"Who?" The servant of the Shouxing Mansion lived in the concierge. When he heard the movement, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Although he is the seventh-rank official of the prime minister's concierge, the capital city is currently in troubled times. Although the master is the chief minister, he has been cautious recently, and even asked his subordinates to work more and more low-key. When he heard the news, he did not dare to delay, and immediately
Put on your clothes and shoes, come over quickly, and ask through the door: "Who is it?"
"My lord is Lord Yin Tan of Shuntian Prefecture, and he wants to see Lord Zhao, the chief assistant!" someone outside replied.
Shuntian Prefecture Yin?
After hearing this answer, the doorman looked out through the crack in the door again, and faintly saw what seemed to be a headhunter standing outside. Then he took a step back and opened the closed door.
He thought that the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture came to see the master with a few people, but when he opened the door, he was shocked to see hundreds of people standing outside the door. In addition to ordinary government officials, there were also soldiers from the patrol camp!
These people have already surrounded the door so tightly that not even a pigeon can fly out, let alone a human being!
The head catcher who knocked on the door also had a knife on his waist. Although the head catcher was different from ordinary yamen in that he could carry weapons, this was the Chief Assistant Mansion. Which catcher would dare to bring a knife to the door?
Even the iron ruler was placed outside, not daring to be disrespectful in the slightest.
what does that mean?
The disciple of the old Beijing man was so frightened that he was speechless for a moment and his body was trembling slightly.
At this moment, footsteps came from behind. It was Zhao Xu, the chief assistant who was preparing to go to court. Hearing the sound, he hurriedly came out of the main courtyard.
After coming out, he stood at the door. Zhao Xu looked at the people outside, frowned and said, "You came to the door with a knife. Are you following orders to take me?"
"I don't dare, I don't dare! There is indeed something big going on when Xianguan and Lord Tan come here!" The person who answered Zhao Xu was none other than Liang Yuyin.
Normally, in this situation, the person who wanted to reply should be Tan Ping, but Tan Ping did not say a word. Instead, Liang Yuyin stepped forward and bowed to reply.
"Huh?" Zhao Xu knew something big had happened as soon as he saw this situation.
Then Liang Yuyin unfolded a piece of paper in his hand and handed it to Zhao Xu with both hands.
"This is?" Zhao Xu still frowned, but took the note and read it carefully by the light of the torch.
Zhao Xu was still very calm at first, but when he saw the contents of the note under the light at the door, his expression immediately changed.
Liang Yuyin just relied on his intuition and previous reminders to guess that the paper contained test questions. However, Zhao Xu was one of the pavilion elders who heard the test questions confirmed in the hall that day. He knew very well that the three sentences above were the test questions!
"What's going on?" Zhao Xu changed his face and asked sternly: "Where did you get this note?"
"Master Chief Assistant, this is the case. Master Luo and I, a few days ago, received reports from Yu Lu and Fang Xi, saying that someone was selling the exam questions for this spring. We didn't pay much attention to it. After all, every year
Some people are defrauding people and selling them with false titles."
"I don't want to check, but it's different from before."
"In the past, examination questions were only sold for thirty-fifty taels, but this time they were sold for five hundred taels. Among the people, 300 people bought them, and the amount of silver taels exceeded 150,000 taels."
"Not talking about the test questions, it is a huge fraud in itself."
"So we won it in one fell swoop. We specially brought the search questions and asked the Chief Assistant to identify whether they were true."
Liang Yuyin wanted to go inside and talk, but then he thought, he just went to the hotel to ask questions in front of hundreds of people, and now it was too late to keep it secret.
Besides, such an important matter should be said in public, so that you don’t have to worry about someone trying to make you a scapegoat. There are hundreds of people, and there are so many people in the hotel, it’s not easy to shut your mouth!
The more people who know, the safer you are.
The more you consider the overall situation and the face of the court, the more likely you are to be dealt with secretly.
With this thought in mind, Liang Yuyin explained the matter simply and clearly, with a clear voice that could be heard clearly by hundreds of people around him.
Including receiving a report that a Juren spent money to buy exam questions. The informants were two Juren, Yu Lu and Fang Xi, and the targets of the two reports were Zhang Modong, a Juren who lived in the hotel.
They took people there, and in full view of everyone, they found the note from Zhang Medong's body.
That's all.
After listening to Liang Yuyin's explanation, Zhao Xu glanced at the hundreds of people around him who were all looking excited, and said with a gloomy face: "Since you knew it a few days in advance, why didn't you tell the court or inform me in advance?"
There is a hint of accusation.
"This Chunwei exam question is so important. Everyone involved is a judge and a future official of the imperial court. How can Mr. Luo and I dare to talk nonsense without evidence?"
"It was verified that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were involved, and the person who sold the question was not an easy person. In addition, the imperial examination was about to take place at dawn, and there was no way to delay it any longer. That's why I dared to invite Mr. Yin Tan of Shuntian Prefecture to jointly handle the case and submit the first letter.
Lord Fu makes the decision."
What he said was reasonable and reasonable, and Zhao Xu couldn't refute it directly. He asked with a livid face: "Where is Zhang Modong?"
Liang Yuyin had also been an official for many years, and he immediately realized that the chief minister was not happy with him.
I sighed secretly in my heart, but I didn't regret it at all.
Yes, for the sake of the dignity of the court, this kind of matter should be handled secretly, but if you handle it secretly, you may die. How about you, the chief minister, die for the court?
Besides, I had no way out. I lost the love of the emperor and the chief minister, and the support of my grandson, so I took a step back and exposed Tanping.
Tan Ping on the side also had a livid face. With a wave of his hand, someone escorted Zhang Modong and brought him to Zhao Xu.
The eyes of hundreds of people fell on this scholar at the same time. Zhang Modong really had the urge to die immediately at this moment. How did he end up in such a situation?
"Are you Zhang Modong? Is it you who bought the test questions?" Zhao Xu asked lightly, as the first assistant, even if he just asked such a question lightly, it gave people a strong sense of coercion.
Of course, this is because everyone knows that the chief minister has great power and can really decide life and death, honor and disgrace.
Zhang Modong's calves were shaking a little, but he was not stupid. He knew that if he did it, it would be completely over.
If you don't take action and insist on showing that you don't know anything, you can blame the matter on being framed.
There is a noble person who wants to deal with Yu Lu Fang Xi. As long as he is killed, someone is framing him. The person behind it may not save him for the sake of the overall situation!
But if he did it now, it would be all over.
Zhang Modong had made up his mind not to say anything, but when he heard Zhao Xu ask this question, his head suddenly buzzed, and he became a little confused.
I don’t know why, but I opened and closed my mouth, which I didn’t want to open, and said: “It’s not me, it’s Liu Shilang! It was Liu Shiquan from the Ministry of Civil Affairs who asked me to do it! He told me to report him again in the examination room, and he would bite me to death.
This is the test question for Yu Lu and Fang Ximai!"
Zhang Modong said this, but at the same time his face showed a look of horror, and his face turned pale.