Since its birth, the imperial examination system has had a very far-reaching and lasting impact on the social development of China, and in ancient times it was considered to be "taking the great ceremony of the scholars, the relationship is the most important", so the dynasties and dynasties have attached great importance to the examination of the imperial examination, and the fraud of the imperial examination is strictly examined, and once it is discovered, it is punished with extremely high punishment, such as Tang Bohu, a talented son in the Ming Dynasty, who is a victim of this system.
Tang Bohu was born talented, from the time he participated in the imperial examination, he was a bit of a smooth sailing, after winning the "Xie Yuan" and then winning the "Yuan", but he was accused of cheating, after a thorough investigation, after no real evidence of his cheating was found, but he was still stripped of his meritorious name and was no longer allowed to participate in the imperial examination, so that Tang Bohu never had a career from then on, which shows the great punishment for cheating in the imperial examination in ancient times.
This is still the case in the absence of solid evidence, then in the case of solid evidence, the punishment is naturally greater, and even a high-ranking official will be beheaded by the emperor Qin Order, the most typical of which is the Qing Dynasty's Bai Bao. Although Bai Yao was a Manchu, he was a solid person who had passed the imperial examination and embarked on a career path, and he had a real knowledge, he passed the Daoguang Sixth Year Examination and entered the career path, and the career path was smooth.
By the time of Xianfeng's sixth year, Bai Bao had become a military minister and Hubu Shangshu, and in the eighth year of Xianfeng, he had become a scholar of Wenyuange University of Zhengyipin, who was already a high-ranking official in the entire Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, as a scholar of Wenyuange University, he was in charge of the Shuntianxiang Examination, that is, the chief examiner of the Scholar Examination.
Usually speaking, serving as the chief examiner of the imperial examination is very good for the official itself, and there is almost no harm, so that he can accept many disciples for himself, as long as he is a disciple in this examination, he is the nominal student of the chief examiner, and at the same time he will not offend anyone, which can be said to be beneficial and harmless, but Bai Ye has committed a crime because of this main examination, and finally he was beheaded because of this.
The reason is also very simple, because Bai Ye really violated the law in this main examination, and at the same time he offended people, and there were still many people who offended. The imperial examination is mainly for the selection of talents for the imperial court, and the people who can be selected are basically the people of insight who are respected by everyone, but there is a stupid boy named Pingling, who has never seriously read books, and all day long he is walking around in the street carrying a bird cage, except for his own name, who does not know a few words, and also won the examination in this township examination.
This guy was happy to be shown off everywhere, and the result attracted the attention of people with hearts, and he went directly to tell Yushi, Yushi immediately played the emperor, and all the papers of this township examination were thoroughly investigated, and it turned out that there were more than fifty people who had been admitted, and the volume was written in a mess, and even in the article of more than eight hundred words, there were more than three hundred typos, which made the Xianfeng Emperor angry.
Bai Yao, who was the chief examiner, and all the officials involved in the case were all dismissed, and some were directly executed, but Xianfeng could not bear to kill Bai Bao, so Bai Ye lived in prison for more than half a year, believing that he would definitely not die, so that before being pushed out for execution, he also instructed his wife who came to say goodbye: "Go home and pack my luggage, I will certainly not die, the emperor will not kill me."
Of course, the miracle did not appear, Bai Ye was beheaded after a while, in fact, the reason why he believed that Xian Feng would not kill him, it was also very reasonable, the feelings between the two were very deep, Xian Feng really did not want to kill him, and wanted to find an excuse to release him, but Bai Ye offended a powerful minister named Su Shun, Su Shun strongly gave Bai Ye to the "Ming Zheng Canon Punishment" in the court, none of the other ministers dared to stand up against it, and Xian Feng could only order Bai Ye to be killed in desperation.