Chapter 12 Discipline Crack Cases

The sparse raindrops fell around the inn, accompanied by raindrops, and from time to time, a spring thunder sounded, but the students seemed stunned and stood foolishly in the drizzle inside and outside the inn. This alley was a place where students from other places rushed to Beijing for the exam, so there were a large number of people. After the previous shout, the crowd immediately fell into a very strange silence.

After a long time, someone came to his senses and surrounded the student who had called out before. After a lot of disturbance, he seemed to explode and asked all the questions. Hou Jichang and Yang Wanli and the other two also showed excitement on their faces, but they suppressed their inner impulses, and just walked to the railing and listened to everyone's conversation.

There were too many people asking questions, but only one answered. After a long time, the three of them understood that last night, more than 100 spies were dispatched in one of the Supervisory Offices, divided into five routes, and rushed directly to Guo Mansion in the south of the city. However, there were four routes to go to four other houses and captured four students from Jiangnan.

Because of his rapid movement, the news was covered up all night. It was not until the morning court that the Emperor said lightly that he had issued an edict to order the Supervisory Office to investigate the corruption case in detail. The court suddenly fell into some chaos. At this time, the ministers knew why the Minister of Rites Guo Youzhi did not stand in the team.

The only ones who are truly calm in their hearts are the Prime Minister, the Minister of Revenue, and of course, the Lord Chen Pingping of the Supervision House who still has not attended court.

The Supervisory Office's actions were very fast and accurate this time, especially the team of four Jiangnan scholars. They found letters of their interactions with certain officials on the spot, and in the Guo Mansion, a very alarming amount of silver was found. According to preliminary investigation results, the four Jiangnan scholars were all powerful in their families, and there were three salt merchants. This time they entered Beijing for the examination, and brought a large amount of gold and silver. After many ways, they finally joined the disciples of Guo Shangshu.

Guo Youzhi was already in the prison of the Supervisory Office, and the four Jiangnan scholars also became pitiful guests. The Supervisory Office began to ask the Jiangnan branch to start holding people from yesterday to make the case. Because the four Jiangnan scholars nominally bribed the Spring Examination President Guo Shangshu, but in fact most of the money was handed over to the East Palace, so the final background of the case was... the prince.

Of course, students naturally don’t know a single thing about these details. They only know that cursing Shangshu Guo in the rain did not even let go of the poor old Guo’s mother and weak son.

Your Majesty's determination to thoroughly investigate the crime corruption this time seems to be extremely strong. In addition to the Ministry of Rites, at least a dozen officials were suspended for investigation because they were suspended at this time. According to rumors in the martial arts world, the reason why the investigation was so fast and so accurately captured was entirely because of a blacklist, which stated that the names of local scholars colluded with officials in the court during the spring examination. The Supervisory Office started with the scholars and reversed the results. The results were excellent.

Hou Jichang walked back to the wine table from the railing in shock, raised the wine glass and poured it into his throat. He seemed to feel the wine was spicy, and he still said in a daze: "I didn't expect it. I really didn't expect it."

"I didn't expect anything?" Yang Wanli and Cheng Jialin did not come back from the shocking news and asked subconsciously.

Hou Jichang laughed, slapped the table hard, and said, "I didn't expect that the Supervision Bureau was so accurate and ruthless that he could even get a list of noble people in the court to death." He picked up the wine pot, poured the cups for his two friends, and raised his glasses to invite them. He said excitedly, "Come on, let's pay a cup to the Supervision Bureau!"

Listening to his wife's question, Fan Xian's face showed an inexplicable expression and said, "Your prince brother is too brave and has poor methods. The civil and military officials in the court are also a group of bold and confused people. What a big deal of fraud in the spring exam is that it is known to everyone. Even if I don't report it, if Your Majesty wants to investigate, do they still want to hide it?"

Wan'er climbed up from the quilt and looked at his face quietly: "Honey, don't take such a risk in the future. There is no wall that is beyond the wind in the world. If people really know that this matter is related to you, what should we do in the future?"

"What to do? Cold salmon." Fan Xian said another playful words that his wife couldn't understand, and said with a smile: "So what if you know?"

Wan'er sighed, thinking that she was a well-educated and well-educated man, full of poetry and seemed stable on the outside, but no one could tell when he would do such a crazy thing.

Fan Xian knew that his wife was worried about him, so he said quietly: "The key to this matter is in the palace. What is the imperial examination? It is His Majesty's way of gathering talents for him. An emperor in the previous dynasty once laughed out loud during the imperial examination, saying that all the heroes of the world will be included in my net from now on. Your Majesty can tolerate officials in the court to use imperial examination quotas for wealth, but cannot tolerate all the quotas being used for ill-gotten wealth. What's more, the prince and the eldest prince both interfered in this matter, our emperor uncle had to ask himself...What exactly do these two sons want to do?"

Wan'er couldn't understand it and said curiously: "Of course we need to cultivate our power in the court in the future."

Fan Xian continued to ask with a smile: "Then Your Majesty is going to ask, what are you doing to cultivate your own power? The eldest prince is a leader. What are you doing to have such a large force in the court?"

Wan'er smiled bitterly and said, "What about the prince's brother? He is the crown prince of a country, and cultivating talents is a thing of the past. After all, he will also be the emperor in charge of the country's dynasty in the future. When he was listening to the lectures of the Taifu in the East Palace, the Taifu once said that the Eastern Palace cannot do nothing, and is not afraid of rumors, and take the lead in preparing some ministers for future use. This is the true Chi Zhong and the filial piety of the emperor's family."
Chapter completed!