Monument Yangmen

Chapter 895 Digging a Big Pit

"Dead man?"

Yang Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "In your heart, do you think I'm an emperor who likes to disregard human lives?"

Lu Duan smiled awkwardly: "I...I have no such intention."

Yang Qi was too lazy to expose Lu Duan's lies, so he waved his hand.

"Okay, I know that you treasure your carefully selected students. I let them come here, just to help them, and I didn't mean to make them dead soldiers. When I condemn the crimes later, I will only punish officials, not Condemned students."

Hearing this, Lu Duan showed a relaxed expression on his old face, and he said with a smile: "Your Majesty needs a few people, just ask, and I will let them fully cooperate."

"I will send Peng Pai to Jinling Mansion later, and then you can cooperate with Peng Pai to select people. This matter is of great importance, and we have to select those who are tight-lipped and clever."

"All the students of our Jinling University are clever."

"Heh, you said you were fat and you were panting."

"..."

The monarch and his ministers were joking with each other, talking and laughing.

Without Yang Qi's instructions, Chen Lin naturally prepared a table of food and wine for the two of them.

After Yang Qi took Lu Duan to eat, he asked someone to send Lu Duan out of the palace.

After Yang Qi secretly planned a big pit for the civil servants, he stopped doing anything and waited quietly for the civil servants to jump into the pit.

The civil servants were startled when they learned that Yang Qiquan wanted Kong Lianjie all over the country.

One by one stopped for a while.

But when they found out that Yang Qi didn't take his anger out on them, they germinated again.

The matter of the imperial examination was brought to a climax by them again.

The scenes of literati and poets lying drunk in the flowers, drinking and having fun, and fighting oirans that could only be seen in Bianjing city before can be seen everywhere in Yanjing city.

Thousands of scholars from all over the country rushed to Yanjing City for scientific research, all of a sudden filled the brothels in Yanjing City.

According to Peng Pai's statistics, during the two months of preparing for the imperial examination, there were hundreds of brothels in Yanjing City in an instant.

However, when it comes to the busiest place in Yanjing City, it is not the brothel, but the Guo Mansion.

Yan State opened the imperial examination for the first time.

The examiner is not any of the seven important officials of the Yan Kingdom, including Kou Zhun and Su Yijian, nor is he a world-shattering Confucianist like Zhong Fang, but Guo Shilang.

This unique treatment suddenly elevated Guo Shilang's status.

Today's Guo Shilang's status in the literary world is comparable to that of a suzerain.

Daily.

Guo's mansion is full of people.

There are so many students coming and going.

The articles handed in every day can fill the entire Guo Mansion.

Du Qing, who lived at the back door of Guo's mansion, didn't need to buy toilet paper anymore. The articles thrown out by Guo's mansion every day were enough for him to use for a year.

When Du Qing went to the palace to meet Yang Qi, he even said with a smile that the shit he pulls out now smells like ink.

In short, there are great Confucian scholars talking and laughing in Guo's mansion now, and there are no white people in their contacts.

And following these articles into Guo's mansion, there are still a lot of money.

I heard that while Guo Shilang was sleeping soundly, he wrote the word "lazy" casually, and it cost [-] yuan.

Yang Qi was very curious about how miraculous the word "lazy" was, and it was actually worth more than the words written by him, the current Wenzong.

On a certain afternoon.

Yang Qi changed into plain clothes and wandered to the gate of Guo Mansion with Peng Pai.

When they reached the entrance of Yongle Alley where the Guo Mansion was located, they could no longer squeeze in.

From the entrance of the Guo Mansion to the entrance of the alley, it was full of people.

All of them are dressed as scholars.

Holding the deposit ticket in one hand and the article in the other, he squeezed forward with all his strength.

Just when Yang Qi was about to order Peng Pai's representative to squeeze in.

There was a commotion at the gate of the Guo Mansion.

A poorly dressed scholar was pushed out of the gate of the Guo Mansion.

The concierge of the Guo Mansion with a mole on his face, grabbed a unique black hair on the mole, and cursed arrogantly: "Get out! You are so poor, you dare to go to the gate of the Guo Mansion."

While speaking, he threw a piece of paper in the face of the poor scholar in disgust.

The poor scholar picked up the article, knelt on the ground and begged loudly.

"Please, please, please help the student to report and let Mr. Guo take a look at the student's article."

"roll!"

The concierge of the Guo Mansion kicked him unceremoniously.

The poor scholar rolled down the stone steps, and in an instant another person took his previous position.

The poor scholar hugged his article and ran out of the alley amid the accusations and abuse from others.

Yang Qi stopped him.

"Show me your article."

The poor scholar looked at Yang Qi vigilantly, clutching his article with both hands, "You want to plagiarize my article? Don't think about it."

Peng Pai, who was following Yang Qi, was unhappy when he heard this.

"How do you talk? How do you talk? My adults want to read your articles, so they respect you."

"grown ups?"

The poor scholar was startled, looked Yang Qi up and down, and asked suspiciously, "Are you an official?"

Yang Qi was startled, curled his lips and laughed at himself: "It's sort of..."

"Then can you talk to Master Guo?"

The poor scholar changed his vigilance just now and looked happy.

Yang Qi smiled and said: "Then let me read your article first."

Hearing this, the poor scholar hurriedly smoothed the crumpled article, and respectfully handed it to Yang Qi.

Yang Qi scanned his article at a glance and commented: "Your article "On the Four Kingdoms" still has merits, especially the sentence 'Four Kingdoms stand together, only Yan is strong, Yu Jin, Shu, Liao, It’s the way to raise tigers to cause trouble’.”

Hearing Yang Qi's praise, the poor scholar showed a bright smile on his face.

Yang Qi wondered: "Your article is not bad, why can't you enter Guo's house?"

The smile on the face of the poor scholar froze, and he rubbed his hands shyly, "I... I am ashamed in my pocket, and I can't pay my respects, so I was kicked out of the door."

After a pause, the poor scholar said again: "Besides, Mr. Guo is preparing for the imperial examination soon, and he is busy with affairs. If he is asked to criticize my article in his busy schedule, he has to show some filial piety. I don't have any..."

The voices of poor scholars are getting smaller and smaller.

Yang Qi was taken aback.

"How much do you need?"

"One...ten thousand dollars..."

"so much?"

Yang Qi yelled in astonishment, and then said with a complex expression: "That's all, seeing how greedy he collects money, I feel relieved."

"what?!"

The poor scholars looked stunned.

Yang Qi laughed and said: "I think you have some literary talents, staying here is just a waste of time, why not apply for Yenching University, and you can get a part-time job in the future."

Yang Qi slowly raised his head and put his hands behind his back, with a sob on his face.

"There is gold under a man's knees. The Holy Majesty has already taken the kneeling ceremony. The kneeling you just did is a sign of a man's integrity. You should not kneel in the future."

When the poor scholar heard this, he was stunned at first, then turned suspicious, and finally glared at Yang Qi angrily.

"I figured it out. You are not an official at all, let alone recommending me to Master Guo. You stopped me because you wanted to play tricks on me. It's none of your business whether I kneel or not.

Guo Shi is the contemporary Wenzong, so it doesn't matter if I kneel down to him as a disciple.

Still tricking me into going to Yenching University?

Scholars of my generation, how can I be confused with those miscellaneous scholars in Yenching University. "

"presumptuous!"

Peng Pai yelled angrily, took a step forward, and drew out the saber from his waist, ready to kill such an insulting guy on the spot.

Yang Qi raised his hand and stopped him.

"It's just a rotten scholar, why bother with him."

Yang Qi looked at the poor scholar who was staring at him angrily, and said calmly: "Although I can't hand in your article to the Guo Mansion, I can help you enter the Guo Mansion, and I can also get you into the top three. "

The poor scholar looked at Yang Qi vigilantly again, and said with a little disdain in his eyes: "What can you do?"

Yang Qi grinned and said, "I have money, a lot of money."

"Peng Pai!"

Yang Qi let out a soft cry, and Peng Pai took out a stack of banknotes from his arms and handed them to him.

Yang Qi took a rough look at the deposit certificate in his hand, and handed it to the poor scholar, "There are about [-] deposit certificates here, and here they are for you."

The poor scholars looked shocked.

"One hundred thousand money... give it to me?"

Yang Qi smiled in his unbelievable eyes: "Yes! Here it is for you. If conditions permit, I can spend money to help you buy a champion."

"Gudu~"

The poor scholars were shocked beyond measure.

In the past, when he was studying, he heard various rumors. According to the rumors, when some scholars entered Beijing to take the imperial examination, they would always meet noble people to help them.

It's either a gift of gold or silver, or a promise of body, and what's more, he will become the son-in-law of a high-ranking official's family.

He didn't expect that one day, this kind of thing would happen to him.

The poor scholar swallowed his saliva forcefully, and said in a trembling voice, "What do you want me to do?"

Since he was able to write "On the Four Kingdoms", which was rated as good by Yang Qi, he is naturally not a fool.

Yang Qi sent him a lot of money, so he will definitely ask for something.

Yang Qi narrowed his eyes and smiled and said: "I haven't decided what to do for you yet, you can take the imperial examination first, and I will think about what to do after you pass the exam. Why, do you dare to bet? "

The poor scholar looked at the [-] yuan in his hand, and then at Yang Qi.

Finally, he looked at the scholars who were flocking to Guo's mansion.

"I bet!"

"happy!"

"My name is Jiang Chao."

Poor scholars reported their names.

Yang Qi smiled and said: "I have written down your name. If I want to see you, I will naturally see you. Don't even try to run away with the money, because if you are caught by my people, you will die a miserable death If you don’t have enough money, go to Changlefang, find the shopkeeper Rumeng inside, tell her Seventh Young Master asked you to withdraw the money, and she will give it to you.”

Hearing Yang Qi's words, Jiang Chao didn't show anything wrong.

He also knew in his heart that a person who could conveniently take out a hundred thousand coins to deposit a certificate could be regarded as either rich or expensive in this city of Yanjing.

If people want to find him, they can easily catch him.

"Emperor..."

"Hurry up and go to Guo's Mansion, otherwise the top three spots will be robbed."

Jiang Chao was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly nodded and ran towards the Guo Mansion.

Halfway through, he turned back again,
"Thank you very much, Mr. Jiang. After high school, Jiang will definitely repay you ten times."

After leaving these words, Jiang Chao ran to Guo Mansion again.

This time, there was a deposit ticket to clear the way, and he entered Guo's mansion smoothly.

Alley mouth.

Peng Pai asked in bewilderment: "Master, why did you do this?"

Yang Qi put his hands behind his back, walked out, and said with a calm smile: "I just want to see if I can buy a champion. If I can, then I won't have any burden on my heart if I kill someone.

Besides, don't you think it is a very pleasant thing to see Jiang Chao appear during the palace examination? "

"Eh... The subordinates didn't feel happy, but rather childish."

"Peng Pai, are you going to rebel? Dare you say I'm naive?"

"Master... When you come out, you have something to say first, and your subordinates can speak freely."

"..."

In this way, the two monarchs and ministers cursed and left the place where the Guo Mansion was located, and went back to the palace.

Spending a lot of money to let Jiang Chao go to the scientific examination is just a casual move by Yang Qi, the purpose is to maximize the scandal of this imperial examination fraud case that he carefully planned.

After returning to the palace, Yang Qi told Peng Pai, "Go and tell Lu Duan that you don't need the help of their students from Jinling University in this subject. What Guo did was far better than I expected."

"The subordinate understands, and the subordinate will do it now."

Following Yang Qi's private visit, Guo Shilang had a sharp sword hanging over his head, but he didn't know it.

The reason why he dared to take money so blatantly was not only because of Yang Qi's connivance, but also because of his old thoughts.

After all, in Song Dynasty.

The imperial examination is a grand event to make money.

In every imperial examination, from the chief examiner to the petty official, each of them made a lot of money.

However, he didn't see clearly.

In the Song Dynasty, those officials dared to take money blatantly, because every time the imperial examinations were held, all the dignitaries in Bianjing would support the talents they liked openly and secretly.

With the support of these dignitaries, it is normal that there is moisture in the imperial examination.

Even if the emperor knew about this matter and investigated it quietly, it would involve a lot, and he would turn a blind eye to it.

But Yan Guo is different.

Most of the dignitaries in the Yan Kingdom are military generals, and many of them are confidantes who were promoted by Yang Qi. Even if they were not promoted by Yang Qi, they were also promoted by Yang Qi's other brothers.

They knew that Yang Qi hated Confucianism, so they would not participate in Confucianism.

Among the civil servants, Kou Zhun, Su Yijian and other seven people stood at the top. They knew that Yang Qi was determined to run Confucianism.

Although Yang Qi wanted to make trouble through the imperial examination, he didn't inform them one by one.

But based on their ingenuity, it is not difficult to guess that the imperial examination this time is destined to not be peaceful, so they will not participate in it.

It was because of this blindness that Guo Shilang didn't see the situation clearly, and made a lot of money there.

As everyone knows, if you earn more, you will be closer to death.

Time is like an arrow, like the moon like water.

In a blink of an eye, the first imperial examination since the founding of the Yan Kingdom officially began.

All the rules and etiquette followed the Song Dynasty.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

When the huge bell in the imperial city rang.

Tens of thousands of scholars entered the Longmen with joyful steps.

(End of this chapter)