How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Emperor Jian was speechless.

He could see that Xie Chengze really didn't like reviewing memorials and didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the court.

He even began to suspect that the reason Xie Chengze was so mediocre and incompetent in the past was that he pretended to be stupid so that the prince could give all the heavy work to do, and he could legitimately be lazy...

The trick is obvious.

But the more he did so, the more Emperor Jian wanted him to do it.

"Zhao Quan, grind ink for him. He must approve it today, otherwise he is not allowed to leave." Emperor Jian knocked on the desk, and the direction his index finger pointed to was exactly where the cinnabar powder was.

Eunuch Zhao was startled and looked at Emperor Jian again, but Emperor Jian's expression did not change, as if he had no idea that he had pointed to the wrong place.

Only emperors of all dynasties were allowed to use the precious cinnabar to write words when reviewing memorials, to demonstrate their status as royal emperors. Even though Xie Jinyu was a prince, when he assisted the emperor in reviewing memorials over the past six months, he could only use black ink to leave words and was not allowed to challenge the emperor's authority.

At this moment, His Majesty actually asked the Second Prince to review the papers with red and black ink, which shows that his pampering and indulgence towards him has reached an outrageous level.

Eunuch Zhao felt deeply moved and began to grind ink carefully for Xie Chengze.

Seeing that Emperor Jian was firm in his attitude, Xie Chengze had no choice but to pick up a memorial at random and pretend to read it.

Memorials were not only submitted by court officials, but also by prefectural officials from various places. They would submit reports on their work on time or untimely. In order to centralize power as much as possible, these memorials were sent directly to Emperor Jian.

It has to be said that although these officials were good and bad, they were selected through the Spring Palace Examination after all. The handwriting of their articles was clear and each had its own style, which was pleasing to the eye...if they didn't write a lot of nonsense and wrote vertically.

Xie Chengze stared with his eyes wide open and read two pages with great effort, only to find that the content was meaningless, so he flipped through the last page at a glance, and only then saw a sentence: The people in a certain place are safe and prosperous, Your Majesty does not need to worry, and take care of your health.

Xie Chengze: ...

What a crazy person! I read for a long time but there is no key point!

If you have nothing to do, why not just write a sentence? Why waste each other's time!

He finally understood why Emperor Jian died young and why he sacrificed his daily sleep time to read nonsense here. If it were him, he would also be furious and want to throw these memorials in the faces of these officials.

At this time, Emperor Jian patted the thick stack of memorials with a gloating look, "Ze'er, from now on, take an hour every day to accompany your father to review the memorials."

"Father, please don't be idle!" Xie Chengze roared.

"I will summon Minister Shen to come and discuss this matter together."

"You are a dragon, so you should do dragon things, not human things."

Xie Chengze immediately changed his words, then picked up the brush and dipped it into the ground cinnabar ink. In the blank space of the memorial, he wrote a few words in a hideous handwriting:

If you keep talking nonsense, I’ll fire you!

Hmm~ I feel much better~

Xie Chengze put the memorial aside and took out another one to read.

This time, his expression became slightly serious, and the more he read, the more serious it became. Finally, he frowned and picked up the pen, trying very hard to control the soft tip of the pen, and tried to make his font as small as possible in an attempt to leave more comments in the blank space.

From time to time, he frowned and looked up, as if in deep thought, then lowered his head again, with his eyes almost on the paper, just to make his font smaller so that he could write more.

It seems that we have encountered a problem.

But looking at him like this, it seems that he has already figured out a way. Let's wait until he finishes writing. Emperor Jian thought so, and then he picked up another brush and used the paperweight to copy the picture of the Northeastern big kang on the paper.

Time passed quietly, and both father and son were conscientiously doing work that was not their job, until one moment, the imperial guards outside came in and announced, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince and Minister Shen request to see you."

Emperor Jian waved his hand and said, "Let them in."

After saying that, he glanced at Xie Chengze and found that he was still replying to the memorial, and his expression became more and more solemn. From time to time, he wrote a few words and then stopped to think for a long time.

It seems to be a very difficult problem.

Emperor Jian thought to himself, then put down the brush in his hand and looked at the prince and Shen Yuan who walked in.

Shen Yuan didn't expect Xie Chengze to be there too. His gaze lingered on his face for a moment, then he turned to Emperor Jian and bowed, "Your Majesty."

Xie Jinyu's eyes lit up slightly, "Second brother is here too."

Xie Chengze raised his head upon hearing the voice and gave him a friendly smile, "Yeah."

Then he lowered his head again and continued to fight with the memorial.

Only then did Xie Jinyu realize that Xie Chengze was sitting at the desk reviewing memorials, and not only that, he was using Emperor Jian's imperial calligraphy.

My father...is really too indulgent towards my second brother.

But even so, what does it matter? The throne of the emperor is his after all. When his father dies, the throne of the emperor and that person will become his possession and be inherited by him.

This is the only thing that my father can give to him in his life, and it is the most valuable thing that he can give to his blood relative.

"Father." With his eyes gradually clearing up, Xie Jinyu stepped forward and said, "I want to talk to you again about the matter of the merchant expedition proposed by the Minister of Rites."

Xie Chengze, who was eavesdropping, immediately pricked up his ears.

It's only been one night, and Sheng Yiren has convinced the Minister of Rites?

"An expedition caravan?" Emperor Jian glanced at Xie Chengze. Two days ago, when he was in court, Xie Chengze had caused chaos in the six ministries. Every minister was like a mouse seeing a wild cat when they saw him, fearing that he would come up with some ideas that they dared not even think of and ask them to realize.

However, despite this, those ideas still aroused discussion among many court officials, especially in the past two days, the discussion about the expeditionary caravan was the most heated, because this proposal seemed to be the most practical. Although it was difficult, it was not impossible to accomplish. Once successful, it would obviously benefit the Jian'an Dynasty a lot.

"I also think this strategy is feasible." Shen Yuan agreed, "Although the Jian'an Dynasty has a vast territory and abundant resources, the current people's livelihood needs are still not met, and the people's lives need to be improved. If we send elite caravans to foreign countries to find things that are beneficial to the people, it will not only prevent foreign countries from monopolizing the market because of their rare goods, but also solve many of our people's livelihood problems. It is really a strategy that kills two birds with one stone."

"That's right." Xie Jinyu said in a deep voice, "Now that our dynasty has the secret of gunpowder, we naturally have nothing to fear from foreign nations. However, most of the people in our dynasty are still poor, and it is not wise to rashly start a war to expand our territory to find things. It is better to use the name of the expeditionary caravan to show our national prestige in a gentle manner, and at the same time find a way to benefit the people and the country."

Xie Chengze couldn't help but nodded as well.

Emperor Jian glanced at him and said, "I will review your memorial."

Xie Chengze: ...

Xie Chengze: #￥%…*#￥%￥

Cursing Emperor Jian in his heart, Xie Chengze had no choice but to continue to lower his head and fight passionately with the memorials.

Emperor Jian smiled silently, then looked at the two of them, "In that case, who do you think should be given the right to form this caravan?"

"Maybe it can be handed over to caravans from various places..."