Yu Ling is very disappointed, when she helps Ji Ning rub her back, she is also a little unwilling, in Ji Ning's opinion, there will always be something on her mind when the girl is older, don't speculate about the daughter's family's thoughts, and don't ask more.

Ji Ning took a bath with grapefruit leaves, and he had to fall asleep early, he was indeed too tired these days, he knew that after the case of the township test bribery examination was over in the past few days, he would be given a literary name, and then he would be a lifter, and then he would go to visit his master Shen Kang, and tell the truth about the recent events. As for Su Pujia and Mi Zhirong, he is going to go back and tell him again, it is not a big achievement for him to raise people in the examination, it is just a stage of victory, and his goal is always to be admitted to the Jinshi and the title of the gold list.

When Ji Ning was preparing to sleep at home, in the Gongyuan, Zhao Yuanrong was still reviewing the previous township test bribery case, most of the scholars were not as lucky as Ji Ning to get out of the Gongyuan, their articles were very ordinary, and some simply handed in blank papers, this kind of person must be problematic, even if it does not involve bribery, it also involves the unfair admission of the examiner, Zhao Yuanrong has ordered to directly drag some of the candidates who refuse to confess out and beat them directly.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, although these scholars are suspicious, but in the end, they are from Yin Xixiu, and they are considered to be famous, so they will be beaten...... Is it inappropriate? Zhang Lie, the imperial historian of Zuodu, believed that Zhao Yuanrong's way of directly beating scholars damaged the majesty of the court of the Dayong Dynasty, and that the court and the Temple of Literature gave scholars a supreme privilege, but now Zhao Yuanrong is destroying the tradition of "not punishing scholars".

Zhao Yuanrong said coldly: "These people are not worthy of their names, you have also seen them, if they are willing to confess truthfully, this palace will not particularly embarrass them, but now they dare to use a blindfold in front of this palace, do you think that this palace is a decoration?" Drag it out and hit! There is all the responsibility, all of which belong to the body of this palace! ”

"Order!" With Zhao Yuanrong's words, those scholars were unlucky, they were dragged out in batches to be executed with canes, a dozen is twenty canes, most of the scholars are weak scholars, the skin is smooth and weatherless, so twenty sticks can basically beat people half to death.

I heard a burst of screams coming from the courtyard, and after each person was given twenty sticks, some people couldn't help but choose to "confess"!

"What's the matter with dragging it in and letting it confess!" Zhao Yuanrong said.

The two candidates were dragged in, and the two Huai Inspectors Xuezheng Jiangsong became very nervous, because the exam questions of these people were leaked by him, and he was afraid that these people would confess to him.

But the two didn't know the truth, one said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you have been beaten, I have recruited everything, it is the family that bought the exam questions outside in order to let me be promoted, and then found someone to make an article, memorized the article in the next place, and wrote it directly on the test paper!" ”

Zhao Yuanrong sneered: "Who sold you the exam questions?" ”

"Back to the princess, the family doesn't know, they only know that it is a person from the Tribute Academy, and it is said that he is still a chief examiner, and he thinks that it is the dead chief examiner Feng Xuanqing!" The examinee said.

Zhao Yuanrong glanced at Jiang Song, and then questioned the candidate: "All the exam questions were only released after the Gongyuan was banned, how can the questions be leaked?" Still dare to quibble? Pull it out and hit! ”

"Wronged!" The candidate didn't know why, thinking that he would be able to keep his ass safe and sound if he confessed, but he didn't expect Zhao Yuanrong to be very dissatisfied with his confession, so he dragged him out and beat him.

Zhang Lie hurriedly said on the side: "Your Royal Highness Princess, what this person said may be true, I think that the criminal minister Feng Xuanqing, although the question was made after entering the Tribute Academy, but maybe he already had the prototype of the topic in his heart, and he came out in advance, and after arriving at the Tribute Academy, he just drew the scoop according to the gourd and made the question again!" ”

"Oh? It seems that Zhang Vice-Xian knows very well. Zhao Yuanrong looked at Zhang Lie coldly.

Zhang Lie hurriedly said: "These are just the minister's own speculation, and they can't be accurate, everything depends on the results of the princess's review!" ”

Zhang Lie will not take the initiative to take responsibility, since Zhao Yuanrong has attributed all the investigation responsibilities to him, he will not meddle in his affairs, anyway, if something happens, there is Zhao Yuanrong on top.

Zhao Yuanrong said: "Even if what Zhang Vice Xian said has some truth, dare to ask Jiang Xuezheng, the questions of the Xiangxiang test in the Gongyuan, you and Feng Xuanqing are the same main examiners, why can the questions he gave become the final test questions intact?" ”

"This ......" Jiang Song was speechless when asked, and now he said that Feng Xuanqing had a good question in advance, and the topic would be known to outsiders, but there were two examiners in a township test, one was Feng Xuanqing, and the other was him Jiang Song, and Feng Xuanqing's questions all became the final exam questions, which is unreasonable.

Jiang Song finally made up blindly: "Princess Mingjian, the township examination questions have always been made by highly respected people, and the subordinate officials have very little qualifications, so they don't dare to get an axe in front of Feng Xuanqing, so he will make the questions, I never thought that it would cause a big disaster in the end, and I asked the princess to punish the crime!" ”

"Punishment? Hmph, of course I want to cure your sins, but not for your inaction, but for ......" Zhao Yuanrong said halfway through his words, and said to the remaining candidate who was still kneeling in the main hall, "Tell me, where did the exam questions come from?" ”

"The princess spares her life, the exam questions were bought by the family from elsewhere, who is it...... I don't know! ”

The candidate was scared, he knew a lot, he died quickly, Zhao Yuanrong didn't avoid him at all when he said those words just now, he might be killed because he knew too much, plus he was originally involved in bribery, and his psychological quality was not too strong, so he would already know what to say.

Zhao Yuanrong said angrily: "This palace is too lazy to see this kind of person, drag it out and fight!" ”

If you don't agree with each other, the candidate will even shout that he has been wronged, but it is in vain, and the person is still dragged out.

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The case was still being tried in the Gongyuan, and in a secret mansion in the city, Shangguan Wan'er saw the person sent by the prince who was connected with him again, this person was dressed in black, with a sneer on his face, it was this person who came directly to the door and found Shangguan Wan'er to talk about the case of bribery in the township test.

"Shangguan envoy, you are a person sent by the crown prince, but you didn't expect that when the matter came, you actually helped outsiders to prevent us from burning the scrolls in the tribute courtyard, you ...... What does this mean exactly? This man had a vicious smile on his face, and there was something else hidden in this smile.

He was carefully looking at Shangguan Wan'er's body, thinking: "No matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like a woman, her grooming methods are really clever, I don't know what the figure and appearance inside are when this layer of shell is removed?" When I came to Jiangnan, Yingying Yanyan also played a lot, but I haven't enjoyed this kind of woman with martial arts and quite pungent sex! ”

Shangguan Wan'er could have denied that the matter was related to her, but she was not a person who refused to admit it.

Shangguan Wan'er said: "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, this envoy is just handling things according to the fairness of heaven, even if the prince does not do it right, this envoy will persuade him, instead of helping to abuse!" ”