Jinyi champion

Whether Zhu Hao is talking to Zhu Si or Sun Jiao, they are all conveying the same thought.

When Yang Tinghe was in court, everything we did was not to seize power, but to suppress Yang Tinghe's prestige and influence in the court and the opposition. As long as this goal is achieved, even if some places lose control, it is worth it.

Because after Yang Tinghe retired, if Yang Tinghe's prestige did not fall, his people would continue to occupy important positions in the court and threaten the imperial power.Only Yang Tinghe's prestige can no longer support the situation, so Zhu Si has reason to attack Jiang Mian, Mao Ji, Qiao Yu, Lin Jun and others, and let them go away.

At that time, Zhu Si completely controlled the court, and the power would be obtained without any struggle.

Now it seems important to care about the gains and losses of a corner of the northwest, but it is actually of little significance.

Sun Jiao understood this, so he didn't ask any more questions.

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At the meeting.

Zhu Si ordered Tang Yin and Zhu Mingyang to jointly investigate whether there was cheating in the relevant examinations, and the three-day deadline came soon.Tang Yin had no official status, so naturally Tang Yin would not come forward for this kind of report in front of the palace, so Zhu Mingyang would explain it to the officials in detail at the court meeting.

The content of Zhu Mingyang's public report is actually just one point...

The so-called rumors of cheating in the imperial examinations are all false.

After Zhu Mingyang retired, Zhu Si spoke highly of him: "It's rare that Zhu Qing's family was able to find out the matter in just three days, and the Qing family who was involved in the case was innocent. It's really gratifying. Now Make the matter public to calm public opinion."

Lin Jun, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, walked out: "Your Majesty, those who spread such rumors in the public should be punished as the crime of spreading false statements."

Perhaps in Lin Jun's view, the court should not explain to scholars after a passive investigation to quell public opinion, but should arrest a few scholars who spread rumors and deal with them, so that the rest would have to be silent.

Kill the chicken and the monkey!
Zhu Si looked hesitant, and asked with a frown, "Lin Qing's family, is this necessary?"

Lin Jun said firmly: "Yes!"

As the minister of the Ministry of Punishment and in charge of the prisons of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that Lin Jun intends to set rules for those scholars, and he cannot question the imperial court casually, let alone let the imperial court conduct self-examination to quell your arguments.

To put it bluntly.

Shame on you?
Then punish the waiter!
Zhu Sidao: "It's really unnecessary. First of all, they just questioned whether the top few people in the examination are really qualified in terms of learning. Secondly, they didn't intend to attack the imperial court. So, there is no need to mobilize teachers and mobilize the crowd?"

Lin Jun was very angry: "Your Majesty, to question the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty is to attack the government and must be severely punished!"

"Ugh!"

Zhu Si sighed: "Lin Qing's family, what I want is to calm the public opinion, not to make a big deal out of small things. If you insist, won't it be against my idea of ​​lenient and benevolent governance of the country? After all, scholars still have to respect."

What Zhu Si means is that I respect you enough, right?
I listened carefully to your opinions, and now I am still reasoning with you.

If you, Lin Jun, want to represent the court to set rules for ordinary scholars, can I also set rules for you officials and scholars?
Why don't you know how to compare your heart with your heart?

Lin Jun wanted to say something, but seeing Jiang Mian winking at him again and again, Lin Jun could only back down resentfully.

This scene happened to be captured by Zhu Si.

Zhu Sixin thought: "Sure enough, as Zhu Hao said, people surnamed Yang don't show up when things happen, and let his follower, surnamed Jiang, charge forward. This group of people is really colluding and corrupting the Ming Dynasty. They don't regard themselves as courtiers at all... Huh , Is the imperial court theirs, or mine?"

"Okay, let the publicity of the investigation results to the Ministry of Rites be completed." Zhu Si said seriously.

Mao Cheng, Minister of Rites, came out to take orders.

The turmoil about cheating in the examination seems to have ended in this kind of tacit understanding between the monarch and his ministers.

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The imperial court's idea is very good. If there is a public opinion disturbance, the imperial court will check and give

The next confession, even if it is "refuting the rumors", the people below should be honest and stop questioning.

It took a lot of pains to refute the rumors, otherwise, why did they have to send all the etiquette to Tang Yin, who had already retired and suffered from fraud in the imperial examination?
But the ideal is beautiful, but now it is cruel.

After the release of the court's rumors, instead of having a positive effect, it added fuel to the flames. It can be said that it instantly ignited the public opinion of the scholars in the capital.

We discussed that there was something tricky about this test, but the imperial court sent people to check it symbolically and told us that there was no such thing?

What are you doing?
In the past, it was just a discussion among scholars, but now it has developed into someone going to the Confucian Temple to sit quietly and cry.

In Daming, the Temple of Crying was a very effective act of gathering people to protest. It was mainly initiated by scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, because they saw the emperor's preferential treatment for ordinary scholars. If they really punished some scholars severely like Lin Jun, they would not dare to mess up coming.

It was they who saw the casual discussion before and forced the court to conduct a self-examination. Although the effect was not obvious, they were still willing to go further.

Make a fuss, maybe the result can be overturned, and those who don't win the Gongshi have a chance to come back.

If you don't make trouble, then you can only wait for three years to come back, who knows if there will be another moth at that time?
No scholar is willing to admit that he is not good at learning, especially when all the candidates who take part in the general examination are the best scholars in the provinces, they are the candidates who have been killed from the thousands of troops in the provincial examination.

Now that there is a lot of rumors about cheating in the imperial examinations among the people, they feel that they are being suppressed. In addition, Yang Dun, the ignorant son of the chief minister of the cabinet, has passed the exams, and each of them feels that there is something hidden in it, but the court does not want to make it public. Just announce it.

Maybe even the emperor was coerced by the surname Yang?

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Yang House.

Yang Shen has been officially promoted to be a minister today.

The first thing he faced after he became a lecturer was the suspicion of the people about the examination. This trend even directly targeted the Imperial Academy, and many scholars ran to the gate of the Imperial Academy to make trouble.

Although a few were caught, it seemed that the situation could no longer be controlled.

"...Jin Yiwei dispatched to arrest people, but all Taoist officials who made troubles were arrested and brought to justice, but those who went to Confucian Temple, Gongyuan, etc. were not strictly stopped. Should we notify Shuntian Mansion or Wucheng Bing Ma Si and let them see it? The situation takes someone?"

Yang Shen felt that the problem was serious.

So his suggestion to his father now is to bring someone to justice quickly, so that the incident can be calmed down as soon as possible.

Yang Tinghe looked gloomy, shook his head and said, "Yongxiu, haven't you ever thought that this matter may have something to do with His Majesty behind the scenes?"

Yang Shen asked in amazement: "But father, His Majesty has been firmly on your side from the very beginning, and even sent someone to investigate, logically speaking..."

"The results of it?"

Yang Tinghe asked a question.

Yang Shen pondered for a while, and replied "" The result was not satisfactory. "

Yang Tinghe sighed: "Maybe His Majesty's purpose from the beginning was not to calm down the incident, but to make it worse?"

"This……"

Yang Shen thought to himself, can he still think like this?

Even if you have a bad relationship with the emperor, at least the emperor didn't mean to harm you at all in this matter, and your opinion shall prevail everywhere.

Yang Tinghe said: "Until now, my father has gradually figured it out. In fact, there should be no investigation from the very beginning. As long as the people's opinions are ignored, the matter will naturally calm down. The root cause of the expansion of the situation is that His Majesty really I sent people to investigate, and gave hope to those scholars who failed.”

Yang Shen blinked his eyes, and asked suspiciously: "But...whether His Majesty did it intentionally or not, shouldn't father put down the grievances of scholars first?"

Yang Tinghe shook his head: "It's useless to apprehend the troublemakers, especially those who are the leaders. Previously, if we just added Tang Bohu to the incident, it would be effective. Now we have to rely on seniority. And it will be effective only if the high officials of the DPRK and China who can calm down the incident go out."

"what?"

Yang Shen became more and more puzzled.

Haven't Zhu Mingyang and Tang Yin done enough before?

Shouldn't everything be checked?
This time the incident became serious, and instead of thinking about arresting and intimidating those scholars, they actually wanted to conduct a self-examination. Isn't this what the group of scholars wanted?

"Father, what happened to this..."

Yang Shen asked half of what he had said, but didn't ask any more.

Yang Tinghe said: "You want to ask my father, did he greet the examiner when he passed the Jinshi examination? No! Absolutely not!"

Yang Shen hastily explained: "I don't mean that."

"It doesn't matter whether you mean it or not. In short, you also have doubts in your heart, because you have always despised Yongshu, just like your father thinks that he may not pass the test... Even the people around you have such doubts. , how can those ordinary scholars not have doubts?"

Yang Tinghe was exhausted physically and mentally.

He suddenly discovered that as long as he was in court, something would always haunt him.

Now that one trial has caused such a big commotion, it seems that the little emperor is playing tricks behind his back, and he is doing some kind of self-examination in a grandiose manner.

There is really no silver 300 taels here!
How did you listen to the little emperor's nonsense?

Still so confident, really let people check it?

"Then father, who should come forward now to calm the public opinion of the scholars in the court?" Yang Shen asked.

Yang Tinghe smiled coldly and didn't answer.

Yang Shen could see from his father's smile that it seemed useless to ask others to investigate. Only Yang Tinghe himself could be regarded as a great Buddha, which could subdue all ghosts and monsters.

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The sixth day of March.

There are less than ten days left before the palace test.

It is reasonable to say that the turmoil of the meeting should have subsided by now, and there will be no more twists and turns, but now that the scholars are making more and more troubles, it is impossible for the censor to sit idly by and play one after another.

There are many people who come up with solutions.

Some people advocate that the scholars who convened to make trouble should be brought to justice, while others advocate that a thorough investigation should be done to appease the grievances of scholars.

There are also those who say not to pay attention, and let the scholars make trouble at will.

At the court meeting, Zhu Si shook his head and sighed: "It's my negligence... If I didn't discuss it with Mr. Yang Ge from the beginning, and let someone investigate, it should be nothing... This is all my fault! "

The ministers couldn't help but look at each other.

Although they also guessed that the reason why there was an investigation into the fraud case in the meeting was related to Zhu Si's previous summoning of Yang Tinghe alone.

But now that Zhu Si openly admits it, some people still feel uncomfortable.

For such a big matter, instead of discussing it in the court, the monarch and his ministers decide it in private?

Are you still making such a big fuss?
This scapegoat really needs to be carried by both of you, the monarch and his ministers.

"Gentlemen, what's your opinion? I'm tired too, there's nothing wrong with me, but some people insist on making trouble. Do I have to come forward to calm it down?"

When Zhu Si said this, he was actually hinting to Yang Tinghe that it's time for you to come out and face everything.

Yang Tinghe walked out: "Your Majesty, since this matter started because of the minister, it will be ended by the minister...Give the minister a day, and the minister will give an explanation to the scholars of the world!"