The main responsibility of the Ministry of Rites was to supervise the ceremonies, sacrifices, banquets, imperial examinations, and foreign affairs activities in the imperial court.

Ceremonies, sacrifices, and feasts are counted several times a year, and it is not necessary to have a foreign affairs event once a few years.

Then there is only one most important work left in the Ministry of Rites, that is, the triennial imperial examination.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu is the highest-ranking official of the Ministry of Rites, who should be responsible for the fraud in the imperial examination this time?

Miao Shijin's cold sweat almost penetrated his official uniform, if this case is decided, the Miao family will be dead.

"Your Majesty, no, this is impossible." Miao Shijin couldn't accept such a thing for a while, his head was buzzing, Venus was in front of him, and his thoughts were frozen.

"The fact of iron-clad is in front of you, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are obvious to all, what else is impossible?" The Emperor angrily kicked over the dragon book case, and then coughed violently.

"Long live the wrath."

"The dragon body is important, please long live the anger."

The Manchu civil and military knelt on the ground, kowtowed and shouted. The two eunuchs were busy one left and one right, holding the spittoon, patting the back, and brushing the chest, and the emperor's tone finally came over.

There are four divisions under the Ministry of Rites: the Department of Ceremonial and Cleaning Officials, which is in charge of the ceremony, military ceremony, management of academic affairs, and imperial examinations; The priest of the ancestral sacrifice is in charge of auspicious and murderous affairs; The host and guest clearance department, in charge of the guest ceremony and the reception of foreign guests; Fine food and clean officials, in charge of feasting (sound enjoyment) and gluttony (sound fine) prison affairs.

Obviously, the fattest of the four divisions is the Ritual Cleaning Division, and now the people in the Ritual Cleaning Division wish that they had never entered the Ministry of Rites, even if they had never been literate since birth, and they had been farming in the barren mountains.

"Miao Shi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, neglected his duties, regarded the imperial examination as a child's play, dared to leak the examination questions for personal gain, ignored the country's society, ate the court in vain, lived up to the emperor's grace, and lost his heart."

The emperor said so many words in one breath, and he said it with great momentum, he was inevitably a little tired, and he was panting for breath while holding the dragon book.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the minister didn't have it, the minister didn't leak the exam questions, and the minister didn't dare to die." Miao Shijin knelt and climbed two steps, he didn't know where to justify it at all, how could this happen?

He couldn't have imagined that such a thing could happen when he shattered his brain, this incident came too suddenly and unexpectedly, and it caught him off guard.

"This exam question is from you, only I know except you, you didn't leak the exam question, could it be that I leaked it?"

The emperor gritted his teeth and looked like he hated iron but not steel, and no one could see that the emperor was extremely disappointed in Miao Shijin.

"No, no." Of course, Miao Shijin couldn't believe that it would be leaked by the emperor, this is a big joke, this is absolutely impossible.

So how did the exam questions leak? Who else knows? Miao Shijin suddenly remembered that he had been to Kunning Palace that day, and casually said that the exam questions were a world of great controversy, could it be that the people in the queen's palace passed it out?

It is possible to sell this exam question for a hundred gold or even ten thousand gold, and people die for money, what do you dare not do if it is profitable?

Besides, Miao Shijin really didn't mention the exam questions to anyone.

"Your Majesty, give Weichen a little time, and Wechen will definitely be able to find out who leaked the exam questions."

"No need, the investigation is the business of the Criminal Department, so you don't have to worry about it." The emperor sighed: "The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Miao Shijin, the Ministry of Rites Lang Pan Jiucheng, Qin Ming and the Tianzihao Prison of the Ministry of Rites, and the cadres of the Department of Ritual and Qing Officials are all handed over to the Criminal Department for trial." ”

Pan Jiucheng, known as the Ninth Prince, is Miao Shijin's son-in-law. Qin Minghe, a former detective, Miao Shijin's nephew. These two people are also quite famous upper-class figures in the imperial capital.

For such a big matter as the imperial examination case, Miao Shijin had to be temporarily imprisoned no matter what, but Pan Jiucheng could be arrested or not. This year's imperial examination can be said to have nothing to do with Pan Jiucheng.

Although Pan Jiucheng is a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, he is mainly responsible for the Host and Guest Officials Division and the Jingshan Officials Division, and has nothing to do with the imperial examination.

Qin Minghe is not wronged, after all, he is in charge of the ritual and Qing Officials Division.

These people in the court may not have much ability to say that they are doing the right thing, but if they want to figure out people's hearts, especially those who are thousands of years old, they are all fine goods.

Don't say that such an obvious move is to fart, and they can analyze the pros and cons.

With the momentum of Empress Miao's favored harem, the Miao family's deep-rooted financial power and connections, the emperor will not easily have the idea of moving the Miao family.

Even if there is such a big imperial examination case, the emperor will just go through the motions, put Miao Shijin in prison and then 'find out' the facts of the case before releasing him, or demote or fine, maybe he can be promoted.

Therefore, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty should quickly kowtow to intercede for the Miao family at this time.

But this time it was different, no one stood up to say good things for the Miao family in tears.

Because everyone saw the difference, the emperor didn't even let go of the ninth prince, and Pan Jiucheng had no other reason to arrest him except that he was a member of the Ministry of Rites.

Why did the emperor even go to prison with him? This is a signal that everything that touches the seedling word must be careful. At this time, whoever speaks for the Miao family is a chaotic minister and a thief, and whoever is against the party is the remnants of the party.

Didn't you see that you took Emperor Jing back to the palace yesterday? Today, all the central figures of the Miao family were put in prison.

These tribute students all traveled thousands of miles to the capital to seek officials, and now they are so frightened that they only have half a life left. The Ministry of Rites and Scholars have all been imprisoned, can they have a way to live?

"You foolish things, what have you learned after more than ten years of hard study? Be honest, you can't even do the word integrity, what kind of official do you want? ”

The emperor reprimanded them, but did not condemn them.

"I read that you are all first-time offenders, each of you will send five boards and send them down, and you will all go back to study as a good student. The current list will be invalidated, and the exam will be retaken in ten days. If there are any fraudsters, I will double the reward for these five boards. ”

The emperor pressed the hearts of those tribute students back to his chest with a word, and all of them raised their hearts to their throats, and they didn't dare to open their mouths wide, for fear of spitting out their hearts.

"Thank you, Lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Du Maoqing, the head of the household department, went down to the court and pulled Prime Minister Liu Cheng to talk endlessly, Prime Minister Liu Cheng's performance today is too much like a trust.

spared no effort to praise the fake Lu Feiming's article, and even did not hesitate to propose Rang Xian, this is to say that he didn't know something in advance, who would believe it?

Prime Minister Liu really didn't go through with anyone, he just saw the clue with those old eyes.

Today's tributes are all like Wenqu Xing Linfan, lifting the pen to brush and write, after a spring cannibalization of leaves, the words are all beady.

In particular, the article that Liu Cheng Xiang read was even more different.

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