A few days later, Zhang Ping received a reply from Lan Jue. Looking at the few lines of words on the letter, Zhang Ping pondered for a long time.

He checked the county annals and accidentally discovered that Gujiazhuang had a test of the imperial examination many years ago, named Gu Qingzhang, who was in the same department as Lan Jue and the previous magistrate of Mutian County, and now the censor Liu Zhihui.

According to the county annals, Gu Qingzhang was less than nineteen years old when he participated in the imperial examination. He was the second place in the county and county annals, but he died in the year of the imperial examination. There was no record in the county annals that Gu Qingzhang won the imperial examination, which shows that he was not on the list. I don’t know if he died before or after the imperial examination.

According to the information collected by Zhang Ping, Gujiazhuang has always been isolated and evaded. In the archives, there were no records of Gujiazhuang people participating in the imperial examinations before and after, and Gu Qingzhang was the only one.

In the county annals compiled by Liu Zhihui, Gu Qingzhang's name was erased, and only recorded the list of selected counties in the county exams. There was a "Gu Sheng" stuck in a large number of selected counties in the county exams. The list was not listed. When the imperial examination was held, he only wrote one sentence, no one was selected this year.

Zhang Ping thought it was strange. The county annals compiled by Liu Zhihui were thick and thin. Compared with the previous county annals, the records were much more detailed. Obviously, the former prefect Liu Zhihui liked to study historical materials and add more materials. However, when it came to Gujiazhuang and Gu Qingzhang, he saved as much as possible and deleted as possible, which seemed inconsistent with his style.

In that exam, the top scorer was Liu Zhihui and Tanhua was Lan Jue.

Less than two days after Lan Jue's reply arrived, Tao Zhoufeng's reply also came.

A thick stack of paper was filled with Tao Zhoufeng's care and teachings to Zhang Ping, a student. Zhang Ping felt warm in his heart. He had no parents as a child and grew up in Taoist temples. In addition to raising him, he had become the ancient Taoist priest, Tao Zhoufeng, the elder who cared about him the most.

Among Tao Zhoufeng's teachings, Zhang Ping found the answer he wanted-

He asked Tao Zhoufeng for advice that he did not know how to compile local chronicles. With the version of Liu Zhifu, he became even more frightened. He didn't know if there were any regulations for editing local chronicles every time he edited local chronicles. Generally, county chronicles are re-revised every year. If he had been in Yiping County for a long time, would there be re-revised twice?

In his reply, Tao Zhoufeng said that the local chronicles are re-revised every ten to fifteen years. When re-revised, a page will be reserved to record the major events that will happen every year in the future. Liu Zhihui's re-revised re-revised re-revised was a letter to the court, saying that there were many omissions in Mutian County before and requested re-revised re-revised.

As for the intention of magistrate Shao making an exception to let Zhang Ping revise the county annals, Tao Zhoufeng was afraid that after Zhang Ping's guess, he would have a grudge with magistrate Shao, so he went around and found a lot of reasons to eliminate Zhang Ping's thoughts in this regard.

There is not much information at the moment, so Zhang Ping doesn't want to easily determine anything. He just wants to dig more on Gu Qingzhang.

Since telling Zhang Ping about his adventure, Chen Chou has wandered around Zhang Ping more frequently than before, and found out which step he found.

Zhang Ping searched for Gu Qingzhang's records in the file library, and Chen Chou was shaking nearby. He slashed the pile of paper on Zhang Ping's table and saw Zhang Ping's two names written on a piece of white paper - Gu Qingzhang and Liu Zhihui.

Chen Chou asked with a bright look: "Hey, Brother Zhang, why did you write the name of Liu Jingshi with a Gu man? Do you doubt it is related?"

Zhang Ping didn't say anything.

Chen Chou said again: "If you want to investigate this Jingshi Liu, you may be able to ask Lord Lan. He and Lord Lan are against him. Uh, you can't say they are against him. Even if people like them hate him so much that they want to bite the other party to death, they will be harmonious when they meet. They can only talk... They are not very excited."

Zhang Ping suddenly turned around and said, "Hmm?"

Chen Chou looked at his empty eyes and said, "No, you don't know what everyone in the capital has heard of?"

Zhang Ping shook his head: "I don't know."

Chen Chou was proud of his moment, poured a cup of tea, took a sip, and then said slowly: "If you want to talk about this Liangzi of Lord Liu and Lord Lan, they have been together for a long time. They are the same subjects. It is said that during the palace examination, they should have been the top scorer of Lord Lan. Unfortunately, Lord Lan is too good and young. After seeing it, the late emperor said that if such a person does not make a Tanhua, where can he find a more suitable Tanhua than him? So Lord Lan became Tanhua. Do you think you have lost it?

"There is another saying that Lord Lan has a bad family background and is not suitable to be the top scholar, so he used Lord Liu and another person to suppress him. His appearance was an excuse. I think it was right. If Lord Lan had the same origin as Liu Tongyi this year, no matter how beautiful he was, the others were like the door gods in the temple, and they could not be the top scholar and became Tanhua. As for Lord Liu, because Lord Lan was forced to be the top scholar, he became the top scholar, and he felt uncomfortable, and there was something between the two of them.

"Later, Lord Lan married the lady of Grand Tutor Liu's family. I heard that Miss Liu insisted on following him. Old Tutor Liu was unwilling. It seemed that Lord Lan had climbed up to a powerful father-in-law, but in fact, he was pressed by his father-in-law every day in the court. Lord Liu was promoted faster than him. First he became the magistrate of the real power, and later he returned to the court and was also very popular. Lord Lan waited until Old Tutor Liu returned to the west and finally got to be the second-in-commander of the Ministry of Rites. Liu Zhihui is now the censor, and his official position is half a rank greater than his. Alas, but these two are all characters..."

Zhang Ping waited for Chen Chou to sigh and immediately asked, "Then have you heard of Gu Qingzhang?"
Chapter completed!