The East Factory finally encountered a major case again.
It's still the imperial case, the government and the opposition are still shaking, and it's still under the supervision of Luo Xiang, the eunuch of the East Factory.
After all, when Huidong Factory was so beautiful, it was still the case of Li Guang... Well, that big case was also discovered by the two Zhang Guojies first. Their Dongchang and Guoji really have a good relationship. Every time they handle such a case that is easy to handle and invites names, the two Guoji find out the traitors and hand them over to Dongchang for investigation.
If the uncles of the state were not aware of the situation, the officials and the common people would have forgotten that there was an East Factory in the palace!
Now he doesn't say how majestic he is, at least he can show a small face with the uncles in "Youth Jinyiwei" - although the people in the book are not very similar to him, and he didn't even write his surname, but he said it clearly. It is the eunuch in charge of the East Factory, but who else could he be
Eunuch Luo never surrendered his identity, and regarded himself and the children of Dongchang as the same kind of traitorous eunuchs with broken conscience. He put on a new flying fish suit, put on a steel fork hat, smiled at the majestic eunuch in the mirror, and shouted: "Bring up this old slave Gu Dayong and interrogate with your heart, all the servants in the East Palace who are implicated. , One must not let go!"
The trial of the East Factory was huge, and several eunuchs who had been favored in front of the prince were dragged out like grape beads.
Such as Gu Da used the prince to fight dogs, seduce the prince to fight, steal picture books from outside the palace to show the prince, and accompany the prince to practice fists, feet and horns...
I don't know, there are so many evil prisoners in the East Palace! If it hadn't been for Brother Guo to capture Gu Dayong and pull out this group of traitors, how could the Crown Prince accompany this group of villains every day, how could he grow up to be a Ming Jun!
Eunuch Luo strictly drew up the charges, and Shang Shu asked the emperor to severely punish these eunuchs who badly taught the prince, and then selected the mature and stable eunuchs to serve in the East Palace, and taught the chief eunuch Gao Liang to ask questions about the East Palace from time to time, so as not to have any more problems. The villain deliberately brought the prince bad for the sake of luck.
When Eunuch Gao saw this statement, he immediately avoided suspicion and presented it to the emperor as it was.
Although Emperor Hongzhi is a gentle and kind person, but as a father, he sees the villain trying to bring down his son; as an emperor, he sees the traitor wanting to shake the foundation of the country; how could he not be angry!
The emperor immediately issued a decree to punish him severely: send Gu Dayong and Ma Yongcheng, who had seduced the prince to gambling, to Nanjing Yumajian to fill the Jingjun; teach the little eunuch how to reach, and perform Qiu Jufa for the prince to guard the mausoleum in Fengyang; Wei Bin, who bought the picture book for the prince, and Zhang Yong, who accompanies the prince to practice boxing and kicks, were slightly less guilty and sent them to the vacant palace to look at the courtyard.
Brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling handled another major case. They were refreshed and walked with wind. They rushed to Cui Xie to ask for credit.
Cui Xie heard the names of Gu Dayong and Zhang Yong somewhat familiar, and asked him, "Just these eunuchs? Have everyone else checked it out, and did anyone else tempt the prince to indulge in leisure? The prince is still young, you guys The two are uncles and elders of the country, and we have to carefully distinguish the characters for him, and pick out those with poor quality."
Er Zhang recalled carefully, and shook his head: "We have already found out the people who secretly bought comic strips outside the palace for the prince. The sage said that the book was about crops, and there was no hindrance, and the punishment for those who bought the book was also light. If they do, they will only be punished to scatter and sweep in various palaces."
Cui Xie really wanted to say the word "Liu Jin" directly. If Liu Jin can be knocked out at this time, when Zhu Houzhao takes office, the cabinet will have the current configuration of the current four or Liu, Li, and Xie Sange, plus Yang Yiqing, Yang Ting and the two bosses, Wang Shengren who can fight tough battles, Daming. Tuo Tuo Er can still be stable for 50 years, what else is there to worry about
But as a sixth-rank foreign minister, if he could casually name the name of a eunuch next to the prince that his uncle didn't know, it would be hard to tell whether he was peeping at the inner court or befriending a powerful eunuch.
He was so sorry, he could only tell his uncles to continue to pay attention to the East Palace.
The uncles said happily: "Don't worry, sir, we are still waiting for the fourth volume of "Youth Jinyiwei". I don't know if the third volume was written by Mr. Zhu Zhishan, or the newcomers Li, Wang, and Bian also followed. Write?"
Cui Xie said: "This year, a talented Jiangnan talent who was close to Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu, came to Beijing for a test. His poetry and prose were brilliant and splendid. This book is called Zhishan and I will take him to try it out."
Tang Yin entered Beijing by boat with Jiangyin Xu Jing at the end of last year.
Zhu Yunming had been looking forward to his coming to Beijing for three years, but he refused to let him leave when he received someone. He forced the two to live in the house he rented, and also introduced them to study with Cui Xie. Because Cui Xie was busy with trial production of cement, edited agricultural comics, and adapted a set of abridged comics for the little prince, he really had no time to teach the students, so he proposed to open the mock examination room at home to the two of them, so that they could be separated by two. The day is simulated in it.
Xu and Tang had never seen him before. After hearing the news, they only felt that Cui Xie was arrogant and indifferent, and they did not take their Jiangsu talents seriously.
Tang Yin asked Zhu Zhishan directly: "Cui Gong wants me to write a book to invite names for his disciples, but he ignores me and Brother Xu so lightly. Is it the treatment of celebrities?"
Zhu Zhishan tried to persuade him: "He treats you well, that's why he asked you to imitate. I didn't pass the six tests in the village, and I didn't pass the test. It was only after several months in his home that I learned to take the test legal."
However, Tang Bohu himself is also a candidate for the exam. He took the Jie Yuan exam after only one year of study behind closed doors in Suzhou. He was also valued by his teacher Liang Chu and bachelor Cheng Minzheng. Although Zhu Zhishan intervened and explained, they still did not plan to go to the Cui family to simulate, but just wanted to visit the master, Cheng Xue and the famous scholar minister.
But for some reason, since they entered Beijing, their luck has not been very good.
Whenever Tang Yin was invited to go to a banquet at the dignitary's house, or Xu Jing wanted to pack a restaurant for a banquet, there would always be an accident on the way out. Especially when the two agreed to visit Cheng Minzheng's home, they caught a shocking horse on the way. If it wasn't for the Jin Yiwei who happened to be patrolling the city to stop the horse, the two geniuses would have to roll into the street.
The two encountered several strange things in a row, and some did not dare to go out.
Zhu Zhishan only said: "I'm the head of the household, and it's not good to invite a mage at home. You might as well visit the Cui family. The neighbor of Mr. Cui's family is Jin Yiwei, who is so evil that he can't hold Xie Chong."
Although the two were reluctant, they couldn't go anywhere else, so they could only listen to his arrangement to go to Cui's house.
When Zici's mansion lived next to him, the well-known Xie Zhenfu in Jinyiwei's comic strip was able to suppress all strange things. When they usually go out, they often encounter broken carriages, broken horses, and people blocking the road... Nothing happened, and they went to Cui's house smoothly and met Cui Xie.
Cui Xie was different from what they thought. He had no arrogance. He looked at Tang Yin with admiration, just like those literati in Suzhou who admired him. His reputation hates not being able to meet earlier.
How many years have I watched "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance", and only today did I see the live Tang Bohu!
Tang Yin asked him to stare alone, as if he was exposed to the gazes of thousands of people, but his face became hot, he coughed lightly, and said with a rare modesty: "Brother Zhishan is too famous. Although Tang Yin has learned some poetry, How dare you show off your painting skills in front of Master Cui, who is the best in the world."
Cui Xie said with a smile: "Others are showing off, why are you, Tang Jieyuan, showing off? If it wasn't for the two of you to take the exam soon, I would have to sort out an agricultural classic here, and I would circle you two Jiangnan talents to write for me. Articles and paintings."
He arranged for his family to buy some authentic Suzhou-style dishes, and served them with strong shochu, which is not available in Suzhou. He diligently persuaded him: "Although I am not a famous talent, I have also written scientific examination books and have a little experience. You stay here. How many times I have mock exams here, and I will read the articles for you, isn't it better than spending time on feasts?"
Kao Kao, Teacher Cui's magic weapon.
The two were kept by Cui Xieqiang, and the next day they entered the examination room with his younger brother Cui He, and did a full day of Hongzhi nine-year real questions.
After leaving the examination room, Tang Bohu lay on the bed for two days.
Poetry meetings and banquets are nothing compared to the Cui family's large bed, which is covered with thick down blankets and has a bookcase at the head of the bed. There is also a movable side table beside the bed, which can be moved to a suitable position by pulling it with a hand.
He's just lying on this bed until he can try, and he's not going anywhere!
Xu Jing was in better health than him, and he was able to get up in the afternoon the next day after the exam, and met Zhu Zhishan, who came to visit them.
It’s natural to be happy to see a friend, but as long as he thinks of the seven big questions that seem to be unfinished, the narrow examination room full of the smell of poop, and the noisy crowd, Xu Jing will have a headache and chest tightness, and wish Zhishan in fear. : "I have taken four exams of Xiucai and Juren, but have I ever seen such a dirty and chaotic exam room? Is it really like this in Beijing Gongyuan? How did my brother get over it back then?"
Zhu Zhishan smiled and said: "The mock exam is to simulate the worst situation in the exam. The exam paper is difficult and the exam room is chaotic. You can make a successful essay smoothly in this mock exam room, after He Chou enters the exam room. Did you fail? You don't recognize the person who was in the simulation with you yesterday, that's Cui Shi's own brother. If you don't do well in the simulation test, he's just cheating outsiders, how could he cheat your own brother?"
The five flavors are mixed in Xu Jing's chest. I knew that this test method was useful, but when I thought that I would have to play two games in the yard, or even a few rounds, I felt a little bit of retreat.
Zhu Zhishan sighed to himself: "You are lucky to catch up with Master Cui's disciples. The two national uncles are not there, so the simulation is relatively easy. In the year I was preparing for the test, Li Bozheng, who was the twenty-fourth in the second top class in the same year, did it. During the mock test, he was thrown into the yard with a smoking censer by his uncles, pretending to be on fire, and he was so frightened that he climbed up the yard wall!"
But it can't be said that Uncle Guo is a malicious trickster, after all, fires often happen in Gongyuan. In recent years, there have been fires before and after the Yingzong Orthodox and Tianshun dynasties: the previous Shuntian township examination only burned the house, and then the spring fire in the seventh year of Tianshun burned and killed more than 90 candidates for the examination...
With such a small test number, people are crowded and crowded. If the candle is knocked over, the wind will blow into a fire. By then, being able to climb up the wall might save one's life!
After Xu Jing went back, he studied hard until midnight, thinking about the middle of the night, and finally the mind of focusing on exams prevailed. When it was time for the second mock test, I pulled Tang Bohu out of bed early and went to the mock test.
Tang Yin huddled in the bed, grabbed the quilt and said, "I'm not going! I never imagined that the aptitude test could be so tormenting! People say that the rural exam is easy, the proficiency exam is easy, and the palace exam is especially easy. I can easily take the Suzhou exam. Song Zao, who handed in the papers and took the first title, Jie Yuan, how can he be so laborious when he knows the test questions? I'm afraid that if I repeat it twice, I will have no strength to go to the test room."
Xu Jing tried hard to persuade him not to, and was about to leave when he saw two people breaking into the door, so he dressed Tang Yin and dragged him out.
The two weak scholars shouted, "What is this doing! Are you robbing someone!"
The two servants said indifferently: "The younger ones are dedicated to serving the mock candidates like the two masters. Yesterday, I wished the lord to tell us that the two of them did not want to take the exam. The lord said that you scholars are most afraid of giving up halfway. , and also told the story of Mother Meng's broken machine, and specially asked us to pick up the two."
Mother Meng's broken machine is a story in the Three Character Classic.
Even family members know that scholars are afraid of giving up halfway, so how could they give up the exam because they think the mock exam room is not clean and tidy
No matter what, we have to wait until the three exams are over to see how Master Cui commented on him!
Tang Yin's face was slightly hot, and he whispered: "Put me down, let's go."
Only then did the two put them down, sandwiching them between the left and the right, and did not tell them to go back to the room to get things, but said: "There are pen, ink, paper and inkstone in the mock examination room, you two just go there, don't waste any more time. already."
They were originally hired by Cui Xie to discipline Cui Heng. They were bold and strong. Even Cui Heng's temperament told them to be obedient. It was only later that Cui Heng got married, and if he asked people to take care of him like that again, because he was afraid that the bride would not look good, Cui Xie called them out and pretended to be soldiers on the field, adding pressure to the candidates.
Over the years, they have gone from staring at the performers, stripping and searching, to selling tea in the venue, to the examination room, to stamping dirty rolls... The whole set is fully cooked. Tang and Du fell into their hands, and they suffered three times in a row, but they memorized the process of going in and out and even how to deal with some minor problems on the field.
It's a pity that the uncles are busy staring at the East Palace, and the two of them have no chance to simulate a fire.
After three exams, the two talents were both exhausted and paralyzed. Cui Xie took the two's test papers to read for himself, and also brought Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren to serve as the same examiners, and made a serious judgment according to the general examination process.
Tang Yin's articles are upright, strict and clean, completely different from the romantic atmosphere of his usual poetry. And although Xu Jing is a little older, the article is inferior, not just a few simulations in the yard can be simulated.
The foundation is not solid, and the heart is not quiet, I am afraid that this subject will be difficult.
Cui Xie didn't tell them this evaluation, but just pushed back from the ninth year of Hongzhi and gave them a mock test for each subject. The three examiners who made the questions circled and deleted them respectively, and also commented on the header questions according to the rules of the examination room.
Two geniuses from the south of the Yangtze River gave him a mock test for reading at home. However, due to lack of physical strength, when he goes out, he always encounters a little situation like when he lives in Zhu's house, and he is always unable to go out and act as a demon.
It was not until the morning of the ninth day of the second lunar month that the two Jiangnan Juzi, who had caused the capital to move with their articles and rich people, went outside the Dragon Gate with two indifferent faces.
They took off their clothes and boots, let the sergeants search and entrain them, entered the hall to sign and collect the papers, and entered the examination room to clean and eat... While other candidates were still in a hurry, the two had skillfully completed a series of preparations. Take a nap in the examination room, waiting for Tianming to send the papers.
In the 12th year of Hongzhi, the examinations for this subject started so mediocrely, finished three examinations blandly, and finished the papers blandly... On February 29th, the rankings were released as scheduled.