The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

Just as Qiao's mansion held a big banquet to celebrate, and in the palace on the other side, Yuan Zai and the others never imagined that the crown prince and a large group of ministers met the emperor face to face.

After Guo Nuan's detailed explanation, he didn't hide the fact that after he discovered Qiao Yun's handwriting in the imperial study room, he asked someone to copy a rebellious article, until this morning when he set up a private court in Jingzhao Yamen to lure Qiao Lin and his son. .

Of course, with the support and guarantee of Lord Yan Zhenqing and Cui Youfu, and even Concubine Dugu helped Guo Nuan, Daizong felt that it was not illegal to use seduction methods when the traces of the crimes committed by Qiao and his son were obvious.

Then when it became even more explosive, Guo Nuan said that the prince Li Shi had also participated in the imperial examination, and his pseudonym was "Wang Shi" for reference. This almost stunned the emperor and most of the ministers, which was really unexpected.

When Guo Nuan told about a cheating method called "shaving the head" in the scientific examination, everyone listened with great interest. Now he said that the prince's paper was probably made by the spy Yang Yan of the examination institute to shave the prince's paper in this way. Yes, the emperor's face was full of astonishment.

"Hurry up and send someone to the Examination Institute to retrieve Qiao Yun's papers. I want to check them face to face with the ministers." When Daizong heard the answer to this riddle, he suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment. No wonder he was reading the papers in the imperial study that day. I always feel that the handwriting of this candidate Qiao Yun has a very familiar feeling.After Guo Nuan said it now, he seemed to think that the handwriting was somewhat similar to the prince's.

The prince is now standing beside the pillar, he has no words, and before the truth comes out, he leaves everything to Guo Nuan to explain.

Now Liu Yan is also surprised. I didn't expect Guo Nuan to help Prince Li Shi take part in this scientific examination. If, as Guo Nuan said, he shaved Qiao Yun's head with the prince's paper, it would mean that the prince His true talent and learning are worthy of No. 1 among Gongsheng students.

Soon, under the rush of a large number of guards with knives, they hastily surrounded the examination institute, and there was a lot of excitement in the night.Before the officials of the Examination Institute had time to be shocked, they were immediately taken down by a large number of imposing guards and strictly controlled and supervised.

Many officials in the Examination Yuan were involved in the cheating case of the imperial examination, so the guards immediately controlled them according to the emperor's wishes.

It is said that the officials in the Examination Institute are busy with the activities of posting the list tomorrow, but a large number of guards broke in unexpectedly.Of course, several officials in charge went to the mansion of Master Shaoqing Qiao Lin of Dali Temple to drink, but they were not arrested on the spot.

The examination papers about Qiao Yun's candidates were quickly collected by the guards, and they were quickly presented to the imperial study room.Qiao Yun was in the process of submitting the questionnaire with Chuck on the road.

In front of everyone's face, the prince asked the eunuch to bring a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as well as rice paper, and silently wrote the questions he had done in the examination house on the desk. An article of several hundred words was quickly written.

Daizong looked at it and raised his eyebrows. The handwriting really contained a lot of arrogance.Due to the busy government affairs, it is said that since the prince was 16 years old, Daizong took time to visit the prince's study at the scholar book pavilion of the Hanlin Academy, and he had no time to watch the prince's study.

At that time, the prince was already an adult, and his handwriting was well honed and stereotyped.There is a bold and domineering connotation.When Daizong saw the handwriting on the desk, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Hey, it's indeed similar to Qiao Yun's file."

Obviously, Yan Zhenqing read the article written silently by the prince, and the content was similar to Qiao Yun's policy question.It seems that no accident, it was indeed shaved.

And Guo Nuan also presented the entrance certificate for the prince to the emperor. This certificate just wrote the name of Wang Shi. As for the birthplace information on the certificate, as well as the examinee's talent and the year of his career, these are Guo's Nuan casually transcribed it.

The examinee files of the examination institute sent by the emperor were inspected, and it was true that Wang Shi was the only one who met the age of the examination, and the age of the examination, and the household registration was not recorded, which was a forgery.

Of course, the reason why Guo Nuan's forged reference certificate for Li Shi can pass the examination room inspection is because Guo Nuan used the certificate paper of the examination institute and the authentic official seal.The information on the certificate is false. Unless the inspection officials in the examination room deliberately look through the thick candidates’ files for verification, they will not be able to find out that the information on the certificate is false, but they can tell whether the certificate is fake with just a glance.And the certificate held by the prince is real, so he can naturally enter the examination room smoothly.

When Qiao Yun's paper was brought to Daizong's desk, the ministers circled around to observe and compare the two papers carefully, and nodded.These two papers are exactly the same in terms of the shape of the handwriting, the implication, and the content.There is nothing to say, Yang Yan, such a bold guy, dared to use the crown prince's paper to shave his head.Of course, Yang Yan didn't know that Wang Shi was actually Li Shi.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the shaving rolls are very clever. No matter how skilled the cheater is, he can glue the shaving rolls together perfectly, but there is another simple and effective method to see through its traces."

Among the ministers, there is a minister in charge of the craftsman's workshop. He is a young supervisor in the craftsman's prison. He is a highly skilled craftsman and has a lot of creativity.Now Yang Yan mentioned to Guo Nuan that he stole the prince's article to Qiao Yun by shaving his head.He did think of a way.

"What way!" Everyone couldn't help asking in unison.At the same time, Guo Nuan also became very interested. He said that when he looked closely at Qiao Yun's shaved head, he always felt that it was a piece of paper that was completely natural, without any traces of pasting.

The minister then asked someone to bring a bright torch, and he carefully placed Qiao Yun's shaved roll under the light of the bright torch.

"Your Majesty, it's actually very simple. The ability to use shaving papers in the exam is nothing more than the convenience of senior officials in the examination house. At the same time, it is necessary to invite experts to copy the papers. Such a huge project is not easy to do. .At least it is a difficult problem to glue the papers and take them out of the examination house."

The Minister of Craftsmanship Supervising spoke eloquently, and everyone nodded and said yes, since it is very difficult for the shaved paper to invite copying masters and craftsmen with advanced papermaking skills, let alone the examination institute who has connections to help him cheat .So the general shaving paper was made, and few people would realize that this is a shaving paper.The probability is really too small.

I took a light on the torch, and everyone was surprised to find that there was a faintly visible straight black line between the frontispiece and the filling box of the article. No one knew this, only the gap formed by two pieces of paper glued together would have such a situation.

Guo Nuan suddenly realized that under ordinary light, the pulp on the shaving paper was not suspicious at all.This is a brilliant stunt.

"Come here, urgently summon Yuan Zai, Qiao Lin and his son, and Yang Yan and others. I want to investigate this matter thoroughly. If you encounter resistance, you will be killed!"

At this moment, the emperor was really angry. He compared the two papers, and he couldn't understand it more clearly.This is indeed a clear shaving roll.

Soon a large number of guards from the palace set off. According to reliable sources, a large number of officials in Qiao Lin's mansion were celebrating Qiao Yun's acquisition of No. 1 tribute student.

This was the time to catch everything, Guo Nuan accompanied a general in the palace to hold the battle in person, rode his horse and galloped, and rushed to Qiao Lin's mansion in the middle of the night.Just in the middle of the banquet, when these bureaucrats were drinking to their heart's content, how could they expect that the gate of Qiao's mansion was suddenly breached by a large number of guards.

"Bold, what side of the imperial guards are you, how dare you break into my Qiao Lin's mansion!" Qiao Lin was indeed furious, and he roared. One-third of the ministers participated in the government gathering, how dare these ignorant guards be so rampant.

At this moment, Yuan Zai was stroking his beard and looking at the imperial guards with cold eyes. At this moment, a young major general of the imperial guards with an unfamiliar face rode his horse and led a large number of soldiers to surround the entire courtyard. No one at the banquet dared to move, and they were all suppressed. up.The reason why he chose this newly promoted General of the Imperial Guard to carry out the task of arresting the officials in the cheating case was that Daizong considered that many military officers of the Imperial Guard had a close relationship with the bureaucrats of Yuan Zai. , so a young general was specially selected to handle the case.

"The imperial decree has arrived." Guo Nuan arrived later on horseback. He walked around in front of the major general, holding a piece of imperial decree calmly.

"You... you, okay, Guo Nuan." Qiao Lin saw that Guo Nuan was also here. In the morning, Yuan Zai brought a large number of guards to Guo Nuan, which made Guo Nuan choked up. The feng shui took turns, and Guo Nuan came in front of Yuan Zai with a large number of palace guards.The pride of a winner.

"I still haven't accepted the order!" Guo Nuan shouted coldly, and the legs of the hundreds of officials present trembled immediately. Many of them had already guessed in their hearts that there might be something wrong about the cheating case.

Soon Guo Nuan recited the imperial decree to arrest Qiao Lin and his son, Yang Yan's decree, and immediately a dozen guards took them down.This time, Qiao Yun's face, which was originally as bright as a flower, immediately turned into a dead face, pale as gray, muttering: It's over, it's over.

As the exact number of people involved in the case still needs to be further interrogated and investigated, according to the emperor's will, Guo Nuan and the imperial guards in the palace escorted the mastermind bureaucrats to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice for strict supervision.

As for Yuan Zai, he did not directly participate in this case of cheating in the scientific examination, but relying on his crime of trusting party members, he was on standby at home.All in all, he is in confinement and waiting for further cases to come out afterwards.It is estimated that he will have a hard time in the future.

More than [-] court officials were arrested overnight, of which the most involved in the examination court were sixteen or seven.Guo Nuan knew that the head-shaving case had a far-reaching impact, and it was unlikely that the emperor would punish them lightly. The fate of these officials would be hard to say.

The persons involved in the case will be temporarily escorted to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs for future trial.But now the most important thing is the determination of the No.It took a lot of time to arrest a large number of bureaucrats.It was already three o'clock at night when I came in a hurry.

Seeing that the dawn is about to break, it's time to make a list.In the imperial study room, Daizong discussed with the ministers about resetting the rankings.

"Father, this son-in-law originally participated in this imperial examination anonymously just to prove his talent and academic strength, but he did not expect to encounter so many changes. Now that son-in-law knows the rank he got in the exam, he is satisfied. As for Huiyuan's fame You don't need it."

The crown prince begged on his knees, and Daizong nodded in relief after his words. He was very satisfied with his son's talent and learning.But sooner or later the prince will ascend the throne and become the emperor, and it is a joke to obtain a meritorious title in the imperial examination.This Gongsheng No.1 should be another candidate.

"Well, let the first-class No.2 candidates replace Gongsheng Huiyuan." Daizong made a big batch, and after the imperial decree, the officials of the examination institute immediately turned around overnight, making arrangements for the task of changing the ranking.

Guo Nuan sighed in her heart, it seems that Li Duan, one of the top ten talents in the Dali calendar, is definitely the No.