Since he couldn't help but talk to Yan Wenhao about his mother that night and was comforted in his arms, Mu Ziling used the excuse of hiding in the study for half a month and avoided Yan Wenhao.

Although Yan Wenhao was aware of it, he just shook his head, smiled dotingly, and did not break him, but let him avoid himself like this.

He also has something to do.

Not long ago, Yan Wenhao did something, he asked Dark One to send a letter to Yan Wenyuan as a Jianghu person.

What was written on this letter was all the things he had asked Xie Jingyu to go to Huai'an to check and do.

Because of this, he now needs to see Xie Jingyu and Dark One in the Lingxiao Pavilion every day, and it is also a good thing for him for Mu Ziling to avoid him like this.

After this letter was sent, five or six days passed in a row, but there was no slightest wave, and Dark One and Xie Jingyu were a little anxious, but Yan Wenhao was always doing his own thing, and he didn't look anxious at all.

On this day, in the Sky Pavilion.

Xie Jingyu looked at Yan Wenhao's non-arrogant and impatient appearance, shook the fan a few times, and finally couldn't help asking: "Are you really sure that Yan Wenyuan will impeach Xu Chang and Li Zezhang as you arranged?" ”

Yan Wenhao raised his head, glanced at Xie Jingyu, and replied with a smile: "Naturally, just with the temperament of the third emperor brother, I must personally go to check it out, calculate the days, and it will be almost in this day or two." ”

As Yan Wenhao expected, Yan Wenyuan did make a move.

Early this morning, a major event occurred, and the cause of the incident was the two impeachment notes of the right prime minister.

At this time, in the Taihe Palace, the needle drop could be heard, and the right prime minister Lu Yan stood straight in the center of the main hall, with an angry look on his face, while Li Zezhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, pursed his lips and knelt beside him, neither of them said a word, lowered his head, and accepted the scrutiny of Emperor Yan.

At the time of the court meeting just now, the right prime minister Lu Yanming suddenly came out of the ranks, with a solemn expression, and presented two copies of the recital to Emperor Yan.

These two chapters, one is the impeachment of Xuchang, the prefect of Huai'an, for embezzlement and bribery, for his own selfish interests, raising the price of rice, and privately occupying 100 acres of fertile land, which made the people of Huai'an complain and the people have no livelihood.

During this period, some people wanted to go to Beijing to file a complaint, but they were intercepted by assassins he sent along the way, and more than 10 innocent villagers have been killed so far.

This man's crimes are too numerous to mention, and according to the law, his crimes deserve to be punished!

In another note, the impeachment was Concubine Liang's father, Li Zezhang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

After Lu Yanming presented the chapter to Emperor Yan, he did not return to his original position, but stood on top of the main hall and reprimanded Li Zezhang for being a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, but he was not vigilant, did not have the intention of recruiting talents for the country, formed a party for personal gain, embezzled and accepted bribes, abused private power, repeatedly leaked exam questions, and even secretly changed candidates' test papers.

Lu Yanming's words were convincing, and he pointed out that in the autumn examination three years ago, Li Zezhang accepted bribes and secretly changed the test papers that originally belonged to Zheng Yuan to Xuchang, making Zheng Yuan, who was originally a talented person, fall to Sun Shan, and Xuchang once jumped into the dragon gate and became a prefect.

Lu Yanming even said directly: The reason why Xuchang can now be rampant and domineering in Huai'an, Yumeat Township, Li Zezhang has to bear the responsibility.

After listening to Lu Yanming's words, Li Zezhang immediately almost softened his hands and feet and knelt on the ground, but he has been an official for more than 20 years, and he naturally understands in his heart that the more this time, the more calm he must be.

He only did it once, and it was indeed just three years ago.

At that time, the person he helped was none other than Lu Yanming, the current Huai'an prefect, Xuchang.

Before the autumn test, Xuchang came to visit Li Zezhang, and he was 30,000 taels of silver as soon as he made a move, and only asked for a low ranking.

30,000 taels of silver for a low ranking, Li Zezhang was naturally willing, at that time he originally chose a ranking at the bottom, even if it was changed to Xuchang, at most Xuchang could only be sent to a remote county and become a Jiupin Sesame Official.

It's just that later, at a banquet, Zheng Yuan was very ignorant of lifting, and dared to openly contradict him, he was furious, so when he was grading, he directly exchanged Zheng Yuan's test papers to Xuchang.

The identities of the two were reversed, and Zheng Yuan took Xuchang's scroll, which was naturally named Sun Shan.

This matter was secret, except for him and Xu Chang, no second person knew about it at that time, and after the autumn test, he asked people to kill Zheng Yuan, unless Xu Chang found a way to die and said it himself.

After sorting out his thoughts like this, Li Zezhang became more and more sure that Lu Yanming had absolutely no conclusive evidence in his hands.

So he collected his thoughts, even though he was still a little apprehensive in his heart, but his face had not changed, he forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, knelt on the ground, shouted injustice, and even swore to the sky, the implication was that Lu Yanming framed him.

Emperor Yan has always attached great importance to exam fraud, at this time, he lowered his head and re-read the piece in his hand again, and then he looked at Lu Yanming and asked in a deep voice: "Lu Aiqing, do you have conclusive evidence to prove that what you just said is true?" ”

"Qi Qi Your Majesty," Lu Yanming took a step forward, bent down and made a gesture, then took out a stack of letters from his arms, and said respectfully: "Weichen has the letters exchanged between the two of them as proof. ”

Emperor Yan frowned, took the letter that was presented, opened one and looked at it, then swept his gaze to Li Zezhang who was kneeling on the ground, and asked in a cold voice: "Li Zezhang, what else do you have to say?" ”

Hearing that there was a letter as evidence, Li Zezhang's eyes were already a little flustered, but he still did not mess with himself, but after kowtowing, his voice became louder and louder: "Your Majesty, Weichen has indeed never done this, as for the correspondence with Xuchang, it is just because he regards Weichen as a teacher, and often writes letters to greet him." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Lu Yanming, and asked sharply: "What is the trouble of wanting to add to the crime, Lord Lu, you are so painstaking, what do you want?!" ”

Listening to his questioning of right and wrong, Lu Yanming didn't say a word, just stood in place expressionlessly.

Emperor Yan's eyes were filled with chills, he stared at Li Zezhang for a long time, and suddenly threw all the letters in his hand in front of him, and scattered a stack of letters on the ground, he angrily reprimanded: "Li Zezhang, you are corrupt and bribery, abuse of private power, connivance at exam fraud, and accept bribes from Xuchang all year round. ”

"Your Majesty, Wechen is wronged, Wechen really hasn't done these things."

Li Zezhang kowtowed heavily, looked anxious, and argued again: "Xuchang does often send gold and silver gifts to Wechen, but Wechen has never received it, if Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can call anyone in my house, and they can testify for Wechen." "He was already a little sick and rushed to the doctor.

When Lu Yanming heard this, he sneered, he looked at Li Zezhang, and the mockery in his eyes was very obvious: "Lord Li, don't forget, anyone in your house is your person, what you ask them to say, they can only say anything, who dares to tell the truth?" How can they be witnesses? ”

After speaking, Lu Yanming looked at Emperor Yan again, he bowed and saluted, and said with a solemn expression: "Wechen begs Your Majesty to allow Wechen to summon Zheng Yuan to the palace." ”

"Zheng Yuan?" Emperor Yan raised his eyebrows and asked, "But just now you said that the person who was exchanged for the test paper by Xuchang?" ”

Lu Yanming nodded and said, "It's him." ”

"Since it is him, let him go to the temple." Emperor Yan waved his hand and motioned for the heirs of Fuxi to go to the palace.

When Li Zezhang heard Zheng Yuan's name, his eyes widened, his eyes flashed with disgrace, his face was pale, his forehead was sweating, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

It's impossible, Zheng Yuan is obviously dead!

The Taihe Hall was silent again.

After a while, there was a slow sound of footsteps outside the hall, and some of the courtiers who were relatively backward couldn't help but tilt their heads slightly and look at the comer.

Walking outside the Taihe Palace, Zheng Yuan stopped, he put his hands and four fingers together on his chest, and bowed respectfully to Emperor Yan above the main hall.

After saluting, he raised his feet and stepped into the threshold, held his head high, and walked into the Taihe Palace.

Zheng Yuan is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, and he is not handsome, but a heroic aura naturally forms between his eyebrows, and his eyes are clear and bright, which makes people look extremely comfortable.

Emperor Yan looked at Zheng Yuan condescendingly, his eyes were very sharp: "You are Zheng Yuan?" ”

"The grass people are." Zheng Yuan bowed, and then replied respectfully, showing no timidity in his eyes.

Emperor Yan looked at him, and saw that he was respectful but not humble to himself, so he couldn't help but show appreciation, raised his hand and pointed at Li Zezhang who was kneeling in the hall, and asked him, "Do you know who this person is?" ”

Hearing this, Zheng Yuan turned his head, looked at Li Zezhang carefully for a long time, and after recognizing who it was, he replied: "The grass people know that he is Master Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. ”

"Okay, Zheng Yuan, if I ask you something, you need to answer honestly, and you can't have half a lie." Emperor Yan's expression was majestic, and his sharp gaze fell directly on Zheng Yuan: "Three years ago, did you participate in the imperial court autumn examination selection, did you get a ranking?" ”

Zheng Yuan was slightly trembling by Emperor Yan's momentum, and relieved himself, he smiled bitterly, and his tone was deeply lost: "The grass people did participate, but they fell off the list." ”

At this time, Fuxi cautiously stepped forward and said softly to Emperor Yan: "Your Majesty, this is the test paper made by Xuchang back then. ”

Responding lightly, Emperor Yan took the well-preserved test paper from Fuxi's hand, he glanced at it, and saw that the volume was neat, the handwriting was neat, and although the article was small and flawed, it was a good article.

After reading it all, Emperor Yan nodded with satisfaction, he looked at Zheng Yuan again, and his tone was a lot softer: "Do you remember the articles you made back then?" ”

Zheng Yuan showed a trace of doubt at the right time, but he didn't dare not answer what Emperor Yan asked, so he thought seriously for a while and replied, "The grass people remember." ”

After a pause, he continued: "At that time, the topic was 'national policy', when the grass people read the question, they happened to have a feeling, and I am still deeply impressed by that article...... "As he spoke, he memorized a few more sentences, and every sentence was consistent with the test paper taken by Emperor Yan.

At this point, the truth is clear.

This article is indeed written by Zheng Yuan, not by its name, Xuchang.

Li Zezhang's crime is true, he abused his private power and privately exchanged the test papers of Xuchang and Zheng Yuan, causing Zheng Yuan, who should have been talented, to fall to Sun Shan, while Xuchang, who had no talent and no virtue, ran rampant in the township, which is really an unforgivable crime.

Without giving Li Zezhang any more excuses, Emperor Yan calmly faced and directly ordered someone to take him down, temporarily detained in Dali Temple, and no one was allowed to visit, until Li Zezhang explained everything clearly, and then convicted.

As for Xuchang, the crimes he committed were all capital crimes of the Nine Clans, even if Emperor Yan ordered to send someone to arrest Xuchang, and gave him a sword, he directly explained that if Xuchang dared to resist, it was okay to cut it first and then play.