Before Tang Bohu went to Beijing to take an examination of Jinshi, he put down his grandiloquence and asked for it himself? Even three yuan? And because of his previous fame, many people were very optimistic about him at that time. On the way to Beijing to catch the exam, he met a rich boy named Xu Jing. On the way to Beijing, they almost ate and lived together.
Generally, students who are rushing for the exam will visit scholars and celebrities in Beijing and mix their names in front of these bosses. And because of their fame, many academic leaders in Beijing met them, including Li Dongyang and Cheng. The examiners of the imperial examinations happened to be these two.
At that time, unlike the current college entrance examination, there was an expert group and a group of people worked out papers together. More often, it is the examiner who gives the questions. Cheng is knowledgeable and well-read, so the topics he wrote in those years were all off-topic, and they were all topics in some minority books, which made many students unable to start, never heard of them, and even said that they didn't know what the topic was about, and they had to answer questions, so many students were free to play and lost their souls when they left the examination room.
However, two people are not like this. The one who came out of the examination room was very happy. One said that his position as a scholar was stable, and the other said that the position of the top scholar must be his own. These two incompatible guys are Xu Jing and Tang Bohu.
As we all know, the two of them went to Cheng to see it before, so many people said that they knew the exam questions in advance, and they talked about it for a while, even alarmed the emperor at that time, so they both arrested them. However, there is no evidence that Cheng leaked the test questions to them, and the most ridiculous thing is that they are not on the qualified list. However, in order to reflect the fairness of the imperial examination, Cheng was directly dismissed and could not take the imperial examination.