Li Chen was also polite when facing this old minister.

"Shangshu Hu doesn't have to be too polite, have he ever used lunch?"

Hu Pi had already come to the East Palace to wait, but at this time Li Chen asked knowingly and did not directly invite Hu Pi to sit down. This is obvious.

Although Hu Pi was old, he was not stupid. He hurriedly replied: "I have used some of them before coming. I feel quite ashamed to speak. The old minister is old and has weak stomachs. He got sick some time ago, so the doctor told me that daily food needs special preparation."

Li Chen nodded, very satisfied with the old man's sensibility.

He was not very happy that Gong Huiyu, the happy couple, had to force an old man who was spitting in for lunch.

"Then I will not invite Mr. Hu to sit down and have lunch together."

Hu Pi hurriedly saluted and said, "Your Highness will do your own thing, the old minister will wait."

"I won't wait anymore. You are so old that it's so ugly that you'll have to wait for me to have dinner next to you."

Li Chen brought the words to the point while having a meal.

"In a few days, it will be a palace examination. I know what your Ministry of Personnel is worried about."

"But today, I will explain the words to you."

"This palace examination was the first palace examination after my father fell ill, and it was also the palace examination that all students in the world had been waiting for for three years. It was also an important palace examination for the court, who was eager to seek talents, to continue to replenish fresh blood."

"So no matter what happens or who opposes it, this palace examination will be held."

"I know that some officials in the court are criticizing behind their backs, saying that the candidates in the palace exam have been given by the emperor since ancient times, so when they enter the palace exam, they can call themselves the emperor's disciple. Even if they see their parents, they don't have to kneel down and they can't punish them. Now the father is seriously ill and cannot preside over it. However, even if the prince is the palace, we cannot replace the father, accept these emperor students, otherwise it will disrupt the ancestral system and the court's principles."

Li Chen said these words while eating, saying them lightly and his voice was a little vague, but it was no less than thunder in Hu Pi's ears.

He hurriedly saluted and said, "His highness calms down."

"Stop the anger?"

Li Chen said with a smile: "I am not angry at all, how can I calm down?"

"I have received less criticism along the way? This is already nice. Those who say bad things are almost shouting that I want to kill the throne and usurp the throne and sit on the dragon throne early."

No one dares to answer this topic.

Not to mention Hu Pi, even Zhao Xuanji can only remain silent when he comes.

"As the same thing, no matter who or what you say, the palace examination must be held."

Li Chen said calmly: "I have also read several test questions sent by the Ministry of Personnel before. I am too conservative and I don't like it."

"The world today is a turmoil that has not been seen in a century, with the country turmoil, the country is unstable, internal and external troubles run side by side, and there are always thieves who want to destroy our Great Qin thieves."

"So at this time, what the court wants is talents who dare to think and do and be the first in the world, rather than those who hold eight-legged essays and shake their heads and mouths, but in fact they have no ability at all."

"So, the Palace Examination Questions, this time, your Ministry of Personnel will not have to worry about it. This palace will give the questions in person on the day of the palace examination. The survival of the fittest will be distinguished by our own discernment."

As he said this, Hu Pi, who was unwilling to die in this palace examination from the bottom of his heart, immediately stood up to thank him without saying a word.
Chapter completed!