After February 18, the five gates of the Rite Tribute Courtyard were closed. The area around the Gongyuan was once again a forbidden place, and the people and officials were forbidden to enter, and the number of Jingzhao guards and Jin Wuwei guarding outside the Gongyuan also increased.

This martial law situation lasted for several days, and there was no other way, because now the work of the Chunfu examination was going on in the Gongyuan - the task of the candidates had been completed, but the work of the examiners had just begun, and it was also the busiest and most difficult work in the whole Chunfu process.

Located in the supervision and examination hall of the Mingyuan Building in the Gongyuan, Qi Jinzhen, Zhang Shu and other officials of the Ministry of Rites are carrying out the sealing of the Chunyu test papers.

The so-called sealing is to cover up the names and places of origin of the candidates' test papers, so as to prevent the marking officials from secretly determining the ranking, so the sealing is also known as the obfuscation of names, which is an effective means to prevent fraud in Chunqiu, which is also an important part of Chunqiu.

Therefore, Jiang Xuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and Yang Jianrui, the middle of the Imperial History, were also supervising on the spot, watching Zhang Shu and other officials of the Ministry of Rites seal the head of the paper, and hand it over to Wang Zhi and other officials of the Imperial History Observatory to renumber the sealed test papers before they can be transcribed. Of course, the more than 50 Hongbunkan school scholars who were in charge of transcribing were already waiting on the sidelines.

Carefully speaking, these more than 50 school scholars have an extremely heavy task, and they have to re-transcribe all the candidates' examination papers with a red pen within this month, in order to prevent the examiners from recognizing the candidates' handwriting. Therefore, what the same examiner, deputy examiner, and chief examiner will see will be a red scroll with uniform handwriting. From this procedure, it can be seen that the assessment of Dayong's Chunfu is extremely strict, and the emperors and officials of the past dynasties have continuously improved and strictly implemented these assessment procedures in order to prevent cheating in Chunqiu.

However, even with such strictness, there are still many candidates who have the ability to cheat, and they have already paid some fellow examiners before the exam, agreeing that a certain sentence or a certain word will appear in it. In order to be identified with the examiner. In addition, there are many other hidden means that cannot be prevented. Therefore, the fraud of Chunfu is prohibited.

Wei Jindu was very nervous, thinking of the Chunqiu fraud case in Changtai's sixteenth year. He always couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and he was afraid that there would be problems with Chunqiu this time, so he grasped the work of Chunqiu quite tightly.

The work of sealing and transcribing in the early stage is being carried out one after another, and the red scroll has been sent to the hands of the same examiner. The twenty fellow examiners were reading and evaluating the test papers in the Gongyuan Imperial Court, and the atmosphere in the Gongyuan was serious.

The same examiners are all officials drawn from all over Dayong, and they are all from Jinshi. Talent is unquestionable. After the examiner conducts a preliminary evaluation of the Zhu papers, they will write a recommendation and send the top 500 papers with comprehensive scores to Jukuitang, where Wei Jindu, Gong Ruxi, Jiang Xuan and Yang Jianrui will make the final decision. In the end, 200 people were selected to participate in the temple examination. This core process is the triennial spring exam.

The selection of the last 200 people from tens of thousands of people is not without fierce competition, so the responsibility of the same examiner and the chief examiner is not insignificant.

Wei Jindu and Jiang Xuan were carefully looking at the red scrolls that were presented. Smile and nod from time to time. According to the feelings described by the same examiner, there are still many talented candidates in this spring, and many candidates have done a very good job in scripture and poetry. Overall, the quality of this spring is very high. Of course, this is something to be happy about, there are more talented people, which means that two hundred people have to be selected, which is not too difficult, which can make Wei Jindu and others worry a lot.

After a fierce discussion and comparison, the four of them finally selected 200 people to participate in the palace examination, and they will also select the top ten papers with 20 same examiners and submit them to Emperor Changtai, who will set the ranking, and then fill in the list and announce it, which means that the work of Chunqiu has come to an end.

Who knew that when the results were presented to Emperor Changtai, Wei Jindu and others, who had been in retreat in the Gongyuan, knew that something big had happened in Chunqiu.

At the beginning of March, when the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial History Observatory were nervously evaluating the examination papers in the Gongyuan, Jingzhao had a vague rumor that there were drawbacks in this spring, saying that Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai, the sons of Jiangnan, would be on the list! This is because they had received the questions from the examiner beforehand, and the rumors did not specify from which examiner the two judges got the questions.

At the beginning, everyone thought it was nonsense, and the spring assessment was so strict, how could there be any test questions that leaked out? Some people even remembered the so-called secret question that was sold before the Spring Festival, thinking that this was probably also a joke that the people of Jingzhao came up with in their leisure time, just to entertain the boring moment of waiting for the release of the list, and no one cared about it at all.

However, those rumors have not stopped, but more and more people are talking about them. Gradually, some of them couldn't sit still, because they knew that among the people who participated in the Spring Festival this time, there were indeed people named Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai, and more importantly, they were also from Jiangnan, and their families were very wealthy, so it was entirely possible to pay a lot of money to buy the test questions! This situation is too much in line with the rumors!

This rumor is not limited to Juzi, even the people of Jingzhao know this, so people began to speculate about the truth of this rumor: This should be true, right? Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental that there are these two people? Is that accurate?

The rumors are getting stronger and stronger, and the teahouses, taverns, and brothels where the most customers are talking about this matter, and even some merchants are asking when they meet: "Have you heard of it?" Someone cheated in this Chunqiu case? Is it true? ”。

For a while, it seemed that Jingzhao couldn't attract the attention of the people except for this matter. Other officials of the Ministry of Rites who did not participate in the review of the test papers naturally denied this situation, and the secrecy of the test questions was definitely at home, and there was no possibility of leaking secrets at all!

The officials of the Ministry of Rites also asked Jingzhao Mansion and Jin Wuwei to cooperate to stop the spread of this rumor and extinguish this evil fire, so as to prevent the turmoil in the people's hearts and minds from affecting the situation in the court. At the strong request of the Ministry of Rites, the guards of Jingzhao Mansion also arrested several tea customers who spread rumors and sent them to Jingzhao Prison on charges of endangering the people.

However, the rumors about the disadvantages of Chunyu have not decreased, and the action of Jingzhao Mansion to jail the tea customers has aroused the anger of the people of Jingzhao, and even many opera troupes have written the disadvantages of Chunyu into a play, and set up a theater on Xianghe Street to perform for the people for free.

The front of the theater was full of people, and the area around Xianghe Street was even more lively than during the Lantern Festival. The things of the spring festival performed on the stage are clear-eyed, and how Jiangnan Juzi came to Jingzhao, and after coming to Jingzhao, he saw the admiration of Jingzhao's prosperity. How did they find the examiner through others, how they bribed the examiner, and how did the examiner collect money. How to tell them the topic, it is all vivid!

When the white-faced official took the heavy money of the two lifters. When the test questions were revealed to these two people, the people below let out strong accusations and curses, and even some people "boo" loudly mocked, as if these things were real. The people are the most simple group of people, and the performances of the troupe are the most infectious. In this way, the people below are thinking. Perhaps, these performances are real? They have invisibly become more convinced of the truth of the rumors.

When the troupe performed, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the second prince began to be frightened, because in that play. not only said the name and origin of the examiner, but also the surname of the examiner, and the two examiners called the examiner Jiang Gong!

Jiang Gong! This time, there is only one person who has the opportunity to contact the test questions before the exam and has the surname Jiang! Now everybody knows. The rumors of this Chunfu fraud case directly pointed to Jiang Xuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Jiang Xuan is the deputy chief examiner of this Chunqiu, and he is one of the four people who can get the test questions in advance, and it is completely possible for him to leak the questions!

After the performance of this troupe, the faces of the courtiers and the second prince changed. Jiang Xuan is not only a waiter in the Ministry of Rites. is also the father of the second princess Jiang, and the Jiang family is his concubine! In this way, the rumors are also involved in the second prince, if Jiang Xuan really leaks the secret, then is there any matter or instruction from the second prince? Could it be that the person behind the Chunfu fraud case is the second prince?!

Affected by the rumors, the courtiers looked at Shangguan Chengyou with a strange gaze.

Jiang Xuan was still in retreat in the Tribute Academy, and he didn't know about it at all - in order to prevent someone from cheating, during the reading period, everyone stayed in the Tribute Academy, and the rumors couldn't be spread in the Tribute Academy, and even Wei Jindu and others didn't know anything about it.

When the second prince heard these rumors, he was naturally shocked, but he couldn't inform Jiang Xuan, so that Jiang Xuan could make countermeasures in time. The second prince's side concubine, Jiang Shi, cried bitterly in front of the second prince with a big belly, and swore that his father would never do such a thing, this must be a frame-of-the-law, maybe someone took a fancy to the relationship between the Jiang family and the second prince's mansion, so he deliberately set up this bureau!

"Your Highness, the purpose of this person is not for the Jiang family, but for Your Highness!" In the end, the Jiang family cried like this!

Shangguan Chengyou, who heard this, was terrified! He was so anxious that he couldn't make any moves! He knows that the so-called selflessness is selfish, and once he refutes these rumors, he will confirm these rumors!

Now, he can only pretend that he doesn't know anything. However, Concubine De in the Yanxi Palace did not have any news, only that Emperor Changtai's face was calm, and he didn't seem to know about the rumors at all.

Now Shangguan Chengyou felt even worse, the calmer Emperor Changtai was, the more frightened he became, afraid that there was incomparable anger hidden under this calm.

Shen Yuhong, Shen Ning and others naturally heard the rumors that Chun Yu had drawbacks. When they heard the news, the two of them glanced at each other and reacted quickly: This is broken, and they hurriedly went to the study to find Shen Zejing to discuss the countermeasures for this matter.

Shen Zejing's face was very ugly, he had two sons, a nephew, and a nephew, a total of four people, who participated in this Spring Festival. If something happens to Chunqiu, will these four people be involved? Will it involve the Shen family? Thinking of Changtai's sixteen-year unjust case, Shen Zejing's face became even more ugly, and his brows were so furrowed that he could almost kill mosquitoes.

"Father, this rumor is changing too quickly, and there are many sources, such as the stream is still trying its best to trace the source of the rumor." Shen Yuhong reported the situation in Ruliu, if something happened to Chunqiu, as test takers, they would definitely be affected!

Where did this rumor come from? Who is it that makes this rumor? Could it be that Chunfu really has drawbacks? Did Jiang Xuan really leak the secret? However, Jiang Xuan is not from Jiangnan, so is it true that Jiangnan raised his son to bribe? Shen Yuhong was confused by these rumors, he was in the game, he was so anxious that he couldn't figure out anything at once.

"Don't care about the source, I guess I can't find out. The matter involves Jiang Xuan and the second prince, needless to say, it must be the opponent of the second prince. Perhaps, it is a bureau set up by a few princes! The question now is, what are the consequences of the rumors? After the initial worry passed, Shen Ning quickly calmed down and said in a deep voice.

Rumors, theaters, and people, as if they were set, the rumors seemed to be guided, and finally the spearhead was pointed at the second prince. This technique is very familiar to Shen Ning, interlocking, and going deeper step by step. Shen Ning has already affirmed that this is the handiwork of the fifth prince Shangguan Changzhi, the Chunfu fraud case, it turns out that he is playing with such a mind, using Jiang Xuan to trap the second prince in? !

He is not sure that he will not do such a thing, it seems that Jiang Xuan's crime of leaking secrets will definitely be confirmed. Baidu search or,,Update faster Out of his understanding of Shangguan Changzhi, Shen believes that he must have laid out the game, she can already foresee the final result, and even, he must have the next plan! Nei Ding Zhi Shao Shen Ning continued: "Don't care about the rumors, the people who set up the bureau seem to be targeting the second prince, more than 200 people and the country's sons, our family has always had no connection with the second prince's mansion, and it is impossible to involve so many nephews."