The leader of the Jinyiwei was the old emperor's confidant. The old emperor knew that he had always been loyal and loyal. Seeing that he spoke with such certainty, the old emperor could not help but be a little shaken, but...
"What's the reason?" Why did Gu Qiancheng do this? It was obviously a thankless task and it also offended the fifth prince.
The leader of the Jin Yiwei paused for a moment before saying: "Miss Gu just discovered this incident by accident. If we really want to say the reason, it may have something to do with the fifth prince and the noble concubine."
The old emperor did not ask what happened, and the leader of the Jinyiwei did not dare to say more, lest the old emperor think too much.
He repeatedly emphasized the surprise, hoping that the old emperor would not put all the blame on Gu Qiancheng. As a result, the old emperor simply ignored the first half of the sentence and said with a gloomy face: "Against the fifth prince and the noble concubine? Could it be that she is still holding a grudge, and the noble concubine poached her mother?"
The matter of the grave.”
The old emperor also investigated the matter afterwards. Otherwise, the government would not have judged Gu Qiancheng the winner in the first place. You know, in this era of supremacy of imperial power, even if Gu Qiancheng had sufficient evidence, as soon as the old emperor opened his mouth, she would
Nothing.
"This matter has been going on for a long time. Miss Gu didn't pursue it at the time, and she probably won't pursue it afterwards." The leader of the Jinyi Guards hesitated for a moment and said: "Perhaps a few days ago, the fifth prince forced Miss Gu to marry a Jiangnan salt merchant, and also had an affair with the Gu family.
Together they took away Miss Gu’s dowry.”
With the help of Jinyiwei, no one knew that Gu Qiancheng's dowry was in Qin Jiyan's hands. It was not surprising that the leader of Jinyiwei said this at this time.
The old emperor was surprised, "No wonder Lao Wu has the money to win over people. It turns out that he robbed a girl's dowry, but he can't do it."
That's how people are. When they like someone, they kill people and break the law, which is justice for heaven; they pave roads and build bridges, and they seek fame and reputation.
The leader of the Jin Yiwei stopped talking at this time and knelt there with his head down. There was nothing visible on his face, but he was secretly relieved in his heart.
He knew that he had passed this test, and whether Gu Qiancheng could pass this test would depend on the emperor's attitude.
The old emperor thought for a moment and then asked: "Who wrote Qi Mao's article?" The old emperor was deeply impressed by the articles of the top three, especially Qi Mao's article, which touched his heart.
Business tax!
If the proportion of taxes on merchants can be increased, the national treasury will have no need to worry about being rich. There will be no need for Da Qin to worry about being unable to defeat Northern Qi and Xihu.
The leader of the Jinyiwei seemed to have been prepared. He took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and presented them in front of him, "Your Majesty, this is what my subordinates found in Miss Gu's room. It is just a first draft."
Moreover, it was torn into pieces, and the leader of Jinyiwei spent a lot of effort to glue it back together.
The confidant eunuch immediately came down to get it and carefully held it in front of the old emperor. When the old emperor looked at it, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes: "She really wrote this?"
"I've seen Miss Gu's calligraphy before, so I guess it's not bad." Gu Qiancheng's handwriting in small regular script with hairpins and hairpins is exactly the same as Mrs. Wei's. Most people will never forget it after seeing it once.
The old emperor nodded and looked down one by one. The more he looked, the more frightened he became...
Although it is only a first draft, the core points are all there, and there are more than just these beneficial measures.
"So, the top twenty articles this year were allegedly written by this woman?" If that's true, this woman is too evil.
"The article is not. Although Miss Gu raised the key points, she is not good at writing articles. Moreover, according to the information found by my subordinates, Miss Gu did not know before that this was a scientific examination question. It was about discussing land with people from Jiangnan.
During the transaction, I accidentally missed a few words, and then the other party discovered Miss Gu's talent and deliberately tricked Miss Gu. Miss Gu probably didn't know that she had been taken advantage of until after the imperial examination." The words of the leader of the Jinyiwei can be said to be thorough.
Gu Qiancheng was cleared.
"Are you sure she didn't know beforehand?" the old emperor said unconvincingly.
The leader of the Jin Yiwei thought for a moment and nodded heavily: "If Miss Gu knew that this was a scientific examination question, she would not have casually thrown the manuscript on the table, nor would she take the risk of exposing the matter afterwards."
All in all, all in all, a girl from Gu Qiancheng's family is not that capable of planning a scientific examination fraud case, and this statement is very much in line with the old emperor's wishes.
It would be really terrible if Gu Qiancheng could single-handedly plan the imperial examination fraud case.
Obviously, the old emperor believed the statement of the leader of the Jin Yiwei. He did not ask about Gu Qiancheng's matter anymore, but asked: "Where is Ji Yan? Doesn't he know about this too?"
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin should have known about it afterwards, but he should not have known anything about Miss Gu's being lied to." The leader of the Jinyiwei did not dare to speak too fully. In order to make the old emperor believe it, the leader of the Jinyiwei added: "Mr. Feng seems to have noticed it too.
What happened? I specially asked Miss Gu to come over and asked about it tentatively. Miss Gu said that she only wanted to give him a clear exam."
"Does anyone believe this?" The old emperor's reaction was similar to that of Mr. Feng, but there was a trace of emotion in his heart: "If she really thinks so, she is sincere. Isn't her grandfather just such a person, in order to stick to what he believes in?
Justice can even cost the lives of the whole family."
After the old emperor finished speaking, he fell into deep thought. No one knew what he was thinking. Only after a while, the old emperor came back to his senses. The first sentence he said was to ask the leader of the Jin Yiwei to keep an eye on Gu Qiancheng, but not to alert the snake, and at the same time, he asked Gu Qiancheng.
Wipe away any traces of the city's involvement so that no one else can find it.
The leader of the Jinyiwei didn't know what the old emperor meant by this, but this move was beneficial to Gu Qiancheng and Qin Jiyan, so the leader of the Jinyiwei agreed without thinking.
In fact, even without the old emperor's order, the leader of the Jinyiwei would clear Gu Qiancheng's tail, so that King Zhao and King Zhou would not get the evidence and implicate King Qin.
After the leader of the Jin Yiwei left, the old emperor sat at his desk and looked at a few pages of waste paper on the table. He couldn't help but reveal a wry smile, "Tell me, do monsters appear in the Wu family every now and then?"
In the study room, there was only the old emperor's confidant eunuch. Hearing this, he had to bite the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, even if there is another monster in the Wu family, it will be for your use. Although Miss Gu's suggestion is good, she is still young and inexperienced.
, this is not... I have been lied to. Besides, the drawbacks of the scientific examination are accumulating more and more, and if this continues for ten years, there will be no capable ministers. At this time, Miss Gu, regardless of her own life and death, revealed that she is completely sincere.
heart..."
"It's not that I don't know, it's just that... I don't want this kind of thing to happen on my own hands." Even if he didn't admit it, the old emperor knew that he was getting old.
"If these things are done by the new emperor, the students who take the scientific examination will be dead set on the new emperor." This is also the reason why the old emperor was unwilling to expose the shortcomings of the scientific examination in his own hands.
It's just a matter of one or two terms. There are more than a hundred officials. The new emperor can completely abandon them and select new officials in Enke.
"The emperor is right, you are in good health. Not long ago, Miss Jun said that with the emperor's body, it would not be a problem to live to be a hundred years old." The confidant eunuch said this, but he was confused in his heart.
He finally understood that although the Emperor had become more and more distant from His Highness King Qin recently, he still wanted His Highness King Qin to succeed to the throne, otherwise he would not have thought of leaving the opportunity to the new emperor to be kind to the young emperor.
You know, the officials who are still standing in the court are either royalists like Master Feng and Master Jiao, or they are the Zhao Wang faction, the Zhou Wang faction and the neutral faction. Others who do not stand in line cannot climb to high positions and are in the first place.
During the political struggle in Poland, he was killed by his political opponents.
However, the confidant eunuch can think this in his heart, but cannot say it out...