Emperor Yongzheng: Eagle Bow Sirius

Chapter 26 Surprised by cheating and expelled from the city of Thorn
However, the facts that followed ruthlessly proved that the exam questions bought by Yang Mingshi were genuine—except that the order of the second and third questions was changed, there was not a single word false or wrong!In the evening of the next day, Yang Mingshi was so nervous that he was sweating profusely. He watched Zhang Tinglu disassemble the third test questions in the Supreme Court. When Zhang Tinglu carefully removed the sealing head and unfolded it slowly, Yang Mingshi almost stopped breathing.Zhang Tinglu asked with concern: "Song Yun, your complexion is very bad, what's wrong?"

"No." Yang Mingshi's heart was "thumping", and he asked in a trembling voice, "What question did the emperor ask?"

"Hmm - in the "Book of Changes": 'The sun and the moon can shine for a long time'!"

"Master Zhang, there is something wrong with this question!"

"Well?"

"I'm not saying there's something wrong with the title." Yang Mingshi's face turned pale, "I'm saying that the title has been leaked for a long time!"

Zhang Tinglu shook her hands in fright, and the yellow silk-mounted imperial book slipped from her hand and fell to the ground. Seeing the official of Chengti poked his head at the entrance of the Zhigong Hall, he quickly waved his hands and said, "Don't come in—how do you know that the exam questions have been leaked?" How many people's lives are involved in this matter, so you can't speak nonsense!" Yang Mingshi bent down to pick up the test questions, took out the test questions bought by Bo Lunlou from his sleeve, looked at them, handed both hands to Zhang Tinglu, and said, "My lord— —Look at it!" Zhang Tinglu took it with a blank expression, and it was clear at a glance with just a glance.His cheeks twitched twice quickly, his heart thumped, and his head swelled up—the words "Dong Chuang Incident" flashed through his mind like lightning, and his heart was suddenly in a state of confusion.

"Master Zhang," Yang Mingshi ignored Zhang Tinglu's expression, and pondered to analyze, "Where did this test question leak out? It came from the imperial pen, sealed in the golden cabinet, and sent directly to the Gongyuan from the study room of the scriptures. It was sealed with fish glue and wax. It was all leaked on the market, openly bought and sold in restaurants! It’s incredible! My lord, what’s your opinion?”

"Ah! Ah!" Zhang Tinglu woke up from the shock, and felt her back was wet and cold, and her underwear was already sweating.Thinking about it, he glanced at Yang Mingshi, hesitant to say anything, if this matter is revealed, it must be the hands and feet of the third elder brother Hongshi.It will lead to a big event among the three brothers Hongshi, Hongli, and Hongzhou to compete for the crown prince.The third elder brother has always been in a secret relationship with Longkodo. Longkodo seems to be getting closer to Ba Yeyun. He is taller than his own people... Thinking about it, there is nothing to do, no matter what, cover it up first; Yin swallowed and sighed: "I can show myself to the sky! But it is not a trivial matter to get this out, I am afraid that it will implicate others. There are many sons and phoenixes of Tianhuang and nobles who are unknown. Mr. Songyun, there are many talented people in the world. Maybe someone has a chance and guessed the title; there are countless coincidences in the world, maybe they are blind Guessed it. If the isolated evidence is not established, we will release it here, which will immediately shock the government and the public, and affect the overall situation. Don't be careless! Besides, the test questions should be presented first, and the cheating should be reported later. The first one, the two of us will bear the burden There is a relationship like a sea of ​​blood, and the property and life of the eighteenth house examiner are all in it, so it is not appropriate to report it rashly."

Yang Mingshi glanced at Zhang Tinglu in surprise.All of Zhang Tinglu's opinions are reasonable, except that "the two of us have a relationship" is beyond reason, and the examiner's request for over-the-counter trading examination questions is a matter of course, what "relationship" is there?Besides, what is it that "show the test questions first, and report fraud later" seems to be laying the groundwork to frame yourself!This is a bit strange, and suddenly I think of Zhang Tingyu, who is now the chief minister and minister, how do I know that it wasn't the two brothers who cheated?The young vice-examiner, who is gentle on the outside and extremely proud on the inside, immediately felt insulted. His face flushed immediately, and he laughed dryly and said, "The two of us swore to the Tianmeng when we entered the Gongyuan. This matter cannot be done." Thinking about human feelings, thinking about heaven's justice, and being guilty of heaven, there is nothing to pray for! I will immediately pay homage to the emperor, suspend the Enke exam, or immediately change the subject to retake the exam. This matter cannot be based on "maybe". Maybe there are treacherous villains around the emperor! Maybe there are villains in our exams who accept bribes, ask for money and risk their lives!" Zhang Tinglu listened to these words, every sentence was full of insinuations, and every word was a sharp knife , became angry and became angry, and felt that it would be better to use offense as defense than to hide it, because he also straightened his face, snorted and said: "I do it for your own good, but you are ungrateful at every step, it seems that I Zhang A certain person has evil intentions! You just worship the chapter, and I will hand over the memorial, and I will be the first one to participate in you!" Yang Mingshi was furious, and he got up suddenly: "You? You participate in me?"

"Yes! Join you!"

"What's my fault?"

"I'm too lazy to talk to you right now, you wait to read my memorial!"

The voices of the two became louder and louder, alarming the waiters outside.The examiner got impatient for a long time. He heard the two chief examiners quarreled and hurriedly stepped in. As soon as Qian'er was beaten, he heard Yang Mingshi sternly said: "Stop the test immediately! The Bolun Building on Gongyuan Street captured all the people there and sent them to Shuntian Mansion for trial!"

"I'm the chief examiner here, Zhang Tinglu!" Zhang Tinglu roared, "It's not been a day since you've been domineering and guilty. Do you still have some rules? Listen to me: the questions for the third test will be issued immediately and the test will continue as usual, and someone will be notified. The person who sells the problem is waiting for trial!" He said, rolling up his sleeves and rubbing the ink, staring at Yang Ming and said coldly? "When will you be the main examiner and then come to give orders—Young man, you are still not ready!" Yang Mingshi suddenly woke up: one of his two instructions didn't make sense.The chief examiner is Zhang Tinglu, and she has no right to decide to "suspend the examination immediately"; the Tribute Court is not a judicial office, let alone go beyond the Shuntian Mansion and seal up Bolun Louna people-Yang Mingshi can't help regretting his recklessness, not only for this old and cunning Zhang Tinglu. The handle of "authority authorization", and this leak of news, the people of Bo Lun House have not left?When he was in a hurry, the clerk of the East Examination District Supervisor came in with a small book made of dried tofu and reported to Zhang Tinglu: "The land number No. 12 Guiyang Xiaolian Guo Guangsen carried a copy of the four books, and the humble job was found out. Please forgive me!" While Zhang Tinglu was bluntly writing about her impeachment of Yang Ming, without raising her head, she said coldly: "You are an old man, and this matter will be dealt with by his house officer! Is this the responsibility of my chief examiner?"

The clerk smiled and said: "This is the Eleventh Room Officer, Mr. Zhang Fenglan, who should take care of it. He was supposed to be expelled from the examination room. I heard that there was something leaked about the exam questions in this subject. Mr. Zhang—" "Nothing." Zhang Tinglu stared at it. When he glanced at the thoughtful Yang Ming, he wished he could go over and kick him to death, but he said: "Don't listen to the rumors. Everything should be done according to the rules. We should expel that surnamed Guo, post his test paper, and issue a letter to the Guizhou government. Just punish him to suspend the exam for three years!" "Juren is punished, and if he can leave the exam room, why can't I?" A thought flashed by, and Yang Mingshi immediately got an idea. After tidying up the Four Treasures of her study, she called her servant and said, "Go and prepare a sedan chair for me!" Zhang Tinglu, who was writing a memorial, looked up and said with a sneer, "What kind of place is this? You can come and go whenever you want?"

"The one who posted the paper can leave, so naturally I can!" Yang Mingshi was afraid of leaving the evidence of Bo Lun Tower, and he was so anxious that he didn't want to say a word. He insisted on Zhang Tinglu, and then sternly ordered his servant: "You are stunned." What? Hurry up and prepare the sedan chair!" Saying that, he walked away.

"slow!"

Zhang Tinglu knew his intentions very well, so she couldn't help being anxious, she hurriedly called out, stopped when she saw Yang Ming, and then said in a slow voice: "He was expelled from the examination room!"

"I'm self-expelled, this place is dirty, I don't want to stay for a moment!"

"You are an official! A person with an errand!"

"I don't want this official position, I resign from this job!"

Yang Ming laughed loudly without looking back, took off the sapphire cap on his head, and slapped it on the ground with a "boom", and disappeared into the dark night in the blink of an eye.Zhang Tinglu watched him swaggering out, but she was helpless; when she continued to write the memorial before going back to the case, she felt that the writing was difficult, her hands trembled and her heart shook. If she was not careful, a drop of ink the size of a copper coin fell on the memorial... the more ominous she felt. , just sat on the chair, stroking his blue-shaven forehead thinking about it.

When Yang Mingshi flicked his sleeves out of the tribute courtyard, the sky had already started to change.Standing outside the dark city of thorns, he hesitated; the key to the palace gate had already been unlocked, so there was no need to think about handing over the sign to see Yongzheng.The six departments have already dispersed.Going to Shuntian Mansion, there is neither a document nor defense in hand, Shuntian Mansion still has to ask for instructions to go to the study, who knows how Zhang Tingyu will deal with this matter!After much deliberation, the matter has come to this point, and if he wants to be innocent, he can only go to Xihuamen to beat the Dengwen drum and the Jingyang bell to force Yongzheng to summon him at night.But in this case, I have already committed the crime first, even if the accusation is true, I have to travel three thousand miles to serve in the army.Ten years of cold windows, seven literary battles to earn this brilliant hairpin, youth pride, and the future meritorious society's name to go down in history, all these thoughts were all in vain!Thinking that Rao is Yang Ming, he was stubborn and discouraged.Yang Mingshi was lost in his mind in the sedan chair when he suddenly saw six red watermelon lanterns the size of castor leaves hanging in front of the eaves in front of the post house on Qipan Street. The six Goshhas in front of the gate are all big men with waist badges and swords guarding the gate majestically.

"Li Wei has come to Beijing!" Yang Mingshi was suddenly excited: it is God's will to meet this person at this time!Li Wei's name is also, it is said that during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, his ancestors started with military exploits and served as Jinyiwei.In fact, this is a resume that God knows. Everyone knows that he was born as a beggar. Because of his naughty and clever nature, he was adopted by Prince Yong who was out of the province on business in the Sibeile Mansion. He is the most useful person for the current emperor. Entanglement", not afraid of the sky, not afraid of the earth, likes to stir up trouble, upright and outspoken.In the past, when Li Wei was in the post of Yan Road in Yunnan, he had acquainted with Yang Mingshi for several days, and the conversation was very speculative.Now that there is something to do, he has no reason to find this young man with good deeds and success.Yang Mingshi stepped on the sedan chair with his feet, and the sedan chair fell down immediately... He came out with a bent waist, looked at Geshha standing on the door like a nail, then walked forward, took out his famous card and handed it over.

Geshha saw the famous stab, but he didn't dare to be lighthearted. He hurriedly hit a thousand children, but said with a smile: "Our lord is busy approving official documents at the moment, writing a memorial tonight, and handing over the sign tomorrow morning to see you. Command Now, everyone who comes to pay homage to the Lord, please go back, the Lord has seen the emperor, come to the door to apologize." Yang Mingshi smiled and said: "I am on the same level as him, so I can't say 'worship'. I have something important, I must see him!" Goshha Shaking his head, he said: "Your Excellency writing notes is the most annoying. Everyone in the world knows that he has an old temper. Lord Yang must forgive him!"

"Li Wei knows how to write scriptures? He can read Dou Da's characters by one liter?" Yang Mingshi was furious, stepped back and shouted loudly: "The surname is Li! Yang Mingshi is here, did you see him?"

As soon as the words fell, Li Wei quickly walked out of the main hall of the post house with bare feet and shoes, rushed out, and said with a smile: "Don't pay attention to these dogs, what do they know? I made a mistake in the white word 370 one last time, which accounted for half of it. Too much, the emperor praised me for my hard work, but also called me nonsense in arts and science. So this time I took extra care, and you came at the right time—go, get the jar of wine that the emperor rewarded me—fuck you, even my Yang The teacher doesn't even recognize it?" One said that he dragged Yang's name and walked inside.Yang Mingshi broke free from his hand, stood in the courtyard and gave a rough account of what happened in the Gongyuan, and said: "This matter cannot be seen in the study, cannot be reported to the Shuntian Mansion, and the letter cannot be communicated with the emperor, I am so anxious, How can I have the time to accompany you to drink and write articles?" Then he handed over the exam questions he bought.

"Is there such a thing?" Li Wei took the note, looked it upside down, and didn't recognize half of it, so he handed it to Yang Mingshi.Yang Mingshi originally thought that he would have to meditate for a while before discussing it, but when the "ghost is not entangled" slipped the note to Yang Ming, he smiled and said to a master next to him: "Take someone there and seal the Gongyuan Street for me. , not a single mouse is allowed to go out!"

"Yes! But the people of Shuntian Mansion want to ask, how to answer?"

"Bring him my name card, I'll go see these bastards tomorrow." Li Wei smiled and gave orders as if nothing had happened, and patted the stunned Yang Mingshi on the shoulder and said, "How about it, isn't it enough loyalty and taste? Say it first, I will share half of the credit for finding out the big case - let's go and have a drink!"

While chatting and laughing, more than 100 of Li Wei's personal soldiers had assembled and mounted their horses, and no longer came to ask for instructions. There was a sudden sound of horseshoes, and they disappeared without a trace.Yang Mingshi looked at the dozens of miscellaneous clothes hanging outside the main hall of the post house, and knew that Li Wei could use his disguise to solve the case at any time, so he couldn't help stretching out his thumb and praised: "You are truly a hero in the world! A scholar is ashamed of himself!"

(End of this chapter)