Before the palace examination work began, Jin Lan, who had a crush on Jin Wei, and his father Jin Gui got into trouble.

This time, there will be a fraud case!

The cause was a Yixing man named Wang Qian, who worked in the Ministry of Rites, and he had a grudge against Wu Shi, a fellow villager who should take the exam, and reported Wu Shi for cheating. On the occasion of filling in the list of the examination, all the external curtain officials (examination supervision officers) came in to thoroughly investigate the fraud cases, so the trial filling of the list of this session was very late, an hour later than the previous session.

As a result, Wu Shi had no problem, but Chen Zhe, a person from Jiangyin, was found to have bribed Jin Keqin, the child of Jin Gui (deputy chief examiner).

Chen Zhe was directly deprived of the qualification for the pilot test, and Jin Keqin fled with the money.

Wang Qian insisted that fellow villager Wu Shi also bought the question, so the curtain officials were divided into two factions. One faction believes that Wu Shi's Jinshi qualification should be cancelled (he has already taken the test), and the other faction believes that Jin Keqin should be arrested first and confronted with Wu Shi face to face.

There was a lot of trouble, Wu Shidu had already gone to participate in the palace examination, but he was still inexplicably deprived of his fame.

And Jin Keqin has already absconded, and the deputy examiner Jin Gui and the middle school examiner Wu Shi are both yellow mud and fall into the crotch of their pants, which is not but also. After the palace examination was over, the news spread all over the capital, and the two of them couldn't explain it clearly.

The most unfortunate thing is Ma Qing in the engineering department, as Wu Shi's house official, he recommended Wu Shi's volume, and because of this matter, he was involved and transferred to the Daimyo's Mansion as the prefect - purely lying down.

Therefore, 350 people were admitted to the examination in the sixth year of Zhengde, but there were only 349 Jinshi, and Wu Shi was dismissed.

"Ruoxu, have you heard? This time someone will try to cheat! Jin Wei quickly ran into Wang Yuan's room.

Wang Yuan asked, "What's going on?" ”

Jin Wei said anxiously: "A friend told me. Jin Gui, the deputy chief examiner, is the father of Miss Jin. His child took bribes and sold questions, and he had already absconded with the money, and Wu Shi, who had already participated in the palace examination, was robbed of his fame! ”

"And such a thing?" Wang Yuan was surprised.

"Who said it wasn't," Jin Wei shook his head and sighed, "Now the capital is going viral, saying that the deputy chief examiner Jin Gui has sold countless questions, and he has secretly bribed tens of thousands of taels of silver." Also, you've been rumored to have been made! ”

Wang Yuan was speechless and said, "It's my business." ”

Jin Wei said: "Who made you a scholar in Guizhou? Guizhou has not been out of Jinshi for more than ten years, and you not only passed the test, but also the third test. Those rumor-mongers spread everywhere, saying that you bribed Jin Guiyin with 3,000 taels of silver and got the exam questions in advance, so you can get the third place in the exam! ”

"Grass!" Wang Yuan couldn't help but burst into foul language, and it was still foul language from his previous life.

Jin Wei said with annoyance: "We shouldn't go out on the Shangsi Festival, the matter of our spring outing with Miss Jin has been poked out." Even I was questioned about buying questions, I am a Yunnan scholar, and I will be ranked 28th in the exam, so in their opinion, I must have bought the questions. ”

Wang Yuan didn't care at first, but at the moment, his expression became serious.

The rumors are terrible, Tang Bohu was deprived of his fame in this way, and the lessons from the past are there!

Damn, it must be those Nanjing Guozi prisoners who are spreading rumors.

Because only the Nanjing prisoners who drank together by the river knew about Wang Yuan, Jin Wei and Miss Jin's spring outing together. When drinking, they are extremely enthusiastic, and when they turn around, they spread rumors indiscriminately, shameless bastards!

……

Li Dongyang's house.

Song Linger was so anxious that she wanted to go out of the city to visit Wang Yuan, but was stopped by Li Dongyang and Wang Yangming.

"If you can't go out, you'll hurt Wang Erlang!" Li Dongyang said.

"Why?" Song Ling'er was puzzled.

Wang Yangming explained: "You live in the house of the first assistant of the cabinet, and you are neighbors with the deputy chief examiner. ”

"What should I do then?" Song Ling'er was restless and walked around the room.

Wang Yangming said with a smile: "You said that you want to be a female general, but the person who commands the army can't be impatient." ”

Li Dongyang got up and said, "Some rumors, don't pay attention to them." Wu Shi, who was robbed of his fame, was actually wronged, how could he take the fame of Wang Yuan and Jin Wei because of rumors. In the past, could it be that I would rule the country with rumors? ”

"I'm afraid the officials won't give up." Wang Yangming reminded.

Li Dongyang straightened his waist and sneered: "The chronic illness is getting worse day by day, I'm afraid that my time is running out, and I can't even save the two scholars before I die?" ”

Li Dongyang has already decided to carry the matter down, anyway, he has carried countless pots in his life, and he is not inferior to Wang Yuan and Jin Wei.

……

The East Pavilion is the place where the palace examination papers.

Li Dongyang was supported to come here, Yang Tinghe, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of the Jinshen Palace, Liu Zhong, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of Wuyingdian University, Liang Chu, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials and a scholar of Wuyingdian University, Yang Yiqing, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, Jin Gui, a scholar of the Right Attendant of the Ministry of Officials and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Wang Chang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, He Jian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Li Sui, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, all stepped forward to greet him.

According to the system, there is only one official secretary, but there is a string of official books in front of him. Even Li Dongyang, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, also works part-time as a secretary.

Only Yang Yiqing is really in charge of the affairs of the ministry, and the other ministries are all nominal.

Why?

Because during the Zhengde Dynasty, the court would arrange the official shifts, and the six Shangshu were ranked before the ministers. If the elders of the pavilion do not hang a scholarly position, then every time they go to the court to see the emperor, they can only stand behind the butt of the six scholars.

After saluting each other, Li Dongyang said directly to Jin Gui: "A little discussion, don't mind." ”

Jin Gui smiled bitterly: "The question of bribery for family children, my fault, it is really embarrassing." ”

Li Dongyang walked to his position and sat down: "Let's start reading the papers, I'll carry it on the Yanguan's side." ”

Yang Tinghe was inconvenient to speak from beginning to end, because his son also participated in the general examination and the palace examination. He originally asked for recusal, but the emperor did not allow it, so he could only come to participate in the marking work.

To tell the truth, Yang Tinghe didn't want to participate in the palace examination to mark the papers, with Yang Shen's talent, no matter how blind the exam was, he could enter the second list. Even if you don't enter the top three, it's a big deal to take the exam again, you can also choose to enter the Hanlin Academy, and you can also make a lot of progress, so why make a fuss?

Yang Tinghe can fully imagine that he participated in the marking work, and if his son comes out as a champion in the exam, after all, he will attract criticism from the government and the opposition.

As soon as Li Dongyang sat down, he saw that the three volumes were placed separately, so he could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

Those three volumes are naturally the volumes of Zou Shouyi, Yang Shen and Wang Yuan. It stands to reason that the candidate's information is sealed and it is impossible to be found out in advance, but in fact, there are such unspoken rules every year.

Before the Jiajing Dynasty, the operation space of the palace test was very large.

The sealing officer can see the names of the candidates, and often lists the top three papers of the examination separately and sends them to the East Pavilion for alternative, so as not to make the top three in the examination into three Jinshi.

If you are in the top three in the exam, and you only enter the three rankings in the palace exam, it is simply a slap in the face of the examiner. That's why there is this kind of illegal operation of secretly sending papers, so that the top three in the test can at least enter the second list of the palace test.

There is also an even more sassy operation, that is, the sealing official lists someone's test paper in such and such a position. The examiner knew it at a glance, so he elevated this person, to put it bluntly, it was collusion and cheating.

And after the examiner reads the papers, he can go home to rest at night, so the emperor has not read the answer sheets, and as a result, good articles have spread in the capital.

In view of various ills, in history, Jiajing carried out reforms in five years: first, the sealing officials were not allowed to participate in the delivery of the papers, so as to avoid collusion with the file reading officials; Second, the examiner is not allowed to go home, but can only live in the Ministry of Rites to prevent the palace examination articles from being leaked in advance.

Li Dongyang read Zou Shouyi's paper first, and was slightly disappointed. Although the article cites scriptures, it is a moral article and has no practical content.

This is normal, Zou Shouyi has never been an official, and he has not studied history books in depth, mainly studying scriptures and righteousness. What really useful statecraft can such a nineteen-year-old scholar write?

It's not the candidate's question, but the question is too difficult for the officials of the six ministries to answer.

followed by Yang Shen's volume, looking at it, Li Dongyang frowned.

The answer sheet is so comprehensive, and the writing is so wonderful, it doesn't look like it was made in a day's time. It's more like getting the content of the exam questions in advance, reading historical books at home, and revising them seriously and repeatedly.

Could it be that Yang Tinghe deliberately omitted the question to his son?

Li Dongyang was already suspicious, but he didn't dare to draw conclusions easily, because Yang Shen was not only Yang Tinghe's son, but also his Li Dongyang's personal disciple! He knows very well that his disciple is well-versed in the past and the present, and maybe he really has such a talent.

Looking at Wang Yuan's scroll again, Li Dongyang's expression was even more strange.

Although Yang Shen wrote the palace examination articles in a colorful manner, and they were comprehensive and detailed, they were actually full of empty words and nonsense, and it was as difficult to talk about substantive issues as Zou Shouyi.

And what about Wang Yuan?

The article is written dryly, but it is dry throughout, pointing directly to the disadvantages of the times, as if it came from the hands of an accumulated operator.

Could it be that Wang Yangming quietly stole the question and asked Song Linger to take it out to Wang Yuan to see?

What are the demons and monsters in this year's temple exams!

Li Dongyang was speechless.