Funing Hall

Before Zhao Zongning entered the palace, Shao Yi reported the results of the investigation to Zhao Cong in the Chongzheng Hall, first talking about Princess Baoning.

After Zhao Cong heard this, he frowned and asked, "Is there no one to stop it?"

"The guard wanted to go up to stop him. I don't know what he said, but the princess stopped him. Then he took the man to a nearby alley to talk. After talking for a while, the princess got into the carriage and went to Jinmingchi."

"Where is that person?" Zhao Cong sneered, "Is he already dead?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Shao Yi continued, "He should have died, but the killer was soft-hearted. He only stabbed him on the neck, but he didn't die."

This made some sense, Zhao Cong looked at him: "Who sent him to approach the princess?"

Although Zhao Cong asked this question, he already had the answer in his heart.

really--

"It's Yi Yu."

Zhao Cong smiled: "This person is interesting."

Shao Yi bowed his head and didn't speak.

"Speak clearly."

Shao Yi cupped his hands and said: "This man, I have already caught him, he couldn't stand the torture, so he was fully recruited. The person who let him go was Yi Yu's servant, who said he was pitiful and let him go secretly. One life, tell him to leave Kaifeng mansion immediately."

"What did he say to the princess?" Seeing that he missed the point, Zhao Cong asked again.

Shao Yi hesitated for a moment, and replied: "He said that Lord Eleven has an affair with Concubine Shu."

Zhao Cong laughed again.

It's just that the laughter became more and more cold, until it reached the bottom of my heart, and then rushed to my brain.

Shao Yi immediately knelt down on the ground.

Zhao Cong put his hands on the low table and remained silent. After living for so many years, it was the first time he saw such an overconfident person.Yi Yu is a man with a talent for writing, a good heart, and even more wealth. What can he do wrong?Why do you want to do things beyond your own capabilities?

It's okay to be self-indulgent, but Yi Yu is self-indulgent with him. Treating him as Zhao Cong, as the emperor, is he just letting others coax him?

Yi Yu is smart, and after seeing him a few times, he can tell that Zhao Zongning is impatient. Hearing such a thing, he might have to find out the answer before he has time to think carefully.But Yi Yu was really disgusting, even Zhao Zongning dared to take advantage of him.

In this way, he thought of Mr. Yu back then, and he asked, "Do you still remember Mr. Yu at that time? The one who worked in the same room as Xiao Eleven."

"Remember, I went to investigate this person at that time. Mr. Yu's family background is clean, he is cautious, and he really can't find any mistakes. His Majesty asked once and forgot. This time, I checked again by the way. Yi Yugang Not long after returning to Kaifeng, I have invited Master Yu to have dinner several times, and that restaurant happened to be the one that Chen Yushi often likes to go to."

"Yi Yu's scheming is all spent on these things."

Shao Yi nodded in agreement, his head decides everything, Yi Yu used so many people in a row, if he didn't investigate deeply, he really couldn't be found out.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid Yi Yu panicked, that's why he acted so stupidly this time."

It's not stupid to send someone to stop Princess Baoning.

Zhao Cong asked again: "How was the investigation at the city gate yesterday?"

"There are three people dressed like last night, one of them is a woman disguised as a man, and the other two—"

"One is Yi Yu, right?"

"Yes!"

Zhao Cong sighed.

Not because of helplessness, nor because of anger.

He just suddenly felt a little emotional.If a good card is broken, it is Yi Yu.

"How is Lian Xiucai these days?"

"Well, almost all the books he brought are sold out." Shao Yi said with a smile, "Yi Yu has been in a panic these days, otherwise he might have noticed that there is such a person in Beijing."

"Another day, I will see this Lian Xiucai."

"The minister will arrange it properly."

"Yi Yu's boy, you get in touch with him, and when I meet Lian Xiucai—" Zhao Cong only spoke in half.

However, Shao Yi understood that after meeting Lian Xiucai, the number one scholar Yi would come to an end.

Zhao Cong returned to Funing Hall at night, but he didn't see Zhao Shiqi, and asked, he was in the side hall.

Zhao Cong didn't have time to change his clothes, so he went directly to the side hall.No one stopped him, so he walked into the hall, searched for a while but couldn't find it, so he went to the study, Zhao Shiqi was indeed there.

"What are you doing?" Zhao Cong asked as he walked.

Zhao Shiqi was actually polishing the painting given to Zhao Cong, but this was to be kept secret for the time being. He gently pulled out a few sheets of paper below, covered the portrait, and said with a smile, "I'm practicing calligraphy."

There were many books piled up on the desk, blocking his sight, Zhao Cong really didn't notice this little gesture, he went to the desk and looked at his handwriting, which was exactly the same as his own.

Zhao Shiqi explained: "When I first entered the palace, His Majesty taught me that I always have to write it down when I think about it."

Zhao Cong was very happy that Zhao Shiqi cared about him so much.He picked it up and looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "It's really the same. It's just that my handwriting is a bit ordinary, and your handwriting is beautiful."

Zhao Cong's handwriting is a bit too correct, maybe the less everyone has something, the more they will miss something, and Zhao Cong is no exception.He likes Zhao Shiqi's handwriting very much. It is a bit awe-inspiring in its arrogance.

He couldn't live with his will in two lifetimes, and the same is true for words.

As far as Zhao Shiqi is concerned, in the same way, Zhao Shiqi said seriously: "I prefer Your Majesty's words."

Zhao Cong laughed out loud, put down the paper, and asked him to have dinner together.The two held hands and walked towards the main hall, talking while walking. Zhao Shiqi wanted to curry favor with Zhao Zongning, and wanted to give her some gifts, but Zhao Cong laughed directly: "At this time, you should stop quietly. Once you give it away like this, Adding the gifts you gave earlier, she will start to settle the old score."

Zhao Shiqi laughed, but said in his heart that he must continue to give gifts.Zhao Zongning is actually very simple, treat her well, and she will treat you well.

"She's going to enter the palace tomorrow, you should stay away from her, and don't quarrel again. It just so happens that after the list is posted, the Ministry of Rituals has a lot to do, so you continue to help."

Zhao Shiqi could sense that Zhao Cong wanted to let him do business and stop letting him live in chaos. He wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, Zhao Cong was happy.It just so happened that he also went out of the palace to ask about the scholar Lian and Yi Yu.Go to six, let's go.

He readily agreed.

Before dinner, Qian Yuemo sent someone to deliver soup.

Seeing that Piao was happy in writing, Zhao Shiqi jokingly said, "Why are you ladies so happy today?"

Piao Shu thought to himself, could their wives be unhappy?She came back crying last night, but sister Che Xia from the Princess Mansion delivered something here, she immediately pulled herself together, got up from the bed, washed her hands and made soup for His Majesty.But she couldn't say that. She put down the food box, took a small wooden box from the hands of the two little maids behind her, handed it to him, and said with a smile: "My lady made two more purses for Your Majesty and the Eleventh Lord." .”

Zhao Shiqi took it, opened his eyes, and praised a few more words.

After Piao Shu left, Zhao Shiqi put down the box, turned around and was about to talk to Zhao Cong, but saw him staring at him, and asked in surprise, "Your Majesty?"

Zhao Cong came back to his senses, smiled and said, "Let's eat."

"Yeah." Zhao Shiqi served him soup, Zhao Cong looked at Zhao Shiqi's hand and gradually became fascinated again.He thought, is there something wrong with Yi Yu's brain, even Zhao Shiqi and Qian Yuemo have to arrange it?

Besides, Yi Yu was not a magistrate, so how could he think of arranging the two of them? Someone in the palace must be talking nonsense.Who is talking nonsense?He even asked Yi Yu to know about the nonsense.The more Zhao Cong thought about it, the more disgusted Yi Yu felt.Just thinking about it is a blasphemy against Xiao Shiyi.

He secretly shook this shit out of his head.

The next day, after Zhao Zongning entered the palace, he didn't come to Funing Palace either, she still didn't want to see Zhao Shiqi.She went directly to Chongzheng Hall, and immediately told Zhao Cong about the strange man after he came down to court.

Zhao Cong didn't tell the truth either. After all, the truth is too disgusting, there is no need to let his sister know.

He only said that Xiao Shiyi and Qian Yuemo were absolutely innocent, and asked: "You and Xiao Shiyi often quarreled, and it's only natural to be angry with him for a while, Concubine Shu, don't you believe it?"

Zhao Zongning remained silent.

"I heard that, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, you had a conflict with her?"

Zhao Zongning said embarrassedly: "What conflicts can I have with her?"

"There is no conflict, you go to Xueliu Pavilion to talk to her." Zhao Cong felt that it would not be easy for Qian Yuemo to be in the palace, and Zhao Zongning was too impatient, so it would be a good thing to make friends with Qian Yuemo.

Zhao Zongning was still a little unhappy.

Zhao Cong simply said: "I can send someone to her place in the morning and tell her that you are going."

Zhao Zongning gave a painful "ah", it's not that she didn't want to go, it was because she reprimanded Qian Yuemo that day, she was embarrassed to go.She also felt sorry for Qian Yuemo, but she couldn't save face.But her brother had his life, so she went anyway.

Zhao Cong thought it was very funny, and when she left, Zhao Cong was still laughing.

Besides, the four people who cheated during the Qiuwei period, the list has been released now, and it's time to deal with it.

In the Great Song Dynasty, all the students who participated in the scientific examinations had always had ten people as one guarantor, and if one person cheated, they would have to sit together.After Zhao Cong came to power, he changed this rule.

Zhao Cong felt that this was a bit unfair.

Originally, the purpose of scientific examinations was to be fair, so that the poor could have some hope, and that everyone in the world would know the benefits of studying.Cheating, with this heart, how can others stop it?The desire to cheat is also born by oneself, not instigated by others.People who have the heart of cheating still care about the lives of others?

Ten years of hard work, one should not ruin one's future for the faults of others.

But changing this rule does not mean that people who cheat will be treated leniently.In fact, Zhao Cong severely punished those who cheated.

It's just that in the first two scientific examinations, the number of recruits was small, and the number of references was limited, and no one cheated.

This time, it was time for severe punishment to really work.

Zhao Cong ordered the families of the four cheating examinees, within the third generation and among the fifth service, no one could participate in the scientific examination. husband.These are all scholars, and after hitting fifty sticks, they are already dead, let alone the one who went to Fujian.

Zhao Cong's sentence was fast, and this matter was handled even faster. It was fought in the Kaifeng government office, and everyone could watch it.

Everyone's heart was beating like a "plop plop" when they saw it. They were all scholars with delicate skin and tender flesh, and they were all bloody after beating.

Among the people who watched, some said that the officials were cruel.

Some people also disdain to spit: "People sit in it for six days honestly, racking their brains to write, but they think of some crooked ways, and they can't fight? This is at the foot of the emperor, and it is the Kaifeng mansion. They dare! Tell me, the official Jia Yingming is doing it!"

"That's right!" Someone echoed, "At the time when the late emperor and Taizu were still sitting together, was it miserable? You still talk about such an official family!"

Someone objected again, and after talking about it, there was almost no quarrel.

It wasn't until the people in the yamen couldn't stand it anymore and sent people out to stop these things.

But after this incident, everyone knows that the officials in the palace really hate cheating.In addition, it undoubtedly rang a very loud bell for the rest of the candidates.

Yi Yu's face is full of spring breeze these days, he is appreciated by Mr. Zhu, who is in the official department, and he has been following Mr. Zhu for the past two days.

His Majesty's birthday is only a few days away, and Master Zhu took him to meet the officials from various places.

Master Zhu said: "The Ruiqing Festival is approaching, and it is inevitable that auspicious offerings will be offered in various places. I will take you to see these officials."

Yi Yu naturally complied, and felt that his promotion was very appropriate.

When talking with officials from all over the country, someone asked Mr. Zhu about Qiu Wei's cheating.The Jinzuo officials are officials from various places in Beijing, and this Jinzuo officer was placed in Haizhou. It just so happened that some people in Haizhou cheated, so he tried to find out what His Majesty meant, so that the governor of Haizhou would also know something.

Lord Zhu then explained how things are going well in Beijing, emphasizing: "Your Majesty hates these injustices very much, you know that."

"Yes, yes, my subordinates often stay in Beijing, so I know it." After Jin Zouguan said, he wanted to give Mr. Zhu some gifts.

Master Zhu said seriously: "Your Majesty hates cheating, what else do you hate, don't you know?"

Jinzuo shut up his hand.

Your Majesty hates corruption and bribery.

Yi Yu followed behind them, not daring to say much, but his mind was spinning quickly.