phoenix knot

It stands to reason that when the new emperor ascended the throne, Enke was opened only after the yuan was changed to use the new year name. Emperor Zhenhua was young and had a short reign, so he abdicated before holding the scientific examination.Now that the empress is enthroned, there is an urgent need for talents, so after the last scientific examination in the first year of Tianshun, a new scientific examination was held four years later.After a series of selections, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, students from all over the country gathered in the capital to compete.

The gate of the Tribute Academy opened, and the examinees took their places one after another under the leadership of the invigilator. This time, the female candidates became a beautiful scene, and even the Shenji Camp sent out to invigilate the examination.For three full days of the exam, eating, drinking, and lassing have to be in a space that cannot be separated from the body, which is a test of both brain and physical strength.When searching the carry-on items to check whether there was any entrainment, some female candidates brought cloth pockets and cotton pads filled with plant ash. The female soldiers of Shenji Camp understood it, but they still had to simply record it in the booklet.

This time even the emperor came to inspect the exam in person. It happened that one of the girls had menstruation and was sweating from the pain. The examiner tried to persuade her to go back several times, but she still insisted.After Liang Guanjing inquired, Qin Feiyang, who was specially in charge of the exam, prepared warm soup for her to replace. Naturally, these items brought into the exam room must be recorded in the register.

After the exam is over, the examinees have to wait in the exam dormitory to inspect the invigilator’s sealed papers with their own eyes. After the papers are collected, the Imperial Academy will uniformly scramble and reorganize them, organize the numbers, and transcribe them one by one to prevent the handwriting from being readable. Agree on the purpose of fraud.

For a while, almost everyone in the Hanlin Academy had to go to the Gongyuan to transcribe the test papers day and night. All they got was the number.If the test papers obtained during the transcription are really nonsense, I will ask the examiner for advice, and just save a little trouble and not transcribe, anyway, this person will definitely not pass the exam.

In such a tense way of transcribing, grading, and grading papers, the examiners are busy in the Gongyuan every day, and they can’t go home every day if they don’t get the rankings, and they can’t have private contacts with anyone outside the Gongyuan.

Liang Guanjing was also very concerned about this matter, and she went to the Tribute Court to have a look at it in person just after the test papers were judged.

Several chief examiners brought all the test papers of the first few places to Liang Guanjing to read, and they had to unpack them in front of His Majesty the Emperor. The so-called Wen Wu is the first, and Wu Wu is the second. If there is no distinction between top and bottom, they have to take the original papers for comparison. Calligraphy, the final evaluation is one, two or three.Of course, if the emperor chooses it hand-picked, then the number one scholar will depend entirely on the emperor's preference.

After dismantling the test papers, it was found that none of the top ten test papers were candidates from Jinling Women's Academy, and His Majesty's face was really ugly.

"Where is Meng Wenjun's test paper, show it to me."

The examiners hurried back and mobilized everyone to unpack and search for it. It was not until the emperor drank two cups of tea that the test papers were brought.

Liang Guanjing looked at it, pondered for a while and asked, "Is this the original scroll?"

"Return to the emperor, this is the test paper after the Hanlin Academy transcribed it."

Liang Guanjing slapped the test paper on the table: "Where is her original paper, find it."

This time, they were arranged in serial numbers, and it was much faster to find them. Liang Guanjing looked at them again, his face changed, and he turned to Qin Feiyang and said, "Go and find Meng Wenjun."

Meng Wenjun finished the exam at this time, and was living in a temporarily arranged private house with several other female candidates from the same township, waiting for news. The emperor called, and she hurriedly entered the Gongyuan in a carriage. Even so, most of the day passed.

When she arrived, the whole room was waiting for her. Everyone had different expressions and were hungry. Liang Guanjing called her to her side and handed her the test paper: "Come and see."

Meng Wenjun was at a loss.

Liang Guanjing smiled and asked kindly: "Is this your exam paper?"

Meng Wenjun shook his head, "No, this is not my handwriting, let alone my test paper."

As soon as the words fell, some examiners knelt down, Liang Guanjing glanced back, his eyes were fierce, and all the examiners fell to their knees in a huff, someone wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads with the sleeves of their official uniforms, shaking like chaff, Even if he knew in his heart that he was not involved, he knew that disaster was imminent.

"Master Geng, you are the examiner, tell me, what's going on? Why is it clearly Meng Wenjun's test paper, and she said it wasn't?"

Geng Jingting is the biggest examiner, he is responsible for this matter, he can't say he doesn't know, but he really doesn't know.

Liang Guanjing said: "You are all well-educated people. You have read the books of sages all your life. You are supposed to be the pillars of both ability and political integrity. Now I see that you are dignified, but you can't tell the difference between good and evil. The heads of the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment have all been called over to let them investigate the case thoroughly. I want to see what is going on."

After finishing speaking, Qin Feiyang immediately went out of the hall to call for someone.

Liang Guanjing said again: "Master Geng, what is the crime for cheating in the scientific examination?"

Geng Jingting was still kneeling there, he suppressed the panic in his heart, and said in a trembling voice: "If it is light, you will be dismissed from office, if it is serious, you will be beheaded."

Liang Guanjing said: "If the examiner participates, he knows the law and violates the law, and the crime is added to the crime. If the examinee participates, his reputation will be ruined, and he will be abandoned by the court from now on, and he will never be an official."

After all, the emperor stood up and walked to the door, "By the way, I am afraid that Meng Wenjun's test paper will not be found. You all stay here to watch her and ask her to answer her own test paper again now. The test will take three days. , It will take a day or two to answer again, three meals a day are prepared, so that she will not be stimulated and function abnormally."

Geng Jingting said: "Meng Wenjun has already left the tribute academy after the exam, and has communicated with other candidates. I am afraid it would be inappropriate to answer the questions again."

"Oh, so you mean, the previous exams are not counted, and all candidates have to take the exam again?"

"..."

Liang Guanjing said: "You can afford to lose this face, but I can't afford to lose this face!"

Meng Wenjun knelt down and saluted, and said: "This matter concerns the reputation of the chief examiners and my daughter, please be judged by the emperor."

Liang Guanjing said: "It's best for you to find her original test paper. If you can't find it, whoever loses his head and whoever loses his black hat, you can calculate it yourself."

Liang Guanjing went back to the palace to have a meal, and went back to the Gongyuan overnight. People from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment had already gathered together. When it's not decided, the case will happen first.

Before the morning court, Meng Wenjun's test papers were finally searched in the bedroom of one of the examiners, who was taken away by the Ministry of Punishment shouting injustice.

Liang Guanjing showed the test paper to all the officials present, and said eight words: "How can a top scholar be annihilated!?"

Officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment had all complained about resigning before, but now they looked at Meng Wenjun's test paper and remained silent.

"Your Majesty, you found out about this matter. I dare to ask you, how did you find out that Meng Wenjun's test paper was transferred?" Dali Siqing asked.

Several adults from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Punishment were sweating coldly, knowing that this was an act of courting death, alluding to the fact that His Majesty the Emperor directed and performed this fraudulent drama himself.

Liang Guanjing sneered and looked at Dali Siqing, "I asked you to judge the case, but you have judged me! Okay, very good! Then I will tell you, first, when the Shenjiying is in charge of the exam, you cannot enter the exam. The inside of the dormitory; secondly, the people from the Hanlin Academy did it when the papers were pasted and sealed. Whoever manages which exam houses and whoever pasted up the papers can be checked; thirdly, I have seen it when I was in Nangong. Meng Wenjun's talent and calligraphy, the emperor is the teacher, to seek justice for the wronged students, okay?"

"The emperor made it very clear and clear." Dali Temple Minister cupped his hands and bowed.

Liang Guanjing said to the clerk behind him: "Write it all down. I will sign and mark it! It can be used as evidence in court."

After finishing all this work, the invigilators of the Shenji Camp and the relevant personnel who had sealed the papers with their names were called over for interrogation, and then they signed the papers.

"This is a serious matter. The Tribute Court will be closed from now on. Before the case is closed, I will wrong the examiners." Liang Guanjing walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

Back at Qianqing Palace, Liang Guanjing also stayed up all night. In the early morning, the news of the scientific examination fraud case had not yet spread. His Majesty the Emperor personally stated the incident. She stood up from the dragon chair and turned around with her hands behind her back. After a few circles, I started to lose my temper, "In order not to let a woman become the emperor, all the officials made troubles, and gathered the students of the Imperial College to make trouble in front of the Dragon Boat Festival. It doesn't matter whether I can be the emperor well, or whether I have already taken care of the government. Now, in order to prevent women from taking scientific examinations and becoming officials, they can do such an act of robbing and stealing. Do you still have the tolerance of a scholar? I know that there are still people in the court who are not used to it. Well, I might as well tell you that the silver exchanged for the raw silk I exported to the Western Regions and Southeast Asia is an important source of treasury and the foundation of the king’s food and court salary. How did these raw silk cloth come from? They are all woven by women’s hands. of!"

There was no sound in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and Liang Guanjing said again: "I have a female emperor and a female champion today, and tomorrow your colleagues and bosses may all be female. If you are not convinced, go back to your hometown now and go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestral tablet. Day and night Weeping loudly. Let's see if women can support this court, this country?"

In October of the second year of Zhenhua, this scientific examination fraud case involving a civet cat for the prince shocked the government and the public, and the folks used it as a topic of conversation after dinner.However, after more than half a year of investigation before and after the joint trial of the third department, the case was not closed until October of the first year of Lijing, and the matter finally became an unsolved case.All the major and minor examiners involved in this case were dismissed from office and demoted. The invigilator who was found to have stolen Meng Wenjun's test paper was just a small official of the Imperial Academy. It was not until the sixth year of Jing Dynasty that the emperor remembered him and released him from prison.

Regarding this case, most people think that it was because the empress wanted to let women take scientific examinations and become officials as soon as she came to the throne, and some people couldn't see it.The perpetrator must have had contact with Meng Wenjun before and knew that she was a top scholar, so he deliberately changed the test paper.Many people still think that there is no first place in literature. If that person hadn't done this, the people who took the same exam at that time might not have failed Meng Wenjun, and Meng Wenjun might not have become the number one scholar.In any case, Meng Wenjun was a blessing in disguise. There were many people involved in this case, and she was the only one who benefited and became the champion.

Of course, there are still some people who give full play to their whimsy, thinking that this case is a grand drama staged by the empress together with Meng Wenjun and Shenjiying, in order to alleviate the contradictions of the previous officials protesting the empress's ascension to the throne, to divert attention, and to In the future, women's scientific examinations and women's official career laid the foundation and cleared the barriers for women's official career.Although every detail is clearly written in the dossier sealed in Dali Temple, the Empress, Meng Wenjun and Shenjiying have no chance to join forces to perform this big play, and the Empress did not reveal the topic to Meng Wenjun, but in the dossier It was written in this way. Only a very few people know whether the Empress did it and how she did it.

In any case, this scientific examination fraud case in Lijing's early years had a great impact on the fate of the entire empire. Since then, the land of Huaxia has entered an era when famous officials and female officials are born in large numbers.Meng Wenjun was hand-picked the number one scholar and entered the Imperial Academy as an editor, but in fact she hardly stayed in the Imperial Academy. After that, for more than three years, she frequently went to and from the court and became the right-hand man of the emperor.In the fourth year of Lijing, she was 25 years old and had never been married. The emperor asked her to go to Huguang to serve as a governor, where she met her beloved.Meng Wenjun's life is very legendary. Later, she entered the court and became an extremely personable minister. She was the first female court official and the second female cabinet in the history of the empire. She made great contributions to this country and was named To stay in history, he is much better than many champions in history, and he lived up to the expectations of the empress.