Condescending and Condescending

The most recent imperial examination fraud case was in the first year of Yuanping, when the new emperor had just ascended the throne. According to the usual practice, the imperial court added an Enke.

This is Xindi's first imperial examination after he ascended the throne. If he can pass the imperial examination, he will be the first batch of students of Xindi. For his first batch of students, Xindi must have a lot of affection Same, so will definitely reuse them in the future.

Because it is conceivable that the scholars attached great importance to Enke this time.

But not everyone has that strength and confidence, and in order to become the first batch of disciples of the emperor, the only way they can think of is to bribe the examiners.

At that time, Jiangnan was the wealthiest area in Dagan, and the most important thing for candidates there was money.

It just so happened that the examiners sent by the imperial court to preside over the Jiangnan rural examination were all courageous and full of money.

As soon as the Guibang was revealed, the top [-] were all the sons of wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and some of them were even low-quality. Suddenly, there was an uproar among the scholars in the south of the Yangtze River. Thousands of scholars carried the statue of the God of Wealth to the Gongyuan to sit quietly. The matter immediately became a big mess.

When the news reached the capital, the new emperor was furious, and immediately sent imperial envoys to the south of the Yangtze River to thoroughly investigate the matter.

In the end, all the examiners in the sixteen chambers of Jiangnan Wei were sentenced to death, and all their family members were exiled to the army.

All the cheating examinees who had obtained the honor of Juren were confiscated of their property, assassinated outside the Great Wall, and thousands of accomplices implicated were all given heavier sentences.

Because of this, in the next ten years, fraud in the examination room has almost disappeared.

It is conceivable that once this matter is exposed, what will be waiting for them.

Xie Wenlun never imagined that the person who would eventually become the biggest obstacle on his way to becoming an official and even kill him would not be Liu Langzhong and Zheng Rong whom he feared the most, but Zhao Wang whom he regarded as the life-saving straw.

But after thinking about it, I know that Zhao Wang must have made complete preparations in advance, so he dared to do this.

In other words, it is still possible to conceal the past.

But Xie Wenlun didn't dare to gamble on that eventuality, so he directly interrupted the exam and ran out, trying to persuade King Zhao to surrender himself to Emperor Yuanping.

Only in this way can they have a chance.

But he never thought that Zhao Wang not only rejected his suggestion, but actually, actually molested him.

Thinking of this, Xie Wenlun's face turned blue and red.

If he hadn't been concerned about King Zhao's identity, he could have scratched him to death.

So he could only grit his teeth and say, "Your Highness, please respect yourself."

Dialect Qin who finally sorted out the memory of his predecessor: "..."

This is the Dagan Dynasty, and it is now the 16th year of Yuanping, and the reigning emperor is the second emperor of Dagan, Emperor Yuanping.

Although his predecessor, Qin Yanqin, is currently the only prince in Daqian, he is not the son of Emperor Yuanping, but the posthumous son of Prince Renduan and Princess Renxiao, the elder brothers of Emperor Yuanping.

Just based on their titles, it is known that if Prince Renduan had not passed away, Emperor Yuanping would definitely not be able to sit on the throne.

And this started 60 years ago, that is, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

At that time, Meng Yuan had already wiped out Xiliao, Xixia, Jin, Dali... and then moved southward.

Ten years later, that is, in the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Meng Yuan wiped out the last army of the Southern Song Dynasty. Lu Xiufu jumped from the cliff mountain with the eight-year-old young emperor Zhao Bing on his back, and the Southern Song Dynasty perished.

After the Mongolian Yuan ruled the Central Plains, they did not want to rest and recuperate, but invaded other countries on a large scale. In order to raise military expenses and money to support the royal family, the Mongolian Yuan court intensified the oppression of the Han people, searched for the people's fat and anointment, and coupled with the tyranny of officials, the people could not bear the heavy corvee and Exploitation led to uprisings.

So much so that more than 26 uprisings broke out in just the 400th year of Zhiyuan.

In modern history, these uprisings were all suppressed by the Mongol and Yuan courts.

But in this world, history has turned a corner here.

The protagonists who caused this change were the founding emperor Qian Taizu and his eldest son, Prince Renduan.

At that time, Taizu Qian was just an ordinary and honest fisherman in Tingzhou, Fujian, because a Yuan soldier stationed there fell in love with Prince Renduan's child bride-in-law, Princess Renxiao, and even planned to rob people in the street. From, in the midst of pushing and shoving, he accidentally killed that Yuanren soldier.

In order to avoid Yuan people's revenge, Qian Taizu was forced to flee into the deep mountains and old forests with his family overnight.

At that time, Tingzhou had a lot of dense forests, so many farmers who lost their land in other places moved here by all means, opened up wasteland and cultivated land, trying to escape the exploitation of the government.

Unfortunately, not long after Qian Taizu took his family into the dense forest, the Fujian provincial government received a task from the imperial court to build [-] warships for the Eastern Expedition, and they were ordered to complete them within one year. .

At that time, Fujian was still undertaking the task of providing wood and stone for the imperial mausoleum under construction, so even if the number of draws was increased to four draws and three draws, it might not be able to gather so many labors.

So Fujian officials put their ideas on ordinary people like Qian Taizu who hid in the deep mountains and old forests.

So it didn't take long for the provincial government to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, trying to capture all these ordinary people back to do labor.

Seeing that the house that had been rebuilt after so much painstaking efforts was burned down by the officers and soldiers, Taizu Qian couldn't bear it, so he brought the arrested people together to rebel that night.

Because the people in Fujian were already living in dire straits, after he launched the uprising, the uprising army quickly grew to tens of thousands.

Under his influence, people with lofty ideals in other provinces revolted one after another and echoed each other.

By the time the court reacted, the rebels in the southeastern provinces had already become popular.

The imperial court then began to gather a large number of troops to besiege the southeast. When other rebels were annihilated or dispersed, Taizu Qian adopted the suggestion of Prince Renduan who was only 14 years old, and adopted the method of mobile combat, day and night. The Yuan army was exhausted, and it continued to absorb remnants of other insurgents to expand its strength.

As the saying goes, father and son are of the same heart, and their profits cut through gold. With their unremitting efforts, the scale of the rebel army became larger and larger, and finally drove Meng Yuan out of the Central Plains 20 years later, and established the Qian Dynasty.

But the Canyuan court was not reconciled. Even if they retreated to Mobei, they still stared at the land of the Central Plains.

Ten years later, Emperor Canyuan passed away and a new emperor ascended the throne.

This new emperor doesn't seem to have as much ambition as his father's generation, and only wants to be his own remote emperor honestly.

So he directly sent a letter to Taizu Qian, expressing his willingness to become brothers with Qian Dynasty and coexist peacefully in the future, and invited Taizu Qian and Prince Renduan to go to the junction of Dagan and Canyuan to meet in Rongcheng.

At that time, the land of the Central Plains, because of successive years of war, the people were already in dire straits.

Although after ten years of recuperation, people's livelihood is far from recovery.

Therefore, the imperial court at that time did not want to fight with Can Yuan again.

Therefore, the imperial court finally chose to agree to the invitation of the new Emperor Canyuan.

But no one can guarantee that this is not Can Yuan's conspiracy, so just in case, in the end, Prince Renduan resisted all opinions and participated in the alliance on behalf of Taizu Qian.

But they never thought that their fears would come true.

Can Yuan's real purpose is not to negotiate peace with Dagan, but to get rid of Prince Renduan.

Because they had already guessed that the last person to join the alliance would be Prince Renduan, because Prince Renduan had always been benevolent and filial, so it was impossible for him to agree to allow Taizu Qian to take part in the alliance at the risk of his own life.

In their view, as long as Prince Renduan is removed, there is nothing to worry about, because after so many years, the founding heroes of the Daqian are dead and old, and even the great ancestor Qian is already dead. One foot in the grave.

So they united all the ministries of the grassland, colluded with Korea, Japan and other small countries, gathered more than [-] soldiers and horses, and besieged Rongcheng together as soon as Prince Renduan arrived.

Emperor Yuanping, who was still the fifth prince at that time, was ordered to lead troops to rescue Prince Renduan, but he was also in danger because he was betrayed by a traitor.

In the end, it was Prince Renduan who took advantage of his unpreparedness and knocked him out, and then led someone alone to distract the pursuers, thus saving him.

However, in order not to become a prisoner of Can Yuan, Prince Renduan committed suicide by jumping off a cliff after his troops were exhausted.

When the news spread to the capital, the ruling and opposition parties were shaken.

Princess Renxiao, who was seven months pregnant at the time, heard about this incident, and she was distraught and gave birth prematurely.

In addition, she was already very old, so she died just after the child was born.

Overnight, all his sons and daughters-in-law disappeared, and Emperor Qian went crazy. Regardless of his 70-year-old age, he personally led troops across the Gobi to crusade against Can Yuan, and completely defeated the Yuan army in the following year, capturing more than [-] people. Most of the Canyuan royal family, including the new Emperor Canyuan, were captured. Only the younger brother of the New Emperor Canyuan fled to the grasslands further north with a small number of people.

After killing the captive Canyuan royal family and the 5 yuan soldiers, Qian Taizu also calmed down completely.

Although he didn't want anyone to replace Prince Renduan, for the sake of the country and the people of the world, he had to appoint another prince.

However, none of his remaining sons could compare to Prince Renduan, so in the end he could only choose the taller one among the short ones, and appointed the fifth prince, who is now Emperor Yuanping, as the prince.

It is precisely because Emperor Yuanping is far inferior to Prince Renduan, so the veteran officials in the court at that time, especially the heroes who were single-handedly promoted by Prince Renduan, did not think highly of Emperor Yuanping.

But fortunately, Taizu Qian was under pressure, so two years later, Taizu Qian passed away, and Emperor Yuanping ascended the throne smoothly.

The first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to award the family members of Prince Renduan wantonly. Among them, Qin Yanqin, who was the posthumous son of Prince Renduan and Princess Renxiao, was directly named King Zhao.

Because there is a clear stipulation in the Dagan Law that princes and grandchildren can only be knighted after they have established credit.

Moreover, Zhao Zeng was one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, so all dynasties have tacitly agreed that if the emperor uses the title of the Seven Heroes as the title of a certain prince, it means that he prefers this prince as his heir.

The most important thing is that there was a rumor in the palace that Emperor Yuan Ping had said on the day of Prince Renduan's death that he would hand over the throne to Qin Yanqin a hundred years later.

Moreover, Emperor Yuanping's kindness to Qin Yanqin covered almost all aspects. After he ascended the throne, he directly took Qin Yanqin into his side and raised him.

Under his doting, Qin Yanqin was a tyrant in Beijing since he was a child. He was proficient in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. Before he was ten years old, he dared to beat the prince to accompany him. Everything can be done...

——And Emperor Yuan Ping really helped him suppress this matter abruptly, but just dismissed his official position.

In contrast, the five princes of Emperor Yuanping seemed to be picked up.

It's okay for them to be dominated by Qin Yanqin since they were young. The eldest prince is 40 years old this year, and he is still a prince. The word Junwang, Wang Gong, Wang Hou, Wang Bo.

Therefore, as the eldest son of the emperor, the eldest prince would greet Qin Yanqin, his cousin who was already a collateral line, on weekdays.

Moreover, as soon as Qin Yanqin entered the court, he could be in charge of the official department at the head of the six departments. They are still squatting in some insignificant positions in the six departments to this day.

It is conceivable how jealous these princes are towards Qin Yanqin.

Under such circumstances, the reason why Qin Yanqin wanted to recruit disciples, and even did such things as cheating in the examination room, was precisely because two months ago, several old generals who came back from lurking outside the pass approached him.

And they are not the old department of Prince Renduan back then.

They bluntly said that Emperor Yuanping didn't really love him.

They said that if Emperor Yuanping really wanted to pass on the throne to him, how could he blindly indulge his mistakes, but never teach him the real way of governing the country.

After all, common people know that drowning is like killing a child.

So they felt that the reason why Emperor Yuanping did this was to appease the old officials left behind by Prince Renduan, and secondly to tarnish his reputation and make those old officials completely disappointed in him, so that they would not want to support him in the future to take his place.

Otherwise, when Qin Yanqin repeatedly expressed his desire to go to the army for training, why didn't Emperor Yuanping agree?

Obviously the army is the best place to train people, maybe Qin Yanqin will change after going to the army for a while?

That's because Emperor Yuanping was worried that after Qin Yanqin entered the army, he would contact Prince Renduan's old department in the army, which would threaten his status...

Qin Yanqin was skeptical, because he felt that Emperor Yuanping's kindness to him could not be faked, but what those old generals said was also very reasonable. After all, he had only heard of killing each other in order to fight for property, but he had never heard of it. They will give in to each other in the future, let alone they are fighting for the throne now.

But Qin Yanqin still accepted the advice of those old generals, that is to establish his own power as soon as possible.

That's why there was this imperial examination fraud accident.

At this time, Xie Wenlun finally calmed down. The most important thing now is not about King Zhao molesting him, but about cheating in the imperial examination.

He suppressed his anger: "Your Highness, cheating in the imperial examination is a felony, not to mention that all the princes now regard you as a thorn in their side, so your every move is probably under their supervision, maybe even this cheating in the imperial examination is a serious crime. They also deliberately designed to frame you—”

Speaking of this, Xie Wenlun's face changed again, because the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he might have guessed something.

So he quickly said: "Your Highness, it's still too late for you to confess this matter to the emperor. After all, the emperor loves you so much. As long as you confess your guilt, he will definitely punish you lightly."

Fang Yanqin also came back to his senses, and before he could speak, there was a commotion outside the house.

"What do you want to do?"

"This is Prince Zhao's Mansion—"

"Elder, eldest prince?"

Fang Yanqin looked up and saw that the eldest prince was rushing in with a team of soldiers.

Seeing Fang Yanqin, he raised his chin and said proudly: "Qin Yanqin, your disciples exposed you in the examination room for stealing and revealing the exam questions in public, with the intention of cheating. The emperor ordered me to arrest you and stand trial. "

boom!

Hearing this, Xie Wenlun's face turned pale instantly.