Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 325 The Prison of the Great Han Chang'an Mansion
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Ma Di was not at all happy about his luck in avoiding the assassination, and the scene at the banquet deeply touched him.

Originally, he was very confident in controlling the court of the Shu Han Dynasty. He believed that with his great military achievements and prestige, he could make all civil and military officials worship him like Zhuge Liang. The direction of travel of the giant ship.

But when he actually saw the death of the substitute, he realized that the intrigue in the temple was even more brutal than fighting on the battlefield; more shapeless.In this court where elites from all over the world gathered, he was like a small boat in a stormy sea, powerlessly following the ups and downs of the waves, unable to fully grasp his own destiny.

Every official standing in the court has his own political demands and interest groups.The line between right and wrong is so blurred here, only the benefits are eternal.

Even if what he is doing is for the sake of His Majesty, the country, and the people...but so what?

As long as he blocks other people's interests and their path of ascension, others will come to kill him, by any means!

Everything is so brutal and direct.

Frankly speaking, this is the first time that Ma Di has faced the true face of politics, cold-blooded and ruthless, without reason at all.

He finally realized that he was not a qualified politician.

Especially when he learned that Wang Ping was the one who assassinated him, Ma Su even felt that if Wang Ping hadn't committed suicide, he could forgive him.

In the final analysis, the root cause of the assassination is the lack of communication.

Originally, Wang Ping, who was demoted to a commoner, was a spy he sent to the interior of Soochow. Although it was done in a coercive manner, the two were still on the same boat anyway.

However, there was an accident later, and Ma Su drastically changed his plan to attack Jiaozhou. This caused Lu Xun, who was originally Sun Quan's right-hand man, to become Sun Quan's rival. The two then fought fiercely for Jingzhou.

Wang Ping, who had been working as an undercover agent in Jingzhou, also broke away from the organization and lost contact.

Later, when Ma Di returned to the front line of the Northern Expedition, he gradually forgot about Wang Ping's undercover work.

Unexpectedly, when they met again, the two had become enemies of life and death.Although since the battle of Jieting, the two have been at odds with each other and dislike each other, but it has not risen to the level of life and death.

Wang Ping's death must be said to be a tragedy.

Therefore, when the shock caused by the assassination gradually subsided, another emotion gradually lingered in Ma Su's heart.Regarding the Jingzhou incident, he felt a certain sense of guilt towards Wang Ping, but more of it was sympathy for Wang Ping.If it wasn't for his persecution and mistakes, Wang Ping would never have ended up in this situation, at least he wouldn't have died.

With conflicting and complicated feelings, Ma Su pardoned Wang Ping's family.

But the investigation into the assassination is not over.

His intuition told him that things were by no means as simple as they appeared on the surface, and this was by no means a simple personal vendetta.

According to the report of the official in charge of investigating this matter: the disfigured Wang Ping appeared in Chang'an city about two months ago.An enthusiastic eyewitness said that he once saw a man with a pockmarked face entering and exiting the House of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

With the deepening of the investigation, more key information revealed the tip of the iceberg one by one—five days before the assassination, someone saw Shi Yangyi, the head of the prime minister's mansion, entering and leaving the House of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Based on these two key pieces of information, Ma Su quickly figured out the ins and outs of the matter, and Yang Yi, Fei Yi, and Wang Ping conspired to kill him.

But there was one more thing that Ma Di couldn't figure out.But all crimes have motives, whether it is fame or profit, or hatred or enemy.

Wang Ping chose to assassinate him because of misunderstanding and suppression, so he chose to take the risk to assassinate him.

Then what is Fei Yi doing?
Ma Di thought that he had no direct interests with Fei Yi.

At first, the two didn't interact much.Secondly, Fei Yi was originally a junior in the court of the Shu Han Dynasty. Even if the world is not unified, there are three mountains in front of him, Yang Yi, Jiang Wan, and Dong Yun. Yi's ranking dropped directly to the top [-].

Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Dan, Sima Fu, Chen Qun, Gao Rou, etc., everyone's ranking is higher than Fei Yi.

For example, Zhuge Jin, after the surrender of Soochow, Zhuge Jin is fully qualified to become the four major assistant ministers, and it is not impossible to even become the chief assistant.

It's just that Zhuge Liang was the prime minister at that time, in charge of internal and external affairs, and his third brother Zhuge Jun was the captain of Changshui, in charge of the imperial guards. Control everything—it was based on this consideration that Zhuge Liang strongly denied the requests of all the ministers to recommend Zhuge Jin as the internal assistant, and only let his elder brother be an ordinary Zhonglang official.

No matter from which point of view, Fei Yi had to endure for a long time before he could take the position.

Therefore, Ma Di thought that he had no conflict of interest with Fei Yi, but it was an indisputable fact that Fei Yi participated in this plan.

This fact made Ma Su furious, so he wanted to arrest Fei Yi immediately to get to the bottom of the whole matter, so he issued an order to the Tingwei Imperial Army: arrest Fei Yi and Yang Yi immediately.

However, after Yang Yi and Fei Yi were arrested, another rumor began to circulate in Chang'an City before the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice could come to the conclusion: Ma Su made a big fuss with the assassination, intending to cleanse the disobedient former Shu officials in the court , to achieve the ulterior purpose.

This very destructive rumor spread from nowhere, and it spread throughout the court, Chang'an City, and His Majesty Liu Chan's ears in an instant, and it intensified.

Even though Ma Di's authority was enough to make everyone shut up and dare not openly oppose anything, the secret criticism still made him feel the feeling of "Duke Zhou fears the day of rumors", restless, like a light on his back.

Because the assassination incident seemed clear at a glance, it was a vendetta, which came from Wang Ping's retaliatory vendetta against Ma Di.If Ma Di deliberately equates this incident with a conspiracy and arrests ministers with unwarranted speculation, not only will his prestige in the court be shaken, but it will also give other ministers more excuses.

The officialdom has its own rules, you can't arrest them on the pretext of suspecting that they conspired to kill you just because you saw Yang Yi enter the Hubu Shangshufu (Fei Yi's home).

In the same way, it is impossible for you to regard Fei Yi as the murderer behind the scenes just because he saw Wang Ping enter the Shangshu Mansion of the Transfer Department two months ago.

You have to produce direct evidence.

Otherwise, you, a great general, are abusing your power, persecuting high officials in the court, and eliminating dissidents.

This is a situation that Ma Su does not want to see.

After weighing again and again, Ma Su let out a long sigh, smashed the case in front of him with a slap, and then said to Shangshu Xiang Chong, who came to ask for instructions in a business-like tone: "Check again, if no other information is found, three days later Then let them both go."

When this order was given, Ma Di's eyes flashed a stern look, but Xiang Chong, who was bowing his head and hands, didn't see it.

When Xiang Chong returned to Tingwei's cell with this order, he saw Yang Yi and Fei Yi clasping the prison pole with both hands, shouting, and could not accept the fact that they had become prisoners anyway.

Especially Yang Yi, with an unbelievable expression, rattled the iron chains on his body, and shouted loudly: "I am not guilty! Why did you arrest me? I want to see Your Majesty! I want to see you!" Prime Minister!"

The head of the cell knocked on the bars with a stick, and said impatiently: "It's an order from the general, my lords, I advise you to be honest and don't make things difficult for us!"

Yang Yi continued to shout: "I am the head of the prime minister's mansion, Shi, a member of the court... the general has no right to arrest me! I want to meet..."

"We're just following orders. If the two adults quarrel again, I won't be polite!" The cell boss interrupted Yang Yi impatiently, and stretched out his killing stick to tap his fingers on the bars.

Yang Yi faltered in an instant, and quickly retracted her fingers, so she stretched out two fingers, crossed her own eyes, crossed Yang Yi and Fei Yi, and warned them not to make any noise, so she was relieved He turned around without hesitation, sat back at the wooden table a few feet away, and ate food and wine with his colleagues wholeheartedly.

Xiang Chong, who was standing at the door, sighed, and instead of stepping forward to tell the two of them that they would be released in three days, he turned and left the cell.

Forget it, let them calm down in Ting Wei's prison.In any case, the conditions here are much better than those in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

Xiang Chong, who knows Fei Yi and Yang Yi's footsteps, can conclude with [-]% confidence that these two people have no connection with Wang Ping, and they are inseparably related to Ma Di's assassination.However, since Ji Han inherited the Han system, there was a rule of "no courteousness to ordinary people, no punishment to high officials", so he couldn't get anything out of questioning alone, so he didn't choose to waste his saliva on interrogating the two at the beginning.

Moreover, a case like this does not need to be tried at all. As long as the general thinks that the two are guilty, they will be dead.If the general feels that killing the two at this time will have a bad effect, then the two of them will be fine.

Xiang Chong has a deep understanding of this point.

Dahan Chang'an Mansion, Tingwei Prison.

Yang Yi sat down against the wall and stopped making a scene.Rather than saying that he accepted this cruel reality, it was better to say that after the initial anger subsided, fear and fear surged up, making him lose the confidence to yell again.

The only belief that supports him now is that he hopes that the rumor that Fei Yi spread before can be fermented as soon as possible to create a deterrent effect, and then get the two of them out of the prison.

For most of the next three days, Yang Yi leaned against the prison cell motionless holding this faint hope, staring straight ahead with her eyes fixed.Looking very down and out.

Fei Yi's condition is much better than Yang Yi's.It's time to eat and drink, as if nothing happened, and I even look forward to a three-law trial in my heart.

He will let the people of the Sanju Division see and see what iron teeth and copper teeth are, and they can argue unparalleled!

outside.

The cell boss looked at the two honest officials with satisfaction, feeling a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

It doesn't matter whether these two people are the celebrities in front of the emperor or the cronies of the prime minister, as long as they enter here, if it's a dragon, you have to be coiled by me, and if it's a tiger, you have to lie down.

Otherwise, I can't cut him to death!

In a blink of an eye, three days passed.

Fei Yi's long-awaited trial never happened.Therefore, Fei Yi knew that he would not die, so he said to Yang Yi calmly: "Duke Wei, we should be able to go out within half a day."

"Really?" Yang Yi's eyes lit up, then quickly darkened again, her tone of disbelief said, "Gong Wei is joking again."

As soon as the words fell, I heard the voice of the prison head from outside.

"My lords, you can go out now, please."

(End of this chapter)