Jinling City has always been known as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, although the scenery is beautiful by the mountains and rivers, but the summer here is still hot like a furnace. Jinling University, located in Zhongcheng, that is, the former Nanjing Guozijian, is surrounded by the Pearl River and the Jinxiang River in the north and south, and the Qintian Mountain in the east, which is named after the observatory built on the mountain.

Nanjing Guozijian was originally the location of the palace of the Six Dynasties, when the Ming Taizu set the capital in Nanjing, all this place was zoned as the land of Guozijian, so the area of Nanjing Guozijian is much larger than that of Beijing Guozijian, there are 1089 rooms in the prison, and 80 acres of vegetable land.

However, since the Yongle Emperor Jingnan succeeded in moving the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, Nanjing's Guozijian has rapidly declined. From nearly 10,000 students in the heyday to the last years of the Apocalypse, there were more than 1,000 students studying in the prison all year round, and about one-third of them spent money to mix their qualifications.

With the continuous development of the economy in the south of the Yangtze River, the brothels of Qinglou have flourished in this stone city. Therefore, before Guozijian was renamed Jinling University, the style of study was already chaotic, and there were few people who were willing to study honestly in the prison, and most of them either wandered around the city all day long, or wandered on the Qinhuai River for ten miles.

After Guozijian changed its name to Jinling University, although the officials sent from the north strongly rectified the style of study, it also caused most of the students to leave Jinling University, so that only a few hundred students were enrolled in a huge campus.

After Wen Tiren arrived in Nanjing, he liked the beautiful scenery and relatively quiet here, so he simply moved from the relatively remote Nanjing Inspectorate to live in a small courtyard north of Guozijian.

Coming to deal with the Nanjing scientific expedition case, in Wen Tiren's view, this was a wonderful opportunity for him to prove his ability to the emperor. And if you want to prove your ability to the emperor, it is obviously impossible to do it with the mud.

What can be done is in line with the emperor's wishes, and the emperor has a deep memory of himself, Wen Tiren quickly chose to deal with it in a more drastic way, and those scholars who made trouble.

The cause of the Nanjing scientific examination case is not complicated, it is just a bunch of unsuccessful candidates who vented their drunkenness, and some well-intentioned people sent this anger to Jinling University, which represents the new policy.

With the help of Jin Yiwei and Wu Changshi, who was an undercover agent in the Restoration Society, Wen Tiren not only quickly grasped the whole thing, but also found the connection between the sons of the Restoration Society and the examiner Sun Zhaoxing. Especially before the exam, Xia Yuehu, a member of the Restoration Society, also visited Sun Zhaoxing, which undoubtedly made Wen Tiren grasp the handle of the Restoration Society.

So in the process of investigating the case he presided over, the dirty water that was originally poured on Jinling University has now all fallen on Fushe. At this time, for those candidates who failed to make the list, it no longer matters whether there are problems with the Zhongju personnel of Jinling University and Fushe.

What matters now is the question of how these vacant places should be filled. Zhang Pu, Yang Tingshu, Chen Zilong, Wu Weiye and other scholars of the Restoration Society, although they hated Wen Tiren for crossing out all the scholars in the Restoration Society under the pretext of fraud, they are now unable to call on other candidates to denounce Wen Tiren again.

Because most of the unsuccessful candidates are now looking at Wen Tiren with blank eyes, hoping to get a fame from him. The Restoration Society scholars could only contact each other, hoping to find a relationship to put pressure on Wen Tiren and then let them go.

Therefore, when Wen Zhenmeng and Yao Ximeng's uncle and nephew arrived in Nanjing, the people of the Fushe specially set up a reception banquet for the two, and also told Wen Zhenmeng about Wen Tiren.

So Wen Zhenmeng and Yao Ximeng, regardless of the fatigue of the pommel horse, came to Wen Tiren's residence at Jinling University early the next morning. Wen Zhenmeng had bad intentions, originally wanted to catch Wen Tiren off guard and force him to publish the investigation file of the scientific research fraud case, so that they could find the loopholes in the case file and re-examine the scientific research fraud case.

However, when Yao Ximeng went south, Chongzhen also sent a letter to Wen Tiren, telling him about the changes in public opinion about the Nanjing scientific research fraud case and his own views on the case.

After understanding the emperor's meaning, Wen Tiren stepped up his implementation and supplemented the evidence and confession about this imperial examination fraud case.

After understanding the intentions of Wen Zhenmeng and Yao Ximeng, Wen Tiren asked his relatives to bring a brocade box, and then handed it to the two of them to watch.

Wen Zhenmeng, who was a little unknown, took out a document from the brocade box and flipped through it. He just looked at the above few lines of text, then looked up at Wen Tiren with some sweat and said, "Are these testimonies true?" ”

Wen Tiren looked at the teacup in his hand, and replied unhurriedly: "There are their signatures below, whether it is the examiner Sun Zhaoxing, or the scholar Xia Yuehu who contacted the Restoration Society in the center, they have all suddenly woken up and regretted what they had done, so they took the initiative to write these confessions."

Therefore, this official really doesn't understand why Master Wen and Master Yao came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and they have to say that the people of the Fushe are involved in the fraud case have inside information?

Okay, the two adults have also seen my evidence, so why don't you show me your evidence? Let's see if this official has really wronged them and restored everyone. ”

Wen Zhenmeng's face was cloudy, he didn't think before he came that the examiner and the people in the restoration society would confess. After all, when several leaders of the Restoration Society took over the two of them yesterday, they still looked indignant, and obviously they didn't know anything about these self-hundred books.

But now that it's good, he rushed over, fighting for the people in the restored society, but let himself fall into the pit.

Wen Zhenmeng glanced at his nephew, who was also shocked, and finally said to Wen Tiren: "Since Your Majesty asked me to take over as the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites and inquire about this case with you, then this official wants to ask these people personally, these confessions were written by their own hands. ”

Wen Tiren put down the teacup and said to Wen Zhenmeng: "It is only natural that Wen Shangshu wants to verify these evidences.

This case is a big trouble, and the people involved in the case are either officials or scholars, so for the sake of safety, these people are locked up in the eunuch's mansion, so that they don't go out to collude with others, so the two adults will go with me to meet Gonggong Cao..."

An hour and a half later, Wen Zhenmeng, Yao Ximeng, Wen Tiren, and Cao Huachun sat in a pavilion in the eunuch's mansion in Nanjing.

Wen Zhenmeng and Yao Ximeng, who had already roughly questioned several witnesses, were not interested in the wine and food on the table. But they can't just say goodbye and leave, otherwise they will no longer be able to speak out about this case of fraud in the imperial examination.

Although Wen Zhenmeng has never been reluctant to see the eunuchs in the palace, he still maintains a certain etiquette for Cao Huachun. Because this Nanjing town guard eunuch has a lot of connections with the former eunuch Wang An, and Wang An was the Austrian aid of the Donglin Party in the palace back then, so the two sides can be regarded as friends with special ties.

After Wen Zhenmeng barely drank two glasses of wine, he finally couldn't help but say to Wen Tiren diagonally opposite: "Since Wen Shilang has collected so much evidence and witnesses, what are you going to do next?" ”

Wen Tiren played with the green jade wine glass for a while before he opened his mouth and replied: "Since the two adults also think that the evidence is conclusive, then it is natural to close the case of fraud in the imperial examination as soon as possible, and then make up for the vacated quota for lifting, so that these scholars can go home with peace of mind." ”

Wen Zhenmeng frowned and said, "Do you really want to remove all the members of the Restoration Society?" Isn't this too much, people are also the ones who have studied hard for ten years, and they can't drive everyone off the boat because of a few behaviors, right?

Undergraduate Xie Yuan Yang Tingshu, as a famous family, conduct and talent are the choice of the moment, this official has already read his scientific field articles, ranked first in this field, there is really nothing to say. ”

Wen Tiren replied with a smile: "Since he is the leader of the Restoration Society, if there is a problem with the people in the Restoration Society, he naturally has to take responsibility." What's more, the person who led the failed scholars to make trouble this time suspected of fraud by the students of Jinling University was initiated from the gathering of the Restoration Society. They suspect that others are cheating, and now that they have found out about themselves, shouldn't they accept it calmly? ”

Yao Ximeng immediately interceded for the scholars: "On that day, in order to celebrate Yang Tingshuzhong's understanding of Yuan, the Restoration Society held a banquet in the Fuller Temple, and it is said that most of the people who participated in the banquet were not members of the Restoration Society, even if the trend was set off at this banquet, it does not mean that it is related to the Restoration Society.

Moreover, the members of the Fushe are all Shilin leaders from all over the south of the Yangtze River, and many of them are from Zhejiang. Brother Changqing always has to take care of the feelings of going to the countryside, right?

What's more, His Majesty has no intention of killing them all, and the candidates involved in fraud cases will only be suspended for 1-3 years. Can't you let those who sincerely repent go? ”

Wen Tiren looked at Cao Huachun hesitantly, and the old eunuch suddenly smiled and said, "The law is ruthless, but people are still affectionate." It's all a matter of the readers, so naturally the three adults take the idea, and the miscellaneous family sits here as a witness, and the three adults don't have to worry about the thoughts of the miscellaneous family. ”

Wen Tiren thought about it for a while, and then said, "Well, since the two adults said so, I always have to give the two adults this face."

I won't say much else, as long as the people in the restoration society are willing to sincerely repent and write me a letter of repentance, I will turn a blind eye. Of course, only the first seven to repent are eligible, and the others will go back to study for a few more years. In addition, that Zhang Pu is no longer on the list of tolerance. ”

Wen Zhenmeng and Yao Ximeng were both a little puzzled, and the two of them asked one after the other, "Why do you want to write a letter of repentance?" "Why are there only seven places? Why can't Zhang Pu be tolerant? ”

Wen Tiren replied unceremoniously: "If you don't write a letter of repentance, how can you know that they really have repentance?" If you do something wrong, you don't accept punishment, you have to have an attitude, right? This is also what His Majesty meant.

His Majesty did give nine places, but I have already distributed two of them, one is Chen Zilong, who assisted in the management of the agricultural college in the countryside, and the other is Xia Yuehu, who first confessed to the official.

As for that Zhang Pu, he was clever and formed the Restoration Society to increase his fame; On the other hand, he used the relationship of his friends to bribe the examiner and try to manipulate the scholars of the national talent ceremony, shouldn't such a person let him go back to study and wash his cunning heart and lungs with the saint's scriptures? ”