Tang Bohu's talent and learning could be said to be among the best at that time, so it was very easy for him to go from being a scholar to being a scholar. However, when he was admitted to the imperial examination, he had a good relationship with a candidate named Xu Jing. , eventually led to Tang Bohu being involved in the imperial examination fraud case, and was sentenced to be unable to participate in the imperial examination for life.
Before Tang Bohu went to the capital to take the imperial examination, he once said that he would win three yuan in a row. And because of his previous fame, many people were very optimistic about him at the time. On the way to Beijing to take the exam, he made friends with a rich boy named Xu Jing, and the two of them almost lived and ate together all the way to the capital.
After arriving in the capital, students who are rushing to take exams will usually visit the scholars and celebrities in the capital to gain a reputation in front of these big shots. Because of Tang Bohu's reputation, many academic leaders in the capital met with them, including Li Dongyang and Cheng Minzheng. And the examiners of the imperial examination that year happened to be these two.
The imperial examination at that time, unlike the current college entrance examination, had a group of experts, a group of people who worked together to come up with the test papers. More often than not, the examiner set the questions. Cheng Minzheng was a well-educated man and could be said to be well-read, so the questions he asked back then were very biased, and they were all questions from niche books. This made it difficult for many students to start, and they had never heard of them themselves. Even if they don't know what the questions are about, they still have to answer the questions, so many students are free to express themselves and feel like they are mourning when they leave the examination room.
But this was not the case for two people. The one who left the examination room was very happy. One said that his position as a Jinshi was secure, and the other even said that the top spot was definitely his. These two incompatible guys are Xu Jing and Tang Bohu.
Everyone knows that the two of them went to visit Cheng Minzheng, so many people said that they knew the test questions in advance. There was a lot of discussion for a while, and even alarmed the emperor at the time, so he took them two Catch it. But there is no evidence that Cheng Minzheng leaked the question to them, and the funniest thing is that they are not included in the qualified list. However, in order to reflect the fairness of the imperial examination, Cheng Minzheng was directly sentenced to be dismissed from office, and Tang Bohu and Tang Bohu were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.