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Chapter 853 Interrogation
Shen Su asked the people in the mansion to look at Chen Xin's ranking long ago, and he was shocked when he heard the report. He had read Chen Xin's paper, which can be called a splendid article, although he was unwell and could not participate in the examination paper, and did not know about other papers. No matter how good the literary talent is, but according to his observation of the Imperial College for so many years, these official students may not be able to catch up with Chen Xin, even if they catch up, Chen Xin will not be ranked so low.

Shen Su said to Chen Dao: "Don't panic, you go to the Ministry of Rites first, and I will give you a chance to check the papers. I will ask my colleagues how they feel about your papers."

Chen Xin nodded, feeling extremely heavy. Although he was also included in the list, but with such a low ranking, he didn't even have the face to go back to see Liu Funeng, let alone He Wenzong's training for him in the past half a month. After reading the papers and reading the grader's comments, I found that it was only a matter of my writing ability, I'm afraid it was just a matter of making me laugh in the capital.

After the exam, the birthplace, three generations, and the name will be cut off and sealed with the test paper. The black paper will be written in ink and pen for the exam, and the copyist will re-transcribe the paper into a red paper with a vermilion pen. .

Only show the red paper to the examiner because he is afraid that he will identify people based on their handwriting and commit fraud for personal gain.The examiner recommends the papers he likes to the same examiner, and writes "take" if he agrees with the examiner, and the chief examiner will do the final round of selection, write the most satisfactory paper as "middle", and then unpack it The names and places of origin of the candidates are marked one by one and written into a list.Then bind the black and red scrolls together and seal them in the Gongyuan.

According to the law, candidates who fail the rankings can check the examination papers within ten days after the rankings are published. However, people who are on the rankings like Chen Xin, who are just dissatisfied with their rankings and come to check the papers, are generally disliked by the Ministry of Rites.

Those who are on the list to check the papers are to question the examiner’s ability to judge. There is no right or wrong in writing an article. To judge whether an article is good or bad, sometimes it is inevitable to rely on the subjective preferences of the examiners. Some examiners like beautiful words and beautiful algae. I like to pay equal attention to quality, but as long as it is a good article, most of the examiners will not miss it, and the rankings given are relatively fair.

Most of the examiners were bachelors from the Imperial Academy, well-educated, and hand-picked by the emperor, so how could he allow him to question him at will.Chen Xin suffered a lot in the Ministry of Rituals, but Shen Su allowed Chen Xin to check the papers tomorrow.

The tributes who were selected in the inn have already started preparing for the palace examination, and the candidates who failed the exams rarely have people who checked the papers, and they all started to pack their things and prepare to rush to their hometowns. After all, the capital is very expensive and the cost is too high. Most of them are poor Scholars, it is difficult to support these expenses.

Standing alone on the long corridor, Chen Xin looked at the people coming and going, but there was a rare confusion in his eyes. In fact, he had won the exam and should not be obsessed with ranking. It seems that it is not a rational choice for him to compete with the Ministry of Rites in order to win the first prize.

Li Xiruo walked to Chen Xin's side and said, "Are you really going to check the papers? Instead of spending these days, it's better to strive for the top spot in the palace examination and be the number one."

Chen Xin was a little dissatisfied with Li Xiruo's words: "The imperial examination should be fair and just. The Ministry of Rites made it difficult for me because it didn't want to offend the examiners of the Imperial Academy. This is not the right attitude. What I want is nothing more than One is fair, as long as I see the test paper, I will give up."

Li Xiruo frowned, she didn't intend to stop Chen Xin, but she kept divination on the day when Chen Xin released the ranking, but no matter how it was calculated, it was a bad omen, and Chen Xin's examination this time would definitely not go smoothly.

She has always been pragmatic, and thinks that if Chen Xin puts his energy into an impossible task, it is better to prepare for the palace examination first. As long as he is the number one scholar in high school, these obstacles are nothing.

However, Chen Xin has always been determined, and he will not turn back if he does not hit the south wall. He was about to ask Shen Su to go to the Gongyuan to check the files, but what he got was that the Gongyuan caught fire last night, and all the files were buried in the flames overnight.

As soon as this incident happened, the government and the public were shocked. Although the rankings had already been released, the examinee's dossiers were still important things, how could they be burned so easily.

After the Ministry of Rites Minister heard about this incident, he was also in cold sweat, and the Gongyuan was flooded. His position as the Minister of Rites was sitting on the edge of a cliff, and he might be kicked off at any time.

The reason for the water running was because the two guards of the Gongyuan, seeing the cold weather, wanted to warm up two pots of wine to warm their bodies, but they fell asleep drunk like this.The charcoal fire was overturned on the straw mat and quickly spread.

The test shed is full of wood and reed mats that can burn at a single touch. It is not that no ministers have suggested that we should pay attention to precautions and replace the test shed of the Tribute Court with fireproof bricks and tiles, so that there is still a chance to extinguish it if water leaks, but Over the years, the Ministry of Rites has always ignored these problems and didn't take them to heart.

The fire killed two guardians of the Gongyuan, and destroyed the files inside. Chen Xin's investigation of the files was completely impossible.

Seeing this, Shen Su guessed in his heart that someone did it on purpose, otherwise it would be such a coincidence that they caught fire as soon as they checked the tribute court, so he reported the matter to the emperor, saying that Chen Xin suspected that there was something wrong in the evaluation papers. unfair.

His words annoyed the senior officials in the court. They have been reviewing papers for so many years, and they have always focused on justice. Chen Xin's suspicion is simply nonsense.

The emperor asked Shen Su: "You said that Chen Xin suspected that the examination papers were unfair. What evidence do you have?"

Shen Su handed over Chen Xin's dossier: "This is the answer that Chen Xin wrote silently during the examination after the examination. Please read it to the emperor."

The emperor waved someone to take it up, he took a rough look, and asked the Ministry of Rites: "How much is Chen Xin on the list?"

"Back to the emperor, it should be 370 eight."

Because Chen Xin came to the Ministry of Rites to ask for a review, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites deliberately recorded the rankings, in case the emperor would ask about it.

The emperor snorted coldly: "Look for yourself, is this an article that can be written with a tail-dropping gesture?"

The eunuch passed the article to the Minister of Rites, and the Minister of Rites wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and after a closer look, the article was natural and profound, but he was not the chief examiner, so he didn't know how other people were, so he gave it to his fellow examiners. Several bachelors came to see.

The few scholars passed it around to each other, and then reported to the emperor: "My Majesty, I and other examiners have impressions of these articles, but we dare to be sure that none of them were done by one person."

"Yes, Your Majesty, just talking about this poem and another piece of policy theory, we thought it was wonderful at the time, but it's a pity that it was not written by one person, otherwise it must be Huiyuan. Because the old minister and Mr. Liu made this joke, so vivid memory."

Shen Su frowned: "Master Wang, these are all done by Chen Xin alone, how can there be two people, he has already handed it over to me before the list is released."

The emperor asked those bachelors, "Do you know the names of these two people?"

"This, the old minister was in a hurry at the time, but he didn't pay attention to it." After all, there were nearly 400 people who made the list, and they just kept the selected papers and handed them over to the official Feng Mi to add the candidates' hometown and name to the list. , How can I remember who made which paper.

Shen Su said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, there must be something strange about this matter, please investigate it strictly."

The Gong Yuan was burned down. Even if you want to check, you have to have the previous files. Otherwise, what you say is useless. Could it be possible for more than 300 candidates to write all the answers silently for Chen Xin alone?

But Wu Zhong stood up and said: "Master Shen, I heard that you have a close personal relationship with Chen Xin, so I went to ask a few academicians of the Imperial Academy which answer sheet they were most impressed with. Don't you know the news?" , found the report, and asked this Chen letter to copy a copy and hand it in to fool the sage."

"You are slandering!" Listening to Wu Zhongzhi's words, Shen Su didn't know that Wu Zhong would dare to think so, but Wu Zhong said to the emperor: "My lord, at the spring banquet that day, everyone saw Shen Su He dragged Chen Xin to the side and whispered to him, he admired Chen Xin very much, as a Hanlin scholar, he had the opportunity to contact the Gongyuan, I think Chen Xin's paper is doubtful."

"Your majesty, you can call Chen Xin to the palace and test his talents in person."

"It's a joke. Chen Xin made a special case for him and asked him to refer again. How fair is this to other candidates. Master Shen saw Chen Xin's low ranking this time and felt that he lost face, so he made this decision. "

"Master Wu, you..."

"Okay." The emperor watched the two courtiers arguing for Chen Xin in the court. It was unseemly and angry. Shen Su and Wu Zhong bowed their heads and pleaded guilty. Let those writers have a look at this policy topic and find out who wrote it."

"Yes." The Minister of the Ministry of Rites spread the news, wanting to find this Gongsheng, but he never thought that among the 390 Gongsheng, except for Chen Xin, none of them claimed the answer. The emperor was furious when he heard this, and knew that there must be something wrong with this matter. But it was impossible to find out who was cheating.

The emperor ordered the Ministry of Punishment to thoroughly investigate the case, and the chief examiners, Fengmi officials, and inspectors were to be tortured one by one, and the same was true for the Gongsheng students.The Ministry of Rites failed to supervise the Tribute Court and punished them severely.

These seem to be for Chen Xin to uphold the justice of the imperial examination, but Chen Xin's life is getting more and more sad.He was ridiculed at the bottom of the list. Now that the Gongyuan is destroyed, the files cannot be checked, and he can't even prove that those things were written by himself. Others from the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy were punished for this incident. The relationship of the author has been questioned, and most people do not believe that this is the article he wrote.

That's all, but the Gongsheng students in the inn were all called by the Ministry of Justice to interrogate them one by one. Some people just improvised and made a lot of questions. Misunderstand.The earth was turned upside down like this, the Gongsheng who lived with Chen Xin hated Chen Xin, and bullied him intentionally or unintentionally. Chen Xin was obviously a victim of this test, but he became a rat crossing the street and couldn't see the light of day .

(End of this chapter)