Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Xiang Nan knew that this case of imperial examination fraud was due to Prime Minister Gao Ming's self-defeating fraud and shoddy, so that all his party members went to high school, which caused great dissatisfaction among the judges.

There were seven failed candidates who had nowhere to turn, and in desperation chose to commit suicide by hanging from the beam. As soon as this matter came out, the world was in an uproar, and public opinion was surging, asking the court to investigate the matter thoroughly.

The prince was upright by nature, so he also wrote a letter, hoping that the emperor would investigate the case thoroughly, and finally the emperor ordered Dali Temple to investigate the case thoroughly.

But Dali Temple was manipulated by the treacherous Prime Minister Gao Ming. In the end, not only was he acquitted, but even the parents of the seven failed candidates were accused of being framed by the crown prince because they were bribed by him.

Not only did the prince fail to punish the treacherous prime minister, but he also poured dirty water on him. Naturally, he couldn't bear the grief and indignation. Therefore, he joined court officials to write letters several times, asking Dali Temple to re-investigate the case thoroughly.

As a result, the emperor was furious and deposed the crown prince Taifu as an official. But the prince still refused to back down, and still argued hard, even wearing mourning clothes in the court, meaning to wear mourning for the seven sons who died unjustly.

But there are rules in the palace. If there is no great funeral, it is strictly forbidden to wear filial piety. The prince is in mourning, isn't it a curse for the emperor to die early. Therefore, Li Yu was naturally furious, and came here to reprimand him.

But Li Chengji still refused to give in. Instead, he thought that his father was stupid, deceived by treacherous officials, and allowed the treacherous party to mess up the government.

Li Yu was even more furious, so he asked the family law to whip Li Chengji himself.

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Xiang Nan watched from the side, but quickly cleared his mind.

This matter seems to be very simple.

The emperor was deceived by treacherous officials and punished his own prince, but it was not that simple.

The truth is that the rich dynasty had just implemented the imperial examination system.

Prior to this, it had always used the nine-rank Zhongzheng system to select officials. As a result, the power of the government was monopolized by the gentry.

Nowadays, the promotion of imperial examinations and the recruitment of talents are to break the monopoly of power and talents by the powerful.

But it also angered the elites, so they criticized the imperial examination system. With the suicide of seven candidates, public opinion was created and the emperor was urged to abolish the imperial examination.

The reason why the emperor did not want to thoroughly investigate the case was to keep the imperial examination.

The imperial examination system has just been implemented, so it is normal to have loopholes, and it is inevitable that people will take advantage of loopholes.

After all, even in the Qing Dynasty, where the imperial examination system was well established, there were endless cases of imperial examination fraud.

However, the family members wanted to use this to completely abolish the imperial examinations.

Because the imperial examination was abolished, the imperial court could only use the nine-rank Zhongzheng system to select officials.

In this way, power is still controlled by the powerful. The majestic emperor of the rich dynasty would also be regarded as nothing by them.

Just like in the early Tang Dynasty, the daughter of Qiwang, a nobleman with five surnames, was not even qualified to marry the royal family. The imperial court compiles the "Clan Records", and the royal family is not even qualified to rank first.

Compared with them directly lifting the table, Gao Ming just poured sand into it.

The so-called two evils are the lesser, and the emperor naturally supports Gao Ming.

What's more, governing a big country is like cooking a small fish.

In addition to selecting talents, the imperial examination also has the effect of appeasing the hearts of the people. If there is a lot of fanfare and repeated investigations, it will cause a lot of controversy, the people will be uneasy, and they will be full of suspicion of the court, thus losing the original intention of appeasement.

Therefore, to put it simply, it is not that the emperor is confused and favors treacherous ministers.

It was the prince who was careless and was used as a gun by the powerful family, which destroyed the emperor's plan to acquire talents. That's why it was abolished and sent to Anhu Mansion to serve.

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Xiang Nan was familiar with the Twenty-Four Histories, so he naturally wanted to understand the key points.

The poor prince was being used by others. He thought he was pleading for the people and being loyal, but in fact he was tricked by the powerful family and used as a spear for others for nothing.

After understanding, Xiang Nan couldn't help sighing.

But I heard Li Yu say loudly, "Listen to me, if you still want to be your crown prince safely, take off this mourning dress for me now, and don't raise this case again in the future."

"I have been the crown prince for more than twenty years, and I have never said a word of no in front of my father. I can't be as cold-blooded and ruthless as my father, and I can't just stand by and watch those princes die in vain.

I don't understand why my father is unwilling to investigate this case. Could it be that you really disregarded the laws of the country in order to cover up the traitor? Don't you want to bear the infamy of the fatuous king who has been infamous for thousands of years? "Li Chengji still gritted his teeth, and said in a generous statement filled with righteous indignation.

"Nizi!!" Hearing these words, Li Yu naturally felt extremely harsh, and couldn't help but want to pull up the cane again.

"Father, calm down~" Xiang Nan yelled when he saw it, and rushed forward to protect Li Chengji, letting the cane slap him hard.

Fortunately, he is proficient in martial arts, not to mention whipping with a rattan cane, he can even defend against blows with blunt objects, so there is nothing wrong with him.

"Brother Huang was just impulsive." He defended Li Chengji.

"Fifth Brother, don't try to defend me." Li Chengji still said stubbornly, "Father is arbitrary and doesn't want to find out the truth at all. Maybe the day when the high-ranking party spreads all over the court and the rich dynasty changes surnames, Father will understand what I said What must it be!"

"Brother Huang, you are confused!" Xiang Nan shouted when he heard it, "It's not that the father is arbitrarily arbitrary, but you are being used as a gun."

After saying a word, the audience was silent.

"Fifth brother, what are you talking about?" Li Chengji asked puzzled.

Xiang Nan then recounted the conspiracy of the elite of the gentry to abolish the imperial examinations and monopolize power by taking advantage of the Seven Juzi incident.

At the moment, in the Eastern Palace, only the Emperor Li Zhen, Crown Prince Li Chengji, Second Prince Li Chengye, Third Prince Li Chengwen, Fourth Prince Li Chengyuan, Historian and Guards were present.

Xiang Nan is not afraid that his words will be spread, not to mention he is not afraid even if it is spread. And what he said was to Li Chengji in name, so that he would not be used as a gunman again.

In fact, it was said to the emperor Li Yu, so that he could see his intelligence.

Because Li Chengyin had always been lazy before, doing nothing to contend for and doing nothing, he hadn't shown the potential to be a crown prince at all, so he was not liked by Li Chengyin.

It wasn't until after he went to the western region that he made great achievements in the conquest of Danchi that Emperor Li Zhen admired him.

And Xiang Nan didn't want to go to the western region, so he could only use this opportunity to show his wisdom.

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Sure enough, after listening to Xiang Nan's words, although Li Xi didn't say anything, his eyes lit up.

Unexpectedly, Lao Wu, who is usually lazy, actually has such a brilliant vision. I really underestimated him before.

That's right, the reason why Li Yu sheltered Gao Ming was not because he was blinded by him, nor was he afraid of his influence.

Gao Ming is just a dog that he keeps, he can clean it up as he wants, and he can clean it up whenever he wants.

The prince only saw that Gao Ming had been calling the wind and calling the rain above the court, crowding out and suppressing dissidents in these years. However, he didn't realize that those dissidents were all noble families whom the emperor wanted to suppress.

Just like Wei Zhongxian, the Duke of Dongchang, everyone thought he was a traitor and traitor, but in fact, without Wei Zhongxian's tricky hands, Emperor Chongzhen would not even be able to collect taxes.

The Donglin Party, who clamored to be dedicated to the country, were the chief culprits of tax evasion and tax evasion, which left the treasury empty and bankrupt.