Before dawn the next day, Situ Yi woke up, glanced at Hu Yueya who was sleeping deeply next to him, and carefully got out of bed without disturbing her, and said to the maids in a low voice: "Don't disturb the princess. gone."

After he went to the outside room to wash up, he asked Li Youming to wait on him and change into the pro-dynasty clothes for the court.

Looking at the lifelike four dark yellow dragon patterns embroidered on the royal robe, Situ Yi lowered his eyes slightly, thinking of the prince's five-dragon royal robe and the holy majesty's nine-dragon robe.

The Ninth Five-Year Lord... In his previous life, he was so close to that position, but now he has no weakness, and he will only be willing to fight again!

The ambition in Situ Yi's heart is gradually growing, this is the instinct of the prince.

After he changed into his court clothes, he went to court.

If the prince wants to enter the court to discuss government affairs, he can only be allowed to enter the court to discuss government affairs after the opening of the mansion, otherwise he can only be a wealthy and idle king outside the center of power.

Situ Yi didn't know whether the Holy Majesty was dissatisfied with the prince from the very beginning, or he wanted to train the prince with other princes. Since the second prince opened the mansion, he has let the prince enter the court to discuss government affairs, and every prince who founded the mansion has not been left behind.

After entering the court, the princes have access to power, can win over courtiers, and can form their own team forces to compete with the East Palace.

On the contrary, it is inconvenient for the prince of the Eastern Palace to communicate with the courtiers because he lives in the palace. In name, the Eastern Palace is a small court, but in fact it lives under the eyes of the Holy One. All the hands are given by the Prince, far less free than other princes.

The prince who founded the mansion was able to conspire with his disciples in private, but the prince couldn't even hide what he said in his sleep at night in the East Palace. One can imagine how difficult the prince's situation is.

But the position of the East Palace still made other princes envious.

However, Situ Yi was staring directly at the position of the Holy Majesty, he might be deposed as a prince, so it is better to be the emperor directly.

When he was in court, he stood behind the third prince, raised his head slightly, and his eyes fell on the prince who was sitting at the head of the saint.

His Highness the Crown Prince, who was wearing a bright yellow court dress, was sitting upright, in stark contrast to those princes who could only stand at the bottom of the steps with the courtiers.

The crown prince is also a king. Although they are princes, they are the prince's younger brothers, but they are actually the prince's courtiers.

Ministers, ministers, ministers first, and then younger brothers.

The prince's throne, which is a few steps lower than the emperor's dragon chair, makes these princes feel envious and jealous!

Even Situ Yi couldn't help but take a few more glances at the prince's position, and then shifted his gaze to the bright dragon chair at the highest point in the center of the hall.

The Holy Majesty was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on a large dragon chair, wearing the crown of the emperor on his head. His face was blocked by the twelve o'clock, but it also made people feel the unfathomable majesty of the emperor.

The confidant eunuch chief executive next to the Holy One stepped forward and shouted: "Start playing if there is something to do, and retreat if there is nothing to do—"

Then an official stood up and said, "Report to Your Majesty..."

At the beginning, it was a normal work report, until the right servant of the Ministry of Rites stood up and mentioned the recent serious imperial examination fraud case: "My lord, the fraud is completely unfounded. This is because the northern students are not good at learning. Deliberately spread rumors! Please also ask the Holy One to investigate clearly!"

Situ Yi subconsciously looked at his father-in-law, Hu Shangshu. The right servant of the Ministry of Rites is an official under him. Why did he suddenly mention this in the morning?

Yesterday, Situ Yi accompanied Hu Yueya back to Hu's house, and even secretly inquired about Hu Shangshu's attitude towards this matter. This old fox clearly had nothing to do with him.

Not only Situ Yi looked at Hu Shangshu, but many officials in the hall couldn't help looking at him.

But unlike Situ Yi who thought that Hu Shangshu was involved in this matter, these officials knew very well that the right servant of the Ministry of Rites and Hu Shangshu were not on the same path, they just wanted to see Hu Shangshu's reaction on this matter.

But I saw Hu Shangshu standing there as motionless as a mountain, closing his eyes slightly, with an indifferent appearance, as if he didn't hear what the right servant of the Ministry of Rites jumped out to say.

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The Holy Majesty listened to the disputes among the courtiers below with a cold face, some agreed with the words of the right servant of the Ministry of Rites, and believed that the fraud in the imperial examination was pure nonsense, and some thought that there must be a shady scene for not a single student from the north in the examination.

As for the two parties in this dispute, the Holy Majesty is very clear that the former is an official from the south, and the latter is an official from the north.

He condescendingly looked at the various expressions of the people below, and sighed tiredly in his heart, but he didn't show it on the surface, and said majesticly: "The students from the Northland rioted, I wonder if the Qing family has a solution?"

Officials from the north suggested softness and appeasement, while officials from the south believed that this was treason and persecution of the court, and the army should be sent to suppress it with iron blood.

Situ Yi looked at those officials from the south who were making more vicious proposals, and sneered in his heart. These people really change their positions at any time. He remembered that when they committed a crime for a famous scholar and were arrested by the officers and soldiers, because of resistance, Situ Yi sneered. But being whipped by the officers and soldiers, he jumped up and down angrily and accused him of insulting scholars all over the world!

They believe that even if a scholar commits a capital crime, he should be given a decent death in a polite manner, instead of being dragged away like a dead dog like ordinary people.

But now that the interests of all the scholars in the south are involved, each of them strongly recommends that the emperor send troops to suppress those rioting students in the north, and they don't say anything insulting to the scholars.

Situ Yi once again experienced how low the lower limit of morality of these officials was.

The Holy Majesty listened silently to the dispute, and suddenly looked down at the prince sitting down: "Prince, do you have a suggestion?"

The crown prince stood up, hesitated for a while, and then said: "I want to report to my father, I think that those Beidi students should be gentle and comforted. After all, the law does not blame the public. If you send troops to suppress, I am afraid that most of the Beidi students will be killed." .”

The Holy Majesty nodded, and asked again: "Then how should I appease you?"

The crown prince was stunned, thought for a while, and choked out a sentence: "Re-examination?"

The Holy Majesty didn't speak anymore. He obviously saw that the prince didn't understand the real problem of this matter at all. It was just because he was soft-hearted and couldn't see so many students from the North being killed that he also felt that he should be gentle and comforted. He didn't even think about how to comfort him.

Disappointed, he turned his head and looked at the people below, and suddenly named the second prince and asked, "What do you think?"

This is testing the princes.

The second prince has been fighting with the crown prince for a long time, except that he has no face to face, basically he must agree with what the crown prince opposes, and he must oppose what the crown prince agrees with.

Therefore, the second prince firmly said: "Report to my father, the majesty of the court must not be lost. If these students make a compromise every time they riot, will they use this method to force the court to compromise if they have something to do? It must be suppressed with iron and blood. This group of students who have no eyes on the court!"

The Holy Majesty also nodded, and asked again: "Then how should we deal with the aftermath?"

After killing someone, it is natural to deal with the aftermath, and suppress the voices of the students from the Northland, so what should the students from the Northland do if they fail in the future?Or what should the northerners do if they feel chilled by the imperial court?How to appease people after suppressing riots?

The second prince was also stunned, and after thinking for a long time, he said some useless nonsense.

Then the Holy Majesty didn't say yes or no, and turned to ask the third prince.

The proposal of the third prince is to find out the truth of the imperial examination fraud case in a realistic manner. If there is fraud, the fraudsters will be executed to give an explanation to the northern students.

The Holy Majesty also nodded, and then looked at Situ Yi again.

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Situ Yi has also been listening attentively to the three elder brothers' suggestions on how to deal with this matter, but in his opinion, no matter it is the prince's gentle consolation, the second prince's iron-blooded suppression, or the third prince's seeking truth from facts, they have not resolved this matter fundamental problem.

So Situ Yi asked him about him, and said: "Father, my son thinks that from the beginning, we should find out the truth as Brother Sanhuang said, and if there are fraudsters, they should be severely punished. However, no matter whether there is or not." Fraud should be suppressed with iron and blood by the army as the second emperor brother said, so as to avoid the occurrence of crimes that ignore the majesty of the court in the future, but it is best to only arrest the leaders who instigated the crimes. Yan NaNaHua softly appeases the remaining Northland students, and to appease the Northland students, the gold list can be divided into the North and the South. Afterwards, the Southern students and the Northland students will take separate imperial examinations, and the admission quota will be divided into half."

When the Holy Majesty heard the North and South rankings, his eyes immediately lit up. What Situ Yi said before, finding out the truth and suppressing Huairou and appeasement was secondary. The real solution was to divide the North and South rankings at the end.

The Holy Majesty is very clear that the reason why the students from the North are really making trouble is not necessarily because they think that there are cheaters in this exam, but that the students from the North are really no match for the students from the South. To the interests of all classes throughout the North.

If it's really just a group of stunned young students making trouble, the Holy One can handle it very well, so there's no need to worry about it like this.

Now that Situ Yi proposed to divide the rankings into North and South, the Holy One couldn't help nodding: "Okay! Very good!"

He looked at Situ Yi with a smile, and then at the courtiers: "My dear family, what do you think of King Jin's proposal?"

The officials from the north and the south, who were fighting like cockfights before, looked at each other and said in unison: "I wait for the second!"

Of course, the officials from the north would not object to the proposal of dividing the rankings into the north and the south, which specially took care of the students from the north. Although the officials from the south were not happy to share the quota equally with the north, they resolved the matter satisfactorily, otherwise they were really worried that the majesty would force them to Due to the pressure from the North, the decision to restrict the students from the South was made.

Dividing the North and South lists in this way is the best solution at present.

With a solution to the matter, the Holy Majesty felt much more relieved, and only ordered to find out the truth of the imperial examination fraud case as soon as possible, and then retreated.

After leaving the imperial court, when Situ Yi left the hall, many officials came to greet him, and for a while he became a bit hot.

But when the sixth prince passed by him, he couldn't help but snorted at him and rolled his eyes.

Situ Yi smiled inwardly, presumably this guy is blaming himself for taking away his opportunity to perform!

The sixth prince has just opened his government and entered the court to discuss politics, and he probably planned to take this opportunity to perform well. As a result, before the morning court, the Holy One took the initiative to ask the princes for their proposals for this imperial examination fraud case, and asked them one by one according to their age, and asked Situ After Yi got a satisfactory answer here, he ignored the sixth prince who was behind Situ Yi.

Of course, the sixth prince would not think that what he answered might not be able to give a solution like Situ Yi. He only thought that Situ Yi combined the proposals of the previous three brothers and used them for himself, and he even won the praise of the Holy One and the officials. Seconded.

So he came up with the idea of ​​"I can do it too", thinking that if Situ Yi hadn't been in front of him, he would be the one who answered the question of the Holy One and won the approval of the Holy One.

However, Situ Yi didn't bother to pay attention to the sixth prince who didn't know himself. When he was about to leave, he was stopped by the chief eunuch: "His Royal Highness Jin Wang, the Holy Majesty sent a slave to invite you to the imperial study!"

Situ Yi nodded, and followed the chief executive to the imperial study.

The Holy Majesty was correcting today's memorial, when he saw Situ Yi coming in, he put down the ink brush in his hand, and said with a smile: "Come here, give me a seat!"

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