Outrageous! The emperor assisted in cheating!

Xu Yanmiao saw the warmth of the officialdom.

Huang Taisun saw the darkness of the officialdom.

They all have a bright future.

"I don't accept it!" Taisun's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth: "Why release him if he is innocent!"

The smile on the old emperor's face faded slightly. The emperor lowered his eyes and looked at him: "Gao Qisheng, you don't think that you framed Xu Yanmiao for cheating in the imperial examinations, and I and the ministers can't see it?"

No, no, no, no, no? No one really thinks that they are just afraid that their gossip will be exposed, so they plan to release Xu Yanmiao innocently, right? From Xu Yanmiao's voice, who can't hear that Xu Yanmiao was framed!

If there is no voice, if another official is in charge, the other party will be imprisoned. And the examiner who thinks he is wronged cannot escape.

——There is a similar example in this dynasty.

In the imperial examination in the 12th year of Tiantong, a candidate and his friend visited an official named Cheng many times and had close contact with him.

Before the examination, it was a common practice for candidates to visit officials in Beijing, which was originally fine. However, the end was ruined when this official happened to be appointed as the chief examiner later.

What's worse is that this guy has a wild personality and great talent. He is the top scorer in the Jiangnan exam. He predicted a few questions and showed them off to the public. After entering the exam room, the questions were exactly right. This guy got the top score. It was also rumored that his friend had given money to the chief examiner (in fact, the friend asked an official named Cheng to write an epitaph for his father) and got the exam questions in advance.

The friend was imprisoned, and the guy was also imprisoned. After many interrogations, the two never admitted to the crime of bribery, but they were still stripped of their fame, and the chief examiner involved was also arrested and imprisoned, and finally lost his official position and title.

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"You said that Xu Yanmo met with the Minister of Rites..."

The Minister of Rites became serious at this time, bowed, and looked at Taisun: "Your Highness, please tell me clearly, where did I meet Xu Siwu that night?"

Taisun said: "Of course it was in your own home."

The Minister of Rites stared at the person who slandered him: "But I stayed at the general's house that night for something, and the palace can prove it - Your Highness suddenly attacked, and I could not collude with the temporary and permanent workers in the general's house in advance. Your Majesty will know once you summon him."

- Yes, the general was too lazy to sell his body indentures, and his family hired permanent and permanent workers to work.

The old emperor called the Jinyiwei to the general's house and brought people to interrogate him.

After a while, the Jinyiwei came back with the testimony.

This time, it was a serious testimony, which was asked from the servants in the palace.

"Your Majesty, here is the testimony. Those people said that the general did have a secret meeting with someone that night. He left at dusk and left at dawn. At 12:00 p.m., the kitchen prepared a table of food, most of which were the dishes that the Minister of Rites liked to eat - the Minister of Rites also liked to eat those dishes at the palace banquet. In the second half of the night, he called for water several times in the bedroom."

Taisun didn't react: "What do you mean he called for water several times?"

"It's not important." The Minister of Rites said quickly: "Please let your majesty decide! I was not at home that night and had other work to do. How could I have met Xu Lang at night?"

- Was it a threesome?

Taisun: "Maybe the general was also involved."

He was not afraid of many people accusing him. Except for those who were really wronged, how could others know that he had framed him? Imperial examination fraud has always been a major case. As long as Xu Yanmo is proven to have really cheated, all the officials involved will go to jail.

It's just right, he can let some of his own people go.

The general laughed and said, "I was in bed with the Minister of Rites that night, and I didn't have time to see outsiders."

Anyway, everyone in the court knew about it, so he didn't mind being frank.

If it was something else, there would be no way to clear the suspicion. Taisun could even accuse them of a three-person meeting, but... this... he...

Taisun closed his eyes: "They might be a three-person meeting!"

The old emperor: "... Gao Qisheng, don't be too outrageous."

The old emperor: "There is no need to check the others. If one of them is wrong, it will be known that Xiaoer is just making random accusations."

Taisun's brain was online: "Your Majesty, Xu Yanmiao really can't write the words he wrote during the imperial examination. I don't ask anything else, I just want to ask one question, why can't he write!"

The old emperor said lightly: "Who said he can't write."

[Although I did not cheat, I really...]

The old emperor didn't care what Xu Yanmiao said in his heart, and whispered a few words. After a while, the Jinyiwei brought a desk, a low stool, paper and pen.

Moreover, they deliberately held the paper and turned it around so that all the ministers including Taisun could see clearly that it was a blank sheet of paper, and then handed it to Xu Yanmiao.

A trace of shock flashed across the general's face, and he whispered: "This... What is your majesty thinking, how can Xu Yanmiao write it! He has just escaped from the mystery in the womb!"

What is the mystery in the womb? As the saying goes, Arhats have the trance of past lives, and Bodhisattvas have the mystery of reincarnation. This means that when Bodhisattvas and Arhats reincarnate, they will forget their past lives and be "confused" for some time, which may be a few years or even decades.

The rulers and ministers of Daxia believed that the mystery of the womb should be the name of the trance of past lives and the mystery of reincarnation in Bai Ze's mouth - after all, little Bai Ze is not a Buddhist.

They have never been gods, so they can only guess -

since the mystery of the womb has been solved, recalling the past, perhaps everything related to this life, from behavior and words and deeds to hobbies, writing style, and knowledge, will fade away?

The Minister of Rites thought for a moment and whispered, "Your Majesty has always been greedy. He must have such an auspicious sign as Bai Ze, and he must have the reputation... I guess the paper must have been tampered with in advance."

On the other side, Xu Yanmiao held the brush handle with his wrist tensed.

Taisun stared at him with burning eyes, his expression full of confidence.

- If this person can really write the same words, he would have proved his innocence long ago.

He was some distance away from Xu Yanmiao's desk, and suddenly the back of Jinyiwei appeared in his field of vision, blocking the desk. He was stunned for a moment and was about to reprimand him, but Jinyiwei quickly withdrew, and there was an inkstone on the desk - it turned out that it was just a place to place inkstones.

Xu Yanmiao saw clearly that at that moment, the Jinyiwei quickly sprayed some liquid on the paper, and blue-purple words immediately appeared on the paper.

"If you want to accuse someone of a crime, you can always find excuses."

The blue-purple color was not heavy, just some light traces, but you could see that the pen tip was the same as the original owner.

Xu Yanmiao's pupils trembled.

[Starch reacts with iodine solution?!]

[Is this cheating in class?!]

The old emperor took a sip of tea, his dark pupils calm.

——Since the crown prince and the people of the world want the truth, he will give them the truth.

So, the crown prince and the guards in the palace could only see Xu Yanmiao pause for a while, as if thinking, then pick up the pen, dip it in ink, write slowly on the paper, stop writing at the last word, stand up and salute: "Your Majesty, I have finished writing." The

crown prince couldn't wait, and walked over quickly. When he saw the eight big black characters on the white paper, his face immediately became gloomy and ugly.

The Jinyi Guards picked up the paper and presented it to the emperor first. After the emperor read it, he passed it to the ministers in turn.

As soon as the paper entered Prime Minister Dou's hand, it was very flexible, and Prime Minister Dou immediately felt it out - this is a piece of rice paper.

The special feature of rice paper is that it can absorb water. Therefore, its special wet-dyeing performance makes the characters written on it full and firm and flexible. If used for painting, the ink lines will appear round and three-dimensional, very beautiful.

The only disadvantage is that writing on it will be particularly difficult, and it is difficult to write an article thoroughly.

But! Xu Yanmiao only needs to copy! It's not the kind of copying that looks at the words on another piece of paper, but following the existing words, covering them with ink so that they can't be seen in blue and purple.

Prime Minister Dou's eyes flashed, and he read it silently and handed it to others.

After one round, the old emperor said in a deep voice: "How can it be the same as the word in the imperial examination?"

All the ministers said in unison: "Same!"

"Impossible!" The twists and turns of others made Taisun's mind completely unable to calm down: "How could this be! How is it possible!"

The old emperor shouted: "Enough of the noise!"

Taisun's voice stopped abruptly.

The old emperor stood up and read slowly--

"The Imperial Grandson, Gao Qisheng, is a mediocre and petty person. He is neither a wise and far-sighted person nor a person who walks the straight path. He is incompetent in government affairs, cunning in his schemes, corrupting the inner court and corrupting the ministers in the outer court."

"Now, remove his position as the Imperial Grandson, demote him to a commoner, and banish him to Yunnan! Draft a list and announce it to the world!"

His tone left no room for doubt.

The Secretariat approved this system and drafted the imperial edict.

The six ministries adopted this system to provide corresponding laws and fill in the precedents of past dynasties.

The Hanlin Academy adopted this system to check the authenticity and avoidance of imperial edicts.

Wenyuan Pavilion and Wuying Hall adopted this system to review the imperial edicts.

The Censorate adopted this system to sign.

When the emperor issued an edict, it sometimes had to be approved by layers before it could be implemented. Until the imperial edict was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and stamped with the official seal, no official jumped out to object, saying that deposing the crown prince would easily lead to instability in the country.

Taisun was simply about to fall.

He couldn't understand why his grandfather wanted to depose him just because he framed a small official! His father didn't say a word for him!

How could a small official be more important than his own grandson or son? !

And what about the officials who depend on him! If he falls, will they be fine?

Taisun looked at them one by one, but the officials who depended on him before either had flickering eyes or looked away.

Fear and panic finally appeared on his face.

How could this happen!!!

Jinyiwei walked up to him: "Please come in." Seeing that he didn't move, they just carried him away.

"Let me go! Let me go!"

Taisun kicked his legs, but he couldn't get rid of Jinyiwei at all, so he was dragged away and put in jail, waiting to be exiled to Yunnan soon. It was

very quiet in the sky prison, so the slightest movement would seem unusually loud.

The former prince consort sat up immediately after hearing the voice. He thought it was a newcomer, but he didn't expect: "His Royal Highness, the Grand Prince?"

The fake prince was shocked: "Why did he come in again?"

The Jinyiwei reminded: "This person has been demoted to a commoner." He can no longer be called the Grand Prince.

The fake prince was even more shocked: "Grand Prince? Deposed?"

What happened outside?

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The old emperor asked Xu Yanmiao to step forward and said softly: "Are you scared?"

You are not scared! Your heartbeat is not accelerated! You will be scared to death if you are not careful!

Xu Yanmiao was very moved: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your loyalty."

The old emperor stepped forward and held Xu Yanmiao's hands. "No need to do this! You alone are worth thousands of troops--"

Thinking of Shandong being found to have embezzled disaster relief funds, thinking of the South Vietnam rebellion that was known in advance, thinking of the magical grains overseas, thinking of the group of corrupt officials who had just been cleared...

The old emperor held those hands tighter, his voice was so soft that it could drip water, and it could be called a deep affection-- "

My dear minister!!!"