Bad man, the system crashed.

Clenched fists.

If you cheat in the imperial examination, you will definitely have to take the exam again.

But who will be in charge?

The emperor looked at the fourth prince. The fourth prince coughed twice and felt that he was not feeling well.

The emperor looked at the unlucky prince Lu Ze again and felt a headache.

No matter what, this time he will send more people to keep an eye on him. As long as he doesn't cheat or show favoritism, what can he do even if he is a prince?

The emperor pointed at Lu Ze irritably, "Come here."

Lu Ze knelt down and accepted the order without saying a word. His father told him to shut up, and he did.

Chapter 121 The prince is crazy (5)

After going to court, the Sixth Prince was ordered to stay behind closed doors to think about his mistakes due to lax supervision. His monthly salary was halved, and his servants were halved.

He Xiuwen, Li Hexu, and Ma Gaoge were all imprisoned.

These three people are not people with any backbone. Once they entered the punishment department and were served with sticks and sticks, they were all killed in less than a stick of incense.

The three confessions all pointed to one place - Guifang Tower.

The three people said that as long as they joined Tu Pingyun, the boss of Guifanglou, and paid three thousand taels of silver, they could get the test questions.

If you want to go to high school, you can get an answer sheet written by a professional expert if you pay another 10,000 taels. Then you can just memorize it and answer the questions directly.

The three people lay on the table with their buttocks smashed, crying and saying, "Sir, we didn't expect to win the top three. We spent thirteen thousand taels of silver but suffered miserably."

Chao Tianhai rolled his eyes and led his troops to surround Guifang Tower.

At this time, Tu Pingyun was eating on the second floor. After hearing the news, he led his maid to the door and stood proudly, "My lord, may I ask why you surrounded me, Guifang House?"

"Are you the boss?" Chao Tianhai looked at Tu Pingyun from top to bottom and said sternly: "Arrest him."

Seeing the soldiers coming forward to take someone away, Tu Pingyun shouted: "Wait a minute!"

She came to Chao Tianhai and said, "Excuse me, sir, what crime did the little girl commit?"

"Selling scientific examination questions is a capital offense."

Tu Pingyun's face turned pale. This matter was so confidential, how could anyone know about it?

Looking at Tu Pingyun's shocked expression, Chao Tianhai knew the result. He shook his head, how could such a little girl dare to commit such a heinous crime?

Tu Pingyun was taken directly to the Ministry of Justice and confronted Ma Gaoge and the other three.

After this confrontation, Tu Pingyun woke up and said, "Sir, I don't know these three people!"

Although the candidates she recruited were all villains, she had personally passed the exams in terms of knowledge, so they were not bad at all.

She had no impression of these three people at all.

Chao Tianhai knocked on the wooden door and scolded in a cold voice: "You said you don't know these three people, but these three people all bought the test questions and answers from your Guifang Building. Even these three people can tell who they are. Which month, day and time did you buy it? How dare you quibble?"

"Sir, someone is slandering me."

Tu Pingyun didn't know these three people, so her panic calmed down, and she said calmly: "Sir, I am an ordinary woman who opened a restaurant and inn just to make money. Why is it necessary to buy and sell test questions, and where did she get them? Such a confidential scientific examination question? These three people are obviously biting randomly, please be careful."

"Miss Tu is being humble." Lu Ze walked over leisurely, "Miss Tu is the concubine of the second-grade Master Tu, and she has a close relationship with the sixth prince who is in charge of the imperial examination. She is really modest when she says that she is just an ordinary woman. ”

"Your Highness the Crown Prince." As soon as Chao Tianhai saw the court plague god Jia Creditor coming, he immediately came down to greet him.

Lu Ze smiled faintly, "Don't be polite, Mr. Chao. I was just wandering around. I heard that Mr. Chao was reviewing the suspects in the imperial examination fraud case, so I came over to have a look. Don't be cautious."

"Yes." At this time, the Yamen servant moved a chair and said respectfully to Tianhai: "Your Highness, please sit down."

Lu Ze sat down unceremoniously.

Tu Pingyun felt bad, "Your Highness, the Sixth Prince and I are just acquaintances. How could the Sixth Prince tell such a confidential imperial examination question to a harem woman? Furthermore, these three people only had oral confessions and no physical evidence, so they could not count. "

"It just so happens that I am here to deliver physical evidence to Mr. Chao."

Lu Ze snapped his fingers and said, "Bring it up."

A man came up respectfully carrying a tray.

Tu Pingyun was struck by lightning, "Li Jie?"

Li Jie knelt down and handed over the signed and signed roster, "Your Majesty, this roster was found in the backyard of the inn. It contains the names and seals of Miss Tu and all the students who purchased the imperial examination questions."

Tu Pingyun's eyes widened, "Li Jie, why did you betray me?"

"I don't know what Miss Tu is talking about. I'm just a charlatan. I can't see you cheating on the world and stealing your reputation."

Tu Pingyun suddenly looked at Lu Ze, "It's you, it's you who plotted against me!"

Lu Ze looked at her quietly, "I don't know what you are talking about."

At this time, the roster had been handed over. Sir Chao flipped it through his hands and smacked the gavel again angrily, "There are actually forty-two names. Everyone in this hall, you are simply unforgivable!"

"No, how could there be forty-two people?"

Tu Pingyun shouted, "I obviously only won over five people!"

This call is not self-inflicted.

Tu Pingyun said tremblingly, "No, that's not what I meant."

Lu Ze hid his lips and said, "It's too late."

"No!" Tu Pingyun became angry and glared at Lu Ze fiercely, "Your Highness, you have worked so hard to frame a weak woman like me, aren't you afraid of retribution?"

"My prince has no idea what you are talking about."

Lu Ze's sharp gaze fell on Chao Tianhai, "Chao Shangshu, why don't you let the prisoner sign the painting and take him to prison?"

"I understand."

Soon the master came over with a confession, and the two government officials on the left and right held Tu Pingjun down with one hand.

Tu Pingyun struggled desperately and even bit a yamen servant. The yamen servant was usually ruthless towards prisoners. Now he was angered and slapped Tu Pingyun on the face, knocking out one of her big teeth. Then he directly covered the blood mark with the spitted blood.

Lu Ze stood up, came to Tu Pingyun, knelt down, and said in Tu Pingyun's ear with the voice of only two people: "This time, I made hundreds of thousands, thank you very much."

Pooh!

Tu Pingyun spat out hatred towards Lu Ze, but unfortunately Lu Ze quickly escaped.

Lu Ze straightened his clothes, stood up and left.

Soon, Chao Tianhai compiled the imperial examination fraud case into a memorial and reported it to the emperor.

When the emperor saw it, he vomited blood again in the middle of the night.

This is the good son he spent all his efforts to cultivate.

For such a big case of imperial examination fraud, the emperor certainly didn't believe that a little Tu Pingyun could get through so many surveillances and get the examination questions, unless there was someone who cooperated inside and outside.

He knew the relationship between Tu Pingyun and Lao Liu.

He was the one who greeted Lao Liu and helped him in the Tu family.

In the end, this is how he repaid him?

The emperor vomited blood, and the imperial doctor came to check his pulse. Just like that, he summoned the sixth prince into the palace overnight and gave him a severe scolding.

The sixth prince kowtowed and knelt again.

After kneeling for a whole night, the emperor was convinced that he had nothing to do with this matter.

The emperor drank medicine and calmed down after resting for a night. However, what happened was strange, but there was no evidence, so it was difficult to say anything.

The emperor had to put his hands on the case to barely support his body. Recently, he felt that his body was getting worse day by day.

The emperor suppressed the smell of blood in his throat and asked the sixth prince to step back. Then he summoned the secret guards and asked them to keep an eye on the prince for twelve hours.

He wanted to see what the prince wanted to do by taking the imperial examination on himself!

In the meeting room of the Ministry of Etiquette, Lu Ze spoke calmly for half an hour. The central idea was summarized in three sentences.

Fraud in the imperial examinations has caused candidates to become disappointed with the court. We must severely punish these cheaters.

The Ministry of Rites was ordered to formulate new scientific examination questions as soon as possible and give them to him for review.

This re-examination must include an assessment of character and integrity.

The people in the Ministry of Rites were bewildered when they heard this.

The newly appointed Minister of Rites asked: "May I ask His Highness the Crown Prince, how to assess the candidates' moral integrity?"

Lu Ze took a sip of tea and said, "It's very simple. There is an additional test. After the literary test, the candidates will enter a closed room one by one before leaving and be personally scored by me and six adults. Each adult can give a score from one to ten. , the content of the assessment is that you can’t bend with force, you can’t be licentious with wealth, you can’t be moved by poverty, and the seven of us will review the character.”

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Lu Ze nodded, took out a stack of IOUs from his sleeve, and flipped through it casually, "Mr. Zuo, have any objections?"

The left minister of the Ministry of Rites silently calculated how much money he owed the prince. After calculating the thirty-six thousand taels of silver, he smiled and said, "His Royal Highness is wise and powerful."

Lu Ze smiled and pulled out an IOU from the Minister of Rites, one hundred thousand.

He had all the corrupt officials' homes confiscated by him, and they couldn't even sell the rest for 100,000 silver.

The Minister of Rites nodded and said: "Those who serve as officials are the parents of the common people. Their knowledge is second and their character is first. The prince's move is beneficial to the future of the country. There is no objection to his being demoted."

Lu Ze put away the IOU and said with a smile, "Since no one has any objection, it's settled."

After hearing the secret guard's reply, the emperor thought hard all night, his head hurt from thinking about it, and he didn't know what the meaning of this crazy prince's actions was.

But it doesn't hurt to give it a try in order to recruit high-character officials to the court.

In the prison cell of the Criminal Department, Tu Pingyun squatted on the cold ground, holding his knees with his hands and his eyes blank.

Tu Shangshu opened the cell door with a sad look on his face, "This is the lotus cake your mother made for you, eat some."

Tu Pingyun looked at Tu Shangshu sadly, "Dad, won't you save me?"

Tu Shangshu was silent. Selling test questions for the imperial examination was a capital crime.

It's lucky that the Emperor didn't implicate the Tu family.

"Pingyun, you are confused."

Tu Pingyun was extremely disappointed, "Dad, I am your biological daughter, and you didn't save me?"

Tu Shangshu was also very disappointed with Tu Pingyun. He didn't expect that this daughter he always loved would be so stupid that he couldn't see the situation clearly today.

He put down the food and said, "Your sentence was approved by the Emperor. No one can save you."

"Dad, you are the emperor's most trusted minister!" Tu Pingyun roared unjustly: "Isn't it useless for you to beg the emperor? You just don't want to offend the emperor for a little me! It's ridiculous that I tried so hard just to In order to save the Tu family, he was abandoned by the people closest to him. "

It was like this in the past life, and it will still be like this in this life.

Why is the world full of unfaithful people?

Tu Pingyun's words completely hurt Tu Shangshu. After so many years of love, his daughter didn't understand him at all.

He closed the cell door, "You can take care of yourself. All I can say is that your body will be buried properly."

"No need." Tu Pingyun said coldly: "Since my father refused to save me when I was alive, why should I act hypocritically after death?"

Tu Shangshu didn't say anything and left.

Tu Pingyun was the only one left in the empty VIP cell again.

Seven days later, the imperial examination was reopened. This time, Lu Ze asked General Chen Yong to personally supervise the examination room to ensure that no bird could fly in.

The three-day imperial examination ended quickly, but the soldiers surrounding the examination room did not withdraw.

The examiners from the Ministry of Rites began to let the candidates leave one by one from the side.

This character test took a quarter of an incense stick for each person and took two days before all the candidates were allowed to go home.

After the candidates left, no one in the examination room was still allowed to enter or leave. Under Lu Ze's supervision, they worked overtime to correct the test papers. In just two days, all the test papers were corrected and then announced on the third day.

The speed was amazing!

There were no problems in the top three palace examinations this time. The emperor asked three difficult questions, and the three of them answered them one by one very smoothly.

In the end, the emperor appointed Xiao Hongji as the top scholar, Guang Heyi as the second place, and Zhang Wenle as the third place.

The three of them entered the six ministries respectively, filling the vacancies of the six ministries, and started from the fourth-rank assistant minister, which was already a preferential treatment.

In addition, candidates from 4th to 20th place were also