Ling Ruo bowed his head and said, "Emperor Shengming, is the second elder brother really indifferent to the Xu family's grievances?" ”

"Yes, there is no fear and panic, and there is no desire to resolve grievances, if the place is changed, I will definitely not be able to maintain such composure, so I believe that Hongshi is innocent."

At this moment, Ling Ruo didn't know what to say, Hongshi's reaction was really unexpected, if he hadn't seen through Yinzhen's plan, it was that he was not afraid of ghosts and gods at all and had a ruthlessness that was different from ordinary people, so he could have achieved this point.

After a long time, Ling Ruo said softly: "It seems that the concubine really misunderstood the second elder brother." ”

Yin Zhen patted her hand and said, "Just know the way, I don't want you to have a knot in your heart when I say this." After a pause, he said, "Okay, let's not talk about that." In a few days, the autumn season will begin, this time Hongli is the main exam in the capital, I don't know how many pillars of talent he will select for me. ”

Ling Ruo pursed his lips and smiled: "Hongli is just presiding over the township test, and the real pillars of talent will not appear until the meeting test or even the palace test." But the emperor, so far has not prepared the question of the township test, but let Hongli and the main examination of the provinces quite anxious, the emperor and the decree said that the provinces are not allowed to prepare their own questions, you have to draft, the last time Hongli entered the palace to see the concubines, but also talked about this matter, lest I miss the autumn squirt. ”

Originally, the township examination has always been drafted by the main examiners in the capital and various provinces, but Yinzhen suddenly issued an order that the test questions would be drawn up by him personally. The provincial examiners who got the will have been waiting, but seeing that the days are approaching day by day, they just don't see the test questions coming down, and they are very anxious about the exams.

"Don't worry, how could I mistake this autumn season, today I will seal the question and hand it over to Hongli, as for the other provinces, I will also make people hurry up, and the test questions should be delivered just in time before the autumn season begins."

Ling Ruo said with some curiosity: "The concubine doesn't understand, why didn't the emperor draw up the test questions earlier, does this matter make the emperor very difficult?" ”

Hearing this, Yin Zhen's expression was solemn, and he said: "It's not that I'm embarrassed, it's just that I don't want to have candidates buying and selling test questions like in the fourth year of Yongzheng." ”

Ling Ruo said in surprise: "Trading test questions? Could it be that someone leaked the test questions? "Unless Yin Zhen mentions the things of the previous dynasty, Ling Ruo will not take the initiative to ask, so she doesn't know about these things.

"Yes, every time the imperial examination, there will always be more or less leakage of test questions, some candidates in order to take the examination or jinshi, they spend money to buy test questions, and then ask someone to memorize in advance, and wait until the day of the imperial examination, just draw a gourd on the topic. Do you think you can use the officials who were taken in this way? ”

"But aren't the questions of this township examination all written by the examiner? How can others know that they are so bold to buy and sell? ”

"This is very strange to me, so this time I will draw up the test questions uniformly, and then hand them over to the examiners of each province before the start of the exam." After the cheating in the examination in the fourth year of Yongzheng came out, many officials were checked and many were replaced, but whether the same thing would really not happen again, Yinzhen was not sure, so after several thoughts, it was decided that he would make the questions by himself and send them to the examiners before the exam, so as to avoid the leakage of the test questions to the greatest extent.

"The emperor is thoughtful, it seems that it is impossible for anyone who wants to cheat this time." Ling Ruo's words caused Yinzhen to sigh for a while, "Every time the imperial examination is held, it will be strictly searched, but anyone who finds cheats will be driven out of the imperial examination and will not be allowed to participate in the imperial examination for life, but it can still be found every time, and it will be banned repeatedly!" ”

Ling Ruo plucked the broken hair in his ear and said: "Some people are not good at their own knowledge, so they are lucky, thinking about winning fame by the side door, it is also human nature, after all, ten years of cold window, who does not want to be on the emperor list and become a protégé of the Son of Heaven." ”

"I don't want such a protégé." The cool voice sounded in the autumn garden, which also showed Yinzhen's determination to eliminate the imperial examination and put an end to the fraud of the candidates.

In the afternoon, Yinzhen drew up the test questions, and in addition to handing them over to Hongli, after all the remaining fire seals, they were rushed to the hands of the examiners in the provinces for 800 miles.

At this time, Hongli has begun to take action to pull down the officials of Yingge in Zhejiang one by one, these people have more or less their own problems, but for various reasons and Yingge's protection, they have not been investigated. Now Hongli is in the Ministry of Officials, taking advantage of the triennial official assessment, the people on the list submitted by Hongday, strictly tracked down, naturally found out many problems, the most difficult decision of the Ministry of Officials is to dismiss these people on the spot, and then escort them back to the capital for trial.

As soon as the news reached Inger's ears, he couldn't sit still, those people can be said to be his henchmen, and extremely loyal, the reason why the implementation of the new deal in Zhejiang is so slow and difficult, they have a lot of credit, if it is gone, it is really a big loss.

At the same time, he also felt quite strange in his heart, why Hongli suddenly made a move on those people, as if he knew that these people were his people early on, could it be ...... Is it Hongday?

For a long time, he didn't trust Hongyang too much, especially after the implementation of the new policy in Zhejiang, he was even more suspicious, but he didn't tell Hongyang the names of two of them, how did they leak it?

The more Inge thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he came to Hongshi's mansion overnight to discuss this matter with him, and asked him to help think about whether he could save these people. After all, if it's gone, even he will be in a lot of pain.

Hongshi played with the cup in his hand and slowly said something that surprised Yingge, "Maybe the fifth and fourth are really colluding together." ”

"Second elder brother, are you sure they ......" Before Yingge finished speaking, Hongshi already said: "No one can be sure of this kind of thing, but it should be very possible, otherwise why would we pull out all our officials in Zhejiang, with his Hongli alone, does he have such a great ability?" ”

Yingge gritted his teeth and said: "If this is the case, the fifth elder brother will really deceive us miserably!" ”

Hongshi smiled slightly and said: "Uncle don't be angry, I have already prepared a big gift, and it doesn't matter if the fifth child is true or not." ”

"A big gift?" Yingge thought for a moment and said, "Is the second elder brother referring to this autumn incident?" ”

"Yes, today's Emperor Ama has already come out of the autumn test questions, in addition to handing them over to Hongli, he also asked people to send them to the provincial capitals quickly, and on the sixth day of the eighth month, a total of autumn horses will be raised." In Yingge's puzzled look, he continued: "In the examination of the fourth year of Yongzheng, there were many candidates who cheated and the test questions were leaked, which caused a lot of noise at that time, and many officials were involved in that incident. ”

"But what does this have to do with the fourth elder brother? Besides, the test questions this time were drafted by the emperor himself, and no one was allowed to read them until the day before the autumn season, because he was afraid that the test questions would be leaked. ”

Hongshi smiled and said, "The more Huang Ama is afraid of something, the more we have to do something." ”