Wentang

Chapter 537 Solving the Censor
The first thing that got into chaos was the literary world.

"Cheat, this must be fraud. All 55 scholars in Dizhou are on the list. Anyone with a brain knows that there is something wrong with it."

"The one surnamed Yue is too arrogant. He simply treats the laws of the country as nothing."

"He still has the face to post everyone's test papers. Who is he to deceive? He is the chief examiner and knows the test questions in advance, so he must have told the test questions in advance to those scholars in Dizhou."

"Study is not like making money. If you find the right method, you can make hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but you can't study. One is one or two is two. Even if you have a famous teacher to teach you, you can't get results if you don't have ten or eight years."

"Dizhou didn't even have a decent academy four years ago, so there are so many top-notch scholars in just over three years? I don't believe it."

"And did you find out that the non-Dizhou scholars are all new scholars who can pass the exam. I follow the ancient school with less than one out of ten, and my ranking is still very low."

"I also found out a long time ago that most of the people on the list are touting new learning... There are too few ancient schools on the list. Even Saburo from the Fan family in Luzhou is not on the list. You must know that Fan Sanlang is famous Scholars all over the world, many great Confucians are full of praise..."

"..."

"Let's go find those dizhou bumpkins and see if they have the face to ask for this grade..."

"Go. Let's go together."

"Count me in……"

"..."

"Wait...does any of you know where those dizhou bumpkins live?"

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"...Let's go to the gate of the Gongyuan to protest first, and then go to the gate of the imperial city to file an imperial complaint..."

"Walk around..."

In fact, there is no need for this group of students to sue for impeachment. In fact, the court also caused disturbances because of this list.

At the Xiaochao meeting that day, more than a dozen censors stood up at the same time to report the incident.

In this way, the fraud in the imperial examination was placed in front of the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

"You mean that there are indeed disadvantages in this imperial examination?" Li Shimin asked with interest.

"Don't dare, I'll wait for the censor to hear about it. Now that the scholars in the world are excited, the sage has to pay attention to it." A censor immediately replied.

"Words about things? It means that you don't need any evidence, as long as you hear the wind, you can impeach others in the court at will? This power is too great." Yue Shan stood up and said:

"It's the so-called spreading rumors and refusing rumors, saint, I think the power of the censor's 'rumours and affairs' is too great, and it should be restricted."

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All the ministers showed surprise expressions, someone just impeached you for cheating, you are not in a hurry to defend yourself, but instead say that others have too much power, what kind of operation is this?
then……

"Saint, what Qing Shui Hou said is reasonable, the power to supervise the censor's 'rumours and events' is too great and should be restricted."

"That's right, you don't need any evidence, you just need to suspect that someone is guilty, you can wantonly impeach, causing all the officials to panic, and if things go on like this, who would dare to become an official..."

"I also agree with Qing Shuihou's words, the imperial censor has too much power and responsibility and must be restricted..."

More than half of the courtiers in the court, regardless of whether they were civil or military, all stood up to support Yue Shan. The scene was so spectacular that it was rare in ancient times.All the censors were also taken aback, and forgot to impeach Yue Shan again.

"What does Wen Qing think?" Li Shimin himself was taken aback, but his expression remained calm, and he asked Wen Yanbo, the imperial envoy.

Wen Yanbo was embarrassed, and felt a little trembling in his heart, and said: "The minister is not strict and asks the sage to punish him."

"Now is not the time to go after anyone's fault, what I'm asking is what do you think about what the ministers said about the censor's gossip over power." Li Shimin said dissatisfied.

"Chen..." Wen Yanbo glanced at the censors under him, and then at the officials who looked at them with angry eyes, and sighed in his heart, knowing that his position as a censor was at the end.

"I also think that the censor has too much power and needs to be restricted."

As soon as this statement came out, all the censors looked at him full of resentment. As the leader of the censors, he did not speak for himself, but sold all his subordinates at a critical moment, which naturally attracted people's hatred.

But Wen Yanbo also knew that he had no choice, either offend his censor, or offend the emperor and his officials.If you offend your subordinates, it's a big deal to change positions, and if you offend the emperor and his officials, the consequences will be serious.

"Well, even Wen Qing agrees with this statement, which shows that the censor's power and responsibility are indeed too heavy. In order not to affect the operation of the court, it must be restricted." Li Shimin said smoothly:

"I will immediately order someone to reorganize the censor's powers and responsibilities. Before the new powers and responsibilities appear, all censors are not allowed to act at will. Otherwise, once found to be false, it will be regarded as a false accusation."

"Saint and wise." The officials shouted excitedly, as if they had won a big victory.

The faces of all the censors were ashen.

Wen Yanbo sighed, and said again: "Saint, I have been feeling unwell recently due to the wind and cold, and I can't share the worries of the saint. I want to resign from the post of imperial doctor and go back to the mansion to recuperate. Please allow the saint."

Li Shimin said reluctantly: "Wen Qing is my right-hand man, and I can't leave him for a moment, no."

Wen Yanbo was grateful, and said: "The sage's benefactor is always in his heart, and he can't wait to accompany the king's companions day and night to share the king's worries, but the old minister..."

Seeing this pair of monarchs and ministers singing a bitter love scene, Yue Shan felt amused.

Wen Yanbo betrayed the entire censorship system and was bound to resign. He proposed on the spot that it was a wise choice to resign and go home to rest.Go home first to hide from the limelight, and the emperor will naturally reactivate him after the matter passes.

Naturally, Li Shimin couldn't agree to it readily, and had to hold back several times before approving it, which was in line with worldly wisdom.

Opening fire like the censor today is a plan that has been prepared long ago.

The overall preference for new scholars in the imperial examination selection will inevitably cause disturbances. The folks can be left alone, but the court must be calmed down as soon as possible or effectively contained.

Who is the main force in impeaching Yue Shan in the court?It must be the censor.

It can be said that half of the disputes in the court were initiated by the censor.There is no way, the power and responsibility are too great for him.

As long as the censor can be sealed, the remaining people will not be able to cause much trouble.

How to seal the mouths of the censors?Yue Shan naturally thought of a solution long ago.

In the past, the supervisory censor was the place where the imperial court placed Qingliu, and he didn't have much real power, so he gave you the power to play by rumor.In fact, the imperial court didn't take Yushi's impeachment seriously.

But it is different now. Yueshan separates military and government supervision, the power of the supervision system is infinitely elevated, and Doctor Yushi has the status equivalent to a prime minister.In this case, the power of "gossip and events" is tantamount to unlimited.

What is gossip?That is, no evidence is needed, as long as you hear the wind, you can impeach at will, without any evidence or consequences.

And the censors have suddenly become hot and powerful from the original idlers, and they are crazy.

It is the same reason that the poor will consume wildly when they get rich suddenly. The censors who are used to poverty suddenly get such a lot of power, and they exercise their power like crazy.

The result is to offend civil and military officials.

To be honest, this was completely beyond Yue Shan's expectation. Only then did he realize that he only increased the power of the censors, but he did not come up with a management system in line with the times.

The end result is that the power of the censors is out of control.

Fortunately, no irreversible consequences occurred, and everyone soon discovered this problem, and they have already started to prepare.

Even if he doesn't raise it today, sooner or later a new policy will be introduced.It's just that things just happened to come together, and he borrowed the will of the officials to temporarily stop the censor system from functioning.

Without the censor who heard about the matter, the remaining voices of opposition are not to worry about.

(End of this chapter)