At the beginning, his wife came to him, and he became rich by selling kidney treasures.

"That is to say, we were almost done with the problem, and you suddenly did this. Wouldn't all our efforts be wasted?"

The other talented scholars also followed suit, holding up their test papers with dissatisfied looks on their faces.

Ren Hao glanced at the talented man who took the lead in refuting him and asked, "What's your name?"

"I am Qi Yan," said the talented scholar neither humbly nor humbly.

"Qi Yan, are you almost done with the questions like them?" Ren Hao nodded and asked.

"I have finished solving my problem." Qi Yan picked up the test paper and handed it to Ren Hao respectfully.

Ren Hao glanced at the test paper and handed it to Li Shiji next to him.

After all, professional matters should be left to professionals.

Li Shiji took the test paper and looked at it with Shen He. They both nodded frequently.

"How is it? How many questions did you get right?" Ren Hao asked.

"Although the solutions are different, the final sum is correct." Shen He handed the test paper to Ren Hao and said.

Li Shiji, who was standing next to him, lowered his head and whispered, "Brother Ren, this man is very knowledgeable, why don't you keep him?"

Stay?

Ren Hao immediately rolled his eyes at Li Shiji, wondering what he was thinking.

Even though this person is knowledgeable, he cannot be retained if he has poor moral character.

"Master Ren, I think there is nothing wrong with my method of solving the problem." Qi Yan became confident and assured at this time.

"That's right, but I still can't recruit you." Ren Hao shook his head with a look of regret, and then continued: "However, as compensation, you can receive five taels of silver from my house, which is not in vain for your trip."

Then, Ren Hao treated the other talented people equally and said, "You are all the same. If you answer a question correctly, you can get one tael of silver."

"Mr. Ren, why can't you be magnanimous and give us a way out? We didn't cheat, so why should we be implicated?" Qi Yan asked unwillingly.

"That's right, it was Xu Kun who cheated, why should we be implicated by him!!!"

Other talented men also followed suit. Rather than these few taels of silver, they wanted to get Ren Hao's recognition and enter the court.

As long as one becomes an official, one can turn one's life around. One will no longer have to endure the contempt of neighbors and be called a poor, useless and good-for-nothing by them.

Ha ha.

"Since you want to get out of here, I won't mind telling you, but you won't be able to get the money." Ren Hao glanced at Qi Yan and the others.

But they would rather ask Ren Hao to give a reasonable explanation than take the few taels of silver.

What's the difference between these few taels of silver and the free food?

Seeing the talented men like this, Ren Hao nodded.

"Since you all want to get out of here, I'll grant your wish."

"You know what it means that one bad apple spoils the whole barrel."

Ren Hao looked at the talented men, but they obviously had never heard of this idiom.

"The reason you were implicated is that you all knew Xu Kun and knew what kind of person he was. Not only did you not tell him not to cheat before the exam, you also didn't report him to us."

"You all think that his cheating has nothing to do with you, or you still hope that he can get away with it. This is the root cause of your collective punishment."

"Although you are all knowledgeable, you are completely defeated in terms of moral character."

"You must remember that to be an official one must not only be knowledgeable, but also have good moral character." Ren Hao said to the talented people in an educational tone.

"Been taught a lesson."

This time, Qi Yan did not make excuses. Instead, he bowed to Ren Hao with conviction and turned around to leave Ren's house.

Although the other talented scholars were still unwilling, after Ren Hao told them to leave, they looked at Shi Huan, Li Jin and Hui Lixue who were coming over and had to leave quickly.

Now they are regretting their decision so much that their intestines are turning green. They should not have been so stubborn as to think that Ren Hao could not give an explanation and pretend that a gentleman would not accept something that was not given to him.

Originally they could have gotten a few pieces of silver, but now they have nothing.

When the talented people saw Xu Kun following them out, they immediately took out their anger on Xu Kun and beat him up.

If it weren't for his cheating, they wouldn't have ended up like this, and they might even have been recruited by Ren Hao to become officials in the Ministry of Revenue.

"You damn rat shit!!!"

"I beat you to death!!!"

The talented people scolded and beat Xu Kun.

Xu Kun also ran away with his head in his hands, begging for mercy all the way.

Until the end, it was Qi Yan who stopped them, otherwise Xu Kun might have been beaten to death by them.

The other talented students who were still waiting for the exam were all confused as to why they wanted to beat Xu Kun. Someone immediately came over and asked, "Brothers, why did you beat him for no reason?"

"You say he's innocent? He's not innocent at all!!!"

The talented scholar's anger had already subsided, but he became furious again after hearing what the other party said.

He took off his shoes and threw them to Xu Kun who was hiding behind Qi Yan, and told him everything that had happened. He also reminded the remaining talented students waiting for the exam to be careful of their fellow townsmen or talented students taking the exam together, so as to avoid being implicated for cheating.

"This……"

When the talented students waiting for the exam heard that they would be punished for cheating, they all looked at each other.

Those talented fellow townsmen who had originally agreed to take the exam together, when they thought of the other party's usual behavior and feared that the other party would cheat, they drew a line directly.

This wonderful friendship between classmates is not worth mentioning when it comes to one's future career.

In order to prevent someone from being implicated due to favoritism and fraud.

These talented people checked each other before the exam to ensure that everything was perfect.

As the test papers in the courtyard were prepared again and with Shi Huan's announcement, the third round of talented candidates entered the mansion with an uneasy mood.

Just when Ren Hao was about to announce the start of the test, a group of uninvited guests came from outside the mansion.

A group of inspectors with the word "御" printed on their official uniforms rushed in and interrupted the talented men who were preparing for the exam.

Li Shiji frowned when he saw this group of people, because they were all from the Censorate.

"Stop it, no more exams."

Ban Liang, the chief inspector, finished his scolding and looked around before saying, "Who is Ren Hao? Stand up."

"It's me, what can I do for you?" Ren Hao stepped forward and asked.

"As a minister of the imperial court, you disregarded the Han Dynasty law and secretly recruited officials from the Ministry of Revenue. Where do you put the other officials from the Ministry of Revenue?"

"Come here, bring him back to the Censorate and hand him over to the Minister of Justice for punishment." After Ban Liang made the announcement, he waved to the other censors.

But Hui Lixue, Li Jin and Shi Huan stood in front of Ren Hao.

"How dare you disobey the order of the Censor? Are you trying to rebel?" Ban Liang glared and shouted.

Even so, the three of them stood in front of Ren Hao without flinching, preventing the supervisors from arresting Ren Hao.