The state capital and county school is the cradle of cultivating talents in the imperial examination, which is not only related to whether the imperial court can select talents through the imperial examination, but also whether the pillars of the country and society can be maintained, and whether they will fall into a situation of lack of success.

Therefore, in the 289 years since the founding of Li Tang, whether it was an empty treasury, recuperation, or years of war, natural and man-made disasters, the imperial court never thought of removing the official schools in one state and one county.

Only, Qingyuan County School is a special case.

And the person who personally ordered the removal of Qingyuan County School was the one who personally created the prosperous era of Li Tang Zhenguan and His Majesty Li Er, the Taizong Emperor who was known as a generation of heroes.

Zhenguan has been nine years, fifty-six years ago.

That year, Li Jing, the god of war of the Tang Dynasty, broke Tuguhun!

That year, the Eastern Turks completely surrendered to the Tang Dynasty Heavenly Khan!

It was also in that year that Qingyuan County School, far away in southern Fujian, had a major case that shocked the government and the opposition!

According to the ritual system, the imperial examination is held once every three years, usually in Chang'an between spring and summer. But that year, because of the frequent foreign wars of the imperial court, and the rain did not stop in the spring and summer of this year, which blocked the water and land transportation of many students from small local counties who traveled far away to Chang'an, so the imperial court decided to postpone this time to the autumn.

When the Ministry of Rites sent the report of the postponed examination to the state and county governments, this news was naturally a good thing for most students. Because of the inconvenient transportation, students can wait until the water and land are smooth before setting off to Chang'an; Students who are unsure about the scientific examination can have more time to review their homework; As for those students who are directly recommended by the county school to Chang'an to participate in the examination, and are full of self-confidence, they can hurry slowly, stop from place to place, and have enough time for them to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and recite poems, why not? Anyway, all the money spent by the county school subsidy for them to go to Chang'an to catch the exam.

In this time of the Ministry of Rites Examination, in addition to the three students of Qingyuan County School, there were also five tribute students who passed the state and county examinations and were qualified to go to Chang'an to participate in the examination. In other words, this time the Chang'an Rite Department will take the exam, and a total of eight students from Qingyuan County will participate, which is a remarkable number. Even in other counties in the suburbs of Beijing, there may not be such a large number of people. If nothing else, there must be a Qingyuan student in the top three of Jinshi. For Qingyuan County, if there is a title on the gold list of local students, this is Xuanhe's political achievement.

Whether it is the county government or the county school, they attach great importance to the pre-examination review of these eight students and the township tribute. Therefore, the Qingyuan County Commander at that time decided to take advantage of the early time of the Ministry of Rites Examination, so that the eight students collectively stayed in the county school, and spent a lot of money to invite famous teachers from all over the country to give lectures to them, so that they could get better results in the Chang'an examination.

With such intensive tutoring and small stoves, it is natural that the food and accommodation of these eight students must be in the county school. During the day, I held classes in the school hall, and at night I stayed in the school building of the county school.

At that time, the conditions were excellent, and in order to allow these eight students to have a good resting environment, the school building was dedicated to one person. Each of the three sponsored apprentices lives in one room, and the other five tribute students live in one room each.

However, on a dark and windy night, three students with sponsorship qualifications died mysteriously, and they were not woken up by the bell until dawn in their respective school buildings.

The mysterious death of three disciples in just one night is naturally not a trivial matter, on the contrary, it is a great event. Do you think, these three people are all students who are going to participate in the imperial examination, and they all have the opportunity to be named as a high school jinshi on the gold list and become the pillars of the imperial court in the future, but they died mysteriously at night, how can they cover it?

Soon, it spread to Quanzhou Mansion, and even more to Chang'an, and to the ears of His Majesty Li Er, who was still sitting on the dragon chair at that time.

The scientific examination is imminent, but the three candidates died suddenly in the school building, and His Majesty Li Er was shocked, is this worth it? Check, check for me, check to death, even if you break the sky, you have to find out for me!

However, the results of the autopsy and interrogation of the Qingyuan County Government were very disappointing, the cause of death of the three candidates was neither poisoning, nor killing by foreign objects such as blunt objects, nor death from disease, but the most normal natural death, not even violent death!

How is this possible?

When the results came out, not to mention the imperial court, even the people in the market thought it was incredible, three young and not seriously ill candidates died collectively in the school building, and the cause of death was actually natural death! No one believes it!

When the results were presented to His Majesty Li Er's dragon case, Li Er was furious in court and shouted that Qingyuan County was incompetent! On the spot, he ordered the county commander to be dismissed from his post and sent to Biansai. At the same time, he also ordered the Quanzhou government to personally investigate the case.

However, the results of the second autopsy and the results of the interrogation of all the people in the county school were still the same as before, they were natural deaths, and there was no motive or suspicion of committing the crime in the county school, from the school to the school, from the school to the husband and the students.

How can it be? Could it be that the officials of the Quanzhou government are all rice buckets?

Now it was His Majesty Li Er's turn to shout hysterically. He issued an order on the spot to demote the Quanzhou Mansion to Lingnan, and other government officials all issued orders for later use. And personally asked Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department to take the best servant of Chang'an to Qingyuan County and personally supervise the case.

It's a pity that the best guy in Chang'an went to Qingyuan County, but he still couldn't find out the cause of death, and all the autopsy results pointed to three candidates, which belonged to natural deaths.

And Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department also brought back his interrogation draft, and these so-called related suspects are not suspected at all.

At this time, His Majesty Li Er was completely confused!

How could there be such a bizarre thing in this world? Three young, strong and healthy candidates will die of natural causes in the same place on the same night?

He wanted to question it, but three successive results made it impossible for him to question it. However, now that the Qingyuan County Order has also been dismissed, and the Quanzhou Thorn Shi has also been demoted to Lingnan to plant lychees, is it possible for His Majesty Li Er to admit to the whole world that these three people died of natural causes, there is no special cause of death, and there are no suspects? Is it completely wrong for him, the Ninety-Five, to make a mistake?

Thinking too much, His Majesty Li Er wants more face!

And although he couldn't find evidence, he always believed that the deaths of these three people were by no means so simple, and there must be murderers.

He thought about it, how should this matter end?

At this time, an official who was good at figuring out the holy will reminded: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks this matter is quite bizarre, this murderer must exist!" You think, these three candidates are not tribute students, but students who came to Chang'an to participate in the Ministry of Rites examination by the county school guard. According to the practice of previous years, if the qualifications of these three disciples are vacated, someone will inevitably have to fill them in. Now that the three of them are dead, who is the most direct beneficiary? It must be those students who didn't pass the state and county exams. Therefore, the minister feels that those who are suspicious must be those students who are interested in the imperial examination, but have not been tested because of the state and county examinations! ”

That's right!

His Majesty Li Er's eyes lit up, slapped his thigh, and shouted, That's right, isn't there a motive for the crime?

The official who figured out the holy will said: "And the minister thinks that everyone is not suspicious, and it is the biggest suspicion!" It shows that the murderer is not one person, maybe there are several people, but they are too well hidden and have not been detected! ”

Everyone is not suspicious, but the biggest suspect?

His Majesty Li Er's eyes lit up again, grass, this sentence is awesome!

But soon he was depressed and said: "Aiqing, there are no clues at the scene of this crime, and the results of this interrogation are also ironclad, and the most critical autopsy report also says that the three candidates died of natural causes." How can I find out what the real culprit really is? ”

The official rolled his eyes and said: "It is definitely impossible to find out the real culprit alone, since none of them came forward to admit it, they simply arrested all the students in Qingyuan County, after all, each of them is suspicious, isn't it?" ”

This bad idea was immediately opposed by all the officials present, and even Wei Zheng rolled up his sleeves and went on the field, scribbled the official's ancestor, and sprayed His Majesty Li Er's face with spittle.

However, His Majesty Li Er didn't listen to Wei Zheng this time, but made a rare come, and personally issued an order: "Arrest all the students of Qingyuan County School, as well as the husband who learns the orthodox teachings, including the husband who makes soy sauce in the county school, and the cooks who cook, if no murderer comes forward to admit it, there is no doubt that these people are the real murderers." Then they will all be distributed to the side plug to feed the horses! ”

This is the most powerful will issued by His Majesty Li Er since he ascended the throne.

There is no way, he is also angry with Zhenzhener, and in addition, he has already dealt with the Qingyuan County Order and the Quanzhou Thorn History, at this time it is already difficult to ride a tiger, and it is impossible to stand up and admit his mistake, saying that he made a mistake!

When the holy decree came to Qingyuan, it was a wail!

The five students who have obtained the qualification of tribute students and are about to participate in the scientific examination are naturally a disaster.

As for those county school students who are not qualified to become apprentices or tribute students, there are more than 60 people, and they are even crying in a loud voice.

The most innocent are the white-haired Xuezheng teachers in the county school, as well as the husband and cook who play soy sauce, they are really wronged, and they even have the slightest motive for committing the crime, so they eat and hang up.

Five tribute students, more than 60 ordinary county school students, and a cadre of Xuezheng Sect in the county school, about 80 people, were tied up into a long dragon and escorted on the streets of Qingyuan County, shouting the sky and the mountains calling for wrongs, the scene was quite spectacular!

Just when these people were about to be escorted out of Qingyuan County, suddenly one of the five tribute students secretly untied his rope and ran to the city gate tower, shouting: "The murderer is me, don't wronged others!" ”

Suddenly, the scene fell silent.

Seeing this, a Chang'an official in charge of escorting the prisoners asked the sergeant to control the scene, while looking up at the Gongsheng on the city tower, and asked, "Really?" ”

Gongsheng stood awe-inspiring, and Lang Lang said: "It's a matter of life, can you still fake?" I was jealous that they could go straight to Chang'an to take the exam without passing the exams, and I killed them at night! How could the Son of Heaven be guilty of so many innocent people because of the sin of one family? Take a look at these young students who have the desire to serve the imperial court! Let's look at the white-haired and weak division commander! The sin of one person should not be associated with unrelated persons. This sin is borne by a certain family! ”

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was boiling.

But anyone with brains knows that this Gongsheng will definitely not be a murderer, but he can't bear to see so many people suffer from unjustified disasters, so he came out and took this charge!

There were people who couldn't bear it downstairs at the city gate, and they advised this tribute student not to come out impulsively.

The Chang'an official asked again: "The official asked you, how did you let these three candidates die so bizarrely, that they couldn't even be detected?" ”

Na Gongsheng smiled, shook his head and said, "You don't need to ask about this, and I don't have to say it, a certain family will bring it into the coffin!" ”

Likely, he can't say that he is ugly.

After speaking, he bowed in the direction of distant Chang'an and shouted: "The Son of Heaven is wise, I hope you don't want to involve innocent people!" One family's fault, one person's own family! ”

Then he straightened his slightly wrinkled white robe, straightened his crown, and looked at the group of people under the city gate, looking over one by one, and finally smiled indifferently, jumped suddenly, and fell to death under Qingyuan City on the spot!

Rumble!

The audience was in an uproar.

More than 60 students who were escorted at the scene knelt down on the spot and wept at the corpse of this tribute student.

……

In the county governor's office, Yao Du recounted the old past in a low tone, and Cui Geng became more and more heavy the more he listened, and finally asked with a little emotion: "You said that this Gongsheng should be a member of the Tong family, right?" ”

Yao Du nodded and said: "Yes, this person's surname is Tong, his name is Xiuyuan, and he is the father of Tong Benshan, the old man of the Tong family today." Zhenguan was nine years old, and at that time, the old man Tong Benshan was only seven or eight years old! This Tong Xiuyuan exchanged his own death for everyone's lives, which is admirable! If it weren't for him, alas, ......"

"Tong Xiuyuan? Good name! ”

Cui Geng nodded secretly and continued to ask, "What happened later?" What did Emperor Taizong do later? There is also the withdrawal of Qingyuan County School, why did the Tong family study but did not enter the official career, you should tell it quickly! Look at this day, it's already dark, and if you grind hard, it's going to be dawn! ”

This book comes from reading books