Chapter 1538: Uncover the truth
Wang Shouren protected Fang Jifan all the way back to Beijing.
I have almost no contact with outsiders.
But he was able to find the real murderer in less than half a day after he returned to Beijing.
This is really unbelievable.
This inevitably makes people think that Wang Shouren is sensational.
Even Liu Huiwen was just smiling and acted very calmly and calmly.
Wang Shouren didn't care about everyone's gaze. He glanced at his mentor and said, "Your Majesty, if you act in such a way, it is very easy to get fucked."
"And Chacha..." He seemed very calm: "The master messenger behind the assassin is not good at this path. It is said that the person who acts is like a mountain. He is full of masturbation everywhere, and many arrangements are ridiculous. Therefore, it is too easy to capture such a real murderer."
Emperor Hongzhi was speechless for a moment.
The situation on Fang Jifan was calm.
To be honest, Wang Shouren's tone was a bit loud.
It seems like you, Wang Shouren, is very professional.
But... he seems to be really professional.
If you are a master, you are still as good as a teacher.
All the ministers held their breath and looked straight at Wang Shouren, with different thoughts.
Emperor Hongzhi comforted the case and said, "Is that true? Since that's the case, I'll listen carefully."
Wang Shouren said: "Any real expert must have made plans for his actions. But from many details of this attempt, the attempt to attack this time seemed extremely hasty, so that even the whereabouts of his mentor could not be accurately grasped. It can be seen that they were just acting temporarily, and... the people who acted were just a group of robbers and thieves."
After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi nodded secretly, feeling that it was quite reasonable.
People often have the impression of the criminals that they are extremely guilty, so they all guess at this deepest point, as if such a person dares to have such courage, then he will inevitably... also have great abilities.
But Wang Shouren only underestimated it and exposed this mentality.
"So, I was thinking, since I was acting hastily, then...who are they employed?"
Emperor Hongzhi frowned and couldn't answer for a moment.
Wang Shouren said: "This is an extremely easy thing to guess. I think... I must be a local. Otherwise, after the fire, the officials and officers in Nantongzhou city would react immediately. They would block the city gates and sluices entering the city to arrest the real murderer. At that time... as long as it is a door-to-door search, all those unique foreigners will become suspects. Only locals are relatively safe. This is the safest thing to the instructor behind the scenes. The instructor behind the scenes should be clear about this."
Emperor Hongzhi followed this idea and nodded secretly again.
Wang Shouren said again: "It is actually very simple to understand this section. If you are from Nantongzhou and you must have the courage to take risks like this and commit such a major case, then... these people must have killed someone and dared to take risks for money."
Emperor Hongzhi narrowed his eyes and said, "The local bandit?"
Wang Shouren shook his head and smiled and said, "It shouldn't be, because... I have said that the person behind this scene is not careful. This shows that this person has never had experience in this area before. He is completely ignorant of this. He just thinks that this is the best time to assassinate his mentor. If you miss it, you will never have a chance. This person... He usually has no friends with bandits. Now in a hurry, how can he contact bandits?"
To do such a big thing, you must first have mutual trust.
If you don’t trust each other, you will tell someone about your plan. They will go to Fang Jifan to inform him and get the reward. Isn’t this asking for death?
Emperor Hongzhi was confused.
It seems to make sense.
Do he dare to believe these people for a person who has never met bandits? Since he dares not, who is the deadly soldiers he temporarily recruited?
"These people, first of all, are outlaws, and secondly, need to be easily manipulated. I thought about it. There are really such people in Nantong Prefecture."
Emperor Hongzhi's brows stretched.
"Who?" Emperor Hongzhi was curious.
"Salt Ding!" Wang Shouren said: "In order to protect the official salt, the court specially set up salt dice, but this salt is a huge profit, and the custodian has always been robbed. If we talk about the four words "bold and arbitrary", in this world, in addition to the robbers who fell into the mountains, there are those custodians who robbed themselves. The official salt they guarded was actually a mountain of gold and silver. Therefore, since Emperor Taizu Gao, the salt dice custodians robbed themselves and privately sold official salt, which has been repeatedly banned. The court has severely cracked down on this, but these people are still under the throne.
The old man dared to steal salt. Therefore, although these people were wearing official clothes, they were actually no different from thieves. They put their heads on their belts and licked blood from the knife. The minister always thought that the messenger behind the scenes was neither a rebel or a traitor, and the people he could use were those who could control. The salt was the easiest to control, because their ancestors were all military households in the guards, and their wives and children were also in the army. But they were brave and acted ruthlessly. As long as the Shangguan threatened, they dared not to obey."
Emperor Hongzhi took a breath.
In fact, no one expected that the person who acted was actually the Ming Dynasty's official army.
In this way, it can be explained that after the incident, Nantongzhou closed the city gates, blocked the passage of waterways, searched for thieves everywhere, and factory guards also appeared everywhere, but their targets were mostly those formerly illegal people. Unexpectedly, the real murderers were hiding in the army.
This is actually...it is nothing more than a blind spot in the thinking in the temple.
Even Emperor Hongzhi and the nobles in the court would not have known at all that there would be such a group in Nantong Prefecture.
The difference between Wang Shouren is that he has read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles, and has a deep understanding of the affairs of the three religions and different groups of people.
At this time, the smile on Liu Huiwen's face finally began to gradually disappear.
Wang Shouren continued: "Follow this idea to check, then everything will be easy. When my teacher and his mentor arrived at Ningbo Water Village, they ordered people to use a fast horse to prepare a letter to the magistrate of Nantong Prefecture, and asked him to secretly investigate. This investigation immediately found that there were more than a dozen salt steaks at that time, and they happened to be not in the camp. They claimed to be escorting several trucks of salt to the canal to load and unload. But they checked the canal's transfer yamen, but found that there was no record of official salt delivery. The magistrate of Nantong Prefecture had found out their details seven or eight days ago, and secretly controlled their families, and then took them. Then, these people confessed and confessed that the Nantong Prefecture Salt Course and Sei-Chief Officer ordered them to act."
"And when the Salt Class Tingjutsu was arrested, the situation was already over, so there was no need to be tortured, so he recognized the real mastermind behind the scenes."
"Who is it!" Emperor Hongzhi's face turned pale and his tone was urgent.
He was actually an official appointed by the court, and the person who might have been involved was in the temple.
Emperor Hongzhi subconsciously suddenly rose, his face cold.
Wang Shouren looked around and was silent for a moment, and then said, "Because this matter is so important, the governor of Nantong Prefecture and ministers dare not disclose it easily in advance. He followed his thoughts and secretly investigated the case in Nantong Prefecture. At this time, he and his mentor also took a sea boat north. When I arrived at the capital, their secret letter had already arrived at the capital. The person revealed in this secret letter was indeed extraordinary. This person... was... the Imperial College Priest's Priest... Liu Huiwen..."
Buzz...
The hall was in an uproar.
In fact, for some ministers, when Wang Shouren mentioned that this matter was involved in the Nantongzhou Salt Course Commander, some people had already guessed who was the conscript behind the scenes.
This Nantong Prefecture is a thoroughfare. The Salt Course Division here is the most generous and has always been a place for some ministers in the court to compete for. Therefore, although this Nantong Prefecture Salt Course Division is only a mere fifth rank, it is really eye-catching.
Who doesn't know... the current prosecutor is Liu Huiwen, the priest of the Imperial College Priest.
Sure enough...
Everyone looked at Liu Huiwen.
Liu Huiwen was silent, he didn't say anything.
Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Huiwen in disbelief, with shock flashing in his eyes.
Liu Huiwen has been through several dynasties and has always given Emperor Hongzhi the image of a kind elder.
Unexpectedly, he was so crazy.
Emperor Hongzhi's first thought was whether he had checked the wrong one.
But... Liu Huiwen didn't even complain. He just curled up his hands and coughed desperately.
After this heart-wrenching cough, Liu Huiwen gasped heavily, stood up calmly but tremblingly. His hair and beard were all white, and every step he took seemed to be laborious.
Then, he fell to the ground and said calmly: "The old minister has served the emperor for several dynasties, and now he is old. When Your Majesty ascends to the top, it is the most gratifying day for the old minister, because... My Ming Dynasty finally welcomed a wise and kind king. The old minister was so gratifying at that time..."
As he said that, he raised his muddy eyes, without fear in his eyes, but with deep remembrance of a good time.
"But..." He suddenly felt heartbroken: "But ten years ago, everything changed. Your Majesty began to no longer advocate etiquette and righteousness, no longer yearn for becoming a virtuous king, but he only focused on it and put profit first everywhere. Over the years, the old minister looked at the many things in the temple and felt like a knife... Cough cough..."
Speaking of this, he coughed desperately again, his head drooped weakly, and his eyes were filled with tears: "These days, the old minister has been wondering, how could things have reached this point today? Why did Your Majesty listen to the villain's slander? How could Your Majesty become like this... The old minister can't figure it out, nor can he figure it out. Is this profit more important than moral integrity and shame? Those mixed learnings of worms and tricks are actually more sophisticated than saints? I am old, and soon after, I will go to see the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, but the old minister... is not convinced... I am not convinced."
Chapter completed!