high official

Chapter 479 Doubt
"Hehe, it really is a man with a reputation for nothing." Xue Zhengyan nodded and said: "Last night's fire, it seems that the mountain of lights was too dense, after being ignited by fireworks, it happened to be windy, and the fire took advantage of the wind to spread all at once. Come on." He said with a smile: "If you just want to do business, you can stop here."

Wang Xian knew that he was running on him, so he smiled and asked, "Then what is the doubt?"

"The doubtful point is that most of the lamp mountains still have their frames after the fire. But one family's lamp mountains were burned to ashes." Xue Zhengyan said slowly: "It's very strange, is there something added to it? "

"What is it?" Wang Xian said with a tense expression.

"The fire was really clean, and I couldn't find anything for a while." Xue Zhengyan said: "When it comes time to investigate carefully, the palace is urging to clean up the fire quickly, so the lower officials have no choice but to give up." He said with a smile: "But I ordered people The ashes were placed separately and brought back."

"Xue Gong is as meticulous as a hair." Wang Xian praised: "Can you find anything?"

"Yes, some white powder, show it to the adults later." Xue Zhengyan said: "According to my little experience, it should be the residue of burning sulfur, fire and nitrate."

"Dengshan shouldn't use sulfur and fire nitrate, right?" Wang Xian said with a serious expression.

"At least I haven't heard of it." Xue Zhengyan said.

"Who is the owner of this lamp mountain?" Wang Xian asked: "Every lamp mountain should have a record in Yingtian Mansion."

"Yes, I also checked, it is Dengshan of a North Korean businessman." Xue Zhengyan nodded.North Korea is the most obedient vassal state to the Ming Dynasty, no different from a province of the Ming Dynasty.Moreover, the current Holy Majesty is also particularly interested in Korean beauties, so the imperial court is also the most generous to North Korea, allowing its citizens to travel freely across the border.Most North Koreans do business in the capital.There are not a few people who have settled in Daming, and they are all wealthy businessmen.

"Has anyone been arrested?" Wang Xian asked.

Xue Zhengyan shook his head and said, "No."

"In my humble opinion, these North Koreans should be controlled first," Wang Xian said.

"Impossible, several masters and servants died in the fire." Xue Zhengyan said with a wry smile

"The corpse of the North Korean businessman should be buried, right?" Wang Xian asked.

"Refrain, and ask their landlord to identify and confirm that they are correct." Xue Zhengyan said: "At the moment, the autopsy is being performed. If your lord is willing, the officer can take you there."

"I can't ask for it." Wang Xian got up and said.Although Xue Zhengyan was very polite, but the other party was a high-ranking official of the third rank, he could not trust him in the slightest.

The two went to the autopsy room on the east side of the government office, opened the door, and there were more than a dozen corpses parked inside. Although it was midwinter, the autopsy room still had a horrible smell, but Xue Zhengyan didn't notice it: " These were found to be suspicious by the subordinate officials, so they were transported back to the Yamen for a detailed autopsy. However, most of the corpses are now parked in the teaching ground of Wucheng Bingmasi, and will be brought back by the family members after the autopsy."

"Does that include Dudu Ma?"

"Ma Dudu's body has naturally been sent back." Xue Zhengyan said, and asked the kowtow who was kneeling on the ground: "What's the result?"

"Master, these people should have been trampled to death, and there are no signs of poisoning, drinking, or being injured by sharp objects." Wu Zuo hurriedly reported.

"Oh." Xue Zhengyan nodded, lost in thought.

"I happened to be at the scene that day. At that time," Wang Xian said, "I didn't use any blunt weapon at all. If I pushed the person to the ground, there was basically no way to survive."

"En." Xue Zhengyan nodded, motioning for Wang Xian to go out and talk.

Outside, Xue Zhengyan said softly: "There is another doubtful point, which is the performance of Jin Yiwei that day."

Wang Xian thought about it and said, "They don't seem to care about the cause of the fire, but they have been checking the appearance of the deceased, as if they were looking for someone."

"They explained this to the lower officials later," Xue Zhengyan said: "They said that after receiving help from Ma Wang's family, they searched for Ma Wang everywhere, and at the same time looked for other important people."

"That's reasonable." Wang Xian said slowly.

"However, in such a chaotic scene at that time, how did Ma Wang's family find Jin Yiwei for help?" Xue Zhengyan said seriously: "Jin Yiwei's statement is a bit prophetic."

Wang Xian nodded, agreeing with Xue Fuyin's statement.He said in a joking tone, "Jin Yiwei couldn't have started the fire, could it?"

"Impossible." Xue Zhengyan shook his head and smiled: "The following officials know about Ji Gang. He may act unscrupulously in many cases, but under the eyes of the emperor, he will never do anything out of line. Yesterday the emperor said in the afternoon Watching the lanterns on the door, even if Ji Gang wants to set fire, he will never choose this place."

"Yeah." Wang Xian nodded and said with a smile, "But it has something to do with Jin Yiwei."

"We have to continue the investigation." Xue Fu Yin said with a smile.

.

Coming out of the Yamen of Yingtianfu, Wang Xian, accompanied by an official from Yingtianfu, went to the school grounds of Wucheng Bingmasi.

As soon as I got near the school grounds, I saw a gloomy cloud, and the family members waiting to enter to identify the dead body crowded outside the gate of the school grounds.After a lot of effort, the two entered the arena under the escort of the guards.As soon as I entered, I saw corpses lined up all over the floor, as well as family members crying bitterly around the corpses of their relatives. The scene was even more horrible.

"Alas." The official said sadly: "The autopsy results show that almost none of the dead were burned to death, they were all pushed to the ground and trampled to death. It's really tragic."

Wang Xian nodded. He was not surprised by the result at all. He walked to a reed shed where the autopsy was being carried out. He said to the family members who were weeping outside: "Can I ask you a few words?"

The family members just kept crying and didn't pay attention to him, so Wang Xian had no choice but to change his tone and said: "My official Jinyiwei North Town Fusi Town Fu Wang Xian, I have something to ask you."

When they heard that he was the head of the Zhenfu Department, the family members stopped crying in fright, and a man said timidly, "My lord, what do you want to ask..."

Wang Xian couldn't help but secretly smiled wryly, Zhen Fusi's reputation was really not justified.Then he said kindly: "Were you also at the scene at that time?"

"My brother and I were there. At that time, the three of us came out to look at the lights," the man said sadly. "In the end, my elder brother was squeezed to death."

"Where were you at that time?" Wang Xian took out a blueprint, on which were densely drawn the locations and names of all the lamp hills on Yuqian Street that day, which was given to him by Governor Xue.

The man and his younger brother looked at it, discussed it again, and drew a small circle on the drawing: "It should be around here."

Wang Xian saw that he was lucky, and it was not far from the North Korean's Dengshan Mountain. "Before the fire started, did you notice anything unusual?"

The brothers looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Where do you think the fire started from?" Wang Xian could only ask more specifically: "Is it the sky or the ground."

The two thought about it and said: "It was the time when the sky was full of fireworks, and everyone looked up at the sky. Later, they heard someone yelling that there was a fire."

"Which location." Wang Xian asked in a deep voice.

The two thought about it again, and they both pointed to the same location on the drawing. Wang Xian's pupils shrank, and it was near the lamp mountain where the Korean stood.

He continued to search until it was dark, and asked more than a hundred people. Among them, more than a dozen were not far from the lamp mountain where the Koreans stood. They all pointed to the same place where the fire started first.And someone told Wang Xian that it didn't feel like the fire was caused by fireworks, it was more like the lamp mountain caught fire, which ignited the rest of the lamp mountains.

At this time, Ying Tianfu ended the day's body identification and began to clear the field, Wang Xian and others also left the school field.Let the guard tell the family, Wang Xian, Zhou Yong and others found a restaurant at random and settled the dinner.

While eating, Wang Xian was holding his rice bowl, but his mind kept spinning. Now it is basically certain that the fire was not ignited by fireworks, but from the North Korean lamp mountain.And according to the clues provided by Xue Fu Yin, the lamp mountain was not accidentally ignited, but someone deliberately set it on fire.

Who is so insane?And with what purpose?Wang Xian couldn't figure it out, and after a while he came back to his senses and asked, "Did Wu Wei come back?"

Everyone was about to shake their heads, but they saw Wu Wei and Xian Yun sneaking into the restaurant, Zhou Yong hurriedly called him into the box, the two of them picked up their rice bowls and gobbled it up, and Wu Weicai wiped his mouth and said, "My lord, I The two of them went to the residence of the North Korean businessman with Zhang Tuiguan from Shuntian Mansion. His family told us that besides the businessman and his servants, several North Korean friends of his went to watch the lantern last night."

"Did you take them to identify the corpse?"

"Go, why not delay so long?" Wu Wei said: "The family members recognized the deceased as indeed the North Korean businessman and his servants, but they didn't see his friends."

"Where are those people?" Wang Xian asked, "Have you looked for them?"

"They're all missing." Wu Wei said, "I don't know if they haven't been claimed in the school grounds."

"We'll have to wait to find out." Wang Xian asked, "Are his friends also businessmen?"

"No, they are the envoys of the Korean state, and they are also the family members of several empresses in the palace." Wu Wei said and added: "These empresses are all Koreans who entered the palace with Concubine Quan back then, and the emperor enshrined their families. Senior officials, but they are all officials in North Korea, because of the relationship in the palace, every time the king of North Korea sends people to court, they will let them go with them. This time, they came to congratulate the emperor on the New Year. "

"The envoy is missing? It's okay!" Wang Xian was surprised and said: "This matter cannot be concealed, it must be searched immediately, and if you can't find it, you have to play it!"

"Isn't it just a few Koreans?" The people of Ming Dynasty in this era have a strong sense of the Han nationality, and they regard places that were unexpected in the Ming Dynasty as barbaric lands.They cannot be expected to worry about the disappearance of several North Koreans like Wang Xian.What's more, Wang Xian was not worried, but just felt that those few North Koreans might be the cause of the fire!

"Notify Ying Tianfu and find them!" Wang Xian ordered in a deep voice.

　The third update, ask for a monthly pass at the last moment! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)