Ling Ruo lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, is the second elder brother really indifferent to the story of the Xu family's injustice?"
"Yes, there is no fear or panic, nor is there any need to resolve the grievances. If we were in a different place, I would never be able to maintain such composure if I were Hongshi, so I believe that Hongshi is innocent."
At this moment, Ling Ruo didn't know what to say. Hong Shi's reaction was really unexpected. If he hadn't seen through Yinzhen's plan, or he was not afraid of ghosts and gods and had a coldness that was different from ordinary people, he could achieve this.
.
After a long while, Ling Ruo said softly: "It seems that I have really misunderstood my second elder brother."
Yinzhen patted her hand and said, "As long as you know, I don't want you to have any knots in your heart when I say this." After a pause, he said, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. In a few days, Qiu Wei will be here.
It’s about to begin, this time Hongli is the examiner in the capital, I don’t know how many talented people he will select for me.”
Ling Ruo pursed her lips and smiled and said: "Hongli only presided over the provincial examination. The real talents will not appear until the general examination or even the palace examination. On the other hand, the emperor has not yet drawn up the questions for the provincial examination, but let him
Hongli and the examiners from each province were quite anxious. The emperor also issued a decree saying that each province was not allowed to draft its own questions, and you had to draft them yourself. The last time Hongli came to the palace to see his concubine, he mentioned this matter, lest he
Missed Qiuwei."
Originally, the provincial examinations had always been conducted by the chief examiners from the capital and each province, but Yinzhen suddenly issued an order that he would draw up the test questions himself. After receiving the order, the examiners from each province kept waiting, but as the date was approaching day by day, there were no test questions.
, which made all the examiners extremely anxious.
"Don't worry, how could I have missed this autumn period? Today I will seal the questions and hand them over to Hongli. As for those from other provinces, I will also have people work hard to get the test questions to them just in time before the autumn period begins.
.”
Ling Ruo said with some curiosity: "I don't understand why the emperor didn't draw up the test questions earlier. Could it be that this matter has made the emperor very embarrassed?"
Hearing this, Yinzhen looked solemn and said: "It's not that it's embarrassing, it's just that I don't want candidates to buy and sell test questions like what happened in the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign."
Ling Ruo said in surprise: "Buying and selling test questions? Is it possible that someone leaked the test questions?" Ling Ruo would not take the initiative to ask about the previous affairs unless Yinzhen mentioned them, so she did not know these things.
"Yes, every time there is an imperial examination, the test questions will always be leaked to a greater or lesser extent. In order to pass the exam, some candidates will spend money to buy the test questions, and then ask someone to memorize them in advance. After the imperial examination,
Today, just follow the same example of the problem. Do you think the officials obtained in this way can be used?"
"But aren't all the questions in the provincial examination prepared by the examiner himself? How can others know about it and be so bold as to trade it?"
"I'm very surprised about this, so this time I drafted the test questions in a unified way, and then handed them over to the examiners of each province before the exam started." After the cheating in the exams in the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign came out, many officials were investigated and replaced.
, but Yinzhen was not sure whether the same thing would really happen again, so after much consideration, he decided to make the questions himself and send them to the examiners before the exam started, so as to avoid the leakage of the test questions to the greatest extent.
"Your Majesty has thought carefully. It seems that it will be impossible for anyone who wants to cheat this time." Ling Ruo's words made Yinzhen sigh with emotion. "Every imperial examination will be strictly searched. Anyone found to have cheated will be kicked out and will not be allowed to participate for life."
In the imperial examination, we still find a lot every time, and we are repeatedly banned!"
Ling Ruo brushed the broken hair next to her ears and said: "Some people are not very knowledgeable, so they are lucky and think about gaining fame through side tricks. It is also human nature. After all, after ten years of hard work, who doesn't want to be on the imperial list?
, become the emperor’s disciple.”
"I don't want such a disciple." A cool voice sounded in the imperial garden where autumn was getting thicker. It also showed Yinzhen's determination to clean up the imperial examination and prevent candidates from cheating.
In the afternoon, Yinzhen drafted the test questions, and except for giving them to Hongli, all the rest were sealed and sent to the examiners in each province in a hurry.
At this time, Hongli had already begun to remove Yingge's officials in Zhejiang one by one. These people more or less had their own problems, but because of various reasons and Yingge's protection, they had been
There was no serious investigation. Now Hongli
As a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he took advantage of the triennial official assessment to strictly investigate the people on the list submitted by Hong Zhou. Naturally, many problems were uncovered. The final decision made by the Ministry of Civil Affairs was to transfer these people to
He was dismissed from office on the spot and then escorted back to the capital for trial.
As soon as this news reached Yingge's ears, he couldn't sit still. Those people could be said to be his confidants, and they were extremely loyal. They contributed a lot to the reason why the implementation of the Zhejiang New Deal was so slow and difficult.
It's really a big loss.
At the same time, he also felt strange in his heart, why Hongli suddenly attacked those people, as if he knew these people were his people a long time ago, could it be... that they were Hong Zhou?
He has never had too much trust in Hong Zhou, especially after the implementation of the Zhejiang New Deal, he became more suspicious. However, he had not told Hong Zhou about the names of two people, and how did they leak out?
The more Yingge thought about it, the more something was wrong. He came to Hongshi's residence overnight to discuss the matter with him and asked him to help think about whether these people could be saved. After all, if they were just gone, even he would be heartbroken.
very.
Hongshi played with the cup in his hand and slowly said something that surprised Yingge, "Maybe Lao Wu and Lao Si are really in cahoots."
"Second brother, are you sure they..." Before Yingge finished speaking, Hongshi said: "No one can be sure about this kind of thing, but it should be very possible, otherwise why would all our officials in Zhejiang be included?"
After being pulled out, does Hongli have such great ability?"
Yingge gritted his teeth and said: "If this is really the case, the fifth elder brother has really deceived us!"
Hongshi smiled slightly and said: "Uncle, there is no need to be angry. I have prepared a big gift. It won't matter whether Lao Wu is true or false."
"Big gift?" Yingge thought for a moment and said, "Is the second elder brother referring to this Qiu Wei incident?"
"Yes, Emperor Ama has already published the Qiu Wei examination questions today. In addition to handing them over to Hongli, he also sent people to send them to the provincial capitals at high speed. On the sixth day of August, the Qiu Wei exams will be held together." In Yingge's confusion.
With a look on his face, he continued: "In the general examination in the fourth year of Yongzheng's reign, many candidates cheated, and the test questions were leaked. There was a lot of commotion at the time, and many officials were involved in the incident."
"But what does this have to do with Fourth Brother and the others? Besides, the test questions this time were drawn up by the emperor himself, and no one is allowed to read them until the day before the Qiu Dynasty. I think they are afraid that the test questions will be leaked."
Hongshi smiled and said: "The more Emperor Ama is afraid of something, the more we have to do something."