Give you a spring

The next morning, Xie Lianzheng went to the Ministry of Rites after the court ended and asked them to find the list of courtiers who had entered the palace in the past two years. In order to prevent them from cheating, he personally followed them.

The huge files were stored in the warehouse, and the two officials searched around, Lian Zheng was behind, thinking about what happened earlier in the court.

Emperor Chong asked him how his preparations for the imperial examination were going. He glanced at Xie Shi lightly after hearing him say that the topic of the political discussion had been decided, and said that if he encountered any difficult things, he could ask his elder brother for advice, or come directly to look for him.

Hearing this, Lian Zheng wondered what I could ask Xie Shi, how he leaked the test questions, how many people he had installed in the court, and which departments they were in. His eyes were full of sarcasm.

——He will go to look for His Majesty, but not now. He will go with his new imperial brother as soon as the palace examination is over tomorrow.

Speaking of Pingwei, he recalled that last night someone secretly squatted on Qinghe Street, and he really caught a strange man near midnight. He squatted in front of the house door and knocked on the door for a while, and saw a few pieces of paper handed over to him. Come out, Lian Zheng gave an order when the man grabbed the paper, and the people ambushing around rushed forward, and all the stolen goods were taken.

Together with the examiner in the house who is responsible for shipping out the test questions.

After that, Lian Zheng took people to the yamen overnight, and Qi Zheng was better at interrogating him.But after arriving at the yamen, the other party seemed to be busy, but when he heard Lian Zheng say that the man was caught in front of the examiner's house, he immediately put down what he was doing, and said in a deep voice that he would be able to ask everything in half an hour.

So Lian Zheng asked someone to make a pot of tea, sat in the front hall and waited patiently. Sure enough, Master Qi appeared in front of him half an hour later - and gave a satisfactory answer.

The man who was caught belonged to the patrol team of Linjing City. Although he was also in the Ministry of War, he was not under the jurisdiction of General Liang. According to his account, there were two other people in the patrol team who were involved in cheating in the imperial examination. They took turns to get the test questions in front of the house. It was his turn to take the questions tonight, and the other two guards probably escaped last night after hearing the noise.

Lian Zheng's eyelids twitched when he heard two people fleeing under his nose, "Did you ask their names?"

"Yes," Qi Zheng turned his head to look at the policeman next to him, and the other party handed him a file, Qi Zheng said, "All the content of the question tonight is on it."

Lian Zheng looked at it, and there were detailed information about the three people in the patrol team, and who they would hand over the test questions to in the future. It was a person named "Wang An", who was probably responsible for contacting the candidates.In addition, the examiner who was also arrested in the Yamen also admitted that he participated in cheating in the imperial examination, and also gave the names of the other five people.

Lian Zheng made a "hmm" sound and asked, "This Wang An, Master Qi to investigate?"

Qi Zheng nodded, "The lower officials will investigate."

Lian Zheng asked again, "Did you make another copy of this thing for Ping Wei?"

"some."

"He should come to you tomorrow morning and talk to you about cheating in the imperial examination. Then you can just tell him what happened tonight by the way."

"Your Majesty understands."

Lian Zheng ordered good things, and went back home to rest when he saw that there was nothing to do. After that, he waited for someone to find documents in the library of the files of the Ministry of Rites. Time can do things.

Just thinking like this, the two officials in front came over with a thin stack of files, "Your Highness, this is the list of courtiers who have newly entered the palace in the past two years, and the records of all six people are on it."

Lian Zheng took it and flipped through it. After confirming that the content was correct, he nodded, "Back off."

He casually grabbed the document in his hand, and the staff guarding the door came up to him, "Your Highness, do you need to bring it to His Highness Pingwei after the research meeting?"

This title... Lian Zheng took a look at him. This person was the one Pingwei came to look for him at the mansion yesterday. Be honest."

The staff member bowed his head in response.

"By the way, I asked you to look up the materials of the examiners from the past two years last night, what happened?" Lian Zheng asked.

"According to the documents we found, those people are more or less related to the eldest prince, some of them were recommended by him to enter the palace, and some of them participated in other political affairs with him before the palace examination."

"for example?"

"There was a drought in Yuzhou last year, and an official followed the eldest prince to help the disaster."

Lian Zheng raised his eyebrows, sneered, and said slowly, "Disaster relief..." He immediately thought of the fact that the money sent to the top would be corrupted by the participating officials. After all, the Xiangnan flood incident was Lian Zheng He handled it by himself. He didn't know much about it at the time, but as soon as he left Linjing, some officials began to hint that he could steal some money.

This seems to have become a fixed pattern.

The money sent out from the household department will never be the amount that actually reaches the hands of the victims.

In recent years, there have been many natural disasters in Daqi, basically once or twice a year. Xie Shi was highly valued by Emperor Chongdi before, and he was sent out to deal with it several times. He must have met a lot of people while greedy for money. Courtier.

"Did someone send someone to Qinghe Street to watch them secretly?" Lian Zheng asked.

"Sent, I talked to General Liang of the Ministry of War this morning and asked him to replace some of the patrolling personnel."

"it is good."

Seeing Xie Lianzheng nodding, the staff hesitated and said, "Your Highness, since it has been found that six examiners have participated in the cheating, what should we do with the exam questions for this year's palace exam? Although the questions are about to be leaked It was stopped, but it is not necessary to be more cautious.”

"what do you mean?"

"Do you need to ask them to ask the question again? There is still a day and a half to go."

Lian Zheng pondered for a while, "Okay, I'll go talk to the others later."

The two quickly made a decision, Lian Zheng walked out of the palace gate, got into the carriage, and drove towards Qinghe Street.

At this time, Ping Wei was listening to Qi Zheng's talk in the yamen about how His Highness the Second Highness came to see him last night.

"Sure enough, is there an insider in the patrol team?" Ping Wei raised his eyebrows, Xie Lianzheng's efficiency was really fast, and he found the suspect examiner in no time. "He just sent someone to say that he will go to Qinghe Street to ask the examiners to ask the questions again, and all the previously set ones will be cancelled. By the way, he also sent a list of the courtiers who have just entered the palace."

Ping Wei handed a file to Qi Zheng, "Master Qi, take a look?"

Qi Zheng took it and glanced hastily.

"Since the one caught last night has confessed who the remaining examiners are, can you relax now, sir, and don't bother looking for other examiners except Zhou Mu?"

Qi Zheng nodded, but his frown never loosened, "But there is still no evidence. Last night, the police caught the remaining two ghosts in the patrol team. After passing the interrogation, they said that they would hand over the test questions to a man named Wang. Ann's person, the appointment is to meet in front of a restaurant on Fengyuan Street at noon today."

Ping raised his eyebrows slightly, "Has your lord decided to go?"

"Well, the officer has a plan."

A quarter of an hour later, a strange face appeared in the main hall of the yamen. It was the patrol soldier captured by Xie Lianzheng last night.

Qi Zheng asked someone to bring a large mirror, and Ping Wei stood in front of him and looked at himself. He is now dark-skinned, tall, and wearing a somewhat dirty patrol uniform.He Zhou was standing next to him, also dressed as a patrol soldier, but his face remained the same, it was still his original appearance - according to the soldiers in the prison, Wang An didn't know them, but given Ping Wei's appearance An excellent face, it would be better to dress up a little bit.

Qi Zheng's plan is to have one person disguised as a patrol soldier, go to Fengyuan Street to meet Wang An, give him the test questions stolen last night, and then quietly follow him to find other people related to this matter.

Very ordinary plan, but it also sounds like the most productive.

At first Master Qi just wanted to find a random policeman to pretend to be a soldier and talk to Wang An, but Ping Wei seemed to be very interested in this matter. As soon as Qi Zheng finished speaking, he proposed to fight in person. After agreeing, He Zhou beside Pingwei said that he would go too.

So the original plan for one person to go turned into two.

"Your Highness only needs to hand over these test questions to him. I will watch with the policeman nearby, so don't worry too much." That's what he said, but Qi Zheng still looked worried. I know whether that Wang An knows martial arts.

Ping Wei saw the worry in his eyes, smiled, and wanted to tell the other party that he was very skilled and there was no need to worry at all, and He Zhou also followed, Qi Zheng didn't even need to take the policeman with him, but he thought about it now It's in Linjing City, it's better not to say anything about my martial arts skills.

He looked at the thoughtful Lord Qi, and said softly, "What time is it now? Are you about to leave?"

Qi Zheng: "It's six quarters noon, there's still some time."

"Then...go over to have a meal?" Ping Wei said in a brisk tone, "I don't seem to have been to Fengyuan Street, is there anything delicious there? Which restaurant should I make an appointment with?"

...Your Highness is really not worried at all, Qi Zheng felt the other party's love for food, and said helplessly, "Your Majesty knows, let's go."