imperial psychologist

Chapter 695 A Misunderstanding

Although Bai Ling was surprised by the result of Mucheng's arrest, he quickly accepted it.

If it was really done by Mu Cheng, then before he fled, he must have made preparations for the future.

That night, Mr. Cao from Zhuozhou prefecture invited a few people to the house to have a communion. During the dinner, the seven deer hunters never showed up—this has basically been the case for a while. The deer hunter would disappear for a while.

Li Yiru and Bai Ling were thinking about their old friend, neither of them had much appetite, and they hardly moved their chopsticks.

Cao Xun, the magistrate of Cao, was talking and laughing with Wang Meng throughout the whole process, and hardly looked at Li Yiru and Bo Ling.

Both Bai and Li also understood that it was only because of General Chang's face that they were able to sit in the guest seat of the magistrate today.

From the very first moment he saw Master Cao, Bo Ling had an inexplicable dislike for him.

Bai Ling couldn't tell the reason. Seriously, there were many things about Mr. Cao that reminded her of Mr. Zheng Mi and Mr. Zheng in Pingjing, but he didn't have the most important spirit.

After eating this dinner, Bo Ling could almost hear the wish of Master Cao—it turned out that he was a second-class Jinshi in the second year of Shengming, and according to the practice of previous years, he should stay in the Imperial Academy for training.

However, at that time the emperor took the quasi-Hanlin who he had hand-picked to tour the north, and placed them one by one in the state capitals of the four northern states.

The reason why Chen Yicong did this is very simple. He was worried about the local yamen in the North, so he pushed these fresh-blooded young people into the boundary of the North like wedges.

Although they are in the northern border, there is a record in the files of the Ministry of Officials that the time these people spend in the northern border will be directly equivalent to their years of service in the Hanlin Academy.

After five years in office, they can return to Beijing and be reassigned important positions by the Holy Majesty.

The so-called Hanlin bachelor's status is extremely noble, and can almost be called "the emperor's private".

They edited books and wrote history every day, drafted edicts, accompanied the royal family to read, and served as imperial examination examiners... Almost all cabinet ministers and officials in the frontiers started their magnificent careers with this as the starting point.

Mr. Cao will be in office for five years this year.

When the spring of next year begins, he will return to Beijing to return to his command.Returning to Beijing with him, there are more than a dozen review papers from colleagues in the northern border.

These review papers will be presented to the emperor together with his own report papers for the emperor's review.

And how the emperor will evaluate his merits and demerits in the past five years in the northern border will be largely affected by these dozens of review papers.

Mr. Cao is currently the most important thing is the comments of the two generals, Chang Sheng and Shen Jichuan - he has seen early on that the Holy Spirit trusts these two generals, and the various performances of the emperor's northern tour in the fourth year of Shengming have further confirmed his point of view. .

The status of civil servants in the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been slightly higher than that of generals, but Mr. Cao completely ignored these things. He always tried his best to meet any needs of Shen Jichuan and Chang Sheng.

He was originally in charge of Zhuozhou's city defense layout in spring and summer, but he had to submit everything to Shen Jichuan in private for review, almost voluntarily putting himself as the subordinate official of Old General Shen.

Both Shen Jichuan and Chang Sheng were so happy. Most of the time, the two of them directly did the work handed over by Mr. Cao. Compared with Yanzhou and Fuzhou, which had to go back and forth according to the rules, the arrangement in Zhuozhou was the smoothest. - This is also thanks to Mr. Cao being a hands-off shopkeeper.

After dinner, Li Yiru and Bo Ling were interrogated separately. Before they parted, Li Yiru suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have spoken to Bo Ling all this way, but Bo Ling just shook his head, "Tell the truth."

"What?" Li Yiru was stunned for a moment, "Then... Then the mine we discovered in Huizhou..."

"It doesn't matter," Bo Ling said softly, "Master Cao is about to get a promotion, even if he knows, he won't make trouble for himself. As long as our confessions are correct, he shouldn't make things difficult for us."

Li Yiru followed Bo Ling's suggestion with suspicion.

However, what was unexpected was that the recording of the confession this night was almost perfunctory, and the reason for the separate interrogation was simply because this was a long-standing rule in the yamen.

Bo Ling was extremely confused. The case of extermination was a major case in any dynasty, not to mention that the deceased was the former governor of Yuezhou. Now that the "suspect" was arrested, the government should not have such an attitude when collecting statements anyway.

But it's not easy for her to ask more questions to the people in front of her.

It can be seen that these yamen servants are not very concerned about the matter of taking confessions, but they can't write casually, so Bo Ling has to talk about the same question over and over again. The yamen servant was finally willing to let him go.

Confused, Bo Ling and Li Yiru went to see the magistrate Mr. Cao again in the middle of the night. Thinking of the friendship of having a meal tonight, this Mr. Cao quickly put on his clothes and came out to meet.

It's just that his complexion is not as good as it was at dinner.

The servant quickly brought hot tea to Cao Xun, but there was no share for Li Yiru and Bai Ling.

Cao Xun still had a smile on his face, "Tell me, why are you looking for this house at such a late hour?"

Bo Ling deliberated and asked the government what to do with Mu Cheng next.

"You guys really have a good relationship." Cao Xun gave Bai Ling an inexplicable look, "I think you are both friends of General Chang, and the government will not hide it from you. He was arrested last night, but the above-mentioned decree yesterday It was changed in the morning."

"Changed?" Bo Ling and Li Yiru asked in surprise at the same time, "What did it change to?"

"There was another murderer in the murder case in Yuezhou Prefecture. This Mucheng was considered unlucky for him. He was the first to discover the scene of the crime that night. In addition, he usually acted straightforwardly, which angered the chief officials in the yamen. After the incident, It just happened to take the blame.

"Last month, Chuzhou just solved a big case involving the remnants of Qinyuan. During the interrogation, the principal culprit happened to include the crime committed in Yuezhou, so the case against Mu Cheng was naturally dismissed."

Cao Xun said, blowing the tea foam on the cup.

"However, as a police officer, he took advantage of his position to steal the blank letter of recommendation from the prefect at the time, and even planned to escape. This matter should still be punished. After finishing the forty army sticks yesterday, he can leave when he recovers from his injuries. gone."

"As for your confession," Cao Xun said again, "Originally, there was no need to record it again after getting a new decree yesterday, but the new decree only said that the case against Mu Cheng was dismissed, and it didn't say that you The confessions of the two can be cancelled, so they were recorded together, that’s it.”

Li Yiru stood up immediately, "Can we go see him tonight?"

"It's so late..." Cao Xun frowned.

"The family army will leave for Yanzhou tomorrow," Bo Ling also stood up, "If we don't see you tonight, I'm afraid we won't have a chance in the future, so please forgive me."

"It's easy," Cao Xun said with a smile, "but I have one condition."

(End of this chapter)