Chapter 412: Fraud Case Closed
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the first good news was that Zhao Xing's two wives were pregnant. This made Zhao Xing excitedly walk out a small path in his yard. It was really a waste of smoke and dust.
The reason why he was so excited was because he wanted to tell the time travelers that he would boldly travel through time. What kind of rays in the universe cannot change the time travelers' reproductive ability. He can be a horse safely in any space, and it doesn't matter even if he is a breeding donkey.
For Zhao Xing, the two tasks at the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen were to welcome the birth of two new lives and send more than 100 officials in the imperial examination fraud case to Caishikou to die.
The arrival of a new life will represent hope, and the annihilation of an old life will represent eliminating the old. Eliminating the old and welcoming the new is the driving force for the continuous development of history.
After the grand court meeting, Zhao Xing immediately joined the three legal departments such as Dali City to try the prisoners who were cheating in the imperial examinations and sentenced them one by one.
Regarding the chief examiner of Zhou Tingru, the emperor had already decided to be beheaded in half. Zhao Xing hurried into the palace in a hypocritical manner and pleaded for Zhou Tingru in the court: "Long live, the punishment of beheading is too cruel and inhumane. Slashing can only be used to the extreme of the crime. Although Zhou Tingru was wrong, he would not use the above two punishments, so I would like to ask-"
"Mr. Zhao is wrong." Before Zhao Xing finished speaking, a man in the hall interrupted Zhao Xing's words.
Zhao Xing turned his head, but Wen Tiren, who was both a fellow Donglin, but not the same faction, stood up with righteousness and refuted loudly.
Of course, Zhao Xing was not puzzled, but he felt that Wen Tiren was too impatient and ignored what he was going to say. He thought he continued to say that beheading was not good, so he would just give him an exile or something.
Wen Tiren is so anxious to jump out and be a villain, which is what he really thinks.
From his perspective, Zhao Xing and the emperor were expelling himself for the chief examiner of Enke Chongzhen and the deputy chief examiner of Zhao Xing. If Zhou Tingru was killed, then what should you and Zhao Xing do? According to the imperial examination level, Enke is the next level. In this way, if Zhou Tingru does not die, the emperor will not say that Zhao Xing will be demoted to the next level, and it is okay.
As long as Zhou Tingru did not die, according to the current practice of the Ming Dynasty's serious lack of officials, Zhou Tingru might be restored tomorrow.
Zhou Tingru is his mortal enemy. He has been fighting for the position of the cabinet for three years. The final outcome is that Zhou Tingru became the chief minister as he wished, and he didn't even take the edge. Zhou Tingru had to die, so he took this opportunity to move away the guy who blocked him and drove Zhao Xing out of the court. This was a trick of killing two birds with one stone.
Zhao Xing said miserably: "Although Zhou Tingru is the main examiner, but—"
Wen Tiren interrupted Zhao Xing again: "I want to defend, there is no way." So he said to Zhao Xing proudly: "The imperial examination is a major event for the country and must not be careless. Since the Jiajing dynasty's imperial examination fraud case and the Jiajing Ye thundering method has been dealt with seriously for more than a hundred years, it has ensured the true justice of the imperial examination and selected countless talents for the country, such as me. This time, the scientific examination hosted by Zhou Tingru actually made Bai Ding on the list. This is itself an injustice to the scholars of the world and the greatest blasphemy to the imperial examination. If it is not strictly punished, how can we be warned for later generations and how can we make the grand ceremony of talent return to the status of the country's important weapons?"
Zhao Xing continued to argue: "This is also the same-"
Wen Tiren interrupted Zhao Xing again: "You may say that Zhou Tingru may have been a little blinded, but his wife and nephew Chen Yutai, who is not talented and knowledgeable, was selected as the first class. He also confessed that it was the income from the operation of money and bribery. Isn't this the biggest evidence of the crime? In this conclusive case, in the case you personally decided, what are your intentions for protecting Zhou Tingru like this?"
After these repeated questions, Zhao Xing was speechless at that time, and he was really speechless.
Of course, there were all the ministers and the emperor in the hall.
What does it mean? Zhao Xing has always had an inexplicable hatred of Donglin, which is to catch one and destroy one. Wen Tiren is the backbone of Donglin, and he also caught one and killed another for other parties.
As a result, today it was Zhao Xing who was the last one to protect Donglin's head Zhou Tingru, but Wen Tiren was determined to kill him. Did he get the wrong script? Both of them defected to each other?
But after a confused incident, the noble faction behind Zhao Xing decided that he was Zhao Xing's faction. Since he defected to Donglin, everyone must defect with him. Therefore, as represented by Duke Zheng, he did not hesitate to give various reasons to protect Zhou Tingru. That posture was that Donglin's no longer Donglin.
When Donglin's party meets, Donglin's real leader Wen Tiren is not allowed, otherwise Donglin will be in a leader. Since you take the script instead, we must sing with you, and we must oppose it for the sake of opposition and resolutely kill Zhou Tingru. So everyone stood up and tried to kill Zhou Tingru. Therefore, Donglin's nobles could no longer be nobles. Everyone exchanged battlefields and fought against each other.
Opposition is still opposing each other, but it always makes people feel strange and awkward.
However, when it comes to verbal kung fu, Zhao Xing's school, as long as Zhao Xing does not make any mistakes, facing a group of Donglin's famous verbal kung fu, the nobles were completely defeated in just a few rounds.
In the end, he achieved a complete victory. Under Donglin's strong demand for justice, the emperor reluctantly agreed. Zhou Tingru was beheaded in half, Chen Yutai's car was broken, and the rest were punished first-class in turn.
After saying this, Wen Tiren sneered at Zhao Xing - Xiaobian, it's your turn.
"I impeached Zhao Xing, deputy chief examiner of Enke, for the crime of fraud in the imperial examination. He should follow the law of the statute, be punished, and Huang Daozhou will be executed according to the law of the statute, and the following people will be demoted according to the law."
When everyone heard this, they immediately became excited. Is this right? The script was really right.
It’s better to stand on your own position. It’s really awkward to stand on the enemy’s position and guard the position for the enemy.
So, with a comfortable mood, everyone began to try to prepare for a big fight. This time, they beat Zhao Xing down and beat the examiner emperor.
Zhao Xing, who was excited to completely kill Zhou Tingru with Wen Tiren's hand, heard that he was going to be put into a pot. He was cheered up and prepared to go barefoot to defend his body.
The leader of the Party Zhao Xing was excited, and the noble party behind him immediately rolled up his arms and sleeves, ready to charge into battle as if he was injected with chicken blood.
After getting the script right, everyone felt a natural and refreshing feeling.
Chongzhen also began to try to cheer for his capable ministers. Donglin also stood in line correctly and prepared to grind his teeth.
But this time, Chongzhen took responsibility for Zhao Xing for the first time. In fact, he stood up for his own face: "Enke, I originally supported the convening, but it was not comparable to the formal imperial examination. According to convention, it should be downgraded from the Zhengke."
Such a conclusion is equivalent to setting a tone for Enko, and demoting it to two levels. Zhao Xing is just a punishment and then beheaded and then decapitated and was at most dismissed from office and imprisonment, and his property is confiscated.
Chapter completed!