On the possibility of Wang Ye falling in love with a school tyrant

Fu Donglou's guess was right, Li Tan was indeed not instigated to poison him, the mastermind was Feng Yang's elder brother Li Shi.

Even if there is only half of the country, Li Tan will have a lot of affairs after the restoration of the country. If he is alone, he will not be able to handle it. Therefore, Li Tan has let go of part of the power in his hands, but not all the Li family members and their cronies have become The real power faction, such as Li Tan's nephew Li Shi, did not get a share of the pie.Li Shi and Li Tan are very close blood but are marginalized. Li Shi is very frustrated.

Although he has no real power, Li Shi knows the whereabouts of his younger brother.The army of Chu was approaching, Li Shi wanted to make meritorious deeds to gain power, and his younger brother was at the side of the queen of the enemy country, so Li Shi naturally thought of the terrible idea of ​​assassination.Speaking of which, Li Shi also had some skills, he found out the contact information of the last nail buried in the Chu Palace, and then he planned to kill Fu Donglou with poison.

When Li Tan knew that Fu Donglou was not only not dead but had folded the secret work into it, he wanted to kill Li Shi.If Feng Yang was available, Li Tan would have started early when he was still Mu Yan, how could he wait until today.Seeing his elder brother Li Yu with gray temples kneeling at his feet crying and pleading for his son, Li Tan rubbed his temples and had no choice but to let his brother take away his useless nephew.It's okay not to kill Li Shi, but Li Tan doesn't want to see this idiot again in his life.

The news of Fu Donglou's attempted poisoning reached Bo Junhe, but Bo Junhe's care was in chaos. Even though he knew that Fu Donglou was safe and sound, he still had lingering fears.But from another point of view, this disaster can also bring some benefits. When the soldiers of the three armies heard that Her Majesty the Queen was poisoned by Li Tan and nearly died, the whole army was furious and their fighting spirit was high.First they ordered the Wang family to poison the emperor, and now they poisoned the empress. The Li family is deceiving people too much!

With such an army that is eager to fight, it is difficult to defeat the battle.As soon as the Jiangning army crossed the Yangtze River, they captured the strategically important Sizhou with great momentum, and they went straight to Luoyang to destroy Li Tang.

Although the Li family occupied Beiyan's territory, their foothold was not stable. The dormant Li family and the Li family's cronies could not find room to perform before. Geshucheng of the state army is no exception, or Geshucheng is more eager for military exploits than them, because he wants to avenge the shame of his grandfather, Geshuhan who surrendered to Anlu Mountain.

Because of this, Geshucheng fully practiced the famous saying that "the general will not accept the order of the emperor outside the country". Li Tan issued five imperial edicts asking him to garrison Luoyang, but he ignored them, and led the Jizhou army to go straight to Bai Junhe.

Bo Junhe learned the art of war since he was a child, so how can he not know what is called "soldiers and tactics", even if all the subordinates asked for a battle, he did not carelessly rush forward.Before crossing the river, he carefully figured out Ge Shucheng's mentality, and he expected that Ge Shuhan would take the initiative to come to him, so after the raid on Sizhou was successful, Bo Junhe directly ordered the whole army to enter the city to rest and wait for Ji to rest. The state army came to the door.Ge Shucheng really lived up to his expectations.

In this battle, Fu Donglou's improved god arm crossbow showed its might.The Jizhou army was mainly cavalry and was not good at long-term siege warfare. When the Geshucheng army came to the moat, they hadn't shouted yet, and the overwhelming rain of arrows poured down, making the Jizhou army cry for their father and mother.Originally, this kind of stepping crossbow had very high requirements on the user's arm strength, but Fu Donglou's improved god arm crossbow added bearings and other designs, which required less strength, not to mention shooting farther. It is an artifact.

It's not that the Jizhou army has never seen arrow rain, but they have never experienced such a long-distance, high-strength, high-penetrating arrow rain.People's fear often comes from the unknown. Without knowing what weapons the opponent is using, the panicked Jizhou army turned their horses and fled.

It is true that the Jizhou Army was composed of a mixture of Han and Hu people. The Han people among them were unwilling to kill each other. Although the Hu people hated Da Chu, they might not be willing to sacrifice their lives for the Li family. Can't stop it.Because they did not retreat in an orderly manner, many sergeants' horses collided with each other. Before Bo Junhe could beat them, the Jizhou army suffered heavy casualties.By the time Bo Junhe sent his cavalry to chase after him, the Jizhou Army had already been routed thousands of miles away. It was more like chasing sheep than chasing the enemy... Bo Junhe rode out with a new Mo Dao in his hand, and in one round, he was in a state of embarrassment. Ge Shucheng was killed by the horse.The Jiangning Army suffered almost zero losses in battle, and it couldn't be more beautiful to win.

Although the whole army rejoiced at the victory, Bo Junhe felt bored—what is there to celebrate after winning against such a piggy opponent...

After standing firm in Sizhou, the east gate of Luoyang was held by Da Chu. The victory came so quickly, when the news reached Chengdu, Fu Donglou thought he was dreaming.

Whether it's Bo Junhe's great victory or Bai Yi's stalemate with Linghu Chun on the western front, it is not the most important thing in Fu Donglou's eyes at this time. Compared with Chunwei, the war is a little far away from Fu Donglou. A little bit.

Selecting scholars for the country is an important way to select officials, especially for students from poor families, it can be said to be the only relatively fair way to advance. It is not an exaggeration to say that Chunwei has influenced the country.

The chief examiner of Chunwei will be respected as a teacher by this year's students. Being the chief examiner of Chunwei is an important means for courtiers to expand their power and expand their network of contacts. Therefore, every time the position of the three chief examiners of Chunwei is very hot, it is necessary to select a truly fair one. The examiner had to maintain the balance of the court, which was really difficult for Fu Donglou who was new to the court.Not to mention Fu Donglou, even Gu Xian would have a headache for two days even thinking about this problem.

In the end, it was Fu Zekai who came up with an idea. In addition to Mr. Zhao, the Minister of Rites, Yuan Yi, the head of the Yuan family and Mr. Lu, a scholar of Ziguang Pavilion, also became the main examiners of Chunwei.In this way, it not only takes care of the aristocratic family, but also strengthens the Qingliu academic school and the Ministry of Rites, which can be said to be comprehensive.Fu Zekai's ability to control the court can be seen from this.

In addition to the selection of examiners, there is another problem that cannot be ignored-scientific examination fraud.

Just like modern students cheating in exams, there are always big or small cheating cases in the imperial examination every year.It would be easy to deal with if the examinee cheated by cheating on himself, but if there was such a thing as courtiers buying and selling test questions and going through the back door to seek a middle school, then there would be a big commotion.Not to mention that the prestige of the imperial court among the scholars will be greatly affected, and a group of heads will fall.

Whether it is Gu Xian, who has experienced many big competitions, or Fu Donglou, who has read history books, they all realized the importance of preventing fraud. Those who spread gossip by fake test questions are also monitoring whether officials are involved in fraud.

But even if it was a thousand days to defend against the thief, the thief finally succeeded.After the first general examination on the ninth day of February, when the Ministry of Rites checked the examination papers, they found many identical papers. When Fu Donglou got the news, he rushed to the Ministry of Rites without having dinner. table.

Dachu’s imperial examination mainly examines policy theory, or comments on current affairs.Although the topic is drawn from the Four Books and Five Classics, it is not as rigid as the stereotyped essay.Fu Donglou thought that the three-yearly Chunwei itself was to lead the public opinion, emancipate the mind and inspire scholars to think, so he made an innovation. The first test question in the three exams was announced to the world before the exam. I chose the "Analects of Confucius Bayi" in "The barbarians have kings, not as good as the Xias who don't have one."

This sentence in "The Analects of Confucius" has been controversial throughout the ages, and it just fits the situation of the confrontation between the Han and the barbarians in today's world. Some extensions can also trigger people's thinking about orthodoxy, which can be said to be a very open question.Fu Donglou just wanted to see what the scholars thought, especially what he, a queen with barbarian blood, thought.But who would have expected that this group of people went to the gunman to buy the answers and bought them all in one place, and there were so many similar papers!

"This is my Dachu's student?! It's so stupid! You can't cheat in the exam, but you can write it in the same way. You still want to be an official with this brain?!"

Master Zhao, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Your Majesty, your point is wrong... Do you think you are angry because their cheating methods are too poor, not because they cheated in exams?"

Generally speaking, those similar volumes are ten policies, each of which is written according to the style of Qin and Han advocated by Fu Donglou, and there is no parallel style like four or six sentences at all.It is just right to use it occasionally in one or two articles, which does not appear to be ostentatious and improves the readability of the article.In addition, the point of view of the article is clear, Zan Yi Di Bei Hua Xia, it can be said that it was tailor-made to cater to Fu Donglou's Hu people's blood.It's no wonder that some people find the shooter and use it without changing it. It's really that the ten samples are written so well.

"Your Majesty, as Minister of the Ministry of Rites, I have already experienced Chunwei three times, and I know a little about the methods of these cheating exams. I am the chief examiner of the imperial examinations. What are the current affairs of Chunyu each time are well-known to the students. It’s not that no one asks a ghostwriter to make a few policy theories in advance to prepare for the exam, but this method is extremely difficult to monitor, and secondly, the ghostwriter will not sell the same policy theory to two customers.” Speaking of this , Minister of the Ministry of Rites paused for a moment, bowed and said, "So I think that there will be so many similar papers this time, someone must have done it deliberately, in order to disrupt this imperial examination and my court program."

Mr. Zhao's words woke up Fu Donglou.Bai Junhe and Bai Yi are still fighting on the front line. Although the rebellion of scholars will not succeed in ten years, if the imperial examinations in the country of Great Chu attract scholars to rebel, it will definitely affect the situation on the front line.

The imperial examination is not a civil servant selection examination in a simple sense. It is a symbol of the fairness of the feudal dynasty and the hope of people living at the bottom to break through the class restrictions. Going to study is to change your family.

Similarly, many people went to the battlefield to get ahead, but what they paid was not ten years of hard study, but their lives as a bet.

If there is a fraud case in the imperial court, the news will inevitably make the soldiers rushing to the front feel the panic that their merits will be taken away by the noble children. The two seemingly unrelated things are actually connected. , In the final analysis, it is unfair, and it cuts off the way for the lower class to climb up.

How many dignitaries are there in the world, after all, are there many ordinary people? If someone adds fuel to the flames and intentionally creates troubles to attack the credibility of the Great Chu court, the Great Chu civil strife is imminent.

Fu Donglou sat down and calmed down for a while, then asked Zhao Shangshu, "How many people know about this now?"

"Only the minister and the few examiners who found the problem when checking the test papers know. This is a big matter, and the minister still keeps them all in the palace. Whether to seal them up or hand them over to the judge for trial is up to His Majesty to decide."

"In this way, let's not expose this matter for now. There are two more exams, and we will take the exam as usual, and all those who know the knowledge will be given a password. For the candidates with the same exam, I will notify the three courts to strictly monitor the fraud case. They will also be investigating in secret. If someone really set up this case, if we don’t expose it, someone else will jump out. They won’t let us cover it up silently. Let’s stop silently and see what the enemy’s plans are. Make another plan."

"The minister leads the order."

After the Minister of Rites retired, Fu Donglou hurried back to Kunyuan Hall to change into casual clothes, and quietly left the palace with only Xingguang Leiting to Ruiwang's Mansion.Fu Donglou had no idea about such a big matter, so he had to talk to Gu Xian.

Probably Li Tan's moth again... Thinking of this, Fu Donglou couldn't help but get a headache...