Chapter 39 Special Examination Questions (Part 1)

After spending a day, I finally touched the entire examination room. Although I had worked hard, I gained a lot. Among the nearly 800 candidates, 300 were willing to spend money to buy my test papers, and about 200 were asked to lower the price because I had no money. Of course, I would like to refuse anyone. Anyway, I would earn as much as I can.

Among the remaining 300 candidates, they were not completely good. There were sixty or seventy of them, and they couldn't even take out ten taels of silver on them. They dared to beg me to give them a standard answer. I think I'm so bullying, I'm going to send me a beggar. Of course, I have recorded their exam numbers one by one, and no one can think of it. There were only more than two hundred and thirty candidates who rejected me with true righteousness. Alas. In the previous spring exams, I don't know how many tribute students with poor character were admitted to the state machine of the entire Great Wu Dynasty. In a year, I embezzled me how much silver I have.

Of course, no matter how much you sigh, you still have to earn money. Anyway, I am excited today, so I took this opportunity to secretly distribute the standard answer. I took the opportunity to collect a lot of money. My mother said that scholars are poor and scholars are poor. In fact, this is not the case. Most scholars have very rich families. Some poor families have difficulty supporting their families, so how can they send their children to study? In private schools, there are a lot of filial piety money for a year.

In addition, the local examination room is not ideal. Even if some poor children study, they may not be able to pass the imperial examination. Naturally, there are many shady transactions during this period.

This time, I made more than 210,000 taels of silver. It can be seen how the surplus of these tribute students' families is amazing. It can be seen that in this era, most of the people who can afford to study are rich families. Although 500 taels of silver is a considerable amount, it is still worth investing compared to Jinxiu's future. Fortunately, the layout of the examination room is quite clever. No candidate can observe another candidate from a perspective. This is greatly beneficial to me to engage in fraud activities.

I returned to the examiner's room with a tired look on my face, took out all the silver notes from my arms, and piled them on the examiner Xie Zhongyi's desk. My basket that packed the test papers helped me a lot. Otherwise, even if my clothes were filled, I wouldn't be able to hold them.

A great harvest. I laughed. The table of silver notes is enough to buy more than a dozen luxurious mansions in the capital.

Tao Qian, Zhang Mian, and Xie Zhongyi looked at me with surprise.

As they were questioned, I hurriedly put away my smile. I slapped the table with a heavy palm, which scared the three of them. I walked back and forth in front of the three of them, pointed to the pile of money on the table, and said tremblingly: "You three, let me see, let me see."

"What kind of world is this? The etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame of scholars have been lost, right?" I scolded and said, "Tao Qian, as the Minister of Rites, you are in charge of the world's tests. How could so many shameless guys get involved in the ranks of tribute students? You are dereliction of duty."

Tao Qian originally wanted to argue with me why I wanted to help those tribute students cheat. After hearing this, he immediately knelt down and said, "The old minister deserves to die."

I looked at him coldly, then looked at Xie Zhongyi and said lightly: "Sir Xie, you are a first-rank official in the court. You are the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and are the top scholar. You should have been the example of the scholars in the world. However, looking at you, you only know how to protect yourself all day long, but you don't want to be the one who stands out. So now the imperial examination is growing, and there are dragons and snakes in the spring exam."

"The old minister also knows that he is guilty, so I hope the emperor will give him the crime." Xie Zhongyi was also shocked by what I said, and hurriedly knelt down.

I looked at Zhang Mian again, snorted lightly, and said angrily: "Zhang Mian, do you know, how did you neglect your duties?"

"I am aware of the crime." Zhang Mian also knelt down and said.

"Hmph, Zhang Mian, as a censor, you are also a second-rank official of the court. You should have the position of extinguishing the ritual and impeaching the [***]. But look, what have you done over the years? How chaotic have you been in the local examinations at all levels? Why haven't you seen your censor's department report the situation? Humph, you censors now only know how to argue about trivial matters. Today you impeach a minister in the court coughs, and tomorrow you impeach a minister in dishevelled clothes when he went to court. You won't do anything serious?" I tried hard to find the fault of the censor's department.

"Look, I am just an ordinary invigilator. I just do it casually and get such a lot of money." I said with my fingers: "It's really shocking, it makes me feel heartbroken." But I thought to myself, it's so heartbroken. After I got the money, the unscrupulous people with weak character have also been solved. Unfortunately, this method can only be used once, and the tribute students who take the exam will be careful in the future.

The three ministers knelt down on the ground without saying a word, all of whom were ashamed. I said lightly: "This time, I will not punish you. Do your business well in the future. I don't want to become a fat man in one bite, but I hope that the atmosphere will change. You are all ministers I trust. From now on, I will do some good results for me to see.

"I will obey the order." After shouting together, the three of them got up, still with a look of shame, and did not dare to look at me.

When I saw that the big stick had been beaten, my face became kinder again. I said lightly: "I actually know that the three feet of ice is not cold. These disadvantages have been a long time ago. If you want to change it, it will never happen overnight. Now, the three beloved ministers will each receive 10,000 taels of money. I will give all the remaining money to the charity club of the Queen Mother to save the victims and accumulate some good deeds for those prodigal sons."

"Your Majesty, I must not take this money." The three of them changed their faces. They might be guessing, who knows if I am testing them.

"Haha, I am not testing you through this." I waved my hand lightly, "You three are all people I believe in. Pingyuli is considered honest as an official. Although life is not a hardship, it is also very tight. Each person has 10,000 taels, just treat it as the living allowance I have given you." As I said, I ordered 30,000 taels and each person gave them 10,000 taels.

When Tao Qian and others saw that I was tough, they had to bite the bullet and take it down and thanked them together. However, speaking of this, these three guys are indeed honest officials. Liu Zhenming, that boy can collect nearly 500,000 taels of money from all over the place a year, which can be regarded as a national treasure.

I naturally asked Tao Qian to help me collect the remaining money. Ming Yue went to the money shop to exchange it into a large amount of silver notes and then returned it to me. I said it was donating it to the empress dowager for charity, but it was already a great thing to really donate 10,000 taels. If I really wanted to donate, I would rather pay the donation from my own money in the court. I would not do something like this that even if I donate money, but no one knows. As the saying goes, you have to hide it. But if you do good things, even if you do so, you have to promote it so that everyone in the world will know that I have been nice to you again today.

Of course, this exam will take three days and three nights. Seeing that it was boring to stay here, I returned to the palace. On the way back in the sedan chair, my chest swayed. The dead fox finally woke up, tremblingly drilled out his little head, first observed around and determined his location. However, he started to scream at me again, rubbing his neck and face desperately.

I was so angry that I picked up his neck skin and cursed: "When I asked you to do something, I was fucking sleeping, which made me tired all over myself. Now that I was done, I woke up again? Are you a fox or a pig? I was so angry that I would break you down eight pieces, roast it, fried it, steam it, and stir-fry it."

Xiaoxiao stammered, not daring to speak anymore, her eyes looked at me pitifully, and her two little claws kept making Buddhist outfits.

I hate chills and don’t know why. Every time I see its pitiful appearance, I can’t scold it or take action.

When I returned to Yangzhai, because it was already very late, all the girls returned to their residences. Because I was so excited to make money today, I was a little tired now. So I didn't go anywhere, so I slept alone for one night.

There is nothing to say in the court these days. I just heard from the Ministry of Rites that it seemed that the princess of Goryeo had been sent here and was now transporting on the road.

I secretly met Xiao Qi once and asked him to do the matter. Since he had already arranged it last time, this trip was only waiting for action. Xiao Qi did things, which naturally made me feel relieved.

Time passed quickly, and a while later. The first list of drafting in the spring exam has been drafted. It is now being presented to me.

I hurriedly read the list, but found that the guy named Liu Buyong was temporarily eliminated because he used it as my wholesale standard answer, and he also handed the paper in a carefree manner two days in advance. So, the first person who was cut off was this fat boy.

I couldn't help but feel funny. It was also very interesting to keep this treasure that knows how to eat, drink and have fun. So I stroked my pen and re-printed Liu Buyong into the middle of the list of passing.

Immediately, I found Tao Ziying's name again. The name was very high, ranking third in the second grade. Of course, this is not ruled out that the three ministers in the chief examiner put them in the second grade in order to avoid suspicion.

I asked the eunuch to help me find Tao Yingying's test paper and started to read it carefully. I wanted to see what answers she would give to the test paper I gave?
Chapter completed!