Red Mansion Jia Lan: Do you want to run away tonight to visit your relatives? Chapter 89 The examiner's judgment on the interview, the bird finds the end of the farce
Chapter 89 The examiner's judgment on the interview, the bird finds the end of the farce
Wearing a crimson silk official robe, Sheng Hong walked into Jia Lan's examination room with his hands behind his back. He saw that the room was in order, with draft papers neatly stacked on the desk, and the examination papers beside him had been put into paper bags.
Jia Lan, the only candidate in the room, was sitting next to the oven. The white porridge in the bowl was just rolling, and a fragrance filled the air.
Sheng Hong glanced around the examination room, and his eyes fell on Jia Lan: "Has this candidate already finished answering the questions?"
His voice is slightly deep, and even sounds slightly depressed at first, which makes people feel fearful.
Jia Lan saluted: "Sir, the student has indeed finished his answer."
"Now that you've answered, you might as well have a few words with me."
Sheng Hong's voice turned slightly colder, and the officials behind him began to look a little nervous.
Although he didn't know what Sheng Hong wanted to say, Jia Lan still calmly extinguished the charcoal fire in the furnace before handing it over: "Please show me..."
Sheng Hong raised his gaze and looked at the roof, recalled briefly, and then said: "I have been troubled by a public case recently, but it was a certain palace steward who took a crane to the street. Unexpectedly, it was killed by a yellow dog raised by a commoner. As a result of the injury, the palace steward took the commoner to Shuntian Mansion and weighed the crane with the gold medal bestowed by the emperor on it, and asked the government to punish the common man for the crime of disrespect."
The voice of this Shanda man is neither fast nor slow, making it impossible to tell his personal likes and dislikes.
After Jia Lan listened carefully to what Sheng Hong said, the other party suddenly stared at him: "In your opinion, how should this case be judged?"
This is a current case, and as a rule, we cannot discuss it casually. Jia Lan was about to shirk, but Sheng Hong had already seen through his mind and blocked Jia Lan's retreat with one sentence: "I said it, but it was just random chatter in my spare time. Nao, you say what you say, and I will listen to mine, even if you say so."
At this point, Jia Lan had no choice but to plead guilty. He thought silently for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Sheng Hong, and said word by word: "Cranes are gold medals, dogs cannot read; animals hurt each other." , it’s nothing to do with anyone.”
"Hahaha!"
Sheng Hong laughed, raised his sleeves and pointed at Jia Lan with his finger.
"Sir!" At this time, a Jinwu Guard general from outside the door ran in and said a few words in Sheng Hong's ear. After hearing this, the latter's expression calmed down, and he straightened his face and said to the officials behind him: "Go out and take a look. !"
Before going out, Sheng Hong turned around to look at Lai Jialan again, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, take the test well, and... eat the porridge while it's hot, it won't be good when it's cold."< /p>
Click, and the door panel locks again.
Jia Lan sat down slowly, picked up a spoon and fiddled with the congealed white porridge, but secretly wiped a sweat in his heart, secretly thinking that it was in danger.
After a while.
Sheng Hong was sitting in the main hall of the examination room, listening to the report from the Jinwu Guard Baihu who was responsible for the security of the examination room below.
"Your Excellency, I have arrested the person who lit the firecrackers outside the Gongyuan. According to his confession, he was ordered by the Jia family to light the firecrackers outside the Gongyuan."
As soon as Baihu finished speaking, the whole hall was shocked.
"Sir, this..." The examiners on the side looked at Sheng Hong one after another, and someone said directly: "This is such a serious matter, why don't you ask your Excellency to suspend this candidate immediately..."
Sheng Hong said nothing with a straight face, but looked at Jin Wu Wei Bai Hu: "What else did you ask?"
Baihu shook his head: "No, this is what the other person said over and over again..."
"Bring people here." Sheng Hong said after thinking for a while.
Soon, a man was escorted into the main hall by Jinwu Guard officers and soldiers. Sheng Hong looked at the man, but saw that his eyes were erratic and his face was frightened. He felt relieved and immediately shouted: "The imperial court decrees that those who cheat in the imperial examinations will be killed, and those who copy them will be killed."
The three clans of the family were exiled to Liaodong. You must have been instigated by the Jia family of Ningguo Mansion?"
The man knelt down with a plop, "Your Excellency, you clearly noticed that it was the Jia family who ordered me?"
Sheng Hong said "Oh", "Are you sure it's the Jia family from Duke Li's mansion?"
"I'm sure, villain, that's right!"
"Bold! The Duke of Liguo's residence is obviously not named Jia, so who is the Jia family?"
Sheng Hong's eyes were fixed on the man, and the aura of the superior swept over him. The man's face suddenly turned pale with fright: "Sir, spare my life, it was the man who gave me the money who told me to say this!"
Sheng Hong asked: "Has that person ever reported his family status?"
"No, I just gave the villain ten taels of silver and asked him to light a bunch of firecrackers at this hour. He also told the villain that it was arranged by the Jia family."
The man was pulled down, and Sheng Hong's mouth showed a bit of sneer: "It's really ridiculous..."
"My lord, make atonement!" The hundreds of households in the Jinwu Guard looked horrified. This was quite an oversight.
According to the regulations, buildings higher than the walls of Gongyuan are not allowed to be built within one mile of Gongyuan. During the examination period, officers and soldiers must clear the road to guard. This matter may be big or small, but no matter what, he, who is responsible for hundreds of households, may not be able to survive.
Walk in a pocket.
At this time, one of his subordinates, the commander-in-chief, happily ran over to greet Shenghong: "Sir, we found a homing pigeon with a note tied to it in one of the examination rooms. The examinee has been captured!" p>
After hearing this, the hundred households felt as if they had received an amnesty. They did not care about the officials in the hall and quickly asked: "How did you catch him?"
"There is a subordinate who is best at playing with birds. At first, he noticed that the bird flew in, so he simulated the sound of the bird and walked around the examination room. He found it." p>
Everyone saw that the examinee was being held captive by an examiner and several officers and soldiers, with cotton stuffed in his mouth. After he pulled it out, he just cried out that he was wronged.
"The witnesses and material evidence are all there, what else can you say?"
Sheng Hong looked at the pigeon note presented and said coldly.
The candidate was immediately frightened by Sheng Hong's momentum. He hesitated and couldn't explain why. He could only watch as Sheng Hong waved his hand and summoned several soldiers to escort him down.
Shenghong appeased the Jinwu Guardsmen with a few words, and then charged the examinee with conspiracy to commit fraud. Seeing the solid evidence, none of the examiners in the hall wanted to cause trouble, except for the one who was the first to ask for a break.
The examiner who took the Jialan exam looked slightly bad.
The next day's exam was spent amidst these twists and turns.
The exam question on the third day is policy theory.
Before the Tang Dynasty, policy and theory were separate. After the end of the Tang Dynasty, policy theory was the combination of policy and theory.
Xu Shizeng of the former Ming Dynasty subdivided policy styles into three types in his "Wenshi Mingbian": "The first is to make policy, the emperor calls the system to ask questions and get the answer. The second is to test the policy, and the administrator uses the policy to test the scholars and get the answer.
That’s right. It takes three days to make progress, and that’s right for those who follow the strategy and make progress.”
The first is the question proposed by the emperor himself, and the second is the policy question Jialan faces now.
The topics on later generations are all based on some bad situations in the current society. Sheng Hong is stable and will naturally not make random topics. Therefore, the topics are all drawn from the four books, with some hints of ancient times and the present.
For example, this question says, "Fu Jiezi, Chen Tang, Gan Yanshou, and Ban Chao of the Han Dynasty were envoys to the Western Regions, and they were all able to do things cheaply. How should we choose the talents and emphasize the power of envoys?"
Reminiscent of Sheng Hong's experience in serving in Fujian, perhaps he was aware of the affairs of the Western and Eastern countries.
But from this title, we can see that this person is not a narrow-minded person.