It is impossible to prevent the top wind

Chase after the mystery of the group

Yang Yuandao saw that his mother-in-law and brother-in-law were very anxious, and came up with his own proposition:

At present, there is a solution to this matter. First of all, let's take a salary from the bottom of the kettle. Didn't the little lady just fancy the old man's money, so let's take out some money to find a reliable young man and help him marry the girl; If the old man made trouble to marry again, the mother-in-law invited the old father to come and let the old man persuade him.

Yang Wenduan is a distant cousin of Mrs. Jiang, and she knows Xu's temper well and can often hit his life. In the past, Xu Pingyang was most afraid that Yang Wenduan would find him something.

Jiang Shi was extremely happy and patted his head, yes, how did I forget this stubble, and when I saw my third cousin, he was allowed to be obedient.

Li Shizhang returned from Chaozhou and brought with him the latest progress in the investigation and handling of the fraud case in the science field.

After arriving in Guangzhou, he first read Fang Shizhang's two volumes of Zhu Mo. In order to put an end to fraud in the scientific field, the DPRK has formulated some effective restraint measures. For example, in order to prevent candidates from marking the test paper and not allowing the examiner to recognize the handwriting of the examiner, the name is obfuscated and transcribed. Blurring the name is to seal the name and place of origin on the candidate's examination paper, also known as "sealing" or "sealing the name". Let the scribe use vermilion ink to transcribe the candidate's test paper separately, which is called transcription. Juzi's original examination paper was written in black ink, so it was called the ink scroll, and the re-transcribed one was called the Zhu scroll.

Although the precautions are tight, some people still play tricks.

There are no special marks on the transcribed scrolls, and there are no flaws. Look at the answer content again, and the question will come out.

The content of the imperial examination mainly comes from the Four Books and Five Classics and Historical Records, etc., in the form of poetry and essays, and the question types include writing scriptures and history in ink, filling in the blanks, writing poems with propositions, answering scriptures, writing political essays according to requirements, and so on.

Although Fang Shizhang's answers were all done, the accuracy rate was not high. Where the ink is written and filled, some of the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth, the poems are neither right, nor equal, and the answers to the scriptures are also patchwork, as for the long paste, except for the beginning, make a simple problem, most of them are written on it with the original text of the Book of Poetry and the Analects.

At that time, the marking test papers did not use a 100-point system, but were divided into four grades, A, B, C, D, and each grade was divided into upper, middle and lower grades. The examiner is generally three to five people, the first to review the paper, on the paper to paste a note, write on the grade of his correction, sign his name later, other examiners to read, and then write the grade he reviewed below, the examiner will be unified and approved, if the examiner determines that the grade difference is large, the examiner will call them to re-review, the examiner is unified, tear off the sticker, write the grade on the paper, the examiner signs. After the change, for the same grade, for example, there are six copies on A and ten copies on C, read them in turn and mark the order. Finally, the login list is opened.

Fang Shizhang's volume, according to its correct rate, can only be included in C, and in this grade, it ranks lower. But what the examiner gave was a subordinate. A total of 56 students were admitted in Chaozhou this time, and Fang ranked 26.

All of this shows that the examiner cheated and gave an unrealistically high grade.

Fortunately, the five examiners were all designated to reflect at the post station in various names.

Li Shizhang decided to open the gap from his son Fang Shizhang. Let Ma Zhao take people straight to Raoping County Academy.

Fang Shizhang studied here on weekdays, and the gentleman of the academy naturally knew his knowledge well. As soon as the imperial court came to inquire about the imperial history, the gentleman told the truth:

Fang Shizhang is studying with attack, and he also wants to seek fame, due to the short study time and the study is very average, it is indeed unexpected to be able to win this time. There were a few people who studied with him and went to the state to take exams together, and there were a few who were much more educated than him, but they fell behind. Afterwards, Wang Zhiyu, Gu Yishu, and Wen Chenggong all said that the Fang family must have bought off the examiner.

In order to prove that what he said was true, Mr. also found the poems and comments that these people usually composed.

Ma Zhao asked people to find Wang Zhiyu, Gu Yishu, and Wen Chenggong and asked them to provide evidence. The three admitted that saying that the Fang family had bought the examiner was just a guess and had no real evidence.

The county government sent a messenger to go straight to the Fang Mansion and shouted loudly:

On the order of the superintendent of the Imperial Master Shima, the court wanted to arrest Fang Shizhang.

Although the Fang family is rich, how can they see the magistrate personally bring dozens of wolf-like officials, Xingshi mobilized the crowd to arrest people, and suddenly there was a mess, Fang Shizhang was so frightened that his legs couldn't help trembling.

When he arrived at the county office, Ma Zhao immediately ascended to the court for interrogation, and slapped the shocked wood:

Prisoner Fang Shizhang, are you guilty?

Fang Shizhang was shocked: the villain didn't know what crime he had committed.

Be bold, this imperial history asks you, how talented are you to be able to win the state exam? Now, your bad deeds of bribing the examiner and defrauding your fame have been revealed, and the emperor is furious and sent Weichen to interrogate, but he still does not recruit from the truth, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin.

Fang Shizhang stammered:

The adults, the small ones did not bribe the examiners, what is the deception of fame.

The facts are there, you still deny it, you see what this is. Throw the test paper to him casually.

said, just with these exam papers, you have won 26 lifters, can you do it without buying the examiner.

Fang Shizhang opened his mouth and stammered, it was indeed the original exam paper, and it seemed that the matter was really exposed.

Seeing that Fang was still thinking about it, Ma Zhao said:

According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, fraud in the field will be punished according to disturbing the court, what crime should be done, you tell him in Yuzhi County.

Yu Zhixian, who was sitting on the side of the co-trial, straightened down and coughed:

According to the laws of our court, cheating in the field will be dealt with according to the great crime of contempt for the court and no king, and the light will be exile and detention, and the worst will be killed with a cane on the spot, and the nine clans will be punished. I said, surnamed Fang, you have to know the current affairs, if you are not sure, the court will send the imperial history down and take people directly, and now the examiners have confessed, if you don't say it, it will be against the court and ruin the family, at that time, it will be too late to regret it.

The words frightened Fang Shizhang's soul away.

Lord Yushi, Lord Zhixian, small confession, don't kill me.

Ma Yushi stated:

Explain well, don't pull a word, behave well, the official will intercede for you, and you can also be lightly dismissed.

Fang Shizhang and his father Fang Ming truthfully confessed the before and after of bribery and cheating.

A few days before the autumn season, Fang Ming inquired about the chief examiner of Chaozhou in Guangzhou Mansion, and when he learned that it was Tang Heizong, a scholar and politician in Zhangzhou, he took his son straight to Zhangzhou. The Fang family's business is very large, and Zhangzhou has their business partners.

In this way, he entered the door of the Tang family. Fang Ming made a 10,000 shot, and asked Master Tang to give Fang Shizhang a tutorial. Master Fang paced up and thought for a while. took Fang Shizhang to the study alone and told him:

The exam paper can't be empty, you must answer what you should answer, and try your best to answer it full; Write "Dazai River" at the end of this line in the post, and write these four words in the same position every six lines.

The witness testimony of the bribing party is available, and the following target is naturally the examiner Tang Sizong. But at the critical moment of arresting him, something went wrong.