Sky Curtain: The opening scene explains the four major cases of the Ming Dynasty plus the early Ming

Zhu Dijun's suggestive question plunged all of space and time into an eerie silence.

The absurd scene flashed through everyone's mind.

A minister who was beaten to the point of near death.

An emperor who was full of energy just the day before, capable of wielding a golden mace to beat people.

Overnight, life and death were reversed.

If there's no conspiracy behind this, even a dog wouldn't believe it!

"In fact, regarding the sudden death of Zhu Gaochi, later unofficial histories have produced an extremely bold, yet logically perfectly closed, conjecture."

Zhu Dijun's voice was extremely low, as if he were telling a forbidden secret.

"The core of this speculation points to one person."

"Zhu Gaochi's first wife, the Crown Princess, and later Empress Zhang, née Zhang!"

"Unofficial historical accounts suggest that Lady Zhang, in collusion with the imperial physicians, participated in this regicide!"

Boom!!!

These words were no less than a thunderbolt from the heavens, striking precisely at the crown of the Yongle and Xuande dynasties and all the Zhu family members after them!

Yongle Time and Space.

Zhu Di suddenly stood up from the dragon throne, his bloodshot eyes staring intently at the sky, his face filled with absurdity and disbelief!

"impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

He roared.

Zhang was the wife he personally chose for his eldest son! She was a "female scholar" whom both he and Miaoyun approved of!

She was virtuous and kind, filial to her parents-in-law, and managed the Eastern Palace in an orderly manner. Even when he wanted to depose Zhu Gaochi many times, he hesitated because of this good daughter-in-law!

How could she possibly kill the emperor? How dare she kill the emperor?!

"Mother……"

In the first year of the Xuande reign, Zhu Zhanji's body stiffened as if he had been struck by lightning.

He subconsciously looked to his side at the elegant and graceful woman who had always been by his side—his childhood sweetheart, Sun Ruowei.

But what appeared in his mind was the dignified and majestic face of his mother, Empress Dowager Zhang.

They...would kill their own fathers? Would they kill their own husbands?

This is insane!

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui looked at each other, seeing the same shock in each other's eyes.

They had fought with their eldest brother their whole lives, but they never imagined that their sister-in-law would end his life in this way!

"Family members, I know this speculation is hard for you to accept right now."

On the sky, Zhu Dijun's tone was full of understanding.

"If it were me, I would have thought it was nonsense when I first came across this history."

"However, one person's death made it impossible to clear Zhang's name of suspicion."

"This person was none other than Consort Guo, Zhu Gaochi's most beloved concubine during his lifetime!"

"After Zhu Gaochi's death, Empress Zhang immediately issued an edict ordering Consort Guo and four other concubines with official titles to be buried alive with him!"

Zhu Dijun's voice suddenly turned sharp!

"Family members, do you remember what I said before?"

"After the death of Emperor Taizu of Ming (Zhu Yuanzhang), a large portion of the concubines and palace women who were forced to be buried alive with him were silenced by Emperor Jianwen (Zhu Yunwen)!"

"Because they know too many secrets about the edict of succession!"

"Then let's think about it using the same logic."

"Were Consort Guo and the others also killed by Zhang under the pretext of 'being buried alive with the dead' because they knew the truth about Zhu Gaochi's death?"

In an instant, people from all time and space felt a chill run from the soles of their feet straight to their heads!

Yes!

Murder to silence them!

What a reasonable, yet cruel, explanation!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! That makes sense now! Funeral sacrifice = silencing witnesses!"

"This is terrifying to think about! Consort Guo was Zhu Gaochi's most favored concubine. She must have been by the emperor's side when he died! She must have seen or heard something!"

"Therefore, Empress Zhang must be killed! Dead people can't speak!"

"My God, this Empress Zhang is too ruthless! Didn't the history books say she was a 'female Yao and Shun'? She's practically a female Lü Empress!"

The comments on the screen were like sharp knives, piercing the hearts of the Zhu family.

Zhu Di swayed. He felt his worldview being crushed, reassembled, and crushed again and again by this descendant of the future!

First it was the son, now it's the daughter-in-law!

His once proud family had become a den of iniquity, a place where fathers and sons killed each other, and husbands and wives harmed each other!

"Of course, a mere act of being buried alive with the emperor is not enough to convict an empress."

Zhu Dijun then changed the subject and dropped an even bigger bombshell.

"The reason why Zhang is a prime suspect is that, starting with her, it seems that a Pandora's box was opened in the harem of our Great Ming Dynasty!"

"A curse of empresses, empress dowagers, and a group of civil officials colluding to undermine and even murder the emperor!"

"Family members, let's look at a timeline."

"After Zhang, who was next? It was her daughter-in-law, Empress Sun Ruowei, the wife of my beloved grandson Zhu Zhanji! As will be discussed later, this wicked empress was very likely also involved in the plot to murder Zhu Zhanji!"

"Later on, Empress Zhang, wife of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming (Zhu Youcheng), was also known for her strong personality. She joined forces with her relatives and civil officials to suppress her husband, causing the death of her son, Emperor Wuzong of Ming (Zhu Houzhao)."

"Then there was Empress Fang, the wife of the Jiajing Emperor, who was even more audacious. During the 'Renyin Palace Coup,' she attempted to assassinate the Jiajing Emperor!"

"And then there's Emperor Guangzong of Ming, who died suddenly after only one month on the throne due to the 'Red Pill Case'! Emperor Xizong of Ming, Zhu Youxiao, died after taking 'elixir of immortality' after falling into the water!"

"Family members, have you noticed?"

Judy Jun's voice was like a judge reading a verdict, cold and resolute!

"The unnatural deaths of these emperors almost always involved collusion between the harem and officials!"

"And what about their maternal relatives? None of them had any military merit, yet they were granted titles of nobility and high-ranking official positions, even hereditary privileges!"

"This is their reward for participating in regicide or usurping imperial power!"

"With this series of 'beneficiaries' serving as typical examples, let's look back at Zhang. As the one who started this 'bad trend,' is she not entirely suspect?"

"Even the most ailing emperor is surrounded by the finest physicians in the land. Emperor Wu of Han died at the age of seventy, bedridden for two years! Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, also passed away after a serious illness lasting two months!"

"How come when it came to Zhu Gaochi, he could beat people up one day and then suddenly die the next?"

"unless……"

Zhu Dijun spoke each word slowly and deliberately, his voice carrying through time and space!

"Is there a problem with the diet, or... the imperial physician prescribed something bad!"

Upon hearing this, Zhu Zhanji, in the first year of the Xuande reign, could no longer hold on and collapsed to the ground.

He looked at his mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, who was also pale-faced, not far away.

A terrible thought began to frantically grow in his mind.

Was his father really killed by his mother?