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Chapter 393 Fraud Case Solved

In the next few days, the capital seemed to have regained its former calm, but there was a sense of urgency that the mountains and rains were about to come.

Days went by at a leisurely pace, and on the third day after the sixth prince was rescued by Bai Zhiwen and the others, a piece of news caused a great shock in the circle of scholars in the capital—because this session of the examination had already passed. After finding out the fraud, the emperor decided to abolish this year's apricot list and retake the exam.

While this heavy news spread rapidly, more detailed news also came out one after another. It turned out that the sixth prince secretly investigated the fraud case under the orders of the emperor. The identity of the person - the Liu family.

There are a total of 230 seven people in this year's examination list, of which a total of 88 people are not on the list because of their real talents and learning, but because they please the Liu family and promise to help the Liu family after they enter the officialdom.

The list of these people was not hidden, and it was made public immediately. They came from all over the country and had different identities and backgrounds. They were carefully added to the list by the Liu family and looked unremarkable.

When everyone looked at the list, there was an uproar. Some people were puzzled, and some people suddenly realized that more than half of the people on the list had been in close contact with the Liu family before the exam, and rumors had been circulating in the capital for a while. What about the rest of the unconnected people?

The eyes of the masses are discerning. After the list was announced, everyone began to think about it. Did those people who seemed to have no contact with the Liu family really have no contact with the Liu family?

After the government gave so much information, the people in the capital told a little bit of what they saw and heard, and connected the clues together, confirming that the news announced by the government was true, not a lie, not a fool Everyone.

At this time, all kinds of afterthoughts began to appear. Why did they think that XX's knowledge was average, only at the level of Juren, and they thought it was lucky that he was able to get on the list in the conference examination. They didn't expect it to be cheating. Fortunately, the current emperor has sharp eyes. It was found that there was a problem with this test.

The students who confirmed the cheating were still confidently preparing for the next imperial examination the night before, and the people from the punishment department immediately arrested them in the early morning of the next day, and interrogated them by various means. What kind of deal did they reach with the Liu family? .

As for some of them who made it to the list, they were stunned by luck and not so many students with real talents. Who would have thought that they would be involved in a daring imperial examination fraud case? Send it out without warming it up.

Those who are capable do not panic, while those who are not capable and weak feel that their sky is about to collapse. Originally, at worst, they would be able to get a fellow Jinshi and get a good official position, but they woke up from their dreams. Scholars, gone!

A student couldn't accept the gap, and jumped off the third floor of the inn on the night when the government announced that the students should sign up for the exam again.

The third floor is not high, he didn't die, but broke his right hand, and when the pain spread from his arm to his brain, he regretted it.

The right hand is the hand used by literati to write. If the right hand is injured, it will be even more impossible to participate in the examination. Maybe he may have had a glimmer of hope before, but he himself ruined his own glimmer of hope.

What made him most uncomfortable was that the doctor said that if he didn't take good care of his injuries, he might not be able to write with a pen in the future, and he would never be an official again with his status as a juren.

There are very few people who are as extreme as this student. With his lessons learned, they dare not spoil their bodies casually, and honestly sign up for the examination again.

Most of the students who remained in the capital were those who did not make it to the list. They were overjoyed when they heard the news of the re-examination of the exam, because they felt that they were not on the list before because of shady scenes. This time they will definitely pass the exam. Fairness and justice, opportunities abound.

The examination is not a trivial matter, and there are many things that need to be re-prepared for the re-examination, which takes a long time. However, under the full promotion of the emperor, the preparations for the examination were completed soon after the truth was found out.

The emperor re-appointed the chief examiner and several deputy examiners, watched them come up with the exam questions, and then directly sent the city guards to be responsible for the patrol of the exam to ensure that the previous situation would not recur.

The new round of examinations will start on May [-]th, and there will still be three exams, with a day off between each exam, and the exam will be over on May [-]th.

This time, when Li Mingjin sent Bai Zhiwen and the others to the examination room, he didn't feel flustered or depressed before, and he didn't have any dreams, so he passed the eleven days smoothly.

I took the exam twice in a row. The first time was in late March when the temperature was low, and the second time was in mid-May. The summer in Beijing had already begun and the temperature was high. When he came out, he was carried directly to the medical center.

The three of Bai Zhiwen and the others were in pretty good health. They passed the second round of the test, and after going back to sleep for nearly a day, they regained their energy.

The next step is to wait for the rankings to be released on May [-]th. By then, everyone will know who has real talents and knowledge and who fails the rankings.

The weather in May was a bit sweltering. On the afternoon of 21, after Bai Zhiwen and the others got enough sleep, they sat under the eaves, eating snacks and drinking tea, while chatting in a low voice about this test and the turmoil in the capital during the test.

Bai Zhiwen's expression was quite relaxed: "Brother, the questions in the second round of the test are obviously much more difficult than those in the first round. Some people who were able to make the list before will probably be disappointed this time."

"Uncle Liu Guo was in charge before, so the test questions were relatively simple. This time, the emperor paid so much attention, no one dared to reach out." Li Mingde nodded, and he also felt that the previous test questions were simpler.

In the case of imperial examination fraud, the six princes testified against Uncle Liu Guo with conclusive evidence. At first, the emperor just ordered the Liu family to be imprisoned and did not deal with it. Everyone thought that the emperor was considering that the Liu family was the mother clan of the prince, in order to save the face of the prince. , not to let the prince have any stains on his body, and send him to the Liu family lightly.

Unexpectedly, after the start of the second round of examinations, the emperor immediately pointed the finger at the Liu family. Starting from the current imperial examination fraud investigation, the Liu family did not cover up the bad things they did before, and they were easily found out. Some of them The queen was also involved.

The emperor immediately grounded the queen and forbade the queen to communicate with the outside world.

The queen was all grounded, and it could be seen that the Liu family had really provoked Holy Wrath, the walls were overturned and everyone pushed, and more things about the Liu family were revealed, one by one, and the excerpts flew into the imperial case like snowflakes.

Some of these excerpts say that the Liu family received filial piety from officials outside Beijing and suppressed the evil deeds of those officials who oppressed the people in the areas under their jurisdiction.

Some books say that the Liu family seized fertile land and villages outside Beijing, and donated money for profit. Other books say that the men of the Liu family robbed women in the street, whipped passers-by on horseback, etc. In a word, the Liu family forced the people to ruin their families. There is no place for justice.

All the crimes were piled on the emperor's desk. After reading it, he was furious and asked Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the officials, students, relatives and friends who were closely related to the Liu family.

Pull out the radish and bring out the mud, and then a group of officials were found out with various problems, some in important positions, and some in unimportant positions.

As long as all the officials are sure that there is a problem, they will be thrown into the prison immediately, and how to deal with it will wait until all the results are found out.

The turmoil in the capital and even the entire official circle of the Dayu Dynasty this time began with the fraudulent imperial examinations. The emperor's thunderous wrists, the opening of the knife in a very short time was beyond the expectations of the officials.

In the end, all the Beijing officials who were colluding with the Liu family were at least stripped of their black hats and demoted to common people, and at worst they ransacked their homes and exiled them.

If the crimes committed by non-Beijing officials are not particularly serious, the emperor has not moved them for the time being, but it is almost impossible for them to be promoted in this life.

The Liu family collapsed, the queen was grounded and the phoenix seal was taken away, but the prince was still the prince, and he was the only one who was not punished among those related to the Liu family.

Although the Liu family tried their best to draw a clear line with the prince in the end, so that the people in Dali Temple did not find out that the prince was related to the death of the Liu family, but no matter in the hearts of the emperor, other officials, or even the hearts of the common people, the prince is no longer what he used to be. the prince.

No matter how big the changes in the court are, it doesn't matter to Bai Zhiwen and the others who are still waiting for the results of the exam. Go out at will, don't discuss politics at will.

The last day of May is coming soon, and this time, Bai Zhiwen, Li Mingde and Wan Rongtong are all on the list.

The government will not send official messengers to announce the good news after the general examination of the Dayu Dynasty, because as long as you pass the examination, you will be a Jinshi, but the rank of Jinshi will be different, and the official messengers will not come to announce the good news until after the palace examination.

Bai Zhiwen and Li Mingde ranked 29th and [-]th respectively, and Wan Rongtong was slightly behind, [-]th. If they also ranked in this way in the palace examination, it should be a second-class Jinshi without accident.

The Palace Examination will divide the tribute scholars into three classes. The top three of the first class, namely the No. [-] Scholar, the No. [-] and Tanhua, will be awarded Jinshi and the first place.

The word "same" actually means "different". "Same Jinshi" is really embarrassing once, and there are jokes about same Jinshi and Mrs. Ru.

If the three of them rank lower, they may be ranked among the top three in the palace examination and become fellow Jinshi.

If they really become fellow Jinshi in the palace examination, Bai Zhiwen and Li Mingde themselves have nothing to dislike about it, but their teacher will definitely not be able to pass, so they must work hard in the palace examination To answer, strive to advance the ranking a little bit, so as not to lose the reputation of the teacher.

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