Chapter 432： Catherine's death

In the City of London, the Garden Tower in the Tower of London, a terrible thing is happening here, someone is poisoning the Spanish princess-Catherine of Aragon ...

The guard named Robinson, which happens to be similar to Koster's pseudonym, is a very English name. In England, do n’t have too many Johnsons or Robinsons.

Robinson was born in a family of cavaliers. His family background is not prominent, nor is he rich. He was lucky to get the job of guarding the Tower of London. After all, the Tower of London is now the royal palace. The Tower of London lost its role as a palace because of the killing of Henry VIII and the killing of two queens and Margaret Lords in the Tower of London. Most of them died injustice. , So the Tower of London has a legend of unjust soul. Then, Henry VIII built other palaces and gradually moved to another place. Later, the Tower of London became a prison for high-level prisoners.

Although Robinson is also the guard of the Royal Palace of the Tower of London, he is not engaged in the top beauties of guarding and escorting the royal members such as the king and queen, but is responsible for holding senior prisoners in the Tower of London. Of course, this kind of errand is enough to envy the poor knights who did not get a good errand. After all, as the guard of the palace, the salary is quite sufficient, and never defaults. After all, the salary owed to the guards of the palace is too shameful for the royal family ...

In fact, the guards also have a certain amount of oil and water. For example, which nobleman committed the crime and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. If the nobleman ’s crime was not too big, then the guards responsible for his imprisonment, especially those at the rank of captain like Robinson, would receive a bribe from the nobleman ’s family.

This is because those families must hope that their loved ones will not be guilty in it. But since he was in jail, his treatment must have been bad. Therefore, if you want to eat something or read some books (this is an important recreational activity for senior prisoners, after all, jail is too lonely), you need to pass guards, especially guardians like Robinson who have a little voice. team leader. The guards are responsible for bringing in the tasty food and books and other pastimes sent by the noble families, but if you want the guards to do so, you need to give enough money, and others will be willing to work.

Therefore, many people still envy the job of Robinson ...

It's just that Robinson was in charge of seeing Princess Catherine this time, but it wasn't a bad job. Why? Because Princess Catherine was ordered by Henry VII to be held in custody, it was carried out in secret and could not be known to the Spanish royal family.

Without the knowledge of the prisoner's family, as the guard captain, Robinson would not receive any benefits. After all, as a knight with a small enclosure, Robinson has no money. This is also an important reason why Robinson was bought by Margaret County Master, because Margaret County Master issued hundreds of gold coins ...

This time, Robinson didn't want to kill Princess Catherine. However, since the Margaret Lord had secretly cooperated with Marin, he had a wealth of money and made a huge reward of 5,000 gold coins, which directly knocked Robinson out. Coupled with the support of Margaret County Lord Marlin ’s North Sea Chamber of Commerce, he had a way to kill the chef and help Robinson to sin, so Robinson finally made up his mind to make the vote.

Of course, Robinson is a very cautious person. He didn't decide to poison until he heard that Jason's cook for the dead happened to work that day.

Because, after he shot, he needed to kill Jason as a surrogate to confuse the enemy. So, if Jason didn't go to work that day, but he was poisoned, then even if Jason was killed, it would be impossible for him to divert his attention.

Therefore, only when Jason is at work, and both days at work, Robinson shot poisoning Princess Catherine in order to put the blame on Jason's head ...

That day, Jason happened to be the chef who cooked for Princess Catherine. He made a dark pot of dark cooking, and then gave it to the bodyguard to give to Catherine for consumption.

England is a country with very backward cooking skills, and it remains so until later generations. In this era, almost everyone in England eats dark dishes. After Catherine arrived here, she could only go to the countryside to eat the dark dishes every day. In fact, Catherine wanted to leave England after the death of Prince Arthur, and there are reasons why she can't stand the dark cuisine of England.

However, Henry VII was fierce. In order to stay Catherine, he directly forcibly detained the other party and was imprisoned in the Tower Garden Tower of London.

According to the procedure, it should be that Chef Jason prepared the food, and after the testers in the kitchen ate it, it was confirmed that it was non-toxic, and then the members of the guard class took the food to the prisoners.

After all, the detainees in the Tower of London are all senior nobles. Although they are prisoners, they must also ensure their lives are safe.

After learning this, Robinson went to the kitchen to receive food in person. In the name of looking for food in the kitchen, he went to the kitchen to eat in advance, and drank with chefs such as Jason.

While Jason was not paying attention, Robinson put the chronic poison into the pot ...

When the test eater eats it, because it is a chronic poison, the poison has a relatively light smell, and it is also covered by the strange smell of dark cooking. Naturally, there is no problem. Even if you want to die from poison, it will take three days ...

This is a major loophole discovered by Robinson's careful thought-if the test eater does not die, but Princess Catherine is poisoned. At that time, I would still suspect the bodyguard who was delivering the food.

Moreover, in order to avoid contact with food, Robinson pretended to drink too much and lay on the table directly to pretend to be asleep. Helping Jason, he called another guard and gave the food to Princess Catherine ...

The next night, unlucky chef Jason was killed in his own home. On the body of Jason, the killer deliberately left a copper button with French words engraved ...

However, the death of a cook had little effect on England's opposition. It wasn't until three days later that the poor Princess Catherine and the test-eater were poisoned to death. Everyone paid attention to Jason's death ...

Henry VII sent a case clerk to investigate the cause of Jason ’s death. As a result, a copper button with French inscriptions was found in the corner of the scene ...

"Hmm, it must be French, and caused Jason to poison Princess Catherine." Henry VII patted the table angrily.

It is obvious that Princess Catherine is dead, and the alliance between England and Spain is bound to break. Who will benefit the most in the end? Obviously French! Because the alliance between England and Spain is to deal with the French. Although Scotland is the enemy of England, it is not the enemy of Spain. There is no reason and motivation to poison Princess Catherine of Spain ...

Under normal circumstances, this inference is no problem. Because it ’s okay to sleep and eat, to poison someone who has nothing to do with yourself?

But ~ www.novelhall.com ~ They didn't know that there was a full-fledged Marlin standing behind him. Of course, there is also a Margaret Lord who is dedicated to his brother. In order to destroy the alliance between the Tudor dynasty and Spain, these two men have made a fierce battle ...

On the surface, Marin and England's eight poles could not get together, and it was no longer within the scope of the English people's suspicion. But in fact, Marin is the most important promoter.

Because Margaret County's strong financial resources come from the support of Marin. Earlier, the Lord Margaret spent hundreds of gold coins in order to attract the Robinson Knight. She secretly hid private house money for many years.

Because her husband, Richard Ball, is very strict with financial supervision, and does not give her too much money, so as to avoid troubles and troubles for the Tudor dynasty.

However, after contacting the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, Marin privately handed over the profits of a large amount of grain trade to the Margaret County Master through the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, which made her money abundant and bought a lot of people to work privately for it.

Without being aware of Henry VII and Richard Ball, relying on the abundant financial resources in his hands, the Margaret Lord has the ability to influence the overall situation in England. For example, this time I bought the Robinson Knight and poisoned Princess Catherine ...

Speaking, Catherine of Aragon is really unlucky. Originally, although she was not poisoned, she was abandoned by her husband Henry VIII and died in depression. This life is even worse. At a young age, he was killed by the conspirators of Margaret County Master and Marin ... and both of them and Princess Catherine have no injustice ...