If it is revenge, then the list of suspects can be greatly reduced.
All the families involved in the fraud paid a heavy price, and all seven families from five surnames were involved.
But Su Wen knew that it was impossible for these big and powerful families to direct their revenge against the imperial court.
After all, it was these aristocratic families that controlled the imperial court back then, and they would engage in unscrupulous fraud in scientific examinations, which ultimately aroused the academy's resistance and forced Emperor Xiaomin to suppress the aristocratic families.
The real enemies of the aristocratic families are the academies of the Liang Dynasty and the hundreds of schools of thought. However, all the aristocratic families know that once they unite, they can easily overthrow the royal family and replace the emperor.
But……
The aristocratic families simply did not dare to hope to deal with the academies, even the academies of the lowest schools among hundreds of schools did not dare to get involved.
No matter how powerful the family is, it is still a worldly force, but the academy... is a world of extraordinary people.
Although there are extraordinary people in aristocratic families, they cannot be compared with academies and schools that can mass-produce extraordinary people.
Regardless of the various schools of thought, the relationship between the academies is tense. They can fight for an academic point of view, but secular power, even if the royal power wants to get involved in the power of the academy, it will be attacked by the various schools of thought.
Therefore, after being jointly punished by the academy, the aristocratic families will only clearly remember that this is the bottom line drawn by the academy, and they must not cross the temptation. As for revenge... Such thoughts will not even occur to them. The people in charge of the aristocratic families will only look at it from another angle.
Consider that since they are no match for the academy, then join them and send outstanding children from the family to the academy to learn knowledge and extraordinary power.
The academy never looks at background and family background when teaching students. If a talented person can understand the literary spirit, he will definitely be valued and cultivated.
Of course, children of aristocratic families do have an advantage in this regard. After all, family inheritance is a huge advantage. Coupled with the extraordinary materials and secret medicines supported by the family, the possibility of being promoted to extraordinary is definitely greater than that of ordinary children from poor families or even common people.
Over the years, the relationship between the aristocratic family and various academies has become complicated, and the fraud case in the talent promotion ceremony has long been completely forgotten.
"Does that mean personal revenge?"
Su Wen wrote down his judgment and crossed out the name "Aristocratic Family".
But he did not rule out the possibility that a certain aristocratic family had experienced the talent fraud case and was still alive today to take revenge on the imperial court.
The head of the aristocratic family, the Presbyterian Council, has enough wisdom to consider the overall situation and forget the oppression and humiliation he has suffered. For the sake of the family's interests, he maintains a good relationship with the Daliang royal family and various schools of thought. However, as a party who has been punished and has no future,
, but may not be able to see clearly.
"I want the files of all those involved in the scientific examination fraud case during Emperor Xiaomin's reign..."
Su Wen called the factory guard and told him his request.
"Su Stall... our place is an internal factory, not an internal history museum..."
The factory guard said in a dilemma.
The Internal Factory and the Internal Historian are actually departments under the jurisdiction of the Internal Affairs Ministry. However, their functions are different and their office locations are also different.
The inner factory has an independent yamen, and the inner history museum is located in the palace. Su Wen wants to access the archives, but he can't do it just by talking. The information in the inner history museum, in addition to the historians, scholars and court officials and above
Senior officials and others have no right to read it.
"knew……"
Su Wen replied, took out the seal and sent a message to Nangong.
What the factory guard can't do doesn't mean that Nangong can't do it. Moreover, he is also an extraordinary person in the historian's path. Even if he applies as a scholar, the Daliang royal family will agree. Not to mention, right now, he is still running errands for the emperor. If anyone
If he was embarrassed at this time, it would be the current emperor who would be embarrassed in the end.
Soon, Nangong, who was on his way to interview the saint, sent a message saying that he had gone through the palace entry procedures for him and that he could just ask the factory guards to take him directly to the Internal History Museum.
"This is really efficient..."
Su Wen nodded in praise.
The inner factory was also working vigorously and resolutely. Su Wen had just received the news. Someone had received the order from Nangong, prepared the carriage and horses, and asked Su Wen to get on the carriage.
Su Wen was not idle either and continued to think about the problem on the carriage.
He assumed that the person who leaked the test questions was related to the fraud case that year.
If it had been done by people back then, then this matter would have been much simpler.
More than a hundred years have passed since the fraud case during the reign of Emperor Xiaomin. Those involved in the case, including Cui Wenwen and other Confucian scholars in the fourth sequence, have passed away, not to mention other candidates.
As long as we investigate those who are still alive one by one, the truth will soon come to light.
And there is another very important clue: this person used the taboo items that Cui Wenwen analyzed.
People who can get Cui Wenwen's forbidden objects are either members of the Cui family themselves, or they are Cui Wenwen's friends during his lifetime. They got a certain artifact from Cui Wenwen that Cui Wenwen often played with during his lifetime, and it has Cui Wenwen's extraordinary power attached to it.
Power, after Cui Wenwen passed away, Cui Wenwen's "blank paper" was also extracted from this artifact, and then subsequent things would happen.
Su Wen also noticed that this person seemed to be relatively familiar with Cui Fei's situation, which meant that this person might also have an intersection with Cui Fei.
After reading the files and listing the suspects, and then interrogating Cui Fei, the case will basically come to light.
Thinking of this, Su Wen let out a heavy breath.
The horse-drawn carriage galloped smoothly on the spacious main road.
The urban planning of Daliang City is quite good. Cars, horses and sidewalks are separated, which gives Su Wen a "modern" look.
But he knew that this was the city planning of a great scholar from the Mohist family. After this great scholar presided over the construction of Daliang City, he was promoted to the Mohist sub-sage and became extraordinary. Then he left the Daliang Kingdom and ended up unknown.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Dear neighbors, please pay attention! The so-called examination papers currently circulating are fake. The government is tracing the whereabouts of those who spread the fake examination papers, and they will be severely punished! All the candidates who are taking the examinations are also advised not to be deceived and buy fake examination questions.
,Loss of property!”
"Article 137 of the Daliang Law Examination Law, item 6 says: Anyone who cheats on the talent promotion ceremony will be guilty of an unpardonable crime and will implicate ten clans!"
"..."
In the noisy streets, police inspectors from Daliang Prefecture took to the streets with loudspeakers and sounded gongs. After attracting attention, they quickly refuted the rumors.
"Let me just say... how could something like exam papers be leaked? The government has come out to refute the rumors! My neighbor Mr.
In the dark, I sold my family's 500 acres of fertile land at a low price to buy a paper... This is great! If his ancestor Quanxia had known about it, he would have kicked over the coffin boards!"
People along the street were talking a lot.
"What do you know! Can you believe the rumors refuted by the government over the years? The more rumors are refuted, the more true they are!"
Someone loudly questioned: "It was rumored that houses would be taxed the year before last... The prefect personally came out to refute the rumors and said that property taxes would not be levied. As a result...at the beginning of this year, property taxes were not levied! They were also levied once a year! It is really harsh government.
!”
"That's right!" Someone echoed mysteriously: "Have you heard? The Minister of the Ministry of Justice is seriously ill! In the past two days, people attending various weddings and weddings have been coming in and out of his house. It seems that the old Minister is in trouble. We know how he got the sudden illness.
Yes, this year’s exam questions were written by him. If the exam questions hadn’t been leaked, how could he have suddenly fallen ill! And he almost died?!"
"..."
Su Wen's ears were very sensitive and he heard these market talk clearly.
He had to lament that the people were not easily fooled. Even though he was talking openly and using his imagination, his guesses were almost the same as the facts.
However, the government's response was quite good, and they loudly refuted the rumors. No matter how the people below questioned it, as long as the denial was timely and corresponding measures were taken, the truth would turn out to be false.
Of course, if the real person behind the theft of the examination papers cannot be found in time and this person presents the examination papers on the streets of Daliang City when the talent recruitment ceremony begins, the impact on the court's credibility will be devastating.
Su Wen had reason to believe that this person must have such thoughts.
He was almost certain that there should be thirteen thousand test papers appearing on the streets this time, so next time...
"One hundred and thirty thousand copies..."
If so many examination papers just appeared in some unknown warehouse, if they appeared in Daliang City like snow, everyone from the examiner to the prefect would have to hang themselves.
"If it were me doing this case...I would definitely do the same thing!"
Su Wen took a deep breath.
With this idea, Su Wen felt that the people behind the scenes had carefully planned to steal a copy of the exam questions and distribute them on the streets to ferment public opinion.
The purpose is to let the government refute the rumors first. Then in the next few days, the person will inevitably be in a period of silence. Finally, at the moment of the exam, when the court has no time to change the exam papers, the real exam questions will be leaked. By then, the court will be unable to argue.
, a fraud case known to the whole world was placed in front of the court.
By that time, the imperial court would be unable to dismount, and it would be impossible not to implement the laws set by Emperor Xiaomin.
"What kind of hatred is this that would lead you to come up with such an extreme plan?"
Su Wen sighed.
The imperial palace of the Liang Dynasty was very large. It was originally the palace of the previous dynasty. After the founding of the Liang Dynasty, a round of expansion was carried out on the basis of the original palace, which finally formed its scale.
The succeeding emperors also liked to carry out large-scale construction projects, so the palace became larger and larger.
However, the government and the public did not criticize too much, thinking that the royal family was extravagant. Because the royal family only occupied a very small part of the inner city, most of the outer area was divided into offices for the three provinces and six ministries, which greatly improved the performance of each department.
The association improved the office efficiency of the imperial court.
The materials used in the palace buildings are not comparable to those of ordinary official residences. The three ministers and nine ministers who settled in it were naturally full of praise from the court officials. Those officials who were not qualified to settle in the imperial city circle even wished that the outer city of the palace continued to expand and gave them
Where they arrange their offices.
After getting off the carriage in front of the palace and checking his waist badge, Su Wen, escorted by two Jinwu guards, went straight to the Internal History Museum.