Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

"You don't have to blame yourself too much. What happened this time should be punished. But now is the time to employ people, so let's let you take the blame."

Ning Fan said lightly.

Hearing what Ning Fan said, Zhang Tianming could hardly believe his ears. Logically speaking, such a big thing had happened. Even if Ning Fan didn't want Zhang Tianming's head, he probably wouldn't be able to continue wearing the black gauze hat.

This was Zhang Tianming. He never expected that Ning Fan would lift him up high and then lower him gently, without any intention of punishing him.

For a moment, Zhang Tianming was so moved that his eyes turned red, and he kept kowtowing to Ning Fan: "Your Majesty's kindness to me will never be spared."

Zhang Tianning was crying bitterly, but Ning Fan and Zhou Qun were thinking about another issue, and that was how big of a blow this leak of test questions would have on the imperial examinations. It is still difficult to estimate.

"Mr. Zhou, it seems that there is no way to remedy this matter at the moment? The leak of the examination questions mainly affects the confidence of those students from poor families, as well as the credibility of the imperial court in holding this imperial examination."

"If those students know that the test questions prepared by the imperial court have been leaked, I am afraid that their confidence will be lost, and everyone's enthusiasm for this imperial examination will also slowly be lost."

Ning Fan said with a sigh.

In order to prepare for this imperial examination, Ning Fan worked hard, spent so much time, and finally established the conditions required for this imperial examination bit by bit.

It was obvious that now that everything was ready and all he needed was Dongfeng, to be attacked like this was indeed a heavy blow to Ning Fan.

However, as a superior person, Ning Fan's mentality has been very stable through experience. No matter what happens, Ning Fan's mentality will not have any big problems. Therefore, the leakage of the imperial examination questions did not affect Ning Fan. It causes too much emotional fluctuations in the heart.

"It is necessary to eliminate the impact, but we cannot explain this matter to the outside world in the form of a court."

Zhou Qun thought for a while and then said to Ning Fan: "We can send people to spread rumors, saying that these people sold the questions. They are all fake and made up by themselves. The purpose is to defraud money, and then the court will come forward." If we arrest a group of people very hard, we can curb the impact of this vicious incident."

Ning Fan had to admit that Zhou Qun's combination of punches was quite good. If used properly, it could really eliminate a lot of rumors caused by this incident.

Ning Fan thought for a while, then nodded towards Zhou Qun and said: "I can't think of a better way at the moment, so I'll just do what you said."

"It would be a great joy if we could kill the rabbit and catch the mastermind behind the scenes. I want to see who is constantly causing trouble for me behind the scenes!"

Ning Fan touched his chin.

For several days in a row, Ning Fan would quietly leave the palace every day and wander around the streets with his two dogs.

Ning Fan made a lot of new friends after going back and forth. These students from all over the country were also very talkative. Everyone was young and they became familiar with each other after just a few words. From time to time, someone would drag Ning Fan to a restaurant together. Go drink.

"Brother, your book boy seems a little unusual. Why doesn't he have a beard? And his skin is so white, is he a girl?"

When we are not very familiar with each other, it is naturally inconvenient to ask such private matters, but after two or three glasses of wine, everyone is no longer so polite.

Ergou, who was standing next to Ning Fan, naturally became the target of teasing. Ning Fan also knew that these people did not suspect that Ergou was a girl, but that Ergou did indeed look fair and fair.

"You are the mother, I am a pure man."

Ergou screamed, causing a burst of laughter.

Just when a few people were drinking, there was a sudden sound of playing and commotion downstairs. Then Ning Fan saw a commotion downstairs. Several vendors carrying bags fled frantically, but were stopped by several Jin Yiwei. Hold down on the street.

Several scholars did not eat, so they lay on the window and looked down from a high position. Seeing several vendors struggling desperately, several scholars felt happy.

"These liars deserve it. The Ta Kung Pao published it a few days ago, saying that these are hawkers who sell test questions. They are all liars. The test questions they said were all made up by themselves, but one copy costs one or two hundred taels. , simply a black heart."

one candidate said angrily.

"This brother is so angry. Could it be that he is also a deceiver? Two hundred taels of silver is not a small amount. For students from poor families like us, we may not be able to collect these two hundred taels even if we lose everything."

As soon as this student opened his mouth, he was immediately questioned by the people around him.

Indeed, two hundred taels of silver is already considered a sky-high price in this era. For these poor students, it is out of reach. Even if some students want to use money to buy these exam questions and change their destiny, they are still short of money. .

"Don't be slanderous. I said I don't have the two hundred taels of silver. Even if I did, I wouldn't use the money to buy these dirty questions. It was my cousin who was fooled. He is crying in the inn now."

Several students spoke to each other, and their voices expressed their hatred for these vendors and their trust in the court. When Ning Fan heard these people say this, he knew that the public opinion had changed, and the reputation of the court might have been lost. was redeemed.

At this moment, another exclamation came from the crowd. Ning Fan quickly looked down and saw a vendor taking out a dagger and stabbing a Jin Yiwei in the thigh.

No one thought that these hawkers selling questions on the street would be so bold at critical moments that they would take out daggers and dare to attack Jin Yiwei.

But the Jinyi guards were not used to it. They took out the embroidered spring knife from their waists and stabbed it into the hawker's abdomen. The hawker suddenly bled profusely and rolled his eyes. His body shook a few times and then died.

When Ning Fan saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This hawker attacked the Jin Yiwei so boldly, and he probably had a death wish in his heart. It seemed that this was a big fish, but these Jin Yiwei missed it.

As soon as Ning Fan saw through the secret, one of the Jin Yiwei Baihu hurriedly jumped off his horse. When he came down and saw that the hawker had been killed by the Jin Yiwei, he became furious and slapped several Jin Yiwei.

"Are you guys pig-minded? This man stabbed you with a knife. Why? Didn't he just want to die?"

The Jin Yiwei Baihu roared loudly, wishing he could pull out the Xiuchun knife from his waist and kill these subordinates in the street.

But after all, it was because of the strict laws of the court that he did not pull out the Xiuchun knife from his waist to hurt anyone, but stared at his subordinates with eyes like flames and scolded them angrily.