Although the prime minister's faction tried their best to suppress this matter, Huo Caiyu had prepared a trap for the prime minister for so long, and of course he would not give up.There are a few great Confucians who are not in the same league as the Prime Minister's faction, and the authenticity of the exam questions has been completely determined, and the question is where the examiners and cheating students got the exam questions.The officials of the Third Division investigated for a long time in the place where the exam questions were stored by the Guozijian, but they could not find any evidence of stealing the exam questions.Prime Minister Ye Cheng seized this point and buckled Huo Caiyu's hat in the court: Your Majesty, since there is no evidence of stealing the exam questions, then only Master Huo is the only one who can miss the questions.Several officials from the Prime Minister's faction chimed in.Huo Caiyu's face remained unchanged: What do you think of Sun Qiping's confession?
Prime Minister Ye Cheng is so shrewd, naturally he will not directly mix in the sale of exam questions, and several cheating examiners who were put in prison confessed one after another with the efforts of the Criminal Department, but did not confess to the prime minister himself, only implicated a few peaks, and then broke off.Although everyone knew that this must have been a good deed done by the prime minister, there was no evidence to convict him.Prime Minister Ye Cheng snorted: Under the bending and beating, it is also human nature to bite each other and cover up the real mastermind behind the scenes.Huo Caiyu knew that the prime minister had made several efforts, and wanted to send someone to secretly hint that a few detained examiners poured dirty water on him, but they were all stopped by the reorganized prison of the Criminal Department.In fact, if you look carefully, there are enough traces to point to the prime minister himself, everything is impossible and without a trace, and there are always clues left.It's just that these evidences are not enough to convict the prime minister himself, so Huo Caiyu didn't take it out to attack, and left it for the next blow to kill.In the past few days, there have been several quarrels in the court, and they have directly quarreled until the end of the statistics of the results of the imperial examination.All the exam papers combined, and a third of the answer papers bought the wrong exam questions.This ratio really shocked Li Jinyu.If the prime minister really succeeds, the rectification of the imperial examination will be completely useless, and the reform that Huo Caiyu has painstakingly worked on will inevitably become a joke.At that time, the general faction and the neutral faction may not give them any more looks.He thought that he would take this opportunity to bring down the prime minister in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect Huo Caiyu to tell him in private: It is enough to take back the power of the ministry.Li Jinyu was a little dazed: Why?
The prime minister's faction has deep roots, and it will be difficult to uproot them this time, and the family will not sit idly by.Huo Caiyu analyzed that the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households are the two most important departments, and if we take back one of them, it will be enough to gain the upper hand.He paused, lowering his voice slightly, not to mention, the most important purpose this time was to cut off the foundation of the prime minister.Although Li Jinyu didn't understand it very well, in line with his trust in Huo Caiyu, he still ended the topic in the early dynasty: The two Aiqing are both pillars of the country, so don't be infighting because of the contradictions of outsiders.This was said so falsely that Prime Minister Ye and Huo Caiyu looked at it speechlessly.Li Jinyu coughed: Whether it is Huo Aiqing or the prime minister, there is no evidence in this matter that there is any involvement.The three divisions should pay attention to evidence in adjudicating cases, and no trumped-up charges should be mentioned.He set his eyes on the trembling officials Shangshu, since this time it was the problem of the officials, Shangshu could not escape the blame.The official department is Prime Minister Ye's person, and he is naturally shrewd and decisive to sit in this position, and he has long foreshadowed that he may become a victim of compromise in the struggle between His Majesty and the Prime Minister, so he knelt down in silence.dismissed from the post of secretary of the ministry and suspended pending discussion; Huo Caiyu served as the secretary of the new ministry.Prime Minister Ye Cheng's face fluctuated slightly, and he was silent for a moment, knowing that his side did not have an advantage in this matter, so he first admitted it: the ministers are in order.The Prime Minister faction thought that the loss of a subordinate was their biggest loss this time, but they didn't expect that more trouble was still to come.One-third of the candidates who bought the exam questions were punished with a board, and all of them were rushed back, and the files were recorded, and they were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination again for ten years.It's okay to play the board, but being banned from participating in the imperial examination for ten years is simply the way for them to be promoted.Except for those geniuses, which student has passed the children's examination and the township examination, and does not have to be twenty or thirty years old?
There are also some old boys and old talents, whose beards are gray and have not yet been lifted.Ten years later, I'm afraid the court has changed a group of people!
These showmen, who were beaten to the point that they couldn't sit up and could only lie on a stretcher and be carried back, almost all of them fainted when they heard the bad news.Huo Caiyu took the opportunity to post an official notice of favoritism and fraud in this imperial examination.The circular cleverly concealed the arrangement of the real and false test questions, and only said that some DPRK and Chinese officials sold fake test questions and dealt with them jointly.The anger of these students, who had been banned for ten years, suddenly found a way to vent.It's not that they have a problem buying the exam questions, it's that the people who sell the exam questions sell the fake ones!
Resentment and remorse find an outlet.At this time, the officials involved in the case have all been imprisoned, and rumors have quietly spread in the streets: Prime Minister Ye covers the sky with one hand, and the officials and scholars were all his students, and this time the matter must be instructed by the prime minister!
Some of the questions purchased are ordinary students who want to go crooked, and a large part of them are concubines of various families.After Li Jinyu's new policy was promoted, the concubines lost their qualifications to inherit the family business and pinned their hopes on the imperial examination.After being victimized by fake exam questions and losing the money to buy exam questions, they not only have to face ridicule from other friends, but also face rejection from their descendants.Even if he is a concubine, he is also a nobleman of a family, who will not have some connections?
The foundation of the prime minister's foothold is the resources of the ministry and the support of the major families, so we have to start here.Huo Caiyu finally concluded that in this way, the prime minister will naturally be slowly weakened.Li Jinyu didn't understand it very well, but it didn't prevent him from thinking that Huo Caiyu was amazing: Huo Aiqing was clever!
Huo Caiyu smiled: If I am not the only one, Ye returned to his hometown and acted perversely, monopolizing the upward path of poor students, which is already unsustainable, and only a little spark will ignite the fire**.There is no justice in the world, and the road to public service is long.The Prime Minister's faction and some of the children of the family are still dreaming of monopolizing officialdom, and now they are just returning to reality.It's just that Huo Caiyu still has some doubts, Chen originally thought that Ye Guixiang was scheming and would not be so easy to fall into the scheme, and he thought of a few back-ups, but now he didn't use it.Li Jinyu thought to himself: If the previous Prime Minister Ye Cheng was naturally immersed in officialdom for decades, he would have more eyes than a fox, but the current Prime Minister Ye Cheng is just a cat demon.Without the experience of officialdom in the original body, how can you do it well by camouflage alone?
Li Jinyu himself was deeply touched by this.He calmed Huo Caiyu and turned his attention to the other side: In this way, can I give you the title of regent?
Now that the Ministry of Officials has been withdrawn, many corrupt officials have been uprooted in the last time the Ministry of Household Law was introduced, and now with the support of the generals and the neutrals, it must be foolproof.The expression on Huo Caiyu's face was slightly restricted, and his eyes were faintly worried: Why does Your Majesty want a vassal to be the regent?
Most of the people who have been in charge of the regent in history are reluctant to let go after tasting the supreme power, and most of them eventually turn into a confrontation with the emperor who tried to reclaim power, so that it ended miserably.Your Majesty is not worried that he also wants to usurp the throne?
Or is there something really wrong with Your Majesty's body that you have to make such a decision?
If Li Jinyu knew Huo Caiyu's thoughts, he would probably shake Huo Caiyu's arm and shout: Come and usurp the throne!
I can't wait!
But at this moment, his thoughts coincide with Huo Caiyu: he has enjoyed supreme power, and he is afraid that Huo Caiyu will not seek to usurp the throne when the time comes?
Seeing that Huo Caiyu didn't object much now, Li Jinyu happily decided: When the palace test is over, I will make you the regent!
Huo Caiyu pursed her lips and nodded silently.He would go home tomorrow and ask his mother about His Majesty's health.Li Jinyu personally served as the chief examiner for the palace examination, and he topped the scoring points on the spot.Li Jinyu was originally a little resistant to contacting strangers again, but when he saw the people at the front of the students who entered the Taihe Palace, he suddenly became happy.Wasn't that the one he had planted with those students he had come into contact with outside the county capital of Qingshui County?
At first, it was this student who thought that he ran to the side of the moat to jump into the river, so he rushed over in a panic and grabbed him!
The students who entered the hall were arranged according to the results of the examination, so it seems that this student turned out to be the first place in the examination, that is, Xie Yuan, Li Jinyu was suddenly full of good feelings towards him, and there was even a faint pride in his heart.See!
He invests in potential stocks!
Huo Caiyu noticed Li Jinyu's somewhat smug expression, and understood Li Jinyu's thoughts with a clear heart, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.How could his majesty be so cute.Before the end of the palace examination, the students were not allowed to look up to see the holy face, so the student did not see Li Jinyu's face.Li Jinyu began to look forward to the expression on his face when he saw him.When the hall test began, there was silence in the hall, except for the rustle of a brush scratching on the silk paper.Li Jinyu sat on the high dragon seat, looked at it for a while, and felt a little bored.didn't dare to get in close contact with strangers, and didn't want to disturb the students' exams, Li Jinyu couldn't go down and wander among the candidates, so he could only forcibly sit here and endure it.In order to maintain the peace in the Taihe Palace, he didn't bring any nuts and melon seeds out to eat, Huo Caiyu's attention was on His Majesty in addition to business, and he soon found that His Majesty seemed to be so bored that he wanted to yawn.He thought for a while, took out a piece of silk paper next to him, drew a few lines horizontally and vertically on the paper, and then dotted some ink at one of the junctions and handed it to Li Jinyu., Li Jinyu was stunned for a moment before he reacted that Huo Caiyu was going to play backgammon with him.I couldn't sleep the night before, and he played chess with Huo Caiyu.He didn't know how to play Go, so he used the chessboard pieces of Go to play backgammon with Huo Caiyu.It's just that now there are no chess pieces, what to play?
Li Jinyu looked at Huo Caiyu, and suddenly his heart moved, and he understood what Huo Caiyu meant.Use ink dots directly as chess pieces.It's just that in this way, the pressure on memory is much greater.Li Jinyu was interested, picked up the Zhu Jinyu pen next to him, ticked his chess pieces on the chessboard drawn by Huo Caiyu, and then pushed the silk paper to Huo Caiyu.Huo Caiyu took it with a smile and continued to paint.On the other side, Prime Minister Ye Cheng sat there, his eyes swept over the two people who were playing chess in the Taihe Palace, and he was so angry that his nose was almost crooked.Don't think he doesn't recognize it, these two bastards are playing backgammon, right?
He is here full of calculations about how to use the palace test to win back a game, these two people are good, play backgammon there?
Bastard!
It's boring for him to sit here and proctolate!
According to the rules of the Ogi Dynasty Palace Examination, candidates can submit papers and withdraw as long as they write a good article, and there is no time limit Generally speaking, most people are sincerely afraid to finish answering, and they do not dare to delay for a moment, for fear of being suspected by His Majesty.Soon someone handed in the papers.As if as a signal, other lifters also ended the exam one after another.Li Jinyu noticed that the scholar from Qingshui County was sandwiched between a group of people, neither standing out nor lagging behind.After a short time, there was only one last person left in the Taihe Palace.I don't know if he was stuck or too nervous, but the others had already finished answering, and he had only written about a third of the paper.Seeing that everyone else had handed in the papers and left, the sweat on the face of the lifter became more and more, and the pen in his hand trembled a little, and he didn't dare to put down the pen.Because he was the only one left, all the actions were very remarkable.Prime Minister Ye Cheng took a full view of the state of this move, and sighed in his heart: Eighty percent of this human race has exploded in mentality.He coughed, turned his head and asked Li Jinyu: If this man really can't answer, don't force it.The man didn't dare to raise his head, although he didn't know who was speaking, but he also knew that the people who could speak directly in the Taihe Hall were the top few people in the imperial court, and when he was sweating like rain, the pen almost fell to the ground, and he stammered: Grass people, grass people Li Jinyu has finished a few games of backgammon with Huo Caiyu, and is looking at this last person with curiosity.Seeing that this person trembled and trembled with nervousness because of the prime minister's words, Li Jinyu spontaneously felt a sense of pain and empathy.Once upon a time, he was also so obsessed with the outside world that any bit of attention from the outside world would make him want to hide himself completely in the sawdust pile.Li Jinyu was about the same as Ye Guixiang, if he was so nervous that he couldn't answer, why did he insist on leaving him in the Taihe Hall to suffer?
Just looked at the move even though the sweat was like rain, he still stubbornly pinched the brush in his hand, and pressed the other hand on the answer sheet, faintly protective.The sympathy in Li Jinyu's heart suddenly turned into admiration.This man is braver than he once was.He really wanted to answer the questionnaire seriously, even if he was nervous and scared to be like that, he didn't think about escaping.Li Jinyu swallowed back the exhortation in his mouth, turned his head to look at the prime minister, and said with a smile: The palace test has not set a time, as long as one person has not put down the pen, the palace test will not be over.Huo Caiyu wanted to directly confront Cheng just now, but he was worried that His Majesty would be too bored to invigilate the exam here, and he might have wanted to leave a long time ago, so he didn't speak out immediately.More importantly, he believed in his majesty.Now listening to Li Jinyu's words, Huo Caiyu's face has a smile with pride and warmth: His Majesty is indeed an emperor who truly loves the people like a son.Li Jinyu and the prime minister talked, with their backs to Huo Caiyu, and did not see Huo Caiyu's expression; Prime Minister Ye saw all the looks of the two bastards in front of him, only felt that his eyes hurt, and he was so angry that he wanted to show his claws.What about you two kissing the underground backgammon and don't take me to play, I'm bored here!
But Li Jinyu's reason was too legitimate, Ye Guixiang knew that he would still be beaten back if he said more, so he provoked and robbed Bai in vain, so he gritted his teeth and didn't speak again.The candidate below heard the above argument in a flash, and knew that he would not be kicked out, and he was grateful, and he didn't know who to thank, so he could only thank him one by one: thank Your Majesty, thank you Prime Minister, and thank Master Huo The young voice above who spoke later said: You can answer the questions well, there are still some times when I correct other people's answer sheets, you don't have to worry.His Majesty was speaking for him just now?
His eyes were slightly sour, and the exam papers in front of him seemed to be a little unclear.Who told him before that the saints of today are cruel and tyrannical?
He has been nervous since he was a child, and he can do his homework well by himself, but once he is in front of others, he will be nervous and afraid, and he will stammer, unable to say a word; The previous expeditions were all in a small closed room, which was like a fish in water for him; But when I got to the palace test, I really made the same mistake again.He was a little desperate just now, and even doubted whether a person like himself was not worthy of being an official in the imperial examination, and wasted the quota for the palace examination.But His Majesty, who is high up and sits on the world, actually spoke for him, and encouraged him to write well, he pulled his sleeve and wiped his tears, sniffed, and suddenly felt that his nervousness was much less, calmed down, and continued to write articles seriously.Chapter 41: Squeak!
According to the custom of the Ogi Dynasty, after the palace examination, the students went directly back to their residences to wait for news.In order to facilitate students from all walks of life who entered Beijing to take the exam, the imperial court chartered a large number of inns and restaurants as the residence of students who entered Beijing to take the exam.