As the saying goes, ginger is spicy when old, green onions are fragrant when young, and garlic is powerful when it has a single clove.
Qian Ji has spent half his life trying to die. How can he survive until now with a gold medal that will kill him? Life experience and court struggle experience are indispensable.
As Lao Qian expected, on the second day of the scientific examination, Zhao Tai, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, disappeared. Just take a look at that face, which is full of big characters.
Hesitant, worried about gains and losses, at war with heaven and man, indecisive, looking forward and backward, there is almost no room to write on that face.
Who is Qian Ji? He is a professional from an aristocratic family. He specializes in studying aristocratic families. He doesn't know much about people from aristocratic families like Zhao Tai.
In addition to being an official in the same palace, Lao Qian knew Zhao Tai's temperament all too well. This minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who came from a top aristocratic family, can be said to have the same advantages, disadvantages, weaknesses and basic points, which is caution.
The Zhao family, the largest wealthy family in the country, is not only Zhao Tai's greatest background, but also his greatest constraint.
Zhao Tai, sometimes, wants to follow the path arranged by his family to finish his life, and sometimes, he wants to find a new path on his own.
Take the path arranged by the family, it's safe but not challenging.
Take the path you want to take, it will be challenging but not very safe.
Qian Ji's words planted a seed in his heart. The seed made Zhao Tai feel tingling, itchy, smelly, and white... He was listless during the day and had trouble falling asleep at night. He kept thinking about this matter and thinking about what if Qian Ji would submit a letter to resign. , he can successfully reach the top of Zaifu and be one person below ten thousand people. As long as he reaches Zaifu, Zhao Tai has basically caught up with the footsteps of his ancestors.
But he was also afraid that this was a huge gamble, and the emperor would not let Qian Ji leave, the family would not support him, or even the family would have objections to him, etc.
In this way, hesitating and worrying about gains and losses, Zhao Tai almost didn't notice Han You's work all day long. Maybe he paid attention and pretended not to notice.
Let's talk about Han You, as a talented little prince of the Zhou Dynasty. On the second day of the scientific examination, the butcher's knife had been drawn out, and he was chopping blood in the examination room.
The first knife is a small test of the skill, and it will be on the list.
The list is divided into three lists.
The first list, the waste list, has hundreds of names on it, all of them are wastes who couldn't even walk a few miles the night before the scientific examination.
In fact, this is understandable. As a son of an aristocratic family, he grew up in fine clothes and fine food, and went out in carriages and sedan chairs. His feet were not touched by loess, and his body was not touched by smoke and dust. He was traveling at night, there were many people, he was walking fast, and his oxygen uptake was lower than usual. , The rejection in the heart causes physical exhaustion, and walking for several miles is not a process of crying for father and mother.
The problem is that no one will consider so many factors. People who want to be officials can't even walk a few miles and will only be called useless.
The second list, the Idiot List, also has more than a hundred names written on it. They are all people who bought questions before the scientific examination and wanted to bribe the scientific examination personnel. The people who sold the questions and took bribes were all arranged by Qian Ji and Han You. Apart from Lu Zhuihai, several of Lao Qian's confidants made a lot of money, including thirty-seven points, three from the Rites Department, and seven from the Yi Dao Wei.
The third list is the dog courage list.
The cheaters are named on the list, who are they by name, where they are from, how old they are, what physical characteristics they have, and how they cheated.
The third list was posted all morning. At noon, Han You asked Lu Baichuan to send the third list to the capital in front of all the candidates and hang it outside Jingzhao Mansion. Then the civil servants of Jingzhao Mansion took turns to read aloud for seven days.
For this first small test, the candidates who were on the three ranking lists were filled with grief and anger.
The second knife cuts into the soul.
Han You returned some of his personal belongings, including clothes, examination tools, etc. Why did he only return some of them, because these personal belongings were used for cheating.
For those who cheated on their clothes and examination materials, Han You announced in public that all their examination results would be invalidated.
After passing the exam, the emperor, ministers and candidates were all dumbfounded.
So the question arises, since you knew these people were cheating from the beginning, why did you ask them to continue taking the exam after taking away their personal belongings, and then invalidate the results after the exam?
Han You's official answer on behalf of Yidaowei was that spanking children on a rainy day is just for fun. The candidates are all here anyway. It's good to play while taking the exam and feel the atmosphere.
You can imagine how those candidates who wanted to cheat but failed and were very happy to take the exam for two days would feel. This was just a waste of time accompanying them to Shandong University.
Seeing that many people wanted to curse, Han You yelled, "I'm not letting you finish the exam on the third day, which is already an extrajudicial mercy. If you continue to force me, I'll arrest them all."
After the second slash, the third slash kills him!
After nightfall, Han You brought Chen Yongzhi, the left minister of the Ministry of Punishments, to the wooden platform. The left minister, who was mixed with joy and sorrow, held Zhou Lv in his hands and read aloud the punishment measures for scientific examination fraud.
In layman's terms, according to the law, one year of corvee service was required. However, because the emperor and his ministers were present and cheating under the emperor's eyes, which was more or less disrespectful and deceiving the emperor, one year became three years.
As soon as the third sword was revealed, the wooden platform exploded. Zhao Tai and other courtiers could not sit still, so they all stood up and came to the emperor.
Punishing scholars is still three years of corvee service, which was not done in the previous dynasty and is not done in this dynasty. It is absolutely impossible.
This is really the case. Fraud in scientific examinations is so normal. Even if you are caught, you can just take care of it. It is nothing more than spending more and less.
The emperor is also a bit numb. If hundreds of scholars are sent to serve three years of corvee service, you can imagine what kind of trouble the noble families in the country will be in. To put it bluntly, if the trouble is not good, the country will be unstable.
Huang Youwei didn't stand up immediately. He looked at the emperor's eyes first and understood that he shouldn't stand up. The emperor was in a dilemma.
But Huang Youwei saw his good brother Han Bairen again with a look of excitement on his face. He gritted his teeth and did it. The emperor was just passing by, and the good brother was his destination. As long as the good brother was happy, who cares?
When Lao Huang stood up, he was called a righteous man. Princes who broke the law were as guilty as the common people. The imperial examination was for scholars. If they were not punished, it would not be fair to the scholars, but the greatest injustice to them.
Then Lao Huang fully explained his point of view, which has three points.
The first point of view is that the emperor lets the common people and poor people in the whole country know that the emperor is the most fair and does not favor any party, but only justice and justice. This is an act that wins the hearts of the people.
The second point of view is that in the first year of the scientific examination, the emperor was in charge, and the examinee dared to cheat under the emperor's nose. This is not deceiving the emperor. Three years of corvee service is enough. According to the crime of deceiving the emperor, his whole family will be arrested directly. It makes sense, who dares to dissent.
The third point of view is that the prodigal son will not be able to exchange for gold. These candidates who have done corvee can come back to take part in the next scientific examination. Now the country has no corvee to do, so they can directly serve in the military. The right way is to be able to use military force to settle the world, and to be able to write and write to determine the world. , with this experience, if you rank among the best in the next scientific examination, you will definitely be a pillar of the country with all-round talent in both civil and military affairs.
Regarding these three points of view, Zhao Tai and other courtiers had no room for refutation.
Or it could be said that Da Lao Huang's IQ is on the line. Black things are called white, and white things are called black. The places you look at are white, and the places you can't see are really black.
Han Bairen, who was sitting in the corner watching the excitement, curled his lips when he heard it, and became even more contemptuous of Da Lao Huang. If it harms scholars, it means harming scholars. Just give your mother's point of view. This guy is getting worse as he learns. Bah!
After using the three swords, before the third sword could come to a conclusion, Han You used the fourth sword. One word, guess it!
This sword directly made Emperor Longyan very happy.
The cheating candidates should not travel long distances. They are all organized into the Yidao Camp reserve camp and auxiliary camp in the middle of the capital, under the control of the Yidao Camp sergeants.
As soon as these words were spoken, both those who were silent and those who were not silent fell silent on the wooden platform.
