Today is the day of the imperial examination, to make Lu Zezhong and others lower their guard, and to redirect the attention of the ministers away from today.
Thus, after the scholars entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and the Emperor personally met them to issue the test questions, as the scholars began their answers, the Emperor shifted the battlefield.
He started interrogating Lu Zezhong and Liu Yuheng in the Imperial Study!
Now, Ji Youzhi looked at the sky and chuckled softly; in half an hour, it would be time for the scholars to submit their papers.
At that time, these intricate courtly relationships should be left for Old Ji Eight to worry about.
When Ji Youzhi arrived at the Imperial Study with the interrogation records, the Grand Academician of the Inner Cabinet, Wen Yuan Ge, was already waiting outside with a group of paper-reading officials, supervisors, paper collectors... and others.
Seeing Ji Youzhi, they all gathered around.
