Chapter 317.

Emperor Yuan Jing puts the folding after approving the red, gently throws to the old eunuch, smiles and says: “The big companion, you give me to say, this will Yuan Xu New Year, in the end there is no fraud?”

The old eunuch took the folded document and quickly scanned it, then said, “The old slave is stupid, but the old slave feels that there is indeed something fishy about this matter.”

Emperor Yuan Jing stared at him for a few seconds and commanded, “Order the Prefectural Government Office and the Ministry of Justice to handle this case, and make sure to find out what’s going on.”

When the old eunuch led the order to retreat, Emperor Yuan Jing sat on the dragon chair, looked at the blue sky outside the imperial study, and suddenly smiled, “Three birds with one stone.”

The python-robed old eunuch left the imperial study and walked briskly with his head down, traveling a hundred meters, he patted his chest in alarm and his face was gloomy:

“The approval of red and still ask me …….. Wei Yuan ah Wei Yuan, it’s not that we don’t help you, our lives are most important.”

Shortly afterward, the palace’s edicts reached the Ministry of Justice and the government offices respectively.

The Minister of Justice, Sun Shangshu, seemed to have anticipated this, and upon receiving the order, he immediately dispatched his men to arrest Xu New Year.

Chen Fu Yin received the oracle from the palace, sighed and shook his head, “The long wind will break the waves sometimes …….. I’m afraid that a big wave will hit and destroy your ship.”

He immediately called out to Shao Yin and said in a deep voice, “Immediately send someone to arrest Xu New Year and bring him back to the Yamen for interrogation, make sure to grab him before the Ministry of Justice …….. Send someone to inform Xu Yinluo.”

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Hsu Mansion.

On a warm spring day, Xu New Year had his desk set up under the shade of a tree, and the sunlight filtered through the branches and leaves, dappling and swaying on the desk, the book, and his handsome and peerless face.

Tea and pastries were at hand.

Auntie was preparing to go out to play with the two sisters, Xu Lingyue and Xu Lingyin, as well as Lina, who was staying at the house on loan.

Lina saw Xu New Year under the tree and graciously praised him, “Erlang Xu is so handsome, if he were in our tribe, the grannies would have fought head to head to grab him.”

The aunt was instantly alert, as if she had seen a sow attempting to arch her cabbage.

Is this little black skin from the southern border hinting that she’s interested in Erlang? Bah, delusional, toads wanting to eat swan meat.

The aunt’s beautiful eyes cut Lina for a moment and urged, “It’s getting late, go out early.”

This trip does not bring escorts, a hundred escorts can not withstand a small black skin in the South Border, the strength of the small black skin, is certified by Uncle Xu and Xu Dalang.

Auntie also witnessed Little Blackie take a fist-sized rock and easily crush it into pieces.

Lina instantly left the handsome Erlang Xu behind and hurriedly headed out, she couldn’t wait to take a stroll around the Great Fengjing City.

In the past, when I was in the southern border, I often heard the elders in the tribe talk about the capital city of Dafeng, the most prosperous city in the world.

“The dead girl eats a lot, and also has crooked thoughts about my Erlang, I have to find a way to drive her away ………” the aunt thought secretly.

This foreign woman who fell from the sky stirred up the aunt’s xenophobic thoughts.

She was plotting how to drive away the foreign woman when, in her line of sight, she saw a group of officials and soldiers rushing in, pushing Old Zhang, the concierge, to the ground and heading straight for the inner courtyard.

One of the head constables, holding a portrait in his hand, compared it, pointed at Xu Xinxin reading a book under the shade of a tree, and droned, “This man is Xu Xinxin, take him down.”

“Who are you people? By what right do you arrest my family’s Erlang.” The aunt was shocked, and out of the mentality of protecting her calf, she didn’t make any hesitation and blocked in front of the officials with a raised eyebrow.

“The Ministry of Justice is taking someone, how dare you stop them? Take them all away!” The police chief waved his hand and ordered his men to arrest the aunt.

Two officials immediately came forward and took out the rope and put it over the aunt’s head.

“Bang!”

Lina stepped forward and gently pushed on the chests of the two officials. “Ah ……” In two miserable screams, the officials flew out and fell to the ground.

Medaka!

The officials drew their blades and pointed their knives at Lina, the little barbarian girl from the southern border licked her lips, a little excited, she could kill all of these people within ten breaths.

The aunt ducked behind Lina in shock, suddenly realizing how reliable and dependable the little dark skin was.

“Stop.”

Xu New Year chortled, put down his scroll and walked over, his gaze coldly sweeping over the officials, and said in a deep voice:

“I am a Kaewon, with a meritocracy, and it is a great offense for you to trespass on my residence and move your blades.”

At this time, the two officials who had been knocked away rubbed their chests and stood up, and the sheriff, seeing that there was nothing unusual about them, pondered a little, put away his sword, took out a card ticket, and said:

“We were ordered by the Ministry of Justice to bring Xu Huiyuan back to the Yamen for questioning.”

Xu New Year frowned, “What has Xu committed?”

“Xu Huiyuan will know if he comes with us.” The constable waved his big hand and droned, “Take him away.”

Lina just wanted to strike, but was stopped by Xu New Year, who met the officials of the Ministry of Justice, “I’ll go with you.”

Auntie and Xu Lingyue chased after them outside the mansion until the officials escorted Xu New Year and disappeared into the street.

Lina whispered, “Did Erlang Xu rob the silver too?”

She knew that robbing silver was punishable by arrest by the officials.

At this time, Old Zhang, the concierge, brought Xu Xinnian’s horse and said, “Madam, Miss, the old slave will let someone go and inform the master.”

Auntie and Xu Lingyue turned around at the same time and called out, “Go find Dalang (big brother).”

…………

“What? Officials from the Ministry of Justice came to the house to arrest Erlang?”

In the night watchman’s yamen, Xu Qi’an, who had received the news, froze, somewhat caught off guard.

“Da Lang, you quickly think of a solution, Madam and Miss are crying with anxiety.” Concierge Old Zhang’s son looked anxious.

“Why the capture?”

Old Zhang’s son shook his head and said, “Suddenly a group of officials and soldiers rushed in, and pushed my father, grabbed Erlang and left.”

“I know, you go back first.” Xu Qi’an instructed, “Tell Auntie and Ling Yue to take it easy, I’ll take care of this.”

“Da Lang, you have to go back and talk to them yourself.” The son of Old Zhang, the concierge, said.

Xu Qi’an nodded and waved his hand to send him away, sitting down at the table and pondering for a moment, he got up and left the Hall of One Blade, intending to take a trip to the Ministry of Justice to first figure out why the Ministry of Justice was trying to apprehend Xu Erlang.

“It’s not that the Minister of Justice is deliberately picking a fight in order to take it out on his niece. If this is the case, then on the contrary, it’s a good solution. Erlang has a title of merit, ordinary trivial matters can’t help him ………

“But the style of action of the court bigwigs, even if it is for the niece out of anger, but also will not be no reason to arrest people, is bound to seize the handle, there is a certainty of a hit, which is the shot.

“So Jiro must have gotten into something, only I don’t know it yet ……..”

With this in mind, he exited the courtyard, and was about to turn his head to the stables, to bring in the filly, when he saw the chief constable of the government office, Lv Qing, with two of his fast men, enter the courtyard at a hurried pace.

“Lord Xu.”

As the two sides met head on, Lu Qing’s face showed joy, which was then replaced by anxiety as he said in a loud voice, “The prefect asked me to inform you that Xu Huiyuan is in trouble.”

“I know, he was already taken away by the Ministry of Justice not long ago.” Xu Qi’an nodded stoically.

“It seems that it’s still the people from the Ministry of Justice who are a step ahead.” Lu Qing sighed.

“Sheriff Lu please come inside, there is something I need to ask for advice.”

Xu Qi’an dismissed the idea of going to the stables and guided Lu Qing back to the One Blade Hall.

Lu Qing took the tea offered by the mandarin, took a symbolic sip, and opened the door, “His Majesty sent down an order to investigate Xu Huiyuan’s imperial examination fraud.”

The words “imperial examination fraud” made Xu Qi’an’s eyebrows jump.

Erlang that song “difficult to walk the road” is indeed I gave him, but this is not counted as the imperial examination fraud? The examination question is my bet, betting on the question this kind of thing, the court does not support, but also never prohibited, the Confucians often have the custom of betting on the question, strictly speaking, it is not considered to be fraud ……… No, the question itself is not fraud.

Xu Qi’an caught the scent of intrigue and said in a deep voice, “Is it His Majesty who wants to investigate?”

Lu Qing glanced at the mandarins in the hall and said in a low voice, “This official does not know, and Lord Xu should not speculate.”

“It was my slip of the tongue.”

But this is very important ah, if it is the Yuan Jing Emperor wants to screw Er Lang, it is not easy to deal with, Er Lang’s future is almost ruined. Goods in the emperor s family, the emperor s family does not want, the readers will be ruined …….. Xu Qi An Xin said.

“Thanks to Sheriff Lu for reminding me, this official is in a hurry to deal with this matter and is not in a position to keep you.”

“Lord Xu will give me a ride.” Lu Qing meant it.

The two of them left the One Blade Hall and walked side by side towards the outside of the mansion, Lu Qing lowered his voice and said:

“Lord Xu had better go to the Ministry of Justice, the person to the Ministry of Justice hands, it will be held. If you’re late, I’m afraid you’ll confess everything. That’s all I have to say.”

Lv Qing has practiced martial arts since childhood, and has served in the government office for many years, and has seen a lot of similar cases, so he knows all about the cattiness of the officialdom.

Sending Lu Qing away, Xu Qi’an twisted his head and entered the Haoqi Building to seek help from Wei Yuan.

Intuition told him that this matter is not so simple, the officialdom of the hook, door and door, he lacks experience, the segment is not enough, good thing there is a big thick leg to hold.

Entering the Haoqi Building, in the tea room, Xu Qi’an told Wei Yuan what had happened and asked for help, “Please teach me, Lord Wei.”

Wei Yuan gripped his teacup and mused, “I didn’t receive any notification from the palace, which means that His Majesty doesn’t want me to know, or at least doesn’t want me to know instantly.”

Xu Qi’an’s face changed, “It’s His Majesty who wants to mess with me?”

“How vulgar is the word engage.” Wei Yuan said in disgust, then shook his head, “You Xu family brothers, you’re not qualified enough for His Majesty to personally come down, you should be impeached.

“As for the purpose, first of all, according to the examples of previous imperial examination fraud cases, since it is fraud, there must be an examiner who leaked the questions. The three chief examiners of this Chunxin exam are Zhao Tingfang, a university scholar of the East Pavilion, Liu Hong, the right imperial inspector, and Qian Qingshu, a university scholar of the Hall of Wuying. The rest of the small fish are ignored for the time being.

“Of the three examiners who may have leaked the questions, Qian Qingshu is excluded first.”

Xu Qi’an frowned, “Why?”

Wei Yuan replied, “The impeachment petition has to go through the cabinet first, the cabinet is Wang Zhenwen’s turf, and Qian Qingshu is Wang Zhenwen’s man, got it.”

Chief Minister Wang did not beat the zhang back, that means that this matter has nothing to do with Qian Qingshu ……… Xu Qi’an nodded: “Understood.”

Wei Yuan continued, “Secondly, your cousin Xu New Year is a person from Yunlu Academy, and although the court hall is full of parties and factions, the common suppression of Yunlu Academy’s scholars is an unspoken tacit agreement among all civil officials. This, is the main reason for this imperial examination fraud.”

“The great scholar of the Cloud Deer Academy ……. didn’t remind me?” Xu Qi’an frowned.

“Encountering suppression is inevitable, but it may not be on the grounds of imperial examination fraud, and even if Xu New Year wins the top prize, he can still be swept into the nooks and crannies. There are no definite moves and too many methods, so how can we defend against it?” Wei Yuan shook his head.

“Finally, Xu New Year is your cousin, you are my beloved, when it comes to a great matter concerning your future, will you ask me for help? If I don’t answer, there will be animosity between us. If I should, the subsequent moves will come.” Wei Yuan sneered:

“This Majesty of ours is happy to see me fighting with the civil officials, so the news from the palace has not gotten out.”

One arrow and two eagles …… No, if there is still that examiner who leaked the question, the person behind it, is one arrow and three eagles. As for Erlang, involved in the imperial examination fraud case, there are only three kinds of endings: one, the evidence is conclusive, exile or beheading. Second, the evidence is conclusive, but the crime is less serious, dismissed from the merit, not allowed to be employed for the rest of his life. Third, the investigation is not guilty, but missed the examination, reputation is ruined.

Xu Qi’an took a deep breath, his head as big as a bucket.

Readers really disgusting ah, what contradictions, let’s pull out the knife to fight, a duel, how dry and clean.

All these sneaky tricks.

“Lord Wei, what should I do?” Xu Qi’an humbly sought advice, on solving cases, he was confident. On official battles, then he was a silver facing a group of kings straight on.

Luckily, there’s also a King’s Peak level big brother behind me, too.

“I can go down, but then, Xu New Year is my person, and the label on his body can’t be washed off in this lifetime.” Wei Yuan sipped his tea and looked at him with a warm gaze.

This matter is very troublesome, even if Wei Gong to step in and help Erlang get away, I’m afraid that it will also have to hurt, after all, the opposite side is not a party, it is likely to be a tacit agreement between a number of parties ……….

Moreover, if Erlang becomes a castrati like me, it would be better for him to leave his home and the capital ………..

Xu Qi’an frowned tightly, sat still for a long time, astringently said, “Wei Gong, there is no, other ways?”

“Yes!”

This answer both surprised and surprised Xu Qi’an.

But Wei Yuan turned his words around and shook his head, “But you can’t do it.”

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PS: Correction, “SeanGhoust” rewarded me 230k, not 190k, I miscounted in the last chapter.

Also, I’ve had some bad stuff happen lately, so I stayed up all night last night and got up to code after four hours of daytime sleep. And then wasn’t really in the mood to code.

It’s a good thing it’s the weekend or I’d be really afraid I’d die suddenly. Just one more shift today, hehe.

Don’t worry, any words owed today will be made up tomorrow, talk is cheap.

By the way, this case was inspired by Tang Yin’s imperial examination fraud case, which is not considered to be made up out of thin air. I’ve looked up a lot of information on imperial examination fraud, and there are cases where the evidence is solid, but there are also many cases where there is no evidence, but their lives were ruined.

Just a precautionary note in case any readers find this unreasonable.