There were still six days before Tong Shi was released. In the morning, the General Secretary impeached Tong Shi from the Thirteenth Prefecture of Jiuzhou for being suspected of engaging in malpractice for personal gain.
Jing Hedi, who was originally lazy, suddenly woke up.
Although the provincial examination is the first examination of the imperial examination, the children's examination, as a qualifying examination for the imperial examination, cannot be ignored in the face of a large number of candidates.
He Benchu, the Minister of Rites, who had been dozing off with his eyes lowered, was no longer sleepy.
You know, the Ministry of Rites has the responsibility of being in charge of tributes and schools. If large-scale fraud occurs in Dachu, he, the Minister of Rites, is guilty of negligence!
He Benchu was a bit big-headed. He would have listened more to advice and asked the Holy One to standardize the time for the children's examination.
That's right, at this time, the exam times for children in various places in Dachu are often different. For example, children here in Kyoto are usually later than those outside Beijing.
After staying in the cabinet for a long time, it is inevitable that I will get used to the time of the Shuntianfu Yuan examination, otherwise I would not have caught the General Secretary off guard.
"Your Majesty, I ask your Majesty to take a closer look!" He Benchu, as an experienced player in the morning court, did not attack the general envoy rashly. Instead, he stood up with a serious face, likely to kill his subordinates in tears once verified.
Emperor Jinghe ignored the old man, waved his hand, and looked at the envoy seriously: "Please tell me carefully, my dear."
The envoy of the general administration raised the memorial with both hands: "Your Majesty, since the day before yesterday, I have received ninety-three complaints of grievances. Feng Feng denounced the chief examiners of each palace for not ranking the results according to the merits and making unauthorized changes. Ranking, and even more so, top candidates will be dismissed.”
When Emperor Jinghe heard this, he motioned to his chamberlain to take the memorial and read it word for word with squinted eyes.
Above the court hall, the atmosphere gradually became tense.
The ministers couldn't help but look up at the emperor on the throne.
Emperor Jinghe saw the last ten lines, but his anger gradually increased.
When I saw the end, I simply closed it hard.
"Ai Qing, most of these candidates you are talking about are girls!"
Emperor Jinghe suddenly asked with a smile, which instantly lifted the hearts of the courtiers.
In the morning, the ministers were not afraid of the emperor's anger, but were afraid that the emperor would smile when he should lose his temper.
The general envoy raised his voice: "Your Majesty, your Majesty!"
"I think I am not a wise man!" Emperor Jinghe threw the memorial to the ground with all his strength. Suddenly his expression changed and he roared, "If not, why would so many ministers dare to compete with me openly! The country's selection of materials is of great concern to the future. Jiye, how dare you do this!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!" All the ministers immediately lowered their heads and said in unison.
"Calm down! Calm down! I'm not angry yet, and you want me to calm down! Why, you have to hold my breath and pass out before you can be happy! How mean of you!" Emperor Jinghe was so angry that he stood up and crossed his arms. He paced back and forth and cursed.
The mouths of the leader Yan Yuan and others trembled.
There is no way, the emperor's intention is too obvious.
They are about to take advantage of the situation and fool around. What should they do as courtiers? !
"Your Majesty." Yan Yuan looked at his position. Although he was not happy, the guys standing in front of him over the years were either begging for resignation or being demoted. Unknowingly, he was standing in the first row. As the head of all officials, he It’s hard to explain without opening your mouth!
Although he was not happy, he finally found an opportunity and took advantage of Emperor Jinghe's luck to report: "We must not slack off in what the general envoy has reported. I affirm the emperor's decree and order the thirteen censors to make speeches, and each The head of the palace defends himself."
"..." Jing Hedi, who still wanted to continue speaking, paused, "Are the two censors here?"
Upon hearing this, the censors of the left capital and the censor of the right capital stood up in a hurry.
"Is there such an impeachment in the Thirteenth Path?"
The two censors looked at each other and both said: "I have not received such a request yet."
"Hmph!" Emperor Jinghe waved his hand, "Let the Imperial Procuratorate, the Ministry of Rites, and the Internal Guard jointly investigate this matter, and order the prime ministers of each government to express their opinions!"
Once the imperial edict was issued, all officials were busy.
After two days of this, the incident was discussed again in the morning.
Luo Feifei, the censor of Zuodu, stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate contacted the thirteen censors to find out the matter. Yesterday, they received 139 urgent memorials. I will summarize them and inform the general envoy. The previous impeachment report is indeed true, but it has its own internal affairs, so please let your Majesty investigate clearly."
Emperor Jinghe motioned to his chamberlain to take the memorial from his hand and flipped it over casually: "Oh? Inside story? How come I don't know that performance outside the examination room can also affect candidates' scores? Is this how candidates were judged in previous years?"
"This, the Metropolitan Procuratorate...has not received any impeachment from various departments in the past years, so I don't know anything about it."
Luo Feifei, who knew that this was a difficult question to answer, hesitated for a moment, and happily threw the question out like a hydrangea. It had nothing to do with him as to who would be asked to answer the question.
"Okay, where is the Minister of Rites?" Emperor Jinghe waved his hand and asked Luo Feifei to go down and looked at He Benchu.
He Benchun never expected that the governors and governors from various places had such a tacit understanding. Not only did they unanimously make their own decisions, but they also made their own decisions completely unanimously. He, the boss of the Ministry of Rites, didn't believe that there was no commander-in-chief!
But the problem is that he really doesn’t know anything!
He Shangshu, who has been blamed for some reason, is not someone to be trifled with!
Haha, how come he is the Minister of Rites and not the Minister of Officials? What does it have to do with him that officials from various places make their own decisions?
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rites has never set any additional admission standards. It still continues the old practice. Each government has added and changed the admission rules without authorization. I want to impeach them for ignoring the court and contempt for the imperial examination!"
He Ben used his left hand to throw the pot back, and used his right hand to cover them a few more times.
"Stand back!" Emperor Jinghe nodded and called the commander of the inner guard to present the memorial.
After reading carefully for a moment, Emperor Jinghe asked his chamberlain to call over Fu Yin Xuezheng, who had come to defend himself.
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged!" As soon as these people came up, they threw themselves on the ground and saluted, knelt down and cried out their grievances.
They couldn't afford it, and Emperor Jinghe didn't bother to call them up.
Today is also a day when the emperor does not want to give face!
"Since you keep saying that you are wronged, then defend yourself in turn."
Hearing what the emperor said, several governors looked at each other and pushed out the most senior academic administrator.
"Your Majesty, the general envoy impeached me to change his rank. This matter is indeed true. However, the student who I changed his rank has insufficient moral character and wrong character. If I did not depose him, I would already cherish his talent and cherish his talent. I would like to correct him. This is an opportunity, this is my good intention, why should I be guilty of this!"
"Oh?! Give me an example." Emperor Jinghe didn't seem to recognize whether the student whose academic affairs were unclear was male or female, and he asked him with interest to explain the faults of those students in detail.
"A student beat an old woman in the street under the bright sky! A student demanded debt and forced an elder to go on a hunger strike! A student injured a businessman with a stick..." The academic administration, which had been prepared, spoke eloquently about the students' mistakes.
Emperor Jinghe nodded occasionally when he heard what he said. After he finished speaking, he asked others to continue. When everything was said, he smiled and asked, "Have you all finished speaking?"
(End of chapter)
