novelraw Chapter 246
Chapter 246
The examination will take nine days in total, of which three days are one round.That is to say, candidates have to stay in the examination room for a total of three days before they are allowed to come out to rest for one night, and then stay for another three days.
On the second day, it was still about the same time, and those candidates went to the latrine to get the answers.
This time, with precautions, someone has been secretly watching the hut, but the effect is not good, and it is still the person from yesterday who found it.
But the good news is that the people who connected with that person found out that they were officers and soldiers guarding the gate of the Gongyuan.
You must know that for this test, Emperor Xingde specially ordered the Imperial Guards to supervise him. Unexpectedly, the people behind the scenes are so powerful that even the Imperial Guards can bribe people.
When Emperor Xingde found out, he was furious. Who were the imperial guards? They were the personal guards who guarded the palace and protected his personal safety.
Such a person can be bribed, so is there a safe place around him?
Thinking of this, Emperor Xingde wished to dig out the people behind the scenes immediately, otherwise he, the emperor, would be insecure and worried that he would be killed one day.
The emperor paid more attention and sent double the number of manpower. Even the elites of Jin Yiwei were allocated half of them.
Under such strict monitoring, the people behind the scenes slowly surfaced.
The person who put the note from the hut followed the clues, found the person who sent the note to the tribute courtyard, and then found the person who wrote the answer, no, not one person, but a group of people.
They have a courtyard near the Gongyuan, and there are thirteen people answering questions in the courtyard, that is to say, they serve thirteen candidates.
Taking advantage of the darkness, Jin Yiwei wiped out all these people, interrogated them overnight, and found the person who made the decision, that is, the steward of the yard.
The steward was stubborn at first, and refused to say anything, but he couldn't stand Jin Yiwei's tricks, so he finally confessed everything.
His master is Prince Rui!
Who is Prince Rui?He is the youngest son of the first emperor.
In his later years, the first emperor favored a folk woman. That woman had a natural beauty, but her temper exploded like a chili pepper. Even the first emperor dared to beat her when she got angry.
In the first year of entering the palace, she gave birth to the late emperor's youngest son in the second year, and was promoted to be the imperial concubine.
For her sake, the first emperor killed countless concubines, including Emperor Xingde's biological mother. Because of her relationship with the first emperor's noble concubine, she was insulted and demoted time and time again.From the original concubine position, all the way down to a nobleman.
That woman has something wrong with her, she just likes to watch the concubines who were originally noble, and she is forced to be helpless.
Therefore, there are still many concubines who have the same fate as Emperor Xingde's biological mother. Those who gave birth to princes were demoted again and again, but those who did not give birth to princes were miserable, and several of them would die within two or three years.
In the end, all the women in the palace were frightened, and they united to kill the imperial concubine. The first emperor was so angry that he laid down millions of corpses.All the people involved in this matter went down to accompany the late emperor and noble concubine to be buried.No matter whether they have given birth to a prince or not, they are not qualified to make an exception.
The princes couldn't bear this grievance, so they planned to rebel, but the first emperor was a bit of a fool, and he still had the ability to be emperor, so how could those princes be his opponents.
Also by this, the first emperor cleaned up all the rebellious princes, intending to let them make way for the youngest son.
But he only missed one prince, that is Emperor Xingde.
Emperor Xingde was also a member who wanted to rebel at the beginning, but the day before the action, the queen mother made an excuse, called him over, and then broke his leg.
When the rebellion happened, Emperor Xingde didn't attend at all, so the late emperor couldn't deal with him.
At that time, the youngest son of the late emperor, Prince Rui, was only eight years old.
The first emperor killed and imprisoned the princes, but Emperor Xingde couldn't do anything about it. At that time, he was raising his legs in the mansion, and he didn't even go out.Gradually, he was forgotten.
The first emperor thought that he cleared the obstacles for the youngest son, and only when the youngest son grew up and inherited his throne, he could go down to accompany the imperial concubine.But what he didn't expect was that his body didn't live up to expectations. When Prince Rui was 12 years old, he couldn't hold on anymore.
Guo Lai Changjun, the emperor's childhood registration is not a good thing, especially when he has an older brother.
The terminally ill Xiandi regretted letting Emperor Xingde go, letting him interfere with his youngest son's throne.Fortunately, if Emperor Xingde really died, the youngest son would not be able to manage the country well, and he might die because of it.
After all, the master is weak and the minister is strong, so there is no guarantee that someone will not want to rebel.
In desperation, the first emperor had no choice but to pass the throne to Emperor Xingde, but he also left protection for his youngest son.The youngest son was named Prince Rui, hereditary, and the secret guards were handed over to the youngest son, so as to ensure the safety of the youngest son.
Before he died, the first emperor ordered the queen mother to raise Prince Rui until he reached adulthood.
For the sake of Emperor Xingde's reputation, the Empress Dowager gritted her teeth and held back this breath, raised Prince Rui, and when he had his coming-of-age ceremony, she couldn't wait to move out of the palace.
These years, Prince Rui has been staying in the mansion honestly, he knows that he is in the eyes of the emperor's mother and son, and never takes the initiative to appear in the eyes of everyone.
Emperor Xingde thought that he was safe, and for the sake of being his own younger brother, he let him go, and only had people monitor Prince Rui's mansion, and that was it.
Unexpectedly, this Prince Rui was a good tactician, and secretly organized a group of forces, not only forming a party for personal gain, but also playing tricks on the imperial examination.
The emperor was furious, and immediately ordered to arrest Prince Rui and put him in jail, and ordered Jin Yiwei to investigate the matter thoroughly, and all those involved, as well as Prince Rui's henchmen, would be thoroughly investigated.
At the same time, the examination room was also chaotic. Under the order of the leader, the patrolling officers and soldiers rushed into more than a dozen examination rooms and arrested all the candidates who were found to be cheating.
Candidates panicked and didn't know what happened.
After those people were taken away, the leader stood up and explained, "Students, don't panic. You can answer the question with peace of mind. Those people were found to be cheating, and it has nothing to do with you. But everyone has seen their fate. If you catch it, you may lose your life, so please don't do something humiliating and follow in the footsteps of those people."
Only then did the students return to the number room with lingering fear, and continued to answer the questions just now.
With the arrest of the students who cheated, officials related to Prince Rui also fell down one after another. It was so fast that it was hard not to doubt that Emperor Xingde had expected it. Find all people.It can be seen that the surveillance of these years is not useless.
Among them, the family of Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites is among them.
Anxi originally thought that the Minister of Rites only knew what kind of virtue his son had, so he would come into contact with cheaters for him, but he did not expect that he was originally Prince Rui's man.
That's no wonder the cheating in the previous two scientific examinations was done so quietly.
The Ministry of Rites was originally in charge of the imperial examination. Although the examiner designated by the emperor was the one who set the questions and the emperor selected the questions, everything in the examination room was arranged by the Ministry of Rites. The preservation of the test papers was also helped by the Ministry of Rites. It's a breeze to get in by yourself.
In the previous two times, they knew the test questions in advance, found someone to write the answers, and then let the students memorize them.
But this time, because Anxi revealed it in advance, the emperor secretly changed the exam papers and voided the three original copies.
This gave them an opportunity to catch them.
This time Emperor Xingde was ruthless and wanted to make these moths look good, so he completely disregarded the last emperor's will and directly ordered that Prince Rui be deprived of his title and demoted to a commoner.
As for the others, including the Minister of Rites, all those who had contact with this matter were all beheaded, and their families were all exiled thousands of miles away and sent to the frontier to mine.
After hearing the news, Li Yunqian regretted it for a while, "Hey, I don't know who the person who helped Li Jingxuan write poems is. I will never have the chance to see such a talented woman again."
Anxi smiled and said, "It's not that there is no chance."
Li Yunqian's eyes lit up, "Really? Do you know who it is? Tell me, tell me."
"It's Li Jingyi, the third daughter of the Li family."
"How do you know, have you checked?"
"No." Anxi shook her head.
"Then how do you know?" Li Yunqian didn't believe it!
"Fang Hengshan told me."
"Eh? There's a story!" Li Yunqian's eyes lit up.
There is indeed a story, and that's how it happened.
Since the collection of poems and wishes, Fang Hengshan deeply admired Li Jingxuan's talent, and often wrote letters to discuss with him.Li Jingxuan kept in touch with Fang Hengshan in order to show off or make a name for himself.
In addition to exchanging letters, the two would meet to go out and play together. The number of times, Fang Hengshan, a very smart person, discovered the clues.
Li Jingxuan is simply an incompetent idiot, where is the talented pen pal who beat him!
For Fang Hengshan to be recruited by Anxi, he must not be a pedantic person. Although he is arrogant, it doesn't mean that he is ignorant of the world. He has never come into contact with cheating, but he has heard of it.
After knowing that Li Jingxuan is a fake, I want to know more and more who is behind the poet!
After several overt and covert probings, Fang Hengshan came up with an astonishing conjecture that the person who wrote the poem might be Li Jingxuan's concubine third sister, a 13-year-old girl.
While Fang Hengshan was surprised by this, he also became very interested.He was originally a genius-like figure. He was selected as a scholar at the age of 12, and he was selected as a scholar at the age of [-]. He was also the only outstanding one in a place with a prosperous literary style in Jiangnan.
However, there is a person who is more powerful than him in the capital. He thinks that when he was 13 years old, he could not write such a good poem.
For this reason, Fang Hengshan was extremely curious, what kind of person is this?
Through a few small things, Fang Hengshan made Li Jingxuan feel good about him, and invited him to his home.Then he saw the little girl, and at the same time knew her helplessness.
Li Jingyi's biological mother was originally the daughter of a scholar. After being seen by Master Li, Minister of Rites, she was amazed by her appearance, so she was brought into the mansion. She was very favored for several years, but she also offended her aunt because of it.
After Mrs. Li moved on and fell in love with an oiran, her biological mother fell into the hands of the aunt, who suffered a lot for several years.
Once, the aunt asked her biological mother to kneel in the snow to pick up Buddha beans. If she didn't finish picking up Buddha beans, she couldn't leave.In that kind of weather, as long as it takes a little longer, the biological mother will get sick and die.
Li Jingyi gritted her teeth and offered to help her brother Li Jingxuan, so that he could go out to play. The only request was to help her biological mother.
At that time, Li Jingxuan was only eight years old, just the age for fun, so he agreed immediately.
That's it, Li Jingyi's gang has been there for six years, and it wasn't until three years ago that the truth was revealed. Only then did Master Li and his wife realize that their talented son-in-law is a fake, and the concubine's talent is real.
After a quarrel between the husband and wife, they reached a consensus to continue pretending for the sake of their son's future, no matter what, they must pretend to the end.
As for the third miss of the Li family, whenever her brother-in-law was in need, she was locked up at home, unable to go out or marry.Who told her to come up with such a bad idea in the first place!