Due to Cui Wenwen's whistle-blowing, the results of the Talent Recruitment Ceremony that year were invalidated, and the major families had to pay a heavy price under the pressure of the academy.
The children of the aristocratic family who participated in cheating at that time were all deprived of their extraordinary powers and the possibility of official career was cut off.
The fates of many children from glamorous aristocratic families were suddenly rewritten.
Men are one of them.
After being deprived of his extraordinary powers, he lived like a zombie for several years.
In the end, he couldn't help but choose to fall, and found a way to restore his extraordinary power in the dark path, and became a dark path extraordinary person.
After becoming an extraordinary person of the dark path, he was often unable to appear under the sun. To the whole world, he seemed to have died long ago.
But he is still alive. And he has been suppressing the erosion of his mind and will by the dark forces. He behaves as before and lives a peaceful life. He even often writes letters to his old friends and sings poems and harmonies in the letters.
It's just that his old friends have withered away as time goes by, and he can contact fewer and fewer. Cui Wenwen is one of the few and the one with whom he has the deepest friendship.
After the fraud case, Cui Wenwen would come to visit him every year. However, he was still worried about the fact that his extraordinary power was abolished. He only wanted to exchange letters with his friends, but was unwilling to meet him. He always rejected Cui Wenwen.
Outside the door. He has always felt guilty about this.
And after he gained extraordinary power from the dark path, he was deeply disgusted with his own depravity, and he was even more unwilling to let his friends see his appearance after being contaminated by the dark power. He did not even dare to exchange letters with his friends. Only Cui
Wen Wen exchanged letters with him every month, which gave him some warmth in his cold, world-weary heart.
However!
He endured hardship for more than a hundred years, but received a letter from Cui Wenwen before his death.
Cui Wenwen told him in his letter that he was the whistleblower back then.
This made the man extremely angry and almost crazy!
Cui Wenwen confessed in his letter, saying that he was not aware of such consequences. He just thought that Fayi Academy would find the court before the ceremony to expose the matter and put an end to the fraud case.
But what was unexpected was that Fayi Academy tolerated it until after the talent selection ceremony. Based on the fact that all the academy candidates failed, and his report letter as evidence, it completely pushed the family's power into the abyss.
There is no doubt that Fayi Academy took advantage of his sincerity and caused irreparable disaster to the family and his friends at the time.
So he was restless, regretful and repentant all his life.
It is precisely because of the debt in his heart that Cui Wenwen decided to keep his power in the fourth sequence and was unwilling to be promoted to the fifth great scholar in the sequence.
And he extracted his extraordinary power that could have been used for promotion and gave it to the man. Cui Wenwen believed that these extraordinary powers could become a taboo object. His behavior was not to compensate, but to leave a mark to the man.
A souvenir.
Of course, Cui Wenwen's original intention was to let the man purify and absorb this part of his extraordinary power. In this way, he could use his power of Confucian order to suppress the dark power in his body and walk out into the sunshine openly.
But the man had no intention of doing this.
He even felt that Cui Wenwen had fooled him for more than a hundred years. At this time, he had a strong hatred for Cui Wenwen and even the entire Cui family, and wished to destroy them completely.
When he saw the forbidden object finally condensed by Cui Wenwen's extraordinary power, he realized that he seemed to be able to take revenge on Cui Wenwen, and even the entire Cui family.
Although Cui Wenwen indulged himself in the mountains and rivers throughout his life, he also cared a lot about his descendants. Even bloodlines other than his direct lineage, he was also quietly paying attention to.
For example, Cui Fei is a good prospect discovered by Cui Wenwen.
Cui Fei believed that he had not been protected by the family's power, nor had he received any benefits from the family.
But in fact, his ability to embark on the extraordinary path of the Mohist family is still inseparable from Cui Wenwen.
Discovering that this descendant had the possibility of becoming an extraordinary person on the Mohist path, he quietly sent Cui Fei a lot of materials. It seemed that they were items that Cui Fei had picked up at low prices in the market, but in fact they were given to his family under the instruction of Cui Wenwen.
Benefits of Descendants.
Even the notes discovered by Cui Fei were quietly placed by Cui Wenwen in Cui Fei's bookcase. They also contained the extraordinary power that Cui Wenwen had extracted. This part of the power was originally intended for Cui Fei to be promoted to the Mohist Path Sequence Three in the future.
In previous letters, Cui Wenwen told the man interesting things he did every day.
When the man learned about Cui Wenwen's arrangement, he came up with a plan to completely destroy the Cui family and Cui family through Cui Fei.
He quietly sneaked into Cui Fei's home and turned the extraordinary power Cui Wenwen had hidden in his essay into a blank sheet of paper.
Then he deliberately planted thoughts in Cui Fei's mind, making Cui Fei want to change his destiny through the talent promotion ceremony. Because Cui Fei has never thought about taking scientific examinations, especially after becoming the first in the Mohist order, such thoughts became even less
So pitiful.
If the man hadn't intervened, he would have thought about running the workshop and farm honestly, and by making utensils, selling paper, etc., he would be promoted to Sequence 2 of the Mohist path, and then start to travel around the world, become a knight, and finally become a true knight.
Mohist.
What Cui Fei did later is now under the control of the inner factory.
This caught the man by surprise.
He originally thought that it was impossible for the court to grasp Cui Fei's movements so quickly. He even wanted to wait until Cui Fei entered the examination room before exposing Cui Fei's fraud. If the whole process could allow more children of the Cui family to obtain examination questions, then
It could not be better.
Cui Fei was captured, and it was very difficult to pin the matter on Cui's head.
However, when things develop to this point, it is unlikely that the entire Cui family will be dragged into the water, but it is enough to completely destroy Cui Wenwen's lineage.
When the ceremony for recruiting talents officially started, he made the test questions public, and then told the world about the power of the taboo object "blank paper", and connected it with Cui Wenwen. It was absolutely impossible for the Cui family to break away from the relationship.
"Even the Cui family... has to shed a layer of skin... As long as they are weakened... other wealthy families... will definitely pounce on them and bite them hard. The Cui family's defeat is only a matter of time..."
The man smiled arrogantly.
But soon, the smile suddenly condensed on his face.
He suddenly discovered that the inner factory had locked onto Cui Fei so quickly, which meant that the other party must have some key information.
The other party can follow the information to find Cui Fei, and there are probably clues pointing to him!
"You have to keep a low profile...if that doesn't work, just fake your death."
The man just thought about it for a moment and then figured out a way to deal with it.
He even regretted that he should have suspended his death when he decided to do this.
"It's not too late..."
He murmured to himself, and the lights in the secret room gradually dimmed, eventually turning into complete darkness.
…
The Internal History Museum organized and classified all the files Su Wen needed. The information he obtained was far more detailed than needed.
The Internal History Museum has been tracking and recording the subsequent development of the case that year, and has kept records of the fate of these candidates and their families for decades.
According to records, some of the innocent candidates in the grand ceremony later took the new college entrance exams one after another. Some of them achieved good rankings and became pillars of the imperial court, and eventually retired as second-rank officials.
But those candidates who were punished were the subjects of the Internal History Museum's attention, especially those core children of big families. The court was very wary of them, fearing that they would become resentful after being punished and use their power to cause trouble secretly.
Such worries turned out to be true. Many direct descendants of the Li family in Longxi were punished, and the head of the family committed suicide. In the fourth year after the incident, he instigated the border army to rebel, and bribed the eunuchs in the inner court to kill Emperor Xiaomin.
But the Li family acted secretly. Although all the evidence pointed to them overtly and covertly, the key evidence was missing. All the participants died cleanly, and there was no way they could be implicated.
In the end, the royal family could only take a breath for the time being.
It’s just that the imperial court’s continuous suppression of the Li family in Longxi for hundreds of years has made it clear to everyone that the royal family is the most wealthy family in the Liang Dynasty. Killing the emperor is equivalent to killing the largest wealthy family head in the Liang Dynasty. The royal family has more resources.
revenge.
Under the pressure of the imperial court, the Li family in Longxi, which was originally second only to the royal family, now has no descendants to lead the army and no important ministers in the court. Not to mention that there are very few officials named Li. Even the disciples of the Li family are rare.
Completely marginalized by the Liang Dynasty.
In desperation, the Li family in Longxi could only focus on the development of the family in the Yan State. However, the royal family of the Yan State was also wary of Li's crazy behavior and took precautions against it. The development in the Yan State also had many difficulties. Now it is fast.
It is the bottom family among the five surnames.
"This is interesting..."
After Su Wen looked through some of the grievances between the Li family and the royal family, and some of the private nastiness of other families, he finally saw some positive things.
He found that Cui Wenwen, a branch of the Cui family, and Wang Cizhi, a member of the Wang family, were weird compared to those children from aristocratic families who were depressed and drunken after being punished.
One is obsessed with landscapes and wanders around all day, while the other is obsessed with books and reads every day.
The two often exchanged letters. One talked about where he went to wander around, and the other shared what books he had read recently and what his experiences were. It seemed that he was not affected by the fraud in the imperial examination.
"The inner factory is really amazing..."
Su Wen discovered that the appendix letters in these files were all copied copies, and the originals were not lost.
The scary thing is that the copied version also tried its best to imitate the handwriting of the two people, and even the ink marks that accidentally dropped were restored, which is very delicate.
Thinking about it carefully, Su Wen still found it quite scary. The two of them had corresponded for many years, and they might not have known that the internal factory had been watching them.
"This Wang Cizhi is really a homebody. He has been studying at home for more than ten years... He is really amazing."
Su Wen secretly praised it in his heart.
Suddenly, he thought of something, and his heart felt awe-inspiring.