Zhao Zhi is a diligent emperor, the empire of the Great Xia will be tilted in his hands, hard work for more than 20 years, and finally recovered a little vitality, the whole world, although there are still many feudal towns, foreign enemies and neighbors, but at least in his hands, the central court has regathered a strong army, although there are many factions, the rule of officials is still clear, as long as the army is not chaotic, always loyal to the court, loyal to the royal family, the battle between factions, can be controlled within a certain range, then... The Great Jin Dynasty will not perish, and although the people of the world live a very hard life, they can at least barely survive.

Today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and many people are still immersed in the joy of the New Year, and Zhao Zhi... But he has already started his work.

Zhao Zhi had just gotten up for breakfast and was sitting there quietly drinking hot tea.

Several eunuchs brought in two large boxes containing hundreds of folds.

These folds are New Year's messages played by ministers on Chinese New Year's Eve.

The emperors of all dynasties before Zhao Zhi, whenever the New Year is celebrated, or what auspicious is found, the ministers have to write a congratulatory message, compliment, not only to write beautifully, but also to have enough words, otherwise it will not show the sincerity of the courtiers, which is actually very troublesome and cumbersome, but there is no way, the emperor likes this set, and the courtiers can only do it.

Zhao Zhi is not interested in these, but it has not been completely abolished, only New Year's greetings are left, and it is also a large-scale reduction, in the capital, officials of the fourth grade and above can play the New Year's message, and the officials below the fourth grade do not need to write these things, what should they do, even if it is so, there are hundreds of New Year's greetings, Zhao Zhi alone, he can't see it at all.

Zhao Zhi put down the teacup, pointed to the box below, and asked, "Have you picked them all?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, they have all been selected."

The two eunuchs hurriedly stepped forward with dozens of folds in their hands and put them on the table in front of Zhao Zhi.

Mu Gong picked out the performance of the seven ministers in the political hall and showed it to Zhao Zhi first.

Zhao Zhi shook his head: "Let's look at the others first!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Mu Gong hurriedly handed a book to Zhao Zhi.

For example, the one that Zhao Zhi is reading now is written by a small official from the eighth grade, and the content on the fold is not a New Year's message, but a letter of complaint, accusing the head of the Ministry of Officials for corruption, taking advantage of the opportunity of officials to go to Beijing to report on their work, forcing some lower-grade officials to pay tribute to them two pieces of silver, and impeaching them in the Ministry of Officials, but instead of playing any role, the matter was leaked out and they retaliated against.

After reading it, Zhao Zhi frowned slightly, and handed the fold to the Mu Gong: "After the New Year, immediately hand over this fold to the Yushitai, let them investigate it clearly, if it is true, it will be severely punished." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The shepherd took the fold and bowed in response.

The reason why Zhao Zhi retains the cumbersome rules of the New Year's greetings is that there are actually some purposes, unless it is an official who is above the third grade or has been specially approved, and the officials who are lower than the third grade, the folds they write on will not be directly conveyed to Zhao Zhi's hands, but must be approved by the Ministry of Officials, and then uploaded to the government hall for draft approval, and finally sent to Zhao Zhi's hands, which will involve some favoritism, Zhao Zhi also knows the Tao, but there is no way, if it is decreed that all the twists and turns will be directly transmitted to himself, Still have time for other state affairs?

The New Year's message is different, although it is stipulated that officials below the fourth grade do not need to write a congratulatory message, but it is not mandatory, you can write it if you want to, but Zhao Zhi is afraid that he will not read it, but there is a rule, as long as you write it, on Chinese New Year's Eve, you can directly enter the palace without going through his hands.

Zhao Zhi obviously consciously left such a gap, and many low-level officials used this channel to send all the things they usually dare not say or write to the palace directly in the form of a fold, and Zhao Zhi would also let some literate eunuchs pick out this kind of fold and show it to himself for personal inspection.

Zhao Zhi is a person who dares to delegate power, and the ministers' recitals are generally passed directly to the political affairs hall, as long as it is not a very important matter, the political affairs hall will handle it directly in his own name, and it will be notified afterwards, so Zhao Zhi usually doesn't look at the recitals very much, but as long as he reads them, he will read them very carefully, even if the person who wrote this recital is of a very low grade.

Excluding the seven recitals in the political affairs hall and more than 20 recitals, Zhao Zhi read it for nearly an hour, put down the last one, and Zhao Zhi said lightly: "I remember that last year, there were more than 40 recitals like this, but this year it is a little less. ”

The shepherd said in a low voice: "There are fewer injustices, which means that the officials are clear and the people are happy, isn't this a good thing?" ”

"I'm afraid they want to say it but don't dare to say it."

Zhao Zhi shook his head, picked up the recital of the ministers in the political hall and began to watch.

The Xiangguo are different, writing is to write some New Year's greetings, but the most are other things to write, such as the lack of work this year, self-criticism, and ......

It can be seen that the ministers of the political hall know what kind of character Zhao Zhi is, he is good at the top, and he must be very bad at the bottom, and there is no need to write those false ones, maybe it will cause Zhao Zhi's dislike.

Zhao Zhi saw Liu Ji's twists and turns at this time, looking at it, Zhao Zhi's face had a trace of complexity and nostalgia, Liu Ji wrote a lot, it had nothing to do with political affairs and New Year's greetings, he wrote.... In my life, I have written a lot of things that have happened after working with Zhao Zhi for so many years, including quarrels and common knowledge.....

It's time to go.

Zhao Zhi looked at the last sentence of the fold, silent for a long time, the two have worked together for more than 20 years, Liu Ji is finally about to be a scholar, at this moment, in Zhao Zhi's mind, he recalled many past events, the king and the minister, know each other honestly, go to the national disaster together, this way, have experienced too much....

Zhao Zhi sighed and said, "I'm also old. ”

Mu Gong glanced at Zhao Zhi and bowed his head silently.

Zhao Zhi picked up the pen and wrote a line of red characters on Liu Ji's fold: "If there is really a Jiuquan Prefecture, you and I are being a monarch and minister." ”

"After the year, return the fold to Liu Wei."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhao Zhi picked up the last note, which was Yang Daosi's book.

Turning over the fold and looking at it, Zhao Zhi's whole body suddenly shook slightly.

There is only one line of names on the fold: Yang Daosi, Li Zhong, Liu Zhigu, Liu Zhongyuan, He Zhongkai, Liu Guanghui, Qin Anming, Zheng Renjie, and Xiao Zheng.

Zhao Zhi folded the fold, his face had a look of admiration, nodded slightly, and muttered, "What a shrewd old fox." ”