The examination of the file has reached the last day, early in the morning, the examination of the court came to a special review officer, this person is the supervision of the imperial history Li Gang, Li Gang this time to inspect the imperial examination of Hebei two roads, one of the three prefectures is the imperial court regulations must be investigated, one state is Xiangzhou, three are the Daimyo Mansion, Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Gang supervised the Hejian Mansion in the examination process, supervised the Daimyo Mansion in the early stage of the examination papers, and now in the late stage of the examination papers, he came to Xiangzhou.

He will supervise Anyang County for two days, and then go north to Zhending Mansion for later monitoring.

Since yesterday, a royal history monitoring box has been placed at the gate of the Gongyuan, and candidates are welcome to report and expose all kinds of fraud clues in the exam.

On the second floor of the trial court, Li Gangzheng and two entourages opened and looked at the letters of denunciation they had received, and in just one day and one night, dozens of letters of accusations were received in the report box outside the gate of the Gongyuan Academy.

Li Gang saw that Wang Ji, the examiner next to him who assisted them in the investigation, was a little nervous, so he smiled and said: "This belongs to the normal category, in comparison, Xiangzhou's report letters are not much, I received more than 300 denunciation letters in Hejian Mansion in one day, Daimyo's Mansion also has more than 100 letters, and Xiangzhou only has more than 40 letters, which is already very few." ”

Wang Ji felt a little relieved in his heart, and asked again: "If it is found out, what should I do?" ”

"This also depends on the situation, this year is the first year of the reform of the examination, considering that the candidates are not very adaptable, the scale of the Ministry of Rites is relatively wide, if the situation is not serious, it has been eliminated and will not be investigated, if it has been examined, the evidence is conclusive, and the nature is very serious, then it is necessary to severely punish, punish three sessions are not allowed to take the exam or even ban the exam for life, if it is a person to take the exam, then deprive the person of qualification and record it."

Wang Ji thought for a while and said: "There will be a situation here, such as the candidate is jealous and deliberately exposes and frames the person who wins the exam, what should I do in this situation?" ”

What Wang Ji said is a very common phenomenon, most of the students are not broad-minded, and they tend to be jealous of high school students, which happens every time the imperial examination, and some of the losers will frame high school students for no reason.

Li Gang smiled and said: "Of course there will be such a situation, and the Ministry of Rites also stipulates that if it is exposed more than five times, but there is no evidence, a simple additional examination must be conducted to distinguish the authenticity, and the evidence is conclusive is another matter." ”

At this time, an examiner came over with more than a dozen papers, and he still had more than a dozen letters in his hand, and said to Li Gang: "Li Yushi, these dozen or so denunciation letters have found the corresponding papers, and all of them have been defeated." ”

Li Gang took the paper and checked it, then nodded, "Since it has been eliminated and the nature is not serious, then there is no need to pursue it." ”

The examiner took the paper and left, and at this time, an attendant handed over a few more letters, "Li Yushi had better take a look at this, they are all exposing the same person." ”

Li Gang took the letter and looked at it, frowned, then got up and said, "I'll go talk to the examiner." ”

At this time, in the examiner's room, the chief examiner Ouyang Xun and the two deputy examiners determined the final list, the chief examiner was sent by the imperial court, although it had the final decision, but the Ministry of Rites also asked the chief examiner to respect the local deputy chief examiner, so as not to intensify the contradiction between the local government and the imperial court, which was also a compromise.

Fifteen winners have come out, and the name has been torn off, which is also to consider the virtue of those who have won the list, there was this problem in the early days of the imperial examination, some candidates have poor morality but the gold list is high school, which has attracted a lot of criticism, so the imperial court decided to conduct a moral review during the period from admission to before the list, and those with poor virtue will be kicked out and replaced by new people.

Of course, the process of moral review has changed its flavor in many states, and has become an important part of the final balance of the interests of all parties.

Fifteen people who won the list, the two deputy examiners have no objections, Guo Baisong can do all the favors he can do, he is more concerned about the ranking now, and before he can speak, an examiner said at the door: "Ouyang is the main exam, Li Yushi has something to talk to the chief examiner." ”

"Now?"

"Someone else is at the door."

"Then invite him in!"

The door opened, and Li Gang walked in quickly, and said apologetically: "I hope I didn't disturb the important discussions of the three of them." ”

Ouyang Xun smiled and said: "It's okay, we are in the process of evaluating the virtues of those who have won the list, it stands to reason that Li Yushi should also be invited to participate, Li Yushi might as well sit down." ”

Li Gang sat down and put the four report letters on the table, "These letters are all reports that candidate Zheng Rongtai is suspected of cheating, some people say that he did not check his identity when he entered the examination room, and there was no search, and some people say that he slept in the examination room, but the invigilator did not interfere, seriously interfering with other candidates, and some people said that he colluded inside and outside, and was suspected of cheating, I heard that Zheng Rongtai's paper has passed the primary election, so I want to confirm it again." ”

Li Gang said a word, Guo Baisong's eyelids jumped, and in the end, Guo Baisong's face had changed.

Ouyang Xun pondered for a moment, then said to Guo Baisong and Han Hongjun: "I want to talk to Li Yushi alone, can you two avoid it?" ”

The two got up and left, and only Ouyang Xun and Li Gang were left in the room, and at this time, Ouyang Xun said slowly: "This Zheng Rongtai I have been admitted as the fifteenth and last place in the exam." ”

As he spoke, he handed Zheng Rongtai's scroll to Li Gang, "Take a look!" ”

Li Gang looked at the scroll and was stunned for a moment, "This calligraphy ......."

"The calligraphy is very bad, the content is mediocre, only the three classics and new meanings are all right, slightly brilliant, I just look at this point, I reluctantly admit him, as for the situation that Li Yushi just said, I don't understand, we have locked the hospital, and his name is not in the bad record sent by the invigilator."

Li Gang immediately understood a little in his heart, this Zheng Rongtai must have special circumstances, otherwise Ouyang Xun's character would never admit him, and this calligraphy should be eliminated in the first primary election.

Li Gang asked, "Who is this Zheng Rongtai?" ”

"He is the younger brother of the crown prince Concubine Zheng Shu, and he belongs to the imperial family."

"I see!"

Li Gang thought for a while and said, "If I'm not mistaken, he should be designated by the local government to be admitted!" ”

Ouyang Xun said lightly: "Not only the local government, before I set off, Liang Shicheng specially sent someone to send me a note, there are only three words on it, Zheng Rongtai, what do you say I should do?" ”

Li Gang was silent, Liang Shicheng was favored by the Son of Heaven, and the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, and even Cai Jingjing wanted to flatter him, and was called a hidden phase in the imperial court, but Li Gang understood that Ouyang Xun said that this matter actually had a deeper meaning, Liang Shicheng would not send a note for no reason, and that note was very likely to be the meaning of the prince or even the Son of Heaven, and the situation was even more complicated.

At this time, Ouyang Xun said slowly: "Xiangzhou local dignitaries designated to admit this Zheng Rongtai as Xie Yuan, in fact, Liang Shicheng also meant this, but I resisted, but people are walking in the court, some things are involuntarily, even if I don't want to, I have to do it with my conscience, I have reached a compromise with Jia Tongju yesterday, Jia Tongju gave up the non-sub-point requirement to hire him as Xie Yuan, and I also promised to record Zheng Rongtai as a lifter, so I put him in the fifteenth place." ”

Although Li Gang is an upright person, he is not ignorant of human feelings, he also has to weigh the pros and cons, no matter what is indiscriminate, blindly contradicting it, that is not called integrity, but stupidity.

Li Gang knows very well in his heart that once this incident goes into trouble, it is likely that the prince will be involved, which will shake the national system, and the consequences will be very serious.

Li Gang nodded, didn't say a word, turned around and left the room and went out.

After a while, Guo Baisong and Han Hongjun walked in again, Guo Baisong looked at Ouyang Xun with blank eyes, Ouyang said to the two as if nothing had happened: "Let's continue!" Since there is no objection to the candidate's morality, the following is a discussion of the rankings, and I have preliminarily listed the rankings, and I would like to hear the opinions of the two. ”

Guo Baisong saw that Zheng Rongtai's name was still at the bottom of the list, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But when he saw the ranking, his scalp exploded all of a sudden, and Zhao Yushu was only ranked tenth.