I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 522 Suspected of Falling into Water
When Zhu Houxuan received the news, he was still presiding over a meeting, and for a moment he did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
"Your Majesty fell into the water?" Zhu Houxun repeated in a daze.

Then he subconsciously glanced at the heavy snow outside and murmured, "Your Majesty fell into the water, in this kind of weather?"

The people around were also shocked.
Zhu Houxuan has realized the seriousness of the matter.
Fall into water!

In history, Zhu Houzhao fell into the water in the 15th year of Zhengde, and died in the 16th year of Zhengde.
In this life, Zhu Houzhao spent the 15th and 16th years of Zhengde smoothly. Zhu Houxuan thought that Zhu Houzhao had escaped this disaster, but he unexpectedly fell into the water in the winter of the 25th year of Zhengde, and it was so cold.
Then he smelled a conspiracy!

Why is it such a coincidence?
Why when he left Beijing?
He left Beijing more than 20 days ago. Before that, he had not left Beijing for many years because he had too many things to do.
If it weren't for the fact that such a large corruption case had not been uncovered in Dalian, involving so many people and causing huge losses, he would definitely not have left the capital.
His departure from the capital this time was very sudden and impulsive. It took him only three days from the time he decided to leave the capital to the time he left the capital. During these three days, he handled and handed over the matters at hand, and also met with Zhu Houzhao to explain the reason for leaving the capital.
And it was in this situation that something happened to Zhu Houzhao!

When he had no way to control the situation, something happened to Zhu Houzhao.
The distance from Dalian to the capital is 1700 miles, and it is still winter and snowing heavily. He doesn't know how long it will take to get back to the capital. Maybe five days, maybe ten days. Such a long time is enough to change the situation in the capital.
But this is the worst case scenario. Maybe Zhu Houzhao did not die after falling into the water, but just got sick. Then he still has a chance to turn things around.
Thinking of this, Zhu Houxuan immediately stopped the meeting, took the messenger to a room, and questioned him carefully.
"Why is it 'suspected'? Why is it 'suspected' to have fallen into the water? What on earth happened in the capital?" Zhu Houxuan said while staring at the person who came to report the news.

The person who brought the news was Mu Huanmin, a native of Qizhou. He had been an attendant of Zhu Houxuan and held an important position in the Royal Group, so loyalty was not a problem.
"Reporting to Your Highness, no one saw His Majesty fall into the water. These are all guesses made by Senior Brother Chen Hong." Mu Huanmin said.

"Guessed?" Zhu Houxuan's expression changed, "How did you guess? Tell me in detail!"

Chen Hong had been Zhu Houxuan's secretary for more than ten years. Zhu Houxuan knew him very well and knew that he was not a reckless person. There must be a reason for making such a guess.
"On the seventeenth day after His Majesty left the capital, Senior Brother Chen Hong discovered that His Majesty had not appeared in public for four days. This was very abnormal, so Senior Brother Chen Hong immediately sent someone to inquire about His Majesty's news, but he could not find any news about His Majesty. He only knew that His Majesty's last appearance was to go to the Western Garden for a tour."

"Brother Chen Hong immediately became alert and sent people to look for Duke Ning. It turned out that Duke Ning had not returned to the mansion for two days. Duke Ning's family said that Duke Ning had gone to the Leopard Room two days ago and had no news since. Duke Ning's family went to the Leopard Room to look for him. The guards of the Leopard Room told Duke Ning's family that Duke Ning had important things to do in the Leopard Room and told them not to worry."

As Mu Huanmin told his story, Zhu Houxuan gradually realized something.
Duke Ningguo is Jiang Jiangong. As the chief of staff, he followed Zhu Houzhao in the expedition to the Western Regions and made great contributions. He was awarded the title of Duke Ningguo. Jiang Bin was also awarded the title of Duke Anguo.

These two men, one civil and one military, are the two representative figures of the Guards.

"Then how did Chen Hong guess that Your Majesty fell into the water?" Zhu Houxuan asked immediately.

"Senior Brother Chen Hong immediately realized that something was wrong, and he mobilized all his strength to find out what had happened in the West Garden and the Leopard House in the past few days, but found nothing." Zhu Houxuan's face sank. He knew why he found nothing, because he did not arrange any spies around Zhu Houzhao. He had always believed that this act of peeping into the palace would greatly affect his relationship with Zhu Houzhao if it was discovered. However, he was faced with a situation where no one was available at this time.

"But in the end, Senior Brother Chen Hong found an unexpected person, who told Senior Brother Chen Hong a lot of things."

"Who?" Zhu Houxuan was a little surprised.

"Zhou Shan?" Mu Huanmin said.

"Zhou Shan?" Zhu Houxuan quickly searched for this person in his mind, and his powerful memory quickly found this person.
"The Zhou Shan who played the Monkey King in Journey to the West: The Women Kingdom? I remember that he was adopted as the emperor's son at that time," Zhu Houxuan said in surprise.

"Yes, that is Zhou Shan. Although many of His Majesty's adopted sons have been dismissed over the years, Zhou Shan has always been favored by His Majesty and has always been able to walk in the Leopard House."

Zhu Houxuan nodded, that's right
"According to Zhou Shan, on the afternoon of November 16, he was going to take a look around the Leopard House, but he found many more carriages at the door of the Leopard House, and people were constantly carrying people out of the carriages on stretchers."

"Zhou Shan went to find out what was going on out of curiosity. He found out that these people had fallen into the water in the West Garden and were taken back to the Leopard Room to recuperate. Zhou Shan counted the number of people being carried down and found that there were more than 20 people. Zhou Shan immediately felt unlucky and went straight back to his own residence, which prevented him from being locked up in the Leopard Room."

"Zhou Shan didn't take it seriously at the time, but later he recalled that among the twenty or so people carried into the Leopard Room, there were some of His Majesty's attendants."

Zhu Houxuan's face had become extremely gloomy. He finally understood why Chen Hong had such a guess.
Why was Zhu Houzhao "suspected" to have fallen into the water?
Xiyuan is the Zhongnanhai in later times, which has a wide expanse of water.
What circumstances would cause more than twenty people in the Leopard House to fall into the water at the same time?

There is only one answer, that is, these twenty-something people jumped into the water on their own initiative. They did it to save someone, an extremely important person!
A lot of knowledge from later generations told him that saving people in such cold weather is not an easy task. The freezing cold water can cause people to quickly lose temperature, lose the ability to move, and even have a cold shock reaction. If you save people in this situation without experience, you are likely to end up like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather.
Combined with the fact that someone later took the initiative to block the news, the truth seems to be about to be revealed.
Zhu Houzhao is suspected to have fallen into the water
And the condition is estimated to be not very good, and he has lost his ability to act.
(End of this chapter)