sbdcsierra Chapter 116 Fraud
Chapter 116 Fraud
The prince breathed a sigh of relief that the matter was finally settled. He took this opportunity to make a great comeback and seemed to have finally covered up the previous conflicts.
I didn’t expect that there would be so many outstanding talents in this special examination. It really is God’s blessing.
The Crown Prince made a great comeback, and the Queen and the Crown Princess also felt proud, sweeping away the previous gloom.
Unexpectedly, there was an uproar when the results were announced.
The scholars discussed and exchanged ideas a lot before the exam, and everyone basically knew who had the potential to win the top spot and who had the ability to compete for the top spot.
However, among the top three and even the top ten on the imperial list at this time, except for the fifth and eighth place winners, who were well known by the scholars during the pre-exam discussions, they would definitely be the best if they performed normally. The other eight were all just mediocre in daily life.
Those who were originally favored by everyone, envied and hated by everyone, and had the hope of winning the top three, are now ranked outside the top ten.
Everyone was in an uproar!
In addition to those who stand out at the top of the list, there are actually some who were originally in the lower middle level but are now in the upper level, some who were at the bottom and were between passing and failing have jumped to the middle level, and some who had no chance of passing originally have ended up at the bottom.
However, the number of these people is not large, and they are not conspicuous among the imperial list. Except for those who are familiar with them and have similar achievements, no one else pays attention to them.
After all, they are not famous.
However, the top three and the first list of successful candidates were such unexpected results. The scholars are not fools, how could they be so easily fooled?
Some of them were hot-blooded and shouted angrily on the spot: "Someone is cheating! It's not fair! Someone must be cheating!"
The public's emotions were quickly ignited, like a flood of water sweeping down with great force. For a moment, everyone's anger was ignited by this obviously fishy result!
"Fraud! Fraud!"
"Unfair! Unfair!"
"A thorough investigation! We demand a thorough investigation!"
"Investigate thoroughly! Investigate thoroughly!"
"..."
The situation suddenly became out of control, and quickly alarmed Shuntian Prefecture, the six ministries, and the Hanlin Academy...
Soon, the emperor found out.
It can’t be covered up. It can’t be covered up at all.
The emperor was furious and called the prince over, scolding him severely.
The prince was completely panicked, and he didn't even dare to say that the scholars were deliberately causing trouble. Because the fact that almost all the scholars were furious and angry definitely proved that there was something fishy going on.
The words "scientific examination cheating" are too big and too heavy. Unless one is really intolerable, unless one has gone mad and is determined to throw everything into chaos, no one would dare to shout it out, and it is even more impossible for so many people to respond!
Even if we haven't checked, it can be basically confirmed that there was cheating in this exam.
"Father, I am innocent! Father, you value me and gave me this matter to handle. How dare I do this? I am not that short-sighted! If anything goes wrong, it will be all my responsibility. Please understand, Father!"
"Of course you don't dare. I don't believe you are so stupid and shallow, but," the emperor stared at him grimly and smiled coldly, "I trusted you and entrusted you with such an important matter, but you did it like this and dared to shirk responsibility in front of me. Oh, tell me, what else can I entrust you with in the future? What else do you have to do? You disappoint me so much!"
When the prince heard this, he was so frightened that his soul left his body. His legs were shaking, his face was pale, and he couldn't help trembling with his teeth clenched.
His heart was filled with infinite fear.
What does this mean?
Could it be that the emperor still wants to abolish him...
"Father, Father! Please give me another chance. I will never let you down. I will never let you down! Please, Father, please..."
The prince almost burst into tears.
His father no longer trusted him and no longer valued him. What would happen next? He really didn't dare to think about it.
"Humph!"
The emperor sneered, looking down at the prince's useless appearance, and felt disappointed and heartbroken. How could he trust such a crown prince to hand over the country to him?
Naturally, the emperor could not hand over the matter to the crown prince for a thorough investigation. No one from the crown prince's faction had anything to do with it, so the emperor sent his own confidants to investigate.
As a result, it was found out that the test questions for the special examination were leaked from the cousins of the Deng family, the younger brother and nephew of the Lu family, Mrs. Deng's maternal family.
According to their father and son, it was the servant of the Deng family who contacted them and handed the things to them, suggesting that they make a fortune in a small area and then share the benefits equally...
The Deng family is the prince's maternal family, and the special examination is supervised by the prince. The Lu family father and son are ecstatic and naturally think that this matter is probably the prince's intention. Anyway, the prince is the supervisor, so he naturally has a way to grasp and control the matter, and they are very relieved.
At the beginning, they were quite cautious and carefully selected their targets, selling each test paper at a sky-high price.
However, this kind of thing is addictive.
With money flowing into pockets, who can resist such temptation and who can not be greedy?
Reason can never defeat desire, let alone the desire of thinking that someone is backing you up.
As a result, more and more test papers were sold...
If it weren't for the fact that the Enke exam was only a few days away, they might have sold out these test papers!
The Lu family father and son cried and confessed everything, but the two masters of the Deng family were shocked and had no idea what was going on! What did this have to do with them? They had no idea about this at all, and it was impossible for them to be so shallow as to harm the prince.
When they were in court, the two masters of the Deng family angrily asked the father and son of the Lu family to identify which servant had passed the message to them.
However, when all the servants of the Deng Mansion stood in front of them without exception, the Lu father and son were so dizzy that they could not remember their appearance at all.
How can they remember someone they only met once?
Besides... who knows if the Deng family has someone else who has not shown up here? In order to clear themselves of the crime, the father and son insisted that it was the Deng family's servant, regardless of whether they recognized the messenger or not.
As for why they were not among the Deng family's servants, how did they know? They were not from the Deng family...
The Deng family father and son were so angry about this! Who could have thought that the bad thing would happen to the Lu family father and son?
The matter came to a standstill. Needless to say, the Lu family would be confiscated and exiled. Madam Deng went into the Buddhist temple and cried silently, refusing to see any of her family members.
Even though she felt sorry for her family, she had nothing to say. In this matter, her family was extremely wrong.