The whole truth was found out within a few days, and all the people involved in the case were arrested.

There is no way, there are too many people involved in this kind of case, and there are not a few people who know about it, so there is no way to keep it secret.

But what is puzzling is that except for Zhao Mao, the civil officials involved still wanted to push back and block, from Liu Sanwu downwards, all of them happily admitted what they had done......

~~

"Yes, it was all my idea." Liu Sanwu stood in the hall and said bluntly to Xin Guogong, who interrogated him: "We are worried that His Royal Highness the King of Chu will definitely come up with some questions that only college students can do, so as to prevent people from taking the Jinshi examination. So I asked Zhao Butang to try to send a copy of the arithmetic exam paper so that the lifters could preview it in advance. ”

"Good fellows." Tang He was stunned, and asked the criminal department Shangshu Kaiji on the side: "Did he admit to leaking the exam questions?" ”

"Yes." Kaiji nodded expressionlessly.

"What 'give a copy', 'preview it', so understated, I thought it was a big deal." Xin Guogong couldn't help but laugh.

"Weighing the pros and cons, compared to the serious consequences of all the people taking the exam, the old man's behavior of giving them the exam questions to prepare for is really insignificant." Liu Sanwu said with a natural face: "The old man has also done math problems, and he knows that using this test to raise people is to deliberately cheat people." ”

"It seems that among the six arts of you scholars, there is also arithmetic, right?" Tang He asked uncertainly.

"Yes, there is, but in fact, most of the people who read are dedicated to reading only the books of the sages." Kaiji coughed awkwardly.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu uses what they are best at to deal with people's shortest places, this is so unfair! The unfair contest is only a one-sided slaughter, so we must take the initiative to defend ourselves! Liu Sanwu said with a heartfelt voice.

"Active self-defense? Readers are really a set. Tang He grinned, suddenly slapped the table heavily, and said with a change of color: "Let's not talk about arithmetic." Just talking about scriptures, that's your old business, right? Writing is always your longest place, right? Why cheat?! ”

~~

During the interrogation of Peng Kui, Yao Chuan and other important criminals, Jin Yiwei learned that in addition to leaking the exam questions, Liu Sanwu and his gang also agreed with the candidates on the 'joints' during the scripture exam.

The so-called 'joint' is the code for the examiner and the candidate to cheat through specific words on the paper, which is also the most concealed fraud method in the imperial examination era.

During the Song Dynasty, the status of civil officials was unprecedentedly improved, and the imperial examination was naturally popular. In order to avoid favoritism by the examiner, two preventive measures were taken, that is, the candidate's information on the test paper was pasted on paper, and the examination paper was also copied by special personnel, and the transcript was handed over to the examiner for marking.

It is said that in this way, the examiner will not be able to identify the identity of the candidate, but the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high, and soon there will be a response method of 'through the joint'. Specifically, the examiner and the candidate agree to add a specific word as a code in a certain passage.

To be sure, there is usually more than one word for joint. For example, if you agree on a certain three paragraphs of the article, use 'woohoo', 'yu xi', and 'zhiye' as the ending words in turn.

Another example is to split and embed some rare idioms, such as '螽 Si Yanqing' and 'auspicious light piece feather' into the article.

There are even more daring ones, and even directly embed their own names or those of their elders in separate articles...... In short, everything remains the same. In this way, after the examiner enters the venue, as long as he finds the agreed words in this article, he can find out the candidates to be taken care of, and there is no mistake.

Therefore, those candidates who have passed through the joints, even if the donkey's lips are not right on the horse's mouth, they can also get it.

~~

"Bachelor Liu, you said that you are such a first-year scholar, how can you be so shameless?" Even Tang and such coarse people know that this is the biggest unfairness for candidates who answer the questions honestly!

"The purpose of the joint is to prevent the students of Guozi University from taking the Jinshi examination and blending into the ranks of civil officials." Liu Sanwu still said confidently:

"Needless to say, His Royal Highness the King of Chu took advantage of the unique status of Guozi University to attract a group of young talents who did not know the truth, and also recruited some talented and virtuous so-called famous teachers to teach."

After a pause, he sighed and said, "So the level of knowledge of college students is actually higher than that of the ......."

In addition to what Liu Sanwu said just now, there are actually two very important factors in terms of teachers and students, which determine the level of Guozi college students, which has far exceeded that of the provinces.

The first is the advanced university education system, which has completely exploded the original education model of learning in various provinces and counties. Second, under Song Ne's strict management, all the teachers and students of the school did their best, and they couldn't slack off at all......

Although it is said that readers are known as 'every inch of time and every inch of gold', in this slow-paced era, the time for truly effective learning every day is very limited. In the traditional education model, the learning efficiency is also average...... In the past 20 years, the reader has learned so many points of the Four Books and Five Classics and Cheng Zhu's sermons, and he basically knows nothing else.

However, at Guozi University, the effective study time and learning efficiency are close to the high school level of later generations, which is a complete dimensionality reduction blow to traditional readers. College students can persist until graduation, and their level has basically left behind traditional readers.

Liu Sanwu is in charge of the Hanlin Academy, and he is very clear about the level of candidates on both sides. He and his comrades knew very well that people had to die more than people, and goods had to be thrown away. If these college students are allowed to enter the ranks of administrative officials, it will not be many years before the traditional scholars will have no place in the officialdom.

That's why they take risks and help the lifters cheat. And you can't just use the disadvantages of arithmetic, that can't open up the gap, and there will still be a large number of college students who stand out by relying on the results of the other two courses.

"It was only revealed that the arithmetic test paper was not safe, so the old man wrote a joint note again, asking the examiners to take care of their own people." Liu Sanwu confessed calmly: "Only in this way can we ensure that college students are kept out of the gold list." ”

"What a 'person who takes care of himself', haha, let's leak my mouth!" Tang He grabbed Liu Sanwu's handle and said with a shameless smile: "In your eyes, only the people of the same province are your own people, right?" ”

"As long as you are a disciple of a saint, you are your own person." Liu Sanwu said lightly.

"Then why don't you take any of the lifts in the north?" Tang He asked, "Is this what it looks like to treat them as your own?" ”

"Zi said: 'If Yi Di enters China, then China will be Chinese, and if China enters Yi Di, then Yi Di will be Yi Di.' The northerners have been enslaved by Hulu for too long, and the bloody spirit has not been removed, and the customs and deeds are close to Yidi, and it will take a few years to restore culture and education. Until then, I still can't count myself as my own people. Liu Sanwu said as a matter of course.

(End of chapter)