When Liu Xie heard what the system said, he did not refute it because that was what he thought.

As the saying goes, if a man doesn't pretend to be that, he will do whatever he wants in the world.

Because in the next few days, under the control of Liu Xie, Jia Xu and others, Guan Yu and the others faced children from aristocratic families with connections to the princes.

This made Liu Bei and the others a little unable to take action.

After all, these are all friendly families, and it is somewhat unjustifiable for you to kill their people.

Moreover, by offending the Xie family, doesn’t it mean pushing these families to Liu Xie’s side?

Moreover, for several consecutive games, no one from the princes' side met anyone from other aristocratic families.

No matter how stupid they are, they still feel something is wrong.

Therefore, Liu Bei and Yuan Shao immediately stopped the mission of killing other children of the aristocratic families.

After all, they were also afraid that Liu Xie would expose their conspiracy, so they had better let it go.

As a result, in the subsequent battles, there was no deliberate killing of other children of the aristocratic families.

Although the subsequent martial arts competition was much more harmonious, it was more exciting than the previous one.

With some children from aristocratic families willing to participate, after the Ranger's defeat, the competition between the real masters began.

After five or six days of competition, all the generals from the princes such as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei advanced, and at the same time, some of Liu Xie's favorite seed players also advanced to the next round.

According to Jia Xu's arrangement, the next day or two will be time for these promotions to adjust.

At the same time, taking advantage of this time, the literary competition that scholars all over the world have been waiting for for a long time has also begun to be held.

In the first round, Jia Xu and others were just preparing to study some basic knowledge of scholars, such as the Analects of Confucius, the University, the Book of Songs, etc.

The content of these basic books is only to eliminate those who make up the facts.

These days, anyone who is a scholar will be familiar with these books. These are very, very basic.

Don't think that these books are very difficult for modern people to read, and many things are difficult to understand, but for people in the Three Kingdoms era, they are really basic.

Think about it, even people like Guan Yu are familiar with Spring and Autumn Period. So don't think it is too advanced.

Since it was just a preliminary test, Liu Xie did not choose to go and watch it, but in order to show that the court attached great importance to such literary competitions.

Uncle Dong Cheng and uncle Liu Yao arrived at the examination room at the same time to invigilate the exam. It can be said that these scholars were embarrassed.

At the same time, Liu Xie also stated that he would personally set the questions and invigilate the exams starting from the second round.

Therefore, these scholars did not feel any neglect.

After all, those gangsters could only compete with each other. Even if the emperor was always present, there was still a long distance between them.

Not to mention getting close to the emperor, I can't even see clearly what the emperor looks like.

But they were different. They could stay with the emperor, see him up close, and even communicate with him.

The first round of literary competition only took two hours, and then the scholars' articles were escorted directly to the palace by the Yulin Guards, where they were personally reviewed and approved by Liu Xie, Jia Xu and others.

I have to say that the quality of the scholars who participated in the Wenbi this time was quite high.

At least after reading all the articles, I didn’t find any that were fake.

Each article has its own unique insights into the articles proposed by Liu Xie. Each article can let people see the scholar's literary talent.

There are even a few articles that make Liu Yao and other Confucian scholars applaud him.

However, after the applause, everyone began to be in a dilemma. These more than 100 articles were all very good, but who should be promoted?

Naturally, Liu Xie would not have a headache with such a difficult problem. He just selected articles that he thought were good.

A total of 100 articles were reviewed by Liu Xie, with a total of four people. On average, 25 copies were read by 61 people.

Liu Xie directly gave Liu Yao 23 articles and asked him to screen them.

This directly made Liu Yao shake his head sadly.

At the same time, he sighed that your Majesty is really good at blaming the blame. But as a minister, what can Liu Yao do? He can only strive for excellence and find faults in the eggs.

"Well, I didn't write this character well, sorry!"

"Well, this person's number is not good, cross it!"

Liu Yao had no choice but to shamelessly advance through the competition.

Of course, this does not mean that Liu Yao really chose randomly. In fact, he had no choice. The articles written by these people were all very good. Even if he chose randomly, in the end, the people selected were talented people.

However, when Liu Yao came across articles that were truly amazing and clearly at a higher level than others, he was promoted directly.

It doesn't matter what the other person's number is, whether he likes it or not.

It has to be said that even if Liu Yao made such a casual choice, there were still many talents who were promoted.

As the old saying goes, gold will shine wherever it is.

After the evaluation, it was already dark, but Liu Yao did not hesitate. He still went to the palace overnight and presented the results to Liu Xie.

Liu Xie did not hesitate, and with a stroke of his pen, he passed Liu Yao's evaluation results, and casually asked Liu Yao to go and inform the scholars to prepare for the second round of literary competition tomorrow.

There was no words for the night, but early the next morning, a group of powerful Yulin guards came to the inn and brought the promoted scholars to the palace.

Since it was still the first lunar month and it was snowing outside, it was impossible for Liu Xie to let the scholars answer questions in the snow.

At the same time, in order to show that he attached great importance to this cultural competition, Liu Xie directly ordered the Yulin Guards to bring the soldiers to the main hall.

Liu Xie entered the hall early, wearing the official uniform only worn during imperial meetings. In front of the high platform, fifty eucalyptus tables were placed, each one one foot apart.

"Common people, pay homage to Your Majesty!" After the scholars entered the hall, they first saluted Liu Xie.

"Your Majesty, please excuse me." Liu Xie raised his hand slightly to signal everyone to excuse themselves, and then he said to the many scholars.

"My lords, please take your seats first."

"You are all talented people of our great nation. I am very pleased to see all of you talented people in Luoyang today."

"At the same time, I also feel that I am a big man with a lot of talents. You may not know something, but when I checked your articles yesterday, I had a headache."

"Why do I say that? Because your articles are all very well written, making it difficult for me to choose."

"Finally, I, the emperor's uncle, my uncle, and others discussed with each other for a long time before we decided on the promotion quota before today."

"Although I was very sad last night, I will be equally sad compared to tonight. Because I still have to choose the best from your articles, how can I not be worried?"

"But I am willing to worry about this kind of thing! I wish I could worry about such things every day!"

"Because, the more I am so worried, the more it proves that my Han culture and martial arts are far better than before, which means that I, a Han man, have the hope of rejuvenation!" Liu Xie looked at the scholars and delivered his own speech.

"I want to explain to you today that if after today, if any of you fail to advance, it does not mean that you are poor, but it means that there are many talents in this class!"

"You can learn a lot by competing with people who are more knowledgeable than you, so I hope that those who are unsuccessful will not be discouraged. When they go back, they will read more and learn more, so that they can defeat their opponents by this time next year!"

"That's all I want to say. I hope you can win without being arrogant or discouraged by defeat, be down-to-earth, and bravely climb to the top!"
Chapter completed!