Zhongju, a scholar who visited the Nineteenth Prince late at night, took out something from his arms with a nervous and serious expression and handed it to the Nineteenth Prince.

And the Nineteenth Prince suddenly stopped at the key point, and Mu Yirong couldn't help but ask, "What is it?"

"Exam papers. ”

Zhongju, a scholar who anxiously visited the Nineteenth Prince's Mansion in the middle of the night, handed over to the Nineteenth Prince was the test paper for this year's Enke Examination.

The test papers of the Enke examination, before the examination starts, are stored in the examination paper pavilion of the "Gongyuan", and the gatehouse is usually locked, guarded by guards, and no one is allowed to enter or leave casually.

However, the test papers were revealed in advance, which indicates that someone entered the Tribute Academy, stole the test papers and sold them, or the Hanlin Academy, which was responsible for the questions, leaked the test papers.

The Gongyuan is guarded by guards, and it is difficult to enter, so it is very likely that the problem is the Hanlin Temple.

The scholars of the Hanlin Academy are the highest group of scholars in Yan and Zhou, and the most time-honored group of people will draft confidential edicts for the current saints, known as the "private of the Son of Heaven", and it is also the most convenient way to be promoted to prime minister.

This year's Enke exam is the same as in the past, and the holding and invigilation of the exam are all in charge of the Ministry of Rites and the two attendants on the left and right.

The production and marking of the papers are the responsibility of the Hanlin Academy.

This year's examination papers were also written and reviewed by scholars of the Hanlin Academy, cabinet scholars, Guozi priests, and several ministers of the Hanlin Academy.

If the test papers and questions are flowing out of the Hanlin Academy, these close ministers are all suspicious.

Mu Yirong, whose brows were twisted, asked the nineteenth prince if he had ever flipped through the leaked test paper with his own eyes, and could he judge that it was the exam question prepared by Enke this year?

The nineteenth prince, who was always giggling, nodded solemnly and said, he unfolded the test paper and flipped through it.

Although he didn't know what questions would come out of this year's Enke exam, he knew after reading the leaked test paper that this test paper was definitely not a fake test paper made up for the purpose of defrauding people of money, and nine times out of ten it was the real test question to be produced in this year's Enke exam.

When Mu Yirong heard this, his heart suddenly cooled, the case of the scholar Zhongju being killed was really not simple.

The night before yesterday, the Nineteenth Prince was also deeply shocked after reading the leaked test papers.

This matter is not trivial, and the Nineteenth Prince immediately personally took the scholar Zhongju to the Grand Prince's Mansion.

The eldest prince, who was woken up in the middle of the night, was also shocked when he heard this, and asked the scholar Zhongju again and again if he could be sure that these test papers were real?

Also, where did he get these papers?

When he was in the palace, the Nineteenth Prince, who was shocked, completely forgot to ask the scholar where he got the test papers. also blamed him for being greedy for a cup, and he drank a few more glasses of wine with Qing Yan in a good mood, but his mind was a little unclear at the time, so he didn't ask more.

After thinking about it for a while, Scholar Zhongju truthfully informed him that these test papers were bought from someone else by a fellow villager who lived in a room with him in the Rifle Inn.

The person who sold the test paper assured that the test paper was absolutely genuine and there was absolutely no problem. 187

If you don't see the real test paper, no one can guarantee that the test paper in the hand of the scholar Zhongju is real, this matter is not trivial, and you must report it to the current saint.

However, it is impossible to confirm whether these leaked test papers are true or false, in case they are fake, the eldest prince will be provoked, offended the Hanlin Academy, not to mention, and it is very likely that he will be wronged and he will exclude dissidents.

Several scholars of the Hanlin Academy are all on good terms with the grandfather of the second prince, Shenguo, although the Hanlin Academy did not express its support for the second prince on the surface, but it is almost the same.

If this matter is not done well, it will be wronged by others It is a party dispute, and if you can't steal the fox, you will make a commotion!

When the scholar Zhongju got the test paper, he didn't believe that the test paper was real, and felt that his fellow villagers had been deceived of money.

But as he read the volume carefully, he was surprised to find that the more he looked at it, the more wrong it became. And at that time, his fellow villagers repeatedly assured him that these leaked test papers were absolutely true, and as long as he reviewed these questions in advance, the title of the gold list would definitely not be a problem at that time.

Zhongju, an upright scholar who has always been unable to rub sand in his eyes, naturally can't let this kind of immoral and unfair thing happen, so he immediately asked his fellow townsman who bought the test papers?

The townsman told him that the person who bought and sold the test papers looked very much like the domestic servant of an official eunuch, well-dressed, and very convincing in conversation, but he did not know the real name of the other party, only knew that his nickname was "Bao Zhong", and told the scholar Zhongju where he could meet him.

According to the location told by the fellow countryman, the scholar Zhongju went to a store in the Western Regions called Jixiang Ruyi in the West Market to find a person nicknamed "Baozhong".

As a result, the scholar Zhong was lifted there, and before he could say a few words, he was blasted out by two or three Hu people inside.

The Hu people in the small shop in the auspicious Ruyi Western Regions said that there was no person named Bao Zhong in their store, and there were no other Han people, so they asked the scholar Zhongju to get out of the house quickly and not to make trouble.

No one, no one, why do you want to drive people away, scholar Zhongju felt that something was not quite right.

He remembered that the eldest prince had the intention of wooing him before, and he felt that the eldest prince had a good character, so he just went to discuss this matter with him.

It's just that before the scholar Zhongju left the West Market, he was targeted by several ill-intentioned people who wanted to snatch his things.

He didn't go out with anything valuable, but he carried the exam paper that was suspected of leaking, and the scholar Zhongju, who was worried that the exam paper would be robbed, resisted desperately, and finally escaped.

After informing the Nineteenth Prince and the eldest prince of all these things, the scholar Zhongju asserted that this matter was not simple, and if it was connected in series, it was not difficult to see that someone knew that he wanted to poke out the leakage of the exam papers, so he planned to snatch the leaked exam papers from his hands.

The nineteenth prince, whose wine strength was gradually dissipating, felt that the scholar Zhongju was a little bit of a bow and snake shadow, and made a fuss.

Maybe he just happened to meet a robber and bad guy, and knowing that he was a candidate who came to Beijing from other places to take the exam, he thought he had money on him, so he wanted to rob him.

However, scholar Zhongju did not agree, and since he got this suspected leaked exam paper, what happened around him was full of weirdness. He believes that the exam paper in his hand is definitely a leaked test paper.

The Great Prince, Daoist scholar Zhongju, firmly believed that this was useless, and they had to come up with enough evidence to prove it in front of the saints today.

However, at the moment, the Enke exam has not yet started, and there is no way to prove the authenticity of the exam papers, so we can only wait for the end of tomorrow's exam and compare them.

In fact, it is not impossible to do anything, as long as you ask the current saint to open the examination paper pavilion where the examination papers are stored in the Gongyuan, and compare the examination papers inside with the leaked test papers, you will know the authenticity and falsehood.

But this is inevitably a bit of a fuss, to take a big risk, in case it is just an oolong incident, scholar Zhongju will not want to take the Enke exam this year, the eldest prince and the nineteenth prince will also be involved, the angry current saint is small, but messing up the Enke exam will be a big trouble.