The fifth-rank Jinyiwei Qianhu can walk sideways even on the ground in the capital. However, today Jiang Liwei is not the protagonist, at most he is going to run errands with people. When he arrives at the lobby, he can only guard the door as a door god.

If a fifth-rank Jinyiwei can keep a door in the door, then the person who arrives today will definitely have a great identity.

As expected, not long after, three people in front and two behind came out of the inner hall. The leader was wearing a large single flower, wide sleeves, tray collar, right-sided-sided red robe, hooded black gauze, and a crane on his chest. It was obvious that he was a first-rank official uniform. As for the two people behind him, they were wearing third- and fourth-rank court uniforms, which was obviously following the "Shangguan" to handle the case.

The first-rank official led by the leader stood in front of the main hall for a while, and saw the people present, and thought for a long time before slowly sitting down.

Looking at this person, he was about fifty years old, in good spirits and a sanity, he lowered his head and looked at several official documents on the case, silently.

Shangguan didn't ask, so the people below naturally did not dare to act rashly, and they didn't even know how to do etiquette. Instead, the middle-aged student next to him who was in a state of indifference came first: "The student has met Lord Shangshu."

He obviously knew this Shangguan, but with just a word "Shangshu" Chen Xi could not tell who this person was.

The six ministers of the Ministry of Justice are all second-rank officials. Since this person is wearing first-rank public uniforms, he is the cabinet minister with the title of Minister of Justice.

At present, the three cabinet ministers are Liu Jian as the chief assistant, followed by Li Dongyang and Xie Qian.

Among them, Liu Jian was appointed as the Minister of Revenue, Li Dongyang was appointed as the Minister of Rites, and Xie Qian was appointed as the Minister of War. Needless to say, this person was one of these three people.

Just from his appearance, Chen Xi had never seen three people, so he naturally didn't know who was in front of him. However, according to various situations, it was the most likely that Li Dongyang was. After all, Emperor Hongzhi sent Li Dongyang to thoroughly investigate the case of selling the papers, and the case files in his hand seemed to be the files of candidates for this session.

The first-rank official ignored the person who took the initiative to bow down. Instead, he raised his head and looked at Chen Xi and Lun Wenxu: "Which is Chen Xi from Ninghua County?"

Chen Xi hurried forward and saluted: "It's the student."

Not knowing the other party's identity, Chen Xi was cautious and did not ask for peace rashly.

Since he came for the sales case of the Ministry of Rites' examination and was doing an errand that the emperor ordered, the Shangguan did not seem to want to be polite to the etiquette. He glanced at Lun Wenxu and obviously knew Lun Wenxu. His eyes turned to Jiang Liwei at the door: "Why haven't Sun Xu arrived?"

Jiang Liwei reported: "When you say that, the sent people have not returned for some time."

The first-rank official was a little angry: "The emperor's mission can still delay it. Could it be that I can wait for him here?"

The tone was majestic and the expression was solemn. There was a silent voice in the audience, and no one dared to take the blame.

Chen Xi was thinking about the question behind it. He thought that he, Lun Wenxu and the person with a weak spirit should be the one who could fluently answer the "Four Sons' Achievements" test questions in this session, so he was asked, but now it seems that there is another person.

But Sun Xu, Chen Xi also heard of it. He was the first place in the first place in the Jiwei exam in the twelve years of Hongzhi, and was ranked first in the second place after the palace exam. He was considered a candidate with very high academic attainments.

In this way, it should be that he and Lun Wenxu, and Sun Xu and the other two answered the "Four Sons' Achievements" test questions in the imperial examination, which had nothing to do with Tang Bohu and Xu Jing.

Jiang Liwei looked a little frightened. It was obvious that he was in the position of Qianhu, the Jinyiwei. He also knew the importance of catering to Shangguan. Now that he has caused Shangguan’s dissatisfaction, he is still a minister of the cabinet. If he is careless, he may affect his career.

Not long after, Sun Xu was finally escorted. When he arrived at the main hall, he still shouted that he was obviously not as calm as Chen Xi and Lun Wenxu. He was suddenly caught by a group of Jinyiwei, and he refused to even say the reason. He was already called a "talented man in Yingzhou", and this kind of scholar who was full of pride was naturally not convinced.

"No noise!"

Jiang Liwei shouted and went over and took off Sun Xu's blindfold.

Sun Xu looked around and protested loudly: "I am a sage. How can I understand me here? Is there any other princely law?" After seeing clearly the minister sitting in the hall, Sun Xu was a little honest, but looked at Chen Xi and Lun Wenxu indignantly, as if Chen Xi and Lun Wenxu had harmed him.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Sun Xu was making a big fuss, but he must know that it was related to the Suo Qu case. This clearly regarded me and Lun Wenxu as Tang Bohu and Xu Jing."

After Sun Xu's mood eased, the first-rank official said: "I was ordered by the emperor to investigate the case of fraud and selling questions in the Ministry of Rites' examination, involving the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites, the Hanlin Bachelor, and the students Xu Jing, and Tang Yin."

Chen Xi is now sure that the person who sent the emperor to handle the case was Grand Secretary Li Dongyang, who was also the chief minister after Liu Jian retired.

Among the many famous ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dongyang was considered the number one figure. Like Cheng Minzheng, he was a child prodigy whom everyone praised since childhood. He passed the imperial examination at the age of 15 and was appointed as a Jinshi and entered the Hanlin Academy at the age of 17. He served as a lecturer, a lecturer in the Eastern Palace, a right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and a lecturer in the Zhiwenyuan Pavilion. He was a humeral minister of the Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties. He was a dynasty for fifty years and had a 18-year-old country. The Qing Dynasty was unswerving.

The students outside the outside world knew about Li Dongyang's orders to do the job. Sun Xu looked extremely arrogant and bowed and asked, "Do you dare to ask the Grand Secretary, what crime we have committed? Will we be sent here to defile our reputation?"

Chen Xi thought to himself that Sun Xu really treated himself as a dish. I wonder if this era when the feudal **** in the Ming Dynasty reached its peak, would he be able to kill people with a higher level?

You are just a juren now, but the person you are asking about is the second auxiliary minister of the dynasty. Now Li Dongyang is still under the order of the emperor to handle the task. What's wrong with escorting you in a prison car? It's good if you didn't pull you out and beat you up first and then transport it to you!

The Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei was not a good partner.

Generally speaking, the Jinyiwei wants to take the gift, no matter who it is, it is not sent to the Fufu Department first, but is taken to the ruined temple to beat it. It is called "piling". When the bribes are collected, then the person is sent to the Fufu Department, and then tortures him. When you confess, if you are lucky, you will be sentenced directly. If you are lucky, you will be sent to the Ministry of Justice. If you are not lucky, you may be punished again.

This Sun Xu is also a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger.

Fortunately, Li Dongyang is a gentleman who is easy to talk to, and he cherishes the talents in front of him very much. Because it is very likely that this class of members who are not a student in Jiwei will be among the three, and even some of them. With the knowledge of the three, they may not necessarily be ranked first in the first place in the palace examination, the second place, and the second place in Tanhua, and will be ministers in the future.

As long as these three people are not related to the sales case after investigation, Li Dongyang will not make any dilemma.

But Chen Xi and the other two didn't know this. They were all worried about whether the case of selling the paper would involve them.

Li Dongyang ignored the question of a arrogant scholar and looked directly at the spiritually depressed student who had been standing next to him with his head down and his body shrank, saying: "Du Mu, do you recognize these three people?"

Chen Xi was a little surprised. It turned out that this person was Du Mu!

Du Mu replied: "Sir, the villain only recognizes Chen Xi, but others do not recognize him."

Chen Xi sneered: "It's true that he is a villain. You don't want to harm Tang Bohu enough. Could it be that you want to harm me? It was also just now that Li Dongyang only asked me, and I responded, and you said you knew me. But the two next to you were not asked, so you said you didn't know me?"

Li Dongyang looked at Chen Xi with some suspicion, but did not make a judgment, but waved his hand and said, "Presentation table, prepare pen, ink, paper and ink."

Then the Jinyiwei carried the low desk in, and there were four treasures of the study, and only three were prepared. Obviously, Mu did not need to accept this assessment.

Chen Xi and the other two didn’t know what Li Dongyang was going to investigate, after all, the Ministry of Rites examination has ended. If you want to take the school’s academic exam on the spot, writing one or two articles should be useless.

"You three, and you will write down the articles written in this examination on the desk paper." Li Dongyang finally made his request.

This requirement sounds simple. It is not that easy to do.

There were more than 20 articles written in the first and last three sessions, with tens of thousands of words, and memorizing them directly. It was simply a waste of life. Even if he could get the full marks in the college entrance examination Chinese, he would be able to turn around and write down his essay without saying a word, that would be impossible!

Lun Wenxu and Sun Xu were stunned when they heard this. Such an unreasonable request came from Li Dongyang's mouth and was related to the case of selling the paper. Will it be written silently?

If you can't recite it, what if you think of it?

I heard Li Dongyang continue to say: "It's not all. You just need to copy the first Analects of Confucius, the second preface, the third three and four questions!"

The requirements have been reduced a little, from more than twenty articles to one Analects of Confucius, three outlines and two outlines, and six outlines, but even so, I still have to memorize more than two thousand words. If I can't memorize this, can it be said that it must be related to the sales case?

Chen Xi was also thinking about it. It was obvious that even if he didn't know the test questions in advance, he would be a bit difficult to memorize his own paper, but it was not impossible to achieve.

Chen Xi often writes articles, and then writes it down again, so that Feng Huaqi can take it back to reference because he has this ability, and Feng Huaqi knows that he has this ability, which is not uncommon.

Chen Xi then wondered whether Li Dongyang was "anti-investigation" and could he be silent about it, but it was suspected?

It is obvious that if you know the test questions in advance, you must find someone to do the questions, and then memorize all the questions. When you arrive at the exam room, you can write down the questions you understand...

Chen Xixin said, this is something that can be memorized, but it cannot be memorized.

There was a desk, but no stool, and there was not even a floor mat. The three of them could only squat on the ground and grind ink by themselves and write it down by themselves.

Lun Wenxu is better. After all, he is a famous scholar. He only writes some turning points and tones or cannot remember them all. However, the arguments of the article are generally not biased. But Sun Xu was originally a wild scholar. When he did articles, he was very concerned about what he wanted to write the articles he made again, which really stumped him.

Chen Xi lifted up his pen, but didn't know how to start writing. He could recite it without saying a word, but he wanted to hide his shortcomings, but he was afraid that others would hear that he had the ability to remember everything he had before and re-reported the old things. Then, if he had a mistake in memorizing today, he would deliberately deceive or dig a big hole for the future.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Forget it, just do whatever you should do."

Chen Xi no longer deliberately hides his shortcomings, so he listed all the articles he had written before on paper.

About an hour later, the three of them wrote six of their articles one after another. Li Dongyang had been examining the articles they had written.

After all the things were completed, the three of them stood aside again.

After squatting for more than an hour, the three of them were a little numb and they couldn't stand firmly.

Finally, what Li Dongyang noticed was naturally the "Four Sons' Attainments". After comparing the questions on the three-person paper with those on the original paper, Li Dongyang raised his head, frowned slightly at the three people, and finally turned his eyes to Shen Xi... Obviously, Chen Xi's answer was exactly word-of-mouth, which aroused his suspicion.

"Lun Wenxu, Sun Xu, you two can go back... Chen Xi, stay and have something to ask you!"

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ps: The fifth update is here!

Once again, we celebrate the great success of "realizing the extreme of emptiness and keeping quietness" that has become the leader of this book!
Chapter completed!