In the eighth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, Shuntianfu held a township examination. This year,the township examination emperor attached great importance to it, and sent a top-level main examination team, one of the first-class members was the chief examiner Wen yuange University scholar and the military aircraft minister Bai Bao, one from the first product was the deputy chief examiner Shangshu Zhu Fengbiao, and the other deputy chief examiner Left Vice Capital Yushi Cheng Tinggui was also a zhengsanpin master.
On this day, Bai Ye came to inspect the examination room, Zhu Fengbiao and Cheng Tinggui, who arrived first a few days ago, accompanied them left and right, of course, along with the same examiner Pu An, and his own cronies Andi Jin Xiang, a small number of people, but all of them were big figures in this township examination.
Bai Ye was a Mongolian flag man, known for his honesty and honesty, and had discovered many years of ills in the Twenty-sixth Year Jiangnan Township Examination in Daoguang, correcting them in one fell swoop and winning praise from the government and the public. He also served as the governor of Theaehe, shouldering the heavy responsibility of defending the emperor and being a trusted vassal of the emperor. Bai Ye never formed a party for personal gain, and regarded loyalty and direct advice as his duty, so many officials were very afraid of him.
In fact, the township examination every year is much the same, and the officials and staff in charge of specific affairs are familiar with the road and arrange the work very well, and Bai Yao is very satisfied.
A few days later, the exam officially began, and the students who took the exam nestled in a small number house, staying for nine days and seven nights, just to get in the middle of the day. As the main examiner, Bai Ye looked at the state of the candidates as he was then, and suddenly became interested. In the evening, Bai Yao should have returned to the house to rest, but he resolutely stayed in the examination room, ate and slept with the students, and reminisced about the years when the passion was burning.
He wanted to live in this room, which could not be given only a small room, and the subordinates arranged spacious rooms overnight and purchased a number of items, but there were still many unsatisfactory points. Bai Yao was very satisfied with it, what he wanted to experience was the feeling of hard work, not to enjoy happiness, and at the same time he wanted to set an example for the students, when the members of the Dynasty all ate and lived with them, it was the emperor's grace, and it was also an equal opportunity.
Bai Ye praised everyone for appreciating his good intentions, and everyone was relieved. For the first five days, the atmosphere of the whole examination room was serious and tense, and everyone performed their duties and fulfilled their duties, and everything went smoothly. That night, after touring the exam room, Bai Bao returned to the room to prepare for rest. Jin Xiang waited for the washing to be finished, he reclined on the bed to read, these days to put other affairs aside temporarily, every day is a reading tour, very spirited feeling.
Reading and reading, A little sleepy, really lazy to get up, just put the book on the side, just fell asleep. I slept soundly, and I heard what seemed to be the sound of a siso in the room, as if something was scratching my heart. Bai Yao opened his eyes and saw that the room was dark, presumably Jin Xiang had extinguished the candle after seeing that he was asleep. The moonlight is sprinkling into the house through the window slit, making the room slightly cold.
Bai Ye listened carefully, but there was no sound, he stretched out his legs, although the bed was not as comfortable as the bed, but he slept steadily, so he did not plan to change places. He was leaning on the bed, his feet just out of the bed hanging in the air, but he also felt unrestrained.
In the confusion, the voice of Si Xi Soso came again, and Bai Ye hurriedly opened his eyes, and this sound seemed to come from underneath him? Is there a snake? Bai Ye sat up in the dark, put on his shoes, and looked down at the bed, his head just reached the position of his legs, and suddenly felt that his feet were bitten by something. As soon as I looked up, I saw a huge human head, full of white teeth, clutching the tips of two feet, and a pair of eyes with only white eyes and no black eyes. Bai Yu trembled with fright and drank, "Something! "My feet pedaled a few times, and the head was still bitten tightly.
At this moment's kung fu, Jin Xiang's voice had already sounded outside the door, the lights and shadows were shaking, and it was obvious that he was flying over. Bai Ye shouted, "Jin Xiang, save me." Saying that, he pushed both feet, and both feet were retracted, but the shoe on his right foot fell off. The man's head seemed to be afraid of people, and he shrank under the bed, squirming like a snake in the darkness, flashing with scales, and disappeared a few times.
Bai Ye bounced off the bed, and Jin Xiang ran in and asked, "Grandpa, what's wrong?" He said and hurriedly lit the lamp, helped Bai Yao down, and poured water and purred on the front chest and back. Bai Yu gasped for breath for half a day, and his mind spun rapidly to think about countermeasures.
At this time, a group of people also heard the noise and ran over, and several deputy chief examiners did not even have time to wear shoes, afraid that Bai Bao would be in danger. When the crowd asked Bai Yao what had happened, Bai Ye was silent, Jin Xiang understood, and opened his mouth to send them all away.
After everyone left, Bai Yao snapped at Jin Xiang, "Did you do anything before the exam?" Jin Xiang was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and prostrated his head, saying, "The little man does not dare." Bai Yao said angrily, "Speak! Jin Xiang said, "The little man was entrusted a few days ago to ask for a favor with a student named Luo Hongqi, and let the same examiner Pu An arrange a seat, just such a small matter." ”
Bai Ye patted the table and said, "Just this little thing?" Jin Xiang walked on his knees in fright, hugged Bai Yao's calf, and said, "Lord, dare to tell half a lie, let me lose my head at the mouth of the vegetable market." Bai Yao sighed, his attitude eased, and said, "Heavenly thing, it is not enough to lose your head, you can still go to the vegetable market mouth to behead!?" Jin Xiang said tentatively, "What happened to the old master just now?" Bai Yao roughly told the strange things just now, and Jin Xiang only said that these days of rest were not good and had nightmares, so that Bai Ye did not have to pay attention to it.
Early the next morning, someone came to report that a test taker had been bitten by a poisonous snake last night and died in the trumpet house. Bai Huan hurriedly led the crowd to see the candidate, who had tooth marks on his ankles, a swollen head, and a miserable face.
Bai Ye was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground, the image of this person was exactly the same as the human head he saw last night, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Did the snake catch it?" A petty officer held a dead snake in both hands and said, "Lord, please see, you have been killed by the subordinate officer." Bai Yao glanced at the dead snake, and the black and shiny scales shone brightly, and everything looked like the human head snake of last night.
Bai Ye immediately led the crowd to a meeting, stating several principles: First, properly handle the aftermath of the dead candidates, and do not hear a single objection in the street; second, it must be kept secret, the dead people in the field have always thought that it is a sign of great evil, and if they hear a little wind in the future, they will ask everyone; third, in the last few days of the examination, we must play the spirit of two hundred points, and we must never have any more problems.
Fortunately, there was no more incident until the end of the exam, and the dead man incident was handled quickly and properly, not only did the emperor not know, but unrelated people rarely knew, and a crisis was resolved.
Bai Ye made another great merit, recognizing mathematicians as students, in short, a good thing for fame and fortune. Bai Ye and a group of deputy chief examiners and the main examiners drank celebratory wine for three days, and they were only close to the successful conclusion of the township examination.
This day is the day of the list, the front of the list is crowded, a candidate with a friend to come to see the list, suddenly the friend laughed: "Our Qing Dynasty wind direction has changed? The candidate said, "What do you mean?" The man said, "This seventh person, called Pingling, is a half-pulled dramatist, a famous ticket holder, and when you take the exam, this person still sings in the garden every night!" ”
Before the candidate could reply, a middle-aged man next to him suddenly interjected and asked, "Are you sure?" The laws of the Great Qing Dynasty stipulate that prostitutes, prostitutes, and others are not allowed to take the imperial examination. The man looked at the middle-aged man and said, "I see him every day, and if this master doesn't believe me, he can always confront me!" He said and left his name and home address behind. The candidates heard it and couldn't help but talk about it.
The middle-aged man, named Meng Jin, was Yushi, who withdrew from the crowd and conducted a non-stop investigation, and then handed a notebook to the Xianfeng Emperor. The emperor was furious and immediately sent Zaiyuan the Prince of Yi and Duanhua the Prince of Zheng, along with the officials Shangshu Quanqinghe and Bingbu Shangshu Chen Fuen to investigate the case.
Qing Dynasty scientific examination, candidates will eventually have two examination papers, candidates directly with black pen written called ink rolls, in order to prevent examiners from knowing the handwriting and cheating, and then copied by people with red pen is called Zhu Scroll, Zhu Scroll font is consistent, put an end to making marks, recognize handwriting and engage in small actions.
After the four Chincha checked, the problem of pingling appeared on the Zhu Scroll and the Ink Scroll, and the contents of the two scrolls were different, and it was obvious that the Zhu Scrolls were written by someone. In addition, Luo Hongqi, who jin Xiang begged Bai Bao to arrange a seat, had more than three hundred errors and omissions on the scroll, and he even raised people in high school.
In the case of the poisonous snake biting, a candidate bought another candidate's test paper, and after the test paper was written, the killing and killing was carried out, which can be described as rampant.
In terms of bribery, Cheng Bingcai, the son of Deputy Chief Cheng Tinggui, received gold and silver.
For the sake of Luo Hongqi's affairs, Jin Xiang accepted sixteen taels of silver as a thank you gift.
Of course, the chief examiner, Bai Yao, was fully responsible, and he was sentenced to death as a Yipin master, becoming the only Yipin master since the Qing Dynasty to be executed for cheating in the field.
This is the famous PengwuKechang case in the Qing Dynasty, involving a total of ninety-one people, of whom five were beheaded, three were discharged from the army, seven were dismissed, sixteen were demoted, thirty-eight were fined for one year, thirteen were dismissed from meritorious service or suspended from the examination qualifications, a total of two died in prison, respectively, the singing fan Pingling, and the other was Bai Yao's retinue Jin Xiang.
Bai Yao, Pu An, and Luo Hongqi were beheaded at Caishikou in the ninth year of Xianfeng. Before the knife was beheaded, Bai Ye also thought that the emperor could temporarily change his sentence to a charge army, and let his son go home to pack his bags and be ready to go on the road. As a result, although Jin Xiang's oath was not fulfilled on his own body, it was fulfilled in Bai Yao's body, and he eventually died in Caishikou.
Legend has it that when Bai Ye collected the body, the shoe on his right foot disappeared.