Chapter 225 Father's Debt and Son's Repayment!
The monthly tickets rose from more than 500 to more than 700 in one day. Thank you for your strong support! Last night, I finally finished writing the ending of the Su Ye Palace that had been struggling for a month, and finally I was able to put down a big stone in my heart. In the last fourteen hours today, I hope you can help you vote for precious monthly tickets. Finally, I will go crazy, at least three updates today!
The fraud case in the 12th year of Hongzhi caused a lot of controversy. Two candidates who were once famous in the local area, Tang Yin and Xu Jing were dismissed together, but this did not reduce the enthusiasm of the candidates to take the exam. In the early Ming Dynasty, the candidates who failed the exam must return to their hometowns and re-examination before they could take the exam again. Now, they have changed to once they pass the exam for the entire life, and the number of candidates for the exam is naturally huge every day. The number of candidates this year reached nearly 3,000, and the two examiners alone were naturally far from enough. There were 17 examiners from the Hanlin Academy. Zhang Yuanzhen was nearly 70 years old this year, and he was not very energetic. Yang Tinghe, who was young and strong, became the real backbone.
The end of February 18th, and the rankings will be set on February 23rd. The seventeen examiners and two chief examiners have to read thousands of papers. Whether it is energy or endurance, they are naturally extremely limited. Among them, those who are sloppy handwriting are almost left aside without saying a word, while those who are neat and steady in their words will always take a look at each other. Even so, after reading a lot of recommendation papers sent by the examiners of the seventeenth room in the morning, Yang Tinghe was still a little tired. After lunch at noon, he simply squinted his eyes in the yard and basked in the sun, and was still savoring a few papers in his heart.
The ranking of the imperial examination can be said to be completely in the hands of the two examiners. Although they have not yet opened the seal and do not know who is who, he is still quite satisfied with the level of the imperial examination. At this moment, thinking about a few sentences that he was amazed when he watched it, he couldn't help but smile, but suddenly he saw a Zaoli hiding and dodging from the corner of his eyes.
"What's up?"
Seeing Yang Tinghe frowned, Zaoli quickly stepped forward and saluted, "Report to the master, it's nothing, but there are many students in this imperial examination, so there are many people waiting outside the Gongyuan to find out the news. There are so many people and talk nonsense, and the noise is constantly coming. The young man was afraid of disturbing the master, so he came to take a look."
Yang Tinghe only won the third place in the palace examination, but now he is a Grand Secretary of Zuo Chunfang and a Bachelor of Hanlin. This is the first time he has served as the chief examiner of the examination. He will be full of confidence in the teacher. He heard this, and he heard the noise outside and felt a little unhappy: "Although it is like this every year, the noise has passed. Didn't Shuntian Mansion send a servant to maintain it? Why are he so neglecting his responsibilities?"
The Zao Liben did not want to make things difficult for others, but the noise outside was too much. He followed Yang Tinghe and came to work from the Hanlin Academy. He knew the aura of this adult, so he had to bite the bullet and do it. "Sir, this servant in Shuntian Prefecture is gambling with people, and uh
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"What! They dare to be so bold!"
Seeing Yang Tinghe's erection change, Zaoli hurriedly explained: "Sir, it's not those gambling like rolling dices, but the idle people waiting to find out the news outside these two days were bored, so they took a gambling scene such as betting on the current exam, missed, rankings, etc., that is, betting a penny to solve the boring trick. However, as soon as the bets were opened, more and more people were betting and talking about it, and it became noisy after a while, and even the servants from Shuntian Mansion joined in. However, although the noise was noisy, the order was still good..."
"You need to say nothing!"
Yang Tinghe naturally trusted this Zao Li, who had been following since he entered the Hanlin Academy. He knew that although this was true, there must be something untrue. He did not dare to underestimate this small gambling scene. After pondering for a while, he spoke: "In this way, you change your clothes and go outside to listen to what these people's gambling scenes are, and what have they said.
"But this tribute court is surrounded by the Jinyiwei guards of the North Town Fushi Department..."
"Ye Guang has always been fair. The lieutenant under his command should not be a person who knows the right way. Go and meet their leader, talk about the gambling scenes, and then say it was my dispatch and let them get a proper person with you!"
As Yang Tinghe expected, because there was no big case, Ye Guang actually ordered Li Yifeng to guard the tribute court in person this time. When he heard Zaoli talk about the gambling scene outside, Li Yifeng sent a general flag to follow Zaoli to inquire without saying a word.
The two of them changed into clothes and walked in a big circle from the west of Suimofang Hutong. When they were about to reach the intersection of Gongyuan Street, they saw at least 180 people gathered in a tea stall, and there were a big list hanging at the door. The two of them looked at each other and squeezed into the crowd, but they saw that the top-notch one was burnt yellow.
One of them was hang out in the department and the other was in the Jinyiwei. How could they not know who the sacred place was in the burnt yellow? The Zaoli immediately smiled and called out to someone next to him, asking, "Brother, can you teach me what's going on with this list betting?"
"What's going on? Didn't you see it yourself? The most popular one is the most popular exam in the current exam. The people who are all optimistic about it are waiting for you. It's a waste of time to wait, so I don't know who came up with such a way to have fun after a while."
"Then who is this Jiao Huangfeng?"
"I didn't know it anymore, right? This Jiaohuangzhong is the eldest son of Jiao Shilang, the current Minister of Personnel, and the biggest favorite in the current department!"
Hearing this, the accompanying Jinyiwei General Banner couldn't help but frown and hummed disapprovingly: "If the children of officials are popular, the children and nephews of so many old men in the court would not often fail. How could they be so arranged!"
"Tsk tsk, don't you understand? If Jiao Huangzhong is just the son of Mr. Jiao, everyone will come to inquire about the news for their own master or family members, and they will never be optimistic about him? Before the imperial examination, Jiao Prince had received a new book from the emperor. Not to mention the son of the minister, he was a real minister. How many people are there? This emperor would give someone a new book for no reason? It is obvious that Jin Ke has prepared this young master Jiao. Even if the ranking of the imperial examination is not high, the top ten papers in the palace examination will be required as usual. It is not easy to call the top scholar at that time?"
This man was Lu Mang. His voice was loud and everyone around him heard it. Some who had known this before, and some who didn't know this matter were asking questions. The scene was noisy than the noise of the head. More of the copper coins were thrown into the basket and shouting that they would beg for Mr. Jiao. Seeing this scene, Zaoli had no intention of asking again. Instead, the Jinyiwei General Banner asked the three or two people on the list with interest. He heard that they were all famous talents from all over the place, etc., so he threw a penny in as if he was gambled. After taking the piece of paper, he squeezed out of the crowd. The two of them didn't notice that as they walked, the lingering Lu Mang just now explained the list to the newly squeezed in.
Two quarters of an hour later, they circled back to the tribute court. Li Yifeng sent the Zaoli to the tribute court. After hearing the chief flag report, he couldn't help but feel thoughtful and remembered the major imperial examination case in the twelve years of Hongzhi. At that time, the emperor was furious and Cheng Minzheng and others were imprisoned. Ye Guang took him to interrogate him. He knew the inside story best. Although everyone now knows that Cheng Minzheng was wronged, and Tang Yin and Xu Jing's two disciples were wronged, so what? If you accidentally get involved in the fight between this boss, it would be good to escape a life.
And today's incident, no matter how you look at it, there is a conspiracy! But no matter what, this Young Master Jiao is bound to be unlucky!
"Li Qianhu, but are you going to send someone to disperse those people?"
"Dispelled? Now it's just a small gambling show. After it is dispelled, the rumors will become wider. Why should I plan ahead without giving any instructions?" Li Yifeng laughed and then said casually, "Let's see if our two examiners have any actions. If not, then report to Lord Ye. But if I want me, Lord Ye probably thinks that it will rain and mother wants to get married, let him go! As long as the examiner is fair, the rumors will be broken."
As Li Yifeng expected, when Yang Tinghe heard the Zaoli report the inside story of the gambling scene outside, his frown was even more twisted. Cheng Minzheng had a lesson in the past, but at that time, Tang Yin and Xu Jing were just talented men with little family background. Now Jiao Huangzhong is the son of Jiao Fang, the Minister of Personnel. If this kind of big thing happens, the chief examiner will be the first to be affected.
As a Grand Secretary of Zuo Chunfang and a Bachelor of Hanlin Academy, Yang Tinghe was a serious lecturer in the Eastern Palace. He naturally knew very well about these big and small things in the court, and was even more aware of the grievances between Jiao Fang and some big bosses. He coldly told Zao Li not to say more about this matter. He went back to the room without saying a word. Seeing that a few more recommendations were stacked on the table, he calmed down and judged them carefully one by one, until that night he went to find Zhang Yuanzhen.
In history, when a Jinshi entered the Hanlin Academy, in addition to thinking about the glory of being the Cabinet Department, most people's lifelong goal was to be able to preside over a tenure as a teacher. In the future, students would have to take care of their descendants. Zhang Yuanzhen was very old and in poor health. He could not bear it after the nine-day exam. Almost all the reading papers were held by Yang Tinghe in the past two days. However, when he heard Yang Tinghe talk about external affairs, he was shocked.
"Shizhai, what do you think should be done?"
"Mr. Zhang, fortunately, I hired the Jinyiwei to send someone to accompany me before. This matter has not caused the level of the imperial examination corruption case back then. But now, there is only one way to calm down the matter, that is, I feel wronged and become yellow."
Seeing that Zhang Yuanzhen was silent but did not object, Yang Tinghe emphasized his tone and said: "As for the others on the betting list, if they are really recommended and the ranking should be lowered, only the Jiaohuang must be dismissed! It should be noted that Jiao Fang offended people more than twice as much as Cheng Minzheng back then. We have no friendship with him, so there is no need to make things out of control for him!"
"That outside thing..."
"As long as the apricot list is out of the test, who can say what else?"
Chapter completed!