Rong Fei is not honored

Liang Jiugong, who was complaining about Tong Jia, had no idea that just now, the entire Tong Jia family had just walked through the gates of hell. The reason why they did not go directly to the gates of hell was fortunately that Kangxi still remembered his biological mother.

Thinking of his own mother, the woman who was now weak and crying, Kangxi suppressed his anger.

After his anger was suppressed, Kangxi regained some of his rationality.

He couldn't help but wonder, does Tong Jia have the guts to do this? Kangxi was not making excuses for Tong Jia, but this was the fact. In the Qing Dynasty, the Tong Jia clan was not considered a good family, otherwise his mother would not have been a concubine for her whole life.

(In the Shunzhi Emperor's harem, the ranks of concubines were not clear, but Xiaofujin and Gege were indeed the lowest ranks.)

Even though he is in power now, he does not have the final say in the court. Would Tong Jia dare to use the cause of her mother's death to slander the Empress Dowager?

You know, regardless of whether this matter is true or false, as long as the news leaks out and reaches the ears of the Grand Empress Dowager, even for the sake of her own prestige, the Grand Empress Dowager will definitely take action against Tong Jia. Even if I try to stop her, I can only block the open attack.

However, the authenticity of these evidences clearly shows what Tong Jia did.

Suddenly Kangxi thought of a possibility. What if this was true, and his mother was indeed forced to death by the Empress Dowager? Would the Empress Dowager leave any conclusive evidence?

The answer is of course no, so without evidence, it is impossible to determine whether this story is true or not. So would Tong Jia forge some evidence to increase the authenticity of this story?

Then this matter makes sense, but it is just my guess after all and needs to be verified.

Kangxi thought again, if his guess was true, how did Tong Jia know the news? If it was really as they said, that it was my mother who confessed before her death, I am afraid that Tong Jia would have told me long ago.

Although Kangxi was distracted by other things at the time, he was not completely unaware of other people or things, such as the princess from the Tonggiya clan, who kept calling him "cousin" all day long, which was very annoying.

Whenever he went to visit his mother, she would always come up to him and hang around him. But he had to consider his mother's face at the time, and he also felt that such a lively personality could really make her happy, so he never took it to heart.

He was not unaware of Tong Jia's plan. So if it was really as they said, Tong Jia would definitely not remember her mother's instructions and hide this from him. He was afraid that she would turn around and tell on him to win his sympathy.

Although I had no ability to avenge my mother given my situation at the time, the longer I suppressed this guilt, the better it would be for Tong Jia, right?

Therefore, Kangxi was more inclined to believe that Tong Jia had only learned the news recently. Thinking of this, Kangxi ordered Liang Jiugong to check whether Tong Jia had had any contact with the palace recently, and emphasized that it was before the Tong family confessed.

Liang Jiugong, who received the order, muttered to himself, could it be that His Majesty still didn't give up and thought there was something else going on? Although he felt that this must be Tong Jia's conspiracy, he probably didn't want to admit it, after all, that was his uncle's family.

However, when Liang Jiugong found out that before that day, the Tong family had used their connections in the palace for no reason and caused a palace maid who was sweeping the imperial garden to fall into the water and die, he was shocked. He did not expect that the Emperor's idea was correct.

Liang Jiugong privately scolded the people who investigated the matter. It was because they didn't find out such an important matter. It was only after His Majesty reminded them that they found out. This was their dereliction of duty!

Facing the anger of their boss, Eunuch Liang, the people under them felt very aggrieved. Before, His Majesty wanted to investigate the cause of death of Empress Xiaokangzhang, so they naturally looked in the direction of the Cining Palace. Later, they wanted to investigate the authenticity of the evidence, so they naturally looked for evidence.

Who could have imagined what the people who went to investigate Tong Jia had done in the palace? That was the emperor's mother's family. How dare they act on their own without receiving orders? But what Eunuch Liang said was right. This matter was indeed closely related to the previous investigation.

The master may not care, but the information they found was incomplete, and even almost misled the master's judgment, which was dereliction of duty. After being scolded, the people under him were like chicken blood, vowing to find out the matter thoroughly, so as to atone for their sins.

After much investigation, they could only find out that the palace maid who had been cleaning the house was originally well-behaved, but one day he suddenly started to visit the connections left by Empress Xiaokangzhang, and then he finally contacted the Tong family outside the palace, and it was unknown what news he conveyed.

Everyone was stunned by this result. Once the result was reported, they would definitely be punished, because anyone with a discerning eye could see that something was wrong with the palace cleaners.

There was no sudden change. Something must have happened that they didn't know about, but they couldn't find it no matter how hard they tried. The main reason was that the palace servant was a loner and rarely interacted with others.

Moreover, she had no support behind her and was always exploited by the chief steward, bullied and excluded by others. Gradually, in order to protect herself, the palace maid began to reduce her presence, so no one paid attention to her at all.

Therefore, she was assigned to clean the imperial garden alone in the early morning. Yes, the work that should have been done by three or four palace servants was pushed onto her head alone, and no one took turns.

So there was no way to analyze whether there was something wrong in the Imperial Garden or something happened on the way back. However, when checking the people who had been to the Imperial Garden, one eunuch said that he seemed to have seen a dark-skinned eunuch walking in a hurry, and his behavior was a bit suspicious.

But then ask: What does that person look like? Do you know him? Do you know where he works?

Good guy, he knows nothing about anything. The key is that he is the only one who noticed it, and the others have no impression at all. But we can't blame them, it was just dawn, the light was still dim, and it was normal that we couldn't see his face clearly.

So the clues stopped here. After all, there were very few palace servants outside at that time, and it was obvious that the other party was on guard and took a remote path with few people. Moreover, although the man was suspicious, it did not mean that he was related to the incident.

It is possible that they were really in a hurry, or it is possible that they were in such a panic because of other things, or they ran into something. So there is really no need to check the entire harem. It is not that they are negative, but they are afraid that this clue will be useless.

If they alarmed the six palaces and spent so much effort but found nothing, they could just die. Moreover, this group of people had another hidden worry, that is, they were afraid of discovering the secret of the empress in the palace. Even if His Majesty showed mercy, they would not be able to survive.