Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 326 Cooperative Investigation
At dawn the next day, news of Ma Xuansheng's bizarre death spread like wildfire.

Originally, in the capital, the death of a young official was nothing serious.

The most indispensable thing for the emperor these days is to be an official. There are a lot of high-ranking officials and eunuchs and relatives of the emperor, let alone a young man who has not been in the court for a long time.

But... Ma Xuansheng's situation is very special.

First of all, as we all know, Ma Xuansheng is a popular person in front of Han Yu. Han Yu used a lot of political resources to cultivate him. , but if it is artificial, it may be regarded as an attack and provocation against Mr. Han, and it is impossible for Han Yu to remain unmoved.

Secondly, the process of Ma Xuansheng's death is quite strange. The known information is that there was an explosion in a latrine of the Bingma Division in the south of the city. The reason, as well as information such as the suspects involved in the case... The people in Bingma Division are a little evasive.

Of course, this is also normal, because if this matter goes deeper, it will involve the incident at the Baoyuan Inn that night, and the people related to that incident, in addition to Huang Donglai and others and the Ma brothers, are also involved. There is Wu Juntou's immediate boss, and Han Yu behind Ma Xuansheng...

In addition, Ma Xuansheng's series of operations that attempted to assassinate others afterwards were not easy to bring to the table.

Therefore, until he was sure that someone could "keep" him, the leader of the military army must not dare to say a word.

On this point, Wu Juntou, a native of Beijing, has a clear idea—when you encounter something you can't handle, keep your words in your stomach, and you will still have the capital and the ability to maneuver There is room for you, if you spit out all the words, even if what you say is the truth, and you have no responsibility at all, you may die, because at that time you have no cards, and the only value you have is to become someone else's scapegoat up.

Finally, there is one more point... Ma Xuansheng is also the emperor's hand-picked son-in-law. Even though the marriage has not yet been done, and he and the princess have never even met, the news of his death must be told to the emperor. The emperor must make simple arrangements for the aftermath of this marriage.

Let’s make a little digression here. In the feudal era, there was a situation where “the two families agreed to marry each other, the man’s dowry was already paid, and the woman’s family also agreed, but the man suddenly died suddenly for some reason before passing through the door.” The marriage may not necessarily be cancelled...

If the man is sensible and talkative, then maybe the two families can discuss it and let this matter go. But if the man insists on continuing, and the woman's family is powerless to resist, then it is very likely that they will have to go through a "ghost marriage" That is to say, on the day of the wedding, the woman went through the door as usual, paid homage to the memorial tablet of the deceased, and then directly became a widow, serving as a cow and a horse for her husband's family for the rest of her life.

Although this kind of thing seems inhumane and unreasonable to us modern people, and the probability of actually happening is not so high (because there are not so many people who die suddenly before marriage), but it really happened in the past, and it is not an exception .

So, going back to our book, is it possible that Princess Qinghe's marriage will also evolve into this situation?

Of course it is possible.

But speaking of it... the final decision is still in the hands of the emperor.

If it is said that Princess Qinghe was arranged to marry the son of a certain general today, and the other party died suddenly before marriage, then there is no need to mention the man's side. The emperor will probably let the princess pass the door with the tablet, because it is a matter of politics. Marriage, marrying a dead person is better than marrying a living person to tie people's hearts.

However...Ma Xuansheng is not a descendant of a general, nor is he from a family of officials. He is the son of a local tyrant.

Would the emperor be willing to let his daughter marry a tablet?
Even among the many sons and daughters with extremely weak feelings, that is, the kind of children who the emperor only regards as political bargaining chips, they will not be sent to do this kind of free business.

Not to mention, Zhu Qinghe was originally Zhu Zhu's favorite child.

It is precisely because of his preference for her that Zhu Zhu, under Han Yu's rhetoric, betrothed her to Ma Xuansheng, a new champion who is "good-looking, talented, young and promising, and has a bright future", instead of sending her to the border for a political marriage. Or marry into the folk.

But now that Ma Xuansheng is gone, what else is there to say?

The emperor only needs to say "then this marriage is over", and then others will not say anything more.

At this time, who would dare to jump out and say frankly: "You are not joking, since the emperor has already bestowed a marriage, it should be blablabla..."

Then he is looking for faults, even seeking death.

Where is the limit?It's very simple... If you still follow the emperor's wishes after arguing and don't marry, then you will be looking for faults. If you find fault a few more times, your career may be over; It's done, then you just wait... You won't be touched in front of the eyes, but you are already on the death list. It may be a year or a few months at a slower rate. Anyway, after this matter is over, You may be punished for stepping into the Hall of Supreme Harmony with your left foot today.

Seeing this, some people may want to say, if this is the case, it won't be long before the emperor will only have some flatterers left around him, right?

That's what you don't know...

Zhu Zhu, on the surface, looked like an emperor who ruled by doing nothing, and sometimes acted a little careless and confused, but in fact he was a man of great wisdom and foolishness, who was well versed in the art of emperors.

During his more than 20 years in office, there have always been conflicts and infighting among the civil and military officials in the court, the Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and other forces, but none of them has ever been too strong or weak, and this has been maintained. The person who achieves this "balance" is Zhu Zhu.

There is also the matter of secretly weakening the power of the vassal king mentioned above, if there is no emperor's instruction and promise behind it, it is impossible.

Therefore, Zhu Zhu is definitely not a faint king who only listens to slander.

If he was bullied while discussing state affairs today, no matter what the result was, he would not hold grudges against the minister;

But... the matter of Princess Qinghe is his family matter, and the result of this matter has almost no impact on the country, because even the common people can understand his decision to cancel the marriage, which is human nature. This move will even show his human touch, making people feel that "the emperor is also a human being and loves his daughter."

If someone dared to hate him on this matter, then he would immediately believe that this person had low EQ, and maybe he also had intellectual problems.

If this kind of person tastes something wrong in the process of arguing with him, and finally compromises and finds a way to go down, then he may not pursue it, and can observe and observe again; He still can't bear it if he still fights to the end under the stairs.

It's not that you can't bear the other party's rudeness, but that you can't bear the other party's incompetence.

In Zhu Zhu's view, a person who doesn't know how to be flexible in this kind of matter and can't understand the slightest selfishness of the emperor, even if he is a moral model and a model of etiquette, he is still an incompetent politician.

He is incompetent, and has a personal grievance with the emperor. If you don't die, who will die?
To sum up, when Zhu Zhu said "the marriage is over", no one around him dared to raise any objection, not surprisingly.

Someone here must be asking again, should Han Yu say a few words for the Ma family?

Then you think too much, Han Yu only valued Ma Xuansheng, and now that Ma Xuansheng is dead, the rest of the Ma family are nothing in his eyes, it can be said that they are worthless, how could he To offend the emperor for the benefit of the Ma family?

It is impossible for an old fox like Han Yu to make such a low-level mistake.

In fact, when the emperor mentioned this matter, Han Yu didn't feel much regret for Ma Xuansheng's death. Get more out of a loss.

For example, in the name of "finding out the truth and seeking justice for Ma Xuansheng", he waited for an opportunity to attack the forces he wanted to attack, and got rid of a few thorns in his eyes...

Thinking of this, Han Yu took it to heart and opened his mouth...

He didn't have any complaints about the emperor's decision to cancel the engagement, he just pretended to be sad and started to make a fuss about Ma Xuansheng's death itself, crying in front of the emperor how good his relationship with Ma Xuansheng's master and apprentice was, while saying he must To thoroughly investigate this nonsense.

Zhu Zhu is not stupid, he knows what Han Yu wants, but he doesn't want the other party to get full power to deal with this incident as he wished.

Therefore, after a little thought, Zhu Zhu played tricks on Han Yu. He handed over the case to Jin Yiwei, but at the same time asked Han Yu to "supervise from the sidelines" and "assist in the investigation"... In order to let Han Yu Obtained part of the investigation power, but was restrained by another force.

Han Yu didn't dare to go too far, so the arrangement could only be accepted as soon as it was good.

So, the investigation started...

After receiving the imperial decree, Gao Yuan, the commander of Jinyiwei, also saw that the case should be handled carefully, so he appointed his capable man to release Yun and go out to investigate the case thoroughly with Master Han Yu and Master Han.

This is really called... It's not that enemies don't get together.

Ever since Yun Shili obtained the "Walking in the Lake and Encountering Immortals" at Brother Sun's mansion last year, and returned to Beijing with the "Jade Tail Immortal" who had a grudge against Han Yu, he has been secretly looking for Han Yu all year long. The flaw in the oracle.

It's a pity that the opponent's power is indeed great, and he is cautious in doing things, so he has never been allowed to catch any chance...

Fortunately, this time, the two parties actually wanted to "cooperate in the investigation", and the investigation turned out to be the murder of Ma Xuansheng, a person who had a close relationship with Han Yu, so why should Yun Shili make use of it?

No matter how scheming Han Yu was, he couldn't have imagined that Yun Shili, a person who had nothing to do with him, had already targeted him because of a "personal grievance".

What he didn't even expect was that as the investigation unfolded, he would have to face Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai...the two scum of the world.

This will lead to that——Han Rulun set up the Bureau Master's Office, and Sun Yixie broke into Ming Yutang by mistake.

(End of this chapter)