Just because he was the only one in the whole world who knew this, if it wasn't because he was the eighth prince and not the uncle that the Kaiser trusted, others would suspect that he was the one who leaked the test.
Inside the imperial study, the atmosphere was a bit heavy, just because only Yan Jue alone knew of the test this time, the result still leaked out. In other words, the matter wasn't as simple as it seemed.
Just like what Zhang Yong had told Yan Yuan before, the other party had said that no matter who the organizer was this time, it would not affect the matter regarding the assessment being leaked out.
At first, Yan Yuan felt that he was just spouting big words, and that in order to let a few of the previous examiners, who were responsible for taking care of matters, to avoid suspicion, he had personally gone up to battle. For the exam questions this time, other than Yan Jue, even Yan Yuan and Yan Shuo did not know, how did they know.
"These two days, a few examinees from the Dragon Gate Academy have already found Qing Er, and are saying that there are people secretly selling the exam questions, and now that some examinees who don't have money are panicking, many people don't even have the mood to take the exam."
Yan Yuan sat at the side, holding his cup, his fingers thoughtfully rubbing the rim of his cup, as he spoke.
Yan Jue was also confused, not to mention the ministers, even his beloved Xiao Tian Xin, he did not say a single word, so how did the test get leaked?
"Could it be that the person behind the scenes used the Spring Test's questions as a gimmick to sell them? Actually, it's not this time's real exam questions. After someone was tricked, he would have already run away, and even if he found one, he would not be able to find one."
Yan Jue and Yan Shuo also thought that it was possible. If the examiner who set the question was not Yan Jue, they might have suspected that the question had actually been leaked, but right now, Yan Jue could not reveal the question, which meant that the question had to be fake.
"We can send someone to buy back the exam questions and see if it's true."
"We need to find a few reliable people to do that."
Yan Yuan put down the teacup in his hands, "Selling the exam questions is a crime, so the other party will definitely not easily trust anyone, at the very least, this person's identity as an examinee is required. A few days ago, among the examinees who have come to look for Qing Er, there was a rich young master, and I have secretly learnt about this person's character and character, although he is a rich young master, his manner of speech and demeanor is quite impressive, so when looking for the exam papers, firstly, he has the status of a rich young master, and secondly, he has the identity of an examinee."
"Then, let Ninth Imperial Uncle handle this matter."
The young master from a rich family that Yan Yuan was talking about was Fu Miao, his work efficiency was very fast, and adding on that he was very familiar with some rich kids in the capital who were not willing to study, and wanted to pass the examination to become famous. Very quickly, he was introduced to someone, and got the question of spring from them.
When Yan Jue saw the question, his expression immediately changed. There was no other reason but that the question on the test paper was indeed his.
"How could this be?"
Yan Jue was also dumbstruck, at the start, he was confident that the test would not reveal any possibility of success, but now, the truth was right in front of him, it was impossible for him to not accept it even if he wanted to.
Yan Yuan held the exam questions and remained silent for a long time. There were many soldiers guarding the place where the exam questions were placed, all of them were specially transferred over from the elite camp, the purpose of these people was to guard the exam papers. The only reason they wanted to steal the exam papers from under the eyes of the elite camp was because the other party's martial arts had reached the acme of perfection.
"If the exam was leaked out, then if it wasn't because of the examiners, then there must have been a problem with the location of the exam. It looks like we need to go take a look at the academy."
Reading Institute was the place where the spring papers were kept. Every year's papers were placed here, and a month before the exam, there would be soldiers guarding this place. Not to mention humans, not even a fly could fly in here.
At the moment, he could only go to the Reading Institute to find out the reason.
The two brothers had stayed in the academy for the entire day, but no one knew what they were doing inside. By the time they came out, it was already the middle of the night.
The news about the exam questions had not spread out, and the exam questions had not been changed either. They were just waiting for the Academic Institution's examination in a month's time.
During this period of time, everything went on as usual. Nothing special happened.
One month later, in addition to the Spring Festival, the Royal Family's Triennial Spring Hunt was also held during that month. The Military Department had been busy all this time preparing for this event.
Aside from that, Shen Ji Hall, who had been silent for a long time and still did not make any movements, had also become unusually active recently.
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"Recently, Wei Shao has been getting more and more arrogant. I'm afraid he has forgotten how the two hundred thousand strong army came about."
Liu Qian Xun burnt the superstition in his hands to ashes, and the expression on his face became ugly.
The letter was secretly delivered from the Northwest Army. The two hundred thousand strong army was recruited privately by Wei Shao and he thought that the imperial government did not know about this.
And for the two hundred thousand strong army to be able to recruit such a person in such a short period of time, it was definitely because of Shen Ji Hall.
Of the two hundred thousand soldiers, more than a hundred thousand were soldiers of the Great Mo Empire who had yet to enter the imperial capital. After the latter was completely destroyed, they all dispersed.
However, when some of the generals who had been loyal to the Mo family and had no other choice but to return to the land, after finding out that the Crown Prince of the Great Mo Dynasty was still alive and forming the Shen Ji Hall with the Imperial Advisors, they all came over voluntarily, vowing to restore the land of the Great Mo Dynasty.
Wei Shao secretly found out about this matter, he wanted to make use of the Shen Ji Hall to complete his own big plans, he had always been unwilling to serve his subjects. Back then, when the Mo family was in charge of the world, he had developed an antisense for them, and now that the Yan family was in charge of the world, Wei Shao was naturally unwilling to serve them.
Thus, he had secretly found the People from the Divine Artefact Hall and expressed his attitude. He had also deeply explained that he was forced to bring the Yan Family army to attack the city back then, and so on.
No matter if it was Mo Rong Tian or Liu Qian Xun, no one would believe that this traitor who sold the country for honor would be willing to admit his wrongs.
So, they decided to play it by ear and agreed to cooperate with Wei Shao. Wei Shao was using Shen Ji Hall, and Shen Ji Hall was also using Wei Shao.
Now, Wei Shao thought that his wings were stiff, and took the initiative to make the two hundred thousand soldiers his.
In fact, a large part of the reason why Wei Shao dared to act so confident was because Shen Ji Hall was in a passive position.
Wei Shao was still the vassal state king of the Great Easternum, so even if he could not defeat the Shen Ji Hall, he could still report the existence of the two hundred thousand strong army to the imperial government. At that time, as long as the imperial government made a move, the ones who would suffer the most would definitely be the Shen Ji Hall, and Wei Shao could use this opportunity to take advantage of the situation.