"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the slave is wronged, the slave is wronged!" When the two guards came in and dragged Zhao Nian down, Zhao Nian came back from his panic and shouted loudly, but Yang Yong just waved his hand, and Zhao Nian was finally dragged down.

Driving the rest of the palace maids away again, Yang Yong said solemnly: "Yuan Aiqing, I will hand over the leakage of this exam question to you, and I must find out about it, remember, no matter who is involved, I will allow you to investigate it to the end." ”

"Yes, Wechen Zunchen." Yuan Hao hesitated, but still reminded: "Your Majesty, this matter is very important, but it is not necessarily related to Zhao Nian's father-in-law, and Weichen is afraid of losing the emperor's trust." ”

If someone heard Yuan Hao say this at this time, I am afraid that his jaw will fall, in the hearts of hundreds of officials, Yuan Hao is even more terrible than the king of Hades, he has never had anything to do, he didn't expect to intercede with the emperor for a eunuch, the eunuchs of the Great Sui are very powerful, with Yuan Hao's rights, don't say that they are stammering with eunuchs, even if they are good, they don't bother to do it.

Yuan Hao naturally has Yuan Hao's thoughts, the emperor handed over the chief eunuchs around him to be punished, if it is found out, it is really related to it, but if it can't be found, how can he explain to the emperor?

"Hmph, whether it has anything to do with this eunuch or not, if he doesn't take strict care of the exam questions, he can't escape responsibility." The anger on the Emperor's face still faded.

Yuan Hao heard it in his heart, the emperor's tone did not have a good impression of the eunuch, it seems that this Zhao Nian can't let him get away with it no matter what, and secretly warned himself in his heart that he must not get carried away in front of the emperor, otherwise Zhao Nian may be his role model in the future.

"Your Majesty, even if the exam questions have been leaked, how will the exam be handled in four days?"

"You don't have to worry about that, I'm ready. There are several sets of test questions to choose from, and now we will start to reprint them, and it will be enough to print them in one day, all you have to do is to hurry up and get to the bottom of this matter, I can see that the person who stole the exam questions is not just for money, otherwise he would not be so bold and do not hesitate to commit murder, I want you to find out the black hand behind the scenes as soon as possible. I want to see, who dares to be so bold and oppose me? ”

"Yes, Wechen obeys!"

"By the way, it's better to keep this matter in secret, and don't make everyone know."

Yuan Hao naturally knew that the emperor didn't want any waves in this imperial examination, and he didn't even explain any charges for arresting Zhao Nian just now. It's just that the gate valve family will not be so willing, and once they find an opportunity, they will definitely make waves. Thinking of this, Yuan Hao's heart was even more turbulent, maybe the leakage of the exam questions was done by the gate valve family, think about it, if the scholars who were selected in the future were bought with money, it would be better to abolish the imperial examination.

"Yes, Wechen obeys! Emperor. If there is nothing else to order, Weichen will retire. ”

"Hmm. Aiqing go down. ”

"Yes." Looking at Yuan Hao's back, Yang Yong couldn't help but say to himself: "Who is it?" Shen Guogong, Yan Guogong, or Tang Guogong...... All right. If you are in it, then don't blame my men for being ruthless. ”

If someone hears the emperor's words, they will be scared half to death, the emperor seems to have determined that this matter is related to the various gate valve families, once the emperor raises the butcher's knife, I don't know how many people will fall to the ground.

The emperor has had a generous reputation since the crown prince and has been on the throne for eight years. He didn't kill a single minister. Even if you commit a felony, it's a matter of distribution, but. No one will take the emperor's mercy seriously, not to mention the bloody night in the capital before the accession to the throne, thousands of people died, just after ascending the throne, under the policy implemented by the emperor, the four countries have been wiped out in a row, and countless foreign people have been demoted to labor, tired day and night on the construction site, and finally died.

After a year and a half of siege in Pyongyang, the capital city of Goguryeo, fell in October of the seventh year of the Great Cause, the king of Goguryeo and the minister of civil and military affairs were captured by the Sui army, although there was still Princess Pyeongkang of his country to lead the army and the people to continue to resist, but it was no longer a climate, and then the emperor ordered to continue to march to Baekje and Silla, the military strength of both countries was previously consumed, and the resistance was extremely weak, at the beginning of the eighth year of Daye, the king of Silla and the king of Baekje were also captured by the Sui army, announcing the destruction of the two countries.

Speaking of which, Baekje has always been an ally of the Great Sui, and although Silla betrayed the alliance halfway, the king of Silla also became the emperor's father-in-law, and the emperor did not hesitate to order the elimination of such two countries, and anyone who really felt that the emperor was lenient and benevolent must be crazy.

As soon as Yuan Hao came out of the palace, the various Beijing officials basically knew that Zhao Nian was arrested, Zhao Nian, as the chief eunuch, naturally had no less dealings with various officials, for eunuchs, ordinary officials instinctively hated it, Guy Eunuch is not a normal person, his mind is twisted, he has no children and no daughters, and he has no worries, and the whole person will make people feel creepy when they think about it.

Although the eunuchs of this dynasty have little power, the ministers don't have to worry about the eunuchs using the power in their hands to deal with themselves, but the eunuchs are always with the emperor in the end, and no one wants to have any small reports that fall into the ears of the emperor through the eunuchs. It's a bit inexplicable.

The charges given by the emperor are inside and outside, but he didn't say who he is inside and outside, so that everyone is a little confused, and now everyone is afraid, if you want to say inside and outside, which minister has not asked the eunuch to pass the news, if you bite yourself in, then you will suffer. Of course, no one thought of interceding for Zhao Nian.

All of a sudden, the car outside Uncle Zhongyong's Mansion, who had always been cold in front of the door, got up, and all the ministers in the past were eager to draw a line with Yuan Hao, but now they were afraid that they would be late and let Zhao Nianpan bite him. It's a pity that Yuan Hao closed his door and didn't see anyone, and the people who came to the door could only leave in disappointment, but seeing so many colleagues in front of Zhongyongbo, everyone was half relieved, the law is not responsible, and there are so many people involved, so there is no need to worry too much.

Yuan Hao naturally did not have time to stay at home to receive those officials who came to visit, although the emperor did not solve the case within a time limit, but Yuan Hao knew that he could not afford to delay, the more it dragged on, the more difficult this case would be, if the scholars left Beijing one after another after the results came out, it would be difficult to solve it again, and the time left for him would not exceed a month.

Of course, there are still four days before the scientific examination, and these four days are the most promising days to catch the flaws of the other party.

The interrogation of Zhao Nian is very unsatisfactory, although Zhao Nian has fine skin and tender meat, but the bones are hard, no matter how he is tortured, he refuses to admit that he has leaked the exam questions, less than a day's work, Zhao Nian has already opened his skin, and there is still no progress, and finally Yuan Hao has to put his hope on arresting the person who betrayed the exam questions.

For this reason, Yuan Hao almost mobilized all the people of the dark guards to monitor the inns and restaurants, and for a while, all the restaurants and inns were mixed with some people dressed as foreign scholars, but they rarely talked as loudly as ordinary scholars, and a pair of eyes looked at the restaurant like an eagle, and the people who came and went in the inn.

What made Yuan Hao depressed was that a day had passed, two days had passed, and the person who had betrayed the exam questions was nowhere to be found, but he had caught a few people who wanted to buy and sell the exam questions, but it was useless, they heard rumors from their companions, so they wanted to try their luck, as for the companions, it was also hearsay, such a lead one, and soon dozens of people were brought out, Yuan Hao had to stop immediately, otherwise he would come down like this, and he would not wait for the person who sold the exam questions to be found, and this imperial examination would make him mess up.

On the third day, Yuan Hao came to his senses and withdrew all the manpower, leaving only the manpower that was originally lurking in various industries.

Sure enough, after the staff was withdrawn, soon after, the dark guard of a restaurant sent a message and found the person who sold the test questions.

Yuan Hao was overjoyed, and personally rushed to the restaurant, which was a restaurant called Changle Building, the same as the Four Seas Inn, Changle Building was also opened by the Dark Guard, and the boss was naturally also a person in the Dark Guard, he found that a man with a roe deer was selling exam questions to the scholars, and learned the lesson of the Four Seas Inn, and ordered several fellow Dark Guards to quietly lead him to the backyard to capture, and things went smoothly and unexpectedly, and even an outsider was not alarmed.

When Yuan Hao arrived at Changle Tower, the person who betrayed the exam questions had been detained in the secret room below Changle Tower, and several men watched him closely as if he were facing a great enemy.

"My lord, the person is down there, and there is no trial yet." The owner of Changle Building is as fat as the owner of the Four Seas Inn, and he is a person in the business at first glance.

"Lead the way."

"Yes."

"Let me go, let me go, I can give you whatever you want, don't kill me."

When Yuan Hao entered the secret room, what he heard was the man's bitter pleading.