On April 28th, there are still twelve days before the list of this year's imperial examination. While more than 10,000 students in Yongchang City were looking forward to it, they could not help but gather together to discuss the articles of the imperial examination. The good-taken test was very sarcastic and boasted to their companions. The poor-taken test sighed and were lucky. Some people who had a relationship smiled and couldn't help but reveal their words to show their cleverness...

Anfu Gate secretly guards the yamen. At the end of You, two red lanterns in front of the yamen lit up, making the steps red, like a monster staring with red eyes and trying to choose someone to eat. The street in front of the yamen is quiet and there is no voice. At this time, few people have the courage to pass by this "Ghost Pass".

The rapid sound of horse hooves approached from afar and stopped in front of the secret guards. Huang Xi led Kang Qianfeng and others to jump off the horse. The secret guards standing in front of the door hurried forward to see the horse. Huang Xi strode into the meteor, his official party was entering the second and Feng Zhong entered the third courtyard. Since the emperor was seriously ill, Feng Zhong stayed in Yanshan Villa for nearly half of the time, and Huang Xi was mostly managed by the secret guards.

Since Huang Xi served as the Military Intelligence Envoy, his authority has become more and more important. Many discerning people know that it is sooner or later that Huang Xi replaces Feng Zhong, especially the Military Intelligence Department sued Jiang Anyi and Tongmo case. Jiang Anyi cleared the charges, and Huang Xi was only fined one year. This shows that his saints are especially above Jiang Anyi, and officials in the secret guards expressed their loyalty to the deputy supervisor.

The candles in the official hall were brightly lit, and someone had already sent tea with diligently and stood aside to listen to the orders. Huang Xi took a sip of tea calmly, asked a few questions about official duties in the yamen, waved his hand to let everyone go, and began to review the official documents submitted on the table.

After a stick of incense, someone flashed in and bowed to pay his respects. It was Zhang Xingliang, the deputy governor of the Secret Guard. This person was his confidant in the Secret Guard's mansion. After Huang Xi reviewed the official documents in his hand, he put down his writing and asked, "How are you asking?"

Zhang Xingliang respectfully said, "Report to the Lord, you have already found out clearly. Please check it out." He said, and presented a thick piece of spy.

Huang Xi took it and read it, and it recorded the hidden information of the fraud in the current exam. The examiners of this year's exam were circled by the prince and submitted to the emperor for the approval of the examiner Mao Huacheng, the left chief of the Political Affairs Hall, and the deputy chief examiner of the East Palace Yude He Ziying, and twenty examiners were selected by the six ministries and nine ministers and the Imperial College. Secretary Zhuo Chengxun was appointed as the examiner. He was the son-in-law of the examiner Mao Huacheng, and his father-in-law and son-in-law were both examiners, which was a good story for a while.

This imperial examination was the first imperial examination for the prince to supervise the country. In order to win over talents from all over the world, Shi Chongwei naturally chose his confidants as examiners. Mao Huacheng had long been loyal to the prince, and He Ziying was even a close minister of the Eastern Palace. Most of the twenty examiners were also the prince's confidants. The emperor acquiesced to the prince's behavior. He had been ill for a long time and had to plan for the prince's future.

According to the practice of the subject, the powerful and nobles in the capital will take up twenty places, the examiners will take up about twenty places, and there will be twenty other relationships, and the total amount will account for about one-quarter. This year, in order to win the hearts of the ministers, the prince will give favors, and the Eastern Palace will secretly set more than thirty places. However, the prince secretly instructed Mao Huacheng that it would be better to take thirty or forty more people than in previous years. In this way, everyone will be happy.

Zhang Xingliang collected a lot of information, and there were more than 40 names in the spy, all of whom were the ones who went through the path, and who was the one who went, and how much silver they spent. Huang Xi swept it over and said that this information could be secretly handed over to King An of Chu, but Huang Xi was not paying attention to this at the moment. His eyes fell on the last two pages, and these two people were following the eunuch Tang Wenzhong.

Huang Xi took a risk to defiling Jiang Anyi and his identity was discovered by Jiang Anyi in the lobby. The two were destined to be a life-and-death ending. Unfortunately, the Huazhou Incident made Jiang Anyi acquitted from Dali Temple. The emperor appointed Jiang Anyi as the Huazhou Military Commissioner to solve the problem. Huang Xi began to plan to plug the loopholes in his identity. In addition to Jiang Anyi, the only person who knew that he was Zhang Bojin was left. Tang Wenzhong was an insatiable person. Tang Wenzhong was an insatiable person who used his identity to ask for excessive demands. Huang Xi secretly gritted his teeth and must not let Tang Wenzhong live. Tang Wenzhong lived in the inner palace, with more than a dozen eunuchs around him, and was pampered and the emperor was close to others. It was too difficult to assassinate him and the risk was too high.

Huang Xi secretly sent people to investigate Tang Wenzhong's every move, and opportunities were always given to those who were prepared. The secret guards found that Tang Wenzhong's nephew Tang Changfu had a close relationship with his sons. Tang Wenzhong was from Fuzhou, with five brothers and poor family. His parents could not send the third brother Tang Wenzhong into the palace. Tang Wenzhong was chosen to serve Shi Fangzhen, who was still the crown prince at the time, because of his dedication to work, so he loved Shi Fangzhen. Later, Shi Fangzhen ascended the throne and became emperor, and Tang Wenzhong became the eunuch in the palace, in charge of the eunuchs and maids in the palace, purchasing items, cleaning and other big and small matters.

Tang Wenzhong was fond of wealth and gained benefits from the palace maids and eunuchs. He collected silver and saved money from others to buy fertile land for shops and secretly used usury loans. Over the past decades, there were more than 40 shops in Yongchang City, including the Songhe Tower, which Huang Xi used to buy life. As for the land of nearly 3,000 hectares, gold, silver and jewelry were discussed according to the warehouse.

Of course, so many property cannot be kept in the palace, which is too eye-catching. Tang Wenzhong has an outer house in the capital, but his treasures are not stored in the outer house given by the emperor. Tang Wenzhong bought a five-enterprise mansion in Guangfufang, and adopted his fifth brother's son Tang Changfu as his stepson to manage the family business for him. Tang Changfu is not very high-profile in his work, and he claims to be the shopkeeper of a teahouse, and the teahouse is not far from home. There are not many people in the capital who know his identity.

Tang Wenzhong lived in the palace, and it was not easy to go out. Someone wanted to ask him to do his job, so he transferred it through Tang Changfu's teahouse. An insider went to the teahouse to tell the story. Someone introduced him to the inner room to see Tang Changfu. Tang Changfu offered the price according to the size of the matter, paid half the deposit first and bought a pound of tea. When the teahouse comes to the teahouse every ten days, the news was transferred to Tang Wenzhong's office through the eunuch. After the matter was done, the remaining payment was paid. The teahouse also did normal business, and there was no flaw on the surface.

Tang Wenzhong had to snatch two people in each imperial examination. The emperor summoned the examiner and waited. The examiner left the hall and went out to silence and said a few words. He could find a secluded place to report the names and origins of the person he was snatched, so that the examiner could take care of him. If it were a person like Ma Suizhen and Duan Cizong, he would turn to someone to send a message to the examiner. Who would dare not give him a face as a minister eunuch? When he asked for his subordinates, several examiners would be promoted because of him.

Just after the Lantern Festival, the teahouse came to the teahouse. Tang Changfu knew that the goods were very good, so he did not rush to agree. He chose the two highest bidders until March was about to end and invited them to have tea in the teahouse. He secretly agreed to give 12,000 taels of silver. The owners who came to the teahouse to walk on the teahouse were all rich and powerful people. One of them was Ai Xin from Duanzhou, with a name of Sanjin, and his family was rich. His uncle Ai Zonghua was the head of the Ministry of Rites, so he guided him to take the shortcuts; the other was Xiang Kaijie from Bazhou, a family of officials and scholars, and his grandfather was the chief of Louzhou. His father was the magistrate of Luoli County, Chenzhou, and a famous family in the local area. Ten thousand taels of silver could not be difficult for them.

The emperor was seriously ill, and Tang Wenzhong also went to Yanshan Villa to serve him. He was worried about the current imperial examination. In early April, he made a special trip to return to the capital. He knew from the emperor that the examiner this year was Mao Huacheng. After getting his name from Tang Changfu, he directly found Mao Huacheng who was in court, and muttered secretly, and Mao Huacheng agreed to take care of him.

Back at his private residence, Tang Changfu ran around and became a filial son. Seeing his stepfather Tang Wenzhong looked depressed, he asked with concern, "Dad, is it hard for you to serve him this time? I see that your face is a little bad."

Tang Wenzhong sighed and said, "Son, long live, I'm in a serious condition. I'm afraid I won't be able to stay in the palace for long."

Tang Changfu was shocked. If the son died today, the prince would definitely not be able to use the old man to ascend the throne. Most of the stepfather could not stay in the palace anymore. If he lost his position as the eunuch, no one would give him face. Maybe he would be sent to guard the imperial tomb to die. Tang Changfu hurriedly said, "Dad, if you are gone, the child will take you home to support you and take care of you for your old age."

Tang Wenzhong smiled and nodded, "Good boy, it's not in vain that my father loves you. Long live if I have a good life, I will ask the Empress to let me return home. But we men have worked hard all their lives and cannot leave empty-handed. Go and tell those two students that my father has a way to move their ranking in the palace examination."

After thinking for a moment, Tang Wenzhong said, "In the palace examination, they were ranked second in the first place, and asked them to add another ten thousand taels of silver. If they could enter the top ten, they would add another twenty thousand taels of silver. If they refused, you would let go of the wind and choose those who were willing among the top ten students. Spend 30,000 taels of silver to buy the top ten positions. Some people would like to."

There are ears in the partition walls, and there are famous secret guards on the roof of the study. It is not because Tang Wenzhong is careless. He and Feng Zhong are both old people from the Eastern Palace. The two have a normal relationship, but Tang Wenzhong is sure that Feng Zhong will never harm him. He has done many corruption and abuse of power for so many years. Feng Zhong has never said anything bad to him in front of the emperor. Liu Weiguo, Lu Mingli just secretly advised him. As for the emperor, he may have heard of something, but he will not deal with him with his old feelings, so Tang Wenzhong has the confidence.

"Send more people to monitor Tang Changfu strictly and do not relax." Huang Xi ordered. Zhang Xingliang bowed and said, "Wang Xi waved his hand, and Zhang Xingliang took two steps back and turned away.

Locking the intelligence in his hand into the iron cabinet beside him, Huang Xi stroked his smooth chin and pondered. Tang Wenzhong was greedy and found out that he had received more than five million taels of wealth. The north and west of the court were using troops, and the treasury was empty, and the prince was eager to fill the treasury. Tang Wenzhong gathered so much money and killed himself.

However, Huang Xi knew that Tang Wenzhong was a member of the emperor, and if he wanted to deal with him, the prince would be afraid of being afraid of the opportunity. He had to think of a complete solution so that Tang Wenzhong could not escape.

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