Chen Xi designed a plan for Xie Yuner to revitalize the Xie family, that is, to open a pharmacy shop, dog skin plaster in Beijing, but Xie Yuner refused.

In Xie Yuner's heart, she already owe Chen Xi a great favor. She can no longer influence Chen Xi's career because of her famous top scorer's wife.

Let’s put aside the matter of dog skin plaster for the time being. As a Hanlin editor, Chen Xi has no time to find a store supply and organize business even if he is not too busy on weekdays.

Chen Xi still lives a life between his own courtyard and the Hanlin Courtyard.

Because of the floods of the Yellow River these days, the court, including the Hanlin Academy, had a deep and gloomy atmosphere. On weekdays, colleagues didn't talk much, and rarely talked about private matters outside of business. Even the gossip about the court on weekdays was gone. Chen Xi lacked a channel to obtain news from the court.

However, there was one thing that was passed on to the Hanlin Academy and became the focus of Hanlin discussion in their spare time.

The engineering department officials wrote a letter to Lin Tingyu to plead for several parties involved in the Ministry of Rites' examination and sales test case, involving Tang Yin, Xu Jing, Cheng Minzheng and Hua Sheng.

Lin Tingyu, the court clerk Shangheng, the supervisory censor Wang Shou, and others had to write a letter to the person involved in the case of the sale of the case. He was also the first official to directly write to Emperor Hongzhi to plead for the person involved in the case after the sale of the story.

From this point of view, it is not easy for Lin Tingyu to separate... Can even Emperor Hongzhi see a tricky case of selling the matter, but the ministers in the court can't see it?

The reason why no one wrote a letter to plead for the person involved was mainly because he knew that doing so would offend the manipulator behind the scenes of the sell-off case. As for whom no one knew, he dared to use such a big case to pull down Cheng Minzheng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was expected to enter the cabinet, would have a high position. Any pleading for mercy may cause trouble.

According to Lin Tingyu's memorial, there were six most suspicious tests in this Ministry of Rites Examination, but it was not reviewed by Cheng Minzheng alone, but the examiners of each room and Cheng Minzheng were admitted together. Tang and Xu were not among them. Moreover, Cheng Minzheng has always been famous for his elegance and talent, and has never had any corruption or bribery. How could he be so high-profile and ignore the laws and regulations of the court?

As for Hua Shi, even if what he reported was not true, he was not concerned about his life and life. He was responsible for the duties of a censor, and he should not be imprisoned and questioned.

Tang Yin and Xu Jing were originally scholars and the best scholars in the world. If they were imprisoned and questioned without evidence, the scholars in the world would have doubts about the emperor's wiseness.

Therefore, Lin Tingyu begged Emperor Hongzhi to give his grace outside the law, and the case of selling the matter that is still doubtful is over.

When Lin Tingyu wrote a letter to plead for the person involved in the case of selling the title, Cheng Minzheng also wrote a letter to defend himself. However, Cheng Minzheng did something that Emperor Hongzhi hated very much, which was "begging for home"... You suspect that I sold the title, and I should do it anymore, right? I will go home to enjoy my old age, and I will not care about all the affairs of the court in the future!

It was not the first time that Cheng Minzheng was framed. As early as the first year of Hongzhi, the censor Wei Zhang impeached him with the words of **. He was dismissed from his post and returned to Nanshan to study. It was not until the fifth year of Hongzhi that he was re-established and then reused. This time he was just angry because in his mind, Emperor Hongzhi was just a "student" of him.

When Chen Xi learned about this, he sighed slightly: "Scholars are indeed pedantic. Originally, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to protect you and leave the memorial to impeach you for more than ten days without sending it out. Now you use the trick of giving up the prostitute. Isn't this adding fuel to the fire and completely angering Emperor Hongzhi?"

Sure enough, less than two days after Cheng Minzheng's self-defense memorial was released on April 27, Emperor Hongzhi issued an imperial edict. As the focus of the case of selling the case, Cheng Minzheng could not be favoritism and abuse the law, and issued an edict to be punished and severely questioned.

Of course, behind this incident, the Zuodu Censor Min Gui and others contributed to the fire. In the past, only a few small people wrote to write to punish the offenders. At this time, even the Zuodu Censor, one of the seven ministers, wrote to him, so Emperor Hongzhi could not sit idly by. Cheng Minzheng was then put in the Beizhen Fushi Prison.

The unlucky Cheng Minzheng is in his life!

Chen Xi sighed secretly: "This is really a character that determines destiny. The wind blowing my butterfly can't change the direction of your destiny in the end... Alas."

Cheng Minzheng was imprisoned, which was inevitable in the eyes of outsiders. After all, it has been two months since Hua Shi's report on Cheng Minzheng's sales case, and even the censor Hua Shi was convicted and imprisoned. Cheng Minzheng has no reason to leave the matter.

However, because Cheng Minzheng was imprisoned and Lin Tingyu wrote a letter to him, there was a coincidence in time that others just thought that Lin Tingyu was doing bad things with good intentions, which ended up hurting Cheng Minzheng.

The Heavenly King Jiusi said, "Now there are wise and virtuous people in the court who wrote a letter to Mr. Cheng to plead for mercy. Since we are children of Confucianism, we should report to each other in love to seek the emperor's special kindness."

Although Wang Jiusi made things difficult for Chen Xi because of his respect for Li Dongyang, Chen Xi still admired this person's integrity and morality very much.

Everyone in the court was afraid that the person involved in the sales case would not be hiding in time, so Wang Jiusi actually offered to ask Hanlin officials to jointly write a letter to support Lin Tingyu, and also classified Lin Tingyu as a "virtuous and virtuous person in the court."

Chen Xi thought to himself that Lin Tingyu was somewhat of a famous official in history, but he was obviously accused of Cheng Minzheng's case of selling documents.

The reason why Emperor Hongzhi was unable to make up his mind to punish Cheng Minzheng was actually another reason, that is, even if Cheng Minzheng had many close friends, he had no cliques in the court, so after the incident of the sales case, there was not even a person who pleaded for Cheng Minzheng.

When Emperor Hongzhi saw that people who did not form cliques and make private profits could commit crimes for a little profit? He did not have to worry about food and clothing, nor did he cultivate his followers. Why did he do it after corruption?

As soon as Lin Tingyu came out to make a comment, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly realized that you, Cheng Minzheng, pretended to be noble, but there were still friends in the court who pleaded for you. In this way, I misjudged you. It seems that I should interrogate you carefully to see if I don’t know what I know.

The case is becoming more and more complicated, and many people are fueling the fire behind it, pushing Cheng Minzheng to the death step by step.

Wang Jiusi's proposal did not receive support from colleagues in the Hanlin Academy.

Cheng Minzheng was once the top leader of the Hanlin Academy. He was about to enter the cabinet again. In the past, the Hanlin people were afraid of being too fond of it, but now whoever is involved in this case may suffer. The Hanlin people are both noble and arrogant scholars and court officials who strictly abide by the doctrine of the mean. At this time, they all understand what it means to be stubborn and hang up.

Wang Jiusi wanted to find the person who wrote the letter together, but no one supported him except him, and in the end he gave up.

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Cheng Minzheng was finally jailed.

Xu Jing was told countless times that he bribed Cheng Minzheng's money by Tingshi, which obviously could not satisfy the people of the Jinyiwei and the Sansiya.

If you give Cheng Minzheng a piece of gold ingot, you can get the exam questions for the Ministry of Rites. Where is such a cheap thing in the world? Tell me how many benefits did Cheng Minzheng give me? If you don’t honestly explain it, you will continue to be punished.

Xu Jing's intestines are now regretful!

If I had known that I would be so popular at Cheng Minzheng's house, I would have to show off to others when I came out, and even the Hanlin Bachelor and Right Assistant Minister of Rites met us personally and gave us questions to do. Do you have such treatment?

At this time, Xu Jing not only regretted going to Cheng Minzheng's house, but also began to regret going to the capital to take the exam...

The family has a wealth of millions of dollars, and it is also good to be a juren. Why do you have to take the imperial examination for the Jinshi? Isn’t it a matter of being admired by people in the local area? Isn’t it a matter of elegant things to come to visit and seek poetry and literature?

Why do you need to come to the capital? If you fail the Jinshi exam, you will be punished and punished!

As for Tang Bohu, there is only one idea: Xu Jing’s son harms me!

It’s not hard to be framed by others. The Qing Dynasty can be used to be clear. I am a proud talented man from Jiangnan and everyone praised Tang Jieyuan. I went to the capital with Xu Jing to take the exam. I am greedy for your great career. I can follow you and mix and get a good reputation. We went to Cheng Minzheng’s family and did nothing. As long as you grit your teeth, even if the court investigates it, it will be impossible to investigate without any evidence!

As a result, you were fine. After a severe punishment, you started talking nonsense, such as bribing gold ingots, leaking test questions, and asking me to really get the test questions, as for the "Four Sons' Attainments" test questions, I couldn't even answer the test questions? After the test, I packed up the bedding papers and planned to go home and wait for another three years!

Tang Bohu was the one who was most affected after Xu Jing’s “honest explanation”!

Xu Jing told me that you bribed the gold ingot and got the test questions. You, Tang Bohu, went with him. You, you have a share of the gold ingot, right? In addition to that gold ingot, what other gift did you give to Cheng Minzheng? Not to mention it, I will beat you up and question it three times a day until you say it!

Tang Bohu was indeed tortured for the first few days when he was escorted to the Beizhen Fushi, but he gritted his teeth and survived. When the prison officials saw that the boy was stubborn, they were afraid that it would be difficult to explain the emperor to beat him to death before the case was closed, so they stopped using the torture. Tang Bohu finally saved a few days.

As a result, Xu Jing confessed, the prison officer on Tang Bohu suddenly felt the huge pressure on his shoulders... He had already taken action on the other side, and Tang Bohu was still holding on, which means that our torture was not enough. What should we do if we were held accountable by the court when we turned around?

Then I will take turns torture day and night, first using torture, then using fatigue tactics, and examine until he confesses.

In the end, Tang Bohu finally couldn't hold on anymore, so he had to admit that I also took a piece of gold ingot to ask Cheng Minzheng for writing.

The prison officials let him go when Tang Bohu recruited such a "major" bribery fact, but at this time he was almost gone half his life. A handsome talented man from Jiangnan was no longer as handsome as a dog, making Tang Bohu feel that life was worse than death.

Even if Tang Bohu and Xu Jing both confessed to bribery, Cheng Minzheng was dissatisfied, and Cheng Minzheng's willpower was obviously much higher than that of the two younger generations.

Tang Yin and Xu Jing admitted that they would not die if they committed bribery, but he was different. If they admitted that they would not only be beheaded, but their family members would also be exiled to join the army or demoted to the Jiaofangsi. He was over the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and they would not consider others, but also consider their family members.

After being imprisoned in April, the Meridian Gate was placed at the end of May. In the past month, the torture Cheng Minzheng was unimaginable to outsiders.

As a later generation, Shen Xi naturally knew the final outcome of Cheng Minzheng. Shen Xi was somewhat sympathetic to Cheng Minzheng. After all, he was a great scholar of his generation.

People at that time praised "Cheng Minzheng with extensive knowledge and the best articles in Li Dongyang". As a great scholar, Li Dongyang became the auxiliary minister of the cabinet and was highly valued by Emperor Hongzhi. Cheng Minzheng was framed and imprisoned, and ended up in a state of injustice and death without vain.

This case of selling questions for the Ministry of Rites Examination of Jiwei's Ministry of Rites can be said to be a small stain on the "Hongzhi Zhongxing". However, because there is no public opinion in history, whether the selling questions has occurred, and who is the person who wants to kill Cheng Minzheng behind it is not known to historians.

"History of Ming Dynasty" attributes Fu Han, but Fu Han could not design such a plan at all. As the person involved, Chen Xi is now in confusion.

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