Chapter 238: The scapegoat, your wife and my wife
Looking at Emperor Qiansheng sitting on the chair, the two of them knelt on one knee and asked the emperor to be safe.
Subsequently, the two of them told the ins and outs of the matter.
"Your Majesty, there are a total of 300 places for this Enke exam, and all of them have landed."
"But ......."
Prime Minister Zhang looked at Emperor Qiansheng and hesitated for a long time.
Seeing this, Emperor Qiansheng put down the fold in his hand and said, "But it doesn't hurt to say it!"
"Your Majesty, the minister is guilty, and the crime deserves death!"
Zhang Cheng knelt on the ground with a thud, his forehead resting on the carpet, and he didn't dare to get up.
Emperor Qiansheng frowned slightly when he saw this, his heart jumped, and he knew that there must be nothing good, "Get up and talk first, what happened?"
"It's an excerpt!"
Prime Minister Zhang handed over the fold, and Xiao Huangmen took the fold and showed it to Emperor Qiansheng.
After Emperor Qiansheng glanced at the excerpt, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, and he angrily reprimanded, "Is this how you proctor? Look, what are these?"
"The quota of 300 people is all from the south, can you tell me if there is a problem here? Are you in the lake alley or are you in the lake alley? Okay, you're Zhang Quan, is that how you do things?"
Thunder and anger swept through the entire south study, and everyone trembled and did not dare to speak.
In the palace, Emperor Qiansheng was furious and threw the fold in his hand on the ground.
Zhang Quan, who was in charge of the main examination this time, was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and tremblingly picked up the fold from the ground and said, "Your Majesty...... As the chief examiner, Weichen failed to mark the papers with due diligence and committed the crime of dereliction of duty......
"This is not a simple dereliction of duty! It's a major suspicion of fraud in the field!"
Emperor Qiansheng pointed at Zhang Quan and rebuked sharply, "The quota of three hundred people, there is not a single northern student, can it be said that there is only half of the world in the entire Great Qian? Zhang Quan, do you dare to say that you have no problem as the chief examiner?"
"Your Majesty, there really is nothing wrong with this."
Zhang Quan knew that if he let the situation develop and didn't come out to explain a thing or two, he was afraid that it would be difficult to pass today's hurdle.
Immediately, Zhang Quan analyzed it for Emperor Qiansheng and said, "This time the reading of the file was read by the big figures of Confucianism, and the big people in the court also participated. If the students in the north get the news and ask the saint to adjudicate, it will be a troublesome matter."
"This is the test paper of the students from the south and the students from the north, and I also brought it with me, and I ask Your Majesty to judge it!"
Zhang Quan then pulled out the file from his sleeve and handed it to Emperor Qiansheng.
Emperor Qiansheng opened the file and browsed the contents, and couldn't help frowning.
After a long time, he also muttered slightly in his heart, "How can this be?"
Because there is indeed no suspicion of fraud in the imperial examination, all the students in the south have been admitted with real talents.
That's the trouble!
"Seal it up, don't tell anyone, redraw a list, adjust the order."
"This matter is kept silent, and no one is allowed to leak it."
Emperor Qiansheng is still old after all, if he is still young, he may have to use the topic to play and suppress the ministers in the court, but now he is not strong enough, he is old, he carries the dragon vein and national fortune all the year round, and the loss of his body is not small, so he is still soft in dealing with this matter after all.
"Zhang Li, what's the matter with you? Let's talk about it all together!"
Emperor Qiansheng took a deep breath and calmed down, after all, it was the emperor's mental technique, looking at Zhang Li who was kneeling below, he wondered in his heart, is it a bad thing?
"Your Majesty, something happened over there in the Nine Banners Imperial Examination."
Zhang Li then told the truth of the matter, which shocked everyone for a whole year.
"What? Is there such a thing?" Emperor Qiansheng was also taken aback, and asked, "Have you ever seen those test papers with your own eyes?"
Zhang Li shook his head when he heard this, and said, "I also listen to Nan
According to a colleague in the study, he copied the test paper himself."
In ancient times, each imperial examination was in charge of the chief examiner appointed by the emperor, in which the power of marking and selecting papers was carried out by the chief examiner himself, and the emperor generally did not interfere with the authority and authority.
But this time, Emperor Qiansheng couldn't wait.
Because, he knew in his heart that this might be the last imperial examination he had held in recent years, and the imperial examination involved the recruitment of officials, which was related to the selection and allocation of national talents, and was the top priority, so he sent someone to the south study quickly, took those papers, and personally looked at them.
Looking at this, Emperor Qiansheng was also dumbfounded!
The whole answer sheet is only more than 800 words, but after counting it carefully, I found more than 300 typos!
That is, one wrong one in an average of two or three words!
"What kind of bullshit article is this? You didn't even have basic cultural knowledge, and you were selected as one of the top 10?" Emperor Qiansheng was furious and slapped the table, "Inform the chief examiner Bai Jun to enter the hall, I want to ask him face to face!"
"Your Majesty, the secret agent of Jinyi Wei came to report, saying that the unique imperial examination of the children of the Nine Banners had a matter of reloading the examination institute, and the reason was that someone cheated in the imperial examination, and was caught by someone and entangled in the painful foot, causing a lot of trouble."
Another piece of bad news came from Jinyiwei's side.
Suddenly, before the chief examiner Bai Jun came in, Emperor Qiansheng was furious and fainted.
"Oh no, Your Majesty has fainted, come quickly, ask Imperial Doctor Zhang to come and see the doctor."
For a while, everyone was in a hurry, and the environment inside the entire palace underwent amazing changes.
The rest of the day, everything was calm.
Emperor Qiansheng was unconscious, and everyone did not dare to make their own decisions.
Before Emperor Qiansheng woke up, in order to avoid the emperor's anger and anger, the chief examiner Bai Jun was elected by everyone to act as a scapegoat.
"Lord Kashiwa, after drinking this cup of poisonous wine, let's go on the road!"
"The excerpt has been written, and you alone bear all the blame."
"There is no proof of death, your family, we will take care of it for you."
"Thou shalt not worry about thy wife, whom I have raised."
Seeing the poison in front of him, and thinking of the methods of these people, Bai Jun was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.
It's just that he knows better in his heart that if he waits for Emperor Qiansheng to wake up, it will definitely not be as simple as just one person dying, but many, many people will die.
At this moment, everyone in the Manchu Dynasty is in danger, and they urgently need someone with no background to stand up and take the blame.
As the chief examiner this time, Bai Jun could not escape the blame.
He looked at the folds and poisons in front of him, and his heart was also miserable, and his thoughts were in a mess.
"Drink it, let's go on the road!"
Someone next to him opened his mouth to encourage.
Bai Jun gritted his teeth when he heard this, picked up the poisonous wine on the table, drank it into his throat, and committed suicide as soon as his eyes darkened.
Shortly after Bai Jun's death, Emperor Qiansheng also woke up under the treatment of the imperial doctor.