the pillar moved out of the way, and Fang Meiren hit her head on the pillar and died.
Blood splattered all over the floor.
Neither Chen Lin nor Kou Ji wanted to stop them, but they had no time.
The concubines in the palace screamed in surprise after the beauty was killed.
Kou Ji sat on the seat with a dark face, "Idiot!"
Chen Lin glanced at Fang Meiren's body with a gloomy expression, walked quickly to Kou Ji, and said in a heavy voice: "Tie Wenxiong hanged himself in the mansion. Before he died, he left a long letter, bluntly saying that he failed to teach the prince well.
, so that the prince committed a catastrophe that destroyed human relations.
He had no words to face the officials, so he hanged himself."
Kou Ji had already guessed that Tiewen Xiong would die, so he didn't feel surprised.
It was the letter left by Tie Wenxiong that surprised him.