As soon as Zhu Zhen returned to the signing room, before the first tea was drunk, Mao Xiang came to report that all the five people on trial had been abandoned.

There's nothing to laugh at them. Jin Yiwei's torture, although some of them were invented by him, he is very self-aware, and it is estimated that he will not be able to survive the same.

"Let's bring them one by one." Zhu Zhen took a sip of tea.

"Yes." Mao Xiang asked them to change their pants and brought them in for questioning in turn.

The first person to be brought in was Wang Liangbi, who still had an obvious blood mark on his forehead, and his two eyes were also slightly protruding. After the brocade guard put him in, as soon as he let go, he collapsed on the ground like mud.

"How did you remember the exam questions?" Zhu Zhen glanced at him.

"Yes." Wang Liangbi has completely collapsed, and he explained:

"That Dragon Boat Festival, Brother Peng Nian asked a group of us to come to his house to eat realgar wine. After drinking, he told the scholar to guard outside, and then made us swear that we would never betray him. ”

"We asked him what was going on, and he said it was a great thing, but we had to swear before we could say it." Wang Liangbi said with a tangled face: "We are also curious, so we swore an oath." Alas, I really regret not being in the first place, why do you want to know about this? ”

"Getting to the point!" Mao Xiao screamed behind him, so frightened that Wang Liangbi almost peed again.

"The point is, after we swore an oath, he took out a few handwritten test questions and told us that this was taught by the gods in a dream, and it was probably the exam questions of today's science." Even now, Wang Liangbi is still a little incredible:

"We didn't believe it at first, but he said that whether we believe it or not, he was sure of it anyway."

"Before the big exam, this person is very easy to listen to the wind and rain. Especially this time, we have to test the arithmetic that we have never tested, and everyone would rather believe it than believe it. So, they all nodded and said we believe it too. ”

Brother Peng Nian gave us the exam papers, and went through the above exam questions with us. But with so many people working together, there are still five or six questions that they won't do if they want to. Wang Liangbi said and sighed:

So we took out these questions and consulted each of them with scholars who were proficient in this way. In order not to make them doubt it afterwards, we each asked one question, and we asked it together with a dozen other questions. ”

"Fortunately, I got the correct answer two days before the exam, and we got together to memorize the answer, and then Brother Peng Nian burned all the relevant words." Wang Liangbi then sighed: "He also repeatedly told us that we can only keep the answer in our hearts, and we must not write it on paper and leave it in evidence." Otherwise, it would be ...... like it is now."

"And what's the matter with your note?" Zhu Zhen asked in a deep voice.

"Yes, most of them have a good memory, and there are many people who remember them, but there are always exceptions." Wang Liangbi sighed: "I'm the exception, what I'm good at is better, and if I'm not good at it, I can forget it in a few days." The answers to each of those questions were long, and I couldn't understand them, so I had to memorize them over and over again, for fear that I would make mistakes and make mistakes. ”

"Later, I found out that many of the same year secretly wrote down the exam questions on paper so as not to forget them before the exam. I did the same, but I didn't expect that you could find it hidden in the pillow core. He said with a look on his face that he was unlucky.

"Stupid, no wonder you can't pass the exam questions! I'll tell you - the first thing we search is the pillow. Mao Xiang laughed and said: "Because people always feel that when they sleep, they can only feel at ease when they press things under their heads." ”

"Okay...... Wang Liangbi said dejectedly.

This was also the most frustrating place for him before - in the Gongyuan, as soon as the exam paper was sent out, he hurried to look at the math paper, only to see that the exam questions on it were exactly the same as the one given by Brother Peng Nian.

At that time, he was ecstatic and hurriedly picked up the pen, but he still forgot the key steps of the two questions...... Mathematics is such a thing, it won't be, it won't. So when he finally handed in the paper, he didn't do those two questions.

As a result, it was not surprising that he fell off the list......

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The confessions of the other four juzi are also very different from Wang Liangbi. In the absence of collusion, it is enough to ensure authenticity.

Zhu Zhen and Mao Xiang's faces were not relaxed, but became more and more solemn.

Although no one of the main culprits has been arrested, from the confessions of these peripheral personnel, the outline of the entire case can already be sketched - this is a case of collusion between the upper and lower levels, collusion between inside and outside, and a wide range of imperial examination fraud!

"Lord Wang, if you dig deeper, you won't be able to keep all the titles on the gold list in this subject." Mao Xiang couldn't help but remind the sixth child.

"It's not something you worry about." Zhu Zhen looked at the leakage in the corner of the wall, there was still an hour before the palace test began. Unquestioningly: "Before I order you to stop, we must find out." No matter who is involved, find out for me! ”

"Yes!" Mao Xiang nodded heavily, and then asked, "Should you knock on the bell first and report to the emperor urgently?" ”

"There's no need, it's only an hour later, let's wait until the palace gate is opened." Zhu Zhen shook his head and said.

"Hey." Mao Xiao responded, and said secretly: "As soon as the palace door is opened, the Chinese-style lifter is about to participate in the palace examination, and the prince is making it clear that he wants to make a big deal about it." ’

But the sixth child just taught him a lesson, and he never dared to talk too much.

"Then let's just wait." Mao Xiang is as good as a runner.

"You can't wait." Zhu Zhen pointed to the confession on the table and said, "Isn't there the names of those arithmetic scholars on it?" Go, invite them over, don't scare people. ”

"Hey." Mao Xiang responded, and hurriedly went out to order.

In the middle of the night, there was no one on the long street, and the brocade guards galloped wildly, and after a while, they found the door of those arithmeticians according to the map.

didn't care about nonsense, just kicked the door in, took a few old gentlemen out of the bed, put on a robe randomly, and walked out.

"What are you going to do?!" The old gentlemen are scared to pee.

"Don't be afraid, come with us to the Jinyi Guard Yamen."

"Ah, where are you going?!" This directly scared the old gentlemen.

waited until they saw Zhu Zhen before they were shocked. No matter what others say about this prince, he is a great benefactor of the science of arithmetic.

It was he who made arithmetic a compulsory subject at Guozi University and brought it into the imperial examination, so that the status of these mathematicians rose to the top, and they earned a good income through teaching and tutoring. So they believe that this prince will not harm them.

"Don't be nervous, time is too rushed, the sergeants will inevitably be rude, this king apologizes to you." Zhu Zhen smiled and hugged his fists at them.

"The prince is too polite." Several arithmetic scholars were flattered while wiping their sweat and said: "If you have something to do, just give orders, and the grass people will definitely do it." ”

"Okay." Zhu Zhen asked each of them to give a piece of paper and ordered them to write down those topics on the spot.

(End of chapter)