Yuzhou Gongyuan.

The sixteenth prince came in angrily, and when he came in, he kicked the examiner Lord Luo first.

At that foot, Lord Luo wanted to die in pain, but he didn't dare to say a word, and quickly explained the situation, his brain was full of sweat.

The two deputy examiners next to him, Lord Zhao of Yuzhou and Lord Yuzhou Xuezheng Fang, also had ugly faces.

They are very optimistic about these twenty candidates in Taohua County, especially Zhao Yunjing, originally thought that even if they can't win all of them, they can win half of them, which is also a good result.

I didn't expect the unexpected joy to be seen yet, and the fright came first.

From the time the candidate was searched for a cheat sheet to the time he bit the left and right test houses, the hearts of the two of them kept sinking, until Zhao Yunjing blew himself up and said that he was also suspicious, and asked the government to arrest him for strict interrogation, and the hearts of the two sank to the bottom, and they couldn't get up.

Zhao Zhizhou glanced at the sixteenth prince, and before the sixteenth prince could say anything, the deputy examiner Lord Hu spoke first: "Lord Zhao is this unconvinced?" ”

The sixteenth prince immediately looked at it: "Why is Lord Zhao dissatisfied?" ”

Lord Zhao secretly cursed the eighteenth generation of Lord Hu's ancestors in his heart, and replied: "Back to the sixteenth prince, the lower official has no dissatisfaction, although the imperial examination is not under the jurisdiction of the lower official, but the lower official is the governor of Yuzhou Mansion, and he is also on the scene today, so he should be able to say two sentences." ”

"Oh, then tell the king, what do you think of this today?"

"Lord Wang, it doesn't matter what the lower officials think, the key is how to deal with it, according to the opinions of the lower officials, it will definitely invalidate the results of all the candidates in Taohua County."

Lord Fang stepped forward and said, "Lord Wang, the opinion of the lower officials is that the candidate who has substantial evidence to prove cheating will be interrogated on the spot, and as for the other people, they will naturally be interrogated one by one. In addition, since there is a person who can bring a note in, it means that there must be someone else who has also brought it in, and it must be thoroughly investigated, if it is found that there are candidates other than Taohua County students cheating, then the results of all the candidates in our Yuzhou Dao this year will naturally be invalidated. ”

"That's right, my lord, the imperial examination is used by the imperial court to select talents, and it is a serious matter that cannot be more serious, it is related to the generations of our Great Liang Kingdom, and it must be strictly investigated!"

Are all candidates' results invalid?

Lord Hu's face changed slightly: "Lord Wang, this is not appropriate, in the hundreds of years since the founding of our Great Liang State, there has never been a matter of invalidating the results of candidates who have learned the Tao in the entire province, or the cheater will be expelled from the examination room, and the rest will keep the results?" ”

"Are you teaching this king to do things?"

"The lower officials don't dare!"

The corners of the sixteenth prince's lips pressed down, no longer paying attention to Master Hu, and stepped forward and said: "The whole audience will investigate thoroughly, besides, where is Zhao Yunjing?" This king wants to see him! ”

Lord Luo hurriedly followed: "It has been checked in his own examination room, there is no suspicious note in his examination room, and he has also searched his body, and there is nothing that can prove that he cheated." ”

There are four rows of examination houses on the left, each row has 30 examination rooms, and Zhao Yunjing is the last one in the third row.

In the examination room, Zhao Yunjing was closing his eyes and recuperating, the students in the examination room on the left and right could discuss loudly at first, and some people asked him if he was stupid, after the people from the government came, everyone was silent, for fear of being pulled out as a model, but he didn't dare to speak out, kicking the stool and pounding the wall in the examination room, but the officials outside didn't care.

Listening to the knocking sound from next door, Zhao Yunjing did not open his eyes, but felt sleepy.

"Zhao Yunjing!" The person next door shouted, "If you don't want to take the test, forget it, why harm us?" All of you in Taohua County are still young, and you can come back three years after the cancellation of this year's results! But I'm thirty years old! If I don't do it this year, I won't have the money to take the next exam! I'm a poor and sour talent, I can't even feed myself, and I still have to support my wife and children......"

Then there was a howl, and it was clear that the state of mind had collapsed.

The eldest brother next door is also unlucky, the family is poor, he began to end at the age of eighteen, every time the whole family borrows money to send him the exam, this year is the fourth time, and every time before, he was only one loss away from being on the list, this time he from entering the field to completion, he felt that if God helped, he thought it must have become, but he didn't expect it to go wrong, and the results were facing cancellation!

"Heaven is unfair! Heaven is unfair! ”

Sun Xiucai's words aroused the most distressed emotions in everyone's hearts, and for a while, the examination house was full of the roar of 'heavenly injustice', and the officials couldn't control it at all.

At this time, a male voice came from outside: "If the way of heaven is unfair, the court will return justice to you!" ”

"It's the Sixteenth Prince! The Sixteenth Prince is here! ”

"Sixteenth prince, I waited for ten years to walk to this examination room, I can't fall short!"

"Ask the prince to uphold justice!"

"Yes, Lord Wang, it's not us who cheats, why should we be punished!"

"The students in Peach Blossom County have already been recruited, and they say that all of them have cheated, so just cancel their grades, our reservation!"

"That's right! Before they entered the venue, the people from Peach Blossom County said that they would all enter the venue, and they must have greeted the examiner and them, maybe there is evidence in their examination room! ”

The sixteenth prince had a cold face, and then replied: "If the twenty candidates in Taohua County all cheat, how can you prove your innocence?" ”

"I'm going to die—"

"Is this how a scholar abuses his own life? If so, then it is useless for the court to admit you! You don't have to knock it out at this level! Zhao Gongzi, how are you? ”

When the words fell, the sixteenth prince stood at the door of the examination house, and the official hurriedly opened the door.

Zhao Yunjing dismantled the bed into a table when he heard the movement outside, and at this moment he was sitting at the table, with a calm face: "What does the prince want to hear?" ”

"What Zhao Gongzi wants to say, this king will listen to it."

"The nineteen classmates below did not cheat."

"If you didn't cheat, why would you admit to cheating?"

"Leave to die and come back to life."

That's a new statement. What is the appeal of this one? ”

Zhao Yunjing straightened his face and said: "As far as I know, candidates who cheat in the imperial examination will be deprived of the right to participate in the imperial examination within three generations. ”

"This is natural, but it has no direct connection with the behavior of you twenty people today."

"The candidate who was found to be cheating, without any substantial evidence, and did not witness it with his own eyes, only said that he heard that the two classmates below had colluded with the official and bit me to death, and the two classmates also cheated, resulting in my two classmates were also labeled as 'cheating', ruining their future.

"So?"

"There are twenty of us, and we are willing to retake the exam once to clear our suspicions, and as for the test questions, they will be determined by the sixteenth prince."

"Retake? Can you represent the remaining nineteen? ”

"Yes."