At dawn the next day, news of Ma Xuansheng's mysterious death spread like wildfire.
Originally, in this place in the capital, the death of a young official was nothing serious.
The most indispensable thing for the emperor today is officials. There are a lot of high-ranking officials and relatives of the emperor, let alone a young man who has only been in the court for a short time.
But... Ma Xuansheng's situation is very special.
First of all, as we all know, Ma Xuansheng was a popular figure in front of Han Yu. In order to cultivate him, Han Yu spent a lot of political resources. If Ma Xuansheng's death was unexpected, it would be a disaster for him and Han Yu.
, but if it is man-made, it may be regarded as an attack and provocation against Mr. Han, and Han Yu cannot remain unmoved.
Secondly, the process of Ma Xuansheng's death is indeed rather strange. The currently known information is that an explosion occurred in a toilet in Bingma Division in the south of the city. After the explosion, people cleaning up the scene found the body of the consort, and there is no information about the explosion.
Reasons, as well as information such as suspects involved in the case... People in the Military and Horse Division are a bit evasive.
Of course, this is 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
There are Wu Juntou’s immediate boss, and Han Yu who is behind Ma Xuansheng...
In addition, the series of operations that Ma Xuansheng attempted to harm others afterwards were difficult to bring to the table.
Therefore, before he was sure that someone could "protect" him, Wu Juntou would definitely not dare to say a word.
At this point, Wu Juntou, a dandy born and raised in the capital, still has a clear idea - when you encounter something that you can't handle, keep your words in your stomach, and you will still have the ability to preserve your capital and maneuver.
If you spit out all your words, even if what you say is the truth and you have no responsibility at all, you may die, because then you have no trump card, and your only remaining value is to become someone else's scapegoat.
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Finally, there is one more thing... Ma Xuansheng was also the emperor's consort after all. Although the marriage had not yet taken place and he and the princess had never even met, the news of his death still had to be told to the emperor, and
The emperor must make simple arrangements for the aftermath of this marriage.
Let me digress here for a moment. In the feudal era, there was a situation where "the two families had agreed to marry, the man's betrothal gift had been given, and the woman's family had agreed, but before the marriage, the man suddenly died suddenly for some reason." This situation
The marriage may not be cancelled...
If the man's side is sensible and easy to talk to, then maybe the two families can discuss it and let the matter go. But if the man's side insists on continuing, and the woman's family is unable to resist, then it is likely to be a "ghost marriage."
That is, the woman goes to the wedding hall as usual on the wedding day, pays homage to the deceased’s memorial tablet, and then immediately becomes a widow and works as a cow and horse for her husband’s family for the rest of her life.
Although this kind of thing seems to us modern people to be simply cruel and unreasonable, and the probability of it actually happening is not that high (because there are not so many people who die suddenly before marriage), it did happen in the past, and it is not an exception.
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So, back to our book, is it possible that Princess Qingzhen’s marriage will evolve into this situation?
Of course it is possible.
But... the final decision lies with the emperor.
If Princess Qingzhen is arranged to marry the son of a certain general today, and the other party dies suddenly before the marriage, then the emperor will probably let the princess hold the memorial tablet without mentioning it, because it is politics in the first place.
As for marriage, marrying a dead person can tie up people's hearts better than marrying a living person.
However... Ma Xuansheng is not a general, nor does he belong to a family of officials. He is the son of a local rich man. He is the only official in their family. Apart from him, there is no one worthy of appeasement or wooing.
Is the emperor willing to let his daughter marry with a memorial tablet?
Even those who have extremely weak feelings among the many children, that is, the kind of children who the emperor only regards as political chips, will not be sent to do this kind of free business.
Not to mention, Zhu Qingyi was one of Zhu Fu's favorite children.
It was precisely because of his preference for her that, under Han Yu's rhetoric, he betrothed her to Ma Xuansheng, a new scholar who was "remarkable in appearance, talented, young and promising, with a bright future" instead of sending her to a border political marriage.
Or marry into the common people.
But now that Ma Xuan Sheng is gone, what else is there to say?
The emperor only had to say, "Then let's let this marriage go," and no one else would say anything else.
At this time, who dares to jump out and say bluntly: "Jun Wu is joking, since the emperor has granted marriage, it should be blablabla..."
Then he is looking for trouble, or even death.
Where is the limit? It's very simple... If you still give in to the emperor's wishes after arguing and don't marry, then think of it as if you are looking for trouble. If you do it a few more times, your career may be over; and if the emperor fights for a long time in the end
, I am still forced to do what you said, so just wait... I won't touch you in front of the door, but you are already on the death list. It can take as little as a year or as fast as a few months. Anyway, wait.
After this matter is over, you may be punished for stepping into the Hall of Supreme Harmony with your left foot first today.
Seeing this, some people may say, if this is true, then it won’t be long before the emperor will only have some sycophants left around him, right?
That’s because you don’t know something…
Zhu Zhu, on the surface, looks like a peaceful emperor who governs by doing nothing, and sometimes he behaves a little careless and confused, but in fact he is a wise and foolish person who is well versed in the art of emperors.
During his more than 20 years in office, there have been conflicts and internal struggles among the civil and military officials in the DPRK, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and other forces, but no one side has ever been too strong or too weak to maintain the relationship.
The person who maintains this kind of "balance" is none other than Zhu Qi.
As mentioned before, secretly weakening the power of the vassal king would not have been possible without the emperor's instructions and promises.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Therefore, Zhu Fu is by no means a faint king who only likes to listen to slander.
If he was criticized while discussing national affairs today, no matter what the outcome, he would not hold grudge against the minister; not only would he not hold grudge, but he would also give credit to the other party based on the outcome afterwards.
But... the matter of Princess Qingzhen is his family matter, and the outcome of this matter will have almost no impact on the country, because even ordinary people can understand his decision to cancel the marriage. This is human nature.
This move may even show his human touch, making people feel that "the emperor is also a human being and loves his daughter."
If someone dared to contradict him on this matter, he would immediately conclude that this person has low emotional intelligence and maybe also has intellectual problems.
If, during an argument with this kind of person, he feels that his taste is wrong and finally gives in and finds a way out, he may not pursue the matter and can continue to observe; but if the other party gives in repeatedly after he has given
If he still fights to the end despite the stairs, then he will definitely not be able to bear it.
It's not that you can't stand the other party's rudeness, but you can't stand the other party's incompetence.
In Zhu Fei's view, a person who does not know how to adapt to such matters and cannot understand the emperor's selfishness, even if he is a moral model and etiquette model, he is still an incompetent politician.
You are incompetent and have a personal grudge with the emperor. If you don't die, who will die?
To sum up, when Zhu Fu said "the marriage is over", not surprisingly, no one around him dared to raise objections.
Someone must be asking here again, should Han Yu say a few words for the Ma family?
Then you are thinking too much. The only person Han Yu values is Ma Xuansheng. Now that Ma Xuansheng is dead, the rest of the Ma family is nothing in his eyes and can be said to be of no use. 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 stupid mistake.
In fact, when the emperor talked about this matter, Han Yu didn't feel much regret for Ma Xuansheng's death. At that moment, he was already thinking about how to turn this crisis into a turning point, and how to get out of this situation.
Obtain greater profits from smaller losses.
For example, in the name of "finding out the truth for Ma Xuansheng and seeking justice", he would wait for an opportunity to attack the forces he wanted to attack, get rid of a few thorns in his side, etc...
Thinking of this, Han Yu had already thought about it and opened his mouth...
He did not complain 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. While crying in front of the emperor, he told how good his relationship with Ma Xuansheng's master and apprentice was.
We need to thoroughly investigate this nonsense.
Zhu Zhu was not stupid. He knew what Han Yu wanted, but he did not want the other party to get all the power to handle this incident as he wished.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Zhu Zhu played a trick with Han Yu. He handed the case to Jin Yiwei, but at the same time he asked Han Yu to "supervise" and "assist in the investigation"... In this way, Han Yu was
It obtained some investigative powers, but was restrained by another force.
Han Yu did not dare to push the envelope further, so he could only accept the arrangement as soon as it was good.
So, the investigation began...
After receiving the imperial edict, Gao Yuan, the commander of the Jinyiwei, also saw that this case must be handled with caution, so he appointed his capable officer Yun Shili to go out and investigate the case thoroughly with Master Han Yuhan.
This is really called... It's not that enemies don't get together.
Ever since Yun Shili got the "Picture of Traveling in the Lake and Encountering Immortals" from Brother Sun's house last year, and returned to Beijing with the "Jade Tail Immortal" who had a grudge against Han Yu, he had spent the whole year trying to find Han Yu secretly.
The flaw in the oracle.
It's a pity that the other party is really powerful and cautious in doing things, so he never got any chance...
Fortunately, this time, the two parties actually wanted to "cooperate in investigating the case", and the investigation was still the murder of Ma Xuansheng, a person who had a close relationship with Han Yu. So Yun Shili couldn't use the topic to make use of it?
No matter how cunning Han Yu was, he would never have thought that Yun Shili, a person with whom he had no connection, had already targeted him because of a "private grudge".
What he never expected was that as the investigation unfolded, he would next face Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai...these two scum.
This will lead to that - Han Rulun set up a bureau in the Young Master's Mansion, and Sun Yixie accidentally broke into Mingyu Hall.