Chapter 460 Behind the scenes
Wu Sangui, whose courtesy name is Changbo.
Wu Sangui looked at the huge martial arts training ground with a hot light in his eyes and said, "You don't know that the ancestors had sealed the thousand households of the Jinyiwei, and they can't join the army now. If you want to join the army, you either start with the soldiers or take the martial arts."
Wu Sangui is surrounded by Wu Qilong and Jiang Su, who has no family background. He came to Beijing for martial arts. He nodded and said, "This is the case, Yin Feng, who used to be the first to receive some salary now, and he has to rely on himself to advance."
This kind of reform is naturally very happy for Wu Qilong, at least they have more opportunities to become officials in poor families.
Although this reform made the nobles who were honored, they were not afraid of being able to do so. Wu Sangui was like this. He was born into the Wu family of Liaodong, and the Wu family had a relative in-laws with the same wealthy family. His father was Jiang and Su Wu Xiang, general Wu Xiang, and his uncle was Zu Dashou, general general of Jinzhou, and general of Liaodong. He can be said to have a very prominent family background.
But he still rode a white horse and entered the capital in a blue shirt, just for martial arts.
Wu Sangui stared at the martial arts field with his eyes fiery brightly. This is the martial arts field of Jingxi Daying. People compete here every day. Occasionally, the general of Jingxi Daying, Duke Lu, Zhang Zhiji, would also come in person, and would directly be included in Jingxi Daying if he likes.
Therefore, there are quite a lot of people who come to take their luck.
Wu Sangui was naturally not from Zhang Zhiji. He wanted to try the masters in the capital.
Sure enough, not long after, Wu Sangui got up, grabbed the spear and jumped onto the ring, raised his hand to the defender, and started fighting.
Wu Qilong looked down and nodded secretly. Although Wu Sangui was born into a general, he did not have the arrogance of his aristocratic family and his martial arts were not simple, especially because he did not rely on his family's family to show off his power, humble and polite, and worked hard and worthy of his merit.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, Wu Sangui picked up his spear and forced the original defender to fall from the stage and become the new defender.
The next five people were no match for him. On the huge arena, Wu Sangui was independent in the middle and had no opponent anymore, and he was quite imposing.
After waiting for a while, no one came on stage. Wu Sangui suddenly circled around and landed on Wu Qilong, and suddenly said excitedly, "Brother Wu, come and fight for a while, you are idle."
Wu Qilong is not a combative person, but after watching it for a long time, he felt itchy and picked up the long knife and went up.
Wu Sangui was tall and Kong Wu was powerful. He looked at Wu Qilong with bright eyes and said, "Brother Wu, I am used to using long spears, and the power is extremely strong, so be careful!"
Wu Qilong stood on the ring, his momentum slowly remained unchanged. He ran across his sword and said in a deep voice: "Brother Chang, you must be cautious, my long sword has cut many bandits!"
After the two of them said that, they walked together, fighting with spears and swords. After a few moves, Wu Sangui was surprised. He thought Wu Qilong was a Confucian general, but he didn't expect that he had such martial arts skills. His expression became more and more excited, so he did not hold back.
Wu Qilong also shouted and fought with Wu Sangui with all his might.
On the ring, the two of them had intertwined figures, their spears were as sharp as the wind, and they were sharp. The big sword opened and closed, and the poor family suddenly flashed.
"good!"
A group of people in the audience applauded, and all the martial arts people admired the strong. The two of them had excellent martial arts, which naturally attracted a burst of cheers.
Wu Sangui and Wu Qilong were not affected at all, and they were equal in size and fought fiercely. They were very lively on the ring.
At this moment, from a distance, a group of people also appeared in front of the ring, looking at the ring from afar.
Shen Yongmao and Zhang Zhiji walked side by side, both looking at the two on the ring.
Shen Yongmao's eyes lit up and said, "Mr. Zhang, are these two people from the West Beijing Camp?"
Zhang Zhiji looked carefully, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be. It's probably an outsider. People often compete here recently."
Shen Yongmao nodded and said with a smile, "Recently, many good talents have emerged from our Ming Dynasty. Just say that our Ministry of War has many good seedlings."
Zhang Zhiji also smiled and was known for his reputation. The most important thing is that the aristocratic family gave up many positions.
Zhang Zhiji and Shen Yongmao looked at each other for a while, called Zhu Ren, and wrote down the names of the two of them before leaving.
For aristocratic families, the martial arts are still a useless existence. Except for Wu Sangui, few people condescending to the nobles to take the martial arts exam. Therefore, the martial arts seem very calm and there is no turmoil.
The leak of the imperial examination tests caused a hurricane in the capital. The scholars were furious and gathered outside the etiquette department, yelling to say something. Zhang Woxue dared not to emerge, and could only wait for news.
He had already found out that these test questions were all reported from the Royal Court. President Bi Ziyan is now in the southwest. The Royal Court has no leader, and no one dares to go into the court to investigate without any orders. The yamen in the capital are waiting for King Xin to return to Beijing.
The government did not speak, which made the scholars in the capital feel that there was something wrong with it. The crowd was in a hurry. Not only did they surround the Ministry of Rites, but they also blocked the Royal Court of Justice, yelling to hand over the "murderer".
Zhou Yanru's mansion.
As a member of Wenzhao Pavilion, Zhou Yanru did not feel the joy of "entering the Pavilion". As he spent his time in Wenzhao Pavilion, he felt more and more depressed.
Wen Zhao Pavilion has an awkward position and the things they handle are very fragmented. It was never the turn of Wen Zhao Pavilion to decide on those big things, especially in the arrangements of officials, Wen Zhao Pavilion was completely unable to get involved.
This also makes their seemingly high status and power extremely "humble".
Zhou Yanru sat on the chair, with a expressionless face, gloomy and terrifying eyes, looking at the son-in-law in front of him, Chen Yutai.
Chen Yutai was also trembling and dared not speak.
After a while, Zhou Yanrucai's face twitched and said in a cold voice, "Who else knows about this except Wen Tiren?"
Chen Yutai looked up at Old Taishan, his expression changed, and said, "I wanted to go to Qian Qianyi's way at that time, but Qian Qianyi's servant asked for too high a price, so I had to go to find Mr. Feng, who had not received any payment."
Zhou Yanru wanted to pop out his eyes, and even more wanted to draw his sword and chop Chen Yutai.
But obviously, we can't be angry. His face changed, suppressed his anger, and said with a solemn look, "Wu Weiye is still the top name, he doesn't have to worry. Since Feng Quan cheated on you and Wen Tiren didn't say anything, then you deserve your name. I don't care about these things. I ask you, how much have you participated in the matter of leaking the problem?"
Chen Yutai's face changed slightly, and he looked at Zhou Yanru timidly, and said stutteringly: "Before... Wu Weiye and I went to the Zhengyuan to study... Later, we talked about the way of poetry in Professor Han's class room... I accidentally... took out more than a dozen pictures..."
Zhou Yanru clasped the chair tightly with both hands, and the force seemed to be able to slash the chair, and his eyes were about to break.
His teeth clenched, and in a cold tone like hell, he said, "I'll ask you again, did Feng Quan instruct you to do this? Who else has participated?"
Chen Yutai also knew the seriousness of the matter, and his eyes flashed: "I know only Zhang Pu, and I don't know the others."
Zhou Yanru's face turned pale and was so angry that he couldn't speak.
It would be fine if you stole the real test papers, but you can always find a few scapegoats to hide from the court. But these test papers are clearly "fake" and not next year's imperial examination questions. This is like deliberately slapping the court in the face, full of malicious provocation.
Not to mention the emperor, no one in the court will give up easily!
Now I don’t know how many people are writing a copybook, and I don’t know how many people are in a hurry.
There is no news about Jingyang Palace, which has always been thunderous and decisive. Zhou Yanru has a strange feeling. A thunder storm is gathering. Once it breaks out, there will definitely be a rolling head and blood flowing into a river!
Zhou Yanru looked at Chen Yutai in front of him and had the heart to kill him, but they were in-laws and they worked together. If Chen Yutai's fraud in the imperial examination was exposed and he would be involved in this imperial examination leak, no matter what, he would be involved!
If you lose your official position, it would be fine, but you are afraid that your life will be gone!
Zhou Yanru is an old bureaucrat, and his thoughts are rapidly changing in his heart. It is too late to get out of here. He must find a way to make Chen Yutai "avoid"!
Seeing that Zhou Yanru didn't speak, Chen Yutai felt more and more frightened in his heart. He raised his hand and said, "My father-in-law, I hope to save my son-in-law!"
Zhou Yanru looked at him with a cold face, took a deep breath, and said, "You are looking for a familiar magistrate in the capital and ask him to find a reason to lock you up. Everything needs to be clear, especially time. Time must be three days ago. Do you understand?"
Although Chen Yutai cheated and won the second place in the provincial examination, he was full of history books and was extremely smart. When he heard this, he looked loud and said, "Yes, I will follow the order of my father-in-law."
Zhou Yanru waved his hand and drove Chen Yutai away, sitting on the chair, his expression not relaxed at all.
Feng Quan was a senior secretary of the Dongge during the Tianqi period. He was sinister and cunning and used all kinds of despicable means. He had a very poor reputation in the court and the country. The most important thing is that he once defected to the eunuch party, and he was the first to step on the eunuch party.
When Wei Zhongxian resumed, he ran over to flatter and tried to resume.
Snakes and rats are both virtuous and shameless, and are nothing but shameless.
Feng Quan was involved in this matter simply to plan for his resumption. As his identity as a Grand Secretary of the Dongge, only Wen Zhao Pavilion had a position to make a comeback. Now Wen Zhao Pavilion has the lowest position, and the one who is currently famous and able to enter Wen Zhao Pavilion is Zhang Woxu, the Minister of Rites!
"What a great strategy to kill two birds with one stone!"
Zhou Yanru sneered, stuttering Chen Yutai to him and stuttering Zhang Woxun with an escaping question. Feng Quan's methods were indeed accurate and ruthless, extremely ruthless!
However, Feng Quan still couldn't see the situation in the capital clearly. The trick of using the insidious means of pulling people and joining the court had long been unworkable. Now he is talking about "Jian Zai's Heart". If you can't figure out the emperor's mind, your skills will be in vain after all!
Feng Quan and Zhou Yanru didn't care. The outdated cabinet master couldn't make any fuss. What he was worried about now was his old rival Wen Tiren.
Wen Tiren knew everything about Chen Yutai's fraud in the imperial examination, but he pretended to be deaf and dumb, and didn't know what to do. This is the key point he should be prepared for.
Zhou Yanru had a slight face, and had countless thoughts in his heart, and suddenly he thought of Qian Qianyi!
Chapter completed!