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In Xu Gui's case, the biggest difficulty is not the case itself, but the interference outside the case.

For example, the investigation team still thinks this is a case.But it is not. "Poisoning Xu Gui" and "Helping Xu Gui's white papers to cheat to obtain higher nouns in the imperial examination" are completely unrelated, but accidentally mixed together.

For example, Emperor Nian Ping had already sent someone to try his best to clean up the hands and feet that he had done on his side.

Therefore, such a fragmented and difficult to piece together case was left for the investigation team. It was caused by unnatural forces and the emperor's totalitarian intervention. The investigation team can only find out the truth.

[So, the current result is that only Emperor Nian Ping is still worried, how wonderful. ] Chi Ning was so happy that he wanted to shake his feet.

Just when Chi Ning felt that this was the end of the matter, he underestimated the ability of his godson Su Ren to handle affairs.Su Ren was also in the investigation team this time. After all, he was in charge of Tonggui, and he was the one who received Xu Gui when he came to ask for self-examination, so he couldn't get around him no matter what.Although Su Ren chose not to intervene in order to avoid suspicion at the beginning, but when the progress of the case investigation was still at the stage of "being unable to do anything", the investigation team did not want to bear the infamy of incompetence, so they could only ask Su Ren to come out.

Su Ren lived up to expectations. Although he couldn't see the stubbornness, he had a broad mind and a wild way of thinking. He quickly followed the line of Xing Caizi and Xing Shangshu to find out a fraudulent interest in the examination room among officials in Yongji. chain.

It's not that there is someone with great power who can cover the sky with one hand and decide the result of the entire imperial examination, but that there are a large number of participants, with groups as the unit, one small group and one small group receive orders separately. Various violations.Among these different interest groups, some are tacitly aware of each other, and some are shocked that they "didn't know you cheated at all".

In short, this chain of interests is so huge that it shocked the whole country, because this is not a single case, but almost everyone is involved, and it is not organized by anyone. It seems to be a "normal thing" that everyone is doing.

Emperor Nian Ping probably didn't expect that he would be involved in such a big case in the end with just a small trick.

This is a pie that directly affects the interests of scholars all over the world, and it is already impossible to want to be punished lightly.

The matter developed to a later stage, and it got out of control directly. More than a hundred students in Qingyi gathered in front of the Meridian Gate of the imperial palace to stage a sit-in protest.

Su Ren, who was in charge of the case, became famous among scholars for a while, and he was in the limelight. He was admirable because of his daring to do nothing for the world.

Even Wang Yang has begun to notice the talent of Su Ren. It is hard to say that he looked down on officials who were sons of eunuchs before, but at least he has some subtle emotions when dealing with such officials, no matter how talented the other party is. , and not very willing to be promoted.But after Wang Yang changed his view of Chi Ning, he inevitably became more fair and just to Su Ren.

Su Ren is really capable and talented. As long as you look at him squarely, you will find out what kind of treasured talent he is.

Wang Yang began to feel that there would be exceptions in everything. There could be Chi Ning among the eunuchs, and there would naturally be Su Ren among the eunuchs' sons. They were not all flatterers who could only form cliques for personal gain.

The case is not over yet, and Su Ren's transfer order has come down. Although he didn't say it directly, he understands everything. He was formally trained as a future cabinet minister.There are actually many candidates for such cabinet ministers, and not all of them will definitely be able to join the cabinet in the future, and it can even be said that there are no one out of ten. However, Su Ren's selection at such a young age is already a test of his ability. Guarantee.

Others were wondering how Su Ren found out such a detailed fraud result. Su Ren only told the truth to Chi Ning: "Because someone came to beg for his son."

Su Ren is not only the person in charge of the Tongjiao, he is also in charge of this year's palace examination, so there should not be too many people who secretly contact him for some weird operations.Among them, the act of "passing the note" attracted Su Ren's attention at that time.

The so-called handing over notes was Chi Ning's cheating method of drawing circles on the answer sheet and asking the transcribers to help him.Three circles represent 500 taels, and five circles represent 1000 taels.This is a kind of code. After the matter is completed, the silver will be sent to the mansion in the name of the students' filial piety to the teacher.

Daqi's officialdom is intricate and complex, with all kinds of "reciprocity", the emperor generally can only turn a blind eye, which provides fertile ground for open bribery.

The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment has a fellow villager who is the chief judge of this year's scientific examination. Therefore, the Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs made a bridge out of it and introduced a lot of "business" to his fellow villager.This is actually a well-known difference in oil, water and fertilizer every year.If it wasn't for Xu Gui's affairs, he would have been fooled by them so mischievously.

Because it's not just one person doing it, it's an infinite number of people doing it.It can almost be said that none of the copyists and examiners who judge the papers are completely innocent.Even if they didn't do it themselves, they won't report it after seeing a colleague do it.

In addition to the way of handing the note, there are many other scruples and concerns, and the examiner has to take care of them without the other party saying anything.

For example, the son of a certain official, it is even possible that the other party is directly the son of his own Shangfeng. You said that as an examiner, do you take care of him?The exam is only temporary, but the relationship in the officialdom may be for a lifetime.

There is also a candidate who is an official himself.His original official position was the head of the Ministry of Rites who came from Chengyin.In fact, this kind of official position is not low, and some small officials who have been released may not be able to be promoted to the head of the Six Departments in their entire lives.But most of Daqi's official circles are officials who have entered the imperial examination. This is an extremely huge network of interests. Sometimes you are a Chengyin official, and sometimes it is really difficult to integrate into it.Therefore, this examinee, who has become an official, decided to take part in the imperial examination to gild himself.

The imperial examination has always been a matter of the Ministry of Rites. That is to say, the examiners today are directly the colleagues of the head of the Ministry of Rites who usually look down and don't look up. Can they not let their colleagues pass?

In addition, there are various factions in the DPRK and China. In order not to offend the two factions, it is necessary to measure whether the number of admissions is balanced...

Every time there is an imperial examination, there will always be one kind of related household who will come out and be taken care of.

The more related households, the more the number of real candidates will be squeezed out.Just as Qian Xiaoyu reminded Chi Ning before, people like Xu Gui who obviously have a strong relationship, but sincerely want to rely on their true talents and learning to pass the exam, are more unusual.

Among the series of people caught by Su Ren, Qian Xiaoyu was also on the list, and his godson was also a candidate for this year's exam.

Fortunately, Qian Xiaoyu had sent back all the slips he handed over intact, which were all recorded in the ledger, except for the source of the 15 taels, which he could not explain clearly.

"Who is this insulting?" Qian Xiaoyu threw down the account book and started cursing. He walked back and forth in the room violently, and said bluntly to Chi Ning and Wang Yang, "Is it enough to hire me with 15 taels of silver? So much in front of me?" I returned all the money without even blinking an eye! This is clearly framing!"

Not to mention that it was only 15 taels, Qian Xiaoyu didn't even bother to bend down to pick up the 100 taels of silver bills when they fell on the ground.When wealth accumulates to a certain level, it is just a number.

It's really... well-founded.

Whether it was Chi Ning or Qian Xiaoyu, they both knew that this was the planting of Emperor Nian Ping.This doggy and cowardly emperor was afraid of affecting the interests of scholars and causing trouble, but also wanted to make small moves secretly, so he chose such a subtle bribe amount.It was also because it was too small, if Qian Xiaoyu really accepted other notes, it would be easy to fool him.

No one will care about where the 15 taels come from.

It's just too doggy.

But now, compared to the amount of bribes in other fraudulent examinations, Qian Xiaoyu's 15 taels is really impossible to read, it hardly splashes any water, and no one has the spare time to pay attention to one The story of the eunuch and 15 taels of silver.

The amount is really too small.

Emperor Nianping once again lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.

Now everyone's focus is on how to count the imperial examinations this year.With so many cheaters, let's not talk about the "law should be punished by the public" that Emperor Ping has always advocated, but how can the results convince the public with so many connected households with various tricks?Is it necessary to retake the exam?Is Daqi's imperial examination system going to be changed?how to change?How to prevent it effectively in the future?

These are the key.

Emperor Nianping was put on the fire and roasted like this.

In order to quell public anger and divert everyone's attention, Nian Ping Di tried his best to reopen Qiu Wei.That is to say, this is the turning point of Xu Gui's matter that Mr. Yuan said, he can take the exam again with his ability, this time there is no poison, and there is no need to tire the aunt of the Wang family to wait for him for another three years.Presumably Xu Gui will be able to get a satisfactory result in the exam.

"Everyone is happy, isn't it?" Su Ren said to Chi Ning.

"You've already arrived?" Chi Ning really wanted to reassess the status of his son in his heart and adjust his future arrangements for him.

"[-]% sure." The reason why Su Ren decided to make such a big fuss was not only to make himself famous, but also to help Xu Gui.As for those official colleagues he offended, I'm sorry, based on Su Ren's understanding of Emperor Nian Ping, Emperor Nian Ping would definitely get angry and deal with all the offenders, and he didn't have to be afraid of offending them at all.

Their network of disciples, old officials and officials is not enough to prove it, this time it really caught them all.

Moreover, the route that Su Ren arranged for himself to become an official was not a long-sleeved and skillful official, at least not during the period of Emperor Nianping.

As for the crown prince coming to power in the future, the dynasty will change at that time, who can remember the little things back then?

But the biggest impact of the fraud case in the examination room is more than that...

Someone assassinated Emperor Nianping!

As I said before, Emperor Nianping originally planned to go hunting in the Mulan paddock in autumn, but Qiu Wei was in such a big embarrassment that his plan naturally couldn't be carried out.But a good trip is so yellow, it is not reconciled to individuals.In particular, the emperor was not allowed to be free all year round and could only guard the palace. If he was suppressed too hard, he would inevitably have a rebellious backlash.Emperor Nianping was no exception.

Emperor Nianping couldn't go north, so he decided to live in Nangong on the outskirts of Beijing for a period of time, and hunt for the deer left by Emperor Nianping in the forest to seek psychological balance.

Besides sika deer and silly roe deer, what else is there in Nangong?

Probably even Emperor Nianping himself forgot.But the people he dispatched here did not forget—his sons and daughters were forced to eat fast and pray to Buddha for more than three years, or they were sent for no reason, how would they think of Emperor Nianping?

Children themselves are easily instigated and take extreme routes...

In short, Emperor Nian Ping was almost stabbed to death by his son who didn't know if it was his own blood.

It was Qian Xiaoyu who gave up his life to save him and solved the crisis.Qian Xiaoyu's life was saved in the end, but he was almost a useless person, physically weak and mentally weak, and could no longer be in charge of the affairs of the supervisor.To put it more bluntly, Qian Xiaoyu not only retired, but also got the title of rescuer.

There is no need to worry about Emperor Nian Ping's revenge on him.

And this is Wang Yang's plan.

A new way of thinking besides reporting to the elderly and self-reporting—retirement from illness.

Of course, in Wang Yang's plan, there was no assassination, no matter how bold Wang Yang was, he would not be able to do this kind of regicide.It just so happened that before they had time to make Qian Xiaoyu "sick" justifiably, they encountered Nangong's assassination incident.Qian Xiaoyu felt that her chance had come. How much skill could a half-grown child have?Even if he really stabbed Emperor Nian Ping, it would not be successful, at most it would hurt Emperor Nian Ping.

It is better to hit the sun than to choose the day, so it is not easy for people to see the clues.Most importantly, although Qian Xiaoyu adopted Wang Yang's idea, she really didn't want to owe Wang Yang any more.

Therefore, Qian Xiaoyu put his heart on hold, and rushed forward decisively, thinking that he must either die or fight for a future for himself.

He succeeded.

Chi Ning didn't have the "favor" to accompany the emperor. He only heard the result of the incident in the East Factory in central Beijing. The lethality of the little prince was still terrible. Like a blood gourd.Of course, as far as Qian Xiaoyu himself said, this is all made up by others. He is very good, and the knife didn't go in much at all. He just has exceptionally good acting skills.

What can Chi Ning say about this?All that's left is to shout "666" to the bosses.