Luoyang City Palace at night.

Liu Xie was sitting in his study, dealing with memorials sent from all over the country. As his territory grew larger, Liu Xie had to deal with more and more things every day.

What he is dealing with now is to submit reports from various places to prepare their farming plans after the beginning of spring.

Liu Xie still attaches great importance to such things. After all, food is the most important thing for the people. Whether Liu Xie wants to conquer the world or develop himself, the people cannot do without food.

However, fortunately, with the participation of players, some high-yielding grain varieties have been harvested by players. Overall, as long as there are no natural disasters such as large-scale drought, next year will definitely be a good year.

"Your Majesty." While Liu Xie was still reading the memorial, Ji Huai walked in quietly.

"Are you back?" Liu Xie heard Ji Huai's voice and did not raise his head. He just said indifferently: "How is the investigation going?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I have checked all the palace officials and chamberlains responsible for this liberal arts competition. There is no possibility of them leaking the information."

"My servant knows that His Majesty attaches great importance to this liberal arts competition, so after these people finished copying, they all gathered together."

"I asked everyone today, and I didn't find anyone leaking the test questions." Ji Huai answered honestly.

"Well, let's do that." Liu Xie nodded after hearing Ji Huai's words. This was similar to his own guess.

"Then does your Majesty still need to investigate this matter?" Ji Huai thought for a while and still felt that he should ask.

"No, that's it for now. During the day, I was a little too nervous."

"Thinking about it carefully, the current aristocratic families have not realized the power of the liberal arts competition, so they will not stretch their hands so far. However, after this time, I estimate that those aristocratic families will realize this."

"In the future, civil and military competitions will become the norm. Therefore, this aspect cannot be taken lightly. You did a good job this time."

"In the future, as long as there is a liberal arts competition, as long as the palace and chamberlains get the test questions, they will all be centralized and controlled first, and then they will be released after the competition is over." Liu Xie thought for a while and faced Ji.

Huai said.

"Here." When Ji Huai heard Liu Xie's arrangement, he nodded immediately.

In fact, when talking about Ji Huai, we have to talk about Ji Huai's predecessors, Zhang Rang and others.

In Ji Huai's opinion, Zhang Rang and the others were really too arrogant. Who was a chamberlain? To put it bluntly, a chamberlain was just a domestic servant of the emperor.

You, a domestic slave, actually want to be the emperor's master. Isn't this a way to die? Ji Huai's position for himself is very clear, and he must not be the same as Zhang Rang and others.

Regardless of whether the emperor is young or immature, he only needs to be the emperor's domestic slave.

Do whatever the emperor asks you to do, and don't have any ideas of your own.

Of course, the idea mentioned here does not mean that you don’t think about anything and do whatever you are asked to do. It means that you should not seek benefits for yourself.

Don't think about planning any power, because as a eunuch, your greatest power comes from the emperor.

Only when the emperor has the power, you are safe and have the ability to do something.

Otherwise, once the emperor loses his power, those ministers will definitely kill eunuchs like themselves like dogs.

Ji Huai's position for himself was very clear. He would do whatever the emperor asked him to do. If the emperor did not think of it, he would think of it for the emperor. Everything was done according to the emperor's wishes.

There is a saying that the eunuchs can do what the ministers can do, and the eunuchs can do what the ministers can't do. Investigations are carried out according to orders and authorized by the imperial power.

"Your Majesty, when I came in, I happened to meet several adults from the cabinet who were outside. Do I need to call them in?" Ji Huai looked at Liu Xie and asked.

"Wen He and the others are here?" Liu Xie raised his head after hearing Ji Huai's words, and then said to Ji Huai: "Call them in."

"Here." Ji Huai responded and then exited the study.

Soon, Jia Xu, Liu Yao, Dong Cheng, Li Jichen, and Jiang Yi walked into the study.

"I have met your Majesty." Several people took the lead in saluting Liu Xie.

"Excuse me, it's so late. The ministers came to see me. Has the literary competition concluded?" Liu Xie looked at everyone and asked.

When Jia Xu and others heard Liu Xie's words, they looked at each other, and then Jia Xu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the result has indeed been achieved."

"Oh? So who are the people who have advanced this time?" Liu Xie heard Jia Xu's words and asked directly.

"Back to Your Majesty, in this round of literary competition, I have always thought that there are four people worthy of attention, but one of them..." Jia Xu did not finish his words.

But Liu Xie already understood what Jia Xu wanted to say.

He probably just wanted to talk about Pang Tong. After all, when Liu Xie saw Pang Tong's article, he was a little surprised. He even thought that all the test questions he asked had been leaked.

"Wen He, if you have anything to say, just say it." Liu Xie looked at Jia Xu and said with a smile, "Is there a scholar who has answered all the questions I asked?"

Jia Xu was not too surprised when he heard Liu Xie's words, because he was smart and had already guessed that Liu Xie had read these articles from the time difference between the end of the literary competition and the time when the articles were sent to the cabinet.

But what makes Jia Xu uncertain is Liu Xie's attitude towards this scholar who answered four questions in a row.

Seemingly seeing Jia Xu's dilemma, Liu Xie smiled at Jia Xu, then looked at Ji Huai next to him, and said: "Ji Huai, please tell your adults the results of your investigation."

"Here." Ji Huai responded first, and then said to everyone: "My lords, after your Majesty saw the scholar, he asked his servant to investigate."

"This time, the palace servants and chamberlains who were responsible for copying the test questions have all been gathered together by the slaves. They have not had any contact with outsiders during this period, so the slaves feel that the test questions have not been leaked." Ji Huai said to Jia Xu.

"In that case, I have no objection. I feel that these four people should be recruited into the imperial court based on this round alone." After Liu Yao heard Ji Huai's words, he immediately stepped forward and said.

"Recruitment should wait until the essay competition is over, but I would like to ask you dear friends, what do you think of their essays?" Liu Xie shook his head first, and then asked everyone.

As soon as Liu Xie asked about this matter, everyone immediately became excited.

"Your Majesty, I think this article can be used as a reference. According to what is said in this article, if I, the Han Dynasty, can get the support of the Han family, then we can pacify the princes everywhere in a very short period of time." Liu, as a clan member,

Yao, said it first.
Chapter completed!