Monument Yangmen

Chapter 899

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, the grass people are also deceived by lard..."

Kong Lianjie was so frightened that he trembled all over, begging for mercy.

He dared not make any excuses.

Yang Qi flicked the whip in his hand, and smiled cruelly, "Don't worry, I won't beat you to death with the whip. Because, it's too cheap for you. I remember that when we were discussing matters in the court, the officials gave me I came up with a lot of ideas to torture people. I have never been able to find a suitable person to do it. Now that I see you, I finally see an opportunity."

"I want to make the fear that my mentor feels, regain it a hundred times and a thousand times in you."

"No! No!"

Kong Lianjie wailed in horror.

Everyone who has been to Yanjing City has heard a little about Yang Qi asking all the officials to come up with ideas to punish people in the court.

Kong Lianjie had been in Yanjing City for a long time, so he naturally knew what methods those officials had used to punish people.

Each of them will make him want to die.

Yang Qi sneered, put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the prison.

"Peng Pai, I leave it to you..."

"Subordinates obey!"

"No! Help!"

"..."

Amid Kong Lianjie's wailing, Yang Qi walked out of the prison. He looked up at the blue sky and sighed slightly.

Kong Lianjie was arrested, and Yang Qi settled his worries.

There is also an explanation for the dead Shen Lun.

He didn't let anyone follow him, he played with the jade cicada that Shen Lun had given him, and walked on the streets of Yanjing City, feeling the flowers and rivers and mountains, and at the same time, he cherished the memory of Shen Lun in his heart.

When Shen Lun was buried, he did not see Shen Lun off for the last time.

Now he has avenged Shen Lun, and he is paying homage in this way.

Yang Qi was like a lonely soul, wandering slowly in the streets of Yanjing City until night fell.

He walked into a gourd-head steamed bun shop with a plaque hung with the number one in the world.

The shop was crowded with people and business was booming.

But the familiar old figure was no longer there.

The one who cooks the paomo is a hired guy, and the shopkeeper is busy collecting money at the counter.

After Yang Qi walked into the shop, the waiter greeted him.

"Guest officer, how many people are there?"

Yang Qi waved his hands and walked in front of the shopkeeper without saying a word.

The shopkeeper was also taken aback when someone blocked the light.

Looking up, he trembled all over, almost kneeling on the ground on one knee.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

Yang Qi raised his hand to stop him from continuing to shout.

"Where's your father?"

The shopkeeper's eyes turned red, and he said in a low voice, "My father went there years ago..."

"Hey~"

Yang Qi sighed.

The shopkeeper wiped his tears and said in a low voice: "When my father went, he told me that you would like to eat the old stewed intestines in our shop. He kept complaining to himself that he didn't let you eat it when he met you. The best stew, so when I tell the villain to meet you again, I must let you taste the old stew."

"Then try it..."

"Young man, let's do it."

After a while.

Under the strange eyes of others, the shopkeeper came to Yang Qi with a bowl of gourd heads.

Yang Qi picked up the chopsticks, tasted it, and was slightly taken aback.

"Not to your liking?"

The shopkeeper asked in a trembling voice.

Yang Qi shook his head and didn't say much.

With his head down, he ate up all the gourd heads in the bowl, dropped two big coins, and left the shop without looking back.

The shopkeeper didn't look at the two big coins on the table, he looked at Yang Qi's leaving back and burst into tears.

"Shopkeeper, what's the matter with you today, for the first time, you personally cook and greet the guests? And the man ate a bowl of good gourd head, and gave him two big coins. Why don't you cry after him for money? ?”

The shopkeeper broke down in tears.

"I'm sorry for my dad..."

The familiar guests panicked when they saw it, and said one after another: "What's wrong with you? Tell me what a big deal, we are all acquaintances, and if we can help you, we will definitely help you."

"exactly……"

The shopkeeper choked up and said: "When my father passed away, he told me that when His Majesty comes again, he must let His Majesty taste the authentic gourd head, but I failed to learn my father's skill well, and he was ashamed."

"Why is your majesty not your majesty..."

"Shut up, have you forgotten where their signboard came from?"

"Hiss... that person just now..."

"His Majesty!"

"..."

Yang Qi didn't say a word from the beginning of eating the gourd head to the end.

Apparently, he didn't taste what he wanted to taste.

The shopkeeper also saw this, so he burst into tears.

Yang Qihuang walked unsteadily on the street, lamenting that things are changing and people are changing, and acquaintances are getting old and dying one by one.

After returning to the palace.

Yang Qi stayed in the imperial study, seeing no one, bored for a whole day.

Shake.

Two months passed quietly.

The new round of imperial examinations was held as scheduled.

Everything went smoothly.

Yang Qi also failed in the palace examination.

Everyone is happy.

however.

When the list of successful Jinshi was posted, the scholars entrenched in Yanjing City were blown up.

Nanbang appeared!
What is Nanbang?

Anyone who is familiar with the imperial examinations knows that the people on the list who passed the examination are all from the south.

This is Nanbang, and there is no northerner on it.

Scholars in the north were completely blown away. They went together and ran around, threatening the imperial examination fraud.

The city of Yanjing was engulfed in a miasma.

At the crucial moment.

Yang Qi followed the public opinion and investigated the matter strictly.

Then it was found out that the chief examiner and deputy chief examiner of this imperial examination were all southerners. Although they did not accept bribes, they had selfish motives and admitted scholars from the south, but none from the north.

Ever since, Yang Qi raised his butcher knife again and killed hundreds of officials in one go.

Afterwards, at the request of the civil servants, officials from the north were replaced as examiners.

Then, Beibang also appeared.

Officials in the north admitted a group of scholars from the north, but not a single scholar from the south.

The scholars in the south were unwilling and began to make noise.

Yang Qi raised the butcher knife again.

……

So back and forth, what is the north-south list, what is cheating in the examination room, what is leaking questions.

Anyone who can be linked to cheating has never stopped in the imperial examination field.

Of course Yang Qi never stopped killing people.

It wasn't until the civil servants in the court who were waving the flag for the imperial examination reacted that they realized that they had only a handful of allies.

No matter how stupid they are, they still know that they have been tricked by Yang Qi.

After all, once or twice a fraudulent case happened, it was already top-notch.

If all the fraudulent cases happen one after another, it will be tricky.

On Qianyuan Hall.

After eight imperial examinations.

Yang Qi looked at the few remaining civil servants in the court hall who were cheering for the imperial examination, and smiled with satisfaction.

Now, Confucianism is gone. In the future, there will be no Confucianism in the territory of Yan State, and there will be only Confucianism.

However, Yang Qi did not intend to let go of the three or two remaining kittens.

"The imperial examination is a grand ceremony for the country's talents. The frequent occurrence of fraudulent cases makes me very angry. I want to punish corrupt officials, and I hate to punish them. But this imperial examination cannot be stopped. The imperial examinations are for the selection of the imperial court. The necessary way for officials. Only by constantly recruiting scholars and wise men can the country be settled.

What do you Aiqing think, who will recognize the next imperial examination examiner? "

Under the gaze of Yang Qihu, the civil servants began their performance.

"My minister recommends Mr. Li, who was the second best in the seven years of Taiping and rejuvenating the country..."

"Your Majesty! I can't do it, I can't do it, I have a headache, I think Lord Wang is the most suitable, but Lord Wang is..."

"I can't do it either. My mother is seriously ill. I want to serve the bedside. I recommend Mr. Zhang..."

"..."

At this time, this group of civil servants didn't care about their shame, they tried to blame each other, and they were full of ugly behaviors.

Yang Qi watched them perform coldly.

It wasn't until they got tired of acting that he slowly said: "My dear friends, don't rush to rob. If you missed this subject, there is another one. Each of you has a chance."

The civil servants shuddered.

Someone couldn't hold it anymore and wailed loudly: "Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

Seeing this, the others also begged for mercy.

Yang Qi looked around them coldly, "If you don't take the exam, you can't do it! At the beginning, but in this Qianyuan Palace, you wrote together and forced me to reopen the imperial examination. I agreed to your request and reopened the imperial examination.

Now you are unwilling to be the chief examiner.

Do you think the imperial examination is a child's play, or do you think I am a naughty boy that you can fool at will? "

The civil servants were terrified.

Someone wailed, "I won't take the exam, I won't take the exam anymore, I won't talk about the imperial examination anymore, I beg your majesty to forgive me."

"I know I'm wrong, please take your majesty back..."

"..."

In order to survive, they can say whatever they pray for.

However, the more they were like this, the more Yang Qi didn't want to leave this group of idiots in the court.

Finally, a smart person saw Yang Qi's intentions.

He quickly left the shift, took off his official hat, put it on the ground, bowed three times, and shouted.

"I beg for the bones..."

Then, without waiting for Yang Qi to speak, he trotted out of Qianyuan Hall.

This quick resignation made all the officials in Qianyuan Hall stunned.

By the time they realized it, the man had already run outside Qianyuan Hall.

Yang Qi opened his mouth, but in the end he still didn't say what was in his mouth.

Others saw this scene and resigned one after another.

The first person, Yang Qi, did not punish him, so Yang Qi, who was behind, had no choice but to let them go.

however.

There are always some official fans, and those who are lucky, still standing in the hall and refusing to leave.

For these people, Yang Qi was not polite.

"Since everyone else has resigned, you are the only ones left. Then this time, the imperial examination will be in charge of you. If you do your job well, if you do it well, I will reward you a lot."

Yang Qi's smile was full of kindness.

But in the ears of those officials, it was harsher than the magic sound.

Immediately, someone wailed: "I beg for the bones..."

Yang Qi put away the smile on his face, and said indifferently: "It's late, the chance I give is always only once."

"I won't go, I won't go, I won't go even if I'm killed."

Some people started cheating.

Yang Qi glanced at Peng Pai and said, "Take them away!"

Ever since, in history, the first batch of examiners who were escorted to the position of examiners were born.

Undoubtedly, after these people were put on the position of chief examiner, they never came down again.

The only thing waiting for them was the knife at Caishikou.

The remnants of Confucianism were eliminated.

Yang Qi could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

When the last batch of examiners were sent to the guillotine.

Yang Qi held a small banquet in the palace, attended by Kou Zhun, Xiang Minzhong, and Lu Mengzheng who had just been transferred back to the capital.

room.

Yang Qi raised his glass and said, "Once Confucianism is gone, I can finally let go of this serious illness in my heart."

Kou Zhun interjected, mouth full of oil, "Aren't you afraid of the resurgence of Confucianism?"

Yang Qi glared at him, and Kou Zhun shrank his head in fright.

Xiang Minzhong said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Confucianism is gone, how should we treat Confucianism? We have been planning for a long time, should the books taught to students be replaced?"

Lu Meng was listening attentively.

Yang Qi pondered and said: "Confucianism is a cancer, but Confucianism is not. There will be no problems with learning itself, only human beings. So I don't have any prejudice against Confucianism. It's just that if Confucianism is revived in schools around the world, it will inevitably cause problems. Let Confucianism revive, and it's not fair to those students who are about to graduate.

After thinking about it again and again, I feel that we can extract the essence from Confucian classics and compile them into books.

Other encyclopedias can follow suit.

So, what do you think? "

Xiang Minzhong and Lu Mengzheng looked at each other, nodded and said, "It's possible!"

"Then it's settled, and I'll leave it to the two of you to take charge."

"Hey~"

"How do we know which of these are the essence? What if someone brings private goods when compiling?"

Kou Zhun's voice sounded out of place again.

Xiang Minzhong replied bluntly: "You and I are both people who have studied for decades, and we can't tell the essence of Confucianism. In my Yenching University, there are several great Confucians sitting in charge.

As long as we agree unanimously, His Majesty will review the essence and compile it into a book. With so many supervisions, who dares to carry private goods. "

Lu Mengzheng nodded in agreement.

Kou Zhun curled his lips and said, "I'll just say it casually, you don't have to take it too seriously."

"Humph!"

Xiang Minzhong snorted coldly, expressing his dissatisfaction with Kou Zhun.

Yang Qi frowned and looked at Kou Zhun, saying, "What's wrong with you today, your nose is not your nose, your eyes are not your eyes."

Kou Zhun helplessly spread his hands and said, "What else can I do, it's not your precious sister who made trouble."

"Eighth sister? Eighth younger sister is pregnant, how could she make trouble for you."

Yang Qi frowned into a Sichuan character.

Kou Zhun rolled his eyes and said, "She's just threatening me with the baby in her belly!"

"Isn't she a joke?"

"Yes, it's nonsense."

Yang Qi was not fooled by Kou Zhun, he mused, "What happened to force Bamei to this point?"

Kou Zhun said quietly: "What else can be done, of course it is your family business?"

"Um?!"

"The envoy of the Liao Kingdom came to Beijing the day before yesterday and sent a document of diplomatic relations, saying that Yelusi, the young emperor of the Liao Kingdom, wants to come to pay homage to you, the emperor of the suzerain country."

Yang Qi was shocked and said: "Why didn't I know what happened the day before yesterday?"

"The Empress Dowager happened to come across this matter and withheld that diplomatic document."

"This……"

(End of this chapter)