Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1085 Restructuring
"What happened?"

Ying Baoyue stood up from the stone table, and exchanged a glance with Ji Jiashu.

"Temporarily change the rules?"

There was such a movement at night, and the originally quiet courtyard was suddenly brightly lit.

Zhao Guangsu was always bluffing. Although everyone was angry when they were suddenly called out in the middle of the night, they didn't have time to get angry when they heard what Zhao Guang said.

"Come and talk."

Seeing that Ji Ange and the others had already woken up, Ying Baoyue lay on the fence and called the chaotic crowd to his yard. They gathered around the stone table, all of them looked a little stunned.

"What happened? Why did you suddenly change the rules?"

"Most practitioners probably won't know the news until the morning," Zhao Guang stood beside the stone table, his face sinking like water.

"If my aides hadn't told me that all the officials of the Sanju Division had entered the palace overnight, I would have felt something was wrong and asked people to inquire about it, and I would not know what happened."

Sanju?
Ying Baoyue remembered that Zhao Muren added a new statement after he ascended the throne, which is different from the official system of the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Dali Temple in later generations. The three departments are the immortal officials who are in charge of rites, Yushitai headed by Yushi Zhongcheng, and Tingwei who is in charge of justice in Jiuqing Technical College.

The officials of these three yamen were summoned, and they usually only appeared when major changes in the country's etiquette system or laws were promulgated. Now that they were announced into the palace overnight, it was no wonder that Zhao Guanghui was vigilant.

"So this group of people were called in to discuss changing the rules?" Ying Baoyue asked.

"It wasn't like that at the beginning." Zhao Guang's face was a little ugly. "Originally, he was called into the third division to interrogate a first-rank general."

First rank general?
Ying Baoyue was taken aback. Unlike Qin, who was awarded a title in the army, the generals of Soochow were divided into ranks, and the first rank was a very high rank. If she remembered correctly, only the generals in Soochow who participated in the battle against Xirong in the past were qualified. Eligible to be sealed as a product.

Such an old general is regarded as highly respected in Soochow. If there is a trial, it is indeed necessary to have a joint trial by the three courts, but why is an old general suddenly tried?
"What did that first-rank general do?" Chen Zichu, who came from a family of generals, frowned, "Is there a joint trial during the mid-level ceremony?"

Zhao Guang suddenly took a look at Ying Baoyue, "This joint trial is to settle the fraud in the Art of War exam."

Everyone was stunned, and Ji Jiashu suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

Just this evening when they returned to Shi'an Yuan, the first round of the military art exam, which had not achieved any results, was released, and Ying Baoyue ranked first, which shocked everyone who watched the list.

Coupled with the results of the next two rounds that came out on the spot, Ying Baoyue became the well-deserved number one in Bingzhan.

This result surprised even the people of the World Security Academy. After all, it is different from wrestling and riding and shooting that can be witnessed with their own eyes. The art of war requires family background and years of accumulation. Account, the major gambling houses guessed a lot of winners, but no one expected that it would be Ying Baoyue.

Immediately there were a lot of probing people outside the World Security Hospital, but Song Qian arranged for the guards to beat them out. I heard that the restaurants and teahouses outside were turned upside down for a while because of this announcement, but after all, it was not the first time she was shocked. The other people's grades were not bad, and they will compete against Liuyi tomorrow. Everyone didn't think too much about this grade. After congratulating each other, they went to bed, but they didn't expect that this matter was not over yet.

"Could that general be..." Gui Chen frowned.

"That's right." Zhao Guang took a deep breath, "He is the one who rated Her Royal Highness' paper as the number one in the art of war."

There was a dead silence around the stone table.

The hidden message behind this is shocking.

"Who reported him?"

The one who broke the silence was Li Ji.

But Li Ji's words shocked everyone even more. How did Li Ji know that this first-rank general was reported?

"It's a ceremony official from the Imperial Prayer Province," Zhao Guang said with a complicated expression, "but I heard that the report was made anonymously, and his identity has not been found out."

Even if it was an anonymous report, but I heard that the report letter was well written, pointing out that General Cheng Rong, as the chief grader, skipped the other graders below and directly picked out a test paper to be graded separately, which is suspected of fraud.

Fraud in the middle-level ceremony is a felony, and the crime involves a first-rank general, causing a great disturbance in the court. In order to calm the situation, Zhao Muren had to call the three courts for a joint interrogation overnight.

"Since the news released is to change the rules of the Six Arts War rather than the results of the art of war, then the fraud should have been clarified, right?"

Li Ji said lightly.

"That's right," Zhao Guang nodded, "Old General Cheng said that he only performed his duties and re-approved the paper after seeing the examiner's low grade on a dubious test paper. The paper was dubious and he didn't know who it was made."

"Your Majesty called all the officials of the Sanfa Department and the military officers above the third grade in Ruyang to enter the hall, opened the test papers with vague names, and let everyone openly review the papers on the spot."

Afterwards, that paper slapped everyone in the face.

In front of all the officials, Zhao Muren even took out a sand table for the military officer to deduce on the spot, no matter how stupid the general is, he dare not talk nonsense.

Zhao Guang looked at Ying Baoyue with a complicated expression.

Leaving aside the name at the top, that test paper leaves nothing to say.

Facts have proved that the grades awarded by Old General Cheng are even a little conservative. According to the sand table interpretation, the girl's paper can even be judged with higher grades.

The officials in the main hall who were clamoring to cancel Ying Baoyue's grades were embarrassed, and the fraud was clarified.

I don't know if the whistleblower was in the temple at that time.

"Since it has been clarified, why change the rules of the Six Arts Competition?" Chen Zichu asked with a frown.

"Although the art of war exam is over, a courteous official said that the people in Ruyang City have been panicked by this result. Many people suspect that the imperial court is too indulgent to female cultivators."

Maybe he doubted Zhao Muren's attitude towards her.

Li Ji looked at the girl standing beside Ji Jiashu with a calm expression.

The cheating in the Art of War exam was indeed clarified, but what happened in the hall was only seen by the participating officials, not the common people.

The common people did not believe that a [-] or [-]-year-old princess from the deep palace could surpass those children from aristocratic families and young generals with actual combat experience in the art of war.

The prejudices of the human mind are like a mountain. Even if the test papers of all practitioners are made public, not everyone can understand them.

Although Zhao Muren seemed to be impartial in this matter, in the eyes of other officials of the Imperial Prayer Province, Zhao Muren did not punish the woman severely but chose to solve it in this way, which was to favor her.

In the past, the results of the Six Arts Competition used to be the examiners of each of the highly respected masters to evaluate the results of each candidate.

But with the matter of the military battle ahead, I am afraid that many immortal officials are not at ease with this evaluation method.

"Then what changed the rules?"

Everyone is most concerned about this issue now.

"There are immortal officials, if only a few famous experts are invited to comment, it may not be convincing to the public, in order to prevent what happened tonight from happening again," Zhao Guang glanced at the boys and girls surrounding him with a solemn expression.

"Thirty immortal officials jointly wrote a letter, requesting that the winning rules of the Six Arts Competition be changed from the examiner's scoring to the popular vote."

(End of this chapter)