Chapter 70 Goodbye to the imperial examination

On February 21 of Hongzhi's 12th year, Tang Yin, who had experienced the trials on the ninth, 12th and 15th of the first lunar month, invited his three best friends in his life and had a drink in the empty inn!

Why do people go to the empty building? Because everyone went to see the list, and Tang Yin didn't have to go there for nothing, because he knew that in a short time, someone would come back and tell him, "Tang Bohu, you won Huiyuan!" He would reply as he imagined: "What is Huiyuan? I got the understanding Yuan without any effort, and now I want to The challenge is the ternary, which is: Xieyuan, Huiyuan, and Zhuangyuan! I'm aiming for the palace test on March 25th! Hahaha!"

He picked up a glass of wine and said to Wen Zhengming, who fell seven times, Zhu Zhishan, a seven-year-old scholar who also did not have the opportunity to test the gold list, and Xu Zhenqing, who was busy with Li Mengyang and called "seven sons" to engage in cultural retro movements, said: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only three Yuan There were merchants in the orthodox years, and the people were destined to be. Now I, Tang Bohu, have broken this fate!"

Sure enough, after a while, the man who visited Cheng Minzheng together in front of the hall was the first to come back and went straight to Tang Yin.

Contrary to Tang Yin's guess, he is not only not happy, but also frightened and restless!

Tang Yin quickly asked, "Xu Jing, you are..."

Xu Jing stood up and said, "Alas" and said, "You are still drinking here! We both failed!"

Tang Yin laughed and said, "Don't tease me. Even if I can't become Huiyuan and write with my eyes closed, I won't fall off the list! What's more, that question is extremely rare. Even if you dabble in a group of books, you may not be able to answer it, but with this question, the examiner will look at me with new eyes. No matter how bad the other questions are answered, it will not be famous!"

Xu Jing pulled off the wine pot he raised and said, "What I said is true!"

Tang Yin finally calmed down and looked at Xu Jing quietly - indeed, there was no lying on his face! When he was puzzled, more than a dozen officers and soldiers broke in outside the door and arrested Tang Yin and Xu Jing together!

It turns out that there is a great gap when God jokes!

Overnight in the capital, rumors about this trial rose up and became hustle and bustle...

The problem is on this question! Because there are only two people who answered this question, one is Tang Yin and the other is Xu Jing! The examiner is Cheng Minzheng, and he is also one of the testers.

Some people say that Tang Yin and Xu Jing were privately appointed as students by Cheng Minzheng. The three colluded to take care of each other and seek wealth in the future. Therefore, Cheng Minzheng sold the test questions to the two...

Some people say that this matter has nothing to do with Cheng Minzheng. Xu Jing bribed Cheng Minzheng's subordinates and got the title. Tang Bohu may know or may not know, but Tang Bohu's talent is undeniable...

Some people also said that the informant was giving trouble to Zhongchang. In order to seize Cheng Minzheng's position, he deliberately framed him, affected Chiyu, and implicated Tang Yin and Xu Jing...

When Wang Hua heard about this, he hurried home and went straight to Wang Shouren's room. Seeing that he was sleeping with his head covered, he shouted, "You are still in the mood to sleep here. After three days of exam, you have slept for six days!"

Wang Shouren got out of the quilt: "The sky fell down. Of course, it hit the standing person - whether to take the exam or not is my business, and it's the examiner's business. What can I do! Isn't it just falling down again?"

Wang Hua shook his head helplessly: "You didn't fall, it's Tang Bohu who fell!" Wang Shouren quickly opened the quilt as soon as he heard it: "This is impossible!" Wang Hua sighed and said regretfully, "It has spread inside and outside the court. What's worse, Bo Hu has been implicated in the case of China's impeaching Cheng Min's government, which has been completed. Prison - Such a thing happened before the palace examination, and there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition. In order to get it right, the emperor had to take him up first! Otherwise, those who have fallen will be indignant and even arouse public anger!" Next, Wang Hua told Wang Shouren about the recent rumors inside and outside the court and the opposition.

Wang Shouren ran out in addition to pedaling his trousers three times. Wang Hua asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to Li Ge's old house!"

"Come back! If you go, Mr. Li won't see you either!"

"What should I do?! This kind of thing that jumps into the Yellow River can't be explained. No one can speak up and can only be convicted as 'unspoken'!"

"It has reached this point. The more things are, the more beneficial it will be to Bohu! Don't mess it up! The emperor is a wise king of a generation and has always cherished his wealth. He has turned a blind eye and passed. Who would suspect Jiangnan's talent for fraud? Even Li Gelao was suppressed at first and did not report it, but Zhonghua Chang, the villain, was right at this time and tried his best to stir up trouble to make it known to everyone. Li Ge Lao couldn't cover it up, so he had to report it truthfully! Think about it, what can you do with him? He is pinching the emperor's pulse now!"

Wang Shouren listened to his father's words relatively rarely. He slowly turned around and sighed, "Bhu has always been arrogant, free and unrestrained. If he just falls, there will still be another year. Now as a prisoner, I don't know how he should be sad!"

Wang Hua also sighed, "God is jealous of talents! I absolutely don't believe that Bo Hu would do such a thing, but he got together with Xu Jing, the son of a rich family - although Xu Jing was a son, he was silent and nameless, and he had never written a few articles. Some fellow villagers also said that he even bought the township examination, which was lucky to win. So it doesn't make sense to say that he can make a difficult question!"

Wang Shouren shook his head: "I think this should be the case. Xu Jing probably bought the question through Cheng Minzheng's servants, and neither Tang Yin nor Cheng Minzheng knew about it. Zhongchang found out the relationship between the three of them before he falsely accused him!"

Wang Hua nodded: "You're right, but even if Xu Jing gets the test question, he may not be able to make a decent article in just a few days!"

"Did my father guess that Xu Jing did reveal the examination questions or part of it to Bo Hu?"

"Well, that's right! Bohu probably helped him answer the question, but he didn't know it was the exam question! And Xu Jing is well aware that Cheng Minzheng once said when he read the papers that he would choose between Bo Hu and Xu Jing! With Xu Jing's foundation, it is impossible to reach this height!"

"Alas, then it's even more unclear! However, if Bohu really knows the exam questions, how can he put on the posture of a must-have meeting in the inn to make people criticise people?

"Yes, the whole thing is incredible! At present, it depends on how the emperor decide!"

A year's plan lies in spring - this year's spring is really unexpected for Tang Yin!

In order to eliminate public anger, the case was quickly concluded, and the judgment was as follows:

Cheng Minzheng's servant leaked the question and ordered Cheng Minzheng to resign;

Xu Jing: The purchase is true, and he is demoted to a petty official, and he is not allowed to be an official;

Tang Yin: If there is no empirical evidence, he will be demoted to a minor official and shall not be an official;

Zhongchang: false accusation, demotion of officials.

The trial of the whole case is carried out in secret. No one knows how to try it, let alone the result of such a contradictory judgment, but the emperor ordered that no one should mention this matter again!

If it hadn't met Xu Jing, the son of a rich family, on the way to the exam, if it hadn't been Cheng Minzheng, the former child prodigy, who hadn't been agreed to be a student by Cheng Minzheng, if the servant hadn't met the test paper, if he had found Zhong Zhongchang's conscience in the matter... However, there was no if, so Tang Yin was destined not to escape. In this disaster, the door of the career of a generation of talents has been closed!

On the day Tang Yin was released from prison, Wang Shouren waited outside the prison for a day and never saw him - he understood that Tang Yin did not want to see him, so he left quietly. Since that day, no one knows where Tang Yin has gone.

The palace examination on March 25 was presided over by the emperor himself. The emperor was the examiner, and no one dared to falsely accuse the examiner of selling questions!

The person who reads the papers is called the reader, and is held by the important court officials. They will pick out three papers the day after the palace examination in order to determine the top three candidates. However, since Tang Yin was released from prison, people's attention to the champion has decreased a lot. Maybe the real champion is in people's hearts! The champion came out one in three years, and the talented man led an era - Tang Bohu left, and the champion loved whomever he!

Wang Shouren retaliatedly made it difficult for the examiner. He thought, "Anyway, he is on the list, and the worst is to be a fellow scholar. There is no doubt that he has become an official. No matter how high he is, it is useless to me!" He will slowly climb up in the future.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally took Zhou Yi as his policy and sprinkled a large article.

When it comes to Zhou Yi, his ancestors and quasi are the best at studying Zhou Yi, who can calculate well, and the more mysterious it is, the more people worship him.

The reviewer took Wang Shouren's paper and took a look - I don't understand!

The emperor remembered that he had said three years ago that he would read the paper for Wang Shouren in person, so he took the paper from the reviewer - and he didn't understand!

I don't understand, so I can only give it to you!

Finally, Wang Shouren gave the second-class scholar to the seventh place in the Ministry of Politics and Industry.

Anyway, it is also the top ten, and Wang Shouren finally ushered in his era!

Wang Shouren went home and studied the official position for a long time, and his face turned green - there was a price to pay for defeating the emperor: the Ming Dynasty set up six departments: the Ministry of Officials Department, the Ministry of Household, the Ministry of Ceremonies, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the Ministry of Industry (Note: the ranking is in order).

"You Wang Shourenniu, right? I'll ask you to add bricks and tiles to my roof, plant a tree to make a forest, and cultivate a wasteland - grind you first!" Zhu Youcheng's voice was expressed in such an arrangement!

"Ministry of Politics and Industry" - to put it bluntly, it is an intern of the Ministry of Industry. The new subject needs to go through a period of assessment before the officials of the Ministry of Officials can arrange positions. If you compare the Ming Dynasty to a big company, then Wang Shouren is an intern in a leisurely small department - but at least he has entered the company. It's better than nothing! Having the right opportunity to show your talents can still attract the attention of the Human Resources Department (Ministry of Public Affairs)!

Anyway, Wang Shouren embarked on a new journey!

He raised his head, looked at the long road ahead and waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, imperial examination!" Goodbye, young man's time!