In the city of Beijing at dawn, all the people in the city were talking about two major events in an instant.

It is nothing more than the death of the emperor and the examination of the imperial examination hall today.

Some ministers have written to say that today's imperial examination is unlucky, but they have all been suppressed by Yang Yanhe, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the empress dowager's decree.

Yang Yanhe took out the test papers that had been prepared before the death of the emperor and distributed them to the candidates in the Jinluan Palace.

After the candidates took the test papers, they took a look and found that most of the test questions issued by the former Emperor Zhengde actually involved side affairs and people's livelihood, but the Baguwen only accounted for a small part.

Seeing this, all the candidates were puzzled, so they asked the supervisor if there was a mistake in the examination paper?

The supervisor couldn't answer, so he hurried to report to the chief examiner, Yang Yanhe.

Yang Yanhe saw that all the candidates had doubts, so he said loudly:

"Sentient beings, I also know that you have memorized the eight-strand text for a lifetime, but the first emperor is good at martial arts, and the official has no right to change the test questions, it turned out to be the first emperor himself, we should also respect the first emperor and hope that all sliving beings can play freely."

After hearing this, the candidates did not dare to have any objections, so they had to honestly continue to concentrate on the questions.

At this time, Du did not forget to look at the first few answers in the test paper, which were naturally about guarding against Tatars and Japanese bandits, and asked how to crack down on bandits, corrupt officials, and corrupt officials, so he hurriedly waved his pen to answer.

After answering the questions about the soldiers, he asked questions about the treatment of disasters and the prevention of the Yellow River and locust plagues.

Then the question arises as to how to make ordinary people rich.

Finally, I wrote a small eight-strand text silently.

Du didn't forget that it felt simple, and he was the first to hand in the test paper after a while.

Then when I sat back and rested, I thought about it, this Zhu Houzhao can come up with this kind of test question, and it is not the work of a mediocre and unscrupulous king at all.

I can't help but think of the conversation between Zhu Houzhao and Feng Niang at the foot of Wudang Mountain before, and after recalling it.

Thinking about Zhu Houzhao asking him to save Jiang Bin's life before he died the day before yesterday, looking at the expectant eyes of an emperor before he died, and thinking about the person who arrested Jiang Bin last night was actually Feng Niang.

I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, and I didn't know what to do.

At this time, all the candidates had already handed in the test papers, and the chief examiner Yang Yanhe announced:

"At the end of this palace examination, the results will be announced in a few days, and all living beings can go home and wait for the good news."

At this time, Du Yifu, who was still in a daze, was pulled by Zhu Zhi and Chen Wanghou, and then came over anyway, so he asked:

"Is it over"?

Zhu Zhi first said:

"It's over, I think this palace test is really my taste, although I have failed a few times, but I will definitely be able to top three this time."

Chen Wanghou said on the side:

"You are in the top three, I must be the champion."

Du did not forget to calm down, and replied to the two with a smile:

"Brother Zhu has a lot of hope for the top three, but it will be difficult for you to dream of being the champion after Chen Wang."

A few people walked out of the palace with a smile, after all, the exam was finally over, and the stones in Zhu Zhi and Chen Wanghou's hearts inevitably fell to the ground, and they were relaxed for a while, leaving only Du Yi to forget the chaos in his heart.

When a few people just came out of the noon gate, a twenty-year-old handsome scholar walked out next to him, and when he saw that the three of them were chatting happily, he asked Du Yiyi:

"Brother Du, when I saw your heroic deeds yesterday, my little brother admired you very much and wanted to get to know you."

Du did not forget to glance at him and replied:

"This brother, I don't know your surname"?

The handsome scholar replied:

"The younger brother, surnamed Yang, the word Dafu, is Yang Shoufu's distant cousin."

After listening to it, Du did not forget to reply:

"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Yang, you also participated in this palace exam, right?"

Yang Dafu replied:

"Exactly, I hope that a few brothers who can be named on the gold list will be promoted more in the future"!

A few people chatted and came to a nearby restaurant.

After a period of drinking, eating and chatting, Du did not forget to find that this Yang Dafu was only moderately educated, but his heart was quite heavy.

After a few people celebrated, ate and drank until it was dark and returned to the Farewell Mansion, then Du Buyi remembered Jiang Bin's matter, so he motioned Zhu Zhi to go back to the Farewell Pavilion first, and went to Jiang Bin's mansion alone.

Du did not forget that since September last year, he has been in the capital for more than half a year, so he is naturally familiar with the city, and he came to Jiang Bin's mansion after a while.

The guards in Jiang Bin's mansion were all in a solemn state at this time, and when they saw that Du did not forget to come to the door, they came over to ask the reason.

Du Cheng did not forget and said to the guards:

"The emperor has a last word for me to convey to the governor of Jiangdu, can you spread it."

After hearing this, the guards hurried in.

At this time, a fat general came in front of him, very familiar, and he didn't forget to see that it was Zhang Hamu, who he hadn't seen for a long time.

As soon as Zhang Hamu saw that it was Du who did not forget, he quickly pulled out his knife and angrily ordered the guards on the side:

"Take this kid down".

The guards came with a bee chrysalis, and Du Yi had to take the opportunity to snatch a knife from one of the guards to resist.

Zhang Hamu saw that the guards couldn't catch Du for a while, so he drew his knife and prepared to shoot.

At this time, there was a sudden sound:

"Righteous son and slow".

Zhang Hamu had no choice but to withdraw the knife in his hand.

At this time, a hawk-eyed man walked out slowly, and then motioned for the guards to step back, and said to Du Yifu:

"This little brother is offended, I hope you will forgive me, please inside."

Then he made a gesture of please.

took Du Bu Bu to a secret room, and then invited Du Bu Bu to sit down and pour a cup of tea.

Then he asked:

"I don't know what last words the emperor asked this little brother to bring to the criminal minister Jiang Bin"?

Du did not forget to tell the truth about Zhu Houzhao's whole words.

After Jiang Bin listened, tears welled up in his eyes, and after a while, he said:

"Although I am a military general, I know that I have done a lot of harmful things, but I have also driven the Tatars, leveled several civil strife, and also made great achievements."

Then he continued:

"The emperor treats me like an adopted son, this kindness, I can't repay it even if I die,

The emperor is actually a good emperor who loves the people like a son, once we went to Xuanfu, the emperor was afraid that the army would hurt the good land of the Zhuang family, so he often asked the troops to take a detour.

And on the way to Nanjing, the emperor saw an old woman fall to the ground, and personally stepped forward to help him go home, so that we, the attendants, were embarrassed.

The emperor had a locust plague in Henan and a great drought, and the local residents raised their bark, and after the emperor knew about it, he personally ate a piece of the bark eaten by the local residents.

Then he ordered the household department to pay the money, but the household department couldn't come up with the money, so His Majesty had to beg the harem concubines one by one to take out the jewelry, change the cloth clothes, and eat half a moon porridge to get a part of the disaster relief money.

And those so-called ministers of speech and civil affairs have a lot of money in their own families, but they are unwilling to pay a penny, and in the end they even blame His Majesty for their ineffective disaster relief."

After Jiang Bin finished speaking, he began to cry.

Du did not forget to hear this at this time, and tears actually fell down.

I couldn't help but reply:

"His Majesty the Emperor is really not easy, no one praises him for doing good deeds, the slightest mistake is easy to be magnified, and it is rare for the emperor to be more of a lover."

Jiang Bin said again:

"If His Majesty the Emperor is really a mediocre lord, how can he still allow these officials and ministers to call for wind and rain in the imperial court, His Majesty the Emperor has been smart by nature since he was a child, just for fun, but he has never wasted political affairs."

Du Yi did not forget and asked:

"Then His Majesty the Emperor plays all day, how to deal with political affairs."

Jiang Bin wiped his tears and replied:

"Your Majesty has the eunuch Zhang Yong who holds the pen with him when he goes out, even if Yang Yanhe has reviewed the small things, they must be listed and passed on to His Majesty to see, not to mention the big things, directly sent to His Majesty for personal review

His Majesty basically read and watched the affairs of various places in the frame along the way, and he didn't even have time to enjoy the scenery, and he never stopped."

Then he said:

"There is also a beautiful saying, Your Majesty has never recruited beauties along the way, those beauties are all our courtiers, soldiers loot privately, and those beauties in Leopard Room and other places are offered by some civil servants, but Your Majesty doesn't want it, so he sent it to us for fun."

At this time, there was a sudden burst of swords outside, and a person hurriedly came in to report:

"The entire mansion has been surrounded by Jinyiwei, Zhao Gongqing heard that he has also been arrested, and now Jinyiwei has killed him, please make a quick decision to Governor Jiang."

Jiang Bin took a breath, and then calmly replied:

"Decision, now let me decide, what else can I do but surrender and be captured and desperately resist."

At this time, the guards had already come to the courtyard, arrested Jiang Bin's wife, children, and children, and then walked out of a eunuch dressed as a person, and said to Jiang Bin:

"Governor Jiang, do you come out and surrender yourself, or do you want us to give you a ride?"

As soon as Du Yi saw that this eunuch was not the same Zhang Yong he saw the day before, he quickly found a cloth to cover his face.

Jiang Bin saw that it was Zhang Yong, and replied with a smile:

"Father-in-law Zhang, you changed the court so quickly, you used to take refuge in Liu Jin as the Eight Tigers, and then your Majesty saved your life, befriended me, I don't know how grateful Your Majesty, and now you poison Your Majesty with Yang Yanhe, what a shameless villain."

Zhang Yong shouted loudly:

"The nonsense of the rebellious thief Hugh".

Then he motioned to a person dressed in a black scarf and brocade clothes to come up and arrest Jiang Bin.

The man jumped up and stabbed at Jiang Bin with a sword, Jiang Bin was born as a military general, and he had his own general martial arts, so he dodged away, pulled out Zhang Hamu's knife on the side and greeted him.

After a few moves, Jiang Bin was stabbed in the right hand with a knife by a scarfed guard, and fell to the ground at once.

At this time, the scarf-clad guard quickly stabbed Jiang Bin in the chest with a sword, and when he saw it, he saw it slowly, but when he stabbed it, he stabbed it quickly.

Du Bu Bu was thinking about how to block the sword of the woman in the scarf, when Zhang Hamu next to him suddenly rushed over, and directly blocked the sword for Jiang Bin with his chest, and blood splashed in an instant.

Jiang Bin saw that his son Zhang Hamu blocked a sword for himself, so he immediately crawled over to check his injuries, but the result was that he was hit in the heart, and he ran out of breath before he had a chance to speak.

At this time, the scarfed woman stabbed Jiang Bin again, and when she saw this, she couldn't help it anymore, so she had to rush forward and pick up the knife that Jiang Bin had just discarded, and fought with the scarf brocade guard.

It was a scene of two masked men fighting, and everyone on the side looked at the two people in the field.

After the two of them fought for a while, the scarf brocade guard seemed to have deliberately slowed down his moves, and Du Cheng was a little angry and said:

"If you want to kill, you will kill, why be merciful".

The scarf brocade guard, at this time, deliberately forced Du Buyi to the wall farther away from the crowd, and whispered:

"I'm Feng Niang, don't forget that you calm down, do you want to save Jiang Bin"?

At this time, as soon as he heard Feng Niang's voice, he hurriedly said:

"I have to save Jiang Bin tonight, even if I am killed by you, I will do this, because I promised someone."

He gradually slowed down his moves, worried about hurting Feng Niang.