Ten miles have different pronunciations, and hundreds of miles have different customs. In ancient times, the traffic was blocked and information exchange was slower, so the customs differences in this region were more obvious, and even the literary style was affected, such as the majestic northern literature and the magnificent southern literature. Of course, this is just a general trend, not absolute.

However, no one expected that this literary atmosphere would become the introductory guide for the fraud in the imperial examination. Zhu Yunxiu proposed that Liu Sanwu and others only selected gorgeous literary test papers on the list, which may be due to their own likes and dislikes, or intentional. However, there is a problem now. Even if Liu Sanwu and the others did it on purpose, they may be bitten to death and refuse to admit it now.

However, the matter of Liu Sanwu and other examiners was temporarily put aside. Zhang Xin and other officials who had originally reviewed the test papers were deceived by Li Jie with bad papers. After all, there are quite a few excellent test papers found by Li Jie, and each one was better than Zhang Xin sent it.

"Boom! OK, what a Zhang Xin! This is the top scorer I selected at the beginning!" In the warm pavilion, Lao Zhu slapped the table angrily and said angrily. In order to deal with the fraud case of the imperial examination, Lao Zhu came to the warm pavilion that had been idle for many days, regardless of his physical condition.

"Don't calm down your anger. Zhang Xin and his group of people are not willing to die. Don't get angry because of these people!" Zhu Biao also hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded. Compared with the case, what he was most worried about was his father's physical condition.

"Your Majesty, now the crimes of Zhang Xin and others have been verified, but there is no direct evidence whether Liu Sanwu and others have committed fraud. Even if they really commit fraud, they will probably bite to death and will not admit it. At that time, they can only investigate their crime of dereliction of duty!" Li Jie finally reported the problem mentioned by Zhu Yunxi to Lao Zhu.

For examiners like Liu Sanwu, Li Jie really couldn't come up with any evidence to prove that they were cheating. After all, there was no unified answer to the imperial examination paper. Even if Liu Sanwu and the others only chose the test papers with a specific style of writing on the list, it would not prove that they were cheating. This is the most troublesome thing.

However, Lao Zhu had already become a murderous intention. For him, if he wanted to kill someone, he would not need any evidence. So with Lao Zhu's order, he immediately asked someone to draft an imperial edict. First, Zhang Xin and other officials who were reviewing were deceived by the emperor with a bad book and executed by Lao Zhu's order.

But two of them were exempted from death by Lao Zhu, namely Dai Yi, and Yin Changlong, who was the second place in the imperial examination, had added northern candidates to the list submitted by them during the review before, so they were exempted from death by Lao Zhu, and even their official positions and rankings were retained.

As for examiners such as Liu Sanwu and Bai Xinda, Lao Zhu directly charged Hu Weiyong with a crime of rebellion, and they were all arrested and questioned. Among them, Liu Sanwu was even charged with participating in treason. However, Liu Sanwu had made great contributions before and helped the court formulate the imperial examination regulations, so Lao Zhu did not kill him, but demoted him to the northwest to guard the border.

As for examiners such as Bai Xindao, they were not so lucky. They either sing scattered with Zhang Xin and others, or were directly executed. At the same time, Lao Zhu also declared the crimes of these people to the world. The government and the people were shocked for a moment. No one expected that there were so many plots and conspiracies behind this imperial examination.

After dealing with Liu Sanwu and Zhang Xin, Lao Zhu issued another order to list the top 61 tribute students selected by Li Jie as tribute students, plus the fifty-one tribute students previously designated by Liu Sanwu and others. However, because they killed two, there are only 49 people left. The two times together, a total of 110 people were included, and one month later, they participated in the palace examination.

As soon as this news came out, the entire capital was in an uproar again. The northern students were naturally extremely happy. Even if they were not on the list, at least the court gave them justice. Although the southern students felt wronged, at least Lao Zhu did not deny the previous admission list, which was considered to have saved face for the southern team.

In addition, the death of Zhang Xin and others also shocked the entire Southern Literary Group. In fact, the reason why Liu Sanwu, Zhang Xin and others were so bold this time was because they were supported by the entire Southern Group. Their main purpose was to test Lao Zhu's attitude and Lao Zhu's physical condition. This time, Lao Zhu showed decisive decisiveness in killing, especially directly attacking Liu Sanwu as the Hu Party, which made them relive the nightmare of that year, so in a short period of time, all these people became honest.

However, the few companies were happy and sad. Although the northern students were in full swing, the students in Huguang, Guangdong, Sichuan and others were cursing because they were not on the previous list. The sixty-one people who were ordered to add were all northerners, and they also had no share.

It is precisely because of this that the senators in Huguang and other places were also holding their anger. At first, they made trouble, but the energy was too small and the court did not pay attention to them, so it was useless. In the end, many people could only accept their fate, and some even drank their sorrows by drinking. So many drunk men in the capital with accents in Huguang and other places appeared in the capital. They scolded Zhang Xin, Liu Sanwu and others when they got drunk. Some southern senators all walked around when they saw them, for fear of being beaten.

A month later, the palace examination was also held as scheduled. Lao Zhu appointed Han Kezhong as the top scorer, Wang Shu as the second scorer, and Jiao Sheng as the Tanhua. All three of them were from the north, but no one dared to raise any objection to this.

However, after participating in the palace examination, Lao Zhu's physical condition took a sharp turn. He was just in poor spirits before, but there were no obvious symptoms. However, after the palace examination, Lao Zhu fell seriously ill and even stayed in bed. At first, Lao Zhu wanted to block the news, but the news soon leaked. The world was shocked for a moment, but soon fell into a strange calm again.

Zhu Biao is the most anxious person about Lao Zhu's illness. The relationship between them and their father and son was already very deep, and this time Lao Zhu's illness gave him a very bad premonition.

But as the prince, Zhu Biao had no time to make him sad. Countless government affairs were waiting for him to deal with. Even though Lao Zhu asked him to transfer some bachelor's degree to help him, government affairs still took up most of Zhu Biao's time, making him have no time to spend more time with Lao Zhu.

In this case, Li Jie, Zhu Yunxiu and others replaced Zhu Biao. They often went to the Qianqing Palace to take care of Lao Zhu. Although Lao Zhu was in a drowsy most of the time, after waking up, they would say a lot to Li Jie and the others, some were family affairs and some were state affairs.

That afternoon, Li Jie came to Qianqing Palace to ask for a meeting. Today, Lao Zhu was in a very good spirit. He even had a bowl of porridge. When he saw Li Jie, he signaled him to sit down. Then he said, "Although the imperial examination case is over, I feel uncomfortable in my heart!"
Chapter completed!