Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Mrs. Xu was sent to prison, and within two days she pleaded guilty and wrote a confession.

When she first went to the court, she also killed her and refused to admit that she was teaching people to secretly post and falsely accuse the county magistrate Qi, but when Xie Ying asked someone to bring the tortured rogue and the Xu family's subordinates to identify her, that The rolled flesh and dripping blood made her feel guts.

It was Xu Sheng, her son who accompanied Fang Di's mother, who sent her to find a rogue to post. After the matter was completed, she gave the man three hundred taels of silver and asked him to leave Beijing. But I don't want to see Xu Sheng for so many days, and I will meet again in Beizhen Fusi's imprisonment.

That Xu Sheng was already called tortured like a blood gourd, and when he met, he pointed to her and said: "It is her, the wife Xu gave the young man three hundred taels of silver, and asked him to buy the rogue and beggar in Beijing. Go to Yushifu to post that false accusation! The little one doesn’t know that this is a big crime, the little one is just a subordinate, and he has to do whatever the owner tells him to do. It’s also involuntary..."

Just as Xu wanted to force a debate, Lu Xi, a thousand-family of punishment who accompanied the interrogation, sighed: "The Emperor Taizu awarded the imperial exhortation, and told the people of the world, everyone should have one set at home. The law of the country. Those of you who don’t obey the Holy Order can suffer today's loss. If she gives you Tie'er, you will take our Beizhen Fusi from the future. The thousand households will still be rewarded with a dozen silver dollars. Is torture strong after eating this meal?"

Although he was smiling, his eyes were dark with a chill, as if soaked in layers of blood.

Xu Sheng shuddered and curled up on the ground, bowing his head to confess his guilt, the rogue was even more out of breath. Xu’s knees stepped back a few steps, and said in horror: "It’s not me, it’s him who relied on me! I don’t recognize the county magistrate, why would I ask them to post! I’m Cui Langzhong’s wife, You can't torture me!"

Xie Ying said cheerfully in the hall: "Your imperial order has been stripped away. There is no law that cannot be executed. I already have two witnesses here, and there are several rogues who have not been tied into Beijing to be tried. , And Cui Langzhong said outside the door that you framed the county magistrate for framing your stepson, and he was injustice. You only have to admit it yourself-the emperor has a clear order to ask me to try it carefully. The officer had to be sentenced."

Lu Xi smiled and said: "You tell her what to do, bring those women's torture instruments and use them one by one, and you will be recruited."

Long ago, the school lieutenant came with a pig-iron torture that was stained with layers of dark blood and rust. Mrs. Xu gritted her teeth and called "unjustified", she insisted on refusing to confess her guilt, and Xie Ying also said: "After all, she is a daughter of an official, and she was a wife. Why use these? If you are more gentle, just use a slap Fingers."

Another person came up with a bamboo sling, stuffed the ten-finger slender jade hand, twisted the rope at both ends, and Madam Xu suddenly screamed, so painful that she wanted to hit her to death. I was in a daze and heard Xie Ying say: "Relax, don't break your fingers. Qian'an County has not been convicted again. The maximum amount of false accusation for her false accusation is 100, which is 300 miles. The redemption money is only 30% off. Six tongs of copper coins, it’s not easy to kill people for this idea."

Lu Xi smiled and said: "There are many redemption rods in Beijing. Now copper is more valuable than silver. Isn't that Cui Langzhong still very poor, and he is reluctant to donate his yard to the court? I am afraid that I am reluctant to ransom his wife."

Mrs. Xu heard the phrase "Thirty-six Punishments" and couldn't stand it anymore, she kept shouting: "I am willing to redeem! I confessed my sin, Cui Que would not give me atonement, and asked my parents to give me the 30 Six points!"

Xie Ying waved her hand, ordered people to remove the torture instrument, and asked her confession.

She really wanted to put the false accusation on Cui Que's head, but she was already targeted by Jin Yiwei, and Xu Sheng convicted it, and she might be hard to get rid of her accusation. If Cui Que also loses an official and her son becomes the son of an official, his future will be over. On the contrary, she is an ignorant woman who does not know the law, and can pay for atonement even if she commits some mistakes, she is to be dismissed if she is great—

But Jin Yiwei only moved. Didn't Cui Que write a letter of resignation in a hurry to quit her before finding her?

She had a dowry to live on when she was retired, and Ge Heng was still the son of a doctor, who could study the imperial examination, and even entered the Imperial College... Maybe her reputation was affected, and it was better than her father who was not an official.

Mrs. Xu was so pitiful and tender, she gritted her teeth and took the crime on her body.

Xie Ying took her confession, and brought her confidantes, Mrs. Di and Cui's internal and external stewards, to Beizhen Fusi, and finally recovered the truth of the case:

The second-married wife of Cui Que from the Department of the Household Department of Yunnan, the second married wife Xu Shi, was mad at her stepson for donating one of the bookstores to the library of Qian'an County where she was originally born, and hated the local magistrate Qi Sheng for the promotion of the library, so she secretly made her family buy Beijing. A Chinese rogue posted a false accusation against Qi Sheng for defrauding the property of the people.

According to Xu's crimes, the two crimes of "casting an anonymous document to accuse others" and "false accusation", according to the Ming law "two crimes are both serious and less serious", the crime of casting an anonymous document is the more serious one, and the lesser false accusation is a sentence of 100. , Flowing three thousand miles. Although he has been stripped of his command, he is still the wife of an official. If he is allowed to redeem the copper by holy grace, he will be redeemed forty-two pennies by hanging and thirty-six pennies by hanging, with a total of 130 taels of silver at the discounted price.

His husband, Cui Que, had intended to abandon the Xu family after hearing about it, and Shuntian Fu Yin had not yet allowed him to divorce because of his incompatibility. Therefore, although Cui Que had never accused Xu first, he did not commit the crime according to the example of "relatives get inclusive".

A folder was handed up, shocked.

Such a big case in which the prefects played to the imperial court, Yushixiaxian County investigated, Jin Yiwei turned over the inside and outside of the capital... The truth that was found was not a cronist attack, not a factory guard purging a minister, but A lawsuit brought by a woman in the house over a small house worth three or two hundred taels?

Such a lawless woman is simply appalling!

When the news reached the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Liu Zan couldn't help but shoot up the case: "I know this! If the woman was not good and deliberately ordered her brother to teach her son, how could Cui Xie be a survivor today!"

He wished that he could not immediately pick up a pen and write to Dai Ren, the superintendent of Beizhili’s academic affairs, asking him to take care of this poorly over-aged prodigy in Yongping. Suddenly, I remembered that I was going to complain about the misbehavior of Xu Juren, the younger brother of Chen Xu's family, and was unbearable as an official. After hesitating for a while, I felt that the personal affair should still be behind. For the sake of the people's livelihood in Qishui, I should first play Xu Juren, who was the county magistrate there.

The letter he asked to take care of Cui Xie was not written, because Dai Ren’s letter was sent back to the capital first. In the letter, he proudly said to his fellow supervisor Yu Shi Xu Jie: "I got one when I was hanging a student in Yongping. Talented person."

This talent is Cui Xie, a candidate from Qian'an County.

Xu Jie stuffed the letter to Liu Zan, "Hey": "Your Qian'an prodigy has already taken a student. Now you should feel at ease?"

Liu Zan pursed his lips, and said solemnly, "Why is that a child prodigy in my family. I just cherish talents for the court."

Having said that, he opened the letter and read it carefully. Dai Ren wrote in the letter that when he first went to the Yongping Mansion to hang the test, he encountered some minor situations——

He was Yongping from Weifu, and he did not notify the local officials to go out of the city to meet him. So after reporting his identity in front of the Fuyamen, he discovered that the local prefect, Tongzhi, and Fu Confucian professors and instructors were not there. Only one experience, Song Ji, came out to welcome the governor, Zhaomo, and other prison officers.

He was really a little surprised, and asked, "Could it be that there is a disturbance in your house, otherwise, why are the prefects, tongzhi, and government officials not there?"

That's not it.

Lord Prefect, because Yongping Mansion’s test time was late this time, he was bringing the instructors from the prefecture to read the papers in the examination room in order to put the case before the school. Since Zhang Tongzhi sent the two imperial missions back to Beijing, he personally visited Cui Xie and entered the Confucian Temple.

Ever since Liu Yushi praised Cui Xie's article, Zhang Gui couldn't help but wonder what he meant-did he imply that Cui Xie's article was enough to be the case leader?

The more he thought about it, he felt that Liu Yushi appreciated the student quite a bit, and Jin Yiwei treated him a little bit affectionately. Moreover, he himself felt that the two essays were very brilliant, and the pen strength was steady and steady, without the arrogance and impetuosity of a young talent. The student himself was also a person who was loyal to the emperor and loved the people, who was loyal to the people, and his character was worthy of his ability to learn; he acted calmly and steadily.

Since Zhang Tongzhi had this idea, he was afraid that the prefect Wang felt that Cui Xie was young and deliberately wanted to suppress his ranking, so he simply broke into Longmen and told him about two imperial envoys to investigate the deception of Cui's bookstore by Qi Sheng, the county magistrate. .

Wang Zhifu asked worriedly: "But the imperial commissioner asked him the crime, so he is not allowed to take the exam?"

Zhang Guidao: "This is not true. Liu Yushi read his articles in the county test before, and suspected that Qian'an County cheated on the test, so he tested his article face to face. His subordinates looked at him..."

Wang Wen said angrily: "How can he cheat! If he writes well, then he would cheat. Wouldn't I also give him the test? Well, don't you say, I will never reject this article, nor Will deliberately lower it-this is definitely a classic article, it can't be lower!"

He said that he was about to go back to the room to check the papers, and Zhang Gui quickly held him down: "My lord has misunderstood. He memorized the three-day test papers in front of the two imperial envoys. The memorization was extremely fluent and the writing was also complete. Okay. Master Liu admired him and praised him as a child prodigy, so the officials felt that this paper seemed to be the case leader, right?"

The anger in Lord Wang's heart then calmed down, and he picked up the examiner's frame again, and coughed softly: "It can't be said that the censor must take a life officer, otherwise it will be known. Don't you say that the government is selfish I think there is a schoolboy named Li Zongshang in Laoting who has done a good job. He is also a few years older and more stable. There is also a royal court in Luanzhou..."

Zhang Gui strived to say: "Cui Xie is also steady, and he is not shy in front of the supervision of Yushi and Jin Yiwei, and has been generously subjected to the Yushi test. It is not wrong to memorize four articles in three games. Is it rare?"

However, Wang Zhifu refused to just follow that. He had to choose the Five Classics first, and then compare who was more suitable to be the case leader. Zhang Tongzhi simply waited outside the room. Neither of them returned to the house, but they didn't expect that the school official would come over at this time and just let them hang in the yamen.

Song experienced that they didn't know what was happening in the Confucian Temple. They only knew that two imperial envoys came to ask an examinee for questioning, and they also left him in the house to accompany him to dinner. After the two imperial envoys left, Zhang Tongzhi went to condolences the student for a while, and then went into the examination room to look for Lord Prefect.

After hearing this, Dai Ren frowned and asked, "Is Liu Yushi trying to lead him or Jin Yiwei trying to lead him? Since the crime has not happened yet, you take me to the temple."

He wants to see how deep the background of the candidate is, and how Yongping Mansion plans to get him!

Dai Ren put on the official historian's uniform, took up the shelf of studying, and went straight to the Confucian Temple. He admired Beizhili to study politics, he must correct his style of study, even if it is just a prefectural exam, he must not let anyone use the official courage of the capital to force the local examiner to take a child with poor morals!

He broke into the file room, Zhang Tongzhi was sitting outside the door, and the Wang Zhifu and the scholars were carrying the Wujingkui papers and discussing who should be the case leader. Master Ti Xue arrived unexpectedly. They didn't even go out to meet him, and they didn't even know that he had arrived. Wang Wen and Zhang Gui both got up and greeted them in a little panic.

Dai Ren waved his hand: "You don't need to be polite, let me enter the examination room first. Is there a test paper for a student named Liu Yushi who has passed the exam?"

Take a look, the person whom the supervisor Yushi valued, and the student who is also Yushi, can he not value it?

Zhang Gui glanced at Wang Zhifu, Wang Wen turned his head silently, picked out his first four book titles from the case, and handed it to Dai Ren: "This Confucian boy's paper is a classic. Discussing which of the papers between him and the other four rooms Jingkui is better is the case."

Dai Ren took the paper and looked at the names and official positions of the three generations of fathers and ancestors on the homepage, and asked, "How did Liu Yushi comment on this paper and how did he comment on this person?"

Wang Zhifu didn’t know the details, so Zhang Tongzhi replied on his behalf: "Master Liu said that his writing is simple and clean, and he is good at using ancient Chinese as the current writing. He also said that he will definitely be able to be a student..."

He quietly raised his head and glanced at Dai Ren, only to find that Master Xuezheng no longer listened to him. He was immersed in the article, his fingers pressed the beat on the curled surface, and he silently recited the sentences inside. Wang Wen looked down at the papers on the case, and was silent. The professors and instructors didn't even dare to show up and stood by with their hands.

After a while, Dai Ren put down the paper, and the whole room seemed to come back to life again. Wang Zhifu bowed and asked, "Do you think this candidate is acceptable?"

Dai Ren sighed, "It is more than desirable, even if it is thrown in Nanzhili, it is also desirable. Brother Shang Gui has a good eye."

Zhang Tongzhi's back straightened slightly. Dai Ren said: "Although Wang Zhifu's question is not difficult, he can still see his skill in reviewing the questions. Wait for me to look at the papers in other rooms and see if there is a better one."

He read the other four scriptures.

The techniques of "fishing for a crossing" in the article are also very familiar and have considerable points. The Babiou sentence after the Fanfan is also in a regular format, rigorously used allusions, and has a Tsinghua literary talent.

It’s just that compared to Cui Xie’s article, it’s a short period of rounds of argumentative essays with more than 800 words for more than ten years, academic year essays of 5,000 words, and graduation thesis of 10,000 words. Dialectical thinking. There is also a short period of strong persuasiveness that can make people sink into the article when they look at it, and take the words he wrote as thoughts that have come to mind.

Dai Ren put down those articles and pointed to Cui Xie's examination papers and said, "This is better. After Fu Zun has committed the case, he can post the papers for comparison."

Wang asked himself to be optimistic about this article. It's just that he had modified several articles for Cui Xie, and the relationship was not clear enough, and he was afraid that someone would say that he ordered such a boy to please the Supervisor Yushi, and he always hesitated. Since Mr. Ti Xue also clicked on him, then he doesn't have to hesitate to click this case chief?

After publishing the list, he posted all the articles of Wujingkui, even if there are students who have failed to make trouble, he can have a clear conscience.

There was a ring case in Tianfu, and Cui Xie was at the top of the case again. The children in Qian'an County were all surrounded by You Rongyan to celebrate, and some people shouted out the slogan of "three yuan of middle school", which caused the examinees in other counties to be dissatisfied. They squeezed up to read the papers and wanted to choose. There is something wrong with it.

As a result, they were not allowed to make trouble or celebrate. The mansion simply posted another list: Tixue Yushi has come to Yongping Mansion, and three days later, all the children in the mansion will be suspended for the examination. If there is disorder before the examination, Those who maliciously engage in school will be disqualified from the hospital examination.