Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 559 Shocking Chang'an
In the imperial study room, Qin Tian submitted the confession.

After Li Shimin saw the confession, his expression was solemn, and then he flew into a rage.

"Damn it, you Cui family are against me. This time, I will never forgive you."

Li Shimin was always afraid of the aristocratic family, but now that the Cui family even stole the test questions, it was fortunate to have discovered it. If it hadn't been discovered, the imperial examination will be held this year. I don't know how many members of the Cui family will be admitted to Jinshi.

Originally, the purpose of promoting the imperial examination was to suppress the development of the aristocratic family, but now it is better, not only failed to suppress it, but also gave them more opportunities.

The angry Li Shimin's face was livid, and immediately after, he issued an order.

"Come here, I have sealed up the Cui family. All the Cui family members involved in this case will be demoted to common people and sent to Lingnan. All candidates involved in the case will be disqualified from the exam."

Sealing up the Cui family and canceling the qualifications for the exam is definitely an extremely severe punishment. With this punishment, other aristocratic families that are about to move will give up these plans.

When Li Shimin ordered to go on like this, Qin Tian stood by and didn't say anything. First, he didn't have a good impression of the Cui family. Second, Li Shimin was quite rational after all. He didn't say bloodbath of the Cui family. Cui's family was demoted to common people and distributed to Lingnan.

Doing so will have a great impact on the Cui family, but it will not cause any adverse factors to the stability of Datang.

Li Shimin's order was issued quickly, and Qin Tian didn't stay in the palace for too long, and retreated directly.

Li Shimin here, apart from waiting for the news, the other thing is to republish an imperial examination question. This time, it should not be leaked again.

Choi House.

At this time, Cui Tong was completely unaware of the danger coming, he was just counting the money excitedly at the mansion.

He gave those imperial examination questions to some of the children of the Cui family. Besides, he also sold them to several big businessmen. The sales of these businessmen were relatively generous, so this time, he made a lot of money.

However, just when Cui Tong was a little proud of himself in the mansion, a royal army rushed in.

"You... what are you going to do?"

"What are you doing? You peeped at the imperial examination questions and disrupted the fairness of the imperial examination. The Holy One is already furious. He wants to demote you to common people. Let's go!"

After the imperial court's pro-army finished speaking, Cui Tong was not allowed to argue, and he took all the people in Cui's house away.

After the people took them away, the Ministry of Households quickly sent people to check the properties of Cui's house, etc. Since their homes were confiscated, the corresponding properties naturally belonged to the Ministry of Households.

Of course, apart from the Cui family, those big businessmen who purchased test questions from the Cui family were not spared either.

The household department is currently in a serious deficit, and no businessman has any money. Now that he finally seized the opportunity to make a fortune, how could Tang Jian of the household department give up?

Therefore, for several days in a row, the household department was busy liquidating property, or moving various goods.

And at this time, the imperial examination fraud case spread throughout Chang'an City. After the news spread, the people were shocked, because this was the first time such a thing had happened.

"No way, the Cui family actually stole the test questions of the imperial examination. How did he do it?"

"Hmph, there must be someone from the Cui family hiding in the palace, so, if you glance at the test questions when the Holy One is writing, don't you know?"

"Yes, yes, it seems that the current imperial examination system is not perfect."

"There is no way to do this, but after the Holy Majesty finds out, it is already very good to use thunderbolt methods to find out the people behind the scenes and punish them severely."

"Yeah, after looking at it, who dares to cheat in the imperial examination. Since it is a fair exam, it must be fair."

"........."

The common people talked about it, and they were shocked by this fraud case, and some admired Li Shimin's methods. Of course, more people still won the hearts of those scholars.

In order to be fair, Li Shimin really did a lot.

Discussion, discussion, the people of the Cui family were dumbfounded.

They never imagined that what they thought was just a small fraud case would turn out to be so big. Patriarchs like Cui Tong and the talented members of the Cui family involved in the case were basically demoted to common people at once. Another chance to take the imperial examination.

This is tantamount to breaking the roots of the Cui family. Although the Cui family is huge, there are still some people who have not been implicated, but the rest of these people basically cannot cause much trouble.

For the entire Tang Dynasty, the Cui family is not only in decline, it is even about to fall out of the ranks of aristocratic families and become history.

The Cui family was helpless, but there was nothing they could do.

After seeing Li Shimin's methods, other aristocratic families and dignitaries also felt scared for a while.

If you want to say whether they have the idea of ​​cheating, they must have it, but they haven't implemented it yet. Now that they see Li Shimin dealing with the Cui family, they are all terrified, so how dare they cheat again?

The influence of this matter is getting bigger and bigger. It can be regarded as a wake-up call to the world. The imperial examination is not something that anyone can do. It is a place to select talents for the imperial court. Blame the imperial court for being rude.

The influence is expanding, and naturally some people are looking for the root cause, wanting to know how this matter was discovered, but regarding this matter, not many people know about it, and none of them are willing to expose it.

Therefore, everyone is just guessing and curious.

After Feng Yi saw this situation, he naturally understood what was going on. If the news of this matter came out, it would indeed be a chance for him to become famous.

But there are still many people in the Cui family. If he is exposed, it will be tantamount to offending the Cui family. The Cui family is a centipede, dead but not stiff.

Therefore, although a bit aggrieved, Feng Yi endured it. In his opinion, he can fly to the top of the branch just waiting for the imperial examination.

The atmosphere in Chang'an is getting more and more lively. At the same time, Qin Tian's Shang Shusheng is another situation.

The papers needed for this year's imperial examination are all produced from Qin Tian's paper mill, and there are only a few days left before the exam, so he must order people to prepare all the papers needed as soon as possible.

While Qin Tian was preparing the papers needed for the exam, Tang Jian was counting money excitedly in the household department.

After copying the properties of the Cui family and several wealthy businessmen, the Ministry of Household Affairs has become quite rich. Although the money is much different from the annual tax income, to be honest, Tang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, is excited to have so much money all at once. All of a sudden, my heart became more at ease.

If the household department has no money, he will not feel confident in doing anything, and he is most afraid that people from other departments will come to him for money.

Now I can finally top it off.

(End of this chapter)