Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 280 Your Majesty Lives Up to Chu State, It Is Chu State That Drags Your Majesty

"Your Majesty, you have reviewed the memorial all night, and it's time for a rest."

In the study, the great eunuch Yan Songyu in brocade clothes and official boots stood respectfully aside, admonishing Emperor Jing Hong.

"It's okay."

Jing Hong, dressed in a golden dragon robe, dipped his pen in ink and wrote the word "read" on a memorial
Beside him, Hu Chenghe, who ranked second only to Jing Rang and Yan Songyu among the top ten eunuchs, lowered his head, took the memorial with both hands, stamped a seal on it with a jade seal, and put the memorial aside to fold it up.

At this time, there were already three stacks of memorials stacked in his hand, each stack was five or six feet high, and the number was not less than three hundred!
And on the other side of the table, there are three stacks of unreviewed memorials!
"Your Majesty, take a rest, there are endless memorials."

Hu Chenghe also bowed his head to persuade.

Jing Hong shook his head slightly, and pointed to the shortest stack of memorials:
"Let's make another batch."

"This batch of memorials is the nearly ten-day battle report passed down by the generals guarding the four sides of the border. I have to read it myself to be at ease."

"As for the other two stacks..."

He paused and said again:

"I can guess without looking at it. Most of the officials in the capital insulted the father and son of the Prince of Rejecting the North, advised to cut down the vassal, and took the opportunity to show their loyalty to me!"

"This kind of memorial, I have read no less than [-] copies in half a month!"

"I have to say that my ministers are very talented in writing. Every letter is extremely talented. Not only the words are gorgeous, but also the affection is deep. Many of them can even be taken to Jixia Academy as model essays for students. Study and recite!"

Jing Hong laughed lightly.

He is a man who is not tall, because he was handsome when he was young, he was a bit green, so he was often teased by his elders that he was a woman.

But so many years passed, and after sitting on the throne for a long time, he gradually lost his childishness, and became a majestic emperor without anger.

That handsome face has also become vicissitudes under the ravages of the years.

He has a mustache, a lot of white strands in his hair hidden under the crown, and there are obvious wrinkles at the corners of his eyes when he frowns, but he can still be regarded as a handsome man.

"Your Majesty, you are old too!"

Yan Songyu watched Jing Hong busy correcting the memorial, without stopping for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Since ancient times, the world has been envious of the person who is the emperor, and all the beauties of the world embrace him, and no one dares to disobey an order.

But who knows the hardships of being an emperor?
In Yan Songyu's view, Jing Hong must be a wise king, he works hard and likes to do everything by himself. Most of the time he spends most of the day either in the court or in the study reviewing memorials, so that there is a serious lack of time for practice, even if the talent is not as good as theirs As a great eunuch, he could only be trapped at the peak of the Bright Moon Realm for decades, and it was not until a few months ago that he managed to advance to the Bright Sun Realm.

Sometimes he even thinks that if Jing Hong is placed in the position of "Wolf King" Ke Tucha or North King Jiang Qiushui, he may not be worse than these two!
Even if Jing Hong is changed, maybe he has already stepped into the stars!
"Your Majesty has lived up to the state of Chu, it is the state of Chu that has dragged down your Majesty!"

Yan Songyu sighed softly, and said to himself in his heart:

"Your Majesty could have gone straight to the path of star-seeking cultivation like Master Jing Rang, transcended the mundane, and lived for 300 years, but in order to protect the country of Chu with his own hands, he strived to build Chu into an unprecedented unified world. The country of the country, resolutely gave up 300 years of Yangshou!"

"With such a heart, who can compare with it?"

"As for Jing's lineage, there have been such outstanding people almost from generation to generation! So why are you afraid of the rebellion of the vassal king?"

"Father and son of Prince Rejecting the North are just two pawns in His Majesty's hands after all! They can't make any waves at all!"

At this time, another great eunuch, Hu Chenghe, caught Jing Hong's words:
"Since Your Majesty came to the throne, the status of the Chinese people in Chu and Kyushu has been rising steadily. Now, almost half of the Chinese officials in the court are ordinary people with no martial arts. In the past, they would not be valued by others, and they could only live in the countryside. Or be a teacher in a small town, but with His Majesty's promotion, they can hold important positions in the court and serve the country!"

"And it is precisely because this group of people have been reused in the court, and the practice of writing in the country is becoming more and more popular, that there will be batch after batch of talented people full of knowledge!"

"The memorials sent to His Majesty will be more brilliant!"

"All this is due to His Majesty's reuse of literati!"

Jing Hong laughed at himself:
"Don't put a high hat on me, I am the king of a country, and it is only my duty to know and employ people!"

"The previous emperors didn't dare to use literati, not because they didn't value literati and learning, but because literati didn't realize their innate nature, and they were powerless scholars. If someone entrusts them with a heavy responsibility, then instead of helping them, it will harm them!"

"And the reason why I dare to use..."

"It's because I chose to gamble, betting that the remnants of the previous dynasty would not wantonly kill the important ministers I personally appointed!"

As soon as these words came out, the two eunuchs were slightly taken aback.

Betting on the remnants of the previous dynasty and not daring to kill?
It's too risky!

The remnants of the Yue Kingdom are all lunatics!
Especially now that the star-seeking old man named Yan Lu is running out of life, and no one knows what crazy revenge the other party will do before his life is exhausted!

If the other party is desperate and personally kills the generals of the Chu State in the Yaori territory, and lets the people who leave the Wu Pavilion assassinate the officials from all over the place, then the first to bear the brunt will be this group of literati and courtiers who have no martial arts cultivation level!

If this group of people were to die, then the royal family would probably lose control of the various places for a short time!
"Do you think I'm taking too much risk?"

Jing Hong chuckled, and before the two of them could answer, he answered by himself:

"But I have always liked the risky tactics of soldiers!"

"Besides, it's not a waste to put talents there. Instead of letting these people die in depression in academies and shabby rooms, it's better to give them a chance to display their ambitions and talents and make the best use of them!"

"I believe that even if this group of people are assassinated to death by those who walk away from the Wu Pavilion, they will never regret serving me."

"Because if they don't serve me, then they can only take what they have learned and their ambitions into the coffin, and they will not be able to display them!"

"As for going to the Wu Pavilion..."

"I bet they don't dare to kill literati wantonly because literati are not a big threat to Zouwu Pavilion, and they are not their main enemy. On the contrary, if they really want to overthrow Chu State and rebuild Yue State, then in the future, they will have to pay for it." They rely on this group of literati to help them govern the country, so they cannot be killed, and it is best not to offend them!"

"However, if you go to the Wu Pavilion, you know that there is no hope of restoring the country, so you choose to go crazy in the end, just to vent your hatred by simply killing people..."

"Then, I'm not afraid of them attacking literati."

"Because right now the most talented literati in the entire Chu Kingdom are probably recruited by me to the capital as officials. It's a pity that the group of literati who were officials outside died, but as long as Jixia Academy exists, as long as there are academies Now, as long as the tens of millions of Chu people are still there, there will be a steady stream of literati and talents to be used by me!"

After hearing these words, both Yan Songyu and Hu Chenghe admired Jing Hong immediately.

He really deserves to be the most admirable generation of Mingjun since the founding of the Chu Kingdom except for the founding emperor Jingyang!
This kind of determination and ruthlessness, this kind of courage, and this kind of planning, make people unable to find a single fault!
"but……"

"Literati also have a shortcoming."

Suddenly, Jing Hong frowned, and said again:

"They are so self-important that they think they can see all the situations clearly and play others in the applause."

"There are too many literati in the capital! There are so many of them that they don't have their turn and don't need them to think about current affairs. They all like to figure out my thoughts, say some bad things about Jiang Qiushui in the court, and change the matter of cutting the feudal clan every day. I thought it would be easy to get my trust and reuse."

"Yes, I want to cut down the feudal clan!"

"Because Jiang Qiushui is no longer needed in the northern border, and Ke Tucha is not even needed. The existence of the two of them will do me more harm than good."

"However, many civil officials in the court are not like this?"

"The literati who have read the books of sages and sages for half their lives and vowed to use their talents to benefit the people have become so smooth after being in the officialdom for many years. Put on that official hat! In addition to talking badly about Jiang Qiushui in front of me, has anyone ever said anything about officials above the third rank in the capital?"

"Is it true that none of the officials above the third grade in the capital have made any mistakes?"

"No, it's because the officialdom is already dirty!"

"Officials and officials protect each other, turn a blind eye and close one eye, eat the emperor's salary, but do things that are not worthy of this salary! Sometimes I really want to kill a group of them with my own hands!"

"Now, the meaning of most of them is to insult Jiang Qiushui and promote the reduction of feudal clans!"

"But in my opinion, none of them are worthy of scolding Jiang Qiushui! At least Jiang Qiushui won Youzhou and Beidi for me, and defended the northern border for more than 20 years!"

"But what about this group of wine bags and rice bags? Hehe!"

Jing Hong sneered:

"I can't even control my own slaves! It's a joke that a group of slaves wiped out a group of masters' Imperial Guards!"

"I'm ashamed of them all!"

On the side, the two eunuchs looked at each other with a hint of pity in their eyes.

Based on their understanding of this master, many of the civil servants in the capital will be in trouble.

"Pass my order!"

Sure enough, at the next moment, Jing Hong said coldly:
"Give the king's sword to Jiang Qingyu, the eldest son of Prince Jubei, and let him take full responsibility for investigating the attack on the imperial guards! As long as the officials involved behind the scenes are below the third rank, no matter who they are, he can kill them first and then play them!"

"I want to use his hands to remove a lot of disasters for Chu! At the same time, let's see how much money these literati who claim to regard money as dung have made from officialdom!"

"The saved salary and the money obtained from the ransacking of the house can just be used to support the families of the dead soldiers on the four sides of the border!"

(End of this chapter)