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Chapter 173 Palace Examination
Cheng Chuzhi and Di Dingtian were overjoyed after hearing Li Zhen's words, and then left happily.
Li Zhen frowned, always feeling that something was wrong. Although Di Dingtian was considered mature and trustworthy, he was not such a wise person.
But when he declined, he thought of a way to gain his favor and impress the emperor on him. It really killed two birds with one stone. This method didn't look like something someone like him could come up with.
However, Li Zhen did not have time to think about this. The Ming Dynasty Classical Examination was about to begin, and scholars recommended from all over the country had gathered in Chang'an. She must uphold justice and not be biased or be caught by Changsun Wuji.
As for this calligraphy and painting, I believe that Li Shimin, who cherishes words as much as his life, is still willing to accept them. Offering this calligraphy to him can also improve Li Shimin's favorability towards him.
As expected, after Li Zhen presented this calligraphy to Li Shimin, Li Shimin was overjoyed and overjoyed. His favorable impression of Li Zhen immediately increased. At the same time, he also remembered the names of Taiyuan's Di family and Di Dingtian.
After meeting Cheng Chuzhi and Di Dingtian, Li Zhen had someone write a couplet and post it at the door.
"The first couplet is: Don't open your mouth when it comes to emergency situations. The second couplet is: People's hearts are fair and the world is fair. You can see for yourself. The horizontal line is: Don't open your mouth."
Sure enough, after this couplet was posted, there were very few people seeking official positions with Li Zhen. Even if there were, Li Zhen would avoid them all.
It¡¯s the eighth day of April in the 19th year of Zhenguan, and it¡¯s the Ming Jing examination.
The Ming Dynasty Classical Examination mainly tests Confucian classics. The examination consists of writing essays first, and then oral examinations. The classics ask ten questions about major principles and answer three questions about current affairs. The Jinshi subject mainly examines poetry and political theory. Without a certain degree of talent, it is useless to rely on rote memorization, so it is more difficult.
There was no anonymous system in the imperial examination papers of the Tang Dynasty. Admission was not entirely based on the scores on the paper. The candidate's usual reputation, family's political status and various recommendations all played a role. Because of this, a large amount of corruption occurred, and Mingjingju was basically monopolized by wealthy families.
The Ming Jing Ju in this field was no exception. Li Zhen walked in the examination room and frowned when she saw the scholars in the huts on both sides writing their answer sheets.
He found that a fat examinee in the distance was acting surreptitiously and kept looking at his arms.
Li Zhen knew at a glance that there was something wrong with this fat candidate.
¡°I was a master in the examination room in my last life, and I have gone through countless examinations. How can these little tricks frustrate me?
Li Zhen came to the fat examinee and asked the fat examinee to push up his sleeves. Sure enough, he saw an answer in the sleeves of the fat examinee. Looking at the answer again, it was exactly the same as the question.
"I missed the question!"
Li Zhen was shocked and thought that this was serious. The questions for this exam were sealed with fire paint by herself and Yang Shidao, but they still leaked out. If there was no problem with her, then there must be something wrong with Yang Shidao. .
Unexpectedly, the mature and prudent Yang Shidao is also a master of this kind of fraud.
More importantly, this Yang Shidao is Changsun Wuji¡¯s right-hand assistant. If this examination fraud case is used to defeat Yang Shidao, Changsun Wuji will lose a powerful assistant.
And it can also let everyone see that it will be bad luck to follow Changsun Wuji.
Li Zhen is about to go to war immediately and conduct a thorough investigation in the entire examination room.
At this time, Yang Shidao said: "Your Highness, it's just a few scholars who have committed fraud. Let's just kick them out."
Li Zhen snorted coldly: "Even the test questions have been leaked. Is this a small matter? Investigate! We must get to the bottom of it!"
The entire exam was immediately searched. As a result, more than 300 candidates were found to have problems in one day, and each of them had leaked questions.
According to these candidates, they spent a lot of money to buy these questions.
Li Zhen immediately reported the matter to Li Shimin. Li Shimin was also very angry and ordered Fang Xuanling to investigate the case personally.
Fang Xuanling did not dare to neglect. Within three days, the source of selling questions to candidates was discovered, and it was Yang Shidao.
It turns out that in order to make money, Yang Shidao took the initiative to contact these candidates, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits, and sold more than 300 exam questions.
In this way, the biggest case of fraud in the examination room during the Zhenguan period was solved.
After Li Shimin learned about the case, he was so angry that he cursed Yang Shidao. He did not kill him because of his old feelings, but only demoted him to civilian positions. All officials involved in the examination fraud case were convicted.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??The whole of Chang'an was in awe.
Yang Shidao returned to his hometown. When he left, he only took two servants with him, riding a donkey. There was almost no one to see him off.
Recalling that a few days ago, he was still the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the deputy chief examiner of the Ming Jingju, but today he ended up in this situation, Yang Shidao had mixed feelings and sighed with sadness.
Taking advantage of the examination fraud case, Li Zhen killed Yang Shidao, and Yang Shidao was Changsun Wuji's minion. For a while, the whole of Chang'an was in awe of Li Zhen.
In the past, I had always been fawning over Changsun Wuji, and there were far fewer people who deliberately made friends with him. There used to be a lot of traffic outside Changsun's house, but now there are only a few people around.
This made Changsun Wuji extremely uncomfortable.
After so many years of political struggles and official ups and downs, Changsun Wuji has always had the advantage, but this is the first time that he has been suppressed so severely by others.
However, Changsun Wuji was cunning and patient. He knew that now that Li Zhen was in the limelight, he could only endure it and wait for the opportunity.
Once he gets the chance, he will definitely hit the fatal blow and make Li Zhen never stand up again!
After the examination fraud case, Li Shimin once again sent Li Zhen to re-examine the candidates.
This time, after the previous fraud case, the examination was extremely strict and fair. In the end, Li Zhen selected 90 people to participate in the oral examination.
The ninety people who have been selected are all of some level, and they are all the best ones selected by Li Zhen personally through the examination papers.
What surprised Li Zhen was that Di Dingtian, the man from Taiyuan Di who looked at him last time, was among them.
Li Zhen took out Di Dingtian's paper and looked at it again. It was indeed accurate. Although his writing style and handwriting were average, Di Dingtian was very knowledgeable about the questions asked by Li Zhen and even answered them better than other candidates. Judging only from the test papers, Di Dingtian was ranked second, and no one dared to claim the first place.
Li Zhen was puzzled. He had clearly seen Di Dingtian before. How could he have such a good talent? Could it be that he was mistaken?
?????????????????????? The palace examination is coming soon, and you will know the answer by looking at his performance then.
With everyone¡¯s attention, the day of the imperial examination finally arrived.
On April 29th of the 19th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin held a palace examination in the Ganlu Hall to test the Jinshi selected by the Ming Dynasty to select the top three, number one scholar, Jinshi, and Tanhua. Early in the morning, ninety scholars had arrived at the Ganlu Hall. Outside(remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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