Before launching the attack, Duan Wenchang made a thorough analysis.

Duan Wenchang knew very well that once the attack began, it was not only Qian Hui who was standing opposite him, but behind him, there were fourteen powerful families. It's just another family, although it is not a soft persimmon, he Duan Wenchang still dares to pinch it like that. However, there are several of them, to be specific, four, and Duan Wenchang doesn't really want to pinch them, because they are not soft persimmons, but iron persimmons, and their hands hurt when they pinch them, and they hurt very much.

The first place in the list of scientific examination elites in the first year of Changqing: Pei Du, former prime minister Pei Du. Pei Du's Wenxi Pei family is a very good family, very good, and has been lucky for hundreds of years. For more than 300 years, Wenxi Pei has successively produced 59 prime ministers, 59 generals, 14 Zhongshu Shilang, 55 Shangshu, 44 Shilang, in addition, there are 11 permanent servants, 10 imperial historians, 25 festival envoys, observation envoys, defense envoys, 211 assassin historians, and 77 Taishou envoys; There are 89 dukes, 33 marquis, 11 uncles, 18 sons, and 13 men; There are 3 queens, 4 princesses, 2 princesses, 21 concubines, and 20 princesses who are married to the royal family. There are no less than 600 people in the official history and those who are listed, and more than 1,000 people who will be famous in posterity. With such a prominent top giant, no one wants to be their enemy.

Pei's cattle, Pei Du is even more bullish, and the cow is boundless. From the Huaixi Rebellion to the North Gate of Wozhen, Pei Du has been in the past seven dynasties, worshiped the prime minister four times, and shocked the Quartet, and is the most majestic imperial court pillar after Guo Ziyi. You say, is Pei Du good to mess with? Unfortunately, Pei Du's son was one of the fourteen Jinshi involved in the scientific expedition.

In the first year of Changqing, the magnates of the scientific examination case ranked second: Li Zongmin, Li Zongmin, a member of the Zhongshu House. In terms of identity, among the four magnates, the most noble is Li Zongmin, because Li Zongmin is a royal family, after the clan of the Eight Classics. Once, Li Zongmin had an uncle, a very famous uncle, at least very famous at the time, because he was the prime minister at that time, and he was Li Yijian. Back then, it was because of the impeachment of Prime Minister Li Yijian that Yang Hunzhi's father Yang Ping was kicked out of Chang'an. Now, Yang Hun's Jinshi is down, and Li Zongmin's son-in-law Su Chao is inscribed in the Wild Goose Pagoda, rich and poor, one prosperous and one withered, the contrast is so stark. Yang Hunzhi's calligraphy and painting, although he did not get him the long-awaited Jinshi, but because of Duan Wenchang's hard work, Su Chao kicked out of the ranks of Jinshi, which can also be regarded as a kind of compensation for Yang Hunzhi. Calligraphy and painting, valuable celebrity calligraphy and painting, after all, it is not in vain. In this way, Yang Hunzhi is not a particularly loser.

In the next few decades, Chang'an and Li Zongmin will be hot figures. Around him, a group of so-called young talents gathered, and for the sake of common interests, they tirelessly got involved in the quagmire of party struggle, and Li Zongmin became a representative figure of the "Niu Li Party Struggle". Don't get me wrong, Li Zongmin does not belong to the Li Party, but the Niu Party. Nominally, he is the number two person in the Bull Party, but in fact, he is the real leader of the Bull Party, the spiritual leader.

The third place in the list of scientific research cases in the first year of Changqing: Zheng Qin, the counselor Zheng Qin. The second room of the Zheng clan in Xingyang, where Zheng Qin is located, is one of the most noble clans in Shandong.

In Shandong, and even the whole country, this is a family that has won widespread respect, not because of high-ranking officials and eunuchs, but because of solid scripture skills and simple family style. Of course, with such a pivotal family, there will naturally be no shortage of high-ranking officials! In fact, by the time of the Middle Tang Dynasty, this family had successively produced six prime ministers, including Zheng Qin's deceased father, Zheng Xunyu.

is very different from Duan Wenchang, who was born in a poor family but is extremely luxurious. Although he was born in a noble family, the young Zheng Qin was a person who was willing to be poor. Even if, in the near future, after his father, he will become the prime minister of the empire, but he will still cling to that poverty, poverty to the point of outrageous, oh no, it should be breathtaking: there are no concubines, a broken house and several rafters, and it is as simple as ever, but it can also shelter from the wind and the rain, and it is a little embarrassing to say that it is the prime minister's mansion.

Zheng Qin is good at the ancient and upright scriptures, and the Jinshi is good at poetry and songs, but he is really not very good at it. However, Zheng Qin was not opposed to scientific research, because he, as well as his family, needed to rely on Jinshi to become an official in order to maintain the family's reputation and political status.

The person involved in the scientific examination case was neither Zheng Qin's son, nor of course, his son-in-law, but his younger brother, the younger brother of his in-laws. The younger brother's name is Zheng Lang. Legend has it that before the scientific expedition, Zheng Lang went to Qinglong Temple to play and met a high monk. Monks generally meet each other, and they are very accurate, and the thieves are accurate. The senior monk told Zheng Lang, this year's Jinshi, you have no play! Just a few days ago, Zheng Lang was a high school jinshi, and he was a guest, but the monk was nowhere to be seen. Of course, the generous Zheng Lang won't care about this, he doesn't care at all. Soon after, Zheng Lang's Jinshi was lost, but the monk came to congratulate him with great interest. He told Zheng Lang that this year, if you win the first place, it will be unlucky, very unlucky; If you fall behind, it means that you will have a good future, a future for the best people. Later, Zheng Lang really inherited the mantle of his father and brother and became another prime minister of the empire.

It's not a beautiful story, but it's a very evocative story. In the end, Zheng Lang's deposition was the fate of the Si people descended from heaven, or was it a fig leaf for the Zheng family to talk to themselves?

The fourth place in the scientific examination case in the first year of Changqing: Yang Rushi, Yang Rushi on the right. In Chang'an, the Hongnong Yang clan has three branches, three branches with very large power: Yang Ping of the Daofang, Yang Yuling of the Xinchang Fang, and Yang Rushi of the right supplement.

Coincidentally, Hongnong Sanyang has a relationship with scientific research fraud. Needless to say, Yang Hunzhi failed to cheat and ended gloomily. In the final analysis, Yang Hunzhi is a soy sauce player. However, if there was no soy sauce maker, perhaps, there would not be a scientific research fraud case in the first year of Changqing. If it weren't for this scientific research fraud case, history would have been different, and as for what it was, history had not really happened, so no one knew, in short, it was not what it is now. It can be seen that although Yang Hunzhi is a small person, he is a small person who has influenced the history of the Tang Dynasty, just like a butterfly, a gentle wave of its wings may eventually lead to a hurricane thousands of miles away.

In the third year of Yuanhe's decision, Yang Yuling, the deputy chief examiner, was innocently shot, and was unjustly driven out of Chang'an, becoming a fish in the pond that suffered. Now, thirteen years have passed, and the scientific examination fraud case in the first year of Changqing is also a descendant of Yang Zhen, a branch of the Yang family of Hongnong, and a nominal deputy chief examiner, and Yang Rushi has also become a pond fish that has suffered. Oh, I said that I slipped my mouth, Yang Rushi is not a pond fish, neither wronged nor in vain, because among the fourteen jinshi, there is one person, whose name is Yang Yinshi, is Yang Rushi's younger brother and brother-in-law. However, it seems that it should not be said that he deserves the crime, but that the punishment is not deserved, because, unlike others, Yang Rushi is a habitual offender.

Yang Zhen is very incorruptible, Yang Rushi is very greedy, not at all like his ancestors. Most greedy people like a way, the way to make money. There are many ways to make money, some are right and some are evil. There are many righteous ways, and even more evil ways, for example, cheating, cheating, and stealing. It's a pity that Yang Rushi is a guy who doesn't follow the right path and only takes the evil path. Of course, as a high-ranking official of the empire, although he is following the evil path, he must also step out of the level and out of his demeanor. Yang Rushi's evil path is quite level and graceful, because he likes the fat of the imperial examination. Moreover, Yang Rushi not only walked by himself, but also pulled his two younger brothers into the water, which was called "Sanyang" by the people of the time.

The transparency of the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty was quite high, of course, this transparency was for the examiner and for the wealthy families. For those of the poor, it's quite opaque. In order to open the door for those who are keen on fame, "Sanyang" devoted himself to the cause of scientific research fraud with incomparable enthusiasm. Their brothers are of the same heart, and their profits are cut off from gold, and they work together to manipulate the results of the imperial examination. While enthusiastically helping countless wealthy but untalented high school scholars, the Yang brothers naturally made a lot of money.

At that time, in Chang'an, there were five people who were famous for being keen on making a list for their sons. Among the five people, Su Jingyin ranked fourth, Zhang Yuanfu ranked fifth, and the top three were of course the Yang family's brothers. In Chang'anlifang, there was once such a ballad: "If you want to move to the field, ask Su and Zhang first; Su, Zhang Youke, Sanyang kill me". In this way, with the unremitting efforts of Sanyang, Su Zhang and others, they finally forced the children of the poor family to sigh and return in despair.

Four powerful people, four powerful families, as long as they offend their family, they may be crushed into powder, not to mention, this time, it is the four families who are offended together. Therefore, Duan Wenchang knew very well that he could not afford to offend.

Things seem to be stuck, and if you want to let out this bad breath, you will inevitably offend those heroes; If you want not to offend Haoqiang, it seems that there is only one way left, to calm things down, to be a little sulking, and to endure it will pass. But Duan Wenchang is not a person who can endure it, so he decided to find a few federations.

The so-called federation, in Duan Wenchang's dictionary, is explained like this: when there is a war, the federation is the vanguard; When retreating, the Federation has to help carry the pot, the black pot.

There are two federations selected by Duan Wenchang, one is Yuan Zhen and the other is Li Shen.