Chapter 100: The Chunfu Case III (Part 3)
Zhang Duan's impeachment was written, and Emperor Changtai did not send it. (Full text update 8 * zero * book * house ) The matter also implicated the spring of three years ago, and so much time has passed, and there is nothing to investigate.
Gong Ruxi, the imperial historian, believed that Zhang Duan's impeachment had no basis, and said that "the fact that the deputy chief examiner of the imperial history station was appointed for personal purposes is not ......", so Emperor Changtai decided to release Hua Yingzhuo, Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai.
However, he removed Xu and Tang from the list at the same time, which was a hasty conclusion of the case, and at the same time ordered the Ministry of Rites to fill in the list and announce the results of the Chunqiu, hoping to divert the attention of Jingzhao Juzi and the people and quell the rumors of the so-called Chunyu leakage.
Under the premise of such a hasty conclusion, the results of Chunfu were announced!
On March 12, the spring list was released, and 200 tributes were taken to prepare for the palace examination at the end of April. Suddenly, there was a scene outside the Tribute Courtyard!
Each of them gathered on the wall of the Gongyuan to see if there was any name of their own, and then burst into joy and compassion! Those who are on the list, those who are shocked and like to exclaim, those who fall off the list, are sad and crying, and there is a scene of joy and sorrow outside the Gongyuan.
Gradually, in addition to the two emotions of extreme joy and great sorrow, there is a kind of anger, and the lifters who fell off the list checked the list in sadness, and found that most of the people on the list were Jiangnan's moves! The more you look at it, the angrier you get!
Huiyuanlou Sheng Huai is a native of Xishan, and seven of the top ten people on the list are from the Jiangnan area! Not to mention the rest of the people on the list, if you look closely at the origin, more than half of them are Jiangnan people!
How is this possible?!
At that time, there was no nursery rhyme of "the genius of the south and the general of the north, and the loess of Shaanxi buried the emperor", and more people thought that this situation was extremely unreasonable! The more you look at the spring list, the more unpleasant it is, and if it is not pleasing to the eye, anger will gradually arise!
There are many people who failed to make the list and remembered the leak of the questions that Jingzhao circulated earlier, and they were angry, thinking that Xu Shijin and Tang Anhuai must have bought the test questions from Jiang Xuan. and leaked the test questions to Jiangnan's lifter, otherwise how could Jiangnan's lifter be so powerful?!
In the final analysis, it is still the deputy chief examiner Jiang Xuan who has no problems!
Sadness, resentment, anger. Coupled with the deliberate guidance of some of them, the emotions of the lifters were like being ignited with explosives. More and more violent!
Less than two hours after the Spring Courtyard was posted, the lifters rioted, they gathered outside the gate of the Tribute Courtyard and refused to leave, and even some emotional lifters tore off the Spring Billboard on the wall of the Tribute Courtyard and crumpled it, shouting: "This is fake!" Xu Shijin, the Jiangnan movers, already knew the result in advance! It's fake! ”
The rest of the Juzi were also quite excited, believing that the result was unfair and saying that they would never admit the result. There must be drawbacks to the spring!
Thousands of people and people gathered outside the gate of the Gongyuan and refused to leave, and even Jin Wuwei came to drive them away and disperse, but everyone was unmoved. Instead, more and more people joined the crowd, and the sound of swearing, shouting, and smashing came one after another. The situation is extremely chaotic.
This situation was unexpected by Emperor Changtai and Wei Jindu and others, who originally thought that as soon as the Chunqiu list came out, it would divert the attention of the lifters, and all kinds of rumors about the Chunfu fraud case would subside. That's when I hurriedly opened the spring list!
Unexpectedly, the attention of the lifters was diverted, but the situation was even more uncontrollable, and it turned into a riot of all the scholars! In fact, in the past spring, Jiangnan Juzi is in the majority. Jiangnan is located in a rich area, there are many scholars, and it is normal for the number of people to be on the list, but no one has noticed this in the past, and it has not caused the resentment of the scholars.
However, this time Jiangnan did have more moves, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites who filled in the list did not notice that it was inappropriate, but they did not expect it to cause this uproar!
For three days in a row, the lifters refused to disperse, and the angry lifters continued to storm the gate of the Gongyuan, and gradually, even the soldiers of Jin Wuwei began to be unable to resist. They can't swing their swords at these lifters and the people, just blindly persuade and disperse, it's useless!
Jin Wu Zuowei Zhonglang General Zhang Ge urgently reported to the general Huang Yanqing: The situation is almost out of control, please issue instructions and orders immediately! Otherwise, I'm afraid it's not just a matter in front of Gongyuan and Ruyifang, such a riot may spread to the entire Jingzhao!
Huang Yanqing was so anxious that he wanted to scold his mother, so he hurriedly found Wei Jindu and Gong Ruxi, and yelled: "Jin Wuwei can't support it anymore? Is there anything you can do not have?! Hurry up and figure it out! If you don't think about it, you won't be able to keep the gate of the Tribute Courtyard! ”
Wei Jindu and Gong Ruxi and others had no choice, so they came to the front of the Gongyuan with their heads and made a posture of response. In the face of the angry people and the people, these officials promised: they will thoroughly investigate the affairs of Xu and Tang, and if there is really a leaking incident, they will definitely give an explanation to everyone! Please disperse first, three days, and promise to give you an answer within three days!
"Why do we believe you? Maybe it's stalling for time, just to drive us away! A man in the crowd shouted, apparently not believing the assurances of the men.
Wei Jindu greeted all the ancestors of the person who spoke in his heart, but he still smiled kindly on his face: "Otherwise, what do you think?" You've been here for a few days, and it's not a good idea to be outside the gate of the Gongyuan like this. If the spring can't go on, then these ten years, aren't you in vain? ”
Wei Jindu's voice was still very kind, and the lifters also remembered that they had indeed been here for a long time, and many people were almost unable to support it, and they all felt emotion when they thought of the hardships of studying hard in the cold window. Now that the chief official of the Ministry of Etiquette has come out to express his position, many people also want to go down the steps, and the atmosphere has eased a lot.
"We don't believe you! We believe in the Emperor! If the emperor decrees, we will disperse immediately! Unexpectedly, another voice came, once again stirring up the emotions of the people and the people, and the atmosphere that had just eased a lot immediately became tense again!
No matter how Wei Jindu lobbied and how to guarantee, the people didn't believe it, and said in unison: "We believe in the emperor, we believe in the emperor!" "We don't believe you!" insisted on seeing the emperor's will before he was willing to disperse.
Gong Ruxi's eyes flashed, and he motioned to supervise the imperial historian Xu Zhong, Deng Zheng, Xu Yun and others to slowly approach the people who shouted the loudest, they must keep an eye on it, he wanted to see who was behind the instigation of these moves and the people to cause such a riot!
Gong Ruxi's heart also swelled with anger, no matter who took advantage of these ignorant actions and innocent people, his heart can be punished!
Wei Jindu was helpless. I had to ask Emperor Changtai for advice. Forced by the situation, Emperor Changtai sent Xu Shijin, Tang Anhuai and Jiang Xuan to prison again, because the matter was not clear. Hua Yingzhuo was also imprisoned.
At the same time, Emperor Changtai ordered Wei Jindu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Gong Ruxi, the imperial historian, and He Kenan, the secretary of the Dali Temple, to form a temporary inspection team to lead the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial History Terrace, and the Dali Temple to investigate the matter of Chunqiu. Be sure to find out the ins and outs, restore the truth of the matter, and give an explanation to the people and the people.
It was not until they saw the bright yellow decree with their own eyes that the people were willing to disperse one after another, waiting for the result after three days. Xu Zhong and Deng Zheng and the others also stayed closely behind those people until they saw that they had gone to different places. I investigated the neighborhood again, and it wasn't until a day later that I returned to the Yushitai and reported the situation to Gong Ruxi.
"Deflated three? The Zhou family, the Bian family, and the Five Princes' Mansion? "I listened to the report of my subordinates. Gong Ruxi felt that instead of sorting out the clues, he added more fog.
Those people were originally Jingzhao's unscrupulous people, and after they dispersed from the crowd, they had contact with the Zhou family, the Bian family, and the people of the Five Princes' Mansion respectively, could it be that these people were instructed by these three families? But the Bian family has already folded ten princes. How could there be a thing about them? Gong Ruxi couldn't figure it out, and after passing the anger with Wei Jindu and others, he stepped up the review of Xu, Tang, Jiang and the others.
During the interrogation, Xu Shijin confessed that he had indeed not seen Jiang Xuan. However, he did bribe Jiang Xuan, Jiang Xuan accepted a lot of money from him and leaked the test questions to him, and the middleman was Jiang Xuan's aunt Gu! He handed over the money to the Gu family, and the Gu family gave him the test questions, which were similar to the Chunfu test questions, and he didn't know if there was a connection between Tang Anhuai and Jiang Xuan.
Wei Jindu and Gong Ruxi and others wondered why Xu Shijin changed his statement so quickly, and originally said that Hua Yingzhuo was "falsely accusing for personal gain", how long has it been? It's different from the original testimony!
They all looked at He Kenan, meaning: There is no torture, right? Seeing He Kenan shaking his head, the two had no choice but to send officials from Dali Temple to Jiang's house to investigate according to Xu Shijin's confession.
As a result, it was found out that Jiang Xuan's favorite aunt Gu was indeed from Jiangnan, and many servants pointed out that they had seen Xu Shijin appear in Jiang's house. The officials of Dali Temple also found out that the Gu family was not a good family, but a thin horse in Yangzhou! What's more, this Gu family has a good relationship with the second prince's side concubine Jiang family!
A servant of the Jiang family pointed out that the Jiang family had met the Gu family privately, and the two seemed to be quite close. The officials of Dali Temple also found the 100,000 taels of silver tickets that Xu Shi bribed under the guidance of the Gu family, and the seal on the silver ticket was the Jiangnan Kaiyuan ticket number, and after investigation, the silver ticket was indeed extracted by the Xu family in Jiangyin!
Such a collusion, such a witness, involves the Chunqiu test questions, involves the private affairs of the Jiang family, and also involves the second prince's mansion, the matter seems to be very clear! That is, the Second Prince's Mansion and the Jiang family did accept bribes and leaked the test questions!
The second prince's side concubine, Jiang Shi, also cried and said that he saw Gu Shi just to talk about family affairs, and because he was too excited, he was born prematurely and gave birth to a baby boy! And Jiang Xuan even claimed to be wronged in prison, thinking that it must be the torture of Dali Temple, Xu Shijin will retract his confession, he didn't know about the 100,000 taels of silver tickets at all, he didn't leak the test questions, and asked to confront Xu Shijin and Gu Shi in court!
The second prince's side concubine, Jiang, gave birth to a baby boy, which was the eldest grandson of Emperor Changtai, and Emperor Changtai was naturally happy. For the sake of the eldest grandson, Emperor Changtai granted Jiang Xuan's request and let him confront Xu Shijin and Gu in the court.
But that Gu clan crashed into the wall and died when the officials were not paying attention, claiming that he had done such a thing, and his conscience was responsible for living shamelessly! This, Jiang Xuan and Gu can't confront each other!
At the time of the court, Xu Shijin retracted his confession, saying that when he first came to Jingzhao, he just envied Jiang Xuan's knowledge, and he had wandered far away in Jiang's house, and there was no bribe. As for his previous confession, it was the Dali jailer who tortured him too much, and he couldn't resist it, so he said it according to the jailer's orders, and the Gu family was also told to him by the jailer, he could only do what the jailer said, otherwise, those people would beat him to death! After that, he also raised his prison clothes, so the officials present saw the whip marks on his body, and they were shocked!
As soon as He Kenan, the secretary of Dali Temple, saw the scars on Xu Shijin's body, he quickly knelt down, saying that it was impossible! He pointed out that Xu Shijin's scar was new, and when he gave his previous confession, there were no scars on his body, which is really incomprehensible!
Wei Jindu and Gong Ruxi also knew this, and they were also in Dali Temple Prison, and Tang Anhuai had no scars on his body at all, so there was no torture in Dali Temple to extract confessions. Before Tingqiu, Xu Shijin's relatives had visited Dali Prison, what is the connection, he will definitely find out, maybe this is a play directed and acted by Xu Shijin.
Xu Shijin argued that the jailer was so clever that he was beaten to death, and there was no scar on his body. Baidu search or,,Update faster The Dali warden was dim, he didn't see the jailer's appearance clearly, as for why he didn't leave scars before, and then he made so many scars on his body, he couldn't say why. The officials wanted to cry more, wasn't Jiang Xuan and Xu Shijin confronting each other? How did it finally become a matter between Dali Temple and Xu Shijin? This Tingju is obviously off topic......