Ma Jixiang handled the case very quickly. In less than three days, the case of Chen Qiyu was clearly tried.

It turned out that Chen Qiyu accepted the three candidates, Wang, Niu and Cui, each of which was bribed by 3,000 taels of silver, and each of which was a famous official, and each of which was a transcription official received 1,000 taels of silver. The three colluded with each other and used fingerprints and text as marks to win the three candidates, Wang, Niu and Cui. This is consistent with the emperor's judgment.

As for dismissing Qu Zhengbo, he was also trying to do it with ignorance.

The reason can be traced back to the Chongzhen Dynasty.

It turned out that during the Chongzhen period, Qu Shishi and Zhou Yanru were officials in the same dynasty. The upright Qu Shishishi kept writing letters, accusing the shortcomings of government and advocating "correcting the origin". This move greatly infringed on the interests of those in power, and was impeached by Zhou Yanru and removed from his post and returned home.

After Qu Shixi returned to his hometown, he never returned to the court. Zhou Yanru became bigger and bigger, and became the chief minister of the cabinet. In the 16th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the pass. Zhou Yanru asked for his own troops, but he falsely reported the victory to deceive Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen was unaware of the inside story and praised Zhou Yanru very much and was specially promoted to the Grand Tutor. Later, Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, submitted a memorial to expose the truth. Other officials were impeached one after another, and were exiled to guard the border. Soon, Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to order Zhou Yanru to commit suicide and settle in his family at the age of 51.

Qu Shixi later supported Zhu Youlang in Zhaoqing's governorate, and was trusted by Zhu Youlang and always held a high position.

If you want to say that after Qu Shili was demoted and returned to his hometown, there was no intersection with Zhou Yanru again, even if the two had any hatred, they would be indifferent to the disaster of family and country. Moreover, Zhou Yanru is dead, how could it be involved in Chen Qiyu?

However, it turned out that Chen Qiyu was a fellow villager of Zhou Yanru, and his qualifications were older than Zhou Yanru. However, he was not as fast as Zhou Yanru's promotion, and he was under the care of Zhou Yanru, and became an official and served as the Minister of Revenue of Southern Zhili.

With his relationship with Zhou Yanru, he was inevitably following Zhou Yanru and shouting, and also acted as a pawn in persecution of Qu Shisi.

Later, the city of Nanjing "changed the king's flag on the top of the city", first Emperor Hongguang, and then Duoduo. Anyway, no matter who comes, no matter whether you are a Han or a Manchu, the stupid official will be steady.

After Zhu Youlang took over Nanjing, he also gathered many old officials, and Chen Qiyu was one of them.

But he never expected that the feng shui would change, and the Minister of Personnel of the Yongli Dynasty was Qu Shizi, whom he had once planned.

Qu Shisi is a gentleman. Although he has had any dirty things with Chen Qiyu, he is because Chen Qiyu is not the mastermind, and because time has changed, he will not be entangled in the past grievances and cannot extricate himself. Therefore, he never thought of wearing Chen Qiyu's little shoes from his heart.

However, because he understood Chen Qiyu's personality and talent, when he was appointed as an official, Qu Shishi recommended him as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, rather than the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue he sought.

Although the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and the Minister of Revenue are both deputy positions, the importance of the two cannot be compared, and the oil and water cannot be compared.

As a result, Chen Qiyu hated Qu Shisi. He thought that Qu Shisi arranged himself to the Qingshui Yamen of Taichang Temple to avenge his revenge.

Therefore, after learning that he was named one of the 18th room examiners in this examination, and Qu Zhengbo, as a candidate, also took the examination, became vengeful.

...

Ma Jixiang made the case clear and wrote it into a memorial and entered the palace.

The memorial was transferred from the Tongzhengsi to the cabinet. Wu Bing, the chief assistant of the cabinet, had long hated Chen Qiyu. He saw that it was a memorial handed in by Ma Jixiang, which was about the case of Chen Qiyu's fraud in the imperial examination. When he opened it, he thought for a moment, but did not rashly write it, but passed it on to all the colleagues in the cabinet.

"My dear masters, the emperor was extremely furious in the case of fraud in Chen Qiyu. Now Commander Ma has already made the case clear. Please express your opinions and see how to vote?" Wu Bing asked slowly after everyone finished reading the message.

All the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet are talented. Who doesn’t know that Wu Bing and Qu Shixi hate the foolishness the most? What’s more, “honest comes from the top”. When the ministers vote for such cases, they can only talk to the emperor to give room for grace.

"What's there to discuss about this? Chen Qiyu was in the previous dynasty and then the Qing Dynasty. The two ends of the head and rat were swaying, and they were not loyal and righteous. The ceremony of talent was a grand event for the people of the forest, so solemn? He even dared to make a bad heart and a disciple of the saint. Such villains must not be left in the world. They were foolish and the officials involved in the case were proclaimed, and the students were detained in prison." Lu Daqi's beard was raised and he took the lead in speaking passionately.

Lu Daqi knew very well that because of the custom of "the punishment is not given to the doctor, and the etiquette is not given to the common people", since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, few officials have been beheaded and committed serious crimes, but they only requested suicide by submitting a book to commit suicide or commit suicide to preserve the decency of scholars.

Therefore, in the end of this case, the emperor is likely to commit suicide by killing Chen Qiyi, and the punishment of "big piracy" is basically impossible.

He said to the "ruthlessness" that it was actually just for "benevolence to come forward", and at the same time, he could also sell Wu Bing and Qu Shixi to save face.

"Yan Ruogong said so much. The emperor actually does not hate his head and rats, 'punishing the past and preventing the future, curing the disease and saving the people'. As long as he calms down his foolishness and reforms, the emperor will not hold him as a little braid. The emperor hates him because he is very greedy and dares to ruin the court's scrupulous ceremony for less than ten thousand taels of silver. Of course, he retaliates with grievances and retaliates, and almost lets the Huiyuan fail, which shows that his villain is not willing to simply draw talent for the court. Therefore, the subordinate officials attach their opinions."

Yang Qiaoran said immediately.

Wu Bing looked at the others again. Qu Shixi was involved in the matter and it was difficult to express his opinions. Chen Zizhuang and Huang Zongxi both nodded and expressed their support, but Chen Bangyan frowned and said nothing.

"Mr. Chen, what are your opinions?" Wu Bing asked.

"How can the subordinates have any high opinions? However, the subordinates think that the emperor attaches great importance to this examination and will definitely not cause such fraudulent incidents to happen again. In response to the saying "punish the past and prevent the future", the emperor will definitely increase the punishment, which makes the later generations afraid and dare not repeat the mistakes of Chen." Chen Bangyan replied.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then they thought that the emperor had unconsciously learned about Shen Qi's foolish fraud. They must have made arrangements, otherwise it would be impossible to do this.

Then, the emperor's intention is already very obvious. He will definitely make a big fuss with this case and give a powerful warning to the scientific research after the Yongli Dynasty.

Therefore, the emperor will not follow the convention of "the punishment cannot be punished", nor will he care about "gratitude comes from the top", but will use "thunderous anger" to establish a "clear" style for future scientific research.

Speaking of this, the dirty tricks in the exam room in the past can be stopped!

"The emperor is too smart and can't stand the slightest confusion."
Chapter completed!