Chapter 773: Hang the seal, seal the gold, abandon the official, and leave
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Today, Yecheng is very lively.
Outside Yecheng Academy, there was the sound of hawkers.
The college does not hold classes today, but it serves as the examination room for the imperial examination in Jizhou.
Those students who did not participate in the imperial examination were given vacation.
However, most of them did not leave, but stayed outside the academy.
Although they did not participate, they were equally excited.
They won't have the opportunity to participate this year, but next year, and the year after, a lot of them will be walking into this exam room.
They cherish the opportunity now because it can change their destiny.
The doors of the academy are closed, and from now on, until the end of the exams, no one can enter.
Guo Jia, as the first person in charge of this imperial examination, is now also in the academy, walking by the edge of an examination room, and his eyes swept over every candidate to see if anyone was cheating.
The subjects of the exam are similar to those in Youzhou. But the content changes every year.
And those who cheat will be kicked out of the exam room directly.
For ten years, they are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination again.
Although they are cut off, since they cheat, they have to suffer the consequences.
The doors of the academy would open every now and then, and then someone would be thrown out by the neck.
At first, there were some people who didn't know, but there were also some people who knew the rules.
"I was caught cheating in the exam room."
"If you don't have any skills, don't come to participate, waste a place."
No one will sympathize with cheaters.
Several people also spat at the people who were thrown out. I despise these cheaters in my heart.
"Whose family is this? I don't know if I will have the face to go out in the future. ”
There were countless students guarding the door, and they all wanted to participate in the imperial examination, but this time they did not have the opportunity.
For those who cheat, it is even more hateful.
It's just that these people hate it at the moment, but when it's really their turn to enter the examination room, there will definitely be people who can't help but plagiarize and cheat.
People always have a fluke in their hearts.
In the choice of fate related to the future, this kind of thinking will be infinitely magnified.
Even if you know the consequences of being caught plagiarizing, there are still people who will take risks after all.
Don't say that it's just a ban for ten years, even if it kills them, at that time, there will still be people who choose to cheat.
Cheating is prohibited, but it can never be truly eradicated.
Even if Guo Jia invigilated the exam, Guo Jia could not guarantee that none of the candidates who stayed in the examination room cheated.
Although there are many people who cheat and are kicked out, there are still some who are lucky and go undetected.
The invigilation can only make those who cheat, not too arrogant, and the results they get by cheating are also limited.
At most, it is from failing to passing.
If you want to get the first place by cheating, you can't do it.
It is impossible to surpass those who are excellent.
They have limited means of cheating, which is nothing more than peeking at the test papers of their neighbors.
But at a glance, how much can you see.
Most of the people who were caught cheating on the spot were children of the family.
This time in the imperial examination, the number of children of the family participating was more than Zhao Hui estimated.
There were more than 300 people, and Zhao Hui originally thought that it was only in his early 100s at most.
Even if Guo Jia went to the south to collect more than 100 children from the poor family, the number is still less than half of that of the family.
The exam lasts for three days, but those candidates do not need to stay in the academy for three days.
After the first day of the exam, they can come out.
They don't even know what the test will be on the second and third days, so there's no need to worry about them being prepared.
Most of the candidates who came out hung their heads, and only a few had confident smiles on their faces.
Although the first day of the exam was liberal arts, the Four Books and Five Classics only accounted for a small part.
Many people are also participating in the imperial examination for the first time, and it is the first time to see such a topic.
Many of the questions are blank or scribbled, and even they don't know what they mean.
The three days of the imperial examination passed quickly.
However, the results were not announced so quickly.
However, on the side of Gaoping County, Liu Ye and Fang Ping's culpability has already been investigated.
Both of them were dismissed from their official positions, and all the money they had embezzled over the years was confiscated.
The county Cheng Fangping is now just an ordinary civilian, living in a dilapidated tiled house with his wife and children. He who goes about every day to eat for his stomach. Life is a little better than that of the homeless.
As the county magistrate, Liu Ye's life is even worse than Fang Ping.
He was sent to Liaodong, where he had to get up early every morning to do hard work, and if he was a little slower, he would be whipped. I don't know if he can stand it.
Zhao Hui did not pursue his family, but all the money he embezzled was confiscated, and not a penny was left, and it was taken away in Gaoping's house.
In Gaoping County, the resentment against him over the years will not disappear because he left.
Instead, it all shifted to his wife and children.
In the past, Liu Ye was the commander of Gaoping County, and everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.
Now that Liu Ye has fallen, he also speaks ill of his wife and children, they just express the resentment in their hearts, where will they care about how orphans and widows feel.
Liu Ye's wife and children were in Gaoping, and they couldn't survive at all, so they left and went to their parents' house within a few days.
In addition to Liu Ye and Fang Ping, many of the other officials below Gaoping County were punished and dismissed.
The originally empty warehouses in Gaoping County were unexpectedly full of grain.
After the news of Gaoping County spread, the people and officials in other counties were all panicked.
"My lord, some of the officials in the surrounding counties have run away." Cheng Ning came to report.
"If you run away, you have to catch me back. Let the second child and Wang Xiaodong do it. ”
Zhao Hui naturally understood what those officials who ran away were thinking.
Many people are not stupid, they know that Gaoping County is definitely not an exception. Just a trigger.
Thinking of the imperial examination just held, many people know in their hearts that many officials from all over Jizhou will definitely be traced down in the future.
Some people think that they can't escape and will definitely be found out, so they simply run away now.
In the Han Dynasty, there is a tradition of hanging seals and sealing gold.
Some officials were wronged, or in order to express their dissatisfaction, they would put their official hats and ribbons in the yamen.
Liu Bei called the superintendent, threw away the official seal, and then left.
The original Guan Yu also had a seal and sealed gold, and went thousands of miles to find Liu Bei.
There are many others who have done it as well.
Although there are no clear rules, a set of unspoken rules has long been formed.
Those officials, no matter what mistakes they put in office, as long as he seals and seals the gold, then everything will not be investigated.
will even get a good name, appreciated by countless people, from lonely and unknown, overnight to become a famous man.
But those officials in Jizhou were wrong this time.
Even if they run away, Zhao Hui will still hold them accountable.