Turbulent Times Chapter 196: Various small notes

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There are many brothels that are not much less famous than Chunnvlou. Pei Yuanqing naturally said that he would go to sit in a certain building, but Wang Junlin was too lazy to accompany him and bid farewell to each other.

But when saying goodbye, the young military general who always liked to run to brothels at a young age said something with a half-smile: "Today the eldest prince wants to see you first, maybe because after the test, maybe you escaped." No request from the prince."

Wang Junlin was stunned for a moment, and heard a trace of information revealed in the other party's words. Three days later, the autumn competition will officially start. Although he is not the one who marks the papers, he has the responsibility of supervision. This power is not high at all. Ying's examiner is much smaller.

In the evening, Wang Junlin returned to his mansion, talked briefly with Shen Guang, Niu Jinda, and Zhan Peng about the meeting with the abandoned prince during the day, and then welcomed the expected guest——Yuwen Chengdu.

Instructing someone to sit down and watch tea and wine for this cheap senior brother, but the latter has the character of a warrior. He was lazy to say something polite to Wang Junlin, and directly wrote a note that was said to be written by the prince Yang Guang himself. The article was handed over to Wang Junlin.

Looking at the names on this note, Wang Junlin thought that this kind of thing is the same whether it is in ancient times or later generations, whether it is a feudal society or later generations... it is the same.

He smiled inexplicably, of course he knew what the crown prince Yang Guang wanted him to do. Although he seemed to have a close relationship with Yang Guang to outsiders because of his close relationship with Yang Zhao, in fact, no matter it was Yang Guang, It was still himself, who knew very well that he had not really surrendered to Yang Guang, but Yang Guang unceremoniously asked Yuwen Chengdu to send him the note.

Yang Jian wants to open a course to recruit scholars. On the surface, he wants to give the world's impoverished scholars a way to make progress and use the world's talented people for him, but his real purpose is to break the powerful family's control of the government and local governments. situation. But in the end, the result of the selection of scholars... If all the students who passed the exam were the children of the nobles and the humble scholars who had secretly taken refuge in those top aristocratic families, then it would be of no use, it could only be a failed imperial examination.

"Why show me this?" Wang Junlin was unwilling to do such a thing in his heart, so he held the note in his hand, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Senior brother, the matter of knowing how to mark papers is very important." It's Gao Ying who has the final say, I can't intervene at all."

For more than a month, whether it was the fact that he saved Niu Jinda when Mai Tiezhang led people to attack the original mansion at night, or he used it to deal with the old couple of Tianying Palace in Tianying Palace, the cooperation between the two is extremely There is a tacit understanding, and there is not too much conflict in each other's personalities. In addition, the two of them are genuine brothers, so now they have naturally become acquainted with each other a lot.

Yu Wencheng was a little surprised that Wang Junlin would say this, pulled the tea cup aside, picked up the wine glass and drank it dry, and explained loudly: "Junior brother, you should know what these names are."

Of course Wang Junlin knows that the day after tomorrow will be the day when the exam will start. The threshold of the back door of the family with an official in the Ministry of Rites was almost smashed. It is said that Zhou Chengyan, the Minister of Rites, did not tire of trouble, and did not dare to offend too many princes and nobles and various powerful families. Thank you behind closed doors. Except for Gao Ying, the chief examiner, the other four fellow examiners and transferees also avoided going home, so they simply lived in the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

But in Wang Junlin's view, according to the energy of the East Palace, if the crown prince Yang Guang wants to promote some young scholars who have already taken refuge in him in the autumn imperial examination, he should have connections and methods. Ying Sheng's momentum has risen a lot, but Yang Guang is the real crown prince after all, and there are staunch supporters of giants such as the Dugu family behind him. He casually sends a word to someone in the Ministry of Rites. Not much, and there won't be too many problems, how could it be found on my head.

Yuwen Chengdu saw the doubts in Wang Junlin's heart. When he remembered something, his face showed anger, and he said, "That old man Gaoying is so shameless, and the gang of birds in the Ministry of Rites are also very courageous. The rules are not told to the younger brother."

Wang Junlin was stunned for a moment, and said: "The Ministry of Rites sent someone to send an agenda, but I was too lazy to read it."

"Ahem...cough cough...junior brother, you...you... are really..." Yu Wencheng almost spit out the wine he just drank. The autumn imperial examination and other important events involve the interests of many people He Xinsi, he, the supervisor, was so lazy that he didn't even look at the plan. If Yang Jian, who wanted to use Wang Junlin's ferocious means to successfully hold the first imperial examination, heard this, he would not be angry if he ate the Dragon and Tiger Pill that night. Do not lift.

Wang Junlin was also a little embarrassed. He originally wanted to look through the program agenda sent by the Ministry of Rites the night before the exam.

Yu Wencheng thought for a while, and said: "In order to show his fair side in front of His Majesty and the people of the world, the old man Gaoying stipulated that the examination papers of the candidates must be re-written on the grounds of preventing fraud. To prevent the handwriting from being recognized by the examiner, the most critical step is to blur the name."

Wang Junlin nodded thoughtfully when he heard the words, Yu Wencheng took a sip of the wine Wang Junlin poured for him, and continued: "The five names on the paper were all interviewed by His Royal Highness personally. Of those who taught, four were from noble families, and one was from a poor family." He smiled and said, "When His Royal Highness was taking the teaching exam, I watched from the side, and these five are all talented people."

After a pause, Yuwen Chengdu took out another piece of paper with some embarrassment, handed it to Wang Junlin and said, "These three people are the children of my Yuwen family, and please ask the younger brother to take care of them. Brother, take them to toast the younger brother to thank you."

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After sending Yuwen away in Chengdu, Wang Junlin sat quietly in the study, looking at the two notes in his hand, although he already knew the fate of Da Sui, he was still slightly angry.

Three days later is the day of the examination, and he didn't know until today that after Gao Ying presented the plan to Yang Jian, besides Gao Ying, the main examiner, the secondary examination and promotion were selected by Gao Ying and His Majesty , but among the officials in the examination, Yang Jian personally ordered him to take on a very troublesome and important role-the chief supervisor.

The so-called chief supervisor is fully responsible for the supervision of this meeting. He holds great real power in his hands. More importantly, after the paper was sealed at night and before the paper was revised, Yang Jian Before he personally selected a close servant who could write from the palace to re-copy the scroll, he was in charge of the matter of obfuscating the name.

And to this day, I don't know whether it's because my performance after coming to the capital is much better than what Yang Jian expected every time, or because Yang Jian didn't summon him all the time because of other thoughts, and gave him another order this matter.

As for the various aristocratic families and various forces who want to engage in favoritism and fraud in this test, the first thing to deal with is the link of obfuscation.

Even if the background behind those students has bought off the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the examiners, and even Gao Ying wants to take care of someone, if he doesn't falsify his name first, the examiner who marks the test papers will not be able to do it, because he I don't know which test paper is the test paper of the person I have to take care of.

Of course, if this is done in later generations, there are too many ways. Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the imperial examinations were already very mature, there were many ways to deal with the ambiguous measures. In an imperial examination, whether it is the examiner or the examinee, the methods used to cheat are only being explored and researched.

Originally, for more than a month, these fraudulent and self-serving transactions have been secretly allocated by the various nobles and various forces in private. Full of variables.

Although Wang Junlin is a great nobleman now, strictly speaking, he doesn't seem to be in the same league as other powerful nobles.

Secondly, what Wang Junlin has done since he came to Beijing for more than a month seems to be specially used by His Majesty to deal with powerful and powerful nobles.

Furthermore, Wang Junlin's actions were often taken by surprise. Even though an official from the Ministry of Rites was sent by a group of aristocratic clans some time ago to test him out, the clans of the clans and the forces in the DPRK and China were still somewhat uncertain. No one knows what kind of things this vicious and vicious poison will do.

That's why the prince didn't hesitate to ask Yuwen Chengdu to come to Qin Anhou's mansion in advance. He thought that Wang Junlin would not go against his will, and Yuwen Chengdu also unceremoniously gave Wang Junlin his family's name.

And these days, the prince thought that he had shown enough kindness to Wang Junlin, and it was time for Wang Junlin to express his attitude.

Wang Junlin took another look at the names of the eight people on the two slips of paper, and kept them in his mind for the time being. He sighed, rubbed his hands together, and destroyed the two slips of paper into powder. Right now, Yang Guang is the last person he can offend in this world, and Yang Guang is not too much, there are only five of them, and I heard that they are really talented people, so it is nothing to help them cheat. As for the three names sent by Yuwen Chengdu, it is not a big problem if there are three more people...

But he still somewhat underestimated the complexity of the matter.

The next day, Changsun Wuji came, also holding a note in his hand, but only two names were written on it.

Pei Shiju asked Pei Yuanqing to run away again and sent three names.

The backer king Yang Lin asked his son Yang Cheng to send him a gift, and at the same time told him the names of the three people.

General Han Qinhu sent someone to deliver the gift that Han Ziliang brought to Wang Junlin from Tianshui County, along with two names.

Even the Eldest Princess Yang Lihua asked Nighthawk to send a list, which was the same number as Yang Guang's, a total of five people.

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