Chapter 746 Consensus

It's already mid-July, but the case still has no clue. The entire Ministry of Criminal Justice has successively recruited people who are known as "superior detectives" from all over the country to try, but there is no progress.

Xue Gui's hair was almost graying, but nothing could be added to the dossier.

Those who could be tortured in Prince Lu's mansion had already been screened by torture, and all the confessions and found things had been sorted out repeatedly, but it still didn't work for the investigation of the case.

How did King Lu get killed, and who killed him?

I thought that this time, like the last Qianwang case, some clear clues could be found and the case could be thrown out like this. Whether it was the criminal department or the chief case officer, they could take the opportunity to temporarily withdraw. It's nothing more than being treated as a knife. What's the difference between doing it once and doing it twice?

But the problem is that there is no clue at all now!

It wasn't that Xue Gui didn't ask Xuan Qingwei for help because of face, but that he did, and Xuan Qingwei ignored him at all. The Criminal Ministry's case was investigated by itself, and Xuan Qingwei would not help anyone without the emperor's order.

Even in the end Ma Xuanlin personally went to the commander's office to find Pang Ban, the result was the same. Xuan Qingwei's attitude was very clear and he would not interfere.

If the investigation has no direction, there is no way to push forward the case. In the end, it becomes like the criminal department is deliberately delaying time.

This time the emperor was not as furious and anxious as in the previous Qianwang case. Instead, he just said "investigate" lightly, and he didn't seem to care as much as before, and he didn't set any time limit for solving the case. In this way, the pressure on the Ministry of Punishment has eased to a certain extent. Thinking about going over it again, I don't believe that there is really no breakthrough.

But the emperor is not in a hurry, but someone is always in a hurry. Not even one or two. Just yesterday, rumors began to spread in the imperial city, mostly in the streets and alleys, some traffickers and pawns were whispering small things. To this day, relevant words have spread in a small range in the upper circles of the imperial city.

pass what? Of course, it is the case of the recent murder of King Lu.

Most of the yamen servants of the Ministry of Punishment lived in the imperial city, and they were ordinary people after they were on business. When I first heard about it, I didn't think there was anything wrong. It was not until later that there seemed to be other meanings that aroused the vigilance of many yamen servants.

Said, King Qian is in the front, King Lu is in the back, and two princes have died. Is it time for the royal family to change again? Many older people still remember that many princes died every time there was a big change in the royal family.

Then he said, luckily it didn't affect us common people, otherwise any monk would kill us like chickens.

In the end, I don't know who did it. Forget it, this kind of thing has nothing to do with us ordinary people. But as the old saying goes, whoever does it will take advantage of it, and you can always see it clearly when you walk around.

These words in the market may seem ordinary, but they have a tendency to start a prairie fire, and finally quickly spread to the so-called upper circles in the imperial city.

Compared with the ordinary people at the bottom, people in the upper class are much more informed and have more ideas. It is easy to come to new conclusions by following some statements in the market and the news they hear.

"Whoever does it will gain the advantage" This is a common saying in the imperial city of the old Jing Dynasty, and there are many explanations, but it is very interesting to use it in the upper circles to use the case of the murder of King Qian and King Lu.

The common people don't know that King Lu was recently ordered by the emperor to contemplate behind closed doors, but who in the upper circles doesn't know? The reason is that the clues of the Qianwang case were traced to King Lu, and the key criminal "snake" has disappeared, so that King Lu can't argue with it. Even most people don't think King Lu is innocent. After all, the "big test" is nothing new.

But now King Lu, who is considered to be the man behind the killing of King Qian, is also dead, and it is reported that King Lu's death is exactly the same as when King Qian died. Does this mean that King Lu is not actually the man behind the murder of King Qian, but just an unlucky guy who was blamed?

Now that the unlucky guy is dead, doesn't it just mean that the murderer is still at large?

In the end, I still have to go back to the old saying: whoever does it will take advantage.

Killing requires a purpose, unless it is a lunatic or a murderous maniac, or even an evil cultivator must have a reason for killing. For example, interests.

The old saying has the same meaning in these two cases: look at who has benefited the most, and whoever is likely to be the murderer of King Qian and King Lu! And it is very likely that they will continue to kill them again and again!

As for who this "he" is? Except for one of these princes who participated in the "big exam", I can't think of anything else.

Then who got the most benefit in the case of the death of the two princes?

After careful calculation, it seems that there are only two people, one is the eldest prince who captured most of the power behind the two late princes, King Jing Yang Baicheng. The other is the Seventh Prince, Ling Wang Shu, who relied on his strong financial resources to win over the staff and force left by the two princes after their death.

One boss and one youngest.

One belongs to the strongest among the princes; the other belongs to the biggest dark horse in this "big test".

There are all suspects, so what should I do? Naturally follow the pleasing to the eye.

Who looks more pleasing to the eye, the eldest prince or the seventh prince? This question depends on who is asked. If you are asking merchants, the Seventh Prince must be more pleasing to the eye; if you are asking the so-called "upper class" in the imperial city or aristocratic families, then the First Prince must be more pleasing to the eye. This is the ass decides the head.

This is not a question of who takes sides with which prince, but a question of old and new forces.

Even if the powerful family has different princes, no matter who ascends the throne in the end, they will give the powerful family a face and will not kill them all, because they are all in the same circle of influence, so there is no need.

But the Seventh Prince is different. From the very beginning, he took a different path from ordinary people. It belongs to an absolute new force, and now it is getting stronger and stronger. It is not just a few princes who are worried, but the big families are also worried. Because no one knows whether the new forces represented by the Seventh Prince will be cleaned up once they come to power. After all, the aristocratic family has nothing to do with the Seventh Prince and even has been causing trouble.

So, the conclusion came to a conclusion from here, the so-called upper class in the imperial city quickly formed a unified caliber, intentionally or unintentionally led the "behind the scenes" to the Seventh Prince.

Don't think that this kind of "gossip" has no real meaning. This is a wind that is steadily blowing from the dark to the bright, and it also means that the forces of all parties are now gradually forming a consensus.

This consensus is: Lingwang Shu is a threat to everyone.