Childbearing system: The royal family is shocked to see their offspring wither away!

They knelt down immediately and said to the emperor: "Father, this is really not our fault. We didn't do this at all!"

"We really just copied a new copy of his test paper because we have a good relationship with Lord Yingwu!"

"Yes...it was Lord Yingwu who asked us to do so!"

"..."

They all looked at Chen Bo. Prince Cheng smiled and spoke slowly to the emperor.

"The relationship between Lord Yingwu and us is pretty good. He asked us to help him get better grades. We can't just not help him, right?"

"After all, Chen Bo's sister, Chen Zhining, is the Princess of Rongbao. Lao Jiu is our biological brother."

"!!!"

The prince was listening nearby and the vein on his forehead couldn't help but twitching.

King Ying and Prince Cheng are both too shameless. Now that the truth has been exposed, they say that they did tamper with Chen Bo's test paper, but they had discussed it with Chen Bo long ago.

Good, good, good!!!

In any case, Chen Bo's test paper had indeed been tampered with, so anything they said was possible.

After all, they couldn't produce any evidence that Chen Bo's test paper had not been tampered with.

Hahahaha, no matter what, I want to drag Chen Bo into the water with me.

If you die, you have to delay it until the next person dies.

And at this moment, Chen Bo slowly opened his mouth. He had been silent the whole time, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the whole court was shocked!

He nodded and said, "In that case, there is indeed something wrong with my test paper, so why not just make my results void?"

"And the test papers of the top ten students may have some problems. After all, Zhao Yannian and I both had problems in our test papers, so the others may not be able to escape this either. How about invalidating the test papers of the top ten students this time to show fairness!"

"?????"

"what?!"

Upon hearing this, the people below immediately became unhappy.

The top ten students pointed at the King of Ying and the King of Cheng, and said angrily, "If you were scheming against each other in the court, it would be fine! But how can you involve us?!"

"Yes, all of us have studied hard for more than 37 or years. The seventh candidate Lin is already years old. Just for this one time... He finally got the chance to take the palace examination! How come this test paper was suddenly invalidated!"

"We are not convinced!"

“We don’t accept it!!!”

"That's right!"

The other candidates panicked when they heard this. They knelt down and said to the emperor and the prince.

"I beg Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to conduct a thorough investigation of this palace examination! Find out whose test paper was swapped!"

"See what's going on!!"

"No matter what, we have to get to the bottom of this. We can't let all our efforts go to waste."

"......If we have to take the exam again, it will be three years later. It's fine if we have some money at home...but if we don't have any money, our family will depend on us for survival! How are we going to survive in those three years?!"

One of the poorest students among the ten even started crying right there in the court. They couldn't help crying and complaining, "If you just drive us away and invalidate our results, I won't come back to take the exam in three years. I really don't have that much money."

"Just one trip to Kyoto would earn me ten or twenty taels of silver! Ten or twenty taels of silver is enough for my parents to earn by working in the fields for ten years!"

"There are also students whose grades rank in the top ten, but their parents can't even scrape together that much money. They earn all this money by selling books and copying manuscripts. Is that easy?!"

"Are we going to invalidate our results just like that? No, absolutely not!"

"We must get to the bottom of this matter. If we can't find out, none of us would be able to live!"

The top ten students are not easily controlled by King Ying and Prince Cheng.

Since ancient times.

Studying is the most important thing for scholars. To falsely accuse them of the top ten results of the palace examination is simply to cut off their retreat. How could they agree to this? !

So they all asked the emperor, the prince and others to quickly find out the truth of the matter.

With King Ying and Prince Cheng doing this, it would be impossible for them to frame anyone or put the blame on anyone.

When the emperor saw Chen Bo standing there motionless, he couldn't help but smile. This Chen Bo was truly a remarkable person.

In this way, without shedding any blood, he transferred all the conflicts onto King Ying and Prince Cheng, and also made all the students who were originally indifferent and kept aloof from the matter speak for Chen Bo.

Originally, the situation was not favorable to Chen Bo, but now with so many students threatening their lives, King Ying and Prince Cheng had no choice but to make the matter clear.

Within a stick of incense's time, they quickly arrested the two academicians of the Hanlin Academy, Gao Hanlin and Lu Hanlin.

And the emperor ordered a severe beating.

They were all weak civil servants who could not bear the 30 or so slaps on their buttocks and had to confess everything.

In the end, it was discovered that... it was similar to what Minister Zhao said. The King of Ying and the Prince of Cheng simply wanted to frame Chen Bo, so they deliberately replaced his test paper with a super perfect one, and even hired someone to imitate his handwriting.

As for why there were traces of smears on Zhao Yannian's test paper, no one knows.

The emperor just looked at the people below him quietly. He stroked his beard and turned to glance at the prince.

The traces of smears on Zhao Yannian's test paper... were all made by the prince. Of course, it is impossible to find out.

Isn't this just to lure the snake out of its hole? !

Okay, okay, now I finally understand.

The emperor turned his head to look at King Ying and Prince Cheng, and spoke in a calm voice.

"Since you two love to interfere in state affairs, then you two will each be punished with 100 strokes of the cane and confined to the mansion for half a year. Stay in the mansion and help me share my worries for the country."

"And this Lord Shilang Zhao, you are not a good person either. You, Gao Hanlin, and Lu Hanlin should all be dismissed and investigated!"

"Prince, I'll leave this matter to you. Check what they have done in recent years, especially the corruption. They can actually order these Hanlins around... I guess they must have given them a lot of benefits."

"Whatever you find out, you will be sentenced to death."