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Li Guangyuan took out two candles from his sleeves, and said with a solemn face: "Xiaguan only discovered this trick yesterday, and he has already done his best to replace all the things he found, and I can't think of a leak here." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Qin Lei took the two candles, compared them a little, and sure enough, he found that one was one long and one short was one inch different, Sen Ran stared at the examiner, and sneered: "You explain to Gu." "In addition to marking the papers, the examiners of the eighteenth room are also responsible for the sending and receiving of the test papers in each room, and the candles are also distributed by them.

The examiner weakened his knees, knelt on the ground, and whispered in his mouth: "The examination room has always been like this, and the ministers are just following the rules." "These petty officials are not as sensitive as the adults in the court, and they can't tell the situation clearly, and they don't know how the sky is changing. Especially after being instigated by people behind the scenes, they even dared to come nonsense.

Qin Lei Senran smiled and said, "Since you are willing to follow the rules, then okay, he asked Lu Yanwu as he spoke: "How should I deal with it according to the rules if I ignore the examination discipline and ask for bribes without permission?" ”

"Kill ......," Koji Yanwu said softly.

Qin Lei nodded, and chuckled at the examiner: "Since you are so willing to follow the rules, then let's behead them according to the rules......" The examiner suddenly remembered the bloodshed of this master, and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged for mercy.

Qin Lei looked at Koji Yanwu with a smile, and asked without yin or yang: "Lord Koji, what do you say?" ”

This official is a Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites, although he is not a descendant of Koji Yanwu, but as an official of the Ministry of Rites, he still has to protect Ichigo, and said with a low smile: "Although this person deserves to die, but this matter is not done by him alone, if the eighteen-room examiners are beheaded, who can be allowed to read the papers?" ”

He knew that if Qin Lei wanted to kill someone, where would he ask for other people's opinions, and this Lang Zhong's head had already fallen off I don't know how many times. Now that the prince is asking like this, there must be some kind of calculation, as an old partner, Lu Yanwu naturally has to cooperate, and with a light sentence, he pulled the examiners of the eighteenth room in.

The corners of Qin Lei's mouth couldn't help but tilt up slightly: "The death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is inescapable, come on!" Huangfu Shengwen replied loudly: "The end will be." ”

"Detain all the examiners in the eighteenth room and kneel down in front of the court, the lonely king has something to say!" Huangfu Zhanwen hurriedly took the order and left.

Qin Lei broke a candle in his hand into three sections, handed it to the candidate who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "Make up for your three sections, and hand in the paper quickly when you are finished." ”

The examinees wept with gratitude, and after a while, they finished the last two lines with candles. At this time, not even the first candle burned out. It seems that what he said is true, and it is really only a few words.

The examinee wiped the sweat on his face, presented the scroll to Qin Lei with both hands, and respectfully kowtowed: "Wang Ye Ende student has no teeth and will not forget ......" After speaking, he kowtowed again, and then got up and left in a leisurely manner.

Qin Lei glanced at the name on the exam paper and said with a smile: "Chang Weiqing, what a real guy." Then he handed the examination paper to Li Guangyuan, and instructed him to mix it with other papers without another mark, and he himself went to the court.

The so-called 'Zhigong Hall' is the hall in the center of the Gongyuan, where the examiners score the papers. At this time, the hall was empty, and the examiners of the eighteenth room were all kneeling in front of the hall, waiting for the fate of His Royal Highness Five, but they were not so afraid in their hearts, and everyone understood the truth that the law did not blame the public.

"Hey, what do you think you're going to do with us?" An examiner asked softly.

"Who knows? At most, let's scold it. The other pouted and said, "Do you want to take our heads off?" ”

As they were whispering, they heard the sound of boots from far and near, and the examiners quickly lowered their heads and shut their mouths.

Standing still in front of the hall and glancing at the examiners with their buttocks pouting high, Qin Lei asked in a deep voice, "Who will tell me, what do the three words 'to the public court' mean?" ”

An examiner whispered, "This is the fairest and most just place in the world." ”

With a sneer, Qin Lei asked word by word, "What's the matter with the long and short candles?" ”

Only then did the examiners know the reason, and they looked at each other, and then they replied sharply: "The prince doesn't know, this is the rule set eighteen years ago: gold three two three, you can get a long candle, and the candidates also know." Otherwise, the poor and the rich are the same, and that would be unfair. ”

Qin Lei smiled slightly: "Open a department to get a talent, what do you do to be rich and poor?" As he spoke, he dropped a sentence: "Continue to reflect, and if you don't understand, you'll be kneeling here all the time." Then he entered the house and closed the door with his hand.

The examiners looked at each other and said, 'Don't let us in?' So how do you mark the papers? ’

Li Guangyuan and Kong Jingde coughed lightly, signaled the officials to be calm, and followed.

As soon as the two entered, they saw that a clerk was pasting the names of the test papers, and dozens of scribes had neatly transcribed the first two test papers with their names on another piece of paper.

The two originally planned to come in and ask for an invitation, but when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but ask: "After the paper is named, the examiner doesn't know who is who, why does the prince want to ......?"

"Too much? This is not an overkill. Qin Lei smiled slightly and said: "The two of them have square characters, and they are really gentlemen, but the so-called gentlemen can be bullied." Honest people like you are also the most likely to be teased by outlaws. As he spoke, he raised a test paper in his hand and said, "Look here...... two."

Following what Qin Lei pointed to, the two saw three points of ink falling in the middle of the volume, Qin Lei pointed to the three points of ink in the finished glyph, and said firmly: "This is a secret number, the candidate must have agreed with the examiner in his room to use this as the number, and the examiner will naturally know whose paper it is." ”

The two of them turned pale, and Kong Jingde said indignantly: "This is fraud, and it should be severely punished!" ”

Qin Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly: "If people insist that it is just accidentally dripping, will they still be punished?" ”

Li Guangyuan said suddenly: "Therefore, His Highness should re-transcribe the scroll, so that not only the handwriting is exactly the same, but also all irrelevant handwriting symbols can be ignored, so that the examiners can't tell whose is who's." ”

Kong Jingde also twisted his beard and smiled: "Your Highness let those examiners kneel outside, because he didn't want them to interfere in the transcription." ”

Qin Lei sighed helplessly and said: "Lone doesn't want to treat them like thieves, but these people are being poisoned by the Wen Party day by day, and they are simply Wen Party, so they have to guard against it." ”

Hearing the prince's seemingly unintentional sentence, the two of them felt a pang in their hearts, and said secretly: "It turns out that Your Majesty's purge of hundreds of officials is not over...... Or rather, at the beginning. He remained silent and waited for the transcriber to finish transcribing all the examination papers.

There are more than 1,500 candidates, each with three copies of the papers, which is a small 5,000 copies, and there are only 200 transcriptions in the Gongyuan, which can not be copied at one time. It wasn't until the middle of the moon that it was slightly copied by two percent.

And the examiners have been kneeling in the dark patio for three hours. They were hungry and freezing, and they didn't feel anything anymore. During this period, several people were pushed in to ask for guilt, but they were blasted out without exception, and they all said: "The prince said that our understanding of mistakes is not deep enough, and we must continue to reflect." ”

Qin Lei hated them for disobeying the yang and the yin, and the clever words and orders, but he wanted to use them to read the papers, so he didn't beat or scold, but just ordered them to kneel.

It was about midnight before Koji-sama came out and said, "Let's all go back to sleep and come back tomorrow morning." ”

"Ah...... Do you want to kneel? "The examiners are completely sloppy.

Lu Yanwu scolded with a smile: "I'm still addicted to kneeling, and I'll do things tomorrow." After speaking, he said with a serious face: "The prince has already instructed the gang to boil hot water and ginger soup for all the adults, go back quickly to drive away the cold, and don't let down the prince's kindness." ”

The examiners were a little surprised and said, "Isn't the prince going to punish us?" ”

Ko Yan Wu said in his heart: "Stupid, only by combining grace and power can you win people's hearts." But he said with a look of regret on his face: "You are kneeling outside, and the prince is also very uncomfortable inside...... I didn't even eat dinner. The prince doesn't want to treat you like this. However, His Majesty has high hopes for this talent ceremony, and I also ask all my colleagues to put away those careful thoughts and do their duty to do their errands. After speaking, he smiled and said, "Everyone, please go back." ”

The examiners were confused, and got up to rest, but muttered to themselves in their hearts: "What is this......

In fact, according to Qin Lei's temper, he wanted to let this group of guys who didn't know what to do in the patio fall to their knees at dawn. It was Koji Yanwu who said it badly, so there was Fang Cai's one. After all, the old guy is more thoughtful, in case these examiners are frozen and can't mark the papers, or they are too angry in their hearts, and they will be in trouble with the papers.

And after the turn of Koji Yanwu, at least the examiners' hearts will be gone, and they will not fall ill.

On the second day, when the examiners returned to the court one by one, the supervisors handed out stacks of transcribed papers. The examiners felt that something was wrong after approving one or two copies, and when they flipped through all the papers, they found that the books of Qingyishui were not to mention, and there was no trace of superfluity on the clean papers, but how could they distinguish the papers they were preparing for admission?

Qin Lei didn't guess wrong, most of the examiners are people from the Wen Party, so they naturally have to carry out the will of the party bosses to the end...... No matter how hard you Emperor Zhaowu trys, I still have to take my own people, so that this can reflect the majesty of Prime Minister Wen, and this can give confidence to the gate valve who is still waiting.

But Qin Lei's move was too damaging, and he stunned the officials all of a sudden, turning from beginning to end, and he didn't know who to take. I had to honestly write according to the idea, and score it from high to low.

They didn't know about Emperor Zhaowu's change of the test questions, and they thought that the candidates from all big families already knew the test questions, so they were lucky and said: "If you know the test questions early, you can ask Mr. Xixi to answer the questions on your behalf, which should be higher than the average in terms of concept and writing." If you take it from high to low, you can squeeze into the top 100. ’

But the final result almost made their jaws drop, and when the marking was over two days later, everyone signed and drew a pledge, and then the final ranking was agreed upon by the three deputy examiners.

The examiners were suddenly sweating profusely, and they were busy looking for those papers that should have been taken, but they saw that they were not comments such as 'bullshit' and 'how can this be reasonable', but comments such as 'persuade you to change your career' and 'how to lift people in the exam', and they tried their best to be sarcastic and mean, but they were all written by them, and they couldn't even refute it, so they couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Li Guangyuan stored the 190 copies of the scroll separately, and Kong Wei Jingde copied the names of the 190 Jinshi and Jinshi to the fold for the use of the prince's forbidden palace to face the saints.

The examiners said to themselves, 'If we report this result, the elders will not be able to eat us.' You look at me, I look at you, and finally a representative said: "Lord Wang, the one hundred and ninety people above are all from poor families, and there is almost no place for famous families, so I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate." ”

Qin Lei was picking up the top few papers at random, and said with a smile when he heard that he didn't care: "The papers are all reviewed by you, and the top 190 are also selected by you, why is it inappropriate to say it now?" ”

The examiner's face turned red for a while, and he whispered: "Xiaguan and the others didn't expect this kind of result. ”

Qin Lei smiled and said, "Okay, I know, but the one hundred and ninety that has already been selected cannot be changed." Later, I will enter the palace and beg Your Majesty to see if I can approve a few places to come out. After saying that, he got up and took the roster file out of the tribute courtyard and went in the direction of the forbidden palace.

"Can't!" In the imperial study, after listening to Qin Lei's request, Emperor Zhaowu sneered and said, "This time, I want to give them some color to see, not a single silverfish can be taken." ”

Qin Lei hugged the scroll and smiled bitterly: "What my father said is true, but it's not a matter if you don't take one. What the retainers mean is to take some appropriately. Otherwise, the people will see such a huge gap between them and previous years, which will damage the face of the imperial court. ”

Emperor Zhaowu didn't want to be an enemy of all the high-ranking lords, so he muttered for a long time before he whispered: "Is there a way to compromise?" ”

Qin Lei smiled and said: "When the country is employing people today, it is also appropriate to take more Jinshi," and patted his ass: "At that time, the people will think that the country has the intention of being strong, the family will also feel the emperor's grace, and the scholars of the poor family will not have any complaints." ”

Emperor Zhaowu muttered, "Take more...... What do I want those useless jinshi to do? Saying that, he glanced at Qin Lei and said, "It's not that you don't know, my original intention was to replace the current waste materials." ”

Qin Lei smiled and said: "As long as my father supports the Hanmen Jinshi, after a long time, they will naturally be able to survive in the court," he said and said softly: "And the ministers think that it is not good to blindly lean towards the Hanmen scholars, and it is best to let them form a balance of power with the nobles of the Gaomen, so as to ensure that there will not be the next Wen Yanbo." ”

Emperor Zhaowu pondered for a long time, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me more details." ”

Qin Lei said in a clear voice: "To put it mildly, although my father is strong, although my royal family is strong, but it is only one person and one family, although it is above tens of thousands of people and at the top of thousands of families, but if Your Majesty and my royal family always maintain an overwhelming advantage over all parties and put themselves on the opposite side of everyone, although it is not impossible, it is too tiring." ”

Emperor Zhaowu agreed with this very much, and twisted his beard and said: "That's true, it is said that there is a lot of help for the righteous, and there is little help for the unjust, how do you say that you can get 'much help' in the court?" ”

The corners of Qin Lei's mouth turned up, and he smiled slightly: "It is to form a few factions in the court......"

Emperor Zhaowu's face changed when he heard this: "The former Tang Dynasty died in the party struggle, how can you make the same mistake again?" ”

Qin Lei was still not in a hurry, and said with a bright smile: "The reason why the former Tang Dynasty died in the party struggle was because of the decline of the monarchy, and the decline of the monarchy was because of the decline of military power. As long as my father can grasp the military power, are you still worried about party strife? ”

Emperor Zhaowu's face softened at this time, and he said softly: "Go on." ”

Qin Lei smiled and said, "If we let several factions form a competitive relationship, let them be opponents of each other. If one side is stronger, we will suppress it, and at the same time support the weak one, so that this competitive relationship will always change......"

"The existence of change?" Emperor Zhaowu obviously listened to it, as an old emperor who had studied power all his life, he had a high comprehension of this set of things.

"Yes, the existence of dynamics, we can't let the factions exist for too long, it's not good to be entrenched; But we need to perpetuate this antagonism, only in this way will people focus on each other in the struggle for power, instead of always looking at the dragon chair. These words pierced the tip of Emperor Zhaowu's heart, and his breathing gradually became heavier.

Qin Lei hit the railroad while it was hot: "In this way, everyone will ask for you, hoping that you will be on their side; Everyone will resolutely carry out your orders, lest you side with each other. And no one will dare to disobey you, for you can destroy them at any time. ”

"Erchen thinks that this is the best policy for my Great Qin to maintain long-term stability and my father to rule for 10,000 years."