Without mentioning Liu Ji's headache, Lü Haowen had already opened the fourth slip of paper. Upon seeing the words "Guanxi," he dared not delay and immediately handed the slip to Yuwen Xuzhong.

Arriving in Nanyang was for the sake of the strong soldiers of Guanxi. However, Guanxi had been isolated from the imperial court for a long time. Besides the fall of Chang'an and the martyrdom of all the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture, what was the situation there now? How many soldiers remained? Had it become a warlord-dominated area? Had it been completely taken by the Jin?

These things had to be clarified, and corresponding countermeasures and arrangements had to be made... Again, matters of military and national importance must be shouldered by someone.

Therefore, Yuwen Xuzhong didn't say a word and directly took the heavy slip of paper.

At this time, Chancellor Lü finally opened the fifth and final slip of paper. Upon close inspection, it read "Military Marriage." Recalling Zhao Guan's promises to the soldiers at Bagong Mountain in the past, Chancellor Lü immediately understood that this was to encourage remarriage after consolidating the local population and sorting out the displaced people, finding wives for the soldiers of the Imperial Guard... He quickly clutched the slip in his hand, preparing to personally handle this difficult task in his capacity as the chief minister.

As for the other four chancellors, they were all momentarily stunned but didn't bother to argue.

"Every matter is urgent."

The five men stood in the empty hall, silent for a moment. Finally, Lü Haowen, as the chief minister of the auxiliary capital, took the responsibility. "But at this time, all departments, ministries, temples, and directorates have serious vacancies. Therefore, I believe that while doing these things, we must simultaneously fill the personnel..."

"The Emperor issued an edict in Caizhou long ago, asking all places to recommend talented individuals. However, due to road conditions, they have not yet arrived, or have not even received the edict. Even the recommendations from Jingxi itself only began after Yinshuke retreated. And those members of the imperial entourage have mostly been used to fill positions in Jingxi," Yuwen Xuzhong casually reminded. "Now, to fill the central government, who can we use?"

Chancellor Lü was immediately speechless.

Thus, under the gaze of Lan Gui, the five chancellors stood in the cold silence for the time it takes to burn an incense stick. Finally, after hesitating and thinking, they decided to return to their respective residences, summon their staff, friends, students, and familiar officials... Anyway, they couldn't do this work themselves. They could only gather what they could find, roughly draft a memorandum, and report it to the Emperor when he returned, whenever that might be, and then discuss other matters.

However, just as the five chancellors turned around, preparing to leave, the Chief Eunuch Lan Gui couldn't help but cough from the 'coo coo' sounds in the forest outside the hall. "Your Excellencies, please wait!"

The five men all felt a headache coming on, but they had to turn back. Finally, Lü Haowen reluctantly opened his mouth, "Chief Eunuch Lan, does the Emperor have any other instructions?"

"Not instructions from the Emperor, but the Eunuch Bureau discussed something yesterday and wants to discuss it with the chancellors," Lan Gui said carefully. "Your Excellencies, the Emperor will be twenty-two this year, in the prime of his life, but he only has one heir, and Lady Pan must take care of the heir and fulfill her filial piety to the Empress Dowager..."

Before Lan Gui could finish, the five men immediately understood. Good heavens, they had forgotten this matter - after Zhao Guanjia pawned his wife and children to Li Gongxiang in the Southeast, there wasn't even a single woman by his side!

Seeing that the five understood, Lan Gui sighed beside the imperial desk. "Logically speaking, the Emperor has repeatedly ordered that we must not demand local women, and we are not allowed to increase palace servants without authorization. With Kang Lü's example, we eunuchs know the consequences and should not say more. But in the past, we were just in the midst of turmoil, and the Emperor was mostly in the military camp, which was understandable. But now that we have arrived in Nanyang and entered the imperial palace, there is no reason for the Emperor to have no consort or wife by his side, right? If this continues for too long, there will probably be scandalous rumors outside... We are truly helpless and can only seek help from the chancellors."

It doesn't need to continue for too long. I personally heard rumors at Bagong Mountain that the Emperor was impotent... Lü Haowen wanted to say this, but he couldn't bring himself to say it.

How to explain this matter?

It was very necessary, because as Lan Gui said, whether it was to increase the imperial offspring, to create a healthy image of a proper emperor, or even to get the Emperor to settle down and stay in the palace more often, it was necessary to find some bed partners for the Emperor.

However, this kind of thing should be secretly indicated by you, Zhao Guan, and then done by the eunuchs. At this time, the outer court officials would incidentally impeach and advise a few words. Everyone would do their job, and everyone would be happy. But why did you, Zhao Guan, explicitly forbid it, and then the Eunuch Bureau passed the buck to the chancellors?

Can the chancellors do such a thing? The chancellor is the head of all officials, responsible for handling military and national affairs, deciding on political strategies, smoothing out the contradictions between officials, and coordinating the balance of yin and yang. How could they find women for you, Zhao Guan?

But what else could be done? Really let the Emperor remain a bachelor?

Didn't you see that the palace that Liu Ji built has positions for concubines and wives? And if the Emperor doesn't touch a woman even in Nanyang, it would probably be a sign of the chancellor's irresponsibility, right?

Several chancellors could already imagine the words of impeachment from those censors and idlers: Chancellor So-and-so has several wives and concubines, several sons and daughters, but he lets the Emperor remain a widower... Being dismissed from the post because of this matter would be too embarrassing.

Then, moving on to the next topic, who would be responsible for this matter, which was destined to be scolded?

As a spotted dove flew into the hall, continuing to coo, four of the five chancellors turned their eyes to one person. Lü Haowen had no choice but to turn around and nod in response, "Chief Eunuch Lan, rest assured, as the chief minister, I will not shirk responsibility. I will think of a way!"

Lan Gui was relieved. The five chancellors were silent, each walking quickly, escaping the hall as if fleeing. For a moment, only the sound of cooing filled the hall.

"Let's begin!"

At the same time, outside Nanyang City, at the foot of Yushan Mountain, on the banks of the Baishui River, where the trees were green, the flowers were fragrant, and the sound of people was boiling, Zhao Guan, with a new leather belt, sat on the reviewing stand of the military camp with several trusted officials. He pointed with interest to the two people in front of him and said, "Since you two speak the same language, then I will not be the villain. You will wrestle and compete here. I and Grand Commandant Wang Yuan and others are here, together to witness for you, the winner to fill the position of the adjutant… But you must admit defeat, and not pursue the matter afterwards!"

The two young officers under Qiao Zhongfu clasped their hands and sang a salute, then turned and coldly faced each other, and then directly in the thunderous boos each back to the stand to disarm.

A moment later, both sides were wearing only a pair of underwear, exposed tattoos and tendon meat up again, the surrounding noise is more and more deafening, but with the two men bent down together, approaching each other only one position, I do not know why, the original noisy military camp was suddenly quiet down.

But, as one of them suddenly forward to kick a flutter, a wave of sound again rolled the entire camp.

ps: In fact, it is a chapter, should be sent together, hand disabled, please forgive me.