After Su Xiaoman freshened up, she happened to see Lu Li coming back, and she hurriedly waited for Lu Li to change his clothes.

Lu Li changed his clothes, and his face gradually showed a tired posture.

"What's the matter, is there anything else to do in the court?"

"Well, I probably won't be able to go home for the next three days."

When Su Xiaoman heard this, he was slightly surprised, no matter how busy Lu Li was with government affairs, he wouldn't not go home for three days.

"What's going on?"

"The imperial court wants to organize the current civil officials to re-enter the tribute court assessment, and I am responsible for guarding the tribute court, and the big test lasts for three days, so..."

Su Xiaoman opened his mouth, his big, bright black eyes blinked, and suddenly he closed his mouth as if he remembered something.

Lu Li naturally had insight into Su Xiaoman's psychology, so he gave her a flat smile,

"Xiaoman, what do you want to say."

Su Xiaoman shook his head, and lowered his head slightly shyly after coming into contact with Lu Li's eyes.

"No, I'm a woman, how can I talk about the affairs of the court."

Lu Li gently hugged Xiao Man, let Xiao Man's head rest on his chest, and his thin body was grasped by him with one hand, and then said softly.

"It's nothing, what you want to say, just say it, there are not so many rules between us husband and wife"

Hearing Lu Lidu say this, Su Xiaoman also strengthened his courage in his heart and said his thoughts.

"With this method, I'm afraid that half of the officials in the imperial court can't pass the assessment, even if the results come out, can the emperor still remove them? For a while, no replacement officials could be found, and the court was afraid that it would become a mess. ”

Lu Li looked at Xiao Man, her big eyes were shining with wisdom, she didn't expect the drawbacks of this matter, even a deep lady could see it.

"Okay, since this matter has been approved by the emperor, then we can only do it."

Su Xiaoman nodded, fortunately, Lu Li is a military general, so he doesn't have to accept this kind of assessment.

Thinking that Lu Li was going to stay in the Tribute Courtyard for three days, Xiao Man felt relieved in his heart, the Tribute Courtyard was notoriously cold, and the candidates who had heard it say that the night wind blew into the room, and the hands and feet were like falling into an ice cellar, and that kind of cold and cold could freeze the blood to the point of condensation.

Thinking of this, Su Xiaoman hurriedly called Pearl, brought a thick quilt and thick clothes for Lu Li, and took some pastries and cakes, so as not to starve Lu Li in the tribute courtyard.

When Lu Lizhun was about to leave for the Gongyuan, the whole person couldn't cry or laugh, and the things that Su Xiaoman prepared couldn't take away in a carriage.

"Xiaoman, you're exaggerating, I won't come back for three days, and it's not like I won't come back for the rest of my life."

"Then, let's pick two that you can use."

Looking at the things in the carriage, Su Xiaoman was also slightly annoyed, why couldn't he help but take so much.

I saw Lu Li slowly come over, close to Xiao Man's face, lightly imprint a kiss on his forehead, and then said in Xiao Man's ear.

"Thank you, Madame, for preparing it for me."

Xiao Man only felt that Lu Li's kiss was as soft as a warm feather, and he felt warm in his heart, until he saw the smile of the pearl next to him, and then he blushed and pushed Lu Li away.

"Okay, let's go quickly, don't miss what the emperor explained."

Lu Li looked at Xiao Man's shy appearance, and went out with a satisfied face, leaving Xiao Man standing in place and watching Lu Li's departing figure blankly.

"Madam, you and the master are like old husbands and wives, I think they are more like newcomers, maybe our little master is going to have a younger brother."

Hearing the pearl's teasing, Su Xiaoman was happy and ashamed, pretending to be angry and reprimanding the pearl, but he was happy in his heart.

"What nonsense."

After speaking, Su Xiaoman turned his head and went back to the house, ignoring the pearl no longer.

The three-day assessment began vigorously, and many people gathered at the gate of the Gongyuan, which was more lively than the imperial examination, after all, where had the people seen those who had become officials, and there was a re-assessment.

"Our Majesty, what a wise man, I don't think there is a good thing in these officials."

"I also think that when I entered the Tribute Academy, I was afraid that my official position would not be guaranteed."

Lu Li, who was guarding outside the gate of the Gongyuan, only felt a slight headache when he heard these words, and the black gauze hats of these civil officials sitting inside had already fallen countless times in the discussions of the ordinary people outside.

Lu Li looked at the huge cypress in the courtyard, and as soon as the wind blew, the sound of the leaves rubbing sounded, and in a trance, it seemed that he could still hear the sound of the civil officials inside turning the paper and grinding the ink.

Such a quiet scene added even more to the sorrow in Lu Xuan, but I am afraid that such a calm will not last long, and as soon as the result comes out, the court will inevitably be in turmoil again.

Three days later, when the time was over, I saw the civil officials walking out one by one with ugly faces, several of them with faces like ashes, and they were almost unable to stand up when they walked in the road.

Lord Liu, who raised objections in the court at that time, walked towards Lu Li with a bit of resentment on his expression, thinking that it was also because Lu Li did not speak for them.

"Lord Liu, are you okay in the past three days?"

Lu Li, as a junior, naturally saluted Lord Liu first, but Lord Liu's expression was very unkind to see Lu Li.

"Hmph, I've been guilty of cold legs for the past three days, thanks to you!"

After speaking, Lord Liu left angrily, leaving Lu Lilian to stop in place, and a bleak cold wind blew, rolling up two or three dead leaves.

Lu Li was very helpless in his heart, what does this have to do with him, both horizontal and vertical are Zhou Xuan's ideas, why don't you go to find this initiator.

After the end of the assessment, it is the time to revise the papers, and the revision has been carried out for five days, and Lu Li has been unable to calm down at home for the past five days, for fear that this result will be too embarrassing.

But the bad premonition in my heart finally came true, and just when Lu Li was at home for Xiaoman's thrush, the father-in-law from the palace hurriedly broke in.

"My lord, it's not good, the emperor is angry, and he urgently summons your lord."

Lu Li glanced at Xiao Man with apologetic eyes, Xiao Man took back the eyebrow pencil and put it on the table.

"It's okay, let's go."

Hearing this, Lu Li quickly put on his court clothes, mounted his horse and galloped towards the palace.

When they arrived at the top of the Jinluan Palace, the civil officials had already knelt together, and the atmosphere was very serious, as if the air had stopped flowing.

Lu Li walked up to the emperor and knelt down respectfully.

"See the Emperor."

The emperor's expression was not as angry as the eunuch said, but his face was pale and he didn't say a word, Lu Li knew very well in his heart that the current calm meant the storm to come.

After a while, the emperor threw a pamphlet in front of Lu Li, and said slowly in a hoarse and dull voice.

"Lu Li, you get up and take a look at the content."

Only then did Lu Li dare to stand up and open the booklet, the contents of it made a cold sweat break out on his head, and as a result of Zhu Pen's instructions, more than half of the civil officials in the imperial court did not pass the assessment.

Such a result was obviously in line with Zhou Xuan's wishes, and he immediately stood up and said loudly.

"Your Majesty, this is the civil officials of our dynasty, they have been corrupted to this extent, isn't Your Majesty still investigating them thoroughly."

Lu Li gave Zhou Xuan a look, although he has the upper hand on the surface now, but he is so aggressive, when the limelight passes, it will definitely attract the revenge of the civil officials.

But Zhou Xuan obviously didn't understand what Lu Li meant, but instead held his head high, looking more imposing, thinking that Lu Li, the military attaché, must have accepted the benefits of the civil officials, and if he wanted to come to contradict him, he would definitely not lose to him.

Seeing that Zhou Xuan didn't have any restraint at all, Lu Li could only sigh in his heart, and then looked at the civil officials led by Lord Liu, kneeling on the ground and trembling, looking very pitiful.

"Lu Li, how do you think this matter should be resolved?"

The emperor actually threw this problem on his head, so Lu Li was very embarrassed, no matter what he said, I am afraid that in the eyes of the two camps of civil officials and Zhou Xuan, he is not a person inside and out.

"Your Majesty, although most of the civil officials have not passed the assessment, they cannot be overcorrected."

Before Lu Li's words were finished, he was coldly interrupted by Zhou Xuan.

"What does Lord Lu mean, these people buy officials and take bribes, and they have to tolerate and raise traitors?"

The emperor's cold gaze interrupted Zhou Xuan's words, originally he thought that the civil officials in the court were just individual rat feces, but it had never been as serious as the situation.

If he is too resolute, the government and the opposition will definitely be separated from him, and the government and government institutions will be paralyzed immediately.

Zhou Xuan's heart was frightened by the emperor's eyes, and he didn't understand what he had done wrong.

Looking at the emperor's reaction, Lord Liu had a bottom in his heart, a trace of treachery flashed in his eyes, and he knelt down and crawled to the middle.

"Your Majesty, as a veteran of the Three Dynasties, the old minister is to blame for such a thing, so he can only bow down and admit his guilt, and ask the emperor to immediately remove all the officials involved."

Being forced by Lord Liu like this, the emperor's temples jumped suddenly, and even his head began to ache faintly, the removal of the elders of the three dynasties is the foundation of shaking the country, how could he make such a decision.

"Your Majesty, civil officials, there is no merit, there is also hard work, and the emperor is invited to decide at his discretion."

Lu Li had no choice but to speak again, and seeing that Zhou Xuan still wanted to speak, the emperor hurriedly seized this opportunity.

"Okay, the officials involved will be fined for three months, and those who have poor assessment results will be demoted to one grade, so they will all retire."

The emperor can be regarded as leaving a way back for himself, and there is no specific standard for this poor grade, and it will still be a matter of his own words when the time comes.

With anger, the emperor hurriedly left the Jinluan Palace, leaving a bunch of officials looking at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Lord Lu said this beautifully."

Zhou Xuan looked at the effort indignantly, in his opinion, Lu Li was deliberately biased towards civil officials.