"The guards of the palace...are indeed very strict..."
From the moment Jin Wuwei took Su Wen into the palace from the small side door, Su Wen felt bright or covert eyes falling on him.
These are extraordinary beings spying on him. There is no doubt that these are offerings from the palace, spying on his aura. The weak ones are sequence four, the strong ones... Su Wen cannot sense it. Sequence five may be the most conservative.
Su Wen even discovered that the two Jinwu guards who accompanied him to the Internal History Museum were both Sequence Three extraordinary military strategists!
"No wonder..."
Su Wen nodded secretly in his heart.
Jin Wuwei only checked his identity and did not search him. He did not even take off his sword. This is the self-confidence of a dynasty. No one dares to act wildly in the palace. Even if they do, there are ways to stop them.
people can be easily suppressed.
Jin Wuwei seemed to be walking at a leisurely pace, but he was actually very fast. Su Wen had to use extraordinary strength to keep up with the pace of the two of them. Even so, the three of them still walked from the palace gate to the Internal History Museum for more than a quarter of an hour.
"Mr. Su... there is the Internal History Museum in front of you. It is inconvenient for me to go in, so please do so."
When he arrived at the entrance of the Internal History Museum, Jin Wuwei stopped and said with an indifferent expression.
"Thank you both."
Su Wen bowed his hands. The two Jinwu guards showed no expression, nodded slightly, and then retreated. Su Wen was not surprised, knowing that this was the rule of the palace. Along the way, he deliberately talked to the two of them, and the Jinwu guards whispered,
In the palace, servants are not allowed to talk privately with guards, maids, and eunuchs, otherwise they will be severely punished.
Su Wen finally understood and apologized, and then stopped trying to find out some inner court information from Jin Wuwei.
In fact, Su Wen also knew that ministers and ministers who had the opportunity to enter the palace to meet the saints or to do business had to learn the etiquette rules from the Ministry of Rites and the relevant departments of the inner court for a period of time before entering the palace, so as not to violate taboos and offend the nobles.
Causing big trouble.
Su Wen's entry into the palace was considered a special matter, and the Jinwu guards who received him were also notified. Knowing that Su Wen did not understand etiquette, they secretly reminded him.
"Chief Su Shan?"
Already standing at the door of the Internal History Museum was a young man wearing a green official robe and a black gauze on his head. When he saw Su Wen, he raised his hands to say hello.
"That's right." Su Wen was stunned for a moment when he heard this title, and then he remembered that he was now the temporary deputy principal of Qingshan Academy.
"When Bai Minxing was walking through the Xiaguan Museum of Literature and History, he met Mr. Su Shan."
Bai Minxing's face was filled with joy and he bowed his head: "I have read Su Shanchang's poems before and I was so shocked. I never expected that we would meet each other by chance. I am so lucky to be a lower official!"
"Master Bai, you're welcome."
Su Wen felt puzzled and felt that Bai Minxing was a little too enthusiastic.
However, Su Wen did not expect that after painting the walls in Qiting, he would become famous. In the Liang Dynasty, his literary reputation had already surpassed that of Yan Jiu'an's predecessors, and he was regarded as the "face" of poetry in the Liang Dynasty. He could be on good terms with Su Wen.
, that’s something worth bragging about.
After painting the mural in Qiting, we could see the warm hospitality Su Wen received on the way to Daliang City. Many wealthy and aristocratic families who could not invite Su Wen used various connections to invite Zhang? and Sun Yehou to be their guests.
Even students taking the exams have received many visible and invisible benefits.
Bai Minxing has good knowledge and was ranked fourth in the second list of Jinshi in the previous two talent promotion ceremonies. He was selected to travel in the Internal History Museum.
This is a sidelined yet extremely important yamen.
Officials of the Internal History Museum usually work like organizing the archives of the current dynasty, assisting historians in writing history, teaching classical knowledge to emperors and princes, acting as knowledge and historical consultants for the three provinces and six ministries, etc. They have contact with the innermost circle of the entire empire.
Once the officials of the Internal History Museum expire or make achievements, it is not impossible for them to become generals or prime ministers.
Among the important positions in the three provinces and six ministries of the current dynasty, more than one-third of the officials in important positions had experience in working in the Internal History Office. If the chief officials of the Three Gongs and Nine Ministers did not have experience in the Internal History Office, they might not even have the experience of serving in the Internal History Office.
He cannot be controlled and is not looked down upon by others.
Therefore, the Internal History Museum is also an extremely noble yamen.
Countless people broke their heads trying to squeeze in but there was no way.
After all, the rules of the imperial court are strict. Only those who are ranked in the top ten or above on the second list are qualified to accept the examination of the Internal History Museum. As for whether they are qualified to serve in the Internal History Museum, it depends on their own abilities.
But the Internal History Museum has another unusual admission rule.
Extraordinary historians, even extraordinary ones with the potential to become historians, can be given priority to enter the Inner History Hall, with unlimited quotas and higher benefits.
On the way leading Su Wen into the Internal History Museum, Bai Minxing introduced his origins at length. He was from Jiannan Taoism, twenty-seven years old. He passed the imperial examination at the age of 21 and had been selected into the Internal History Museum for six years. Legalist
The extraordinary person of path sequence three.
"Chief Su Shan, the materials you want are placed in the special reading room. Please come here..."
Bai Minxing seemed to be very good at talking. Although he talked endlessly, he did not arouse Su Wen's disgust. On the contrary, Su Wen learned many customs and taboos in the Nei Shi Guan from between the lines of his words. Su Wen knew even more clearly that this was Bai Minxing.
Deliberately reminding him. After all, there are crouching tigers, hidden dragons in the Internal History Museum. If Su Wen accidentally violated the taboo of any big boss, he would be in big trouble. After all, the name of Qingshan Academy is not easy to use in the Internal History Museum, and it is even naturally used.
Hostile.
Bai Minxing's enthusiasm was not unrequited. Finally, he suggested that he would visit Su Wen at the Qingshan Guild Hall when he had time and ask Su Wen for advice on poetry. It would be great if Su Wen could give him one or two poetry books.
An aristocratic house official used the word "interview" to him. Su Wen really couldn't refuse, so he had to express his welcome and not give any advice. It was okay to discuss poetry skills together.
Bai Minxing left satisfied.
…
Just when Su Wen stepped into the reading room, in the secret room of a gorgeous mansion in the city, a figure was projected on the wall by candlelight.
In front of the figure, a piece of paper with a dull yellow color lay quietly on a special table. The extraordinary aura on the paper was completely restrained and could not be leaked.
The white paper was smeared with black ink. The black ink was constantly changing, but no words could be seen.
"Hey...Has the faint master finally got the corresponding move?"
A voice as hoarse as a night owl hissed in the secret room: "It's useless... You can now seal the test questions with forbidden objects, but what about when the test starts? When your papers are unsealed, the city will be full of test papers.
When flying...at that time...Jie Jie...the ten clans of the Cui family...will they be executed?"
When he mentioned the Cui family, he gritted his teeth, as if he had some deep hatred.
Suddenly, an asphalt-like object appeared under his feet. The object squirmed and turned into a hunchbacked man wearing a tattered black robe.
There was still black liquid dripping down on the hunchbacked man's robe, but the black liquid continued to squirm and gathered at the hunchbacked man's feet, completing his body bit by bit.
"Master, as you ordered, thirty places are filled with white paper, waiting for you to exert your strength."
When the hunchbacked man spoke, his voice sounded like wind, very painful and tangled.
"Well……"
The man at the table just nodded slightly, as if he was accustomed to everything happening around him and didn't care.
"There are people from the government outside refuting the rumors... Several points we arranged before were also removed by the eagle dogs in the factory. Will there be any problems in the new places?"
The hunchbacked man gasped and expressed concern.
"It doesn't matter...it's all a cover-up...if they can find it, they are lucky. Now in these thirty places...as long as one of them slips through the net, our goal will be achieved."
"The master is wise."
A hunchback has a difficult sentence.
"You are very good..." The man praised without looking back. After a pause, he said: "As long as I take revenge... the forbidden curse on you and me will naturally be lifted, and we can return to normal people.
Live under the sun."
"As long as I can follow in my master's footsteps, I will be happy to go anywhere..."
"I know you are loyal, so go ahead..."
There was a hint of exhaustion in his voice, but there was still a bit of joy in it that couldn't be concealed.
"yes……"
The hunchback made a splash, turned into a pile of liquid, seeped into the ground, and disappeared.
"Cui Wenwen..."
After the hunchback disappeared, the man sighed: "If you hadn't considered yourself noble and refused to join us... how could we have been discovered... It's better for you, you have indulged in the mountains and rivers for more than a hundred years and lived a happy life... And we...
…But I can only hide underground, and can’t even see the sun…”
The man picked up a letter on the table and stared bitterly at the content on it, which he was already familiar with.
This is a letter Cui Wenwen wrote to him more than a month before his death.
It was this letter that allowed him to figure out the origin of the talent fraud case that year.
It is nothing new for children of aristocratic families to cheat in the talent promotion ceremony. After all, most of the three officials and ministers who control the government are from aristocratic families. The examiners who set the examination questions often leak some clues to their own children so that they can prepare for them in advance.
That's a matter of course.
It was just that during the reign of Emperor Xiaomin, because the emperor was weak, sick, and cowardly, he could not suppress the arrogance of the wealthy families, so these guys became more domineering and lawless. So by the time of the talent promotion ceremony that year, the core children of these families had already obtained all the test questions.
and test questions.
Although Cui Wenwen is a descendant of the Cui family, he is not a direct descendant, so he cannot get such things. In fact, the direct descendants will do everything possible to ensure that these questions are not leaked too much, so as not to be robbed of a good ranking.
But the man had always been on good terms with Cui Wenwen, so he copied a copy of the questions he got and gave it to Cui Wenwen.
However... after Cui Wenwen got the test questions, the first thing he did not try to figure out how to answer the questions was to report the matter anonymously!
Moreover, Cui Wenwen did not report to the court, but to the Fayi Academy of Mohism, which was the first academy of the Liang Dynasty at that time. There were nineteen Mohists in Fayi Academy at that time, and every one of them would be killed if they saw any injustice on the road.
How could our Lord allow such a thing to happen? So he gathered all the academies of the Daliang Dynasty and came to the imperial city of Daliang together, forcing Emperor Xiaomin to punish the cheaters.
This triggered a major case that shocked the world.