1894 What happened to change Lu Xun's family?

Zhou Fuqing, Lu Xun's grandfather, was the15th scholar among the top three scholars in West Bengal in the decade of Tongzhi (187 1). In March of the 19th year of Guangxu (1893), Zhou Fuqing, the cabinet minister, returned to his hometown because of his mother's death. In August this year, after having obtained the provincial examination in Zhejiang, Yin, the examiner of the General Political Department, was just a scholar who joined Zhou Fuqing. When Zhou Fuqing learned that the examiner in Zhejiang was Yin, he wanted to "open the joints for his son" and ask the children of several relatives and friends for help in order to get a "reward" from them. On July 27th, examiner Yin arrived in Suzhou by boat from Beijing. Zhou Fuqing, who had been waiting here for a long time, sent Tao Ashun, a domestic servant, to the ship to deliver a secret letter. In the secret letter, he asked Yin to take care of his son Zhou Yongji and other six candidates, secretly ordered the contact person to use the words "Chen Zhong" and "Mao Yu" and wrote "10,000 yuan in foreign exchange" on a piece of paper, which was the price promised as a reward. Due to Tao Ashun's recklessness, Zhou Fuqing's delivery of joints was publicly exposed on the examiner's boat. Yin immediately turned his face and denied anyone, and sent someone to send Tao Ashun's letter to Suzhou for trial. Several candidates mentioned in the letter were "detained together" and were not allowed to take the exam. As for Zhou Fuqing, he first fled to Shanghai to escape. Later, when he heard that the court had dismissed him, he looked around. He returned to Zhejiang Huiji and surrendered himself. He was taken to Hangzhou for trial and eventually spent eight years in prison. The Zhou family has also declined since then.