Dressed as Tang Bohu

At about three o'clock, when the sun was at its strongest, the ground paved with white marble in front of Taihe Gate seemed to be glowing from a distance.The courtiers lined up on both sides, and the industrious Emperor Hongzhi started the noon court after lunch without taking much rest. These people could only bask in the sun together.

Zhu Youtang sat high on the dragon chair, with a slight tiredness on his pale face, but his thin body straightened his back and leaned forward slightly.The sun cast a short and deep shadow on his side, Zhu Houzhao quietly stretched out his hand and gestured, adding all kinds of strange ears to the father's head in the shadow.

"...The Ministry of Punishment did not come to the conclusion of the trial. Although there is a seal in Cheng Minzheng's family that is said to belong to Tang Yin, he refuses to admit it..."

"His servant has already confessed. Regardless of whether Cheng Minzheng knows it or not, the crime of negligence is inevitable!"

"As Li Langzhong said in the early court, I believe that there are too many doubts in this case, so I should not draw a conclusion lightly. I checked the examination papers last night, and the answers of Tang Yin and Xu Jing's examination papers are very different. If the servant's remarks are true, then How did it get here?"

All the ministers were quarreling, Zhu Youtang rubbed his brows, glanced sideways, saw Zhu Houzhao making small moves beside him, and softly reprimanded: "Prince, don't mess around!"

"Father, I'm listening." Zhu Houzhao's fingers stiffened, and he quickly turned his back behind him, pretending to be listening carefully.

Seeing him like this, Zhu Youtang was determined to take the exam, and asked: "Fifteenth is the palace exam, this case cannot be delayed. Tell me, how should this case be resolved?"

"This..." Zhu Houzhao only scratched one ear, vaguely heard Tang Yin's name, and knew it was a fraud case.He still remembered the scholar who interested him a little in Fengle Building, but he didn't expect this person to be involved in such a big trouble.

He shook his head and said: "Father, look at these ministers, no one has seen the two of them, but they are blushing. It's really boring. Why don't you ask those people to come to the court and confront them face to face. Let's see who gets guilty first."

"It's about Chunwei, and the court trial is all right." Zhu Youtang nodded, glanced at Zhu Houzhao, and gave the order to bring the few people detained in the prison.

It was Mou Bin who was in charge of this matter. He led Tang Ziwei and others to rush to the gate of Taihe. When he passed by the Habayashi Qianwei who was in charge of guarding, a soldier in silver armor quietly stuffed a note into his hand.

Mu Bin unfolded it and took a look, then put the note away calmly.Bring Tang Yin and the others to Chaoshang, turn around and immediately send a team of Jin Yiwei out of the palace to investigate.

Tang Ziwei had a panoramic view of all this, secretly praised Xu Tai's efficiency in his heart, walked to the steps calmly, lifted his clothes and saluted Zhu Youtang.

Beside him, Cheng Minzheng, Xu Jing, Lin Zhuo, Zhang Cheng, and Cheng Minzheng's servants were not missing.

While Zhu Youtang was looking at him, Tang Ziwei was also looking at Zhu Youtang—the most honorable man in the world today.

However, after such a careful look, Tang Ziwei was somewhat disappointed.

Apart from sitting a little higher, this so-called son of heaven seems to be no different from Aunt Wang who gets up every morning to sell pancakes next door to the inn.

He has not yet turned thirty, but strands of silver are already mixed in his hair.He was thin and thin, even though he was wearing a complicated dragon robe and straightened his back, he couldn't support the clothes at all, and instead showed a sickness.

He is an ordinary person, but he is also a wise king.

Tang Ziwei knew this, and at the same time, he also knew that this person sitting high on the Dragon Throne would die in a few years.This dynasty will be taken over by the person next to him.

"Tang Yin, Lin Zhuo, and Zhang Cheng testified that you used Xu Jing's relationship to bribe the chief examiner Cheng Minzheng. Is it true?"

"No." Tang Ziwei's attention was drawn back, he glanced at Yang Renchen, who was also in the courtiers' lineup, who looked indifferent, raised his mouth lightly, ignored the questioning chief of the Ministry of Punishment, and instead walked towards Lin and Zhang Er In front of the person, he said: "I also have a question. The two testified that Xu Jing and I bribed the examiner. Did you see us visit?"

"This……"

Minister of the Ministry of War Zhao Weijian frowned, took a step to the left, and asked Zhu Youtang for instructions: "There is no reason for criminals to try criminals! Tang Yin's actions are really contemptuous of the court, and he will be punished by the court at fifty."

Tang Ziwei narrowed his eyes, and glanced at him coolly: "The truth is not yet known, and it is better not to jump to conclusions. I have no intention of contemptuous of the court, but I am eager to ask for the truth. Your Majesty has not yet spoken. Your Majesty A big hat is buckled just in time."

"Are you trying to say that I intend to protect you?!"

"I just feel that the timing of the adults speaking is indeed a little subtle."

These two people talked to each other, tit for tat.Zhu Hou looked at the shriveled look of the old man of the Ministry of War, and found it interesting. If Zhu Youtang was not still sitting beside him, he would have laughed out loud.

Compared with Zhu Houzhao's out-of-the-ordinary behavior, Zhu Youtang obviously doesn't want them to continue to make trouble like this.Coughing hard twice, Zhu Youtang gave the two men a warning look, signaling to be the head of the Ministry of Punishment.

The latter then asked Lin and Zhang: "You two testified against Tang Yin and Xu Jing for bribing the examiner. Did you see them visit?"

Lin Zhuo didn't dare to lie, and said bravely: "No. But when we were drinking in Fengle Building, I heard Xu Jing reveal with my own ears that Cheng Minzheng was his old teacher, and said he wanted to visit. Zhang Cheng can testify for me .”

"That's right, I heard that too!" Before Zhang Cheng finished speaking, he felt a chill behind his back, and when he looked back, Tang Ziwei was looking away.He was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he felt a pain on his face, and was punched to the ground by Xu Jing, who had never noticed it!

Xu Jing, who was always shy on weekdays, seemed to be a different person at this time, his eyes were red, and he punched Zhang Cheng's face fiercely, until the guards on both sides came forward and pressed him to the ground.

There was a commotion among the courtiers. This court trial was like a farce, which made most of them, most of the staid old men, feel extremely uncomfortable.Zhu Youtang sat at the head and rubbed the space between his brows.

Tang Ziwei's expression didn't change, he secretly looked at everyone's expression.The expressions of these people are slightly angry, some are panicked, and some are gloating...

As for Yang Renzhe, which was obviously the plan most closely related to him, he seemed to stay out of it. From the beginning to the end, except for the initial glance, no matter what happened afterwards, it seemed that it had nothing to do with him.

Regardless of other things, it's no wonder that he was able to achieve the post of Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate based on his character.

Tang Ziwei withdrew his gaze and lowered his eyes in thought.With the matter progressing to this point, neither he nor the Yang family can predict what the final outcome will be, and they can no longer stop.

The seal that Du Mu stole from him was just the topaz he bought at a street stall for people to engrave and play with, so naturally they couldn't count them.Tang Ziwei looked at Cheng Minzheng's servant, he was undoubtedly lying, but how to prove——

Just as Tang Ziwei looked over, the guards were still pressing Xu Jing and Zhang Cheng, and the servant who didn't pay much attention suddenly fell to the ground and twitched continuously!

His lips were darkened, his eyeballs were bloodshot and stared protrudingly, only a few blinks of Tang Ziwei passed by quickly, and he was completely silent, only the corpse was still shaking instinctively.

what happened? !

Tang Ziwei looked panicked when he found out that the person was dead, and he sat down on the ground and retreated a few meters away, his eyes swept left and right, and quickly focused on Cheng Minzheng beside him.

When everyone was paying attention to the servant who died suddenly, Cheng Minzheng's complexion suddenly changed and his first reaction was to quickly turn his head to look in one direction of the crowd.People in that direction have...

Tang Zi was afraid that he might not recognize all the people here, so he just quickly memorized a few faces.The crowd was mixed and quickly became chaotic.

Cheng Minzheng no longer looked at the crowd, but lowered his head and knelt down on the ground.

The surroundings gradually changed from extremely noisy to orderly. Some people wanted to investigate and some raised doubts, but none of these seemed to have anything to do with Cheng Minzheng.

He just kowtowed to Zhu Youtang who was on a high place from a distance, his forehead resting on the hard ground, and his hands were tightly fisted by his sides.

This highly regarded imperial examination fraud case finally came to a hasty conclusion due to the voluntary resignation of Cheng Minzheng, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites.

The rest of the candidates, Lin Zhuo and Zhang Chengzuo, were false and were disqualified from the imperial examination that year, and they could take the exam again three years later.If Zhonghua Chang's performance is false, he will be demoted and punished. As for Tang Yin and Xu Jing, they will each receive ten boards to end.

Tang Ziwei heard this result, but did not really accept it.

Who was responsible for the sudden sudden death of the servant? Cheng Minzheng resigned voluntarily despite his obvious resentment. Who was he afraid of?

He looked at the back of Cheng Minzheng being led out of the Supreme Harmony Gate, and he knew in his heart that this imperial examination prison was definitely not specially prepared by the Yang family for him, Tang Ziwei, and it might not even be the Yang family's doing.

He was just incidental, an insignificant pawn.

At the end of the afternoon, the courtiers filed out from the gate of Taihe.The eunuch of the Supervisor of Rituals came and took Xu Jing and the two down to receive the punishment. Tang Ziwei looked at the backs of those in various official uniforms, his fingers trembling in his sleeves, but there was a smile on his face.

Chess pieces...

A chess piece placed in the wrong position is enough to ruin the whole game.It would be even more interesting if the opponent used a pawn to generalize the army.

Tang Ziwei followed behind the leading eunuch with his eyes narrowed, his drooping eyelashes covering the sharp light in his eyes.

All the way under his feet, he stepped on the steps paved with white marble, walked over the bluestone slabs inlaid in the soil, and passed a sea of ​​colorful flowers along the road.Xu Jing beside him disappeared at some point.

The eunuch didn't seem to be leading him to the board, but to another place.