Now it has been replaced by every lifter to say, when he reached the tenth place, when the purple clothes were lifted, he threw himself on his knees, trembling all over, like a sieve, begging for mercy to His Majesty, saying that he would not, nothing.

This naturally made His Majesty angry, he wouldn't, since he didn't know anything, then why could he be able to pass the examination and become a lifter. Later, above the court, His Majesty asked the purple-clothed man to write a strategy, and his writing was crooked, and he didn't even have the qualifications to enter the examination, which made His Majesty angry in public, and the examiner of this year's examination was going to suffer!

The ministers in the court lowered their eyes, looked at their noses, looked at their noses, looked at their hearts, and did not dare to make a sound. for fear that His Majesty would be angry with them.

Han Jinxiu bowed: "Then what's the situation now?" ”

Ah Ling swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva and continued: "Your Majesty asked every person in the main hall to continue to write. After repeating it like this, there were ten of them like Ziyi, whose words were written crookedly and crookedly, but they didn't know what to do at all, and they wrote it randomly. His Majesty was furious in public, saying that he would investigate the matter thoroughly, why did this happen?

When the ten people were interrogated again, some of them were silent, some said that they had bought the answers to the questions of this year's exam and memorized them in advance, or they were so frightened that they turned pale and couldn't even say a word. Crown Princess, you said that this is so hateful, and you actually bought the answer to the exam, which is not unfair to other students. ”

Ah Ling was quite indignant, because there was a failed son Han Jinbin in the Zhenbei Palace, not because he was Han Jinxiu's cousin, but because Ah Ling went to see Han Jinbin last night, and the two had a simple exchange, it can be seen from his words and deeds that he is a person who reads poetry and books, why did he fall off the list? Ah Ling also felt sorry for Han Jinbin, and let him rest more these days and adjust his mood. But I didn't expect such a big event to happen in the temple examination today!

"It's really unfair, the students have been studying hard for more than ten years to become full of wealth, and those of them are opportunistic, in order to get the first place, they don't hesitate to buy the answers that will be tested, and Your Majesty is angry that it should be. Through the imperial examination, the imperial court wants to select the available people to be officials for the benefit of the people, not let them seek personal interests through the imperial examination, once such a person really becomes an official, he will not treat the people well, and collect the people's fat and ointment to satisfy their selfish desires. It's just that I haven't found out! Han Jinxiu said with a solemn face.

In the previous life, His Majesty was still the same as today, on a whim, he asked every lifter to talk about the strategy, and the ending was naturally the same, and more than ten lifters were found to be cheating, and the answers to the exam were bought in advance, so that they could be qualified to enter the palace exam and see the holy face. It's just that intuition tells Han Jinxiu that there must be someone in this who is guiding His Majesty, who is this person? Immediately afterwards, Han Jinxiu instructed Ah Ling to continue to inquire about the follow-up progress of this matter.

When Ah Ling heard this, he responded: "Yes, the slave will go." ”

In the court, His Majesty was furious, and took the files of more than a dozen cheating people to the main hall for verification one by one, instead of just listening to their words, and found that as some people said, they answered the same thing, and they did not even review it, and the officials related to this year's examination were all implicated.

As for the review of this year's imperial examination fraud case, His Majesty ordered Wang Yaolin, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Lin Botao, the commander of Jinyiwei, to cooperate in the investigation, and it is bound to investigate the case clearly and clearly. Illiterate people can actually participate in the general examination all the way, and even the palace examination, how many officials are involved in this, we must find out to the end! Let's see who has the audacity to fool Your Majesty.

Once they are really officials, it will harm the people, and in the end, the people will say that his majesty is incompetent and incompetent, and the selection of talents is improper. Thinking of this, His Majesty said sharply: "Wang Yaolin, Lin Botao, the two of you must thoroughly investigate for me, no matter who is involved, you are not allowed to cover up." This is to be heard by his sons, and not because His Majesty is so old and confused that he cannot even understand the curves in it.

If they want to attract talent, they have to attract reliable talent, not these mediocre talents. It will only plague the people of the Great Zhou and make the people suffer, and some officials want to take the opportunity to fill their pockets, for their own selfishness, they actually want to shake the foundation of the Great Zhou, so as not to make His Majesty angry.

All the officials related to this examination were left in the house, and they could not go to the court for the time being, and only when the Dali Temple and Jinyi Wei investigated clearly, they could return to the court.

Lin Botao and Wang Yaolin discussed, they were divided into two routes, one only needs to find out why these more than ten people can go all the way to high school and be eligible to participate in the examination, and the local officials will find out. The other person needs to look up the answer to how they can buy the test, which seems to be not so simple, for fear of offending people.

Lin Botao raised his eyebrows and said, "Lord Wang, you choose, and I'll check the rest." "Through the imperial examination, it is necessary to select high-level talents, not mediocre talents, and it is no wonder that His Majesty is angry this time.

Wang Yaolin smiled: "Lord Lin will choose, and I will check the rest." "He was originally from a poor family, and only through the imperial examination could he gain a foothold in the court step by step and become a trusted courtier of His Majesty. In view of this, he must not let His Majesty down, and this time he must investigate to the end and give an account to His Majesty.

Of course, he knew that Lin Botao was the son of Pingbo, so he was naturally not afraid of the magnates in the capital, so how could he be afraid, they were doing things for His Majesty, and he was sincerely to His Majesty.

Hearing this, Lin Botao bowed his head: "Lord Wang, that's good, I'll be in charge of investigating the local officials, and I'll hand it over to you for investigation, if you encounter any difficulties, just tell me." "As the commander of the Jinyi Guard, let Wang Yaolin choose, he is very humble, then follow his wishes.

"Lord Lin is polite." Wang Yaolin replied calmly.

After the two of them discussed, they went their separate ways to get busy with the business at hand.

For a time, the capital was boiling, this year's meeting test fraud, the palace test His Majesty found out more than ten cheaters, and also ordered Jinyiwei and Dali Temple to investigate thoroughly, it is simply very happy, it should be so, should not cover these people who only have money and no real talent, do not let them harm the people of one side, this is the most critical.

The imperial historians also praised His Majesty for this, but despite this, they could not make His Majesty, who was angry in the imperial study, look more relaxed, and Gonggong Yang, who was waiting beside him, said cautiously: "Your Majesty, you are angry, this case has been investigated by Lord Lin and Lord Wang, and there must be news soon." ”

His Majesty snorted coldly and said lightly: "Okay, let's all step down, I want to be quiet alone." "The brain was buzzing and hurting, and it was very uncomfortable, so go out and let him think about it.

At the sound of an order, the palace people in the imperial study rushed out, and with a bang, the door closed, and His Majesty leaned on the chair, his right hand rested on the chair, and his left hand kneaded his swollen temples, thinking about why the answer to the test could be bought.

The prince was weak, so he deliberately asked him to lead an errand in the Ministry of Works; King Yu worked as an errand in the criminal department; King Lu was on an errand in the military department; King Zhan was an errand boy in the Ministry of Rites, and it stands to reason that both the general examination and the palace examination were conducted and approved by officials of the Ministry of Rites. There are two examiners for this year's examination, one of whom is from the Ministry of Rites, is Wang Qian, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, 25 years old, and he is also a proud protégé of Yang Shoufu of the Dynasty, and he is close to King Yu on weekdays. King Yu's mother is Concubine Yang De, and Concubine Yang Defei is Yang Shoufu's daughter, so King Yu is more or less implicated in this case.

The other examiner is Shi Yu, a scholar of Wenhua Pavilion University appointed by His Majesty, who is thirty-eight years old, has always been iron-faced and selfless, not afraid of the powerful, and has the backbone of a literati, which is exactly what His Majesty loves.

The reason why these two people were asked to be the examiners of the examination was to hope that these two people could be impartial, but I didn't expect that there was a problem from the two of them. His Majesty didn't want any of them to betray the answers to the exam, and only the two of them could see the questions of this year's exam, and the others had no idea where to start.

Even His Majesty concluded that the exam questions were leaked, and it had something to do with the two examiners, Wang Qian, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and Shi Yu, a scholar from Wenhua Pavilion University, Wang Yaolin could naturally think that he was examining more than ten cheating people in Dali Temple one by one, where did their answers come from.

As a result, it was found that the answers of more than ten people were bought in a fortune-telling shop in the north of the city, and then when Wang Yaolin sent people from Dali Temple to check, the fortune-telling shop had already been empty, and nothing was left. When they went back to check whether they remembered the appearance of the fortune teller, they all shook their heads, and the fortune tellers they saw were all veiled and could not see their faces clearly.

Especially when they were all about being able to spend money to buy the answers to the test, can you not be excited? Although they can't study, they are not stupid, and the answers they bought with tens of thousands of taels of silver tickets naturally have to distinguish between true and false, and they can't be fooled out of money.

More than a dozen lifters said that the fortune teller could tell their identity, family background and preferences, it is conceivable that they are not ordinary people, and the last straw that overwhelmed them was the fortune teller who said that his master is the chief examiner this year, otherwise there would be no answer to the test, which completely made more than ten lifters choose to take out tens of thousands of taels to buy the answer.

One person is tens of thousands of taels, and more than ten people are hundreds of thousands of taels, which is really a windfall through this meeting. Now Wang Yaolin's goal is very clear, that is, to review this year's two examiners, Wang Qian, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and Shi Yu, a scholar from Wenhua Pavilion University.

King Yu arrived in Concubine Yang De's palace with a look of taste, and he was just about to lean over to give Concubine Yang De a look, when she waved his hand: "Excuse me, excuse me, what's the situation now?" She is also concerned about the fraud in the imperial examination this time, I heard that His Majesty was furious, and returned to the imperial study from the Chengqian Palace and became very angry, so she didn't dare to go, after all, Wang Qian, one of the chief examiners, was friendly with King Yu, and he was the proud protégé of his father Yang Shoufu.

"Back to the mother concubine, the situation is not very good, and now Wang Yaolin has gone to Wang Qian's mansion." King Yu said anxiously.

Concubine Yang Defei's face turned pale, and she was shocked: "So fast? ”

"Mother, think of a way, what should you do now? You also know Wang Qian, how could he do such a thing, it is categorically someone who wants to slander him, and wants to take this opportunity to involve his son, mother, you and your grandfather must think about it, but you can't let your son-in-law and Wang Qian be calculated. King Yu knelt down in front of Concubine Yang De with a plop, he could swear to the sky that Wang Qian would never do such a thing.

Another examiner, Shi Yu, has always been iron-faced and selfless, and he won't even say a good word to flatter His Majesty on weekdays, how can a person like him betray the answer to the imperial examination, the only possibility is to use Wang Qian to involve his grandfather and him, so that they are disgusted by His Majesty.

No one wants to see such a thing happen. Concubine Yang Defei hurriedly got up, supported her desire to get up, and said, "Yuanhong, the mother concubine knows, the mother concubine knows." This matter must not be framed by them on Wang Qian's head, otherwise you and your father will not be able to explain it clearly, and they will fall into it. Wang Yaolin has always been ruthless, this palace doesn't believe it, he can still attack his colleagues······"

"Mother, now is not the time to talk about this, we have to think about it quickly, if we really find clues in Wang Qian's mansion, how can we do it?" King Yu is particularly anxious, he is close to Wang Qian on weekdays, like siblings, at this critical moment, he has to help Wang Qian.

Who knows, in the early morning of the next day, there was a royal history played above the court, saying that King Yu and Wang Qian would stay in the palace and not go to the court.

For a while, the court was boiling, His Royal Highness King Yu, the imperial history really dared to say what they wanted. Of course, it doesn't matter if it's King Yu or not, in fact, it doesn't matter at all, who let King Yu and Wang Qian get along, and went to Wang Qian's mansion in person yesterday evening, which caused such a big storm.

His Majesty finally agreed to the performance of the imperial history, and let King Yu stay in the palace for the time being, and was not allowed to go to the court.

Concubine Yang De, who learned the news, smashed the white jade porcelain in her hand, and called the guards around King Yu to scold her fiercely, she had clearly made it clear that she should not let King Yu be implicated with Wang Qian again, he just couldn't listen to it, at this critical moment, he didn't shy away from going to Wang Qian's mansion, which made Yu Shi caught!

Concubine Yang De's heart ached, and she couldn't stop scolding King Yu, so she could only send someone to send a letter to her father, asking him to make up his mind and what to do next.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Yang Shoufu suddenly fell ill, and asked His Majesty to let him recuperate in the house.

Your Majesty naturally granted it.

Han Jinxiu blinked, this Yang Shoufu is very cunning, Wang Qian is his protégé, now all public opinion accuses Wang Qian of betraying the answers to the imperial examination questions, even if Wang Yaolin has not found important clues for the time being, but he will be able to find out in less than two days, King Yu is implicated, and he cannot go to court for the time being, presumably this is what King Zhan is most willing to see.

It's not good, a bad thought flashed through Han Jinxiu's mind, she stood up and called Ah Ling: "You accompany the palace out of the palace." ”

Ah Ling hurriedly answered, but before the master and servant could leave the palace, they were stopped by the guards: "Your Majesty has an order, from now on, anyone entering or leaving the palace must be approved by him, please forgive the princess, please go back!" ”