fast and ferocious

Chapter 368
"The emperor must have an opinion, right? How should that poisonous woman Wu Dinghou be punished? Should Wu Dinghou also think about it?"

Guo Yi followed suit and nodded.

The old monk said alas:

"If you say it well, you are caring, but if you say it badly, you don't know what it means! After all, it is Wu Dinghou's family business. If the wife is not virtuous, the son is not filial, and whether the backyard is on fire, does it have anything to do with the emperor? Is the emperor idle? Taking care of family affairs? It is enough for the emperor to reprimand Marquis Wu Ding in private."

"Then I didn't enter the cell for nothing?"

"If you insist on entering, who can stop you?"

"Of course there is no Bai Jin!" The eldest princess said: "Because you admitted your mistake first, that's why the prince was injured. Otherwise, if Marquis Wu Ding insists on an explanation, the emperor will find it difficult to do so."

Qin Wubing scratched his forehead, and muttered: "Mistake! I really shouldn't have gone in first, I should have waited for Marquis Wu Ding to come back, and waited for each to be hit with [-] boards. It's obviously me who was beaten, they are all right!"

"Who said it's all right?" The eldest princess raised her chin: "I have ordered someone to go to Wu Dinghou's mansion to spread the word. If Mrs. Wu Dinghou dares to sell my righteous sister in private, she must give me an explanation!"

"That's right! I always feel that something is wrong, it's here! Chuncao must not suffer in vain! It's not enough to only punish those people."

"Give Marquis Wuding some dignity first, and it's best to solve it in private. Don't you want Lin Huai to leave the mansion for a single pass? Otherwise, I would have ordered someone to go to Marquis Wuding's mansion to teach that lady a good lesson!"

"Can...can you get Lin Huai out of the house and teach that poisonous woman a lesson?"

The eldest princess thought seriously.

The old monk said impatiently: "What do you think, just order someone to whip a few whips before talking about it! I will come forward about Lin Huai's leaving the mansion, but I still don't believe it. It won't work if I come forward?"

"Don't say, the poisonous woman will strongly agree with the elder brother leaving the mansion. She will feel that after the elder brother is not in the mansion, Wu Dinghou's energy can be used on her son, so that he can find an official position in the court. .”

"Just by looking at her and that eldest son, you can know the character of her other sons, and they still want to be officials?" The old monk asked with staring eyes.

Just as Qin Wubing was about to get Lin Huai out of the mansion first, his servants came to report that Mr. Guo from the Ministry of Punishment came to visit, and Qin Wubing immediately stood up to welcome him out.

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In the study, Guo's face was tense. In the past two days, he picked up the important people who brought him back for interrogation, especially the people who sneaked into the Tonghui county government office and wanted to destroy and steal the corpses and the man in black who appeared halfway. These people were all hooligans from Zhuangzi near Tonghui County, and they were even divided into several groups, who didn't know each other, and the person who hired them was an old Taoist from Taiqingguan outside Tonghui County.

"...I have ordered people to go to Taiqing to arrest the old Taoist." Guo Zheng said the situation seriously.

"He won't wait for you to come and get it."

Guo Zheng nodded.

Qin Wubing said again: "I think we should start with the people who lived in the posthouse on the day when the crime happened."

"I have carefully read the registration book that day. There are more than a dozen officials who entered and exited the capital and lived in the post house. It is impossible to distinguish the suspects only by their official positions..."

"There is no doubt that this case involves fraud in the examination room. The water is getting deeper. Master Guo, have you thought about it?"

Guo Zheng was taken aback for a moment, and then said seriously: "The emperor ordered me to investigate this case strictly, and Guo certainly dare not slack off, no matter who is involved in this case, the severity of the crime is determined by the emperor, but if the investigation is not clear, it is Guo Zheng." Someone's fault!"

"Master Guo must have known that after I entered Beijing, he stayed in prison for two nights and only came out today."

"Look at me, I wanted to ask Lin Huai about his injury before I entered the door, but I forgot when I entered."

Qin Wubing waved his hand and said, "Brother's injury has nothing to do with this case. What I want to say is that the emperor visited me in prison last night and mentioned this case."

Guo Zheng's shock was no small matter!
"The emperor asked me, will this case be investigated or not? If there are too many officials involved in the case, will it disrupt the court situation? If we don't investigate, how can the court find good and capable officials?"

Guo Zheng couldn't calm down after hearing this, he leaned forward and said anxiously: "How can we not investigate? How can we not investigate?"

"Master Guo, don't worry, listen to me. The emperor's concern shows that the emperor knows that if the case is found out, the entanglement will be extensive! In the Spring Festival held every three years, the examiners are different each time. Since when did the exam questions leak? Are there other ways of cheating on the exam questions? This is still the case in Chunwei, what about the local rural exams and children's exams? After so many years, what does the Metropolitan Procuratorate do?"

"Since we know that the root of the disaster has been deeply planted, we should find out and uproot it!"

"Yes! But, Mr. Guo, please think about it. I don't know how many years have passed, and I don't know how many people participated. But who would be so anxious to kill the Qipin county magistrate who was released?"

Guo Zheng was stunned by Qin Wubing's sudden turn, but he quickly realized: "In the year when the deceased Mei Zhongchun participated in the scientific examination, some officials participated in fraud in the scientific examination!"

"Mei Zhongchun is not young. Just looking at his clothes and luggage, he is very shabby. If you don't have money, you can't buy exam questions. Isn't it a bit contradictory?"

"It must be because of the scientific research that made him bankrupt!"

"The scientific examination is a one-shot deal. I will sell you the examination questions. If you fail the examination, as long as the questions are correct, the business between us will be over. Mei Zhongchun passed the examination. There was no problem with the piece, but after passing the exam, Mei Zhongchun wanted to make up for the lack, so he sent out the money, but made him wait for more than a year. In the end, he just went to Ningyang, a poor county, to be a county magistrate. His money, or the money he spent is very inconsistent, so there is such a big resentment, this point, Mr. Guo should not be difficult to find out the truth."

Guo Zheng nodded frequently.

Qin Wubing said again:
"However, there is one thing I can't figure out here. It stands to reason that Mei Zhongchun at most knows who sold him the test questions and who helped him get rid of the money. How would he know who is manipulating it? I checked it in Jinghai County before. The case related to the cheating in the scientific examination, although the seller of the examination questions was murdered to death in the end, but even if he did not die, I can't ask anything. He doesn't know who is leading this matter in the capital. Mr. Guo understands me the meaning of?"

"Understood, it means that Mei Zhongchun not only knows who is selling exam questions and who is selling officials, but also has evidence in hand!"

"I want to say that the people who sold the test questions and agreed to run for him should be the same group of people! And the person Mei Zhongchun met at the post office in Tonghui County must be one of them!"

"That is to say, the person who plotted to kill Mei Zhongchun was in the post at that time, but how to screen? He may be a person who took the scientific examination in the same year as Mei Zhongchun, or it may not be the same year. He can stay in the post after the incident , you can also pretend to leave, but actually hide in the dark..."

"Exactly! But there is another person, Mr. Guo, who forgot, Zhang Xiangsong, the fake county magistrate, whose real name is Tian Yougui!"

(End of this chapter)