In later generations, there was urban management fishing to enforce the law, and in this century there were governors fishing to collect evidence.
The reason why Ji Gang asked Chen Zhou to come forward to buy the test questions instead of directly using Jin Yiwei's people to go fishing was because Ji Yan was also very careful. He did not sell the test questions if he had money, but to select buyers.
, only those who also need to take the Jinke Examination can do so. Ji Yan's behavior makes sense, because these people bought the examination questions to take the Jinshi exam. If others know that they bought the examination questions, they will be considered as Jinshi.
They will also be looked down upon by others, and there will be lifelong consequences. Even friends who will not leak the news are still competitors. The more people know about it, the more people will compete for the spot. Therefore, the candidates who really want to participate in the examination will be
Once the test questions are obtained, they will not be disclosed to anyone.
However, as the Taoism is as high as the magic, Ji Gang actually found a real Juren to solve the problem, and Chen Zhou and Ji Yan had met several times before. Although they were not friends, they were at least familiar with each other. Plus Hu Zhong
There were quite a few criticisms against Ji Yan for being too cautious, as he thought he was too rich to make money. Ji Yan had no choice but to relax the review and sold the test questions to Chen Zhou, who was not very familiar with him, and ended up falling into the trap...
Liang Qian didn't know anything about these things at first, but in the past few days, someone has been secretly delivering news to him, and he finally understood who had tricked him. Director Liang wanted to peel off that little bastard Hu Zhong's skin.
, but at this moment, he naturally had to pretend that he didn't know anything and could only watch Ji Gang's ups and downs.
"Master Wu, please see, this is Chen Zhou's confession." Zhuang Jing took out another confession and asked someone to forward it to Wu Zhongdao: "The time and place of the transaction were clearly explained above." As for Ji Yan,
, was imprisoned directly from the Gongyuan, but because Wang Xian led people to make a scene at that time, Ji Gang's men only had time to interrogate Hu Zhong and did not take care of him. Later, the Ministry of Punishment and the Metropolitan Procuratorate took over the case and detained him.
In the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, there was no confession from him even in the Ji Gang. But this does not matter, because in the highest court in the country, no matter how bold you are, you will be scared out of your wits first. Then all you have to do is let Chen Zhouhe
If he is confronted in court, this kid will definitely confess obediently.
Without further ado, we returned to the main story. The next moment, Wu Shangshu summoned Chen Zhou and Ji Yan to the lobby.
After a while, two people were brought to the court. They were completely opposite in appearance. One was tall and thin, and the other was short and stocky. However, their expressions were exactly the same, and they were both distracted.
"Who are you?" After all, the two of them were still raising people. Wu Shangshu didn't give a damn, so his words were considered polite.
"Student Chen Zhou, I would like to pay my respects to you all." The tall and thin man's name was Chen Zhou. After the incident, he was not taken to jail, but was waiting for summons at home, but his complexion looked even worse than that of Ji Yan.
It seems that these past few days have been difficult.
"Student Ji Yan, I'm here to meet you all." The short and stocky one is naturally Ji Yan. He speaks Mandarin with a Jishui accent, and you can tell he is a fellow villager of Mr. Hu Ge.
"Ji Yan, do you know your sin?" Wu Shangshu narrowed his eyes and stared at Ji Yandao coldly with his eyes that he had practiced for many years and could subjugate demons.
"Student," Ji Yan vomited, "I don't know what the crime is..."
"Haha, you have to think clearly. Even if the charges are the same in the end, there is a huge difference in sentencing between confessing voluntarily and being forced to admit." Wuzhong sneered and said, "I'll ask you again, do you know?
?”
Ji Yan suddenly felt sweat on his forehead, but after being silent for a while, he forced himself to shake his head and said, "I really don't know...
"Then do you recognize this person?" Wu Shangshu pointed at Chen Zhoudao.
Ji Yan turned his head and looked at Chen Zhou. His face became paler and paler, and there was more and more sweat on his face. The fear in his heart was obviously getting heavier and heavier. His reaction made all the adults present secretly disdainful.
He said that he thought this boy was going to resist, but it turned out that he was just being tough. But Liang Qian's heart fell to the bottom. As long as Ji Yan made a move, plus the confessions of Hu Zhong and Chen Zhou, even if he didn't speak, it would be enough.
Condemned to death...
"Say" Wu Shangshu finally picked up the gavel and slapped the table hard.
"I said, I said..." Ji Yan was trembling with fright, and it took him a while to calm down: "I've seen him several times before, but this is the first time I've heard of his name being Chen Zhou."
"That's ridiculous, you sold him test questions, didn't you ask his name?" Master Zhuang interrupted and cursed. He felt something was wrong. Ji Yan's test questions were all sold to the same year, how could he not know their names?
"I sell test questions?" Ji Yan stared wide-eyed and said, "Why do you say this, sir? How can a student, a mere junior scholar, have such magical powers? Besides, even if I can get the test questions, I will try my best to keep them secret to ensure that I can
Isn’t it more cost-effective to get to the top of the exam than how much money you earn?”
"It's useless if you don't say anything." Zhuang Jing scolded: "Chen Zhou has already explained all the affairs between you. If you don't speak, you will only die in an ugly way." Then he turned to Chen Zhou and said, "I bought you from him."
Tell him exactly what happened during the test."
Everyone's eyes turned to Chen Zhou. Ji Yan was sweating profusely. He was on the verge of collapse. After a moment of silence, Chen Zhou finally spoke, "The students have never bought test questions from him..."
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"Did you hear that? He didn't buy it from you and try it..." Zhuang Jing repeated Chen Juren's words with a proud look on his face. He stopped abruptly at the end and turned his head in disbelief, staring at Chen Zhou.
Ji Gang and others also stared at Chen Zhou with disbelief. He could fit an egg into his mouth... As for what kind of egg it was, it had something to do with the size of his mouth.
Ji Yan and Liang Qian's faces showed uncontrollable ecstasy - Ji Yan was just a young man, but even Liang Qian, who was in his 40s and 50s and had cultivated his character to the point where the wind could not move, could not restrain it.
I am in a state of emotion. I can see how unexpected and overjoyed Chen Zhou's defection is.
In fact, both Liang Qian and Ji Yan were just carrying it. The former was carrying it because he knew that with Emperor Yongle's violence, once he was convicted, it would be impossible to keep his body intact, and it would most likely bring disaster.
and his family, so he must hold on until the end... As the saying goes, he won't shed tears until he sees the coffin, he can't look back even if he hits the wall.
As for the latter, he does not have as strong a will as Liang Qian. He can hold on and not let go. First, he has been locked up in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment and has never enjoyed the torture service of Jin Yiwei. Second, the interrogation has just begun after all, and his will is still there.
He didn't completely collapse; and the most important and most secretive thing was that the day before the trial started, the jailer who brought him food suddenly said, "The boss said, tomorrow you just need to deny it, and you can turn danger into good luck." Liang
Qian was at the very moment of extreme hesitation and helplessness. When he suddenly heard these words, it was like grasping at straws. But when he wanted to ask again, the jailer had already gone away.
Last night, Ji Juren couldn't sleep a wink. His mind was filled with what the jailer had said to him. He recalled that the jailer had never come to deliver food, which meant that the other party came specifically for him. Ji Juren was a bit more cautious.
He was not stupid, on the contrary, he was very smart. Of course, it was a matter of life and death, so he couldn't help but not be smart. After thinking about it, Ji Juren was sure that the jailer did not do it to harm him, because if he confessed to this case, it would be a dead end, and others would not be able to do it.
It was necessary to add more layers of detail, so the jailer must not be harming himself... With the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Ji Jucai decided to be tough to the end, otherwise he would have been frightened by Wu Shangshu and Zhuang Fuzi's repeated bluffs just now.
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But before Chen Zhou spoke, Ji Yan was almost fainted by fright, because he knew very well that as long as Chen Zhou confessed, Wu Shangshu would have sufficient reasons to deprive himself of his family background.
This is like the executioner on the guillotine, who has already raised his knife, but suddenly someone shouts, "Save someone under the knife." Although it is up to two people whether he will be spared in the end, but for the person whose head is already on the chopping board, it will
Inspire their endless hope and strength
"Say it again?" Zhuang Jing came back to his senses, stared into Chen Zhou's eyes like a poisonous snake, word by word, and said coldly.
"The students didn't buy the test questions from him," Chen Zhou was sweating profusely as he spoke more and more smoothly: "At that time, Mr. Ji's men used the safety of the high hall to threaten the students and went to Brother Ji to buy the test questions, but
Brother Ji just looked at the student in amazement, scolded me, criticized me for not wanting to study hard, and only thinking about evil ways, so he scolded me back in despair." After a pause, he said, "After I came back, the students were afraid of Master Ji.
My subordinates would harm my parents, so I randomly found three questions from the historical records to fool myself into handing in the job..."
"You're talking nonsense." Now even Ji Gang couldn't sit still and said: "The test questions you gave me are obviously the three questions of this subject. I have already submitted them to the emperor as evidence. Even if I am blind, if I have
Wouldn’t the emperor be able to tell when he comes in and out?”
"Of the three questions I wrote, one was 'There is a way to make money,' one was 'The people are rich, which one is insufficient,' and the other was 'I blame the king for being respectful,' which are completely different from the questions in the general examination." Chen Zhou
As he spoke, his face turned pale, and he was obviously very frightened. However, in the eyes of the presiding judge and the jury, it was just a normal reaction of him being frightened by Ji Gang's power... In the hearts of Wu Shangshu and Liu Zongxian, they already believed it.
Ji Juren's words. On the one hand, this is because Ji Gang's reputation in the past was so bad that people always find it difficult to believe his words. On the other hand, no one can believe that a weak scholar dared to risk angering Ji Gang.
Lying in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice
The two ministers would rather think that this Ji Juren was discovered by the conscience of a scholar, or for some other reason, which made him decide to tell the truth...
But Ji Gang knew that Ji Yan was clearly talking nonsense about the test questions that Ji Yan got in the off-season. He had read them before the test. When the test questions came out and compared them, naturally they were exactly the same. Although Governor Ji was a school dropout, he was not unqualified.
Literary, even if the question is different, he can read it wrong