Quick Travel: Dream Hunt

A few days later, Mo Mingkong successfully took control of the East and West Factories and the Inner Factory with the help of his original token. He took back the East Factory personnel who were responsible for surveillance and reconnaissance, and also took back the West Factory personnel who were responsible for suppressing officials and civilians, and directly merged the East and West Factories.

Tongyi traveled among the people, investigated and executed all officials who were corrupt, accepted bribes, and bullied the people, and took out part of the money to help the people live. He also got countless high-yield seeds from Tinghe, and with the help of the East and West Factories, he forced the officials to distribute them to the people for planting, so that the people could solve the problem of food and clothing first.

Then he cut the Gordian knot and directly ordered the execution of those officials who pretended to obey but actually disobeyed. He even killed several corrupt officials who resisted him in the court without caring about the emperor's face. The blood flowed out of the palace gate along the court. The emperor was frightened and fainted in the court. A lot of people died in the court. Everyone was extremely afraid of the 9,000-year-old Mo Mingkong and dared not speak.

Secretly, Mo Mingkong began to investigate the cold poison in his body, but he still had no clues. After all, more than ten years had passed since the demise of the previous dynasty, and those who knew about it had either died or fled, so there was no way to investigate, and the matter came to a stalemate.

At the same time, the situation in the court became increasingly tense. Mo Mingkong discovered that not only the relatives and eunuchs were involved, but also some ministers. The eunuchs were referring to him, and he had already sent people to make amends. As for the relatives, the empress's mother's family had already resigned and returned home, leaving only the mother's families of a few concubines who were not very favored in the palace. However, the Liu family seemed to have divine help, and they went all the way from a junior assistant minister to a censor. In addition to the power of the Ministry of War, they were directly responsible for supervising all officials and writing letters of remonstrance, and they could directly skip all forces and write to His Majesty directly. They were only one step away from being promoted directly to the rank of Grand Marshal.

He decided to start with these ministers and look for a breakthrough, so he started with the uncontrolled Liu family.

Just as Mo Mingkong was preparing to take action, a mysterious letter was delivered to him. The letter mentioned a key figure - Doctor Li. It was said that Doctor Li was once the imperial physician of the previous dynasty and knew everything about the previous dynasty's palace.

Mo Mingkong temporarily put aside the matter of dealing with the Liu family and decided to go find Doctor Li himself, hoping to get clues about the cold poison from him. However, when he arrived at the residence of Doctor Li, who was already over 50 years old, he found that Doctor Li had died mysteriously...

Mo Mingkong's attack was in vain, but he was furious for no reason. Who sent this secret letter? How did they know that he was investigating the affairs of the previous dynasty? Could it be that there were people from the previous dynasty in the Dayong Palace? Did they know his identity? Who was hiding behind this?

Just after Mo Mingkong was murdered for no reason because of Doctor Li, something happened in the palace. The cause was that the Empress had eaten something wrong in the imperial kitchen's meal and had spotting for no reason. She almost had a miscarriage and lost the baby in her womb.

Ting He was puzzled as she checked the Queen's pulse and looked at the table full of uneaten food. She fell into deep thought and couldn't help but complain in her heart that this medicine was also a secret medicine from the Western Regions that could kill two people without anyone noticing. Fortunately, the Queen ate little and did not harm her body and the fetus in her womb. She fed the Queen a health-preserving pill and a fetus-preserving medicine, then retreated again.

But Tinghe, who had retreated, was not idle. She secretly came to Nishang Pavilion again, took a look at Liu Nishang, and found that her system was still in dormant state. Her pregnancy was not in good condition, and she was usually listless and had no time to do anything. Who could it be?

Ting He once again wandered around the palace and visited all the emperor's concubines, but did not find anything inappropriate. Just when she was wondering what went wrong, Mo Mingkong suddenly appeared beside her and whispered to her where she was hiding:

"He'er, I know you are here. Come to my palace to discuss something."

Watching Mo Mingkong heading towards his palace, Ting He followed closely behind him, and the two of them huddled in Mo Mingkong's palace and started chatting.

Ting He also told him about the Queen's poisoning and the investigation of the harem, but there was nothing unusual.

Mo Mingkong talked about the investigation into the source of the cold poison, and also about how Imperial Doctor Li was murdered to silence him.

After the two people exchanged information, all the doubts pointed to the same place:

"Queen Mother?"

"Queen Mother?"

"You mean, all the concubines in the palace have been checked, and no one has any motives to do it. Even the always uneasy Concubine Rou was tortured by the pregnant woman and had no time to care."

"I'm afraid that the only ones who haven't been investigated in the entire harem are Your Majesty and the Queen Mother. But Your Majesty is obviously afraid of your power. And although that beauty offered the ink fragrance and the poison, according to my investigation tonight, apart from these, that beauty didn't have the opportunity to poison the Queen. Even the death of Doctor Li has nothing to do with him."

Listening to He's slow analysis, he continued, "The only place in the entire palace that I haven't checked is the Queen Mother's. Do you want to go check there?"

Mo Mingkong frowned and retorted, "Not for now. Mo Mingkong has been in the palace for more than ten years. He only met the Queen Mother once when he entered the palace. Later, the Queen Mother went out of the palace to worship Buddha. She has not been in the palace for more than ten years. She did not show up until the emperor ascended the throne. At that time, Mo Mingkong happened to be out on official business and missed the meeting. This time the Queen Mother returned to the palace on the day of the selection. It is estimated that it will not be long before the Queen Mother goes out of the palace to worship Buddha again. An Queen Mother who does not care about anything is probably not a threat."

Ting He didn't think so. "That's not necessarily true. People who don't look like bad people are often bad at heart. Of course, I'm not saying that the Queen Mother is bad. I just find it strange. What on earth would make the Queen Mother go out to worship Buddha for more than ten years and never come back? And she has never shown her true face in front of everyone. Even the powerful Jiu Qian Sui has never seen her. Don't you think it's strange? The Queen Mother is too mysterious. Was she really just worshiping Buddha during those ten years when she went out of the palace? What if she did something unknown?"

Mo Mingkong was awakened by Ting He's words, but he still said hesitantly: "But in Mo Mingkong's memory, when he first entered the palace and was bullied, it was the maid in the Queen Mother's Palace who saved him. Not only did she bring him food and medicine, she also gave him the Queen Mother's token to protect himself in private. Later, after slowly climbing up, Mo Mingkong got his current status, but he has never been summoned by the Queen Mother. So, the Queen Mother does have a problem, as if Mo Mingkong's ability to reach the age of nine thousand years old is inseparable from the Queen Mother's planning."

Hearing this, Ting He immediately relaxed his brows and said, "Then I have to go to the Empress Dowager's palace to take a look. You can take a rest for a while. As for the sudden rise of the Liu family you mentioned, I think I should know a little bit about it. It is probably related to Liu Nishang in the palace, but I, a concubine's daughter, am not included in the Liu family's plan. I will explore the Empress Dowager's palace first and then talk to you in detail."