Have a problem with the test basket?

Shen Yichen's first reaction was to suspect that there was something wrong with the test basket and whether there were cheating items inside.

However, the examination basket is the focus of military service inspections. The personal belongings carried in it are dumped on the table, and then inspected one by one. Even if they feel that the cold clothes they brought are too thick, they just tear them open to see if there is any sandwich inside.

Other foods, such as pastries, are also broken open and inspected to ensure nothing goes wrong.

Seeing that the military service search was so strict but no problems were found, Shen Yichen guessed that he had made a mistake.

Just when the search was coming to an end, and when the inner courtyard family member was about to get dressed, one of the search soldiers seemed to have discovered something was wrong, and came to the table again and raised the examination basket to look at it carefully.

This move made the inner courtyard family member, who had already regained his composure, turn pale and his arms suddenly started to shake again.

Not to mention Shen Yichen's suspicion, even the other candidates waiting in line for the examination began to whisper, guessing what was wrong with the test basket.

After a few rounds of careful observation, I finally found a few bamboo strips with slightly different colors at the bottom of the test basket. I fiddled with them twice, and they seemed to be particularly loose, as if they were not woven tightly.

Based on the professional experience of this group of people searching for military service, it was easy to guess that there was something wrong with these bamboo strips. So they pulled out the bamboo strips with force, only to find that there were densely carved fonts on them!

"Take it!"

An angry shout broke the atmosphere of the scene. In an instant, several soldiers rushed forward fiercely and grabbed the inspecting clan member of the inner courtyard family school.

"It's not me...I didn't...this must be a misunderstanding...a misunderstanding!"

Faced with this situation, the Zhu family members were obviously panicked and their words seemed incoherent.

Naturally, the military service in the examination room will not listen to this explanation. They have arrested many candidates for cheating, but they have never seen anyone admit it after being caught. Everyone claims that they did not cheat.

And in order to set an example, the soldiers not only controlled the cheating Zhu clan, but also two people brought shackles, and prepared to put shackles on him according to traditional rules and then tie him up in the square in front of the examination room for public display.

Let the candidates see what will happen if they are caught cheating, and at the same time, it can also make the cheaters clean up!

"I am a descendant of Duke Cheng, and my father is Duke Guo's cousin. Whoever dares to put me in chains will not be afraid of being punished by Duke Guo?"

Perhaps because he saw the seriousness of the situation, the inner-yuan family member no longer had the fear he had at first, so he simply broke the pot and revealed the name Zhu Yong, Duke of Chengguo.

Because if you are caught cheating in the imperial examination, the punishment will vary. For example, if you are caught and detained before the exam, there is no evidence that the cheating has been successful, and it can only be regarded as an attempted cheating.

The lightest punishment is to be disqualified from the current exam and try again in the next one. The more serious punishment is to be canceled for several consecutive exams, or even never admitted.

If you cheat in the exams for people to be elected or Jinshi, you will be punished if you are caught. If the trouble becomes serious and you collude with the examiner, it is not impossible to be beheaded or die.

Therefore, before the punishment result is determined, first show your background and background, so that the punishment may be much lighter.

Under normal circumstances, if this Zhu family member had moved Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, it might have been of some use. But unfortunately, he forgot one thing, that is, the imperial examination fraud in the Duke of Chengguo's school had been done long ago. It has already spread a lot among the scholars.

If Shen Yichen hadn't come to the flower viewing party and responded to the doubts with absolute strength, several people in the Chengguo Public School might have faced investigation by the Confucianism Promotion Department today.

You were already riddled with stains, but you used Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong to suppress you in public. If the examiner chooses to let you go, wouldn't it be equivalent to admitting in full view of the secret operation behind the scenes?

Therefore, in this case, the more the name of Cheng Guo Gong Zhu Yong is called, the more severe the punishment the examiner will receive in order to prove his innocence.

Sure enough, this kind of shouting once again alerted the invigilator outside the curtain. He came over and said righteously: "In this important place for scientific examinations, no noise and favoritism are allowed. Even if Duke Cheng Guo comes personally, we must handle it impartially!"

"If we continue to clamor to resist the law, we will report to the court and be severely punished, and we will never be admitted!"

The words of the proctor outside the curtain can be regarded as a very serious warning. If you admit your mistake honestly, there is still room for change.

Otherwise, the matter will be brought to the attention of Datian, and even Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, will not be able to suppress it, and there will never be another chance to take the scientific examination.

Sure enough, after hearing this sentence, the Zhu family members who had previously thought about using the name Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong to make a fortune immediately stopped and honestly put on the shackles and showed them to the public in the examination shed square. .

If only one person from Cheng Guogong's private school was investigated and punished, it would not be enough to offset the positive impact of Shen Yichen's display of talent and learning at the flower viewing party.

As a result, there was a precedent, and the second clan member of the inner court family also found cheating bamboo sticks in the examination basket. This caused an uproar in the whole audience. The previously suppressed remarks about cheating in the imperial examination of Chengguo Gongfu were immediately suppressed. It is resurrected and even getting worse.

"It turns out that Duke Cheng's government really relied on fraud to win. Who previously refuted the rumor that they were talented and learned?"

"Isn't it because Shen Yichen is the best among all the heroes? Who dares to question his deception when his strength is there?"

"Now that the truth has been revealed, I'm afraid Shen Yichen's previous victory over the others was just a good show put on by the Duke of Chengguo, right?"

"Now it seems that no one in Chengguo Gongfu's private school is innocent, and the leader of Shen Yichen's case is even more doubtful!"

The candidates who were waiting for the examination began to gradually become restless, because for ancient literati, the imperial examination represented everything in their future.

To use a similar analogy in later generations, you studied hard for more than ten years to take the college entrance examination, but after the results were announced, you found that all the applicants were children of high-ranking officials who cheated. How angry and dissatisfied should you feel?

Moreover, if later generations failed the college entrance examination, they could go to the factory to tighten screws if they really couldn't. In ancient times, these scholars were powerless. Many of them had studied hard for more than ten years and completely separated from society. They did not even have the basic ability to survive alone, which was equivalent to being cut off. The lifeblood.

"The imperial examination is unfair, and there are doubts at the beginning of the case. I hope the invigilator will investigate strictly and bring clarity to all the candidates!"

A young man in the crowd stood up and loudly petitioned the proctor outside the curtain as a leader.

At this time, it would definitely be too late to report to the Confucian Examination Office, but the ancient imperial examination site also had the supervision of the curtain officer system.

The word "curtain" actually has a similar meaning to "curtains divide the inside and outside" in the couplet written by Shen Yichen during the previous government examination.

This "curtain" refers to a curtain in the courtroom that separates the inside and outside. The examiner and co-examiners sit inside the curtain. Their main responsibilities are to mark papers, supervise the examination, and control the overall situation.

The outer curtain is the invigilator, whose main responsibilities are to maintain discipline in the examination room, search for candidates for fraud, etc. Under normal circumstances, in order to maintain fairness, the inner and outer curtain officers do not interact with each other, and all official matters are handled at the inner curtain door.

So before I even entered the examination room to report the fraud, I could only report it to the proctor outside. Today, all the candidates were filled with indignation and had to give an explanation.

As for the person who said these righteous and awe-inspiring words, he can be regarded as an "old acquaintance" of Shen Yichen. He is Xu Donghai, a student of Zhaowen College.

After experiencing the flower viewing party, Xu Donghai was as arrogant and arrogant as Zeng Mengjian, but Shen Yichen gave him blows time and time again.

Therefore, in today's college examination, Xu Donghai seemed unusually low-key. He just wanted to finish the exam well and get the title of scholar. As for Shen Yichen's grades, it was none of his own business, and it was useless to envy and hate him.

It was just that he never expected that such a wonderful scene would unfold during the body search before entering the exam. All the students in Chengguo Gongfu's private school had really cheated!

Regardless of how much the "miniature carving" of bamboo strips for examination baskets costs, it is almost impossible to write down all the Four Books and Five Classics on just these few bamboo strips, no matter how small the characters are carved.

Even if it were really carved with such incredible craftsmanship, it would be difficult to see clearly.

Therefore, the fraud in Chengguo Gongfu’s private school was not just as simple as being brought in, but also involved the leakage of test questions!

Even the imperial examination questions can be obtained, so for Shen Yichen's several works, who can guarantee that Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, did not spend a lot of money to hire ghostwriters?

Before the maid gave birth to a son, she was not taken seriously, so what if she was not included in the genealogy? Isn't Shen Yichen a bloodline of Duke Cheng? In the future, when he becomes prosperous and recognizes his ancestor and returns to the clan, who will care about the identity of his maid's son?

Even Xu Donghai had a vague feeling that Zhu Yong, the Duke of Cheng, was really cunning and cunning, and did not put all his eggs in one basket. For example, Shen Yichen succeeded in cheating in the imperial examinations, and the harvest he brought to Duke Cheng was nothing short of honorable.

Even if he messed up, this kid is not included in the genealogy, so he is not a member of the Duke's palace. What does he have to do with me, Zhu Yong?

It’s really a business that is sure to make a profit without losing any money.

Shen Yichen looked at Xu Donghai standing up, with an embarrassed expression on his face. This kid jumped out again and again, but he didn't take it seriously since he was still a little kid.

Now, at this sensitive moment, the finger is pointed at myself again, and it really feels like it is intolerable.

"There is doubt about the head of the case, do you mean me?"

To everyone's surprise, Shen Yichen did not choose to respond silently at this time. Instead, he stood up from under the Xu Jin card, stared at Xu Donghai and asked coldly, not caring at all about the suspicion of inadvertence.

Faced with Shen Yichen's look, if it had been during the county examination, Xu Donghai would have nodded and admitted on the spot, "What's wrong with you?"

But for some reason, this time he didn't dare to point out that he was talking about Shen Yichen. Instead, Zuo Guyan replied: "Whoever obtains the title of the case through fraud and favoritism is the one I am talking about."

Hearing this, a sneer appeared on Shen Yichen's face. He thought that this boy was so tough and dared to provoke trouble again and again.
Chapter completed!