Aunt Wu was much tougher than Wu Liyan, she refused to admit that she helped her nephew cheat, and insisted that she just asked the servants in the house to buy some exam questions for Wu Liyan to familiarize him with the scientific examination in advance. She had never read a book, and the things that were bought were all done by the people who were lower, so how did she know why the questions she bought were the same as the questions of the scientific examination that year? Maybe it was a coincidence.

Although Aunt Wu has not read any books, she is very shrewd, she knows that if she confesses her sin, her life will be over, how can she be willing to give up the wealth that she has won so hard after more than ten years of hard work? It is better to grit her teeth and hold on until the prince finds a way to save her.

Aunt Wu didn't blindly trust the prince of Anguo, she just believed in the various means she had used on Zhuang Shizi over the years, and she believed that the prince would not abandon her.

The people from the Criminal Department went to the Anguo Mansion to arrest the slave who went to buy the exam questions, but found that the slave had secretly escaped on the day Wu Liyan was arrested, and his reaction speed was faster than that of the Anguo Mansion and the government.

At the time of the trial, the presiding officer began to torture Aunt Wu, and just when Aunt Wu couldn't hold on to confess, the escaped slave actually came back and surrendered voluntarily.

The servant confessed that he had fled just to see him for the last time, and that the Duke of Anguo and Aunt Wu treated him like a mountain, and he couldn't betray his father and let his master take the blame. He explained that Aunt Wu and the Anguo Mansion really didn't know about the exam questions, and it was he who wanted to invite credit in front of the master and secretly hooked up with the examiner's personal servant, and bribed the servant to steal the exam questions for him.

And the examiner confessed by the servant of the Anguo Mansion was Chen Yu.

Aunt Wu and Wu Liyan didn't know if they got any hints, and their confessions were consistent with that of this slave, saying that the slave below said that he could ask the elder pavilion to guide Wu Liyan, and Aunt Wu loved her nephew very much, so she gave the slave a lot of silver for him to do.

Wu Liyan, who had confessed to his aunt before, also changed his mind and said that his aunt was illiterate and didn't know what the slave had bought.

The Criminal Department sent someone to arrest Chen Yu's personal attendant, but the attendant confessed to his bribery and sale of exam questions, not only that, but he also confessed that he was afraid that the exam questions he got from Chen Ge Lao were not complete, because he often followed Chen Yu out of the house, he met Xue Ge Lao's attendant, so he gave a part of the silver received to Xue Ge Lao's attendant, and asked him to help from it.

Pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, Xue Ge's attendant was also interrogated, but the Xue family's attendant did not admit that he was involved in this matter. However, the government searched the money bag given to him by the attendant of the Chen family from the house where the attendant of the Xue family lived.

The attendant of the Xue family shouted injustice, saying that the attendant of the Chen family did give him ten taels of silver, but this money was because once the attendant of the Chen family did something wrong outside, and he helped cover it up, and the attendant of the Chen family gave him the silver out of gratitude.

Just ten taels of silver to buy a cabinet minister's attendant to get the exam questions, this sounds unbelievable, but the evidence is conclusive, and no matter how much the attendants of the Xue family quibble, they can't go back.

Speaking of which, when the government went to Xue's house to search for criminal evidence, there was another incident that happened when the Xue family's housekeeper originally stopped the people from the government and refused to let them go in to search.

Although Xue Ge Lao was temporarily suspended, he was not dismissed, and the officers and soldiers who were sent to search did not dare to use force to break in, and when the two sides were at a stalemate, Xue Xingyi, the son of Xue Ge Lao, took the initiative to let people open the door of the Xue family and let the officers and soldiers in, and that frank and indifferent attitude made the people present have to be convinced.

The housekeeper was originally afraid that there was evidence unfavorable to Xue Ge Lao in the house, so while blocking the searchers, he asked people to secretly go and rummage through the attendant's room, but he didn't expect to meet a young master who was so pitting his own people.

The three divisions submitted the results of the interrogation to the imperial case, and Emperor Tiancheng was furious and secretly had a headache.

The exam questions were leaked out of the hands of Xue Yuancheng and Chen Yu, but they didn't want to leak it themselves, to be honest, as an official and a cabinet minister, there is really no need to bury their future for a few hundred taels of silver, the two cabinet ministers are not so stupid.

But there is no way to gently expose this matter, the scholars outside have already made a fuss, and they jointly wrote a letter asking the imperial court to severely punish the examiners who leaked questions, and not to let the imperial examination of the imperial court become a joke.

According to Emperor Tiancheng's original intention, he actually didn't want to deal with Chen Yu and Xue Yuancheng too seriously, because these two had been very obedient in the cabinet for many years and absolutely obeyed the will given by Emperor Tiancheng.

Emperor Tiancheng's attitude, although he did not say it explicitly. But many people have realized it.

If the emperors of the past generations encountered this kind of thing that made him in a dilemma, there was a routine to follow.

That is, the emperor expressed his anger in front of all the ministers, and he wanted to punish him severely, and after losing his temper and establishing his majesty, the ministers who were close to him came forward one by one and knelt down to beg His Majesty to open the net. In the end, the emperor pushed the boat and listened to the advice and dealt with it lightly.

This time, for the disposal of Xue Yuancheng and Chen Yu, the two confidant ministers, Emperor Tiancheng also planned to use this trick.

So in the court, Emperor Tiancheng was furious and angrily reprimanded Xue Yuancheng and Chen Yu to appease the hearts of scholars all over the world.

Next, the ministers took turns to state the contributions made by the two ministers to the imperial court over the years, and begged Emperor Tiancheng to take a light step for their hard work. But something went wrong at this critical joint.

Emperor Tiancheng had just finished scolding and hadn't caught his breath, and Xue Xingyi was out of the ranks.

Just when everyone thought that he was going to intercede for his father, Xue Xingyi said that this time it was indeed his father Xue Yuancheng's negligence, as a minister and a minister of the cabinet, but he could not even restrain the slaves in the family and caused a catastrophe, how could he sweep the world if he did not sweep the house? His Xue family was sorry for the trust of the court and His Majesty, and had no shame to gain a foothold in the court again, and implored Emperor Tiancheng to dismiss Xue Yuancheng and him Xue Xingyi, and never hire him, so as to calm the anger of the world's scholars.

Emperor Tiancheng was silent.

The officials who were asking for mercy looked at each other: How can this be rectified?

People's sons have confessed, and it would be wrong to cry and beg Your Majesty to open up the net at this time!

Although Xue Xingyi and Chen Yu have been operating in the imperial court for many years and have many henchmen, they also block the way of many people when they stand in that position, so there are many people who want to take the opportunity to tear them down.

After Xue Xingyi pleaded guilty, the ministers who seconded the proposal behind him came one after another, eager to take the opportunity to trample Chen Yu and Xue Ge Lao to the point that they could not turn over forever.

Emperor Tiancheng glanced at the "upright" Xue Xingyi with a complicated expression, and sighed weakly in his heart.

Unable to return to the sky.

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