In Mengpozhai, Jia Huan "steadily" Jia Zheng and asked Jia Zheng to use the resources of the Jia family and his connections to help him inquire about the news in the capital. Then, he returned to Wangyueju.

At this time, most of the lunch time had passed. In the exquisite courtyard, Qingwen, Ruyi and Caixia were still waiting for him to have dinner in the main hall. The food on the table was already cold. Before he went, he ordered Qingwen to prepare a meal. Who would have thought he would hear such news?

Qingwen was a little unhappy at first, and sat down and sulked, but when she saw Jia Huan coming in with a deep thought, her anger suddenly subsided a little, she stood up and said with a crisp voice: "Third Master, I'll let Mother Li get some food."

Jia Huan waved his hand and said, "You guys eat it yourself, I'll go to the study room. I'll send me a meal later." He went to the study room from the main hall.

Qingwen, Ruyi, Caixia looked at each other and felt slightly sank: Third Master has encountered something. The following afternoon, they learned the whole story of the news.

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In the study, the eyes of late spring come in from the exquisite window railings, and in the courtyard, birds sing and flowers are fragrant.

Jia Huan took a deep breath, sat at the desk, picked up his pen, listed various ideas, sorted out and pondered.

Be calm whenever major events are happening.

Suddenly hearing Jia Zheng tell him that the censor impeached him and Mr. Fang in front of the emperor to collude with him for fraud, he was extremely shocked, as if he was hit by a thunderbolt out of thin air. Because, this is the fact! He did get the first question of the exam from Mr. Fang.

But it is impossible to say that this matter is leaked. Combined with Weng Zongdao, the senior brother told him about the rumors among the fallen scholars. It is obvious that someone is targeting him.

The situation is already very critical!

Jia Zheng speculated that his Huiyuan might be gone. This is definitely not aware of the danger of the current situation. If the other party was prepared, since he had used the censor and impeached him in front of the emperor, the result he pursued would definitely not be just to cheat his members. Instead, he would destroy his political life. The template was the Tang Bohu imperial examination fraud case in the Ming Dynasty.

This is why he felt solemn, cold, dangerous, and his hair stood up. Once he could not enter the officialdom, how could he turn the end of the Jia family and fate? The end of the fate journey would be to fall into a vast white earth, and it would be a cry of thousands of reds and thousands of beautiful women who were sad. His achievements and status that he had fought to this point were just a illusion of flowers in the water and the moon in the mirror.

Therefore, for him, inappropriate response will be a catastrophe.

The pressure was already heavy enough to make the air in the study stagnate. Jia Huan felt the heavy pressure, but he was still calm and pondering the situation. Decades of life reading and strong will allow him to stay steadily now.

The more urgent the situation is, the more we need to grasp the main contradiction so that the problem can be solved. The elk is rising on the left without looking instantly, and the mountain collapses in front without changing color. Then, you can wait for the enemy and control the interests!

In the evening, the news from Jia's family's connections and resources gathered continuously to the middle of Wangyue. Jia Huan's grasp of the current situation gradually became clearer.

First, rumors have spread among the scholars who fell to the land in the past few days. Under the leadership of King Shangyu of Zhejiang, the Luodi scholars went to the Ministry of Rites to ask for an explanation yesterday, and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger. Yesterday there were only a few dozen people, but today there are already hundreds of people.

So, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? Should the court take measures?

Second, Zhao Junbo, a banner figure among the censors of Kedao, wrote a letter to impeach, and it was impeached in front of the emperor. It was full of attack power. It can be foreseeable that under the leadership of the Censor Zhao, the memorial had already flown to the Tongzhengsi Department like a piece of paper.

It is very topical. It is attracting attention from both China and abroad.

Third, Peng Shie, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites and the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, received the king and said that he would write to the court to give the scholars a satisfactory reply.

At this point, the picture is revealed!

The political struggle in the capital was far higher than that in a township, a county, a prefecture, and a province. Most of the struggles began with small and irrelevant events, and they were manifested in various "rumors". In other words, a new term from the 21st century is called "creating public opinion."

The only difference is that the manifestation of the new century is in newspapers, television, websites, meager, and WeChat. In the Zhou Dynasty, rumors spread throughout the capital.

Everyone will change their tricks. Everyone will create them. But the effects are different. If the rumors circulating in various yamen, mansions, teahouses, brothels, school, Imperial College and other places in the capital can be brought into the court process. This is a successful "play trick". It means that the curtain of struggle is slowly opened.

This is the struggle method at the level of the nine ministers and grand sects of the State.

Jia Huan looked at the incidents he had listed on the paper repeatedly, couldn't help but smile bitterly, got up and walked to the window, looking at the courtyard in the hazy night.

The whole thing seems to be targeted at Mr. Fang! And he seems to be the product of being dragged by the way, beating a rabbit.

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This is exactly why he did not pay attention to it when rumors appeared in the capital two or three days ago.

As long as you listen to the rumor, you will know how unreliable and unreasonable it is. The rumor tied him and Mr. Fang together. And a second-rank senior official of the court, the Minister of Rites, the leader of the literary world of the country, and the emperor specially invited Mr. Fang from Jinling to prepare books, would he be eliminated by such rumors?

Nonsense!

In the political arena of the Zhou Dynasty, the number of people who are not as good as the big guys is, is just a matter of little business. There was a chief assistant in the Ming Dynasty named Liu Ji, nicknamed "Liu Mianhua". The reason is that cotton is resistant to elasticity, so it is named.

As Weng Zongdao said, as long as you do well in the exam and rank among the top, no one said strange things that time? It is mediocre if people don’t attract jealousy!

I don’t know how many rumors, gossip, gossip, and gossip in the capital are every day? As Huiyuan of the current science department, his attention is not low. He cannot pay attention to every rumors involving himself.

Therefore, the logic is very simple. If Mr. Fang is fine, he will be fine. This logic can be said in reverse: If Mr. Fang is fine, he will definitely be fine.

And now, Mr. Fang has something to do!

The whole thing is connected, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one, and one by one, and it has reached the level of the court procedure. The fangs are revealed and the waves are three feet tall. Mr. Fang's political opponent, Peng Shie, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, walked to the front of the stage.

Jia Huan did not need evidence to draw conclusions about the conflict between the top leader and the second leader.

but…

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The conclusions drawn from paying attention to one thing and not paying attention to one thing are different.

Jia Huan did not think that the whole thing was just aimed at Mr. Fang, and he should also be the target of hunting behind the scenes.

The whole thing seems to be due to his rumors, aiming at Mr. Fang, but what if you think about it further?

Could it be that because he wants to end his political career, he needs to kill Mr. Fang first?

Don’t forget that in the imperial examination, many people wanted to suppress him. He also chose to answer the Spring and Autumn questions. In the capital, he did not lack foundation, nor did he lack enemies.

What he didn't understand was: how small the price to pay for suppressing him in the imperial examination? How much does it cost to kill Grandmaster Fang, a second-rank minister, or is it someone who is relied on by the emperor to do things, and thus end him again. How much does it cost?

He thought that "no one did a loss-making business", and after the exam, his mentality was relaxed. Because as Huiyuan, he had already soared to the sky and could not be suppressed anymore. But now reality tells him that there are people who hate him so much.

So, who is the mastermind behind the scenes? It’s about to come out!

Of course, such a big and dangerous situation at present may not be caused by one side. It may have been colluded with each other for a long time, or someone may have seen the interests and thus secretly promoted it.

In the highest power field in Beijing, you should never expect the melon-eating crowd to be really just melon-eating. They may end up and participate in the game at any time.

Thinking of this, Jia Huan's thoughts suddenly became clear. He returned to his desk and wrote quickly.

The night gradually became deeper.

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The news that Jia Huan might cheat during the examination and was impeached by the censor was spreading rapidly like a rapid fire on the dry grassland.

In the capital, in the Jia Mansion...

When Jia Huan failed the imperial examination, the people in the Jia Mansion: such as Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, Sister Feng, Jia She, etc., had a different attitude. When Jia Huan ranked first in the imperial examination in the high school, the people in the Jia Mansion had a different attitude.

Now, another completely opposite news spread in the Jia family: Jia Huan's future was over. The masters of the Jia family were very quiet. While the people in the Jia family were talking in an uproar, no one expressed their opinion.

What happened to Jia Huan often blows like this and sometimes it blows like that. Now the masters of the Jia family have become cautious and no longer express their emotions easily. Except for Baoyu, they are gloating and happy in the words.

However, compared with Tanchun, Daiyu, Baochai, Qin Keqing, Youshi, Yingchun, Xichun, Jia Qiang, Jia Rong, Jia Yun and others who are anxious about knowing the news. Sometimes, not expressing their opinions is actually a statement.

Tanchun and Daiyu took their close maid to Wangyue to look for Jia Huan early in the morning, Xiangling sent Baochai to wait. She was close to Jia Huan. Jia Huan was not in Wangyue. Ruyi said, "The third master went out early in the morning. The maid didn't ask him where he was going."

Tanchun and Daiyu were both so anxious that they stamped their feet, but they were unable to come up with a solution. When Jia Huan came back at noon, they had to instruct the three maids, "I have the news about the three younger brothers (Brother Huan) and let Qingwen enter the garden to notify me." She said helplessly and left.

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On March 20, as Peng Shie, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, wrote a letter yesterday afternoon to request a thorough investigation of the Ministry of Rites, the censors in the court began to write letters, demanding a thorough investigation.

In the Tongzheng Department, shrapnel were like tides. At the gate, officials came to submit memorials from time to time.

The imperial examination is a ceremony for the imperial court to select talents for the country. No official with a conscience and sense of justice will sit idly by and watch the fraud case happen and remain indifferent.

The Tongzheng Department will soon hand over the memorial like a wave to the Military Affairs Office. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!