In all dynasties, there were three divisions for trial, mainly responsible for the trial of major cases, namely the Criminal Department, Dali Temple and Yushitai (Inspectorate) jointly tried, these three yamen are the judicial organs of the imperial court, also known as the three law divisions. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Criminal Department is in charge of the prison, Dali Temple is in charge of the trial of judicial cases, and Yushitai is in charge of supervising hundreds of officials.

In this process, if there is someone in the Yushitai who enforces the law and violates the law, this matter will undoubtedly make the reputation of the Yushitai and the chief official of this case Wu Wei infamous, and the entire Yushitai will also become a laughing stock in the world, Wu Yan certainly does not want someone in the Yushitai to really fill his own pockets in the process of law enforcement, but if there is really one, he also hopes that this case will be investigated internally, and the internal investigation is much better than Zhao Ziliang's intervention in Dali Temple.

Only two days later, Wu Zhen really found that someone had filled his pockets in the process of raiding his house, and there was more than one person, and there were as many as four people involved in this matter, all of whom he was drawn from the Imperial History Observatory to investigate the corruption of household officials and bend the law.

After two days of urgent interrogation, Wu Zheng finally found out the case of enriching his own pockets and stealing from his own guards, and these four people deceived their superiors and subordinates, and colluded in the process of raiding their homes, concealing as many as 12.68 million yuan in assets obtained from raiding their homes, as well as 12 carts of gold, silver, jewelry, and 1,354 antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

These series of numbers are shocking, after the end of the interrogation, Wu Yan set off a monstrous wave in his heart, no wonder the weakened city of the Tang Empire is like this now, there are so many corrupt and law-enforcing officials, it is a miracle that the Tang Empire can survive until now, this is just the officials of the household department and the officials of the Yushitai who enforce the law, so what about the other imperial court yamen? Do they have the same number of people who are corrupt and pervert the law?

Wu Yan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, if the entire imperial court was rotten, the consequences of this ・・・・・・ were really terrible!

Wu Zhen came to the regent palace with a nervous mood, Zhao Ziliang met him in the main hall, he took out the chapter with the investigation report and submitted it, and knelt down to plead guilty: "The king's eyes are like torches, Weichen After a detailed investigation, he found that there were people in the Yushitai who colluded up and down, filled their own pockets, and guarded and stolen, this is a detailed investigation and interrogation process, there are four main criminals, eight accomplices, and they jointly concealed the assets obtained from the raid, as much as 12.68 million yuan, In addition, there are 12 carts of gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as many as 1,354 pieces! Wechen supervised the subordinate officials ineffectively, resulting in such a large area, a large amount of self-theft of subordinates, filling up their own pockets, Wechen betrayed the king's grace and trust, please resign from the post of the imperial history of the Cheng! ”

Zhao Ziliang took the piece handed over by Wu Cheng from the eunuch's hand, read it in detail from beginning to end, and finally closed the piece and said: "Don't say anything about resignation, such a big thing happened in Yushitai, someone really needs to be responsible for this matter, but you don't have the main responsibility, you don't do it with a word, this is irresponsible!" This king has high expectations, and this is how you repay this king? ”

Wu Yan hurriedly bowed down: "The minister is ashamed, the minister has betrayed the king's trust and support!" ”

"If you want to resign, this king will not allow it! If everyone is like you, who will be in charge? Isn't this court out of order? I'll talk about the resignation later, you tell me, what about this case? You can't judge yourselves, can you? ”

Wu Yan said: "King, Weichen knows that this matter must not be hidden, rather than letting the officials of other yamen come to the king to impeach and complain, it is better for Weichen to report the case to Dali Temple, and Dali Temple will hear and judge, so that those with ulterior motives will have no excuse to bite people!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and praised: "It's best if you think like this, who is Wu Shude, the Qing of Dali Temple?" Who are Shaoqing, Liu Zhendong and Fan Sheng? ”

Wu Zhen replied: "As far as the minister knows, Wu Shude should be the prince's person, Fan Sheng is the prime minister's person Yuan Zai, and Liu Zhendong has no one to take refuge in!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to Wu Yuan: "You go and report this case to Wu Shude, and then record all the stolen money and goods collected and escort them to the national treasury, so that the relevant officials of the household department can register them!" Convey the king's edict to Wu Shude, ordering him to try and judge the case seriously and quickly, and the king is waiting for him to come over in person to report the trial and judgment process! ”

"Yes, King!" Although Wu Zhen didn't understand why Zhao Ziliang asked Wu Shude to try this kind of case, it is said that this kind of case does not need to be tried by Wu Shude in person, because after all, it does not involve a noble minister or prince, and it can be tried by any Shaoqing, but he still immediately agreed.

On the morning of October 13, Zhao Ziliang came to the main hall of the palace to prepare for the official documents, Du Fu had already prepared here, he saw Zhao Ziliang coming over and saluted: "King, there are two main arrangements for the king today, the first is to meet with Li Kui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites; The second is to meet with Zang Xiyan, the chief general of the reinforcements, Wei Boyu, the military envoy of the Shence army, Luo Yuanguang, the military envoy of the Zhenguo army, Ma Chenggong, Gu Tongde, Mu Zihe, and others, all of whom were arranged in the morning."

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to Du Fu: "After they arrive, let them come directly, there is no need to report separately!" ”

"Yes, King!"

Soon after the arrival of Chenshi, Li Kuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the left and right attendants came, and under the leadership of the guards, they came to the main hall of the palace, and Zhao Ziliang was quickly processing the official documents of the imperial court and the urgent official documents sent from Xinjing.

"Weichen Li Kui meets the regent!" Li Kuan bowed, and the left and right attendants on both sides behind him also reported their names and saluted.

Zhao Ziliang put down the brush and raised his head and said, "What do the three Qing families have to report to this king when they come here today?" ”

Li Kuo said: "Your Majesty, the imperial examination will start in three days, but so far, the examination questions of the scientific examination have not been decided. Weichen first asked Prime Minister Yuan Zai, and then asked the prince about the exam questions, but Lord Yuan and the prince both said that they were not good at the questions, and they had to trouble the chief examiner, that is, the king! Today, Weichen came over to ask the king to determine the exam questions! ”

"Hmph, the two of them want to clean up their own and blame this troublesome thing on this king, they are really ill-intentioned!" Zhao Ziliang's tone was quite dissatisfied, but things still had to be done, the imperial examination was about to be held, there were only three days, and so far, the exam questions had not been figured out, which really made Li Kui and others very anxious.

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, took out a blank and clean piece of paper, and began to write on it with a brush, asking as he wrote, "How is the preparation of the examination room?" ”

Li said: "Everything has been prepared, but the money spent has not yet been paid to the craftsmen and material merchants!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his head when he heard this: "This king knows that you will ask for money at this time!" Have all the soaps, servants, and miscellaneous servants needed in the examination room been arranged? How much did it cost? ”

Li Kuo hurriedly said: "It's all arranged, just wait for the exam questions to be confirmed, everything will be ready!" A total of 31,200 guan was used, and 1,200 guan was overspent! ”

Zhao Ziliang took another piece of white paper, wrote a vertical line of words on it, then stamped it with the seal of the regent, handed over the written paper and said: "With this, go to the household department to receive money, and the extra 200 guan is a living allowance for all the soaps, officials and miscellaneous servants who are responsible for safety, order and miscellaneous affairs during the scientific expedition. ”

"Yes, yes!" Li Kuai took the note with a happy face and carefully placed it in his sleeve.

Zhao Ziliang continued to write on the paper, stopping to write halfway, and it took a quarter of an hour before stopping, he put down the brush and said to Li Kui and the others: "This king thought about it for a while, and made a detailed regulation and divided the key points for the scores of this year's scientific examination questions. The scope of the exam questions has also made some changes, let's first explain the scriptures, the Ming classics mainly test the Confucian classics and the oral examination, the content of the Confucian classics includes the scriptures and the Moyi, and the oral examination mainly examines the scriptures and asks the ten articles of righteousness, and answers the three policies of the times, right? ”

Li Kuo nodded and replied, "Yes!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Okay, this Ming Jing exam, the total score of the exam paper is 100 points, and the scriptures and Moyi account for 30 points; After asking about the ten articles of righteousness, each of them is worth one point; There are three current policies, each with 20 points, a total of 100 points. The Ten Articles of the Sutra, the Moyi and the Oral Examination are determined by the Ministry of Rites, and the king will set the time and policy for three questions, the first question is a person like Li Zhongchen, the court is not thin on them, why should they be opposed? The second question, on the eve of the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, why are there more and more landless people? The third question, in recent years, the imperial court has always had an empty treasury, why? ”

"Let's talk about Jinshi, the Jinshi exam also has to make some changes, the total score of the paper is also 100 points, the content of the exam is mainly poetry and political theory, poetry is 30 points, political theory is 70 points. Among them, there are fifteen points for poetry, and the question of this exam is to make a poem with winter as the content, regardless of genre and rhythm; The song is also fifteen points, and the content of a song is made with grains, which is also not limited to genre and rhythm. Political topics are the top priority of Jinshike, and the reason why this king wants to set its score at 70 is because this king needs insightful and strategic talents, not fools who read dead books! Although poetry and poetry are well done, can it govern the country in peace? No! The topic of this political discussion is the feudal town, so write a political essay on the topic of the feudal town! ”

After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he handed the written paper to Li Kuo, Li Kuo took it and looked at it, and said: "King, if you divide the paper scores like this, you may be criticized by the students, after all, those students have studied hard for ten years・・・・・・・

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to interrupt him: "This king knows what you want to say, without a lot of reading books, extensive research and in-depth thinking, he will never write any good strategies, no knowledge, no insight, no strategy It is impossible for people to get high scores, this matter is so decided, you go back to prepare, remember that the content of the exam questions must be kept confidential, if the exam questions are leaked, the three of you will all go home and farm!" ”

"Yes!"